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Transcription: Fr. Hekwo's Sermon for the 24th Sunday after Pentecost - Stone - 11-11-2024
Fr. Hewko: 24th Sunday after Pentecost
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☩PRAEDICATIO☩ from THE☩TRUMPET | November 5, 2024
Today is the Epistle and Gospel from the 4th Sunday after Epiphany. For today, the 24th Sunday after Pentecost. Here in Tannersville, Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania.
The Epistle is taken from St. Paul's letter to the Romans, Chapter 13: “Brethren, owe no man anything but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet. And if there be any other commandment it is comprised in this word, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The love of our neighbor worketh no evil. Love, therefore, is the fulfilling of the law.”
The Holy Gospel, taken from St. Matthew, chapter 8: “At that time when Jesus entered into the ship, his disciples followed him. And behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the ship was covered with waves. But he was asleep, and they came to him and awaked him, saying, Lord, save us, we perish. And Jesus saith to them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up he commanded the winds in the sea, and there came a great calm. But the men wondered, saying, What manner of man is this? For the winds in the sea obey him.”
Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel.
Listen to the words of Pope Leo XIII: He says, “If the natural law enjoins upon us to love devotedly and to defend the country that gave us birth, very much more is it the urgent duty of Christians to be ever animated by like sentiments towards the Church. For the Church is the holy city of the living God, born of God himself, and by him built up and established. Therefore we are bound to love dearly the country once we have received the means of enjoyment this mortal life affords. But we have a much more urgent obligation to love with ardent love the Church to which we owe the life of the soul, a soul that will endure forever.”
That's Pope Leo XIII, Sapiensa Christiane. And then Pope Pius XI, in his Encyclical Caritate Christi Compulsi, he says, “To create this atmosphere of lasting peace, neither peace treaties, nor the most solemn pacts, nor international meetings or conferences, nor even the noblest and most disinterested efforts of any statesman will be enough, unless in the first place are recognized the sacred rights of natural and divine law.” Pius XI.
So in other words, if the natural law, which is the very bottom of morality, the very basis of morality, if that is violated, you cannot have lasting peace. And we just heard in the Epistle the basics of the natural law.
You shall not commit adultery. When a man is married to another woman, he cannot even think of another woman, nor a woman of another man in their marriage. They cannot even think of that, nor commit adultery, either in thought or actions.
It's against the natural law. It's also against the natural law to kill. Now, there's a legitimate self-defense. There's a legitimate self-defense of one's country. When it's being unjustly attacked, soldiers may rise up to defend their country. These are obvious duties of justice.
But outside of those extraordinary measures, we cannot kill. And abortion, as you know as well as I, I don't need to convince you, abortion is horrible murder. It is against the natural law.
And at any time, the moment there's conception, God infuses the soul. That's a living human being. And God showed this when St. John the Baptist danced in the womb of his mother, St. Elizabeth, when our Lord approached him in the womb of his mother, the Virgin Mary, the new tabernacle of the New Testament.
And St. John the Baptist, in his mother's womb, at about seven or eight months, was jumping with joy. So at any time, from conception to birth, after birth, until old age even, to kill anyone is murder and is against the natural law.
Listen to Pope Leo XIII on his encyclical, Immortale Dei, paragraph 46.
“In these are days as well to revive the examples of our forefathers. First and foremost, it is the duty of all Catholics, worthy of the name, and wishful to be known as most loving children of the Church, to reject without swerving whatever is inconsistent with so fair a title, to make use of popular institutions so far as can honestly be done for the advancement of truth and righteousness. To strive that liberty of action should not transgress the bounds marked out by nature and the law of God. To endeavor to bring back all civil society to the pattern and form of Christianity which we have described.”
So Pope Leo XIII had been describing in this encyclical the urgent necessity that the Church and State work together and that the State cannot be indifferent on religion. The State must profess the true religion.
Otherwise it will be a disaster for the country. So that is our goal as Catholics and not just as Catholics, it's just part of the natural law that we adore the true God and render to Him adoration and obedience and respect His law. And there's law that's His divine law that He revealed through His Holy Catholic Church the one true Church.
And then there is the human law of the civil law which is in accordance with reason, it's supposed to be anyway. Any laws that go against the laws of God are not laws at all. Such as euthanasia, abortion, sodomite parades and all that.
And then there's what's called the natural law and that's what's most attacked today. All the other laws of God are already out the window. The enemies of Christ are now attacking the very natural law.
And that's why we got this perversity, “oh I want to be a girl when I'm a boy, I'm a boy and I want to be a girl”, it's just sick, absolutely perverse. And all the body piercing and tattooing and all this just shows the revival of pagan practices because we've become pagans again. And when you look at history, what did all the pagans do? The Chaldeans, the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Assyrians, the Carthaginians, there was always child sacrifice, always.
Always the murder of children because Satan is bloodthirsty he wants blood and he wants the blood especially of children because he hates their innocence; he hates the fact that they can go to heaven; he hates the fact that our Lord loves children so much. Suffer the little children to come to me for of such is the kingdom of heaven, these little ones, so let's consider the little ones that the church defends. Pope Leo XIII is saying: I continue, “It is barely possible to lay down any fixed method by which such purposes are to be attained because the means adopted must suit places and times widely differing from one another nevertheless, above all things unity of aim must be preserved and similarity must be sought after in all plans of action both these objects will be carried into effect without fail if all will follow the guidance of the apostolic see of tradition of course as the rule of life and obey the bishops of tradition of course whom the Holy Ghost has placed to rule the church of God the defense of Catholicism indeed necessarily demands that in the profession of doctrines taught by the church all shall be of one mind and all steadfast in believing and care must be taken never to connive which is to work with evil in any way at false opinions never to withstand them less strenuously than truth allows, in mere matters of opinion it is permissible to discuss things with moderation but the desire of searching into the truth without unjust suspicion are angry recriminations” and so forth
Pope Leo XIII also stresses that he always stresses over and over again the importance of the state to recognize the natural law, to not violate the natural law to not violate the moral law and again and again and again the most basic moral law is you don't kill your baby in the womb or out of the womb you don't kill them and you don't kill them when they're old age either this is just again as Saint Paul says “the law of God is written in our hearts” nobody needs to be told you don't kill your neighbor everyone knows this is wrong and every woman that aborts her baby she hears the screams of that baby the rest of her life. It will always haunt her although God in his mercy he will always forgive such a crime of a repentant sinner he always will.
But I think we're at the point now where we Catholics we have to make reparation very much reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary because we're on the verge of elections and either candidate either one of them is going to continue the slaughter of the innocents. It's frightening that we have come to this in our country, in any modern country that the only way to be elected is that you want more blood of children. It's frightening that we have come to such a state of degradation and all this blood cries to heaven for vengeance so what do we Catholics do? we must make reparation we must make reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and be prepared to do more and more because whoever gets in and that's decided, as we all know that's decided by the synagogue of Satan they decide who will run this country and we've already seen stolen elections not just in the United States, but in many other countries that's how the communists take over a country they steal elections they rig them, they lie, they cheat that's their method.
But we have come down to a time now where show me any candidate that's pro-life I mean this is just the basic natural law, where is any candidate running for presidency that's pro-life that will at least defend the most basic natural law the right to live as a human being which happens, you're a human being the moment the soul is infused into the mother by the miracle of this conception so in vitro fertilization involves at least for each child that's conceived in the test tube which is already against the natural law and condemned by the Catholic church and even, believe it or not, Pope Francis of all people condemned this because it's such a violent attack against the order that God established. But every IVF victim and child that survives there's always at least 40 to 50 and more abortions involved direct abortions the pill, which both candidates now fully endorse will go on with the bloodshed and the murder into millions and millions and millions.
As one politician told me, he said that with the pill now they're going to end up closing down the buildings to do abortions because the pills will do it early right through the mail and he made the point that these women who take these pills you're going to have some psychotic, crazy women more and more crazy women come down the road because they're going to see the little baby, which the pill has flushed out, they're going to see that little baby and that will always haunt them the rest of their life and into eternity. And if they're repentant, they're going to thank God for His mercy who is all loving and good and will forgive a repentant sinner there's no doubt about that and that goes for the doctors and nurses who are directly involved with abortions if they are sorry and repentant, God will forgive them.
Look at Abby Johnson she did over 20,000 abortions, poor thing but now she's doing everything to make reparations she's gone to confession, she's converted she's become Catholic, she's abandoned this, pray that she comes fully to Catholic tradition but at least she sees this horrendous crime and she's doing everything she can to stop it. Same with Dr. Bernard Nathanson he was the one that many years put out the film called, The Silent Scream, and now we know that the babies in the mother's womb when they're attacked by abortion and pulls off their legs and arms and rips them to shreds the babies are fighting for their life and some of them scream and now it's visible on the ultrasound. That's what converted Abby Johnson when she saw the horror of what she saw happening on the video of the ultrasound scan she was horrified and it changed her.
So again these are just questions of the natural law and we have fallen this low where the sins against the natural law have become the norm so we Catholics must make reparations because either candidate that is picked by the synagogue of Satan either one of them is going to continue the horrible massacre genocide so what do we do? We want to offer the Sacred Heart of Jesus in reparation, we want to pray the rosary every day in reparation and sometimes do extra prayers, extra penance in reparation. When you have the blessed sacrament, go and adore our Lord to make reparation and in this month of November. Go to the cemeteries, pray for the souls in Purgatory, because you can gain a plenary indulgence up until November 8th. You can gain a plenary indulgence for the souls in Purgatory by going to the cemetery and praying 6 Our Father, 6 Hail Mary, 6 Glory Be's for the souls in Purgatory and then add a 7th Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be for the Pope to gain the plenary indulgence. You can do that every day and families should go. In Mexico and in many good Catholic countries that used to be very Catholic this was the month many families just went to go pray the rosary at the cemeteries for the souls in Purgatory.
So that's something we can also do is make reparation because this country as Cardinal Pierre Poitier said once: “You don't want Christ the King and you reject his kingship you reject his laws over the government laws”, that now endorse even at the state level which is horrifying, abortion and all these horrible crimes and full rights for the sodomites and full rights for satanism and any false religion. This means the ruination and the collapse of any country, says Cardinal Pierre. If you will not have the blessings and the prosperity that comes with the social kingship of Jesus Christ you will have to endure the collapse the ruin, the devastation, the catastrophic disaster of rejecting him and that's where we're headed that's where we're headed there's a saying that if God doesn't punish us, the modern world, he owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorra. And our age has fallen worse now than the age of Sodom and Gomorrah. It's plunging fast so we must make reparation to the Heart of Jesus, live in the state of grace, keep the commandments.
And we know there are hundreds and hundreds of prophecies from the Blessed Virgin Mary to many, many saints and mystics who foretell a terrible chastisement on this world which will be one of the worst ever recorded in history, maybe even worse than the flood of Noah maybe even worse worse because one, it won't be by water it'll be by fire and at least by water, you know, when you start drowning you can make an act of contrition before you drown, but with fire, it'll be fast and many will die in mortal sin and that's a tragedy of tragedies. Sister Lucia saw the coming chastisement and she just shuddered in horror but she said that even the worst disaster, she said is that so many souls of children, of married people of boys, girls, men, women priests, bishops, popes go to hell, will go to hell many will be lost, she said and that's the worst disaster is the loss of so many souls.
So we Catholics, we have got to realize we live in Sodom and Gomorrah. It's on the verge of being punished and now we're at the point where there's no more pro-life candidates. There used to always be a pro-life candidate always and the bishops, even Novus Ordo ones and priests, even Novus Ordo ones used to preach you cannot vote pro-abortion you have to vote pro-life, always choose the one pro-life, always, that was always the Catholic position, even by Novus Ordos, and now, where are they? It's frightening that we have come to this, that to get anywhere in politics now, you have to be pro-abortion, which means continue the bloodshed continue the sacrifice of children like they did in the Old Testament giving full grown little babies to Moloch and burn them alive, give them to Satan to burn them alive. And they had to play the drums as Jeremiah shouts out at these people, God will destroy you for killing your young. These sins cry to heaven for vengeance, and then he used to preach to them in the valley of Jopheth. They would pound the drums to hide their conscience and to hide and cover the screams of the dying children which were done very frequently.
So by abortion we have passed it's 4,000 a day at least by abortion and when the pill comes more approved by state level the numbers will just skyrocket into the billions so there's a point when God says enough and we don't know when that is because God, His mercy far outweighs his justice. And we know that from the time he told Noah I'm going to destroy the earth, build the ark here's the instructions, here's the blueprint how many years was it from when he told Noah start building the ark to the actual flood it was 100 years, a whole century, so God is not in a rush to punish.
So while he does not punish us we must make reparation to Him and realize that we don't belong in this world, we should not pick up the spirit of this world and pick up it's fashions, pick up it's ways of thinking, pick up it's ways of speaking pick up it's whole worldly ways of living without prayer, without God, without self sacrifice without ordering our whole life to obedience to God's commandments. The best reparation we can do is to seek God with all our hearts love Him with all our hearts and love His commandments, keep His commandments and the modern world is trying to destroy what's left of God's commandments and make it seem normal to live in mortal sin and Pope Francis, he's added to this he's stacking souls in hell by the hundreds because he now permits giving communion to Catholics who've divorced their husband and wife and remarried and living in adultery and mortal sin and he has no problem giving them communion and approving their lifestyle, same with the rainbow lifestyle so he's just stacking more souls to hell this poor, poor unfortunate man poor unfortunate man so we Catholics, what do we do?
This is the age we must console the Heart of Jesus and Mary and make reparation that is what our lady asked “make reparation to my Immaculate Heart”, pull some thorns out, please and we do this by the daily rosary, keeping the commandments, sanctifying our life devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, doing our duties of state the best we can. We have to make reparation because maybe you're praying the rosary every day and carrying the cross every day when the chastisement does finally hit when it does hit, you might save many souls, you might win for them the grace of conversion and repentance before they die.
On a much happier note today we have the joy of first communion, little Marcella, she will make her first communion and she has a beautiful white dress on she has beautiful white gloves and a beautiful white veil God bless you, Marcella, but what our Lord really wants is your whiteness of soul the purity of our soul that's what He wants that we with all our heart want to love God and all of us with all our heart receive Him in communion asking a burning love of our Lord Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ crucified Jesus Christ showing His heart surrounded by thorns and dripping with blood that's the devotion praised by the Virgin Mary, praised by so many saints praised by the angels who adore the Heart of Jesus the loving Heart of Jesus.
And that's why that vision of Sister Faustina and that painting of the so-called Divine Mercy image, it was condemned by the church and partly because there's no Sacred Heart, there's rays of light from Christ's chest but there's no Sacred Heart and the devil has an immense hatred for devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the church had to defend the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus against the attacks of the Jansenists of the Synod of Pistoia and all the modern liberals who called it ‘excessive or too sentimental’. And it was Pius XII who wrote a great encyclical defending devotion to the Heart of Jesus.
But that image of the Christ without the Sacred Heart that cannot be pleasing to God at all and this was recently promoted as you'll read in The Recusant, Bishop Williamson has been promoting recently some apparition in Texas where they're all about the Divine Mercy and all about Novus Ordo Mass so why is he doing this? I have no explanation, but don't listen to it because it's nonsense and it's deceitful. He knows better, you can read about it in The Recusant. I don't know why he's doing this. Archbishop Lefebvre would never approve of that, that's for sure.
So I remind you little flock here in Pennsylvania and those following the Mass, we have come to the time where we have to expect a terrible chastisement, for sure it's foretold, it's going to happen but we must make reparation because we come to a new dimension of evil where any candidate that gets in is pro-abortion and this is unbelievable that we have come to this. That means we have reached a new depth of depravity which will provoke the anger of God and there's a time when God just says “Enough”, as He's done many times in the history of the world and punished a nation and people. And the Virgin Mary gave us a little glimpse of how serious the Chastisement will be, whatever form it takes: world war, a comet, I don't know but she says “whole nations will be annihilated”. Whole nations blown off the face of the earth.
So Marcella, when you receive our Lord today, ask Him a great love for Him and ask Him to love Him with all your heart and your whole soul and your whole mind, and we must do the same. And ask always to be white, to be pure in your thoughts to be pure in what you see and permit yourself to see, ask yourself always “am I doing my actions alone or in public to please God?”, because our guardian angels always see us when we're alone or when we're in public it doesn't matter, our guardian angels always are with us. So it's always, St. John Bosco's advice was always, behave like you're in the presence of someone else, our guardian angel always, even in our thinking, in our words always so ask this purity of heart, this purity of soul. It is a grace in such an impure world that glories in its shame whose God is its belly and sins below the belly and glories in murdering children for the sake of convenience and pleasure and economic stability, but even that will be taken away
And in this month, in this month, Marcella, think of the souls in Purgatory you're receiving your First Communion in this month of November so maybe that's a little sign of God that you should have a great devotion to the souls in Purgatory, to pray for them also how many are in Purgatory and they can't help themselves but they can help us.
Let me just close with a few examples about Purgatory to inspire you all to pray for the souls in Purgatory this month and go frequently to the cemetery, especially these next eight days and then throughout November pray for the souls and don't forget them. This is taken from the book on Purgatory, a very good book and here's a few examples the angelic doctor St. Thomas Aquinas offered his prayers and sacrifices to God for his sister who had just died when he was professor of theology at the University of Paris. His sister who had just died in Capua at the convent of St. Mary of which she was the abbess, so his sister was a nun, as soon as he heard of her deceased he recommended her soul to God with great fervor. Some days later she appeared to St. Thomas asking him to have pity on her soul and to redouble his prayers because she suffered cruelly in the flames of Purgatory. St. Thomas hastened to offer for her all the satisfaction of his power and solicited also the suffrages of several of his friends so among his friends was St. Albert the Great, St. Bonaventure so he got the monks and the fellow Dominicans to pray and the nuns to pray and thus attained the deliverance of his sister who came herself to announce the happy news of her entering heaven.
Also sometime after this having been sent to Rome by his superiors the soul of this sister appeared to him in all the glory of triumphant joy she told St. Thomas Aquinas that his prayers had been heard that she was freed from suffering and was going to enjoy eternal rest in the bosom of God. Familiarized with these supernatural communications St. Thomas feared not to interrogate the apparition and asked what had become of his two brothers Arnold and Landolph who had died sometime previous. Arnold is in Heaven, replied his sister and there enjoys a high degree of glory for having defended the church and the sovereign Pontiff against the aggressions of the Emperor Frederick. As for Landolph he is still in Purgatory for he suffers much and is greatly in need of assistance. As regards yourself, my dear brother, she added, a magnificent place awaits you in paradise in recompense for all you have done for the Church. Hasten to put the last stroke of the different works which you have undertaken, for you will soon join us.
So St. Thomas at that time was working on the treatise of the Holy Eucharist. History tells us that in fact he lived but a short time after this event. On another occasion the same saint being in prayer at the church of St. Dominic at Naples, saw approaching him brother Romano who had succeeded him at Paris in the chair of theology teaching theology. St. Thomas Aquinas thought at first that he had just arrived from Paris for he was ignorant of his death. He therefore arose and went to meet him, saluted him and asked him about his health and the motive for his journey and brother Romano answered, I am no longer of this world, the religious said with a smile, and by the mercy of God I am already in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude. I come by the command of God to encourage you in your labors and then St. Thomas Aquinas asked immediately, Am I in the state of grace? He answered, Yes dear brother and your works are very agreeable to God. And you, had you to suffer any Purgatory, said St. Thomas. Yes, for 14 days on account of little infidelities which I had not sufficiently expiated on earth. Then St. Thomas whose mind was constantly occupied with questions of theology profited by the opportunity to penetrate the mystery of the beatific vision, but he was answered with this verse of psalm 47 “as we have learned by faith we have seen with our eyes in the city of our God”, saying these words the apparition of brother Romano vanished leaving St. Thomas Aquinas inflamed with the desire of eternal good.
And then so many other stories of saints seeing the souls in Purgatory burning, some of them in ice and encouraging others to pray for them and then many times the souls in Purgatory answer prayers, and they will protect those who pray for them on earth. They will visibly even intercede to protect them so there is one thing we must imbibe in this month of November, that spirit of the church which is to have pity and compassion on the souls in Purgatory.
“What you have done to the least of these”, our Lord says, “you have done to Me”. So remember always the souls in Purgatory and as the Holy Catholic Church enters into this, we are in a storm that has never been seen before and like the Apostles in the boat when Our Lord was sleeping, they came to Him and said, Lord wake up do something because we are drowning the boat is going to flip it is going to be the end of everything what does Our Lord do? He says very calmly, “Oh ye of little faith” and then Our Lord stands up and He commands the winds and the sea and they instantly obeyed His command, and the sailors who were in the ship who were used to reading the clouds, reading the ocean, reading the sea the waves, they never saw anything like this a sudden calm in the storm and this is what our Lord promises through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We are in the worst storm in the history of the Church ever but through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, He will bring the great calm, the great triumph of the Immaculate Heart and that is what we want, that is what we are praying for, that is the candidate we are going to elect for, The Immaculate Heart of Mary to reign over us because only she can help us at this point.
So let's turn to her in the Heart of Jesus with all our heart, all our strength, to come to our assistance, have pity on us, have pity on this nation, have pity on the western world, on the verge of one of the greatest chastisements, and let's console the heart of Jesus and Mary. Help them rescue as many souls as possible from the eternal flames of hell. “O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy.” Amen.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.