Study and apostolate

"In the beginning, and through the centuries, there has been a rivalry between the sword and the pen. Which is the mightier has been the question. Rightly the decision favours the pen. The sword is trenchant and quickly hurls souls to their eternal destiny. The pen, incisive as the blade, has left a mark deeper and broader than the sword. "One drop of ink makes millions think." The pen shapes the activity of mankind when the sword lies idle in its sheath. The scabbard must at times put the sword to sleep. The pen never slumbers."                  ~ Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson ~

 
 

"A man without study is like a soldier without arms"
                                                                                                                                      by a priest
 was an old saying of the men of the Middle Ages. A Catholic age formed under the aegis of the holy Gospels and the Rule of St. Benedict. Men occupied with their state duties, aware that they were part of a whole social order that worshiped and recognized the social Kingship of Our Lord. Men who valued the truth at the price of their lives (chivalry), and even the sacrifice of their lives (monastic life). How many of them have filled the ranks of the monastic militia and orders of chivalry, following the King who invited all men to "sell all that they possessed, take up his cross and follow him". The names of these heroes still ring in the streets, even nowadays; names such as Saint Benedict, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Robert of Molesmes, Pope Saint Gregory VII, Saint Thomas Beckett, Saint Louis, Saint Ferdinand III, Saint Edward, Saint Olivier Plunkett, etc. All had in high esteem the use of the noblest faculty given to man, whose object is the highest, namely to impregnate the spirit of Truth and to fight for Him, which is the only Way, Truth, and Life, Our Lord. As they had understood it so well, there is no other!
 
The weapons which every man, created for the beatific vision, must learn, and whose work he must love, is the time devoted to the study. The study of the truth in every science, study of the Holy Scriptures, the Fathers, the writings of the Saints, encyclicals of the popes, works on the crisis in the Church, & c. must be familiar weapons to everyone. Each one must always try to find time to drink the wine of the contemplation of the Truth, without which they become weak, and fill their inner emptiness with futilities and useless distractions, whose eternal enemy is so rich!
Think of it as indispensable labor; as a part of your diet. Physicians need to stay abreast of medical breakthroughs, the mechanics of the best techniques and the builders of the best tools. For many of them, the fate of their families depends on it. It is the same for our eternal salvation and our duties as confirmed soldiers to build the Mystical Copr of Christ, we must make the study and the love of the Truth THE priority!
 
Part of the time spent on these readings can be done alone, with friends, with a spouse, or even with family. Listening to sermons, lectures, or audio books can make travel time to work a time well spent in moving toward the goal. "Ab inimico disce" says the old axiom, "learn from the enemy". See how the men given to Mammon sacrifice everything for their useless gains! Communists, Muslims, Zionists, Freemasons, Modernists, Satanists, will stop at nothing, endure all tribulations, have heroic patience, and for what? To achieve their goal! Goals that completely coincide with the plans of the devil!
 
How much more the children of the Light, the men of Tradition, the soldiers of Christ the King should endure for the victory of the causes cause: the social reign of Christ! Satan, Luther, Muhammad have never been able to say as Christ did: "I would reign in spite of my enemies" "all power was given to me in heaven and on earth" "you would have no power over me if it were not given to you by my Father "
 
Prayer, study and good works are the essence of every good Catholic fight. Faith must be known and loved. "May the knowledge of Christ dwell in you abundantly! St. Paul exclaims, addressing the first Christians. Prayer and study go hand in hand, just as good works do. Certainly, "a man without study is like a soldier without arms"! Fight, the rosary in one hand, the sword of Faith in the other!

"If you do not read, you will soon become traitors because you will not understand the problem! "(Abbe Aulagnier, quoted by Archbishop Lefebvre)

with thanks to  https://cristiadatradicinalista.blogspot.com/

WHERE THERE IS NO HATRED OF HERESY THERE IS NO SANCTITY

" The height of disloyalty to God is heresy. It is the sin of sins, the most hateful thing that God contemplates from heaven in this evil world. We barely understand, however, how detestable it is. It is the contamination of the truth of God, the worst of impurities.
Even so, we do not give importance to it. We contemplate the heresy and remain calm. We touch it and we do not shudder. We mix with her and we do not feel fear. We see how it affects sacred things and we have no sense of sacrilege. We breathe in its scent and show no signs of rejection or disgust. Some of us seek their friendship and even mitigate their guilt. We do not love God enough to be angry because of his glory. We do not love men enough to have with them the charity of telling them the truth that their souls need.
Having lost touch, taste, sight and all the heavenly senses, we can dwell in the midst of this hateful plague, with imperturbable tranquility , accustomed to its vileness, boasting how liberal we are, even with some diligent ostentation of sympathy and tolerance .
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We lack devotion to the truth as truth, as the truth of God. Our zeal for souls is meager, because we do not have zeal for the honor of God . We act as if God had to be congratulated for our conversions, instead of as trembling souls, rescued by a display of mercy.
We count men half truths, the half that best fits our pusillanimity and their conceit, and then we wonder why so few are converted and why, of those few, so many apostatize . We are so weak that we are surprised that our half-truths do not have the success of the complete truth of God.
Where there is no hatred of heresy, there is no sanctity . "

P. Frederick William Faber, The Precious Blood , 1860

 

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Father Faber, an Anglo-Catholic convert of Anglicanism , said more than a century ago what no one dares to say today and, for this reason, we desperately need to hear: faith is the most valuable thing we have  (...) To not be indignant when one commits adultery is not a sign that we are very tolerant and merciful. It is a sign that we have long lost that faith and our salt does not know anything.
Precisely because faith is what saves us, the Church has no more important mission than to preserve without contamination that faith that is worth more than gold , transmitted to the saints once and for all. With it we play the most serious thing we have, it depends on the path we take: life without end or eternal death, the Truth that frees or the enslaving error, the divine Love or the sin of man, the grace that saves or the hopelessness of useless effort. That is why the martyrs die before renouncing the faith, that is why the missionaries have gone to the end of the world to announce it. And that is why today our Church is agonizing in so many parts of the world, because we have stopped believing that faith is worth more than life .
Heresy is not an abstract theme of theologians, a healthy sample of pluralism or an inevitable evolution of the doctrine, as so many pretend. It is, in reality, a diabolical and mortal deception, which prevents us from knowing the true Christ , replaces it with a false Christ invented by us and destroys the life that He wanted to give us with His sacrifice on the Cross. If we do not hate it, it is because we are lukewarm and, in addition, stupid.

 Original here

The Good Samaritan by Fr Trincado

Then the lawyer asked, “and who is my neighbor?” In his pride the lawyer did not believe that there was anyone who could be his neighbour or even neighbouring (i.e. close), because he thought that no one could possibly compare to himself in terms of justice or holiness. With such a question he showed that he lacked a love of neighbour, and consequently also lacked a love of God, for he who does not love his brother whom he sees, cannot love God whom he does not see (1 John 4:20). In what follows Christ teaches him not to think that because he is righteous he has no neighbours. It is as if He were saying to him: all men are close to you, they are your neighbours. So be close to them through charity, help them and take care of them. That is the reason he gave them the well-known parable of the Samaritan.

“And Jesus answering, said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho..” This man, according to St. Augustine, represents Adam and the whole human race. Jerusalem, which means "city of peace", represents paradise out of whose happiness Adam had fallen. Jericho means “moon”, and it signifies our mortality (caused by original sin), because through its phases it seems to be born, grow up, grow old and then die. Jericho is in the valleys, while Jerusalem is on the heights. So the man from the heights was going down into the valleys when he was assaulted (St. Basil).
“..and fell among robbers, who also stripped him and having wounded him went away, leaving him half dead.” These thieves are the demons, in whose hands man would not have fallen if he had not turned away from God’s commandments (St. Ambrose). They stripped man of his innocence and wounded him, causing him to be unable to make a proper use of his free will. And we are even more wounded because in addition to the original sin we are born with, we add many personal sins (St. Augustine).

“..and having wounded him..” (in other words, having tempted him to sin), they left him half dead, and he lay there because he did not have the strength to rise up by himself, but he needed a doctor to heal him, which is, [he needed] Christ (St. Augustine).
“And it chanced, that a certain priest went down the same way: and seeing him, passed by.  In like manner also a Levite, when he was near the place and saw him, passed by.” The priest and the Levite represent two times: the priest represents the time of the law, in which the Jewish priesthood and the sacrifices were instituted, and the Levite represents the time of the prophets. In neither of them could mankind be healed, because the law defined sins but did not forgive them (St. Augustine) and the prophets proclaimed the Redeemer Messiah but did not make Him present.

“But a certain Samaritan, being on his journey, came near him: and seeing him, was moved with compassion.” The wounded man was an Israelite, and the priest and the Levite who passed by him were his neighbours by race or blood, but the Samaritan, who was a despised enemy and distant through race, was near through mercy. That Samaritan who came down the road represents Our Lord Jesus Christ who came down from heaven (John 3:13), because Samaritan means custodian or guardian.

“And going up to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine..” The bandaging of wounds represents the repression of sinners. Wine is the rigour of His justice and oil is the softness of His mercy. Or according to another interpretation, to forgive our sins, Christ poured out on our wounded souls the wine (the blood of His passion), and to sanctify us he poured out the oil of His Sacraments.
“..and setting him upon his own beast, brought him to an inn and took care of him.” Christ takes our sins upon Himself and suffers for us (Isaiah 53). The Church is the inn on the way of life, which welcomes all those who come to it tired of the journey, and where, leaving the burden of many sins through the sacrament of Penance, the weary traveller rests and then gains strength with the nourishment of Eucharistic communion.

“And the next day he took out two pence and gave to the host and said: Take care of him; and whatsoever thou shalt spend over and above, I, at my return, will repay thee.” Christ, like the Samaritan, could not remain on earth for long. He had to return to the place from which he had come down. The two pence are the two precepts of charity (love of God and love of neighbour) that the apostles received (St. Augustine). St. Ambrose says that blessed is the innkeeper who can heal the wounds of another and to whom Jesus says: “whatsoever thou shalt spend over and above, I, at my return, will repay thee”, which means, on the day of judgment.
Having said all this, Our Lord asks the lawyer: “Which of these three, in thy opinion, was neighbour to him that fell among the robbers?  But he said: He that shewed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and do thou in like manner.” So, our neighbour is he to whom we should give help and mercy, whoever he may be. It follows then that the one from whom we are to receive help and mercy is also our neighbour; for the word neighbour indicates a relationship: no one is a neighbour by himself, it takes two to be either near to or far from. No one should be denied charity, for Our Lord said: “do good to them that hate you” (Matthew 5:44) (St. Augustine), and “Go, and do thou in like manner”. If you see someone who is bruised or fallen, in error, far from the truth, a great sinner, far from God, explains St. John Chrysostom, do not say, 'he is a fool'. Instead, if he needs help, do not waver and bypass him at a distance. He has a right to your help, whatever the harm that has come upon him.

Let us go and do in like manner, dear faithful. Let us act as children of God and not as children of Cain and the devil. When God asked him where Abel was, Cain answered: “I know not: am I my brother's keeper?” (Genesis 4:9). Christ came to teach us that, truly, we are all guardians, protectors and Samaritans, each of us for one another, and Christ for us all. The Church is that Samaritan with respect to all men, because we are all born half dead. And we traditionalists are that Samaritan with respect to all our brothers who have been deceived, robbed and wounded by those wolves in sheep's clothing who are modernist heretics.

Allow me a parenthesis here. Beware of the “modernist” qualifier. Let us not look with contempt upon the rest of Catholics, whom we often call modernists, because most of them they are victims of robbers who stripped them of their true faith. Beware, because those people more often than not are just that: victims, and not perpetrators. They are not the robbers mentioned in the parable, but the the victim that was robbed. Consider for example the immense spiritual good in these old "modernist" women, who are truly devoted to the Rosary, and unwavering in their parishes and in their great simplicity, with their fervent prayers. Let us think of those "modernist" cloistered nuns who, despite the New Mass and the bad sermons, live entirely crucified because of their ardent charity. Let us think of those Priests and lay people who sincerely strive for holiness, despite having to breathe every day the liberal smoke that has entered the temple through the crack dug from within by a Hierarchy of traitors. “I thank you, Lord, that I am not like other people, nor like those stupid and ignorant modernists of these Parishes”. Beware, worse than being a material modernist and material heretic is being a proud traditionalist, for God resists the proud and gives his grace to the humble (1 Pt 5:5). Beware of pride. Pharisaic pride is the great temptation of traditionalists. The Pharisees were the descendants of the Hasideans, those martyrs and traditionalist heroes who fought under the orders of the Maccabees. Beware of pride, and of those who seem to live on harsh criticism and arguments. We should ask them what is more important: to be right or to have charity? If we traditionalists have the truth, it is a gift, a grace from God. But the light of true faith is to enlighten men for eternal salvation, not to dazzle them with knowledge, nor to crush them.

Dear faithful, may God make us charitable and humble. Certainly, we traditionalists must be the Good Samaritan especially to all the poor sheep assaulted and wounded by those devilish ministers who give them liberal and modernist poison to drink. Those are the men that behave like the robbers in the parable, although in a much more criminal way than the Priest and the Levite, who sinned only by omission. These robbers are the liberal Hierarchy that objectively deprives and murders souls from that true ambush that was Vatican II. And with these soul-poisoners there is no need to seek cooperation or concord, let alone accept the possibility of one day submitting to their destructive power. If the Samaritan had sought to place himself at the command of the robbers, he would not have performed an act of charity, but the greatest foolishness imaginable. And he would have ended up a robber himself or the one robbed and half dead. The first charity is the truth. In the case of traditionalists, the first charity is to preserve the healthy food of souls, the divine treasure of the Catholic faith, the Truth, that Truth which will one day shine forth again in the Church because the gates of Hell will not prevail (Mt 16:18).

May God, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, grant us humble fraternal charity.

(Thanks to Tradidi.com for the translation.)

A Blessing from God

If you have searched for a web-site looking for information on Catholic Tradition, consider it a blessing from God. Many Catholics, scandalised by the errors coming not only from their local parish Priest, or even from their Bishop, but from the Papacy itself find themselves searching for answers.

Where can one go where their faith will be enriched not destroyed by the shepherd himself? Where can one find a place where opposition to abortion, contraception and all other moral evils are taken as granted and where the priest will instruct one to live a better life and reach his eternal reward?

Where the evils of heresy are condemned, not spoken of as brother and sister churches. Where eternal Rome is adhered to, but the conciliar Church condemned for leading good souls to damnation?

Search this site for the answers you have been looking for, recognise that the Church has not ‘changed’ but has been eclipsed by its enemies since the second Vatican council.

Until Rome returns to its senses we take as our words those of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1974

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We hold fast, with all our heart and with all our soul, to Catholic Rome, Guardian of the Catholic faith and of the traditions necessary to preserve this faith, to Eternal Rome, Mistress of wisdom and truth.

We refuse, on the other hand, and have always refused to follow the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it.

All these reforms, indeed, have contributed and are still contributing to the destruction of the Church, to the ruin of the priesthood, to the abolition of the Sacrifice of the Mass and of the sacraments, to the disappearance of religious life, to a naturalist and Teilhardian teaching in universities, seminaries and catechectics; a teaching derived from Liberalism and Protestantism, many times condemned by the solemn Magisterium of the Church.

No authority, not even the highest in the hierarchy, can force us to abandon or diminish our Catholic faith, so clearly expressed and professed by the Church’s Magisterium for nineteen centuries.

“But though we,” says St. Paul, “or an angel from heaven preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema” (Gal. 1:8).

Is it not this that the Holy Father is repeating to us today?  And if we can discern a certain contradiction in his words and deeds, as well as in those of the dicasteries, well we choose what was always taught and we turn a deaf ear to the novelties destroying the Church.

It is impossible to modify profoundly the lex orandi without modifying the lex credendi. To the Novus Ordo Missae correspond a new catechism, a new priesthood, new seminaries, a charismatic Pentecostal Church - all things opposed to orthodoxy and the perennial teaching of the Church.

This Reformation, born of Liberalism and Modernism, is poisoned through and through; it derives from heresy and ends in heresy, even if all its acts are not formally heretical. It is therefore impossible for any conscientious and faithful Catholic to espouse this Reformation or to submit to it in any way whatsoever.

The only attitude of faithfulness to the Church and Catholic doctrine, in view of our salvation, is a categorical refusal to accept this Reformation.

That is why, without any spirit of rebellion, bitterness or resentment, we pursue our work of forming priests, with the timeless Magisterium as our guide. We are persuaded that we can render no greater service to the Holy Catholic Church, to the Sovereign Pontiff and to posterity. 

That is why we hold fast to all that has been believed and practiced in the faith, morals, liturgy, teaching of the catechism, formation of the priest and institution of the Church, by the Church of all time; to all these things as codified in those books which saw day before the Modernist influence of the Council.

This we shall do until such time that the true light of Tradition dissipates the darkness obscuring the sky of Eternal Rome.

By doing this, with the grace of God and the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and that of St. Joseph and St. Pius X, we are assured of remaining faithful to the Roman Catholic Church and to all the successors of Peter, and of being the fideles dispensatores mysteriorum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi in Spiritu Sancto.  Amen.” 

(End Archbishop Lefebvre quote)

In order to preserve the full faith, unblemished and inviolate, and so we can save our souls, we support the four Bishops who most readily proclaim the Catholic Faith in its entirety, Bishop Thomas Aquinas of the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Brazil, Bishop Faure head of the SAJM Seminary in France, Bishop Richard Williamson of Broadstairs, England and Bishop Zendejas in the United States of America. Also we are honoured to receive the Reverend Fathers of the Catholic Resistance, who bring us the sacred doctrine and sacraments, all according to the Traditional Liturgy.

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