#Malachi Martins

[mann-walter]

My Week so Far

There are a ton of unlikely things I read and watch lately, things that are really out of my lane. First, listening about Malachi Martins, a former Jesuit. I actually knew fuck all about this man prior to that podcast experience and gained no significant amount of information afterward, only that he wrote books about the Jesuits, said that the Church is essentially rotten, and was (some people say “claimed to be) an exorcist. For information, I’m not affiliated with those religious institutions and so didn’t feel any sort of disappointment or excitement or whatever, it was moderately informative full stop.

Second, I have been reading a thesis on Howard Barker’s theatre, shockingly, it’s not by David Ian Rabey, the man whose name will always pop up when you search for academic writings on the playwright. I swaggered into reading it as if I know what Howard Barker’s theatre is—which of course I don’t—well, if you count watching Pity in History once (the televised, uploaded to YouTube version that is) and reading some of his poetry which sounds like a well-written rant, then I know a little. Anyway, the thesis is great. I actually have read another writing on Howard Barker in the past, but that one multi contributor book was… have you ever been so knowledgeable and interested in something, and you have so much to say (or too much I should say) that your explanation is the “You have to be there” variety of abstract? That was how the other one felt. This thesis however, gives solid, succinct explanation that I, a layman when it comes to Barker (or British theatre for that matter) can still follow, enjoy, and gain information from it. It’s fun you know to peer at an artist’s ideological shifts and how they manifest in the art. For example, according to the thesis, Barker’s first phase was coloured by traditional Marxism and he did political theatre in that vein, then when he still disliked the Right but now also disenchanted by the Left new or old (his second phase), he began to have daggers up every movement’s throat through his plays.

Yeah, so those are two things I gained from my latest internet travels.

PS: I came to read that thesis because Howard Barker is, safe to say, on the fringes. Some have called his theatre whack but others (like any other fringe author) call him a genius. I just wanted to know, guys.

[newtonian-tragedy]

I would love to know Newton's thoughts on Father Malachi Martin. Despite the fact that he was a Jesuit priest, I actually feel like they'd have more in common than not.

I recently finished listening to all the old Art Bell interviews with Father Martin, and it's eerie how almost everything he predicted is playing out right now. His death in 1999 was a tragedy, but on the other hand, being spared from witnessing the collapse of Western civilization seems like an act of mercy to me.

Now I wish I'd had a cool exorcist grandpa like that.

[camyfilms]

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN 2002

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

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[apesoformythoughts]

“It may be relevant that I’m Catholic, and so supernatural events are not entirely ruled out. One time I was going to write a book which was sort of ‘The Exorcist in San Bernardino.’ … I got a book by Malachi Martin which was actual transcripts of exorcisms—dialogues between priests and devils—and I thought, ‘Cool! Wow, boy, I’ve got all my research right here. This is great.’ And I opened the book, and on the first page it says, ‘The author and publisher advise that anyone reading this book say the following prayer before and after each chapter.’ And I slammed it shut and thought, ‘Well, I don’t need that. Uh-uh. I ain’t doing that.’”

— Tim Powers

[transmutationisms]

I picked up the funny Kuhn book on your rec, and noticed Karl Popper on the same shelf, framing himself in contrast. Do you have/know of any good critiques on Popper in general, or his indeterminism in particular? I'm guessing he didn't convince every Marxist and someone's bound to have responded by now.

yea popper sucks. i mean kuhn himself was responding to / critiquing popper; they very famously had a long ongoing dispute. but like i said before, kuhn is also not where it's at imo. like, not that academic citations are the be-all end-all of intellectual value, but there are reasons you don't typically see either of these guys cited by people working in history / philosophy of science these days lol.

anyway in regards to the marxism angle of this i will say: a major problem with hist/philsci is that these disciplines are pretty ensconced in universities (conservative institutionally & intellectually) and have also taken a long time to even start looking beyond the horizons of great man history, the 'western canon', &c. so the lack of marxists / communists in these fields is like, even more pronounced than in academic history more broadly. like it's insane that people like bob young and roger cooter and adrian desmond are still, like, standouts in this respect lol. so, although there are many many marxists who have responded to popper on those terms, and many many historians and philosophers of science who have responded on that side, the sliver of overlap here is a lot smaller than it should be.

i would definitely read with a critical eye and be on the lookout for places where these texts fail specifically because their authors are not engaging in materialist or properly historicised analysis, or are just blatantly reactionary themselves, in different ways to popper. but, a few places to start with political histsci and philsci critiques of him, or just useful accounts of his legacy and critics:

The Cambridge Companion to Popper (2016). Jeremy Shearmur and Geoffrey Stokes (eds.). <-usual disclaimer that cambridge edited vols. are methodologically, politically, and epistemologically playing it VERY safe. you often want to read them 'backwards', ie, read for what's not being said as much as for what's actually in there. consider this a document that shows what sorts of debates are being permitted, centred, and accepted as 'mainstream' and 'reasonable'.

Epistemological Battles on the Home Front: Early Neoliberals at War against the Social Relations of Science Movement (2021). Beddeleem, Martin. Journal of the History of Ideas Volume: 82 Issue: 4 Pages: 615-636. 10.1353/jhi.2021.0035

Relations between Karl Popper and Michael Polanyi (2011). Jacobs, Struan & Mullins, Phil. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Volume: 42 Pages: 426--435.

Thoughts on political sources of Karl Popper's philosophy of science (1999). Jacobs, Struan. Journal of Philosophical Research Volume: 24 Pages: 445-457

Popper and His Popular Critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos (2014). Agassi, Joseph. ISBN: 3319065866

Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi (2010). Mary Jo Nye. Chapter in: Epple, Moritz & Zittel, Claus (2010) Science as Cultural Practice. ISBN: 9783050044071

Karl Popper, the Vienna Circle, and Red Vienna (1998). Hacohen, Malachi Haim. Journal of the History of Ideas Volume: 59 Pages: 711-734.

Science, politics and social practice: Essays on Marxism and science, philosophy of culture and the social sciences in honor of Robert S. Cohen (1995) Gavroglu, Kostas; Stachel, John J.; & Wartofsky, Marx W. (Eds.). <-haven't read the popper chapter in this, can't promise it's good

[casp1an-sea]

MY OCs

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check out @ramblingsofamadblob for random world building and OC posts too complicated for my main

PERSONA AND MISC:

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Somercrest University gang

STAR WARS OCs

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Spidersona and OCs:

Cassander Armyn

Harriet “Harry” Osborn

Citizen 13 “Nye”

Peter Parker (theater universe)

Casey Jones (yes this is TMNT)

Luke Skywalker (yea this is SW)

Harriet “Harry” Osborn

Malachi J.

Lily Parker

Lego Fam:

literally a story I made up when I was like 5 and continuously revamped (yea some names are stolen from Wild Kratts because I was 5 but the characters are there one thing.)

Martin

Aviva

Malachi

Milo

Chris

Bethany

Trina

Opal

Sarah

Leia

Parents and side characters

BSD:

Timothy Zahn

Lemony Snicket AKA Daniel Handler

C.S. Lewis

Harry Potter:

Renátusz (Reh-na-too-sz) “Renny” Balogh

There’s more but I’m lazy :P

[roman-catholic-mass-readings]

3rd November >> Mass Readings (Except USA)

Friday, Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time

or

Saint Martin de Porres, Religious 

or

Saint Winifride, Virgin 

or

Saint Malachy, Bishop.

Friday, Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time

(Liturgical Colour: White: A (1))

Readings for the feria (Friday)

There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Friday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise.

First Reading Romans 9:1-5 I would willingly be condemned if it could help my brothers.

What I want to say now is no pretence; I say it in union with Christ – it is the truth – my conscience in union with the Holy Spirit assures me of it too. What I want to say is this: my sorrow is so great, my mental anguish so endless, I would willingly be condemned and be cut off from Christ if it could help my brothers of Israel, my own flesh and blood. They were adopted as sons, they were given the glory and the covenants; the Law and the ritual were drawn up for them, and the promises were made to them. They are descended from the patriarchs and from their flesh and blood came Christ who is above all, God for ever blessed! Amen.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 147:12-15,19-20

R/ O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!

O praise the Lord, Jerusalem! Zion, praise your God! He has strengthened the bars of your gates he has blessed the children within you.

R/ O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!

He established peace on your borders, he feeds you with finest wheat. He sends out his word to the earth and swiftly runs his command.

R/ O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!

He makes his word known to Jacob, to Israel his laws and decrees. He has not dealt thus with other nations; he has not taught them his decrees.

R/ O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!

Gospel Acclamation cf. 1 Thessalonians 2:13

Alleluia, alleluia! Accept God’s message for what it really is: God’s message, and not some human thinking. Alleluia!

Or: John 10:27

Alleluia, alleluia! The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice, says the Lord, I know them and they follow me. Alleluia!

Gospel Luke 14:1-6 'Is it against the law to cure a man on the sabbath?'

Now on a sabbath day Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. There in front of him was a man with dropsy, and Jesus addressed the lawyers and Pharisees. ‘Is it against the law’ he asked ‘to cure a man on the sabbath, or not?’ But they remained silent, so he took the man and cured him and sent him away. Then he said to them, ‘Which of you here, if his son falls into a well, or his ox, will not pull him out on a sabbath day without hesitation?’ And to this they could find no answer.

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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Saint Martin de Porres, Religious 

(Liturgical Colour: White: A (1))

(Readings for the memorial)

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Friday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

First Reading Philippians 4:4-9 If there is anything you need, pray for it.

I want you to be happy, always happy in the Lord; I repeat, what I want is your happiness. Let your tolerance be evident to everyone: the Lord is very near.

There is no need to worry; but if there is anything you need, pray for it, asking God for it with prayer and thanksgiving, and that peace of God, which is so much greater than we can understand, will guard your hearts and your thoughts, in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, fill your minds with everything that is true, everything that is noble, everything that is good and pure, everything that we love and honour, and everything that can be thought virtuous or worthy of praise. Keep doing all the things that you learnt from me and have been taught by me and have heard or seen that I do. Then the God of peace will be with you.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 130(131)

R/ Keep my soul in peace before you, O Lord.

O Lord, my heart is not proud nor haughty my eyes. I have not gone after things too great nor marvels beyond me.

R/ Keep my soul in peace before you, O Lord.

Truly I have set my soul in silence and peace. A weaned child on its mother’s breast, even so is my soul.

R/ Keep my soul in peace before you, O Lord.

O Israel, hope in the Lord both now and forever.

R/ Keep my soul in peace before you, O Lord.

Gospel Acclamation John 13:34

Alleluia, alleluia! I give you a new commandment: love one another just as I have loved you, says the Lord. Alleluia!

Gospel Matthew 22:34-40 The commandments of love.

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question, ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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Saint Winifride, Virgin 

(Liturgical Colour: White: A (1))

(Readings for the memorial)

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Friday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

First Reading Song of Songs 8:6-7 The flash of love is a flame of the Lord himself.

Set me like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is strong as Death, jealousy as relentless as Sheol. The flash of it is a flash of fire, a flame of the Lord himself. Love no floods can quench, no torrents drown.

Were a man to offer all the wealth of his house to buy love, contempt is all he would purchase.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 44(45):11-12,14-17

R/ Listen, O daughter, give ear to my words. or R/ The bridegroom is here! Go out and meet Christ the Lord.

Listen, O daughter, give ear to my words: forget your own people and your father’s house. So will the king desire your beauty: He is your lord, pay homage to him.

R/ Listen, O daughter, give ear to my words. or R/ The bridegroom is here! Go out and meet Christ the Lord.

The daughter of the king is clothed with splendour, her robes embroidered with pearls set in gold. She is led to the king with her maiden companions.

R/ Listen, O daughter, give ear to my words. or R/ The bridegroom is here! Go out and meet Christ the Lord.

They are escorted amid gladness and joy; they pass within the palace of the king. Sons shall be yours in place of your fathers: you will make them princes over all the earth.

R/ Listen, O daughter, give ear to my words. or R/ The bridegroom is here! Go out and meet Christ the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation John 14:23

Alleluia, alleluia! If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him. Alleluia!

Or:

Alleluia, alleluia! This is the wise virgin whom the Lord found watching; she went in to the wedding feast with him when he came. Alleluia!

Or:

Alleluia, alleluia! Come, bride of Christ, and receive the crown which the Lord has prepared for you for ever. Alleluia!

Gospel Matthew 25:1-13 The wise and foolish virgins.

Jesus told this parable to his disciples: ‘The kingdom of heaven will be like this: Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones did take their lamps, but they brought no oil, whereas the sensible ones took flasks of oil as well as their lamps. The bridegroom was late, and they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. But at midnight there was a cry, “The bridegroom is here! Go out and meet him.” At this, all those bridesmaids woke up and trimmed their lamps, and the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, “Give us some of your oil: our lamps are going out.” But they replied, “There may not be enough for us and for you; you had better go to those who sell it and buy some for yourselves.” They had gone off to buy it when the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding hall and the door was closed. The other bridesmaids arrived later. “Lord, Lord,” they said “open the door for us.” But he replied, “I tell you solemnly, I do not know you.” So stay awake, because you do not know either the day or the hour.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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Saint Malachy, Bishop 

(Liturgical Colour: White: A (1))

(Readings for the memorial)

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Friday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

Either:

First Reading Exodus 32:7-14 Moses pleads with the Lord his God to spare Israel.

The Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go down now, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostatised. They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them; they have made themselves a calf of molten metal and have worshipped it and offered it sacrifice. “Here is your God, Israel,” they have cried “who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”’ the Lord said to Moses, ‘I can see how headstrong these people are! Leave me, now, my wrath shall blaze out against them and devour them; of you, however, I will make a great nation.’

But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God. ‘Lord,’ he said ‘why should your wrath blaze out against this people of yours whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with arm outstretched and mighty hand? Why let the Egyptians say, “Ah, it was in treachery that he brought them out, to do them to death in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth”? Leave your burning wrath; relent and do not bring this disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, your servants to whom by your own self you swore and made this promise: I will make your offspring as many as the stars of heaven, and all this land which I promised I will give to your descendants, and it shall be their heritage for ever.’ So the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

OR: --------

First reading Deuteronomy 10:8-9 The Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to do him service

Moses said to the people: ‘The Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand in the presence of the Lord, to do him service and in his name to pronounce blessing as they still do today. Levi therefore has no share or inheritance with his brothers: the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God told him.’

OR: --------

First reading 1 Samuel 16:1,6-13 David is anointed by Samuel

The Lord said to Samuel, ‘Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen myself a king among his sons.’ Samuel purified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. When they arrived, he caught sight of Eliab and thought, ‘Surely the Lord’s anointed one stands there before him’, but the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Take no notice of his appearance or his height for I have rejected him; God does not see as man sees; man looks at appearances but the Lord looks at the heart.’ Jesse then called Abinadab and presented him to Samuel, who said, ‘The Lord has not chosen this one either.’ Jesse then presented Shammah, but Samuel said, ‘The Lord has not chosen this one either.’ Jesse presented his seven sons to Samuel, but Samuel said to Jesse, ‘The Lord has not chosen these.’ He then asked Jesse, ‘Are these all the sons you have?’ He answered, ‘There is still one left, the youngest; he is out looking after the sheep.’ Then Samuel said to Jesse, ‘Send for him; we will not sit down to eat until he comes.’ Jesse had him sent for, a boy of fresh complexion, with fine eyes and pleasant bearing. The Lord said, ‘Come, anoint him, for this is the one.’ At this, Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him where he stood with his brothers; and the spirit of the Lord seized on David and stayed with him from that day on.

OR: --------

First reading Isaiah 6:1-2,3-8 'Here I am: send me'

In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord of Hosts seated on a high throne; his train filled the sanctuary; above him stood seraphs, each one with six wings. And they cried out to one another in this way,

‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts. His glory fills the whole earth.’

The foundations of the threshold shook with the voice of the one who cried out, and the Temple was filled with smoke. I said:

‘What a wretched state I am in! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have looked at the King, the Lord of Hosts.’

Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding in his hand a live coal which he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. With this he touched my mouth and said:

‘See now, this has touched your lips, your sin is taken away, your iniquity is purged.’

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying:

‘Whom shall I send? Who will be our messenger?’

I answered, ‘Here I am, send me.’

OR: --------

First reading Isaiah 52:7-10 Rejoice, for the Lord is consoling his people

How beautiful on the mountains, are the feet of one who brings good news, who heralds peace, brings happiness, proclaims salvation, and tells Zion, ‘Your God is king!’

Listen! Your watchmen raise their voices, they shout for joy together, for they see the Lord face to face, as he returns to Zion.

Break into shouts of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem; for the Lord is consoling his people, redeeming Jerusalem.

The Lord bares his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

OR: --------

First reading Isaiah 61:1-3 He has sent me to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord

The spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to bind up hearts that are broken;

to proclaim liberty to captives, freedom to those in prison; to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord, a day of vengeance for our God,

to comfort all those who mourn and to give them for ashes a garland; for mourning robe the oil of gladness, for despondency, praise.

OR: --------

First reading Jeremiah 1:4-9 Go and say whatever I command you and do not fear

The word of the Lord was addressed to me, saying,

‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you came to birth I consecrated you; I have appointed you as prophet to the nations.’

I said, ‘Ah, Lord; look, I do not know how to speak: I am a child!’

But the Lord replied, ‘Do not say, “I am a child.” Go now to those to whom I send you and, say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to protect you – it is the Lord who speaks!’

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me:

‘There! I am putting my words into your mouth.’

OR: --------

First reading Ezekiel 3:17-21 Warn the wicked man, and you will live

The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows, ‘Son of man, I have appointed you as sentry to the House of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from me, warn them in my Name. If I say to a wicked man, “You are to die,” and you do not warn him; if you do not speak and warn him to renounce his evil ways and so live, then he shall die for his sin, but I will hold you responsible for his death. If, however, you do warn a wicked man and he does not renounce his wickedness and his evil ways, then he shall die for his sin, but you yourself will have saved your life. When the upright man renounces his integrity to do evil and I set a trap for him, he too shall die; since you failed to warn him, he shall die for his sin and the integrity he practised will no longer be remembered; but I will hold you responsible for his death. If, however, you warn the upright man not to sin and he abstains from sinning, he shall live, thanks to your warning, and you too will have saved your life.’

OR: --------

First reading Ezekiel 34:11-16 I will look after my flock myself and keep all of it in view

The Lord God says this: I am going to look after my flock myself and keep all of it in view. As a shepherd keeps all his flock in view when he stands up in the middle of his scattered sheep, so shall I keep my sheep in view. I shall rescue them from wherever they have been scattered during the mist and darkness. I shall bring them out of the countries where they are; I shall gather them together from foreign countries and bring them back to their own land. I shall pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in every inhabited place in the land. I shall feed them in good pasturage; the high mountains of Israel will be their grazing ground. There they will rest in good grazing ground; they will browse in rich pastures on the mountains of Israel. I myself will pasture my sheep, I myself will show them where to rest – it is the Lord who speaks. I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the wounded and make the weak strong. I shall watch over the fat and healthy. I shall be a true shepherd to them.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 88(89):2-5,21-22,25,27

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord; through all ages my mouth will proclaim your truth. Of this I am sure, that your love lasts for ever, that your truth is firmly established as the heavens.

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

‘I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your dynasty for ever and set up your throne through all ages.

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

‘I have found David my servant and with my holy oil anointed him. My hand shall always be with him and my arm shall make him strong.

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

‘My truth and my love shall be with him; by my name his might shall be exalted. He will say to me: “You are my father, my God, the rock who saves me.”’

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

Gospel Acclamation Mt23:9,10

Alleluia, alleluia! You have only one Father, and he is in heaven; you have only one Teacher, the Christ. Alleluia!

Or: Mt28:19,20

Alleluia, alleluia! Go, make disciples of all the nations. I am with you always; yes, to the end of time. Alleluia!

Or: Mk1:17

Alleluia, alleluia! Follow me, says the Lord, and I will make you into fishers of men. Alleluia!

Or: Lk4:18

Alleluia, alleluia! The Lord has sent me to bring the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives. Alleluia!

Or: Jn10:14

Alleluia, alleluia! I am the good shepherd, says the Lord; I know my own sheep and my own know me. Alleluia!

Or: Jn15:5

Alleluia, alleluia! I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, with me in him, bears fruit in plenty, says the Lord. Alleluia!

Or: 2Co5:19

Alleluia, alleluia! God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. Alleluia!

EITHER: --------

Gospel Matthew 9:35-37 The harvest is rich but the labourers are few

Jesus made a tour through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom and curing all kinds of diseases and sickness. And when he saw the crowds he felt sorry for them because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest.’

OR: --------

Gospel Matthew 16:13-19 You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he said ‘who do you say I am?’ Then Simon Peter spoke up, ‘You are the Christ,’ he said ‘the Son of the living God.’ Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church. And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.’

OR: --------

Gospel Matthew 23:8-12 The greatest among you must be your servant

Jesus said to his disciples, ‘You must not allow yourselves to be called Rabbi, since you have only one master, and you are all brothers. You must call no one on earth your father, since you have only one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor must you allow yourselves to be called teachers, for you have only one Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you must be your servant. Anyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself will exalted.’

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Gospel Matthew 28:16-20 Go and make disciples of all nations

The eleven disciples set out for Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had arranged to meet them. When they saw him they fell down before him, though some hesitated. Jesus came up and spoke to them. He said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, make disciples of all the nations; baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all the commands I gave you. And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.’

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Gospel Mark 1:14-20 I will make you into fishers of men

After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God. ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.’ As he was walking along by the Sea of Galilee he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net in the lake – for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, ‘Follow me and I will make you into fishers of men.’ And at once they left their nets and followed him. Going on a little further, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John; they too were in their boat, mending their nets. He called them at once and, leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the men he employed, they went after him.

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Gospel Mark 16:15-20 Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News

Jesus showed himself to the Eleven and said to them: ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation. He who believes and is baptised will be saved; he who does not believe will be condemned. These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and be unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay their hands on the sick, who will recover.’ And so the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven: there at the right hand of God he took his place, while they, going out, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the signs that accompanied it.

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Gospel Luke 5:1-11 They left everything and followed him

Jesus was standing one day by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the crowd pressing round him listening to the word of God, when he caught sight of two boats close to the bank. The fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats – it was Simon’s – and asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. When he had finished speaking he said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.’ ‘Master,’ Simon replied, ‘we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.’ And when they had done this they netted such a huge number of fish that their nets began to tear, so they signalled to their companions in the other boat to come and help them; when these came, they filled the two boats to sinking point. When Simon Peter saw this he fell at the knees of Jesus saying, ‘Leave me, Lord; I am a sinful man.’ For he and all his companions were completely overcome by the catch they had made; so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon’s partners. But Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on it is men you will catch.’ Then, bringing their boats back to land, they left everything and followed him.

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Gospel Luke 10:1-9 Your peace will rest on that man

The Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him, in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself was to visit. He said to them, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest. Start off now, but remember, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Carry no purse, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road. Whatever house you go into, let your first words be, “Peace to this house!” And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you. Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house. Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is set before you. Cure those in it who are sick, and say, “The kingdom of God is very near to you.”’

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Gospel Luke 22:24-30 I confer a kingdom on you, just as the Father conferred one on me

A dispute arose between the disciples about which should be reckoned the greatest, but Jesus said to them: ‘Among pagans it is the kings who lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are given the title Benefactor. This must not happen with you. No; the greatest among you must behave as if he were the youngest, the leader as if he were the one who serves. For who is the greater: the one at table or the one who serves? The one at table, surely? Yet here am I among you as one who serves! ‘You are the men who have stood by me faithfully in my trials; and now I confer a kingdom on you, just as my Father conferred one on me: you will eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.’

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Gospel John 10:11-16 The good shepherd is one who lays down his life for his sheep

Jesus said:

‘I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd is one who lays down his life for his sheep. The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and the sheep do not belong to him, abandons the sheep and runs away as soon as he sees a wolf coming, and then the wolf attacks and scatters the sheep; this is because he is only a hired man and has no concern for the sheep.

‘I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep. And there are other sheep I have that are not of this fold, and these I have to lead as well. They too will listen to my voice, and there will be only one flock, and one shepherd.’

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Gospel John 15:9-17 You are my friends if you do what I command you

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete. This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you. A man can have no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I command you. I shall not call you servants any more, because a servant does not know his master’s business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father. You did not choose me: no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; and then the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name. What I command you is to love one another.’

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Gospel John 21:15-17 Feed my lambs, feed my sheep.

Jesus showed himself to his disciples, and after they had eaten he said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?’ He answered, ‘Yes Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my lambs.’ A second time he said to him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ He replied, ‘Yes, Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Look after my sheep.’ Then he said to him a third time, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ Peter was upset that he asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ and said, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my sheep.’

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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De como a Igreja Católica vem sendo destruída desde dentro

Por Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga

“…o demônio usará de toda a sua malícia para introduzir nas ordens religiosas pessoas dadas ao pecado, pois as desordens e o amor aos prazeres da carne estarão espalhados por toda a Terra.” (Profecia de Nossa Senhora de La Salette, 1846)

“Satanás reinará mesmo nos lugares mais altos. Ele até entrará na posição mais elevada da Igreja”. (Profecia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, 1917)

“A Igreja é o ingrediente indispensável para a chegada da Nova Ordem Mundial”. (Padre Malachi Martin, SJ)

A Igreja Católica está enfrentando a pior crise desde a Reforma (1517–1648). Não bastasse a sua debilitação moral-teológica e a decaída de sua condição de “alma do Ocidente”, nestes últimos anos novas denúncias de abusos sexuais envolvendo altos membros do clero vieram à tona. Um relatório de um Grande Júri dos Estados Unidos detalhou os casos de 1.000 crianças abusadas por 300 padres somente no Estado da Pensilvânia ao longo de sete décadas. A persistência dos abusos e seu acobertamento é o que mais choca.

O cardeal Theodore McCarrick (1930-), ex-arcebispo de Washington que desempenhou um papel fundamental na arrecadação de fundos para a Santa Sé por ricos doadores norte-americanos, já havia renunciado ao Colégio dos Cardeais em julho de 2018, acusado de ter abusado sexualmente de um menor e assediado os seminaristas que ele supervisionava.

O cardeal Theodore Edgar McCarrick fala durante uma cerimônia em South Bend, no estado de Indiana. Foto de Robert Franklin — 4.mar.2015/Associated Press.

Em 22 de agosto daquele ano, o arcebispo Carlo Maria Viganò, ex-núncio apostólico nos Estados Unidos e diplomata emérito da Santa Sé, publicou uma carta acusando o Papa Francisco de estar ciente dos abusos sexuais de McCarrick há anos e de ajudar a encobri-los. Em uma extensa entrevista publicada em 10 de junho de 2019 no jornal The Washington Post, Viganò acusou o Papa Francisco de “mentir descaradamente” no caso de McCarrick e reiterou que o Papa sabia desde 2013 dos abusos cometidos pelo ex-arcebispo de Washington DC.

O arcebispo Carlo Maria Viganò.

No dia 10 de novembro de 2020, o Vaticano divulgou um relatório de 450 páginas, feito a pedido do Papa Francisco, em que nega ter acobertado o abuso sexual de menores praticado por McCarrick, alçado ao cargo de cardeal um ano depois de ter sido nomeado arcebispo de Washington pelo Papa João Paulo II, que sabia dos rumores sobre sua conduta.

Cardeal Theodore McCarrick com o Papa Francisco. Foto: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Associated Press.

Como a pedofilia não é propriamente um problema que se restringe à Igreja Católica, muito pelo contrário, os escândalos sexuais são invariavelmente tratados como desvios isolados de conduta, colocados à parte e abafados.

Permanentemente exposta é a divisão nas fundações da Igreja, nitidamente rachada entre alas progressistas e conservadoras. Enquanto as progressistas procuram avançar junto com o mundo moderno, fazendo-lhe todo tipo de concessões, as neotradicionalistas — com suas próprias paróquias e seminários — continuam em um curso diferente do restante da Igreja, em uma tentativa quixotesca de restaurar o catolicismo romano e a teologia católica a um modelo anterior ao Concílio Vaticano II e até mesmo anterior ao século XX.

Por muitos caminhos tortuosos, o embate nos primeiros tempos cristãos e na Idade Média com os inimigos da Igreja prosseguiu durante a Idade Moderna e Contemporânea, quando passou da guerra aberta para a penetração pacífica, uma estratégia da Maçonaria e da complexa rede de sociedades secretas sinistras em sua diretiva final de “alçar Satanás ao trono no Vaticano” e de “tornar o Papa o seu escravo”.

No século XX, niilistas e ateus foram exortados para que provocassem deliberadamente uma catástrofe social formidável que, em todo o seu horror, mostrasse claramente às nações o efeito do ateísmo absoluto, da selvageria original e da turbulência mais sangrenta. Arrastadas pelos líderes revolucionários mundiais e destruidores de civilizações, as multidões, desiludidas com o cristianismo e cujos espíritos deístas estariam desde então sem bússola, ansiosas por um novo ideal, mas sem saber onde prestar sua adoração, receberiam a “verdadeira” luz através da manifestação universal da pura doutrina de Lúcifer, trazida finalmente à vista do público, uma manifestação que resultaria do movimento revolucionário geral que se seguiria à destruição do cristianismo e da Igreja Católica, ambas ao mesmo tempo.

Para os Illuminati e os ocultistas, Lúcifer ou Satanás é benigno. Filosoficamente, religiosamente, ou o que quer que seja, não importa. Lúcifer é bom para eles. Lúcifer é simbolicamente o salvador por causa do conhecimento proibido, o autoconhecimento e o raciocínio intelectual que ele (figurativamente, metaforicamente ou literalmente) dá aos humanos, junto com a capacidade de pensar racionalmente e elevá-los a deuses entre todos os outros animais na Terra.

Se a inteligência clama pelo reconhecimento de um deus, elas encontrariam um em Lúcifer, filho da manhã e portador da luz, o mais brilhante dos arcanjos que liderou a revolução celestial na tentativa de se tornar igual a Deus. O credo luciferiano foi altamente desenvolvido, promulgado e disseminado, sob diversos aspectos e nomes, em espectros multiculturais.

Os objetivos finais dessa elite ocultista macabra, isto é, da Maçonaria e dos Illuminati, consiste no estabelecimento de uma Nova Ordem Mundial, de um Governo Único Mundial e de uma Religião Mundial. A primeira meta, a de uma Nova Ordem Mundial, se consolida agora com o engodo da Divoc, que estendeu o controle totalitário aos recônditos mais distantes e isolados do planeta, engolfando desde a economia aos últimos recintos da vida privada e até o âmago dos próprios pensamentos.

E os clamores pela dissolução ou destruição de nações individuais, o estabelecimento de uma economia única e harmonicamente abrangente, “no interesse da paz e da conservação da humanidade”, já se fazem sentir por todos os lados.

Logo, um Governo Mundial e, para completar, uma Religião Mundial, um culto unificado acessível apenas a uns poucos eleitos das camadas superiores que por fora mantém uma aparência de religião tradicional, mas por dentro é puro ocultismo e satanismo comandado pelos altos iniciados, os próximos passos que faltam para o domínio total, não demorarão a ser implementados.

A Igreja Católica (do grego katholikos = universal), pelo seu poder e influência que vieram com a promulgação do Édito de Milão em 313 (que garantiu a liberdade de culto para os cristãos, restituiu-lhes os bens confiscados, aboliu o suplício na cruz e os combates de gladiadores) por Constantino [Flavius Valerius Constantinus (272–337), cognominado o Grande, Senhor do Ocidente], sem o qual certamente o paganismo teria triunfado e a religião cristã sido extinta (coroado imperador, Constantino fez do cristianismo a religião oficial do Estado romano, quase 300 anos depois da crucificação de Cristo), como não poderia deixar de ser vem sendo usada, ainda mais nos últimos anos, como um dos instrumentos mais eficazes e de maior abrangência pela elite ocultista macabra para atingir esses seus intentos, e para tanto nela tem infiltrado muitos de seus agentes.

A infiltração comunista na Igreja

A infiltração do comunismo (que nada mais é do que satanismo) na Igreja Católica e em outras religiões é algo por demais evidente. Douglas Hyde (1860–1949), secretário do Partido Comunista Britânico [Communist Party of Britain (CPB)], revelou que nos anos 30 os chefes comunistas enviaram uma diretiva para a escalada mundial da infiltração na Igreja Católica.

Como diretor do jornal The Daily Worker, Hyde tinha que refutar escritores católicos como Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), e cada vez que fazia isso ficava impressionado pelo confronto das ideias. Em certa ocasião, ao entrar numa igreja, num recanto escuro, defronte à imagem da Virgem Santíssima, foi profundamente tocado: “Era feliz. Dei-me conta de que minha dolorosa peregrinação terminara. Murmurei: ‘Senhora tão meiga e tão boa, sê boa para mim!’.”

A italiana Bella Visono Dodd (1904–1969) foi agente soviética e membro do Partido Comunista dos Estados Unidos, o Communist Party of America (CPUSA) nos anos 1930 e 40. Em 1952, ela ingressou na Igreja Católica sob a orientação do então bispo (depois arcebispo) Fulton Sheen. No início de 1953, em pleno macartismo, período marcado pelas ações de caça aos comunistas conduzido pelo senador Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1909–1957) e sua Comissão de Atividades Anti-Americanas, consentiu em dar, pela primeira vez, informações pormenorizadas acerca da infiltração comunista nas instituições dos Estados Unidos. Ela testemunhou perante o Senado norte-americano sobre a infiltração do CPUSA nos sindicatos e outras instituições.

Bella Dodd.

E essas foram de tal magnitude, que nem mesmo um jornal esquerdista como o The New York Times pôde deixar de noticiá-las, tanto que destacou na primeira página de sua edição de 11 de março de 1953 que Bella havia jurado no dia anterior, perante a Subcomissão do Senado de Segurança Interna (Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security), “que os comunistas tinham se infiltrado em muitos escritórios do Congresso e agiam disfarçados de assessores do próprio presidente dos Estados Unidos”. O mesmo jornal reportou em sua edição de 8 de março de 1954, que Bella “advertiu ontem que a ‘filosofia materialista’ que agora orientava a educação pública, acabaria por desmoralizar a nação”.

As edições do The New York Times de 11 de março de 1953 e 8 de março de 1954 com as reportagens sobre Bella Dodd.

Logo depois, naquele ano de 1954, Bella teve publicado o seu livro The School of Darkness: The Record of a Life and of a Conflict Between Two Faiths [publicado no Brasil em 2020 pela editora Ecclesiae sob o título Escola das Trevas: o Registro de uma Vida e de um Conflito Entre Duas Crenças (Campinas, SP)], no qual denunciava que o comunismo era um artifício perpetrado por financistas “para controlar o homem comum”.

Bella descreve o comunismo como “um estranho culto secreto” cujo objetivo é destruir a civilização ocidental cristã. Milhões de idiotas idealistas (“inocentes”) são enganados pelo discurso de ajuda aos pobres que na verdade visa somente o poder. O Partido Comunista age por meio da infiltração e subversão de instituições sociais como igrejas, escolas, mídia e administração pública. O objetivo é “criar novos modelos de seres humanos que obedecem ao projeto mundial que eles pretendem implementar”.

Segundo Bella, o objetivo era acabar com a família tradicional para que no final restasse apenas a tirania do Partido e do Estado: “O partido fez o que pôde para induzir as mulheres a entrarem na indústria. Seus estilistas de moda criaram modelos próprios para elas e compositores escreveram músicas especiais para estimulá-las… As condições do período de guerra, conforme planejavam, se tornariam uma parte permanente do futuro programa educacional. Procurava-se tornar antiquada a família burguesa enquanto unidade social”.

Para tanto, Dodd ajudou a organizar o “Congresso de Mulheres Americanas”, um precursor do movimento feminista. “Uma vez que era, alegadamente, um movimento pela paz, atraiu muitas mulheres. Mas era realmente apenas uma renovada ofensiva para controlar as mulheres americanas… Como a juventude e os grupos de minorias, elas eram consideradas uma reserva de forças da revolução, porque eram manipuladas mais facilmente por apelos emocionais”.

De acordo com ela, “a chave da escravidão mental da humanidade é transformar o indivíduo em nada e fazer ele operar como uma parte física de um alto grupo de inteligência”. Ficou claro para ela que aquilo “era o conluio entre duas forças: os comunistas com o seu projeto de controle mundial, e certas forças mercenárias do mundo livre empenhadas em lucrar por meio do sangue”.

Bella detalhou que a infiltração comunista na Igreja estava sendo feita por milhares de agentes encarregados de colocar em seminários e outras instituições religiosas o maior número possível de “adormecidos”, isto é, agentes que de imediato não desempenhariam nenhum papel ativo, mas que ficariam aguardando que fossem ordenados e subissem até ocupar posições de influência e autoridade como monsenhores e bispos.

Bella confessou que ela mesma teria ajudado a colocar, nos anos 30, mais de 1.100 homens no sacerdócio para destruir a Igreja a partir do seu interior, muitos dos quais, naquele momento, já ocupavam os mais altos cargos da Igreja.

A ideia geral era a de destruir antes a fé do povo usando a própria instituição da Igreja, que para tanto deveria se converter em uma pseudo-religião, qualquer coisa parecida com o catolicismo, mas que já não seria mais o autêntico catolicismo: “Assim que a fé fosse destruída”, explicou ela, introduzir-se-ia na Igreja um complexo de culpa “para estigmatizar a ‘Igreja do passado’ como opressiva, autoritária, cheia de preconceitos, arrogante ao afirmar-se como única possuidora da verdade, além de responsável pelas divisões das comunidades religiosas através dos séculos. Isto seria necessário para que os responsáveis da Igreja, envergonhados, adotassem uma ‘abertura ao Mundo’ e uma atitude mais flexível para com todas as religiões e filosofias. Os comunistas explorariam então essa abertura para enfraquecer insidiosamente a Igreja e implementar mudanças que de tão radicais não mais reconheceríamos a Igreja Católica.”

Responsável pela conversão de Bella ao catolicismo, o arcebispo norte-americano Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979), decretado Venerável pelo Papa Bento XVI (de 2005 a 2013) em 28 de Junho de 2012, também havia previsto que “Ele [Satanás] criará uma contra-igreja que será o macaco da Igreja, porque ele, o Diabo, é o macaco de Deus. Ela terá todas as notas e as características da Igreja, mas no sentido inverso e esvaziada do seu divino conteúdo. Será um corpo místico do anticristo que vai em todas as aparências assemelhando-se ao corpo místico de Cristo. Em seguida, será verificado um paradoxo: as muitas acusações com que os homens no século passado rejeitaram a Igreja, serão as razões pelas quais passarão a aceitar a contra-igreja.” (Communism and the Conscience of the West, Bobbs-Merrill, 1948, pp. 24–25).

O Concílio Vaticano II

Tudo o que Bella disse cumpriu-se ao pé da letra — não que ela fosse uma profetisa, visto que apenas expôs um plano macabro do qual tomara parte e se arrependera — menos de uma década depois com aquele que até o momento é o último Concílio Ecumênico, o Vaticano II, que se reuniu de 1962 a 1965 no próprio Vaticano, sob a presidência dos papas João XXIII (1881–1963, eleito em 1958) e Paulo VI (1897–1978, eleito em 1963), e que foi e continua sendo elogiado por muitos como o concílio que promoveu “a abertura para os grandes temas da atualidade no mundo”, mas que não foi senão um deliberado e devastador assalto à Igreja e à fé católicas.

Os “reformistas” ou “neomodernistas” lograram destruir todo e qualquer vestígio da Igreja e da fé tradicionais ao orientarem a Igreja para uma direção completamente nova, no que a atualização do rito da Missa, que passou a ser rezada não mais em latim (que sempre foi odiado pelos inimigos da Igreja), mas em língua vernácula, constitui um tímido exemplo quando comparada às nefandas resoluções de se estabelecer um “diálogo” com comunistas e maçons, seus inimigos declarados, e de se abandonar o ensinamento de que a Igreja Católica Romana é exclusivamente a única e verdadeira Igreja de Cristo, dispensando-a assim de procurar a reconversão e o regresso dos hereges e cismáticos.

Como se não bastasse tamanhos disparates de tão novas e estranhas ideias, a Igreja pós-Vaticano II incorreu na demolição da Liturgia, da Teologia e da própria Alma da Igreja. Para uma visão mais abrangente a esse respeito, recomendo a leitura de minha matéria “Os 60 anos do início do Concílio Vaticano II, da edificação da Anti-Igreja e da fusão com a Religião Mundial”.

Em A Crucificação de São Pedro: A Paixão da Igreja” (2009), Pascal Bernardin, autor de Maquiavel Pedagogo (1995) e O Império Ecológico ou a Subversão da Ecologia pelo Globalismo (1998), demonstra que o Concílio Vaticano II pôs em marcha um processo de autodestruição da Igreja, que a abalou desde seus fundamentos. Como consequência, todos os países católicos e todas as nações foram gravemente afetados.

Bernardin conclui que o Concílio Vaticano II e a Nova Teologia inspiraram-se na doutrina panteísta da Maçonaria, que confunde o Criador e a criatura, a natureza e a graça. Esta “Espiritualidade Global” será a Religião Global, indissoluvelmente ligada ao Governo Global. Compreendemos melhor, nessa perspectiva, porque a igreja Conciliar tinha necessidade do Concílio Vaticano II e porque esta igreja apóstata — que não tem mais nada a ver com a autêntica Igreja Católica — deve se fundir à Religião Universal em curso de edificação.

Bernardin mostra ainda porque o espírito maçônico soprou sobre o Vaticano II: “A História da Humanidade é a história da salvação e da luta entre as Duas Cidades pela conquista das almas, única questão que vale a pena. De essência diabólica, a Revolução é uma revolta contra Deus, inspirada constantemente por Satã. Seu fim último é a destruição da Igreja e a edificação da Contra-Igreja. Com esta verdade elementar esquecida, o fio condutor partido, a História se obscurece, perde seu sentido e se torna um mistério incompreensível.”

A cruz vergada

O autor católico Piers Compton (1901–1986), que durante 14 anos foi editor da publicação semanal católica The Universe, em seu livro The Broken Cross: The Hidden Hand in the Vatican (Channel Island, Neville Spearman, 1981), explica que o Vaticano foi infiltrado pelos Illuminati e que o símbolo luciferiano do “olho que tudo vê” é largamente utilizado por autoridades religiosas católicas e jesuítas, como foi, por exemplo, no logotipo do 41° Congresso Eucarístico Internacional da Filadélfia de 1976, sobre o selo do Vaticano de 1978 e sobre a cruz pessoal do Papa João XXIII. De a

Um símbolo sinistro usado por satanistas no século VI, e que foi reavivado na época do Concílio Vaticano II, conforme explica Compton, “é o crucifixo vergado, uma cruz vergada ou quebrada, na qual era exibida uma figura repulsiva e distorcida de Cristo, que os magos e bruxos de magia negra da Idade Média criaram para representar o termo bíblico da ‘marca da besta’. Entretanto, não somente Paulo VI, mas todos os seus sucessores, de João Paulo I ao Papa Francisco (1936-, eleito em 2013) vem carregando esse objeto e o exibindo para ser reverenciado pelas multidões, que não têm a menor ideia de que ele representa o Anticristo.” (Ibid, p.72)

A casa varrida pelo vento

Malachi Brendan Martin, SJ (1921–1999), foi um padre jesuíta irlandês, professor de Paleontologia no Pontifício Instituto Bíblico do Vaticano e escritor católico, graduado em teologia e doutorado em línguas semíticas, arqueologia e história oriental, com especialidade nos Manuscritos do Mar Morto.

O último Papa Paulo foi Camillo Borghese, ordenado em 1605 e que morreu em 1621. Em 21 de junho de 1963, por sua vez, o Cardeal Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini foi eleito Papa, tomando o nome de Paulo VI. Martin detalha então que esse ritual satânico foi realizado na Capela Paulina [Cappella Paolina, uma famosa capela que serve como igreja paroquial no Palácio do Vaticano, construída pelo Papa Paulo III (1468–1549, eleito em 1534) daí seu nome], na noite entre 28 e 29 de junho de 1963, uma semana após a eleição de Paulo VI, a fim de entronizar Satanás no coração da Cristandade.

Capela Paulina no Palácio do Vaticano.

Sacerdote satanista em cena de Rosemary’s Baby (O Bebê de Rosemary), filme de 1968 dirigido por Roman Polanski.

Martin denuncia ainda que pelo menos em três grandes cidades dos Estados Unidos, membros do clero têm à sua disposição pelo menos um coven (local de encontro para o ritual satânico) pedófilo, frequentado e mantido exclusivamente para membros do clero. “De repente, tornou-se indiscutível que agora durante este papado, a Igreja Católica Romana organizou uma presença permanente de clérigos que adoravam Satanás”, escreve Martin.

A loja de aluguel de fantasias “Rainbow” de Eyes Wide Shut (De Olhos Bem Fechados), filme de 1999 dirigido por Stanley Kubrick.

“Havia bispos e sacerdotes e meninos se unindo uns com os outros; realizavam os ‘Rituais negros de Wicca’, e havia relações lésbicas todos os dias, incluindo domingos e dias santos, atos de heresia e blasfêmia, indignação e indiferença foram cometidos e permitidos em altares sagrados por homens que haviam sido chamados de sacerdotes. As ações de sacrílegos e seus rituais foram não só realizados em altares de Cristo, mas teve a conivência ou pelo menos a permissão tácita de certos cardeais, arcebispos e bispos. No total eram uma minoria qualquer, cerca de um para dez por cento do pessoal da Igreja. Mas dessa minoria, muitos ocupantes possuíam espantosamente altos cargos…” (Ibid., pp.492–93)

Cena da missa negra de Eyes Wide Shut (De Olhos Bem Fechados), filme de 1999 dirigido por Stanley Kubrick.

Não é à toa, portanto, que tantos casos de pedofilia envolvendo desde padres a bispos e cardeais, têm sido trazidos à tona nos últimos tempos. Sabemos que crianças e púberes são os preferidas pelos satanistas devido a sua “energia mais pura”.

Uma das discussões mais marcantes do livro é a respeito do papa eslavo (supostamente João Paulo II). Este se apresenta como um campeão da vida, lutando com todas as suas forças contra o aborto, a eutanásia, contra a ruína da estrutura familiar. Entretanto, ele abandonou a tarefa de vigiar pela ortodoxia dos fiéis e do clero, e promoveu um ecumenismo insano e insensato. Ao longo do livro, Malachi Martin oferece diversas opiniões a respeito do Sumo Pontífice e sobre toda a sua ambiguidade, revelando ao final do livro o que entende ser o pensamento do Papa e porque ele age de maneira tão heterodoxa em assuntos cruciais da Igreja, e ainda, porque ele se recusa a punir bispos e teólogos rebeldes e hereges.

O papa João Paulo II (1920–2005, eleito em 1978), que se de um lado engajou-se pessoalmente para livrar o Leste Europeu e a sua terra natal, a Polônia, das garras do comunismo, do outro pouco fez para deter o avanço das correntes ditas “progressistas” como a Teologia da Libertação na América Latina, mormente no Brasil, deixando, por exemplo, de extirpar os quadros assumidamente marxistas, limitando-se a aplicar-lhes tímidas recomendações e reprimendas.

No início de 1981, ainda praticamente no início, portanto, de seu pontificado, descreveu com dramaticidade a crise e o paroxismo a que chegara a Igreja e os católicos pós-Vaticano II, dando-nos a esperança de que pudesse modificar tal situação que, no entanto, para nos causar ainda mais espécie, só se agravou nos últimos anos:

“Temos que admitir realisticamente e com sentimentos de intensa dor que hoje os Cristãos, na sua grande parte, sentem-se perdidos, confusos, perplexos e mesmo desapontados; abundantemente se espalham ideias contrárias à verdade que foi revelada e que sempre foi ensinada; heresias, no sentido lato e próprio da palavra, propagaram-se na área do dogma e da moral, criando dúvidas, confusões e rebelião; a liturgia foi adulterada. Imersos num relativismo intelectual e moral e, portanto, no permissivismo, os Cristãos são tentados pelo ateísmo, pelo agnosticismo, por um iluminismo vagamente moral e por um Cristianismo sociológico desprovido de dogmas definidos ou de uma moralidade objetiva.” (Citado em L’Osservatore Romano, 07–02–1981).

Malachi Martin conta ainda em seu livro que na Rússia existe uma indústria de aborto que processa fetos abortados como se fossem uma matéria-prima qualquer. O Papa teria visto um vídeo no qual os bebês são abortados e colocados numa linha de produção industrial onde são esquartejados (alguns ainda vivos), empacotados e remetidos a várias partes do mundo para indústrias de cosméticos e centros de pesquisa.

Segundo Martin, a elite oculta macabra teria engendrado a Guerra da Bósnia, e também teriam decretado o fim da existência da União Soviética. A Guerra da Bósnia foi planejada para que o mundo se acostumasse com a ideia de que uma forca multinacional pode agir em conflitos nacionais, dando assim mais autonomia e direitos de ação à ONU.

Malachi Martin.

De acordo com Martin, não existe coincidência no fato do aborto, da eutanásia e da destruição da estrutura familiar através da promoção do homossexualismo e da libertinagem estarem na ordem do dia de vários países ao redor do mundo. Ele alega que o que existe é um esforço coordenado. O que é feito localmente, e feito para atender ao interesse de tal grupo de pessoas que controlam a política internacional.

O grande objetivo da elite oculta macabra, segundo Martin, é implantar o “Processo” ou, melhor dizendo, “The Craft” (ou a “obra”) como é conhecido nos ambientes maçônicos. O processo consiste em unificar o mundo econômica, política, social e principalmente religiosamente, de forma a se atingir uma Nova Ordem Mundial (New World Order), ou seja, a implantação prática da Utopia. Este objetivo é partilhado pelos maçons e pelos satanistas, que é fazer toda a humanidade adorar a Lúcifer como Único deus.

Este processo possui quatro etapas distintas:

Congelamento (freezing) — o agente de mudanças ‘congela’ a atenção e a experiência do grupo em seu próprio isolamento e vulnerabilidade.

Descongelamento ou desagregação (unfreezing) — o agente distancia os membros da audiência dos valores “velhos” nos quais eles confiavam. Isto, em suma, significa que os valores anteriores são mostrados como não mais apropriados e desejáveis.

Reagregação (reagregation) — Segue com a aceitação da nova estrutura de pensamento proposta pelo agente (facilitador).

Rotinização (routining) — As novas estruturas de pensamento são incorporadas no fluxo diário normal.

Conforme assinalou Malachi Martin, nós, de fato, já vivemos sob a égide de uma Nova Ordem Mundial, onde os principais acontecimentos nacionais atendem a interesses globalistas, e onde uma pequena minoria de pessoas que controlam as finanças mundiais, também controlam e manipulam a política internacional, tal é a dependência dos estados modernos do sistema financeiro internacional.

Sob o domínio do mal

A disseminação do mal por toda parte, dominando a tudo e a todos, é a realidade no qual nos encontramos mergulhados neste início de século XXI. Afinal, o mundo de hoje, mais do que nunca, não é daqueles que praticam o mal em micro ou macro escala? E não estamos vendo acontecer, todos os dias, todas as horas, bem diante de nós, tantas cenas de horror verdadeiramente satânicas?

Os que combatem o mal de frente e não ficam meramente na defensiva, sempre foram e continuam sendo muito poucos, e estes por vezes são até combatidos por aqueles que só ficam na defensiva, e que se não combatem o mal, seja por fraqueza, covardia ou até por interesses mesquinhos em obter desses que praticam o mal alguma vantagem, o que os tornam tão piores quanto, combatem os que combatem o mal. A maioria prefere mesmo praticar o mal, já que aí se junta à maioria, e as pessoas, na dúvida, optam por seguir o rebanho. Entre o bem e o mal, a opção preferida é quase sempre o mal, que traz de imediato e até a médio e longo prazos, em se referindo a esta vida e a esta época de injustiças, todo tipo de benefícios, já que seus adeptos, além de não serem combatidos, considerando serem cada vez em menor número os que ainda insistem em continuar combatendo o mal, contam com os préstimos, a proteção e os favores de Satanás.

Ora, cinco séculos de modernidade com o seu primado da “razão iluminada”, reforçados pelo laicismo, pelo cientificismo, pelo positivismo e pelo materialismo que vieram em seu bojo, acabaram por fazer com que a maioria passasse a duvidar da existência de Satanás e das demais potências divinas e espirituais, colocando o homem no centro de tudo, substituindo o teocentrismo pelo antropocentrismo, atribuindo, pois, aos homens e somente aos homens, a causa, as consequências e toda a obra que se ergueu neste mundo.

Não haveria nem mesmo, portanto, vida após a morte, Céu, Purgatório ou Inferno, quanto mais um Juízo Final. E o que temos e vemos hoje é exatamente isto, ou seja, a valorização excessiva desta vida, a busca incessante da “reconciliação com o mundo” — conforme orientou o infame Concílio Vaticano II, em contraposição ao próprio Cristo que concitou para que voltássemos as costas para este mundo dominado por Satanás, pois Seu Reino “não é deste mundo” –, a prevalência do imediatismo e do hedonismo, afinal, não haveria nada mais além desta vida, e só o que nos restaria seria aproveitá-la ao máximo.

Desfile de moda satânico organizado pela Igreja Católica Moderna do Reino Unido.

Até mesmo certas correntes “cristãs” e seitas evangélicas cismáticas e heréticas adotaram essa filosofia do “vale tudo” pelo aqui e agora, esbaldando-se no engodo, pregando que o que vale são as “bênçãos” proporcionadas pela riqueza imediata, que o que vale é gozar esta vida, não importando se para isso tenham que flertar e compactuar com os poderes terrenos, estabelecendo acordos espúrios com comunistas e todo tipo de bandidos e obliterando e distorcendo os ensinamentos do próprio Cristo, comercializando dentro do templo de Deus, vendendo falsos milagres, ultrajando, enfim, de todas as maneiras, como só o demônio faria, os nomes de Deus e de Cristo.

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Hi I have a couple genuine catholic questions that if you don't mind could you answer?

What bible do catholics use?

How do you know that the bible you use is the right one?

And why is the Latin mass in Latin?

Hi! No worries, I love questions. 😊 I am no scholar but I’ll try my best to answer.

What Bible do Catholics use?

The Bible Catholics use is called the canon. The Catholic canon contains a total of 73 books and letters vs the Protestant Bible which only has 66.

The canon Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.

If that’s a lot to process here is a photo to organize that:

The canon New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation.

How do you know that the Bible you use is the right one?

As Catholics, we know any Bible which contains any of the canon books is good to use but also be mindful of translations! For example, I personally stay away from ones that are harder to understand like King James and that one that Joyce Meyer sometimes uses called the Amplified Bible where it adds words that weren’t there before.

How did the canon come about? “In about 367 AD, St. Athanasius came up with a list of 73 books for the Bible that he believed to be divinely inspired. This list was finally approved by Pope Damasus I in 382 AD, and was formally approved by the Church Council of Rome in that same year. Later Councils at Hippo (393 AD) and Carthage (397 AD) ratified this list of 73 books. In 405 AD, Pope Innocent I wrote a letter to the Bishop of Toulouse reaffirming this canon of 73 books. In 419 AD, the Council of Carthage reaffirmed this list, to which Pope Boniface agreed. The Council of Trent, in 1546, reaffirmed St. Athanasius’s original list of 73 books.” In the 16th century, around the year 1517, Martin Luther established the Protestant reformation. Disliking some of the books found in the canon when creating his new concept of theology and Sola scriptura (meaning by scripture alone), Martin Luther took out Sirach, Wisdom, Tobit, 1 Maccabees, Judith, additions to Daniel, and Esther.

Sooo why do we have the canon as Catholics? Our Catechism of the Catholic Church says:

“105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. “The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.” “For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself.” - #105, page 36. Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition.

Catholicism is the original church established by Jesus Christ on the day of Pentecost. I love the canon and tradition.

Why is the Latin Mass in Latin?

The Latin Mass is in the language of Latin for a few reason. Once widely spoken long ago, it is now a dead language. To this day it is still the official language of the Church. Using Latin preserves the Latin Rite’s words from being changed in error that we can find in changes to vernacular languages especially English. Here is a neat article if you want to read more about it.

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Basics

Full Name: Andrew Edward Moore

Originally: Malachi Brody Chase Liddell

Birthday Adoption day: 1st of November 20th of August

Age: 40

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Religion: Catholic

Religious Level (1-10): 6

Birthplace: London, England  St Austell, Cornwall, England

Current Residence: Town house, Kensington, London

Height: 6ft2

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Brown-Green

Sexuality: Bisexual

Love/Romantic Preference: He currently rejects emotional connections.

Relationship Status: Single

Languages Known: English, French, Spanish

Details

Car: Aston Martin DB11 V12

Phone: iPhone 14 Pro

Music Genres: Mostly chill tunes - often borrowed from movie soundtracks and jazz music

Estimated Net Worth: £40 million

Accent: West country accent - Cornish dialect

Bloodlines

Caroline Rawle || Adoptive mother || alive

Anthony Moore || Adoptive father || alive

Lily Chase-Liddell || Mother || deceased

Robert Baines Liddell || Father || Currently ill/prognosis not good

Levels

Drinking (1-10): 3

Swearing: 6

Smoking status: 0

Drugs: 0

Cooking proficiency: 7 - his mother taught him most of it.

Intelligence: 7 - excels at tactics but lacks in other areas

Emotional/Social Intelligence: 5 - he knows enough to make friends but romantically speaking, he’s not good

Creativity: 4

Temper: 7 - he can lose his temper although it usually takes pressure to make him snap

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10th December >> Fr. Martin’s Gospel Reflections / Homilies on Matthew 17:9-13 for Saturday, Second Week of Advent: ‘The Son of Man will suffer similarly’.

Saturday, Second Week of Advent

Gospel (Except USA)

Matthew 17:10-13

Elijah has come already and they did not recognise him.

As they came down from the mountain the disciples put this question to Jesus, ‘Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?’ ‘True;’ he replied ‘Elijah is to come to see that everything is once more as it should be; however, I tell you that Elijah has come already and they did not recognise him but treated him as they pleased; and the Son of Man will suffer similarly at their hands.’ The disciples understood then that he had been speaking of John the Baptist.

Gospel (USA)

Matthew 17:9a, 10-13

Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him.

As they were coming down from the mountain, the disciples asked Jesus, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” He said in reply, “Elijah will indeed come and restore all things; but I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased. So also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.” Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.

Reflections (10)

(i) Saturday, Second Week of Advent

At the time of Jesus there was an ancient Jewish tradition that just before the coming of the Messiah God would send the prophet Elijah back to earth to prepare people for the Messiah’s coming. ‘I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of parents towards their children and of children towards their parents…’ (Malachi 4:5-6). That tradition is behind the question of the disciples to Jesus in today’s gospel reading, ‘Why do the scribes say then that Elijah must come first?’ Jesus identifies John the Baptist as the promised Elijah, and, by implication, he is identifying himself as the Messiah. Yet, as Jesus goes on to say, ‘they treated him (John the Baptist) as they pleased’. John had been beheaded by Herod Antipas. Jesus then announces that he will suffer the same hostile fate as John the Baptist, ‘the Son of Man will suffer similarly’. Jesus announces that his contemporaries have rejected God’s messenger sent to announce the coming of the Lord and they are soon to reject the Lord himself. We can all fail to recognize God’s messengers. We can even fail to recognize the Lord himself when he comes to us. Advent is a time when we pray the prayer, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’. We might also need to pray the prayer, ‘Lord, help me to recognize you when you come’. The Lord can come to us in ways that we had not expected. He can come to us even in and through those circumstances of our lives that seem to suggest the Lord is absent. He can come to us through people whom we might not associate with the Lord. The Lord is always coming in a whole variety of guises. He is often most powerfully present at those moments when we sense his absence. We pray this Advent for eyes to recognize his various comings to us.

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(ii) Saturday, Second Week of Advent

We hear a great deal about John the Baptist in the Season of Advent. He has been rightly referred to as the great Advent Saint. He features particularly in the opening two weeks of Advent. After that, the other great Advent Saint, Mary, the mother of Jesus, begins to feature more prominently in the church’s liturgy. In this morning’s gospel reading, Jesus identifies John the Baptist with the prophet Elijah. There had been an expectation that Elijah would come just before the Messiah would come. Jesus identifies John as that Elijah figure. Yet, by the time Jesus speaks in this morning’s gospel reading from Matthew John had already been beheaded. In the words of the gospel reading, ‘they treated him as they pleased’. Matthew presents Jesus in our gospel reading foreseeing his own death in the death of John. Both were prophets who disturbed certain vested interests and both paid the ultimate price. Even as we approach the feast of the birth of Jesus we are being reminded of how Jesus’ life would end. The fate of both John and Jesus reminds us that proclaiming the gospel of God in word and deed brings its own cost. It will not always be well received. That is why, if we are to be courageous in our living of the faith, we need to keep asking for the Lord’s help. A verse from today’s responsorial psalm would be a fitting prayer, ‘O Lord, rouse up your might, O Lord, come to our help’.

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 (iii) Saturday, Second Week of Advent

In this morning’s gospel reading Jesus identifies John the Baptist with the prophet Elijah. It was believed that Elijah would come just before the coming of the long awaited Messiah. Jesus says of John the Baptist, the long awaited Elijah figure, that ‘they did not recognize him, but treated him as they pleased’. The experience of John the Baptist would become the experience of Jesus himself, as Jesus says in that reading, ‘the Son of Man will suffer similarly at their hands’. Both John and Jesus proclaimed the values of God’s kingdom and both of them suffered greatly for doing so. Even as we draw nearer to celebrating the joyful event of the birth of Jesus we are being reminded of the cross that awaited this child. I have a print of a painting of the birth of Jesus by the German artist Sieger Köder and at the bottom of the painting there is an image of the adult Christ under the beam of the cross looking upon the baby. At Christmas we celebrate the good news that God so loved the world that he gave his only Son. This morning’s gospel reminds us that God’s giving was a giving-unto-death, a giving that cost not less than everything. It is this costly gift that we open our hearts to receive anew at this time of the year, so that we can give to others as God has given to us.

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 (iv) Saturday, Second Week of Advent

There was a Jewish tradition in the time of Jesus that the day of the Lord’s coming would be preceded by the coming of a messenger who would prepare the way for the Lord’s coming. According to the prophet Malachi, the last book of the Hebrew Bible, that messenger would be the prophet Elijah who would come from heaven to where he had ascended many centuries before. That is the tradition Jesus’ disciples give expression to in their question to Jesus at the beginning of today’s gospel reading, ‘Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?’ This question reflects an objection to Jesus by the Jewish scribes, ‘if Jesus is God’s anointed one, why has he not been preceded by Elijah, as the Scriptures say he will be?’ Jesus replies by saying that Elijah has come; he is none other than John the Baptist, but people have not recognized John as the messenger of God, the Elijah figure sent before the Lord’s anointed one. Jesus draws attention to the human failure to recognize the messengers God sends. We live in the period after the death and resurrection of Jesus and the risen Lord is constantly sending us his messengers. We too can fail to recognize them. Advent is a time when we are invited to become more attuned to the various ways that the Lord comes to us. Very often he comes to us in ways that forces us to rethink who we are and where we stand. We can be tempted to reject the Lord’s messenger as John the Baptist was rejected by many of his contemporaries. Our resistance can sometimes be a sign that the Lord is trying to break through to us in some new way.

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 (v) Saturday, Second Week of Advent

This morning’s gospel reading makes reference to Jesus and his disciples coming down the mountain. The mountain in question is the Mount of Transfiguration. The disciples have had a wonderful experience of Jesus in all his glory on that mountain, so wonderful that Peter wanted to prolong the experience, ‘Let us build three tents...’ As they come down the mountain, the mood changes somewhat. In response to the disciples’ question about the coming of Elijah before the coming of the Messiah, Jesus identifies John the Baptist as that expected Elijah figure. Jesus goes on to say with regard to John the Baptist, ‘they did not recognize him but treated him as they pleased’. Jesus makes reference there to the recent beheading of John the Baptist by Herod Antipas. He also declares that how John was treated is a forewarning of how he himself will be treated, ‘the Son of Man will suffer similarly at their hands’. After experiencing Jesus’ glory on the mountain the disciples are now faced with the looming reality of Jesus’ violent death. As we are about to enter the third week of Advent and draw closer to the feast of the birth of Jesus, we are being reminded that the child in the manger, the son of Mary, would become the Son of Man who die on a Roman cross because of his faithfulness to the work that God gave him to do. At Christmas we celebrate God’s giving of his Son to us. This morning’s gospel reminds us that this giving was a giving unto death. As the fourth evangelist expresses it, ‘God so loved the world that he gave his only Son’.

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(vi) Saturday, Second Week in Advent

In the weeks prior to the feast of Christmas John the Baptist features prominently. In this morning’s gospel reading, Jesus refers to John the Baptist without mentioning him by name. The disciples ask Jesus about the Jewish tradition that the prophet Elijah will come before the coming of God’s anointed one. This tradition is based on a text in the prophet Malachi, ‘I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me… I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes’. In the gospel reading Jesus declares that Elijah has already come and they treated him as they pleased, which is a clear reference to the recent execution of John the Baptist. Jesus sees in what happened to John a sign of what will happen to him, ‘the Son of Man will suffer similarly at their hands’. We are about to celebrate the birth of Jesus and prior to that we will read the gospel about the birth of John the Baptist. However, this morning’s gospel reading refers to the death of both John the Baptist and Jesus. We are being reminded that we cannot separate the birth of John and Jesus from their death. The cross casts its shadow over the crib of Bethlehem. When we look at the baby in the crib, we cannot but call to mind the good shepherd who laid down his life for his flock, the Son of Man who came not to be served but to serve and to give his life for all. It is that same self-giving love of Jesus that we celebrate at every Eucharist and that is given to us anew at every Eucharist. As Paul reminds us, as often as we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim the Lord’s death. We are sent from the Eucharist to live what we have proclaimed, to give what we have received.

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(vii) Saturday, Second Week in Advent

When Jesus says in today’s gospel reading, in response to a question of his disciples, that ‘Elijah has come already’, he is referring to John the Baptist. He was the Elijah figure, the prophet whom the Jewish people expected to come just prior to the coming of the Messiah. Jesus says of John the Baptist that ‘they did not recognize him but treated him as they pleased’. By this stage in Jesus’ ministry, John the Baptist had been beheaded by the ruler of Galilee, Herod Antipas. Jesus is saying that people did not appreciate who John the Baptist really was; he was indeed the prophet who was expected to come just before the Messiah. Because they did not recognize him for who he was, they treated him shamefully. Jesus was very aware that the fate of John the Baptist would be his own fate too. Many people would fail to recognize who Jesus really was, would fail to appreciate his true significance, and, as a result, they would do to Jesus what they please, treating him shamefully. The failure to appreciate others, to recognize their true significance, often leads to their being treated badly. Treating others with respect begins with the recognition of their full significance and dignity before God. How we see others will often impact on how we relate to them. Today’s gospel reading suggests that the way people see others can be very limited, and, so how they treat them can leave a lot to be desired. The gospels keep challenging us to refine our seeing, so that we see others in all their God-given dignity and relate to them accordingly.

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(viii) Saturday, Second Week in Advent

Today’s gospel reading from Matthew follows on immediately after the story of the transfiguration of Jesus, in which the disciples saw Moses and Elijah speaking with the transfigured Jesus on the mountain. As they come down the mountain, the disciples ask Jesus a question about Elijah, whom they have just seen with Jesus. According to the Jewish Scriptures, Elijah was to return to prepare the way for the Messiah. If Jesus is the Messiah, where is Elijah, they wonder? In response, Jesus identifies John the Baptist with Elijah; John is the prophet who was to come to prepare the way for God’s anointed one. By this time in Jesus’ ministry John the Baptist had been executed by Herod Antipas, and Jesus now announces that he will experience the very same fate. Having witnessed Jesus in all his glory as Son of God on the mountain, it must have been difficult for the disciples to hear Jesus speak about himself as the Son of Man who must suffer as John did. As we approach the feast of Christmas we are being reminded that the baby in the crib became the crucified Son of Man, and that the wood of the manger points ahead to the wood of the cross. Mary’s child was, indeed, God’s loving gift to humanity. ‘God so loved the world that he gave his only Son’. The adult Jesus would, in turn, give himself completely to humanity, out of love, ‘No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends’. The same divine love which we celebrate at Christmas is celebrated again on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Both feasts, Christmas and Easter, call on us to share with each other the love which we have so abundantly received from God through his Son.

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 (ix) Saturday, Second Week of Advent

On the mount of transfiguration, the disciples saw Jesus in conversation with Moses and Elijah. In today’s gospel reading, the disciples are coming down the mountain and the disciples ask Jesus about Elijah and the tradition that he would come to prepare God’s people for the coming of the Messiah, the coming of the Lord. If Jesus is Lord and Messiah, where is Elijah, they wonder. Jesus informs his disciples that, in reality, John the Baptist was the promised Elijah. Furthermore, Jesus declares that the fate that John suffered, execution by Herod Antipas, anticipates the fate that he will suffer, ‘the Son of Man will suffer similarly’. It must have been difficult for Jesus’ disciples to hear him talk about his coming suffering, having just seen him in glory on the mount of transfiguration. Yet, that vision they had assured them that there would be glory for Jesus beyond his suffering and death. What people would do to Jesus would be reversed by God. God the Father would bring his Son through death to a new and glorious life. What God did for Jesus, he can do for us all. God can bring new life out of our own experience of death, whether it is the death at the end of our earthly lives, or the various experiences of death and loss that we have in the course of our earthly lives. If we keep entrusting ourselves to God in those dark times of loss, as Jesus did, then we will find God to be trustworthy, as Jesus did. God is always at work bringing new life out of our various deaths, which is why we can always be people of great hope, and hope is the virtue that is associated in a special way with this season of Advent.

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(x) Saturday, Third Week of Advent

There was a tradition among the Jewish people, present in the Jewish Scriptures, that the prophet Elijah would return to earth just before the coming of God’s anointed one, the Messiah, to prepare people for his coming. That is why, at the end of today’s first reading which was written less than two hundred years before Jesus, the author says, ‘Happy shall they be who see you’, in other words, ‘Happy shall they be who see Elijah when he returns’, because they can be assured that the coming of the Messiah is imminent. In the gospel reading, Jesus identifies John the Baptist as the prophet Elijah who had been promised. He had worked to prepare people for the coming of Jesus. Yet, by the time Jesus spoke in today’s gospel reading, John the Baptist had been executed. As Jesus says, ‘they did not recognize him but treated him shamefully’. People should have been happy to have seen Elijah present in John the Baptist, ‘happy shall they be who see you’. Instead, many wanted rid of him. Jesus goes on to say, ‘the Son of Man will suffer similarly at their hands’. People should have been even happier to see Jesus, God’s anointed one, and, yet, some wanted Jesus dead. We don’t always respond well to the gifts and graces that God sends us. We fail to recognize the ways that God is blessing us. We reject God’s gifts to us, or carry on as if they are not there. Today’s gospel reading encourages us to grow in our appreciation of all that God is doing for us, all that God is giving to us, all that God is holding out to us in his love. Advent is a season when we are invited to learn to receive all that comes to us from God. The Advent prayer, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’ is one expression of our desire, our openness, to receive the coming of the Lord and all the blessings he brings with him.

Fr. Martin Hogan.

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so i made this funny guy

his names malachi

hes questioning and mlm

he also goes by martin and jones

he/him pronouns still questioning though

he works as a garbage recycling engineer

hes got a boyfriend named marlow

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Useful Publications and Media from the 80s 1: The Paranormal/Occult

Just compiling some things to use in fanfic, either as reference material or just as things to mention for flavor text. Largely focusing on US publications/media or things I think are fairly big name or would relatively easy to get in the US in the 1980s. 

This is a long post so I’m just gonna cut it here there’s no better place to put it lol

BOOKS

obviously not all the books about these topics published at the time but it’s a mix of what I could fine and what I knew was a big deal.

The Anatomy of the Occult by Raymond Buckland. Pub. 1980

Inside Voodoo: Black Magic, Zombies, Prophecy, Telepathy, and the Supernatural by Marcus Bach. Pub. 1968

A Treatise on Cosmic Fire by Alice A. Bailey. Pub. 1989

The Book of Ceremonial Magic by Arthur Edward Waite. Originally called The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts.  It was first published in a limited run in 1898, and distributed more widely under the title The Book of Ceremonial Magic in 1910.  It is an attempt to document various famous grimoires, explain the history behind them, discuss the theology contained therein, and to synthesize many famous grimoires into one system.

The Book of Ceremonial Magic/The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts by Arthur Edward Waite was originally called  It was first published in a limited run in 1898, and distributed more widely under the title The Book of Ceremonial Magic in 1910.  It is an attempt to document various famous grimoires, explain the history behind them (refuting many of the legends surrounding them), discuss the theology contained therein (e.g. raising the question why good angels would be summoned to kill an enemy), and to synthesize many famous grimoires into one system.

The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley. Pub. 1912-3.

Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of The Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson.Pub. 1977. (the other 2 are written in the 90s)

Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen. Pub. 1974.

Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils, written by Fred Gettings. Pub. 1981.

Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics by Starhawk. Pub.1982.

Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi. Pub. 1980.

Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans by Malachi Martin. Pub. 1976.

Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon. Pub. 1956. Eng Trans. 1962.

The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant. Pub. 1972.

Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks and Covens by Paul Huson. Pub. 1970.

Mysteries of the Unknown is a series of books about the paranormal, published by Time-Life Books from 1987 through 1991.

The Occult: A History by Colin Wilson. Pub. 1971.

The Other Side by Bishop James Pike with Diane Kennedy. Pub 1968.

The Perfect Matrimonyor The Door to Enter Into Initiation by Samael Aun Weor. It was first published in 1950 then revised and amplified in 1961.

The Secret Lore of Magic by Idries Shah. Pub. 1957.

Spirits, Stars, and Spells: The Profits and Perils of Magic by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp. Pub. 1966.

Publications

Anabiosis/Journal of Near-Death Studies - a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the field of near-death studies. Founded in 1982 originally called Anabiosis then got a name change in 1987.

The Equinox (subtitle: The Review of Scientific Illuminism) - a periodical that served as the official organ of the A∴A∴, a magical order founded by Aleister Crowley (although material is often of import to its sister organization, Ordo Templi Orientis). Begun in 1909, it mainly featured articles about occultism and magick, while several issues also contained poetry, fiction, plays, artwork, and biographies. The last issue was published in 1998.

Fate - a U.S. magazine about paranormal phenomena. Fate was founded in 1948. Fate magazine is the longest-running magazine devoted to the paranormal.

Journal of Parapsychology - a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on psi phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis, as well as human consciousness in general and anomalous experiences. It was established in April 1937.

The Society for Psychical Research (UK) body of publications:

Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research First published in 1882 as a public record of the activities of the SPR, the Proceedings are now reserved for longer pieces of work, such as Presidential Addresses, and are only occasionally published.The current editor is Dr David Vernon.

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research The Journal of the Society for Psychical Research has been published quarterly since 1884. It was introduced as a private, members-only periodical to supplement the Proceedings. It now focuses on current laboratory and field research, but also includes theoretical, methodological and historical papers on parapsychology. It also publishes book reviews and correspondence. The current editor is Dr David Vernon.

Psi Encyclopedia The Psi Encyclopedia is a collection of articles and case studies about psi research, involving the scientific investigation of psychic phenomena. A bequest of Nigel Buckmaster enabled the foundation of the encyclopedia.

UFO Magazine - an American magazine that was devoted to the subject of  unidentified flying objects (UFOs), the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), as well as paranormal and Fortean subjects in general. Founded in 1986, when defunct in 2012.

The New Equinox was a Ritual Magic publication founded in the mid-1970s by Ray Sherwin whose main interest at that time was the magic of Aleister Crowley. It was published between 1976 and 1979.The magazine was based in East Morton in Yorkshire.Tony Venables was joint editor for a few issues. Peter J. Carroll, who later went on, with Ray Sherwin, to found the Illuminates of Thanateros, was a regular contributor. 

Other media

Coast to Coast AM america’s leading paranormal radio show to this day. Tackles everything from aliens to Big Foot to ghosts. Founded 1988

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