The Mountains of Ararat Where the Ark Rested and the First Christian Nation Was Born For nearly two thousand years, the Christian world has looked toward the majestic peaks of Mount Ararat as the resting place of Noah’s Ark. According to the Book of Genesis, after the waters of the Flood receded, “the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:4). That mountain — known to Armenians as Masis — stands today inside the borders of modern but still muslim country know under name Turkey. Yet for a long and decisive period of history it belonged to the Armenian Christian people, the first nation on earth to embrace the Gospel as the faith of an entire kingdom. The Mountains of Ararat
Virtues vs Vices Ward off 7 Deadly sins with Virtues All other sins stem from or are manifestations of the Seven Deadly sins. Each sin demonstrates the lack of a specific virtue which can be combated by strengthening oneself in that opposing virtue.
13th october 1884 Pope Leo XIII’s vision Satan allegedly bragged that he could destroy the Catholic Church if given enough time and power (asking for roughly 75 to 100 years), to which the Lord reportedly replied, "You have the time, you will have the power." Time (can be more than 100 years) and power sounds like Our Lord wants to end the era of Redemption just as He ended the Hebrew Temple. The new era of Sanctification of Divine Will. “Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,”
St. Bridget of Sweden (Also Birgitta) The most celebrated saint of the Northern kingdoms, born about 1303; died 23 July, 1373. She was the daughter of Birger Persson, governor and provincial judge (Lagman) of Uppland, and of Ingeborg Bengtsdotter. Her father was one of the wealthiest landholders of the country, and, like her mother, distinguished by deep piety. St. Ingrid, whose death had occurred about twenty years before Bridget's birth, was a near relative of the family. Birger's daughter received a careful religious training, and from her seventh year showed signs of extraordinary religious impressions and illuminations. To her education, and particularly to the influence of an aunt who took the place of Bridget's mother after the latter's death (c. 1315), she owed that unswerving strength of will which later distinguished her. In 1316, at the age of thirteen, she was united in marriage to Ulf Gudmarsson, who was then eighteen. She acquired great influence over her noble and pious…More
On Sunday, 7 October 1571, the waters at the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth witnessed one of the most extraordinary naval battles in Christian history. At Lepanto, the fleet of the Holy League met the Ottoman fleet in a confrontation that would become legendary. The Christian victory shattered the long-standing image of Ottoman naval invincibility and became, throughout Catholic Europe, a symbol of the triumph of Christian arms under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ...
“Non enim possumus aliquid adversus veritatem, sed pro veritate.” “For we can do nothing against the truth; but only for the truth.” (2 Cor 13:8) . . . So then, my dear Cardinal, Bishop and Priest: Quid timidi estis, modicae fidei?—Go and do some good for the Church, for the flock entrusted to you, and for your own soul. The hour is late. The flock needs shepherds. And Christ is waiting… Unam Sanctam
Annibale Bugnini A more serious age sang the Dies Irae at Requiem Masses. Apparently, Annibale Bugnini—I believe his first name is an Italian version of the ancient Punic (Carthaginian / Phoenician) name Hanniba'al, which means „Baal is Gracious” or „Favoured by Baal”— said he had eliminated the sequence from funerals and other Masses for the Dead, because it: “smacked of a negative spirituality inherited from the Middle Ages.” Dies irae - Wikipedia Annibale or Hannibal wich means: “Baal is gracious” or “Favoured by Baal” / “The grace of Baal” — is a theophoric name (a name that contains the name of a god), which was very common in the ancient Phoenician and Carthaginian world. The most „famous“ bearer of this name, I would say, untill Bugnini, was the great Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca (3rd century BC), who crossed the Alps with elephants to fight against Rome. According to the well-known (and controversial) Pecorelli list and related traditionalist sources, the alleged …More
V. Sancte Míchaël Archángele, defénde nos in prælio; contra nequítiam et insídias diáboli esto præsídium. Imperet illi Deus, súpplices deprecámur: tuque, Princeps milítiæ Cæléstis, sátanam aliósque spíritus malígnos, qui ad perditiónem animárum pervagántur in mundo, divína virtúte in inférnum detrúde. R.Amen
Beatæ Mariæ Virginis de Mercede Salve, sancta parens, eníxa puérpera Regem: qui cælum terrámque regit in sǽcula sæculórum. Benedícta et venerábilis es, Virgo María: quæ sine tactu pudóris invénta es Mater Salvatóris. ℣. Virgo, Dei Génetrix, quem totus non capit orbis, in tua se clausit víscera factus homo. Allelúia, allelúia. ℣. Post partum, Virgo, invioláta permansísti: Dei Génetrix, intercéde pro nobis. Allelúia.
The Church of England’s newest innovation A female lay “Archbishop” of Canterbury — has awarded Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi a prize for “Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation.” Ashrafi chairs the Pakistan Ulema Council, an assembly of Islamic scholars. The woman beside him is, we are helpfully informed, his wife. At no point does the Monty Python theme strike up, which is almost the most surprising part.
A fascinating and disturbing article: “Making All Religions One.” The article traces the rise of modern ecumenism and argues that the movement was not simply a spontaneous theological development, but was also influenced by powerful American foundations, political interests, and even the psychological-warfare apparatus of the U.S. national-security establishment. One of the most intriguing figures is Henry Kissinger, who in the 1950s was involved in the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Special Studies Project, where Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray was brought into discussions concerning America’s future. Murray had previously been censured by Rome (good Catholic popes), yet later became an important theological influence at the Second Vatican Council. The article then follows Murray’s remarkable transition from being silenced by Rome to becoming one of the influential voices in the development of Dignitatis Humanae. It also points to the young Karol Wojtyła, as another important …More
SABOTAŽA FILOZOFIJE Sabotaža Filozofije u Prirodnim Znanostima i Teologiji Knjiga, Sabotaža filozofije u prirodnim znanostima i teologiji – Apologetski priručnik br. 4, 220 stranica, autora Branka Kozulića, izišla je iz tiska. — koja se ovdje može nabaviti. Urednikova riječ Filozofija u širem smislu riječi predstavlja ljudsko promišljanje o temeljnim stvarima i kao takva možemo reći da je najstarija disciplina jer postoji još od prapovijesti. Kao predmet u užem smislu racionalnoga i sustavnoga istraživanja filozofija nastaje u šestom stoljeću prije Krista. Na srednjovjekovnim sveučilištima ona se proučava kao priprema za studij teologije, prava i medicine. I danas je filozofija obvezna kao priprema za studij teologije. Mnogi ljudi misle da filozofija više nije važna, jer eto danas svatko ima svoju „filozofiju“. No, to je velika zabluda. Upravo knjiga Sabotaža filozofije u prirodnim znanostima i teologiji dr. Branka Kozulića daje nam jako dobar poučak kako je filozofija iznimno važna …More
Dominica XIV Post Pentecosten V. Augusti INTROITUS Ps 83 Protéctor noster, áspice, Deus, et réspice in fáciem Christi tui: quia mélior est dies una in átriis tuis super mília. ~ Quam dilécta tabernácula tua, Dómine virtútum! concupíscit, et déficit ánima mea in átria Dómini. V. Glória Patri... ~ Protéctor noster, áspice, Deus, et réspice in fáciem... noscatholici.blogspot.com/p/dtm-oss.html
The Disease, the Cause and the Cure Every day, Catholic writers publish another article warning us about what is going wrong in the Church. Synodality, conciliarism, liturgical abuses, doctrinal confusion — the list seems endless. Much of what they write is true, necessary and long overdue. But after reading so much of it, one question becomes increasingly difficult to avoid: are we going to keep describing the disease, or will someone finally dare to speak about its cause — and about the cure? The Disease, the Cause and the Cure
Question: Based on all going issues since Benedict XVI resigned from ministerium and not from munus, how one can consider Bergoglio and Prevost were/are true popes? Canon 332 §2 of the 1983 Code states plainly: Si contingat ut Romanus Pontifex muneri suo renuntiet, ad validitatem requiritur ut renuntiatio libere fiat et rite manifestetur, non vero ut a quopiam acceptetur. "If it happens that the Roman Pontiff resigns his munus, it is required for validity that the resignation be freely made and properly manifested, but it is not necessary that it be accepted by anyone." The canon uses munus — not ministerium, not officium, not any other term. Munus in the canonical tradition carries the weight of the office itself: the ontological reality, the gift-and-burden of the Petrine charge, not merely its active exercise. On February 11, 2013, Benedict XVI declared in Latin: ...declaro me ministerio Episcopi Romae, Successoris Sancti Petri, mihi per manus Cardinalium die 19 aprilis MMV …More