What we have learned from Bishop Williamson
We believe.
These beliefs bring us to the understanding that there is a God, and He has a Christ.
Our belief has led us to listen to our Sheppards, and try to follow their lead.
Some have led us off cliffs, others have fed our souls.
This is some of what we have learned from Bishop Williamson:
We have a darkness that is crowding our entire world: it is the darkness of the Jew, who desired to set Christ upon a cross. They conspired to put Him up there; they went to the political powers, they went to the religious homes, and the financial event; they paid off with thirty pieces of silver.
Today we must look at those three same things: the money, the politics and the Faith.
Just as the Faith brought prosperity to Society and to those that proclaimed their faith in Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ was proclaimed King, Our lady was lifted up, the Priesthood was lifted up the Church was lifted up. The Light of the World was lifted up, so the world went forward.
Then came a Jewish desire to once again kill Christ. As they killed Him in His physical body, they wanted to also kill Him in His Mystical Body.
How could this be accomplished?
First they had to gain the financial power. They took over the financial power by establishing the Banking System, using our own funds to do their dirty work.
After establishing their financial power, the Jews set off to establish Political Power. They established the Masonic Lodges. The Masonic Lodges are the political right hand of the Jew.
Using this political power, they began to cast Christ down one nation at a time, lifting up these three terms: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. The Masonic creed.
These are the principals upon which America was established; the Statue of Liberty, the goddess Colombia is its ‘holy mother.’
This Masonic arm is the power that goes through the world in order to cast Christ down, it established a one world brotherhood, a one world religion, a one world economics, a one world politics.
All of Americas Presidents who have come through colleges and universities, at which there were Masonic Lodges, were inculcated with satanic principals.
Just as there is a Mystical Body of Christ, the Jew had to establish the anti-mystical body.
As there are those who are believers, there is a State that proclaims “We do not believe”.
The Jew formed the Russian Revolution and the Communists. A communist attitude that sets us not as God sets us, as persons, sources of personal responsibility, each one with an immortal soul.
Instead, out of Communism comes a new philosophy that says you are nothing more than a species, expendable to the State.
We need to become the victims that Christ asked us to be, ready to lay down our lives if it is necessary to proclaim that there is dignity in each and every human being.
That dignity is God’s presence.
Original Sin has flourished that we are now in the state that there is a battle going on.
That battle is won by the Blood of the Lamb, and by consecrating ourselves to the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts. They are joined.
We must do the battle that is most necessary to redeem our families by seeking forgiveness of the sins that have plagued us and have destroyed our families.
Our Society needs to rejuvenate itself through the understanding of the need for prayer in union with God, through the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart.
We are in this battle for eternity. Our immortal soul is eternal.
If we give up, if we are not faithful, it is because we have entered into impurity. It is impurity. It is purity that gives us the strength to be faithful.
The obstacles that face us in the world and in our social society remind us that we are called to be Christs. If that means we are to go to a cross as He did, let us go there bravely, knowing there is a purpose.
Our lord has no hands but our hands to do His work today,
Our Lord has no feet but our feet to lead others in His way,
Our Lord has no tongue but ours to tell men and women how He died,
Our Lord has no help but our help to bring others to His side.
Suprema Lex Soli Solimarum: The Supreme Law is the Salvation of Souls.
We believe Bishop Williamson is a good Sheppard. He fulfils the Supreme Law.
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(pictured: Blessed Jose Sanchez del Rio, Mexican Martyr. Killed by Freemasons).
Christmas Day is a suitable moment to recall why we may and should rejoice in the coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He and he alone can solve all the real problems of men, which go back to the very beginnings of mankind, and which are graver than ever today.
This is because all real problems of men involve sin. Any purely material disorder only becomes serious if it is in some way spiritual, for instance if a physical illness makes a man curse or bless. And anything spiritual that goes on inside me is only a disorder if it is in some way a sin. For instance Job lamented bitterly his physical afflictions, but his lamenting was not sinful. As for sin, it is a disorder or offence primarily against God, secondarily against self and only thirdly against neighbour.
Therefore all real problems of men which are not merely material problems, are problems of men having offended God. A terrible example is provided by a woman who has committed an abortion. Superficially her problem is solved. The baby is out of the way, and her life is "back to normal". But deep down, either she hardens her heart (and joins in a world coming to hate and suppress Christmas), or she knows and admits to herself that she has done something terribly wrong. Either way something in her is more or less twisted out of true for the rest of her days, and many such women, even if they are Catholics and know by their Faith that God has forgiven them through sacramental Absolution, can still be tormented, such is the wound that the sin has inflicted on their souls. Nor is abortion the worst of sins. Sinning directly against God is graver.
Grim thoughts for Christmas Day ? Yes and no. The problem of sin is grim, but the joy of knowing that it has a real solution is correspondingly great. If the poor girl goes to confession, almost every Catholic priest will do all he can to persuade her that if she is truly sorry for her sin (with a sorrow of Peter and not of Judas Iscariot), then through his absolving her she may not doubt that God has forgiven her. How many penitents then walk out of the confessional with a sense of relief and joy that nothing else can give them, because offending God was at the heart of their torment, and they know that God has forgiven them.
And where did this joy take its beginning ? In the certainty that God took a human nature from a Jewish maiden, lived upon earth and gave us, amongst other sacraments, that of Penance, deriving its force from the merits of his Passion and Death, which he endured only with the help of the same maiden and mother. But how could he have died unless he had been born ? It all began with his human birth from the Blessed Virgin Mary - Christmas.
So the solution of all the world's most terrible problems of my fellow-men and myself is available. No wonder Catholics are joyful. No wonder there is a special joy available even to disbelievers at Christmastime -- so long as they have not yet hardened their hearts.
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NEWCHURCH, NEWBLESSEDS.
On May 1, in a few weeks' time, John-Paul II is due to be declared "Blessed" by Benedict XVI amidst great celebration in St. Peter's Square in Rome.
But Catholics clinging to Tradition know that John-Paul II, while being a great promoter of the Conciliar Church, was an effective destroyer of the Catholic Church. How then can he be called "Blessed", the last step before being canonized, when Church canonizations are infallible ?
The swift answer is that John-Paul II will not be beatified as a Catholic Blessed by a Catholic beatification in the Catholic Church, but as a Newblessed by a Newbeatification in the Newchurch. And Newchurchmen are the first to claim novelty, the last to claim infallibility, for what they do.
Let us illustrate the nature of the Newchurch by a comparison drawn from modern life. Pure gasoline (petrol) smells, tastes and acts like gasoline. On it a car can run. Pure water smells, tastes and acts like water. On it a car cannot run. Gasoline mixed with surprisingly little water may still smell and taste like gasoline, but it no longer acts like gasoline ---- on it a car cannot run.
The water has taken away its combustibility.
Pure gasoline is comparable to pure Catholicism - highly combustible ! Pure water in our comparison is like pure secular humanism, or the religion of globalism, with not a trace of Catholicism left in it.
Now Catholicism and secular humanism were mixed together in the Second Vatican Council and in its 16 documents.
So Conciliarism, or Newcatholicism, may still smell and taste like Catholicism, enough to make "good Catholics" expect Conciliar beatifications to be on their way to infallibility, as were beatifications in the pre-Conciliar Church, but in reality a small admixture of secular humanism has been enough to stop the Catholicism from functioning, just as it takes not too much water to stop gasoline from combusting.
Thus Newbeatifications may taste and smell to unwary Catholic nostrils like Catholic beatifications, but on closer examination it is clear that Newbeatifications are not at all the same reality.
Famous example: a Catholic beatification used to require two distinct miracles, while a Newbeatification requires only one. And the rules for a Newbeatification are significantly relaxed in other ways as well.
Therefore no Catholic should expect anything other than a Newblessed to emerge from a Newbeatification. John-Paul II was indeed a Conciliar "Blessed".
What deceives Catholics is the elements of Catholicism that still remain in the Conciliar Church. But just as Vatican II was designed to replace Catholicism (pure gasoline) with Conciliarism (gasoline-water), so Conciliarism is designed to give way to - let us call it - the Global Religion (pure water).
The procession is from God to Newgod to Nongod.
Right now we still have Newrome pushing the Newgod of Vatican II with Newblesseds to match, but before long sheer criminals will be the "Blesseds" of the Nongod.
However, the true God will let no sheep be deceived that does not want to be deceived. Nor will he abandon any soul that has not first abandoned him, says St. Augustine.
Marvellous quote !
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QUAKING RESPONSIBILITY
Many people today have such a sentimental idea of God, or such a poor idea of his power, that they cannot imagine him punishing, let alone using the material universe or its weather to punish. Yet there is a strong argument that the very instability of the earth's tectonic plates, giving rise to disasters such as we have just seen in Japan, was a result and punishment of men's sin.
Here is the argument:
Before Adam and Eve sinned, human nature was a glorious creation of God, strong and stable, but not unbreakable.
Revolt against God could break it.
So when Adam and Eve committed original sin, all their descendants (except Our Lord and Our Lady) inherited a wounded nature, so that all of us can suffer, have to die, and only with difficulty control our lower nature.
Similarly with the physical nature of our planet. Before the Flood in the time of Noah, it was like a paradise garden, a glorious creation of God, strong and stable, but not unbreakable. The universal corruption of mankind (Gen.VI,5,11,12) could and would break it.
Now many geologists today may have no faith in the Flood as described in the Bible, but they do believe in some almighty prehistoric convulsion of the earth's surface as a way to explain, for instance, the fossil evidence of marine animals to be found today high in some of the earth's mountain ranges, such as the Rockies in North America.
Originally, they speculate, the rocky circumference of the earth was kept farther out from the earth's centre by huge subterranean chambers of water, on which the rock pressed down by gravity. If then that spherical shell of rock began anywhere to crack, the water would burst upwards, flooding the open surface above, and the rock would crush downwards to take its place. The huge tensions involved could spread the flooding and collapsing all over the world.
(Note that from Scripture it seems clear that the waters that made the Flood not only rained down from above but also burst up from beneath: Genesis VII, 11; VIII, 2.)
But it is obvious that if all around the earth its circumference of rock collapsed inwards to form a smaller circumference, there would be too much rock for too little space, so that it would not only crack, to form the clashing tectonic plates, but it would also crumple, to form, amongst other observable features of our planet's geology today, the huge mountain ranges, lifting marine animals way above the sea. Mount Everest is still being lifted a few centimeters each year, by the plate of India being pushed beneath the Eurasian plate of China and Tibet.
Thus as original sin generated from then on punitive tensions within human nature, so mankind's prehistoric corruption generated tensions within the earth's crust which underlie all such historic earth- and seaquakes as we have just seen in Japan. "Nature", said Our Lady at La Salette in 1846, "is asking for vengeance because of man, and she trembles with dread at what must happen to the earth stained with crime.
Tremble, earth, and you who proclaim yourselves as serving Jesus Christ and who, on the inside, only adore yourselves, tremble, for God will hand you over to his enemy, because the holy places are in a state of corruption."
Let us tremble. Let us pray!
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WHY SUFFERING ?
The latest dramatic shifting of tectonic plates off the east coast of Japan, causing both inland the biggest earthquake Japan has known for many years and along its eastern coast an absolutely devastating tidal wave, must be raising in many minds the classic question : if God exists, if he is all-powerful and all-good, how can he possibly allow so much human suffering ?
The classic answer is not too difficult in theory, at any rate when one is not suffering oneself ! --
Firstly, suffering is often a punishment for sin. God does exist, sin does offend him. Sin takes souls to Hell whereas God created them for Heaven. If suffering on earth will put a brake on sin and help souls to choose Heaven, then God, who is certainly in command of the tectonic plates, can without difficulty use them to punish sin. Then were the Japanese people especially sinful ?
Our Lord himself tells us not to ask that question, but rather to think of our own sins and to do penance, otherwise "you will all likewise perish" (Lk. XIII, 4). Would it not be astonishing if there were no Japanese people now wondering whether Western-style materialism and comfort are really what life is all about ?
Secondly, human suffering can well be a warning, to turn men away from evil and keep them from pride.
Right now the whole godless West should be questioning its own materialism and prosperity. By the steadily increasing rate of earthquakes and other natural disasters all over the world over the last several years, the Lord God is certainly trying to get the attention of all of us, maybe in the hope that he will not have to inflict on us the worldwide "rain of fire" of which his Mother warned us at Akita (in Japan) in 1973.
But right now, is there not every likelihood that because they are doing the suffering, the Japanese are profiting more from their disaster than is the distant West ? Those countries may in fact be lucky which are getting now a foretaste of the Chastisement threatening to come.
Thirdly, God may use human suffering to highlight the virtue of his servants. That was the case with Job, and with Christian martyrs down all the ages. Few Japanese people may today have supernatural faith, but if the Japanese now humble themselves beneath what they sense to be the mighty hand of God, they will earn natural merit and at least on the natural level give him glory.
Finally, there is God's own answer to Job, who by Chapter 36 of his Book is still not satisfied with any explanation for his suffering that he or any of his family or friends have been able to come up with.
I paraphrase : "Where were you, Job, when I laid down the foundations of the earth ? Did you design the tectonic plates ? Who do you think keeps the sea normally within its bounds, and stops it from flooding dry land ? Can you really think I did not have my own good reasons to let it just now wash over the north-east coast of Japan ?" See the Book of Job, Chapters 38 and 39.
And Job at last submits.
He is satisfied with the answer, and confesses that he was wrong to be calling in question the wisdom and goodness of God (Job 42, 1-7).
Let us ourselves do penance, be warned by Japan's disaster, hope to give glory to God in our own trials to come, and recognize above all that God alone is God !
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March 5th, 2011
FUTURE DISCUSSIONS
To the relief of some, to the disappointment of others, it looks as though the doctrinal Discussions held over the last year and a half between theologians of Rome and representatives of the Society of St Pius X will after all come to an end this spring, because the main subjects of discussion will by then have been covered, without any real prospect of agreement opening up.
Such is the conclusion tentatively to be drawn from remarks of the Society's Superior General, Bishop Fellay, made in the course of an interview he gave on February 2.
Now let anyone disappointed be sure that there are Romans and important priests of the SSPX who will hardly give up their efforts to build a bridge between the churchmen of Vatican II and the churchmen of Catholic Tradition.
But howsoever it be with such strivings to unite all Catholics of good will, strivings that ebb and flow, yesterday, today and tomorrow, Our Lord's words are an anchorage: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away" (Mt. XXIV, 35).
For on his life the Church's life is modelled, and in his life there was an ebb and flow of human strivings and sufferings, culminating in the dreadful crucifixion, but while he felt every human urge to shy away from the crucifying will of his Father - "Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me..." - still his human mind and heart were anchored in that divine will - "...nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt" (Mt.XXVI, 39).
So the same unchanging divine will that directed and anchored Our Lord's human mind and will, must anchor also the life of his Church.
So Popes, Councils, religious Congregations and Societies may come and go, but in order to be Catholic they must submit to that divine will to which Our Lord submitted, and they must tell the exact same truths that Our Lord transmitted from his Father to his Church.
Like no other institution upon earth, the Catholic Church is so built around Truth that its survival is proportional to its fidelity to that Truth.
Because the Conciliar Church is putting human interests in the place of divine Truth, it is disintegrating, and any Catholic Congregation or Society that would do the same will likewise fall apart.
It follows that whoever is faithful to the fullness of revealed Truth is in effect - not in principle, but in practice -- in the driving-seat of the Church (See "Letters from the Rector" Vol. IV, p.164).
Furthermore, whoever has that Truth and pretends he is not in the driving-seat would be what Our Lord would have called himself, had he denied his Father, "a liar" (Jn.VIII, 55). That is because any messenger disowning the divineness of his divine message is no true lover of his fellow-men, as he and they may like to think, but he has for his father the father of lies (Jn.VIII, 44).
There is a Truth, even if most people can barely recognize it.
The right and ability of the Romans to govern the Church depends on their being faithful to that Truth. The right and ability of the SSPX to stand up to unfaithful Romans depends on the SSPX's own faithfulness to the Truth.
For now the SSPX has been faithful, so for now the SSPX will survive, but may Rome, by returning to the Truth, make that survival unnecessary!
Prophets of doom do not make themselves popular, but if they are ministers of God, they must tell the truth. Now some people say that such ministers should not concern themselves with politics or economics. But supposing politics have become a substitute religion, necessarily a false religion, as they put man in the place of God ? And supposing economics (or finance) are about to make many people go hungry ? Are ministers of God not allowed to ask, with Aristotle, how people are going to lead a virtuous life if they will be lacking in the basic necessities of life? Is the virtuous life not the business of such ministers ?
Therefore I make no apology for quoting a remarkable paragraph from a reporter of the prestigious Wall Street Journal who relates how in the summer of 2006 he was rebuked by a senior adviser of then President Bush for having written an article critical of a former communications director in the White House. He says that at the time he did not fully comprehend what the adviser was saying to him, but afterwards he saw it as getting to the very heart of the Bush presidency. Here are the adviser's own words, as quoted by the reporter :--
People like the reporter, the adviser said to him, are "in what we call the reality-based community, meaning people who believe like you that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." The reporter should forget about yesterday's principles of respecting reality. "That's not the way the world works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality - judiciously, as you will - then we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." (See www.321 gold, Feb 2, "We are Victims of a Financial Coup d'Etat", by Catherine Fitts.)
This is not me moralizing about how the modern world runs on fantasy. This is a Washington insider of insiders, positively boasting of how the modern world is run on fantasy. Do not his words correspond exactly to the fabrications, for instance, of 9/11 and Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction", "created" to justify policies otherwise impossible to justify ? The arrogance of such a scorn for reality, and for people respecting reality, is breath-taking.
The classical Greeks were pagans with no knowledge of the revealed God, but they had a clear grasp of that reality which is the moral framework of his universe, governed, as they saw it, by the gods. Any man, even hero, who defied that framework, like the Bush adviser, was guilty of "hubris", or of rearing up above his proper human station, and he would be crushed accordingly by the gods. Catholics, if you think that grace does away with nature, you had best re-learn from the pagans of olden times those lessons of nature which are more than ever needed today. Study Xerxes in Aeschylus' Persae, Creon in Sophocles' Antigone., Pentheus in Euripides' Bacchae.
Pray the Holy Rosary for sure, but also read the famous classics, plant potatoes and pay down debt, say I!
TRADITIONAL INFECTION
Liberalism is an unbelievable disease, capable of rotting out the best hearts and minds.
If we define it, most briefly, as the liberation of man from God, it is as old as the hills, but never has it been so deep or widespread or seemingly normal, as it is today.
Now religious liberty is at the heart of liberalism -- what use is it to be free from everything else and everybody else if I am not free from God ?
So if Benedict XVI lamented three weeks ago that "religious freedom is threatened all over the world", he is certainly infected.
Nor let even followers of Catholic Tradition be confident that they have immunity from the disease.
Here is an e-mail I received a few days ago from a layman in Continental Europe:--
"For the longest time, about 20 years, I was molded by liberalism.
It is through the grace of God that I underwent a conversion with the Society of St Pius X.
To my shock I have found liberal behavior even in the ranks of Tradition. People are still saying that one should not exaggerate how bad things are at present.
Freemasonry is hardly mentioned as being an enemy of the Church, because to do so might damage one's personal interests, so people go on reacting as though, overall, the world is still in good shape.
"Some Traditionalists even recommend psycho-drugs to deal with the stress that goes with being a Traditional Catholic, and if you are looking for happiness, they say, you should go to a medical doctor to make life easier.
"The consequence of such behavior is an indifferentism which is the seed-bed of liberalism.
All of a sudden it is no longer so bad to attend the Novus Ordo Mass, to make common cause with modernists, to change one's principles from one day to the next, to give up showing one's faith in public, to study at a State university, to trust the State, and to act on the assumption that everybody does after all mean well.
"Our Lord has harsh words for this sort of indifferentism : the lukewarm he will "begin to spit out of his mouth" (Rev. III, 16).
It may sound paradoxical, but the greatest enemies of the Church are liberal Catholics. There is even a liberal Traditionalism !!!" (end of layman's quote).
What then is the antidote for this poison that threatens every one of us?
Sanctifying grace, no doubt (Rom.VII, 25), which can clear the mind of confusion, and strengthen the will to do what the mind sees to be right.
And how do I make sure of sanctifying grace?
That is a little like asking, how can I guarantee my final perseverance ? The Church teaches that one cannot guarantee it, because it is a gift - or the gift -- of God. But what I can always do is pray the Holy Rosary, an average of five Mysteries a day - better, if reasonably possible, fifteen.
Whosoever does that is doing what the Mother of God asks all of us to do, and she has a virtually unlimited maternal power over her Son, Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ.
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