The statistics speak for themselves. Mass attendance in the heart of old Christendom is at near zero, and the basics of the faith aren’t even understood anymore by the few who still go to Mass.
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The Faith of Our Fathers can never be acquired even by assiduous attendance at the Nullus Ordo prayer service put in place of the Holy Sacrifice. The recipients ARE catechized, by the masterpiece of mischief, the “Mass” of Papa Montini. Even while I believed in the Real Presence for more than 30 years, going into what seemed to be the Catholic Church in 1990, it wasn’t until two years ago, watching episode #24 of the SSPX “Crisis in the Church” series that I learned that the Mass ATONES for sin, is not simply a re-presentation of the atoning sacrifice. It also made clear that an entirely FALSE THEOLOGY was the very essence of the Prayer Service of Paul VI.
Our Lady of LaSallette told the children that “Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist”,
We are seeing this prophecy unfold before our eyes.
Rome HAS lost the Faith, in the person of Francis.
The Antichrist will follow in God’s time.
I clearly recall reading of Malcolm Muggerige being at the
bedside of Bishop Sheen —NINETEEN SEVENTY-NINE —
and recording what Fulton Sheen said: “Christendom is
finished; but CHRIST IS NOT !”
So, realistically, Prairie Grandpa Bob here cannot grasp
when some —in this digital, POST-print, POST-just-radio
age — still conceive of the Catholic Church [ and all
40,000 “Christian” denominations ] as “Christendom”.
That pre-Protestant age —when the Church and its
derivative Society was still held together by the Gospel’s
CATHOLIC ferment —is no more!
The digitized world —suddenly a VILLAGE! —is awaiting
a RE-unification through Gospel principles, through the
Catholic Genius and Evangelical “Ferment”.
And that can’t even begin to happen until Global abominations
—i.e., Contraception, Abortion, Pornography, Child trafficking,
Homosexuality, Marxist Atheism, Freemasonry — have all
been confronted, grappled with, and EFFECTIVELY killed
through International Law.
The Sound Of Freedom star and spokesman, Jim Caviezel,
[ quietly! . . mentions, almost as an aside! ] that A L L the
Churches —both the Western and the Eastern Orthodox —
HAVE GOT TO simultaneously fight together to eradicate
these diabolical scourges.
Meanwhile, we DO have the Rosary! . . shepherd boy
David’s “stone” with which to kill this present-day
Goliath.
@3:10 ff ” . . the Faith is in free fall”.
Does that mean God the Blessed Trinity is in
“free fall”, or the Sacred Deposit if Faith, or
Christ’s Real Presence [ wherever consecrated
Hosts are housed in Tabernacles ] ?
Certainly not Jesus, nor His Sacred Heart, nor
the Immaculate Heart of Mary, nor their promises.
Only the MEANS of PASSING ON the Faith are in
“free fall” . . Catechesis [ “We haven’t catechized in
over 50 years” according to one North American
Bishop ], HOLY lives [ Sr. Lancaster of Missouri,
found incorrupt ], still remain a powerful potential
for RE-Christianization a people . . YOUTH . .
lifelines to SANCTIFICATION.
Ever since Pentecost, God has raised up Saints to
found, restore, and maintain a living Faith through
the Fire of the Holy Spirit . . the Apostles, St.
Athanasius, St. Peter Canisius, St. Francis de Sales,
St. Charles Borromeo, St. Pius X . .
Are we worthy to merit the Holy Spirit raising up
new Saints for TODAY ? Nobody except Our Lady
is ! And yet at every Mass the Church, through
the Priest, prays [Liturgy of the Eucharist ] :” . .
To us also, who, though sinners, hope in your
abundant mercies, graciously grant some share
and fellowship [ with your holy Apostles and
Martyrs ] . . NOT WEIGHING OUR MERITS,
BUT GRANTING US YOUR PARDON . . ”
From Pope Francis’ RESPONSE to young people
and World Youth Day [ cf. Salvatore Cernuzio, Vatican
News, July 25, 2023 ] is at best strictly humanistic,
“protestant”, even Palagian. No reference to the
CHURCH [ Jesus the Divine Head; the Sacraments ]
as Source of TRUE Hope, i.e., beyond merely
NATURAL [ hopeLESS ] struggles of day-to-day
living if there is NO Faith in peopel.
Where is Francis’ sharing the Church’s treasure
of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis ?? . . died of cancer, but
knew the language of the internet inside out,
backwards, and forwards, and WHO’S SOUL WAS
ON FIRE WITH LOVE FOR THE EUCHARIST,
who collected [ using the internet ] historical
evidence for EVERY Eucharistic Miracle recorded
since the Last Supper !
Atheistic Globalists today are stone-blind to these
Divine Sparks carrying forward the Life of the
Church even up to today.
Francis! . . wassamattaforyou, huh ?????
Young people ARE “young” because . . well, they
haven’t LIVED long enough. They have yet to
garner WISDOM, not to mention SACRA SAPIENTIA,
HOLY Wisdom. Yet how QUICKLY and impressively
for Carlo Acutis !!
So, BISHOPS! . . start Catechizing! Live HOLY lives!
Blessed Carlo Acutis, pray for our young people !
Post script: “”Christendom is finished; BUT CHRIST IS NOT !”
—Bishop Fulton Sheen on his death bed, 1979, to reporter
Malcolm Muggeridge.