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| Croatian bishops consecrate nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, marking 125th anniversary |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-03-2025, 04:34 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Croatian bishops consecrate nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, marking 125th anniversary
The bishops of Croatia consecrated the country to the Sacred Heart again last week, commemorating a similar event in 1900.
Young Croatians also made a solemn consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Statue (19th century) of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.
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Jul 2, 2025
ZAGREB, Crotia (LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic bishops of Croatia led their nation in a consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus last Friday on the solemnity celebrating this image of the outpouring love of Jesus Christ for His people.
This occasion also commemorated the 125th anniversary of a similar event in 1900 when approximately 160,000 Croatian consecrated themselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a similar way.
Friday’s consecration took place in churches and chapels across the nation at 7:00 p.m., initiated by church bells ringing for five minutes followed by Holy Mass.
According to Catholic News Agency, after the prayer following Holy Communion, the clergy led the faithful in the formal Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
“In Zagreb, the faithful gathered at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus while EWTN affiliate Laudato TV broadcast live from the Church of Our Miraculous Lady of Sinj in the small town of Sinj,” the Catholic outlet reported.
In commemoration of the universal Jubilee Year 2025, the Croatian Bishops’ Conference decided to renew the traditional devotion at their 69th Plenary Assembly in November 2024.
“We, Croatian believers, trusting in your goodness, come to you to open for us once again your Most Sacred Heart,” the consecration prayer begins, addressing Christ as “Wisdom, Love, and the Word of the Father.”
Bishop Petar Palić, head of the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno, said, “This consecration comes as a response to the spiritual needs of our time. It is an act of dedication, trust and faithfulness to the heart of our Lord.”
On Saturday, following the Sacred Heart consecration, a solemn consecration of young people to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was also held at the Church of Croatian Martyrs in Udbina. This was the first known consecration of its kind in the region.
Apostolic nuncio to Croatia, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, presided over the ceremony at 3:00 p.m., which was also broadcast by Laudato TV. This event was organized by priests of the Marian Priestly Movement in Croatia.
The Church’s Directory on Popular Piety and Liturgy (DPPL) affirms, “Devotion to the Sacred Heart is a wonderful historical expression of the Church’s piety for Christ, her Spouse and Lord: it calls for a fundamental attitude of conversion and reparation, of love and gratitude, apostolic commitment and dedication to Christ and His saving work. For these reasons, the devotion is recommended and its renewal encouraged by the Holy See and by the Bishops. Such renewal touches on the devotion’s linguistic and iconographic expressions; on consciousness of its biblical origins and its connection with the great mysteries of the faith; on affirming the primacy of the love of God and neighbour as the essential content of the devotion itself.”
During the prayer last Friday, Croation families, married couples, young people, children, clergy, parishes, religious communities, the sick and elderly along with professionals across various fields were consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The DPPL also emphasizes the importance of “personal consecration, described by Pius XI as ‘undoubtedly the principal devotional practice used in relation to the Sacred Heart.’”
The original Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque can be found here.
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| Vatican report reveals most bishops did not want Pope Francis’ Latin Mass crackdown |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-03-2025, 04:31 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Vatican report reveals most bishops did not want Pope Francis’ Latin Mass crackdown
Most bishops who responded to a Vatican questionnaire about restricting the Latin Mass said reversing Pope Benedict XVI’s liberation
of the traditional rite ‘would cause more harm than good.’
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Pilgrimage on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Summorum Pontificum, Pontifical Mass in Vetus Ordo Mass in Latin, Holy Mass at the Saint Peter's Chair
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Jul 1, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Journalist Diane Montagna revealed in a July 1 report that the Vatican’s overall assessment of the consultation of bishops, which was believed to have prompted Pope Francis to implement the 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, stated that the majority of bishops were satisfied with the implementation of Summorum Pontificum and believed that making changes to Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio would do “more harm than good.”
“The majority of bishops who responded to the questionnaire stated that making legislative changes to Summorum Pontificum would cause more harm than good,” the report said.
The report notably contradicts Pope Francis’ claim in his letter accompanying Traditionis Custodes, which stated that the bishops’ assessment found the implementation of Pope Benedict’s motu proprio to be a key source of division in the Church.
“An opportunity offered by … Benedict XVI, intended to recover the unity of an ecclesial body with diverse liturgical sensibilities, was exploited to widen the gaps, reinforce the divergences, and encourage disagreements that injure the Church, block her path, and expose her to the peril of division,” the late Argentine pontiff wrote.
But, according to the report, the Vatican’s overall assessment shows that while the bishops had concerns about division caused by attendees of the Tridentine Mass rejecting the Second Vatican Council and other disagreements, the majority of the “gaps,” “divergences,” and “disagreements” that Francis cited actually stem from the resistance by a minority of bishops to Summorum Pontificum.
“The majority of bishops who responded to the questionnaire, and who have generously and intelligently implemented Summorum Pontificum, ultimately express satisfaction with it,” the report stated. “In places where the clergy have closely cooperated with the bishop, the (divisions) has become completely pacified,” the report continued.
Traditionis Custodes, which has led to the suppression of numerous Latin Masses around the world, has been denounced by clergy and scholars as a repudiation of the perennial practice of the Catholic Church and even of solemn Church teaching.
Cardinal Raymond Burke has affirmed that the traditional liturgy is not something that can be excluded from the “valid expression of the lex orandi.”
“It is a question of an objective reality of divine grace which cannot be changed by a mere act of the will of even the highest ecclesiastical authority,” the cardinal wrote in 2021.
Liturgical scholar Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has also implored priests to resist Traditionis Custodes and its accompanying Responsa ad dubia “regardless of threats or penalties,” since obedience to these documents would undermine the very mission of the holy Catholic Church.
Kwasniewski has made the point that “the traditional liturgical worship of the Church, her lex orandi (law of prayer),” is a “fundamental” “expression of her lex credendi, (law of belief), one that cannot be contradicted or abolished or heavily rewritten without rejecting the Spirit-led continuity of the Catholic Church as a whole.”
‘The traditional Mass belongs to the most intimate part of the common good in the Church. Restricting it, pushing it into ghettos, and ultimately planning its demise can have no legitimacy. This law is not a law of the Church because, as St. Thomas [Aquinas] says, a law against the common good is no valid law,’” he said in a speech at the 2021 Catholic Identity Conference.
Recently, a letter-writing campaign was launched by the Faithful Advocate, inviting parishes and Catholics across the country to write to Pope Leo XIV, “asking him to abrogate Traditionis Custodes and protect the Sacred Liturgy worldwide.”
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| The Flame They No Longer See |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-02-2025, 07:30 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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The Flame They No Longer See
Ordained beneath the dome of St. Peter’s, a new priesthood walks past the Sacred Heart without turning.
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On the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, a feast once throbbing with images of reparation, sacrifice, and mystical union, Leo delivered a warm, tear-tinged pep talk. The occasion was the ordination of priests during the Jubilee of Priests. And yet what should have been a moment of gravity, awe, and sacred distinction was flattened into the predictable horizontality of the postconciliar gospel: unity, fraternity, accompaniment, inclusion. Love as therapy. The priest as wounded life coach.
The homily opened with the familiar gesture: “Before being shepherds, we are sheep.” Of course. The post-Vatican II Church recoils from the notion that a priest acts in persona Christi Capitis. The minister is not primarily a sacred man set apart, but a fellow pilgrim stumbling alongside us on the way to “healing.” Leo’s version of the Sacred Heart is not the consuming fire of divine charity but a kind of divine group hug: warm, emotive, and nonjudgmental.
The Priesthood as Psychodrama
The hallmark of Leo’s theology is what might be called emotional priesthood. Priests are told to enter “the vast and deep inner chamber” of memory, to feel consumed by mercy, and to offer a “great exchange of love.” He quotes Pope Francis approvingly: “the wounded side of Christ continues to pour forth that stream… to all those who wish to love as he did.” What does this mean concretely? There is no mention of sin as an offense against God. No mention of Hell. No “zeal for souls.” Only a vague hope that people will “come to know Christ” through kindness, hospitality, and interpersonal warmth.
And what of the priest’s role? He is no longer a soldier in the Church Militant. He is a reconciler of inner tensions, a psychological mediator tasked with harmonizing diverse “fragments” of people’s lives. In Leo’s words, the priest is called to be a “builder of unity and peace” by helping others “rise above immediate emotions” (a strange instruction from someone whose theology is governed almost entirely by emotion).
But the climax of absurdity is reached in the closing instruction to ordinands: “Give freely of your time… without reserve and without partiality, as the pierced side of the crucified Jesus teaches us to do.” The Sacred Heart is not treated as a symbol of divine justice and mercy, of sin redeemed through sacrifice, but as a vaguely inspirational metaphor for radical availability. A therapist-on-call with holy orders.
A Priesthood Without the Cross
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is, historically, a devotion rooted in expiation. Pius XI declared that it “demands from us a return of love, including acts of reparation for our ingratitude and infidelity.” But Leo XIV has inverted this. In his message to priests, he speaks of the Sacred Heart not as a font of justice or a call to reparation, but as a mystical couch for emotional healing. “In him,” he claims, “we learn to relate to one another in wholesome and happy ways.” This is a humanistic gospel, not the Catholic one.
Gone are the stern reminders of judgment. Gone is the need to suffer with Christ. Gone is the priest’s sacred duty to “offer the Holy Sacrifice for the living and the dead.” The Mass becomes a communal celebration of mutual care, where no one is left out; except, of course, the traditions of the Church.
We are being sentimentalized rather than sanctified.
Vatican II, Always Vatican II
In case anyone forgot which Council governs this pontificate, Leo XIV cites Lumen Gentium and Presbyterorum Ordinis multiple times, always selectively. There’s a passing nod to the Eucharist as the “source and summit” of the Christian life, but it serves only to reinforce the priest’s horizontal mission of social harmony. Even Augustine is weaponized for this end. “With you I am a Christian,” Leo quotes, without explaining that Augustine preached the necessity of discipline, doctrinal clarity, and spiritual warfare against heresy. He was not interested in therapeutic ministry. He was interested in truth and salvation.
But truth is not the currency of this pontificate. Sentiment is.
The Sacred Heart or the Synodal Heart?
This priestly Jubilee homily is the latest proof that Leo XIV, like his predecessor, is not offering Christ crucified. He is offering Christ synodal. A heart not pierced for sin but opened for feelings. A ministry not ordered toward Calvary but toward consensus. A sacrament not offered as sacrifice but as symbol of community.
It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Novus Ordo priesthood is being repurposed into a global workforce of synodal facilitators; pastoral brokers of a gospel without dogma and a Church without combat. There is no call to confront error. No warning of judgment. No demand for sanctity. Just a soft, constant cooing: “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.
Closing Benediction
Leo XIV exhorted his new priests not to be seduced by “models of success and prestige.” But the postconciliar Church is itself addicted to success, measured in applause, not sanctity. It trades the glorious wounds of Christ for the glowing reviews of modern man. It offers a priesthood without enemies, without martyrdom, without mission, because it no longer believes the world needs saving from sin.
The Sacred Heart still burns with love for souls. But the new rites, and the new shepherds, seem increasingly content to offer a gospel of pacification. The fire has been dimmed to a flicker. But it has not gone out. Not yet.
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