ASK FATHER: My friend took LSD, experienced “God, Heaven, the Garden of Eden, Life, and Death all at once”

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QUAERITUR:

I just spoke with a friend of mine who recently took a mind-altering substance (he said it was an extremely potent form of LSD) and that the hallucinations lasted for approximately a period of 12 hours. He states that he experienced God, Heaven, the Garden of Eden, Life, and Death all at once.

I told him I could not sympathize, and that the Catholic Religion forbids the use of mind-altering substances, particularly in a spiritual manner.

My question is this: what should I tell my friend (or others for that matter) who have done this? These experiences sound so powerful that he cannot be convinced otherwise; he seems to truly believe in what he says happened.

GUEST PRIEST RESPONSE: Fr. Tim Ferguson

You are correct that the use of mind-altering substances, such as LSD, PCP, or the NCR (aka Fishwrap) is a grave moral evil.

God gave us the wonderful gift of consciousness and free will, and to surrender these gifts for a feeling of euphoria is an insult to the Lord who created us. The ingestion of mild intoxicants or mood altering substances like alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, the History Channel is permissible, as long as one is cautious and moderate.

How to convince those who have used mind-altering substances and have “experienced” something they deem to be transcendent?

Relentless ridicule is probably the best way. Serious argumentation is doubtfully going to do much good. Referring to them as “space cadets” or “druggies” or “Maximum Beans” will likely anger them to the point of complete distraction.

Will this convince them that they are wrong? Probably not. Will this cause them to dismiss you as a friend? A fair chance of that happening.

Tragically, once someone goes down that road and begins finding value and transcendence in the paltry experience of drug use or NCR readership, there is little outside of prayer and the direct action of the Holy Spirit that can bring them back to reality.

Fortunately, we do have a God who is willing to hear our prayers and sometimes effects a miraculous conversion. These things are best left in his hands, however.

Fr. Z adds:

In view of the creation of the US Space Force, I disavow any disparaging use of “space cadet”.

Please stick to the far crazier and much more degrading “Maximum Beans”.  If that doesn’t get through to what’s left of shame and common sense in their addled brains, nothing will.

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Project Veritas video of radical chaos organizers with Soros funding

Project Veritas has posted video of organizers for a parallel “antifa” group, with funding from George Soros.  1 Million view on Twitter.

This is really chilling stuff.

My main fear is that the growth of this radical leftist movement, with its terror tactics, will drive some scared and frustrated people into the arms of other movements on the far fringe of the right.

In case it gets pulled from Twitter.

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The glorious Seattle “Free Capitol” Autonomous Zone has survived another day! CHAZ!

The Seattle “Free Capitol” Autonomous Zone has survived another day! Ummm… Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone or CHAZ. Their leader is Raz. Raz of CHAZ!

The Free Autonomous People have posted their demands.

The list published includes the following demands:

“1. The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition.

“2. In the transitionary period between now and the dismantlement of the Seattle Police Department, we demand that the use of armed force be banned entirely.

“3. We demand an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and the abolition of youth jails. Get kids out of prison, get cops out of schools.

“4. We demand that not the City government, nor the State government, but that the Federal government launch a full-scale investigation into past and current cases of police brutality in Seattle and Washington, as well as the re-opening of all closed cases reported to the Office of Police Accountability.”

Rumors are that businesses are being shaken down for protection money.

But THAT would never happen in a Free Autonomous Zone run by these mostly peaceful protesters.  So misunderstood.

These secessionists not allowing illegal immigration, by the way. And they’ve built a wall.

Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, the mostly peaceful protesters took over a former Sheraton Hotel.  HERE   The place was “turned into a sanctuary for people experiencing homelessness”.  The hotel owner is trying to evict, but, imagine, some people don’t want to leave!  I love the way this is worded:

Activists had received the tacit permission from the owner Jay Patel, who was confronted with the alternative of evacuating his hotel and having it possibly burned down as nearby buildings on Lake Street went up in smoke. When it opened, organizers said it would be theirs to keep, believing they would receive funding from non-profit or government agencies to run the hotel as housing for people experiencing long-term homelessness.

The two groups may or may not have connections.  But the results have overlaps.

So, what could possible go wrong in the Free Autonomous Zone in Seattle!

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Quick thoughts about Archbp. Viganò’s Letter to Pres. Trump

I’ve had a lot of people asking me via email to comment – or rather why I haven’t commented – on Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s Letter to Pres. Trump (V2POTUS).

I’ve been busy!

However, a little gap of time before rushing into the click scramble does everyone some good. We can think a little.

First, I’ve enjoy immensely the reactions from the radically papalotrous New catholic Red Guard after Pres. Trump tweeted about The Letter.  Some examples from Twitter:

And these only scratch the surface.

BTW… Austen is rejoicing at the civil violence of the mob these days.  HERE

And at the Fishwrap (which favors defunding law enforcement) the official tricoteuse Madame Defarge put his knitting needles down and wrote:

President Donald Trump watches Fox News, so I hope he caught this story that calls disgraced Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò a “Rome archbishop” as if he had some influence. In the event, he is not even in Rome and his influence is zilch. But, as I mentioned the other day, if Viganò and Trump become pen pals, look for the president to start telling his next rally about the third secret of Fatima. Buckle up!

GREAT!   I love the irony.  Madame D thinks Viganò has no influence… but here he is writing about him.  And he mocks someone at Fox for calling Viganò a “Rome archbishop”.  Yeah, that’s almost like calling the Fishwrap a “Catholic publication”.

QUAERITUR: Would the President be interested in the Third Secret of Fatima?  Interesting.  After all, the Second Secret was about the outbreak of wars and the possibility of the annihilation of nations.

About the V2POTUS Letter.

I must limit myself to only a few brief points.

First, I am as happy with The Letter as the Left is unhappy.  There is a touch of admitted epicaricacy in there.  So, my first point is The Letter is now living inside the skulls of those to about whom Viganò was warning.  With each passing day, more and more masks are being – irony of ironies – pulled off.

Compound Trump Derangement Syndrome with the additional Viganò Trigger Disorder and you’ve got a seriously unhappy bunch of libs.  Trump and Viganò own the turf between their ears now.   And their overlords don’t like it one little bit.

TDS + VTD = SPN  (Spittle-Flecked Nutty)

Next from The Letter:

[J]ust as there is a deep state, there is also a deep church that betrays its duties and forswears its proper commitments before God. Thus the Invisible Enemy, whom good rulers fight against in public affairs, is also fought against by good shepherds in the ecclesiastical sphere. It is a spiritual battle, which I spoke about in my recent Appeal which was published on May 8.

Deep state and deep church.   This is absolutely true.  There are truly evil people seeded like weeds through the church all the way to the highest levels.  There always have been and there always will be.  The deep church was perfectly manifested first by Judas, into whom Satan entered during the Last Supper (John 13:27).  The deep church is always a threat, because we are just human.  Even the Apostles had to be dressed down by the Lord for wondering who was going to have what place of honor.

The Enemy is really good at being an enemy.  The demonic Enemy is without physical limitations.  Hence, they never relent or rest or sleep.  They don’t miss anything.  They don’t forget.  They can oppress and possess.  OF COURSE there are evil agents of Satan in the Church!   The Enemy isn’t that stupid.

Today, we know that there has been corruption at the very top in the Vatican.  Just as an example, look at the goat rodeo that is the investigation and reform of Vatican finances.  Mammon.

Also, certain kinds of sins attract demons and permit them, legalistically, to attach to persons, things and places where the sins were committed.  There have been horrible perversions perpetrated in and around the Vatican City State, and in very important places.    I wrote about some of that HERE.  In a sort of fictional account: HERE.

There is a connection between the physical virus and the spiritual, demonic, virus that plagues us.  When the Lord heals in the Gospels, the physical healings are often simultaneous with exorcisms.  The forces that are operating for chaos in society today are also demonically fueled.

Of course certain forces are going to freak out over The Letter.

From The Letter:

It is necessary that the good, the children of light, come together and make their voices heard. What more effective way is there to do this, Mr. President, than by prayer, asking the Lord to protect you, the United States, and all of humanity from this enormous attack of the Enemy? Before the power of prayer, the deceptions of the children of darkness will collapse, their plots will be revealed, their betrayal will be shown, their frightening power will end in nothing, brought to light and exposed for what it is: an infernal deception.

I saw various reactions to The Letter with spittle-flecked nutty rants about the imagery of “the children of light” and “children of darkness”.   This is proof of the propriety of Viganò’s warn.

Remember that modernists reduce the supernatural to the natural.  When they encounter people who really do believe in the transcendent, they are “triggered”.

No wonder the lefties went bonkers at The Letter. Viganò cleverly unmasked their deeper connections with the Latin medieval, and certainly demonic, solve et coagula.  I can see it in the White House.

CROSS FADE UP TO OVAL OFFICE….

“Mr. President, the former Apostolic Nuncio to these United States wrote an open letter to you.  You should see this.  I’ve highlighted some points and added notes.”

The President reads and occasionally checks the notes.   He frowns.

“What’s this ‘solve and coagulate’ thing again?”

“Well, sir, it’s like this.  Imagine that the forces of Hell have teamed up with the deep state and the DNC.”

The President nods.

“Picture the reaction of the forces of darkness  – big-business abortion, various leftist community organizers, the Democrat Party and other agents of social upheaval – to your election, your work against the deep state, your going to the March For Life, and your probable reelection.”

The President nods.

“Like Lenin suggested, to make an omelette you have to break eggs.  They want to dissolve the bonds of society, everything we are as a nation, and then recreate the nation, or what’s left, in their image.”

“That’s how they roll”, the President offers.

“That’s exactly how they roll, sir.  Archbishop Viganò is giving you a glimpse under the rock from his point of view, as a Catholic priest and bishop.  He fights this war on a spiritual plane while you fight this war on a temporal plane.  He is saying that he has your six but that you have to pray too, sir, because you are really going to need spiritual help in this fight.  Finally, this is a call to spiritual arms and to social action for all the Catholics who read his letter to you, sir.  And the left is not at all happy.  The last thing they want is for a strong alliance of faithful Catholics, who have the sacramental life of the Church for their support, with a president who actually believes that babies should not be aborted.  After all, that’s how demons attach to people and places.  Think about how big-business abortion targeted certain communities for extermination and how they are now rising in chaos and rage today.”

The President nods.

“There have been some pretty strong attacks on you and Archbishop Viganò on social media.  Would you care to see some of their reactions, Mr. President?  I have a roundup ready.”

The President takes the file and begins to read.  A smile slowly emerges.

“This is huge.  Where’s that guy with my phone?  I need to send this Viganò a thank you now.  Is that phone charged?”

“Of course, sir.  Here he is now.  The phone is fully charged, sir.”

FADE TO BLACK

On these notes, Viganò pointed to an important threat to the nation from within the Church.

And it is disconcerting that there are Bishops – such as those whom I recently denounced – who, by their words, prove that they are aligned on the opposing side. They are subservient to the deep state, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing Christian about it, but which evokes the Masonic ideals of those who want to dominate the world by driving God out of the courts, out of schools, out of families, and perhaps even out of churches.

Freemasonry.  Communism.  Homosexuality.  All gateways for demonic influence.

Freemasons, communists and homosexuals have systematically infiltrated the Church.    Over time many have attained to high positions.  These can overlap.

This is real.  This is war.

War is not pretty.

If I were Pope, I would weekly send exorcists around the curial offices to clean house.

If I were a bishop, I would weekly send priests around blessing the work spaces of the chancery and sprinkling holy water and even blessed salt.    Use Title XI. ch. 3.

Pastors of souls should do that for their rectories, churches, all buildings and grounds. Use Title XI. ch. 3.   Yes, use LATIN.  I have recordings of exorcism prayers.

Fathers of families should ask the priest to bless their homes.

If I were President of the United States, I would get one of my trusted Catholic aides to find a bishop who could quietly visit the White House and pronounce the Chapter 3 exorcism over the place, especially the resident and the Oval.

So, Viganò’s Letter was terrific.

UPDATE

At Amerika – run by Jesuits we find an article claiming to explain who Archbp. Viganò is.   Get this.  Just when you thought they couldn’t be slimier.

Archbishop Viganò also accuses unnamed bishops of being “subservient” to the deep state and advocating “globalism,” a term that some say carries anti-Semitic history. He praises Mr. Trump by writing that the president “courageously defends the right to life.” The archbishop writes that he and the president “are on the same side in this battle, albeit with different weapons.”

Note well: See that grouping?  Something ANTI-SEMITIC, right to life, spiritual warfare.

The writer, Michael J. O’Loughlin, used to write for the Fishwrap and the pro-homosexualist The Advocate, goes on to smear a little more.

The archbishop’s tenure in the United States was largely uncontroversial, but a new book by the Vatican reporter Christopher Lamb about Pope Francis, The Outsider, claims that during his time in Washington, Archbishop Viganò “aligned himself with culture warriors and anti-Francis supporters.” Later, Archbishop Viganò was accused of trying to quash a sex-abuse investigation into a prominent U.S. archbishop who shared a goal of fighting same-sex marriage.

Then, like a good little comrade aspiring to full membership in the New catholic Red Guard, he targets a US Bishop for a “struggle session”:

Over the past few years, at least a couple of dozen U.S. bishops have expressed support for Archbishop Viganò, including retired Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput and Bishop Joseph Strickland, who heads the Diocese of Tyler, Tex., and who signed Archbishop Viganò’s “world government” manifesto. Bishop Strickland called Archbishop Viganò’s original claims against Pope Francis “credible,” and he instructed priests in his diocese to circulate news of the letter.

Reporting!

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Liturgical Legos! Do NOT miss this one!

This was passed along to me and I have to share it with wider readership.

Enjoy!  Liturgical Legos!

Not content simply to build churches – how prosaic! – or even the sanctuaries of churches  – commonplace – these kids are doing whole liturgical rites.

The Traditional Latin Mass.   Of course.  Far more interesting than the Novus Ordo, and far more photogenic.

For example, shots from Easter.

[Some photos didn’t post.  So don’t complain at me… JUST GO THERE AND LOOK!   o{]:¬)   ]

Vidi aquam.

You get the drift.   Truly fantastic.  And accurate.

On another page, they put a zillion priests on warning…. they have the vesting prayer, including washing hands before starting!

Putting on the stole.

These kids are terrific.   Ultra Fr. Z kudos!

 

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Benedict XVI on three purposes for Corpus Christi

In 1986 the English edition of Joseph Ratzinger’s Feast of Faith was published by Ignatius Press.  At the time, it was a bombshell of enormous importance.  It is still extremely helpful in understanding the state of the Church in the world and is foundational in Ratzinger’s faith.   US HERE – UK HERE

In that volume the future Benedict XVI reflected on the feast of Corpus Christi, which held profound significance for him from his youth onward.

His Holiness juxtaposed the sad decline of Eucharistic devotions after the Second Vatican Council with what the Council of Trent taught.  Although the anti-triumphalism of some post-Conciliar liturgists had repressed Eucharistic exposition, adoration and processions,

the Council of Trent had been far less inhibited.  It said that the purpose of Corpus Christi was to arouse gratitude in the hearts of men and to remind them of their common Lord. (cf. Decr. desc. Euch., c. 5; DS 1644).  Here in a nutshell, we have in fact three purposes: Corpus Christi is to counter man’s forgetfulness, to elicit his thankfulness, and it has something to do with fellowship, with that unifying power which is at work where people are looking for the one Lord.  A great deal could be said about this; for with our computers, meetings and appointments we have become appallingly thoughtless and forgetful (pp. 128-9).

Let us consider Trent again for a moment.  There we find the unqualified statement that Corpus Christi celebrates Christ’s triumph, his victory over death. Just as, according to our Bavarian custom, Christ was honored in the terms of a great state visit, Trent harks back to the practice of the ancient Romans who honored their victorious generals by holding triumphal processions on their return.  The purpose of Christ’s campaign was to eliminate death, that death which devours time and makes us cultivate the lie in order to forget or “kill” time.  … Far from detracting from the primacy of reception which is expressed in the gifts of bread and wine, it actually reveals fully and for the first time what “receiving” really means, namely, giving the Lord the reception due to the Victor.  To receive him means to worship him; to receive him means precisely, Quantum potes tantum aude – dare to do as much as you can.  (p. 130).

Quantum potes tantum aude…  from the Sequence Lauda Sion.

What strikes me in this today – I’ve read it many times over the years – is the stress on reception in connection with doing.  There is a logical priority to reception.  This is precisely the dynamic present in all of our properly understood “full, conscious and active participation” in our sacred liturgy.

Receptivity is not necessarily passive.  Our liturgical receptivity is decidedly active.   We participate – ideally – with active receptivity.  That means engaging the will in a disciplined way to connect our attention, focus, heart, mind on the gestures and the texts, which are by and from Christ, the true Actor in the Church’s worship.

This is not easy for us to do, in this distracting world.  It also isn’t easy if we are not habituated to face our true selves in the brutally honest mirror of self-examination.

In the still and silent moments of encounter with the Eucharist such as those in Holy Mass before Communion or in the quiet of a church, we can be at times compelled to face the reality of our state at the moment and the fact of inevitable accounting for the life that is God’s gift.

Everything Christ offers is transformative.

The Eucharist is the very giver of the gift who, as “true food” (John 6:55 – alethes brosis) transforms us into what it is.

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11 June – Traditional Latin Mass – Corpus Christi – LIVE VIDEO: 1200h CDT (GMT/UTC -5)

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I will LIVE stream a Traditional Latin Mass at NOON Central Daylight Time (= GMT/UTC -5 and ROME 1900h).

Today, 11 June 2020: Thursday in the 1st Week after the Octave of Pentecost.   It is the Feast of the Most Holy Body of Christ, Corpus Christi.

Follow the SEQUENCE Lauda Sion in chant with English HERE

Prayers Added: For the bishop.
After Mass: Prayer in time of pandemic.

Will you please tell others about this Mass?  Will you please subscribe to my channel? HERE

  • NB: You can find an English translation of the Mass formulary HERE.  Scroll down. Use the 1960 setting.
  • We can say the Regina Caeli together, since the Angelus bells are usually ringing when the live stream starts.
  • I will say a Spiritual Communion prayer at the very beginning for those of you who cannot make a Eucharistic Communion. 
  • I will also recite in Latin the traditional  “Statement of Intention” (…a hint to priests).
  • After Mass and the Leonine Prayers, I will recite a prayer in Latin “In time of pandemic” followed by a blessing with a fragment of the Cross
    For texts of Prayers before Mass for each day of the week, in versions for laypeople and for priests: HERE


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Antifa takes over a chunk of Seattle, thus insuring lasting contempt for everything they stand for

In Seattle, demon-fueled ideologues have taken over a few blocks for themselves and have called it “The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”.

I went to the park that Occupy had taken over in New York City. The smell was memorable.

PJ Media has a good bead on this Seattle circus.

Antifa Seizes Seattle PD, Sets Up ‘Autonomous Zone’ Just Like ISIS and the Paris Commune

Do you know what the Paris Commune was?

It was a short lived socialist coup in 1871 which eventually ended up in “The Bloody Week” when the army put the insurrection down, like the rabid dog that it was. The moment inspired Karl Marx. It was truly an annus horriblis.

Here’s another quote:

“Folks in Seattle have secured six block of city [at the moment], barricaded it, and gotten local businesses and residents to agree to, well, disaffiliate from Seattle basically. It’s a flux state in the making,” Alex Humva tweeted.”

Yeah, I’ll bet they got local businesses to agree.  “Nice store you’ve got here.  Pity if it burned to the ground.”

This little group of nutjobs in Seattle isn’t going to do their cause any favors.

The zone includes the “Captured Regime East Precinct (Abandoned Police Station with doors left unlocked lol),” along with areas marked “Commune Food Stations,” “CHFZ Commune Barricades,” “Relaxation & Dining Field (food regularly handed out + coffee bar),” and a “Stoa (Informal Congregational Area).”

Doesn’t it sound like paradise?    I wonder if there will lots of weed and free love passed out too… if everyone isn’t too passed out in their own feces to enjoy it.

And what would Anti-Seattle-ifa be without a coffee bar?

The leftists are getting in Seattle exactly what they deserved.  I wonder if they are enjoying themselves now.

I am reminded of a series of dystopian books.  The action takes place in Washington State, and in Seattle.

299 Days: The Preparation by Glen Tate

US HERE – UK HERE

Not great literature, but thought-through regarding a collapse of society and the sort of people who take advantage of the problems.

These domestic terrorists will leave behind a toxic waste zone as bad as the ideas they embrace.

Let’s pray that it not end in quite the same way as The Commune did.

Perhaps the Archbishop of Seattle could have public readings of his new pastoral letter on liturgy to bring everyone together in common vision of sharing and equality.

Where ever left-wing politics and ideologies reign, this is what happens, both in society and in the Church.  Disease and social dis-ease overlap, for reasons that are increasingly manifest.

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ASK FATHER: Can we pray for anonymous people?

From a reader…

QUAERITUR:

I encounter many online requests via social media or comments in online articles asking the reader to pray for either the person
writing, their loved one, or for a deceased individual. However, in most cases the name of the person who will be the subject of the prayer is absent. This provoked my question – can you pray in an efficacious way for a person whose given name is unknown? I’m guessing a twitter handle won’t suffice. In the same vein, at my parish we can communicate through an app and people frequently ask for prayers. Sometimes it’s for a cousin whose name isn’t provided or for an intention that is deliberately kept private. I’ve seen you write about the importance of specificity in prayer and these prayer requests seem to have inherent obstacles in them. What is the best way to pray for such intentions?

Firstly, I think that when I have suggested specificity in prayer is when I write about asking St. Joseph for his intercession.  My experience with St. Joseph has been that, when I have been precise, he has come through.  “Dear St. Joseph, I am jammed up.  I need X and I need it by 5:30PM.  Thanks in advance.”  That has worked for me in some pretty dramatic and urgent past challenges.   Thank you, St. Joseph!

Next, nothing is hidden from God, neither the secret thoughts of our heart nor the identities of those anonymous people for whom we might pray.  For example, you don’t know the names of all the “Poor Souls”.  They are “poor”, in the sense that they need our prayers, though they are rich in their not-yet-attained glory.   You don’t know their names when praying for them en masse, but God does.  And God knows which souls need whatever and how they need it. No prayer that we offer is vain, in the sense of being empty.  Even though a specific person from whom we might be praying after death may already be in heaven and, therefore, without the need of our intercessory prayers, God can make use of what we pray for those souls who are in need.

If in social media you see, or want to post, “Please pray for ‘T’ who is in need of spiritual healing?”, that’s okay.  If I stop and pray for “T”, God know who “T” is, even if I do not.

Also, we can have a moral intention in our prayer.  For example, sometimes a priest will accept a Mass stipend for an intention.   It could happen that a priest has a whole bunch of intentions that he thinks he can’t take care of in the proper amount of time.  It could be that he had an intention for a certain day and something else came up that make it impossible for him to say that intention.  In that case, he can reach out to another priest to say the intention as an “intentio dantis“, without the specific information, but according to “the intention of the one giving” the intention (the literal meaning of “intentio dantis“).

“Hey, Msgr. Z, this is Fr.  Joe Włotrzewiszczykowycki of the St. Philip Neri Oratory of Mary Cause of Our Joy.  I have to pick up a couple of parish Masses for Fr. Guido Schmitz who is ill. I have an intention that can’t say for today’s specific date.  It’s the anniversary of someone’s death.  I don’t have the deceased’s name with me right now, because I’m driving to St. Fidelia over in Black Duck.  Could you celebrate it “intentio dantis” and I’ll get the details to you after?  Thanks!”

So, we can be specific and we can also have only a vague sense of details.  The important thing is that you pray with earnest sincerity, and humble confidence that no prayer you raise to God is without its good impact according to His inscrutable dispositions.

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10 June – Traditional Latin Mass – LIVE VIDEO: 1200h CDT (GMT/UTC -5)

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I will LIVE stream a Traditional Latin Mass at NOON Central Daylight Time (= GMT/UTC -5 and ROME 1900h).

Today, 10 June 2020: Wednesday in the 1st Week after the Octave of Pentecost.   It is the Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland.

After Mass: Prayer in time of pandemic.

Will you please tell others about this Mass?  Will you please subscribe to my channel? HERE

  • NB: You can find an English translation of the Mass formulary HERE.  Scroll down. Use the 1960 setting.
  • We can say the Regina Caeli together, since the Angelus bells are usually ringing when the live stream starts.
  • I will say a Spiritual Communion prayer at the very beginning for those of you who cannot make a Eucharistic Communion. 
  • I will also recite in Latin the traditional  “Statement of Intention” (…a hint to priests).
  • After Mass and the Leonine Prayers, I will recite a prayer in Latin “In time of pandemic” followed by a blessing with a fragment of the Cross
    For texts of Prayers before Mass for each day of the week, in versions for laypeople and for priests: HERE


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