Vatican: Happy Diwali!

Vigil of the Feast of All Saints

Diwali (Deepavali, Divali) is an Hindu festival that spans five days, usually falling between the middle of October and the middle of November. During Diwali, each day is dedicated to different Hindu "gods" or "goddesses," and certain traditions are honored in order to please them. Among these include offering a candle and sweets near a Holy Basil tree (or some other “sacred” tree) in order to appease their god of death, receiving oil massages, worshiping the goddess of wealth, and keeping one's household spotless in order to receive a visit from the goddess Lakshmi, who will look especially favorably upon you if you worship a broom (Pramodkumar, Meri Khoj Ek Bharat Ki, pp108-09).

As Diwali is about to commence, the Vatican has issued a statement addressing the Hindu community. Brief comments from TB are provided at the end

N.B.: The primary article is sporadically spaced, sometimes skipping several lines between sentences, other times having two or three words running together with no spaces. These errors were all fixed in transcription, without citing where they appear.

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Dear Hindu Friends,

1. In a spirit of friendship, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue extends to you best wishes and cordial greetings as you celebrate Deepavali on 3 November next. May God, the source of all light and life, illumine your lives and deepen your happiness and peace.

2. In this highly competitive world where increasingly individualistic and materialistic tendencies adversely affect human relationships and often create divisions in families and society as a whole, we wish to share our thoughts on how Christians and Hindus can foster human relationships for the good of all humanity through friendship and solidarity.

3. Relationships are fundamental to human existence. Security and peace in the local, national and international communities are largely determined by the quality of our human interaction. Experience teaches us that, the deeper our human relationships, the more we are able to advance towards cooperation, peace-building, genuine solidarity and harmony. In short, the ability to foster respectful relationships is the measure of authentic human progress and essential for promoting peace and integral development.

4. Such relationships ought to flow naturally from our shared humanity. Indeed, human relationships are at the heart of human existence and its progress and naturally give rise to a sense of solidarity with others. Regardless of our ethnic, cultural, religious and ideological differences, all of us belong to the one human family.

5. Sadly, with the increase of materialism in society and a growing disregard for deeper spiritual and religious values, there now exists a dangerous trend to accord the same value to material things as to human relationships, thereby reducing the human person from a ‘someone’ to a ‘something’ that can be cast aside at will. Furthermore, individualistic tendencies engender a false sense of security and favour what His Holiness Pope Francis has described as ‘a culture of exclusion’, ‘a throwaway culture’ and ‘a globalization of indifference’.

6. The promotion of a ‘culture of relationship’ and ‘a culture of solidarity’ is thus imperative for all peoples, and calls for the fostering of relationships based on friendship and mutual respect for the benefit of the entire human family. This requires a common recognition and promotion of the intrinsic dignity of the human person. It is evident then that friendship and solidarity are closely related. In the end, a “culture of solidarity means seeing others not as rivals or statistics,but brothers and sisters” (Pope Francis, Visit to the Community of Varginha (Manguinhos), Rio de Janeiro, 25 July 2013).

7. Finally, we wish to state our conviction that a culture of solidarity can only be achieved as “the fruit of a concerted effort on the part of all, in service of the common good” (Pope Francis, Meeting with Brazil’s Leaders of Society, Rio de Janeiro, 27 July 2013) Sustained by the teachings of our respective religions and aware of the importance of building genuine relationships, may we, Hindus and Christians, work individually and collectively, with all religious traditions and people of good will, to foster and strengthen the human family through friendship and solidarity (TB: Oh really?  Pius XI disagrees: "When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony [Quas Primas]."). We wish you a happy celebration of Deepavali!

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran

President Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue

Father Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, MCCJ

Secretary 

Vatican News

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What can be said? This letter drips with masonic sentimentality, appealing to the bond of human fraternity to help foster relationships between cultures, nations and religions, completely irrespective of any objective truth -- not to mention the complete and utter disregard for the urgency of conversion on the part of the pagans.
 

Of course, it is the height of scandal for anyone who purports to represent the Catholic Church and to be sent by Her to wish a pagan people well during their celebration of a pagan feast, devoted to superstitious customs directed towards false gods which are in fact demons:  "But the things that the heathen do immolate, to devils they do immolate, and not to God.  And I will not have you become fellows of devils" (I Cor. X: 20).

Conciliar Church: Arian Pope?

Feast of Ss. Simon and Jude, Apostles

Earlier today, the pope of the Conciliar Church was quoted by Vatican Radio as stating that Christ prays and intercede for us; the man was quoted directly as saying (in translation) "It is to [Christ] we must entrust our problems, our life and many other things so that He may take them to the Father" (see full article here).

Taken together with Francis' previous sentiment that "[ . . . ] I believe in God. Not in a catholic God; a catholic God does not exist; God exists. And I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my master/teacher and pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator" (see original Italian text and the quoted English translation here).

Trads must consider:  is the pope of the Conciliar Church an Arian?

For those who require a refresher on this heresy from the time of the early Church, the Catholic Encyclopedia defines Arianism as follows:

"Such is the genuine doctrine of Arius.  Using Greek terms, it denies that the Son is of one essence, nature, or substance with God; He is not consubstantial (homoousios) with the Father, and therefore not like Him, or equal in dignity, or co-eternal, or within the real sphere of Deity.  The Logos which St. John exalts is an attribute, Reason, belonging to the Divine nature, not a person distinct from another, and therefore is a Son merely in figure of speech.  These consequences follow upon the principle which Arius maintains in his letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia, that the Son 'is no part of the Ingenerate'" (see full article here).

To reflect on the past fifty years of Conciliar revolution, how far the fall for that counterfeit faith:  first the Sacred Liturgy and other sacraments are suppressed and replaced by protestantized services, and Catholic countries are instructed to strike out the name of Christ from their constitutions; then, false sects are invited to practice their blasphemous rituals in Catholic churches in Assissi in the mid-1980s; the nouvelle theologie and its rotten fruits are identified to be in harmony with Catholic Tradition by way of Ratzingerian hermeneutics; finally, the duped flocks of the Conciliar Church are told by their pope that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity is distinct from God as creator, and that the Son intercedes for them by praying to God the Father.  How can anyone look at these past fifty years in anything besides angry, revolted amazement?

A Happy and Blessed St. Crispin's Day!

St. Isidore the Farmer, Ss. Chrysanthus & Daria

 

 Ss. Crispin and Crispinian are Catholic martyrs who died October 25th, A.D. 285/286. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, they are believed to have been brothers of “distinguished Roman descent” who went to Gaul as missionaries, where they were eventually martyred during the reign of Diocletian. Initially, Maximianus the Co-Emperor sought to tempt them away from the faith, to which they replied:

Thy threats do not terrify us, for Christ is our life, and death is our gain. Thy rank and possessions are nought to us, for we have long before this sacrificed the like for the sake of Christ and rejoice in what we have done. If thou shouldst acknowledge and love Christ thou wouldst give not only all the treasures of this life, but even the glory of thy crown itself in order through the exercise of compassion to win eternal life.

They were tortured by the rack, having their skin cut off, and awls driven under their nails. Then, a millstone was wrapped around their necks and they were thrown into the river Aisne. They swam to the other side. Afterwards, they were burnt... but they didn't burn. Finally, under the order of Maximianus, they were beheaded. They are the patron saints of shoemakers, tanners and saddlers.

According to Wikipedia, these holy saints were removed from the Calendar after Vatican II. However, according to my own research, this does not appear to be the case. According to the Divinum Officium site, no breviary commemorates the Feast of Ss. Crispin and Crispinian except at the martyrology during Prima (click to view this same commemoration) of October 24th. They are, however, commemorated according to the Sarum Use. A liturgical calendar from the Institute for Studies of Illuminated Manuscripts provides us this A.D. 1503-1505 Sarum Liturgical calendar; a bit of scrolling is required to reach October 25th.

Now we provide users with a Sarum Use breviary, which commemorates the saints on October 25th at Vespers. Readers can view for themselves the hymn for their feast, though we will provide the Magnificat antiphon and the collect:

In Heaven rejoice the souls of the saints, who followed the footsteps of Christ: and because for His love they shed their blood, therefore with Christ they shall reign forever.

Almighty, everlasting God, grant us worthily to venerate thy holy Martyrs, Crispin and Crispinian, that so we may be delivered from the dangers of this world, and may be worthy of eternal joys. Per Dominum Nostrum &c.

Saint Crispin's day, however, was immortalized not by the holy death of these brother-saints, but by the work of William Shakespeare's Henry V. In Shakespeare's account, Henry inspires his soldiers by appealing to the brothers Crispin, an identifiable pair of saints to an army of English peasants facing the might of the French army at Agincourt, A.D. 1415.

For brevity's sake, the famous St Crispin's Day speech will not be transcribed here, but hyperlinked. After reading it, we suggest a viewing of the quintessential Crispin's Day Speech from Henry V (1989) directed and starring Kenneth Brannagh (that's right, not Olivier). While the “actual” Crispin's Day speech ends around the 3:50 mark, we encourage readers to continue through the video, to watch King Henry's retort to Montjoy, who comes seeking surrender from the English army.

A tired and sickly army of Englishmen significantly outnumbered by the French Army (the ratio is usually considered 5:1) prevailed against their mighty foe, and upon victory, sung Non Nobis.  Traditional Catholics should easily find an affinity not only with the heroic martyrdom of Ss. Crispin and Crispinian, but also with the wonderful allegory that can be found in Shakespeare's story of King Henry's victory against insurmountable odds.  As resisting Catholics, we are few in number and "our gayness and our gilt" are oft' besmirched.  But by the mass, our hearts are in the trim!  

Without further ceremony (what art thou, O idle ceremony?) I wish all resisting Catholics holding to the traditions of our holy martyrs a most blessed and glorious St. Crispin's day, and an especially warm greeting to those Catholics of Celtic descent.  Ss. Crispin and Crispinian, pray for us!

Happy Anniversary!

Feast of St. Peter of Alcantara

Today -- October 19, A.D. 2013 -- marks the 544th wedding anniversary of Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon, the beginning of a marriage which would last thirty-five years (upon Isabella's death).  The "Catholic Monarchs," as they were later styled by Pope Alexander VI, may serve as an example of national leadership par excellence for their woeful 21st century successors.

Three facts Catholics should know about Ferdinand and Isabella:
-closely cooperated with the Church so as to govern their temporal sphere of influence in harmony with the spiritual
-financed the voyage of Christopher Colombus to the "new world" in 1492
-also in 1492, expelled the Jews from their territories (see here: http://www.sephardicstudies.org/decree.html; note, however, only the translation of the expulsion edict is recommended reading from that site)

Compare the Catholic Monarchs with the current king of Spain, Juan Carlos I, whose own accomplishments include:
-actively transitioning Spain from hierarchical rule to democracy/figurehead monarchy
-signing the 1978 Constitution of Spain which guarantees [the insanity of] religious liberty as a protected "right"
-signing into law legislation guaranteeing abortion as a "right"


Catholic kings and queens serve their subjects best by serving God first.  Whatever personal failings historians may attribute to Ferdinand and Isabella, their actions as King of Aragon and Queen of Castile reflect a desire to serve their subjects by rendering to God services which aid and complement His Church.  For the entirety of his reign, Juan Carlos has tried to serve his subjects by rendering service first to the whims of a minority population rightly marginalized by Generalissimo Franco -- the liberals.

Where the Catholic Monarchs held our Lord so highly, the restored king has set Mammon.

Happy anniversary, indeed.

The Beta Church

Vigil of the Feast of St Luke, Apostle and Evangelist

The internet is a wonderful tool. Especially in a world where going to the local "Catholic" church for instruction would probably result in being pushed into apathy and contempt for religion rather than wonder and awe, it is expedient that there is a medium by which Catholics can reference works that would have been only found in seminaries and great libraries five hundred years ago. God knows what He's doing! It's no mistake that these confusing times are countered with easy access to solid and reliable apologetic material, and plenty of primary sources.

On the other hand, this same platform allows for the propagation of error, imprudence, and confusion. When I write this, I don't so much have in mind the secular enemies of the faith (major news, profane entertainment, liberal philosophers, etc.) but those Catholics who have appointed themselves the Internet Swiss Guard of the Conciliar Church (ISGCC). This cyber-Magisterium has tasked itself with interpreting for us the errors and heresies of the New Church and its churchmen. And by "interpret" I mean ignore, diminish, re-write, and apologize for.

I like to believe that this phenomenon initially stems from a Catholic's natural instinct to protect the Church and the Pope. Over time and exposure, as the Conciliar Church and its leaders are unmasked, one hopes and anticipates that the Internet Swiss Guard will ease his stance and maybe go out for a coffee break. Not presuming to know exactly how well someone's sense of the crisis is developed, and therefore not to accuse anyone of dishonestly defending the false Church, it is nevertheless frustrating to deal with this phenomenon.

A typical example would be JPII's kissing of the Koran. Common objections? "He was spitting on it and got too close." "He was trying to see his reflection in the glare of the cover." "An evil spirit was pushing his head close to the book to give it the appearance of him kissing it, while another evil spirit took the picture." "He had a gun pointed to his head." "He didn't have a gun pointed to his head, but it doesn't matter because we all worship the same God and Muslims are part of the plan of salvation." OK, that last one isn't so much a hackneyed defense as it is full-on acceptance of the Conciliar Program, but you get the picture.

Recently, Jorge Bergoglio (otherwise known as Francis) gave an horrendous interview. The first reaction of the reader might be to ask "which one?" The interview with the atheist (and former Catholic) founder of La Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari. The focus of this post does not go into parsing the errors, heresy, and blasphemy contained therein, though we do recommend that the reader view the article if they have not already. Rather, we intend to highlight the common defense mechanism that is used on the part of the ISGCC. It suffices to say that this interview involved teaching that the purpose of the Incarnation was to instill a feeling of brotherhood among men, denying objective morality and a Catholic God, and contempt and disregard for the urgency of conversion to the Catholic faith.

The most convenient and common tactic to apologize for Francis' filth is the crutch of mistranslation-- this seems to be the default position taken by the ISGCC any time he gives an interview. The media has twisted the original Italian and misinterpreted or mistranslated what he said. If this is true, we are dealing with quite a phenomenon: nearly everything Francis says is internationally, univocally and unequivocally mistranslated into error, heresy, and blasphemy by every source that hosts his interviews. That would lead us to conclude that no one in the world besides the staff at La Repubblica speaks Italian. Fascinating. Apparently this world of non-Italian speakers also includes the entire Vatican establishment (shockingly situated in Rome, Italy), considering that they have put zero effort into mitigating the scandal caused by telling a billion Catholics that the God Who founded their Church and revealed their dogmas doesn't exist. Perhaps La Repubblica would be kind enough to sublet one of their Italian speakers to the Vatican so that they could have someone properly translate that interview.

I would like to introduce a metaphor of sorts here. The behavior of the ISGCC towards these conciliar pontiffs' heresies (and the whole of the New Church, for that matter) is very much like a young child whose beta fish just died -- you know, the kind with a deep purple/magenta hue and subtle stripes of turquoise and teal. One morning the fish floats up to the top. Mom or dad comes over and informs little Johnny of Admiral Gill's demise. But little Johnny exclaims that the fish still lives, pointing at it bobbing ever so slightly, and barely noticeably, as a dead fish will do.  The child may even then poke it or lightly exhale towards it to make it float an inch or two to the left, the whole time insisting that the fish is not dead.

The ISGCC is that child, and that dead purple/magenta beta fish with subtle stripes of turquoise and teal is the Conciliar Church. Floating, rotting, being poked incessantly by a child who cannot and will not accept its obvious lifelessness. When a child behaves in such a manner, we can expect him to eventually come to terms with the facts, a recognition which admittedly requires some amount of experience. How do we respond when adults behave in the same manner, and on a topic exponentially more significant than a dead fish? This is a question we will not seriously entertain at the moment, but for now it suffices to say that repetition would seem to be instrumental to any intellectual difficulties a person of good will might have (repetitio est mater studiorum). Obviously prayer, as usual, is the most important -- prayer for the restoration of the Church and prayer that God will soon deem it time to scoop the rotting Conciliar Beta out of the bowl and dispose of it according to His great justice and mercy.

Dictionary of Trad Acronyms

Feast of St. Edward, King and Confessor

+ :  Indicates a bishop (E.g., +Williamson).

+ + :  Indicates an archbishop (E.g., + + Lefebvre).

ABL:  Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the SSPX.

AO:  Ad Orientem, Latin for "to the east."  Priests face East when they celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.  The priest faces the altar (generally positioned so he faces eastward) out of respect for the Living God.

BVM:  The Blessed Virgin Mary.

B16/BXVI:  Joseph Ratzinger, who took the name Benedict XVI when he assumed the Conciliar papacy.

CCC:  The so-called "Catechism of the Catholic Church."  More accurately, the acronym represents the "Catechism of the Conciliar Church."

CDF:  Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, an office in the Conciliar Church.  The Catholic Church has known this office by several names, most recently the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office from the reign of St. Pius X onward.

CIC:  Codex Iuris Canonici (Code of Canon Law).  May refer either to the 1917 Code under Benedict XV (sometimes dubbed the "Pio-Benedictine Code," as the project to compile it began during the pontificate of St. Pius X), or "new code" of 1983 (although that would more accurately be referred to as the Conciliar, Novus Ordo CIC).

CITH:  Communion in the Hand. The irreverent receiving of the Sacred Host in the hand by a lay person.

CMRI:  Congregatio Mariae Reginae Immaculatae. Sedevacantist traditional congregation whose orders derive from + + Ngo Dinh Thuc.

COTT:  Communion on the Tongue.  Refers to the proper and reverent way to receive the Sacred Species (communicant kneels if able).

D[#]:  A citation from the 1950s edition (unless otherwise noted) of Denzinger, the # not a page reference but a specific primary document or paragraph of such so enumerated within the book.

DA:  Divino Afflatu, the Apostolic Constitution of Pius X which reformed the Roman Breviary.

dCM:  +de Castro Mayer of the diocese of Campos, Brazil.  Co-consecrator with + + Lefebvre in Econe, Switzerland, in 1988 of four bishops for the SSPX.

DENZ:  Short for "Denzinger," a reference to an edition of the Enchiridion Symbolorum originally compiled by Heinrich Denzinger known in the English-speaking world by the title The Sources of Catholic Dogma.

DH:  Dignitatis Humanae, an heretical V2 document which taught the insane doctrine of religious liberty.

DL:  Divine Liturgy, the term by which liturgies of Eastern Catholic Rites and the Orthodox are known.

DO:  The Divine Office, recited from books called Breviaries.  All priests are obliged to recite the Office unless granted special dispensation their respective ordinary.

DR/DRB:  Douay-Rheims Bible.  The mid-18th century revision of this English translation of Holy Scripture by Bishop Challoner is the most popular version of the Bible among English-speaking Trads.

DV:  Dei Verbum. Another heretical document from V2, taught that the Church does not yet contain the fullness of truth.

EC:  "Eleison Comments," a weekly subscription-based newsletter published by +Williamson.

ED:  Ecclesiastical Dysfunction.  Just kidding.  Ecclesia Dei Commission, the arm of the Conciliar Church which organizes and "promotes" the True Mass in its own backhanded ways.

EMHC:  "Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion."  A lay person who distributes Holy Communion.  An extreme rarity prior to V2, they are the norm at most Novus Ordo services -- to such an extent they may be considered a Conciliarist innovation.

FSSP:  Fraternal Society of St. Peter, an indult group of priests which splintered from the SSPX in 1988 in the wake of the Econe consecrations.  Wished to be united to modernist Rome.  Mostly populated by Conciliarist presbyters now.

GL/G-L:  Thomistic theologian and holy priest, Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange.

GdL:  +Guerard des Lauriers. Responsible for the so-called "Cassiciacum thesis" or "sedeprivationist" position which is generally summarized as papa materialiter, non formaliter -- or, "pope materially, not formally."  Often mistakenly viewed as a middle-ground between sedeplenism and sedevacantism, it is properly understood as a variation of sedevacantism.

H.E.:  "His Excellency" (e.g., H.E. Williamson).

ICEL:  International Commison on English in the Liturgy.  The Conciliarist organization responsible for approving the English translations of the Novus Ordo Liturgy.

ICK/ICKSP:  Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.  Indult group of Conciliarist presbyters.

J23/JXXIII:  Angelo Roncalli, took the name John XXIII after the conclave of 1958 announced him pope.  Convoked V2.  Sedevacantists dispute among themselves whether or not Roncalli was ever pope to begin with, if he possibly fell from office, or if he was an entirely valid pontiff from his (unusual) election until his death.

JP1/JPI:  Albino Luciani, took the name John Paul I when he assumed the Conciliar papacy.  Probably murdered.

JP2/JPII:  Karol Wojtyla, took the name of John Paul II when he assumed the Conciliar papacy.  During his tenure as head of the Conciliar religion, JP2 engaged in animist worship, kissed the Koran, prayed John the Baptist to protect the Mohameddan sect, allowed idols to be perched on Catholic altars for veneration by members of false religions, promulgated a CIC which permits sacrilege, promulgated the CCC which contains heresy, excommunicated ABL and dCM as well as the four bishops they had consecrated for the SSPX, and knowingly gave Communion to a man he knew to be a Lutheran.  JP2 is set to be canonized by the Conciliar pope, Francis, in 2014.

LG:  Lumen Gentium, an heretical V2 document which taught, among other things, that the Catholic Church merely "subsists in" the Church of Christ.

LOTH:  Liturgy of the Hours, the book of prayers which replaced the Divine Office in the Conciliar Church. Infamous for omitting "imprecatory" Psalms.

NO/NOM:  The former, depending upon context, may refer simply to Novus Ordo ("New Order," in this case synonymous with Conciliar, as in "NO Church," "NO pope," etc.) or specifically to the Novus Ordo Missae ("The New Order of Mass," as in "Should a Catholic attend the NO? Of course not!"); whereas the latter refers exclusively to Novus Ordo Missae.

NREC:  New Rite of Episcopal Consecration, created by the Conciliar Church and implemented as early as 1968. The validity of the NREC is disputed among Traditionalists.

NSSPX/XSPX:  "The New/Neo SSPX," refers to the modern SSPX under +Fellay, which has shown an ardent desire to be united to modernist Rome and taken certain steps (branding, expulsion of priests and a bishop) to ensure this end.   XSPX seems to be a clever innovation of Fr Chazal, obviously indicated that this group is "ex" SSPX.

P6/PVI:  Giovanni Battista Montini, took the name Paul VI when he assumed the Conciliar Papacy. See Fr. Luigi Villa's book Paul VI Beatified? for more information.

SGG:  Saint Gertrude the Great Church, a sedevacantist chapel and associated priests at other locations headed by former SSPV/SSPX priests Frs. Anthony Cekada, Daniel Dolan, and Donald Sanborn, the latter two having received episcopal consecration from episcopi vaganti of Thuc lineage.

SP:  this can have one of two meanings depending upon context.  The older usage meant "sedeplenism/-ist," the belief (or one who believes that) the papal throne ("sede") is validly occupied ("plena") by a true pope; the term came into usage to distinguish from "sedevacantism/-ist." The more recent usage of "SP" refers to Summorum Pontificum, a Conciliar motu proprio issued by Benedict XVI in 2007 which purportedly authorizes any Conciliar priest to use the Roman Missal of 1962.

SJ:  Society of Judas.  The group of priests attached to the Conciliar Church known formally as "The Society of Jesus"; the majority of its members have espoused heresy for the past ~50 years.

SSJV:  Society of Saint Jean Vianney (officially in English "Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney"), the group of Traditionalist priests formerly under the auspices of +de Castro Mayer in Campos, Brazil, who joined the Conciliar Church in 2002.

SSPV:  Society of St Pius V, a traditionalist Catholic group headed by + Clarence Kelly which splintered off of the SSPX in 1983.  + Kelly's episcopal orders derive from +Alfredo Mendez.

SSPX/FSSPX:  Society of St Pius X. Worldwide traditionalist group began by + + Marcel Lefebvre.

SSPX-MC/SSPX-SO:  Refers to “The Resistance,” i.e., those SSPX chapel goers, priests, and bishop who are not content with the modernist direction of the NSSPX. These acronyms represent SSPX-Marian Corps and SSPX-Strict Observance, respectively.

SV:  Sedevacantism/ist. Refers to the belief (or one who believes that) the papal throne ("sede") is currently vacant ("vacante"); or, put another way, that the popes of the Conciliar Church are not true popes of the Catholic Church.

TB:  TRADBLOGS.  Duh!

TLM:  Traditional Latin Mass. Also may be referred to as the Mass of St Pius V, the Tridentine Mass, the Roman Mass, the True Mass. The acronym is also used by many Traditionalists to refer to Masses said using the Roman Missal as revised in 1962 under Angelo Roncalli, aka John XXIII, which is rubrically distinct from the Missal as codified by St. Pius V; use of the 1962 Missal by Traditional clergy is somewhat controversial.

TO:  Third Order.  Lay members of religious orders.

WOHH:  Work of Human Hands, a 2010 publication by Fr. Anthony Cekada descriptively subtitled as "A Theological Critique of the Mass of Paul VI."  Notable for having achieved some notoriety in both Trad and Conciliar scholarly circles.

V1/VI:  The ecumenical council that convened in the Vatican 1869-1870 which most notably taught the mechanics of papal infallibility.

V2/VII:  Vatican II, a robber council that convened 1962-1965 in which modernists succeeded in usurping the physical institutions of the Catholic Church and enshrining heresy in documents which became cornerstones of their new human-centric religion. V2 may also be used as an adjective, e.g., V2 Church, V2 priests, V2 doctrine, etc.

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Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The purpose of this blog is to offer support and encouragement -- as well as resources -- to Traditional Catholics ("Trads") in these tumultuous times. We aim to sympathize, empathize, and draw arms together with Trads who are struggling to keep, maintain, and practice the faith that has been handed down since Pentecost and guarded by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. This is made increasingly difficult in the modern times God has seen fit to place us in, where faithful Catholics find themselves traveling hours to attend a true liturgy, usually driving past half a dozen self-labeled "Catholic" churches on the way-- and some must go without the Mass and the sacraments altogether.

Nevertheless, here we are; it is our firm belief that God's pre-ordaining us to this time is far from arbitrary or insignificant. The advent of the Internet Age allows for an hitherto unprecedented, rapid transmission and sharing of ideas and information across time zones and languages, and what more important ideas and information could there be to transmit and share than those which pertain to and proceed from our One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith?

For more than fifty years, Traditional Catholics have had the physical institutions of their Holy Church usurped by the modernist mafia which succeeded in a revolutionary coup against the Catholic Church at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and in the wake of their disastrous victory, wasted no time in eliminating all of the Catholic Church's rites; diminishing, contradicting and ignoring her doctrines, spitting on her disciplines, and feeding her children stones when they asked for bread (see Luke Chapter XI, verse 11).

Of the most notable and prevalent reforms in the wake of the council was the Novus Ordo Missae, or "The New Order of Mass." This liturgy replaced the Roman Rite of St Pius V (promised to Catholics until the end of time), and summarily removed, suppressed, and obscured all uniquely Catholic doctrine in the Mass, so that what was left was an ecumenical supper instead of an holy and unbloody sacrifice. This "bastard mass," as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre called it, was the chief and most ordinary vehicle by which the Conciliar Church spread its false doctrines to the Catholic faithful and clergy, and subsequently consumed many of them.

We firmly announce that we reject, in toto, the heresies of that Robber Council and its Robber Mass, and do not in any way, shape, or form, give credit or legitimacy to them, nor to their architects or their groundskeepers. We hope that in continuing in this spirit, we enjoy longevity and friendship with you, the reader, and share in being edified by the truths of our Holy Faith, which are so greatly threatened at every corner by the errors of our woefully corrupted modern world. Please pray for us: we will assuredly pray for you!

--Mithrandylan and tmw89