Betrayed by Our Own Catholic Bishops?!?!

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  “Lo, thou art far from God, O man, and God is far above man. Between them the God-man placed Himself” - St Augustine: Sermon on the New Testament, LXXXI

In spite of our own, "Catholic" Bishops supporting 'government take-over' and hailing Obama's "Health Care" Bill as "acceptable" after the introduction of The Stupak Amendment, which does NOT erase all abortion references, actions, and funding as erroneously reported, nor will it 'stick', as the current bill of 2,000+ pages has not even been read by all of Congress or senate, not to mention by our "shepherds" either, and this amendment is only a temporary, false-conciliator used as an excuse to push this evil bill through The House and Senate. The USCCB knows this; they all went to school, they are not stupid; some are blind and others are not - they cannot use the excuse that, "we didn't know!" That's about as convincing as, "my dog ate my homework!"

Consider this passage from The Shepherd, written by Hermas, app. middle of the second century:

[The shepherd, the angel of repentance, continued:] "But I say to all of you, as many as have received the seal maintain your innocence, bear no grudge, do not persist in wickedness nor in the bitter memory of past offenses. Be of one spirit and put away these wicked divisions. Remove them from your midst, so that the Master of the flock may rejoice in His sheep. He will rejoice if all be found whole. But if He find some of them have fallen away, woe to the shepherds. And if the shepherds themselves be fallen away, how shall they answer for the flock? That they have fallen away because of the sheep? They will not be believed. It is beyond credibility that shepherd should be harmed by the sheep; and their punishment will be greater because of their lie. I, too, am a shepherd, and I have the gravest obligation to give an account for you."

We only have a few 'good men', and we must pray for them to overcome the other Bishops who are and have been 'selling out their own flock' for many years, of whom we must also pray for conversion and salvation.

Make no mistake: I love Jesus Christ and His one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church; but I do not support the evil deeds being done by leftist Bishops who have passed on deviate priests, put our collection support into ACORN, The Campaign of Human Development, and other anti-Catholic funding, sit in their ivory 'Presider's Chair', do little or nothing to promote The Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments, and many if not most are rabidly against it, shut down our churches and sell them to anti-Catholic groups such as Buddhists and Mulems, who hate us, as well as so many other little gems against the faith and it's faithful. I applaud the few good Bishops left; I wish they would clearly stand up and be counted, so we could support their good efforts, though - they are hidden or held back.

I will always hold these things dear and openly public:

• The Ten Commandments of God, the Father;
  
• The Blessed Sacrament IS TRULY Our Lord Jesus Christ: Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity;
  
• The Traditional Catholic Faith, Mass, and Sacraments;
• The Crucifix, specifically;
• The teachings of Jesus Christ, His one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church through which only can Salvation be attained, the Didache, Tradition, and the Early Church Fathers;
• All Human Life, inside the womb and out, as a sacred gift from God, the Author of Life;
• The Holy Trinity: Three Persons in One God - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost;
• Christ the King of all;
• The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Queen of Heaven;
• The Holy prayer of The Blessed Virgin Mother's Rosary; 
• Public Catholic Worship and prayer; 
• Christian Marriage is only between one man and one woman as ordered by God;
• Life begins at conception and ends with natural death;
• The traditional family structure is the only true family unit: male father, female mother, and children conceived naturally;
  
• Life everlasting in either Heaven with God Who is The Father of Truth, or in Hell with Satan who is the father of lies;
• Good and Holy priests, Bishops, and a Pope who honors Jesus Christ as King of All and fights Hell and its legions without corruption, compromise, or fear;
  
• Love of these United States of America as a FREE COUNTRY where FREE SPEECH is a Constitutional Right;
• The Constitution of The United States of America, although no man-made set of laws could ever be perfect, it provides us with freedoms and rights to make this country the best place to live, as opposed to living under oppression in countries where socialism, communism, and other pagan oppressive governments are crushing the people and the One, True Faith;
• One nation, under God;
• A government OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people;
• Where parents exercise their right to teach their children at home;
• Where government at all levels serve the wishes of the people;
• Where GOOD is truly GOOD and EVIL is recognized and punished;
• A President who is indeed a Catholic, recognizing The Social Kingship of Jesus Christ for the good of the people and salvation of souls;
• also, a President with a U.S. Birth Certificate and love of these United States of America.

No one can stop us from praying in our minds and in our hearts; no matter what else this unholy government and those who are bad Bishops and priests may inflict upon us. God sees and hears all.

May God have mercy on us all.

Christ The King! Alleluia!

Immaculate Conception, Patroness of America, Ora Pro Nobis!

Holy Family: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Pray For Us!

Yes, Michael; Obama's Agendas ARE Evil!

"Frankenstein-Bill" Still Needs To Go Thru Senate

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Pelosi's "grin" is premature - we still have to wait for The Senate to pass or drop this "Frankenstein-Bill". Our "Catholic Bishops" are applauding it? That's what I read - I pray that is wrong! Although they have done, "too little too late", in my humble opinion; I still placed their banner in top of my blogs to support them. I pray this bill will be killed, because the Stupak-Pitts Amendment does not facilitate the complete removal of all abortion references and actions from it, as the "mainstream news" would have us believe; nor should it and the rest of the bill, including its ultimate astronomical costs to the American people, it's government control, threats to fine and imprison those who do not carry the government-dictated insurance, and more unacceptable errors.

Where will they put all the people who will not or cannot pay these premiums? In jails? There's no room for the inmates in them, now. Will they build concentration camps and corral us? How can they get huge fines from people who cannot pay? More questions about this ridiculous bill from a ridiculous government that is truly NOT providing "Health Care" for anyone but themselves: the select few.

Bishops; wake up! I love my Catholic Faith, but men - get a Catholic spine and help your flock and those you need to be preaching and evangelizing! NO ABORTION or any other Pro-Death or unjust hardships under government control should be placed on our people, and you must stand up and be strong!


Pray people, for your Bishops. I am. God Bless you and may God have mercy on us all.


For more information:
Catholics Against Obamacare

Never on a Sunday

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Exodus 20:11 - For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

Sunday is the Lord's Day. We worship him and give thanks. 
God ordered it a day of rest. 

Let's put Obama, Pelosi, and any and all misguided/rabidly anti-Catholic and Pro-Death politics aside in the holy name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

Take today instead, to pray for this bill to be wiped out and for God to send us good and holy politicians to come into office and submit a new bill that preserves and provides for all human life, in such a way as to please God. Pray for this and so much more; but first - honor The Lord, Jesus Christ, by assisting at Holy Mass. We must put these things in His hands, today.

God will provide.

Jezu, Ufam Tobie! - In Te Confido Iesu! - Jesus, I Trust in Thee!

Christus rex! Alleluia!  Christ The King! Alleluia!

Chaplet of Divine Mercy Novena:

http://www.fisheaters.com/divinemercy.html

"Catholic" Pelosi to Defile the Lord's Day Pushing Hard to Pass "Healthcare" Government Control Bill

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 Apocalypse 12:12 - Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell therein. Woe to the earth, and to the sea, because the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.

Sunday is the Day Jesus rose from the dead to open The Gates of Heaven.

If Nancy Pelosi is a Catholic, she is either using that "title" deliberately to lead other Catholics astray, or she is blindly misguided. I cannot judge her soul; but I can and must judge her action. It is wrong, and to insult Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on His Day of worship that we are obliged to give Him, in particular by pushing Congress to meet tomorrow, in a desperate attempt to "push" this evil bill through, which includes abortion, its funding, government control, (and as it progresses = ultimately communism!), and the others lies about "healthcare for all" - is not a sign that she is a practicing Catholic, or a lover of LIFE.

The "mainstream media" is no place to get our news, or to depend on for truth or examples of how we are to live. They praise Pro-Death efforts like these; making it appear as good and necessary, when in fact, it is evil and unacceptable to promote evil laws and to use the Lord's Day to do it. Who is the author, here? You guessed it: Satan is the owner of "mainstream media" and Catholics need to learn their faith, in order to recognize disorder and what must be defended in The Name of Jesus Christ and his One, Holy, and Apostolic Church and its Tradition.

"Mainstream media" did not cover the 20,0000+ Americans who peacefully protested yesterday at Washington, nor did it cover the arrest of Fr. Norman Weslin and 11 others who were arrested for tearing up a copy of this evil bill and protesting it in Congress. They were arrested; not those present who supported the bill.

read about it here:

http://www.earnedmedia.org/stj1105.htm

"Satan will have his hour; God will have His Day."

It's coming, Nancy, Barack, and all - I speak not of the end of the world; but our own personal, Particular Judgment after we die. May God have mercy on those who spread evil deeds, and on those who do nothing to stop them.

Immaculate Conception, Patroness of America, Ora Pro Nobis!

The Saturday Vote on Health Care

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How can I put it, plainly?

I pray that ALL the rights and lefts VOTE NO! this is NOT "Health Care" - this is about government control of who lives, who dies, and who pays for it. Period. The poor will not be cared for; only those elite, "chosen" by our so-called, "government", led by a man who should be impeached for pushing such a bill as well as other agenda, which promote crimes against humanity, in particular the painful, butchering of babies in and out of the womb, and the elderly. His administration, followers, and supporters should also be thrown out of office and be given hands-on community service.

Just how much "mainstream press" did the peaceful people who marched in Washington DC yesterday get for picking up, leaving their homes, incurring personal expenses to do so, to defend our American Freedoms? Zip. Only Fox News and Sean Hannity let the American people know what was happening, as usual.

May God have Mercy on Obama, Pelosi, and all those who are stubbornly opposing God's Commandments. I pray for their conversions and for their removal from any office in our United States of America, or anywhere.

BTW: What's the rush? Is Obama afraid we'll find his true birth certificate? Is Nancy Pelosi afraid her own "agenda of death" will not be passed, thus failing and loosing favor with whoever her "supporters" are?

Thank you Michelle Bachman, Jon Voight, and all those Americans who protested this bill and any and all potential government control. The crowd yesterday may not have been all-Catholic; but they surely will have my gratitude as well as my prayers for an increase of graces and any conversions for their efforts to keep our nation free, under The Patroness of America, The Immaculate Conception: Mary, the Blessed Virgin and Mother of Jesus Christ Who is God, the Second Person of The Blessed Trinity.

God Bless all those who stood up for us all yesterday, and God Bless America!

Call/email your Representative NOW and tell him/her they MUST VOTE NO on Saturday.

Nancy Pelosi;  hang up your broom and get thee to confession. I'm going myself tomorrow, along with Mass, Rosary, and adoration.

Controlling The Passions

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There is an old saying we used to chant when we were kids,

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me."

Q: So,why do people get all riled up when someone calls them a derogatory name, spews a slur, obscene language, or openly ridicules us?

A: Lack of discipline in controlling the passions.

Q: What are the passions?

A: Emotions, feelings, strong urges, physical or emotional, which can change our calm and well-disciplined state. Feelings that can cause us to act in a particular way, brought on by either external or internal instigation.

Q: Can we control these passions?

A: Yes; but only through unceasing prayer and practice.

Q: How does controlling the passions effect Free-Speech?

A: Good people who pray unceasingly and make great effort through grace given, are not apt to react when any offense in offered; they simply refuse to accept it, in the name of Jesus Christ and His Peace the world cannot give.

Q: So, why do homosexuals need a "Hate Crimes" bill?

A: So they can carry on with their sinful activities, and curtail the free speech of Christians who would speak out against these sins, thereby educating the public and preserving children against further corruption of the body and soul. No good, prayerful, practicing Christian acts passionately against a sinner in any violent way; we recognize the sin being committed, lovingly attempt to teach them and others about God's Laws, and charitably pray for them.

Q: Can any government stop good Catholics from speaking out against these sinful activities, or stop us from praying for them? Will this "hate Crimes" bill and future bills like this, eventually silence all priests from preaching and teaching against any and all sinful activities?

A: No. St. Justin The Martyr, second century apologist, wrote these words of encouragement for Christians faced with censorship and eventual martyrdom:

"It is evident that no one can terrify us or hold us in servitude, who have believed in Jesus over all the earth. For, though beheaded and crucified and thrown to the beasts and in chains and fire and subjected to all the other tortures, we do not give up our confession. On the contrary, the more do such things happen, the more do others in greater numbers become faithful worshippers of God through the name of Jesus. Just as with the vine, when someone cuts away the fruit-bearing parts it grows up again and puts forth other branches both flouishing and fruitful - it happens in the same way with us."

St. Justin was martyred by being beheaded around the year 165 A.D., along with six companions. He and they now live forever in Heaven, praising God and praying for us.

St. Justin Martyr, Ora Pro Nobis!

Recommended reading on controlling the passions:

The Philokalia: On the Prayer of the Heart - Orthodox link; good explanation.
The Jesus Prayer - another good explanation.

The prayer of the heart ( The Jesus Prayer) is still practiced by groups Eastern Catholics who left the Orthodox schismatics and rejoined the Catholic Church under the Pope. You can find it on Amazon occasionally, and elsewhere. It is a monastic guide, but this volume contains many of the pertinent texts that we, as faithful Catholics, can largely employ to control the passions and develop a greater love and devotion to Jesus Christ. The Jesus Prayer is indulgenced in The Handbook of Indulgences.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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This is one of a series of posts that will be augmented from time to time; they are linked here from images located in this blog's sidebars. Visit often for updates/additions. May God Bless you, and grant you True Faith and the Peace of Jesus Christ; peace the world cannot give.

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"Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops, like bishops, and your religious act like religious.” - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, before the Knights of Columbus, June of 1972.

"Show me your hands.

Do they have scars from giving?

Show me your feet.

Are they wounded in service?

Show me your heart.

Have you left a place for divine love?"

Books:

Pope St. Pius X

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This is one of a series of posts that will be augmented from time to time; they are linked here from images located in this blog's sidebars. Visit often for updates/additions. May God Bless you, and grant you True Faith and the Peace of Jesus Christ; peace the world cannot give.

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"...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.”- Pope Saint Pius X, Letter “Our Apostolic Mandate” to the French Episcopate, 1910

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More Traditional Latin Masses in Buffalo, NY

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While I am still praying for at least one Traditional Latin Mass Apostolate for the Diocese of Buffalo, I am listing TLM locations and asking for more priests to provide for us.

We currently still only have 2 main Traditional Latin Masses offered here in the Buffalo, NY area, with one further out in Allegheny, NY:

Diocese of Buffalo, NY

St Anthony of Padua Church
160 Court Street
Buffalo, NY 14202
Phone number: (716) 854-2563
Sundays:
8:30 am Rosary & Confessions
9:00 am Latin Mass
Holy Days: 7 pm
Fr Secondo Casarotto CS

Our Lady Help of Christians Church
4125 Union Rd
Cheektowanga, NY 14225
(716) 634-3420
Sundays: 1:30 pm Latin Mass
Holy Days: TBA
Pastor: Fr Richard Jesionowski

St Patrick Church
31 Hughes Street East
Belfast, NY 14711
(585) 365-2215
Sundays: 12:15 pm Latin Mass
Pastor: Fr Dennis Mancuso

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Society of St Pius X

Our Lady of the Rosary Church
231 McKinley Parkway
Buffalo, NY 14220
(716) 823-7176
Sundays: 9 am
Pastor: SSPX

Priests: if you are offering a TLM and are not listed, let me know. People are always looking for locations near home and when traveling. God Bless you.

See also:

QUEEN OF ANGELS ORATORY LATIN MASS APOSTOLATE
CONDUCTED BY THE PRIESTLY FRATERNITY OF SAINT PETER UNDER THE MOST REV. JAMES WINGLE, D.D.  - BISHOP OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ST. CATHARINES

http://www.queenofangelsoratory.ca/

Schedule of Tridentine Masses in New York:
http://www.latinmassschedule.com/NY.html

Bishop Kmiec issues pastoral letter on Catholic schools

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Excerpts from this article from the DOB Website: Catholic, or "the larger Church"? You decide:

• Bishop Edward U. Kmiec has written a pastoral letter called “Visioning for the Future” for our Catholic schools. ......

• The letter has been sent to all Catholic schools in the diocese as well as all parishes and Catholic institutions for distribution to parents and insertion in parish bulletins the weekend of Oct. 31-Nov. 1. ...

• ...At St. Joseph School in Batavia, school principal Karen Green said the school has been given the power “to make the changes necessary to ensure a viable school. It has allowed us to plan for the future instead of being restricted by the past.”... (emphasis, mine)

• (Fr. Dobson quote)...“As we do that, not only are best practices that are tested and effective important, but a sense of direction and solidarity with the larger Church are critical. We cannot become just a private school. We cannot be just parochial in our outlook or outreach.” (emphasis, mine).

• ...In LeRoy, Holy Family School draws students from Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties. Father Michael R. Rock, OdeM, serves as canonical administrator of the school. He sees the planning process “breaking down parochialism that has existed for decades in our schools, parishes, and even among people. (emphasis, mine)

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FYI: The Diocese received a gift of $5 million dollars earlier this year, from a woman who died and bequeathed it to them. Bishop Kmiec announced this will go towards Catholic Education. I wonder: has the 'recent' rash of church and school closings and the sales of many of them, been a help to reduce school costs? And does government funding really help? What has it done to our Catholic School's textbooks and teaching? What are we, as parishioners, paying for? More questions...

And what is, "... the larger Church..." ?  Hmmmmmmmnnnnnnnn............

I have a 'really wild' idea, although not original, that goes much further back than public or private schools, that would benefit our children best, considering all of the money that the DOB needs from us, the 'non-parochial parishioners', and their need to change the Catholic Schools sources of funding by thinking, "outside of the box", it's distain of parochialism and of the past, and its 'need' to close churches and schools to keep costs down, and relieve many if not most of it's ongoing financial problems: Home School.

Read more about it:

This link will come up as a PDF file; it is the letter/bulletin insert we will receive today at all Catholic  Churches: Click here to read the entire letter.

Go to The DOB Article: 

http://www.buffalodiocese.org/News/tabid/82/vw/1/ItemID/111/Default.aspx

USCCB Calling on US Parishioners To Act on Healthcare NOW!

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Deuteronomy 30:9 - I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live

We could criticize them for dragging their feet, or whatever else you please; but the sand in the hourglass is running fast and will soon run out, and we must take action with The US Bishops and stand up for LIFE NOW! The "Health Care" Bill as it currently stands must not be passed! This is the time to take care of this issue by contacting our reps and politicians NOW! This is indeed late in the game, but the game isn't over; and it will never be over until the very last Catholic is standing at the end of the world to fight the ongoing evils like this bill and more. A make no mistake; there will always be more.

Please visit the USCCB Health Care Website for more information. There will be a bulletin insert in your parish bulletin this weekend; please act, in the name of God's gift of LIFE and Jesus' One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Pray for Obama and all of our nation's government to become true followers of The True Faith and LIFE.

Our Lady of Guadaloupe, Pray for us! our Lady of Fatima, Ora Pro Nobis! My Jesus, Mercy!

Hate Crimes Bill Passed into Law Oct. 28 - LET TRUE FREEDOM RING!

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"...To loud applause, Obama hailed the hate crimes measure in the bill as a step toward change to "help protect our citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they love, how they pray." - h/t: CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/28/hate.crimes/index.html

  

What are we to make of this? Although I DO have true compassion for the families of the two boys  mentioned in the above article, who were cruelly abused and ultimately murdered, as well as praying for their eternal souls, there is no "bill" or "law" that can take away any of God's Laws: that homosexuality, assault, murder, and other deviate acts, as well as any deliberate acts of violence against another human being (outside of self-defense) constitutes MORTAL SIN if it indeed meets all three conditions of gravity, forethought with understanding, and implementation, that cannot be re-ordered or redefined by any man. Yes; those who performed acts of violence against another individual is indeed murder and must have justice applied. Yet, Catholics who will continue to speak out against the sin of homosexuality for the welfare of those souls to hear and come to the church for help and guidance away from this sin, must not be silenced for the sake of these souls. 

Galatians 4:31 - So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free.

We must pray and continue to defend The Holy Catholic Church, the good and holy priests who speak out by preaching the truth of sin through the love of Jesus Christ and God's Laws, and for FREE SPEECH not to ever become a communistic-like devise to 'round-up Catholics and anyone else who  would speak truth in order to bring souls to Heaven.

 "...help protect our citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they love, how they pray."

Does that work, "both ways"? Would that also include protecting:

"...what they look like...":

• U.S, Citizens with Downs Syndrome, impaired after an accident (Terri Schiavo, for example), Autism, or other mental, emotional, and physical infirmity/defects?

 "...who they love, and how they pray?": 

• U.S. Citizens both in the womb and born? The elderly and infirmed (again: Terri Schiavo, for example)? Those who regard Marriage as only one man and one woman in a loving union, as it has always been respected as one of God's Commandments?

• U. S. Citizens who love Jesus Christ and His one, holy, catholic and apostolic church? Faithful and peace-loving  Catholics? Catholic priests? Catholic Teaching? Catholic Sermons? Even non-Catholics who proclaim God's Laws?
  

We could go on. Let it suffice to say that love is not about mere 'human passions'; it is about true caritas, which means giving freely and peacefully of ourselves with loving hearts, as living examples, in order to hopefully lead others to Heaven. That includes the FREEDOM to SPEAK OUT against SINFUL BEHAVIORS of all kinds - peacefully, yet definitively, without pandering to the sin of 'human respect'; which simply means that we do not avoid truth because it offends any human being, rather, we uphold truth because we do not want to offend GOD.

Luke 20:21 -  And they asked him, saying: Master, we know that thou speakest and teachest rightly: and thou dost not respect any person, but teachest the way of God in truth.

Psalms 70:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.

LET †RUE FREEDOM RING.

A Traditional Latin Mass Apostolate for The Diocese of Buffalo, NY

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There is yet another non-productive newspaper article (which BTW is said to provide $$$ to Planned Parenthood, to the best of my current knowledge) in today's 'main newspaper' which once again, yaps about the church closings and where the contents have been distributed, and how 'nice' the infidels who purchase them or have anything to do with purchasing some church buildings are, yada, yada, yada. Everyone complains; no one takes any formal and yes, as always, peaceful action.

My family and I desire and have great spiritual need of a Traditional Latin Mass Apostolate in this Diocese: at least one to start, with more later, which would remain exclusively dedicated to The Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments, including all of the teachings and Doctrines of the Catholic Church for any Catholic who desires to attend, with the Blessings of our own Bishop Kmiec. There is one located in St. Catherine's, Ontario, staffed by priests from The FSSP, along with the Blessings of their Bishop, which provides for the good people there.

When I met with the Bishop a few years back, along with The President of Una-Voce Buffalo, NY, and another member of our group, who BTW are both professional businessmen and prominent, good citizens, the Bishop made no bones about his opposition to a 'personal prelature' of this nature, and even though he stated we have a shortage of priests in the DOB, he then did a complete turn around and stated that he did not want the FSSP or any more foreign priests to come into the Diocese to provide for this Apostolate. He was clear and firm.

The Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments raised countless Saints to their Just and Divine Heavenly Reward; the very same Saints who lived and died to provide us with their beautiful lives as examples of sanctity by overcoming any human shortcomings they may have had through the graces they received in The most August Sacrament of Our Lord's Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity that they consumed at The Mass and took out to their lives and to the world. We all have read and are reading about them to our children today. Any priest, nun, secular, religious, or layperson who would scoff at it or degrade The TLM and Sacraments in any way are really scoffing and degrading Jesus Christ, Who Himself brought us the words, "pro multis", and who told The Apostles to go and do the same. He didn't say we should pick up our balloons and guitars, wearing our 'boustier-busting', "Wedding Gowns" and Halloween costumes  while we parade down the isle, or reduce our churches to "worship space" for "the assembly" by "the presider". Loosing our Traditional Church Buildings alone is the very first way to diminish the Catholic Teachings, by removing, as Mother Angelica of EWTN days gone-by used to call, 'Holy Reminders'. And how many next-to-nothing 'fluffy' homilies have I personally heard, with only a handful of meaningful ones given with true zeal by scant few good priests following in the footsteps of St. Paul, St. Peter, and Pope St. Pius X. They certainly had to work hard and suffer much for The True Faith.

I, too, am guilty: I am a self-retired church "musician" who did a great job with making a 'din' and "entertaining" the "assembly" with my folk guitar, organ, hand bells, and singing trivial toe-tapping "Wonder-Bread tunes" that seldom spoke of reverence and the true faith. When God finally got through to me by continuing to knock on the door of my heart without letting up, I knew I was truly Blessed and needed to get off the wagon train to nowhere. Mea culpa. Praised be to God!

I am praying for the TLM Aposolate and for more souls with like minds and hearts to come forward and peacefully work with me to take actions that will assist us in being able to adore Christ and honor His Blessed Virgin Mother well in The Ancient Mass and Sacraments that was held in perpetua by Pope St. Pius V. Petitions and protocol must be respectfully followed, without the sin of human respect.

Although I am grateful for the two main TL Masses available in the 'novus ordo' churches that so far remain in our Diocese of Buffalo, NY, including my gratitude to Fr. Casarotto, Pastor of St. Anthony's who was selected to continue the TLM in Buffalo, NY at his parish many years ago, and especially for Fr. Seweryn Koszyk, former Pastor of the recently 'closed' parish of St. George in Niagara Falls, NY, who quietly resides now with The Redemptorist Priests at their novus ordo shrine in NF, and the late Fr. Ralph Federico,former Pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes in Bemus Point, NY, who both chose to re-establish and continue The TLM; I am sad for it being limited and restricted to only two current Buffalo area locations, with one other out in Allegheny, NY, and no more at this writing, unless I am mistaken.

Contact me. Let's talk. For the greater Glory of God.

Christ the King! Alleluia!