Daily Archives: 2012/07/01

2012/07/01 · 22:26

UPDATE: Thanks to benefactors (with a very moving donation from Pornchai Moontri)

The great Pornchai Moontri – whose depth of humanity, whose depth of faith I admire immensely — is still a prisoner in a Maximum Security Prison in New Hampshire. Much of that was spent in solitary confinement. He now knows Jesus as a great friend… Jesus, the Son of the Living God, the Son of the Immaculate Conception. You can read about Pornchai in his own words over on These Stone Walls. We’ve mentioned him many times here on Holy Souls Hermitage. Just type in “pornchai moontri” into the search box on the sidebar. Yikes!

Well, this same Pornchai Moontri is a Master Woodworker, besides being a most extraordinary mathematician. He sent me a keepsake box he made recently in prison. The workmanship is absolutely impeccable. All the joints come together exactly. The cover has no slippage. There are unending details, like the recessed bottom…

The artwork…

The lining…

And… and… the sacred oils from the Chrism Mass fit perfectly inside. You couldn’t ask for a more perfect repository for the Oil of Catechumens, the Oil of the Infirm, the Sacred Chrism. Thank you, Pornchai. Of course, that’s kind of a guarantee for prayers for you!

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Thanks go to D. F. for his contribution to Holy Souls Hermitage. He sent in a project he has been working on, pictured above, The Life of Christ Rosary. Doctor (for he’s a physician), might I share this in more detail with the readers? The good doctor also recommends I get rabies shots for the bats in the hermitage. I must report that that bat invasion was a once off event. I kind of miss them!

Thanks go to C.W., who sent in a donation, also of Mystic Monk Coffee (very delicious) and something very mysterious to me, a Mystic Monk Press. I will have to learn how to use such a contraption. It looks most complicated. Not the usual coffee grounds in a billy bucket over an open fire!

Thanks go to D.K. for her contribution to Holy Souls Hermitage. Her words of forcing the gift on me against all my protestations should satisfy any IRS invasion! And, yes, we are keeping up the prayers for N. at John Hopkins. Yikes!

Thanks go to TPF and RLF  for their contribution to Holy Souls Hermitage! Very kind indeed!

Thanks go to GPE and SME for their donation to Holy Souls Hermitage. Always faithful!

Thanks go to M.L., who sent in this frightful volume about the Vatileaks. You can’t get more out of context than this, can you?

Thanks fo the Tyburns for sending in the newly published volume about Mother Adèle Garnier, foundress of the Congregation of Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre, O.S.B. Please God, I will be writing much more about Mother Garnier as time goes on. Vocations anyone!

And thanks to S.S. for sending in a back issue of Envoy Magazine, so that I might take a gander at Peter Kreeft’s take on C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters:

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Having said all that, you remember Steven, don’t you? Here and here!

UPDATE: See Steven’s most recent comment in the comments. They are having an auction on behalf of the orphanage…

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· 21:03

Ferocious HSH The Judas Crisis Series Widget

[Those of you reading these posts via email or "readers" will probably not note that there is a new "Ferocious HSH The Judas Crisis Series" widget on the sidebar of the blog. It includes a few of the more important articles, included in this post:]

Father Gordon MacRae and making the abuse crisis come full circle — The Manchester Charter - This is an introduction to a critique of the Dallas Charter. You will meet the likes of Avery Cardinal Dulles and Father Richard John Neuhaus. There are links to many articles.

“The Judas Crisis” – Priests falsely accused and wrongly thrown out of the priesthood? Why? Follow the thirty pieces of silver – A HSH Special - This article demonstrates the horrific lack of due process of priests. You will be introduced to some of the key players in the game of kicking priests in the face, including Monsignor Edward Arsenault, Manchester attorney Peter Hutchins, Manchester Diocese spokesman Patrick McGee, not to mention The National Catholic Risk Retention Group.

♬ “Kíll the priest! ♬ Kíll the priest! ♬ Kíll the chí-ld ráp-ing priest!” ♬ (Meet the cheerleader) A HSH Special - In this article you will meet Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, one time president and director of the Saint Luke Institute (shudder) and – how to say it? — a one time paper-giver at the 2012 Pontifical Gregorian University Abuse Symposium (in preparation for the preparation of guidelines of the Holy See on how to treat abuse cases right around the world, coming up in another year or two). You will also see a never before published in full exchange of emails between Rossetti and Mr. Ryan MacDonald.

Abuse terminology that favors The Judas Crisis - This covers the specious terminology, which, however defined in this or that document, means something different in every case: substantiated / non-substantiated — credible / non-credible. For some, non-substantiated and non-credible means unfounded, which means false, which calumny. But not all are in agreement about that usage. Thus, something can be deemed credible (though not in court of law), though non-substantiated, thus effectively destroying the priesthood of a priest with no proof.

The Judas Crisis $$$ — settlements vs litigation - This brief post is very important to understand the monetary motivation for not providing due process to priests. This should be an eye-opener, and make you sick. This is how bad things can get. If bishops and chancery toadies can do this to their priests, how will they treat real abuse victims in the future?

Prisons are for free! Didn’t you know? - Part of the collateral damage of NCRRG policies is that innocent priests will end up in prison. The prisons babysit these innocent priests “for free.” Not giving innocent priests due process saves money. Using prisons saves more money. And tax-payers don’t care? Really?

The Judas Crisis: NCRRG (Arch)Dioceses complicit in encouraging murder of priests? - This is a rather hard-hitting article. It is commentary on an article written by the NCRRG. This is of utmost importance to understanding The Judas Crisis. This is ground-zero of The Judas Crisis. The cold-blooded, callous indifference of The Judas Crisis is most evident here.

Myriads of innocent Catholic priests committing suicide now in the works: Pope Benedict XVI not allerted? The Judas Crisis increases in strength… - This examines the fact of so many suicides of priests who have been accused, and demonstrates the probability that most, if not all suicides, are committed by those who are innocent of the charges. “Myriads” refers to all those who will commit suicide right around the world in the next few years should policies analogous to those of the NCRRG by ratified for use by the Holy See. This is catastrophic.

NOTA BENE: There are many more articles which are linked in those articles, and they are also important, such as the article critiquing the homosexualized VIRTUS® program: The VIRTUS Child Protection Program Team: We must be militant homosexualists! That particular article is important to read in regard to the Judas Crisis in that VIRTUS® is one and the same with the NCRRG.

NOTA BENE: We don’t want the following scene to be repeated. We need to do something about this.

So, again, why would any youngster want to become a priest? A youngster would want to become a priest because Jesus is calling him to be crucified to the world and himself and live for God alone, for all those whom Jesus is bringing to Himself. Being betrayed by Judas Priests is part of the job description, and is to be taken in stride, if at all possible (good formation is so very important!). It’s not Judas who is important. It is Jesus who is important!

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· 20:56

How to encourage vocations: Let the children come to me!

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You can get Mass kits like this here. [Note to the IRS: this is free advertizing!]

From a great friend:

I gave my [...] nephews a miniature set of realistic traditional brass altar ware, thurible w/ real charcoal [!], linens, and a monstrance from a homeschool website.  They are [name] age 2 [!] and [name] age 4 [!].

From her sister-in-law:

“So, with the use of the Mass kit, [name] has been making priestly gestures, distributing the “Body of Christ” (in a whisper, mind you) to which we must say “Amen” and the other day I watched him as he circled our piano stool altar swinging the thurible. [name] has also got the 3 bells at the elevation down pat. Now, if I could just get them to stop fighting about who is the priest… at least they don’t have any illusions about [the neice]. Ha!”

“Candlesticks are cute!! [name] loves lighting the candles we have, then using the snuffer on them and then doing it all over again. Pyromaniac in the making…”

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· 20:20

Infinite Grace does it again…

Here…

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· 00:08

(updates) 04 HSH dhimmitude series: I asked for my “insurance” to be cancelled by 31 July 2012 (if it’s not exempt)

I’ve been following an important set of comments, and adding quite a few of my own, on WDTPRS, about Obamacare and the HHS mandate, here. There are important links with great material, such as this one here.

At a certain point, I wrote an email requesting for my “insurance” to be cancelled if it were not exempt from the Obamacare and HHS provisions for abortion, abortifacients, etc., by the end of July 2012, that is, before enforcement begins.

Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s! Praised be the name of the Lord!

When I began this series on the spirituality one might enjoy even though living under the yoke of dhimmitude, I imagined I would be writing for readers who are anywhere but in the United States, that is, until the Supreme Court decision making Catholics pay a penalty for the practice of their religion in not paying into the abortion superfund of Obamacare.

Of course, no one is forced to do anything. I won’t be paying any “penalties” or “taxes” either. That just goes back into the abortion fund, right? So, no.

I just can’t see paying for the deaths for the deaths of the least among us, those who are just conceived, those who are not yet born. I won’t do it.

Those who live under oppression can always do the right thing. We are called to be faithful. If we want to get to heaven, and heaven is forever by the way, then it’s all about…

Fidelity! Fidelity! Fidelity!

Look to Jesus. He’s conquered the world. He bears the scars to prove it. Do we?

UPDATE: Someone said that the enforcement dates are different according to the renewal date on the policy. Thus, if the renewal is comes up only after 1 August, it is only then that the enforcement would kick in. So, I’m checking into that.

UPDATE: There is a plea to map out for everyone in all their circumstances that which is formal or material cooperation, proximate or remote, distanced or not, etc. My response is to ask the USCCB, which has been pushing for civil disobedience based on the fact that paying into an abortion insurance fund, however you make it look, is what it is, formal cooperation in the death of children in the womb or just born, etc. Formal cooperation is a grave evil. And… and… there is a latae sententiae excommunication for formal cooperation in such a case, is there not? The bishops have called for massive civil disobedience. I won’t pay into such insurance, and won’t pay any penalties or taxes. Nope.

UPDATE: In response to a comment on that comments post on WDTPRS linked to above, I answered this:

As for the precedent of dioceses doing untoward things, well… that’s not how moral theology works. There’s no morality by democracy. You can always but always find a super conservative priest, a super conservative canon lawyer, a super conservative moral theologian, a super conservative ethics board, a super conservative moral theology journal, a super conservative ethics think tank, etc., all of whom will back one’s opinion about doing whatever one wants just because it’s the politically correct thing to do, not because it is consonant with Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterial interventions of the Church, which they will only haphazardly cite so as to look nice.

We also have to be discerning. I’ve also done quite a bit of moral theology in my day, that is, with some advanced, as it were, doubly post-graduate studies. I have plenty to say about formal and material cooperation which is proximate or remote or even “distanced[!]“. I have plenty to say about how the USCCB in decades past have misapplied these terms to get what they wanted in health care regarding the combinations of Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals in regard to abortion, etc.

The most conservative Archdiocese at the time, for instance, said that abortions were fine in Catholic hospitals for the reason that it was an out-patient procedure. The Catholic hospital was therefore “distanced” in cooperation.

The most conservative diocese at the time said that handing out date-rape pills was fine because, the super-conservative icon of orthodoxy moral theologian said: “It’s so small [the possibly just conceived baby], who will know the difference? So who cares?” Get it?

However, times have changed, perhaps. The USCCB has said that they are pushing so hard for the reason that paying into an abortion insurance fund would be formal cooperation. If they come up with some other sort of rubbish to say that one is only remotely, materially cooperating, you know, from a “distance”, changing their tune just because they are now under pressure from the laity instead of the government… well… I’d have some choice words to say about all that.

For myself, I can’t see cooperating in the death of little kids, whether by paying into the abortion super fund or subsidizing abortifacients (whenever all that kicks in). The super fund will gain about, what, 3 1/2 billion dollars a year if everyone kicks in? It’s a dollar a month for everyone, but I would guess that even the entire amount of a tax or penalty would go to these ends.

For my own insignificant life, we will see what happens. I suppose I’ll survive to see Obamacare tossed. Maybe not. Whatever… I just want to do the right thing. No compromise. Jesus has loved us too much, right unto death, with no compromise, for us, for me to start compromising by helping to murder the littlest among us. I don’t want Jesus to say to me at the judgment: “Get away from me you evildoer, I never knew you!” So, instead of that: Fidelity! Fidelity! Fidelity!

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