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| Cardinal Grech: "Laypeople Should Take Over Some Sacraments" |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-15-2025, 07:00 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Cardinal Grech: "Laypeople Should Take Over Some Sacraments"
gloria.tv | June 13, 2025
"Lay people can and should do more than just the day-to-day running and financial administration of a parish; they can even take over some rituals and sacraments", Maltese Cardinal Mario Grech, head of the ex-synod, told TimesOfMalta.com on 30 May.
He cited a [disastrous] example from Switzerland, where a couple effectively runs a parish with only occasional visits from priests. The couple presides over christenings, funerals and weddings instead of the priest [however, this particular parish is dead and survives only due to compulsory church tax].
"The shortage of vocations can be a grace from God. Some are scandalised by these words because they could prompt the Church to recognise and utilise the diverse gifts present among all Christians, rather than concentrating power solely within the clergy."
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| Satanic Temple to open telehealth abortion clinic in Maine on President Trump’s birthday |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-12-2025, 08:23 AM - Forum: Abortion
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Satanic Temple to open telehealth abortion clinic in Maine on President Trump’s birthday
The telehealth center will offer abortion pills for a flat fee of $91. Patients must be physically located in Maine at the time of consultation and dispensing.
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(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks from original included]) — The Satanic Temple has launched a new abortion-by-mail provider in Maine, expanding its network of telehealth providers offering chemical abortions under the name TST Health.
Set to open June 14 – President Donald Trump’s birthday – the new facility bears a deliberately provocative name, the “President’s Yuge Most Beautiful Tremendous Satanic Abortion Clinic.”
Erin Helian, TST’s executive director, described the operation as a “magnificent, regal birthday present.”
READ: Satanic Temple head: ‘More than 50% of our membership is LGBTQ’
The Maine clinic follows earlier launches in New Mexico and Virginia. It will offer abortion pills for a flat fee of $91. Patients must be physically located in Maine at the time of consultation and dispensing, but all services are conducted via telehealth.
According to TST, the clinic aims to support its “Satanic Abortion Ritual,” a ceremony intended to frame abortion as a religious act.
The ritual, guided by an “ordained minister,” includes affirmations such as “By my body, my blood. By my will, it is done.”
The Satanic Temple describes itself as a non-theistic religious organization, and is formally recognized by the IRS as a church. Its public messaging mixes shock value with advocacy for secular causes, particularly on abortion and contraception access.
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, TST has argued that its abortion ritual merits protection under the First Amendment’s free exercise clause. It recently challenged Idaho’s pro-life laws in a case heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, filed on behalf of its New Mexico-based “Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic.”
The case was dismissed at the district level for lack of standing.
The group says it is “heartbroken” by the closure of abortion clinics nationwide but intends to continue expanding its clinics. Maine currently has loose abortion laws that allow the lethal procedure to be performed past the point of viability when “it is necessary in the professional judgment of a physician,” a loophole that can render the viability restriction practically meaningless.
TST has not disclosed how many abortions it expects to provide in Maine, but said it hopes the new clinic will be part of a “growing network” of telehealth operations across the United States.
Satanic activity in the United States has become increasingly public and aggressive in recent years, with other groups like the Kansas-based Satanic Grotto staging “black masses” and plans to hold more protests involving Wiccans and self-described “witches,” often near state capitols.
These events often target Christian symbols and practices, and have drawn both media attention and backlash from Catholic leaders and lawmakers.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Address to the Forum of the Future 2050 |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-11-2025, 06:15 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Dear Friends,
Allow me to offer my greetings to the civil and religious authorities present today and to thank the organizers of this Forum for the invitation extended to me.
The presence of illustrious scientists, philosophers, intellectuals, and sociologists, leads me to give my intervention an eminently theological imprint. The increasingly frenetic evolution of the events of recent years – precisely because of this race towards the precipice that recalls the Latin saying Motus in fine velocior – certainly requires a great capacity for analysis of contingent facts, but it also requires an overall vision that cannot disregard the spiritual dimension of our being. Without this transcendent vision we exclude the fundamental aspect of our existence as rational creatures, restored to the life of Grace in Baptism and destined to love, adore and serve God our Lord and Creator. Without this transcendent vision, we disregard the ontological reality – which the Most Excellent Prelates of the Orthodox Church share with the Catholic Church – of the universal Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who as true God and true Man is truly Pantocrator, the Sovereign of earthly societies, the Prince of Time and History, the Alpha and Omega.
In this conference many of you will hear proposals and projects for an alternative Great Reset that counters the coup d’état of the globalist elite; for a “world order” based on national sovereignty, on the common good, on the primacy of man over machine, of reason over passions, of the spirit over the body. This new order already exists, and it is new because it is founded on Christ, King and High Priest: it was inaugurated with the Incarnation, accomplished with the Passion and Death of the Savior, crowned with victory with His glorious Resurrection, and has been perpetuated down the centuries through the sanctifying action of Grace through the Sacraments. This “order” – which we could more properly call κόσμος, in opposition to the χάος of the Revolution – is the societas christiana, which the Eastern Roman Empire was able to embody in the sacred vision of Authority, and in the equating of the person of the Emperor – the Cæsar, from which derives the Russian title Czar – with the Apostles, not only due to the prestige of the function of government, but also and above all due to the moral responsibility that rests on rulers. The Sovereign, in the Byzantine Christian vision and then in the medieval European vision, is Christ’s lieutenant, and his authority is exercised within the limits and with the purposes established by Christ. And it is precisely against this fundamental point that the destructive fury of the Revolution has been unleashed: in order to oust the legitimate rulers, to deprive them of the sacredness of their royal Anointing, to make them self-referential and therefore potentially tyrannical. The illusion that the people can govern themselves has served to transfer the exercise of temporal authority into the hands of an elite that is answerable to no one, neither to God nor to the people. And today, amidst the moral rubble of an apostate and rebellious West, which has reached the point of trampling on the most sacrosanct principles of the Natural Law, this subversive élite gathered in very powerful lobbies and in possession of enormous financial resources is preparing to make the citizens’ vote useless and superfluous, after having interfered in electoral processes and subverted the popular will. Emissaries of supranational organizations have infiltrated governments, the heads of institutions, ministries, courts, law enforcement, universities, the world of culture, and even the Church. It is no mystery that they are linked to their masters by very serious conflicts of interest and kept under blackmail because of their corrupt vices and perverse lifestyle. The arrogance of this treacherous political class is justified only by the presumption of impunity and the illusion of being able to escape Justice.
It is not for me, as a Successor of the Apostles, to give indications as to how to solve the problems that loom on the international scene. I can, however, point out to you the infallible principles which our holy religion has shown to be amply valid and tested by the experience of the centuries: they are enunciated in the Gospel, proclaimed in the Divine Liturgy, and depicted in the mosaics of our ancient basilicas, from Hagia Sophia in Constantinople to San Marco in Venice, from Saint Basil in Moscow to Saint Vitale in Ravenna. These principles can be summed up in the image of Christ seated on a throne, with the royal robes, the crown, the scepter and the sphera mundi. The Kingship of Our Lord is the foundation of social order, concord among peoples, the prosperity of nations, and the salvation of the human race. If the work of Satan is so fierce in opposing the Lordship of Christ, it is because it is the true and only bulwark against barbarism and against the establishment of the kingdom of the Antichrist. Where Christian society has been replaced by the ideologies of the world, it is only ruin and destruction. Where Christ reigns, and where the rulers recognize Christ as their King, the Revolution recedes defeated.
You have set yourselves the deadline of 2050: you have twenty-five years to organize a spiritual rebirth that will form the upcoming generations in the Faith and Morals of your fathers. Begin therefore with training, education, schools, and universities: they must be forges in which the ruling class of tomorrow can rediscover the pride of calling itself Christian, a Christian ruling class that lives out in daily life those principles it professes. Protect the natural family, founded on the indissoluble union between man and woman and aimed at procreation and the education of children. Encourage all forms of agriculture, livestock, fishing, crafts, and business that ensure independence and autonomy for families and small communities. Give protection to all those inalienable rights that globalism threatens and tramples on. And punish with the rigors of the Law all those subversive associations and organizations that interfere in the sovereignty of nations: the tolerance shown these cabals of criminals devoted to evil is an unforgivable weakness, especially when they – as we know – attack the very existence of the human race and plan the reduction of the population through wars, famines, epidemics, mass sterilization, and the moral destruction of man.
Restore to Christ the Nations that belong to Him, because only by doing so will you restore that divine Order – the κόσμος – which the Revolution wants to subvert. There can be no peace or justice where the Prince of Peace and the Just Judge do not reign. Believing that we can disregard this reality is an illusion, a chimera that is a prelude to the most terrible failure. The Divine Master taught us: “Without Me you can do nothing” (Jn 15:6). How then will we be able to hope for the end of this infernal nightmare which the globalist elite desires to impose if not by returning to Christ? This epochal battle between Good and Evil, between God and Satan, can only be won if we side with Christ, who on the Cross conquered the world. And in the Cross of Christ – sign of contradiction, scandal for the Jews, foolishness for the Gentiles (1 Cor 1:24) – we will be able to understand that the trials, even terrible ones, to which we are subjected can be the premise of victory, if we know how to face them, not with human strength, but by placing all our hope in the One who is truly Almighty.
On May 29, 1453, Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos defended the walls of Constantinople to the death, besieged by the Turks. This marked the end of the Eastern Roman Empire and, for historians, the end of the Middle Ages. The legacy of Constantinople has partly passed to the Christian Russia of the Tsars, the last victims – along with Charles of Habsburg – of the murderous fury of atheistic materialism and the conspiracy of the Masonic Lodges. But still much of that heritage of faith, culture, history, and heroism remains alive and throbbing: just as the faith of Christians persecuted by the communist regime remained alive and throbbing for seventy years. When we recite the Our Father, we say Thy kingdom come: this is no mere wish, but a program of life, inseparable from Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Because the κόσμος unites earth to heaven, just as Our Lord sums up in Himself the divine nature and the human nature.
I urge you, dear friends, to make my wishes your own. If Christ – the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End – will be the center of your private and public life, you will be able to give concrete application to the principles that inspire you, and you will be able to recognize and effectively combat all that opposes them.
Through the intercession of the Theotokos, Our Lady and Our Queen, Queen of families, of societies, of nations, and of the whole world, I invoke upon all of you the Blessings of the Most Holy Trinity.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
June 10, 2025
Feria III infra Oct. Pentecostes
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily on Pentecost Sunday |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-11-2025, 06:06 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Veni, Sancte Spíritus,
et emítte cǽlitus
lucis tuæ rádium.
Veni, pater páuperum,
veni, dator múnerum,
veni, lumen córdium.
Come, O Holy Spirit: send down from heaven a ray of Your light. Light of Truth of the Father and the Son, Fire of Charity that proceeds from Both, Flame of hope in the midst of tribulations. Make Your heavenly perfections shine on this poor rebellious world, on this Your Church eclipsed by false shepherds and mercenaries, on the faithful and their priests, on every soul that the Eternal Son of the Father, with Your Divine cooperation, has redeemed by Incarnating Himself and facing the Passion for the Redemption of our sins. Make Your Church, today humiliated, once again Domina gentium: let the Light of Truth that Our Lord has ordered her to preach shine forth; let the voice of holy Pastors, Doctors of the Faith, resound once more in the faithful transmission of the unchanged doctrine.
Come, Light of hearts: enlighten the intellect and inflame the heart of pope Leo so that he may no longer be Simon, but Peter. May he recognize and condemn the errors and deviations of the conciliar and synodal church, restoring the Bride of the Lamb to her role as Mother and Teacher of all peoples, the only Ark of Salvation, the only safe harbor in the raging storm. Come, O Paraclete, and make resound from our pulpits what Our Lord taught us: This is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent (Jn 17:3).
Come and guide Leo in the restoration of the Church and the Papacy, so that he may fully exercise the authority that the Supreme and Eternal Pontiff has conferred on Peter and his legitimate Successors. Inspire in him docility to Your counsels, determination to guard and confirm the Flock of the Lord in the unity of the one Catholic and Apostolic Faith, and trust in Your infallible help to face the enemies of Christ, not with human strength, but in the humble following of the Savior and in conformity with His Divine Will.
Come, O Father of the poor: come to fill with Your gifts those who humbly recognize themselves as being in need of everything, those who realistically understand that without Your supernatural light our hearts wander in darkness.
Consolátor óptime,
dulcis hospes ánimæ,
dulce refrigérium.
In labóre réquies,
in æstu tempéries,
in fletu solácium.
Come, Consoler: instill peace in Your faithful, shaken by the storm that rages, in our hearts torn by the Passion that the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ now faces, dragged before a new Sanhedrin, following in the footsteps of the Divine Master. Descend, O Spirit, to dwell in our soul, making it a worthy dwelling place of the Most Holy Trinity. Grant a truce to the suffocating battle that Your servants face daily in bearing witness to the Son, from Whom with the Father You proceed.
Give rest to our labors, coolness in the sultry heat of the desert that we cross on our way toward the heavenly Homeland, and relief to the tears of Your Bride humiliated by unworthy ministers and lukewarm faithful.
You who vomit those who are mediocre from Your mouth (Rev 3:16), compensate with Your Grace for our infidelities, our weaknesses, our hesitations. Make us courageous soldiers of Christ, guide the Ministers of Your Church so that they may be an example to us and not a scandal, and so that they may allow themselves to be guided by You on the path of eternal salvation along with the flock that the Lord has entrusted to them.
O lux beatíssima,
reple cordis íntima
tuórum fidélium.
Sine tuo númine,
nihil est in hómine
nihil est innóxium.
You who are the purest light that leads to the glory of Heaven, fill the hearts of Your faithful, so that we recognize that without You, without Your protection, we are nothing, and nothing in us is without fault. In the midst of our present trials, in the pressing siege of a world hostile to the True and the Good, renew in us and in the entire ecclesial body the certainty of the final victory, and the awareness that the Cross that Our Lord has assigned to us can be carried only with Your help, only with Your Grace.
Lava quod est sórdidum,
riga quod est áridum,
sana quod est sáucium.
Flecte quod est rígidum,
fove quod est frígidum,
rege quod est dévium.
Wash away the sins with which the Pastors of Your Church are stained; irrigate Her parched clods with the regenerating water of Your Grace and with the zeal of holy preachers of the Gospel; heal the bleeding wounds that afflict Her because of the infidelity of Her Hierarchy and its members. Bend, O Paraclete Spirit, the stiffness of our necks, too often inclined to compromise; warm our hearts hardened by the chill of insensitivity and selfishness; give support to our weaknesses, restoring by Grace the Divine Order that our sins have shattered.
Purify the ecclesial body, O Consoling Spirit. Cleanse the filth that disfigures the face of Your Bride; eradicate the errors and deviations that frustrate Her mission; restore to Her the triple crown that encircles Her head, the scepter of Her Apostolic mission, the authority and authoritativeness of her Apostles.
Da tuis fidélibus,
in te confidéntibus,
sacrum septenárium.
Da virtútis méritum,
da salútis éxitum,
da perénne gáudium. Amen.
Grant to your faithful, who place their hopes in you, the supernatural help of your Gifts. Grant the recognition of merit for our good deeds, the grace of eternal salvation in abandoning this valley of tears, the joy of blessedness in contemplating the Most Holy Trinity. And, just as after the humiliation and torments of the Passion the Victorious Savior rose from the dead, so now may the passio Ecclesiæ that leads her to Calvary soon turn into triumph and glory, showing again to the people the true face of the Mother of the Saints, image of the Supernal City (A. Manzoni).
Come, Divine Consoler: descend on the Font in which souls are reborn to the life of your Grace. Descend upon your Priests, and confirm with your power what their hands bless; cleanse the souls they absolve; accompany in their agony the dying who entrust themselves to you. Descend upon Christian spouses, who today are exposed to the fierce attack of the enemy: inspire in them the determination to protect and educate their children in Your Holy Law. Descend upon our altars, O Sanctifying Spirit: descend and make the Holy Sacrifice offered by your Ministers acceptable to the Most Holy Trinity. Come and bless the offering and the expiation that they raise to the Divine Majesty on behalf of Your holy people.
Come, O Holy Spirit: fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the Flame of Your Charity. You who are Infinite Charity that proceeds from the Father and the Son. To you, the One and Only Trinity, be honor and glory forever and ever. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
8 June MMXXV
Dominica Pentecostes
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| New York legislature passes bill to legalize assisted suicide |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-11-2025, 06:01 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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New York legislature passes bill to legalize assisted suicide
New York’s ‘Medical Aid in Dying’ Act would let patients who are deemed ‘terminally ill’ obtain euthanasia drugs with the approval of two doctors.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul
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Jun 10, 2025
ALBANY (LifeSiteNews [Slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — The New York legislature has given final approval to a bill to make New York the latest state to allow assisted suicide, requiring only far-left Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature to become law.
The so-called “Medical Aid in Dying Act” would allow patients given a prognosis of six months or fewer to live to be prescribed euthanasia drugs, upon affirmation by two doctors that they have “decision-making capacity.”
“I’m overjoyed that the Senate is now joining the Assembly in passing the Medical Aid in Dying Act — a truly historic and compassionate step forward for New York,” said Assembly sponsor Amy Paulin of the bill, which has the endorsement of the Medical Society of the State of New York, New York State Academy of Family Physicians, the New York State Psychiatric Association, the New York State Nurses Association, the New York State Bar Association, and Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York.
“After more than a decade of advocacy, we are finally on the brink of giving terminally ill New Yorkers the autonomy and dignity they deserve at life’s end,” Paulin, a staunchly pro-abortion Democrat, said.
Many have a considerably more negative view, with the New York Post editorial board urging Hochul to veto and warning that the bill contains “no real mechanism for tracking how many deaths it brings: Some commissioner is supposed to review a ‘sample’ of patient medical records and produce a yearly report to the Legislature on how it’s going; that’s it.”
“Beyond the details, this is fundamentally about a reinvention of the medical profession: Out goes ‘do no harm,’ in comes a ‘calculation’ as to whether a given life is still worth living,” it continues. “With the state, and insurance companies, having a clear financial interest in ending ‘marginal’ lives and those whose care costs ‘too much.’”
Last month, Bishop Joseph Strickland reminded New York that “[t]rue compassion does not eliminate suffering by eliminating the one who suffers. Rather, it means walking with the sick and dying and offering authentic palliative care, emotional support, and spiritual accompaniment. It is in these moments – when we are most vulnerable – that we must be reminded that our worth is not measured by our health, our productivity, or our independence, but by the fact that we are beloved children of God who are made in His image and likeness.”
Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF) executive director Matt Vallière recently described how current euthanasia programs in the United States constitute discrimination against patients with life-threatening conditions in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, as when a state will “will pay for every instance of assisted suicide” but not palliative care, “I don’t call that autonomy, I call that eugenics.”
Live Action’s Bridget Sielicki further notes that “because a paralytic is involved, a person can look peaceful, while they actually drown to death in their own bodily secretions. Experimental assisted suicide drugs have led to the ‘burning of patients’ mouths and throats, causing some to scream in pain.’ Furthermore, a study in the medical journal Anaesthesia found that a third of patients took up to 30 hours to die after ingesting assisted suicide drugs, while four percent took seven days to die.”
With the addition of New York, 12 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia will allow assisted suicide, according to the Post. Another bill to legalize euthanasia recently failed in Maryland, however.
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| Muslim prayer event in front of Montreal cathedral drowned out by church bells |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-11-2025, 05:58 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Muslim prayer event in front of Montreal cathedral drowned out by church bells
A video has gone viral that shows the people continuing to pray, but they can no longer be heard.
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Jun 10, 2025
MONTREAL (LifeSiteNews [Slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) – After a group of Muslims staged a prayer event in front of one of Canada’s main Catholic cathedrals, church bells soon drowned them out.
A video of the event has now gone viral. The video, posted originally on June 8 by user Mariffe that has been shared widely online, shows a group of Muslims in Montreal praying in front of one of Montreal’s cathedrals. When the church bells ring, the people in the video continue to pray but can no longer be heard.
The video of the event, which happened over the weekend, has close to 35,000 views as of publication time.
It is not clear why the people were praying at that exact spot in Montreal. However, it has become commonplace for Muslims to hold mass prayers in public places in Canada and notably in Europe.
Some asked in the comments if the praying was reversed, that is, if Christians chose to pray in front of a mosque, would they be tolerated?
“Don’t we have anti-loitering laws in Canada? If yes, why aren’t they enforced? Would Christians be treated the same way if they decided to pray in front of mosques across Canada?” X user Silvia Pencak observed regarding the video.
One X user simply offered a prayer after viewing the video, writing, “Our Lady, Queen of Heaven, defend your Son’s Church! Jesus Christ, our Lord, send your angels to defeat the powers of darkness that encircle this Montreal parish.”
The reality of Quebec, however, is that despite being historically a mostly Catholic province, plummeting birth rates have resulted in Christianity slowly taking a back seat to other religions.
Since Vatican II, Mass attendance has plummeted and the provinces birth rate has nosedived to all-time lows. The province also has high abortion and euthanasia numbers, indicating a serious departure from the practice of the Catholic faith.
New Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite being a practicing yet pro-abortion Catholic, recently sparked controversy after suggesting that “Muslim values” are “Canadian values,” with many pointing out that Canada is a nation founded by Christians, not Islam.
The provincial government has gone after public displays of faith, but it remains to be seen how equally such laws would be enforced.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, the province is moving ahead to expand its so-called religious symbols’ ban to now include all school staff, meaning no one who works at a school would be allowed to wear crucifixes or crosses of any kind.
Premier François Legault in December 2024 tasked his top cabinet officials with putting in place a law that would ban all praying in public in Canada’s only historically and culturally Catholic province.
Canada is historically a nation founded on Christian ideals and principles. European settlers who came to Canada from France and then later from what is the modern-day United Kingdom were Christian and included missionaries who tried to spread Christian beliefs to the local Indigenous populations.
Canada has observed Christmas since 1641, well before its official founding, according to historical records.
Under the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada let in a record number of immigrants, many from Muslim nations.
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| How Gregorian Chant Benefits the Health of the Body…and Soul |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-11-2025, 05:53 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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How Gregorian Chant Benefits the Health of the Body…and Soul
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John Horvat II [Slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original] | June 2, 2025
One longstanding Church practice oriented to the worship of God has been the chanting of psalms and hymns. From the earliest times, monks engaged in liturgical chanting that complemented their often grueling lives. These monks managed to accommodate hours spent in choir while providing for their material needs.
French author, Dr. Alftred Tomatis, tells the fascinating story of how he discovered the “secret” of the monks’ vigor amid their rigorous schedule.
Dr. Tomatis, an ear specialist, recounts how a particular French monastery had followed St. Benedict’s rule for centuries, which entailed several hours of chant a day.
After the Second Vatican Council in the sixties, the monks changed their centuries-old practices. They stopped chanting in Latin and explored the possibility of continuing their chant in the vernacular. When no agreement was reached on how to do this, they decided to stop chanting altogether and replace it with more updated and perhaps more “pastoral” ministries in line with the reforms.
The new schedule had major consequences on the lives of the monks. For centuries, Benedictines have thrived with little sleep. These monks now became fatigued and listless. Even when given more hours of sleep, they continued to be constantly tired.
A decision was made to change the centuries-old vegetarian diet to include meat in the hopes of giving the monks more energy. However, their health did not improve. There seemed to be no way to find the cause of their problems, and the proposed solutions only seemed to make matters worse.
At this point, Dr. Tomatis visited the monastery to test the monks’ hearing. He was surprised to see that many of them suffered from hearing impediments. Upon examining the sequence of changes, he determined the only change related to hearing was the cessation of chanting the psalms together in choir.
He recommended that the chanting resume to see if their conditions might change.
When the monks returned to their old routine of chanting the hours of the office, they experienced an amazing transformation. Most of them became energized and could function again with little sleep. They did not need the new diet. Gregorian chant sufficed to fix their health problems.
In an interview on a Canadian radio station, Dr. Tomatis explained what had happened from his professional perspective. He has long studied the effects of sounds and frequencies on a person. He said the cerebral cortex can become “charged” or positively stimulated by sounds like Gregorian chant.
Thus, he held that the daily chanting sessions brought energy to the monks’ bodies and minds. The regularity and rhythms of the chants have an impact that orders the monk and allows him to do extraordinary things.
Of course, the physical effects of the music are only part of the story. However, it is a fascinating part in an unbelieving world that values only material benefits. Other experts have also studied the effects of chant and found that it can lower blood pressure and help reduce anxiety and depression.
However, the real story is the spiritual impact of the chanting upon the soul. Such music is supernatural in that it lifts the person up toward heaven and the things of God. Its beauty fills the souls with admiration and love of God. When the practices of Faith put the soul in order, the body naturally becomes ordered.
The real conclusion from this story is not how Gregorian chant can serve as a health aide. It is that putting the soul in order should be the first priority. Afterward, everything falls into place.
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Posted by: Deus Vult - 06-10-2025, 10:54 PM - Forum: Appeals for Prayer
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Dear friends,
In your charity and kindness, please keep Fr. Hewko's mother, Mrs. Lucette Hewko in your prayers. She is in the hospital with a broken hip and bleeding on the brain.
Litany of the Sick
(For Private Devotion)
Lord, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of heaven,
Have mercy on us. *
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, *
God the Holy Ghost, *
Holy Trinity, one God, *
Jesus, Who art near to all those who invoke Thee, *
Jesus, Who through mercy helpest all who confide in Thee, *
Jesus, Who didst go to seek and cure the sick, *
Jesus, Who didst stay up the weak and suffering, *
Jesus, Who dost refresh those who labor and are heavily burdened, *
Jesus, Who didst console the stricken hearts, *
Jesus, Who didst raise the dead unto life, *
Jesus, Who didst bear all our pains, *
Be merciful, spare us, O Jesus.
Be merciful, hear us, O Jesus.
From all evil,
Deliver us, O Jesus. **
From all sin, **
From all diseases and infirmities, **
From impatience and despondency, **
From the snares of the devil, **
From a sudden and unprovided death, **
From eternal damnation, **
Through Thy toils and hardships, **
Through Thy affliction and tears, **
Through Thine agony and bloody sweat, **
Through Thy holy wounds, **
Through Thy precious blood, **
Through Thy Passion and cross, **
Through Thy bitter death, **
Through Thy glorious resurrection, **
Through Thy marvellous ascension, **
In the Day of Judgment, **
We, poor sinners, beseech Thee, hear us.
That Thou wouldst spare us,
We beseech Thee, hear us. ***
That Thou wouldst pardon us, ***
That Thou wouldst bring us to true penance, ***
That Thou wouldst give us a contrite heart, ***
That Thou wouldst strengthen us in our weakness, ***
That Thou wouldst preserve us in patience, ***
That Thou wouldst relieve our pains, ***
That Thou wouldst restore us to health of body and soul, ***
That Thou wouldst grant us perseverance in good, ***
That Thou wouldst grant us a happy death, ***
That Thou wouldst receive our spirit into Thy hands, ***
That Thou wouldst preserve us from the fire of purgatory, ***
That Thou wouldst bring us to the joys of heaven, ***
Son of God, ***
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us,
Christ, graciously hear us.
Lord, have mercy on us,
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Our Father (secretly).
V. And lead us not into temptation,
R. But deliver us from evil. Amen.
V. Save, O Lord, Thy servants.
R. Who hope in Thy mercy.
V. Lord, hear our prayer.
R. And let our cry come unto Thee.
Let us Pray:
O Heavenly Father, have mercy on Thy servant, who is sick. Confirm him [her] in faith, strengthen his [her] hope, fill him [her] with the fire of Thy love. Give him [her] enduring patience, that he [she] may victoriously go through the fight and suffer everything for Thy greater glory and the salvation of his [her] soul. Lessen his [her] pains, forgive him [her] his [her] sins, and bring him [her] to life everlasting. Through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, assist me in my last agony.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul in peace with you.
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