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• Feast
of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Ever-Virgin Mary, Mother of the
Second Person of the Trinity, Which Second Person Is God Almighty from All of
Eternity, and Whose Mother, Mere Creature Though She Be, Is the Queen of
Highest Heaven Forevermore, 2016 (12-8-16)
Uploaded the fourth part (albeit, only a substantial part of the
fourth part) of the new book,
Helplessly Ignorant
.
Here things
become unavoidably apocalyptic.
What is one to make of the rather ‘bizarre-sounding’
but transfixing passages of the Apocalypse (‘Revelation’ for
Protestants in their bibles) of
How are they to be interpreted?
Without claiming
to be ‘all-knowing’ or ‘infallible’, I do insist that
they mean something.
And I do also
insist, to be rational, that God did not
inspire Sacred Scripture or put these mysterious passages into the Bible, if
they could never be understood
properly and accurately by mere human beings.
Hence, they have to mean something.
And they must
also be important or else Jesus Christ, via the Holy Ghost, would not
have instructed and inspired John, His Beloved Disciple, to write them upon the
So what do they mean?
That’s
what the fourth part of Helplessly
Ignorant gets into.
I haven’t
had time, though, to get all of the fourth part written and edited.
Nevertheless, I
have a sense that it was imperative to get something up by today.
Which, if you’re paying attention and are Catholic --- or, at
least, claim to be ‘catholic’ --- is one of the most crucial feast
days of the entire sanctoral cycle in the liturgical
year of the One True Religion, the Singular & Sacred Roman Catholic Church
of Our Uncreated Creator.
She is, after
all, immaculate --- perfect and without sin --- for a reason.
A reason that God Himself determined from all of eternity.
To undo the
Original Sin of Ss. Adam & Eve, by making one of His mere creatures (but
made in His image) without Original
Sin, and who, by His Almighty Will & Power, would never sin during Her entire earthly life… instead obeying Him with simplicity
and humility, forever, without ever displeasing or disobeying His Divine Will
for Her whole existence.
It is this Holy
& Humble Woman who crushes
the Serpent by Her Heel. (Genesis 3:15 DRC)
It is this
Immaculately Conceived Human Being who vanquishes
all heresy.
It is this mere
creature, without any sin, whose Immaculate Heart will destroy the Great Apostasy and convert the world again --- for a brief period, at least ---
to the One & Only Roman Catholic Religion of Her Son, Who is, indeed, God
Almighty Incarnate.
It is His
Holy Flesh, gotten from Her,
His Mother, which accomplishes this miracle.
How fitting,
then, if Helplessly Ignorant is of
any worth to Our Maker, that the fourth part --- which gets into the nitty gritty apocalyptic details --- should be posted on
Her feast day, the day dedicated by the Church, Her Son’s Body, on the
universal liturgical calendar.
May Her
Immaculate Heart be triumphant.
May Her Heel
crush the snake’s dragonic head.
May all false
(non-Catholic) religion be destroyed.
May this day, in this year, 2016, symbolically represent the
beginning of the end.
The end of the old earth and old heavens, and of sin and death and
night and mourning and fear and the sea and everything to do with rebellion and
disobedience and anti-Catholicity.
All praise be to the Sacred & Suffering Heart of King Jesus Christ,
Who is God Almighty, and to the Immaculate & Sorrowful Heart of His Mother,
Queen Mary the Immaculate, greatest of all creatures that He has ever created,
and perfect in all Her ways.
Amen.
• Feast of St. Francis Xavier the Jesuit
Missioner, 2016 (12-3-16)
Uploaded a new article,
Automatic Excommunications
(‘Latae Sententiae’):
Why Canon Law Automatically Excommunicates Notoriously & Pertinaciously
Heretical or Schismatic Members of the Catholic Church Without Formal Action or
Declarations from Her Leaders, and Why This Principle Applies from Highest Pope
to Lowliest Layperson from the Most Ancient of Times
, in the Books
& Articles section of The Epistemologic Works website. This in turn is an updated and
re-written excerpt from the longer article,
Should You Go to a CMRI Mass or Take Part
in the Worship of Other Traditionalists?
,
with a substantial endnote tying it all together, also found in the Books &
Articles section of The Epistemologic Works website.
Why is this
article important?
Because confusion reigns supreme during the Great
Apostasy.
And that confusion revolves around what Catholicity is ---
especially around denial of the infallible maxim ‘no Salvation outside
the Church’ in its most ancient, narrow & correct sense --- and the
loss of both knowing that you have become truly Catholic, and loss of
knowing how to tell if someone else is truly Catholic.
That’s
where the Church’s Canon Law comes in.
Since most
ancient of times the Catholic Church has told us, with supreme authority, that
those who are supposed to be Her members but reveal
themselves, notoriously and
pertinaciously, as grievous heretics or schismatics, are excommunicated.
And not just
excommunicated, but done so ‘ipso facto’
and ‘latae
sententiae’.
That is to say, automatically.
This is stunning
and revelatory to the thinking person who cares. Who truly is Catholic, or
wants to be truly Catholic, and is trying to figure out what in the world is
going on with the world today. When everything and everyone
seems to be bent on evil and anti-Catholicity, of systematically rejecting and
denying all that the Church teaches.
Teachings that are infallible.
Hence, if
systematically rejected and denied, then the world really is in the most wicked
and rebellious of times… the time of the Great Apostasy, when, just as
Jesus’ Human Body was buried in the tomb at the rejoicing of His enemies,
so, too, Jesus’ Ecclesial Body --- the Roman Catholic Church --- is
buried in the tomb at the rejoicing of Her enemies as well.
And yet there
will be a resurrection.
It’s God’s
Church, not ours, as I am fond of saying.
We’re
merely members of His Church… if truly Catholic.
What’s
going on today requires the complicity of some very important people. People who, like Judas Iscariot, are traitors and even murderers.
Such people operate within the apparent structure of the Church --- whilst not
actually being Catholic.
Now, if they’re
hidden away, there’s not a lot we can do, apart from being cautious and
certain to remain truly Catholic, professing and defending the Faith whole
& entire.
But when such
traitors come out into the open --- as they will, eventually, just as Judas
revealed himself for what he was to everyone when he led the soldiers to arrest
his Master, Jesus, in the garden --- the situation changes completely.
Now they’re
out in the open.
Now they can no
longer hide.
This is what
being a notorious and pertinacious heretic or schismatic amounts to.
It’s why
the Church excommunicates them automatically, without a prelate having to raise
a finger in official or public action, or make some sort of ‘formal
declaration’.
It’s to
protect the Ecclesial Body of Jesus Christ.
Why, then, has
everyone forgotten this, or acts like it’s simply ‘theoretical’
while in no way possible, or proper, to put it into routine practice?
Because they are either servants or dupes of Satan.
And if Satan was
going to ‘win’ against his foe, the Catholic Church, then he must
make people forget, or act like it no longer matters or can be put into
practice, the canonic principle of automatic excommunications… of
identifying those who are not truly professing Catholicism whole & entire, who
are attacking Her and betraying Her.
If servants of
Satan, they do this on purpose.
If dupes of
Satan, they do it inadvertently.
Sadly, the
adverb ‘inadvertently’ does not equate with ‘inculpably’.
God gives most
of us intelligent and adequate minds.
Ergo, at some
point, we should figure things out.
That’s
what this article is about:
Helping you, the reader, to figure it out.
To fulfill your
duty, become truly Catholic (or stay truly Catholic!) ,
and distinguish those who are not… and even if that means someone who is supposed to be a Successor
to St. Peter and the Supreme Defender of the One True Faith.
Almost no one on
earth is left who is truly Catholic.
How fitting,
then, that this post transpires on the day that the Church dedicates to St.
Francis Xavier, the great Jesuit missioner and, arguably, the greatest
evangelist since the first century and the holy work of God’s chosen man,
St. Paul the Apostle.
May another St.
Francis Xavier, and another
May Queen Mary
crush the serpent’s head and vanquish all heresies.
May King Jesus
resurrect His Ecclesial Body and return to earth.
May we in the
meantime be truly Roman Catholic, carry our heavy crosses while enduring the mockery
and opposition and hatred of the whole world, and die in the state of grace.
May God give us
again a true & holy pope, and shepherds to watch over our souls.
Ad majorem Dei
gloriam.
• Feast of St. Saturninus
and Vigil of the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, 2016 (11-29-16)
Posted the second and third parts of the new book,
Helplessly Ignorant: The Nonsense of a Perfectly Intelligent But
Strangely ‘Invincibly Ignorant’ Person Somehow ‘Unable’
to Know Catholicism Is True in Order to Find Salvation, Whilst, Instead,
Getting into Heaven by Being ‘Sincere’
,
in the Books & Articles section of The Epistemologic Works website.
Saturninus was a fairly popular name during
ancient Roman times, clearly meant to honor the pagan god, Saturn, for which
our most beautiful of relatively nearby celestial spheres --- the planets ---
is named, the ringed and heavenly-looking orb.
This lovely
heavenly orb has a strange hexagonal (six-sided) ‘storm’ raging
constantly like a polar vortex swirling round its north pole. It’s considered
during modern times as the ‘sixth’ planet out from the sun, yet,
from a truly wise and scholarly Catholic point of view, knowing Tychonian Geocentrism to be the
real arrangement of our creation (all things in the universe rotating around
the sun, the sun itself then revolving, with the heavens revolving around it,
around the earth at the center of our creation), Saturn is actually (and
counting the ‘missing’ planetary orb called the ‘asteroid
belt’, which cosmic Darwinists claim is a ‘failed’ planet
that never quite came together over ‘billions’ of years, but which
is in reality a planetary orb that suffered catastrophic destruction, probably
at the time of St. Noe’s Great Deluge long ago)
the eight celestial orb outward from the earth deep into the heavens. It is, as
it were, the octave heavenly sphere corresponding to our moon, upon which Our
Lady stands, like the highest ‘mountain’ of the earth (since,
as a wise person realizes, the
earth and moon are coupled ‘gravitationally’ in a perpetual starry
dance, the barycenter of this cosmic waltz being,
literally, a thousand miles below our terrestrial surface.) So that, in a real
sense, Saturn is the heavenly sphere an octave above our moon --- the highest
height belonging to earth --- and, hence, the ‘seventh heaven of heaven’,
as it were.
Is it any wonder, then, that Saturn is the most beautiful of ‘nearby’
celestial globes, ringed and golden, and, the astronomers tell us, of a density
lighter than water, so that, were it possible, having a gargantuan sea or pool
of water, Saturn would float, buoyant and ship-like.
And then that enigmatic six-sided hexagon at the north pole of
Saturn…
Six, the number of humanity, on the octave heavenly orb
corresponding to our earth’s most lofty summit, the lunar orb, ancient
Diana, Selene and Cynthia, as our pagan ancestors called her… for the
moon has always symbolized and evoked femininity.
The heavens do
indeed declare the glory of God.
And reveal His
mysteries for the one who sees.
Saturn was known
as Cronos to the Greeks.
Overseeing
crops, the seasons and time itself.
The Romans
celebrated this pagan deity at the very time --- just after the winter solstice
--- that Our Lord & Savior was born, around December 25th.
Curious, curious, curious.
Jesus Christ is
the Bread of Heaven, the fulfillment of a heavenly crop of wheat, the medicine
of immortality as St. Ignatius of
And Jesus came
to mark our times forever just after the winter solstice, changing it from a
season of pagan debauchery and dissolution into a time of joy and solemnity and
holy expectation… the Season of Advent, which we have just entered with
the 1st Sunday of Advent upon 27 November 2016, when I posted the
first of five parts to the new book, Helplessly
Ignorant.
Again, curious.
What a
frightening yet exciting time to be alive.
If we’re
Catholic and die in the state of grace… what a reward we will receive.
What a Crown of
Martyrdom we will win, and even if we never shed our blood.
Our heart’s
blood, measured in sorrows and spiritual famine, will be our bloodless
sacrifice, priceless and painful regardless. It’s the time to be brave,
don our religious armor, tighten our spiritual belts around bellies thin and
emaciated from long hunger without shepherds to feed us or pastures to lie down
and rest in. The desert parches our lips, makes our skin like rough leather,
the sun browns us like St. Mary of
We endure the
same.
Let us surmount
as she did, invoking her prayers.
Read the book.
Get informed about the “operation of error” that besets us.
See with the
eyes God has given you --- ponder with the mind He has bestowed upon you.
Seize every
prayer, every devotion, every holy book left in our
possession.
Prayer and wear
the Rosary like a spiritual weapon.
Do the same with
the Brown Scapular.
Likewise with the Miraculous Medal. Similarly the Medal of
And heed the
Saving Truth found in the book, Helplessly
Ignorant.
‘No
Salvation outside the Church’ means exactly what it says, no ifs, ands or
buts.
It has always
been understood with simplicity, without qualification.
‘Salvation-in-the-state-of-ignorance-and-sincerity’
is nonsense.
Know this, defy
the Serpent, avoid the forbidden apple.
We may be
conceived in Original Sin.
We do not,
however, have to commit actual sin.
We can know
truth, we can choose to believe it, and we can humbly profess it.
That’s why
God gave us intelligent minds and freedom of will.
This is why He
made us look like Him, in His Sacred Image.
O Sacred &
Suffering Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!
O Immaculate
& Sorrowful Heart of Mary, pray for us!
Let the Saving
Truth be known.
It is time.
Like the Maccabees of old, we few real Catholics have retreated to
God’s Mountain.
Now Satan
threatens to chase us there, to seek and destroy us!
May the Sword of
the Spirit be strong in our hands.
May Infallible
Truth defy and dismay him.
May we, by Mary’s
Heel, make him pay dearly for his arrogance.
By Your Eternal
Power, O God, unleash Her Immaculate Heart, vanquish our Serpentine Foe!
Bring the Dragon
down in utter ruin, quench his poisonous and fiery
breath with the holy water of life and Roman Catholic Dogma. Let us finally,
after long and patient humiliation, see his downfall and utter ruin. Let us
mock the worm that troubles the world.
Let the Prince
of the Power of the Air plunge to the ground.
Let him eat dust
upon his belly.
This we pray.
This we ask.
This we seek.
May your Mother,
Mary, be our refuge.
Deus, Deus meus. Do not forsake
us unto the end. Amen.
• Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, 2016
(11-27-16)
Posted the first part of a new book,
Helplessly Ignorant: The Nonsense of a Perfectly Intelligent But
Strangely ‘Invincibly Ignorant’ Person Somehow ‘Unable’
to Know Catholicism Is True in Order to Find Salvation, Whilst, Instead,
Getting into Heaven by Being ‘Sincere’
, in the Books &
Articles section of The Epistemologic Works website.
This is a book I’ve long wanted to write --- yet dreaded
doing so at the same time, knowing how difficult and time-consuming it would be
and feeling incompetent, not being up to the task with all of the enemies of
Catholicism arrayed against us --- but woke up one morning in February of 2016
realizing that it was time, and that the entire outline had been given to me in
my sleep during the night.
No one has to
believe me, of course… and I deserve any derision I receive, being an
unworthy Catholic and rotten sinner… nevertheless, this is what happened.
If it really is from Heaven, and worthwhile to them, then I will be
the most surprised. I am not only unworthy of the name of Catholic (despite
certainly bearing this noble title), but a man of little brain and mind
compared to the celestial beings. Any understanding I have is from God Himself
--- He gets the credit. I did not make myself or give myself intelligence. It’s
all from Him. And, like Nabuchodonosor [Nebuchadnezzar
in Protestant bibles] of old, who ruled the mightiest empire of his time on
earth, yet had his mind stripped from him by God for seven years in order to
humble him, living like an animal and eating grass, I readily praise the Triune
God of the Catholic Church for His gifts & bounties bestowed upon us.
I’m actually a hindrance to His Kingdom, not an asset.
In any case, the
book tackles a simple but heinous problem:
Why the fixation in modern times with ‘ignorance’
and ‘skepticism’?
Why pretend it’s ‘impossible’ to
know with certainty which religion or philosophy is actually and totally true
(if any), and why the automatic, kneejerk derision toward any religion of a
more traditional or formal nature?
What gives?
Modernized but ‘non-religious’
people act like it’s a hopeless attempt to discover which religion, if
any, is true. Or, as is more and more common nowadays, they use this as a lame
excuse for not looking and seeking and investigating whilst knowing, all along,
that they really don’t think any of them are true… they’re
all a bunch of nonsense and ‘superstition’, say they, if honest, or
only privately in their minds.
Meanwhile,
people who style themselves ‘catholic’ since Vatican II in the
1960s pretend that intelligent people can be ‘invincibly ignorant’
and --- in this state of ‘inculpable’ ignorance or prejudice about
Catholicism --- be saved, instead, as they are without first converting truly,
really, actually and visibly to the Roman Catholic Church. This, they say, is
what the Catholic Church has always taught (a complete falsehood, as anyone who
studies the early Church Fathers and ancient ecclesial history knows), or,
acknowledging things have ‘changed’ since ancient times and ancient
Catholic belief, they pretend that this change is merely a ‘deepening’
of the infallible dogma of ‘no Salvation outside the Church’ when,
in fact, it’s an outright blatant and savage contradiction of what all
real Catholics have always known Salvation Dogma to mean, with simplicity and no
qualifications.
This salvation
heresy --- this hellish lie --- has come to dominate our present world, being
the primary means by which Lucifer (the Devil, or Satan) has appeared like an ‘angel
of light’ and deceived nearly all peoples, including those who are
supposed to be ‘catholic’ and ushered in the short but brutal era
of the long foretold Great Apostasy.
It is with this
realization in mind that I have written the book.
I do not pretend
to have the power, the fame, the wealth or the ability in any way, shape or
form to undo this hideous evil all by myself. I merely speak the truth where
necessary, knowing that it is infallible and absolutely needful for the
salvation of souls.
It’s up to
God whether or not He uses it for good.
I am not a
priest, bishop or pope, nor have I ever claimed to be.
I am merely
Catholic --- having been raised as a modern and to hate the Catholic Religion
--- and, by God’s Mercy, was converted to the True Religion in a miracle
of transformation.
This
transformation is proof that, if God can do it with me, then He can do it for
anyone.
It’s His
Church, not mine or yours.
We’re
merely members of it, if truly Catholic and not espousing the falsehoods of the
reigning Religion of Modernism which claims, amongst other things, that it
doesn’t matter what religion you are… as long as you don’t
deny what Modernism dogmatically teaches, especially the teaching that no
religion really matters, that the Golden Rule (‘do unto others as you
would have them do unto you’) is all that’s important, and that
this principle is something all major religions of old share in common. Ergo,
beyond that Rule, and, provided you don’t act like Modernism is something
bad or dangerous, then you’re on the right side of ‘progress’
and the world is becoming a more modern and ‘better’ place every
day.
How lucky we are
to be so smart and free of our ancestors’ superstitions!
This is what we
think.
The Helplessly Ignorant book demolishes this
myth by pointing out its glaring flaws and logical contradictions, as well as
its blatantly demonic opposition to what the Roman Catholic Religion has always
taught as infallible & saving truth.
Curious, then,
that it should first be released to the world at large on the day wise
Catholics honor God’s Mother, the Blessed Ever-Virgin Mary, under the
title of ‘Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal’.
This year is
curious already, being but one year shy of the hundredth anniversary of Our
Lady of Fatima and its flabbergasting Miracle of the Sun in
The Feast of
Christ the King transpired on the last Sunday of October as always this year,
but, as far as I can tell (and this feast was only instituted in the early 20th
century by Pope Pius XI, so it hasn’t been on the universal liturgical
calendar for long), for the first time ever literally right before All Hallow’s Eve (Halloween, as contemporary people know
it) the next day, Monday, and All Saints Day right after that as ever, of
course. Then follows a series of amazing feast days, such as the Feast of the
Dedication of St. John Lateran’s Cathedral in
Rome, Italy, which is the Mother Church of all real Catholics, being the seat
and throne of the Papacy. Then comes the Feast of the
Dedication of the Basilicas of Ss. Peter & Paul a week or so later,
the founding bishops of the Diocese of Rome in the mid-first century. Then the
feasts of St. Elizabeth of
So many of my favorite saints are celebrated by the Church near the
end of the liturgical & sanctoral years.
Then, at almost
the very end, comes Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, not yet on the universal
calendar, but well-known and widespread amongst Catholics of the past two
centuries. Like the woman who crushes the serpent’s head, it was like
Mary, Our Heavenly Mother, reassuring Her children, true Catholics, that, yes,
the times are evil and bound to get more evil still… notwithstanding, the
moment is coming, and not so far away, that My Son, Jesus, the God-Man, will
speak, permitting Me to act, and I will vanquish our foe, the Devil. He will
not prevail indefinitely, his time is horrible yet short, and you may cling to
me, the Queen of Highest Heaven, and I will hide you in My Mantle, protecting
you during this terrible time. Evil will not win; My Son’s Body, the
Catholic Church, will resurrect; and worldlings will
not go unpunished, either converted miraculously to My
side or else annihilated by My heel along with their spiritual father, the
Ancient Dragon and liar.
This is our
hope.
This is our
lifeline.
This is why we
do not despair.
This is why, as
difficult and unbelievable as it may seem, humanly speaking, we wait patiently,
learn to endure our cross and kiss and embrace it, and soldier on, stumbling
and gasping in our tribulation. We die with Christ on the Hill of Calvary, but
do not rot away in the ecclesial tomb. Like Him, on Easter Sunday, we look for
Resurrection --- both in the world to come and in this earthly life, too, prior
to Jesus’ Second Advent. Will you or I live to see it? I cannot say with
prophetic assurance. I only know that God will act, miraculously and without
any foe able to withstand Him when He so chooses. He brought mighty Egypt to
its knees when He freed the Israelites to worship Him in His One True Religion
of the Old Covenant, and, against all odds, He brought the Day of Pentecost
upon the incipient New Covenant Church in the Upper Room of Jerusalem,
spreading Catholicism across the equally mighty Roman Empire in a trice,
practically overnight, regardless of brutal and bloody opposition.
No enemy is His equal.
This is the God
we serve.
Let us humble
ourselves, beg His forgiveness for our many sins, bear our crosses gladly as
the very least we deserve too suffer for our terrible rebellions, and wait
patiently for Him to act.
Our Lady of the
Miraculous Medal, pray for us!
And by Your
Immaculate & Sorrowful Heart, O Queen crowned by Twelve Stars, clothed with
the sun and standing upon the moon, bring the serpent to heel and convert this
world once again to Your Son’s One & Only Catholic Body, outside of
which no one can hope to be saved…
O Mediatrix of All Your Son’s
Graces and Co-Redemptress of Our World, protect us
--- particularly our immortal souls --- and help us, your unworthy children, in
our desperate need. We look to you, O Mother, and trust You,
just as you helped the poor couple married in
Now is the time
we need Your help.
We turn to You, like a little child to his or her Mother.
You are sweet
and tender, and will not fail us.
Where our
shepherds have apostatized and abandoned us, You will
not.
Gather the
sheep, protect the lambs, and make us one.
Don’t let
Lucifer triumph in his pride.
Humble him,
crush him.
We Your children cry to You!
Protect us.
Dear reader, read the book.
Heaven willing,
I will post two more parts in the next day or two.
By God’s
grace I will post the fourth part by the 8th of December.
By Our Lady’s
strength, I will post the fifth and final part by Her Son’s Nativity, the
25th of December.
However poorly
worded, the message in the book is true and needful.
We will not gain
Heaven’s Mercy or begin to undo the religious darkness till these
spiritual falsehoods and cancers of the human soul are banished and buried.
May this tiny
thing be a tottering but real step in the right direction.
May Our Eternal
& Self-Subsisting Creator use it for good.
May human beings
heed its message even if they revile me.
Then would God’s
Power be truly revealed.
Ss. Francis
& Dominic, little men of God, help me to be one tenth of what you were.
And, if against
all expectations, I am ten times what you were, let it not be thought I
accomplished anything on my own, let all the credit be given to God & His
Mother, Mary. Let me hide in Her holy skirts, like a painfully shy child, let
all honor go to Her, and through Her to God, let me only, I beg You, unworthy
as I am, be made worthy by Your Power & Mercy, and let me, I beg You, see
Heaven, since I dare not suffer the flames of hell forevermore.
But let me love
You --- and Her --- like I should.
Amen.
• Feast of St. Anthony of the Desert,
2016 (1-17-16)
Posted latest article, The Sacrament of Penance Without a Priest Available,
in the Books & Articles section of The Epistemologic Works website.
An excerpt of Chapters 11 to 13 of the longer article, This Is the Great Apostasy… Now, How Do We
Make Sure Our Souls Survive It?, with a couple of small tweaks, a tiny
introduction, and an endnote tying everything up while rebutting typical biases
held by various readers, the upload addresses a simple but vexing dilemma:
With lawful priests not available to real
Catholics during the Great Apostasy, how is a person to be certain to absolve
mortal sin prior to exiting this life?
Can anyone be saved out of this
terrible situation?
Fortunately, the answers are reassuring.
Neither the
Triune Catholic God nor His One & Only Roman Catholic Church have left us abandoned while our world undergoes a rebellion
unseen since the time of St. Noe.
We are not
without hope, we are not automatically doomed
to hell.
What’s
more, the Solemn Magisterium --- especially the Council of Trent --- gives us
infallible assurance of this.
So, while
laboring wearily in the midst of spiritual famine, void of visible shepherds
for the time being, we poor hungry sheep are not laboring without hope… we are not laboring toward certain damnation.
But read the
article.
Today is the
Feast of St. Anthony of the Desert. Not St. Anthony the Miracle Worker, who toiled as a monk many centuries later. Do
not confuse the two.
Nevertheless,
before St. Anthony of the Desert left this world, he witnessed the
transformation of
The Empire
became officially Catholic.
Unfortunately, at
the same time this was happening --- the rolls of the Church engorged with
people now converting to the Catholic Faith since persecution not only no
longer threatened, but, instead, being a Catholic could help advance
one’s career within the government --- God in His Sovereign Will
permitted a massive spiritual attack against the One True Religion.
To wit, the
Arian Heresy.
Some scholars
estimate up to 90% of the bishops went openly heretical.
And, it would seem,
at least half --- if not even more --- of the laity followed their shepherds
into religious rebellion and eventual damnation.
This scourge of
terrible heresy went on for the better part of the fourth century.
And poor St.
Anthony witnessed the beginning of it, even as he lived to see the official
conversion of the
It ought not to
surprise anyone that he opposed Arianism with
unbending zeal.
The point?
Any real
Catholic today must approach our crisis with equal zeal.
We shan’t
all be saints; we’re not all apostles or prophets.
Indeed, all of
us are pretty much ‘no ones’.
Like the
fishermen called out to be Jesus’ disciples unexpectedly, as it were, so,
too, it would appear, many of us today, who are actually Catholic, were called
out of nowhere to convert to the True Church.
And yet, like
Notwithstanding, will it really end in bitterness?
Any true
Catholic knows the story:
No. Jesus
resurrected. It did not end in
the Tomb.
Neither will
today’s Ecclesial Crucifixion end in the Tomb.
God will
resurrect His Ecclesial Body, and that Body will not rot away.
In the meantime,
those few of us who are truly Catholic, and without shepherds to guard our
souls, must --- if only metaphorically --- survive like
This is the
cross and martyrdom each of us faces.
Without visible
shepherds and a normally functioning hierarchy, we are just like hermits in the
religious desert, surviving on prayer and on what few spiritual aids we may
glean in the arid wilderness.
Like St.
Anthony, we endure abstinence for the greater glory of eternity.
And, like
Anthony, we witness with horror the superficial --- but very real --- triumph
of hell for a very short span of time against the Pillar & Ground of Truth.
That is to say,
just like hell and all foolish sinners thought Jesus --- the very Author of
Truth, Truth Himself --- vanquished and in the earth, their enemy gone…
so, too, hell and all foolish sinners now think Jesus’ Catholic Body
vanquished and in the earth, their indomitable religious enemy obliterated.
It’s worse
now than it was during the Arian Heresy. And, yet, the Arian Heresy looked
pretty bleak at the time, a holy foe like St. Athanasius banished not once, not
twice, not even thrice from his episcopal throne in Alexandria, Egypt, but five times over the course of
interminable decades!
Again, the point?
It was winning!
Likewise, for a
while, humanly speaking, with Jesus in the Tomb, it looked like hell had
triumphed.
It had
triumphed!
But only for a moment.
The upshot?
And even though Anthony did not go into the desert to organize
monasteries.
Similarly today.
By God’s
Choice, not ours, we are forced into a spiritual desert like hermits, in order
to be truly Catholic during the Great Apostasy, when everyone has betrayed ---
including our visible shepherds --- the Ecclesial Body of Christ.
Has hell
triumphed?
It seems like
it, superficially.
Just like hell
appeared to win with Jesus in the Tomb, or how it seemed like everybody was
Arian by the middle of the AD 300s.
Nonetheless,
God’s Body did not rot in the Tomb, nor did God’s Ecclesial Body
rot away in the ‘triumph’ of His foes as Arianism
reigned for a moment during the fourth century --- when even the emperors were
Arian and on the wrong side, upholding false religion! --- rather,
He resurrected.
This is the hope
we have.
This is the
miracle we look for.
But it’s
God’s Church, not ours. We’re merely members of it…
If we are truly Catholic.
Meanwhile, we
survive in the desert like
Perhaps we will live
to see the ecclesial resurrection, if not too old.
Or perhaps our
children will take part in the re-establishment of a real Catholicism upon the
earth, witnessing the revival of a living, breathing & functioning
Hierarchy, helping to organize its restitution just as Anthony
organized the institution of monasticism so long ago.
It’s in
God’s Hands. I do not claim to be prophetic, in the strict sense.
I merely
prophesy --- in the broad sense that all real Catholics may claim to wield ---
that God’s Promise will not fail.
Hell will not
triumph in the end.
The Tomb will be
empty.
And Truth ---
and Truth’s Pillar --- will reign forevermore.
Ad majorem Dei
gloriam.
Ad Jesum per Mariam.
• Feast of the Holy Family and the Fifth Day
Within the Octave of Epiphany, 2016 (1-10-16)
Uploaded the article,
This Is the Great Apostasy... Now, How Do We Make Sure Our Souls Survive It?,
in the Books & Articles section of The Epistemologic Works website. Originally a personal letter sent in response to a man in the South of the
As Catholics, what are supposed
to do during such evil times?
Where do we get the sacraments?
The letter I wrote answered those questions.
Moreover, it became the basis for an explanation to help anyone in
these straits. That is to say, for any real Catholic who realizes we’re
in a horrible situation today, our world lost in the darkness of the Great
Apostasy and facing a terrible punishment.
What are we to do? How are we to survive it? How can
we make sure our souls go to Heaven when we have no visible shepherds to
protect us and to guard us? Are we lost forever? Has God abandoned us? Do we
become, if only by default, some sort of strange ‘protestant’ by
being Catholic without any visible shepherds for the time being?
Read the article
to find out in sufficient detail.
In short,
though, no!
We are not
without recourse. We can survive. We can die in the state of
grace, and despite the hideous opposition against us, without pastors to
keep us safe. We are not lost forever to the fires of hell. The danger
to us is huge… greater than any time since the Flood of Noe… but we are not lost forever. God has not
abandoned us. We are not now ‘protestants’ just because we
have no pope, bishop or priest with jurisdiction at the moment. We remain
Catholic --- and persevere as Catholics! --- in spite of apostasy, in order to save our souls.
In a word, we
look for the end of this apostasy, and the return of our visible shepherds!
But, again, read
the article.
It just might
tell you something that is needful for your salvation!
Today, as I write
and post this, is 10 January 2016. It happens to be the Feast of the Holy
Family, which is a ‘movable’ liturgical day, as are so many of the
Catholic Church’s liturgical feasts, given that we have a solar calendar
derived from the Roman Empire, whilst following the Old Testament’s lunar
calendar when it comes to Easter.
In this case,
however, the mobility of the Feast of the Holy Family is not so much due to the
mobility of Easter based on the lunar phases as it is because of the uneven division
of seven-day weeks into a 365-day year (366 days when the year is a leap year,
of course).
To wit, Epiphany
always occurs on January 6th in a solar calendar, just as Christmas
always occurs on December 25th.
But because the
Feast of the Holy Family is always on a Sunday --- a Sunday that is within the
Octave of the Epiphany --- then the Feast of the Holy Family is going to occur
on varying days of the month within the solar calendar, just so long as that day
is always a Sunday and in the Octave of the Holy Family.
Make your head
spin a little bit, cause your mind to boggle?
Not to worry. Calendrics is a rather arcane pursuit.
Nevertheless,
God did make our world to
depend on the cycles of the sun and the moon.
Ergo, calendrics is
important for the knowledgeable Catholic.
But does every
real Catholic have to comprehend calendrics?
No.
Just as long as
--- given that you don’t understand calendrics,
at least not fully --- you don’t then act impatiently & foolishly,
and assume, out of thin air, that calendrics is not important at all.
Doing that puts
you on the road to Catholic
fundamentalism.
Which is horrible, leading to schism and heresy.
You can learn
about this hideous danger
here and
here.
Yet is there
significance in the Feast of the Holy Family?
I believe there
is.
The Holy Family
is at the core of everything.
I.e., our
Salvation begins with Jesus and ends with Jesus, Who in turn in His Sacred
Humanity begins with the Blessed Virgin Mary, His Chosen Mother, and ends with Her,
who is also, by God’s Sovereign Will, the Queen of Highest Heaven. She is
the one through whom God chose to bequeath to us His Son, the Eternally Divine
Person of Jesus Christ, His Sacred Flesh & Blood,
by which Salvation was accomplished on the Cross, sacrificing that very Flesh
& Blood that She gave Him.
What’s
more, both of them --- Divine Person and Immaculate Mother --- did most
certainly put themselves both
willingly and humbly under the authority
of a mere man, most holy and saintly though he was, the wonderful
A saintly man
who was chosen by God precisely because he was so humble & holy!
The point?
As I am fond of
pointing out to my wife & children, humility
and obedience is at the heart of Catholicity.
And why
would the Church choose to give us a Feast of the Holy Family on the universal
liturgical calendar, every real Catholic in the world observing it?
So that we might honor the Holy Family with our
veneration, and imitate their holiness!
All of us.
A holiness that
must, of necessity, include humility & obedience, as is revealed by the
passage from St. Luke’s Gospel, Chapter 2, that
is read during the Mass on this Sabbath. For how did Jesus act after the
finding of Him in the
He then went
home with them to
Our time is the
time of the Great Apostasy. Almost no one is truly Catholic. Our shepherds have
abandoned us… many of them became wolves and lusted after our souls.
But are we to
give up hope?
Are we to
conclude that we are doomed, that God no longer loves us?
No, for that
would be despair and is forbidden of any real Catholic to indulge --- especially
when it comes to the salvation of our individual souls.
To the contrary,
we must redouble our efforts and seek the narrow path.
A narrow path that remains Roman Catholic, and will remain so for
all of eternity.
The upshot?
Now, of all
times, must we look toward the Holy Family and work out our salvation with fear
& trembling, remaining Roman Catholic and in spite of the abandonment of
our visible shepherds, who have wilted with cowardice & laziness, or else
revealed themselves to be the wolves that they already were, heretical in their
hearts and salivating for our souls.
We must imitate
Jesus, Mary & Joseph.
We must remain
truly Catholic all alone and obscure, thought of as
nobody by everyone.
We must practice
the precious virtues of humility and obedience.
A humility and
obedience that requires us to look like we are ‘rebellious’, at
odds with those who call themselves ‘catholic’ and yet they are
not, disobeying God & His Catholic Religion. An obedience that humiliates
us, making us seem as though we are what we truly are not --- rebels and
disobedient, proud and uncatholic.
To please God, we must displease men.
To remain
Catholic, we must oppose the uncatholic.
We must persevere in what Catholics have always taught & believed.
We must do so in
spite of a world persecuting us and condemning us.
We must
persevere, despite Herod seeking to murder us.
We must survive
in
We must be
‘called out of Egypt’, like God’s Son and His Old Testament
Church before then, when all the world seemed lost in false religion, and did
not give a single nod toward the Creator or His One & Only Roman Catholic
Religion, outside of which no one can hope to be saved.
We must endure
--- and be faithful --- regardless of an entire world against us.
If not, how can
we be worthy of God & Heaven?
This article is
a modest attempt to help you do this, my dear reader.
If truly
Catholic, then please learn what you can from it that might help save your
soul.
And where I may
need help --- as may be obvious from my inept efforts to do so for the sake of
others, as in this article --- please do not hesitate to do so for me,
although, I trust, always with my own soul’s eternal fate uppermost in
your mind as your greatest concern.
Yet if not truly
Catholic, please heed what is said.
It may seem
unbelievable because you don’t
want to believe it (and not because it actually is
unbelievable, as if you know everything there is to know, and could be absolutely
certain it isn’t true), but, given that it is true, how could you not heed it?
That is to say, you’d better make sure
one way or the other, and not depend on your supposed
‘certainty’ that it couldn’t be true… and just because
you don’t want to believe it’s true! In other words,
look at the article carefully to see what it has to say!
It’s always the
truth that we are to seek, one way or another.
And since truth doesn’t
depend solely on you to determine its content, then, given that you have
an intelligent mind… and that you don’t know
everything already… oughtn’t
you to use that intelligent mind to see what the truth actually
is, regardless of your prejudices at the beginning of your
humble but intelligent search?
Obviously so.
No intelligent
and honest and humble person could think otherwise.
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