The American Influence

The American Influence
Vort-2011-11-29
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
However much the United States of America may or may not be losing its claim to world
superpower is debatable.
But what is not debatable is how far flung the American Empire’s CULTURAL influence
is. Go practically anywhere in the world .. at least in the western nations and it is
impossible to NOT see McDonald’s, Coke, whatever.
But beyond food and such .. there is a whole different type of influence America has ..and that is the exporting of entertainment .. movies .. TV shows .. books .. etc. that spreads typical American ideals far and wide.
In many ways .. America is the great Johnny Appleseed of cultural mind rot, the sewer
of many intellectual errors .. many of them theological errors owing in no small part to the Protestant majority that has dominated the United States for over two centuries. This isn’t to say that all the other nations of the world are pure and chaste. Far from it ..but none of them possess the ability to cats their nets anywhere near as far as America does.
It’s American movies that get seen all around the globe. it’s American television shows that are viewed all over the planet. American music totally dominates other nation’s airwaves. It seems almost impossible to go to another first world country and not feel THAT far removed from America.
America’s cultural reach outstrips that of even Caesar in the days of the Empire. And this situation creates both a challenge and massive opportunity for Catholics in America. The battle for the heart and mind of the Catholic Church in America is so pitched PRECISELY because the stakes are so high. Like virtually every other aspect of American life .. the life of the Church in America far outweighs its raw numbers.
US Catholics represent roughly 5 percent .. a measly 5 percent of the total worldwide
population of Catholics. Yet .. owing to the fact of the wealth of America .. the influence of the Church in America on the Church at large is far greater than the 5 percent figure would at first indicate.
It’s like the old saying .. all bishops are equal .. but some are more equal than others. All local churches are equal .. but some are more equal than others.
The Church in America has grown up alongside the American Empire and as a result .. it has assumed some of the nation’s wealth .. power .. influence .. technology .. prestige and all the rest.
As America has grown in world stature .. so has the Church in America. Because of this ..the cultural-theological war that has been being waged in the various organs of the Church in America has been pitched.
For example .. great American Catholic universities that have all abandoned the faith in principle .. like Notre Dame .. Georgetown .. Boston College .. spread their errors far beyond the boundaries of their own campuses.
With faculties recognized around the world ..[God Knoweth How].. for their brilliance
and scholarship .. the damage increases exponentially with every new book or article they publish and every conference they speak before.
Likewise .. when American liturgical experts [self-described experts] devise the latest hand-clapping song or liturgical dancer polka .. it’s a safe bet that it wont be too long before that is seen somewhere else in the world in short order.
This is why Catholics in America .. the normal people in the pews .. have GOT to dig in and get into this fight. Much more is at stake over the battle for the Church in America than just the Church in America.
If the ship can have its course corrected in America .. then there might be some hope to rescue the Church in other first world nations as well .. or at least save many more people.
This is why what happens here with the US bishops and their staffs at the USCCB and
local diocese bears such intense scrutiny. Much of the rot that set in in the Church in America for the past fifty years happened specifically because shepherds were not doing their job. That is indisputable and abundantly clear.
But as they say .. that was then .. this is now. The prevailing attitude that seems NOW to have been adopted by some leaders in the Church in the United States is damage
control .. or maintenance. The progressives wrecked the Church in the United States in the 1960-1990s and over the last 10-15 years .. woefully little has been done to REVERSE that wreckage. It isn’t enough to simply maintain the status quo .. to stick to the game plan because it has proven to be a colossal failure.
The Church in America .. leaders and laity must commit to a restoration of the faith on such a grand scale that centuries hence .. these days will be viewed as a salvage effort or reform and restoration unprecedented in Church annals.
In some important ways .. the Church in America is the last great hope of the Church in the entire western world. That’s why this battle cannot be lost .. no matter how desperate it might appear .. this battle CANNOT be lost to the Modernists and progressives. They must be exposed .. their heterodoxy and heresy called out for what it is. As the Church in America goes .. so goes the Church in all the West.
GOD Love you .. I’m Michael Voris.(Visit Michael live tv on www.realcatholictv.com)

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me the Souls of those who have separated themselves from My Church*,

and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart, that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church My wounds heal and in this way they alleviate My Passion."

Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light to those who seek it of You. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Church. Draw them by Your light into the unity of the Church, and do not let them escape from the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart; but bring it about that they, too, come to glorify the generosity of Your mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Son's Church, who have squandered Your blessings and misused Your graces by obstinately persisting in their errors. Do not look upon their errors, but upon the love of Your own Son and upon His bitter Passion, which He underwent for their sake, since they, too, are enclosed in His Most Compassionate Heart. Bring it about that they also may glorify Your great mercy for endless ages. Amen.

*Our Lord's original words here were "heretics and schismatics,"



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Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me those who do not believe in God and those who do not know Me,

I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy."

Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.

*Our Lord's original words here were "the pagans."



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Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me all Devout and Faithful Souls,

and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. These souls brought me consolation on the Way of the Cross. They were a drop of consolation in the midst of an ocean of bitterness."

Most Merciful Jesus, from the treasury of Your mercy, You impart Your graces in great abundance to each and all. Receive us into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart and never let us escape from It. We beg this grace of You by that most wondrous love for the heavenly Father with which Your Heart burns so fiercely.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon faithful souls, as upon the inheritance of Your Son. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, grant them Your blessing and surround them with Your constant protection. Thus may they never fail in love or lose the treasure of the holy faith, but rather, with all the hosts of Angels and Saints, may they glorify Your boundless mercy for endless ages. Amen.



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Michael Voris speaks on "The armor of God"

Listen and learn:

http://www.realcatholictv.com/premium/index.php?vidID=bsic-2010-07-11&ssnID=94

The first of many lessons, that Msgr Lisante has lost in the glimmer and glitz of the World.

Michael Voris "From the Heart"

From the Heart
Hello everyone .. and welcome to the Vortex .. where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed .. I’m Michael Voris.
The Catholic Church is magnificent. It stands like a great and noble city .. a sparkling
jewel .. splendorous.
The Bride of Christ loved from all Eternity in the Bosom of the Holy Trinity. Pre-saged
by Israel with the Father .. purchased with the blood of the Son .. brought into visible reality by the Spirit. Brought into being in time .. Her destiny is now Eternity. What existed from all time in the mind of the Father will be in alive forever in the heart of the Father, through the Son, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Church soars to the heavens in the depth of Her teachings.She possesses infinity in a finite tabernacle.She glories with the saints and angels in heaven even now as She lifts up her heart in the
Eucharistic sacrifice.She lives and moves and has Her Being in the Divine Majesty. She is raised up from the dust of the earth through the waters of baptism. She lives in perpetual virginity through everlasting espousal to Christ. She is the delight of the Lord of Lords and is the Bride of the King of Kings. When She speaks .. her honeyed voice is truth and goodness and beauty. When She breaths .. it is the air of courts of Heaven .. the intoxicating fragrance of love.

THIS is the Church.

Our Blessed Lord would prepare nothing less than perfection for his Bride .. as He
prepared nothing less than perfection for His Mother. This Bride of Christ .. And She is worth fighting for. Her sons are summoned to defend Her honor. Her daughters to proclaim her beauty.
There is nothing more noble to which man can aspire than to sit in Her courts and muse
on Her truth.
Through the deepest reality of love that God could offer man .. Himself in the form of bread ..
His very humanity AND Divinity .. we have noble blood now flowing through our veins.
The very DNA of GOD himself joins to our DNA .. literally transforming us into
Christ .. and for this reason a man leaves his parents and CLINGS to his wife .. and the TWO become one flesh.
This is the GREAT reality of the HOLY EUCHARIST. That we have the very blood of
Christ flowing through our veins. His flesh becomes our flesh. We are prepared .. by
slowly being transformed .. for our Heavenly home.
The Church makes possible for us the commandment that Our Blessed Lord gave to each
of us .. Be perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.
When the apostles head their Master’s words .. they were awe struck and said .. but who then can be saved? Our Lord answered them, for man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
This is why the Church exists .. so that Almighty God may LOVE us into Eternity with Him.
So many people simply do not see the Church in this manner. This is a cause of continual sadness for those of us who do. It must continue to be a source of sadness for us so we can stay motivated and energized to pray and preach and sacrifice.
The greatest gift this side of Eternity has been handed to those baptized into the Catholic Faith. Freely we have received, now freely we must give.
The Catholic Church is the door to eternal life because it is so closely wedded to Christ Himself as a husband to his wife .. that the two have become one flesh .. the same flesh. So when Our lord says of Himself .. he is the door .. he refers also to His One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. He identifies with Her so closely and so freely that he made no distinction between the Church and himself when he confronted Saul on the road to Damascus and said .. Saul, Saul why do you persecute ME?
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. It is all contained in the Catholic Church fully and completely.
This truth .. it’s worth fighting for.
GOD Bless you.
I’m Michael(www.realcatholictv.com )

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me the Souls of Priests and Religious,

and immerse them in My unfathomable mercy. It was they who gave me strength to endure My bitter Passion. Through them as through channels My mercy flows out upon mankind."

Most Merciful Jesus, from whom comes all that is good, increase Your grace in men and women consecrated to Your service,* that they may perform worthy works of mercy; and that all who see them may glorify the Father of Mercy who is in heaven.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the company of chosen ones in Your vineyard -- upon the souls of priests and religious; and endow them with the strength of Your blessing. For the love of the Heart of Your Son in which they are enfolded, impart to them Your power and light, that they may be able to guide others in the way of salvation and with one voice sing praise to Your boundless mercy for ages without end. Amen.

"Today bring to Me the Souls who have become Lukewarm,

and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out: 'Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.' For them, the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy."

Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart. In this fire of Your pure love, let these tepid souls who, like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy. Amen.

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me all mankind, especially all sinners,

and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. In this way you will console Me in the bitter grief into which the loss of souls plunges Me."

Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive us, do not look upon our sins but upon our trust which we place in Your infinite goodness. Receive us all into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart, and never let us escape from It. We beg this of You by Your love which unites You to the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon all mankind and especially upon poor sinners, all enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion show us Your mercy, that we may praise the omnipotence of Your mercy for ever and ever. Amen.

"Today bring to Me the Souls who are in the prison of Purgatory,

and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. Let the torrents of My Blood cool down their scorching flames. All these souls are greatly loved by Me. They are making retribution to My justice. It is in your power to bring them relief. Draw all the indulgences from the treasury of My Church and offer them on their behalf. Oh, if you only knew the torments they suffer, you would continually offer for them the alms of the spirit and pay off their debt to My justice."

Most Merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said that You desire mercy; so I bring into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls in Purgatory, souls who are very dear to You, and yet, who must make retribution to Your justice. May the streams of Blood and Water which gushed forth from Your Heart put out the flames of Purgatory, that there, too, the power of Your mercy may be celebrated.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls suffering in Purgatory, who are enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. I beg You, by the sorrowful Passion of Jesus Your Son, and by all the bitterness with which His most sacred Soul was flooded: Manifest Your mercy to the souls who are under Your just scrutiny. Look upon them in no other way but only through the Wounds of Jesus, Your dearly beloved Son; for we firmly believe that there is no limit to Your goodness and compassion. Amen.



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Michael Voris- Sola Scriptura- Realcatholictv.com

Sola Scriptura - LOL
Vort-2011-11-23
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
We often talk about the heresy of Protestantism in the Vortex .. and it drives some people crazy. They say it’s not nice and mean and intolerant of other religions.
No. It’s just that Protestantism is a heresy and needs to be called out as such. Nd just for the record .. for those who continually twist those words and say that we claim individual Protestants go to hell and cannot get into heaven .. once again .. for the umpteenth time .. that is NOT what we are saying.
I don’t even know if I’M going to Heaven or Hell. How do I know the eternal destiny of someone else.
BUT what we are saying is that the much of the teachings of ProtestantISM .. are
heretical .. and lead one away from the truth of Jesus Christ.
Of the many areas where this is the case is the Protestant approach to Sacred Scripture. It’s called Sola Scriptura and we have a response to that . LOL.
Sola Scriptura is the Latin phrase that describes the teaching that all a person needs to be saved is in the Bible. At first blush .. that might sound reasonable .. until you stop and realize that the Bible ITSELF doesn’t even make that claim.
In fact .. in a couple of passages .. it says EXACTLY the opposite .. and in many other passages it is very clear that much more than the written word is needed.
Protestantism is a religion of the book. Period. Problem with that is simple. That book is a CATHOLIC book and when Protestants put their own spin on what this is that chapter and verse mean .. they are distorting and doing violence to the Word of God .. both the written word and the Living Word of Our Blessed Lord Himself.
Our sister organization .. St. Michael’s Media .. has put together a splendid DVD set
explaining all of this and much more in greater detail. It’s called Where Did the Bible Come From?
Premium subscribers already have access to the videos but there is more to this set than just the videos. It also comes with a nifty little book that discusses more than what is on the three disc set AND there is also this cool pullout that expands to show you on one side a timeline of how the Bible was actually put together and on the other side is a glossary of terms that are very helpful to know when studying the scriptures.
Too many Catholics are too unfamiliar with Sacred Scripture and have allowed
Protestantism to lay hold of them and distort them. These distortions cause people to
leave the Church established by Our Blessed Lord or prevent people from coming to it.
St. Michael’s Media produced this handsome package to deliberately offset erroneous
Protestant claims about scripture AND to help educate Catholics about our heritage and our patrimony.
The Bible is a Catholic work .. from first to last. It was given to the Church .. for the Church. And only the Catholic Church is its proper interpreter.
Is that a MEAN thing to say? Of course not. It’s the truth that needs to be said. No one has a right to lay claim to the Church’s possessions and claim them for themselves. That’s called stealing and for too many Catholics .. they have had the Bible stolen from them by errant Protestant theology.
All year long .. and in dozens and dozens of places all over the globe .. we continually talk about the need for Catholics to KNOW their faith. To Learn their faith. To understand that the training and catechises that has been practically non-existent for the past 40 or 50 years.
You and I each have a sacred obligation to not only defend the truth .. but evangelize and spread the truth. In many cases .. that means being able to clearly explain the faith is simple reasoned terms that can be easily understood.
Where did the Bible Come From is a perfect tool for that. St. Jerome famously said ..
ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. Given the crisis of faith and catechises the Church is now in. In the west .. Catholics don’t get to choose to remain ignorant any longer.
As all the craziness of the shopping season begins .. consider giving something of true lasting value in addition to the latest whiz bang whatever. Those gifts mean very little after just a few weeks. Knowledge lasts into eternity.
GOD Love you .. I’m Michael Voris.

(Did you get that? You and I each have a sacred obligation to not only defend the truth .. but evangelize and spread the truth.)

Divine Mercy prayers

Today bring to Me the Souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy*,

and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.

Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God:

Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.

*The text leads one to conclude that in the first prayer directed to Jesus, Who is the Redeemer, it is "victim" souls and contemplatives that are being prayed for; those persons, that is, that voluntarily offered themselves to God for the salvation of their neighbor (see Col 1:24; 2 Cor 4:12). This explains their close union with the Savior and the extraordinary efficacy that their invisible activity has for others. In the second prayer, directed to the Father from whom comes "every worthwhile gift and every genuine benefit,"we recommend the "active" souls, who promote devotion to The Divine Mercy and exercise with it all the other works that lend themselves to the spiritual and material uplifting of their brethren.



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HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE

Gods love and blessings to you all.
Itzik

"I saw it with my own eyes" Michael Voris.

With My Own Eyes
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris coming to you from Rome.
As 2011 draws to a close and 2012 appears on the horizon .. many will begin to reflect
back on a hugely significant event that occurred here in Rome 50 years ago. The opening
of the Second Vatican Council.
Yep. 50 years have passed since Blessed Pope John XXIII gave his introduction before
the Council Fathers.
Which for me personally is kind of significant .. because I just recently turned 50 so I and
many other Catholics can rightly be called .. literally the children of Vatican II. We were
born when the Council began and now we have come to full bloom.
So I’d actually like to do some personal reflection as a Catholic who was born as the
Council began and grew up in the Catholic world which developed in its shadow.
I have no recollection .. no living memory of the Church before Vatican II. While I was
an infant in my father’s arms at the traditional Latin Mass .. I spent most of my time AT it
being carried out FROM it for wailing and fussing and crying .. at least that’s what my
Mom and Dad tell me.
My brother however who was exactly 7 years older than me .. same birthday seven years
apart .. was an altar boy .. not an altar server .. but an altar BOY who never served
anything OTHER THAN the latin Mass.
So in the 7 short years between us .. an enormous change occurred. By the time I came to
serve as an altar boy .. the Mass looked almost NOTHING like what my brother had
grown up with.
There were some holdover elements that hadn’t totally been gotten rid of yet .. incense ..
cassock and surplice .. reception of the Body and Blood of Our Blessed Lord on the
tongue.
We altar boys who are now fifty remember that fact clearly because we had to hold the
patens under the people’s chins. And almost every genuflected going in and out of the
pews. And so did we every time .. and I mean EVERYTIME we crossed in front of the
tabernacle .. which by the way was in the center of the sanctuary.
But during my time as an altar boy .. the “change” was in full force. First .. Sr. Bernadette
.. a lovely and demanding nun .. who was in her habit .. began teaching us .. the altar boys
about the sign of peace. This was when I was in 3rd grade.
We were told that when the time came for the sign of peace .. the priest would turn to us ..
extend the sign to us individually .. then we were to go into the main aisle and pew by
pew processing from front back .. very orderly .. extend the shake. Then that person
would turn to the person next to them and pass it on and so forth. That way .. it was very
clear that the “peace” originated from the sanctuary .. from Christ.
Ah .. well it took about 6 months before that went out the window and the sign of peace
had devolved into the near chaos that it is today where the peace comes not from the
sanctuary .. but EACH OTHER .. not from God .. but from man.
And I know .. because I was there. I saw it with my own two eyes.
By the time us 50 year olds had matriculated from 3rd grade to high school .. we saw the
nuns’ habits go from near the floor to above the knees to out in the trash. Of course we
also saw them leave in droves. I know. I was there. I saw it with my own two eyes.
Then there were the stories that were being whispered about Fr. Jim and Fr. Walsh
running off and getting married to some women after just not showing up one day for
morning Mass. I know. I was there. I saw it with my own two eyes.
This Vortex is not about listing a series of woes that occurred after Vatican II. It’s about
showing how what happened after Vatican II began paving the way for the deeply
wounded Church we see today.
These first small changes were nothing more than pre-cursors of a huge storm that had
already begun to break upon the Church. Within a few short years of that sign of peace
stuff .. our cassocks and surplices had been switched out one Sunday for those droll
unceremonious white bedsheets with hoods and a little rope around the middle.
We just stopped using incense one Sunday. Suddenly .. a few Sundays later .. half the
people were sticking their hands out to “get the bread” and our job with the patens
became virtually unnecessary. We were down-sized as altar boys before being downsized
was fashionable .. and this all happened before having reached puberty.
Of course .. what was happening to us altar boys was one symptom of the larger darkness
that was descending on the Church .. a darkness that robbed us of our heritage .. took it
away from us as we were essentially babies.These modernists literally took the candy of
the Catholic Faith out of the mouth of babies.
Before my time on the altar was over .. we had gone from singing Immaculate Mary and
Holy God we Praise Thy Name to .. hit numbers from GodSpell and Jesus Christ
Superstar and of course the Protestant National Anthem .. Amazing Grace. If it was
Catholic it was out the door and anything else was welcome .. Protestant .. secular ..
whatever .. just not Catholic. Talk about Irish need not apply!
All the while .. our heads were spinning. Organs were out .. guitars and tambourines
were in. I know. I was there. I saw it with my own two eyes. I .. like everyone else who
is 50 .. were actual witnesses to this in the sense that we grew up with them .. right along
beside them. People older than fifty .. saw the so-called Old Church. People under 50
have no understanding of those former days for the most part .. and that includes
converts .. GOD Bless ‘em .. but we “roughly 50 years olds” are the actual witnesses to
it .. the first children of Vatican II .. the eldest sons and daughters of the Second Vatican
Council.
And we have some things to say .. and we will be saying them all this week from Rome ..
where the eve of the 50th anniversary of Vatican II is about to descend.
GOD Love You.
I’m Michael Voris(seen on www.realcatholictv.com )

realcatholictv.com(telling it like it is)

From the Heart
Hello everyone .. and welcome to the Vortex .. where lies and falsehoods are trapped and exposed .. I’m Michael Voris.
The Catholic Church is magnificent. It stands like a great and noble city .. a sparkling jewel .. splendorous. The Bride of Christ loved from all Eternity in the Bosom of the Holy Trinity. Pre-saged by Israel with the Father .. purchased with the blood of the Son .. brought into visible reality by the Spirit.
Brought into being in time .. Her destiny is now Eternity. What existed from all time in the mind of the Father will be in alive forever in the heart of the Father, through the Son, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Church soars to the heavens in the depth of Her teachings.
She possesses infinity in a finite tabernacle.
She glories with the saints and angels in heaven even now as She lifts up her heart in the Eucharistic sacrifice.
She lives and moves and has Her Being in the Divine Majesty.
She is raised up from the dust of the earth through the waters of baptism.
She lives in perpetual virginity through everlasting espousal to Christ.
She is the delight of the Lord of Lords and is the Bride of the King of Kings.
When She speaks .. her honeyed voice is truth and goodness and beauty.
When She breaths .. it is the air of courts of Heaven .. the intoxicating fragrance of love. THIS is the Church.
Our Blessed Lord would prepare nothing less than perfection for his Bride .. as He
prepared nothing less than perfection for His Mother.
This Bride of Christ .. And She is worth fighting for.
Her sons are summoned to defend Her honor. Her daughters to proclaim her beauty.
There is nothing more noble to which man can aspire than to sit in Her courts and muse on Her truth. Through the deepest reality of love that God could offer man .. Himself in the form of bread .. His very humanity AND Divinity .. we have noble blood now flowing thorugh our veins.
The very DNA of GOD himself joins to our DNA .. literally transforming us into
Christ .. and for this reason a man leaves his parents and CLINGS to his wife .. and the TWO become one flesh.
This is the GREAT reality of the HOLY EUCHARIST. That we have the very blood of
Christ flowing through our veins. His flesh becomes our flesh. We are prepared .. by
slowly being transformed .. for our Heavenly home.
The Church makes possible for us the commandment that Our Blessed Lord gave to each
of us .. Be perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.
When the apostles heard their Master’s words .. they were awe struck and said but who
then can be saved. Our Lord answered them, for man it is impossible, but with God all
things are possible. This is why the Church exists .. so that Almighty God may LOVE us into Eternity with Him. So many people simply do not see the Church in this manner. This is a cause of continual sadness for those of us who do. It must continue to be a source of sadness for us so we can stay motivated and energized to pray and preach and sacrifice. The greatest gift this side of Eternity has been handed to those baptized into the Catholic Faith. Freely we have received, now freely we must give. The Catholic Church is the door to eternal life because it is so closely wedded to Christ Himself as a husband to his wife .. that the two have become one flesh .. the same flesh. So when Our lord says of Himself .. he is the door .. he refers also to His One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. He identifies with Her so closely and so freely that his made no distinction between the Church and himself when he confronted Saul on the road to Damascus and said .. Saul, Saul why do you persecute ME? One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. It is all contained in the Catholic Church fully and completely.
This truth .. it’s worth fighting for.
GOD Bless you.
I’m Michael Voris.

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Enough is Enough!
The Vortex
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris
All this week .. we’ve been talking about the various wrong-doings at the Catholic
Campaign for Human Development – knows also as the CCHD.
The reason we have spent this kind of time on this organization is that it is emblematic of
the larger problem in the Church these days - a corruption or perversion of Church
teaching that helps to destroy Catholic identity and place it as the service of the world,
not God.
Enough is enough. If the Catholic Church is going to recover in the West generally and
the United States in particular than it must be authentically Catholic and stop making
excuses for every possible watered-down version of faith that comes down the pike.
Indifferentism .. relativism .. universalism .. are all given too much of a pass these days in
the Church.
Indifferentism .. is the belief that essentially all religions are the same .. that no one faith
is superior to any others. Of course one is .. Catholicism because the Son of God
established it.
Relativism .. is the belief that no morality is really superior to any other morality .. you
know .. there’s my truth and your truth. Ridiculous. Truth is one.
And Universalism .. the belief that in the end everyone is saved. Our Blessed Lord
Himself tells us this isn’t true.
All three of these serpents wind their way through much of the philosophy that decides
who gets grants from the CCHD.
The Church’s primary social mission is to get souls to heaven. Her corporal works of
mercy flow from that mission .. they don’t replace it.
Please watch this episode of CIA – Catholic Investigative Agency: Social Injustice. The
link is on this page. So far – thousands of people have watched it. Over 800 hours of
research went into this project to help you understand what’s really going on.
Pass it along to as many people as you can and when the plate passes in front of you for
your money to support this .. just say no.
Do you REALLY want to give the CCHD another dime of your money. Watch this
episode of CIA: Social Injustice .. and make up your own mind.
GOD Love You. I’m Michael Voris

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CCHD Show me the money!
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris
So we’ve been talking this week and exposing the embarrassment that is the Catholic
Campaign for Human Development .. also known as the CCHD.
In a couple of weeks time .. generally the Sunday before Thanksgiving .. your gonna hear,
or read some syrupy warm and fuzzy appeal for your money to be used to fight poverty.
What you will not hear is that some of that money fuels groups directly opposed to
Catholic Church teaching that are heavily involved in promoting the Culture of Death.
Groups like .. Michigan Organizing Project or MOP. This group was given
$40,000 by the CCHD. Unfortunately the group also openly advocates for
homosexual rights and same sex marriage. Isn’t it nice to know that your r giving
money to help this group.
And as another example .. United Workers Association of Maryland … or
UWA. They were given $50,000 by the CCHD. Unfortunately … they are also
listed on Equality Maryland’s website as opposing any ban on same-sex
marriage. Another group any faithful Catholic would be ecstatic to support.
Now .. a heads up .. you will hear quite a number of voices telling you this information is
wrong .. or lies .. or uncharitable or whatever.
Watch our latest CIA episode – Catholic Investigative Agency: Social Injustice and make
up your own mind. The link is right on this page. Read the review of CCHD grantees by
a moral theologian Dr. William Marshner of Christendom College who quite flatly states
that this is formal cooperation with moral evil. That link is also here.
For whatever reason .. pride .. incompetence .. extreme incredible ignorance .. whatever ..
the lay staff at CCHD refuses to acknowledge these truths or even actually ADDRESS
them on their own merits.
These charges have been present for decades and every time they surface .. the CCHD
does nothing but just deny them and then hurl accusations at the messengers. Typical.
But it doesn’t change the fact that the charges are true and if you put money in the plate
when this comes collection comes around .. some of your money is going to groups that
DIRECTLY engage in evil.
Ah but wait .. there’s more ..(there’s always more).
In response to the investigations and research by others than their own staff .. the CCHD
was forced to stop giving money to a very small number of outfits.
According to the CCHD’s updated grants list for 2010-2011, Centro Campesino and
Latino Farmers Cooperative of Louisiana both received half of the original grant because
the second half of the grant was cancelled.
The New York City AIDS Housing Network, which was recently declared ineligible for
future funding due to its participation in a condom distribution program, still received the FULL grant.
Fair enough. ONCE a moral problem was discovered .. future funding was cut off ..
The CCHD’s grant agreement says on page 5 under the section titled “Termination”..
“In the event of termination of this CCHD grant, USCCB shall provide Grantee written
notice of such termination and of the cancellation of any portions of the grant that remain to be paid.(That has been done.) USCCB may, in its discretion, require Grantee to refund to USCCB the full amount of the CCHD grant and to transfer title to
USCCB of any property purchased by the Grantee with CCHD grant funds.(emphasis added)
The CCHD has the right recall all granted money, even to the point of confiscating
property purchased with the CCHD grant. However, as of last week, there is no
indication that CCHD intends to demand Catholic money be restored.
How much are we talking about? All together .. these three groups got 60 thousand
dollars. Sure would be nice to demand that money back like the agreement THEY signed
says you can. 60K may not seem like a lot in relation to the millions that have been groups like this ..but you know what .. I can think of at least .. oh a hundred or so Crisis Pregnancy Centers that could use 60 thousand dollars and put it to good moral use.So .. by their own admission .. the CCHD has defunded groups because of moral violations .. has the right to demand the money back .. even the right to confiscate property worth an equal value .. but hasn’t lifted a finger as far as anyone can tell to get back YOUR MONEY and direct it toward a cause you were told it was going to in the first place.
Hey Social Justice crowd at the CCHD .. here’s a big shout to you all .. isn’t justice about giving to each according to his due. Catholics gave money for a specific purpose and it was spent on something they had no idea was going on. Get their money back for them. But what response do you get from the CCHD .. ah pish posh .. you mean ‘ol traditional minded Catholics .. stop being so uncharitable. In the meantime .. they take your money .. give it to pro-death groups .. deny it .. lie about it .. get caught .. THEN defund the groups .. and make no move to get the money back that they have every legal right to.
Do you REALLY want to give the CCHD another dime of your money. Watch this episode of CIA: Social Injustice .. and make up your own mind.
GOD Love You. I’m Michael Voris

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Modernism Inherited, since 2008(Lisante age)
Next year .. which is almost here .. marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of Vatican
II. And right now .. in this year we are barely a breath beyond the 100 year anniversary of
St. Pope Pius X’s dire warnings about Modernism.
Lots of Catholics .. heck nearly all of them .. haven’t even heard the word Modernism
much less know what the Holy Father was talking about. But in short .. it was and is a movement which .. as he said .. synthesizes .. pulls together all heresies and creates one massively united enemy of the Church.
And the problem is this .. Modernism is the enemy which lies WITHIN the Church. This
is what Pius warned against so ardently .. that he demanded that Catholic clergy and
instructors actually take an oath against it. You heard right. A put up your right hand and sing the paper actual oath. That started in 1910 and was ended about 50 years later ..right around the time of Vatican II.
As said earlier this week .. I’m 50 and like many other 50 year olds in the Church .. we have been first hand eye-witnesses to the destruction of much that followed in the wake of Vatican II by the very interests that St. Pius X warned against. We 50 year olds grew up in the Church that was in many ways giving way to Modernism. Now back in the day .. it was cool and in vogue to be “with it”. That was the expression ..“with it”. But no one ever said what exactly IT was. Well it’s pretty darn clear now that IT was modernism. If you don’t believe it .. look around.
Heresy .. some of it bold and affronting .. some of it subtle and coy has gripped the
Church in practically every aspect of Her life. This truth needs to be told and it needs to be told loudly.
You see the loud mouth Modernists in seminaries and chanceries and social movements
in the Church .. who needed to raise a ruckus so they could overthrow the established
order back in the day .. the 1960’s and 1970’s .. when we 50 year olds were snotty kids ..they have now settled in to every corner of the Church.
They don’t need to be loudmouths anymore. They control the levers of power. What is
for them to shout about? They have their will of things. And they have reproduced ..
hiring and promoting and ordaining like-minded friends and allies into chanceries and
seminaries and parish staffs and universities and every other imaginable aspect of
Catholic life. THIS generation of Modernists doesn’t look anything like their hippie .. habit discarding forefathers did when we 50 year olds were kids. Those “with it” types had long hair ..
wore peace signs around their neck on dangly chains .. figured out every way they could to incorporate tie dye patterns into vestments and on and on. They made statements ..loud and clear. They needed to. You can’t storm the palace looking like the palace guard. Just ask the occupy crowd. You need youth and big mouths and they had them in ample supply.Today .. with their ideas firmly entrenched at practically every level of the establishment Church .. they have thrown away their hippie outfits for more polyester comfort. And they don’t rail against the establishment .. they ARE the establishment .. established modernism.
But they WILL rail against those who seek to point them out. Lift a finger or raise a
voice to reveal their true identities and suddenly all the vim and vigor of their halcyon days returns as though they were 30 again .. when they were lying to and deceiving us ..the children who grew up in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. This is exactly what Blessed John Paul II encountered as he realized that the Church needed purifying. He said in 2002 in reference to the homosexual clergy sex abuse scandal ..“So much pain, so much sorrow must lead to a holier priesthood, a holier episcopate, and a holier Church.”
The show forth of the Modernist heresy running wild in the Church since the close of the Second Vatican Council has been rabid sexual immorality on the part of laity and clergy and all that it has spawned including the deceitful cover up and silence on the part of not a small number of bishops.
The refusal to teach the truth forcefully and without apology has led to this current crisis and the Modernists do everything they can to prevent the truth from being announced completely.
John Paul recognized this which is why he set about to produce a new Catechism ..
introduce an updated Code of Canon Law .. re-awaken a great love of Our Blessed
Mother .. preach about the theology of the body in a sex-saturated world and hammer
down liberation theology. All he did was resisted every step of the way.
He prepared the way for Benedict to advance the purification of the Church. And very
aware of the viper’s den he was stepping into at the beginning of his reign as Pope .. he sadly sermonized at his first Mass as Pope ..“Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.”
Benedict .. in his role as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for nearly 25 years was very well aware of how far Modernism had infected the Church .. was well aware of the ravenous wolves all around him. And now he was Pope. And just when like John Paul was Pope .. their office had been protected by the Holy Spirit from preaching the Modernist heresy.
The first group of Modernists shoved and pushed their way to the front of the line and flat out lied to the children in their charge. As they moved on in years .. they made certain that they kept their agenda moving along. But as we grew up .. we just believed what was told to us .. as well as what was not told to us.
Now many Catholics have no point of reference on what it is to BE catholic. And why
would they? Where exactly would they have ever heard it? From the homosexual priest
who quietly dismisses the Church’s moral teaching so he can live his own lifestyle? Or how abut the ex-nun angry at any real man she encounters because she disdains her
own biology? Or what about the bishop who is so much more concerned about finances than he is the faith that the motto on his Coat of Arms should read – don’t rock the boat? And of course there is always the parish religious ed director or her counterpart downtown at Church headquarters who believe being Catholic is little else than being nice – although much of the time – THEY aren’t.
See the first children who grew up in the wake of Vatican II.For us, this is the only
Church we’ve ever really known .. the Church infected with the Modernism that Pope
Pius .. SAINT Pope Pius warned about. The Church that has found itself unable to
confront the evil of Modern time because the wolves inside the Church have done all they can to ally the Church WITH it.
The modernists in the Church who emerged from underground immediately after Vatican
II to seize control had this exact vision of the world in mind. An immoral place .. devoid in every possible way of God .. where human intellect .. such as it is .. reigns supreme and we are no longer beholding to those antiquated medieval thoughts like objective morality .. especially in the areas of sexual license.
So .. they grabbed control of the one institution on the face of earth that was capable of battling the evil and neutered it. If the Catholic Church does not lead the way in battling evil .. then she LOSES her way and so does the world. This is why abortion is not going away .. why homosexual marriage is advancing like a brush fire and so forth. Modernism is a prevailing current in the Church .. for now. Understand it. Face it. Admit it. And then do something about it.
And if you are one of the eldest children of Vatican II .. the 50 year olds .. come to terms with the reality that we were lied to, and we were robbed and even to this day, our inheritance has still not been returned to us.
The Modernists .. the ones who lied to us when we were altar boys and in grade school ..their offspring who now run things are refusing to give us back what is ours by right .. THE AUTHENTIC CATHOLIC FAITH. They want us to be content with false ecumenism and Protestantized Masses and handing money over for “social justice” and bringing in converts who have only been taught SOME of the faith. They pay lip service to the Pope but fight him continually.
They want us to accept a Church in retreat while at the same time they insist that it is not in retreat. And when we don’t .. they smear us with terms like angry .. uncharitable ..mean-spirited. Wrong. We were the ones lied to and robbed. And we want back what has been taken from us.
And just like THEY did when we were children .. if we can’t have what we want .. what
is ACTUALLY ours .. then we are gonna take it .. but our weapons will be truth .. the
ultimate antidote to the poison of sin .. and knowledge. And without the tie-dye shirts and head bands and peace chains. We used to quietly snicker at how stupid they all looked anyway.
GOD Love You.
I’m Michael Voris

(MY NOTE: I had tears in my heart as I posted this and read it again, as it is saying all that the Conservative Catholics have been yearning to say, and having said it, our words and feelings had fallen on deaf ears, ears that under the guise
of progressivism, and modernism, have ignored the call to return to the REAL CATHOLIC TEACHINGS, PRIOR TO 1962. Please go to realcatholictv.com and hear what is happening, and being done by Conservative Catholics. The backlash of VTII, and the Tsunami that is coming to wash our Catholic Church clean of the false teachings and interpretations of VTII. GOD bless Michael Voris and the Real Catholic TV group)

DIVINE MERCY PRAYERS

My prayers and hopes that those who believe will be led to saying these prayers for all sinners, and all humans are sinners.
Today bring to Me the Souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy*,

and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.

Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God:

Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.

*The text leads one to conclude that in the first prayer directed to Jesus, Who is the Redeemer, it is "victim" souls and contemplatives that are being prayed for; those persons, that is, that voluntarily offered themselves to God for the salvation of their neighbor (see Col 1:24; 2 Cor 4:12). This explains their close union with the Savior and the extraordinary efficacy that their invisible activity has for others. In the second prayer, directed to the Father from whom comes "every worthwhile gift and every genuine benefit,"we recommend the "active" souls, who promote devotion to The Divine Mercy and exercise with it all the other works that lend themselves to the spiritual and material uplifting of their brethren.



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The Law of Life
Vort-2011-11-09
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris
A few weeks ago in one of our Vortex episodes .. we quoted a line that caused a number
of people to sit up and ask for some more information.
The line was this .. "Catholicism is the law of life, the life of the intelligence, the solution
of all problems. Catholicism is the truth, and everything that departs from it one iota, is
disorder, deception, and error."
That phrase was penned by a 19th century Spaniard whose name was Juan Donoso
Cortes .. a brilliant Catholic mind .. emphasis on brilliant and more emphasis on
CATHOLIC.
He began his academic life extremely early having completed studies for law before he
was 16. He lived in the few decades immediately following the French Revolution
whose political and social philosophical errors began spreading to his native Spain.
At first he was caught up in the excitement of the NEW .. like so many people are .. but
this man had the humility of soul to realize that beneath all the excitement was a the everpresent
danger of man-centeredness replacing God-centeredness.
So he began to write and much of what he wrote is oddly enough very much applaicable
to our own day.
He wrote a collection of works called ESSAYS ON CATHOLICISM, LIBERALISM, AND
SOCIALISM and it is from this collection that the above quote comes.
Listen to it again .. "Catholicism is the law of life, the life of the intelligence, the solution
of all problems. Catholicism is the truth, and everything that departs from it one iota, is
disorder, deception, and error."
That statement is so bold and direct as to make modernists’ and progressives skin crawl.
But it is exactly what needs to be said as a direct challenge to the prevailing philosophies
of the modern mind.
Why? Well .. for people who are opposed to all the craziness of the contemporary
world .. who feel like they and their values are in massive retreat and unrelenting attack
from the philosophies of the French Revolution .. it makes clear that idea of liberalism
and socialism .. the anti-Traditionalist forces .. and the ensuing opposition to Tradition is nothing recent, but has been ongoing for a few hundred years.
What becomes clear is this .. there are what we can term revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries. The revolutionaries are those forces which overthrew the prevailing order of the Christian world beginning with Martin Luther and excelling after the French Revolution. These revolutionaries are very much active today. Opposing them are the counter-revolutionary forces which seek a return to the world of civility with God at the center of social political and cultural life.
Another clarion call that comes forward as a result of the truthful and bold assertion that Catholicism is the law of life is this – and it is aimed squarely at anti-Catholics.Catholicism was and continues to be the sole coherent serious and viable force opposed to the all the evils of the modern world – of the revolution. Anti-Catholics need to ask themselves if they are really willing to reject the world that defined Europe, a world created by foundational documents of the likes of Augustine, Aquinas, or Dante, not to mention art, architecture, chivalry and so much else. Lastly .. For neo-Catholics .. or what might be properly termed .. liberal Catholics .. enthrall to the “spirit of Vatican II”, they need to decide if they are still in continuity with the Holy Church. Since the legitimacy and authority of the Catholic Church derives only from its adherence to Tradition, these neo-Catholics have to demonstrate they are still Catholic.
The phrase sums up perfectly the condition of the contemporary world in which we find
various forces at work .. specifically The Holy Church whose faithful adherents are
counter-revolutionaries versus a number of groups.
First of all .. the revolutionaries who seek the total abolition of everything that proceeded from the Catholic world.
Then the anti-Catholics who agree with some of what the Church teaches in the moral
order but draw the line there .. blasting Catholic theology without realizing that the crown jewel of Catholicism IS her divinely protected teachings from which her morality flows. Then the last group opposed to the Church of the Ages are those within the Holy Church Herself .. the neo-Catholics who suffer under a false sense of reality that anything “new” in the Church should enjoy an certain exaltedness while all that comes before 1965 is somehow suspect.
These three forces battle against the Church and the Church must remain resolute against them .. fighting the three front war until Her savior at last comes to rescue Her. And no retreat .. not one step .. can ever be sanctioned. After all ..
"Catholicism is the law of life, the life of the intelligence, the solution of all problems.
Catholicism is the truth, and everything that departs from it one iota, is disorder,
deception, and error."
GOD Love You.
I’m Michael Voris

God Bless you Michael, and the messages of truth you are getting out to the world.

Divine Mercy prayers, not just for a Novena, but for every day

Today bring to Me the Meek and Humble Souls and the Souls of Little Children,

and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me during My bitter agony. I saw them as earthly Angels, who will keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence.

Most Merciful Jesus, You yourself have said, "Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart." Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls and the souls of little children. These souls send all heaven into ecstasy and they are the heavenly Father's favorites. They are a sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God; God Himself takes delight in their fragrance. These souls have a permanent abode in Your Most Compassionate Heart, O Jesus, and they unceasingly sing out a hymn of love and mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon meek souls, upon humble souls, and upon little children who are enfolded in the abode which is the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls bear the closest resemblance to Your Son. Their fragrance rises from the earth and reaches Your very throne. Father of mercy and of all goodness, I beg You by the love You bear these souls and by the delight You take in them: Bless the whole world, that all souls together may sing out the praises of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.



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Divine Mercy prayers, not just for a Novena, but for every day

Today bring to Me the Souls of those who have separated themselves from My Church*,

and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart, that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church My wounds heal and in this way they alleviate My Passion."

Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light to those who seek it of You. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Church. Draw them by Your light into the unity of the Church, and do not let them escape from the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart; but bring it about that they, too, come to glorify the generosity of Your mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Son's Church, who have squandered Your blessings and misused Your graces by obstinately persisting in their errors. Do not look upon their errors, but upon the love of Your own Son and upon His bitter Passion, which He underwent for their sake, since they, too, are enclosed in His Most Compassionate Heart. Bring it about that they also may glorify Your great mercy for endless ages. Amen.

*Our Lord's original words here were "heretics and schismatics,"



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Jefferson's letter to his Nephew

In his letter to Peter Carr::(His nephew)
"Read the Bible as you would Livy or Tacitus. For example, in the book of Joshua we are told the sun stood still for several hours. Were we to read that fact in Livy or Tacitus we should class it with their showers of blood, speaking of their statues, beasts, etc. But it is said that the writer of that book was inspired. Examine, therefore, candidly, what evidence there is of his having been inspired. The pretension is entitled to your inquiry, because millions believe it. On the other hand, you are astronomer enough to know how contrary it is to the law of nature" (Works, Vol. ii., p. 217).


I refer you to an article written in the "Evening World 10-10-69, of Spencer Indiana.
Harold Hill, president of Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore MD, and a consultant in the space program related the following development:
"I think one of the most amazing things that GOD has for us Today, happened recently to our astronauts and space scientist at Green Belt MD. They were checking the position of the Sun ,Moon,and planets out in space where they would be 100 years, and 1000 years from now. We have to know this so we don't send a satellite up and have it bump into something later on in its orbits. We have to lay out the orgin in terms of the life of he satellite, and where the planets will be so that the while thing will not bog down. They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt.
The computer stopped and it put up a red signal, which meant, that there was something wrong either in the info fed into it, or with the results as compared to the standards. they called in the service department to check it out and they said "Its perfect". The IBM head of operations said, "Whats wrong?" The scientists said "Well we have found there is a day missing in space in the elapsed time". They scratched their heads, and pulled their hairs.
"There was no answer".
One religious fellow on the team said "You know, one time I was in Sunday School, and they talked about the Sun standing still". They didn't believe him, but they didn't have any other answer, so they said " Show us." So he got a Bible and went back to the 10th chapter of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for anybody who has common sense. There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, "Fear them not: I have delivered them into thy hand: There shall not a man of them stand before thee." Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy, and if darkness fell, they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the Sun stand still. That's right "The Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed.....and hastened not to go down about a whole day."
l The spacemen said, "There is the missing day". Well, they checked the computers going back into the time it was written, and found it was close, but not close enough. The time
time that was missing back in Joshua's time was 23 hours, and 20 minutes, not a whole day. The bible said "About a whole day". They were missing 40 minutes. They were still in trouble. The religious man remembered that in one place also in the Bible, it said " the Sun went BACKWARDS!". The scientists said "You are out of your mind!." But they took out the Bible once again, and read in II Kings 20, that king Hezekiah on his deathbed, that he was visited by the prophet Isaiah, who said he was not going to die. Hezekiah wanted proof from Isaiah. Isaiah said "do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees?". "Hezekiah said to go ahead is nothing, but let the shadows return backward 10 degrees". Isaiah spoke to the Lord, and the Lord brought the shadows back 10 degrees, which amounted to 40 minutes.
When the space schientists entered this in, the computers ran perfect, with no alarms at all. The full missing day was found in the Bible.
The verbatim article was submitted by George M Gilles who's testimony appeared in the Evening World newspaper 10-10-1969.


Many "Free Thinkers" followed John Remsberg ideas (Remsberg was called a Perfect Atheist). Jefferson's letter to his nephew reminded me of this article I had read many years ago, and once again, those without faith, bring out the truth in the Bible as attested to by this article of 10-10-69 in the Indiana Newspaper, as attested to by George M Gilles, a Member of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship. Scientific proof of the truth in the Bible. AMEN

Accountability?

Accountant's Report Accuses L.I. Diocese of Hoarding Funds

Critics are accusing Long Island's Roman Catholic diocese of accumulating $119 million in reserve funds, an amount they say is grossly excessive and should be used for worthy causes.

The criticism is based on a newly released study conducted by an accountant who is a parishioner in the diocese and concludes that the church's reserves are enough to pay four years of operating expenses.

H. Richard Grafer, a Catholic and a retired partner in the Arthur Andersen accounting firm, studied financial reports issued by the Diocese of Rockville Centre, which covers Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Mr. Grafer, who is involved with a local chapter Voice of the Faithful, a national lay group, conducted the analysis on his own initiative.

His report, which has been publicized by a lay group, comes as the diocese is trying to reverse a decline in attendance and donations after the child sex abuse scandal and criticism of Bishop William F. Murphy on that and other issues.

A diocese spokesman, Father James C. Vlaun, disputed the critics, saying that the church practices what it preaches by reserving and using funds to further its mission.

''These reserves are not really excess,'' Father Vlaun said.''They are part and parcel of our ministry. For example, some of them support parishes having difficulties because their buildings are aging, and we may need money for immediate repairs.''

But Mr. Grafer's report says that most nonprofit groups aim for a reserve equal to one year's expenses.''Therefore, four years' worth of such reserves is not only excessive, it is abusive and totally contradictory to the spirit of stewardship which the Diocese of Rockville Centre so avidly espouses,'' he said.

Church officials ''should discontinue all stewardship preaching until the appropriate example is set'' by the diocese, Mr. Grafer wrote. He accused the church of ''a classic double standard'' in constantly asking parishioners to contribute while it hoards reserves.

''I believe the diocese has been far too conservative in the management of its financial affairs, at the expense of the parishes and all those in need on Long Island,'' Mr. Grafer wrote to the bishop.

The report will be discussed at a public meeting at 7 tonight at the Port Washington Public Library, 245 Main Street, Port Washington. The meeting is sponsored by a Catholic lay group, the Parish Voice Manhasset-Port Washington, an affiliate of Voice of the Faithful.

''We are a very rich diocese, and I don't see why anyone should go hungry, naked or thirsty when we are so blessed,'' said Denis D. McKeown, a founder of the Long Island chapter of the Voice of the Faithful.''On the one hand, it's wonderful to have all this money. On the other hand, why do you continue to beg for more? How much is enough?''

But Father Vlaun said that some of the money is used for grants or loans or is reserved for future needs.

The chapter treasurer for Voice of the Faithful, Kevin J. Connors, said he was not surprised by the report and had seen figures suggesting even higher reserves. He expressed concern that despite the reserves, the drop in donations last year resulted in cutbacks of some Catholic programs and their workers.

Reflecting shrinking donations, the annual Bishop's Appeal fund-raising drive, which was renamed the Catholic Ministries Appeal this year, collected $9 million last year, far short of it $15 million goal.''We're doing much better,'' Father Vlaun said.''Our numbers are up in both attendance and donations. We're in recovery.''

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