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Demons are legalistic rigorists.
Speaking of Stephen Brady and his organization "The Roman Catholic Faithful," I remember when he publicized what happened to Fr. James Haley in the Arlington Diocese back in 2002.We attended a support meeting for Haley led by Mr. Brady. Loverde had also attmpted to ban kneeling for Communion at that time. I think one of the priests he mentioned in his depostion may have been a mistake. The rest of that gang are really, really into all kinds of intrigue and problems. Fr. Haley has been interviewed, and he seemed in lacking courage and fortitude. But I can absolutely understand why he'd have been traumatized. He found the horrific material on a (thankfully defrocked) priest's computer. This same priest was a true monster, who embarrassed me in front of a lot of people because I'd said something about the demonic. He yelled that I was mentally ill, etc. It was scary, but one of the reasons I pay attention to spiritual warfare. He probably freaked Fr. Haley out badly, The damage bad clergy cause is so intense.
Bishop Loverde tried to have Fr. Haley committed to a psychiatric hospital, but fortunately, he already had his own private psychiatrist to help him deal with the stress he was under, who helped him get out.
So for clarification, we are allowed to do non-servile work on Sunday even when the non-servile work is for profit, correct?
e.g. Am I allowed to do my schoolwork, seeing as my education is directed towards a degree and learning experience, both of which are directed towards a possible career which will hopefully bring me sufficient income in the future?
e.g. Am I allowed to do non-servile hobbies, even when I'm getting paid to do them? (or when I am not getting paid, but will otherwise be profiting from them in the long run)?
Also, what's so special about servile work that makes it forbidden?
. [17] And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. [18] Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth. [19] In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.Gen 3
Bloody Spaniards. If someone asks nicely, I will post a video of me hacking away on a guitar.
Apology accepted. But Western Catholicism clearly ain't it. Superstition masquerading as "theology" and "doctrine", dictatorial and overbearing authority, and a soteriology that belongs in Bugs Bunny, among other things. Vatican II and the post-Conciliar Magisterium clearly show the West was simply blowing smoke for quite a while and many of its self-serving claims simply aren't true.
"Does this mean that we must discontinue our private Masses, since we do not have faithful to participate in them?”https://onepeterfive.com/archbishop-lefebvres-eyewitness-testimony-church-revolution/
I repeat to you exactly that which Fr. Bugnini said. I have it still in my ears, so much did it strike me: “To speak truthfully we didn’t think of that,” he said!
Afterwards another arose and said: “Reverend Father, you have said that we will suppress this and we will suppress that, that we will replace this thing by that and always by shorter prayers. I have the impression that your new Mass could be said in ten or twelve minutes or at the most a quarter of an hour. This is not reasonable. This is not respectful towards such an act of the Church.” Well, this is what he replied: “We can always add something.” Is this for real? I heard it myself. If somebody had told me the story I would perhaps have doubted it, now I heard it myself.
Afterwards, at the time at which this Normative Mass began to be put into practice, I was so disgusted that we met with some priests and theologians in a small meeting. From it came the “Brief Critical Study,” which was taken to Cardinal Ottaviani. I presided [at] that small meeting. We said to ourselves: “We must go and find the Cardinals. We cannot allow this to happen without reacting.”
So I myself went to find the Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, and I said to him: “Your Eminence, you are not going to allow this to get through, are you? It’s not possible. What is this New Mass? It is a revolution in the Church, a revolution in the Liturgy.”
Cardinal Cicognani, who was the Secretary of State of Pope Paul VI, placed his head between his hands and said to me: “Oh Monseigneur, I know well. I am in full agreement with you; but what can I do? Fr. Bugnini goes in to the office of the Holy Father and makes him sign what he wants.” It was the Cardinal Secretary of State who told me this! Therefore the Secretary of State, the number two person in the Church after the Pope himself, was placed in a position of inferiority with respect to Fr. Bugnini. He could enter into the Pope’s office when he wanted and make him sign what he wanted. [my emphasis]
You must pray for him, pray much more. It is appalling for him to see the Church tumbling down with everything topsy-turvy. You must believe that he would like everything still to be done the old way. He would prefer it if the Council had never been convoked. He is aware that what has eventuated from the Council - its frightful, devastating, catastrophic consequences, cannot be halted. They cannot be halted, even by prayer ... If the Pope were not isolated and watched constantly on all sides, he would still have enough control for his words to reach the outside world. But during these last few months, it has become more terrible. Practically nothing reaches the public any more, and what he would still like to publish is immediately contradicted, modified, changed... to the point of falsification. It is falsified.
No methods are too low for the cardinals to promulgate their notions throughout the world. Nothing is too low, for these, are the Last Times. If we were not steering them on this course and did not have the cardinals in our power as we have, then they would keep a better check on themselves. But as we are all rushing around busily, and so many masters of black magic are following in our tracks, we have the cardinals completely under our domination at the present time. The best thing for you to do is to pray a great deal to the Holy Spirit ...
THE BLESSED SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR
J: The Blessed Sacrament, the Blessed Sacrament. It is no longer adored any more; It has been put completely to one side. Exposition (of the Blessed Sacrament) rarely takes place. There are still a few ceremonies of Reparation in the churches of the “Traditionalists”; apart from that, it is now the exception (rather than the rule). And yet...if you knew how great this Sacrament is!
E: Continue, in the name...!
J: If it were realized what blessings flowed from the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar! Such blessings used to pour from It when It was exposed outside the Tabernacle and people used to make reparation in adoration before Him! That was very beneficial for sinners. All that does not happen any more, which is the reason fewer souls are saved - I would like to stop talking, I really would!
E: Continue, as ordered by the Blessed Virgin, say everything she charges you to say and nothing but the truth!
THE HOLY ROSARY
J: I am still required to say this (he sighs heavily): the bulk of the priests are blind. We blind them. But, with a little good will and much prayer to the Holy Spirit, they would in the course of time, regain their sight. The Rosary would be a universal remedy, but it has been done away with almost everywhere. It is no longer fashionable, no longer the “in thing”, so to speak.
E: Continue, by order of the Blessed Virgin, say all the truth, say what you have to say!
J: The chaplet of Sorrowful Mysteries would be the most precious of the three; what I mean is, they are all precious, but that of the Sorrowful Mysteries contributes the most towards saving souls. That is why, On High (he points upward), it stands out as the most precious ...