"And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me." (2 Corinthians 12:7) Many are of the opinion that this refers to temptations against the sixth and ninth commandments, but there can be many other stings of the flesh, and we all have a weakness or weaknesses.

"For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would." (Galatians 5:17) The spirit after Baptism desires God while the flesh has its own desires, which are with us until we die. As we age, some sins may become impossible to do, but the desire can remain. This is why we must guard our thoughts. The soul is the battlefield where the spirit and the flesh attempt to assert their authority and take control. When the flesh takes control, the result is sin.

Saint Paul enumerates the works of the flesh: "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like." (Galatians 5:19-21) Henry Edward Cardinal Manning comments: "At first sight some may wonder why St. Paul after summing up a black list of the sins of the flesh adds “enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,” and closes with “murders, drunkenness, revellings, and suchlike.” (Galatians 5:19-21) In truth, the spiritual sins of “enmities and dissensions” are more Satanic than the sins of the flesh, for Satan has no body; and they are more at variance with God, because they are spiritual, and God is charity."

Notice there are two classes of sins here. They are separated here as spiritual and fleshly. It would be better to state that enmities, wraths, quarrels, etc. originate in the soul. There are some, who are on the road to hell, but are pure as angels. They do not indulge in the fleshly sins of gluttony, lust, etc. However, they are proud as devils, indulging in enmities, etc.

Let us remember it only takes one serious sin to send us to hell. And yet, how many of us are in the habit of committing serious sins? How many of us pass sin off as nothing serious, when in fact it is very serious. Any habit of sin will eventually kill charity in our souls. When we habitually commit sin, we weak our selves to the point that we will fall into mortal sin. Of course, we do not fall into sin, we willfully commit sin. And when we deliberately commit sin, even if it is not serious sin, we prepare ourselves to commit a mortal sin. Let us never take sin lightly. 

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Quo Vadis Ecclesia Catholica?

What is happening to Catholic world? Answer: The Catholic becomes worldly, instead of the world converting to Catholicism.

If outside Jesus Christ there is no salvation, outside the Catholic Church there's no salvation. Since Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church are one. But not the Conciliar Church. If the world should be saved the world must accept Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church. But this is not the reality. It remains a dream.

The truth is the Catholic Church is now considered as one among the many religions in the world. The Catholic Church is now one of the many choices to choose from. Why? Because of religious freedom brought about by the Second Vatican Council. The Catholic Church now becomes relative. In the recent Philippine national election, for example where in the conciliar church supported a political party and candidates, implicitly manifesting that Filipino people no longer regard the catholic church. And personally I don't believe that the church should endorsed a candidate openly and maligned the other candidate. That particular character dissuaded Filipino Catholics to trust apostate catholic hierarchy. I mean the conciliar church.

The problematic is many Catholics around the globe are unaware that the catholic church had been highjacked since 1958, many Catholics are unaware that their leaders are no longer catholic but modernist. Many are still thinking that Bergoglio is the Pope. Many are unaware that Bergoglio is a heretic. The recent Philippine national election eventually shows that the church they are recognizing is not the Catholic Church anymore. That Filipinos and the rest of the world should begin to recognize the Vatican is in exile and the real pope is Michael not Francis. But this is not the case. Our burning prayers are much needed for this to become a reality.

What is wrong with the Catholic Church? The Church become worldly instead of the world become christified. That's why we need to pray. As long as the church does not renounce her political power, she remains incredible to the world. To maintain her moral and spiritual ascendency the church must remain poor in spirit meaning she must cling to the power of Holy Ghost alone not to any lords of this world.

  

Arizona Department of Education Promotes Chat Room to Talk About Gender, Sexuality

The Arizona Department of Education’s list of student resources provides minor children with links to LGBT-themed chat rooms where they can discuss gender and sexuality, possibly without their parents’
knowledge.

The ADE website directs students to...a list of resources ADE assembled for students, educators, school leaders and parents “to assist in the support of LGBTQ students in our schools and communities.” In addition to the chat rooms, the website also includes information about local and national LGBT organizations. The list of resources was collected by “members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community as part of ADE’s Equitable and Inclusive Practices Advisory Council.” 

... The LGBT-themed chat room is operated in collaboration with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest
abortion provider

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FBI Spied on 3.3 Million Americans Without a Warrant

High-ranking Republicans in the House of Representatives are demanding answers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after court-ordered information surfaced showing that the federal law enforcement agency collected the personal information of more than three million American citizens without a warrant.

The Epoch Times reported that on May 25, FBI Director Christopher Wray was sent a letter from Representatives Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio) asking him to explain why the bureau wiretapped and gathered the personal information of over 3.3 million Americans without first obtaining a warrant... 

.... In total, there were 3,394,053 searches made against individual American citizens. By comparison, there were 1,324,057 total queries made in 2020. This marks a 250-percent search increase in President Joe Biden’s first year in office.

 

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State Farm, Where Radicalism Is Ensured

Americans are finding out what State Farm apparently puts a premium on: indoctrination. Thanks to a company whistle-blower, the corporation was just outed for trying to flood local libraries and schools with transgender stories for children. “The project’s goal,” the January email read, “is to increase representation of LGBTQ books and support our communities in having challenging, important and empowering conversations with children Age 5+.”

Emails show as many as 550 State Farm employees were asked to join the project with GenderCool, an extremist group whose entire purpose is recruiting children for the transgender movement. The idea, State Farm explained, is to flood local communities with “a collection of books to help bring clarity and understanding to the national conversation about being transgender, inclusive and nonbinary.”...

...In a statement, the company stood by its call for “inclusivity” but announced it would no longer support the program....

...State Farm went on to say that it wasn’t backing away from its woke agenda and vowed to find other outlets for its LGBT extremism. “We will continue to explore how we can support organizations that provide tools and resources that align with our commitment to diversity.”

 

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USPS Can Require Christian Postal Carrier to Work on Sundays, Appeals Court Rules

A federal appeals court panel has ruled against a U.S. Postal Service employee who sought religious exemptions from working on Sundays because of his faith.

A three-judge panel for the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Pennsylvania postal worker Gerald Groff in a decision released [May 25].

Groff... argued that he could only avoid working on Sundays by switching shifts with other employees. Circuit Judge Patty Shwartz wrote that if Groff were to receive exemptions from working on Sundays, the accommodations “would cause an undue hardship” for the postal service....

Although USPS doesn’t typically deliver mail on Sundays, it will occasionally do so under “certain circumstances,” such as priority mail or delivering Amazon packages.

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The Funny Pharmacy

The Pope Speaks: July 2022

Traditionalism Before It Had a Name

In 1967 Emmett Culligan published a book, The Fatima Secret: A Layman's Recall to the Age of Faith. Towards the beginning is a picture of his extended family, including a priest with the caption: "In 1951 we went to the Rocky Mountains to escape Antichrist. In the summer of 1959, the Montana Earthquake destroyed our buildings." They would be the first of what later became doomsday preppers.

A question came into the Vatican in Exile asking if we knew of a Father Wish in Milwaukee. The name sounds familiar, but he comes from the second part of the formation of the Traditionalist Movement. Traditionalism began in reaction to the false doctrines coming from Vatican II and its perfidious spirit. What was bothering people was what was coming from some pulpits and the new catechisms being used.

Recall first of all that the Novus Ordo had not yet been instituted in the 1960's. Although promulgated in Latin in 1969 it took time to prepare the various vernacular translations, although the Mass was slowly being translated into the vernacular throughout the late 1960s. When I made my First Communion, the Canon was still in Latin. A few years later, when I began to serve the whole Mass was in English.

The first time period to consider is from Vatican II, 1965, until Black Palm Sunday, 1970, the day the Novus Ordo was instituted in English. Much was happening throughout the world in this time period, but I am going to limit myself to what we saw from Oklahoma City, which was unique.

As a reaction to the false doctrine and miserable catechisms a group of concerned parents got together and formed what was called the Mother's Catechism Class. We met on Sundays at the school at the cathedral parish as Tom Costello went to the Bishop and told him that he would rent us the school or he would go to the Baptists and rent from them and it would be on the front page of the Oklahoma City paper. These women taught from the Baltimore Catechism. They first were able to acquire the Kelly edition. This is in reprint now. By the time I reached seventh grade they had found the Deck edition. 

I was a victim of the idea of First Communion before First Confession. I went to CCD at the local parish and duly made my First Communion. The next fall the parents of the First Communicants were gathered and told that Confession would not come until sixth grade. That is when Mom started looking for something better. She found the Mother's Catechism, which had been running for a year and a half already. She enrolled me and the next school year began teaching second grade, as I went into fourth grade.

The Oklahoma City school district was part of a racial bias court case. The first move was to open up all schools to anyone in the district and about six children moved to different schools. The court decided this was not good enough and forced busing on the whole school district to integrate it properly. As a reaction many parents pulled their children from government (public) school and enrolled them in private school. I was enrolled for fifth grade in Rosary School at Saint Francis Parish. Mom warned Father Walde, the pastor, who was receiving students coming in to Rosary from another parish where the school had been closed that many of these students may not have been to Confession yet. And he found this to be the case.

What began in the mid 1960's is what came to be known as parish shopping. Saint Patrick's where these new students were coming from was liberal, whereas Saint Francis under Father Walde and Father Walters was conservative. In fact three priests in a row were sent to Saint Patrick's and ended up leaving the priesthood to get married.

What Mom had noticed is that you would listen to a sermon and know where it should be going. Towards the end though, it would take a left turn away from the Faith. And so people looked for pulpits where this did not happen. It was not the changing Mass that concerned people, but the heresy coming from the pulpits. In fact the sermons had become so offensive to pious ears in the mid 1960's that my grandparents commented that they could not hear them anymore.

My aunt was asked to teach catechism at a parish she was in in the mid 1960's. They gave her a new catechism, which she could not make head nor tails of. She went home and dug her old Baltimore Catechism out and taught from that for the three years she lived in that parish.

On November 15, 1966, the Conciliar Church of Vatican II repealed the Index of Prohibited Books and Canon 1399, which forbade among other things, pornography, as well as heresy, thus giving license to all manner of evil. Yes Paul VI removed any Church prohibition of pornography.

Also in 1966 the Dutch Catechism came out, which was very liberal. In fact it was so liberal that eventually it got banned.

Many things happened in these times. In 1965 Father Gommar Depauw founded the Catholic Traditionalist Movement and established a private chapel in 1968. Walter Matt split from his family, which founded The Wanderer long before Vatican II to form the Remnant newspaper in 1967. In 1968 Francis Schuckardt with Denis Chicoine would found what would eventually become the CMRI. They were lay men and went around the country for several years criticizing Vatican II and promoting devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Father Francis Fenton was speaking for the John Birch Society on Communism in the late 1960's and then eventually formed the ORCM. (Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement) He was joined by Father Daniel Jones of Colorado at the beginning. He was talking about doing this in the late 1960's although it was not founded until 1973 or so.

As we observed last month, it is not the Mass that was the problem, it was the doctrine. And you will notice many names are not mentioned here, because they were still in the Conciliar Church, which was forming in the Spirit of Vatican II.

There are a few important people from this time frame. The first is Hugo Maria Kellner, who criticized Antipope John XXIII-II in a book in 1964, A dogmatic analysis of the opening address of Pope John XXIII to Vatican II as a means of achieving doctrinal unity with Protestantism. He would later write a letter critical of Archbishop Lefebvre and the Society of Saint Pius X. ¹

A key player is Abbe George de Nantes from France, who criticized Paul VI as well as Vatican II in the 1960s. He is famous for his Liber Accusationis Paulum Sextum, accusing Paul VI of heresy and calling for a canonical trial of Paul VI. ² (October 18, 1973)

In the late 1960's people would hear something so offensive to pious ears that they had to walk out of the church. Dad did so twice. Both times, because of our schedules, Dad had gone to a different Mass than Mom and I. Tom Costello had a large family, which took up a whole pew. The sermon became so offensive that he got up in the middle and looked at his wife at the other end of the pew and said: "Costellos out." He then proceeded to march his family down the center aisle.

Although the changes as we called them were happening transitioning the Mass from Latin to English, none took one thought about the liturgy with an exception we will consider next month. There is no real problem with the vernacular, provided the translation is good. Unfortunately the one being used was horrible.

Because the transition was done slowly, we did not realize all that was going on. We did not realize that Vatican II itself was the problem. In 1966 an English translation of the Documents of Vatican II came out and someone read it and went to a priest to complain about some of what he read. He was met with the reply: "This is not an official translation," which ended much study of Vatican II itself at the time. Our focus was shifted from Vatican II to what we were hearing from the pulpits and reading in publications from the Church, which had already ceased to be Catholic, although we did not yet realize it. (Apocalypse 3:9) This came to be known as the spirit of Vatican II. The Novus Ordo was just one of the many fruits, which sprang forth from Vatican II. Next month we will find that the Novus Ordo was what really got our attention and brought our thinking together. We did not leave because of the Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI; it was just the last straw and helped us realize that the sect that gave us Vatican II had left the Catholic Church through heresy.

St. Francis de Sales' Introduction to the Devout Life

"The flowers appear on the earth," says the Heavenly Bridegroom, and the time for pruning and cutting is come. And what, my child, are our hearts' flowers save our good desires? Now, so soon as these begin to appear, we need the pruning-hook to cut off all dead and superfluous works from our conscience. When the daughter of a strange land was about to espouse an Israelite, the law commanded her to put off the garment of her captivity, to pare her nails, and to shave her head; even so the soul which aims at the dignity of becoming the spouse of Christ, must put off the old man, and put on the new man, forsaking sin: moreover, it must pare and shave away every impediment which can hinder the Love of God. The very first step towards spiritual health is to be purged from our sinful humours. Saint Paul received perfect purification instantaneously, and the like grace was conferred on Saint Magdalene, Saint Catherine of Genoa, Saint Pelagia, and some others, but this kind of purgation is as miraculous and extraordinary in grace as the resurrection of the dead in nature, nor dare we venture to aspire to it. The ordinary purification, whether of body or soul, is only accomplished by slow degrees, step by step, gradually and painfully.

The angels on Jacob's ladder had wings, yet nevertheless they did not fly, but went in due order up and down the steps of the ladder. The soul which rises from out of sin to a devout life has been compared to the dawn, which does not banish darkness suddenly, but by degrees. That cure which is gradually effected is always the surest; and spiritual maladies, like those of the body, are wont to come on horseback and express, while they depart slowly and on foot. So that we must needs be brave and patient, my child, in this undertaking. It is a woeful thing to see souls beginning to chafe and grow disheartened because they find themselves still subject to imperfection after having made some attempt at leading a devout life, and well-nigh yielding to the temptation to give up in despair and fall back; but, on the other hand, there is an extreme danger surrounding those souls who, through the opposite temptation, are disposed to imagine themselves purified from all imperfection at the very outset of their purgation; who count themselves as full-grown almost before they are born, and seek to fly before they have wings. Be sure, daughter, that these are in great danger of a relapse through having left their physician too soon. "It is but lost labour to rise up early and late take rest," unless the Lord prosper all we do.

The work of the soul's purification neither may nor can end save with life itself;--do not then let us be disheartened by our imperfections,--our very perfection lies in diligently contending against them, and it is impossible so to contend without seeing them, or to overcome without meeting them face to face. Our victory does not consist in being insensible to them, but in not consenting to them. Now to be afflicted by our imperfections is certainly not to consent thereto, and for the furtherance of humility it is needful that we sometimes find ourselves worsted in this spiritual battle, wherein, however, we shall never be conquered until we lose either life or courage. Moreover, imperfections and venial sins cannot destroy our spiritual life, which is only to be lost through mortal sin; consequently we have only need to watch well that they do not imperil our courage. David continually asks the Lord to strengthen his heart against cowardice and discouragement; and it is our privilege in this war that we are certain to vanquish so long as we are willing to fight.

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Saints from East and West

13 July - Blessed Thomas Tunstal, Martyr (A.D. 1616).

Thomas Tunstal was born at Whinfell, near Kendal. He entered the English College at Douay in 1606, was ordained priest, and sent on the mission in 1610. He was arrested almost at once and spent the rest of his life in various prisons. He contrived to escape from Wisbech Castle by sliding down a rope, and took refuge with a friend near King's Lynn; but he was immediately discovered, under the following circumstances. In sliding down the rope he had very badly skinned his hands, and for lack of attention the raw places had gone septic. His host recommended him to consult a certain kindly woman, who did many medical services for the poor, and this he did. Lady L'Estrange, for that was her name, cleaned and dressed his hands, not without some curiosity as to who the poorly dressed but well-bred stranger might be; unfortunately she did not keep her curiosity to herself but mentioned the man to her husband, Sir Hammond L'Estrange. He was a justice of the peace and knew that there was hue and cry for a priest escaped from Wisbech, and when he heard that the injured man was staying in the house of a recusant he at once ordered his arrest, in spite of the entreaties of his wife to forget what she had said.

Blessed Thomas was committed to Norwich gaol, and brought up at the next assizes in that city, when he was condemned on the evidence of a single false witness, one Symons. This fellow swore that the prisoner had reconciled two Protestants and tried to do the same with himself. The alleged converts were called and deposed that they were still Protestants, but that Mr. Tunstal had urged them in general terms to holiness of life. Mr. Justice Altham offered the oath of supremacy, which Blessed Thomas refused, asking, however, that he might have opportunity to expose his faith and reasons before a minister. The request was disregarded and sentence pronounced. At the scaffold the next morning he was met by Sir Hammond L'Estrange, whom he heartily forgave, saying, "I beseech God that my guiltless blood may not lie heavy upon you and yours." When he was asked if he were a Jesuit he replied that he was not, but a secular priest who had made a vow to join the Order of Saint Benedict, and he therefore asked the sheriff that his head might be set up on Saint Benet's gate. He answered a nagging question from a minister about whether he expected salvation from his good works, called for a glass of water, and enquired the hour; when told eleven o'clock, he said, "Then it is near dinner-time. Sweet Jesus, admit me though most unworthy to be a guest this day at thy table in Heaven." He quietly blessed the fire and the rope, and with the prayer, "Jesu, have mercy on me!" upon his lips, he was turned off; he was left to hang till he was dead and his head was displayed on Saint Benet's gate of Norwich as he had wished.

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8 July - Saint Procopius.

The Holy Great Martyr Procopius, in the world Neanius, a native of Jerusalem, lived and suffered during the reign of the emperor Diocletian (284-305). His father, an eminent Roman by the name of Christopher, was a Christian, but the mother of the saint, Theodosia, remained a pagan. He was early deprived of his father, and the young lad was raised by his mother. Having received an excellent secular education, he was introduced to Diocletian in the very first year of the emperor's accession to the throne, and he quickly advanced in government service. Towards the year 303, when open persecution against Christians was enacted, Neanius was dispatched as a proconsul to Alexandria with orders to mercilessly persecute the Church of God. But on the way to Egypt, near the Syrian city of Apameia, Neanius had a vision of the Lord Jesus, just as once formerly had happened with Saul on the road to Damascus. A Divine voice exclaimed: "Neanius, why persecutest thou Me?" Neanius asked: "Who art Thou, Lord?" "I am the crucified Jesus, the Son of God." And at this moment in the air appeared a radiant cross. Neanius sensed in his heart an inexpressible joy and spiritual happiness and he was transformed from being a persecutor into instead a zealous follower of Christ. From this point in time Neanius became fondly disposed towards Christians and struggled victoriously only against the barbarian pagans.

But for the saint there transpired the words of the Saviour, that "the enemies for a man are of his own household." (Mt. 10:36) His mother, a pagan herself went to the emperor with a complaint against her son, of not reverencing the ancestral gods. Neanius was summoned to the procurator Judaeus Justus, where he was solemnly handed the missive of Diocletian. Having read through the missive filled with its blasphemies, Neanius quietly before the eyes of everyone tore it up. This itself was already a crime, which the Romans regarded as an "insult to authority." Neanius was held under guard and in chains sent off to Caesarea Palestine, where the Apostle Paul once languished. After terrible torments they threw the saint into a dank prison. By night in the prison room there shone a light, and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, having come with luminous Angels, made Baptism for the suffering confessor, and gave him the name Procopius.

Repeatedly they led Saint Procopius to the courtroom, demanding him to renounce Christ and anew they subjected him to tortures. The stolidity of the martyr and his fiery faith brought down God's abundant grace viewing the execution. Inspired by the deed of Procopius, beneath the sword of the executioner went many of the holy prisoner's former guards and Roman soldiers together with their tribunes Nicostrates and Antiochus. And with martyr's crowns was sealed the faith of twelve Christian women, having themselves come to the gates of the Caesarea Praetorium. Struck by the great faith of the Christians and their courage, and having seen the firmness of her son in bearing terrible sufferings, Theodosia became repentant and stood amidst the line of confessors and was executed. Finally the new procurator, Flavian, convinced of the uselessness of the tortures, sentenced the holy Great Martyr Procopius to beheading by the sword. By night Christians took up the much-tortured body, and having wrapped it in grave-clothes, with tears and prayers they committed it to earth (+303).

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Advice You Can Bank On

A Catholic Perspective On Finances 

Being on the Same Page

 

Are you and your spouse on the same page, financially? Do you know what it looks like if you aren’t? In this month’s "Advice You Can Bank On", we will discuss why it is important to be on the same page, even if it’s only one of you that is handling all the finances.

 

For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife. And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. (Mark 10:7-8)

 

When my husband and I first married, I asked him to allow me to manage the finances. I already had a payroll and bookkeeping business with extensive spreadsheets managing my own finances, so I knew it would be an easy transition to add in his expenses and income to marry the two together. He agreed.

 

That was the easy part. After adding his accounts to my spreadsheets, I thought to myself, “now what?”. I thought that having all the information in my head and on the computer would be it. I knew what was going on, so he must also…right?

 

Not necessarily.

 

The first step is sharing information with one another. Are you both working towards the same goals? Do you have similar goals? What if your husband wants a cabin in the mountains and you would like a cabana on the beach? Maybe one of you thinks that paying off the mortgage is the most important financial goal, while the other thinks that a new car makes the most sense. Sitting down with one another and working through your goals and how they relate to one another is paramount to being on the same page. Compromising together if you have different ideas on your collective futures would be included in this topic as well.

 

I consider myself lucky in that both my husband and I had very similar goals in our pre-married life, which is what led us together in the first place. Knowing that life sometimes throws a curve ball, or that goals might change dependent on circumstances requires reconvening and doesn’t always mean starting over. Having a budget is having a basis to reflect on, even if things change.

 

In October 2021’s issue of The Olive Tree, we talked about how to create a budget. This is best done together. While one of you might have a solid idea of how much to spend on a certain expense, you might be surprised to hear what your spouse has to say about it.

 

I recently gave some advice to a business owner and poured a lot of research and thought into what I had to say to him. Of all the things I said, and all the things I thought most important, what stuck out to him the most was an opinion I had to offer, and not anything pertaining to the research and actual statistics I had provided to him. The same is said for when I ask of my husband’s opinion. He almost always offers something I hadn’t thought of, and I’m grateful for the additional insight. This makes both of us feel that our financial discussions are productive and that we are continuing to work towards the same goals.

 

For us, writing things down is extremely helpful, even if it’s before we’re to have a conversation. It can be easy to get off track in a discussion, and points may be missed. While we don’t create an agenda, so to speak, by writing our ideas or thoughts down briefly, it has helped keep us on track so that we know we are both heard. We can come together on an idea, even if we started in radically different places.

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In 1962 John XXIII convened a Council in the Catholic Church, which brought about sweeping changes after he had opened the windows to the world. There was an immediate reaction in 1965, when this Council closed to the changing teachings coming from the pulpits throughout the world. This led to the foundation of a movement in the mid 1960's to preserve the Catholic Faith as it had always been taught. When Paul VI in the 'Spirit of Vatican' started changing the Rites for administering the Sacraments, this movement realized that the problem was far worse than they originally thought. This movement did not have a name until the mid 1970's, when it came to be called Traditionalism. However, this movement has splintered, beginning in about 1980 over the extent of the problem and how the problems in the Catholic Church should be addressed. Over time these positions became firm and there are two basic branches of Traditionalism, as well as some, who are simply not sure exactly how extensive the problem is. A century ago, the Catholic Church was a rock, but not it appears to be disordered groups of people, who can only agree on one thing, I am Catholic, and you are not. And so we ask, will the real Catholic Church please stand up?

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Video sermons and instructions: Timeless timely truths for living the Faith

Precious Blood of Jesus 2012

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Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

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Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

The Necessity of Mortification

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Confirmation-The Seven Fold Grace of God-Piety/Godliness

Praying For God’s Provision: Asking In Accord With God’s Word