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Eleison Comments - Problem plus Solution
« on: August 13, 2022, 10:40:25 AM »
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  • DCCLXXXVII #787
    August 13, 2022
    PROBLEM + SOLUTION
    If only hordes of men anew would pray the holy beads,
    ‘Twould rescue all mankind in all its most appalling needs!

    Here is a brief overview, slightly adapted but not summarised, of our problematic world today – see for the original article in French, jeune-nation.com/lectures/nouveaute-imposture-trahison-de-macron – and see here a brief explanation of how and why Our Lady’s Holy Rosary is the nearest thing to a solution.
    It is so convenient to say, “I don’t know! I’m not interested! And I don’t want to know!” while globalism is all the while weaving its web to entrap us, by which an unnoticed veil of rules and restrictions, under cover of making things easier, is soundlessly smothering public and personal liberties so as to stifle whatever soul the peoples, long tamed, may still have. Digital tyranny and the all-consumer society, by turning everything into merchandise of known price but no value, thus setting up the all-embracing State, make steady progress under cover of a series of crises skilfully arranged, exploited and manipulated; health crises past and to come, or panic over the open clash between sovereign Russia, and the Globalist Deep State entrenched in Washington, London, Tokyo, Paris and Berlin.
    Our societies are at the point of civilisation breaking down. Right now it is a choice between a return to some natural order, or a transhumanist reset as promised to us by the World Economic Forum of Davos. This Great Reset begins with the digitalising of mankind, and it means to end in a fusing of man with computer, through the human brain interfacing with the machine. Our ruling classes are past-masters at this deadly ideology, an ideal of unlimited progress, with conscience having no part to play.
    President Macron in France and Prime Minister Trudeau in Canada are front-runners in this super-liberal, messianic and totalitarian project, which claims to be preparing a World Government. They are impostors who climbed to power by lies and manipulation. They rule over crowds kept in a permanent state of shock by the mass-media, in a panic-fear of climate change, of scam-demics, of an expansionist Russia . . . thus betraying the democracy, the nations and the peoples that elected them, and which, for their part, they are driving straight into the wall.
    By way of solution, firstly, why Our Lady? Because God exists and He wants all men to be saved (I Tim. II, 4), whereas the Devil also exists and he wants all men in Hell. It is the Devil who is mainly responsible for the problematic modern world as sketched out above. But he is too strong an adversary for mere men (cf. Eph. VI, 12). Therefore the solution lies with God alone. But because fallen human nature gets into worse and worse trouble as the world draws to its close, so God entrusts the world’s salvation more and more to His gentle Mother as being an advocate more difficult for sinners to push away than even His own Sacred Heart. Hence, especially ever since 1789 when the French Revolution launched, as one may say, the modern world, She has been especially appointed by God to intervene with Him on mankind’s behalf. Thus He wishes this to be recognised by the spread of the devotion to Her Immaculate Heart.
    And secondly, when She intervenes among men, why does She almost always promote the prayer of the Holy Rosary? Because it is a prayer simple and humble, occupying our mouths with praise of Jesus and Herself, occupying our minds with the Mysteries of the joint lives of Jesus and Herself, and occupying our fingers with the beads which will continue to pray when our minds go wool-gathering, and which will call our minds back to prayer when they cease wool-gathering. In brief, the Rosary is extremely well adapted to helping our fallen human nature to turn to Her divine Son and to God through Herself. And one might as well accuse – modern comparison! – a funnel of holding back gasoline from the jerry-can as accuse Her of holding back for Herself any of the attention or adoration due to Her Son!
    Kyrie eleison.

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    Re: Eleison Comments - Problem plus Solution
    « Reply #1 on: August 13, 2022, 01:21:08 PM »
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  • I've always wondered what the threshold would be in terms of percentage of people praying the Holy Rosary ... before God would find it acceptable and bring an end to the crisis.  Yes, it's a solution for each of us, individually, or as families, but I'm not quite sure how it would play out on a larger scale.  I think of this when Bishop Williamson writes of the Rosary as a solution to the problems of society.


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    Re: Eleison Comments - Problem plus Solution
    « Reply #2 on: August 13, 2022, 03:46:15 PM »
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  • We constantly hear about the importance of prayer and rightfully so, but how often do we hear of what is spelled out in the following Q & A in the section on prayer in the Catechism of St. Pius X?
    15  Q. What other dispositions [aside from the first and best disposition stated in the immediately preceding Q & A of being "in the state of grace; or if we are not in that state, to desire to put ourselves in it"] are required in order to pray well?
          A. To pray well we specially require recollection, humility, confidence, perseverance and resignation.  [Quick memory aid: rec-hum-con-per-res]
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    The superb catechism then goes on to explain in simple terms what exactly is meant by each of the 5 preceding dispositions.

    Here is one example: 16 Q. What is meant by praying with recollection?  A. It means remembering that we are speaking to God; and hence we should pray with all respect and devotion, as far as possible avoiding distractions, that is, every thought foreign to our prayers.
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    This answer may call to mind the following biblical verse: Matt. 15:8 "This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me."

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    Re: Eleison Comments - Problem plus Solution
    « Reply #3 on: August 14, 2022, 12:06:10 AM »
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  • I've always wondered what the threshold would be in terms of percentage of people praying the Holy Rosary ... before God would find it acceptable and bring an end to the crisis.  Yes, it's a solution for each of us, individually, or as families, but I'm not quite sure how it would play out on a larger scale.  I think of this when Bishop Williamson writes of the Rosary as a solution to the problems of society.

    Well, it may seem that +W writes of the Rosary as a solution to the problems of society, but as he explained this in one of the recent video interviews: he said that (I'm paraphrasing here) that in praying 15 decades of the Rosary per day, we are showing that we are serious about our love for Our Lord and Our Lady. We have to go the extra distance in order to show that we really do care. That's the jist of it anyway. Not the exact words that +W used, perhaps. But close.
    "It is licit to resist a Sovereign Pontiff who is trying to destroy the Church. I say it is licit to resist him in not following his orders and in preventing the execution of his will. It is not licit to Judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for these are acts proper to a superior."

    ~St. Robert Bellarmine
    De Romano Pontifice, Lib.II, c.29

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    Re: Eleison Comments - Problem plus Solution
    « Reply #4 on: August 14, 2022, 07:46:28 PM »
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  • From another perspective...


    PROBLEMS: Evil rising amidst a dwindling number of priests, limited availability of Sacraments resulting in reduced Graces flowing into the world.

    SOLUTION: More Ordinations, More Sacraments, Mores Graces flowing.
    "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