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Have a Blessed day!

God Bless You!
XXX
Father Michael
 

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February is the Month Devoted to
The Holy Family
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

	URGENT!!! TODAY and EVERY DAY PRAY The Daily Rosary To Prevent Any and/or All Changes To Social Security and To Rid Medicare of Fraud & Unnecessary Tests & Medicine By the U.S. Congress and/or by the President
	Great  Testimonials To Saint Jude Thaddeus! Plus Links to Saint Jude Thaddeus Masses, Novenas, Other Testimonials, etc.
	Sunday Sermons for Roman Catholics
	From the Fathers of the Catholic Church Feast Day of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary
	An “Entitlement???”
	Liturgical Calendar for February, 2012 A.D.
	Our Lady of Fatima Data
	Our Lady of Fatima's Protective Shield
	What Was It Like In the Roman Catholic Seminary BEFORE All of the Many Changes Council Vatican 2 Made?
	What Was It Like In the Roman Catholic Church BEFORE All of the Many Changes Council Vatican 2 Made?
	Liturgy: The Mass The New Theology Vatican 2, etc. The Changes Etc.
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Liturgical Calendar for February 2012 A.D.

February, 2012 A.D.

 

1.	Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Patriarch and Martyr; Double; Red.
2.	Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Candlemas Day; Double of the 2nd Class; White.
3.  X	Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr; Simple; Red.  First Friday of February.
4. X	Saint Andrew Corsini, Bishop and Confessor; Double; White. First Saturday of February.
5.  X	Septuagesima Sunday; 2nd Class; Semi-Double; Violet.  Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr; Double; Red.
6.	Saint Titus, Bishop and Martyr; Double; Red.
7.	Saint Romuald, Abbot; Double; White.
8.	Saint John of Matha, Confessor; Double; White.
9.	Saint Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, Confessor and Doctor of the Catholic Church; Double; White.
10.	Saint Scholastica, Virgin; Double; White.
11.	Our Lady of Lourdes; Double Major; White.
12.	Sexagesima Sunday; 2nd Class; Semi-Double; Violet. Seven Holy Founders of Servite Order, Confessors; Double; White.
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14.	Saint Valentine, Priest and Martyr; Simple; Red.
15.	Saints Faustinus and Jovita, Martyrs; Simple; Red.
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18.	Saint Simeon of Jerusalem, Patriarch and Martyr; Simple; Red.
19.	Quinquagesima Sunday; 2nd Class; Semi-Double; Violet.
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22. X	Ash Wednesday, First Class, Simple; Violet. Episcopal Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle at Antioch, Syria; Double Major; White.
23.	Vigil of Saint Matthias, Apostle and Martyr; Violet.
24.	Saint Matthias, Apostle and Martyr; Double of the 2nd Class; Red.
25.	The Conversion of Saint Paul; Apostle; Double Major; White.
26.  X	First Sunday of Lent; First Class, Semi-Double; Violet.  Saint Polycarp, Disciple of Saint John the Apostle; An Apostolic Father; Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr; Double; Red.
27.	Saint Gabriel Possenti, Confessor; Double; White.
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Great Testimonials
To Saint Jude Thaddeus!
From People He has Helped
As the Result of One or More Novenas
Made for Their Intention(s) Here at the Shrine of Saint Jude

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 (cf. Hebrews 5:1-4)

“The Priest [is] a Mediator between God and man.”
(Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii,
On the Catholic Priesthood, Friday, December 20, 1935).

February 2, 2012
Dear Fr. Michael,

A most special "Thank You" to St. Jude Thaddeus for answering a number of my 9-Day Novena intentions you made for me over the last few months at your Shrine of Saint Jude!

Without any hesitant doubt whatsoever, not only do I believe in real miracles, but, thanks to you and your Shrine of Saint Jude Thaddeus, St. Jude has really performed a number of true and real "miracles" for me these past few months!

I am so filled with joy, I want to tell the whole world!

For example, I desperately needed to get something which is very essential for my business, because without it, I am out of business.  Bottom line - with total trust, confidence, and faith in the powerful intercession of St. Jude, I went into the store that had what I needed, even though I had only a few dollars in my pocket and I needed over $xxx.00, but with no idea where I would ever get that much money at one time.

After placing my order with total faith, trust, and full confidence in God and in St. Jude, I walked next door to take care of some other business matters and, the speed with which St. Jude worked was astounding and nothing short of a "real miracle", because, in less than five minutes, I ended up with the full amount of the money I needed to pay for the item I had just ordered next door, plus I even had some additional money to buy some basic groceries like bread, etc.!

My abundant "Thanks" to St. Jude and also to you for making my Novenas for me to St. Jude!  You are doing wonderful work!  Keep up your good work!  All I know from my own personal experiences with you over the years is that St. Jude really listens to you, Father!

Enclosed is my Thanksgiving Stipend for ten, 9-Day Novenas of gratitude to St. Jude, plus a donation for all of your excellent efforts in making those Novenas for me!  I know from past experience, if I make a really big deal out of thanking St. Jude, boy do I get fast results the next time I have you make some 9-Day Noveans of petition to St. Jude for my intention!  I look at my Thanksgiving Novenas as a kind of "investment" that will bring me great "returns" next time I need help!

That reminds me, I do have a new intention for some more 9-Day Novenas to St. Jude for a very special intention.  So, also enclosed is a Stipend for xx 9-Day Novenas to St. Jude for this super special intention.

Forever grateful to God and to the miracle-working St. Jude!  My heartfelt-appreciation to you, Father, as well!

J.M.

[Editor's Notes:

Editor Note # 1:  To J.M.  Thank you for sharing your "miracle" Testimonial to Saint Jude.  I am very happy for you!  This simply proves that one must never give up but always "believe", just as others have said in some of their previous Testimonials!

Editor Note # 2:  To our Visitors:  The Testimonials you read on this website, including those in which people have received what they themselves (not me) call a "miracle", simply proves time and time again that the Catholic Religion is the one, true, Supernatural Religion instituted by God the Son, Jesus Christ.

For the record, Testimonials like the one above and some of the others on this website, are classical examples of what some Catholic Theologians call "Heroic Virtue" which is a very, very Special Grace of God.

This Special Grace of God, under normal circumstances, does not just "happen", but requires proper preparation.  Some Theologians are of the opinion that this proper preparation includes the frequent exercise of the Virtues of Humility and Meekness, as well as Faith and Hope in other areas of one's life.

Some people, who have never had an opportunity to learn about the Spiritual Life, mistakenly think that a Novena to Saint Jude means that the Novena prayers "empower" Saint Jude to, virtually speaking (not physically, of course), twist the arm of God to answer one's Novena intention!

The reality is that, by the Grace of God, when a person is sincere and tries to live a life of real Virtue, which includes Humility and Meekness, plus being obedient to God's Laws - the Ten Commandments (God does not reward bad behavior!), and try to live a Spiritual Life which includes at least a few prayers every day, plus attending Mass on all Sundays and Holydays, etc., and seek the Face of God, i.e. frequently Blessing God, Thanking God, and Loving God, rather than always seeking God's billfold (called having the gimme's), one thereby become's God's friend, not His enemy.  Plus, acts of supererogation (doing things you are not required to do because you love God) make one a very special friend of God whom God Blesses first.

Finally, Heroic Virtue is a very Special Grace which is very calm and peaceful.  Any emotions come after one has received God's Blessing, which is sometimes called a "miracle" by one who receives it, especially as the result of the 9-Day Novenas to Saint Jude.

On the other hand, those who are new to the 9-Day Novena devotion to Saint Jude, should find this devotion to be a wonderful opportunity to humbly request what one needs from Saint Jude who intercedes for each person's intentions before the Throne of God.

The good news is that no one should think that they need "Heroic Virtue" to get an answer to their prayers and Novena intention(s)!  For example, some Catholic Theologians teach that all that is really necessary for the ordinary, average Catholic is only ordinary, average Faith and Hope to obtain all for which they ask in their prayers, which includes, of course, the 9-Day Novenas to Saint Jude.

But the best news of all is what Christ Himself teaches:

"Amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you" (Matthew 17:19).

In conclusion, also remember that Saint Jude has an excellent record of getting people what they need as is proven from all of the Testimonials here, both all of those below, and also the one above!  Then you, too, even if your Faith and Hope are no bigger than the teeny, tiny grain of mustard seed, according to the teachings of Christ Himself, can believe in "miracles"!]

Monday, October 17, 2011
Dear Father Michael,

I just wanted to let you know that Saint Jude has answered my novena which you began for me on Sunday, October 2, 2011.

All along I have been praying for the settlement of a lawsuit for a medicine that I and many other people took that actually harmed us because the pharmaceutical companies did not alert us of the danger of this drug. This lawsuit has been going on for three years and many of the people harmed have died. I have been praying for a long time that this will be settled soon.

But even though this has not happened yet, I realized that Saint Jude answered my "financial aid" novena by sending me someone who needed help cleaning her house and helping her with her filing of paperwork, etc. She offered me $xx.00 an hour and I was so shocked that she would pay me this much.

It might only be temporary but it will definitely help me out for I am trying to make it on my own at 62 years of age. I am blessed that God gave me good health to do this work and I know it was Saint Jude who sent this opportunity my way.

Thank you so much, Father Michael, for all your help and also for making the second nine day novena for me.

My deepest gratitude,
R. P.

Dear Father Michael,

I have been requesting Novenas to Saint Jude at the Shrine for my intentions for years now. As a result, Saint Jude is now my special patron.

Recently, a Novena was made asking for my Mother to find additional and steady work (in addition to the job she has now).

I cannot believe how perfect the job she found was!!!!  Not only that, but she found the job on the second day of theNovena! The Lord works fast!!

In this economy, picking up another job does not always happen easily, we are so blessed for this opportunity. I know that the Lord answered my prayer because of the intercession of St. Jude on my behalf.

Ask for his help in prayer, you will receive it!!

A.

Dear Father Michael,

Evidently, as a direct result of yet another novena (for financial help), a check unexpectedly arrived that had been written for a substantial amount which was sufficient to defray all the additional expenses I had recently incurred.  The timing and quantity of this were incredibly coincidental -- much too coincidental to have occurred merely by chance!

D.S.

Dear Father Michael,

Guidance and motivation seem to have been received that have redirected my efforts to studying during a "window-of-opportunity" from one or more previous novenae; the successful completion of the first such course has been achieved, apparently from a different novena, resulting in the attainment of a basic and necessary certification.

D.S.

Dear Father Michael,

Thanks to St. Jude and Immaculate Heart of Mary Novenas and Masses for helping me in some difficult things!

Thank you Father Michael for making it possible for me and others to have you make these Novenas and offer Masses for us.  May God grant that you will be able to continue to still do these things for many more years!

J.

Dear Father Michael,

Thanks for making the Novenas to Saint Jude for me.  As always, Saint Jude came through in a difficult situation I was having!

Respectfully, with deepest gratitude,

M.

Dear Father Michael,

Saint Jude came through yet again because of your Novenas!

In great appreciation and thanks,

J.M.

Dear Father Michael:

I am sending you a check for $---- as a thank you for all the many blessings which my family has received from God through the intercession of St. Jude.

I very much enjoyed the story about Danny Thomas in your monthly paper....

Would you please say a novena to St. Jude for my daughter that she do well in her finals next week? It is a miracle that she is still in the program as it has been difficult for her. I know that prayers to St. Jude have helped her immensely.

Also, please say a novena to St. Jude for me for ................

Again, as you may know, I respect your close relationship with God through the intercession of St. Jude and the many other saints. I cannot repeat that you will have a special place in heaven for all of the work you do to bring others to God. Hopefully my small donations will help you to continue your work in spreading the word of God and his many miracles.

God bless you Father Michael,

C.C.
 

Dear C.C.:

Thank you so very much for your Stipend for Novenas to Saint Jude and for your Donations!  Thank you also for your most thoughtful, charitable, and kind words concerning my humble work in spreading the Word of God, in spreading the Beautiful and Wonderful Teachings of the Catholic Church - the full magnificence and glory of which awaits all of us in the breath-taking beauty and joy and splendor and happiness of Heaven, and of God's many miracles, especially those performed through the powerful intercession of Saint Jude!

May your wonderful Testimonial inspire many, many others to Trust in God and in the great and powerful intercession of Saint Jude!

I also thank you for your great suggestion about including some information about Danny Thomas and his really inspiring devotion to Saint Jude and your wanting to share with everyone his personal enthusiasm for the miracles he got from Saint Jude and his heartfelt desire for others to also cultivate devotion to Saint Jude, especially with his question:

You and your family have experienced your miracles from Saint Jude and so have so many, many others, as well as myself - so many, many times over many years!  And Saint Jude shall continue to work his miracles for you and your family, just as I know he will also do the same, not just for me, but for all of those who believe and trust in God and in Saint Jude’s intercession with God as the Patron Saint of difficult and impossible cases - a title Saint Jude got the old-fashioned way - he earned it!

May everyone who reads your Testimonials to Saint Jude, pause to really answer Danny’s question for themselves:

God Bless You and Your Family!
Father Michael

Father Michael:

Thank you for your Novenas for me to St. Jude.

Many of my intentions were just granted today, all at one time!  Wonderful!!

I will not give up regarding the rest of my Novena intentions because, like Danny Thomas, I, too, believe in miracles!

Thanks be to St. Jude.

R.

Dear Father Michael,

I thank God with all my heart for..... St. Jude giving immediate help to my sister. My sister lives in Canada as a caregiver. She wrote to me this July that she has been experiencing persistent pain in her back which she suspects as pneumonia. She had pneumonia which was treated before she arrived in Canada more than a year ago.

A few minutes ago, I received an e-mail from her telling me that the doctor she consulted today said her lungs are fine and the pain is due to muscle pains....

My Novena intentions........  that St. Jude would plead to God to heal my sister and that there is nothing seriously wrong with her lungs. I especially asked St. Jude to take care of my sister and her 3 daughters who were left behind in the Philippines.

Father Michael,  ..........   another Novena....   for my sister and her children most especially her eldest daughter who has special needs. They are without their mother to take care of them. The normal middle daughter is merely 12 years and the youngest is just 5 years old. My heart breaks everytime I think about their situation. I pray to our Lord Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary to protect them from all evil.

May God continue to bless us all!

Sincerely,
MA

Thank you Father Michael for the wonderful novenas to St. Jude.

I have been sending my Stipend to you for the last 3 months for Novenas to St. Jude.  My prayer intention has been to have our second home in Hawaii refinanced.  St Jude has answered my prayers.

1.  ........ Bank offered us a program that qualified us for refinance for 30 years fixed.

2.  The bank also offered to refinance our first home in California for an even lower rate.    Both our homes were approved for refinance.

3.  Also, my employer has been doing a lot downsizing.  I have been worried that I may lose my job.  But, ever since I started sending you Stipends for the 9-Day Novenas to St. Jude, my dept got real busy and lots of work keeps coming in.

Thanks to St Jude for answering my prayers.

R.S.

 
Father Michael:

I am sending you a check for an additional.... as a promise I made to St. Jude concerning my employment.  I am receiving another contract from my school for the next school year.  I know that this is because of the intercession of St. Jude.

I am also publishing this in a newspaper as well so that others may have faith and confidence of the power of prayers to St. Jude.  The only thing I can tell anyone is to

                        Believe                                    Believe                                    Believe

This past year my family and I have been so blessed by your help and prayers and masses that I cannot thank you enough. Many events in my family's life would not have transpired without intercession...  A fellow teacher was fired this year because of his actions as a teacher.  I was very afraid that this [being fired] was going to happen to me as well.

The intercession of St. Jude came to defend me.  In addition, my Daughter, who did not have the absoute best grades in her college class was able to get a coop at a paper mill.  Some of her classmates were not as lucky.  You have also helped her with [Novena] prayers for her grades in classes as well.

There have been several times when we thought my Husband would get laid-off and your [Novena] prayers came through.

My Daughter was involved with a gentleman with very low morals and values.  With God's help, she broke up with him as well.

I cannot express the amount of gratitude I have for you and your work.  I am certain you will have a great reward in Heaven.

If you wish to publish this letter, please feel free to do so.

Good luck and best wishes with your missions.  Hopefully this small amount will help.  If I were wealthier I would send more.

Perhaps as a suggestion, you might publish in your paper of the remarkable story of Danny Thomas.

I realize that many of your readers are a little young to remember this great comedian.  Danny Thomas is the gentleman who started St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.  You may already know this, but he started this hospital as a thank you to St. Jude for helping him in his career.

His prayers and Novenas to St. Jude were answered and he became an internationally known comedian back in the 50's and 60's.  I became aware of the power of St. Jude through the story of this great humanitarian.  So, it seems that each person's success in their devotion to St. Jude helps bring others to God through St. Jude....

C.C.

Saint Jude Helped Danny Thomas Become a Big Star!

Danny Thomas
[b. at Deerfield, Michigan on Saturday, January 6, 1912 –
d. at Los Angeles, California on Wednesday, February 6, 1991]

It was like a miracle, the way it happened!
You believe in miracles,
don’t you?!
(Danny Thomas)

Below is a summary of the many Testimonials so many people have sent me over the years concerning how Saint Jude Thaddeus has answered their Novena intentions.

Sometimes their Testimonials are so extremely personal, that they can not be published as written.  This is one of various reasons for the following summary which list is indeed a long one.

But, in order to be brief, the wonderful Testimonials to Saint Jude include such things as:

passing exams;
being protected from harm while on active military duty (especially in Iraq);
getting a job;
getting a visa;
selling a home;
buying a house;
spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, psychological healing;
improvement of a relationship;
getting a compatible marriage mate;
help for one's Parent or Child;
being healed from a major disease (several have reported being healed from cancer and other serious diseases);
not needing minor surgery for a physical problem;
not needing major surgery for a physical problem (in at least one case, a person had the proof of her miracle in the form of the before and after x-rays which proved her instant and total cure);
moving to a better climate;
being accepted by a certain institution of higher learning;
getting a job promotion;
keeping one's job;
moving from one country to another;
many special intentions known only to the persons requesting the Novenas to Saint Jude;
many, many Novenas of Thanksgiving to Saint Jude for one or more intentions granted by Saint Jude;
many other things.

Some people ask me to remind everyone else that Saint Jude Thaddeus is in fact a powerful intercessor before the Throne of God in Heaven on behalf of those for whom and for whose intentions their 9 Day Novenas are made here at the Shrine of Saint Jude.  They tell me how they themselves have personally experienced his most powerful intercession in their own lives and frequently add that this is why they continue to keep coming back to Saint Jude whenever they are in need of help.

Because of the very positive experiences of some people in getting what they need as the result of their Novenas being made here at the Shrine of Saint Jude, some of them have, as it were, a "perpetual", or "continuous" non-stop series of Novenas - one that begins every Sunday of the year.  As a result, they tell me they almost always get what they need and even sometimes they get some things they would like to have, but do not really need.

I, personally, have also been helped by Saint Jude in so many different ways over the years, so many, many time, for which I most humbly thank Saint Jude for all of his most powerful help and intercession with God!

Thank You, Saint Jude!

Father Michael

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Priests are God's Helpers:

“The Priest represents Christ Who said:  As the Father hath sent me, I also send you" (John 20:21).  He that heareth you, heareth Me (Luke 10:16).  Admitted to this most sublime ministry by a call from Heaven, he is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins (Hebrews 5:1).   To him must come anyone who wishes to live the life of the Divine Redeemer and who desires to receive strength, comfort and nourishment for his soul; from him the salutary medicine must be sought by anyone who wishes to rise from sin and lead a good life. Hence all Priests may apply to themselves with full right the words of the Apostle of the Gentiles:  For we are God’s coadjutors [assistants; helpers] (1 Corinthians 3:9)."

(Pope Pius XII, Apostolic Exhortation, Menti Nostrae, To the Clergy of the Entire World, On the Development of Holiness in Priestly Life, Saturday, September 23, 1950.)

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The Shrine of Saint Jude thanks Saint Jude Thaddeus
for all of his great blessings and miracles it has received over the years!

Thank You, Saint Jude!!!

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Feast Day of the Purification
of the Blessed Virgin Mary

 

“O Almighty and Everlasting God, we humbly beseech Thy Majesty, as Thine only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple in the substance of our flesh, so grant unto us to be presented unto Thee with purified souls.”

(Missale Romanum, Collect; Saint Gregory I [Friday, September 3, 590 - Monday, March 12, 604].)

Above collage of the Fathers is representative of all of the many Fathers of the Catholic Church. Pictured, left to right, are Saints: Ambrose, Athanasius of Alexandria with Cyril of Alexandria, Augustine, Basil, Chrysostom, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory Theologus.

9 - 11-2001

Please join with us in praying for all victims, not only of hurricanes, but of earthquakes, blizzards, all other natural disasters, all wars, etc., etc.  Please also join with us in praying for the safe and speedy return home of all men and women who are in the military.

Reading

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith; and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. (Thomas a'Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapter 5:2;4.)

Important Catholic Quotes for Today!

 

Saint Paul The Apostle	“Stand fast... hold the Traditions.” (2 Thessalonians 2:14) “But though We, or an Angel from Heaven, Preach a Gospel to you besides that which We have preached to you, let him be anathema.” (Galatians 1:8) “Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the Truth?” (Galatians 4:16)
Pope St Gregory I	“If people are scandalized at the Truth, it is better to allow the birth of scandal, than to abandon the Truth.” (Infallible Roman Catholic Pope Saint Gregory I, the Great, [Friday, September 3, 590 - Monday, March 12, 604], Homily on Ezechiel, 7; cited by Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., Summa Theologica, Part II-II, Question 43, Article 7.)
St Thomas Aquinas	“Donotxheed byxwhomxa thing is said, butxrather whatxis said.” (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, Letter to Brother John.)
Patriarch Saint Athanasius	“The Heretics may possess the buildings of the Church, but you possess the Faith of the Church... It is a fact that they have the premises - but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the True Faith.  You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you.  Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The True Faith, obviously.  Who has lost and who has won in this struggle - the one who keeps the premises, or the one who keeps the Faith?....  Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the True Church of Jesus Christ.” (Patriarch Saint Athanasius [b. Alexandria, Egypt 296 A.D. - d. Alexandria, Egypt on Wednesday, May 2, 373A.D.], Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, Father of Orthodoxy in the Catholic Church, “Coll. Selecta SS. Eccl. Patrum.,” Caillu and Guillou, Volume 32, pp 411-412; emphasis added.)
Pope Pius VI	“In order to expose such snares, something which becomes necessary with a certain frequency in every Century, no other method is required than the following: Whenever it becomes necessary to expose statements which disguise some suspected error or danger under the veil of ambiguity, one must denounce the perverse meaning under which the error opposed to Catholic Truth is camouflaged.” (Infallible Roman Catholic Pope Pius VI, Giovanni Angelo Braschi [Wednesday, February 15, 1775 - Thursday, August 29, 1799], using his Infallible Ordinary Magisterium, Promulgated his Infallible Encyclical “Auctorem Fidei,” Thursday, August 28, 1794, ¶ 6; emphasis added).
Pope St Pius X	“These latter days have witnessed a notable increase in the number of the enemies of the Cross of Christ, who, by arts entirely new and full of deceit, are striving to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, as far as in them lies, utterly to subvert the very Kingdom of Christ.  Wherefore, We may no longer keep silence, lest We should seem to fail in Our most Sacred Duty, and lest the kindness that, in the hope of wiser counsels, We have hitherto shown them, should be set down to lack of diligence in the discharge of Our Office.”  (Infallible Roman Catholic Pope Saint Pius X, Giuseppe Sarto [Tuesday, August 4, 1903 - Thursday, August 20, 1914], Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, On the Doctrine of the Modernists, Sunday, September 8, 1907.)
Father St Vincent of Lerins	“In an Epistle sent at the time to Africa, he [Infallible Roman Catholic Pope Saint Stephen I [Friday, May 12, 254 - Sunday, August 2, 257] laid down this RULE:  Let there be no innovation - nothing but what has been handed down.  For that holy and prudent man well knew that true piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our Fathers the same are to be faithfully consigned to posterity. It is our duty to follow Religion, not to make Religion follow us. The proper characteristic of Christians is not to impose their own beliefs or observances upon posterity, but to preserve and keep what we have received from those who went before us. What then was the issue of the whole matter? What but the usual and customary one?  Antiquity was retained, novelty [i.e. change] was rejected”  (Father Saint Vincent of Lerins, [b. Toul, France, c. 400 A.D. - d. Island of Lerins, c. 450 A.D.], A Commonitory [an aid to memory] for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies, Chapter VI, ¶ 16; emphasis added).
St Thomas Aquinas	“The Apostles and their successors are God’s vicars in governing the Church which is built on Faith and the Sacraments of Faith.  Wherefore, just as they may not institute another church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments...” (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., Summa Theologica, Part III, Question 64, Article 2, Reply to Objection 3; emphasis added).
Patriarch Saint Athanasius	“Let us note that the very Tradition, teaching, and Faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning, which the Lord gave, was preached by the Apostles, and was preserved by the Fathers.  On this was the Church founded; and if anyone departs from this, he neither is, nor any longer ought to be called, a Christian.” (Patriarch Saint Athanasius [b. Alexandria, Egypt 296 A.D. - d. Alexandria, Egypt on Wednesday, May 2, 373A.D.], Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, Father of Orthodoxy in the Catholic Church, Letter to Serapion of Thmuis, 359 A.D.).
Bishop St Isidore	“Therefore, heresy is so-called from the Greek word meaning choice, by which each chooses according to his own will what he pleases to teach or believe.  But we are not permitted to believe whatever we choose, nor to choose whatever someone else has believed.  We have the Apostles of God as authorities, who did not themselves of their own will choose what they would believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations the teaching received from Christ. So, even if ‘an Angel from Heaven’ should preach otherwise, he shall be called anathemaX(Saint Paul, Epistle to the Galatians 1:8.).”  (Bishop Saint Isidore of Seville, Spain, [b. Cartagena, Spain 560 A.D. - d. Seville, Spain, 636 A.D.], Doctor of the Catholic Church, Etymologies, 8, 3; emphasis added.)
Bishop Saint Ivo	Priests & Bishops:  “Do not be one of those timourous physicians who like their tranquility more than the saving of the sick...  Even though Salome should dance before Herod, should ask for John's head and should obtain it from the detestable King, John's duty is to cry out: NON LICET! [It is not permitted!].” (Bishop Saint Ivo of Chartres, a.k.a. Yves, I’ve, Yvo  [b. Beauvais, France or Auteuil, France, c. 1040 A.D. - d. Chartres, France, Tuesday, May 30, 1116 A.D.], Bishop of Chartres [1090 A.D. - Tuesday, May 30, 1116 A.D.], Letter # 24, To Bishop Hugh of Lyons, October, 1094 A.D.)
St Vincent of Lerins	Magnopere curandum est ut id teneamus quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est. “Care must especially be had that that [Faith] be held, which was believed everywhere, always, and by all.” (Father Saint Vincent of Lerins, A Commonitory [an aid to memory] for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies, Chapter 3; emphasis added.)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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