Praying for the dead.
“The more one longs for a thing, the more painful does deprivation of it become. And because after this life, the desire for God, the Supreme Good, is intense in the souls of the just (because this impetus toward Him is not hampered by the weight of the body, and that time of enjoyment of the Perfect Good would have come) had there been no obstacle; the soul suffers enormously from the delay.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
I do not think that part from the felicity of Heaven, there can be a joy comparable to that experienced by the souls in Purgatory. An incessant communication from God renders their joy more vivid from day to day: and this communication becomes more and more intimate, to the extent that it consumes the obstacles still existing in the soul….On the other hand, they endure pain so intense, that no tongue is able to describe it. Nor is any mind capable of comprehending the smallest spark of that consuming fire, unless God should show it to him by a special grace. …More

All saints our friends.
In Christ

Peace through Blood.
Colossians 1:20
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About welcoming or including these rainbow people in the Church, let me give you an analogy. Imagine you are running a local chapter of the alcoholics anonymous group. Two men wish to join the group one is Mr. Johnny Walker and the other is Mr. Jim Beam. They both wish to peddle their whiskey at your meetings, would you welcome them?
All people are welcome to the Catholic Church so long as they wish to confess their sins and ammend their lives, just as at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

Duties to civil authority.
ON THE RIGHT USE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY & TAXES
QUADRAGESIMO ANNO
PIUS XI
49. It follows from what We have termed the individual and at the same time social character of ownership, that men must consider in this matter not only their own advantage but also the common good. To define these duties in detail when necessity requires and the natural law has not done so, is the function of those in charge of the State. Therefore, public authority, under the guiding light always of the natural and divine law, can determine more accurately upon consideration of the true requirements of the common good, what is permitted and what is not permitted to owners in the use of their property. Moreover, Leo XIII wisely taught "that God has left the limits of private possessions to be fixed by the industry of men and institutions of peoples."[32] That history proves ownership, like other elements of social life, to be not absolutely unchanging, We once declared as follows: "What …More

Hell is eternal.
St Alphonsus matter mostly.
Good article below...
Essay XXXII
Contents
Essay XXXIV
ESSAY XXXIII
ETERNAL PUNISHMENT by Rev. J. P. Arendzen, D.D., Ph.D., M.A. I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Punishment Punishment is pain justly inflicted in consequence of evil done. It is purely medicinal if its sole purpose is to bring the evil-doer to repentance and to enable him to undo the evil wrought. It is purely retributive or avenging if its purpose is to vindicate and restore the glory and honor of one who has been offended by the evil deed, and thus, to restore the balance of justice by placing the evil-doer in an evil plight on account of the evil done. 2. Retributive punishment Punishments on earth are, or ought to be, chiefly of a mixed character, partly curative, partly retributive. The punishment of hell is purely retributive. It has no medicinal purpose for the sinner undergoing it, though it has also a preventative purpose, by being a deterrent to others. The righteousness of retributive …More

Rosary: motives and methods.
Feast of the Holy Rosary.
Three motives for praying the rosary, and helpful methods for praying well.
First motive the connection with The Breviary. The full Rosary has 150 Hail Marys, The Breviary has the 150 Psalms of King David as the basis of this prayer. This is the official prayer of the church, which priests pray daily for all the faithful. The Psalms of David for the prayers of our Lord and our lady and of all the true believers for the last three thousand years. The Psalms give summary of the Old Testament, foreshadowing of the New Testament, with prayers for every kind of situation and emotion possible. the priest is able to replace the praying of the Divine Office with the Rosary at times when the reading and concentration may be difficult. So that makes the rosary an official prayer of the church.
Second motive, the rosary is a means of obtaining all the virtues of the Gospels,reflecting upon the key mysteries about Redemption at absorbing the …More

Rash judgement.
Don't do it.
Here is the prayer before the priest communion on the venerable Latin rite:
Let not the partaking of Thy Body, O Lord, Jesus Christ, which I, though unworthy, make bold to receive, turn to my judgement and condemnation, but by reason of Thy loving kindness, may it be to me a safeguard of both soul and body, and an effective remedy. Who livest and reignest with God the Father in the union of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen
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St Pius X foe of Modernism.
Shorter 2nd sermon.
Different focus

St Pius X: model for Pope Francis.

St. Pius X, pope from 1903 to 1914, a true saint of the papacy, a model, and a guide
In the brief of beatification (June 3, 1951), Pius XII lists the chief traits deserving the attention and the admiration of the crowds:
His concern about the sanctity of the clergy, the key to renewing all things in Christ, according to his sublime motto.1//sspx.org/en/media/books/e-supremi-apostolatus-2150 (October 4, 1903).
The renewal of ecclesiastical studies. Pius X exhorts Christian philosophers to defend the truth under the banner of St. Thomas Aquinas. He founds in Rome the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and encourages the theological sciences, inspired exegesis and carefully prepared preaching on the part of the clergy.
His preoccupation with the eternal salvation of souls. If Pius X desired a holy clergy, it was with a view to the instruction of the faithful, to whom he gave a catechism designed for both adults and children. To the latter he would forever …More

Meekness.
Meekness
Meekness is the virtue that enables one to overcome the tendencies of anger, revenge, hatred and enmity. Many of its manifestations have already been listed under the heading of charity, because the principal incentives to anger come from the words or actions of a fellow human being. Thus meekness presupposes the virtue of charity or love of neighbor, which provides the motives and the means of overlooking insult, injustice and injury, real or imaginary, from others.
The vice of anger, to which meekness is opposed, is responsible for very much of the misery in the world. It is a vice in which an animal passion in man is permitted to dominate his words and actions as if he possessed neither reason nor free will. In the brute animals, anger is directed by instinct to the purposes of self-defense and self-preservation, as exemplified when a brute fights for food, or against an enemy, or in defense of its young. In man, anger is also designed by nature to be a means of …More

Trust in God.
Scandals have a purpose.
Mouldy foundations must be exposed to the light, and renovated.
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Leprosy of impurity.
Even in the church.
Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin sent a letter to his diocese Saturday in response to the current sex abuse scandals in the Church exposed in the Pennsylvania grand jury report as well as the revelations concerning Abp. Theodore McCarrick. The full letter — the strongest statement yet from any Church leader — is republished here.
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ of the Diocese of Madison,
The past weeks have brought a great deal of scandal, justified anger, and a call for answers and action by many faithful Catholics here in the U.S. and overseas, directed at the Church hierarchy regarding sexual sins by bishops, priests, and even cardinals. Still more anger is rightly directed at those who have been complicit in keeping some of these serious sins from coming to light.
For my part — and I know I am not alone — I am tired of this. I am tired of people being hurt, gravely hurt! I am tired of the obfuscation of truth. I am tired …More

Our Lady of Sorrows SSPX.
ourladyofsorrows-priory.com/en

Why suffering? Why death?
To conclude.
(Newman); Observe the lesson which we gain for ourselves from the history of the Blessed Virgin; that the highest graces of the soul may be matured in private, and without those fierce trials to which the many are exposed in order to their sanctification. So hard are our hearts, that affliction, pain, and anxiety are sent to humble us, and dispose us towards a true faith in the heavenly word, when preached to us. Yet it is only our extreme obstinacy of unbelief which renders this chastisement necessary. The aids which God gives under the Gospel Covenant, have power to renew and purify our hearts, without uncommon providences to discipline us into receiving them. God gives His Holy Spirit to us silently; and the silent duties of every day (it may be humbly hoped) are blest to the sufficient sanctification of thousands, whom the world knows not of. The Blessed Virgin is a memorial of this; and it is consoling as well as instructive to know it. When …More

Defender of the Faith died 26 July 1987
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Fr Abdoo RIP slams the bishops of NZ.
Father Abdoo: Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops of New Zealand (1987)
It is now thirty one years since Father Stephen Abdoo died in a motor accident in New Zealand. He was the first priest ordained for the Society of St Pius X, formed in 1970, to die. (26 July 1987)
His Open Letter still has application in our time, thirty years on; the Church is in a worse crisis now with the very Faith under attack from the Pontiff himself.
Please read what Father Abdoo wrote in 1987, and then forward this email to all on your list. The original appeared in the Australian journal Catholic for September 1987
An Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops of New Zealand.
The Catholic Bishops of New Zealand have written a Pastoral Letter attacking the work of the Society of St Pius X. We publish this month the reply prepared by Father Stephen Abdoo who was the Superior for the Society in New Zealand.
These same Bishops obviously prefer the faith-destroying RENEW process,…More

50 years of the Killer Pill.
25 July 1968
Humanae Vitae
ONE WORD SAVES A MARRIAGE!
this is a true story, from a priest.
Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty...
Once upon a time and far far away there lived a happily married couple I will call them Bilbo and a Prudentia.
Then one day Prudentia wrote to me with her concerns about Bilbo. First of all he had seemed to be a little excessive in his demands for intimacy, and so she was suspicious that he was interested perhaps in other women. Every time she would approach him lingering over his computer he would flick a switch and the screen would appear harmless work matters. One day she took some binoculars and watched from a distance what Bilbo was doing on the computer. To her distress she found that he was googling matters against the 6th and 9th commandments. Prudentia asked me in a letter whether or not she should divorce him. Knowing the couple as I did I wrote back to her a decisive no. This is the first word: do …More