BLESSED CHRISTMAS TO ALL FROM OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY PARISH!!!!

 

 

There is always one bright thought in our minds when all the rest is dark.  There is one thought out of which a moderately cheerful man can always make some satisfactory sunshine, if not a  sufficiency of it.  It is the thought of a bright, populous heaven.  There is joy there !!

 Virgin of all virgins!

To thy shelter take us;

Gentlest of the gentle!

Chaste and gentle make us.

Still, as on we journey,

Help our weak endeavor,

Till with thee and Jesus

We rejoice forever.

 The strict moral code of Christianity, the commandments of self-conquest, abstinence, mortification, and moderation are not inimical to joy any more than the gardener is inimical to the rose-bush, when he prunes it in the spring and in the autumn.

Bishop von Keppler

 

 It is a proof of profound wisdom on the part of the Church not to introduce us at once to the crib of Bethlehem, but to point it out to us as it were with her finger a month in advance, that she may say to us: "Be prepared to meet thy God."   Amos 4:12.

Prepare for Him in your hearts by meditation to have a more lively faith in His greatness; a more profound devotion for the abasement of His majesty; a grateful love for His charity, which has descended so low from so great a height; a true humility, in order to honor Him in His low estate; a gentleness in character and in speech in harmony with His incomparable benignity; a spirit of penitence and recollection which will not form a contrast to the austerity of the crib and the holy occupation of the divine Child.

Hamon-Meditations

 

This sounds like Bishop Giles wrote it - even though it was probably written many years ago.  It ties in with the Sunday Sermon from the First Sunday in Advent:

The holy season of Advent on which we have entered is intended on the part of the Church to make us meditate on the three great advents of the Saviour upon earth:  The first is the humility of the crib in order to save us; the second in the splendor of His glory at the last day in order to judge us; the third in the secret of our hearts by His grace in order to sanctify us.  
We will make the resolution:  first, to enter upon a new life of recollection and prayer suitable to the season of Advent;  secondly, to take particular care with regard to the perfection of every one of our ordinary actions which will be the best manner of sanctifying this holy season.  Our spiritual nosegay shall be the words of St. Paul:  "Behold now is the acceptable time; behold now is the day of salvation.:  2 Cor. 6:2 

Hamon "Meditations"

 

Brother Paul TOSF who is in our fraternity showed me a very interesting book last Saturday so I asked him to send me this information.  It concerns the "Fatima" prayer that we say after each decade of the rosary "O My Jesus....." and it was written in 1882 by Rev. Joseph Cacelia. 

The bogus ordo says it wrong and we never really had a lot of information on it but we knew that Bishop Louis would never steer us wrong!! Here is proof positive that the true Catholic Church said this prayer the correct way long before Fatima happened!!!   

 

Little actions are great when they are well done.  A little action done for the glory of God, with a great desire to please Him is more agreeable to Him than a great one performed with less fervor.  We must, then, study especially to do well little things which are so easy, and which offer themselves at every moment, if we would grow in the friendship of God.

St. Francis de Sales

 

Jesus vouchsafes to teach us how to die.  If He in His great hour would have His Mother by Him, how shall we dare to die without her?  In all things must we imitate Jesus, although it be in a sphere so infinitely below Him.  But most of all it is of importance to us to imitate Him in His death.....Let us leave to God, without dictation or even wish, the time, and place, and manner of our death, so only that it be not an unprovided death and above all things not unprovided with Mary.

Father Faber

 Nothing will prepare a smoother death bed for ourselves than a lifelong daily devotion to those who are daily dying.  Mary assisted her Son to die in many mysterious ways.  By His will, and in the satisfaction of her own maternal love, she has now assisted at the death beds of many millions.  She has great experience by this time, if we might speak, and is wonderfully skilled in the science of the last hour.  By prayerful thoughts, by pious practices, by frequent ejaculations, by the usages the Church has indulgenced, let us win a bright and gentle end for ourselves by following Mary everywhere to the death beds she attends. 

   Father Faber

 History, when truly and fully written, proves that all the notions entertained by our separated brethren on the matter are but the lying artifices of the mischievous, intended to deceive, and that whenever and wherever Luther's abominable principles and his Protestantism triumphed, they succeeded by violence, torture, persecution and the power of wicked princes against the struggle for protestations and the manifest will of the people.  Everywhere that they attained control of the government which they invariably sought, they overthrew religious liberty and imperiously imposed their new-fangled beliefs on the country and on the people thereof.  This may seem a very strong statement, but the facts of history confirm it most abundantly.

The Facts of Luther

 Non-Catholics, as a rule are not familiar with the degrading teachings which Luther expounded in his infamous work on "Slave Will."  They have never been given an opportunity to study this volume at first hand and find out for themselves the destructive principles therein advocated.  Their ignorance of the facts has been taken advantage of, and they have been made to believe that their leader, who declared man's will to be a "slave will" was the real and only one who promoted liberty in the sixteenth century, by breaking the fetters of religious bondage and securing for all perfect freedom of conscience and thought.  This view has been repeated so often by the maligners of truth that they have come to imagine that as soon as the people of Europe got the Bible - Luther's Bible, mistranslated, changed, and altered - they abandoned the Mother Church, rushed into the new man-made form of religion of their own accord, and at once established civil and religious liberty for everybody.  The story is fascinating .  It tells against Rome, and therefore thousands upon thousands have been deceived into giving it credence.  What, however, is the hard, cold, plain truth in this case?

The Facts of Luther

 

St. Ignatius of Loyola trampling on the heretic Martin Luther with the power of the Holy Eucharist. (Church of St. Nicholas, Prague)

"When you become acquainted with his (Luther's) horrible teaching, you will not wonder that to him the word "liberty", which excites a thrill and stirs the deepest feelings of the soul, had little or no significance.

The truth is that Luther rarely spoke or wrote of liberty in the sense in which we know and realize the God given boon.  It is a well known fact of history that he did not favor that freedom of thought which later became the vogue among his progeny.  Liberty, as he understood the word was solely for himself, but not for others.  With him it was a personal matter .  All men were free to differ with the Pope, to reject his teaching, to curse him to the lowest depths, were even invited and encouraged to slay him like a wolf or robber, and wash their hands in his blood and that of his cardinals  and other adherents, but they must not dare to differ from Martin Luther."

The Facts of Luther

 This book was written in 1916 talking about events that happened 500 years ago!  There is nothing new under the sun!!

"Indeed there is today little or no regard for legitimate authority, either in the home or in organized society.  The authority entrusted to the head of the family is almost entirely discarded.  The person of the chief magistrate of city, state or nation is treated with disrespect, and  the tribunal of justice is hailed with contempt.  Majesty is no longer attached to law.  This denial of authority has demoralized all conception of respect for superiors, for property rights, and for individual liberty; and the very foundation stones of the national structure are being moved one by one, so that the structure itself is in danger of tottering and falling asunder.  The general aversion to the guidance of legitimate and divinely established law, which Luther's loose and immoral teachings introduced into the world and which have come down to our day, must be removed if domestic happiness and national prosperity would bless the land, its homes and its people. " 

The Facts about Luther

Where it all started:

 "When in this age of ours when revolution walks like a destroying angel among the nations of the earth and breathes death from its nostrils among the peaceful inhabitants thereof; when the rulers upon their thrones are unsafe; when in this very land of liberty, calling itself Protestant, a Booth strikes down the most peaceful of men, the kindly Lincoln; a Guiteau destroys the useful life of a Garfield; when at the dawn of the twentieth century a ruler chosen by his fellow citizens is murdered by the hands of the assassin Czolgosz while enjoying the quiet hospitality of a sovereign state; and when you ask for the reason that produced such murderous outrages, we bid you turn to Luther and his rebellious teachings announced and embodied in the work falsely styled "Reformation"  producing the result of a deformation. Luther is its father, the sixteenth century its cradle, and autocracy its protector and high priest."

The Facts about Luther

 

Make it the fixed purpose of your life to make all others happy as far as it is in your power, and so (for that will be necessary) to put self out of view altogether.  This then, ought to be the first thought on awaking:  "Dear Mother, for thy honor I will take care that everybody who speaks to me today shall go away happier".  This thought  is to be the first thought in your examen at night:  "How many have I failed to make happy today."

 

Go out into the world with your heart full of gentleness and pity, and you shall find the response of kindliness from others; you will not only protect yourself from being hardened, but you will draw out the gentler side of others.

Father Maturin

 

Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:  Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, In whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins; Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature: For in Him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and in Him.  And He is before all, and by Him all things consist.  And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He may hold the primacy: Because in Him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fulness should dwell;  And through Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, making peace through the blood of His cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.

Colossians 1:12-20