Pope Benedict is dead. For the first time since ARSH 2005, the See is Vacant and we are in an Interregnum. Pray for Pope Benedict, for the Papacy in se, and for Holy Mother Church. And steel yourselves.

Yes, the 1958 Sedevacantists AND the “Fwanciss is definitely Pope, stoopid!” contingent are already sending spiteful, mocking emails. I’ll post some later so you can see their hissing, pride-soaked venom as they try desperately to hold the irrational premise that the objective binary reality of Pope Benedict being dead and the See being vacant for a matter of minutes is “exactly the same thing” as the error and corollary IDEOLOGY that there has been no Pope since the death of Pope Pius XII sixty-four years ago in ARSH 1958.

I’m happy to let them vent not only their spiteful rage, but their dishonesty – because I don’t believe that any of them are stupid enough to not savvy the difference. But what they ARE trying to do is convince as many “normies” as possible of the lie that it IS the same, thus sowing chaos, error and confusion exactly like the enemy who came into the wheat field and sowed the weeds.

Pray for Pope Benedict, and pray especially the “fiat voluntas tua”, “Thy will be done,” of the Pater Noster, and mean it.

Steel yourselves. The removal of the Restrainer in 2 Thessalonians 2 before the final advent of the Antichrist, whom Antipope Bergoglio has been and will no doubt continue preparing the way for, seems to be happening. The Pope qua Pope, Peter as the Vicar of Christ on Earth and visible head of the Church on Earth, is, for now, removed.

We have no idea how the Divine Providence will play out, but we do know with perfect confidence how the story ends, and who triumphs. And so, as we mourn the death of Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger, and we gaze upon the See of Peter, vacant for the first time since April ARSH 2005, we can truly say and mean:

This is the LORD’S doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Pope St. Sylvester, pray for us.

St. Benedict, pray for us.

St. Joseph, pray for us.

Our Lady of Copacabana, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us, on Joseph Ratzinger, and on Your Holy Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.

Pope Benedict reportedly “lucid and alert” while in renal failure. PRAY FOR HIM.

Let us continue to fervently pray the Matthew 17: 20 Intention. If Pope Benedict dies with the status quo unchanged, petitions 2 and 4 will obviously be altered to reflect the vacancy of the Petrine See for the first time since April ARSH 2005, and prayers for the repose of Pope Benedict’s soul. But for now, we must PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!

The Matthew 17: 20 Initiative Intentions:

-that Antipope Bergoglio be publicly acknowledged and removed as Antipope, and that the entire Bergoglian Antipapacy be publicly recognized as null;

-that Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger be acknowledged as the uninterrupted one and only living Pope since his election in April of ARSH 2005;

-that Antipope Bergoglio repent, revert to Catholicism, die in a state of grace in the fullness of time, and someday achieve the Beatific Vision;

-and that Pope Benedict XVI repent of anything he might need to repent of, die in a state of grace in the fullness of time, and someday achieve the Beatific Vision.

Nothing less will do.

St. Michael the Archangel, guardian angel of the living Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, pray for us.
St. Benedict, pray for us.
St. Joseph, pray for us.

Our Lady of Copacabana, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.


I have received many emails from very worried people, and my advice is simple: Don’t worry – this situation WILL resolve, and when it does, it will be WONDERFUL. But we must continue in hope and prayer, thanking God ALWAYS that we are here, now to witness these events. The great saints begged God to be alive in OUR TIME and to see what WE ARE SEEING, and to live through what WE are living through. Our Lord loves His Holy Church, and loves every one of us, as individuals, INFINITELY. He is not trying to trick or deceive anyone. His grace is infinite, and superabundant in these days – IF we avail ourselves of it. He always, always, always provides a path forward which is visible and knowable. But the Sheep have free will, as LOVE requires, and can choose to ally themselves with the wolves, and even to jump into the gaping jaws of the wolves.

Think of The Blessed Virgin at the Foot of the Cross, as her Divine Son was mocked and heckled by those aligned with the demons. Then think of The Blessed Virgin on Holy Saturday as she held the nascent Church together in the face of not just death, but the death of God Himself. What did she say, I wonder? I suspect it was something like, Don’t worry. This situation WILL resolve, and when it does, it will be WONDERFUL. But we must continue in hope and prayer, thanking God ALWAYS that we are here, now to witness these events.

Here is a moving quote from Dom Prosper Gueranger on the Blessed Virgin Mary on Holy Saturday:

Mary alone lives in expectation of His triumph. In her was verified that expression of the Holy Ghost, where, speaking of the Valiant Woman, He says: “Her lamp will not be put out in the night” (Proverbs xxxi. 18) Her courage fails not because she knows that the sepulchre must yield up its Dead, and her Jesus will rise again to life. Saint Paul tells us that our religion is vain unless we have faith in the mystery of our Saviour’s Resurrection — where was this faith on the day after our Lord’s death? In one heart only, and that was Mary’s. As it was her chaste womb that had held within it Him whom heaven and earth cannot contain, so on this day, by her firm and unwavering faith, she resumes within her single self the whole Church. How sacred is this Saturday, which, notwithstanding all its sadness, is such a day of glory to the Mother of Jesus! It is on this account that the Church has consecrated to Mary the Saturday of every week.

Remember, these events have been prophesied IN SCRIPTURE:

-near-total apostasy from the top (check),
-a near-total loss of faith on earth (CHECK!!!),
-a False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist (the inversion of John the Baptist) whose primary agenda is to destroy marriage and family, sow utter chaos, and attack and tear down The True Church in preparation for the coming of the Antichrist (very likely Antipope Bergoglio – what would the FPFotA do differently from Bergoglio?) ,
-the ascent of an Antichurch (check),
-and the eventual removal of the “Restrainer”, the Katechon, which is understood to be the Pope qua Pope as written by The Holy Ghost through St. Paul in his Second Letter to the Thessalonians.

It’s all happening, and I’m here for it. WE’RE here for it. Our lamp will not be put out; our courage will not fail.

Pray for Pope Benedict, especially the Fourth Glorious Mystery of the Rosary, Our Lady’s Assumption into Heaven, the Fruit of which is the grace of a happy, holy, provided death.

And remember, whatever happens, however it happens, however the Divine Providence unfolds, we are called by faith, in hope to echo the words of David in Psalm 117, even if it be through tears:

This is the Lord’s doing: and it is wonderful in our eyes.
A Domino factum est istud, et est mirabile in oculis nostris.

As always, I hope this helps.

Reports that Pope Benedict is dying. The Pope is the Great Restrainer (Katechon) of 2 Thessalonians 2. Expect all hell to break loose with the Katechon – the Pope – gone.

Pray. With Pope Benedict Ratzinger gone, Antipope Bergoglio and his cabal will aggressively attempt to utterly destroy the Church Militant. They will attempt to eliminate the Mass, change the words of consecration, ratify sodomy and every type of perversion, infanticide, suicide, blasphemy, idolatry and Satanism – it will be a war of total, unrestrained attrition. All of it built upon the hamfisted deception that “Francis” is, was or ever shall be the Vicar of Christ on Earth.

And it seems that no one is willing to lift a finger to stop them. Effeminacy in extremis- utter paralysis in the face of abject, obvious, observable evil. Look at verse ten below: “…to believe lying.”

Pray. Pray for Pope Benedict. Pray for Holy Mother Church.

Here is the text of 2 Thessalonians chapter Two. This may be happening right now.


The Second Letter of St. Paul to The Thessalonians, Chapter Two

[1] And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto Him: [2] That you be not easily moved from your sense, nor be terrified, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle, as sent from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand. [3] Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, [4] who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. [5] Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

[6] And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. [7] For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way. [8] And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of His mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming, him, [9] whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, [10] And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:

[11] That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity. [12] But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto salvation, in sanctification of the spirit, and faith of the truth: [13] Whereunto also he hath called you by our gospel, unto the purchasing of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. [14] Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle. [15] Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope in grace,

[16] Exhort your hearts, and confirm you in every good work and word.

For the You Gotta Be Kidding Me File: Why 2000 years ago there were TWO HIGH PRIESTS, one legitimate and one illegitimate and installed by… wait for it… the Roman Deep State

At the time of Our Lord’s Ministry, Passion, Death and Resurrection, there were TWO High Priests in the Temple: Annas and Caiaphas.  Luke Chapter 3…

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of the district of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zachary, in the desert.

TWO High Priests?  Seems… odd, no?

INDEED.

Do you know the details of this bizarre situation? Well, pull up a chair, because this is Deja Vu all over again, folks.

Annas was the legitimate High Priest, acknowledged as such by the Jews. The High Priesthood was a life office (sound familiar?). Annas, however, had been DEPOSED BY THE ROMAN DEEP STATE, specifically by Pontius Pilate’s predecessor as Procurator of Judea, Valerius Gratus. Despite having been “deposed” by the Roman Deep State, Annas REMAINED IN THE TEMPLE holding influence and being recognized by pious Jews as the true High Priest (sound familiar?)  Gratus then illegitimately installed Annas’ son-in-law Caiaphas as … er… the “other High Priest”. Caiaphas was totally in bed with the Romans and was loyal to them and their agenda, and thus had a long tenure, being kept on as “fake High Priest” when Gratus was succeeded by Pontius Pilate.

Remember, it was Caiaphas who essentially threatened to have Pilate killed if he didn’t go along with Caiaphas’ wish to kill Jesus, the Christ. Pontius Pilate had been appointed Procurator of Judea not by Tiberius Caesar, but by Tiberius’ de facto co-ruler, Lucius Aelius Sejanus. When Tiberius turned on and then killed Sejanus, all of the men who had been in Sejanus’ circle of power, INCLUDING PONTIUS PILATE, were on thin ice with Tiberius as possibly disloyal. So when Caiaphas yelled out to Pilate “we have no king but Caesar,” and “If you release Him (Jesus), then you are no friend of Caesar’s!” what Caiaphas – who was in bed with and installed by the Roman Deep State –  was doing was clearly threatening to denounce Pilate to Rome as disloyal to Tiberius and still loyal to the Sejanus power circle. This would have meant certain death to Pilate and his family.

So, in review, there was at the time of Our Lord’s Ministry, Passion, Death and Resurrection, a legitimate High Priest, still in the Temple, still recognized by the pious faithful as the real holder of the lifetime office of High Priest, who was deposed in a Roman Deep State plot to gain control of the Temple and leverage a usurped pseudo-authority over the Jews in the person of an illegitimate anti-High Priest, who was in bed with the Roman Deep State and ended up agitating for and extorting the Roman Deep State’s toady into committing Deicide.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but there is an obvious parallel here between Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger as Annas and Antipope Jorge Bergoglio as Caiaphas.

And oddly, this insane “two High Priests” nonsense was tolerated and gone-along-with by the Sanhedrin, just as the Cesspool College of Bishops tolerate and go along with the Bergoglian antipapacy lo these nearly ten years now, as Pope Benedict, like Annas, still resides in the “Temple”, going along with the farce as well. What a mess.

Seeing stunning parallels within the mess like these I find to be deeply consoling and edifying.  It shows that the Divine Providence is in charge, making sure that things are HIGHLY VISIBLE, especially in these days of Ecclesial Eclipse. Secondly, this implies that those of us living through this satanic Antipapacy while the True Pope yet lives in the Vatican, are probably close to seeing Christ in Glory, as the people in the days of the “two High Priests” – one legitimate, one illegitimate, were close to the Redemption of mankind and the opening of the gates of heaven by the Eternal Sacrifice of God to God.

He WILL come again in Glory, and His Kingdom will have no end.

Maranatha. Come, Lord Jesus.

I hope this helps.

St. John the Apostle, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us, on Pope Benedict, and on Your Holy Catholic Church outside of which there is no salvation.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…

 

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Chinese and NWO Agitprop and Arithmetic Review

The Chinese stopped welding people into their apartments to slowly starve, and now one to two million will catch a cold and DIE! Global lockdown MUST be reinstated! Daily mandatory testing of the entire human population with all cases put into quarantine camps and financial lockdown is the only path forward!

There are 1,400,000,000 people in China. If a respiratory virus circulates throughout the population and 1,000,000 people, almost all elderly with comorbidities, die, that is:

1,000,000 divided by 1,400,000,000

Which equals

0.0007 or 0.07% fatality rate. Not seven percent, but seven hundredths of one percent.

Or a 99.93% survival rate.

So… a completely normal respiratory virus season.

Remember, a stiff breeze can kill a million people in China, because there are 1.4 billion of them. Between 25,000 and 30,000 people die completely organically every day in China. 7500 people die per day in the former US by comparison.

Just a friendly reminder that NWO propagandists are using China’s massive population coupled with the inability of Boobus Effiminatus Americanus to do simple arithmetic to attempt a reboot of the past three years of house arrest and economic attrition, with an eye towards China’s “zero Covid” concentration camp and financial blocking paradigm.

Because 1 million divided by 1.4 billion = 0.0007, aka a normal seasonal respiratory virus.

Canon 359? Wait, you don’t know about Canon 359?? Ho-ho-ho, well, pull up a chair…

As I keep trying to drive home, the Church is a Supernatural institution, created by God as His Bride, and Mystical Body, of which He is the Head.  And God, being God, is a really, really, really good organizer and “Human Resources manager”.  Being omniscient tends to yield… COMPETENCE.

The Divine Providence – always perfect, by the way – has given us the 1983 Code of Canon Law.  That is the Law of the Church.  To think that the Divine Providence would put us, the Church Militant, into this situation with the Bergoglian Antipapacy – a JURIDICAL situation – without any sort of Rule of Law, or even a Rule of Law that didn’t provide clear, visible protections of the Petrine See is madness, and flirting with blasphemy.  Why?  Because it would directly imply an INCOMPETENCE on God’s part, a failure of the Divine Providence.  Argue this at your own peril.

So, given this, let’s look at Canon 359, which very clearly addresses the juridical competence of the College of Cardinals, a body which Trad Inc. “thought leaders” simultaneously declare INFALLIBLE on a DOGMATIC LEVEL, any questioning of which is an act of SCHISM, and then literally in the next breath declare the same men to be subscribers to “a different religion”, and “not the Church” (because remember, ALL Cardinals are Novus Ordo). Yes, the cognitive dissonance is absolutely staggering, and is simply a proof set that “diabolical disorientation” is real, and what it looks like. Daily Mass and Rosary (while in a state of grace, obviously) is the first line of defense against diabolical disorientation.  This is why I recommend it so VERY strenuously in these dark days of confusion.

Can. 359 When the Apostolic See is vacant, the college of cardinals possesses only that power in the Church which is attributed to it in special law.

Can. 359 — Sede Apostolica vacante, Cardinalium Collegium ea tantum in Ecclesia gaudet potestate, quae in peculiari lege eidem tribuitur.

Folks, the very first clause is the punchline in this situation: WHEN THE APOSTOLIC SEE IS VACANT.

What this Canon does is 100% prohibit and utterly nullify ANY conclave convened while the Petrine See is STILL OCCUPIED, that is, NOT VACANT – no matter what the circumstance, including totally unprecedented circumstances, such as this current situation of Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger trying to partially resign only the administrative/governance ministerio, and “expand” the Petrine Office into a “collegial, synodal, shared ministry”.

I have to laugh at the argument that any situation without precedent, such as this situation today, must therefore be non-existent, because EVERY situation JUST MUST have a precedent.  If this were true, then it would negate existence itself, because if nothing can exist without a precedent, then by LOGICAL DEFINITION, no “first instance” can EVER occur.  But if a first instance is required to set a circumstantial precedent, but no first instance can ever occur because everything MUST have a circumstantial precedent…. Oh dear.  [begin sarcasm] So much for Our Lord’s Incarnation.  That had never happened before, so it must not have actually happened.  And so much for God dying on the Cross.  God had never died before, so that must not have happened either.  So much for the Transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the physical substance of God, because that had never happened before, so it must not have actually happened at the Last Supper, and thus it has never happened subsequently.  I’m afraid reality itself is all a lie.  So much for John 1:1.  I guess that has been a gross misunderstanding by a bunch of bead-squeezing simpletons, too. [end sarcasm]

WHAT WE ARE LIVING THROUGH RIGHT NOW HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. NOTHING EVEN CLOSE. WHINING LIKE A LITTLE GIRL BECAUSE THERE ARE NO IKEA INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS AND WE THEREFORE HAVE TO USE OUR OWN FACULTIES OF RATIONAL DISCERNMENT ILLUMINATED BY FAITH AND THE GIFTS OF THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION IS AS CLEAR A MANIFESTATION OF THE VICES OF EFFEMINACY AND SLOTH AS CAN BE IMAGINED. I can think of no clearer and more severe historical example of the near-total dearth of masculinity in a human population, ever. No human society is history has ever been this emmasculated.

If the See is occupied, for whatever reason and under whatever circumstance – IF THERE IS A LIVING POPE, OCCUPYING THE SEE, WHETHER HE LIKES IT OR NOT – it is completely, totally, 100% impossible for a valid conclave to be convened.  This isn’t an instance of “illicit yet valid” – as we see from Canon 359 above.  It is ONTOLOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for a valid conclave to be called, much less a valid Pope coming out of such an invalid conclave.  PERIOD.  This is absolutely essential in order to protect the Papacy.  To think that God couldn’t foresee this and specifically, explicitly provide for it in these dark days is madness.

Why?  Because God isn’t an idiot, and is, in fact, a really, really good “Human Resources manager”. And loves us.  Don’t ever, ever forget that.  He loves us, and would NEVER break his promise to us, His Church. That Antipope Bergoglio is proof that God has reneged on His promise to Peter and Peter’s successors is now taken for GRANTED by most “Trad Inc.” partisans (many of whom are now coming out publicly as either atheists or open schismatics in the true sense of the word.)

Think about it folks, do you honestly believe that Our Lord would permit the College of Cardinals to call in error, malice or for any other reason a conclave WHILE THE SEE IS STILL OCCUPIED? While there is still a sitting Pope?  Do you honestly believe that Our Lord would:

WITHDRAW the ONTOLOGICAL REALITY of the PAPACY from a VALIDLY SEATED (and in this case, STILL VALIDLY SEATED due to the proffering of a Substantially Erroneous attempted “partial” resignation of the ACTIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE MINISTERIO, BUT NOT THE OFFICE IN SE) Pope, and then bestow the Papacy upon another man, all because the College of Cardinals said so?  Law be damned?  Common sense be damned?  Order be damned?  The Papacy be damned? THE CHURCH HERSELF BE DAMNED??

[begin sarcasm] So all this time, the Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth COULD have been deposed if the College of Cardinals got together and decided to simply call a conclave.  So, what this means is that the Papacy, all this time, has been subject to a VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE, and that hence forth, we should expect that the Pope will serve AT THE PLEASURE OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS, and the truth is, it has been this way all along, it’s just that the entire Church Militant, every saint, and every doctor of the Church for the past 2000 years has completely misunderstood the Papacy, and only NOW, only NOW in this age of moral depravity, social media addiction, and a near-total collapse of anything that could honestly be called “Academia” in the Church, only NOW is all of this being figured out BY ATHEISTS AND LITERAL SCHISMATICS.   [end sarcasm] 

Ummmmm.  NO.

[begin sarcasm] Every instance of the “Tu Es Petrus” being prayed for these 2000 years has been a hideous manifestation of the stupidity and ridiculous and MORTALLY SINFUL papolatry of the Church Militant.  Youbetcha. 

Latinists?  We need a translation.  Instead of “Tu es Petrus….” we need the Latin for:

“You are the College of Cardinals, and upon this slag heap I will build My Church.”

Because Jesus clearly got it wrong, and the Holy Ghost clearly erred in recoding Our Blessed Lord’s mistake in the Gospels.

Funny, though, how the play on words goes away.  Huh.  Funny that.  It’s almost enough to make one think that the whole changing of Simon Bar-Jona’s name to ROCK, like, meant something profound.  Ah, what infantile stupidity!  Thank God that “Pope Fwaanciss” has liberated us from such childish notions!  Now, finally, the Church can move forward, acknowledging the supremacy of the College of Cardinals as the REAL power, and the Papacy can finally, at long last, be understood as the meaningless figurehead position that it always has been. [end sarcasm]

Folks, WELCOME TO FREEMASONRY.  Whether you enter the Lodge through the front door, or the back door in the alley, you’re still in the Lodge.

Pro tip: if your position is irrational and lines up EXACTLY with the clearly stated goals of freemasonry, and of satan himself, you MIGHT want to check your base premise.

And remember, this is of the utmost importance because IF Bergoglio somehow “goes away” while Pope Benedict XVI is still alive and occupying the See as he is today, and another “conclave” is called, that conclave WILL ALSO BE INVALID, and it will yield ANOTHER Antipope.

Folks, we HAVE TO GET THIS RIGHT.  Half-measures and half-truth simply doesn’t work.  Either this situation gets fixed at the root, or else it will only get worse.  The chaos of the false base premise will continue and grow, and then we will end up with an Antipope Zuppi or Antipope Tagle, 20 years younger than Antipope Bergoglio. This is why the whole “Bergoglio is a heretic” tack, and likewise the “electioneering” of the ARSH 2013 faux-conclave are rabbit holes that both lead to hell, even though the folks pursuing them are really good people.  Bergoglio never has been the Pope and thus his obvious status as an arch-heretic is NOT LEGALLY GERMANE, because there WAS NO CONCLAVE in March of ARSH 2013.  We HAVE to get this right.

Pray for Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger, the Papacy, and Holy Mother Church.

And GO TO MASS, and consider asking Our Lord to give YOU, in imitation of Our Lord in the Garden, scourged at the Pillar, and being nailed to the Cross, any temporal punishment that might be due to a priest who erroneously or under fearful coercion commemorates the wrong man at the Te Igitur.  “Give it to me.” NOTHING enflames fraternal charity quite so quickly as volunteering to take on temporal punishment for another, most especially for priests and bishops, who, God knows, need all the support in this sense that we can give them.

Our Lady, undoer of knots, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and on Your Holy Church.