Eleison Comments CCXXII October 15th- ANCESTRAL PRIDE

[Dawn Marie]

ANCESTRAL PRIDE 

 In his second volume on the life of Jesus published several months ago, Pope Benedict XVI made remarks enabling journalists to jump to the conclusion that the Jews must no longer be held responsible for deicide, i.e. the killing of God. Worse, on May 17 the executive director of the US Bishops’ Conference’s Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs said that one cannot charge the Jewish people with deicide at any time in history without falling out of communion with the Catholic Church. Against what many people today want to believe, it is time to recall, however briefly, what the true Church always used to teach on the judicial murder of Jesus.

Firstly, the killing of Jesus was truly “deicide”, i.e. the killing of God, because Jesus was the one of the three divine Persons who in addition to his divine nature had taken a human nature. What was killed on the Cross ? Only the human nature. But who was killed on the Cross in his human nature ? None other than the second divine Person, i.e. God. So God was killed, deicide was committed.

Secondly, Jesus died on the Cross to save all of us sinful human beings from our sins, and in this sense all men were and are the purpose of his death. But only the Jews (leaders and people) were the prime agents of the deicide because it is obvious from the Gospels that the Gentile most involved, Pontius Pilate, would never have condemned Jesus to death had not the Jewish leaders roused the Jewish people to clamour for his crucifixion (Mt. XXVII, 20). Certainly the learned leaders were more guilty than the unlearned people, says St Thomas Aquinas (Summa III, 47, 5), but they all cried together for Jesus’ blood to come down upon them and their children (Mt. XXVII, 25).

Thirdly, at least Pope Leo XIII considered there to be a real solidarity between the Jews clamouring then for Jesus to be killed and the collectivity of Jews of modern times. Did he not in his Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus have the entire Church, from the end of the 19th century onwards, pray to God that he turn his “eyes of mercy towards the children of that race, once God’s chosen people: of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Saviour; may it now descend upon them a laver (i.e. washing) of redemption and life” ?

But Leo XIII is by no means alone in observing such a continuity amongst Jews down the centuries. Do they themselves not lay claim today to the land of Palestine on the grounds that it is theirs by right from the God of the Old Testament ? Has there ever been a race-people-nation on the face of the earth more proudly self-identifying as identical down the ages ? Originally raised by God to cradle the Messiah, alas, when he came they refused, collectively, to recognize him. Collectively also, meaning there are always noble exceptions, they have remained faithful to that rejection, so that they changed their religion from that of Abraham and Moses and the Old Testament to that of Anas, Caiphas and the Talmud. Tragically, their very messianic training by God drives them to go on rejecting the one whom they hold to be a false messiah. Until they convert at the end of the world, as the Church has always taught they will do (cf. Rom. XI, 26-27), they seem bound to choose to go on acting, collectively, as enemies of the true Messiah.

How can the Pope let go of such ancient truths ?.

Kyrie eleison.

[Dawn Marie]

The quote posted by Renel on the prayers for priests seems most fitting here.

 

"For the priest cannot be good or bad for himself alone; his conduct and way of life have far-reaching consequences for the people. A truly good priest is an immense gift wherever he may be."  Pope St. Pius X

 

Thank you Lord for the immense gift of such a good and holy bishop! (and so many good and holy priests )

[Alan]

"Worse, on May 17 the executive director of the US Bishops’ Conference’s Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs said that one cannot charge the Jewish people with deicide at any time in history without falling out of communion with the Catholic Church".

 

They have lost their minds

 

[Renel B. Peña]

Dom Prosper Gueranger has said about the just punishment, chastisement, and curse which the Jews brought upon themselves, because they denied Jesus as the Messias, and were jealous that the Eternal Father should make a New Covenant with the Gentiles and pour out His favors upon them. The Jews, Dom Prosper repeats each day, damned themselves, and God will see His justice win out, and we are to pray for the Jews that they will soon recognize the Messias, for until they do, the world shall have no peace. Any one who doubts that truth should read Dom Prosper's account of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., which Jesus foretold and foreshadowed the end of the Israelites, and Jerusalem would never again be the "center" of the chosen people, but Rome…until the end of all time!

Let us continue to pray for Bishop Williamson, all SSPX Bishops, priests and religious, also for the conversion of Jews. 
Kyrie Eleison!!! 

[3mhnl1wkw63wz]

I think George  Orwell's quote pretty well sums it up,"In a time of universal deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act." Bishop Williamson is merely passing on what He has received. Here is the Truth, like it or not.  In our present time, unfortunately, there has been a total inversion, Truth has no rights, and error is given free reign. May we all pray that we have the courage and the Faith as Father Williamson has, that we say yes to Jesus and to the Truth as the Pre-conciliar church did. We must pray unceasingly.    Pater caelestis, da mihi Spiritum    May we also pray that we have Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop Williamson's  also

  Omnia ad majorem Dei gloriam

 

[Alan]

I hope to have just a tenth of the bishops courage.

 

The quote about Orwell has been alot in my mind this week after reading this eleison comments of the good bishop.

 

He is brave. I admire and respect him.

 

God bless him and maybe he will pray for us to follow his example of being such a good Catholic all the time, but esp. at a time when it's so costly.

 

 

[Copacabana]

"We praise Thee, O God; we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord...

Thee, the white-robed army of the martyrs doth praise..."

[3mhnl1wkw63wz]

Re: Bishop Williamson and Truth

This is taken from Fr. Fahey's The Kingship of Christ and The Conversion of the Jewish Nation  By Pope Pius XI -"Comprehending and merciful charity towards the erring and even towards the contemptuous, does not mean and can not mean that you renounce in any way the proclaiming of, the insisting on, and the courageous defense of the truth and its free and unhindered application to the realities about you. The first and obvious duty the priest owes to the world about him is service to the truth, the whole truth, the unmasking and refutation of error in whatever form or disguise it conceals itself."

From the Encyclical Letter On the Condition of the Church in Germany,March 14th,1937

This was taken from the Foreward of the above named book. At the beatification of St. Joan of  Arc in 1908, Pope St. Pius X said, "All the strength of Satan's reign is due to the easy-going weakness of Catholics." Well we know one that's not-Let us continue to pray for our good Bishop and all Religious.