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Thursday:

On this Holy Thursday, we celebrate the anniversary of the institution of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Holy Mass, but also of the sacrament of the priesthood. And priests often annoy us. Priests are often on our lips; we eagerly talk about their mistakes, whether real or untrue, but have we actually ever asked ourselves the question: "Why do we need a priest, why do we need a clergyman?" Dear faithful, to answer this question, we must go back to the very beginning of the existence of the human race, to the fall of our first parents—Adam and Eve—who lost God's grace, who committed original sin, and rebelled against their Creator. And consequently, all of humanity for long centuries was plunged into the darkness of error and sin. Between the Divine Majesty offended by human sin and fallen humanity, a chasm was formed. A chasm that no human being was able to overcome. And the action of God Himself was necessary. It was necessary for the second person of the Most Holy Trinity, our Lord Jesus Christ, to take on human nature and become both victim and priest at the same time.

On Good Friday, on the tree of the Cross, He offered Himself as an immaculate sacrifice of atonement for our human sins. Mediator Dei et hominum—the mediator between God and men. And truly, without this sacrifice of Jesus Christ, there would be no salvation. The Lord Jesus, in His mercy and His wisdom, desired that we, living 2,000 years after Good Friday, would also have the opportunity to benefit from the fruits of redemption, from those merits which He gained through His painful passion on the Cross. And therefore, He instituted the Most Holy Sacrifice, but simultaneously He instituted the sacrament of the priesthood. A priest is one who, following the example of Jesus Christ, is a mediator between heaven and earth. Dear faithful, as the Catholic Church teaches, when a priest administers the holy sacraments, when he celebrates Holy Mass, he acts in persona Christi—in the person of Jesus Christ. It is Jesus Christ Himself who speaks the words: "I absolve you from your sins." It is Jesus Christ Himself who speaks the words: "For this is My Body, for this is the Chalice of My Blood." The priest lends to the Savior—in whose eternal priesthood he participates—his hands, his tongue, his lips, so that Christ the Lord can fulfill here on earth the sacraments through which He grants us His grace. Truly, every priest could repeat the words of Saint Paul the Apostle: "It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me."

Dear faithful, being a mediator is what constitutes the essence, the core of the priesthood. And a mediator acts in two directions. On one hand, the priest is the one who offers to the Most Holy Trinity a sacrifice that is holy, pure, and immaculate. As the most venerable liturgical prayer of the Church, the Roman Canon, says of the Holy Mass: the priest is the one who carries before the face of the Most Holy Trinity into heaven the Most Holy Sacrifice—the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the one who, in an unbloody manner, makes present on the altar the bloody sacrifice of Good Friday. He does this for a fourfold purpose, as the Church teaches: First, for the purpose of glorification, to give honor to the Most Holy Trinity, which is the primary duty of every creature, of every human being. Second, for the purpose of offering a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins. Third, as a sacrifice of thanksgiving for graces received. And fourth, as a sacrifice of impetration (petition) for the graces that we need.

And as I mentioned, this being a mediator works both ways. So, the priest offers the Most Holy Sacrifice, and at the same time, he draws down God's grace here to earth. Padre Pio used to say that the world could exist without the sun, but it could not exist without the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Truly. What would a world look like in which there was no Most Holy Sacrifice? Completely plunged into sin, into darkness, deprived of God's grace, deserving only and exclusively destruction, to be turned into dust. Dear faithful, we are here because we realize the infinite value of Christ's priesthood. We realize that priests are absolutely necessary to us as mediators of God's grace, as those who carry toward heaven our cry for God's mercy, for the graces we need—our pleas, our thanksgiving, our praise toward the Most Holy Trinity—and on the other hand, those who draw down those graces that we need here to Earth.

We realize what a priceless treasure Christ’s priesthood is, and we realize how much the devil hates the priesthood. Since the priest is the mediator between God and man, the devil desires to destroy every priest individually, but also the priesthood itself. Dear faithful, we are witnesses to a great attack by the devil on the Catholic priesthood. An attack that has lasted for several decades, which began with the destruction of the rites—the Catholic rites of ordination, which took place as early as 1968, and thus before the introduction of the Novus Ordo Missae. The first rite destroyed by ʝʊdɛօ-Masonry was the rite of the Holy [Orders]. Why did the devil strike exactly there? Because he realizes perfectly well—much better than many a Catholic—where the heart of the Church beats. Driving a dagger into the priesthood means death, the slow death of the Catholic Church.

During the rite of priestly ordination, besides the laying on of hands, which constitutes the matter of the sacrament, there are sacramental forms—just as with other sacraments—explanatory rites showing what the Church intends to do when administering a given sacrament. One such rite during priestly ordination is the handing over, the entrusting to the newly ordained priest of the chalice with wine and the paten with a host placed upon it. And while handing over the chalice and paten, the Bishop says to the priest these words: "Receive the power to offer sacrifice and to celebrate Holy Mass, as well for the living as for the dead, in the name of the Lord." Words that express the very essence of the priesthood. The priest as a sacrificer, the priest as a mediator between heaven and earth. And it is no coincidence that when they moved forward with the so-called reform—but in reality the destruction of the Catholic priesthood—these words simply disappeared from the new rite approved in 1968. They simply disappeared. Why? Because the post-conciliar church has a completely different understanding of the priesthood. Because the post-conciliar church understands who a priest is in a completely different way. That is why those words, which expressed the essence of the priesthood, had to disappear.

They had to disappear because the post-conciliar church no longer needs Christ and His sacrifice. Man takes the place of God. Man has nothing to apologize for and no one to apologize to, because man knows everything best and does everything best. Sin does not offend the Lord God in any way. There is no need for propitiation. Christ's sacrifice from Good Friday was only an expression of love for man—man who, as Vatican II teaches, constitutes the source and summit of all things on earth. The post-conciliar church does not need the sacrifice of the Holy Mass; it does not need a priest-sacrificer who would mediate between heaven and earth, who would offer a sacrifice of praise, a propitiatory, impetratory, and thanksgiving sacrifice. The post-conciliar church does not need altars. The post-conciliar church does not need the beauty of the liturgy, because at the center of the post-conciliar anti-church stands man. Man, to whom even God should bow. Man, to whom even God should pay homage.

My dear ones, we are here because we understand that these changes introduced after the Second Vatican Council were aimed at destroying the Catholic Church, destroying the Catholic priesthood. And that was the reason why Archbishop Lefebvre in 1988 consecrated four bishops, having previously ordained priests. He realized that it was necessary to preserve the Catholic priesthood free from the doubts associated with the new rites. He could not allow his seminarians to be ordained by bishops about whom we do not know whether they are bishops or mere imposters (pretenders). This change, which took place in 1968, downplayed by many as if nothing major had happened, was in its essence the driving of a dagger into the heart of the Church. It was no trivial matter. The reformed rite does not express Catholic teaching, the Catholic faith regarding the sacrament of Holy Orders. If those beautiful words are removed: "Receive the power to offer sacrifice and to celebrate Mass for the living and the dead in the name of the Lord," it means that they want to remove what constitutes the essence of the Catholic priesthood. That to which a priest is called. It means that the post-conciliar priest or bishop is no longer a mediator between heaven and earth. He is an entertainer (wodzirej). He is an entertainer who is supposed to amuse the audience gathered at the banquet; he is to see to it that no one is bored, that it is cheerful.

And we see, my dear ones, how they teach—what the teaching of these post-conciliar priests "with a question mark" is. We hear how the post-conciliar bishops "with a great question mark" call us to visit ѕуηαgσgυєs. They see no difference between a place of blasphemy, a place of ritual murders, and the House of God, the Catholic Church, and the Catholic altar. And we may wonder why this is so. Well, philosophy says agere sequitur esse (acting follows being). How you act results from who you are. And observing the actions of these people, observing their false, poisoned teaching, we can, my dear ones, draw the conclusion that they are not Christ’s priests, Christ’s bishops. They are mere imposters, destroyers of the Catholic Church. And it is truly surprising that so many supposedly traditional priests do not see this, that they do not see the magnitude of doubt associated with the new rites of ordination, stripped of what is Catholic. It is not enough, my dear ones, to put on a chasuble—even a Roman one—to be a priest, to be a priest of Christ.

Dear faithful, let us today thank the Most Holy Trinity for this great gift to us humans in the form of the Catholic priesthood. A Catholic priesthood that has lasted uninterrupted for 2,000 years; a Catholic priesthood that is hated by the devil. By the devil, who has done what he could to destroy it. Let us give thanks that this Catholic priesthood, despite the machinations of the evil spirit, endures; that we have the opportunity to participate in the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to approach the holy sacraments, which are administered as the Church has done for centuries. This is an inconceivable grace in our times, for we see around us what happens when Christ’s priesthood disappears, when the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass disappears. This demonic world around us is the fruit of the rejection of Christ’s sacraments. It is the fruit of the rejection of Christ’s priesthood and the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. There is no validly, worthily celebrated Holy Mass. There is no grace of God. There is no grace of God.

Dear faithful, we must therefore today commend those few priests who have the mark imprinted on their souls—the indelible mark of Christ’s priesthood—who are faithful servants of our Lord Jesus Christ. We must ask for perseverance for them in these difficult times that lie ahead of us. We must ask that there be no lack of those who will desire to enlist under the banner of Christ the King, the High Priest, who will desire to serve Jesus in the priesthood. We must ask for perseverance for priestly vocations, which today are so weak, so few. We must ask, my dear ones, that there be no lack of those who will preach the Gospel of Christ to us, who will feed us with the Most Holy Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will absolve us and free us from the weight of our sins, and who—God grant—will anoint us in the last hour of our lives, so that we may peacefully depart into eternity. There, my dear ones, we shall see what an abomination in the eyes of God the post-conciliar revolution was, what villains those who carried it out were, and what villains those were who remained silent while Jesus Christ was being scourged and murdered anew.

We are here because we do not want to remain silent. We are here because we desire to remain faithful to the Lord Jesus. We are here because we desire to pass on to our children and grandchildren what we received from the Catholic Church. We are here because we realize perfectly well that there is no Church without the priesthood; that without the priesthood, there is no grace of God. Without the priesthood, there is only spiritual death. And we, my dear ones, desire to live, and to live with the fullness of Christ’s grace. And may we, my dear ones, never forget the respect with which we ought to surround Christ’s priesthood. May we never forget that here beats the heart of the Church, and here the attacks of the devil are the heaviest and most severe.



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GOOD FRIDAY


Dear faithful, on Good Friday, very different people found themselves beneath the cross of the Lord Jesus. There were Jєωιѕн Pharisees—those who sincerely hated Him, who wove cօռspιʀαcιҽs, who waited for this day in which He would fall victim to their lies. When they finally succeeded in putting Jesus of Nazareth to death, beside the cross there also stood a tiny group of those who looked upon the wounded body of the Savior with eyes full of tears, full of love: the Blessed Mother, Saint John, Saint Mary Magdalene.

But the largest group of those who passed by the cross of the Lord Jesus that Good Friday were indifferent onlookers. It was the day of preparation for the Passover. Near the gates of Jerusalem, we can assume hundreds, perhaps thousands of Jews passed by, looked at the Lord Jesus nailed to the cross, and indifferently shrugged their shoulders. They were not interested in the passion of the God-man in the slightest degree.

My dear ones, 2,000 years later, we can state that today it is very similar. There is a group of people directly devoted to the devil, who do what they can to put the Lord Jesus to death anew, to destroy His Mystical Body, the Church. Those who burn with a true Pharisaic, Jєωιѕн hatred for the Savior. There is a small group of those who love the Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world; those to whom the cross is not a matter of indifference, who shed a tear at the thought of the passion of the Lord Jesus, who desire to suffer along with Him.

And finally, there is that largest group: the indifferent people. The greatest sin of contemporary "so-called" Catholics: indifference toward the Savior. An indifference which becomes, my dear ones, a co-responsibility for the subsequent deicide being carried out before our very eyes. For he who is indifferent toward the cross, in essence, stands in the same line as those who hate the cross. He who is indifferent toward the Lord Jesus essentially becomes His enemy, because he disregards Him, because he allows Him to be insulted, spat upon, and crucified anew.

My dear ones, a wave of indignation has rolled across all of Poland following the letter that was read in post-conciliar churches this past Sunday, before Palm Sunday. A wave of righteous indignation—a scandalous letter, a blasphemous letter, a letter constituting an act of infamy. But all those priests and faithful who expressed their outrage will today obediently wander to the Novus Ordo churches and hear there an equally blasphemous prayer calling upon and pointing to the covenant that God made with Israel, calling for the Jews to grow in faithfulness to that covenant. And that will no longer outrage anyone today. Catholics will indifferently shrug their shoulders. All those "wise guys" who say: "How good it is that it's in Polish, because now we understand everything."

Well then, do you understand? Do you understand that you are participating in blasphemy, in spitting in the face of Jesus Christ? That you are no different from Ryś and other spiritual criminals? Indifference, my dear ones, is nothing other than an act of dethroning our Lord Jesus Christ. The indifference of contemporary Catholics is a guilt crying out to heaven for vengeance, equal to the guilt incurred by Ryś and other Polish-speaking pseudo-bishops.

    "Strike, O Jesus, without delay, the hard rocks of our hearts,"

we sing in the Gorzkie Żale (Lenten Lamentations). Strike, Jesus, because there is so much indifference in us when You are insulted, spat upon, and scourged. Strike, Jesus, because there is so much indifference in us when Your teaching is distorted. Strike, Jesus, because the Polish land has also been flooded—and this already several decades ago—by a wave of blasphemy crying out to heaven for vengeance.

Dear faithful, today many will probably be moved by the thought of the passion of the Lord Jesus, but we know perfectly well that even this evening, the streets of our Polish cities and villages—with their bars, pubs, and clubs—will resemble those Jerusalem streets from 2,000 years ago, through which, amid the din of Jews preparing for the Passover, there carried the echo: "Away with Him! Crucify Him! Crucify Him!"

Strike us, Jesus, without delay, before it is too late. Amen.