Fr Gordon J MacRae

Advent begins a time to release ourselves from the grip of Earthly powers to prepare the Way of the Lord and make straight His path.

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Advent of the Mother of God — Beyond These Stone Walls

Advent begins a time to release ourselves from the grip of Earthly powers to prepare the Way of the Lord and make straight His path.
Advent by Father Gordon MacRae
The Gospels According to Matthew and Luke are the Scriptural sources for the events of Advent and Christmas. They have many similarities and some differences. Matthew alone tells the story of the Magi, a story I unfolded here in “
Upon a Midnight Not So Clear, Some Wise Men from the East Appear.” Only Luke has the story of Saint Gabriel the Archangel and the Annunciation. It seems that Mary herself was his source for that account and the events to follow. That Gospel passage graces two important Feast Days within Advent: The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12. I unfolded the deeper recesses of that account as well in “Saint Gabriel the Archangel: When the Dawn from On High Broke Upon Us.”
Both Evangelists often present two stories, one on the surface,…

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Fr. Jason Worthley preaches about the call to turn toward God.

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"A recently published document from the German bishops encouraging Catholic school pupils to self-identify according to their “sexual identity” is the latest significant departure of the bishops’ conference from the Church’s teaching, re-igniting talk of a possible new, German-born schism."

Rome’s Failure to Correct Germany’s Bishops has Emboldened Their Pro-LGBT Agenda

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Rome’s Failure to Correct Germany’s Bishops has Emboldened Their Pro-LGBT Agenda

As the country’s bishops issue a new document encouraging diversity of sexual identities in Catholic schools, German Catholic sociologist Gabriele Kuby explains the full extent of the crisis.
A recently published
document from the German bishops encouraging Catholic school pupils to self-identify according to their “sexual identity” is the latest significant departure of the bishops’ conference from the Church’s teaching, re-igniting talk of a possible new, German-born schism.
The “orientation aid,” published on Oct. 30, states that Catholic schools should consider “diversity of sexual identities is a fact,” effectively normalizing any pupil to self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and non‑binary.
Teachers are further encouraged to use language that reflects “the diversity of sexual identities,” and are advised to present questions of sexual morality as “disputed,” allowing students to form their own judgments.
Only three German bishops have so far …

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Nigerian human rights advocate: Cardinal Parolin is ‘emboldening’ Muslim attacks against Christians - LifeSite

Mon Dec 1, 2025 - 5:27 pm EST
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LifeSiteNews) — The board chair of a Nigerian human rights organization, during an interview last week with Crux, slammed Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin for downplaying the role of Islam in the brutal genocide against the country’s Christians and said that he is encouraging further acts of Islamic terrorism against the faithful.
During the interview, which was published on November 27, Emeka Umeagbalasi, the board chair of the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) emphasized that Parolin’s comments diminishing the role of Islam in the genocide of Nigerian Christians provides diplomatic cover for Islamic terrorists, weakens the Church’s moral standing, and ultimately emboldens Islamic terrorists to continue committing genocide.
Parolin came under fire in October for downplaying the influence that Islam has played in the persecution, framing the violence against Nigerian Christians as a “social …

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Miss Universe winner Fatima Bosch pauses in prayer before an icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

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Dolan Fails To Discipline NYC Church For Confirming Unrepentant Gay TV Anchor In His Archdiocese

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Dolan Fails To Discipline NYC Church For Confirming Unrepentant Gay TV Anchor In His Archdiocese

Nothing less than a clear and firm correction of the priests who conspired to abuse the sacraments and confuse the Catholic Church’s unambiguous teaching on homosexuality will suffice.
Gio Benitez, an openly gay-identified ABC News anchor, was recently
confirmed into the Catholic Church, accompanied by his “husband” — who served as his “sponsor.”
The confirmation Mass took place last month at the brazenly pro-LGBT Church of St. Paul the Apostle in Manhattan. The historic landmark is the mother church of the Paulist Fathers – a, as writer Glenn Stanton noted, “rapidly dying” liberal order of priests. There were 98 active Paulist priests in 2004 and only 50 as of 2024.
Noted heretic and LGBT activist Fr. James Martin helped celebrate the Mass, alongside who appears to be Fr. Eric Andrews and Fr. Paul Rospond. It’s clear Benitez received at least two sacraments of initiation into the Catholic Church: confirmation and Holy Eucharist. (Benitez said he was baptized more than two …

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la verdad prevalece

The pro-gay Dolan, in his rebellion against God's natural law and Catholic morality, with his inaction and complicit silence emboldened the pro-gay apostate James Martin and his cronies in their gay activism.

Catholic intro to the Old Testament: Habakkuk
A primer for reading the Old Testament book of the prophet Habakkuk.
Habakkuk the Prophet
Also known as
Avvakoum
Habacuc
Habakkuk
Memorial
2 December
15 January on some calendars
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Seventh century BC Old Testament prophet in Judea during the time of the captivity.
Canonized
Fr. Larry Young

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Lazarus Peter Kalamation.com

Remember that God lives in the Eternal Moment. As He is revealed, He expects you to believe.

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Saint Charles de Foucauld - December 1
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Also known as
Charles Eugenie de Foucauld
Brother Charles of Jesus
Brother Marie-Alberic
Memorial
1 December
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Born to an aristocratic family; orphaned by age six, he and his sister Mary were raised by their grandfather. Studied at Jesuit schools in Nancy and Paris, France from 1872 to 1875. Entered the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1876. Joined the 4th Hussar regiment; in 1880 his unit was sent to Setif, Algeria. He was discharged from the service in March 1881 for misconduct, and moved to Evian, France. During the Revolt of Bon Mama in South Oran two months later, Charles re-enlisted, and fought for the eight months of the rebellion. He became so fascinated with the Arabs that he met that when he could not obtain a leave of absence to study them, he resigned his commission.
He spent 15 months learning Arabic and Hebrew, and then travelled into Morocco. In May 1885 he received the Gold Medal of the French Geographic …More

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Truth

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And yet the Nazi war machine was financed by them! Go figure?

Wilma Lopez

Thousands of young people joyfully singing "Jesus Christ, you are my life!", as Pope Leo XIV arrives to meet them in Lebanon.

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The Filioque in the Eastern Fathers

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The Filioque in the Eastern Fathers

This past weekend we witnessed a stunt between Rome and Constantinople that tried to make it look like something merely as piddly as eternal dogma on the Trinity was the block between unification of East and West. I commented on Twitter: “The goal of all this is to make us all Unitarians, not to clarify the Trinity. The most solid Eastern Orthodox I know out there believe their differences with me on the Filioque actually MATTER. That’s because they put objective truth ahead of this false-ecumenism.”
I then added: “And yes, I know the Filioque was added late in the Creed. That’s a totally different debate from whom the Holy Spirit actually proceeds from… which is then a totally different debate from if the Trinity actually matters (which it does to the best of the Orthodox—but not to leftists like Patriarch Bart or Leo.)”
Below is a reprint of my earlier article on my main site explaining why the Filioque still matters more than Rome capitulating on her own teaching for a fake-union …

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In 2021 the apostate reprobate Jorge Bergoglio says sacrileges Mass on tombs of Moors who raped 60000 Italians
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Apostate Robert Prevost paid tribute to the Muslim leader Kemal Atatürk, responsible for the Christian genocide

Prevost attacks the Universal Reign of Christ. He does not seek the conversion of souls.
Prevost is an enemy of the Reign of Christ.
Micah 2:1 Woe to those who plot evil
Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.
Woke USCCB gets truckload of millstones from God
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Prevost and Caritas promote transsexuality under the pretext of helping the "poor"
Unrepentant activist transvestite prostitutes rely on Prevost to continue defying God and the Church
Prevost Is a Fan of Pro-Homosexual Singer Laura Pausini
Prevost lures all those who rebel against God to him and hands their souls over to the devil.
Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was angry with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. St. Bede on Revelation 12:17 Wroth: When he saw that the persecutions could not be continued, because …

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Prevost, James Martin and Tucho's obstinacy in their rebellion against the Holy Trinity and against the Laws of God and the Church are further proof that Bergoglio died in final impenitence, dragging them with him into the same abyss of perdition.

Filioque, Marriage, and Respecting All Religions
RESPECTING ALL RELIGIONS, and two new documents – one seems to downplay the Filioque and the other on marriage – does it downplay procreation?
Source:
Pope Leo’s NEW POSITIONS Examined: Filioque, …

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Novena - Oremus

Pope Leo XIV and Cardinal Pizzaballa in Lebanon yesterday

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WATCH: Melania Trump and Usha Vance Host a Care Package Event at Joint Base Andrews - 12/1/25

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Faith Hope Charity

It would be special if Usha Vance and Melania Trump would wear more feminine clothes.

la verdad prevalece

The apostate Prevost flatters a Lebanese asylum and says that "Jesus dwells in this place"

In Lebanon, the fake pope Prevost was received like a rock star.

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The east is not infected with the friction prophecized by Our Lady of Akita.