Transcription: Fr. Hekwo's Sermon for the Feast of the Annunciation [2025]

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Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
03/25/2025
Father Hewko

Transcription gratefully copied from The Catholic Trumpet [Slightly adapted and reformatted] | April 2, 2025

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.

I wish all of you the many graces and joys and blessings of this beautiful feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is March 25th, 2025. On this day in 1991, Archbishop Lefebvre died. This day is very special because today is the day Our Lord Jesus Christ became priest. He was ordained a priest today. He was also consecrated King, the King of all the universe, the King of all nations, the King of all men, the King of all the angels and devils. He's King. Jesus Christ was made priest and King, and He also received today His body and soul. And that means His human nature was assumed by the divine person. The divine person is God the Son, who is equal with the Father and the Holy Ghost. And it was God the Son who said to the Father, “I will come.”

Sacrifices and oblations you did not want. You did not want the blood of animals, goats and lambs and rams, because blood of animals doesn't do anything except inspire contrition for sin. And that was the Jewish sacrifices, which in their blindness, open brackets, in their blindness, the poor Jews are trying to resurrect the temple, the old temple, and they want to resurrect the Old Testament sacrifices. So they have their red cow ready and their red heifer and poor things, their blindness, poor, poor souls. So we pray for their conversion. And in their blindness, they want to resume all these Old Testament ceremonies, which are long dead.

And for Catholics to participate in any of the Jewish ceremonies, or any Protestant ceremonies, or Mormon or Muslim [ceremonies], is a serious betrayal to Jesus Christ. It is a mortal sin against the first commandment. And you have Pope Benedict XVI lighting the candles of the Jews. You have Pope John Paul II who prayed with the Jews in the synagogue while they were singing that they're still waiting for the Messiah to come. Their Messiah will come. It's the Antichrist. And that's why the Antichrist will be near once they start doing these sacrifices and rebuild their temple. They're really pushing fast forward for this. So are we drawing close to that hour of the Antichrist who will reign for three and a half years, seduce the whole population. All the nations will fall for him. Even the Muslims will adore him as God. The Jews, of course. And many Catholics who have been watered down and eroded by years of the New Mass and the scandals of Vatican II and its new heresies and errors. Many Catholics will fall for the Antichrist. Many will.

So that is the Old Testament priesthood. It's finished. It's done. It's long done. That's why the curtain in the temple was ripped in half from top to bottom, which was 60 feet high of heavy material. Only the hand of God could do this. And it was to show the death of the Jewish ceremonies. It's finished. So it's kind of laughable that they want to resurrect an old beaten skeleton and it will never come to life.

So this is the day Christ assumed the human nature. This is called the Hypostatic Union. It's a big word, but it has to be a big word to be precise. It's a Greek word, hypostasis, which means “the person of God assumed the human nature”. So the imagery you could put is the imagery from Scripture, which is the anointing of Aaron. When the priest was anointed, he would strip to his waist and they would pour down over his head a big vial of oil. And the oil would drip all down his face, down his beard, down his shoulders and bare chest, down to his toes, to show that the whole man was consecrated a priest of the Old Testament. And this prefigures Jesus Christ, who was by the Hypostatic Union, soaked in the oil of the living God, so that every thought, word, action, every sigh of Jesus Christ was an act of God. And it wasn't just a person of man, it was a person of God, but with our body, who would share our nature. As Saint Paul says, he took up and assumed everything in us, hunger, thirst, fatigue, sleep, eating, drinking, but not sin, not sin.

So this Hypostatic Union means also that today is when Jesus Christ took on a human heart in the womb of the Virgin Mary. His heart will be a tiny little dot and it will grow and grow and start beating. The first time the heart of Jesus starts beating in the womb of the Virgin Mary and her Immaculate Heart beats with her son's. It's the first time Our Lord Jesus Christ will assume a face, a face that would be designed by God. So that's why Our Lord Jesus Christ, His face is the most handsome, the most perfectly built. The Holy Ghost will chisel and form His body, which will be, as Saint Thomas Aquinas says, “the most perfect instrument for our Redemption.” His nervous system will be far keener than the average man in order to suffer for us. So His nervous system was sharp, fine-tuned. His skeletal system was perfectly built. His muscular system was perfectly built. Everything [about] Our Lord was chiseled to perfection. He was the perfect perfection of man.

And then He left us the image of His face in the Shroud of Turin. But it's not, we would say, a most handsome face, although you do see His majesty and His handsomeness come through the divinity and the peace of His face. But what face did He leave us? It's the face of Our God beaten and swollen. His cheek is swollen. His nose is busted. His lips are swollen from thirst. His beard has all [these] blotches from being ripped out. It's a beaten face. It's a spit on face. It's a face that we contributed [by] humiliating [Him] by our sins. So today is the day Jesus Christ, the living God, took on the face and the head of man. It is the first time God, from all eternity, He never had hands and feet. This will be the day the living God will take hands and feet in order to be nailed to the cross. God taking on our hands and feet to be butchered to the cross. And such is His love for us that for all eternity, God will always keep the human body. Jesus Christ, the King, His body is always forever in Heaven, always showing His wounds to the Father and showing the wealth of His spoils, which is all the souls that will enter Heaven. The saints, the innumerable number of saints, their robes [were] “washed in the blood of the Lamb”, as Saint John describes in the Apocalypse. So it's a beautiful thought that for all eternity, God and the Son never had a body from all eternity. But from now on, since today, He will have a body for all eternity. That shows the absoluteness of God's love for us, that he will become one of us and stay one of us forever. The body of Jesus Christ, the King. So he will have hands and feet for the first time.

And today, He will be called “Savior” for the first time, because He can only save us by redeeming us by His blood. Without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin. Today, He's called “Redeemer” for the first time, because He's here to redeem us in the womb of the Virgin Mary in Nazareth. Today, He can be called “Mediator”, because He takes on our flesh, and He's also the victim. Every priest must offer some sacrifice. A priest without sacrifice is a joke. It's laughable. That's why Protestantism is such a joke. It's so empty. Anglicanism and all religions that have no sacrifice. Muslims don't have a sacrifice. It's not a religion. Mormonism has no sacrifice. You cannot really call it a religion. At most, you can call it a psychosis. That's it, or an idea. A religion must entail sacrifice, priesthood, and a victim that's killed, that's consumed either in fire or by the fire of love on the cross. So, the only true religion that has the continual priesthood of Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice, and the victim in the Mass is Our Lord Jesus Christ in this holy Catholic religion that he founded.

So, on this day, Archbishop Lefebvre died, and it's also traditionally the day of the Crucifixion and death of Christ. Today was it. Today is, in fact, March 25th, the feast day of St. Dismas, the good thief. This is when he entered into Limbo, and when Our Lord arrived there shortly after, he turned Limbo into a Heaven, a true paradise. “This day, you'll be with me in paradise, ”because limbo was turned into paradise, as the fathers of the Church teach, because Our Lord allowed the souls in Limbo the Beatific Vision. They could see the Holy Trinity from then on, and they will enter [with] Our Lord into Heaven 40 days after His Resurrection, on the Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven.

Let me just draw from Archbishop Lefebvre, speaking of this:

“The Church cannot do without the Sacrifice of the Altar. Look at the beauty of the churches that have been built. Rev. Fr. Abbott has just been telling me that in this church”, this is a sermon given on September 8th, 1975, and Mariazell in Austria, Archbishop Lefebvre is preaching, “that at least the origin of this church,” that he's in “dates from the beginning of the 9th century. How many generations have come to this Church of Mariazell to pray and offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to participate in the Sacrifice of the Mass offered by the priests? It is the life of the Church, the altar of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We must therefore have profound Faith in the action which takes place on the altar through the mouth of the priest. When the priest pronounces the words of Consecration, Our Lord, as on the cross, returns to the altar to offer His sacrifice, which continues yet on for the remission of our sins. That is the heart of the Mass. That is [what] the Blessed Virgin Mary teaches us. That is what the apostles teach us. You have learned from your catechism that the Sacrifice of the Altar is a real sacrifice, and that it differs from the Sacrifice of the Cross, only because in that, the Sacrifice of the Cross, there is shedding of blood, and in the Sacrifice of the Mass, there is no shedding of blood. That is the only difference between the Sacrifice of the Cross and the Sacrifice of the Altar. That is why we venerate the Sacrifice of the Altar. It is all there in Catholic doctrine. Everything is gathered into this small and immense reality of the Sacrifice of the Mass, because if there is a sacrifice, the victim must be present. If there is no victim present, there is no sacrifice. Hence, Our Lord must be present, since He offers Himself in sacrifice. Let us not say, therefore, that the Sacrifice of the Mass is simply a commemorative meal, or a meal of remembrance, a memento only of what Our Lord did at the Last Supper. It is all a blasphemy against the teaching of the Church, against what Our Lord Jesus Christ did, and what He meant to do. All that ruins the priesthood. What is it? The New Mass ruins the priesthood. The priest is not merely the president at a commemorative meal. The priest offers sacrifice. The priest is he who brings down upon the altar the victim present, really present, upon the altar. In that you behold all the greatness of the priest, who must be endowed with a special character, that he may offer the sacrifice, who must bear for all eternity a mark on his soul, to offer this sacrifice, who must remain a virgin, celibate, since for him it is a great marvel to bring God down from Heaven to earth, to bring Our Lord Jesus Christ into the Holy Eucharist by his words, by his lips. It is understandable that the priest should be a virgin, that he should not marry, that he should be virgin like the Virgin Mary. That is why the priest is a celibate and not because he is overburdened with the demands of his apostolate. All the greatness of the Sacrifice of the Mass arises simply from the fact that it is a real sacrifice. It is the Sacrifice of Calvary. That is what our forefathers have always believed. That is what the Church has always believed. We cannot change or alter that Faith by one iota. If we vary, if we change the forms, if we now say we are offering a Eucharist, we are holding a Eucharistic feast, we are having a supper, we are becoming Protestants and we are losing the whole reality of the Catholic Church, which rests on that truth. There is no longer a Catholic Church if there is no longer a Sacrifice of the Mass. There is no longer a Catholic Church if there is no longer a priest endowed with the character for the offering of the Holy Sacrifice.”

So what does that tell you when under Pope Paul VI in 1968, they actually changed the rite of ordination and changed several words and one of them is changing “ut” to “et”. And you might think, “well, what is the big deal? It is only two letters.” But many theologians, good theologians say it changes the whole meaning of what the priest is supposed to do. And that is why Pope Leo XIII condemned the Anglican ordinations as all invalid because it no longer expressed what the priest was supposed to do to offer sacrifice. And that is exactly what happened with the New Mass changes in 1968 for the ordination of the priest. So that is why it is not too rash to say there is an objective doubt to the new ordination of the Novus Ordo priest. It is objective.

And it is not for me to settle. It is for the Church to settle whether it all is valid or not. But one thing Archbishop Lefebvre did do, many times, was conditionally ordain priests who were ordained in the Novus Ordo because there was an objective doubt. And if he is not a priest, there is no Mass, no forgiveness of sins, he cannot give anything validly.

So what a triumph for the devil to cause invalid priests, very possibly, and therefore invalid sacraments. It is a very serious attack on the Church, this Novus Ordo changing of the sacraments. It is a direct attack on the Catholic Faith. So Archbishop Lefebvre defended the Catholic priesthood, he defended the Catholic Mass, he defended the Holy Sacrifice of the altar, he defended everything on which hinges all the Catholic Faith to continue. And that is why we must simply continue. Simply continue his position which is keep the Faith, keep the true Mass, keep the true sacraments, no compromise with Vatican II, no compromise with the New Mass, with the new Code of Canon Law, with this new Conciliar Church. And that is why we have to oppose the compromise of Bishop Fellay back in 2012. That is why we have had to stood up and oppose the compromises of Bishop Williamson in his lifetime. Towards the end of his life, he was promoting the New Mass quite heavily, and New Mass miracles. So pray for his soul. And then, of course, we must resist all compromise.

And many Catholics right now, you know, there is so much confusion, so much loss of Faith, so much scandal from Rome that has lost the Faith. What do we do? Well, Saint Vincent Lérin and Archbishop Lefebvre, they always said, “stay with what the Church has always done.” You cannot go wrong with holding the Faith of all the Popes before Vatican II, holding the Mass of all time, holding the Catholic Tradition. And that means not only holding definitions in books, but we must live the charity of Jesus Christ. Love Jesus Christ, the King. Love Him with all our heart, with all our whole being. Have the spirit of the martyrs. This is what's demanded of us in these days, is the spirit of the martyrs, that we have that spirit of the martyrs, which is one of extraordinary charity for God, and extraordinary charity for our neighbor. And that must shine in our lives, the charity of God and the charity of our neighbor.

That's what people used to say about the Catholics in the early Church. The pagans would look at them and know them and see their lives and say, “look at those Catholics. Look how they live. They have such love for one another. And even us pagans, they treat us as brothers and sisters when we need help.” And that shined in the early Catholics, and it needs to shine always, always in us.

So let's beg the Virgin Mary on this beautiful feast. You know, outside on [this day] in Nazareth, there was no comets, no asteroids, there was no fireworks, there was no sudden darkness or extended daylight. It was just a normal day in Nazareth. If you lived in Nazareth, just a few blocks down from where Our Lady was, you wouldn't have noticed anything different. It was just a normal day. But yet in that house of Loreto, it's called the House of Loreto, which the angels carried to Italy later, and the angels did carry it. They did all kinds of engineering and structural and physical and chemistry studies on the House of Loreto. And they say there's no way it was disassembled and put back together. It's not possible because it's made of all tiny rocks. The house was carried by angels, but I won't go into that story here. But just to say that house was where God became man. And if you lived in Nazareth, it wouldn't have been anything out of the ordinary [kind of] day. God worked the greatest miracle in a quiet way. And that's kind of how He was born, wasn't it? In Bethlehem, it was just another day in Bethlehem when He was born. But there were angels, there were shepherds, but for the townspeople, there was nothing all that much going on. So God often works quietly in a barn, in a little house, on a humble altar, the same reality takes place- God comes down on the altar, and a more extraordinary miracle, we could say, takes place. He doesn't become a little infant in Mary's womb. He becomes the Living Bread from Heaven, and the wine is changed to His most Precious Blood. So that's even a more extraordinary miracle, every single Mass.

And then [He] feeds you, feeds you with His body, blood, soul, and divinity, such as the love of the Sacred Heart. He feeds you with His burning heart. You eat fire. When you go to Communion, you eat fire. You consume Him, but He consumes us so that we can become one flame with Him by love of God, by charity with Him, by Sanctifying Grace. He wants this. So He wants to draw us, so this burning fire burns in us hotter and hotter, more intensely, especially when we unite ourselves with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that when we die, this burning fire of Sanctifying Grace turns into the Beatific Vision. And that's what enables the soul to see God as He really is, is Sanctifying Grace. And even if the soul has to pass through some fires of Purgatory, they're at great peace, and they're happy because they know they're going to Heaven. They're just being purged of all their sins on earth, or forgiven sins not yet sufficiently atoned for. But once they leave Purgatory, they love God and are burning in fire for the love of Him, and they will behold Him face to face for all eternity. So this is the day it all started. This is the day.

And traditionally this is also the day Adam and Eve fell. They fell on this day. So God came down to restore. How did He restore everything? What was the crack of dawn that announced the new day, the new age, which will be forever, the true golden age of the Redemption? It started with Mary, the Virgin Mary, and the angel telling her, “Ave Maria, Ave Maria.” “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.” This is Our Lady's favorite prayer, so remember that when we pray her rosary every day. We honor her. So let's honor the Virgin Mary and beg her the grace to love the Mass, the re-enactment of Calvary. Love the Catholic priesthood.

Pray for your priests. Pray for priests in purgatory. Pray for priests on earth. Pray for fallen priests. Pray for all the fake resistance priests and bishops, that they wake up and start fighting the real fight and speak in the real truth. Pray for Novus Ordo priests, that they get conditionally ordained and become good priests. Pray for all compromising priests, especially the new SSPX. Many of them who were in my class, good priests in all those before us, they were all trained as crack troops to fight modernism. They were all trained like navy seals to fight the errors of our time. So what would it take to muffle them? What would it take to turn them from boxers in the ring taking on anybody to little mice on the sidelines afraid to say anything that might be uncomfortable or get them in a little trouble because it's the truth? Well, it took the leader to compromise, Bishop Fellay, and he did. It was a serious compromise, and it was public in 2012. It's not something hidden and, you know, little false accusations here or there, they publicly did it, [its] called the Doctrinal Declaration, and then the ongoing approvals with Rome, jurisdiction for confession, jurisdiction for marriages, jurisdiction for Holy Orders, and it puts them in a terrible position.

They should never have done this because now, and I hear this often now, Father, I call the priests of the society, “My grandmother's dying. Can you come and bring her Extreme Unction?” Or “my friend is dying.” Before 2012, any priest of the SSPX would just drop what they're doing, take a car or a flight, and go to that soul. It doesn't matter who it was because it's a dying person, and we have universal jurisdiction because it's the extreme necessity in the Church, the crisis of the Church, but now that they have so-called “jurisdiction”, thanks to Pope Francis and the recognition from Rome, now the priests, they can't say, “Okay, I'll be right there,” although some will still do that because they have good hearts and they have priestly hearts, but now the trend is more and more rising. “Sorry, are you a parishioner?” “No.” “Well, sorry, we can't come. Sorry, we can't help you. You've got to be a parishioner. You've got to be a registered parishioner. That's what the bishop wants.” Click. So what a terrible situation.

So that's what this jurisdiction has done. It has bound them in a way to muzzle them, to silence them, and they succeeded [in this]. Pope Benedict XVI succeeded to bring [about] the silencing of the SSPX, which used to be the powerhouse of the church. It used to be a great infantry, a great phalanx, a great army of priests preaching the Faith fearlessly with good bishops. But how did all this compromise happen? Very slowly, very weasley, very compromisingly.

So we've got to pray for them too in this Mass. Pray for all priests. Pray for all priests. And lastly, pray for this humble home, the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary, a house of studies, where priests, if God wills, are starting to be formed. We have two right now, and next month we'll probably have perhaps one, one and a half, one or two more. We have some young men visiting, and in the fall, I understand, some more hope to come. We'll see.

And I just put it all in Our Lady's hands. But at least we got to do something to try to form priests for tomorrow. I shouldn't be doing it. It should be the bishops. But we're in such an emergency situation. Father Ruiz tells me, “You've got to start the seminary, our house of studies for priests. You've got to do it.” But Father, I'm useless. I'm not a bishop. Who's going to ordain our boys? “Don't worry. That's in God's hands. And just do what we can.” So we leave that in Our Lady's hands. So pray for the young men studying. Pray for the brothers that will come, priests, hopefully. Who will ordain them? That's one of the biggest mockery that we have. “You don't have a bishop.” That's what Father Chazal told me when we told him, “You're silent against Bishop Williamson's errors. You should be condemning his compromises with the New Mass and pushing the New Mass miracles. But you're silent.” And Father Chazal said, “Well, at least I have a bishop and you don't.” Well, he has bishops, yes. But at what price? Silence against errors. Sorry, Father Chazal. You know better than that. And Father Chazal is a great priest. He's a great warrior. But he knows he should not be silent on these points. He knows that. I know him well. And I think he still can shine yet bright and come back to the great soldier he always was.

So pray. And who's going to be our bishop? I don't know. God knows. Our Lady knows. There is some hope with Bishop Ballini. He seems very approachable. He did send me holy oils. He personally, he says, “I don't agree with Bishop Williamson's errors.” Thank God. So he doesn't. He doesn't agree with Bishop Fellay’s betrayal. But we need to hear it publicly. And that's what I asked him. We got to hear it publicly. You're a bishop. You're a public figure. We got to see pictures of your consecration and or at least videos, at least something to show you were really consecrated and we're not guessing it was some garage bishop. And today there's tons of garage Tuk bishops, Tuk line bishops that are all doubtful. Or most of them. So that's all I asked of Bishop Ballini. Please release some public photo of your consecration so there's no doubt. And secondly, say something against the errors of Bishop Williamson and the compromise of Bishop Fellay. So our faithful can trust you. How can we trust a bishop who we're not sure if he's compromising or not? We got to hear them speak publicly. That's not unreasonable.

And Archbishop Lefebvre said the faithful have a right to know where their priests and bishops stand. They have a right to know if they're evolutionary, if they're pro-Vatican II, if they're compromising with the New Mass. They have a right to know. And if they are, “Adios amigo, goodbye, I'm not coming to your Mass.” But if they are not compromising and they're preaching the Faith, we will flock to their Mass.

And I told Bishop Ballini we have 10 years, excuse me, now it's 13 years of families that are still waiting for Confirmation all over the U.S. and Canada and in England too, waiting for Confirmation. He nearly fell off his chair when [I] said 10 years or 12 years and he couldn't believe it. So I'm hoping we can see some cooperation on the doctrinal level. And I asked Bishop Zendejas, but forget that, he just shut the door and wouldn't even give any response. So maybe he was just in a bad mood, I don't know. But maybe he yet can turn around and shine also. But we shouldn't be having these weird games with our bishops. The bishops of Archbishop Lefebvre should be like Archbishop Lefebvre, preach the Faith, fight the errors, and take care of souls, and ordain priests. But good priests formed with a serious formation.

So I ask your prayers for this humble home. If Our Lord wants it, blessed be God. And if He doesn't want it, blessed be God. It's all in Our Lady's hands. And then I did announce not long ago about a house, a convent for nuns. And why? Because we need holy sisters that pray, girls that will marry Jesus Christ, consecrate their life totally to Him, and love Him with all their hearts, be married to Him alone, and make reparation to His Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and draw down grace on this wicked world. So there is a house available. It's still not bought. It's still available. They want $800,000 for it. I don't have that, but St. Joseph does. If he wants this convent, blessed be God. And I'm happy to take care of these sisters and so forth, but that's where we stand. I don't know if God wants that, but pray for that as well. So pray.

And then, of course, remember the priests in Purgatory and bishops, Bishop Williamson, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, if they're in Purgatory, pray for them. And then all the Society priests who have died, Fr. Beaumont, Fr. Iscara, Fr. Cooper, Fr. John Peake, and then all the independent priests who have died, who died fighting for Tradition, wonderful priests. And I'm sure many of them are in Heaven.

And pray for more priests. Pray for generous young men, good men. That's what we need is good, generous men who could be good athletes on the NHL hockey rinks or good athletes on the gridiron of the NFL or good military guys in the Army or Navy or Air Force or Marines or Navy SEALs or Green Berets. Why give their life to fight for Israel when they could give their life to fight for the King of Israel, the true Israel, which is the Catholic Church and eternity in Heaven, the heavenly Jerusalem? Why give your life for piles of money and bank accounts and just added on headaches and a Tesla car that will probably blow up and burn anyway because they're useless? Why give your life for that when they could give their life for the Redemption to help Our Lord save souls forever from eternal fires of Hell? What a great vocation and what a meaningful life. The priest's life is so meaningful, so full of excitement. I long for boredom. I would beg for some time of boredom. That's how over exciting it is.

So pray for priests, all priests, and pray for those priests who will die today or this week that they save their souls. Poor priests. The devil told Our lady and Sister Lucia [of] Fatima in her last interview, she said “the devil's waging his last battle and his main target is to attack consecrated souls”, priests and nuns and bishops and popes. Because if he can get one nun to fall, he takes many with him to hell. If he can take one priest to fall, he takes many to hell. A bishop to fall, he takes more to hell. A pope going to hell, oh my goodness, how many fall with him into hell? It's horrifying. So that's the battle we're in.

So and I know I'm going long here but let me just close with one last point. I, you know, the way the media portrays the Catholic priesthood and the smear on the priesthood by the scandals and the horrible bad examples, you know, especially when they are true, you know, when many priests have been falsely accused and ruined. But they're still good priests and they'll save their soul and they're innocent before God. But those who have been truly guilty of horrible crimes, unspeakable crimes, it has smeared the Catholic priesthood. And, you know, sometimes I think to myself and say, you know, if I was young right now, who would want to be a priest with that smeared tar all over it of that horrible reputation? But that's the worldly view of seeing it. And we're not, we're not meant to see the things of the world. We're not meant to love the world. We're to despise the world. We're to see the priesthood as it really is, the way Jesus Christ desires it. Priests who are another Christ, who continue the Redemption, continue the Mass, continue to preach the Faith, continue to love souls and save souls. That's the priest. Saint John Vianney, St. John Bosco, St. Isaac Jogues, St. René Goupil, Well, he wasn't a priest. St. John de Brébeuf was a priest. St. Edmund Campion. And the list goes on and on and on of great priests. And if they were alive right now, they would say exactly the same Mass. The exact same Mass. So, so tremendous is the priest that none of us are worthy of it. St. John Vianney said if a priest understood what he was and what he really is in his being, in his action, he would die out of love. He would just die out of love for God. His soul would be snatched to God. And how many good priests had seen Our Lord on the altar, Padre Pio saw the crucifixion of Our Lord and suffered it through the Mass. That's what the priesthood is. He offers that sacrifice. So how the world needs good priests. One good priest says the devil's told St. John Vianney, “if we had two more like you, our kingdom on earth would be destroyed.” So pray for priests, pray for priests.

And every young man should pass his mind. “Is this something God wills for me?” And if you're not sure, make a retreat this summer at Kansas. We'll have the Ignition Retreats, the men's retreat in the first week of July, women's retreat last week of June. Ask God and pray. We need an army of good priests. And this is what Archbishop Lefebvre really, really saw was so important to save the Church is to save the Catholic priesthood. You save the Catholic priesthood, you save the Church.

And then of course, the rest is in Our Lady's hands. We need a good Pope. We need the Virgin Mary to save this mess. Only she can pull us out of the mess we're in. And that's great because it all goes to her honor. And the Blessed Virgin Mary will have another great victory. The exciting thing is we're all part of it. You get to lay and help prepare that victory. She wants your cooperation. What does she want? Reparation and devotion to her Immaculate Heart. Pray the rosary every day, wear her brown scapular, the five first Saturdays of Reparation. This is what she wants. And by doing this, you are, wherever you are, however old you are, whether you're a woman or a man, a boy or a girl, you will help bring in the victory of our Blessed Mother. That's what she wants. It's a great, exciting time, actually. And if you die not seeing her victory, you'll see it in Heaven. And if you die seeing her victory, which will come eventually with a good Pope and the restoration of the Church and the reign of Christ's Kingship, prophecies say it will surpass the ages of the Faith of the 12th and 13th century. There'll be great saints in that era, generous souls in that era. And we might not be far from it because all it takes is one heavy chastisement. Men will be forced to their knees and realize God is everything. Christ is king. We got to reorder our politics, reorder everything back to Christ the King. That's foretold, and it's going to happen. So we get to be assisting the Virgin Mary in preparing for this reign of the Immaculate Heart. As useless and helpless as we are, you're doing a lot by doing what Our Lady asks.

So be generous. Be generous with Our Lord. And let's pray in this Mass of the Annunciation for all priests.

O Mary, conceived without sin. pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, conceived without sin. pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, conceived without sin. pray for us who have recourse to thee.

And for those who do not have recourse to Thee, especially all Communists and Freemasons and other enemies of Holy Mother Church. Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Amen.