Asked about the Mass in the Roman rite, Cardinal Jaime Spengler of Porto Alegre, Brazil, said that “the river doesn’t flow backwards.” He spoke with VidaNuevaDigital.com on January 16. The cardinal is president of the bishops’ conferences of Brazil and Latin America (CELAM). His main statement echoes the historically weak ideas promoted by Cardinal Roche at the consistory on January 7-8. Cardinal Spengler said, “Throughout history, the liturgy has undergone various reforms. The Second Vatican Council represents an enormous effort to recover fundamental elements of Catholic liturgical celebration. Nostalgic proposals do not help to promote what the Council identified as essential for the liturgy.” Furthermore, Cardinal Spengler offered a pointless definition of the Eucharist: “Liturgy cannot be understood simply as an expression of religious practice; above all, it is a vigorous expression of a lived experience of faith, both personal and communal - an experience of encounter with …Okunengi
Wisdom 1:7 “The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.” Psalm 69:9 “The zeal for Your House consumes me, and the insults of those who insult You fall upon me.”
1) "Reforms", yes. but the N.O. is not a reform. It's a purge. It's an emptying out, a replacement, not quite a confection as implied by it's creators or adherents, but more like a conjuration, applied by those more self assured than confidant, more visionary than inciteful, more desparate than diciplined 2) "Recover fundamental elements". One could argue the point, but no, in practice: remove and replace fundamental elements. 3) Flow backwards? Then why seek to "recover"? 4) "a vigorous expression of a lived experience of faith, both personal and communal". This could take volumes and in fact has. In short, it may be all of these things, but is it the faith [that was recovered]? Or something else; and if so, what is this expression saying? And from where does it come?And what has it produced? I'm reminded of something... youtube.com/watch?v=B4M-54cEduo
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The world does not want people who are mentally healthy, who can distinguish good from evil, and thus act according to the principle: yes — yes, no — no. The system cultivates those who react to what lies in between. The simple principles passed down to us by Jesus Christ are unacceptable, and the worst part is that this is true even for people who call themselves Christians. No doctor and no pills will cure a lack of spiritual balance. A person becomes merely a perpetual patient of the healthcare system, which is good for the system but tragic in its consequences for the human being. Today we have millions of Christians who have accepted faith only emotionally — emotions that are fleeting and susceptible to the influence of evil. Reason, lulled to sleep in people by media falsehood and omnipresent propaganda, has lost its significance. Thinking hurts so many that the later collision with truth often ends in depression and suicide.
On 15 January, Catholics in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, prayed the Rosary publicly to protest against recent liturgical restrictions imposed by Bishop Michael Martin. These measures ban the use of kneelers for Communion, which will take effect on 16 January. The faithful gathered in front of the diocesan pastoral centre in an act of reparation.
January 15 in Charlotte, in the cold and in front of the chancery, faithful gathered to pray for our diocese, for Bishop Martin, and in reparation for his liturgical directives.
“CHAPTER XVII ~ Pains of Purgatory — Blessed Quinziani — The Emperor Maurice. In the Life of Blessed Stephana Quinziani, a Dominican nun, mention is made of a sister named Paula, who died at the convent of Mantua, after a long life of eminent virtue. The body was carried to the church and placed uncovered in the choir among the Religious. During the recitation of the Office, Blessed Quinziani knelt near the bier, recommending to God the deceased Religious, who had been very dear to her. Suddenly the latter let fall the crucifix, which had been placed between her hands, extended the left arm, seized the right hand of Blessed Quinziani, and pressed it tightly, as a poor patient in the burning heat of fever would ask the assistance of a friend. She held it for a considerable time, and then, withdrawing her arm, sank back lifeless into the coffin. The Religious, astonished at this prodigy, asked an explanation of the Blessed Sister. She replied that, whilst the deceased pressed her hand,…Okunengi
" Help me, dear sister, succour me in the frightful torture which I endure. Oh ! if you knew the severity of the Judge who desires all our love, what atonement He demands for the least faults before admitting us to the reward ! If you knew how pure we must be to see the face of God ! Pray ! pray, and do penance for me, who can no longer help myself."
"He was taken, together with his wife, five of his sons, and three daughters — that is to say, his entire family with the exception of his eldest son, whom he bad already caused to be crowned Emperor, and who, thus far, had escaped the tyrant. Maurice and his five sons were unmercifully slaughtered near Chalcedon. The carnage began with the youngest of the princes, who was put to death before the eyes of the unfortunate father, without uttering a word of complaint."
January 15th - Saint of the Day: Saint Paul the Hermit Saint Paul the Hermit did not build a platform. He built a desert. He fled persecution, disappeared into silence, and still became a giant in the Church. Why? Because when everything got stripped away, God proved He was enough. Here is the part that sounds unreal but comes straight from the ancient Catholic tradition: a raven brought him bread in the wilderness. Then when Saint Anthony finally found him, the raven brought double, like Heaven was saying, “This meeting matters.” And it gets wilder. After Paul died, the tradition says two lions helped dig his grave. Not because Paul was a nature guy, but because creation honors a man who belonged completely to the Creator. This is not escapism. This is spiritual warfare. This is what The Catechism calls the “silence of solitude” for the praise of God and the salvation of the world (CCC 920-921). If life feels loud, restless, or spiritually dry,…Okunengi
Unlike his beloved predecessor, Leo XIV will not carry out the Holy Thursday foot washing in a prison or with transgender participants, but at the Lateran Basilica. This has been confirmed by the schedule released by the Prefecture of the Papal Household. He will celebrate the Eucharist of the Lord’s Supper there in the evening, after the Chrism Eucharist at St Peter's in the morning.
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, President Donald Trump has launched the “America Prays” initiative, calling the nation to recognize its dependence on God and return to its spiritual foundations. “When faith gets weaker, our country seems to get weaker. When faith gets stronger, our country gets stronger,” Trump said, emphasizing that America’s strength is inseparable from faith. The initiative encourages Americans to form prayer groups, pray daily for specific national issues, and unite across denominations and faith communities. It builds on Trump’s broader faith-focused agenda during his second term, including the establishment of the White House Faith Office, the Task Force on Anti-Christian Bias, and the Religious Liberty Commission. Cabinet meetings now begin with prayer, and the administration is urging citizens to extend that practice nationwide. Supporters such as Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Dr. Ben Carson describe the moment as “a time …Okunengi
MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra Trust the “Science” RFK JR - Many don’t realize, the Chickenpox Vaccine Causes shingles Epidemics “When the CDC was thinking about mandating the chickenpox vaccine for your children, they did a study. The person they hired to do that study was a scientist named Gary Goldman, who did a long-term study in California. What he found is that if you give the chickenpox vaccine, mass vaccinate, it stops chickenpox, but causes shingle epidemics later on; which is 20x deadlier. Despite those studies, we mandated for American children in this country, but in Europe they don’t. If you go to the British National Health Service website right now, you can read that it will say, “We do not recommend chickenpox vaccines because it causes shingles epidemics later on… and that’s the problem.
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I write today with a heavy heart about a personal faith-related discussion that I had yesterday with a local Vicar—the matter related to a material desecration that took place (of all days) on Christmas Day. A friend and I were both witnesses to it. While the incident was a misunderstanding, it was clearly and blatantly avoidable. Anyone with a discerning heart and mind could obviously see the circumstances that lent themselves to it. This same friend and I wrote a letter to the Vicar about it. We did receive an appointment to discuss the matter in person. However, by the end of the discussion, the vicar’s posture and message regarding the incident became clear. And, while not explicit, the general message was: “s#!t happens” For Catholics, the Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith. Everything else is a distant second. It was the equivalent of hearing from the doctor charged with caring for your father or mother that they fell down the stairs during their hospital stay……Okunengi
Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś said that the Polish wording of the Good Friday prayer for Jews had been changed 2022 because the previous text was 'so dramatically untrue'. He spoke about the Novus Ordo and not the prayer in the old liturgy. The Cardinal made these remarks during a January press conference held to present the 29th annual Day of Judaism in the Catholic Church in Poland on 15 January. Cardinal Ryś was speaking in his capacity as Chairman of the Committee of the Polish Bishops’ Conference for Dialogue with Judaism. Cardinal Ryś is one of the most liberal bishops in Poland and Leo XIV promoted him to Archbishop of Kraków on 26 November. He added that the version pre-2022 contained teachings that were "if not heretical, then at least scandalous". The change had been introduced despite the fact that the final Polish edition of another new missal had not yet been published. This was possible, Cardinal Ryś said, because the Dicastery for Divine Worship, led by Cardinal Arthur Roche, …Okunengi
"the people whom You first acquired as Your own" means that they have been AND CONTINUE TO BE God's people, which is false. But what do these ones today have to do with those of the Old Testament?