Friday, 21 January 2022

Spiritual Combat and the Prayer Crusader

 

Spiritual combat

 


The Catholic Truth Society (CTS) has recently published a booklet called Spiritual Combat according to St. Benedict. Raphael’s painting of St. Michael overcoming the devil appears on the cover. All CUT members are asked to be prayer crusaders, and all are familiar with the image of St. Michael, sword or spear in hand, triumphing over a fallen and sprawling Satan. Each of us has our own chosen Saint or Blessed who fights alongside us, with reference in particular to satanic influence over the media and the entertainment industry. This booklet, written by a French Benedictine monk, explains how such spiritual combat must be undertaken. 

 Father Bernard identifies three “breaches” in the integrity of the soul, through which Satan can attempt an entrance in order to disrupt and weaken the spiritual life of each human person. The “breaches” he also calls “wounds”, areas of weakness and vulnerability. All three breaches (unless closely watched and strongly defended) allow Satan to seize on and distort desires which are in themselves natural and indeed essential to human nature and human living.

 The first breach relates to the need for well-being, for pleasure and security in such things as food, shelter, comfort and sexual relationships. In his encounter with our Lord in the desert, Satan tried to exploit this breach when he tempted our Lord to create bread for himself after his forty days’ fast.

 The second breach relates to the natural human desire to be recognised, loved and approved, - in early life by parents, later by wider family, friends, work colleagues, neighbours and those with whom we share a culture. Thus we form and develop relationships of love and positive regard whereby we support and are supported by others. Satan seeks to twist this into a desire to be admired and held in high esteem for our own dubious profit and benefit. Satan suggested to Jesus that he throw himself down from the highest pinnacle of the temple in order to gain the acclaim of crowds of people who would see the angels coming to save him from harm.

 There is a human need to create, to plan and to organise. This is at the root of all human endeavour, from making a shopping list to designing a cathedral. The breach which Satan here seeks to exploit is the need for control, for power, for domination. He showed Jesus the whole world, spread out around and below a high mountain: “All this can be yours” he said,  but Jesus again rejected the temptation.

 Spiritual combat consists in discerning the perversions that Satan is attempting to work in us, and indeed has already worked to some extent, and in redirecting our desires to God and to the unselfish love of the people around us.

 In the second half of the booklet, Father Bernard examines factors which make spiritual combat more difficult for us. The influence of the culture in which we live, and of negative incidents in individual lives, can weaken the soul’s ability to discern what Satan is doing in the soul. Father Bernard goes on to consider the nature of Satan, the Adversary, the Divider, himself. He “deceives, worries, divides, separates from God and others...” and “divides the heart against itself”. Within many areas of life, Satan does little, since he need only “complacently watch the agents acting on his behalf”, among whom, as prayer crusaders know, are those dominating the mainstream media, the entertainment industry, and huge swathes of the internet. Among monks, however (the author himself having been a monk and indeed Abbot of his community for twenty years), these “agents” can make little headway, so Satan sends “a hundred devils” to tempt the monks in far more subtle ways. Since prayer crusaders often live lives withdrawn from the more obvious occasions of sin and are readily on their guard against the temptations of mainstream culture, they may perhaps be compared to monks and need to be prepared to search for satanic influence hidden in unsuspected areas of their lives. Essentially, spiritual combat is conducted in each individual heart, where lie “the roots of doubt, despair, indifference, violence or hatred”. Satan can only enter from outside, and may reach deeply into the individual, but it is possible (often with another’s help) to discern which breach he entered by. The Holy Spirit, by contrast, operates in the depths of the heart where “his peaceful action pacifies, purifies, enlightens and builds up”.

 Spiritual combat is carried out by means of prayer, the sacraments (especially the sacrament of penance), works of charity, and contemplation.         

 Father Bernard quotes several times from Saint Augustine, and also from Venerable Madeleine Delbrel.

By Prayer Crusader St Thersea of Avila 

Thursday, 13 January 2022

unvaccinated are not the problem

 The Perfect Covid Storm


Covid 19 or the China virus as some call it has been among us now for nearly two years with no sign of it ending. In fact it may have started in China around the time of the Pachamama shame episode at the Vatican - Pope Francis take note and perhaps a procession of reparation around the Vatican is needed to ask God's forgiveness.

 If vaccines are working, then why are they not working?

And yet we were led to believe that vaccination would end this pandemic. However, now it's the vaccinated who are catching and spreading the disease and since August 91% of Covid-19 deaths have been among the fully vaccinated, reports the Expose website. Yes, there are a disproportionate number of the un-vaccinated in hospital but not the majority, for they are the vaccinated.

 Experts call these breakthrough infections with those who are vaccinated actually getting Covid - why? Are we in fact causing a perfect Covid Storm and the vaccine is causing a spike in Coronavirus protein leading to mutations of the virus and death: we ask the question, is this because of vaccinations? Again, it's the left/liberal Main Stream Media (MSM) that is not only causing panic they are ignoring the dangers of the vaccine that can cause blood clots and heart problems. They ignore the fact that amongst professional footballers two major stars have had their career ended by heart problems that happened after taking the jab, of course the MSM and medical world are disparaging this fact and yet heart problems and deaths are much higher in younger athletic men than before the vaccine. In fact there is a spike in deaths in young men that cannot be explained.

 Those pushing the vaccine with an almost totalitarian zeal are beginning to use the rhetoric of the 1930s against the unvaccinated. Tony Blair, (he who took us to war under false pretences in the Middle East and stirred up an Islamist hornets' nest in the process) call the unvaccinated "irresponsible idiots". The arch-heretic-"bishop" of Canterbury (who has let paedophiles run riot in his cathedral) said it is "immoral" not to have the jab and that Jesus would have had it - to that I say you are talking rubbish, your reverend! Lawyers for the sex abused victim say "Archbishop" Welby must face disciplinary action.

 Being vaccinated does not turn you into supermen.

Yet it is the unvaccinated who still get the blame, the unvaccinated being victimised by society. Are they really in fact the innocent victims of the Covid- spreading vaccinated? Just because you are vaccinated you can now join the huge crowds at football matches, raves and night clubs - where ahhh ... they spread Covid among the other vaccinated. And according to the idiot PM of New Zealand take part in orgies. You may think that my associating the jab pushers with Nazis is a bit OTT; take a look at Australia who are actually building concentration camps and putting the unvaccinated in them - have we learnt nothing?

 The Vatican under this arch heretic pope Pachapapa Francis (I am so ecumenical), are sacking people who do not have the vaccine, such a Christian thing to do. Perhaps those poor people who have lost their jobs should be grateful that they will not have to mingle with the vaccinated, you never know who the real spreaders are. At the moment the full force of the authorities and the media point the finger only at the unvaccinated.

 Why are the most vaccinated countries having the most cases of Covid?

Countries with high vaccinated proportions of their populations are proud of their efforts and are looking to push it to other lower vaccinated counties. However, people with one two or three jabs are getting Covid and passing the virus on. Israel is now on its fourth jab, and called by Yahoo news the "Ultra-Vaxxed" have major Covid crisis on their hands. Why are the countries with lower vaccine rates getting lower Covid rates?

 Is catching omicron less dangerous than having the vaccine?

Although the Delta variant is still around the most common is now the Omicron, which spreads quicker but is less dangerous. Therefore, is it better to get Omicron than to have the vaccine? The inventor, yes INVENTOR! of the mRNA "Vaccine" Dr Robert Malone has gone on record as saying young children should NOT be given this treatment as it is not actually a vaccine at all but gene therapy. However, the good doctor has been flung off twitter and the media in general will not report on him.

 I'm not against vaccines

I'm not against vaccines so no one can label me an anti-vaxxer but I will never have a jab that has been tainted by an abortion either in its testing phase or actually having been made using foetal cells. Therefore, none of the current vaccines are ethical for a Catholic to take, forget the vaxx fanatics who say it's an act of love to do so - rubbish! It's the vaccinated who are passing on the virus so that argument falls flat on its face.

 Yes, it's the irresponsible actions of the vaccinated that are spreading Covid and the unvaccinated are the victims in more ways than one.

By Prayer Crusader St Philomena

Thursday, 30 December 2021

Pope Ozymandias

 

Prayer Crusader St Cecilia writes:

It is astonishing what you discover browsing in the highways and byways of English literature. Who knew that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley forecast the disastrous results of Padre Bergoglio’s papacy over two hundred years ago? I refer to his sonnet misleadingly entitled ‘Ozymandias’:

 

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Stamped on these lifeless things, the hates, the hopes,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

“My name is Père Bergoglio, Pope of Popes:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

 

Shelley might have been a notorious atheist but self-evidently he had more foresight than a certain pope I could name!



 

Friday, 12 November 2021

Twix Holloween ad

 The Woke of the Devil

Last Easter we had Cadburys crème Eggs ad where two homosexual men dance about in a garden, one taking a crème Egg and put it in his mouth, the other then bit the other half, and the gooey sickly internal goo trailed between them as they parted. Now we have Twix, a double chocolate bar employing LGBT themes in a Halloween themed ad.

This Twix ad is not only callous and occult themed involving a young boy dressed as a girl, a black clad witch and what looks the supernatural murder of another young boy. So here we have an ad for a chocolate bar that doesn't mention ... ah the chocolate bar at all, just a small logo at the end. A boy of about seven is playing in a princess dress when he is visited by his new nanny, a black clad black lipsticked witch! They go for a walk and the boy in the dress is taunted by another boy for wearing the dress. "Hey you, you look like a girl, why are you wearing that." The witch nanny then summons up her magic power and murders the taunting boy. Yes, she blows him away.

Children who watch TV and are not homeschooled these days are at risk, at risk of being abused, at risk of being brainwashed, at risk of being socially engineered into being either homosexual or wanting to "change" their sex. The situation is so serious that one in three teens have an LGBT mental illness; a survey has shown that 35% of 14-19 year olds want to change sex and 13% think they are homosexual. Source: NHS Digital.

It is vital for the future of young people today that parents protect them from the media and keep them at home and homeschool them. During the Covid pandemic parents became alarmed for they had access through Zoom to what their children are actually being taught - and it’s very Woke and evil. The Woke of the Devil. In fact all Woke is of the Devil.

Prayer Crusader St Philomena

Friday, 15 October 2021

The 'Vaccine' and the Irish bishops part 4

 Another treatment offered by medical professionals is ivermectin

Drs Paul Marik and Pierre Kory founders of the group Front line covid critical care alliance (FLCCC alliance) have been promoting ivermectin which is normally used for parasite infestations of the body. They have been having promising results with this drug.

 Marik “the Eastern Virginia Medical School professor and doctor goes on to review four clinical studies (also chronicled by TrialSite) including Mahmud, Rajter, Kahn, and Gorial and performs what he describes as a “meta-analysis” with mortality as an endpoint. He argues that the results indicate a “highly significant reduction in mortality.” Trialsite news

           Last month Dr. Kory and his team testified before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee in favour of authorizing ivermectin, a Nobel Prize–winning  anti-parasitic agent, for early treatment of the novel coronavirus.  In his impassioned presentation, Dr. Kory explained that ivermectin “basically obliterates transmission of this virus,” with “miraculous effectiveness.”

Ivermectin has been the subject of dozens of studies and anecdotal success stories since it was found to reduce COVID-19 in a laboratory last June.

          “I've been treating COVID pretty much every single day since the onset,” Kory said at the December hearing.

“When I say ‘miracle’ I do not use that term lightly[.] ... [T]hat is a scientific recommendation based on mountains of data that has emerged in the last three months.”

 

Such data emanates from places like India, the second most populated nation in the world, which embraced the treatment protocol advanced by FLCCC, and has watched its case and fatalities rate drop in “steep decline.”  Though India has four times the population of the U.S., it has less than half of the coronavirus related deaths.  Source LSN

              According to Dr Ryan Cole, Medical Director of Cole Labs, who says, four billion doses of Ivermectin have safely been taken. With Ivermectin the death rate decreased 70-90% in hospitals treating COVID-19 patients.

              The American National institute of health (NIH) has been implacably against this drug. One wonders why?              

Remdesivir another drug on the market shows effectiveness against sars-cov2, the New England journal of medicine reports on trials of Remdesivir shows that it was better than placebo and shortened hospitalization time and also reduced respiratory tract infections.

             The Medical Express reports on a 31 year old man who was quite ill with a rare genetic disorder which prevented him from creating immune antibodies and contracted the sars-cov2:

             “Dr. Nicholas Matheson from the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID) at the University of Cambridge added: "Our patient's unusual condition gave us a rare insight into the effectiveness of remdesivir as a treatment for coronavirus infection. The dramatic response to the drug—on repeated challenge—suggests that it can be a highly effective treatment, at least for some patients."

 

The team further suspect that remdesvir is likely to be most beneficial when administered early in infection, before the virus is able to trigger a potentially catastrophic immune response. They say that the course of their patient's disease also underscores the important—but often conflicting—roles that antibodies play in protecting us from infection.

 

"The fact that our patient was unable to fight off the disease without treatment suggests that antibodies contribute to the control of SARS-CoV-2," explained Dr. Matthew Buckland from the Department of Clinical Immunology, Barts Health, London. "But this lack of antibodies may also have prevented his COVID-19 from becoming life-threatening, because he had no antibodies to trigger a damaging immune response.”

 

             Prelimininary tests by Gilead the drug manufacturers have shown in a phase three simple trial, “Among severely sick people, the antiviral drug reduced the risk of dying by 62 percent compared with standard care,”

        Which of course requires to be confirmed in clinical trials.

         Other trials have found the same results such as that among severely sick people, the antiviral drug reduced the risk of dying by 62% compared with standard care,

                 Dr Kathleen Mullane of Chicago university, an infectious disease specialist, has said good things about it. On studies she has done on it she has stated that most of the patients under her care were severely ill with sars-cov2 but with treatment with the drug they were able to go home within six days and only two had died.

                   Remdesivir has also shown good results in many animal studies and shown that it can prevent and treat sars-cov-2, and mers.

                   One wonders why the WHO have said they do not recommend this drug.

                    Tocilizumab has also shown promising results especially in people who are in the severely ill category. In one trial in India one doctor had this to say,

            “The trial's lead co-author, Professor A. V. Ramanan from the University of Bristol's School of Clinical Sciences, and Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, said: "Our study suggests tocilizumab might still be effective in patients with severe COVID-19 and so should be investigated further in future studies. It adds to existing evidence from the RECOVERY and REMAP-CAP studies which demonstrate that tocilizumab does have a significant impact on reducing mortality in those with COVID-19 requiring oxygen or being ventilated. After dexamethasone (steroids), this is still the most significant advance in the treatment of COVID that has an impact in reducing deaths." Source (Medical Express March 8th 2021)

   There are also ongoing trials with many other drugs that have not used murdered babies to obtain them.

Why would the relevant Government agencies be downplaying the potency of these very apt medicines and nature’s own immunity and healing properties? Might it have something to do with the fact that these agencies cannot legally allow on to the market an experimental vaccine where there is already a known treatment.

Hence the response to the Vatican statement where it states: “Therefore, doctors and fathers of families have a duty to take recourse to alternative vaccines… there is a grave responsibility to use alternative vaccines.”  This is not being adhered to and also falls at this fence.

Conscience

The recent statement from the Vatican following on from the 2005 statement states,

         “Due to the situation of the ongoing pandemic, “all vaccinations recognized as clinically safe and effective can be used in good conscience with the certain knowledge that the use of such vaccines does not constitute formal cooperation with the abortion from which the cells used in production of the vaccines derive.”

In assessing the ethics and the morality of a vaccine one criterion is whether the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease? Well I must say personally I have not the slightest fear of the novel coronavirus. Let’s take a look.  Surely one should weigh up the matter. Bishop Doran, you may have been influenced by Pope Francis when he said “we must take the vaccine. “ When he was interviewed on the Italian news media he said,

        "If the doctors are presenting this to you as a thing that will go well and doesn't have any special dangers, why not take it?"

        These are serious words coming from the pope, one wonders if he has done any research.

Sunday, 26 September 2021

Video for CUT and the Crusade of Prayer



A video for CUT and the Crusade of Prayer for the season of Michaelmas, as St Michael the Archangel and Our Lady of Good Counsel are the patrons of CUT (Catholics Unplug your Televisions) and the Crusade of Prayer. We are a media study group who look at film and TV from a Catholic perspective.
Also members of CUT and the Crusade of Prayer have helped fund a new production for EWTN called Christendom. This programme shows how the Catholic Church helped form Western Civilisation. The programme is almost finished and this is a video and new on the project.

Thursday, 16 September 2021

Bungling Biden and Belligerent Bergoglio


World civilisation in trouble?

 At a time when the world needs strong and sensible leadership we have a bungling left-liberal president of the USA, the most powerful democracy in the world, and a belligerent left-liberal pope who seems to do nothing but undermine the teachings of the Church. 

Let us look at the pope first because he is more important than any secular world leader. Just before the Covid pandemic started he enshrined the Pachamama pagan idol in St Peter's basilica after it had been worshipped in the Vatican gardens. He then condoned civil same-sex unions (or rather a video documentary had him doing so even though it was edited, but the Vatican did not contradict it). He continues to support things politically correct, then just recently started to undermine the most important work of his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI to restore the Traditional Latin Mass. Could it be more than a coincidence that the Covid 19 pandemic started soon after the satanic Pachamama incident and in China? He had of course made a secret deal with the Chinese Communist Party to recognise the government controlled Patriotic Catholic Church and undermine the loyal underground Chinese Catholic Church; too much of a coincidence? It’s time Bergoglio led a penitential procession around Rome's churches to atone for all his heretical mismanagement of the Church. 

Then we have bungling Joe Biden, the leader of the "free world", the person the liberal PC mainstream media will not touch even now after all his incompetent actions. This so-called "devout" Catholic officiated in several same-sex marriages and has been a very vocal supporter of abortion. In recent days Biden and that other so-called "Catholic" American House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed to take action against Texas' new heart beat law; for once a heart beat is detected the foetus cannot be aborted. Perhaps we should not be so shocked that the mainstream media is so outraged at the bill. His withdrawal from Afghanistan was the height of incompetence, leaving many at the mercy of the Taliban and at the same time giving these terrorists one of the most well equipped armies in the world - for nothing. In another age Biden would be prosecuted for arming terrorists. 

It's not clear why these long term politicians are so "Woke". It's almost as if they have enacted policies put forward by the left-liberal media, for the media is power. However, now that they have caught up with the media and are leading again, or rather are eagerly jumping over the precipice of ultra liberalism, they are leading the destruction of Western culture faster than the media, who rush to catch up and overtake the government in pushing the whole of society over the edge. Make no mistake: the Main Stream Media, politicians like Biden and churchmen like this pope are destroying civilisation.