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Tuesday 20 October 2015
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KAPOW !!! Take That All You Cunning People Trying To Undermine Christ And His Church !!!
This Article is taken from Fr John Zuhlsdorf's Blog, FR. Z's BLOG
Illustration: PINTEREST
URGENT: Romanian Greek Catholic Doctor’s speech to Synod! Members (all) get a serious talking to!
I saw this at Voice of the Family. You can find it other places too.
The entire Synod of Bishops (and the fancy people running it) received a marvelously cold slap in the face with the wet towel of real “reality” in a speech by a lay woman from Romania. She didn’t waste time or words, but laid right into them.
My emphases and comments:
The following intervention was made by Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea, President of the Association of Catholic Doctors of Bucharest (Romania), at the Ordinary Synod on the Family on Friday.Your Holiness, Synod Fathers, Brothers and Sisters, I represent the Association of Catholic Doctors from Bucharest.I am from the Romanian Greek Catholic Church.My father was a Christian political leader, who was imprisoned by the communists for 17 years. My parents were engaged to marry, but their wedding took place 17 years later.
My mother waited all those years for my father, although she didn’t even know if he was still alive. They have been heroically faithful to God and to their engagement.Their example shows that God’s grace can overcome terrible social circumstances and material poverty.We, as Catholic doctors, defending life and family, [that is, actually doingsomething] can see this is, first of all, a spiritual battle.Material poverty and consumerism are not the primary cause of the family crisis. [BAM!]The primary cause of the sexual and cultural revolution is ideological. [BIF!]Our Lady of Fatima has said that Russia’s errors would spread all over the world. [Do I hear an “Amen!”?]
It was first done under a violent form, classical Marxism, by killing tens of millions.Now it’s being done mostly by cultural Marxism. There is continuity from Lenin’s sex revolution, through Gramsci and the Frankfurt school, to the current-day gay-rights and gender ideology. [Naming names, too!]Classical Marxism pretended to redesign society, through violent take-over of property.Now the revolution goes deeper; it pretends to redefine family, sex identity and human nature.This ideology calls itself progressive. But it is nothing else than the ancient serpent’s offer, for man to take control, to replace God, to arrange salvation here, in this world.It’s an error of religious nature, it’s Gnosticism. [KA-POW!]
It’s the task of the shepherds to recognize it, and warn the flock against this danger.[OORAH! Is that what the Synod Fathers are doing? I’m just asking.]“Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God, and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.”The Church’s mission is to save souls. Evil, in this world, comes from sin. Not from income disparity or “climate change”. [Do I hear an “Amen!”?]The solution is: Evangelization. Conversion.Not an ever increasing government control. Not a world government. These are nowadays the main agents imposing cultural Marxism to our nations, under the form of population control, reproductive health, gay rights, gender education, and so on.What the world needs nowadays is not limitation of freedom, but real freedom, liberation from sin. Salvation.
Our Church was suppressed by the soviet occupation. But none of our 12 bishops betrayed their communion with the Holy Father. Our Church survived thanks to our bishops’ determination and example in resisting prisons and terror. [I guess they were culture warriors.]Our bishops asked the community not to follow the world. Not to cooperate with the communists. [Can we hand the Synod over to this gal? Please?]Now we need Rome to tell the world: “Repent of your sins and turn to God for the Kingdom of Heaven is near”. [Is this what you are hearing from your pastors these days? Or are you getting a bunch of half-mumbled, mealy-mouthed temporizing?]Not only us, the Catholic laity, but also many Christian Orthodox are anxiously praying for this Synod. Because, as they say, if the Catholic Church gives in to the spirit of this world, it is going to be very difficult for all the other Christians to resist it. [THWACK!]
Forward this to everyone.
God bless Dr. Cernea!
I have an imagine of some of the bishops, especially those from a certain country, blinking faster and faster as the speech goes on and, perhaps, pawing the ground with one of their feet while their hands work, aimlessly.
Have You Been To Benediction, Recently ?
Illustration: KNIGHTS OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST
"O Salutaris Hostia".
Available on YouTube at
"O Salutaris Hostia"
and
"Tantum Ergo".
Available on YouTube at
"Adoremus in aeternum".
[At thirty minutes on this video.]
Available on YouTube at
Anima Christi (Soul Of Christ). Thanksgiving After Holy Communion.
Text is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
"Anima Christi".
By Fr. Marco Frisina.
Anima Cristi - Alma de Cristo
Oración compuesta por San Ignacio de Loyola
esta versión musical en latín dirigida por Fr. Marco Frisina.
Available on YouTube at
Anima Christi, sanctifica me.
Corpus Christi, salva me.
Sanguis Christi, inebria me.
Aqua lateris Christi, lava me.
Passio Christi, conforta me.
O bone Jesu, exaudi me.
Intra tua vulnera absconde me.
Ne permittas me separari a te.
Ab hoste maligno defende me.
In hora mortis meae voca me,
Et jube me venire ad te.
Ut cum Sanctis tuis laudem te.
In saecula saeculorum.
Amen.
Soul of Christ, Sanctify me.
Body of Christ, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the Side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
O good Jesu, hear me.
Within Thy Wounds, hide me.
Suffer me not to be separated from Thee.
From the malicious enemy, defend me.
In the hour of death, call me,
And bid me come unto Thee.
That with Thy Saints, I may praise Thee.
For ever and ever.
Amen.
An Indulgence of 300 days each time this Prayer is said.
An Indulgence of seven years, if said after Holy Communion.
If said every day during the month, a Plenary Indulgence,
subject to the usual conditions, on any day chosen.
(Blessed Pope Pius IX, 1854)
Sunday 18 October 2015
Saint Luke. Evangelist. Feast Day 18 October.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Luke.
Evangelist.
Feast Day 18 October.
Double of The Second-Class.
Red Vestments.
Saint Luke.
Evangelist.
Feast Day 18 October.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
English: Saint Luke.
Français: Saint Luc.
Artist: James Tissot (1836–1902).
Date: 1886-1894.
Current location: Brooklyn Museum,
New York, United States of America.
Credit line: Purchased by public subscription.
Source/Photographer: Online Collection
of Brooklyn Museum; Photo: Brooklyn Museum,
2007, 00.159.207_PS2.jpg
(Wikimedia Commons)
Owing to his connection with this Master and the other Apostles, he was enabled to write The Third Gospel, which Saint Jerome and Saint John Chrysostom describe as "The Gospel of Saint Paul".
Like The Doctor of The Gentiles (Saint Paul), he addresses himself to pagans to show them that Salvation is brought by Jesus to all men, without exception, who believe in Him. He is symbolically represented as an Ox, one of the four animals in the Vision of Ezechiel [Third Lesson of The First Nocturn at Matins], because, at the beginning of his Gospel, he mentions the Priesthood of Zacharias, and because the Ox was usually the victim in the sacrifices of The Old Law.
The Mass of Saint Luke, like that of Saint Mark, offers this particular, that its Gospel refers to the instructions given by The Saviour to His seventy-two Disciples, both these Evangelists (Luke and Mark) not having been Apostles, but only Disciples of Our Lord.
Saint Jerome relates that Saint Luke died in Achaia, Greece, at the age off eighty-four.
Mass: Mihi autem nimis.
THE SAINT ANDREW DAILY MISSAL
THE SAINT ANDREW DAILY MISSAL
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"Adore Te Devote". Eucharistic Hymn Written By Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274).
Adore Te Devote.
By Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Sung by The Cathedral Singers.
Available on YouTube at
English: Saint Thomas Aquinas is girded by Angels
with a Mystical Belt of Purity after his proof of chastity.
Español: Tentación de Santo Tomás d'Aquino.
Artist: Diego Velázquez (1599-1660).
Date: 1632.
Current location:
Museo del Palacio Arzobispal de Orihuela,
Alicante, Spain.
Source: File:Velazquez-Oriola.jpg
(Wikimedia Commons)
Another Hymn from the great Saint Thomas Aquinas.
This version does not include the 3rd or 4th Verses.
The Illustrations in the YouTube video are:
"The Temptation of Saint Thomas Aquinas" by Diego Velazquez;
"Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas over the Heretics" by Filippino Lippi;
"The Apotheosis of Thomas Aquinas" by Francisco de Zurbaran.
English: Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Altarpiece in the Church of Saint Dominic, Ascoli, Italy.
Deutsch: Altar von San Domenico in Ascoli,
Polyptychon, linke äußere Aufsatztafel: Hl. Thomas von Aquin.
Artist: Carlo Crivelli (1435-1495).
Date: 1476.
Current location: National Gallery, London, England.
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.
ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Adoro te devote, latens Deitas,
Quæ sub his figuris vere latitas;
Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit,
Quia te contemplans totum deficit.
Visus, tactus, gustus in te fallitur,
Sed auditu solo tuto creditur.
Credo quidquid dixit Dei Filius;
Nil hoc verbo veritátis verius.
O memoriale mortis Domini!
Panis vivus, vitam præstans homini!
Præsta meæ menti de te vívere,
Et te illi semper dulce sapere.
Pie Pelicane, Jesu Domine,
Me immundum munda tuo sanguine:
Cujus una stilla salvum facere
Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere.
Jesu, quem velatum nunc aspicio,
Oro, fiat illud quod tam sitio:
Ut te revelata cernens facie,
Visu sim beátus tuæ gloriæ.
Amen
I devoutly adore you, O hidden God,
Truly hidden beneath these appearances.
My whole heart submits to you,
And in contemplating you,
It surrenders itself completely.
Sight, touch, taste are all deceived
In their judgment of you,
But hearing suffices firmly to believe.
I believe all that the Son of God has spoken;
There is nothing truer than this word of truth.
O memorial of our Lord's death!
Living bread that gives life to man,
Grant my soul to live on you,
And always to savor your sweetness.
Lord Jesus, Good Pelican,
wash me clean with your blood,
One drop of which can free
the entire world of all its sins.
Jesus, whom now I see hidden,
I ask you to fulfill what I so desire:
That on seeing you face to face,
I may be happy in seeing your glory.
Amen
Amen
The Gradual Of Eleanor Of Brittany (Graduel D'Alienor De Bretagne). Mass: Orbis Factor. Kyrie Eleison.
Text and Illustrations from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
unless otherwise stated.
English: Fontevraud Abbey, whose Liturgical Psalmody and Hymns were used
in the construction of the Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany
(Graduel D' Alienor De Bretagne). It was here, in 1290,
that Eleanor of Brittany took her Vows.
Français: Abbatiale de Fontevraud.
Photo: 14 May 2010.
Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discussion_
Wikip%C3%A9dia:Journ%C3%A9es_
europ%C3%A9ennes_
du_patrimoine&diff=59199367&oldid=59197783.
Author: Aurore Defferriere.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Mediaeval Chant of
The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany
(13th-14th-Century).
"Kyrie Eleison"
from the Mass "Orbis Factor".
Performers: Ensemble Organum.
Director: Marcel Peres.
Available on YouTube at
Detail of The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany.
Illustration from The Mediaeval Collection of Selected Manuscript Paintings bulletin,
April 1972, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States of America.
http://www.metmuseum.org/
Fontevraud Abbey was Founded by the itinerant reforming Preacher, Robert of Arbrissel, who had just created a new Order, The Order of Fontevrault [Editor: Alternate name for Fontevraud.]. The first permanent structures were built between 1110 and 1119.
Eleanor of Brittany (1275 - 16 May 1342 ), daughter of John II of Brittany and Beatrice of England, was the sixteenth Abbess of the Double Fontevriste Priory at Amesbury, England. On her death, she bequeathed to Fontevraud Abbey The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany. [Editor: Fontevriste is the adjectival name taken from Fontevraud.]
Amesbury Abbey, England,
site of the Double Fontevriste Priory,
where Eleanor of Brittany was Abbess from 1304-1342.
Photo: 5 July 2010.
Source: originally posted to Flickr as Amesbury Abbey.
Author: Matthew Black.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Gradual had been given to Eleanor, the daughter of John II of Brittany, on her arrival at the Abbey of Fontevraud, in 1290 . There, she took her Vows. In 1304, she became the sixteenth Abbess of the Double Fontevriste Priory at Amesbury, England. She died on 16 May 1342, bequeathing her Gradual, which carried her Coat-of-Arms, to Fontevraud Abbey.
The Gradual was made in Paris in 1250, before Eleanor was born. It was possibly made in the studio of Nicolas Lombard, perhaps for Eleanor's parents, John II of Brittany and Beatrice of England (the second daughter of King Henry III of England). It would have been entrusted to their daughter in 1290, when she arrived at Fontevraud Abbey to take her Vows.
The Gradual is currently in the Public Library of Limoges, France. The Public cannot see it, but it is possible to browse online.
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