BELLUM CONTRA HÆRÉTICOS

“Let us show you masonry is an enemy of God, the Church, and country. Recognize it as such once and for all, and with all the weapons in which reason, conscience, and faith put in your hands, defend yourselves from such a proud foe. Let no one be taken in by it’s attractive appearance or allured by it’s promises; do not be seduced by it’s enticements or frightened by it’s threats. Remember that Christianity and masonry are essentially irreconcilable, such as that to divorce the other. You can no longer ignore such incompatibility between Catholic and mason, beloved children: you have been warned openly by our predecessors and we have loudly repeated the warning… “The Masonic sects are already judged. They are possessed by the spirit of Satan, whose instrument they are. They burn like him with a deadly and implacable hatred for Jesus Christ and His works, and the endeavor by every means to overthrow and fetter it.” ~ Pope Leo XIII

He had the gift of the word of marvelous degree; he conserved his perpetual virginity; he practiced so much humility to be said the least of all, and wanted that his disciples would be called Minims. He dressed crudely, he walked barefoot, he slept on the ground. His abstinence was marvelous: he ate only once a day but bread and water, by which he added just a little bit of seasoning as it is permitted in Lent; and forced his friars to promise with a generous vow the observance of such practice during the whole year. God wanted to attest the sanctity of his servant with many miracles, among which one of the most famous happened when, rejected by the sailors, he spread his cloak over the waves and thus passed the Strait of Messina with his brother. Gifted of prophetic spirit, he made also many predictions. Louis XI, King of France, asked to Sixtus IV to send him the hermit of the fame of Thaumaturge, so that, treated with great honor, he remained at the court from 1482 to his death. During his staying in France, Francis perfected the Rule of the Order of Minims, definitively approved in 1496 by Alexander VI, he founded the Second Order and the Third reserved to the lay people, he started the devotion of the Thirteen consecutive Fridays . In the end, counting 91 years old, he went to the Lord in Plessis-lez-Tours, near Tours, the 2nd of April 1507, a Good Friday: his body, remained buried for 11 days, not only did not corrupt, but also gave a sweet smell. Already 6 years later, in 1513, Leo X, of whom was said prophesied the election to the Papacy, proclaimed him blessed and, the 1st of May 1519, he subscribed him among the Saints Confessors. His body was sacrilegiously burned by the Huguenot heretics in 1562. St. Francis of Paola is the co-patron of the city of Naples.

SAINT FRANCIS OF PAOLA, CONFESSOR Francis, was born the 27th of March 1416 from humble conditions in Paola, a village in Calabria; and his parents, without children for long time, they obtained him, after a vow, by intercession of St. Francis of Assisi. Inflamed since adolescence by a divine ardour, in 1429 he retired in a hermitage, where for six years he conducted a harsh life, but made sweet by heavenly meditations. But since the hunger of his virtues were spreading far away and many flocked to him desired to serve God, the fraternal charity decided him to leave the solitude and, in 1436, to edify a church near Paola, where he threw the first foundations of his Order, praised and approved by the popes Paul II and Sixtus IV.

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Short History on Good Friday Prayers for the Conversion of the Jews and the origin of its changes.

“He who desires to go advancing in virtue and grace, should meditate continually on the Passion of Jesus. There is no practice more profitable for your sanctification than the frequent meditation on the sufferings of Christ.” --St Alphonsus Liguori

FRIDAY IN PASSION WEEK THE SEVEN SORROWS St. Paul, the incomparable master, the great doctor of the infant Church, made Jesus Christ on the cross the delightful object of his love, the sweet subject of his discourses, the end of all his aspirations in this world, and the foundation of all his hopes in eternity. “I have judged myself,” he says, “to know nothing but my Jesus crucified; God forbid that I should ever glory in any other thing than in the cross of my Jesus, and think not that I have any other life than that of the cross; for I assure you that I so feel and behold everywhere the cross of my Savior, that by His grace I am altogether crucified to the world, and the world is entirely crucified to me.” Blessed is the soul which thus everywhere finds Jesus Christ crucified! – Consoling Thoughts of St. Francis de Sales

Pope Pius VII approved a series of prayers in honor of the Seven Sorrows for daily meditation in 1815: O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. 1. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the affliction of your tender heart at the prophecy of the holy and aged Simeon. Dear Mother, by your heart so afflicted, obtain for me the virtue of humility and the gift of the holy fear of God. Hail Mary… 2. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the anguish of your most affectionate heart during the flight into Egypt and your sojourn there. Dear Mother, by your heart so troubled, obtain for me the virtue of generosity, especially toward the poor, and the gift of piety. Hail Mary… 3. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in those anxieties which tried your troubled heart at the loss of your dear Jesus. Dear Mother, by your heart so full of anguish, obtain for me the virtue of chastity and the gift of knowledge. Hail Mary… 4. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the consternation of your heart at meeting Jesus as He carried His Cross. Dear Mother, by your heart so troubled, obtain for me the virtue of patience and the gift of fortitude. Hail Mary… 5. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the martyrdom which your generous heart endured in standing near Jesus in His agony. Dear Mother, by your afflicted heart obtain for me the virtue of temperance and the gift of counsel. Hail Mary… 6. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the wounding of your compassionate heart, when the side of Jesus was struck by the lance before His Body was removed from the Cross. Dear Mother, by your heart thus transfixed, obtain for me the virtue of fraternal charity and the gift of understanding. Hail Mary… 7. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, for the pangs that wrenched your most loving heart at the burial of Jesus. Dear Mother, by your heart sunk in the bitterness of desolation, obtain for me the virtue of diligence and the gift of wisdom. Hail Mary… Let Us Pray: Let intercession be made for us, we beseech You, O Lord Jesus Christ, now and at the hour of our death, before the throne of Your mercy, by the Blessed Virgin Mary, Your Mother, whose most holy soul was pierced by a sword of sorrow in the hour of Your bitter Passion. Through You, O Jesus Christ, Savior of the world, Who with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns world without end. Amen. Most Sorrowful Mother, pray for us

We are not fit to receive absolution unless we have turned away from our habitual sins and from whatever the kind of proximate occasions of sin. It is not enough to promise that we will avoid them. If we go to Confession without having done so in fact or are unwilling to do so without delay, the Confession is sacrilegious, the absolution, if we receive it, is unavailing, and we place ourselves in danger of damnation. —St. John Baptiste de La Salle, Treatise on the Sacrament of Penance