First reported on August 28 by the Brazilian web-forum, FRATRESINUNUM, a “Day of the Mason” was observed on August 20 at the church of Nossa Senhora da Conceicao (Our Lady of Conception) in the Brazilian town of Belo Jardim in the diocese of Pesqueira-Pernambuco.The first condemnation against Freemasonry given by Pope Clement XII per In Eminenti (1738) was repeated and even extended by Benedict XIV (1751), Pius VII (1821), Leo XII in Quo Graviora (1826), Pius VIII (1829), Gregory XVI (1832), Pius IX (Qui Pluribus in 1846, 1849, 1864, 1865, 1869, 1873), and of course, Pope Leo XIII in Humanum Genus (1884) and Custodi di Quella Fede (1890). Later, the 1917 Code of Canon Law explicitly declared that Catholics who joined a Masonic organization incurred a penalty of ipso facto excommunication. It is also noteworthy that in a response dated February 17, 1981, the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith also reiterated the 1917 Code’s penalty.
The event consisted of Mass (per the Novus Ordo Missae) with Masons processing into the church in full Freemasonic regalia of ribbons, collars and aprons, and bearing tools of their “craft”, the compass, hammer and square.
In addition to being granted an official place of honor in the church during Mass, they were also allowed to speak from the altar and present their tools as memorial gifts to the celebrant, Fr. Geraldo Magela de Silva. Even worse though, these Freemasons – were also given Communion.
All of this is a direct violation of the Church’s law concerning Freemasons, as expounded first by Pope Clement XII In Eminenti Apostolatus in 1738 and most famously by Pope Leo XIII in Humanum Genus in 1884, which Cardinal Ratzinger (now the Holy Father) reiterated with Pope John Paul II’s approval in 1983:
Therefore the Church's negative judgment in regard to Masonic association remains unchanged since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden. The faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion
When will more people realize the prophetic character of (St.) Archbishop Lefebvre?
They talk to us of obedience. We wish to and we try to obey more and more every day the Church of all time founded by Jesus Christ, Son of God and Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity but we refuse to obey Masonry with its promotion of liturgical reform resulting in the “naturalization of the Incarnation.” The effects of the liturgical reforms are every day more clear and obvious to all. The ecumenical Mass leads logically to apostasy. One cannot serve two masters. One cannot nourish oneself indifferently with truth and error because error with its evil tendencies will triumph over the more austere and demanding truth... SourceRecommended Reading - Why Catholics Cannot Be Masons
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THE CHURCH IN GETHSEMANE
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The Ship of Peter is torn apart
Martyred in its Holy Teaching
It sinks and sinks, no work of art
The bottom though never reaching
Dissidents are screaming loud
Leaving behind an awful niff
Pretending to be proudly stout
Gearing the Ship into a cliff
Jesus shows His wounded Heart
Smitten with a deadly dart
Peter the Rock in desolation
Deploring severe desecration
Wake up, you Christian Brother
Show now your truthful face
With Mary our Heavenly Mother
We'll reach that Peaceful Place
In allegiance to the Holy Father
United in prayer and fasting
No victory will claim, but rather
Satan's defeat be everlasting.
Rita Biesemans, 01-02-2011
Scandal pure and simple.
"Shockingly?" It was not too many years ago when the Archdiocese of Detroit allowed a week-long celebration by the gay community at the cardinal's cathedral in the city. Advertised in gay magazines, it was the "Catholic" gay event of the year.
Not too much shocks me anymore. But I do like to be surprised by the changes for the better I am seeing in the Church.
St Maksymilian Maria Kolbe and His prayer for Masons.He was praying every day from His first days in Rome till He dyed in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau.Why can't we pray again.
We are grateful, Lord Jesus, we praise you for the great Christmas our morning prayer we rejoice God our Father, in our house our families in this holy season of prayer in the spirit of Him we dedicate this season that prevail to celebrate the birth of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Gracious God, we come to celebrate Christmas. We pray in Jesus' name, our prayers reflect Jesus we ask God's blessing in our family and our home. We pray for the hearts of all peoples and their rulers, to bless us and the Eucharist and to bless those we love who are good things of our faith in God.
We pray Christ Himself, In the Solemnity of Jesus Christ, we commemorates Christ as our Saviour of the whole world our prayer and almsgiving, purify our hearts and prepare us for the celebration of Christmas. Lord, we make this offering, may our worship in Spirit and truth bring us to salvation. That our nation may heed the Gospel call to reform our lives by ending the born and unborn, we pray to the Lord in our Christmas joy of Christians consider our prayer for the family this Christmas.
We pray of the Most-Holy mystery to the faithful within the Church. To the glory of the King of All in the heavenly All-chaste for the preaching of the Gospel the birth of the Most-Holy child Jesus Christ with all the heavenly powers, with the holy Fathers and Prophets of the Holy Virgin, and all the righteous souls, approached His Immaculate Mother.
We pray for the assurance that in Christ God has opened up for us a future hope in a life beyond our time. We pray to Christ in glory, our Christmas celebration. To our life for the great call we will be alone and held personally accountable for our life. We pray to the birth of Jesus our way of life of unity among nations and of all peoples. We pray to child Jesus to conversion of the people our journey our spirituality for God.
We pray to our God into our lives we experience his strength and filled us with peace, freedom and joy call on us to be faithful in our life. Being an honourable and upright man of God prays quietly the prayer of the Holy Mary. We pray to St. Joseph our confidence appearance of God Mary’s uprightness and the divine child Jesus Christ.
We pray to God grant us a peace that the world cannot give from home this Christmas and pray that we may find the kindness of others. We light of Christmas morning dawns upon our earth and the glory of the Lord shines upon us, we pray to our heavenly Father and give thanks for the birth of his Son. In silent upon the mystery of God coming into our world embracing us with his love his image upon humanity and giving divine worth and greatness to every human soul most people the images of a quiet peaceful nativity are probably the strongest and warmest memories of our childhood faith.
Grant we beseech Thee, almighty God: that Thy faithful people, Who rejoice in the Name and in the protection of the most holy Virgin Mary, may, by her loving intercession, be delivered from all evils here on earth and be found worthy to attain to everlasting joys in heaven. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen
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