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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Beginning of the Journey with Christ

Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on us
God the Holy Spirit,
Have mercy on us
Holy Trinity, One God,
Have mercy on us.
With and by the prayer and company of all Your elect angels and saints, for and with us, unceasingly
Blood of Christ, only-begotten Son of the Eternal
Father, save us.
Blood of Christ, Incarnate Word of God, save us.
Blood of Christ, of the New and Eternal Testament,
etc. .
Blood of Christ, falling upon the earth in the Agony,
Blood of Christ, shed profusely in the Scourging,
Blood of Christ, flowing forth in the Crowning with Thorns,
Blood of Christ, poured out on the Cross,
Blood of Christ, Price of our salvation,
Blood of Christ, without which there is no forgiveness,
Blood of Christ, Eucharistic drink and refreshment of our spirits, souls and bodies,
Blood of Christ, river of mercy,
Blood of Christ, Victor over all evil spirits,
Blood of Christ, Courage of martyrs,
Blood of Christ, Strength of confessors,
Blood of Christ, bringing forth virgins,
Blood of Christ, Help of those in peril,
Blood of Christ, Relief of the burdened,
Blood of Christ, Solace in sorrow,
Blood of Christ, Hope of the repentant,
Blood of Christ, Consolation of those who mourn,
Blood of Christ, Peace and Tenderness of hearts,
Blood of Christ. Pledge of Eternal Life
Blood of Christ, our defense against all who desire us ill from afar or near alone or in a crowd,
Blood of Christ, most worthy of all glory and honor,
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world
Have mercy on us.
V. Thou hast redeemed us, 0 Lord, in Thy Blood, R. And made of us a kingdom for our God.
Let Us Pray
Almighty and Eternal God, Thou hast appointed Thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Redeemer of the world, and willed to be appeased by His Blood. Grant, we beseech Thee, that we may worthily adore this Price of our salvation, and through His power be safeguarded from the evils of this present life, so that we may rejoice in His fruits forever in Your Heavenly kingdom, through the same Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour Who lives and reigns with Thee in the unity and power of Thy Holy Spirit our Paraclete unto the endless ages of ages to come.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Traditional Catholic Prayers: Prayers of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Family

Traditional Catholic Prayers: Prayers of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Family

Jesu, the Ransomer of man,

Who, ere created light began,

Didst from the sovereign Father spring,

His power and glory equaling.

The Father's Light and Splendour thou,

Their endless Hope to thee that bow:

Accept the prayers and praise today

That through the world thy servants pay.

Salvation's Author, call to mind

How, taking form of humankind,

Born of a Virgin undefiled

Thou in man's flesh becam'st a Child.

Thus testifies the present day

Through every year in long array,

That thou, salvation's source alone,

Proceedest from the Father's Throne.

Whence sky, and stars, and sea's abyss,

And earth, and all that therein is,

Shall still, with laud and carol meet,

The Author of thine Advent greet.

And we who, by thy precious Blood

From sin redeemed, are marked for God,

On this, the day that saw thy Birth,

Sing the new song of ransomed earth.

All honour, laud, and glory be,

O Jesu, Virgin-Born, to thee;

Whom with the Father we adore,

And Holy Ghost, for evermore. Amen.

Eternal King of Saints, whose Word

Called forth creation from its rest,

Before the ages thou art Lord,

In thine eternal Father's breast.

Thou, when earth's dawning sun began

To chase the chaos shades away,

In thine own Image madest man,

And didst inspire the senseless clay.

But Satan's craft and Satan's wile

Could mar that workso very good:

And Eden's wood must man beguile,

That God may reign from off the Wood.

O born of Mary's virgin womb,

First-fruits of Death's dark womb to be,

Thou bidst us waken from the tomb,

And rise to light and life with thee.

Eternal Shepherd of the sheep,

The stones lie heavy on the well;

The clear baptismal spring lies deep,

Come thou and feed thine Israel!

Redeemer of the sons of men

Thou hungest dying on the Rood,

That thou mightst pay the price again

Of our salvation in thy Blood.

Grant, Lord,in thee each faithful mind

Unceasing Paschal joy may find;

And from the death of sin set free

Souls newly born to life by thee.

All praise be thine, O risen Lord,

From death to endless life restored;

Whom with the Father we adore,

And Holy Ghost, for evermore. Amen.

Eternal Monarch, King most high,

Whose blood hath brought redemption nigh,

By whom the death of Death was wrought,

And conquering grace to man was brought:

Ascending to the throne of might,

And seated at the Father's right,

All power, O Jesu, is thine own

That here thy Manhood had not known.

To thee the whole creation now

Doth in its three-fold order bow,

Of things on earth, and things on high,

And things that underneath do lie.

With awe the Angels contemplate

The wondrous change of man's estate;

Though flesh hath sinned, Flesh purged the stain,

And in that Flesh our God doth reign.

Be thou our joy, O mighty Lord,

As thou wilt be our great reward;

Earth's joys to thee are nothing worth,

Thou joy and crown of heaven and earth.

We therefore beg, dear Lord, of thee

To pardon our iniquity;

Yea, of thine own supernal grace

Uplift our hearts to seek thy face:

That when in clouds, O Judge of doom,

Thy glory shall thisearth illume,

Thou mayst remit our debt of pain,

And grant our long-lost crowns again.

All praise from every heart and tongue

To thee, ascended Lord, be sung;

Whom with the Father we adore,

And Holy Ghost, for evermore. Amen.

Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,

Vouchsafe within our souls to rest;

Come with thy grace and heavenly aid,

And fill the hearts which thou hast made.

Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,

Vouchsafe within our souls to rest;

Come with thy grace and heavenly aid,

And fill the hearts which thou hast made.

To thee, the Paraclete, we cry,

To thee, the Gift of God most high,

The Fount of life, theFire of love,

The soul's Anointing from above.

The sevenfold gifts of grace are thine,

O Finger of the Hand Divine;

True Promise of the Father thou,

Who dost the tongue with speech endow.

Thy light to every sense impart,

And shed thy love in every heart;

Thine own unfailing might supply

To strengthen our infirmity.

Drive far away our ghostly foe,

And thine abiding peace bestow;

If thou be our preventing Guide,

No evil can our steps betide.

Make thou to us the Father known,

Teach us the eternal Son to own,

Be this our neverchanging creed,

That thou dost from the Father through the Son proceed.

All praise be thine, O risen Lord,

From death to endless life restored;

Whom with the Father we adore,

And Holy Ghost, for evermore. Amen.

O God of mercy passing thought,

Who hast the world contrived and wrought;

In might, essential Unity,

In Persons, blessed Trinity:

Uplift us with thine arm of might,

And let our hearts rise pure and bright,

And, ardent in God's praises, pay

The thanks we owe him every day.

Glory to thee, O Father, Lord,

And to thy Sole-begotten Word,

Both with the Holy Spirit One

While everlasting ages run. Amen.

Friday, January 14, 2011

The Catholic Creed: The Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ

The Catholic Creed: The Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ

From the: CATHOLIC DICTIONARY The Catholic Press, Inc. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Imprimatur + Samuel Cardinal Stritch Archbishop of Chicago - Chicago, August 5, 1950

Resurrection of Christ. The greatest of all Christ's miracles and the proof of His divine mission. For although He worked many other wonders, yet without His Resurrection, as Saint Paul states (1 Cor. 15:17), our faith would be vain and we would still be in our sins. The reason for this is that resurrection from the dead was the sign which Christ Himself promised as the proof of His divine mission (Matt. 12:38 - 41; John 2:19), and had He failed to return to life on the third day He would have been convicted of being an imposter. His enemies, the priests and Pharisees, understood full well the importance of this sign, and therefore took precautions to seal the tomb and post guards (Matt. 27:62 - 66). Since these arrangements excluded the possibility of fraud, they thereby increased for posterity the certainty of the miracle. The Resurrection was not an apparent return or a mere hallucination of the Apostles, but resumption by Christ of His human body. It is a historical fact attested by witnesses who could neither deceive, wish to deceive, nor be deceived. Those whom the Bible mentions as having seen the Risen Christ include: Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome; the Apostles; Cleophas and another disciple at Emmaus; Saint Paul; more than 500 disciples. Of the fact of Christ's Resurrec tion, therefore, there can be no doubt (Matt. 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20). The Apostles bore witness to it constantly; in fact, it formed the basis of their entire preaching (e.g., Acts 2:24-32; 2 Cor. 5:15; 2 Tim. 2:8). Not only is it the foundation of our faith; it is also the pledge and example of our own resurrection. Easter Sunday is the Feast of the Resurrection. Resurrection of the Body. The doctrine that the souls of all men, both good and bad, will be reunited to their bodies at the second coming of Christ. Just as the body shares in the good acts or in the sins of the soul in this life, so it will share in its reward or in its punishment in eternity. Each soul will be reunited, by the power of God, to identically the same body which it inhabited in this life. The risen body, will be without any defect of human nature and will be invested with the special qualities of the glorified body. This doctrine is the 11th article of the Creed, and one of the principal doctrines of our Faith. This consoling truth was known to the orthodox Jews of the Old Testament (2 Mach. 7:9-11) and was more clearly and emphatically taught by Our Lord on various occasions (Matt. 22:23-32; John 5: 28-29). Indeed, by Himself rising from the dead, Christ gave us a pattern and a pledge of our own resurrection (1 Cor. 15:20-23; 1 Thess. 4:13); for at His command on the last day our bodies will be restored to us in a condition like to His own glorified body: subject to our souls, and immune from decay, suffering, and death (1 Cor. 15:42-44).

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Right to Life: THE LORD SAID

Ex:20:13:
13 Thou shalt not kill. (DRV)

Dt:18:9, 10:
9 ¶ When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations.
10 Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard, (DRV)

Dt:18:10 "... expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire..." Refers to the practice of murdering a live infant by fire to the pagan goddess Moloch. Today the same thing, murder by burning, is saline abortion.

ALL ABORTION IS OBVIOUSLY MURDER MOST EVIL.



Right to Life: The Early Church on the Way of Life

Didache - Chap. II.

1. And the second commandment of the Teaching is:
2. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not corrupt boys; thou shalt not commit fornication. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not use witchcraft; thou shalt not practice sorcery.
Thou shalt not procure abortion, nor shalt thou kill the new-born child. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.


Right to Life: The Teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ on Right to Life

Matthew 18

1 ¶ At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who, thinkest thou, is the greater in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus, calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them.
3 And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.
6
But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones [harm a child - all children belong to God] that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.
7 ¶ Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless
woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh.


ALLAH SUBHANAHU
WA TA’ALA CONDEMNS ALL ABORTION AND REQUIRES THAT WE OBEY THIS.

Holy Qur'an

Surah 3 - Ali 'Imran - THE FAMILY OF 'IMRAN

003.020 So if they dispute with thee, say: "I have submitted My whole self to God and so have those who follow me." And say to the People of the Book and to those who are unlearned: "Do ye (also) submit yourselves?" If they do, they are in right guidance, but if they turn back, Thy duty is to convey the Message; and in God's sight are (all) His servants.

Surah 5 - Al Ma'idah THE REPAST

005.092 Obey God, and obey the Apostle, and beware (of evil): if ye do turn back, know ye that it is Our Apostle's duty to proclaim (the message) in the clearest manner.

005.099 The Apostle's duty is but to proclaim (the message). But God knoweth all that ye reveal and ye conceal.


Surah 6 - Al An'am THE CATTLE

006.140 Lost are those who slay their children, from folly, without knowledge, and forbid food which God hath provided for them, inventing (lies) against God. They have indeed gone astray and heeded no guidance.

006.151 Say: "Come, I will rehearse what God hath (really) prohibited you from": Join not anything as equal with Him; be good to your parents; kill not your children on a plea of want;- We provide sustenance for you and for them;- come not nigh to shameful deeds. Whether open or secret; take not life, which God hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.

Surah 17 - Al Isra' THE NIGHT JOURNEY

017.031 Kill not your children for fear of want: We shall provide sustenance for them as well as for you. Verily the killing of them is a great sin.


Surah 60 - Al Mumtahinah THAT WHICH EXAMINES

060.012 O Prophet! When believing women come to thee to take the oath of fealty to thee, that they will not associate in worship any other thing whatever with God, that they will not steal, that they will not commit adultery (or fornication), that they will not kill their children, that they will not utter slander, intentionally forging falsehood, and that they will not disobey thee in any just matter,- then do thou receive their fealty, and pray to God for the forgiveness (of their sins): for God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Art for the sake of beauty


In Greek, synteresis (or later Greek, synderesis) is the conscience
in classical Arabic (later than the Greek), al-damîr. That is the divine spark in the nadir, the seat of the soul of man. This is what separates men from animals. Each has a soul, but only man has the divine spark so that his soul is eternal, and not temporary like the animals. It is this divine spark that gives rise to the Moral Aesthetic impulse in man. That is, the appreciation of beauty of true moral appeal. What in simple terms we call beautiful and moving or touching– as opposed to ugly and disgusting.


The Good Shepherd - Mausoleum of Galla Placidia 5th Century
Perfect example of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, who moves men's souls to want to follow His teaching of the sermon on the mount.



Persian tile - Style circa 11th Century
The beauty of creation is there, but the Moral Aesthetic appeal is lacking. That gives rise to luxuriousness and only selfishness.


The next five are from the Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry 15th Century collection


The Duke of Berry on a Journey (detail)



Saint George and the Dragon



Holy Family, the flight into Egypt



The Death of Christ



Saint Anthony Receives Directions from a Centaur
In the five above, the movement of Holy Inspiration and of the life of rectitude.



St. Anne consoled by a woman Gaudenzio Ferrari 16th Century
A holy sisterhood - most moving.



Transfiguration of Christ - Titian 16th Century
Lk 9:29 And whilst he prayed, the shape of his countenance was altered, and his raiment became white and glittering. 30 And behold two men were talking with him. And they were Moses and Elias,

Divine thunder calling to Godly obedience - the response of a good conscience.
Lk 9:35 And a voice came out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son; hear him.




The Rest during the Flight into Egypt - Caravaggio, Italian Baroque 16th - 17th Century
Most tender and moving.



Marketplace in North Africa - Frederick Arthur Bridgman 19th-20th Century
Happy simple joy of the souq, the market place, a good gift of the creation of God.


Impressionist pantheistic overlay obscuring the God of Creation speaking to the souls of men.


And Wise Men Came Bearing Gifts - Tom Dubois 21st Century
Chromatic realism. A little flashy and tending toward shallow therefore, but reverent.



Sermon on the Mount - James Tissot 19th Century
Realism awash in Divine inspiration calling with hope!


Friday, January 7, 2011

The coming of the Antichrist, ad-Dajjal




Mount Damavand, in Iran which is ancient Persia, Damavand which is the center since ancient times of the most Diabolic Satanic Sorcery.



[picture of
Al-Massih Ad-Dajjal (المسيح الدجال‎ – le faux messie), L’antéchrist Dajjal from: L’antéchrist Dajjâl – Sheikh Imran Hosein ]


Palestine

The land of Palestine and the whole Arab homeland belongs to the Arabs.

In the Book of Deuteronomy, Chapters 28 -- 32 God explicitly tells Moses that the ancient Israelites will trangress the land covenant with God and God will void the covenant permanently and cast them out. Especially see Dt. 31:16,17

"And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which they goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will void the covenant, which I have made with them,

And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me."


Tissot - Jesus Christ prophesying the destruction of the temple

This came to pass forevermore exactly as Jesus Christ said 1,500 years later when He prophesied the utter destruction of the Temple. That destruction occurred in 70 A.D.


Titus utterly destroyed the temple in 70 A.D.

Islam came initially to the Arab people, the descendants of Ishmael, the first born son of Prophet Abraham, through the prophet Muhammad (PBUH), during the Seventh Century, A.D., and Islam spread all over the world, until the Muslims are now 1.5 billion in number, including 450 million Arabs. And the Arabs, including the Palestinians, the descendants of Ishmael were directly and unconditionally, blessed by God in the Holy Bible, and described as "Princes":

"As for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation."

(Genesis 17:20)

And

"And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said unto her, What aileth thee Hagar? Fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand: for I will make him a great nation."

(Genesis 21:17-18)




Persian heresy in Islam and its power play to implement the Antichrist

Persian cabalistic-Gnostic heresy within Islamic civilization goes back to the time of the Hurufi movement in Persia in the eighth century A.D. from within the Imami. It is the absolute basis of the Ismaeli heresy which has totally corrupted Egypt and Saudia Arabia down to the present. From Persia it spread to Turkey and became the Bektasiyya, who were totally immersed in Jewish Kabbalah. Centuries later Sabbatai Zvi was received there in Turkey by the Persian Shi'ite Muslim Bektasiyya, which predisposed the Sultan of Turkey to receiving and becoming the patron of Sabbatai Zvi. This led to Sabbateanism. The original, and still the core heresy and movement, is Persian-Iranian Shi'ism. It is the basis for ALL Zionism for the last 12 centuries. It is the Sephardic Zionist core and is who entrapped the Khazar Ashkenazim into Talmudic Judaism. When you speak of Iran, you are talking about the absolute basis and rulers of the synagogue who control all of Zionist Israel. There are more Rabbis in Iran than in most Jewish enclaves in the world.

Iran is very important to the Jews and the European Illuminati because it is central via its Shi'ism to subvert Islam from within. The Illuminati are behind that.




The Twelfth Imam was not revealed by Muhammad (PBUH) in the Holy Qur'an, but is an invention of men.

Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ warned of false prophets who come in His name. If someone claimed to be the Twelfth Imam in an esoteric Sufi sense [false sense and not a genuine sincere humble Sufi sense] and pointed to a figure like al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah of the Druze as the Mahdi he would be a false prophet and an antichrist by definition (both by definition from a Christian and Islamic point of view). When he pointed to this person (most likely an Freemasonic ecumenist) as the Mahdi who then, instead of witnessing to morality and blessing Jesus Christ, unifies both Sunni and Shia and a substantial portion of Islam around himself and strikes a peace agreement with the Antichrist (the Dajjal) in Jerusalem then this person claiming to be the Mahdi would be one of the ten horns (see Rev. 17:3, 7, 12, 16) that follow after the Beast (the Antichrist) and do his will and then there is the false peace St. Paul warned about. See: 1Thes:5:3 “For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.” (DRV)


One, an offshoot which shall arise from among the ten horns (kings or rulers), will come forward with the ten behind it and conquer three others before it and rule over seven as the eighth and this one will be the Antichrist (God alone knows at this point in time who that is). We will know when it happens. To follow or serve the Antichrist, ad-Dajjal, is certain damnation. The early Christian martyrs resisted even when it meant their death.



The Antichrist, ad-Dajjal, himself, will be a Jew and will rule his Diabolic empire from apostate Jersualem

Below: Father Sloet of Holland’s solution to the final name of the Antichrist (who will be a Jew) with medial kaph so the reign of this false “ ‘king’ of Israel” will be temporary, i.e. short.
(Note: in the below that the Hebrew characters normally read in reverse order than the English letters. Numerical equivalents are beneath the English letters.)

Hammelek l Yisrael

H....M.....L....K......L......Y........S........R......A....L

ה מ ל כ ל י ש ר א ל

5+ 40+ 30+ 20+ 30+ 10+ 300+ 200+ 1+ 30 = 666



The Apocalypse Of Saint John

Chapter 13

[11] And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns, like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. [12] And he executed all the power of the former beast in his sight; and he caused the earth, and them that dwell therein, to adore the first beast, whose wound to death was healed. [13] And he did great signs, so that he made also fire to come down from heaven unto the earth in the sight of men. [14] And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, for the signs, which were given him to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make the image of the beast, which had the wound by the sword, and lived. [15] And it was given him to give life to the image of the beast, and that the image of the beast should speak; and should cause, that whosoever will not adore the image of the beast, should be slain.

[11] "Another beast"... This second beast with two horns, may be understood generally of the heathenish priests and magicians; the principal promoters both of idolatry and persecution - SPECIFICALLY, it is the false prophet that goes before the Antichrist as his "armour-bearer" see St. Irenaeus, 180 A.D., Against Heresies - Book 5 - Chapter XXVIII .

[16] And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand, or on their foreheads. [17] And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred sixty-six.

[18] "Six hundred sixty-six"... The numeral letters of his name (the Antichrist, ad-Dajjal) shall make up this number.


The Apocalypse Of Saint John


Chapter 14





Of the Lamb and of the virgins that follow him.

John5:3 And there was a certain widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary.

John5:41 I receive glory not from men. 42 But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. 43 I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. 44 How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the glory which is from God alone, you do not seek? 45 Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust.


The unjust judge is Satan, the widow is Jerusalem who divorced herself from God and the one she receives is the son of perdition, the Antichrist, who "comes in his own name".