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01/26/2019
”Where are the heroic Macchabees today?,”
Cried the Archbishop. Answer: gone out to play.
”Where are the heroic Macchabees today?,”
Cried the Archbishop. Answer: gone out to play.
Do count your blessings if in storms you’re tossed –
Especially when those blessings may be lost!
How can someone pretend there is no fight
For the Faith? What else can be our present plight?
God is invisible, but always there.
Men must believe in Him, His Heaven to share.
”Doctrine and piety,” demands St Paul –
Catholics! Read and pray, or you will fall.
Our Lord said, “God or Mammon – take your pick.”
The Vatican, choosing Mammon, now is sick.
Providence has kept the Society safe at home – ?
By blocking many attempts to join with Rome!
Our Lord, St Paul, Ignatius, all said, “Fight!”
Soldier Hugh Akins reads that war aright.
Beautiful principles are not enough –
Practical application can be tough!
It’s true, we men today are broken down,
But that can brighten many a heavenly crown.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.