Fourth Day
"Today bring to Me those who do not believe in God and those who do not know Me,
I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy."
Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.
*Our Lord's original words here were "the pagans."
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1mwCclrsT
Monday, February 20, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Divine Mercy Prayers
Third Day
"Today bring to Me all Devout and Faithful Souls,
and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. These souls brought me consolation on the Way of the Cross. They were a drop of consolation in the midst of an ocean of bitterness."
Most Merciful Jesus, from the treasury of Your mercy, You impart Your graces in great abundance to each and all. Receive us into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart and never let us escape from It. We beg this grace of You by that most wondrous love for the heavenly Father with which Your Heart burns so fiercely.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon faithful souls, as upon the inheritance of Your Son. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, grant them Your blessing and surround them with Your constant protection. Thus may they never fail in love or lose the treasure of the holy faith, but rather, with all the hosts of Angels and Saints, may they glorify Your boundless mercy for endless ages. Amen.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1mqDNUku9
"Today bring to Me all Devout and Faithful Souls,
and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. These souls brought me consolation on the Way of the Cross. They were a drop of consolation in the midst of an ocean of bitterness."
Most Merciful Jesus, from the treasury of Your mercy, You impart Your graces in great abundance to each and all. Receive us into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart and never let us escape from It. We beg this grace of You by that most wondrous love for the heavenly Father with which Your Heart burns so fiercely.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon faithful souls, as upon the inheritance of Your Son. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, grant them Your blessing and surround them with Your constant protection. Thus may they never fail in love or lose the treasure of the holy faith, but rather, with all the hosts of Angels and Saints, may they glorify Your boundless mercy for endless ages. Amen.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1mqDNUku9
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Is Catholicism Superior?
Is Catholicism Superior?
Vort-2012-02-14
Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
Here is THE question at the heart of so many issues within the Church today. And it
really is as simple as this – Is Catholicism Superior to other faiths or is it not?
If you think it is .. then you are on the side of the saints .. not to mention The Almighty ..who established the Church.
If you think it isn’t .. then you need to leave it.
Not all religions are the same. In fact .. there is Catholicism and then .. all the others are false religions.
But there is such hesitancy today .. FROM INSIDE THE CHURCH .. to come out and
say this plainly and simply. Why – it’s the truth isn’t it?!
Can people who say they believe the Catholic Church was founded by Jesus CHRIST
HIMSELF Personally .. really walk around and say something like .. but all the other
faiths are OK also. Look, Divinely established means just that,divinely established, which means that all the others are founded by men. This makes them false religions. Period. Yea yea. They have truthful aspects to them .. but any truth they have is first Catholic truth. Period.
God wants to be worshipped in one way and one way only and He Himself makes it quite
clear HOW that is to be. Its found in the book of Malachi .. chapter 1 verse 10-11.
“Oh, that one among you would shut the temple gates to keep you from kindling fire on
my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts; neither will I accept any sacrifice from your hands, For from the rising of the sun, even to its setting, my name is great among the nations; And everywhere they bring sacrifice to my name, and a pure offering;”
God has no pleasure in vain offerings. He tells the priests of the Old Testament that it will be the Gentiles who make the pure offering that he desires.
Well? What is pure that can be offered to God for sacrifice? The only pure sin offering that can be made to God is GOD HIMSELF. This is what the Catholic Mass is, the offering of the Son, to the Father. God to God.
The Catholic Mass occurs within the context of the Catholic Faith .. and since the
sacrifice of God to Himself is the most superior form of worship there is, then it follows that the Faith which believes this is the TRUE faith .. meaning .. by extension and quite logically .. that the other faiths .. all of them .. are false.
It’s just that simple. The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity established this Church to be His Bride. He gave His life for Her. It is She He will raise from Her earthly dross to Her manifest heavenly beauty at the end of time and Her alone.
If you don’t believe this, then get out, and make way for those who do,and most
especially .. those who want to learn.
There is only one true religion. Period. And its not just a matter of faith or belief .. it’s a fact. Undeniably.
And please don’t start going on about silly notions of being unconscious Catholics, and anonymous Catholics. It is precisely the backing away from this fact that has caused SO much problem in the Church these days. Too many leaders in the Church have surrendered this truth so they could be more easily accepted .. for whatever reason.
Their motives or intentions we leave to God .. the results are left for us to judge and the judgment is not favorable. Catholic identity has been lost because the unique claim of Catholicism has been abandoned .. privately at least if not totally publically. Bottom line, do you believe that Catholicism is the One True Faith, or do you not? As Archbishop Fulton Sheen used to say .. “If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.”
GOD Love you. I’m Michael Voris.
Vort-2012-02-14
Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
Here is THE question at the heart of so many issues within the Church today. And it
really is as simple as this – Is Catholicism Superior to other faiths or is it not?
If you think it is .. then you are on the side of the saints .. not to mention The Almighty ..who established the Church.
If you think it isn’t .. then you need to leave it.
Not all religions are the same. In fact .. there is Catholicism and then .. all the others are false religions.
But there is such hesitancy today .. FROM INSIDE THE CHURCH .. to come out and
say this plainly and simply. Why – it’s the truth isn’t it?!
Can people who say they believe the Catholic Church was founded by Jesus CHRIST
HIMSELF Personally .. really walk around and say something like .. but all the other
faiths are OK also. Look, Divinely established means just that,divinely established, which means that all the others are founded by men. This makes them false religions. Period. Yea yea. They have truthful aspects to them .. but any truth they have is first Catholic truth. Period.
God wants to be worshipped in one way and one way only and He Himself makes it quite
clear HOW that is to be. Its found in the book of Malachi .. chapter 1 verse 10-11.
“Oh, that one among you would shut the temple gates to keep you from kindling fire on
my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts; neither will I accept any sacrifice from your hands, For from the rising of the sun, even to its setting, my name is great among the nations; And everywhere they bring sacrifice to my name, and a pure offering;”
God has no pleasure in vain offerings. He tells the priests of the Old Testament that it will be the Gentiles who make the pure offering that he desires.
Well? What is pure that can be offered to God for sacrifice? The only pure sin offering that can be made to God is GOD HIMSELF. This is what the Catholic Mass is, the offering of the Son, to the Father. God to God.
The Catholic Mass occurs within the context of the Catholic Faith .. and since the
sacrifice of God to Himself is the most superior form of worship there is, then it follows that the Faith which believes this is the TRUE faith .. meaning .. by extension and quite logically .. that the other faiths .. all of them .. are false.
It’s just that simple. The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity established this Church to be His Bride. He gave His life for Her. It is She He will raise from Her earthly dross to Her manifest heavenly beauty at the end of time and Her alone.
If you don’t believe this, then get out, and make way for those who do,and most
especially .. those who want to learn.
There is only one true religion. Period. And its not just a matter of faith or belief .. it’s a fact. Undeniably.
And please don’t start going on about silly notions of being unconscious Catholics, and anonymous Catholics. It is precisely the backing away from this fact that has caused SO much problem in the Church these days. Too many leaders in the Church have surrendered this truth so they could be more easily accepted .. for whatever reason.
Their motives or intentions we leave to God .. the results are left for us to judge and the judgment is not favorable. Catholic identity has been lost because the unique claim of Catholicism has been abandoned .. privately at least if not totally publically. Bottom line, do you believe that Catholicism is the One True Faith, or do you not? As Archbishop Fulton Sheen used to say .. “If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.”
GOD Love you. I’m Michael Voris.
Pray the Rosary, for the Consecration of Russia to Mary
Archbishop Fulton Sheen said, "The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men; it is the book of the aged, whose eyes close upon the shadow of this world, and open on the substance of the next. The power of the rosary is beyond description."
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How To Pray the Rosary:
While the rosary and the indulgences attached to it by the Church essentially concerns the decades and the meditation upon the mysteries only, the following is a customary way of preparing for the rosary and concluding it.
1. Preparation
Start by making the sign of the Cross:
In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Then recite the Apostle's Creed:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ,
His only Son Our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. Amen.
Then say 1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys (for the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity) and then 1 Glory Be:
Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of death. Amen.
GLORY BE to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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2. The Rosary Proper
The Rosary is essentially the decades and their associated mysteries, and only these must be prayed to "pray the rosary", either in satisfaction of Our Lady's requests, or, to gain the indulgences attached to praying the rosary.
The traditional Rosary is divided into three parts, each having five mysteries: Glorious, Joyful and Sorrowful. In his apostolic letter The Rosary of the Virgin Mary, Pope John Paul II proposed a new set of mysteries, which he called the Luminous, and which concern the period of the public life of Our Lord. For those who wish to say all 20 decades at once during the course of a day, they may be said in the following order: Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious.
For those who wish to say only 5 decades per day, the Holy Father proposed the following schedule:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Joyful Sorrowful Glorious
Luminous Sorrowful Joyful
Glorious
For those who prefer to follow the traditional order of the days it is:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Joyful Sorrowful Glorious
Joyful Sorrowful Glorious
Glorious
While meditating on the Mysteries, recite:
One Our Father (large beads), 10 Hail Marys (small beads) and 1 Glory Be (before the next large bead) to make a complete decade of the rosary.
After each decade the Fátima Prayer may also be said (Pope Pius XII).
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are in most need of Thy mercy.
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3. Concluding Prayers
After the completion of five mysteries (5 decades), or 15 or 20, the following is customarily said:
Hail Holy Queen (or Salve Regina may be sung)
Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile show us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
(Verse) Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God.
(Response) That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Rosary Prayer
(Verse) Let us pray,
(Response) O God, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation. Grant, we beseech Thee, that while meditating on these mysteries of the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that we may both imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
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4. For the Intentions of the Holy Father
Catholics who say the rosary in a group, or, individually before the Blessed Sacrament,
may gain a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions, which includes prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father.
For the intentions of the Holy Father.
Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/rosary/how_to.htm#ixzz1mkJjkBRk
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How To Pray the Rosary:
While the rosary and the indulgences attached to it by the Church essentially concerns the decades and the meditation upon the mysteries only, the following is a customary way of preparing for the rosary and concluding it.
1. Preparation
Start by making the sign of the Cross:
In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Then recite the Apostle's Creed:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ,
His only Son Our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. Amen.
Then say 1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys (for the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity) and then 1 Glory Be:
Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of death. Amen.
GLORY BE to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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2. The Rosary Proper
The Rosary is essentially the decades and their associated mysteries, and only these must be prayed to "pray the rosary", either in satisfaction of Our Lady's requests, or, to gain the indulgences attached to praying the rosary.
The traditional Rosary is divided into three parts, each having five mysteries: Glorious, Joyful and Sorrowful. In his apostolic letter The Rosary of the Virgin Mary, Pope John Paul II proposed a new set of mysteries, which he called the Luminous, and which concern the period of the public life of Our Lord. For those who wish to say all 20 decades at once during the course of a day, they may be said in the following order: Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious.
For those who wish to say only 5 decades per day, the Holy Father proposed the following schedule:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Joyful Sorrowful Glorious
Luminous Sorrowful Joyful
Glorious
For those who prefer to follow the traditional order of the days it is:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Joyful Sorrowful Glorious
Joyful Sorrowful Glorious
Glorious
While meditating on the Mysteries, recite:
One Our Father (large beads), 10 Hail Marys (small beads) and 1 Glory Be (before the next large bead) to make a complete decade of the rosary.
After each decade the Fátima Prayer may also be said (Pope Pius XII).
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are in most need of Thy mercy.
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3. Concluding Prayers
After the completion of five mysteries (5 decades), or 15 or 20, the following is customarily said:
Hail Holy Queen (or Salve Regina may be sung)
Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile show us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
(Verse) Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God.
(Response) That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Rosary Prayer
(Verse) Let us pray,
(Response) O God, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation. Grant, we beseech Thee, that while meditating on these mysteries of the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that we may both imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
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4. For the Intentions of the Holy Father
Catholics who say the rosary in a group, or, individually before the Blessed Sacrament,
may gain a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions, which includes prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father.
For the intentions of the Holy Father.
Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/rosary/how_to.htm#ixzz1mkJjkBRk
Friday, February 17, 2012
Obama's Gamble
Obama’s Gamble
Vort-2012-02-13
Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
Well .. you certainly didn’t need the gift or prophecy to see this one coming. Despite the uproar over Obama’s command that Catholic institutions pay for birth control .. his long term gamble is well calculated.
In what is doubling as an ideological imposition AND a move which helps split the
bishops further from their flocks Obama is going all in on finally once and for all
neutralizing Catholic resistance to him. It will of course remain to be seen if his gamble pays off, but the first returns are coming in and initially, his gamble is paying off.
Look at these numbers from the Public Religion Research Institute. A majority of
Catholics actually SUPPORT Obama on this one over and above the bishops.
In fact the percentage of support among Catholics for Obama’s free birth control for
everybody plan, is actually greater than among the general population of Americans.
And who says Catholics are just gullible sheep, heck, we can actually blaze a trail
when it comes defying Divine Law.
Even if he does grant some kind of waiver to some Catholic groups the main point is
this, Obama has tested the waters and found that the support for the bishops among the overall catholic population really is as weak as everyone has long suspected.
What a dilemma for the US bishops. After squandering their moral authority for the past 40 plus years by laying in bed with the party of death, they are now paying the price. It was many most in fact, of the bishops themselves who have stayed deathly silent on the issue of contraception, so much so that it is nearly impossible to turn up one single document or letter or press release from the National Headquarters where that is the main topic.
Most of them have turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to their own priests counseling what is by now, millions of couples that the teaching on contraception is “official but not realistic”.
Most of them have allowed the contraceptive mentality to seize FIRM hold in the
parishes, even in the area of Natural Family Planning that’s often times treated as little else than Catholic Birth Control.
Most of them have for decades now pushed the idea that the GOVERNMENT and NOT
individual faithful Catholics should be carrying out the corporal works of mercy with
regard to the poor and sick. A large number of them have been complicit in the rise to power of this despot and now respond as though this some how came out of the blue. What we see unfolding before us is the consequence of 40 plus years of naïveté and political alliance with Caesar on the part of the American hierarchy.
Even today, in the midst of all this, many of them still continue to align themselves
with the policy goals of the party of death with regard to illegal immigration climate change and other policies on which reasonable men can disagree.
Yet too many of them tie their political and policy opinions to their moral offices as bishops as though to disagree with them on immigration for example is to challenge
Heaven itself.
A couple of months ago, they re-released the pathetic document, Faithful Citizenship,
a document that thankfully almost no Catholics know about or pay attention to if they do. In it,the garble of language and ambiguous competing principles essentially says nothing and claims nothing as being an absolute disqualifier for holding public office. Killing Children in the womb and supporting laws that allow this barbarism IS a disqualifier, automatically and undeniably. Yet nowhere is this clearly stated in the document. Practically all Democrats in office support this murder and yet nothing is really said about them .. much less DONE about them.
The National Bishops’ office publishes watered down ambiguous pamphlets about voting
for who your conscience says you should vote for, but never gets down to the nuts and
bolts about how a good conscience should be formed.
Here’s what needs to happen and the example is Blessed Pope John Paul II Himself. An
apology, a great big Nationally televised, much publicized apology. Hell itself has been allowed to run rampant in the Church for the past half century. The
bishops who have been complicit in this through their silence need to stand up and
1) ADMIT their complicity.
2) CONFESS .. for all the Catholic world to hear .. that they have been wrong in not
exercising their authority in charity as strong men do.
3) They need to publically ACKNOWLEDGE the grave disaster that they have allowed
to be reigned down on the Church .. down to the loss of hundreds of millions of souls
from the Faith .. AND IT IS Hundreds of Millions of Souls over all these years.
4) And when all of this has been publically confessed .. they must set about to make
AMENDS in very tangible practical ways. Dissident theologians must be summarily
fired. Catholic institutions that operate in the name of the Church yet defy Her infallible teachings must finally be cast off once and for all. Chanceries must be cleared of professional Catholics. Priests and religious that do no live moral faithful lives must be brushed aside.
In short .. a purification of the Church must begin and begin in earnest.
It was after all Catholic laymen in voting booths all over the USA that put Obama in the White House. They did it because they have been deceived through their lack of proper instruction in the Faith, which falls squarely on the shoulders of bishops whose job it is to teach the faith and safeguard it.
We have come to this sorry pass because too many shepherds have abandoned and
ignored the flock as the wolves have ripped it apart.
A MAJOR mea culpa is called for.
GOD Love you. I’m Michael Voris.
Vort-2012-02-13
Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
Well .. you certainly didn’t need the gift or prophecy to see this one coming. Despite the uproar over Obama’s command that Catholic institutions pay for birth control .. his long term gamble is well calculated.
In what is doubling as an ideological imposition AND a move which helps split the
bishops further from their flocks Obama is going all in on finally once and for all
neutralizing Catholic resistance to him. It will of course remain to be seen if his gamble pays off, but the first returns are coming in and initially, his gamble is paying off.
Look at these numbers from the Public Religion Research Institute. A majority of
Catholics actually SUPPORT Obama on this one over and above the bishops.
In fact the percentage of support among Catholics for Obama’s free birth control for
everybody plan, is actually greater than among the general population of Americans.
And who says Catholics are just gullible sheep, heck, we can actually blaze a trail
when it comes defying Divine Law.
Even if he does grant some kind of waiver to some Catholic groups the main point is
this, Obama has tested the waters and found that the support for the bishops among the overall catholic population really is as weak as everyone has long suspected.
What a dilemma for the US bishops. After squandering their moral authority for the past 40 plus years by laying in bed with the party of death, they are now paying the price. It was many most in fact, of the bishops themselves who have stayed deathly silent on the issue of contraception, so much so that it is nearly impossible to turn up one single document or letter or press release from the National Headquarters where that is the main topic.
Most of them have turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to their own priests counseling what is by now, millions of couples that the teaching on contraception is “official but not realistic”.
Most of them have allowed the contraceptive mentality to seize FIRM hold in the
parishes, even in the area of Natural Family Planning that’s often times treated as little else than Catholic Birth Control.
Most of them have for decades now pushed the idea that the GOVERNMENT and NOT
individual faithful Catholics should be carrying out the corporal works of mercy with
regard to the poor and sick. A large number of them have been complicit in the rise to power of this despot and now respond as though this some how came out of the blue. What we see unfolding before us is the consequence of 40 plus years of naïveté and political alliance with Caesar on the part of the American hierarchy.
Even today, in the midst of all this, many of them still continue to align themselves
with the policy goals of the party of death with regard to illegal immigration climate change and other policies on which reasonable men can disagree.
Yet too many of them tie their political and policy opinions to their moral offices as bishops as though to disagree with them on immigration for example is to challenge
Heaven itself.
A couple of months ago, they re-released the pathetic document, Faithful Citizenship,
a document that thankfully almost no Catholics know about or pay attention to if they do. In it,the garble of language and ambiguous competing principles essentially says nothing and claims nothing as being an absolute disqualifier for holding public office. Killing Children in the womb and supporting laws that allow this barbarism IS a disqualifier, automatically and undeniably. Yet nowhere is this clearly stated in the document. Practically all Democrats in office support this murder and yet nothing is really said about them .. much less DONE about them.
The National Bishops’ office publishes watered down ambiguous pamphlets about voting
for who your conscience says you should vote for, but never gets down to the nuts and
bolts about how a good conscience should be formed.
Here’s what needs to happen and the example is Blessed Pope John Paul II Himself. An
apology, a great big Nationally televised, much publicized apology. Hell itself has been allowed to run rampant in the Church for the past half century. The
bishops who have been complicit in this through their silence need to stand up and
1) ADMIT their complicity.
2) CONFESS .. for all the Catholic world to hear .. that they have been wrong in not
exercising their authority in charity as strong men do.
3) They need to publically ACKNOWLEDGE the grave disaster that they have allowed
to be reigned down on the Church .. down to the loss of hundreds of millions of souls
from the Faith .. AND IT IS Hundreds of Millions of Souls over all these years.
4) And when all of this has been publically confessed .. they must set about to make
AMENDS in very tangible practical ways. Dissident theologians must be summarily
fired. Catholic institutions that operate in the name of the Church yet defy Her infallible teachings must finally be cast off once and for all. Chanceries must be cleared of professional Catholics. Priests and religious that do no live moral faithful lives must be brushed aside.
In short .. a purification of the Church must begin and begin in earnest.
It was after all Catholic laymen in voting booths all over the USA that put Obama in the White House. They did it because they have been deceived through their lack of proper instruction in the Faith, which falls squarely on the shoulders of bishops whose job it is to teach the faith and safeguard it.
We have come to this sorry pass because too many shepherds have abandoned and
ignored the flock as the wolves have ripped it apart.
A MAJOR mea culpa is called for.
GOD Love you. I’m Michael Voris.
Divine Mercy Prayers
First Day
"Today bring to Me all mankind, especially all sinners,
and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. In this way you will console Me in the bitter grief into which the loss of souls plunges Me."
Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive us, do not look upon our sins but upon our trust which we place in Your infinite goodness. Receive us all into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart, and never let us escape from It. We beg this of You by Your love which unites You to the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon all mankind and especially upon poor sinners, all enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion show us Your mercy, that we may praise the omnipotence of Your mercy for ever and ever. Amen
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1mecicjWA
"Today bring to Me all mankind, especially all sinners,
and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. In this way you will console Me in the bitter grief into which the loss of souls plunges Me."
Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive us, do not look upon our sins but upon our trust which we place in Your infinite goodness. Receive us all into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart, and never let us escape from It. We beg this of You by Your love which unites You to the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon all mankind and especially upon poor sinners, all enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion show us Your mercy, that we may praise the omnipotence of Your mercy for ever and ever. Amen
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1mecicjWA
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Divine Mercy Prayers
Seventh Day
Today bring to Me the Souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy*,
and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.
Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God:
Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.
*The text leads one to conclude that in the first prayer directed to Jesus, Who is the Redeemer, it is "victim" souls and contemplatives that are being prayed for; those persons, that is, that voluntarily offered themselves to God for the salvation of their neighbor (see Col 1:24; 2 Cor 4:12). This explains their close union with the Savior and the extraordinary efficacy that their invisible activity has for others. In the second prayer, directed to the Father from whom comes "every worthwhile gift and every genuine benefit,"we recommend the "active" souls, who promote devotion to The Divine Mercy and exercise with it all the other works that lend themselves to the spiritual and material uplifting of their brethren.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena....
Today bring to Me the Souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy*,
and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.
Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God:
Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.
*The text leads one to conclude that in the first prayer directed to Jesus, Who is the Redeemer, it is "victim" souls and contemplatives that are being prayed for; those persons, that is, that voluntarily offered themselves to God for the salvation of their neighbor (see Col 1:24; 2 Cor 4:12). This explains their close union with the Savior and the extraordinary efficacy that their invisible activity has for others. In the second prayer, directed to the Father from whom comes "every worthwhile gift and every genuine benefit,"we recommend the "active" souls, who promote devotion to The Divine Mercy and exercise with it all the other works that lend themselves to the spiritual and material uplifting of their brethren.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena....
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