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Evidence of The Devastated Vineyard

12/12/2017

 
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Dietrich von Hildebrand was the husband of Christendom Restoration Society Board Member, Alice von Hildebrand,
a famed philosopher in her own right.

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A Statistical Analysis of the Loss of Vocations in Religious Congregations Following the
Second Vatican Council

The study we present below is indisputable proof of the devastated vineyard in the Catholic Church since the close of Vatican II in 1965. It takes it's name from the title of the classic book "The Devastated Vineyard" penned by the great philosopher and friend of Pope Pius XII, Dietrich von Hildebrand in 1973, just three years after the introduction of the Novus Ordo mass under Paul VI. Pope Pius XII informally referred to von Hildebrand as a Twentieth Century Doctor of the Church. Certainly, as our study proves, the devastation has been much more than von Hildebrand could have ever imagined.

This study is available to read online or as a free download. At the bottom of this post are two books germane to our subject by von Hildebrand and one by Msgr. Klaus Gamber on the destructive effect of the Novus Ordo on the faith itself. Gamber's book was most highly praised by Pope Benedict XVI as Cardinal Ratzinger.

Josep-Henri Fradet

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About the Authors:
PictureJack P. Oostveen with Pope Benedict XVI


Jack P. Oostveen is educated as a Practical and Scientific Civil Engineer, experienced consultant and research engineer in the field of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. Since 2012 he is Emeritus Assistant Professor in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering of the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.

Jack converted into the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. Since 1979 he has been involved with the "Interparochie Maria van Nazareth," an unofficial group of faithful attached to the Traditional Mass in Delft, The Netherlands, and board-member from 1986 to 1996. Being involved with the work of the International Federation Una Voce since 1995, beginning in 1997 Jack founded "Ecclesia Dei Delft" that took over the activities of "Interparochie Maria van Nazareth." Jack has been President of “Ecclesia Dei Delft” since 1997.
 
In 1995 he became a member of the International Federation Una Voce.
  • Board member  from 2001 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2013
  • President from 2006 to 2007, during which the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum was received
  • Vice-president from 2005-2006 and from 2007 to 2013
  • Was involved in a world wide action pro Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate in 2014
Author of the first systematic analysis of the sudden and precipitous decline of the clerical population dealing specifically with the Netherlands:
  • “Prospectives for Growth: A System Dynamics Study of the Roman Catholic Priest Population of the Netherlands”. Oostveen J.P. and Sweeney D.J.. International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. Seville. Spain. 1986. 1-183;
  • Statistical evaluation of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands. Oostveen. J.P. 1997; http://www.ecclesiadei.nl/rkstat/index.html.

And more recently:
  • “Vatican II, the intrinsic risks for failures and clarity of the interpretation", http://www.ecclesiadei.nl/docs/clarity.html, Oostveen, J.P., 2015;
  • “Risk analysis of Vatican II”. http://www.ecclesiadei.nl/docs/risk_analysis.html. Oostveen. J.P., 2016;
  • "Letters to Rome", http://www.ecclesiadei.nl/docs/letters_to_Rome.html, Oostveen, J.P., 2016;
  • “Fruits of Vatican II - A Wilful Ignorance of an Ongoing Catastrophe?”, Part 1: Observational Analysis, http://www.ecclesiadei.nl/docs/fruits-of-Vatican_II-part_1.pdf, Oostveen, J.P. and Sonnier D.L., 2017;
  • “Fruits of Vatican II – Renewal in Unity and Accordance with the Doctrine or False Interpretations?”, Part 2: Process Analysis, (in development), Oostveen, J.P. and Sonnier D.L., 2018

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David L. Sonnier


David
L. Sonnier is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and serves on the Board of Christendom Restoration Society. Other works by David Sonnier include:

  • "Gender-Bender Liturgy and the Decline of Vocations," Christian Order, Volume 44, Number 12, December 2003.
  • “Ecclesiastical Aggiorniamento and Exponential Decay Functions: A Statistical Analysis” with Albert P. Marcello III, 2004.
  • “Springtime Decay,” on www.seattlecatholic.com, January 2004.
  • “Child Molestation by Homosexuals and Heterosexuals,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review, May 2005,  p. 44-54.
  • Rightful Aspirations, Goretti Publications, 2007
  • "The Priest Shortage, A Manufactured Crisis?," January 2015
  • "Jesuits on the Endangered Species List," January 2017

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Novena to the Holy Ghost

5/27/2017

 
Novena to the Holy Ghost prayed between Ascension Thursday and Pentecost.
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The "Hermit of Loreto" and Donald J. Trump

2/21/2017

 
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We present to you the fascinating story of the "Hermit of Loreto" and Donald J. Trump recounted in this short video by Rev. Giacomo Capoverdi, a priest in Rhode Island, USA.

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Jesuits on the Endangered Species List

1/12/2017

 
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St Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuits

In the study presented below, once again we see that the pivotal point in time is that of Vatican II and the introduction of the new Mass. For those who are intellectually honest with eyes to see and ears to hear, no commentary is needed.

From Chapter 7 of the Gospel of Matthew:

[16] By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? [17] Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. [18] A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. [19] Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. [20] Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.

David L. Sonnier and Jack P. Oostveen

​​On October 24, 2016, while addressing the 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, [1] Pope Francis lamented a “rigidity” he has discovered among today’s seminarians, in which they are guilty of a “decadent scholasticism” which was widespread in the seminaries prior to Vatican II.  This rigidity is focused on rules, of the sort that distinguish between “yes you can” and “no you cannot.” The Jesuit Pope goes on to say that “Not promoting vocations is ecclesial tubal ligation,” and even a form of “suicide.”

There’s so much to unpack in just these few comments that it will require two installments.

First one must consider the context in which these remarks were made: a Jesuit Pope among his fellow Jesuits.  In other words, he was free to speak frankly, so we can assume that his words represent what he firmly believes. 

Next we must distinguish between the Jesuits prior to the Second Vatican Council and the Jesuits since that time.  To go through a litany of great Jesuits, starting with St. Ignatius, through all of their missionary, apologetic and intellectual contributions would be to repeat a well-known story.  But it ends in 1965, or perhaps sometime prior to 1965.  The Jesuits are no longer recognizable as the great missionary order that they once were.  Their activities since that time constitute another well-known story: one that is ongoing, and it certainly will not have a happy ending.  The collapse of this formerly great order of evangelists, educators, missionaries, and intellectuals is tragic beyond comprehension.

Although the extinction of the Jesuits has been commented upon previously [2][3], that was in 2011 and at that time we did not have a Jesuit in the Chair of Peter.  Also at that time no attempt was made to actually predict the date of extinction of the Jesuits.

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Francis greeting Martin Scorsese
Above, Francis, who is in charge of the "active ministry of Peter," curries favor with Martin Scorsese for his latest film, "Silence", on Jesuits in Japan which teaches and justifies apostasy. In Scorsese's film "The Last Temptation of Christ" is featured a blasphemous dream sequence in which Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has sex with Saint Mary Magdalen. Read The Remnant story here.


Prior to Vatican II the Jesuits were increasing at a sustained rate of about 500 novices/year in male religious, from which the future Jesuit priests were selected [4].  Such high number of vocations a year can be explained by their direct engagement to institutes for education of boys and young adults.  This is the period condemned by Francis, the period in which “decadent scholasticism” ruled the seminaries and Catholic schools.  The Jesuits, like all other religious, seem to have been at least to some extent focused on “rules.”  Among those rules would have been those regulating the prayer life of the priests and all male religious.  Recalling the maxim of Lex Orandi, Lex Crededi by which we have always held that the way we pray as Catholics determines what we believe, we remind Pope Francis that the Jesuits, during their better days, followed the traditional liturgy and offered Mass in what we now know as the “Extraordinary Form.”  The rule of prayer governed their rule of belief prior to the Second Vatican Council, just as it does now. Figure 1 shows the increase of all male Jesuit religious prior to 1965, and Figure 2 shows the decrease of all male religious as well as Jesuit priests since 1965.  Behold the difference.
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​                                                Figure 1: Jesuit Male Religious before 1965    ​

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Figure 2: Jesuit Male Religious and Priests Since 1965
Almost immediately following the loosing of the “rules” and the ‘ad experimentum’ period of modifications of the Mass starting in 1965 the decline began.  Then it accelerated through the continued modification of the liturgy in 1970, accompanied by an unfettered loosening of “the rules.”  Overall we can see a decline of about 54% of the total number of Jesuits, compared to an average decline of about 39% of all male religious (among orders existing in 1965) between the years from 1965 to the present.  Using an exponential decay model and the data from 1965 to the present we can model the total numbers of Jesuit male religious and the total number of priests using the following with t = 0 being the year 1965.
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These models, based on nonlinear regression are a continuation of the data points depicted in Figure 2. In other words, this provides a forecast of what will happen in the future, given a couple of basic assumptions:

  • that nothing changes to reverse the trend, and
  • that the decline follows an exponential decay pattern similar to that found among the religious in the USA [5]. 
 
If these two basic assumptions hold true, by approximately year 2120 the once-powerful order will have declined to 1/10th of its 1965 strength and the number of priests will have been reduced to around 3500.  
This decline of the Jesuits was separately modeled by an engineer using a different technique, based on an incremental extrapolation method.  The results are similar, although a distinction is drawn between the rate of decline witnessed from 1965-1975 and that found from 1975 to the present.  Also this model is applied to all Jesuit male religious.  Figure 3 shows data points used for this analysis of the decline of male religious, projected into the future by Simulation 1 with an annual decline increment of about -1.4% per year, which is the average for the Jesuits of the past 40 years (from 1975 to 2015) and Simulation 2 with a decline increment of -2% per year, which was the rate found during the first decade after the Second Vatican Council (from 1965 to 1975). 
 
These models, developed independently (some by a Computer Scientist and the others by a Scientific Engineer) all agree that the Jesuits have a half-life of something in the vicinity of 50 years and will cease to exist by sometime within the next couple of centuries.
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​​This means that we can look forward to Jesuits telling us how to encourage vocations for the next couple of hundred years, until at some point they go extinct.  How soon will that be?  It depends on whether their rate of decline is the current rate or that found during the first ten years after the Great Council.
 
It could be within this century.   A careful examination of both curves in Figure 2 show an essentially linear decline from 1980 to the present, so dropping the exponential decay assumption and using a linear model instead:
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​the number of Jesuit priests reaches 1/10th of the 1970 strength by 2061, or 45 years from now, and the last surviving Jesuit priest expires about 2065 (see Figures 4 and 5).
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                                                    Figure 4:  Linear Model: Year 0 is 1970​ ​

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​                                     Figure 5:  Showing Intercept Almost Exactly 100 Years After Vatican II


A similar result can be seen in Simulation 0 in Figure 3, the linear extrapolation by the average decline during the last 30 years which determines that the last surviving Jesuit expires about 2070.
 
The difference between an exponential decay model and a linear model can be considered like the difference between going down a slide that “flattens out” at the end and allows you to come to a slow stop, and one that just goes straight to the ground so that you would slam into the dirt at a high velocity, possibly breaking something. Since the data fits a linear model and the Jesuits are showing no signs of changing the direction they've taken over the past 50 years, this model is probably accurate.  In other words, the Jesuits are most likely on a fast track to extinction.
 
Using any of these models, it should be clear that the Jesuits really have no business guiding the Church when it comes to vocations.  We have already seen the strong correlation between vocations and traditional Catholic practices and spirituality. The Priest Shortage, Manufactured Crisis? [5] shows the stark contrast when any diocese or group of religious recovers our traditional patrimony: prayer life, Mass, practices and belief.  And Francis’ predecessor made it clear that these practices cannot be forbidden. [6]
 
So here is the contradiction in which Francis is trapped:  what is it that he wants for the Church?  Is it vocations?  Then that comes with the pre-conciliar “rules” along with the old Mass, and “rigid” seminarians.   Or is he insisting on the post-conciliar lack of rules, free-for-all liturgy, “gray areas,” and the consequential loss of vocations? 
 
The latest doctrinal drift comes from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the form of guidelines stating that priests should be “'promoters' of 'appropriate care for everything connected to the protection of creation'.”  In other words, they are to be advocates of global climate change theories [7].  We all should be concerned about the environment in which we live, but the salvation of souls is the supreme law of the Church.  Will the idea of sacrificing everything in life to become an environmental activist bring young men into the seminaries in droves? There is no mathematical model for this prediction, but I will make it anyway:  if our clergy are to become environmental activists dedicated to shaping a Paradise on earth, they will join the Jesuits on the fast track to extinction. 
 
To return to the comments made by Francis to his fellow Jesuits, he has both acknowledged that we have a vocations crisis, and placed himself in firm opposition to the solution to this crisis.  Living with such a contradiction must be maddening.  Perhaps it is madness that is causing him to lead the Catholic Church to the suicide of which he speaks.  Cultural Suicide, a self-imposed form of Cultural Genocide, will be addressed in the next article.

[1]  http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=30038, Catholic World News, November 25, 2016.

[2]  Catholic World News, “Extinction, accepted in 'the Jesuit tradition'”, Phil Lawler, Apr 26, 2011.

[3]  http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otn.cfm?ID=795

[4]  Statistical data from ‘The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church’ (http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/)

[5]  “The Priest Shortage: A Manufactured Crisis?” On Christendom Restoration Society, Inc., January 2015. 

[6]  Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, issued motu propio by Pope Benedict XVI on July 7, 2007.

[7] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4020344/New-Catholic-priests-learn-climate-change-studies-drive-church-cut-global-warming.html

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David L. Sonnier
About the Authors:

David L. Sonnier is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and serves on the Board of Christendom Restoration Society. Other works by David Sonnier include:
  • “Ecclesiastical Aggiorniamento and Exponential Decay Functions: A Statistical Analysis” with Albert P. Marcello III, 2004. 
  • "Gender-Bender Liturgy and the Decline of Vocations," Christian Order, Volume 44, Number 12, December 2003.
  • “Springtime Decay,” on www.seattlecatholic.com, January 2004.
  • “Child Molestation by Homosexuals and Heterosexuals,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review, May 2005,  p. 44-54.
  • "The Priest Shortage, A Manufactured Crisis?"
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Jack P. Oostveen with Pope Benedict XVI
Jack P. Oostveen is educated as a Practical and Scientific Civil Engineer, experienced consultant and research engineer in the field of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. Since 2012 he is Emeritus Assistant Professor in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering of the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.

Jack converted into the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. Since 1979 he has been involved with the "Interparochie Maria van Nazareth," an unofficial group of faithful attached to the Traditional Mass in Delft, The Netherlands and board-member from 1986 to 1996.
Having been inspired by the work of the International Federation Una Voce, since 1995 Jack has been involved in the foundation "Ecclesia Dei Delft" and beginning in 1997 he worked to make the "Interparochie Maria van Nazareth" official.  In 1999 he became a member of the International Federation Una Voce.
  • Board member  from 2001 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2013
  • President from 2006 to 2007, during which the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum was received
  • Vice-president from 2005-2006 and from 2007 to 2013
  • Was involved by a world wide action pro Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate in 2014

Author of the first systematic analysis of the sudden and precipitous decline of the clerical population dealt specifically with the Netherlands:
  • “Prospectives for Growth: A System Dynamics Study of the Roman Catholic Priest Population of the Netherlands”. Oostveen J.P. and Sweeney D.J.. International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. Seville. Spain. 1986. 1-183;
  • Statistical evaluation of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands. Oostveen. J.P. 1997; http://www.ecclesiadei.nl/rkstat/index.html.

And more recently:

  • “Vatican II, the intrinsic risks for failures and clarity of the interpretation", http://www.ecclesiadei.nl/docs/clarity.html, Oostveen, J.P., 2015;
  • “Risk analysis of Vatican II”. http://www.ecclesiadei.nl/docs/risk_analysis.html. Oostveen. J.P.. 2016;
  • "Letters to Rome", http://www.ecclesiadei.nl/docs/letters_to_Rome.html, Oostveen, J.P., 2016

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The Papa Stronsay Calendar 2017

1/3/2017

 
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The 2017 calendar from the monks of Papa Stronsay is available now. Based on the Traditional Latin Mass, this feature rich calendar includes a Spiritual Almanac, a listing of the Popes, a key to define calendar icons, an extensive listing of important anniversaries for 2017, Local Feasts for England & Wales, Scotland, and the United States, and of course ... beautiful photographs of life at the monastery. Click on the photo of the calendar or the link below to go directly to the web site for
The Holy Island of Papa Stronsay!

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St. Andrew Christmas Novena Prayer to Obtain Favors

11/28/2016

 

St. Andrew Christmas Novena Prayer to Obtain Favors
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Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour, vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God! to hear my prayer and grant my desires, through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His Blessed Mother. Amen.

(It is piously believed that whoever recites the above prayer fifteen (15) times a day from the feast of St. Andrew (30th November) until Christmas will obtain what is asked.)

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New York, February 6, 1897

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Prophesy of St. Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)

9/17/2016

 
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Shortly before he died in 1226, St. Francis of Assisi called together the members of his order and warned them of great tribulations that would befall the Church in the future.

The book, "Works of the Seraphic Father St. Francis Of Assisi" (London: R. Washbourne, 1882), documents the prophesy of St. Francis warning about a destroyer pope. Below are photos of the pages of this book recounting his prophesy on pages 248 to 250.


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In what perhaps may be a related story, here is a summary of the evil persecution of the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Immaculate. The original article from Katholisches in German
http://www.katholisches.info/2016/09/14/15-kloester-aufgehoben-was-bleibt-vom-orden-der-franziskaner-der-immakulata/
Translated into English on the blog Eponymous Flower
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2016/09/15-cloisters-dissolved-what-remains-of.html

Novena to St-Louis IX, Confessor and King of France August 16 to 24

8/16/2016

 
The novena, or litany, to St-Louis IX begins the day after the feast of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven. His feast day is August 25th. Each response, for example "pray for us," should be recited at the end of each line, until a new response is indicated.

Litany of Saint Louis of France
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.

God, the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
God the Holy Ghost,
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.

Holy Mary, pray for us.
Holy Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of virgins,
Saint Louis of France,
Saint Louis, scion of devout parents,
Saint Louis, constant protector of the children of God,
Saint Louis, steadfast teacher of piety,
Saint Louis, true model of Christian virtue,
Saint Louis, faithful confessor of the living Christ,
Saint Louis, kingly bearer of humiliations,
Saint Louis, staunch defender of the glorified Christ,
Saint Louis, true martyr of the flesh by mortification,
Saint Louis, detester of worldly pride and honor,
Saint Louis, saviour of souls,
Saint Louis, ardent lover of God,
Saint Louis, kind friend of enemies,
Saint Louis, rapt in prayer to God,
Saint Louis, hope of sinners,
Saint Louis, giver of gifts,
Saint Louis, founder of charitable institutions for the afflicted,
Saint Louis, generous giver of alms,
Saint Louis, lavish dispenser of riches,
Saint Louis, guard of the holy places of pilgrimage,
Saint Louis, detester of immoderate people,
Saint Louis, protector of widows and orphans,
Saint Louis, defender of the sepulchre of Our Lord Jesus Christ,
Saint Louis, victor over the Saracens,
Saint Louis, protector of those in pagan slavery,
Saint Louis, converter of unbelievers to the Christian faith,
Saint Louis, visitor of hospitals and dispenser of favors to the infirm,
Saint Louis, healer of the sick,
Saint Louis, intercessor and patron of the French King,
Saint Louis, from whom those who flee to thee obtain the infallible help of God,
Saint Louis, at whose request divers diseases are miraculously cured, pray for us.

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Christ hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
Lord have mercy on us. Christ have mercy on us.
Lord have mercy on us.

Our Father ... (in silence).
Hail Mary ... (in silence).
V. Pray for us, Saint Louis:
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray.
O Lord, King of kings, Jesus Christ, Who didst love Saint Louis and didst lead him into the heavenly Kingdom: grant that by his intercession and good works, we may participate in his glory for all eternity. Who livest and reignest world without end. Amen.

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Men, start a tradition!

6/18/2016

 
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Men, start a tradition!
In many nations the 3rd Sunday in June is designated by secular governments as "Father's Day." Catholics normally associate a celebration of fatherhood with the feast of St. Joseph on March 19th. While this secular celebration is not on the Christian calendar, we wish to take this opportunity to encourage fathers to start some kind of annual tradition to do something spiritual with other male members of your families and those close to you.

One suggestion could be to set aside one hour while on your family vacation to have all the guys make a holy hour, preferably at a perpetual adoration chapel. A simple web search should bring up these chapels in the local diocese or nearby churches that have adoration available at specific times during the week. Plan ahead!

Whether you're a papa, a grandfather, an uncle, Godfather, big brother, whatever! Anyone can initiate this event! These are moments that will make an impression, especially on the young, and one hopes will encourage them to continue the practice of the faith with ever more devotion. These are moments they will remember fondly in their adult life. If any should fall away, it just might be the spark that re-ignites their faith as they remember this when they bury us! ;-)

From generation to generation, men ... pass it on !!

St. Andrew Christmas Novena Prayer to Obtain Favors Begins Monday 30 Nov 2015

11/28/2015

 
St. Andrew Christmas Novena
Prayer to Obtain Favors

Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour, vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God! to hear my prayer and grant my desires, through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His Blessed Mother. Amen.


(It is piously believed that whoever recites the above prayer fifteen times a day from the feast of St. Andrew (30th November) until Christmas will obtain what is asked.)

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