“Did You Make a Good Confession?”

Each confession should be made as carefully as if it were to be the last confession you’ll ever make.

Imagine yourself making your last confession to Padre Pio. As you are probably aware, Padre Pio was a priest who bore the five wounds of Jesus Christ on his body for more than fifty years. He was also a seer; mind reader; prophet, miracle-worker, confessor; mystic; ascetic and missionary on a worldwide scale. He demanded that each confession be a true confession, and why not, a confession is of no value unless it is. So many people wanted Padre Pio to hear their confession that there was often a two or three week wait before their turn.

Now, had we had the good fortune to have our confession heard by Padre Pio (its estimated he heard about five million confessions), here’s what we might have experienced based upon what others have told. One woman who came on a long trip to see Padre Pio said to him in confession, “Padre Pio, four years ago I lost my husband and I haven’t gone to church since then.” Padre Pio replied: “Because you lost your husband, you also lost God? Go away! Go away!” as he quickly closed the door to the confessional. Shortly after, she recovered her faith, attributing it to the way he treated her-probably acknowledging how she put her attachment to her husband above God.

Many of Padre Pio’s penitents made the astounding statement that, when in his confessional, they would experience the awesome impression of being before the judgment seat of God. If the penitent was not honest, or just read through a list of sins without firm resolution to change, he would growl “get out.” One man who was thrown out of the confessional stated: “What kind of blackguardly monk is that? He did not give me time to say a word, but straightway called me an old pig and told me to get out!” “I can’t think why, said the man unless its because I happen to be living with a woman who is not my wife.”

Padre Pio also threw certain priests and bishops out of his confessional! He once told a priest: “If you knew what a fearful thing it is to sit in tribunal of confessional! We are administering the Blood of Christ. We must be careful that we do not fling it about by being too easy-going or negligent.”

Padre Pio spoke to a recently widowed woman; her husband had left her and their two children to live with another woman. Suddenly cancer had taken his life. He consented to receive the last sacraments before his death, after many pressing appeals.

The woman asked: “Where is his soul, Padre?” “Your husband’s soul is condemned forever. When receiving the last Sacraments, he concealed many sins. He had neither repentance nor a good resolution. He was also a sinner against God’s mercy, because he said he always wanted to have a share of the good things in life and then have time to be converted to God.”

After your examination of conscience, it is well to say an Act of Contrition before entering the confessional.

Padre Pio commented on the amount of confessions he heard, and how he was able to do it: “There have been periods when I heard confessions without interruption for eighteen hours consecutively. I don’t have a moment to myself. But God helps me effectively in my ministry.  I feel the strength to renounce everything, so long as souls return to Jesus and love Jesus.

For much more, including his Bi-location, and yes, even Tri-location; his being seen in the Air; his relationship with the Angels; the tortures the demons put him through; his suffering; his take on the Mass (by the way, Padre Pio used only the Traditional Missal for Mass); and Padre Pio on the Rosary, see the book Padre Pio, on the Mass available from Tan Books, Rockford, Ill. 61105.

A few days before he died, he said to the friars in his room, “Give me my weapon!” The friars surprised and curious asked him: “Where’s the weapon, we cannot see anything.” Padre Pio replied: It’s in my habit, the friars said: Padre, there’s no weapon in your habit--we can find only your Rosary. Padre Pio said: “And is this not a weapon?--the true weapon?

“WOW…How Does This Grab You?”

Vision of Archdeacon of Lyons, who died the same day as St. Bernard (1153): “ Know,  Monsignor, that at the very hour I passed away, thirty-three thousand people also died. Out of this number, Bernard and myself went up to heaven without delay, three went to purgatory, and all the others fell into Hell.”( Told to St. Vincent Ferrar).

What more be said?

“What in the World is Going On?”

The facts you are about to read are real, although admittedly, hard to believe. If our previous popes (those prior to Vatican II), could see what’s going on in the Church today—What would they say? Undoubtedly they would come to the same conclusion that so many of us Catholics have  come to—the Vatican II bunch is absolutely brimming with incredibly corrupt Bishops, Priests and useful lay idiots suckered into believing the Vatican II Church is the real McCoy.

Today it’s very rare to come across a Vatican II cleric that still has true Catholic religiosity scruples and beliefs. The Vatican II cleric has become such a cesspool that it nauseates even most Catholics that go there with good intentions.  They have created a false church like never before in the Church’s history.

The faith is deteriorating because of Vatican II. France, once the jewel in the eye of Our Lord, now has Church attendance of only about 2% of its population, Italy only about 6%. Many Catholics in the United States are leaving the Church for other religions or not attending at all. Dioceses are closing churches all over the United States. More than one billion dollars has been paid for victims of pedophilia committed by homosexual priests, and the worse part, most of these priests have been allowed to remain in their “spiritual” capacity by the highest Church authority.  New stories of Vatican II corruption emerge almost every day. So many Vatican II clergy are entangled in controversy that it’s hard to keep up with it all. Its almost as if there’s a drought of morality. These days almost everything Catholic is cursed.

What’s the solution for the Vatican II Catholic?  For starters…Get away from the Novus Ordo Mass and return to God’s True Mass, the Latin Tridentine Mass (not the Diocesan Indult Mass). Pray the Rosary daily. Wear the Brown Scapular. And pray, as Our Lord would surely want, for the conversion of those Vatican II clergy that are not in His True Church.

“ARE YOU SURE YOU’RE CATHOLIC?”

Lots of Catholics hold the delusional idea in their mind the Vatican II Church is somehow legitimate. They see the many beautiful churches, St Peters Basilica with its fabulous statues and paintings, and think its some sort of physical entity with all sorts of validity unto itself. In reality, the Vatican II Church is nothing more than a bunch of Protestants playing Catholic.

Putting a cassock on an invalid “Catholic” cleric doesn’t make him a true Catholic anymore than putting on a Superman costume makes one Superman. No doubt, in some disillusioned minds, seeing Catholic garb on these Catholic imitators they would assume that he was indeed Catholic. After all, they have Catholic garb on, so they must be Catholic, right? But what about the six Protestant ministers, in collusion with “Pope” Paul VI during Vatican Council II that played a huge part in developing the Novus Ordo Mass? Paul VI publicly thanked them for their assistance in re-editing in a new manner liturgical texts. Jean Guitton (an intimate friend of Paul VI) wrote:

“The intention of Pope Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic Liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with Protestant liturgy. There was with Pope Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or, at least correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic in the traditional sense in the Mass and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist mass.” Latin Mass Magazine ,Christian Order, 1994.

Its about time Novus Ordo Catholics wake up and stop believing this utter delusion. What’s separating them from the True Church is more than just a copied cassock, it’s the copying of Protestantism.  So, to ask again—ARE YOU SURE YOU’RE CATHOLIC?

Benedict's Book "Jesus of Nazareth" Excerpts and Praise

"Now Pilate, seeing that he was doing no good, but rather that a riot was breaking out, took water and washed his hands in sight of the crowd, saying, 'I am innocent of the blood of this just man; see to it yourselves.' And all the people answered saying, 'His blood be on us and on our children'." (Matthew 27:24-25), Catholic Bible, pre-Vatican II Version.

In his book, Jesus of Nazareth, "Pope" Benedict XVI argues that it is certainly wrong to read "His Blood be on us and on our children. (Matt. 27:25).   As Benedict puts it:

"...read in the light of faith, it means that we all stand a need of the purifying power of love which is his blood.  These words are not a curse, but rather redemption, salvation.  Only when understood in terms of the theology of the Last Supper and the Cross, drawn from the whole of the New Testament, does this verse from Matthew's Gospel take on its correct meaning.  (Jesus of Nazareth, Vol.2, p. 187-188)

According to Benedict, St. Matthew and two millenniums of Catholic theology had it all wrong.   To strengthen his argument he must surely welcome the following praise: "I commend you for forcefully rejecting in your recent book a false charge that has been a foundation for hatred of the Jewish people for many centuries."--Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu

Jacob Neusner, a prominent Jewish expert on Judaism and Christianity who has had a twenty-five year correspondence with Benedict on the figure of Jesus, praised the book for blending theology and history and for its "courageous" exoneration of the Jews.  "He has accomplished something that no one else has achieved in the modern study of Scripture," Neusner said.

"My guess would be that this book is specifically user-friendly for entry-level seminary students, educated lay people with a lot of theological acumen, obviously clergy of various kinds," said Ben Witherington III, evangelical Bible scholar, Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky.

Craig Evans, a Protestant bible expert said: "Protestants of many stripes would be surprised at how Protestant the book reads, and that he wouldn't hesitate to put it in his syllabus for his conservative, Baptist seminary students.  If  it didn't say Pope Benedict on the cover, they might not even be sure they were reading a Catholic book."

Maybe I'm wrong, but if I were the author of this book, and Craig Evans was praising me as he has so done for Benedict...I would feel like I was getting a Kiss from Judas. 

As the Church asks us to do, let's pray for the conversion of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger.

“What, You Refuse To Say The Rosary?”

Has this ever been said to you? It ‘s been said to me on several occasions. Here’s some of the reasoning I’ve heard for refusing to say the Rosary: “I have other prayers I say, I don’t have time to include the Rosary, it takes too much time.” “ I go to Church, that’s enough.” “It’s boring.” Etc.

For those who refuse to say the Rosary, please read the following excerpts taken from the book entitled “The Secret of the Rosary” by St. Louis De Montfort I’d bet the following will change some minds…

There was a certain pious but self-willed lady who lived in Rome during the time of St. Dominic. Having decided to ask St. Dominic’s advise about her spiritual life, she asked him to hear her confession. For penance, he gave her one whole Rosary to say, and advised her to say it every day. She said that she had no time to say it, excusing herself on the grounds that she made the Stations of Rome every day, she wore sack-cloth and also a hair shirt, that she gave herself the discipline several times a week, and that she carried out so many other penances and fasted much. St. Dominic urged her over and over again to take his advise and say the Rosary, but  she would not here of it. She left the confessional horrified at the tactics of this new spiritual director who had tried to persuade her to take on a devotion that was not to her liking.

Later on when she was in prayer, she fell into ecstasy and had a vision of her soul appearing before Our Lord’s Judgment Seat. St Michael put all her penances and other prayers onto one balance of the scales, and all her sins and imperfections onto the other scale. The tray of the good works was greatly outweighed by that of her sins and imperfections.

Filled with horror, she cried for mercy, imploring the help of the Blessed Virgin, her glorious advocate, who took the one and only Rosary that she had said for penance and dropped it onto the tray of her good works. The one Rosary was so heavy that it weighed more than all her sins as well as all her good works. Our Lady then reproved her for having refused to follow the counsel of her servant Dominic, and not saying the Rosary every day.

As soon as she came to herself, she rushed and threw herself at the feet of St. Dominic and told him all that happened, begged forgiveness for her unbelief, and promised to say the Rosary faithfully every day. By this means, she rose to Christian perfection, and finally to the glory of everlasting life.

The book The Secret of the Rosary can be obtained from Tan Books & Publishers, 2020 Harrison Ave., Rockford, Ill. 61104

“The Saint and the Sinner”

St.Philomena at age 13 dedicated her virginity to Jesus Christ. For refusing to accept the hand of the Emperor Diocletian, she was chained in a dungeon for 37 days. While in chains in the dungeon, the Blessed Virgin appeared holding her divine Son, Jesus. She said: “My daughter, three days more and after 40 days you shall leave this state of pain. St Philomena was taken from prison and scourged, later chained to an anchor and buried in the Tiber River. Survived the river and dragged through the streets of Rome. Shot with a shower of arrows but survived Surviving all that, Diocletian ordered a second shower of arrows hurled at her. The arrows failed to penetrate. In a rage Diocletian ordered the arrows be made in a furnace and directed to her heart. The arrows returned to the archers killing six of them. Finally, Diocletian had her head cut off.

There are many miracles attributed to St. Philomena. She’s been praised by Popes Leo XII, Gregory XVI, Pius IX, St Pope Pius X, to name a few, and Saints such as the Venerable Pauline Jaricot, St Jean Vianney and others. But now enters the Sinner, the devils advocate, “Pope” John XXIII., the architect of Vatican II. who once said: “If I were born a Muslim, I believe I would have always stayed a good Muslim, faithful to my religion.” On July 18,1959 John XXIII suppressed the following prayer: “Be thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or Islam..” Even worse, he removed from the Calendar of Saints the Fourteen Holy Helpers and a number of other saints, including St Philomena. What would all the true popes that praised St. Philomena  have to say to this Sinner if they were alive today?  Now that’s something to think about!

When in need of a favor, any favor, do as Pope Gregory advises: “Pray to Saint Philomena. What ever you ask from her, She will obtain for you."