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Passion Sunday - Fifth Sunday in Lent

Proper Preparation

Catholic Douay Rheims Bible
This is the Written Word of God


Catholic Saints, who have written on the Spiritual Life, suggest that a "remote preparation" is necessary in order to better understand the Word of God.  This includes being a lover of the Truth as well as the practice of the Virtues of Humility, Meekness, and Docility to God the Holy Ghost.

"Proximate preparation" includes two prayers:

1) The Act of Contrition.

2) The Veni, Sancte Spiritus.


An Act of Contrition

O my God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, because I love Thee above all things with my whole heart and soul.  I detest all of my sins because it was for them and His Love for me that Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, my Lord and my God, suffered, was crucified, and died on the cross.  O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee by my sins, faults, imperfections, negligences and carelessness, Who art all good and deserving of all of my love.

I firmly resolve with the help of Thy Grace, to sin no more, to confess my sins, to do penance, to amend my life, to avoid all of the near occasions of sin, and always give to Thee freely, liberally and generously what is of supererogation and perfection, not only in greater things, but especially in lesser things, so that I may gain beforehand Thy efficacious, superabundant, particular and special Graces and Helps so that I will always be victorious in resisting and overcoming all temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil and his followers.  Grant me those Graces and Helps needed so that my every thought, word and action may be done solely out of love for Thee, Who art Love.  Amen.


Saint John Chrysostom

It was the custom of Patriarch Saint John Chrysostom [b. Antioch, c. 347 A.D. - d. at Commana in Pontus on Friday, September 14, 407 A.D.], Patriarch of Constantinople [Thursday, February 26, 398 A.D. - Thursday, June 24, 404 A.D.], exiled from his See the 2nd time on Thursday, June 24, 404 A.D., Father and Doctor of the Catholic Church, to properly prepare himself and his Congregation before preaching. He taught that unless God the Holy Ghost prepares the minds and hearts of the Preacher and of the Congregation, the Preacher preaches in vain and the Congregation listens in vain.

Therefore, so as not to waste your time, please pray the Veni, Sancte Spiritus, remembering how one Holy Saint was of the opinion that a Sermon is a Sacramental.


Veni, Sancte Spiritus

Come, O Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful
And kindle in them the fire of Thy love.

V. Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created;
R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Let Us Pray

O God, who didst instruct the hearts of Thy faithful by the light of Thy Holy Spirit, grant us in the same Spirit to relish what is right and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary; pray for us.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Catholic Schools, pray for us.

Epistle for Passion Sunday - Fifth Sunday in Lent

Hebrews 9:11-15.

The Epistle appointed to be read during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass today is taken from Saint Paul's Epistle to the     Hebrews, Chapter 9, Verses 11-15.

Brethren:

Christ, being come an High Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:  Neither by the blood of goats, or of calves, but by His own Blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh:  How much more shall the Blood of Christ, Who by the Holy Ghost offered Himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

And therefore He is the Mediator of the New Testament:  that by means of His death, for the redemption of those transgressions, which were under the former [Old] Testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance,

in Christ Jesus, Our Lord.

Gospel for Passion Sunday - Fifth Sunday in Lent

John 8:46-59.

The Gospel for today is taken from the Holy Gospel of Saint John, Chapter 8, Verses 46-59.

At that time, Jesus said to the crowds of the Jews:

Which of you shall convince me of sin?  If I say the Truth to you, why do you not believe Me?  He that is of God, heareth the words of God.  Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.
The Jews therefore answered, and said to Him:
Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
Jesus answered:
I have not a devil:  but I honour My Father, and you have dishonoured Me.But I seek not My own glory:  there is One that seeketh and judgeth.  Amen, amen I say to you:  If any man keep My word, he shall not see death for ever.
The Jews therefore said:
Now we know that Thou hast a devil.  Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and Thou sayest:  "If any man keep My word, he shall not taste death for ever."  Art Thou greater than our Father Abraham, who is dead?  and the prophets are dead.  Whom dost Thou make Thyself?
Jesus answered:
If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing.  It is My Father that glorifieth Me, of Whom you say that He is your God.  And you have not known Him, but I know Him.  And if I shall say that I know Him not, I shall be like to you, a liar.  But I do know Him, and do keep His word.  Abraham your Father rejoiced that He might see my day:  he saw it, and was glad.
The Jews therefore said to Him:
Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?
Jesus said to them:
Amen, amen I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am.
They took up stones therefore to cast at Him.

But Jesus hid Himself, and went out of the temple.
 

Thus far are the words of today's Holy Gospel.


“How much more shall the Blood of Christ,
Who, by the Holy Ghost,
offered Himself unspotted unto God,
cleanse our conscience from dead works,
to serve the living God?”
(EPISTLE - Hebrews 9:14).

VIn the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

 
You read this explanation about the Mass in the Catechism of the Council of Trent for Parish Priests:
 “We therefore confess that the Sacrifice of the Mass is and ought to be considered one and the same Sacrifice as that of the Cross, for the Victim is one and the same, namely, Christ our Lord, Who offered Himself, once only, a Bloody Sacrifice on the Altar of the Cross. The Bloody and Unbloody Victim are not two, but One Victim only, Whose Sacrifice is daily renewed in the Eucharist, in obedience to the command of our Lord: Do this for a commemoration of Me [Luke 22:19] (Catechism of the Council of Trent for Parish Priests, Issued by order of Pope Pius V, Translated by John A. McHugh, O.P. and Charles J. Callan, O.P., Part II: The Sacraments, the Sacrament of the Eucharist, Excellence of the Mass, The Mass Is The Same Sacrifice As That Of The Cross).
Unfortunately, the Catechism of the Council of Trent for Parish Priests failed to quote the Scripture verbatim, because, referring to Christ our Lord, Saint Paul wrote:
“Who, by the Holy Ghost, offered Himself”.
The Catechism of the Council of Trent for Parish Priests says only:
“Who offered Himself”,
leaving out the phrase
“by the Holy Ghost”.
At first read, this might seem like an unimportant oversight.  But the parenthetical phrase
“by the Holy Ghost”
is extremely important for two reasons.

First, it refers to:

“Christ our Lord”,

“Who, by the Holy Ghost, offered Himself”

“once only, a Bloody Sacrifice on the Altar of the Cross”.

Second, it refers to:
“Christ our Lord”,

“Who, by the Holy Ghost, offered Himself”

and
“Whose Sacrifice is daily renewed in the Eucharist”
because
“the Sacrifice of the Mass is and ought to be considered one and the same Sacrifice as that of the Cross, for the Victim is one and the same, namely, Christ our Lord.”
The primary question today is exactly HOW
“Christ our Lord”
offers Himself
“by the Holy Ghost”
during
“the Sacrifice of the Mass”,
remembering that
“the Victim is one and the same, the Same now offering by the ministry of Priests, Who then offered Himself on the cross, the manner alone of offering being different” (Council of Trent, Canons and Decrees, Session 22, September 17, 1562 A.D., Doctrine on the Sacrifice of the Mass, Chapter II, That the Sacrifice of the Mass is propitiatory both for the living and the dead)?
Liturgically, the answer is found, not during the Canon of the Mass at the moment of the Double Consecration, but rather during the Offertory of the Mass at what is called the Epiklesis which anticipates and prepares for the Double Consecration.

Theologically, what is called the Metaphysical Essence of the Mass effects the Epiklesis (Greek - Epiklesis = “invocation”) during the Veni, Sanctificator just before the Prayer at the Washing of the Hands.

The prayer the Mass Celebrant says, which is found in the pre-1944 A.D. Roman Catholic Missale Romanum - the Veni, Sanctificator [Come, O Sanctifier] - invokes God the Holy Ghost to effect the Transubstantiation in the Canon, saying:

 “Come, O Sanctifier, Almighty, Eternal God, and Bless this Sacrifice prepared for Thy Holy Name.”
This Invocation is simple, yet expressive and majestic, invoking God the Holy Ghost to Bless, and thus to change, the Sacrificial Elements.

That this Invocation is directed to God the Holy Ghost is beyond doubt because He is called the Sanctifier in the language of the Catholic Church to distinguish Him from God the Father and also from God the Son, because the imparting of all Sanctifying Graces and Charismatical Gifts belongs to Him and is ascribed to God the Holy Ghost.

From this prayer  - the Veni, Sanctificator [Come, O Sanctifier] - it is clearly evident that up to this moment in the Catholic Traditional Rite of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as it was before all of the invalid and illegal changes by the infiltrators into the Roman Catholic Church, the Sacrifice has been only “prepared”.

So, what this prayer  - the Veni, Sanctificator [Come, O Sanctifier] - does, is that it implores the Blessing of God the Holy Ghost over the gifts of bread and wine, the Oblata as they are called.

To understand this petition, three questions must be answered:

1) What does Bless mean in general?

2) What Blessing is here asked?

3) Why is this Blessing expected only from God the Holy Ghost?

Bless means to speak well, to say what is good.

This is done in many ways.

1)  If one already possesses the good that is said of him, then Bless means to exalt, to magnify, to praise, to glorify the possessor.

2)  If one does not as yet possess the good, but if the speaker by his words wishes to procure it for him or to give it to him, then Bless means speaking well for someone, wishing him something good, Blessing him.

The Blessing word of God is efficacious and all-powerful.  It infallibly imparts good to the creature.

The Liturgical Blessing of the Catholic Church is never without fruit - it is a “good wish imparting sanctification and good gifts” because Christ has commissioned her with full power to Bless.

In the Epiklesis, God the Holy Ghost is invoked to Bless the Oblata.

No higher Blessing can be imparted to the gifts prepared than that they be Consecrated, that is, Transubstantiated - changed into the Body and Blood of Christ - by the power of God the Holy Ghost.

The material elements of the Sacrifice receive the most perfect Blessing because they become Christ’s Body and Blood offered in Sacrifice which are sources of Blessing, that is, of life and salvation to us.

Finally, why is God the Holy Ghost the One invoked to change the material elements by His Almighty Blessing?

The answer is found in the analogy between the Consecration and the Incarnation.

There is a close similarity between:

1)  The Mystery of the Consecration of the Body and Blood of Christ on the Altar,

and

2) The Mystery of the Incarnation of Christ in the Spouse of God the Holy Ghost, the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Incarnation is, in a certain manner, renewed in the Eucharistic Consecration at every Mass.

For this reason, the Miracles of the Incarnation and of the Consecration are ascribed to the efficacy of God the Holy Ghost because both are Mysteries which have a special resemblance to the special character of God the Holy Ghost Who is personal love and sanctity.

Although all three Divine Persons accomplish the Act of Consecration, yet it is ascribed to the power of God the Holy Ghost, just as it is said in the Creed, that the Son of God:

“became Incarnate by the Holy Ghost, of the Virgin Mary”.
Thus, by the Epiklesis, the Catholic Church invokes God the Holy Ghost to change the inanimate elements of bread and wine into Christ’s real Body and Blood, which change is called  Transubstantiation  which  is anticipated at the invocation of God the Holy Ghost in the Epiklesis.

Resolutions

Let each of us resolve, with God’s Graces, to pray for a much greater knowledge and understanding of the Holy Mysteries of our Holy Catholic Faith, including the Holy Mysteries found in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, most especially  the Holy Mysteries  of the work of God the Holy Ghost in the  Epiklesis  (which is part of the Metaphysical Essence - in this case part of what the Ontological Essence   doesan act  of the being,   i.e. but one of a number of acts of that  being  called the Ontological Essence of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass) and in the  Transubstantiation  (which is part of the Ontological Essence - that which a thing is   -   its being  - of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass).

So also, let each of us resolve, with God’s Graces, to pray for a much greater appreciation of, and a tremendous gratitude for, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the unchangeable   Metaphysical Essence, and the unchangeable Ontological Essence of which were perfectly instituted by God the Son, Jesus Christ, as the Eternal High Priest, at Whose Incarnation He came as the

"High Priest of the good things to come" [Hebrews 9:11],
which Office of High Priest He exercized when  He perfectly instituted  the New and Eternal Testament upon the rock of the Infinite Most Precious Blood of Himself in the Holy  Sacrifice  [NOT a memorial supper meal] of the Mass, functioning as the Eternal Divine Logos - Jesus Christ - the Eternal High Priest,  the unchangeable Holy Sacrifice of the Mass being the perfect, unchangeable, Blood Covenant of this New and Eternal Testamentbeing unchangeable  because of its very nature of  being DIVINE  and also being  ETERNAL - "eternity" being defined as "the ever-present NOW" which admits of no change in virtue of its own Ontological and Metaphysical essences- otherwise the ever-present NOW of "eternity" would be only "time" which is defined as the "finite duration of that which changes" - the exact opposite of "eternity"!

Because of this perfect Divine institution,  the Divine Logos - Jesus Christ - the Eternal High Priest, Who

is the head of the Body, the Church, Who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He may hold the Primacy  (Colossians 1:18)
which is the ETERNAL DIVINE PRIMACY  of  God, the INFINITE DIVINE,

NEVER gave ANYONE  any power, authority, and/or jurisdiction to change, to modify, to add to, to delete or omit from,  the Infinite Divine Institution  of the  Infinitely Divine, and Eternally unchangeable, Metaphysical Essence, and of the  Infinitely Divine, and Eternally unchangeable,   Ontological Essence, of the Holy Sacrifice of the Catholic Rite of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by the UNCHANGEABLE, INFINITE, DIVINE, ETERNAL, Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, Jesus Christ, in which Jesus Christ is both the Infinite Offerer, through the ministry of the Mass Celebrant, and the Infinite Victim - a sacrifice by definition requires both:

1) an offerer - in the SACRIFICE of the Mass the primary Offerer is Jesus Christ, the Eternal, Infinite, Divine High Priest (not a finite, human TOASTMASTER of the anti-sacrificial, anti-Catholic, anti-God MEAL as in some "catholic churches"),

and,

2) a victim - in the SACRIFICE of the Mass the victim is the Eternal, Infinite, Divine Victim, Jesus Christ.

The ultimate reason why   the   unchangeable  Metaphysical Essence, and the  unchangeable   Ontological Essence, both of which were perfectly instituted by God the Son, Jesus Christ, as the Eternal High Priest, can NOT be changed in any way by anyone (e.g. by any Pope), or by any group (e.g. by any Synod or by any Council), for whatever reason(s) of whatsoever kind and/or nature, is very clearly taught by the Angelic Doctor:

Since, therefore, the sanctification of man is in the power of God Who sanctifies, it is not for man to decide what things should be used for his sanctification, but this should be determined by Divine institution(Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., [b. 1225 A.D. in Rocca Secca, Naples, Italy - d. Wednesday, March 7, 1274 A.D., in Fossa Nuova, Italy], Doctor of the Church, Summa Theologica, Part III, Question 60, Article 5, Body).
IF it was otherwise, IF it was somehow "possible" to "change" the  unchangeable Metaphysical Essence, and the  unchangeable  Ontological Essence, of the Holy SACRIFICE of the Ancient Catholic Rite of the Mass, both of which were perfectly instituted by the Infinite God the Son, Jesus Christ, as the Eternal High Priest, then this would mean that Jesus Christ is NOT God, and that even God is NOT God, that God is NOT immutable, that God is NOT eternal, and, ultimately, that God does NOT exist!

This is the ultimate goal of the anti-Catholic infiltrators of the Roman Catholic Church   -  that by the "dogma" of the heresy of Modernism, namely, "evolution" - that which always changes - such "evolving, ever-changing, dogmas" of the Satanic Vatican 2 church will eventually "evolve" to teach "catholics" that Jesus Christ is NOT God, and that even God does NOT exist.

Consider how  the Great Modernist Heretic Pope John Paul 2  taught in   his heresy of Modernism   that "Heaven is" not "a place" but only a "personal relationship" - hence, Heaven is not an eternal place of happiness with God - but what it is, according to John Paul-2, is but the proverbial black hole of the nothingness of a   convulsed convoluted concomitant erroneous mixture -  an invalid and contradictory juxtaposition -  of time with eternity (this is a contradiction of terms) which surreptitiously denies Divinity to God by deceptively using traditional-sounding terminology to cover his  deliberate ambiguity,  a.k.a. Modernist "double-talk" - which sounds good but is not good and sound,  and which says nothing of substance but creates a contradiction of terms by attempting to  place  neither in time, nor in eternity, because  the great Modernist heretic John Paul the Great Heretic  never clearly  identifies WHEN or WHERE this "meeting" in "the risen Christ" takes place  "through the communion of the Holy Spirit" which "meeting" can NEVER take place  because no "place" is defined as to exactly WHERE  this meeting happens, and no time is defined as to exactly WHEN this anti-matter meeting happens!

N.B.   This mentality  -  modus operandi  -  of    deliberate  ambiguity   and of   deliberate invalid and contradictory juxtapositions,   which is found in the heresy of Modernism, and which is consistently used by Modernist Heretics, such as what is found in the heresies of Pope  John Paul the Great Modernist Heretic,  as exampled in his heretical teaching on Heaven during his General Audience, Wednesday, 21 July, 1999; published in L'Osservatore Romano - 28 July 1999, and his heretical teaching on Hell during his General Audience, of Wednesday, 28 July, 1999, official Vatican, Holy See Web Site, on the Internet at: http://www.vatican.va/.

One finds this same heretical mentality   -  modus operandi -  of    deliberate  ambiguity   and of   deliberate invalid and contradictory juxtapositions,   in the actual original text of the NEW Mass, the Novus Ordo Missae, the Novus Ordo Rite - NOR - which Modernist heresy was exposed many years ago.

Here is one example of said exposure of this type of Modernist heresy:

"38. In short:  the theory put forward by the epiclesis, the modification of the words of Consecration and of the anamnesis, have the effect of modifying the modus significandi [manner of signifying] of the words of Consecration.  The consecratory  formulae are here pronounced by the priest as  the constituents of an historical narrative  and no longer enunciated as  expressing the categorical and affirmative judgment uttered by Him in whose Person the priest acts:  'Hoc est Corpus Meum' [For this is My Body] (not, 'Hoc est Corpus Christi' [This is the Body of Christ]).
<Footnote 32:  The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, 1969,  ¶ 209 - 231.>".
"39. Furthermore the acclamation assigned to the people immediately after the Consecration: ('we announce death, O Lord, until Thou comest') introduces yet again,  under cover of eschatology,  the same  ambiguity  concerning the Real Presence. Without interval or distinction, the expectation of Christ's Second Coming at the end of time is proclaimed just as the moment when He is substantially present on the altar, almost as though the former, and not the latter, were the true Coming."

"40. This is brought out even more strongly in the formula of the third optional acclamation:  'When we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim your death, Lord Jesus, until you come in glory',

<Footnote 33:  The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, 1969,  ¶ 45>
where  the juxtaposition of the different realities of immolation and eating,  of the Real Presence and of Christ's Second Coming,  reaches the height of ambiguity.
<Footnote 34:  “In the general intercessions or prayer of the faithful, the people exercise their priestly function by interceding for all mankind.  It is appropriate that this prayer be included in all Masses celebrated with a congregation, so that intercession may be made for the Church, for civil authorities, for those oppressed by various needs, for all mankind, and for the salvation of the world” (The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, 1969, ¶ 45)>."
(The Ottaviani Intervention, a.k.a. A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE NOVUS ORDO MISSAE - NOR - Novus Ordo Liturgical Rite of Mass, by a group of Roman Theologians,  IV.  Presentation of the essence.  A copy of this was sent to Pope Paul 6, Giovanni Battista Montini [Friday, June 21, 1963 - Sunday, August 6, 1978] with a cover letter by His Eminence Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani [b. on Wednesday, October 29, 1890 - d. on Friday, August 3, 1979] and by His Eminence Antonio Cardinal Bacci  [b. at Giugnola, near Florence, Italy on Friday, September 4, 1885 A.D. - d. at Vatican City, Rome, Italy, on Wednesday, January 20, 1971 A.D.], in September, 1969).
“Even before the end of the Council, in February 1965, someone announced to him [Padre Pio] that soon he would have to celebrate the Mass according to a new rite, ad experimentum, in the vernacular, which had been devised by a conciliar liturgical commission in order to respond to the aspirations of modern man.  Immediately, even before seeing the text, he wrote to Paul VI to ask him to be dispensed from the liturgical experiment, and to be able to continue to celebrate the Mass of Saint Pius V.  When Cardinal Bacci came to see him in order to bring the authorization, Padre Pio let a complaint escape in the presence of the Pope's messenger:  'For pity sake, end the Council [Synod Vatican 2] quickly'”  (Rev. Fr. Jean, O.F.M., Cap., “Padre Pio,” apud Angelus, May 1999, p. 31).

"The people who composed the [Novus Ordo] Mass originally were six Protestants and two Catholics, under the direction of a Freemason called Annibale Bugnini, who is ... an archbishop, and he lost his faith.  And he was the originator of it.  And the first version of the Mass, which he drew up for Pope Paul VI -- you know what happened to it.  He gave it to Paul VI, and two Cardinals, Ottaviani and Bacci, went to Pope Paul VI and said:

Your Holiness, if you publish this Mass, we're going to declare you a heretic.
They said that.  So Paul VI withdrew it.  He made some small changes in it, and hence we got the Novus Ordo" (Father Malachi Brendan Martin, S.J. [b. in County Kerry, Ireland on Saturday, July 23, 1921 A.D. -  d. at New York, New York on Tuesday, July 27, 1999 A.D.], “The Kingdom of Darkness”, an audiotaped interview, 1995).
Heaven - the home of the Holy Trinity - as a "physical place" and as the traditional "home" of God, of the three Persons of the Holy Trinity - is explicitly denied by  John Paul the Great Heretic, the Great Apostate, the exaulted and glorified teacher of the Heresy of Modernism!

How?  Because John Paul the Great Heretic, the exaulted and glorified teacher of the Heresy of Modernism -

which is

"the synthesis of all heresies" (Pope Saint Pius X, Giuseppe Sarto [Tuesday, August 4, 1903 - Thursday, August 20, 1914], Motu Proprio, PRÆSTANTIA SCRIPTURÆ SACRÆ, Monday, November 18, 1907.  This Papal Document includes the automatic excommunication of all Modernist heretics - this would include Popes!).
- is really teaching that  the Holy Trinity is HOMELESS   - Almighty God is HOMELESS!!!  -  because   John Paul the Great Heretic, the great and wonderful guru of the Heresy of Modernism  explicitly  denied  the existence of Heaven as a "physical place"!

I have not made up this Modernist heretical nonsense.

On the contrary, here is the   exact text   of a speech by Pope John Paul the Great Heretic, THE GREAT teacher of the Heresy of Modernism, which I found on the official Vatican website:

“In the context of Revelation, we know that the 'heaven' or 'happiness' in which we will find ourselves is neither an abstraction nor a physical place in the clouds, but a living, personal relationship with the Holy Trinity. It is our meeting with the Father which takes place in the risen Christ through the communion of the Holy Spirit” (JP-2, General Audience, Wednesday, 21 July, 1999; published in L'Osservatore Romano - 28 July 1999).
The bottom line is this:

In reality, Pope John Paul the Great Modernist Heretic  taught the Teilhardian "black hole" of the equivocal "omega point"!  Shades of the pantheism of Spinoza and a sentimentalized atheism, ala Cartesian Teilhardism!   Thus, the great Modernist heretic Pope JP-2's   place  of  a “nothingness nowhere”!

But, as if this wasn't bad enough,  Pope John Paul the Great Modernist Heretic, the Great Apostate,  also taught ignorant "catholics", whom he  victimized  with his heretical Modernist nonsense, that:

Hell is not a punishment imposed externally by God,  but the condition  resulting from attitudes and actions which people adopt in this life. It is the ultimate consequence of sin itself. Sacred Scripture uses many images to describe the pain, frustration and emptiness of life without God.  More than a physical place, hell is the state  of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy” (Pope JP-2, General Audience, of Wednesday, 28 July, 1999; Taken from Vatican, the Holy See Web Site on the Internet at: http://www.vatican.va/; emphasis added).
Ironically, although Heaven is NOT EVEN a physical place according to   the great Modernist heretic, Pope John Paul the Great Apostate,  HELL is even "MORE than a physical place" !

In Anglo-Saxon English this means that John Paul the Great taught that, while Almighty GOD IS HOMELESS, Satan - Lucifer - and all devil and demons and evil spirits are NOT HOMELESS because they have a PHYSICAL PLACE called "Hell" where they "live"!

AN OBVIOUS CASE OF THE DIABOLICAL POSSESSION OF JOHN PAUL THE GREAT!!!
 

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authorityThere is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it" (John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, a.k.a. Baron Acton; a.k.a. Lord Acton; [b. at Naples, Italy on Friday, January 10, 1834 A.D. - d. at Tegernsee, Bavaria on Thursday, June 19, 1902 A.D.], Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England from 1895 - 1902, Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, dated Tuesday, April 5, 1887).
Pope John Paul the Great Modernist Heretic, the Great Apostate,  just can't seem to make up his mind what Heaven and Hell really are, can he?

Pope John Paul the Great Modernist Heretic, the Great Apostate,  went from one extreme to the other - this Satanist made GOD HOMELESS, but gave a HOME to the Devil and Satan!

So, what you have here is that this time, using even more deliberate ambiguity, while actually calling Hell “more than a physical place”,  Pope John Paul 2 the Great Modernist Heretic  unequivocally, for a change, stated that “hell is the state of...” Thus, in reality, another “state” of “nowhere”!

So, to  the great Modernist heretic, Pope JP-2 the great   Heaven and Hell are “states”, like “Never-Never Land”, not really “places”, because “a...relationship” and a “condition” are so far superior to being mere “places”!

Ah, yes, to  John Paul the Great Modernist Heretic, John Paul the Great Apostate,  Heaven and Hell indeed are much more than anachronistic “places”, because for  John Paul the Great Modernist Heretic, John Paul the Great Apostate,

Heaven, Purgatory and Hell are the nothingness of nowhere in his will-o'-the-wisp elitist eclecticism which is spewed forth from the mouths of cloned Roman-collared gargoyles, the horns atop the stoned heads of which remind one of surrogated Devils of Hell who subrogate the Laws of Almighty God with the wormwood of spiritually invalid and illegal substitutions, including the updated 16th Century Protestant supper-memorial-meal, a.k.a. the “new mass”, plus the proliferation of doctrinal, theological, philosophical and liturgical errors, heresies, diabolical destruction, and demonic decay, if not literal diabolical possession, which can ultimately lead souls to eternal death in the eternal fires of hell!

Here is an excerpt from a letter written to  John Paul the Great Modernist Heretic, John Paul the Great Apostate:

There is:

"a rumor that you are a philosopher.  If so... using ONLY the approved and traditional methods of Scholastic Philosophy, what is the ontological essence of the  nothingness of nowhere  “state”?  Dare.... [one] even inquire as to its metaphysical essence?"
The letter continues in part:
".... when did your apotheosis take place in which you received this NEW revelation as you traveled throughout the black hole of heresy, the fruition of the  nothingness of nowhere,   which proceedeth from the heat-oppressed brain of the Roman-collared gargoyle while proffering the raiments of 'whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness, so you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity' (Matthew 23:27-28)?"
The letter continues with:
".... concur with Saint Pius X, Giuseppe Sarto [Tuesday, August 4, 1903 - Thursday, August 20, 1914] and remind you that the major dogma of Modernism is change,  to wit, evolution. Yet We consider that the evolution of Modernism is in truth a  de facto  DEVOLUTION.... in which error and heresy have been canonized on the  table  of change  thereby sacrificing the God-instituted Holy Altar of the Infinite Victim of Divine Propitiation for the Seder-enhanced man-made supper-memorial-meal of rebellion supported by its Satanic staff of Mortal Sin which permeates its bread of contradiction and its chalice of malediction which is filled to overflowing with the wormwood of hyperbolic Satanic worship hypocritically disguised with the trappings of the fake fur of a highly-selective, out-of-context, antiquity wrapped up in the anti-Scholastic multi-colored coat of Cartesianism encrusted with the phony gems of true Teilhardism which sends its adherents into the black hole of the ubiquitous 'omega point' of a religious, spiritual, philosophical, theological, scriptural, historical, liturgical and juridical suicidal insanity, irreligion, anti-Catholicism and anti-Clericalism replete with the high-sounding aphorisms of a false Œcumenism which sound good   but are neither good nor sound   and which in fact  [YOU - the great Modernist heretic, Pope JP-2]   slugged the Holy Face of Almighty God with the left fist of Marxian dialectical materialism and the right fist of Montanist dialectical Modernism."

"But then, of course, as a philosopher of Hegelian materialistic dialectics, it should be self-evident to almost everyone that  you  must be familiar with the philosophy of Marxist Communism, are you not?  It has come to Our attention that at the Conclave which selected John-Paul 1, Albano Luciani [Saturday, August 26, 1978 - Thursday, September 28, 1978], it has been claimed that you, then Cardinal Wojtyla always takes along some reading matter wherever he goes, and during those long periods of voting in the conclave he was calmly perusing a [philosophy] book of political theory by Karl Marx.  When a fellow cardinal asked if he didn't feel it sacrilegious to read such an author in that sacred place, he [YOU, reportedly] answered with a good natured smile,  'My conscience is clear'”  (Wilton Wynn, KEEPERS OF THE KEYS, p. 39)!

And yet, today, after 45 years of  evolving changes  in the Satanic Vatican 2 church, there are some who, as if awakened from an afternoon nap, a sound sleep, wonder "how" this "mess" happened??

They have awakened from   the SPELL of Hypnotic SLEEP   cast upon them by John Paul the Great Hypnotist, the Great Actor, the Professional Actor (N.B.  JP-2 was in fact a professional actor in his earlier days when he got married!), which was eventually broken after his death because the SPELL was no longer repeated by him - although his successor has tried to take it up!

I humbly and respectfully call upon the millions and millions and millions of Traditional Catholics around the world, including the even greater numbers of those untold millions who have gone into Catacombs III,   that you pray unceasingly that Almighty God will end this take-over, this hi-jacking, and the diabolical desecration of His Church, of His Dogmas, of His Mass, and of His Sacraments, immediately!!!

I humbly and respectfully remind the millions and millions and millions of Traditional Catholics around the world, including the even greater numbers of those untold millions who have gone into Catacombs III   not to give up nor to give in to the wicked.

You are NOT helpless, nor hopeless, because we can all take hope, comfort, courage, and strength by remembering that,  just as God delivered David from ALL of his enemies, so also today God will deliver His Holy Church, along with all of us, from HIS enemies,  as David recounted in his Psalm of Thanksgiving, from which I quote in part:

2 Kings,  Chapter 22

22:2. And he [David] said:  The Lord is my Rock, and my strength, and my saviour.

22:3. God is my strong one, in Him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: He lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my Saviour, Thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.

22:7. In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my God: and He will hear my voice out of His temple, and my cry shall come to His ears.

22:8. The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains were moved, and shaken, because He was angry with them.

22:9. A smoke went up from His nostrils, and a devouring fire out of His mouth: coals were kindled by it.

22:10. He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under His feet.

22:11. And He rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the wings of the wind.

22:12. He made darkness a covering round about Him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.

22:13. By the brightness before Him, the coals of fire were kindled.

22:14. The Lord shall thunder from Heaven [A  PHYSICAL  PLACE!] : and the Most High shall give forth His voice.

22:15. He shot arrows and scattered them: lightning, and consumed them.

22:16. And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the spirit of His wrath.

22:17. He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many waters.

22:18. He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

22:19. He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my stay.

22:20. And He brought me forth into a large place, He delivered me, because I pleased him.

22:21. The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands He will render to me.

22:22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22:23. For all His judgments are in my sight: and His precepts I have not removed from me.

22:24. And I shall be perfect with Him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

22:25. And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.

22:26. With the Holy One thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.

"Amen.  Come, Lord Jesus.  The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.  Amen"  (Apocalypse 22:20-21).

A word to the wise.....!!!

As a final resolution, in the Holy Name of Jesus, and in an exercise of Catholic Charity, please contribute to the support of the Church - in this case - the Shrine of Saint Jude.    Please help us to save Souls!

Thank you for your thoughtfulness and Charity! Remember, God is never outdone in generosity!!!

Think how happy you will be when, in the next life, God shows you all of the Souls you helped to save by helping our Apostolates, including this Sermon web site, because "he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins" (James 5:20).

“And in doing good, let us not fail.  For in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith (Galatians  6:9-10).
“How much more shall the Blood of Christ,
Who, by the Holy Ghost,
offered Himself unspotted unto God,
cleanse our conscience from dead works,
to serve the living God?”
(EPISTLE - Hebrews 9:14).
V   In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

The Blessing

V. Sit X Nomen Domini benedictum.
R. Ex hoc nunc, et usque in saeculum. 
V. U Adjutorium nostrum in
Nomine Domini.
R. Qui fecit cœlum et terram.
V. Benedicat vos, Omnipotens Deus: 
V. Pa X ter, et Fi X lius, et Spiritus XSanctus, descendat super vos, et maneat semper.
R. Amen.
V. Blessed X be the Name of the Lord.
R. Now and for ever more.
V. U Our help is in the Name of the Lord.
R. Who made Heaven and earth.
V. May Almighty God bless thee:
V. The Fa X ther, the S X on, and the Holy X Ghost, descend upon thee, and always remain with thee.
R. Amen.



 
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