🤧Coronavirus: God’s Scourge for Apostasy/Pachamama worship at Vatican

Monday, March 16, 2020

🤧Coronavirus: God’s Scourge for Apostasy/Pachamama worship at Vatican

³⁵Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf—the one that Aaron made.Exodus 32

Where Bergoglio and Pachamama Is says "Epidemic... Punishment for Sacrilegious Dunking" of Pachamama Idols

ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Italy's leading Catholic historian is predicting the end of globalization and the death of Pope Francis' "utopia of globalization, presented as the great road destined to lead to the unification of the human race."

In a lecture shattering the pontiff's "gospel of globalization," Prof. Roberto De Mattei says any examination of history has to "begin with God and end with God" since "history is foreseen, regulated and ordered by God."

"The killer of globalization is a global virus called the coronavirus," De Mattei succinctly sums up, noting that 'Pope Francis' forthcoming conference dedicated to the "global compact" on May 14 has "become more distant, not only in time but in its ideological presuppositions."

"Pope Francis' Querida Amazonia is a hymn to interconnection. But today the global system is fragile precisely because it is so interconnected," he explains in an online lecture: "New Scenarios in the Coronavirus Era: Political, historical and theological considerations."

Ironically, "the key to escaping the [coronavirus] epidemic is social distance, the isolation of the individual. The quarantine is diametrically opposed to the 'open society' hoped for by George Soros" since "in the interconnected world of globalization, the ease with which contagion can spread is certainly greater than it was a century ago."

Examining global and Europe-wide epidemics as a social scientist, historian and a philosopher of history, De Mattei emphasizes how saints like Catherine of Siena, Bridget of Sweden, Vincent Ferrer and Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort warned how "throughout history, natural disasters have always accompanied the infidelities and apostasy of nations."

There are three scourges with which God chastises: war, plague and famine.

For example, "Christians interpreted the famines, plague and wars of the 14th century 'as signs of God's chastisement.'" Such sins are "even more grave if they are collective sins and still more grave if tolerated or promoted by the rulers of the peoples and by those who govern the Church," he warns.

Such a historic-theological perspective is lacking in the Church today because "philosophy and modern theology under the influence above all of Hegel, have replaced the judgments of God with the judgments of history."

"The principle according to which the Church judges history is reversed. It is not the Church that judges history but history that judges the Church, because the Church, according to the Nouvelle théologie, does not transcend history but is imminent, internal to itself," De Mattei laments.

Professor De Mattei cites the examples recent Vatican pronouncements as examples of the failure to correctly interpret history:

When Cdl. Carlo Maria Martini said that "the Church is 200 years behind with respect to history," he assumed history as the criterion of judgment for the Church. When Pope Francis, in his Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia on December 21, 2019, made these words of Cardinal Martini his own, he is judging the Church in the name of history, overturning what should be the criterion of Catholic judgment.

Connecting God's superintending of history to divine justice, De Mattei laments the watering down of the concepts of human and divine justice among Catholics:

History tells us that God rewards and punishes not only individuals but also collectivities and social groups: families, nations, civilizations. But while men have their reward or chastisement, sometimes on earth but always in Heaven, nations, which do not have an eternal life, are punished or rewarded only on earth.

The famines, plague and wars of the 14th century were interpreted by the Christian people as signs of God's chastisement, he observes, citing St. Bernardine of Siena (1380–1444): Tria sunt flagella quibus dominus castigat (There are three scourges with which God chastises: war, plague and famine).

The bishops today not only are not speaking about divine scourges, they are not even inviting the faithful to pray that God will liberate them from the epidemic.

De Mattei also quotes Saint Gregory the Great, who invites us "to investigate the reasons for divine action, affirming: 'Whoever does not discover the reason for which God does things in the very works themselves, will find in his own meanness and baseness sufficient cause to explain why his investigations are in vain.'"

"The Plague of Rome" by Jules-Élie Delaunay (1869)

The author of 30 books, De Mattei slams "the bishop of an important diocese" who on March 5 declared that "this virus was not sent by God to punish sinful humanity" but "is an effect of nature, treating us as a stepmother" and God will use this epidemic to "make us understand, in the end, that humanity is one single village."

"The Italian bishop does not renounce the myth of the 'single village' nor the religion of nature of the Pachamama and Greta Thurnberg, even if for him the 'Great Mother' can become 'stepmother.' But the bishop forcefully rejects the idea that the Coronavirus epidemic or any other collective disaster can be a punishment for humanity," De Mattei retorts, elaborating:

The virus, the bishop believes, is only the effect of nature. But who is it that has created, ordered and guided nature? God is the author of nature with its forces and its laws, and he has the power to arrange the mechanism of the forces and laws of nature in such a way as to produce a phenomenon according to the needs of his justice or his mercy. God, who is the first cause above all of all that exists, always makes use of secondary causes in order to effect his plans.

De Mattei, who is director of the Lepanto Foundation, grieves over "the great sin of our time" which "is the loss of faith by the men of the Church: not of this or that man of the Church but of the men of the Church in their collective whole, with few exceptions, thanks to whom the Church does not lose her visibility."

"This sin," he laments, "produces blindness of the mind and hardening of the heart — indifference to the violation of the divine order of the universe."

The professor, who recently authored Love for the Papacy and Filial Resistance to the Pope in the History of the Church blasts "these men of the Church, who, while verbally professing to believe in God, actually live immersed in practical atheism. They despoil God of all his attributes, reducing him to pure 'being' — that is, to nothing."

"The bishops today not only are not speaking about divine scourges, they are not even inviting the faithful to pray that God will liberate them from the epidemic," he writes, observing that "The priests are silent, the bishops are silent, the pope is silent."

On Sunday, ~~Pope~~ Francis left the Vatican to pray before the icon of Maria Salus Populi Romani at the Basilica of St. Mary Major and at the foot of a wooden crucifix that protected Rome from a great plague at San Marcello al Corso.

However, faithful Catholics say that ~~Pope~~ Francis has yet to invite the world to repent and turn to Christ recognizing the hand of God in the coronavirus pandemic.

Bergoglio's Querida Amazonia contains passages "which gravely contradict theological truths" that promotes pantheistic pagan animism

Saint Gregory the Great understood that the Coronavirus of his time was a chastisement from God, and encouraged the faithful to repent of their sins and pray for deliverance ✝🙏

St. Charles Borromeo was convinced that the epidemic was “a scourge sent by Heaven” as chastisement for the sins of the people and that recourse to spiritual measures was necessary to fight against it: prayer and penitence

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Prayer to St. Michael

Please protect us, St. Michael the Archangel, against violence, murder, and robbery. In your goodness preserve us today from all the malice of sinful and wicked persons. In your sleepless vigilance watch over the safety and welfare of our homes, and keep guard over our possessions. Ever hold in your special care, most triumphant St. Michael, the forces of public order against the crimes of evil people, and defend all honest citizens in time of peril. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Novena Prayer to St. Michael

(Pray for nine consecutive days)
Saint Michael the Archangel, loyal champion of God and His Catholic people, I turn to thee with confidence and seek thy powerful intercession. For the love of God, Who hast made thee so glorious in grace and power, and for the love of the Mother of Jesus, the Queen of the Angels, be pleased to hear my prayer.
Thou knowest the value of my soul in the eyes of God. May no stain of evil ever disfigure its beauty. Help me to conquer the evil spirit who tempts me. I desire to imitate thy loyalty to God and Holy Mother Church and thy great love for God and men. And since thou art God’s messenger for the care of His people, I entrust to thee this special request: (here mention your request).
Saint Michael, since thou art, by the will of the Creator, the powerful intercessor of Christians, I have great confidence in thy prayers. I earnestly trust that if it is God’s holy will, my petition will be granted.
Pray for me, Saint Michael, and also for those I love. Protect us in all dangers of body and soul. Help us in our daily needs. Through thy powerful intercession, may we live a holy life, die a happy death and reach Heaven where we may praise and love God with thee forever. Amen.
Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory Be.
St. Michael, Guardian of souls, Vanquisher of rebel spirits, Pray for us.

St John Chrysostom

Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid you as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true shepherd. First come those of the deceiver and robber: Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. There is an allusion here to Antichrist, and to certain false Christs who had been, and were to be. The Scriptures He calls the door. They admit us to the knowledge of God, they protect the sheep, they shut out the wolves, they bar the entrance to heretics. He that uses not the Scriptures, but climbs up some other way, i.e. some self-chosen, some unlawful way, is a thief. Climbs up, He says, not, enters, as if it were a thief getting over a wall, and running all risks. Some other way, may refer too to the commandments and traditions of men which the Scribes taught, to the neglect of the Law. When our Lord further on calls Himself the Door, we need not be surprised. According to the office which He bears, He is in one place the Shepherd, in another the Sheep. In that He introduces us to the Father, He is the Door, in that He takes care of us, He is the Shepherd. (Catena Aurea)

LIBERTAS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
35. And as to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits, and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty and dishonesty. And because the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, and the unerring teacher of morals, is forced utterly to reprobate and condemn tolerance of such an abandoned and criminal character, they calumniate her as being wanting in patience and gentleness, and thus fail to see that, in so doing, they impute to her as a fault what is in reality a matter for commendation. But, in spite of all this show of tolerance, it very often happens that, while they profess themselves ready to lavish liberty on all in the greatest profusion, they are utterly intolerant toward the Catholic Church, by refusing to allow her the liberty of being herself free.

“If you want to be certain of being in the number of the Elect, strive to be one of the few, not one of the many. And if you would be quite sure of your salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few; that is to say, do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer, and who never relax their efforts by day or night, so that they may attain everlasting blessedness.” -Saint Anselm, Father and Doctor of the Church

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH, THE PROTECTOR OF CHRISTIAN FAMILIES Great Saint Joseph, who wast chosen of God to be the head of the holiest and most august of families, deign to cast thy eyes upon us, and take us this day under thy special protection. Holy Patriarch, model of the holiest faith, and of the most perfect virtues, obtain for all the members of this family grace to withstand the dangers and seductions of the world, and to remain stedfastly attached to the LORD. Obtain for us that, always united by the bonds of the most tender charity, and encouraging one another mutually in good works, we may taste under thy auspices the sweetness of that peace which JESUS has promised to His true disciples. But above all, when our last hour shall come, obtain for us that we may find grace before the Sovereign Judge, so that, reunited in heaven at the foot of Thy Throne, we may celebrate everlastingly the glory of GOD and thy praise. Amen.

St. Vincent Ferrer -- Sermon on the Last Judgment: In the same way, in the time of Antichrist, the Sun of justice will be obscured by the interposition of temporal goods and the wealth which Antichrist will bestow on the world, inasmuch as the brightness of faith in Jesus Christ and the glow of good lives will no longer shine among Christians. For, lest they should lose their dominion, temporal rulers, kings and princes will range themselves on the side of Antichrist. In like manner, prelates for fear of losing their dignities, and religious and priests to gain honors and riches, will forsake the Faith of Christ and adhere to Antichrist.

Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3)

Monday, March 16, 2020