Thursday, February 24, 2011

Wacky World of the Sedevacante,..the Sequel

Yes, I know that my readership is used to my endless rants against modernist heresy polluting the metaphysical landscape with lies, half truths and just overall subjective nonesense, but every now and then the crazies come out in full force and warrant my attention.  How often can it said that I rail on these guys?  Well, it seems not often enough!  The last post in which I referenced these uhh,..'people,' I compared them to people who view Elvis regularly, get abducted by Aliens or are awaiting the return of Tupac Shakur.  This past week, I was privy to a conversation in which biting my lip was the pen ultimate act of resistance.  Did I want to retaliate?  Actually no,.but I nearly laughed my ass off and concluded that this dude, as sincere as he was,..was badly in need of mental therapy (yes,..despite last week's post.)

So, once again, let's set the stage shall we?  Who are the sedevacante?  They are a group of 'traditionalist' catholics who claim that the last valid Pope was Pius XII.  Subsequent Popes have preached heresy (according to them) or have been everything from duplicate imposters to satanic infiltrators.  The sad reality is that we've seen this stuff before.  Every council has always produced years of confusion, division and downright schism, Vatican II being no different!  Yet still the crazies persist, blindly accusing the post conciliar Church of being something that it isn't.  Obviously the same can be said for the 'Spirit of VII' crowd, but the danger with the Sedevacantist position is that it ultimately becomes yet another form of protestantism.  Nowhere in VII does the Church make any dogmatic pronouncement!  Read the friggin documents people!  VII was/is a pastoral council put forth in good faith by Blessed John XXIII in order to face the problems of the world which the Church was experiencing.  Does VII say anything about the Mass being 'versus populem?'  NO!  Does VII say anything about the Mass not retaining parts in Latin?  NO!  Even in Nostra Aetate, which the Traditionalist schismatics love to pick apart,..The Church does not relinquish the claim that She and She alone is the One True Church, but instead brings about a more pastoral/relationship approach by comparing degrees to it,.(potency!)  Guess who else did that?  Aquinas!  Arghhhhhhh!

So now, I'll describe the discussion.  It started off pretty friendly enough, with both us articulating difficulties with implementing the actual Council as it has been hijacked by the 'spirit of..' crowd.  Next up we spoke about Assisi, something that I as a Catholic have never really been comfortable with.  ('Assisi' was a gathering of different religious leaders from different backrounds all praying to 'God' in the name of peace.  Granted, I don't know the details on it, but for me it seemed like an exercise in empty inter faith/ecumenism,.the lowest common denominator kind..Where was the call to evangelization?  To Truth?!?) So, back to the conversation.  I asked if he had ever heard of the SSPX or FSSP?  To my delight he said yes.  So we continued speaking regarding the canonical status of both groups, one being irregular (the SSPX).  Then it happened...Very 'matter of factly' I was informed that despite their good intentions there hasn't been a true Pope since Pius XII.  Yup.  Vatican II was inspired by Satan, and thus through an infiltration, the Church apostasized and became the 'Novus Ordo' religion, based on false ecumenism.  The danger with any heresy, is that it contains elements of truth within its message.  This was no different and while my readership is familiar with the modernist nonsense that we frequently have to endure through so-called 'social justice' priests, liberation theology and piss poor liturgy, this has left an almost vacuum for these extreme cases on the right of the spectrum to go by undetected.  Naturally the conversation was one sided from that point on, as I was shown the error of my ways in remaining with the post conciliar Church..(no mention of Matthew's gates of hell...) and had to bite my lip as he accused John Paul II of being demonic.  I truly felt sorry for this protestant dude.  Yes, protestant because that's really what the sedevacante become. 

To conclude, upon my reversion to the Faith, I too noticed many wrongs with the Church.  Stuff that 'I' wanted to right.  I think you get my point.  Our faith is a gift from God to be freely accepted by us.  We are on the Holy Spirit's time, not our own.  Through Spiritual Direction, I learned, (correction, still learning,..) to be more compassionate and understanding that Jesus meets us where we are, and then invites us to be perfected.  A great example of this is the story of the Samaritain woman at the well.  The Sedevacante protestants too often forget Jesus's quote about the Church in Matthew,.it can never fall into error! 

St Thomas Aquinas,.......Ora pro nobis!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

St Augustine/ Fr Euteneur

Its been over a week since I last posted,..and to tell you the truth, my faith has not been shaken,.but it has been attacked.  Every few months, I realize that I use the blogging community as a therapeutic blanket absorbing the twisted and fragile adventure that is my faith.  So many things, and it isn't getting any easier!  At times, my faith, though beautiful as it is has caused me mental angst and breakdown.  Last week, I found myself negotiating with Jesus,..'What do You want, and why me?'  Sure the moments of joy are great, but the trials are beginning to become demonic.  Prior to my conversion experience, it was so much easier.  My life was a complete sensual adventure and now I'm finding myself struggling with even the most mundane of things, finding sin everywhere.  Rigid? Perhaps or so I've been called, but by who?  The answer is always the same, people whose character and mindset, though identifying themselves culturally Catholic are about as 'catholic' as Ellen Degenerres.

So why the melancholy opening paragraph, because the media much to its disgusting self serving end has now pointed its gun, lock, stock and barrel and Fr Tom Euteneur.  A little backround,..Fr Euteneur, a priest in the state of Florida stepped down as president of a pro-life group in the States.  The reasons, at the time being cited were essentially because his Bishop called him back to his diocese under very mysterious circumstances.  Along with doing work with the pro-life group, Fr Euteneur also worked in the ministry of exorcism and subsequently published two books regarding what is often a forgotten (on purpose?) sacramental work.  Readers may remember him as the priest who went toe to toe with Sean Hannity on Fox news, for guess what?   Yup!  Defending the Church's teaching!  The shock!  The horror!  Anyway, to continue, a couple of weeks ago, Fr Euteneur issued a public statement regarding his 'disappearance' from the public eye.  In short, Fr Euteneur placed the blame squarely on himself, and came clean that he had been unfaithful to his vocation as a priest with regards to a woman he had met and worked with during his time with the pro-life group.  After admitting his sinfulness, he asked for forgiveness and in an ultimate act of humility obeyed his Bishop.  The media hardly reported anything, I believe it passed once on CNN's ticker,..at least that's all I saw.

God works in mysterious ways.  In many respects, this story parrallels Terry Shiavo and John Paul II.   Obviously not in gravity, but in teaching, how God uses a bad situation to draw a greater 'good' out of it.  In 2005, mankind sat idly by as we refused food to Terry Shiavo and killed her.  This was not an act of mercy but a complete disregard for human life.  The euthaniasia debate was reopened, and proponents of such nonsense treated human being in the same breath as dogs,..just put them to sleep.  About a week later, John Paul II, in his last teaching act as Pope,.taught the whole world how to die.  I can still remember him coming to the window a week before and attempting to speak before being wheeled away.  By today's vain standards, I guess we would openly question the Vatican's 'marketing' departement, as no one would ever want their fragility and weakness exposed to the world.  Getting back to the Fr Euteneur situation, his apology and subsequent act of humility was the complete opposite of last year's Fr Cutie, (who I've mentioned before...) deciding to take his 'ball and go home.'  Fr Euteneur, you are a man!  You are not alone,..I struggle with the very same sins and am not afraid to admit it.  I need help,.I am nothing without recourse to the mercy of God!  Guess what,.. St Augustine was the same!  You, I, we (as men..) are in good company!  A saint rises again after he has fallen,..a sinner stays down.  Fr Cutie,.I pray for you,..Fr Euteneur, rest assured you are in my prayers, but like Jesus, naked on the cross,.you took your medicine and faced the music!  Forgiveness is yours, because you have repented.  Fr Euteneur,..you taught us how to own up to our own failures,. TO BE A MAN!  To have a backbone!  A quality that is sorely lacking with the Church's collection of social justice priests and Mr Rogers clones pussyfooting their little crayon crap everywhere!  People,..our lives are a test, Heaven or Hell,..God loves us so much He gave us the choice.  That choice like any other begets consequences. 

Fr Euteneur,.we all make mistakes, that's what being human is all about.  Few of us have the balls to admit our failings.  God Bless and keep up the fight!

I've rambled enough....Peace.

St Maria Gorretti,..........Ora Pro Nobis.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Psychology of Confession.

It would seem that in our post nineteen sixties mentality choosing peace, love, and everything in between except common sense and truth, the made for profit psychology industry has mushroomed into a pharmaceutical juggernaut attempting to numb everyone's mindset into complete paralysis.  Eckert Tolle pitching his heresy laden garbage, new- age pantheistic stupidity conning desperate housewives by seducing them into thinking their way to riches and prosperity.  Well, it would seem logical then that the only one winning this con game is himself,..err actually, he along with everyone else pitching the same voodoo garbage.  Family Guy's 'Brian' (the Dog) brilliantly makes fun of said things by writing a book to mass market and profit from.  (Yes,..I watch Family Guy, call it a guilty pleasure/vice, some people eat cake!)

After an introduction like that, you should be thinking to yourself, what the hell does this have to do with theology or politics?  Well,..once again, EVERYTHING!  You see one of the main profiting industries stemming from this 'think it, feel it' crap is the psychology industry.  Every nickle and dime peon is now jumping into the game attempting solve the emotive disposition of why a serial killer wears matching socks, to how little Timmy who lost his dog when he was eight, and thus can't eat poultry because of it.  Psychology, the field where there is absolutely no objective truth and everybody's opinion is equally valid!   Gravity?  Sure,..if you believe it.  Mathematics?  Only if you FEEL you need it.  Vegetables?  Nah,..much rather eat flavoured styrofoam,..I mean since all truth is relative,..right?  Okay, I take it you get my point.   So,..we go and we pay thousands of dollars to psychologists to first off, create new mental/emotional disorders, then prescribe drugs to relieve them!  (I think I should become a psychologist!)  Seriously, these people get paid to listen to people pour their hearts out everyday complaining about this or that issue in their life,..get reaffirmed in their 'okayness' and go home happy.  Where's the therapy?  Where's da Beef?  Common sense time.   Catholics, the ones who see a regular psychologist,.. I'm going to let the blogosphere in on a little secret...Are you ready?  Catholic priests offer something called the sacrament of Reconciliation!  Y'know, 'Confession.'  It's this cool little sacrament whereby, the priest can hear about all your angst(most of the time sins, and vices), then give you sound advice and,..(get this..) offer something called 'ABSOLUTION!'  Wait!  Here is the best part,...its free!!!!!!!(Disclaimer,.you might have to perform something called penance,.usually a corporal work of mercy)  You see, there was this God 'Dude' named Jesus and he gave his 'Boyz' the power to forgive sins, through Apostolic authority!(Read Gospel of St John) .  So,..the priest guy, you see being 'ontologically' changed has the power to speak on behalf of this God dude,..this same 'God' who created the universe and can forgive your sins,..er I mean critically challenge your actions and beliefs objectively! 

If I made you laugh, I'm happy.  Still the absurdity remains, that people have set aside this incredible sacrament, yet will willingly pay a 'shrink' to hear their problems!  Aren't they f@#$'n crazy?!?!  They must be!   To every Catholic who would rather see a psychologist or a psychiatrist instead of a priest, (who btw is also trained in psychology,..) I seriously think you need your head examined!

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati,.........Ora pro nobis!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Gym Priestess

The other day I found myself rereading one of John Paul II's last encyclicals,..'On the dignity of Women.'  Now before the mandatory subjective reaction from the left kicks in, to summarize his main point is that men and women are equal but different.  What that means essentially is that it does not come down to the simplistic biological/anatomical differences highlighted by today's post modern nonsense,..but instead a realistic approach highlighting the emotional, psychological and overall complimentarity regarding the two sexes.  Now the liberals must be fuming, cause y'know,..I'm making sense,..and truth hurts.  Why this drab post?  Simply put, running the gammit of conversation topics one can run into working out of a gym can be downright diverse if not incredibly interesting!  Case in point, yesterday, a client found my facebook page and realized that it was 'too Catholic' for her tastes and then goaded me into a conversation about how the Church must change and ordain women.  'Women have every right to be priests!' (Again,..her words..) The initial onslaught was over, now it was time to respond,..either in typical Optimusmastro fashion or try another approach..one that will allow me to dissect her argument before offering the Church's position.  Simply put I needed the tagteam calm cool approach of Fr Barron and Fr Grunow from 'Word on Fire' style.  So here goes,...

If Jesus ordained His twelve Apostles and not His Mother, can a case be made from the standpoint of history?  I would beg the proponents of so-called women's ordination to examine first and foremost this very fact.  Secondly,.the Church through John Paul II 'Ordinatio Sacercodatilis' clearly stated that the Church has no authority to ordain women.  It should be case closed right?  Wrong!  You wanted Optimusmastro?  Optimusmastro here now!!!  Hey liberals what is your major malfunction in which you see your main mission to question everthing from mathematics to colour to gravity in the name of fairness and justice (BS) yet fail to accept the answer as it is given to you?!?  Well,..here goes,.you can't accept it because your ego driven stupidity has turned Theology into a catastrophic lab experiment since the nineteen fifties and sixties.  So let's start at the onset and ask ourselves a question.  Why can't I give birth?  I mean,..I FEEL that I have just as much RIGHT as a woman to give birth?  So therefore I'm gonna petition God to grow a vagina, uterus and breasts in order to facilitate this DEMAND!  Now I hope after reading this, one can recognize the absurdity in it, however if you voted NDP, or in the States, Obama, I guess I'll just have to take it up that you might be a little slow. (That's Mentally Challenged for the PC crowd...)

Seriously, humour aside, God through creation discriminates,..I mean we don't have wings, yet birds and bats do?  C'mon God,.that's unfair!  Well it is true that it is unfair, but it is the way God intented it!  We belong to Him, not He to us!  Theological Truth exists, so here it is.  The Church by Her nature is female,..(ever notice we call Her 'Mother')  Secondly the ordained priest is an icon of Christ,..'Alter Christus' acting 'in personae Christi capitas..' as priest offering and as victim.  Now we'll tie it all together,..ready?  The Mass mirrors three things,..the Cross(Calvary), the Last Supper, and the Wedding Feast of the Lamb,.(New Jerusalem coming down...)  The priest(bridegroom) and the Church (bride)...By now all you liberal/progressive/modernist/feminazi/lesbian/social justice/eco-spirtiwhatevers are sweating because it is kinda starting to 'gulp' make sense!  Why no woman priestesses?  If you can't figure it out now, you won't ever.  Lastly, coming back to the gym lady's statement,.I answer that no one has a right to be a priest,..it is a calling.  Honestly, freely giving up a wife and kids if there was no calling has to be one of the most ridiculous if not downright ludicrous things I have ever heard.  Any priest worth his salt, always submitted to God's will through discernment and a first call to celibacy, then priesthood.   I've vented enough for today,..just like Joe Pesci in 'My Cousin Vinny'  "I got no more use for dis guy!"

St Joseph,.........Ora Pro Nobis

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Onward Liberal Soldiers Towards a New Future,..

Sadly it has become irreversible.  We are now locked and set on a course for westren self destruction coupled with a false understanding of compassion and tolerance serving as the battle cry for what will undoubtably be a new population demographic and a new way of life based upon what our silly sixties previous generation gave us.  Let's see,..sexual revolution, this opened us up to experiencing pleasure without thinking about the consequences,..the result, failed marriages, abortions, homosexual so-called marriage, the billion dollar contraception industry and of course AIDS.   In the name of 'peace' we have forgotten what it means to fight for something we truly believe in, we have confused meekness and weakness and through pornography, a feminization of men occurred.  Sorry ladies,..but your future Prince Charming will probably want to cry in your arms, instead of the reverse,..telling you about his 'feelings' while you and the girls go out to play paintball...

So what's the solution?  Well, it's so simple, yet has been found left untried.  The answer is the Catholic Church in all Her glory.  Jesus preaches love by laying down His life for many.  This act, this salvific act gives us access to the Cross and enables us to partake in the Eucharist, giving us the necessary grace needed to be truly free from our sins.  Think about it,.is a fifteen year porn addict really free?  For that matter, is a 40yr old married porn addict equally free?  This was the so-called freedom that our parents wanted?  Constantly having to satisfy an urge,..the sociologists and pseudo pop psychologists need lobotomies if they truly believe that this is normal.  So now, we are here and full with all our experiences,..we the few, Generation Benedict, been there, done that,...finally stepping up and saying, 'no mom and dad, this doesn't work!'  Condoms DO NOT prevent AIDS anymore than placing scotch tape or a band-aid will stop a bursting dam.  The Church, authentic and faithful to the Magisterium, Her members are now prepared to die for Her.  The reality we will.  Islam is here, and it is not a religion of peace.  Please do not confuse 'submission' with 'peace.' I am not saying individual muslims are evil,..I'm saying that Islam will provide a temporary 'conservative' solution to people hungering and thirsting for authentic truth, and just like any counterfit, it will satisfy the short term, as it is on many university campuses.

Heterodox crowd, please read the signs of the times and step aside.  Your time is over, and something went terribly wrong with your socialist understanding/mad experiment of how man can become his own saviour and thus save himself.  You see he can't.  You must concede, and finally succumb to the terrible reality that your future grandchildren will inherit.  Liberal priests,.learn St Thomas, go to confession, grow a set of balls and remember why it is that God called you to priesthood.  On martyr's feast days wear red, and remember why you wear it. (You are prepared to die)  Put the Tabernacle back, get rid of your Liturgy commitees, social justice groups, anyone who doesn't tackle issues such as Abortion first and foremost.   Put God back in the centre.  The year is 2011,..we have a few years left,..then we become the muslim west and we have only ourselves to blame.  RIP Europe, you were a cultural masterpiece in your heyday.  Happy New Year.







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Friday, January 7, 2011

And The Nominees are,....

As was mentioned briefly last week,..I Optimusmastro will present to you the nominees for 'Intellectual Terrorist' of the year!  The people who will be mentioned will come from an array of political spectrum, Catholic figures, people who just annoy me.   If anyone feels that I should have mentioned more,..well I know,.but there is only so much blogging I can do!   So without further adue...here goes.  Enjoy!  St Monica,..(patron saint of patience),.......Ora pro nobis!

1.   Fr. Richard McBrien.  The Notre Dame 'priest' professor and CNN's favorite catholik pissboy trotted out by the media everytime the Church negatively makes the secular news,..or in those rare occasions where a 'good' thing happens,. is brought before the TV cameras to explain to the world how it is really bad and piety is part of the pre-conciliar Church...This year McBrien spoke in the National Crapolic Reporter about how Eucharistic devotions are a 'spiritual step backwards.'  It could be argued that his digestive tract is found in his cranium, especially since he suffers from innumerable gazzy brainfarts for such a smart guy.


2.  The Anglican Communion:  Although not a person per se, the Anglican communion can best be described as a spiritual anomaly of sorts.  Truly devoid of any substance, it adheres to absolutely no set dogmas, and it can be argued that it acts as a 'primer' for an eventual Islamic takeover.  (see England)  They can look like Catholics, but the ones who still truly accept Anglo-Catholicism are now on their way back to Rome.  The left overs, follow the arch-bishop of Canterbury (Rowan Williams), who during the year argued in favour of Islamic law (Sharia) in Britain,..because y'know he wanted to dialogue...(about what is still unclear...)  Favours 'ordination' of women, marriage of gays, no absolutes,..rumours abound that he'll soon declare a three sided circle to be a logical opinion.


3.  Gregory Baum and Bishop Remi Deroo:  Although currently these two social justice Intellectual terrorists currently hold the subjective tag team championships for Orwellian thought and general stupidity,..(They should also be up for my 'stupid' award, or in their case,..stoooopuuud!)  Gregory Baum,..Canada's answer to the current reigning heresiarch Champion of the world, Fr Hans Kung.  Baum started out as a priest, left without the Holy See's permission by the way(so he's excommunicated), married a former nun, and promotes a 'Spirit of Vatican II' ideology so marxist it would make our neighbours' beloved president Barrack Hussein blush...He currently still teaches at McGill in Montreal and works in conjunction with 'Culture et Foi' a Jesuit based social justice vehicle advocating every and tolerating every creed.  Ooops..sorry not every creed, they have an allergic reaction to Catholicism,.y'know the one that's faithful to magisterial teaching.

Bishop Remi Deroo was a Council father at the second Vatican Council and again promotes a social justice lefty looney gospel (shock,..) and ecological crap.  He served the diocese of Victoria British Columbia, and left it neaarly bankrupt, because he wanted to breed horses.  Yup, horses.  The kind of dissident sadly you just want to punch in the face,..(sorry Lord..but at thirty three I've embraced my faith and though it is hard,..I desire Holiness)  Bishop Deroo, is an expert on the enneagram,.(red flag anyone?) ,.advocate for women's ordination and currently tours the speaking circuit with Baum.   He is best known on Youtube as the celebrant in the Call to Action liturgical mad science experiment with puppets,..giant puppets and dancers, who were most likely high on bad mushrooms.  See link above.  The picture below is Gregory Baum with Bishop Gumbleton,..not exactly known for his robust defense of orthodoxy... These two stalwarts of progressivism dialogue with each other,.in the name of dialogue.  Funny I thought dialogue occurred when you have two different opinions and you seek to find Truth...






4.  Barrack Hussein Obama.  Otherwise known as Al Quieda's favorite US president.  As Canadians we were always known as more left of centre,..now we have a Prime Minister(Harper) who is socially conservative, albeit in a minority government, and our big brother through hollywood, Oprah and the stigma of being called rascist elected in a socialist.   IT kind of feels like the brother you thought was soo cool comes out of the closet as a crossdresser.   Ah,..I used to remember GI Joe and the Rocky movies.  What happened?  Obama, with no political experience can cut a promo akin to the Rock speaking about Stone Cold Steve Austin or Undertaker.  The only problem is that the Rock has substance,..then again Barrack Hussein has Oprah!  How bout' dem apples?!?  It seems that no matter what happens, it is still 'W's' fault and the lefty media is only all too happy to promote this,...I mean you don't want to be called rascist,..right?  Trying to force feed a health care bill to the US that let's face it their population can't sustain(notice how I didn't mention abortion even though it would be part of what is considered women's health!!!!), especially in light of an economic crisis set into motion by Bill Clinton's democrats in the nineties.  Speaking of the Democrats, can anyone tell me just what the hell they stand for?   Clinton and the left leaning intelligentia deregularized the banks giving way to everyone and their great grandmother refinancing themselves into financial ruin,..the funny part is that house appraisers were in the back pocket of the mortgage brokers and loan officers became very rich.  Well,.like anything that is,..err well unsustainable(Obama) eventually it catches up to you, and George W was left holding the bag,..remember Fannie Mae?  According to the media though it was still W's fault.  Barrack ran on the democratic party's ticket despite having no political experience and was backed by the most important group, the hollywood left intelligentia, who are all multi millionaires..(irony anyone?)  Forget the Notre Dame University scandal,..an appearance by Barrack at Georgetown demanded that the school cover up any religious art or culture prior to his visit.  'But you Canadians have nationalized health care,!'..uh yeah, we also have a population of thirty million relying on foreign trade.  Our hospital waiting rooms are packed and we are expriencing a brain drain the likes which is unprecedented.   Barrack Hussein is also nominated for an Optimusmastro stooopuud award,...then again don't want to be called rascist by Oprah,....or gasp,.!  The Beastie Boys!  If you've reached this far,..know that St Monica has already been invoked!

Peace.