(An excellent letter with many fantastic points. Emphases mine. -AB)

Dear SuperNerd and Ann,

Thank you for this conversation.

I have experience with both sides of this and wanted to offer a few points.

I am a convert with a bunch of kids. In our extended family we have a priest, also a convert, who is one of those who was personally accepted by Benedict XVI to be a convert Priest. However, he is a NO priest and our household, on principle, does not attend the NO Mass ever. So I am in the very awkward situation of taking my kids to visit their extended family every summer for several weeks, but then every Sunday driving *away* from our relative’s church and our extended family to go to Mass somewhere else. Although very painful for me at first, this has provided the opportunity for fantastic conversations with my kids, who naturally really wanted to go see their relative’s Mass. Over the years we had weekly conversations about why we do what we do as a family. So my first point is

1. Have these conversations with kids BEFORE it is an emergency situation and you have to figure out what to do next Sunday.

2. Cultivate charity in the discussions for those who do attend the New Mass. This was obviously key in my situation.  Little kids cannot be looking down on their relatives from some perceived spiritual superiority, so I had to get good at explaining the fact that yes,  the Latin Mass is superior, but that does not in any way make US superior–it just makes us fortunate by the Providence of God to have found Tradition. It can’t be done in one conversation– there is a lot of circling back over topics over the years, but they can really get it over time. And now my kids love to pray for people who haven’t yet found Tradition.

3. The most important thing is to foster in them humility and GRATITUDE for what they have been given. We are not going to our priest relative’s Mass because we are so incredibly grateful to have found Tradition, and we may not always have it available, so we are going to cling to it while we can. In fact, even when we are home at our own parish, while we drive to Mass each Sunday, I say out loud prayers of thanksgiving for our parish, for our priests, and that we can go to Mass in safety for the time being. This makes a big impression on the kids.

Lastly– to SuperNerd’s former question to his priest along the lines of  “should I be going to a NO Mass more often just so that I can get used to it and not feel so sick when I see it”…    the reasons that the answer is a screaming “NO!” is because of the *reason* you gave for going. We should never want to get used to a NO Mass. We should never want to feel more at ease with it, or less sick at seeing it. But there’s a point there– some people might need to feel that sickness in order to really understand the treasure that the Latin Mass is. In our own traditional school, [SSPX]  the teachers often remark that it is the students who have never seen a NO Mass who do not appreciate Tradition, and who take the Mass for granted. On the other hand, those students who have extended families in NO parishes, where they have to sometimes attend First Communions of cousins, or funerals of grandparents– those are the kids who often really get it. They understand why what they have is worth fighting for. 

Bottom line: if and when we were to go to a NO Mass, we should be clear that we are going there in order to SUFFER (ourselves) with Christ. By deigning to be present at a NO Mass, Christ is letting Himself be humiliated and disgraced all over again. And if He is willing to be there, who am I to say I can’t be there? (Of course, only if I absolutely have to be.) And if, in seeing Him in that environment makes me feel sick, that’s a GOOD thing.

Thanks again

God bless,

X

Irish family attending a clandestine “house Mass” under English persecution.

The audio track of this speech should be somehow mated to a morphing progression of Antipope Bergoglio, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

Listen to this speech, and add/replace the Palo Alto mafia in the litany of corporations. It is positively chilling.

I was perusing Fr. Z’s post on the August 2nd Portiuncula Indulgence, which requires praying for the Pope’s intentions. I pray for Pope Benedict’s intentions with no problem.

Sadly, almost everyone today is under the mistaken impression or browbeaten/terrified into publicly confessing that Jorge “Francis” Bergoglio is the Pope (which he isn’t, and never has been, and never will be), and are thus VERY worried about praying for the evil, psychopathic, sex-pervert godfather and arch-heresiarch’s intentions, because all of Bergoglio’s intentions are glaringly evil.

Fr. Z helpfully posted what are taught as the five categories of the Holy Father’s intentions. Every point here is not merely inferred as being totally contrary to Antipope Bergoglio’s agenda, but Antipope Bergoglio has explicitly stated that his intentions are diametrically opposed to everything on this list.

“Prümmer says that the intentions of the Holy Father for which we are to pray have a tradition of five basic categories which were fixed:

1. Exaltatio S. Matris Ecclesiae (Triumph/elevation/stability/growth of Holy Mother Church)

2. Extirpatio haeresum (Extirpation/rooting out of heresies),

3. Propagatio fidei (Propagation/expansion/spreading of the Faith)

4. Conversio peccatorum (Conversion of sinners),

5. Pax inter principes christianos (Peace between christian rulers).”

Antipope Bergoglio openly professes a hatred of Triumph of the Church, a desire to destabilize the Church, and a hatred of proselytism, going so far as to call it “sinful”, and declared that God wills the existence of false religions as He wills the different races and the two sexes.

Antipope Bergoglio is an arch-heresiarch who promotes heretics and ruthlessly purges and suppresses orthodox Catholics.

Antipope Bergoglio not only has declared proselytism a sin, but wants the Church to learn from, adopt and teach paganism, islam, communism and Freemasonry.

Antipope Bergoglio has taught and declared “Magisterial” that God wants people to sin, continue sinning, and “likes people better” when they sin.

Antipope Bergoglio meddles and engages in shit-stirring among political leaders in the (formerly) Christian world, and grovels to violently anti-Christian regimes.

One-two-three-four-five. What EXACTLY is it going to take?

While Trad, Inc. (Last publicly available form 990 filing [ARSH 2017] showing $170k single household payout [husband $130k, wife $40k] on $203k in gross revenues, with only $23k in expenses, $12k of which appears to be rent paid to the same household? Seriously? 89.6% single household payout on gross revenues??) increases and escalates its war on the Papacy itself, now having declared war on Vatican 1, an infallible ecumenical council, because it declared the dogma of Papal Infallibility, which shoots down Trad Inc.’s apparently incredibly lucrative “Francis is Pope shut up stupid, I’m right to be tempted to apostasy, and everyone else should join me in losing my faith, and give me money for doing it, too! FiP 4-Eva!!” paradigm.

Meanwhile, the ONLY topic that is completely off-limits is NOT the rejection of the Papacy, infallible dogma, or even the swan dive into apostasy behind closed doors. No, the ONLY topic that is verboten is whether there just MIGHT have been something perhaps ever-so-slightly non-kosher about Pope Benedict’s attempted partial and possibly coerced “resignation” in February ARSH 2013.

THAT will not be tolerated. So shut up, stupid.

Won’t you make a generous tax-deductible donation to Trad. Inc’s 501(c)3 today… so they can make ends meet? Because they’re just BARELY, BARELY able to pay the bills, y’all.

(Which reminds me – thanks again to you all, as I was able to give my landlord three months (whew!!) rent in advance last week. He just about cried. At first he thought I was giving him notice that I was vacating. I assured him that I wasn’t. Just getting out in front of things. God bless you all. 😇🙏🏻)

Don’t forget the Portiuncula Indulgence tomorrow!!

Folks, the issue here is the RAGING hypocrisy. Yeah, this HAS to be called out.

Bear in mind, the whistle-blower in the case was Opus Bono Sacerdotii‘s co-founder’s daughter, Mary Rose Maher. Fr. Perrone of Assumption Grotto in Detroit was the second co-founder.

Read this piece. It is horrific.

If Church Militant and Voris don’t fess up to this wild hypocrisy and projection and apologize to the SSPX bigly and publicly, this should be their demise. This is just awful.

READ THE FULL REPORTAGE ON OPUS BONO SACERDOTII and ITS CO-FOUNDER FR. EDUARD PERRONE HERE.

This is George Neumayr’s video of the sodomite child predator priest (now laicized), Fr. Matthew Riedlinger.  Riedlinger was a sodomy partner of Msgr. Walter Rossi, the rector of the Basilica of the Immaculate conception in Washington D.C., and thus 100% in the Wuerl-McCarrick gay mafia.  Rossi pimped male Catholic University students to Riedlinger for sodomy, and Riedlinger was transferred and ordained by the Rossi-Wuerl-McCarrick mafia after being expelled from seminary in Ohio for being a flagrant sodomite.  You can read Neumayr’s reportage here.

A few notes on this video.

First, what does a sodomite look like?  What does a sodomite child sex predator look like?  As you watch this video, note that Rieldlinger doesn’t come off as a raging fag.  In his job as a furniture salesman, he isn’t piling on the fag affectation.  He is dressed conservatively.  I wouldn’t pick him out instantly as a sacrilegious predator of teen boys. I’ve seen this many, many times: faggots turning the affectation on and off like a switch depending on the “audience”. You can bet that Riedlinger is as camp as a row of tents when he is with his fags.

The truth is, if you want to see what a sex pervert looks like, go look in the mirror.  Because sexual perversion is a freely chosen pathology derived from Diabolical Narcissism, that is, the willful, consciously chosen self-purgation of love from the soul, EVERY HUMAN BEING has the capacity to fall into it. Every human being has the POTENTIAL to fall not just into sin, but horrific, horrific sin, like Riedlinger.  The parabolic increase in sexual perversion, due in many cases to the use of p**nography, is a testimony to this. Once a person chooses to be a DN and to not love, the downward spiral is potentially unlimited.  Hence men who 20 years ago were 100% straight, now end up addicted to homosexual and child p**n.

Note how Riedlinger CANNOT BEAR any mention of the Blessed Virgin.

But here is what hit me the hardest.  Neumayr and the couple with him did a great job in using Neumayer’s phone as a decoy, when the real recording phone was in the purse of the lady.  Because it was down in her purse, the shot angles were largely uncontrollable and somewhat random.  But as you watch the video, Riedlinger’s HANDS keep coming into frame.  As I watched it, I was overwhelmed with the thought of those hands – hands which are consecrated, and which held Our Blessed Lord as He came down upon the altar AT RIEDLINGER’S CALL.

Read this moving citation from Anne Catherine Emmerich about the hands of a priest:

“…And of the priest’s consecrated fingers [Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich] says that were his body fallen to dust and his soul in Hell, yet will the consecration still be recognized in the bones of the fingers; they will burn with an altogether peculiar fire, so ineffaceable is the mark.”

How sad and terrifying is the sight of Riedlinger, and the thought of his potential fate.

And yet how achingly beautiful is the thought that Our Lord loves His flock so much, that He allowed Himself to be handled by such a monster as Fr. Riedlinger; that He willingly answered Fr. Riedlinger’s summons and not only Transubstantiated the Host and Chalice in Fr. Riedlinger’s hands, but also allowed Himself to be immolated by Riedlinger’s sacrilegious consumption of His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity – SO THAT THE FAITHFUL COULD BE ASSURED THAT OUR LORD WAS, INDEED, PRESENT UPON THE ALTAR, AND REPOSED IN THE TABERNACLE, and because it is necessary for the priest to consume the Host and Chalice in order for the Holy Sacrifice to be completed, no matter what.  

As we continue with the Novena to the Virgin of Revelation, Mother of the Pure Clergy, please dedicate a few minutes to Our Lord’s infinite, infinite love for us by thinking about Riedlinger’s hands.  Let the horror of Riedlinger’s sacrilege be a means of increasing your understanding of Our Lord’s simply incomprehensible love for you and for all of us, and of the lengths He will go to, and the humiliation He will withstand – for LOVE.

And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.
Romans 5: 20

I have received a surge of emails recently from people asking for prayers for the conversion or reversion of family members or friends.  So, thanks to reader D who reminded me of this Apparition, I am beginning a Novena today to the Virgin of Revelation, an apparition of the Blessed Mother that happened in Rome in ARSH 1947.  While many healings have been attributed to the Virgin of Revelation, what she is known for in particular under this title is CONVERSIONS and REVERSIONS.  This novena will conclude on August 5, the Feast of the Our Lady of the Snows – the miraculous snowfall in Rome that Pope Liberius (ARSH 352-366) then traced out the perimeter of the Basilica of Mary Major – perhaps the most famous Basilica in Rome after St. Peter’s.

When you read the very brief backgrounder below, you will also see how this Apparition of Our Lady ties directly to current events: German heretics, Communism, murderous hatred of the Papacy, the priesthood, and Holy Mother Church – it’s basically lunch in the Casa Santa Marta dining room.

A BRIEF BACKGROUND:

About Bruno Cornacchiola:

Here on the outskirts of Rome is one of the 20th Century’s more interesting apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The apparitions concerned A man named Bruno Cornacchiola, who planned to change history by killing the Pope. He was not a pleasant man to live with–he physically abused his wife and had a deep hatred for the Catholic Church.

His hostility to the Church was further inflamed as he came under the influence of a protestant German pastor who held the belief that the Catholic Church was responsible for most of the evils in the world. Bruno volunteered to fight in the Spanish civil war and while in Spain he went so far as to buy a dagger that he planned to use to kill the Pope and carved the words “death to the Pope” on the handle.

“To save humanity I will have to kill priests everywhere, I will try in every way to destroy the Catholic Church and it will be my duty to stab the Pope”. He joined the Seventh Day Adventists and plotted to kill the Pope on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8, 1947.

He insisted that his wife leave the Catholic Church and join his protestant church. She gave in to this demand, only on the condition that he go to confession and do a nine-day First Friday Novena. It should be noted that his wife had a great devotion to the Sacred Heart. Bruno did the Novena but it had no immediate effect. His drunkenness and abuse continued and his hatred of the Catholic Church grew even greater. He joined the Communist party and began to plan his assassination of the Pope.

About the Apparition to Bruno that changed everything:

Finally on April 12, 1947 (the Saturday after Easter), at the age of 33, his life took a dramatic turn. On that fateful day he was preparing for an anti-Catholic and anti-Marian speech that he was due to give the following day. The following is a recount of a pilgrim who had the opportunity to meet with Bruno in 1995 and he described his experiences. Here is the letter we received from that person:

“According to what he told us, he had taken his 3 children to Tre Fontane (site of the martyrdom of Saint Paul) where he was going to buy some chocolate at the famous Trappist monastery there. While waiting for the shop to open he sat down to plan his talk while his children played. He was interrupted by the children as they looked for a ball that they had lost.

While helping them look for it he suddenly realized that his youngest son was missing. He then found the boy in a small cave kneeling and smiling at something that Bruno could not see. His other two children joined him and all three of the children began talking about a “beautiful lady” whom only they could see. Bruno was unable to lift them off the ground and finally exclaimed “God help us”. At that, he felt two hands wipe his face and then finally saw a beautiful woman. She announced that she was the “Virgin of Revelation” and told Bruno that he had been persecuting her and it was now time for him to stop. She told him that the nine First Friday Masses that his wife had convinced him to attend had saved him.

She also announced that her body could not, and did not, decay upon death, hence she was assumed bodily in to heaven.​

It is noteworthy that Pope Pius XII proclaimed the Doctrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1950.

Novena

This novena is dedicated to the Virgin of Revelation.  To make the novena, the meditation for the day is read followed by the prayer of supplication to the Virgin of Revelation. Click each link below for the day’s meditation.

Day 1 “Never stop saying the Holy Rosary, I am always with you to help you.”

Day 2 “All those who place themselves under my green mantle of mercy I will protect.”

Day 3 “The Hail Marys that you say with faith and love are like golden arrows straight to the heart of Jesus.”

Day 4 “Call me Mother and tell them to call me Mother: I am the Mother of the pure clergy”

Day 5 “The divine promise, the nine first Fridays to the Sacred Heart, that you did before entering into lies has saved you.”

Day 6 “Be Missionaries of the Word of Truth.”

Day 7 “With this soil of sin I will convert the most obstinate sinners.”

Day 8 “Sing in joy, read the Truth and psalms in sorrow, prayer is the oxygen of the spirit.”

Day 9 “I am who I am in the divine Trinity. I am the Virgin of Revelation”

Supplication to the Virgin of Revelation
To obtain any grace

Most Holy Virgin of the Revelation, you who are in the Divine Trinity, deign we beg you; turn your merciful and kind glance towards us. Oh Mary! You are our powerful advocate before God, who by this soil of Sin will obtain graces and miracles for the conversion of sinners, grant that we obtain from Your Son Jesus, salvation of the soul, perfect health of body and the graces which we need. Grant to the Church and its head, the Roman Pontiff, the joy of seeing the conversion of His enemies, the propagation of the Kingdom of God over all the earth, the unity of all believers in Christ, peace among nations in order that we can love and serve you better in this life and one day deserve to see and thank you eternally in Heaven. Amen.
Nihil obstat
+ Bishop Ilario

(Originally posted 24 February, ARSH 2018, and re-posted because the concept of solicitation came up in Barnhardt Podcast #089. Also, another priest has since kindly offered to commemorate all Barnhardt benefactors and supporters DAILY in addition to the priests mentioned below. Both military chaplains are back home now, thanks be to God.)

The Holy and August Sacrifice of the Mass is now offered EVERY DAY for my benefactors, plus a Requiem Mass is offered every week for EVERYONE who died in the previous week.  Fr. Monday and Fr. Tuesday are both military chaplains and are deployed in musloid territory, so please remember them, as they offer the Holy Sacrifice for you.  Fr. Wednesday and Fr. Thursday are fighting the good fight, and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you are remembered at the Holy Sacrifice by a priest in a tiny church in a sleepy backwater, so we will call him “Fr. Backwater”. Fr. Requiem is “no spring chicken”, as they say, and asks for your prayers as he traverses his ninth decade.

So, please remember in your prayers Frs. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Fr. Backwater, and Fr. Requiem.

Fr. Thursday checked in this past Thursday with this very important point about the Sacrament of Confession:

Dear Ann,

Good morning, and all the very best on the feast of the Chair!

As always, I enjoy what you write and what you and “Super Nerd” discuss on your podcasts.

I had one thing to add to your remarks on podcast #046, about the 48 minute mark; in addition to avoiding a priest who gives advice like you mentioned (hypothetically, I presume) regarding the 6th Commandment, your readers (listeners) should know that any priest who advises violating the 6th or 9th Commandments is guilty of solicitation, i.e. inducing the penitent into impurity. It doesn’t have to be inducement into a sin with the priest himself; it can be any approval or encouragement to commit any sin of impurity. Solicitation, of course, still carries the penalty of suspension a divinis and excommunication latae sententiae (i.e., no adjudication needed). Any penitent who encountered that kind of thing should rightfully inform the bishop or vicar general, and then go straight to the Sacred Penitentiary in Rome if not satisfied with the response. Even if nothing is done outwardly to the priest-culprit, they would remain excommunicated until they were absolved by the Sacred Penitentiary in Rome. (Bishops do not have faculties for lifting excommunication or suspension for solicitation.) You probably already knew all this, but just in case you didn’t ….

As always, I continue to offer the true Mass for you and your benefactors on Thursdays (e.g., today!).

All the very best for a holy Lent,

Fr. Thursday

Sadly, I have been told by more than one person over the years that they have been told by a priest in the confessional that they need to “get laid” and would be better off for it.  This happens, both in the context of heterosexual fornication, and sodomy.  Most priests of this ilk don’t hear confessions as a matter of principle – they don’t believe in sin, and hate God, His Church and the Sacraments.  However, there are also priests that are so malicious, so filled with spite and hatred of God that they luxuriate in going into the confessional and doing as much damage as possible.  I coined the term “Diabolical Narcissism” for a reason. These filthy wretches are diabolical.

Thou hast loved Justice, and hated iniquity…

This is Psalm 44: 8, which is the Gradual for today’s feast, the feast of St. Anne.

Here is a beautiful image of the Immaculate Conception with her parents, St. Joachim and St. Anne below.