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Purgatory
The Bible teaches: (1) that some sins are forgiven in the next world; (2) that some souls are saved in the next world 'by fire'; (3) that it is useful and beneficial to pray for the dead; (4) there will be degrees of punishment and reward... [read more]
Links for All Hallow's Eve, All Saints and All Souls
Halloween The question often arises about the celebration of Halloween by Catholics. Is it, for instance, 'pagan'... All Hallow's Eve Hallowe'en is almost upon us again, and, as always, the debate over what devout Catholic families should do... All Saints Day This feast was instituted to honor God in all His Saints... All Souls Day The Souls in Purgatory are Saints who love God intensely... Indulgenced Prayers An indulgence, applicable only to the Souls in Purgatory...
Our Love of Country is Premised on Love of Christ the King
One of the many consequences of the Protestant Revolt was the rise of nationalism, which has burgeoned into a gigantic exercise in the idolatry of the mythologies associated with a particular nation and/or ethnicity. Nationalism and patriotism are not the same things. And it is important for these two concepts to be distinguished in order to understand ... [read more]
Michael's Story
What follows is a letter written by a young Marine to his mother while he was hospitalized, after being wounded on a Korean battlefield... [read more]
Saint Michael Prayer (original)
Dolours of the Blessed Virgin
St. John mentions that the Blessed Virgin, with other holy women and with St. John, stood at the foot of the cross when the other Apostles had fled. At that time the prophecy of Simeon, "a sword will pierce thine own soul," was most perfectly fulfilled: and very naturally the sorrows of Mary... [read more]
Devotion of the Seven Sorrows
St. Albert the Great said, "that as we are under great obligation to Jesus for His Passion endured for our love, so also are we under great obligation to Mary for the martyrdom which She voluntarily suffered for our salvation in the death of Her Son". He said ‘voluntarily suffered’ since it was revealed... [read more]
Our Sorrowful Mother
Seven Dolours, The
Seven Sorrows of Mary, The
Stabat Mater
Prophetic Warning
Visions, Apparitions, Allocutions, Warnings and Church teachings from Councils, Popes, Saints, Doctors and Fathers of the Church, renowned theologians, holy clergy, great thinkers of the Catholic Church and from modernists themselves regarding the fall of the Catholic Church and faith... [read more]
Is America a Communist State: Communist Manifesto
When a large building is built, the construction company usually starts with a set of blueprints. These are often called the "as planned" blueprints. Since construction never goes exactly according to plan, another set of blueprints is often drawn up after the building is completed. These are called the "as built" blueprints... [read more]
10 Plank of the Communist Manifesto... [read more]
45 Goals to setup a Communist Government... [read more]
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I hear around me reformers who want to dismantle the Holy Sanctuary, destroy the universal flame of the Church, to discard all her adornments, and smite her with remorse for her historic past.... [read more]
How To Make A Visit
A visit to the Blessed Sacrament is really a talk with Jesus. No two will have the same things to say to Him, and this is one reason why .... [read more]
Taxation Through the Ages
...taxation is a gigantic system of fraud, robbery, and extortion. Most taxpayers receive nothing to justify the amounts they are forced to pay. Yet it's the taxpayer, not the ruler, who is treated as a criminal suspect and required to 'confess' his earnings and holdings. The ruler isn't penalized for anything he does.... [read more]
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Saint Catherine Laboure
The sound of the evening Angelus bells floated across the fields and vineyards of Burgundy. It was the second day of the month of May in the year of Our Lord 1806.... [read more]
Christmas Carols
Christmas Carols
Lyrics for OLFC pre-Midnight Mass.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Catholics in England were forbidden to practice their faith openly during the years from 1558 to 1829. This song was developed to communicate their gift of faith in coded lyrics. The 12 days... [ read more]Christmas Links: A Birthday Celebration -- America's First Christmas Card -- Candy Cane -- Christmas -- Christmas Customs -- Christmas Liturgical Cycle Christmas Sermon -- God's Gift of Christmas -- In Defense of Christmas -- Night Before Christmas -- Three Trees -- Extra-ordinary Christmas Tide
The Candy Cane
A candymaker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that would be a witness, so he made the ChristMass Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ... [ read more]Pre-Christmas Links: Advent Antiphons -- America's First Christmas Card -- Christmas Customs
The Immaculate Conception
One of the most cherished memories of my life has been (and will always be) that solemn moment in the beautiful Midnight Mass of Christmas when the celebrant, deacon, and subdeacon knelt reverently before the main altar while the choir sang softly, 'Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto, ex Maria Virgine et homo factus est.' ... [read more]
Christmas (Saint Andrew's) Novena
Christmas Novena
By Advent is meant the four weeks before Christmas, appointed by the Church to prepare us for the worthy celebration of our Saviour's birth. We should endeavour by prayer, the practice of virtues, fasting, and a good confession, to ... [see Advent below]
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The Miraculous Medal
...the feast of the lovely medal designed by the Mother of God herself and given to a beautiful nun, Sister Catherine Laboure ... [read more]
Help the Souls in Purgatory
Things you can do. Have Masses offered for them. Pray the Rosary and ... [read more]
Loss Of Faith Caused By Neglect Of The Family RosaryIt seems to me that a principal cause of the loss of faith is the dropping off in the practice of the family rosary. In Austria, after World War II, there was a complete collapse of vocations. One year, apparently, no one at all entered ... [read more]
Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Lucy relates that on June 13th, 1917, after speaking at length about her Immaculate Heart, Our Lady of Fatima again stretched forth her hands, throwing on the children the rays of that immense light in which they saw themselves as if immersed in God . . . The Blessed Virgin held in her right hand a Heart surrounded by thorns, which pierced it from all sides. The seers understood that it was the Immaculate Heart of Mary, afflicted by all the sins of the world, which demanded penance and reparation... [read more]
First Friday Devotion
The First Friday of each month was designated by our Savior Himself as a day to be consecrated to honoring His Sacred Heart…. As the object of this devotion is to make our Savior Jesus Christ ardently and perfectly loved, and to make reparation for the outrages offered to Him... [read more]
The Basics of Devotion to the Sacred Heart
The most ancient special devotion of Christians is doubtless that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Son of God. The holy Sacraments and the other objects of devotion did not yet exist, when the Blessed Virgin Mary found her delight in worshiping the most Sweet Heart of her Jesus... [read more]
Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Lucy relates that on June 13th, 1917, after speaking at length about her Immaculate Heart, Our Lady of Fatima again stretched forth her hands, throwing on the children the rays of that immense light in which they saw themselves as if immersed in God . . . The Blessed Virgin held in her right hand a Heart surrounded by thorns, which pierced it from all sides. The seers understood that it was the Immaculate Heart of Mary, afflicted by all the sins of the world, which demanded penance and reparation... [read more]
Dream of Saint John Bosco: To Hell and Back
Introduction: At the beginning of Holy Week in 1868, haunting dreams began to trouble Don Bosco, and they went on for several miserable nights.
These dreams so exhausted me, he stated, that in the morning I felt more done in than if I had been working all night. They also alarmed and upset me very much.
The most frightful, but also the most salutary of these dreams.... [ read more]
Dreams and Visions of Saint John Bosco: HELL
Many of the dreams of St. John Bosco could more properly be called visions, for God used this means to reveal His will for the Saint and for the boys of the Oratory, as well as the future of the Salesian Congregation. Not only did his dreams lead and direct the Saint, they also gave him ... [read more]
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Feast of the Holy Family
Presence of God – I beg the Blessed Virgin Mary to allow me to enter in spirit the humble home at Nazareth, to contemplate Jesus’ most admirable life there.... [read more]
For the Healing of Howard Walsh
Novena to Saint Peregrine
The Wonders of the Holy Name
We have been hearing and have been repeating from childhood the Holy Name of Jesus, but alas, many, very many, have no adequate idea of the great wonders of this Holy Name... [read more]
The North American Martyrs
...The eight North American martyrs were six priests and two lay brothers. They were heroic members of the Society of Jesus who were martyred in North America to bring the Faith that is necessary for salvation ... [read more]
Devotion to Mary Necessary
All the rich among the people, to make use of an expression of the Holy Ghost, according to the explanation of Saint Bernard — all the rich among the people shall supplicate Her face from age to age, and particularly at the end of the world; that is to say the greatest saints, the souls richest in graces and virtues, shall be the most assiduous in praying to ... [read more]
True Devotion to Mary
...One of the most zealous promoters of St. Louis Grignion de Montfort's True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and his Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary which brings about what is called a "Holy Slavery of Love"... [read more]
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A Satanic Plot for a One World Government: the Illuminati
Behind the United States and its Constitution is a small group of men whose sole objective is to enslave the whole world and humanity in their satanic plot for a one world govenment. Now to give you a very clear picture of this satanic plot, I will go back to its beginning, back to... [read more]
6 Interesting Catholic Thanksgiving Facts
When you’re sitting down for that wonderful feast on Thursday, here are 6 interesting Catholic Thanksgiving Facts you can share with your family. Print them out and read them aloud over some pumpkin... [ read more]
Novena to the Holy Ghost (for Pentecost)
For Pentecost... [click here]
Divine Mercy Novena
From 1931 to 1938 Our Lord revealed the secrets of His great mercy to St. Faustina. He designated the first Sunday after Easter as the Feast of the Mercy of God. In preparation of this Feast, He asked that a Novena be started on Good Friday, a Novena which asks for prayers each of the nine days for a different group of souls in order to immerse them in the sea of God's Mercy!... [read more]
Christ in the Voting Booth
...is an education in history, politics, and apathetic Catholicism, a startling revelation as to what has gone so wrong in America. [read more]
The Gift of Tongues
Sacred Scripture seems to recount two different classifications of the gift of tongues. The first is that special gift recorded in the Acts on the day of the Pentecost where the Apostles would preach in their own language and people from many different lands heard them in their native speech. It would be as if.... [ read more]
Polemic On the New Mass
And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly,
and not according to the tradition which they ... [read more]
Modesty for Men
I know that there is a Catholic standard of modesty in dress for women. But is there also a standard of dress for men? ...Absolutely there is, for exactly the same principle..... [read more]
Love Mary
She is loveable, faithful, constant. She will never let herself be outdone in love .... [read more]
The Rapid Decline of Civility
...the loss of civility is an omen of the impending collapse of civilization... [read more]
The Sacrament of Baptism
Unless, says our Lord, a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God; and, speaking of the Church, the Apostle says, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life. Thus it follows that Baptism may be rightly and accurately defined: The Sacrament of regeneration by water... [read more]
Promulgation of the Novus Ordo Missae
...We shall become aware, perhaps with some feeling of annoyance, that the ceremonies at the altar are no longer being carried out..... We shall notice that pious persons are disturbed most, because they have their own respectable way of hearing Mass, and they will feel shaken .... [read more]
The Sacrament of Confirmation
If ever there was a time demanding the diligence of pastors in explaining the Sacrament of Confirmation, in these days certainly it requires special attention, when there are found in the holy Church of God many by whom this Sacrament is altogether omitted .... [read more]
Catechism: On Suffering
Whether we will or not, we must suffer. There are some who suffer like the good thief, and others like the bad thief. They both suffered equally. But one knew how to make his sufferings meritorious, he... [read more]
Manner of Making Mental Prayer
We must observe that Saint Alphonsus makes the practice of mental prayer simple, clear, easy, and not less fruitful. Owing to the method which he teaches, this exercise, indispensable to him who wishes to sanctify himself, is really put within the reach of all. He wishes that every one should .... [read more]
Habemus Papam
On Papalotry
Prophecies of Saint Malachy
Thoughts on the Day After
Election of a New Pope
As regards my opinions concerning the present state of the church with relation to the election of the new Pope, what opinion of any weight could a miserable, ignorant, and unspiritual person like myself possibly give? There is need for prayer and...
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[Novena - Election of a Pope]
Help the Souls in Purgatory
Things you can do. Have Masses offered for them. Pray the Rosary and ... [read more]
Purgatory
The Bible teaches: (1) that some sins are forgiven in the next world; (2) that some souls are saved in the next world 'by fire'; (3) that it is useful and beneficial to pray for the dead; (4) there will be degrees of punishment and reward... [read more]
Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath-day?
Why did Christ put this question? Because the Jews, particularly the Pharisees, were so very superstitious in keeping the Sabbath, they would not recognize Jesus as the Messiah, while He healed on the Sabbath, which was really... [read more]
Commentary on Matthew 13...The third class are those who have faith and hold fast to it, but who do not live up to it, being quite absorbed in the things of this world. They give themselves up to the concupiscence of the eyes, the concupiscence of the flesh, and the pride of life, and bring forth no fruits worthy of faith. They have faith, but... [read more]
Lukewarm SoulsIn speaking to you today, my dear brethren, of the dreadful state of the lukewarm soul, my purpose is not to paint for you a terrifying and despairing picture of the soul which is living in mortal sin without even having the wish to escape from this condition. That poor unfortunate creature can..... [read more]
One of the Four Sins That Cry to Heaven for Vengence Some argue that neither the Bible nor Tradition condemns the practice of sodomy. Passages such as Leviticus 18:22-30, Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9, and Jude 7 serve as ample proof from Scripture. Below is ample proof from Tradition. The Fathers are especially harsh against.... [read more]
US Bows to ICC
Conservatives, alarmed over the erosion of American sovereignty, suffered another setback this week. The New York Times describes the defeat.... [read more]
Lecture on Divini Illius Magistri
Dr. Tom Droleskey will be speaking on Divini Illius Magistri, July 12th.... [read more]
New Age Infiltration
Every now and then artists step back from their paintings and study them from a distance. This gives a feel for the picture as a whole and shows what to do next. Well, I've been studying the New Age for about twelve years, assembling a picture.... [read more]
Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich
Anne Catherine Emmerich was told by Our Lord that her gift of seeing the past, present, and future in mystic vision was greater than that possessed by anyone else in history. Born at Flamske in Westphalia, Germany, on September 8, 1774, she became a nun of the Augustinian Order at Dulmen. She had the use of reason from her birth and could .... [read more]
Mothers
THE most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral - a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body. The angels have not been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in God's creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature; God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation. What on God's good earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother?
--Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty.
Letter of Saint Athanasius
'May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises -- but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but.... [read more]
Selling Out Our Citizens
Into Thin Air
The Jobs Crisis and the GOP
Suicide by Free Trade
Will free trade ruin America, too?
The Importance of Salvation
The business of eternal salvation is to us the most important of all affairs; but it is also the most neglected by Christians. They are diligent, and lose no time in seeking to gain a lawsuit, or a situation of emolument. How many measures taken to attain these objects? How many means adopted? They neither eat nor sleep. And what efforts do they make to secure their eternal salvation?.... [read more]
Ignorance: A Sin?
...ignorance has never been considered an excuse. Since God's law is written in the hearts of ALL men, and since God is always spouting out His graces for men to know truth, they are without excuse.... [read more]
The Pieta
This booklet on prayer is an effort to apply the scientific method to the Truths of our Roman Catholic Faith; to obtain more grace to better serve God, drawing particularly on that gigantic source of .... [read more]
Dreams and Visions of Saint John Bosco: HELL
Many of the dreams of St. John Bosco could more properly be called visions, for God used this means to reveal His will for the Saint and for the boys of the Oratory, as well as the future of the Salesian Congregation. Not only did his dreams lead and direct the Saint, they also gave him ... [read more]
On Priestly Dignity and Propriety
...He who on the altar almost ceases to be mortal and takes on a divine form, remains always the same, even when he comes down from the holy hill ... [read more]
The Lost Chapter of Genesis
Adam was hanging around the garden of Eden feeling very lonely. So, God asked him, 'Man, what is ... [read more]
Catechism: On Impurity
That we may understand how horrible and detestable is this sin, which the demons make us commit, but which they do not commit themselves, we must consider what a Christian is. A Christian, created in the image of God, redeemed by the Blood of... [read more]
The Global School Board
They have devised a new 'Global Ethic' to replace the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a new 'Sixteen Principles' to replace the Ten Commandments. They call it the Earth Charter..... [read more]
Church Militant: Spiritual Warfare in Modern Times
The body of faithful which comprises the Catholic Church is divided into three parts: the Church Triumphant (souls in heaven), the Church Suffering (souls in purgatory) and the Church Militant .... [read more]
Television
A child came to confession one day and accused himself of having serious temptations against the angelical virtue... However, the priest sought the cause of such a misfortune: 'So, do you have television at home?" [read more]
Charity / Love
Love is patient... [read more]
Church Militant or Church Milktoast?
For decades, the homosexual network has been burgeoning throughout the country; Ovitz is just one example of its formidable power in Hollywood. ...the homosexual rebellion against God and Western Christian Civilization will attempt to destroy all who oppose it. [read more]
Fifteen Prayers of Saint Bridget
These prayers were revealed by Our Lord to Saint Bridget in the Church of St. Paul at Rome... Parents and teachers who will read them to young infants for at least one year will assure their being preserved for life from any grave accident which would involve the loss of one of their five senses. [read more]
War: Hidden Agenda
In his declaration of war against Germany and Austria-Hungary, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed his public agenda-----that WW I would be "the war to end all wars"! His hidden agenda was three-fold... [read more]
Why the Douay-Rheims Bible?
The Douay-Rheims Bible is a scrupulously faithful translation into English of the Latin Vulgate Bible which Saint Jerome (342-420) translated into Latin from the original languages. The Vulgate quickly became the Bible universally used... [read more]
Auriesville Pilgrimage [read more]
Last Updated: June 1, 2015 -- The feast of Saint Angela Merici
"...in May of 1995, at a public address by Alfons Cardinal Stickler on the subject of the Traditional Latin Mass...in response to Father Gruner's written question, the Cardinal revealed to the audience that in 1986 a group of nine Curial Cardinals assembled by Pope John Paul II himself, all with doctorates in Canon Law, had voted 8-1, in closed session, that Pope Paul VI had never actually ordered the suppression of the Traditional Mass, and that its celebration had never ceased to be entirely permissible under Church law. Incredibly, the Pope had been unable to determine just what his predecessor had ordered in promulgating the New Mass. In fact, the actual suppression of the Traditional Mass had been accomplished entirely through the decrees of Vatican congregations and commissions, and not by any explicit Magisterial act of Paul VI. As the vote of the Cardinals made clear, bureaucrats had obliterated the entire liturgical tradition of the Roman Rite without a single actual order of the Pope suppressing it! Thus has the Catholic Church been governed for the past several decades."
Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ... For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved. -- Acts 4:10-12 Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will. -- Luke 2:14 'We thought that after the Council a day of sunshine would have dawned for the history of the Church. What dawned, instead, was a day of clouds and storms, of darkness, of searching and uncertainties.' --Pope Paul VI "No man survives when freedom fails, the best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry appease, appease are hanged by those they tried to please." -- Hiram Mann (Holy Week)...her Son who so vehemently desires the world's salvation, lead her, a second time, to pronounce the solemn FIAT: she consents to the immolation of her Son. -- The Liturgical Year (vol. 6, p175) Every society stands in need of laws; the Church, therefore, will not be long (from its birth) without giving outward proof of her internal government. -- The Liturgical Year, Vol. 8, page 159 (Paschal Time, Thursday of the Third Week) It is certain that, when the death of Christ is carried about in the soul, sin cannot reign in it. -- Origen Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and into dust thou shalt return! Genesis 3:19 This is the day which the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. -- Gradual, Easter Mass You must know that sin can be committed in three ways. It is done either in ignorance, in weakness, or of set purpose. -- Pope Saint Gregory the Great Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ. -- Saint Athanasius Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of Antichrist. -- Our Lady of La Salette, 1846 Obedience is not to be used as a weapon against doctrine, but a virtue in support of it. And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, that shall be to all the people -- Luke 2:10 RestOnHisWord.com "This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein." - Psalms 117:24 "...as for me and my house we will serve the Lord." Josue 24:15 "Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto thee." Matthew 6:33
