Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris coming to you from Rome.
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 hippy 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 .. than 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.(sound like "Itchy Watch?) Uh. 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
Monday, January 9, 2012
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."
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1j0x4smDq
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."
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1j0x4smDq
Sunday, January 8, 2012
50 Yard line
50 Yard Line
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
In the United States we are entering into the playoffs for the National Football League to determine who will play in the Super Bowl.
And there is a perfect analogy here with the Church as She struggles through the current crisis in which She finds Herself.
The teams that advance to the Super Bowl and the eventual winner will not have done so by settling for reaching the 50 yard line .. just the middle of the field. They will have done so by striking for the end zone AND reaching it.
You don’t score touchdowns by reaching the 50! There is much pressure these days from WITHIN the Church to settle for the 50 yard line.
Stay in the middle we hear. Always steer a middle course. Don’t rock the boat. Don’t
ever be controversial when you are preaching about the gospel. Ridiculous!
What saint in heaven EVER pursued that strategy? Was it steering a middle course ..
playing to reach just the 50 yard line when Almighty God totally and completely
confounded Satan and joined human nature to His Divinity.
Was it a 50 yard line play when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles and St. Peter kicked down the door and cried out to the Jews present that Jesus Christ is the Messiah! 3000 converted that day!
The victory always goes to the bold, the intrepid, the daring – to those willing to pay the price to strike for the end zone. ALWAYS.
This posture of appeasement with the secular culture so favored by many in the
establishment structures within the Church is a fool’s game. You get nowhere .. but
appear to be advancing. But there’s the key word .. only APPEAR to be advancing.
Anyone who follows football knows that often times .. games will have these neutral
momentum spans in them .. when neither team really does anything .. they just keep
punting back and forth to each other .. hanging out around the 50 yard line .. but not really gaining any meaningful yards.
This is a fitting analogy for the condition of the Church today in the west as it dukes it out with modernist and relativist secularism. A clear statement here or there about the sanctity of marriage on the one hand .. while allowing dissident priests and nuns to spew their anti-Christ delusions on the other.
Make a nice speech here .. while allowing a university conference to totally undermine the Magisterium there.
Now .. two things need to be noted in this analogy. First the score .. and second .. the time. Holding serve .. to borrow a tennis phrase for a moment .. is fine if you are in the lead. But the establishment Church would have to be completely out of their minds to look around and think that they are in the lead.
Just count parish closings for starters. In fact .. in the language of sports .. the current score is a blowout with the opposition in the lead.
The second issue is the clock .. tick tock .. tick tock. Many times .. the outcome of the game comes down to good clock management .. knowing the moment when it arrives .. pushing your advantage .. sensing the opponent’s weakness and striking hard AT THE RIGHT TIME.
Current affairs would suggest that the Church is getting blown out of the stadium ..
unable to even muster a game plan .. much less execute it properly.
Case in point .. if you go to virtually any comments box on a non-Catholic blog and read the comments on stories about the Pope for example .. you have to click out fast because of the horrendous filthy slanderous things that are said.
The “approved” Catholic media and those other Catholic media outfits that happily align themselves with the institutional power structures to fatten their own bellies .. have such a myopic vision of the Catholic world that is beggars belief.
Too many in the establishment are all too happy to play to them instead of battling the opponent. Meanwhile .. time is running out .. the score continues get more and more lopsided and the whole scene is cracking at the seams.
Does anyone who’s plugged in in the Catholic world REALLY believe .. to pick just ONE
example .. that homosexual marriage isn’t going to be legal in the United States in the next few years. Heck, poll after poll shows majorities of self-identified Catholics more willing to be “accepting” of it .. especially younger Catholics.
We are getting beaten badly fellow Catholics for three reasons. The coaches don’t have a game plan. The opponent does. And we seem content with just reaching the 50 and ignoring the end zone. Don’t be surprised then or ask for a play to reviewed when the final gun goes off.
GOD Love you .. I’m Michael Voris.
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
In the United States we are entering into the playoffs for the National Football League to determine who will play in the Super Bowl.
And there is a perfect analogy here with the Church as She struggles through the current crisis in which She finds Herself.
The teams that advance to the Super Bowl and the eventual winner will not have done so by settling for reaching the 50 yard line .. just the middle of the field. They will have done so by striking for the end zone AND reaching it.
You don’t score touchdowns by reaching the 50! There is much pressure these days from WITHIN the Church to settle for the 50 yard line.
Stay in the middle we hear. Always steer a middle course. Don’t rock the boat. Don’t
ever be controversial when you are preaching about the gospel. Ridiculous!
What saint in heaven EVER pursued that strategy? Was it steering a middle course ..
playing to reach just the 50 yard line when Almighty God totally and completely
confounded Satan and joined human nature to His Divinity.
Was it a 50 yard line play when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles and St. Peter kicked down the door and cried out to the Jews present that Jesus Christ is the Messiah! 3000 converted that day!
The victory always goes to the bold, the intrepid, the daring – to those willing to pay the price to strike for the end zone. ALWAYS.
This posture of appeasement with the secular culture so favored by many in the
establishment structures within the Church is a fool’s game. You get nowhere .. but
appear to be advancing. But there’s the key word .. only APPEAR to be advancing.
Anyone who follows football knows that often times .. games will have these neutral
momentum spans in them .. when neither team really does anything .. they just keep
punting back and forth to each other .. hanging out around the 50 yard line .. but not really gaining any meaningful yards.
This is a fitting analogy for the condition of the Church today in the west as it dukes it out with modernist and relativist secularism. A clear statement here or there about the sanctity of marriage on the one hand .. while allowing dissident priests and nuns to spew their anti-Christ delusions on the other.
Make a nice speech here .. while allowing a university conference to totally undermine the Magisterium there.
Now .. two things need to be noted in this analogy. First the score .. and second .. the time. Holding serve .. to borrow a tennis phrase for a moment .. is fine if you are in the lead. But the establishment Church would have to be completely out of their minds to look around and think that they are in the lead.
Just count parish closings for starters. In fact .. in the language of sports .. the current score is a blowout with the opposition in the lead.
The second issue is the clock .. tick tock .. tick tock. Many times .. the outcome of the game comes down to good clock management .. knowing the moment when it arrives .. pushing your advantage .. sensing the opponent’s weakness and striking hard AT THE RIGHT TIME.
Current affairs would suggest that the Church is getting blown out of the stadium ..
unable to even muster a game plan .. much less execute it properly.
Case in point .. if you go to virtually any comments box on a non-Catholic blog and read the comments on stories about the Pope for example .. you have to click out fast because of the horrendous filthy slanderous things that are said.
The “approved” Catholic media and those other Catholic media outfits that happily align themselves with the institutional power structures to fatten their own bellies .. have such a myopic vision of the Catholic world that is beggars belief.
Too many in the establishment are all too happy to play to them instead of battling the opponent. Meanwhile .. time is running out .. the score continues get more and more lopsided and the whole scene is cracking at the seams.
Does anyone who’s plugged in in the Catholic world REALLY believe .. to pick just ONE
example .. that homosexual marriage isn’t going to be legal in the United States in the next few years. Heck, poll after poll shows majorities of self-identified Catholics more willing to be “accepting” of it .. especially younger Catholics.
We are getting beaten badly fellow Catholics for three reasons. The coaches don’t have a game plan. The opponent does. And we seem content with just reaching the 50 and ignoring the end zone. Don’t be surprised then or ask for a play to reviewed when the final gun goes off.
GOD Love you .. I’m Michael Voris.
Christmas Division
Christmas Division
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
In this wonderful season of Christmas .. the Holy Catholic Church holds out a very
sobering reality .. that this little babe did not come to unite .. but to divide.
Now that will probably fly right in the face of every politically correct inanity you have
been told and perhaps even heard from some pulpits or read in religious periodicals
recently .. but it’s absolutely true.
This is why within the octave of Christmas .. the eight days beginning on Christmas ..
that we celebrate not just the feasts but the MARTYRDOMS of not one but three
different martyrs .. or more specifically groups of martyrs.
Immediately on the heels of all the Christmas frivolity and excitement .. the VERY
NEXT DAY .. December 26th .. we stop and remember the martyrdom of St. Stephen who
swore allegiance to the child of Bethlehem and was viciously killed for it. Division.
Two days later .. on the 28th of December .. we recall the horror of the children
slaughtered by King Herod who hated the Christ child because he feared for his throne.
Again .. Division.
And then on December 29th .. the commemoration of the English Bishop Thomas Beckett
who was murdered in his own Canterbury cathedral by agents of King Henry II .. to
whom the popular quote is ascribed .. “won’t someone rid my of this turbulent priest”.
Not for nothing that within the first four days of Christmastide do we encounter three
different days for martyrs .. because the child of Bethlehem isn’t about candy canes and
sentimentality .. but rather .. about the war and bloodshed that will come about as a result
of Him establishing His Reign.
He Himself said .. “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send
peace, but the sword.”
The Church has no desire for us to lose sight of the battle that we are in .. indeed .. the
battle itself is actually engaged because of Christmas .. the appearance among us of the
savior who will grow to full maturity and wage a heavenly campaign against the forces of darkness.
And here is a little something that many Catholics are perhaps not aware of .. Tradition
has it the wise men returned to their countries and ultimately were martyred due to their
unflinching resolve to worship the one true God.
After gazing on the child in the manger .. the authentic response is now be willing to pay
the cost of discipleship .. no matter how high.
GOD Love you .. I’m Michael Voris.
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
In this wonderful season of Christmas .. the Holy Catholic Church holds out a very
sobering reality .. that this little babe did not come to unite .. but to divide.
Now that will probably fly right in the face of every politically correct inanity you have
been told and perhaps even heard from some pulpits or read in religious periodicals
recently .. but it’s absolutely true.
This is why within the octave of Christmas .. the eight days beginning on Christmas ..
that we celebrate not just the feasts but the MARTYRDOMS of not one but three
different martyrs .. or more specifically groups of martyrs.
Immediately on the heels of all the Christmas frivolity and excitement .. the VERY
NEXT DAY .. December 26th .. we stop and remember the martyrdom of St. Stephen who
swore allegiance to the child of Bethlehem and was viciously killed for it. Division.
Two days later .. on the 28th of December .. we recall the horror of the children
slaughtered by King Herod who hated the Christ child because he feared for his throne.
Again .. Division.
And then on December 29th .. the commemoration of the English Bishop Thomas Beckett
who was murdered in his own Canterbury cathedral by agents of King Henry II .. to
whom the popular quote is ascribed .. “won’t someone rid my of this turbulent priest”.
Not for nothing that within the first four days of Christmastide do we encounter three
different days for martyrs .. because the child of Bethlehem isn’t about candy canes and
sentimentality .. but rather .. about the war and bloodshed that will come about as a result
of Him establishing His Reign.
He Himself said .. “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send
peace, but the sword.”
The Church has no desire for us to lose sight of the battle that we are in .. indeed .. the
battle itself is actually engaged because of Christmas .. the appearance among us of the
savior who will grow to full maturity and wage a heavenly campaign against the forces of darkness.
And here is a little something that many Catholics are perhaps not aware of .. Tradition
has it the wise men returned to their countries and ultimately were martyred due to their
unflinching resolve to worship the one true God.
After gazing on the child in the manger .. the authentic response is now be willing to pay
the cost of discipleship .. no matter how high.
GOD Love you .. I’m Michael Voris.
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.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1it2LNnj8
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.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1it2LNnj8
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Time to get Serious
Time to Get Serious
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
Now that a major part of all the holiday hoopla is behind us .. its time to get serious about the task at hand.
And we can get our marching orders as Catholics right from the Holy Father. On New
Year’s Day he said the following ..“It seems as if a shadow has fallen over our time.”
He couldn’t be more correct. And he made a special point of talking ABOUT, and TO the
young. Its is the younger generation that has inherited this awful mess that the world now finds itself in.
College graduates struggling to find jobs. For example the unemployment rate in Spain
for those between 18-39 is 50 percent.
In the United States .. a recent poll from a prestigious polling agency found that
Americans over 39 now believe .. for the first time ever .. that the younger generation will be less likely to achieve the American Dream than THEIR generation was .. which is a short-hand way of saying that the great American experiment is beginning to unravel.
Not terribly surprising though since the entire edifice was built on the assumption of a prevailing morality which has receded and evaporated to such a degree that what was once considered immoral in many instances doesn’t even register on the morality radar anymore.
So what about the young people? Our Holy Father went on to tell them not to give into
discouragement, saying they “can offer new hope” to the world. You bet they can .. we
have a slew of young people .. the very audience that Pope Benedict is talking TO and
ABOUT working right in these studios.
But there is an even deeper question here. WHO is going to give the young people hope?
The only hope there is of course is Jesus Christ .. but someone .. must make Him present to the world .. people .. individuals MUST do this. It must be their life’s work .. their goal .. their ambition .. their reason for getting out of bed.
The old world is collapsing .. major changes .. huge transformations are in the offing and coming very soon. Economies are rocked .. it’s now widely believed for example that the Euro will no longer exist come the spring .. if not sooner.
The fall of the Euro will have far reaching and near calamitous effects throughout the entire global economy .. but most especially in the west if economists are to be believed.
A new world .. a new way of people being in relationship to each other as a society is forming behind the scenes. The exact nature of this new world is not yet known .. but from all the early indications .. its almost a certainty that whoever emerges to “take the lead” so to speak .. will not be happily disposed toward the Catholic Church.
All societal markers right now point to a new world .. or at least a transitional world that will continue to isolate the Catholic Church and marginalize Her certainly in the culture at large and most likely in the implementation of laws.
Last year .. the Holy Father compared the collapse of the Roman Empire to the
transformation going on in our own times as we pass from the old world to the new.
His words which linked the collapse of Rome to today’s western civilization are “the sun was setting over an entire world.”
It is beyond dispute that lights are going out all over the world in our own day as well.
So the big question is this. What does this mean for the Church? We know that She will survive until the end of time. What we don’t know is what FORM that will take. Recall that She spent essentially her first three centuries almost totally underground.
Even as She emerged from the catacombs to construct what came to be known as
Western civilization .. she was continually threatened from every side and racked by
schism and heresy from within and emperors and warlords from without.
In our day .. it seems as though all these threats are present at the same time and with greater force than ever before. What this means is that Catholics must now concern themselves with one thing and one thing only .. the preservation of the Faith in the rapidly descending New Dark Ages.
The Church is here now in the present AND will be out there .. in the future. But in the meantime .. there is the great need to build the bridge from the present to that future.
This will primarily be the work of the young under the tutelage of the few remaining
faithful Catholics who lived through as well as contributed to the current wreckage of the Church .. not to mention the culture at large.
What CAN emerge as the world falls apart is a new and more vibrant Church that today
seems only like fantasy .. but in the end will come forth from the carnage to once again shape human destiny.
But the cost of such of an undertaking will be monumental .. ranging from martyrdom .. both red and white .. as well as total dedication of lives and fortunes. In this war .. there is no détente. You are either on the winning side or the losing side. Time to get serious.
GOD Love you .. I’m Michael Voris.
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
Now that a major part of all the holiday hoopla is behind us .. its time to get serious about the task at hand.
And we can get our marching orders as Catholics right from the Holy Father. On New
Year’s Day he said the following ..“It seems as if a shadow has fallen over our time.”
He couldn’t be more correct. And he made a special point of talking ABOUT, and TO the
young. Its is the younger generation that has inherited this awful mess that the world now finds itself in.
College graduates struggling to find jobs. For example the unemployment rate in Spain
for those between 18-39 is 50 percent.
In the United States .. a recent poll from a prestigious polling agency found that
Americans over 39 now believe .. for the first time ever .. that the younger generation will be less likely to achieve the American Dream than THEIR generation was .. which is a short-hand way of saying that the great American experiment is beginning to unravel.
Not terribly surprising though since the entire edifice was built on the assumption of a prevailing morality which has receded and evaporated to such a degree that what was once considered immoral in many instances doesn’t even register on the morality radar anymore.
So what about the young people? Our Holy Father went on to tell them not to give into
discouragement, saying they “can offer new hope” to the world. You bet they can .. we
have a slew of young people .. the very audience that Pope Benedict is talking TO and
ABOUT working right in these studios.
But there is an even deeper question here. WHO is going to give the young people hope?
The only hope there is of course is Jesus Christ .. but someone .. must make Him present to the world .. people .. individuals MUST do this. It must be their life’s work .. their goal .. their ambition .. their reason for getting out of bed.
The old world is collapsing .. major changes .. huge transformations are in the offing and coming very soon. Economies are rocked .. it’s now widely believed for example that the Euro will no longer exist come the spring .. if not sooner.
The fall of the Euro will have far reaching and near calamitous effects throughout the entire global economy .. but most especially in the west if economists are to be believed.
A new world .. a new way of people being in relationship to each other as a society is forming behind the scenes. The exact nature of this new world is not yet known .. but from all the early indications .. its almost a certainty that whoever emerges to “take the lead” so to speak .. will not be happily disposed toward the Catholic Church.
All societal markers right now point to a new world .. or at least a transitional world that will continue to isolate the Catholic Church and marginalize Her certainly in the culture at large and most likely in the implementation of laws.
Last year .. the Holy Father compared the collapse of the Roman Empire to the
transformation going on in our own times as we pass from the old world to the new.
His words which linked the collapse of Rome to today’s western civilization are “the sun was setting over an entire world.”
It is beyond dispute that lights are going out all over the world in our own day as well.
So the big question is this. What does this mean for the Church? We know that She will survive until the end of time. What we don’t know is what FORM that will take. Recall that She spent essentially her first three centuries almost totally underground.
Even as She emerged from the catacombs to construct what came to be known as
Western civilization .. she was continually threatened from every side and racked by
schism and heresy from within and emperors and warlords from without.
In our day .. it seems as though all these threats are present at the same time and with greater force than ever before. What this means is that Catholics must now concern themselves with one thing and one thing only .. the preservation of the Faith in the rapidly descending New Dark Ages.
The Church is here now in the present AND will be out there .. in the future. But in the meantime .. there is the great need to build the bridge from the present to that future.
This will primarily be the work of the young under the tutelage of the few remaining
faithful Catholics who lived through as well as contributed to the current wreckage of the Church .. not to mention the culture at large.
What CAN emerge as the world falls apart is a new and more vibrant Church that today
seems only like fantasy .. but in the end will come forth from the carnage to once again shape human destiny.
But the cost of such of an undertaking will be monumental .. ranging from martyrdom .. both red and white .. as well as total dedication of lives and fortunes. In this war .. there is no détente. You are either on the winning side or the losing side. Time to get serious.
GOD Love you .. I’m Michael Voris.
Divine Mercy Prayers
"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.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1imYt8YCa
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.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1imYt8YCa
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