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Offline Sigismund

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What are you reading for Advent?
« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2012, 10:26:15 PM »
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    The Book of Isaiah with a commentary.

    A book of daily devotions for Advent with writings from St. Francis.

    The Imitation of Christ, which I reread every year during Advent.  

    The Homilies of St Gregory the Great

    Byzantine Advent is six week, not four, so I have two weeks more that the rest of you to get it done.   :smile:


    Very ambitious - I admire your stamina!


    Thanks, but I am retired and really like to read, so it is hardly a chore.  
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir


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    What are you reading for Advent?
    « Reply #16 on: November 30, 2012, 11:42:26 PM »
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  • Liberty: The God That Failed by John Rao

    I'll be starting this soon. Anyone read it?

    I'd like to find a good Advent devotional too!
    Laudetur Iesus Christus!


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    What are you reading for Advent?
    « Reply #17 on: December 02, 2012, 05:12:05 AM »
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  • Quote from: Sigismund
    The Book of Isaiah with a commentary.

    A book of daily devotions for Advent with writings from St. Francis.

    The Imitation of Christ, which I reread every year during Advent.  

    The Homilies of St Gregory the Great

    Byzantine Advent is six week, not four, so I have two weeks more that the rest of you to get it done.   :smile:


    Six weeks is much better:  The Saint Martin Fast.  I remember reading about that.  The Liturgical Year also mentions that the fast was on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during this time.  You, indeed, have a head start!
    But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.
    Luke 10:42

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    What are you reading for Advent?
    « Reply #18 on: December 02, 2012, 11:59:00 AM »
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  • Quote from: Sigismund
    The Book of Isaiah with a commentary.

    A book of daily devotions for Advent with writings from St. Francis.

    The Imitation of Christ, which I reread every year during Advent.  

    The Homilies of St Gregory the Great

    Byzantine Advent is six week, not four, so I have two weeks more that the rest of you to get it done.   :smile:


    Hey, are you reading this stuff for Advent or doing your Deacon homework???  

     :smile:


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    What are you reading for Advent?
    « Reply #19 on: December 02, 2012, 12:01:29 PM »
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    The Book of Isaiah with a commentary.

    A book of daily devotions for Advent with writings from St. Francis.

    The Imitation of Christ, which I reread every year during Advent.  

    The Homilies of St Gregory the Great

    Byzantine Advent is six week, not four, so I have two weeks more that the rest of you to get it done.   :smile:


    Very ambitious - I admire your stamina!


    Thanks, but I am retired and really like to read, so it is hardly a chore.  


    If I'm right, and I think I may be, Sigismund does not own a TV.

    Guys and gals, you can get a whole lot of reading done if you weren't distracted by the TV.  Other than moderately enjoying some sports, and Turner Classic Movies, TV is mostly rot.

    I'm reading several books at one time but I think I'm going to focus on "The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary" by Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich.  


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    « Reply #20 on: December 02, 2012, 02:48:50 PM »
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  • I too was moved very much by Hobbledehoy's post on the CROSS. From time to time one reads or hears something that takes their faith to a higher level. This was one such occassion. Thank you Hobbledehoy.

    But not even the cross was left untouched by the Modernists as I found out when I read the following.

    It was in 1963 when the Twisted Cross Crucifix was first presented to the Catholic public by Giovanni Battista Montini as Pope Paul VI. Instead of the traditional Christian cross of Jesus. The meaning of this act was loud and clear: the Jesuits (who educated Einstein in Italy) had taken over the Vatican. The favorite emblem of John Paul II in his innumerable pilgrimages was the Curved Crucifix which stood for the curved space-time-matter of Einstein.. Piers Compton in his book, The broken Cross: Hidden Hand of the Vatican stated that the bent Crucifix is: “a sinister symbol, used by Satanists in the 6th century, that had been revived at the time of Vatican II. This was a bent or broken cross, on which they displayed a repulsive and distorted figure of Christ, which the black magicians and sorcerers of the Middle Ages had made use of to represent the Biblical term 'Nark of the beast'...Well, the last biography of Isaac Newton written by Michael White and published by Helix Books in 1998 was titled: Isaac Newton. The Last Sorcerer. And it was Pope Paul himself who described the already-developing postconciliar debacle with some of the most shocking words ever uttered by a Roman Pontiff: By some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered into the temple of God: there is doubt, uncertainty, problems, unrest. Doubt has entered our consciences, and it has entered through the windows which were meant to have been opened to the light. This state of uncertainty reigns even in the Church. It was hoped that after the Council there would be a day of sunlight in the history of the Church. Instead, there came a day of clouds, of darkness, of groping, of uncertainty. How did this happen? We will confide Our thoughts to you: there has been interference from an adverse power: his name is the devil... [Paul VI, Insegnamenti, Ed. Vaticana, Vol. X, 1972, p. 707] Malachi Martin left the Jesuits in 1964, but while working in the vatican, he became aware of the fact that the Jesuits, and many high-ranking cardinals, had held a Black mass in the Vatican (St. Paul's cathedral). During this Black mass, these cardinals and other Jesuits “installed” Lucifer as head of the Church of Rome. It was Malachi Martin's belief that many of the Roman clergy at that time began practicing child molestation as part of their Satanic rites of worship. The late, former Jesuit father Alberto Rivera honestly revealed that the Jesuit General Pedro Arrupe was the head of the Communist party in Spain.

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    What are you reading for Advent?
    « Reply #21 on: December 02, 2012, 03:05:04 PM »
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  • The book I am reading for Advent is :

    IRELAND'S LOYALTY TO THE MASS by Father Augustine, O.M. Cap.

    First published in 1933, republished by The Newmann Press, Minnesota, USA

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    "The Mass is superior even to the Abiding Presence of our Blessed Lord in the Most Holy sacrament;..
    " The Mass is the very means He has given us to enable us to join Him, and to share with Him in the Sacrifice of the Cross.
    "The Mass..is the very life of the Church, the secret of her holiness and vitality. No wonder that the spirits of darkness should have inspired the heritic with hatred for the Mass, for they know that when they strike at the Mass they strike at the heart of the Church."
    Most Rev, dr, Sheehan (sydney)

     Chapter I, England's breach with Rome
    II The undermining of the Mass
    III Mass under Elizabeth
    etc.

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    « Reply #22 on: December 03, 2012, 12:34:59 PM »
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    The Book of Isaiah with a commentary.

    A book of daily devotions for Advent with writings from St. Francis.

    The Imitation of Christ, which I reread every year during Advent.  

    The Homilies of St Gregory the Great

    Byzantine Advent is six week, not four, so I have two weeks more that the rest of you to get it done.   :smile:


    Hey, are you reading this stuff for Advent or doing your Deacon homework???  

     :smile:



    I don't have any deacon homework yet.  I start in January.   :smile:
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir


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    What are you reading for Advent?
    « Reply #23 on: December 03, 2012, 12:39:02 PM »
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  • Quote from: Capt McQuigg
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    The Book of Isaiah with a commentary.

    A book of daily devotions for Advent with writings from St. Francis.

    The Imitation of Christ, which I reread every year during Advent.  

    The Homilies of St Gregory the Great

    Byzantine Advent is six week, not four, so I have two weeks more that the rest of you to get it done.   :smile:


    Very ambitious - I admire your stamina!


    Thanks, but I am retired and really like to read, so it is hardly a chore.  


    If I'm right, and I think I may be, Sigismund does not own a TV.

    Guys and gals, you can get a whole lot of reading done if you weren't distracted by the TV.  Other than moderately enjoying some sports, and Turner Classic Movies, TV is mostly rot.

    I'm reading several books at one time but I think I'm going to focus on "The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary" by Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich.  


    I do own a TV, but I don't have cable.  I use the TV only to watch movies.  I have an antenna I can hook up to it so that I can watch if something really big happens on the news, but normally the antenna stays in the closet.  I have not watched cable or broadcast TV in my own home in years.  I do occasionally watch sporting events at other people's homes if I am invited.  

    The Captain is right, definitely.  Nothing wastes time like TV.
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir

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    What are you reading for Advent?
    « Reply #24 on: December 03, 2012, 07:51:02 PM »
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    The late, former Jesuit father Alberto Rivera honestly revealed that the Jesuit General Pedro Arrupe was the head of the Communist party in Spain.


    Ummm, the same Alberto Rivera who was a vicious anti-Catholic and who is still used as a tool by Jack Chick's execrable little empire?

    You may not know that but it's readily available info.  Chick's monsters are most happy to brag about Rivera's insanity and there are multiple websites upon which they do just that.

    And quite honestly, I'm really just asking and not trying to make a big deal of it.

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    « Reply #25 on: December 03, 2012, 08:20:02 PM »
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  • I just started reading the Advent sermons by St. Francis de Sales:



    It's not too much to digest between now and Christmas and inludes his famous sermon a few days before his death.
    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi


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    « Reply #26 on: December 03, 2012, 09:14:51 PM »
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  • You can't go wrong with St. Francis de Sales.
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir

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    « Reply #27 on: December 04, 2012, 01:49:08 PM »
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    The Captain is right, definitely.  Nothing wastes time like TV.


    Well, the internet in general, and sometimes forums.  

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    « Reply #28 on: December 04, 2012, 08:59:56 PM »
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  • Very true. :wink:
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir