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A Sign of Hope From Rome

Posted: February 24, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Fr. Z links to this from Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter

On Friday, February 4, 2022, two members of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, Superior of the District of France, and Fr. Vincent Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary in Wigratzbad, were received in private audience by the Holy Father, Pope Francis, for nearly an hour.

During the very cordial meeting, they recalled the origins of the Fraternity in 1988, the Pope expressed that he was very impressed by the approach taken by its founders, their desire to remain faithful to the Roman Pontiff and their trust in the Church. He said that this gesture should be “preserved, protected and encouraged”.

In the course of the audience, the Pope made it clear that institutes such as the Fraternity of St. Peter are not affected by the general provisions of the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, since the use of the ancient liturgical books was at the origin of their existence and is provided for in their constitutions.

The Holy Father subsequently sent a decree signed by him and dated February 11, the day the Fraternity was solemnly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, confirming for the members of the Fraternity the right to use the liturgical books in force in 1962, namely: the Missal, the Ritual, the Pontifical and the Roman Breviary.

Here is the official decree of the Pope concerning this:

The Holy Father Francis, grants to each and every member of the Society of Apostolic Life “Fraternity of Saint Peter”, founded on July 18, 1988 and declared of “Pontifical Right” by the Holy See, the faculty to celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass, and to carry out the sacraments and other sacred rites, as well as to fulfill the Divine Office, according to the typical editions of the liturgical books, namely the Missal, the Ritual, the Pontifical and the Roman Breviary, in force in the year 1962.

They may use this faculty in their own churches or oratories; otherwise it may only be used with the consent of the Ordinary of the place, except for the celebration of private Masses.

Without prejudice to what has been said above, the Holy Father suggests that, as far as possible, the provisions of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes be taken into account as well.

Given in Rome, near St. Peter’s, on February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, in the year 2022, the ninth year of my Pontificate.

Francis

For some reason this has gotten almost no press. Unexpectedly of course.

I expect great things from the Fraternity of Saint Peter, so pray for them because that means that the enemy will do all it can to target them.

Two (Not so) Incredible Lies

Posted: February 23, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I am saying? Because you cannot bear to hear my word.

You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

John 8:42-45

One of the side effects of a post Christian Society is the ability to lie with impunity. I saw two incredible examples of that in the last 12 hours when I got home from work.

Example one Trudeau stands up against Fascism:

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1496257072706502661

That he can say this given how he is treating his own people is about as amazing as it gets. Canadians by the thousands must have spat out their beer as they heard him say iit but it terms of a false meme the US media is doing it’s best to out do him.

As Ed Driscoll put it the burred lede is  VLADIMIR PUTIN INVENTS TIME TRAVEL!

I guess once your credibility is already gone it doesn’t matter what you actually say as long as you’re still paid.

There was a time when such statements would be so incredible as to not be possible but in a Post Christian Society you will find that such statement and worse will be the norm.

Wolf Democracy In Canada

Posted: February 22, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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There are a lot of depressing things coming out of Canada lately. The most depressing was the vote yesterday where the lower house of Parliament allowed Trudeau to extend their emergency powers.

This was particularly depressing because he has a minority government and he needed the help of other parties to get what he wanted and he got that help from the NDP party. But even that wasn’t the most depressing thing.

The most depressing thing was this speech in support of this measure by the NDP leader:

In his statement pledging support for the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stated that while he was happy for these extraordinary powers to be used against the truckers protesting in Ottawa, they must never be used against “Indigenous land defenders, climate change activists, workers fighting for fairness.”

You see he’s not against slavery or tyranny, as long as he’s gets to say who gets whipped.

This is the classic tale of two wolves and a sheep democratically voting on what they will have for dinner and its disgraceful.

That being said if Canadians want to vote themselves into tyranny they can do so, I suspect they will find it a lot harder to vote themselves out of it.

The Mask is the left’s Golden Calf

Posted: February 21, 2022 by datechguy in culture, Uncategorized
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The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything: 

Emile Cammaerts, paraphrasing Chesterton

PJ Media wrote the post I’ve been meaning to write for weeks:

Seitz-Wald is correct. Urban Democrats especially have taken mask-wearing to a whole other level, making the kind of mask you wear sort of like gang colors. That’s not an easy identifier to lose under any circumstances.

Beyond that, masks always gave liberals a sense of superiority over the “rubes” in flyover country. They “followed the science” — until the science said something else and then they simply pretended it didn’t and continued to mask up.

Now they’re fighting a rearguard action to keep the emergency going. On one level, it’s truly pathetic. Finding meaning in life by wearing a mask proves Thoreau’s point of the “mass of men living lives of quiet desperation.”

But losing the mask also denotes losing control of the rest of us. For a left-wing authoritarian, that’s got to hurt.

You see the reason why they call it “virtue signaling” is that you’re just sending a signal, you don’t have to practice actual virtue and for the left the Mask has become the ultimate in virtue signaling. All it takes is to see that piece of cloth around one’s face and viola not only can you show you are of the right groupthink but you can identify others who are with you.

Much easier than those Christian virtues, of charity, faith, hope and the pesky business of loving your neighbor, particularly your enemies

Here is the MSNBC quote:

Masks are the left’s latest golden calf and it will be just as merciful a god as the first one was.

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