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FRANCIS PROMOTES SAME-SEX UNIONS: In yet another clear break with the Church *, Francis demands recognition and legalization of civil homosexual unions. As the false narrative of “Mercy” gains even more ... shall we say... “clerical attraction”, we may legitimately anticipate his soon extending this to homosexual priests as well — and in the same bold stroke abolishing the vow or promise of chastity. In a new and self-promoting film called Franscesco starring .... FRANCIS, AS HIMSELF... that will open in North America this Sunday, the Novus Ordo Pontiff solemnly declares that “Homosexuals have a right to a family.” — Just don’t leave your children alone with them.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Rest in Peace — or
Rot in Hell?
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This abortion instrument’s uses
include injecting saltwater into the uterus.
The baby swallows and breathes the poison.
The cause of the death is congestion, hemorrhage
and shock. The mother goes into premature labor
about a day later and delivers a dead child.
The other use is to inject the chemicals (digoxin,
potassium chloride, etc.) into the heart of the
baby. In both uses, these chemicals soften
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Grasps the cervix to hold the uterus in place allowing a thin tube (cannula) into the cervical canal, and apply suction to remove all the dismembered parts of the baby from the uterus
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http://abortioninstruments.com/index_instruments2.html
Envision this: It is Germany, August
19, 1934, and a plebiscite (popular) vote of 90% 1
results in Adolph Hitler assuming the presidency of Germany.
Of course, to personally vote for a political candidate is to
actually affirm a correspondence between, and an agreement
with, your convictions and values and those of the politician.
That is why you would choose to vote for that candidate:
he represents your convictions and values
which you wish to see promoted. Of course, there
will be subordinate issues with which you may be in disagreement
with him, but they will not be of sufficient importance to you
in influencing your decision to vote for him.
Despite (until recently) revisionist history, the German people
were well aware of Hitler’s ambitions — and either “despite”
or “because of” these ambitions — they chose to place him in
office and his policies into effect.
The popular German vote in 1934 had — were we to use a euphemism
— “profound” consequences:
“They knew that Adolf Hitler had repeatedly forecast the extermination of every Jew on German soil. They knew these details because they had read about them. They knew because the camps and the measures which led up
to them had been prominently and proudly reported step by step in thousands of officially-inspired German media articles [in 24 main newspapers — ed.] and posters 2
You KNOW where this is going,
don’t you?
For a Catholic to vote as a Democrat (that is to say, to
agree with, and to promote the murderous,
perverse, and corrupt policies of the Democratic
Party) and for Biden as President, is precisely what Germans
did in 1934. They did not “turn a blind eye” to his murderous
plan for Jews and Slavs. They approved of it. They enabled
it. It was not a “subordinate issue”.
And neither is ABORTION a “subordinate
issue” in voting for Democrats who almost universally support
the murder of children through abortion — to say nothing
of their militant demand for promoting perverse homosexual
inclusivity in every political and social sphere together
with draconian legislation to enforce it. These, in
fact, are two major goals of the otherwise diffuse Democratic
platform.
YOU CANNOT BE A CATHOLIC AND VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS WHO SUPPORT
MURDER THROUGH ABORTION AND ABNORMAL SEXUAL PERVERSITY THROUGH
THE LGBTQ UMBRELLA OF “INCLUSIVITY”.
Why? Because two millennia of Catholic Teaching, Tradition,
and Dogma anathematize MURDER and SEXUAL PERVERSION.
It is inseparable from your professed Catholic Faith.
You can no more vote for Democrats than a Jew or Slav could
vote for Hitler in 1934. They knew what the consequences
would be! They could not pretend otherwise!
In their case it would cost them their own lives; in the present
case it would cost the lives of millions of babies and promote
the fiction that homosexual perversion is as American as
Apple Pie.
Oh, yes — even in civil law, if you “promote” Murder,
“procure it”, “commission it”, or are “accessory to” it — you
are guilty of Murder! If this holds true in the City
of Man, how, as a Catholic, do you expect to be held to less
account in the City of God?
Do not compound your sin of complicity in murder and sodomy
with the sin of Presumption: that “God will forgive you
because He is all-forgiving.”
He is not.
Know your Faith before you enter the polls! You will
likely enter with the Sin of Intent and exit with the
Sin in Deed. In both cases you will have both renounced
and repudiated your Catholic Faith — apart from which there
is no salvation: “extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” — a Dogma
of the Holy Catholic Church. 3
Take no consolation from the present pope who, defying Christ
Himself, tells you that everyone of any and all religions or
no religion at all attains to salvation. Apart from this product
of a strikingly delusional episode — among his many such episodes
— you will not find it in Holy Scripture or the entire Patralogia
Latina or the Patralogia Graeca (the writings of
the Latin and Greek Church Fathers).
Please do not weary me by taking refuge in the political distinctions
that characterize actual Nazism (a racial ideology) and
the Democratic Party — which also has become another
iteration of racial ideology as well as an incoherent and unsustainable
economic ideology. Communism (an ideology of class incompatibility)
could serve equally well. All three are totalitarian,
necessarily admitting of no opposition, rational discourse,
and most especially any intimation of toleration or dissent
from the “Party line”. All are quite comfortable with the
notion of killing infants.
No political party, as no human being, is immune to evil. Some,
however, are acutely susceptible to it and particularly adept
at implementing it.
We have mentioned three — Nazism, Communism, and the Democratic Party — and all of them are not simply inimical to Catholicism, but incapable of being reconciled with it.
It is simply the case — despite your purely subjective desire that it were otherwise — that one cannot vote for a politician or political party that is vociferously pro-Abortion and Pro-Homosexual (the Democratic Party) — and claim to be Catholic, much as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does — any more than one can commit murder and maintain that doing so does not incur guilt. If the merest vestige of reason still resides in your waking states, please do not embarrass yourself with the lame excuse that you are “personally opposed” to abortion and sodomy ... but are not a single-issue voter. After all, as you are likely to further say, “lots of other issues are important!” in your decision to vote for a candidate.
Really? Let us be remorselessly frank: to argue this in America’s 2020 Presidential Election is to argue that exterminating Jews and Slavs did not make German voters singularly complicit in mass murder following the 1934 election of Adolf Hitler. Of course, there were the harsh and unjust reparations imposed on Germany following the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, and the subsequent economic hyper-inflation that left the nation bankrupt, to say nothing of joblessness, and political unrest ... that were “important, too! Are you, then, prepared to argue that the Nazi Party’s obsession with the extermination of Jews and Slavs was not sufficient of itself to warrant your not supporting them? Were the other “issues” equally compelling? History has already told us — yes? I mean, right? Or have we not learned anything at all — after all?
Es ist nicht möglich!
Non potest. Ce n'est pas possible. 這不可能。It
is not possible. In any language and under all conditions.
In Common Law, being an “Accessory” to a crime (in this case murder) attains to the same culpability — the same responsibility — as the “Principal” of the crime (the murderer himself) — and is subject to the same penalty as the Principal.
In other words, you may not have personally dismembered the baby in its mother’s womb, or snipped its spinal cord — but you promoted this, enabled this, by your franchise or suffrage (your voting) at the ballot box.
Apart from your vote to license
murder through abortion, the doctor-turned-killer would be out
of a lucrative “job” and Planned Parenthood would be relegated
to a contemptible and inexpungable episode in our collective
political and social memory.
“Non potestis calicem
Domini bibere, et calicem daemoniorum; non potestis mensae Domini
participes esse, et mensae daemoniorum.”
Go: learn what this means.
Oh, yes — these are the very same people who support
and encourage rioting, the Marxist Black Lives Matter
movement, Socialism, arresting Pro-Lifers for the harmless expression
of their First Amendment Right to Free Speech by writing prolife
messages on sidewalks using CHALK while leaving violent anarchists
and lawless rioters to PAINT profanity and racist slogans on
anything vertical or horizontal; who destroy public property,
pull down Catholic statues, deface or burn Catholic Churches,
assault citizens and police — anything representing the
American government, heritage and history.
They support the opiated “autonomous zones” of lawlessness where
48-year-old men who never became adults still use skateboards
and wear baseball caps backwards; where criminals, delinquents,
malcontents, miscreants, and the mentally ill, spray-paint profound
statements like “Kill Wit people” [sic]. Not the brightest crayons
in the box.
They are the governors of states and mayors of
cities and other petty “officials” who promote
such violence and destruction, agree with it, or at the
very least tolerate it either as a matter of political and social
conviction — or out of fear of the violent mob. They are
your Demokratik Congressmen, Congresswomen and Senators
(you voted them in).
Never has such malice, such
HATRED for the good, the moral, the just, and every upright
principle — and most especially those that promote
Christian values — been seen in America since its founding.
It is nothing less than the catalyst to totalitarianism
— the suppression and criminalization of any opposition
or dissent.
Demokrats and Toleration cannot co-exist. Free Speech? Only
for those who toe the Party line. Any other speech is deemed
“hate speech”. Even the Bible.
Do you really fall for this madness? “Take the knee”?
Imagine … not simply arguing with, but forcing
those who disagree with you, to their knees! — even one’s
“comrades” in anarchy. Sports, Politics. State Houses. It matters
not. One and all fear violent reprisal from the
Left — and lacking a spine, collapse to their knees.
This is “Amerika the Brutal”. This is the Demokratik
Party.
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1
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-becomes-president-of-germany
2
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard
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https://catholicismhastheanswer.com/quotes-on-the-dogma-extra-ecclesiam-nulla-salus-no-salvation-outside-the-church/
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
August 1, 2020
Comments? Write us: editor@boston-catholic-journal.com
and
There
is something as conspicuously
absent in as many MEN today as there is something extraordinarily
absent in many women
— and both pertain to a privation — in this case
a self-inflicted evil (the privation of any good is,
by definition, always an evil) that occurred — and is
relentlessly promoted — through every possible orifice of liberal,
social, and ideological indoctrination:
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Manly men
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Womanly
women
It is the ideological repudiation of unmitigated gender.
What do I mean? The clear (readily apprehensible) distinction
between men and women, both in behavior, appearance, and expectations,
has been radically altered in the present generation; in fact,
by a very clear agendum — a political and social correctitude
foisted upon us by the liberal apparat — the distinction
has become so attenuated in some circles as to have become permeable.
This is particularly true in academia, and exceptionally
true in the Church.
Before the priest-pedophile scandal — the epicenter of which
was here, in Boston — it was not uncommon to find a parish priest
with all the effeminate mannerisms, vocal inflections, and physical
sashaying associated with “liberated/outed” homosexuals. The
excessively affected hand gestures more typical of a woman than
a man, the lisping speech and delicate affectations did little
to conceal his being homosexual. We all knew it. And we “correctly”
said nothing … until he raped our little boys and scores of
other boys. It was only when the secular law took
the moral high-ground (to the damnable shame of the bishops)
that we recognized our own complicity in it by giving the “gay”
priest a pass through overlooking the obvious.
Men have become increasingly feminized and submissive and women have become increasingly masculinized and dominant. Effeminate men and butch women. How did this happen? And how did it manage even to pervade the Church despite three millennia of unequivocal teaching explicitly prohibiting it?
God Himself is quite clear about this:
“A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman' s apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God.” (Deuteronomy 22:5)
Speed Praying: Saying as much in as Little Time Possible
You have heard it at every Mass
Indeed, it is very likely
that you do it yourself.
It is even more likely that you do it praying
the Holy Rosary.
Let us take one very, very, common example: The Apostles
Creed:
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All spoken as one sentence as quickly as possible — to
get through it.
Worse still is the prayer to the very Mother of God, Mary Most
Holy, ESPECIALLY as it is “recited” — rather than “prayed” in
that beautiful prayer called the Angelic Salutation,
but better known simply as the Hail Mary:
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Within 14 seconds flat! … and ten times between each
sacred Mystery!
REALLY?
“It is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.” (Saint Matthew 26.31)
“I will strike
the shepherd, and
the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.”1
We have often heard this. It pertains to the imminent Passion
of Jesus Christ on the very night before He was betrayed into
the hands of sinful men. He, the Good Shepherd, would be struck
(in fact, repeatedly ...) and the Apostles, the Disciples, and
the Faithful would be scattered — they would abandon Him, flee
for their lives, and their unity in Him would be broken. Their
Shepherd, in Whose fold they were one flock, had been struck!
What the will become of the sheep? How much anxiety rends them!
But now, in some incomprehensible and
ghastly apocalyptic narrative unfolding before our very eyes,
the shepherd himself
strikes the sheep —
and they are scattered! Unfaithful to his trust and careless
of the sheep entrusted to him, the shepherd not only abandons
them to the wolves who have prowled the fences for 500 years
… but he himself strikes them so that they are forced
to leave the sheepfold; with his staff he strikes the necks
and the backs of the defenseless sheep — not even sparing the
Little Lambs — who cry out in their pain as they flee, seeking
a fold where they will find pasture and protection. They are
confused and frightened, and no other shepherd seems to have
the courage to gather the lost and the scattered — not
one other shepherd! Homeless and shelterless they are prey
to wolves — wolves even more remorseless than the wolves who
drove them from the sheepfold.
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Francis as the Prince of this World and the Logical Conclusion of Vatican II
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
A Sober Reflection on “Laudato si”— an Encyclical Defective in Authority
Pope Francis: Man must obey the U.N. (despite its contradiction to Christ and the Church
The
REAL
Goal
of the LGBT Movement is DIABOLICAL:
Why?
Just as Satan cannot create, but only mimic, imitate, in the LGBT Movement we find his (Satan’s) effort to contrive a spurious — a completely counterfeit and totally perverse mockery — of the genuine family. It is a diabolical attempt to pass off what is a fiction for what is real — with the willing collaboration of a profoundly sexually and militantly perverse community.
But there is an impediment to this epic exploit in Western culture as it devolves into de-civilization and debauchery: the family.
As long as the nuclear family of husband, wife and children still remains intact, it is an indictment of the sterile sexual perversity that the LGBT fascists embrace and promote. It stands as an unassailable reproach to the counterfeit, for it is genuinely procreative and naturally perpetuates itself — as every other species has from the dawn of creation.
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Hideous — is it not?
It has not changed much — apart from its growing defection from what the Holy Catholic Church taught for 2000 years before that most pernicious council.
It is increasingly elderly, gray, and disheveled.
Its children — fewer and fewer every year — are largely the children
of the world, checking off the boxes branded on their young minds
by a perverse generation that has lost its Catholic Faith and Identity:
for Abortion (yes), Homosexuality (yes), Lesbianism (yes), Transgenderism
(yes), Gender Identity Choices (yes), Gender Re-assignment (yes),
Euthanasia (yes), Cremation (yes), Pre-Marital Sex (yes), Co-Habitation
(yes), “Social Justice” Issues (yes!) — the proper formation
of a Catholic Conscience (NO!), Chastity (NO!) Virginity until Marriage
(NO!) Sanctity (NO), learning the most fundamental aspects of the
Catholic Religion into which they were summarily Baptized (NO!)
the Priesthood (NO!), Religious Life (NO!) — Missionary zeal and
the conversion of sinners and those who do not know Christ — which
Francis (perhaps heretically) calls “solemn nonsense.” (NO!) When
they look about them at their fellow “Catholics” and” Priests”,
“Nuns” and “Religious” — even the papacy of Francis and the current
Episcopacy (bishops and cardinals) — who can blame them? The Faith
is not even authentically lived out by the highest prelates
— and sadly enough by Francis himself who gives scandal on a routine
basis.
ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
Thursday October 22nd in the Year of Grace 2020
Time after
Pentecost
Response: Thanks be to God.
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Each day we bring you a calendar, a
list really, of the holy Martyrs who had suffered and died for Christ,
for His Bride the Church, and for our holy Catholic Faith; men and
women for whom — and well they knew — their Profession of Faith
would cost them their lives.
They could have repudiated all three (Christ, Church, and Catholic
Faith) and kept their lives for a short time longer (even the
lapsi only postponed their death — and at so great a cost!).1
What would motivate men, women, even children and entire families
to willingly undergo the most evil and painfully devised tortures;
to suffer death rather than denial?
Why did they not renounce their Catholic Faith when the first flame
licked at their feet, after the first eye was plucked out, or after
they were “baptized” in mockery by boiling water or molten lead
poured over their heads? Why did they not flee to offer incense
to the pagan gods since such a ritual concession would be merely
perfunctory, having been done, after all, under duress, exacted
by the compulsion of the state? What is a little burned incense
and a few words uttered without conviction, compared to your own
life and the lives of those you love? Surely God knows that you
are merely placating the state with empty gestures …
Did they love their wives, husbands, children — their mothers, fathers
and friends less than we do? Did they value their own lives less?
Were they less sensitive to pain than we are? In a word, what did
they possess that we do not?
Nothing. They possessed what we ourselves are given in the Sacrament
of Confirmation — but cleaved to it in far greater measure than
we do: Faith and faithfulness; fortitude and valor, uncompromising
belief in the invincible reality of God, of life eternal in Him
for the faithful, of damnation everlasting apart from Him for the
unfaithful; of the ephemerality of this passing world and all within
it, and lives lived in total accord with that adamant belief.
We are the Martyrs to come. What made them so will make us so. What
they suffered we will suffer. What they died for, we will die for.
If only we will! For most us, life will be a bloodless martyrdom,
a suffering for Christ, for the sake of Christ, for the sake of
the Church in a thousand ways outside the arena. The road to Heaven
is lined on both sides with Crosses, and upon the Crosses people,
people who suffered unknown to the world, but known to God. Catholics
living in partibus infidelium, under the scourge of Islam. Loveless
marriages. Injustices on all sides. Poverty. Illness. Old age. Dependency.
They are the cruciform! Those whose lives became Crosses because
they would not flee God, the Church, the call to, the demand for,
holiness in the most ordinary things of life made extraordinary
through the grace of God. The Martyrology we celebrate each day
is just a vignette, a small, immeasurably small, sampling of the
martyrdom that has been the lives of countless men and women whom
Christ and the Angels know, but whom the world does not know.
“Exemplum enim dedi vobis”,
Christ said to His Apostles: “I have given you an example.” And
His Martyrs give one to us — and that is why the Martyrs matter.
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
editor@boston-catholic-journal.com
Boston Catholic Journal
Note: We suggest that you explore our newly edited and revised “De
SS. Martyrum Cruciatibus — The Torments and Tortures of the Christian
Martyrs” for an in-depth historical account of the sufferings
of the Martyrs.
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
Printable PDF Version
(and what “Forever” really means)
“From
the very first, upon Our elevation to the chief Apostleship,
We gladly turned our mind and energies and directed all out thoughts
to those matters which concerned the preservation of a pure liturgy,
and We strove with God's help, by every means in our power, to accomplish
this purpose. For, besides other decrees of the sacred Council of
Trent, there were stipulations for Us to revise and re-edit the
sacred books: the Catechism, the Missal and the Breviary. With the
Catechism published for the instruction of the faithful, by God's
help, and the Breviary thoroughly revised for the worthy praise
of God, in order that the Missal and Breviary may be in perfect
harmony, as fitting and proper — for it is most becoming that
there be in the Church only one appropriate manner of reciting the
Psalms and only one
rite for the celebration of Mass — We deemed it necessary
to give our immediate attention to what still remained to be done,
viz, the re-editing of the Missal as soon as possible.
Hence, We decided to entrust this work to learned men of our selection.
They very carefully collated all their work with the ancient codices
in Our Vatican Library and with reliable, preserved or emended codices
from elsewhere. Besides this,
these men consulted the
works of ancient and approved authors concerning the same sacred
rites; and thus they have restored the Missal itself to the original
form and rite of the holy Fathers. When this work has been
gone over numerous times and further emended, after serious study
and reflection, We commanded that the finished product be printed
and published as soon as possible, so that all might enjoy the fruits
of this labor; and thus, priests would know which prayers to use
and which rites and ceremonies they were required to observe from
now on in the celebration of Masses.
Let all everywhere adopt and observe what has been handed down by
the Holy Roman Church, the Mother and Teacher of the other churches,
and let Masses not be
sung or read according to any other formula than that of this Missal
published by Us.
This ordinance applies henceforth,
now, and forever, throughout all the provinces of the Christian
world, to all patriarchs, cathedral churches, collegiate and parish
churches, be they secular or religious, both of men and of women
— even of military orders — and of churches or chapels without a
specific congregation in which conventual Masses are sung aloud
in choir or read privately in accord with the rites and customs
of the Roman Church. This Missal is to be used by all churches,
even by those which in their authorization are made exempt, whether
by Apostolic indult, custom, or privilege, or even if by oath or
official confirmation of the Holy See, or have their rights and
faculties guaranteed to them by any other manner whatsoever.
This new rite alone is to be used unless approval of the practice
of saying Mass differently was given at the very time of the institution
and confirmation of the church by Apostolic See at least 200 years
ago, or unless there has prevailed a custom of a similar kind which
has been continuously followed for a period of not less than 200
years, in which most cases We in no wise rescind their above-mentioned
prerogative or custom. However, if this Missal, which we have seen
fit to publish, be more agreeable to these latter, We grant them
permission to celebrate Mass according to its rite, provided they
have the consent of their bishop or prelate or of their whole Chapter,
everything else to the contrary notwithstanding.
All other of the churches referred to above, however, are hereby
denied the use of other missals, which are to be discontinued entirely
and absolutely; whereas, by
this present Constitution,
which will be valid henceforth, now, and forever, We order
and enjoin that nothing must be added to Our recently published
Missal, nothing omitted from it, nor anything whatsoever be changed
within it under the penalty of Our displeasure.
We specifically command each and every patriarch, administrator,
and all other persons or whatever ecclesiastical dignity they may
be, be they even cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, or possessed
of any other rank or pre-eminence, and
We order them in virtue
of holy obedience to chant or to read the Mass according to the
rite and manner and norm herewith laid down by Us and, hereafter,
to discontinue and completely discard all other rubrics and
rites of other missals, however ancient, which they have customarily
followed; and they must not in celebrating Mass presume to introduce
any ceremonies or recite any prayers other than those contained
in this Missal.
Furthermore, by these presents [this law],
in virtue of Our Apostolic
authority, We grant and concede in perpetuity that, for the
chanting or reading of the Mass in any church whatsoever, this Missal
is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without
any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment,
or censure, and may freely and lawfully be used. Nor are superiors,
administrators, canons, chaplains, and other secular priests, or
religious, of whatever title designated, obliged to celebrate the
Mass otherwise than as enjoined by Us. We likewise declare and
ordain that no one whosoever is forced or coerced to alter this
Missal, and that this present document cannot be revoked or modified,
but remains always valid and retain its full force notwithstanding
the previous constitutions and decrees of the Holy See, as well
as any general or special constitutions or edicts of provincial
or synodal councils, and notwithstanding the practice and
custom of the aforesaid churches, established by long and immemorial
prescription — except, however, if more than two hundred years’
standing.
It is Our will, therefore, and by the same authority, We decree
that, after We publish this constitution and the edition of the
Missal, the priests of the Roman Curia are, after thirty days, obliged
to chant or read the Mass according to it; all others south of the
Alps, after three months; and those beyond the Alps either within
six months or whenever the Missal is available for sale. Wherefore,
in order that the Missal be preserved incorrupt throughout the whole
world and kept free of flaws and errors, the penalty for nonobservance
for printers, whether mediately or immediately subject to Our dominion,
and that of the Holy Roman Church, will be the forfeiting of their
books and a fine of one hundred gold ducats, payable ipso facto
to the Apostolic Treasury. Further, as for those located in other
parts of the world, the penalty is excommunication latae sententiae,
and such other penalties as may in Our judgment be imposed; and
We decree by this law that they must not dare or presume either
to print or to publish or to sell, or in any way to accept books
of this nature without Our approval and consent, or without the
express consent of the Apostolic Commissaries of those places, who
will be appointed by Us. Said printer must receive a standard Missal
and agree faithfully with it and in no wise vary from the Roman
Missal of the large type (secundum magnum impressionem).
Accordingly, since it would
be difficult for this present pronouncement to be sent to all parts
of the Christian world and simultaneously come to light everywhere,
We direct that it be, as usual, posted and published at the doors
of the Basilica of the Prince of the Apostles, also at the Apostolic
Chancery, and on the street at Campo Flora; furthermore, We direct
that printed copies of this same edict signed by a notary public
and made official by an ecclesiastical dignitary possess the same
indubitable validity everywhere and in every nation, as if Our manuscript
were shown there. Therefore, no one whosoever is permitted to alter
this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept,
grant, indult, declaration, will, decree, and prohibition. Should
anyone dare to contravene it, know that he will incur the wrath
of Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.”
Given at St. Peter’s in the year of the Lord's Incarnation, 1570,
on the 14th of July of the Fifth year of Our Pontificate.
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