A MESSAGE FOR THE 11TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
“For I,” says St. Paul in
today’s Epistle, “am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the
Church of God.” And certainly, before
his conversion, Paul, or Saul as he was then called, did indeed persecute the
Church of God. You’ll remember it was
Saul who held the clothes of the Jews as they stoned to death St. Stephen, the
first martyr. Even to the very moment of
his conversion, Saul’s hatred for the new religion of Christ knew no bounds; in
fact, he was on his way to Damascus to persecute more Christians when he was struck
from his horse and came face to face with our blessed Lord himself.
Since St. Paul, the
successors of the apostles have persevered in transmitting the Catholic faith to
the Church of God. Popes through the
ages have followed the command of their Lord to feed his sheep. For two thousand years the faithful have thrived
and been nourished on the Bread of Angels, fed to them daily in the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass.
With the Second Vatican
Council, however, there came a deviant Bishop of Rome who took away the food
from the sheep and forced them to die a slow death of spiritual starvation. Like our blessed Lord himself, this purported
“Vicar of Christ” had a Forerunner whose name was John. This John XXIII called a council, and as the bishops
and cardinals processed into St. Peter’s Basilica, the bells of the Vatican joyously
pealed out the changes. After the death
of John, along came another “pastor”, who, ironically, took the name of
Paul. Paul VI, long known as a communist
sympathizer and informant, was elected to complete those changes by doing away
with the two-thousand-year-old Mass of the Ages, and suppressing it once and
for all.
Unlike Saint Paul, he
failed to convert before his death, at least publicly. The only similarity between Paul VI and Saint
Paul was that he could quite truthfully declare, “I am not meet to be called a pope,
because I persecuted the Church of God.”
Unfortunately, since his death, his own successors have been perversely
faithful to the nefarious deviant, Paul VI, even going so far as to attempt his
canonization. His latest successor, Jorge
Bergoglio, has even tried to outdo Paul VI with his latest and most desperate
yet attempt to suppress the traditional Latin Mass. But like Paul VI, he will fail. Already, bishops throughout the world are
defying his Motu Proprio. Catholics
have learned to love once more the spiritual depths of the true Mass, and no tyrant
in Rome is going to deprive them of it.
Watch the backlash against Bergoglio, and rejoice! It is grace in action. How it will all end is up to Divine Providence
and man’s cooperation with God’s graces.
Let’s all make sure we do our part, so that we may make the words of St.
Paul our own: “His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain.”
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