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A Special Nameday

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We offer thanksgiving and pray for our priests, daily. And we gladly celebrate their nameday.

2021 Our Lady of Bethlehem Pilgrimage #olbpilgrimage#catholicpilgrimage

In your charity, please offer a prayer for Fr. Evaristus Eshiowu on this feast of his patron.

He is a fierce priest of tradition who instructs the faithful with great charity. He is a lover of souls and does all he can to admonish us sinners, help us prepare for what is to come, and raise us up so we can vigorously pursue our true home.

Pope Saint Evaristus, ora pro nobis.

“Thou art the first Pontiff to whom the Church was entrusted after the departure of all those who had seen the Lord. The world could then say in all strictness: ‘If we have known Christ according to the flesh, now we know Him so no longer.’

The Church was now more truly an exile; at that period, which was not without perils and anxieties, her Spouse gave to thee the charge of teaching her to pursue alone her path of faith and hope and love. And thou didst not betray the confidence of our Lord.

Earth owes thee, on this account, a special gratitude, O Evaristus; and a special reward is doubtless thine.

Watch still over Rome and the Church.

Teach us that we must be ready not only to fast here on earth, but to be resigned to the absence of the Bridegroom when He hides Himself; and not the less to serve Him and love Him with our whole heart and mind and soul and strength, as long as the world endures, and He is pleased to leave us therein.”

#domprospergueranger#theliturgicalyear

Come Ye to the Wedding Feast

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“The man spoken of in the Gospel (Matt. XXII. 1-14) came to the wedding feast and was cast by the king’s command into exterior darkness because he had not on a wedding garment.

That is because he had not “put on the new man who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth”, and for not having put away lying and those feelings of anger against his neighbor which he cherished in his heart (Epistle – Ephes. IV. 23-28).

Thus will almighty God treat all those who, while belonging to the body of the Church by their faith, are found within the wedding-chamber without being clothed with the robe of charity. Since they are not animated by sanctifying grace, they have no share in the soul of the mystical body of Christ.

“Wherefore,” says St. Paul, “putting away lying, speak the truth every one with his neighbor, for we are members one of another… Let not the sun go down upon your anger” (Epistle).

Those who do not fulfill this command will be cast by the supreme judge into the torments of hell, like those who refused the invitation to the wedding feast of the king’s son, that is of Jesus Christ with His bride the Church, and who slew the prophets and apostles who were sent to bear the invitation.

The wedding guests were replaced by those whom the king’s servants found in the highways; the Jews by the Gentiles. To these last, at Pentecost, the apostles turned, filled with the Holy Ghost. And at the last Judgment, foretold on these last Sundays of the cycle, these rewards and punishments will be final. The elect will take part in the eternal marriage feast, while the damned will be cast into exterior darkness, into the avenging flames, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.””

– Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, OSB, 1945 — Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost

📸 the children’s festivities at their big sis’ wedding 7.18.20

History & Morality of Current Issues

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A priest of tradition addresses the history of what we’re facing in these current times.

He speaks to the ultimate goal at hand. And he covers the morality of what is being imposed upon us.

Four Conditions of Moral Theology That Must Be Met:

1. No moral objections in development

2. Certain of effectiveness

3. Safe beyond all doubt — not life threatening

4. No other options

The solution is clear — simple refusal, come what may!

*Part 1/2 can be found in my IGTV, Libertas.

Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost

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“In the Apostles’ Creed we acknowledge our belief in the forgiveness of sins. Today’s Gospel gives us an example of the forgiveness of sins by the direct power of Christ Himself.

The poor man afflicted with paralysis was chiefly concerned with the cure of his bodily ailment. But Our Lord realized that what he needed chiefly was the cure of the ailments of his soul. Consequently the first blessing which Christ conferred on the invalid was the forgiveness of his sins. Then, in order to prove that He did truly possess the divine power to work this deed of mercy, Our Lord cured the sick man of his paralysis and bade him rise and walk.

By granting the sick man health of soul–which he did not ask for–in the first place, Christ emphasised the important truth that spiritual favours are far more desirable than temporal benefits.

However extraordinary may be the blessings of the temporal order we receive from God, such as health and financial success, they must be regarded as far inferior in value to spiritual gifts which perfect our soul.

Many Catholics do not seem to realize this important truth. Frequently they pray for temporal favours.

If they are unwell they make novenas for the recovery of their health.

If they wish to obtain success in business or an increase of salary, they have fervent recourse to prayer.

Often however, such Catholics show little concern for the needs of their souls. Some of them may even be living in mortal sin and yet be very much unconcerned. But they ardently desire God’s help toward the attaining of the things of the present life.

True Christians are spiritually minded. In their prayers they seek in the first place God’s grace.

They pray that they will receive strength in temptation, that they will know clearly what is God’s will in their regard, that they may be inspired to a greater love of the Blessed Sacrament, that they may have the privilege of receiving the last sacraments when life is drawing to a close.

And, if they feel that they may be among those fortunate persons to whom God is offering a vocation to the priesthood or religious life they pray for light & guidance and the grace to fulfill the will of God.”

Dom Gaspar Lefebvre

The Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel

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We opted to decorate our school room for this glorious feast day, The Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel.

As I’ve shared before, most of our feastday celebrations no longer revolve around food/treats. Instead, my boys plan special outings fitting for the saint of the day.

Today, we’re off to the lake for physical activity — to prepare to be warriors just as St. Michael.

How are you celebrating today?

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Here is practical consideration from Fr. Francis Xavier Weninger, 1876.

Saint Michael remained true to God when thousands of other angels became faithless to Him. He followed not their example.

You also should not follow the bad example of others, but fulfill God’s commandments.

Remain faithful to the Lord though thousands of others leave Him.

Saint Michael was zealous in honoring God and opposed those who would not be obedient to the Creator. You can also do this.

When others speak against the true faith in your presence, against the ceremonies and commandments of the true Church, against purity, against the honor of your neighbor; when you see that they transgress the laws of God and of the Church, you should defend the honor of the Almighty and prevent all the evil you can. If you are so situated that you cannot say or do much, show, by your silence, by your seriousness, that you are displeased by such offences against the Majesty of the Most High.

Saint Michael fought valiantly against Lucifer and his adherents. Therefore God placed him above all the heavenly spirits.

Lucifer, with his adherents, endeavors to induce you to leave God, to become faithless to Him. Fight bravely against him and you, too, will be exalted.

Say to him: “Who is like God? Who is so kind, so mighty, so amiable as God?” And that you may fight vigorously, as well in life as in death, call often and fervently on Saint Michael: “Help us here to fight and to conquer the enemy, O Saint Michael!”

*Banner from @party_like_a_saint

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