Today is the Feast of All Souls.

No sin, no impurity can enter into the unveiled presence of the Triune Godhead.  A person still attached to sin simply could not bear to be in the full presence of the Holy Trinity, could not look upon the face of God, and looking upon the face of God is what heaven IS.  Therefore, those who die in a state of grace, in friendship with Christ, but still have attachment to sin (and almost everyone does), after their Particular Judgment, enter into Purgation to remove all remaining vestiges and attachments to sin before entering into the Beatific Vision.  C.S. Lewis explained Purgatory to me very early on in my conversion process:

“Our souls demand Purgatory, don’t they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, ‘It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into the joy’? Should we not reply, ‘With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I’d rather be cleaned first.’ ‘It may hurt, you know’ – ‘Even so, Sir.’

I assume that the process of purification will normally involve suffering. Partly from tradition; partly because most real good that has been done me in this life has involved it. But I don’t think the suffering is the purpose of the purgation. I can well believe that people neither much worse nor much better than I will suffer less than I or more. . . . The treatment given will be the one required, whether it hurts little or much.”

– C.S. Lewis, Letters To Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, chapter 20, paragraphs 8-9

Here is the eighth movement, “Hostias” from Mozart’s Requiem Mass.  This is the last part of the Offertory:

Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis offerimus:
We offer to Thee, O Lord, sacrifices and prayers:

Tu suscipe pro animabus illis, quarum hodie memoriam facimus:
Do Thou receive them in behalf of those souls of whom we make memorial this day.

Fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam,
Grant them, O Lord, to pass from death to that life,

Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus.
Which Thou didst promise of old to Abraham and to his seed.

A Requiem Mass being offered for a soul by his family, who is exiting Purgatory and entering heaven and eternal bliss.

Happy, happy feast of All the Saints!!

If you ever feel alone in the knowledge of the Bergoglian Antipapcy and the truth of Pope Benedict’s substantially erroneous “partial resignation” of only “the ministry of the active governance of the Church”, just remember that every Saint and Angel in Heaven knows the truth. His resignation was completely invalid, and therefore he remained the one and only living Pope until his death on 31 December ARSH 2022, whether he liked it or not.

Considering that every star in the universe has a custodian angel, that puts the angelic choir in the QUINTILLIONS, at minimum. Be edified today. Be very, VERY edified. They were all at the Mass you heard today. All of them. They were all right there. They are at EVERY valid Mass. Sit in stillness with that. Go ahead. I’ll wait. ☺️

All ye Saints, pray for the Petrine See, vacant these 671 days and counting, for Holy Mother Church, and pray for us!!

GREAT catch, here…

#Luce #synod pic.twitter.com/Figxl9AsaN

— Arcivescovo Carlo Maria Viganò (@CarloMVigano) October 29, 2024

Remember the reportage here years ago about the Stang? Yeah.

A Stang is a witch/warlock’s ceremonial staff.  It is always forked, and always has an iron nail driven through it. Ideally it has a human form carved or integrated into it somehow.  The Stang signifies several things, the first being a satan himself.  Read the quote below from a witchcraft blog:

“Gary describes the Stang as primarily a symbolic tool rather than a working one, and as such it stands in for the Devil himself, holding his power and his dual nature. The Devil and the Stang is often less about strict duality  and more about the transgressing of boundaries, The Devil being a spirit I often think of as non-binary and difficult to define in terms of absolutes.”

That’s mild compared to this quote from the same article:

“The witch is bound to no dogma. This makes them a threat to a Christianity established on doctrine. The witch insists everything in creation has its place. The Church insisted on two contrary substances God and The Devil. The witch strives for synthesis.”
Nicholaj De Mattos Frisvold- Craft of The Untamed.

G.W.F. Hegel, please dial “666” on a white courtesy telephone….

Ugh they gave the blue-haired, non-binary, anime-faced, stang-wielding Thing a website 🤦🏻‍♀️https://t.co/NZhY8n8vLw pic.twitter.com/h1zs64wNRm

— NurseClaire (@NurseClaire2) October 28, 2024

Look where is says in the lower-right, “Designed by TokiDoki”.

TokiDoki, ‘dis you?

https://www.tokidoki.it/collections/pride

St. Jude, pray for us!

Today (October 28th) is the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude.  St. Jude is today most closely associated with being the “patron saint of lost causes”, which is a relatively recent devotional development.  I’m sure many of you remember seeing the St. Jude Novena published in the classified section of the newspaper.  Remember newspapers?  Ah… nostalgia.

Anyway, there is certainly nothing wrong with this, as I have mentioned before and am still trying to get my head around myself, all of the Angels and Saints know us personally and love us personally, and are desirous of our achieving the Beatific Vision with them.  This is one of those things that if I sit and think about with any depth I still find shocking, even still at my advanced age.

They ALL know who I am.

They are ALL rooting for me.

They are ALL fully available to pray for me.

Whoa.

Here is the traditional text of the prayer to St. Jude:

Oh glorious Apostle St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor who delivered thy beloved Master into the hands of His enemies has caused thee to be forgotten by many, but the Church honors and invokes thee universally as the patron of hopeless cases–of things despaired of. Pray for me who am so miserable; make use, I implore thee, of that particular privilege accorded thee of bringing visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need, that I may receive the consolations and succor of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations and sufferings, particularly (mention your request), and that I may bless God with thee and all the elect throughout eternity. I promise thee, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, and I will never cease to honor thee as my special and powerful patron, and to do all in my power to encourage devotion to thee. Amen.

The other big thing that St. Jude is famous for is writing the Epistle of St. Jude, which is the next-to-last book of the New Testament, and is tiny at only 25 verses.  

The book of Jude is an exhortation and warning against heresy and heretics.

So, yeah.  It is slightly timely.  Just a little bit.  Li’lbit.

It covers everything: heretics bringing about chaos, or as they say in Spanish, “lio” (“turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness” – verse 4), the fact that God’s wrath has, does and will come upon heretics, and the admonition to the faithful to reprove the heretic and sinner, because this is what is demanded by charity.

Do click over to DRBO.org and read the entire brief Letter of St. Jude because it is so relevant, and also read the excellent Challoner footnotes which are most helpful.

Then, revisit the prayer to St. Jude above, because while it is tempting to think in these dark days that the “cause is lost” – it isn’t!  St. Jude, given the topic of his Epistle, should be widely enjoined to pray for us, and for the Church, and against the Antichurch.

St. Judas Thaddeus, pray for us!

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us!

https://stream.org/pope-francis-and-the-fast-approaching-future/

Do click through and read the whole thing, but here’s the conclusion, which is too good to not quote:

Obviously, the strategy of “let’s wait it out and hope for the best” isn’t working. The longer Catholics wait, the more difficult it will be to rectify Francis’s usurpation of the papacy. When faced with the hypothetical example of a rigged presidential election, most Catholics, I think, would realize that time is of the essence. Waiting for four years until the next election would only give the “riggers” more time to strengthen their hold on the government.

The same logic applies to the next papal election. It doesn’t make much sense to wait and see what sort of man the cardinals will elect. We already know that Francis has, in effect, pre-rigged the election by stacking the conclave with men who align with his own thinking. In purely human terms, the odds are that the next pope will be another Francis, not another John Paul II or a Pius XII.

Of course, God has his own plans, and faithful Catholics may be in for a pleasant surprise. On the other hand, it would be the height of presumption to assume that God will reward the timidity, indifference, and inaction of the current crop of Catholics with a holy and brilliant pope.

In defense of their own inactivity, some Catholics have claimed that the Church’s historical response to antipopes was to “wait it out.” But according to some critics of overly cautious Catholics, this is simply not so.

As Ann Barnhardt correctly notes, “the Church has aggressively sought to resolve Antipapacies — and there have been dozens of them — such that nearly every Antipapacy has been identified and rectified while the Antipope was yet alive and claiming the Petrine See.”

As I said, Francis is speeding up his assault on the Catholic faith. It would seem that now is the time to identify, resist, and rectify, not to wait for some hazy date in the future only to discover that Francis’s “reforms” have become irreversible and the opportunity to change course has passed.

William Kilpatrick is the author of Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West, and a new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad. His articles have appeared in Crisis, Catholic World Report, the National Catholic Register, First Things, FrontPage Magazine and other publications.

Readers in Chicago already know, amirite? Like a thunderstorm, it’s the fact that it’s in the distance that makes it oddly soothing.