Sentimentality, one of the enduring effects of the Protestant Revolution that is part and parcel of the Americanist heresy, thus triumphs little by little as parents look the other way as their children watch television programs and motion pictures that promote licentiousness, as their children fall away from the Holy Faith, as their children marry outside of the Faith, as they do and say things that would make a hardened sailor blush. "You can't criticize my child. I love my child. He can do anything he wants." It's a short step from that to actually applauding clerics steeped in immorality (see Weak In Mind, Weakest Yet In Faith) to doing pitched battle with anyone who criticizes a favored politician or some other personage in whom one has invested a good deal of time and emotion and support (see We Must Abide By Truth, Not By Persons).


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III. Anti-God, Anti-Christ in the Counterfeit Church of Concilairism

...The anti-God crusades of the Antichrists of Modernity have made all the more successful by the allied anti-God crusades of the Antichrists within the counterfeit church of concilairism, headed by revolutionaries who deny the very essence of God Himself by claiming that the formulation of His dogmatic truths at councils guided by His Holy Ghost. This is a direct warfare against God, making the formulation of his dogmatic truths to be nothing more than statements that are contingent on the language and the historical circuмstances that gave rise to them and thus contain "implications" that need to be made more explicit over time as the "particulars" that gave rise to them become "obsolete."

This is a point that has, of course, been made hundreds of times on this site. It is a point that cannot be made enough as one the principle of the immutability of God and the articles contained in His Sacred Deposit of Faith is overturned, as has been done by the Modernists of conciliarism, then what passes for the Catholic Faith becomes nothing other another form of Protestantism, a rationalistic "religion" that projects onto God all manner of personal, subjective ideas that have try to make of God and His only Faith something obscure and hard to understand, something that must be "discovered" anew by each person in the depths of his being as he "searches" for the meaning of life and what kind of "relationship" he is to have with "his" God.

The entirety of the supposedly "private" writing and the public speeches and allocutions of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI reveal him to be a consummate rationalist and subjectivist steeped in one Modernist lie after another, starting with his attack on the nature of dogmatic truth that was review most recently in What Lines Are You Reading Between, Bishop Fellay?. He is not "confused." He is not an "erring" "pope." He is outside of the Barque of Peter as he holds views that defect from the Catholic Faith and makes other statements that appear to be "Catholic" but contain within them many drops of poison, requiring us to look once again at the following statement of who is and who is not a member of the Catholic Church given us by Pope Leo XIII in Paragraph Nine of Satis Cognitum, June 29, 1896:

The Church, founded on these principles and mindful of her office, has done nothing with greater zeal and endeavour than she has displayed in guarding the integrity of the faith. Hence she regarded as rebels and expelled from the ranks of her children all who held beliefs on any point of doctrine different from her own. The Arians, the Montanists, the Novatians, the Quartodecimans, the Eutychians, did not certainly reject all Catholic doctrine: they abandoned only a certain portion of it. Still who does not know that they were declared heretics and banished from the bosom of the Church? In like manner were condemned all authors of heretical tenets who followed them in subsequent ages. "There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition" (Auctor Tract. de Fide Orthodoxa contra Arianos).

The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium. Epiphanius, Augustine, Theodore drew up a long list of the heresies of their times. St. Augustine notes that other heresies may spring up, to a single one of which, should any one give his assent, he is by the very fact cut off from Catholic unity. "No one who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) can for that reason regard himself as a Catholic or call himself one. For there may be or may arise some other heresies, which are not set out in this work of ours, and, if any one holds to one single one of these he is not a Catholic" (S. Augustinus, De Haeresibus, n. 88). (Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, June 29, 1896.)

Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and his band of conciliar revolutionaries are much more dangerous than the likes of the Jacobins of the French Revolution or the anticlericalists/Socialists/Communists of the Mexican Revolution or the Bolsheviks of Russia or the Maoists of China or the naturalists of the false opposites of the "right" or the "left" in the supposedly civilized "West" where the civil law permits each of the four sins that cry out for vengeance and where a manner of licentiousness that would make even the licentious Romans of the Third Century A.D. blush with shame.

Much in the manner of the French Revolutionaries, who were opposed so valiantly by the Vendee in the 1790s, and all manner of other atheistic, anti-Theistic, anticlerical revolutionaries, including, of course, Plutarco Elias Calles and his willing stooges, the anti-God crusade of the figures of anti-Christ, possessed of one Modernist lie after another, starting, as noted just above, with the inherent "evolutionary" nature of dogmatic truth and hence of God Himself, have robbed ordinary Catholics of their churches, which have been subjected to all manner of sacrilege and unspeakable abominations.

Worse than the French Revolutionaries and their "Constitutional Church," the conciliarists have robbed Catholics in what is alleged to be the "Roman Rite" or "ordinary form of the 'one' Roman Rite" true bishops and true priests and thus of true sacraments, depriving them of the Real Presence of Christ the King in the Most Blessed Sacrament and the world of Actual Grace.

Worse than Plutarco Calles, Ratzinger/Benedict and his conciliarists have murdered countless numbers of souls.

The rationalist, subjectivist "wreckovators" of the conciliar liturgical revolution, which has been the principal means of communicating and ritualistically institutionalizing the apostasies, blasphemies and sacrileges of conciliarism, have "shot up" our once thoroughly Catholic church buildings more effectively, more brutally and more systematically than was ever done by Calles and band of murderous anticlericalists.

Statues have been topped in scenes that bear great similarities to the scenes of the destruction of statutes and the burning of crucifixes in For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada.

High altars have been demolished.

Altar rails have been removed, thereby extinguishing the distinction between the holy of holies that is the sanctuary and the nave of churches, communicating thereby that the the "presider" of the liturgical assembly is merely a figurehead whose function is little different, either in degree or in kind, from that the common priesthood of the lay faithful.

The sanctuary, which represents the timelessness of the ineffable Sacrifice of Calvary and the eternity of God Himself, has been invaded by an influx of the laity, making a mockery of its sacred character and of sacred orders.

What is alleged to be the Sacred Species of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is handled by a bevy of "extraordinary ministers," who distribute what they think, albeit falsely, are consecrated hosts and chalices containing the Most Precious Blood to the laity, who then take the hosts in their own hands to "feed" themselves even though Our Lord Himself clearly told Saint Peter, our first Pope, to "feed my lambs" (cf. Jn. 21: 15)

The conciliar revolutionaries are far more dangerous than Plutarco Elias Calles and his stooges as they murder souls on a daily basis.

Yet it is that it is appearing more and more likely that Bishop Bernard Fellay will indeed proceed, perhaps after a bit more of a delay following the Extraordinary Chapter meeting of the Society of Saint Pius X that is to start thirteen days from now, with his "reconciliation" with these murderers of souls.

The path of the Cristeros?

No.

They lifted the banner of Christ the King high. They were willing to die for Christ the King.

Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI does believe in the doctrine of the Social Reign of Christ the King that Pope Pius XI noted in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio (December 23, 1922) was among those teachings must be "ever kept in mind," stating forcefully that those who reject the Church's teaching on the duties of the civil to recognize the true religion and to accord her the favor and protection of the laws belongs to a " species of moral, legal, and social modernism which We condemn, no less decidedly than We condemn theological modernism." Does Ratzinger/Benedict care? Of course not. Not with his philosophically absurd and dogmatically condemned "hermeneutic of continuity"

Sanguine about his own Modernist, subjectivist defections from the Faith, he countenances outright denials of Catholic doctrine by his "cardinals" and "priests. Remember, it has been 1,174 days since "Archbishop" Robert Zollitsch, the President of the German conciliar "bishops'" conference and the conciliar "archbishop" of Freising in Breisgau, denied that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ died on the wood of the Cross in atonement for our sins. Thee has not been a word of "papal" rebuke. Then again, how can Ratzinger/Benedict condemn that with which he agrees?

Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI (Sixty Years of Priestly Apostasy) is worse than Plutarco Elias Calles as he represents the agnosticism of Modernism to be Catholicism. At least Calles had the honesty to profess his atheism openly without masking in a variety of self-contradictory distortions of truth.

Playing the role of Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, who sought "reconciliation" with Calles, Bishop Bernard Fellay is seeking "reconciliation" with one who is far worse than Calles, Ratzinger/Benedict.

Viva Cristo Rey, Bishop Fellay?

IV. The Cristeros Said No To Calles and His "Law;" We Must Say No to Ratzinger and His False Religion

It is now nearly fifty years after the commencement of the "Second" Vatican Council by Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII on October 11, 1962, the Feast of Divine Redeemer. The apostasy is still going strong (see Still Celebrating Half A Century Of Apostasy).

Most of those in the Motu communities have long since made their "peace" with their self-serving rationalizations about how "necessary," "prudent" and thus "virtuous" it is to keep a "circuмspect" silence about things that they know offend God and are harmful to souls. Some of the priests/presbyters in these communities used to be very vocal in their criticism of conciliarism's false doctrines. Several with whom we were acquainted in the past were openly critical of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service.

One presbyter who has risen to a position of great prominence in his Motu community told us outside of the "dual function" church where he served that he "hated the Novus Ordo" and couldn't wait to get away from a parish where it was the principal liturgy.

Many were the diocesan/priests presbyters I knew back in the 1980s and 1990s who, though staging the Novus Ordo, hated it, mocked it and were roundly critical of the presence of women in the sanctuary and the lay distribution of what they believed to have been Holy Communion.

Alas, bold talk in private is not very brave. Bravery requires actions. Only one of those men I knew back in the 1990s actually broke from the conciliar authorities to join up with the Society of Saint Pius X, and it is not clear where he stands now on the matter of the pending "reconciliation" that might require him to return to the local non-cardinal and non-archbishop.

Most of those who spoke bold words in the past learned how to accept the thirty pieces of silver in exchange for "good standing" and, in the case of traditionally-minded diocesan clergymen, the thirty pieces of silver represented pastorates in plumb parishes and close friendships with conciliar ordinaries and, quite possibly, even a promotion to be a "monsignor" or a conciliar "bishop". All of this to be "recognized" by the men who blaspheme God and reaffirm adherents of false religions that it is possible for them to sanctify and thus to save their souls by remaining attached to their false beliefs until the time they die.

Although some Catholics in Mexico held their tongues for fear of being targeted by the forces of Calles, those who took the obligations imposed upon them by the Sacrament of Confirmation as soldiers in the Army of Christ. They knew that silence in the face of grave evils, which never just "kind of" go away, was a sin that could cost them the salvation of their immortal souls for all eternity.

The students and professionals and lawyers associated with the League for the Defense of Religious Liberty in Mexico City, Mexico, and the peasants who took up arms to fight the Calles Law both had the same objective before joining together: to openly oppose evil by calling it by its rightful name.

This has nothing to do with Catholicism. Nothing.

It is one thing to imitate Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ when mocked and reviled by others, especially in public or to one's face, as the truth about each of our lives is revealed only on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the living and the dead. It is indeed virtuous and necessary to keep completely silent when one is mocked and reviled and accused of all manner of things he has done in fact done. We are not, however, to remain silent hen others are being attacked for their defense of truth and, much more importantly, we are not to remain silent as the very honor and majesty and glory of God is blasphemed, especially by men posing falsely as officials of His true Church, and as His Sacred Deposit of Faith is distorted and misrepresented.

Who says so?

Well, let's start with Pope Saint Leo the Great:

But it is vain for them to adopt the name of catholic, as they do not oppose these blasphemies: they must believe them, if they can listen so patiently to such words. (Pope Saint Leo the Great, Epistle XIV, To Anastasius, Bishop of Thessalonica, St. Leo the Great | Letters 1-59 )

Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, who gave up his life at the hands of the wretched group of people known as Calvinists, boldly rejected an offer to apostatize in order to save his life:

Outside the church he was surrounded by a crowd led by the preachers who offered to save his life if he would apostatize. Fidelis replied: "I came to extirpate heresy, not to embrace it", whereupon he was struck down. He was the first martyr of the Congregation of Propaganda. (St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen.)

As noted near the beginning of this commentary, much of concilairism is premised upon both the rationalism of Protestantism and that of Modernity. Dom Prosper Gueranger's discussion of the life and martyrdom of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen features the following passage that has application to the situation that prevails today in this era of apostasy and betrayal:

Protestantism was established and rooted by the shedding of torrents of blood; and yet Protestants count it as a great crime that, here and there, the children of the true Church made an armed resistance against them. The heresy of the sixteenth century was the cruel and untiring persecutor of men, whose only crime was their adhesion to the old faith--the faith that had civilized the world. The so-called Reformation proclaimed liberty in matters of religion, and massacred Catholics who exercised this liberty, and prayed and believed as their ancestors had done for long ages before Luther and Calvin were born. A Catholic who gives heretics credit for sincerity when they talk about religious toleration proves the he knows nothing about the past or the present. There is a fatal instinct in error, which leads it to hate the Truth; and the true Church, by its unchangeableness, is a perpetual reproach to them that refuse to be her children. Heresy starts with an attempt to annihilate them that remain faithful; when it has grown tired of open persecution it vents its spleen in insults and calumnies; and when these do not produce the desired effect, hypocrisy comes in with its assurances of friendly forbearance. The history of Protestant Europe, during the last three centuries, confirms these statements; it also justifies us in honouring those courageous servants of God who, during that same period, have died for the ancient faith. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, On Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen.)

 

The Catholic Church is unchangeable. Unchangeable. It is time for those within the Society of Saint Pius X who have spoken out against Bishop Fellay's "plans" to recognize once and for all that Joseph Ratzinger is not "Pope" Benedict XVI and that the church is he heads is not the Catholic Church but her counterfeit ape.

Yet it is that Bishop Fellay continues to seek "full communion" with a man who does indeed give heretics "credit for sincerity when they talk about religious toleration" as he, Ratzinger/Benedict, is a heretic who believes in the same thing. He is even willing to "tolerate" Bishop Fellay and the priests who march with him into oblivion as long as they remain silent about things they know to be offensive to God and thus harmful to souls.

Silence?

Silence about "joint blessings" with the "clergy" of Protestant sects.

Silence about praise given to Martin Luther?

Silence about saying "Jєωs and Christians worship the same God"?

Silence about the denial of the very nature of dogmatic truth, which is a denial of the essence of God Himself?

Silence?

Once again, let us turn our attention to a true pope:

The bishop should not fear since the anointing of the Holy Spirit has strengthened him: the shepherd should not be afraid since the prince of pastors has taught him by his own example to despise life itself for the safety of his flock: the cowardice and depression of the hireling should not dwell in a bishop's heart. Our great predecessor Gregory [the Great], in instructing the heads of the churches, said with his usual excellence: "Often imprudent guides in their fear of losing human favor are afraid to speak the right freely. As the word of truth has it, they guard their flock not with a shepherd's zeal but as hirelings do, since they flee when the wolf approaches by hiding themselves in silence.... A shepherd fearing to speak the right is simply a man retreating by keeping silent." (Pope Pius VI, Inscrutabile, December 25, 1775.)

 

Pope Leo XIII had a few words to say about silence in the face of attacks upon truth:

But in this same matter, touching Christian faith, there are other duties whose exact and religious observance, necessary at all times in the interests of eternal salvation, become more especially so in these our days. Amid such reckless and widespread folly of opinion, it is, as We have said, the office of the Church to undertake the defense of truth and uproot errors from the mind, and this charge has to be at all times sacredly observed by her, seeing that the honor of God and the salvation of men are confided to her keeping. But, when necessity compels, not those only who are invested with power of rule are bound to safeguard the integrity of faith, but, as St. Thomas maintains: "Each one is under obligation to show forth his faith, either to instruct and encourage others of the faithful, or to repel the attacks of unbelievers.'' To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of character or who entertains doubt as to the truth of what he professes to believe. In both cases such mode of behaving is base and is insulting to God, and both are incompatible with the salvation of mankind. This kind of conduct is profitable only to the enemies of the faith, for nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good. Moreover, want of vigor on the part of Christians is so much the more blameworthy, as not seldom little would be needed on their part to bring to naught false charges and refute erroneous opinions, and by always exerting themselves more strenuously they might reckon upon being successful. After all, no one can be prevented from putting forth that strength of soul which is the characteristic of true Christians, and very frequently by such display of courage our enemies lose heart and their designs are thwarted. Christians are, moreover, born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God aiding, the triumph: "Have confidence; I have overcome the world." Nor is there any ground for alleging that Jesus Christ, the Guardian and Champion of the Church, needs not in any manner the help of men. Power certainly is not wanting to Him, but in His loving kindness He would assign to us a share in obtaining and applying the fruits of salvation procured through His grace. (Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae, January 10, 1890.)

Catholics are never silent in the face of apostasy and betrayal and sacrilege and blasphemy.

Catholics must never be silent in the face of moral evils whose gravity is minimized by clerics and as the victims themselves are castigated for seeking justice for those who commit them.

Just look at how so many Catholics have been silent about the moral evils in the conciliar structures and about moral evils in the world. It is because Catholics have been silent about the moral evils of the today that they have grown to accept them, participate in them and to consider to be irrelevant that they are protected under cover of the civil law and spread so widely in popular culture that those who are steeped various evils are considered to be worthy of emulation, if not election to public office as they relish with delight in their sinful lifestyles.

Sentimentality, one of the enduring effects of the Protestant Revolution that is part and parcel of the Americanist heresy, thus triumphs little by little as parents look the other way as their children watch television programs and motion pictures that promote licentiousness, as their children fall away from the Holy Faith, as their children marry outside of the Faith, as they do and say things that would make a hardened sailor blush. "You can't criticize my child. I love my child. He can do anything he wants." It's a short step from that to actually applauding clerics steeped in immorality (see Weak In Mind, Weakest Yet In Faith) to doing pitched battle with anyone who criticizes a favored politician or some other personage in whom one has invested a good deal of time and emotion and support (see We Must Abide By Truth, Not By Persons).

The Cristeros were not silent in the face of evil. Even the priests who served their sacramental needs and who did not the join the dozen or so who took up arms were not inactive in the face of evil. Neither were the priests who courageous ministered to Catholics in their homes without, obviously, broadcasting what they were doing as they imitated the bravery of the likes of Blessed Edmund Campion, S.J., and the other English Martyrs who had impressed upon their immortal souls the Priesthood and Victimhood of Christ the King, He Who is the Chief Priest and Victim of every Mass.

Father Miguel Augustin Pro, S.J., who has not been legitimately canonized but who is surely in Heaven as he died a martyr for the Holy Faith, was fearless in the face of the persecution wrought by Plutarco Elias Calles and his bloodthirsty stooges. This is what he wrote about the necessity of speaking out in the face of injustice and evil:

We must speak, cry out against injustice, with confidence and not with fear. We proclaim the principles of the Church, the reign of love, never forgetting that it is also sometimes the reign of justice. (As found in Ann Ball, Blessed Miguel Pro: Twentieth Century Martyr, TAN Books and publishers, 1996, p. 110.)

I am ready to give my life for souls, but I want nothing from anyone for myself. All that I want is to lead them to God. If I kept anything for myself, I should be a thief, infamous; I should no longer be a priest. (As found in Ann Ball, Blessed Miguel Pro: Twentieth Century Martyr, TAN Books and publishers, 1996, p. 110.)

αssαssιnαtҽd on the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on August 6, 1875, fifty-two years before Father Pro's own assassination, Gabriel Garcia Moreno, the President of Ecuador, the country where, over two and one-half centuries before, Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres was favored with the messages of Our Lady of Good Success, left us quite a tremendous "last will and testament," if you will, a collection of his writings concerning the how a civil state should be governed according to the Mind of Christ the King and how prepared we must be to die for Him.

"There is no morality without Religion."

"All our small advances would be short-lived and untruthful, if we did not found the social order of our Republic on the Rock of the Catholic Church, always combated against yet always the conqueror."

"Our rapid progress will not serve for anything if the Republic does not advance daily in morality, in accordance with the reform of customs by the free action and salvation of the Catholic Church."

"I must confess, in all justice, that we owe everything to God, not only the growing prosperity of our small Republic, but also the means I employ for developing it, and even the desire that He has inspired me to work for His glory."

"Oh that God illuminate me, direct me in all things, and grant me the grace to die in defense of the Faith and Holy Church!"

"We will preserve the true Faith of our elders unharmed, even at the cost of our own life."

"The hope of every true Catholic must be founded, after God, on The Holy Virgin Mary."

"We who feel daily the effects of the continuous protection of Divine Providence; who see our incomes increased threefold in seventy-two percent, without new contributions, with actively continued spacious and comfortable communication roads, with public education developed progressively at all levels, with charitable organizations extended and multiplied to relieve the unfortunate and above all, with habits improved in accordance with the awakening of religious sentiment in the people, we are far from attributing to ourselves the merit we do not have, and recognize thankfully that we only owe to God the prosperity the Republic enjoys, since it constituted itself in 1869 as a Catholic nation."

"Hope would have abandoned me if I had not raised my eyes and heart to Heaven. . . ."

"The enemies of God and the Church can kill me; but GOD DOES NOT DIE!"

"If my enemies attack me for some crime I have committed, I ask their pardon and will try to mend my ways; but they conspire against me because I really love my Nation, because I try to save its most precious treasure--the Faith--, as I am and show myself to be the submissive son of the Church [...];  I must not, then, answer them any other thing than GOD DOES NOT DIE!"

"A true friend of liberty is he who tries to moralize his country; that he attempts to rectify social injustices and associates himself with good men to work tirelessly in favor of the Nation."

"The greatest enemies of our independence are licentiousness, demagogy and anarchy." (Francisco Salazar Alvarado, Encounter with History: Garcia Moreno, Catholic Leader of Latin America, published in the United States of America in 2006 by the Apostolate of Our Lady of Good Success, pp. 99-101.)

 

Anacleto Gonzales Flores, who was killed by the agents of Plutarco Elias Calles on April 27, 1927, was so inspired by the example set by Gabriel Garcia Moreno a half century before that he uttered the same words as Moreno had done after he had been struck down: "I die but God does not die!"

Silence, anyone?

Silence, Bishop Fellay, in the face of the spiritually murderous beliefs and practices of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI?

How is remaining silent about Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's infamous blasphemies, apostasies and sacrileges anything other than a retreat into a self-serving effort to rationalize cowardice in order to curry favor with a man who is not even a member of the Catholic Church?

Indeed, Father Pro warned against priests who would retreat into petty self-interests, committed to serving one particular soul, rather than embracing the cross of mockery and scorn that comes with opposing evil openly, praying as follows to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus:

In the open heart of Jesus Christ one sees His heart burning with love for you, for me, for all men  . . . But one sees it surrounded with thorns, and in their center, the Cross. this fire of love must light up our poor hearts too, so that it can communicate itself to others--but surrounded with thorns to keep us on guard against petty self-interests and surmounted by a wide-armed cross to embrace all who surround us and not let us limit our zeal to any particular person. (As found in Ann Ball, Blessed Miguel Pro: Twentieth Century Martyr, TAN Books and publishers, 1996, p. 110.)

To love God fully and to please the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus we must be willing the to suffer the loss of everything we hold dear in this world, being ready at all times for the sacrifice of self-immolation.

To wit, Father Pro wrote the following shortly before his execution on Wednesday, November 23, 1927:

Does our life become from day to day more more painful, more oppressive, more replete with afflictions? Blessed be He a thousand times who desires it so. If life be harder, love makes it also stronger, and only this love, grounded on suffering, can carry the Cross of my Lord Jesus Christ. Love without egotism, without relying on self, but enkindling in the depth of the heart an ardent thirst to love and suffer for all those around us: a thirst that neither misfortune nor contempt can extinguish  . . .

I believe, O Lord; but strengthen my faith . . . Heart of Jesus, I love Thee, but give greater vigor to my confidence. Heart of Jesus, I give my heart to Thee; but so enclose it in Thee that it may never be separated from Thee. Heart of Jesus, I am all Thine; but take care of my promise so that I may be able to put it in practice even unto the complete sacrifice of my life. (As found in Ann Ball, Blessed Miguel Pro: Twentieth Century Martyr, TAN Books and publishers, 1996, p. 108.)

Writing on November 13, 1927, a scant ten days before his death, Father Pro, who, most unlike the actors who were adorned with Rosary beads around their necks but were never shown praying Our Lady's Psalter in For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada, actually prayed Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary every day, expressed his great love to the Blessed Virgin of Sorrows:

Let me live my life at your side, my Mother, and be the companion of your bitter solitude and your profound pain. Let my soul feel your eyes' sad weeping and the abandonment of your heart.

On the road of my life, I do not wish to savor the happiness of Bethlehem, adoring the Child Jesus in your virginal arms. I do not wish to enjoy the amiable presence of Jesus Christ in the humble little house of Nazareth. I do not care to accompany you on your glorious Assumption to the angels' choir.

For my life, I cover the jeers and mockery of Calvary; the slow agony of your Son, the contempt, the ignominy, the infamy of His Cross. I wish to stand at your side, most sorrowful Virgin, strengthening my spirit with your tears, consummating my sacrifice with your martyrdom, sustaining my heart with your solitude, loving my God and your God with the immolation of my being. (As found in Ann Ball, Blessed Miguel Pro: Twentieth Century Martyr, TAN Books and publishers, 1996, p. 109.)

Father Miguel Augustin Pro, S.J., was no "Gloomy Gus." He was a Catholic! He knew that he would find his life by losing it, by being willing to suffer the death of martyrdom at the hands of the forces of Plutarco Elias Calles rather than keep himself "safe" for the sake of continuing to offer the sacraments to the faithful. He looked forward to a straight ticket up to Heaven, explaining to those who were saddened by the prospect of his being caught one day that:

"If I am ever caught, be prepared to ask me for things when I am in Heaven." (He also jokingly promised to cheer any any long-faced Saints he found in Heaven by performing a gαy Mexican hat dance.) Many of his friends and fellow countrymen believed that Fr. Pro would answer their prayers. (As found in Ann Ball, Blessed Miguel Pro: Twentieth Century Martyr, TAN Books and publishers, 1996, p. 102.)

As one who used to dance as Miss Jane Jarvis played the Mexican Hat Dance on the Thomas organ during the seventh inning stretch at the now defunct William A. Shea Municipal Stadium in the 1970s, I would look most fondly to joining him in Heaven to do so with him if I cooperate with the graces sent to me by Our Lady to die in a state of Sanctifying Grace. Yes, of course, we must be joyful in the midst of suffering!

Apart from being a courageous defender of Christ the King and La Virgen de Guadalupe, it is entirely possible that Father Miguel Augustin Pro, S.J., was also given some prophetic insights as well. For even though the poem below was composed on the Feast of Christ the King, Sunday, October 30, 1927 (only the second time that the feast had been celebrated since its institution by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas, which was issued on December 11, 1925), just twenty-five days before his martyrdom, readers will see that it was a prophetic proclamation of the situation we face today in this time of apostasy and betrayal when Our Lord is not present in our Catholic church buildings and the handful of Catholics who have, despite their own sins and bad examples and incessant disputes, responded to the graces sent them by Our Lady to seek out the Sacraments in the underground:

O Lord, Thy empty tabernacles mourn

  While we alone upon our Calvary,

As orphans ask Thee, Jesus, to return

  And dwell again within Thy sanctuary.

Since Thou hast left They earthly door ajar,

  Our lovely temples bare and dismal stand;

No chant of choir, no bells resound from afar;

  Dread silence hovers o'er our native land.

Since Thou descendest not as Victim meet

  In sacrifice choice graces to bestow,

No roses rill the church with fragrance sweet;

  No lighted candles on the altar glow.

Our naves, once quivering with the mystic flight

  Of prayer that fluttered as a heavenly breath,

Are now as silent as the somber night;

  All seems oblivion, sadness, sleep and death.

O Lord, why has thy presence from us fled?

  Dost Thou not remember how in days agone

Those countless hearts which in their trials bled

  Found comfort in the light that from Thee shone?

Souls trembling with the thought of morrow's griefs,

  Souls crush beneath the present cross of pain,

Souls tortured by the past--all found relief

  Before the golden door. Oh! come again.

Afflicted, aged, orphan, pilgrim spent

  With teasing struggles on life's darksome way;

The sick and those by cruel hunger bent,

  And sinners burdened--all came here to pray.

To Thee beneath the sacramental veil

  Thy fondly tuned, and ever found relief;

For not a soul, howe'er distressed, could fail

  To draw from Thee sweet solace in its grief.

No grief could stay, no comfort be deferred,

  No trial crush, when Thou wert biding there;

In mystic sweetness still Thy voice was heard,

  Whose accents shattered sin and banished care.

But now no longer dost Thou dwell as King

  Upon our altar, once as bright as day,

And we no more around Thee sweetly sing

  Our anthem. Ah, how long wilt from us stay?

The very breath of Hell floats in the air;

  The cup of crime is filled by tyrant's hand'

And through the hideous gloom no dawning fair

  Of hope is seem to glimmer o'er the land.

The barque of Peter on the stormy sea,

  With Christ, our Leader, wrapt in peaceful sleep,

Seems well-night wrecked by man's iniquity,

  That rages like a tempest o'er the deep.

Ah! why dost Thou abandon us, dear Lord?

  A hymn repentant from our hearts we sing.

Thou canst not fail to keep Thy loving word;

  In Mexico the faithful hail Thee King.

Those who offended Thee but yesterday

  Now rear-dimmed eyes turn trustfully to Thee;

With bleeding feet they went a pilgrim's ay

  From far and near to plead Thy clemency.

By the bitter tears of those who mourn their dead,

  By our martyrs' blood for Thee shed joyfully,

By crimson stream with which Thy Heart has bled,

  Return in haste to Thy dear sanctuary (As found in Ann Ball, Blessed Miguel Pro: Twentieth Century Martyr, TAN Books and publishers, 1996, pp. 105-108.)

 

Silence in the face of the evils of concilairism, Bishop Fellay?

"Reconciliation" with Plutarco Elias Ratzinger, Bishop Fellay?

Silence in the face of the evils of Modernity, anyone?

Silence in the face of the simple truth that the Catholic Church cannot give us false liturgies and erroneous doctrines founded in a denial of the very nature of dogmatic truth, anyone?

Consecrated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary as pray as many Rosaries each day as our state in life permits, may we never cease exclaiming the words that were on the lips of Father Miguel Augustin Pro, S.J., as he stretched out his arms to make the form of a cross just before the bullets fired by the Masonic revolutionaries pierced his priestly body, Viva Cristo Rey!

Yes, then, now, and always--Viva Cristo Rey! Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!