November 2024: Olive Tree

Olive Tree

Volume IX/Issue 6/November 2024

The Pope Speaks

Catholicism and Globalization

Since the advent of the internet we are moving forward to the globalization or borderless economy. Filipinos are now eating samgyupsal, biryani and what have you. Americans are eating adobo and balut. Koreans are eating Sinigang. Everything is imported. No more local produce. If there are, it's limited.

This is due to trade liberalization or free market. Sounds great and healthy for the economy but it kills local manufacturers. Because of Deregulation law in the Philippines for example, the Government has no more power over the prices of oil. Ever since the protest in the streets continues and continuing yet there's no changes in the price of oil in the market. Super profit is the goal of privatization of government facilities and so, one cannot expect pure charity. It's profit. Period.

The Conciliar Church purporting to be Catholic led by John XXIII up to Anti- Pope Francis is no different. The counterfeit Catholic Church, Vatican II sect sine 1958 is subtlety moving to a borderless church. Wherein ' no more walls, no more chains, no more closed doors.' Look the communion rail is eventually removing. No more chalice veil, no more maniple. The Nuns are encouraged to wear a common dress and remove the habit. It's a manifestation of borderless church. See the false Pope exchange kiss with the Imam. The Rabbis are welcoming a so called pope who is boldly telling the Jews need not to be converted to Christianity to be saved. Transgenders are welcome for audiences at the palace of the Pope. The LGBTQI are considered Catholics. The same sex couple can be blessed. That's globalization in Christianity!

But now we are calling all the true lovers of God and of the Catholic Church, close your Gates, close your doors, close your windows and never allow the air of modernism enter. Close your window and never allow the air of too much religious liberty enter your family. That's the symbol of the gates in the monastery which the Vatican II attempt to remove. Should you not close your door and windows there will be no more catholicism our young people to return to. Look at " Luce" the official mascot of Jubilee 2025 of the Novus Ordo sect. It portrays a gay Christianity. It portrays a non militant catholicism. But as Catholics we are militants. As true Catholics, we are triumphalist. Close your Gates and keep catholicism.

We understand and we are pretty much aware that we cannot live as an island. We need ad extra not only ad intra. As students of St. Thomas Aquinas, we hold unto guns of moderation. Yes, we need dialogue to other beliefs and religions but we encourage the true Catholics to go back to basics. Study your faith. Study your Catholicism and get rooted before you plunge into the sea of globalization.

His Holiness Michael II Pp.

US Elections

The US has both a new and returning President Elect, Donald J. Trump. He won the popular vote and November’s election gave wins to a majority Republican House and Senate. It was both a landslide victory for the Republicans and a mandate by the people. As the Republicans represent more conservative social and fiscal values, this represents a seismic political change from what we have had in the last 20 years and in other ways the last century. Pundits surprised by the landslide election clearly reflect a disconnect between the elitist and establishment classes and the will of the public. They have come out the days following, soberly acknowledging the victory of President Elect Donald J. Trump as a significant rejection of the direction the country has been going, a direction which they have actively been promoting. It is a mandate by the public, rejecting identity politics, woke and gender ideologies, foreign wars, inflationary spending, and open borders. We saw this dramatic change in political direction in other countries in the Americas during the last couple of years, in places such as Argentina and El Salvador. The pundits still did not see it. They say politics is downstream from culture, but when people are not happy with the culture, they can turn to politics as a means re-shape it. Perhaps then instead, culture is downstream of politics. Perhaps then again, it’s neither. As Catholics, we understand freewill. Elections represent the will of the people and that will spoke in a big way this November. Perhaps, culture and politics are downstream of prayer. Regardless of the current state of culture or politics, we worship a God that answers prayer. He is engaged and active in His love for us. Perhaps simply, some prayers were answered this month.

Fr Steele

Prayer – Nourishment of Our Soul

In 2007, Pope Michael I. released a list of requests, He believed to be essential for salvation. He urged the faithful to incorporate these practices into their daily lives as a path to sainthood. For Catholics around the world, establishing daily routines of prayer and meditation, is a way to prioritize God every day. By doing so, one´s life will harmoniously fall into order. While deviation from routines and neglect of duties are part of the human condition, returning to good habits becomes easier once they have been established. Below is the list for spiritual practices requested by Pope Michael I. in 2007:

Requests of Pope Michael I. (January 25, 2007)
Daily Weekly Monthly, or less frequently

Daily:
1) Morning prayers
2) Regulate use of time
3) Daily duty
4) Prayer before and after meals
5) Practice of the three Hail Marys
6) Daily Spiritual Communion
7) Daily Meditation
8) Daily Spiritual Reading
9) Daily Acts of Faith, Hope, Charity, and Contrition
10) Count your Blessings
11) Night prayers with examination of conscience followed by silence

Weekly:

Sanctify the Lord´s Day

Retire to solitude

Study the Catechism

Weekly Holy Hour

Monthly or less frequently:

Monthly examination of Conscience

Monthly Day of Fasting and Prayer

Catholic Action

Support the Church

Make a Retreat

Make a Rule of Life

The Requests and List can be downloaded here:

https://www.scribd.com/document/11584397/Requests-of-the-Pope

Each of the items on the list is explained in greater details in the text of Pope Michael I. His Holiness, of happy memory, noted that following all the items on the list, together takes less time than we spend eating. He considered these practices as the minimum required for salvation. Additionally, the text contains important exhortations from Saints for daily life, such as devotion to truth, instructions and requirements for obtaining a plenary indulgence and the Sabbatine Privilege especially while the enemy has usurped our churches, along with prayers from Pope Michael I.

The request for a daily Rosary, which has frequently been emphasized by Pope Michael I., should go without
saying. Additionally, pray for the basic intentions of the Supreme Pontiff, which are:

1) The exaltation of Holy Mother Church,

2) The extirpation of heresies,

3) Propagation of the Faith,

4) The conversion of sinners,

5) Peace among Christian nations.

Currently, special intentions of the Pope are:

Sis. Simone

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Let us remember that the Church runs on prayer. Without your prayers, God will not work in hearts and souls to bring them to a knowledge of the truth. (I Timothy 2:4)