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supemus lex esto” — the salvation of souls … must be the
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Stinging Truth from a Pulpit — but not a Priest
“We are not worthy of persecution. We are Christians
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PENNSYLVANIA: over a thousand children and youths were raped by over 300 homosexual priests. Three hundred! Three hundred! The number is staggering! |
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MASSACHUSETTS: “At least 789 children and probably more than 1,000 have been sexually abused by 250 priests in Massachusetts.” (New York Times) If the Archdiocese ever comes clean, the numbers in Pennsylvania will very likely pall before the overwhelming predation of children, minors, youths, and young men that has occurred here is sacristies, rectories, and seminaries. |
Over the years in my own parish (typical Novus Ordo)
I knew, over the years, that certain priests were homosexual
(the sashaying, lisping, the feminine hand gestures, the many
movements we associate with women) and was once even propositioned
in the Confessional in a Church the next town over.
One priest at my parish left the priesthood (presumably) to
“marry” another priest. I would never have suspected him.
Never. And that is scary. No feminine gestures. No clues
— which means that you cannot tell — until the hand is on your
thigh. At Saint John’s Seminary in Brighton in the late
70’s I attended some “Days of Recollection” for young
men considering the priesthood. At once I could sense, see,
the femininity of the young men — and more troubling still,
the priests themselves who led the “Days of Recollection.” After
attending several times I found myself set apart and alone ….
marginalized — presumably because it must have been apparent
that I was not one of the girls. The atmosphere was permeated
by homosexuality … without the merest hint of the “odor of sanctity”.
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FUMIGATE IT! |
Saint John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, was (and most likely still is) in desperate need of fumigation. It reeked of homosexuality. I considered contacting the Chancery about this openly scandalous state of affairs but had learned that any letter to any bishop was answered politely but dismissively by one of his assistants (who himself may have been homosexual and not particularly sympathetic to any request for addressing the issue.)
Talking with other young men later — who were married and with
children — their experience was the same. They chose
the vocation to the priesthood but were not allowed
to go beyond the pink doors — because they were straight, or
worse still, straight and adherent to Church teaching.
After much soul-searching they found their vocation elsewhere
— just as I did. There were, I found, lots of
vocations to the priesthood — but their fidelity and masculinity
were an impediment that did not sit well with those who
made the decisions. No scent of Lavender? Then the Pink
Door slams in your face.
As I searched and searched for a Religious Order (surely Religious Orders were not infected …) as an External Postulant for the Capuchin Franciscans (who, at the time, had a monastery in Milton) my Vocation Director, a certain Father Matthias, asked me if I believed all that the Church taught. Unhesitatingly I truthfully answered “yes”. WRONG ANSWER! “No”, he replied at once. “We must question.” The Catholic Church?
As a philosophy student in graduate school I well knew the subtleties of inquiry together with the spurious and absurd “imperative” that a scholar — especially in philosophy — accept nothing as certain (the “doctrine” of nearly every university in America). “That is not good”, Father Matthias continued — as I processed in my mind everything from Saints Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Saint Anselm and a dozen others as we walked. I briefly wondered if I had wandered into a Jesuit retreat house. They, too, lost God after Vatican II. But Father Matthias wore a habit — that more than likely cloaked his disbelief. Jesuits do not and are generally contemptuously unapologetic about it. I thought of a Barren Fig Tree.
But Father Matthias was the one whose skewed and illogical “spirituality” I had to get around if I hoped to make it to the Order’s main monastery in Garrison, NY (now The Garrison Institute for Transformational and Contemplative Ecology — a non-sectarian pseudo-sanitarium dedicated to “The Science of Contemplative Practice and neuroplasticity” where people actually pay to be indoctrinated with “climate change and environmental advocacy, neuro-, behavioral and evolutionary economics, psychology, social networking, policy-making, and investing and social media to work together on ways to shift behavior on a large enough scale to realize substantial emissions reductions.” It’s true.
I never made it to Garrison because God had other plans for me that included a wife and four children — I never looked back.
But now, over my shoulder, and with inexpressible anguish in my heart — I see Rome burning. And Nero fiddling.
I find it ... queer ... that the vast majority of this homosexual insinuation into the priesthood — and the subsequent horrendous rape of our children and the perversion of Catholic morality — occurred in the years following the “ecumenical” decadence we have come to know as Vatican II and its abjuration of the One, True, Holy and Catholic Church — that preceded it for 2000 years ... and which ever survives those who lay siege to Her?
Aggiornamento! Ah, the reek of the world that rushed in when John XXIII — of unhappy memory — famously “flung open the windows”! How the incense of all that is holy poured out — while the effluence and fume of the world seeped in!
Geoffrey K. Mondello
for the Boston Catholic Journal
October 8, 2018
Comments? Write us: editor@boston-catholic-journal.com
(Saint Matthew 13.29-30)“The Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seeds in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and over-sowed weeds among the wheat and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the weeds. And the servants of the master of the house coming said to him: Sir, did you not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then has it weeds? And he said to them: An enemy has done this. And the servants said to him: Will you that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the weeds, you root up the wheat also together with it. Allow both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the weeds, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather into my barn.”
Quite nearly everything that is occurring in the Church
today is outlined in this brief but enormously important parable.
The parable explains how it happened and who is responsible
for it. It is striking in both its brevity and its scope.
What is happening in the Church, right now, is horrific! It
is historically unprecedented and morally execrable. Never has
the Church been so afflicted since the great Arian heresies
in the 3rd century almost two millennia ago. Even the Protestant
Revolt instigated by Martin Luther is not comparable in the
intrinsic evil and the devastation it wrought — to the Body
of Christ, the Church, and to the world around it.
While others speak in terms of the Faithful’s “frustration” and “concerns”
— let us describe it in terms of our lived experience:
We are not “frustrated”—
we are outraged!
We are not “concerned”— we
are horrified, shamed, scandalized, and perhaps above all we
are angry! — angry at the seemingly “routine” way
that it is being trivialized by our bishops, our priests, and,
for all his pretensions, Francis himself!
“Put this on the calendar” to be addressed at the next meeting”
— months from now.
ARE YOU KIDDING?
Catholics are scared! We are afraid of what is being done not
only to our children, but our Church! We want heads to fly!
We want Birettas placed down in shame. We want guilty priests
defrocked — immediately — and jailed! We want complicit cardinals
to be removed from office at once, silent bishops to be dismissed
from the episcopacy and all that responsibility of which they
have proven themselves unworthy or unequal — and if not subsequently
laicized then at the very least educated on basic morality and
the difference between sanctity and sin — based on the Sacred
Depository of Faith, and authentic and established doctrine:
not the whims of “pop” theologians who make a living off the
Church even while despising her.
the “convening of another “conference”
establishing yet more useless “committees” to “examine the issue”.
more “study groups” more “commissions”
No! No
longer! No more! The sociological rhetoric
in which they are increasingly addressed and inevitably culminate
will never suffice to accomplish anything. The time of showmanship
is past. It is now a very dangerous matter of brinkmanship.
Much has been lost and much more stands to be lost.
The crisis IS that serious
... and the hierarchy — to the very top — seems too obtuse or
simply too stupid to recognize it! Or … more frightening
still, and much more darkly … unwilling to — because
to address it would be to implicate themselves!
This is where the devil
comes in
Let us look more closely at this extremely important and eschatological
(pertaining to the end of the world) Parable:
You may reply that the same soil nourishes
and feeds wheat and weed alike. True. But the wheat in the Field
(“the Good seed”
2) was planted by God Himself
to be nourished and grow and to further nourish unto Eternal
Life. The weeds deplete the soil of what the wheat needs to
grow: it steals nourishment intended for the wheat.
God Himself established the Field and planted each seed of wheat
— but this was not so of the weed.
It had to be planted by someone else other than the Master of
the Field. The parable explicitly and pointedly states that
“it was the enemy who had done
this.” Finding that he could not
destroy the Field, the enemy secretly infiltrated it, planting
weeds among the wheat which, in time, would choke it and kill
it.
This is precisely what happened within the Church following
Vatican II. The priesthood, Religious life, vocations and
the fidelity of the Faithful had flourished. The “plant considered
undesirable in a particular situation” —
specifically homosexuals
— rather than being excluded from, were cultivated in the
seminaries and houses of Religious life. People who had no business
in the Field — the “plants in the wrong place” — were permitted
to flourish to the detriment of the wheat.
As the weeds flourished, the wheat withered.
This is a concise summary
of the present situation concerning priests and seminarians.
The weeds choked out the wheat until a Field that was largely
wheat became a desolate Field that was largely weed with little
wheat remaining. It is a queer weed, lavender and pink
with flowery petals that reek of decay, rooting deeply and spreading
aggressively. But few are willing to call it a weed preferring
to call it a flower ...
“The dragon — that old serpent,
who is the devil, satan” 3
— we would do well to be clear about the enemy and name him
for what he is: vicious, deadly,
“the prince of this world”
4 who has no place in God’s
Church. He does not treat or parley: he drags off to Hell whom
he can … and deceives
the rest that he is just a twinkle in a predator’s eye
... those whom he has over sown in our seminaries, monasteries,
rectories, and chanceries. The dismissive voices that would
call the charade simply “progress” and a “gay” affair at that
— despite its manifestly deadly consequences, are now without
excuse ... or concealment.
Are we alone is this frightful indictment? We think not — even
apart from Archbishop
Viago’s explosive revelations of the homosexual predatory network
in the Church, Bishop Mutsaerts — of the Netherlands,
appointed by the Dutch Bishop’s Conference to attend the Youth
Synod in Rome in October, has refused to attend for clearly
articulated reasons in an interview with
Lifesite News yesterday (21 September 2018) that underscore
the absence of accountability in this grave situation:
LifeSite: “Excellency, why did you decide not to go to Rome where you were to have joined the youth Synod in October?”
Bishop Mutsaerts: “To put things briefly, it comes down to this: given all the recent difficulties and lack of openness, the whole thing will lack credibility. We are going to talk about young people, no less, even though it appears that we are not even capable of offering them security. We all know of the difficulties in Rome, we also know of the Pope's letter about Ireland, with its mea culpa and “forgiveness” and all, but there is not a single word about what we are going to do about it, who are the culprits and what are we going to do with them. It would totally discredit us if in this situation, we go and talk about youth. If it were another subject, it would be different. But we need openness about this business. What we need is the truth, only it will serve us. That will only be possible if there is openness, and well, we can't have openness without an independent investigation. That is also what Archbishop Chaput said.” [American Archbishop Chaput, chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has urged Francis to cancel the Synod on Young People altogether, given the lack of confidence in the credibility of the bishops, while others such as Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler Texas, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Bishop Edward Burns, of Dallas Texas, Bishop Philip Egan, bishop of Portsmouth, England, among others who wish, instead, to address the most critical issue of the clerical abuse that has shattered the Church.]
LifeSite: “But you would prefer that the whole affair be scrapped, in order first to let light shine on everything that's coming out right now.”
Bishop Mutsaerts: “Yes, we need light to shine on all that. Our credibility is in jeopardy. And we shouldn’t do it ourselves. I understand from the Pope that he identifies clericalism as the main cause. That's probably true to some extent, but the greater part of the problem is somewhere completely different.”
LifeSite: “Where is the problem, then?”
Bishop Mutsaerts: “When I read the reports of the scientific institute of the New York University, almost 80 percent of the people involved have something to do with homosexuality. It’s a tricky subject, but we have to name it because if you don’t name it, you can’t judge it properly and you can’t investigate it properly, and take measures. I’m not saying that’s the cause, I don't know how I should interpret those figures, just don’t sweep it away, just take them into account.”
What did Shakespeare say about “A Rose
by any other name ...”?
Another Synod — as we see above — has been called for instead:
a Synod of the Bishops — concerning their job description ...
and their abject failure in fulfilling it.
But don’t count on Francis summoning it: he is too heavily vested
in the very causes that demand it!
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
September 23, 2018
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1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed
2 Saint Matthew 13.38
3 Apocalypse 20.2
4 Saint John 14.30
Philadelphia as Boston:
A Shameful and Deadly Remix
Do good priests share your outrage?
“We remain shamed by these egregious failures
to protect children and those who are vulnerable and affirm
our commitment that these failures will never be repeated.”
(Cardinal O’Malley of Boston — 16 August 2018)
“O’Malley,
chairman of Pope Francis’ Pontifical Commission for the Protection
of Minors, faces
accusations of ignoring a priest’s letter trying to
warn him three
years ago about now-disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick”
Boston Herald 28 August
2018
What hypocrisy!
What hogwash!
Who can believe that? Who in Boston? In Brighton? On Planet Earth?
He came here, to Boston, in 2003 — 15 years ago — to “correct” the criminal behavior, the homosexual deviancy that infested the priesthood and raped our children — and especially festered at Saint John’s Seminary where, if you could not pass the Color Pink, you would never see Holy Orders. Why? Because it was the seedbed of the homosexual culture that infiltrated, dominated, shamed, and broke the Church in Boston — and then the rest of the world.
Where do you first look when attempting to uncover widespread crime? How about a Criminal Organization? If it is theft, a gang of thieves! If it is political corruption, the State House and the Legislature!
If it is perversion in the priesthood — how about the seminary?
“Elementary,
my dear Watson.”
He came. He saw. He “conquered” — and left Saint John’s Seminary as filthy as it was when he arrived as the Vatican’s “White Knight” in 2003. And now he wishes to “affirm our commitment that these failures will never be repeated” even as he himself now stands in the shadow of complicity.
Did he not say something of that nature 15 years ago?
He is, reportedly, putting together yet ANOTHER ... “PANEL” ... to investigate what was already “investigated” long before. According to NECN,
“Cardinal Sean O’Malley from the Archdiocese of Boston says he’s not able to verify or disprove these allegations, but wants the investigation to start as soon as possible … Cardinal O’Malley said in a statement, “The allegations made this week are a source of serious concern to me as Archbishop of Boston.”
He must be scratching his head: “Haven’t I heard something like this before?” As we see, O’Malley is STILL only tentatively scandalized by homosexual predators in the Episcopacy and the priesthood! He is yet — some 15 years after the loathsome scandal broke in Boston — simply “unable to verify or disprove these allegations”, you understand. No, you are not in some parallel dimension. Fifteen years after this nauseating and pandemic putrescence in the Church burst like a vesicle ... a boil ... from a diseased Body — O'Malley is not yet ready (as Francis famously was not in the priest-bishop-homosexual pedophilia scandal in Chile) to give credence to the such ... “allegations” ... however many, and however grave the scandal to the Faithful. Perhaps he misunderstood Christ:
“But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Saint Matthew 18.6)
Let us offer our clueless Cardinal in absentia … a few clues obvious to most Catholics, but apparently opaque to most cardinals:
Doesn’t a cardinal or bishop have to be a priest first? And do not priests first have to be seminarians? And do not seminarians attend places like Saint John’s Seminary? “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
How about “starting that the beginning”, O’Malley? You know, like the people responsible for admitting candidates to the seminary? And the teachers who instruct them? The bishops who consecrate them? Surely none of them were among the homosexual predators ... too?
You MUST have been there before. It is on Lake Street in Brighton. Of course we know that you share the habits of Francis — who is enamored of you — by living in a simple residence, and maybe you cook your own meals, too? But how about the weightier matters? The Faith? The Flock? Remember them? “The Little Ones” … you remember them, too?
Ask yourself: when was the last time you saw O’Malley? At a photo-op with Francis? You have listened to his “sermons” — mostly monetary appeals — ON RECORDINGS in your parish — in place of a homily embodied in a physical presence?
Did you ever write him about
an abuse in your parish? If you did, you never heard from him.
You heard from his “secretary” who told you that Father so-and-so
was held in O’Malley’s “highest esteem”. In other words, GFY!
This is a Catholic Journal so I will not spell it out for you.
O’Malley is the poster boy of all the insincerity we now find in the Church. He talks the talk. He kind of looks the part. But face it, by now it is apparent that he is most likely one of the Old-Boys from the 60’s culture that devastated the Church and has no real intention of correcting a vicious crime. Wasn't he famously brought in 20 years ago to clean this mess up? But it hadn't been “cleaned up”. It festered like a boil until the suppuration (the foul and putrescent pus) finally burst in a scandalously ugly mess that no amount of editorial “sanitizing” could keep the reek away from any sentient being. And you come again to rectify it — a second time? We suggest that it is time to “Lawyer-up”, O'Malley!
The horror that emerged from Pennsylvania will teach “the hierarchy” nothing: 300 priest-homosexual-predators identified (so far) and over 1000 children — not to count the pre-and-post-pubescent, the seminarians, the young adults preyed upon by priest, bishop, and cardinal alike. “Surely the “hierarchy would have acted had it known ...” but the problem was the hierarchy and the systematic cover-up of crimes too horrible, too shameful to stain the pages of any Catholic journal.
Francis — himself now suspect of cover-up should have acted — but could not without indicting himself ... and very likely many of his “closest advisors” like the homosexual apologist and pro LBGT Father James Martin, S.J who Francis invited to speak in Ireland at (of all things) the World meeting of Families about “Showing Welcome and Respect in our Parishes for ‘LGBT’ People and their Families” while at the same time denouncing “Homophobic pastors”. But that would mean gathering the criminals and clapping them in irons! Who, then … would “man” the emptying churches which, since Vatican II, have been largely emptied of meaning anyway. If this concatenation of absurdities does not point to the End of the World, as some frightfully sober men suggest, it is, at the very least, the End of Sanity in the World — at least the world inhabited by rational Catholics ... whose Warden at the moment is the principal Inmate.
Salus animarum? The Salvation of souls? That is last on the list of O’Malley, just as it is last on the list of Francis. The Beatle’s song “Imagine” invokes two things indispensable to both men from that hallucinogenic era of the 60s: imagine a world of “the brotherhood of man” and “no religion too?” This is the “Post-Conciliar” Church. This is Vatican II. This is Francis — and, apparently, O’Malley.
God? Heaven? Hell? Salvation? All such silliness was stamped out by Vatican II — and both men are eminent products of that “Council” that became the ecclesiastical equivalent of Dresden. Once again O’Malley comes, not as a shepherd, but to collect the ashes of faith, mix them with the tears of the sodomized, and somehow to mold a monument to this crushing horror with the promise, yet again, that “these failures will never be repeated.”
“Failures”? You call them mere “failures”? How dare you?!
The rest of us— your “Eminence”— call them our “Children”.
Vae vobis!
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
September 3, 2018
Comments? Write us: editor@boston-catholic-journal.com
The Art of Plausible Deniability: Closing Thoughts on Amoris Laetitia
Is Francis the Great Divider in the Post Modern Catholic Church?
Against Pharisees: by Bishop Athanasius Schneider concerning Amoris Laetitia
A Tale of Two Popes: The Newest Paradigm — The Emeriti, Resignation, and Dissolution
Quotations from Chairman Francis and other Philosophical Absurdities
The State vs. Frankie: a Case of Institutionalized Sexual Corruption
ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
Saturday October 20th in the Year of Grace 2018 Time after Pentecost
In Portugal, St. Irene, virgin and martyr.
Response: Thanks be to God.
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By J. Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Baltimore
THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY is an official
and accredited record, on the pages of which are
set forth in simple and brief, but impressive words,
the glorious deeds of the Soldiers of Christ
in all ages of the Church; of the illustrious Heroes
and Heroines of the Cross, whom her solemn verdict
has beatified or canonized. In making up this long
roll of honor, the Church has been actuated by that
instinctive wisdom with which the Spirit of God,
who abides in her and teaches her all truth, has
endowed her, and which permeates through and guides
all her actions. She is the Spouse of Christ, without
spot or wrinkle or blemish, wholly glorious and
undefiled, whom He loved, for whom He died, and
to whom He promised the Spirit of Truth, to comfort
her in her dreary pilgrimage through this valley
of tears, and to abide with her forever. She is
one with Him in Spirit and in love, she is subject
to Him in all things; she loves what He loves, she
teaches and practices what He commands.
If the world has its “Legions of Honor”, why should not also the Church of the Living God, the pillar and the ground of the truth? If men who have been stained with blood, and women who have been tainted with vice, have had their memory consecrated in prose and in verse, and monuments erected to their memory, because they exhibited extraordinary talents, achieved great success, or were, to a greater or less extent, benefactors of their race in the temporal order, which passeth away, why should not the true Heroes and Heroines of Jesus, who, imitating His example, have overcome themselves, risen superior to and trampled upon the world, have aspired, in all their thoughts, words, and actions, to a heavenly crown, and have moreover labored with disinterested zeal and self-forgetting love for the good of their fellow-men, have their memories likewise consecrated and embalmed in the minds and hearts of the people of God? If time have its heroes, why should not eternity; if man, why should not God? “Thy friends, O Lord, are exceedingly honored; their principality is exceedingly exalted.” Whom His Father so dearly loved, the world crucified; whom the world neglects, despises, and crucifies, God, through His Church, exceedingly honors and exalts. Their praises are sung forth, with jubilation of heart, in the Church of God for ages on ages.
The wisdom of the Church of God in honoring her Saints is equaled only by the great utility of the practice thus consecrated. The Saints are not merely heroes; they are models. Christ lived in them, and Christ yet speaks through them. They were the living temples of the Holy Ghost, in whose mortal bodies dwelt all the riches of His wisdom and grace. They were in life consecrated human exemplars of divine excellence and perfection. Their example still appeals to our minds and to our hearts, more eloquently even than did their words to the men of their own generation, while they were in the tabernacle of the flesh. Though dead, they still speak. Their relics are instinct with sanctity, and through them they continue to breathe forth the sweet odor of Christ. The immortality into which they have entered still lingers in their bones, and seems to breathe in their mortal remains. As many an ardent, spirit has been induced to rush to the cannon's mouth by reading the exploits of earthly heroes, so many a generous Christian soul has been fired with heavenly ardor, and been impelled to rush to the crown of martyrdom, by reading the lives and heroic achievements of the Saints and Martyrs of Christ. Example, in its silent appeal, is more potent in its influence on the human heart and conduct than are words in their most eloquent utterances.
The Church knows and feels all this, in the Spirit of God with whom she is replenished ; and hence she sets forth, with holy joy and exultant hope, her bright and ever-increasing Calendar of Sanctity of just men and women made perfect and rendered glorious, under her unearthly and sublime teachings. In reading this roll of consecrated holiness, our instinctive conclusion is, precisely that which the great soul of St. Augustine reached at the very crisis of his life, the moment of his conversion “If other men like me have attained to such sanctity, why not I? Shall the poor, the afflicted, the despised of the World, bear away the palm of victory, the crown of immortality, while I lie buried in my sloth and dead in my sins, and thus lose the brilliant and glorious mansion already prepared for me in heaven? Shall all the gifts, which God has lavished upon me, be ingloriously spent and foolishly wasted, in the petty contest for this world's evanescent honors and riches, while the poor and contemned lay up treasures in heaven, and secure the prize of immortal glory? Shall others be the friends of God, whom He delights to honor, while I alone remain His enemy, and an alien from His blessed Kingdom?”
It is a consoling evidence of progress in the spiritual life in this country to find the Martyrology here published, for the first time, in English, and thereby made accessible, in its rich treasures of Sanctity, to all classes of our population. It will prove highly edifying and useful, not only to the members of our numerous religious Communities of both sexes, but also to the laity generally. Every day has here its record of Sanctity; and there is scarcely a Christian, no matter how lowly or how much occupied, who may not be able to daily peruse, with faith and with great profit, the brief page of each day's models of Holiness. These belong to all classes and callings of life; from the throne to the hovel, from the Pontiff to the lowest cleric, from the philosopher to the peasant, from the busy walks of life to the dreary wastes of the desert.
Let all, then, procure and read daily the appropriate portions of this Martyrology. Its daily and pious perusal will console us in affliction, will animate us in despondency, will make our souls glow with the love of God in coldness, and will lift up our minds and hearts from this dull and ever-changing earth to the bright and everlasting mansions prepared for us in Heaven!
Imprimatur, J. Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Baltimore, Maryland 1916
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