Arsenic Jorge and Old Lace

With a world in a state of utter chaos as a consequence of the teleology of the errors let loose by certain aspects of the Renaissance and then the Protestant Revolution’s overthrow of the Divine Plan that God Himself instituted to effect man’s return to Him through His Catholic Church, Jorge Mario Bergoglio continues prattle on and on and on about his pet Modernist topics.

That’s right. The world is in ruins. To call to me Pope Leo XIII’s concise statement contained within Testem Futura Prospicientius, November 1, 1900, “Public life is stained with crime.” Innocent blood flows everywhere in the United States of America and around world. Jorge Mario Bergoglio denounces “global warming” (well, it is sure hot as blazes here in Texas, but that is not because of “global warming”) and worries about “sustainable development goals” and rainforests.

A sitting member of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, Associate Justice Brett Michael Kavanaugh, was targeted by a would-be assassin who wanted to give his “life meaning” by killing Kavanaugh and his family because of his expected vote to overturn the Court’s unjust, unconstitutional, and immoral decision in the case of Roe v. Wade. Jorge Mario Bergoglio remains mute.

Thousands upon thousands of people worldwide continue to be killed, seriously injured, or sickened by the poisoned potions called vaccines that were designed—or so we are told—to prevent or mitigate the symptoms of the Severe Acute Respiratory Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2). Jorge Mario Bergoglio still continues to urge Catholics to get the kill shots and prohibits anyone from traveling on his pilgrimages to spread heresy and apostasy who is not “vaxxed.”

White collar criminals who engage in election fraud, make false accusations against their political opponents, calumniate innocent opponents, and conduct show trials to send them to the figurate, if not literal, gallows, receive the praise of the mainslime media. Jorge Mario Bergoglio speaks about the “rights” of people to violate the just laws of sovereign nations to control their own borders.

 Innocent human beings are vivisected every day under the false slogan of “brain death” and “giving the gift of life” and euthanized on a customized basis in hospices around the world, and Jorge Mario Bergoglio gives his full and unequivocal assent.

About what does Jorge Mario Bergoglio vents his rage in the midst of the worldwide chaos in which we live but is only a manifestation of the world’s rejection of the Social Reign of Christ the King?

Priests and presbyters wearing lace vestments.

No, you cannot make this up:

“Popular piety is a great treasure, and we must guard it, accompany it so that it is not lost,” he said. “Also educate it,” and “free it from all superstitious gestures and take the substance it has inside.”

Still talking about the Second Vatican Council, Francis asked the priests about the liturgy. Prefacing the question with an “I don’t know” the law of the land because he doesn’t attend Mass in Sicily, he reminded priests that homilies are supposed to be short – not more than eight minutes – and provide people with substance: A thought, a feeling, or an image they can carry with themselves throughout the week.

Then, saying that he has “seen pictures,” he regretted the fact that priests still wear vestments with lace: “Where are we? Sixty years after the Council! Some updating [is needed] even in liturgical art, in liturgical ‘fashion’!”

“Yes, sometimes bringing some of Grandma’s lace goes, but sometimes,” Francis told the priests. “It’s to pay homage to grandma, right? It’s good to pay homage to grandma, but it’s better to celebrate the mother, the holy mother Church, and to do so how Mother Church wants to be celebrated.” (Pope Francis tells priests to stop wearing ‘grandma’s lace’ at Mass.)

What can be said?

Really, what more can be said about this egregious destroyer of Catholic Faith, Worship, Morals, pastoral practice, Sacred Scripture, and of the entire nature and dignity of the Catholic priesthood?

Well, perhaps it would be instructive to consider the care with which the Levitical priests of the Old Dispensation sought to make and maintain their liturgical vestments:

And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they were slain upon their offering strange fire: [2] And he commanded him, saying, Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle,) [3] Unless he first do these things: He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust. [4] He shall be vested with a linen tunick, he shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head: for these are holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed. [5] And he shall receive from the whole multitude of the children of Israel two buck goats for sin, and one ram for a holocaust. (Leviticus 16: 1-5.)

And the priest that is anointed, and whose hands are consecrated to do the office of the priesthood in his father's stead, shall make atonement; and he shall be vested with the linen robe and the holy vestments, [33] And he shall expiate the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, the priest also and all the people. [34] And this shall be an ordinance for ever, that you pray for the children of Israel, and for all their sins once in a year. He did therefore as the Lord had commanded Moses. (Leviticus 16: 32-34.)

God has always carefully specified all that pertains to Divine Worship. He did with the Chosen People before His Co-Equal, Co-Eternal Divine Son’s Redemptive Act on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday, which put an end to the priesthood of the Old Covenant, and his done so through His Holy Catholic Church, she who is guided infallibly in all matters to Catholic Faith, Worship, and Morals by the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost.

Writing in Mediator Dei, November 20, 1947, Pope Pius XII, Pope Pius XII explained that God, Who has arrayed creation in all its beauty, splendor and order, has taught us the external features of Divine Worship must of themselves reflect that beauty, splendor, and order:

The prescriptions in fact of the sacred liturgy aim, by every means at their disposal, at helping the Church to bring about this most holy purpose in the most suitable manner possible. This is the object not only of readings, homilies and other sermons given by priests, as also the whole cycle of mysteries which are proposed for our commemoration in the course of the year, but it is also the purpose of vestments, of sacred rites and their external splendor. All these things aim at “enhancing the majesty of this great Sacrifice, and raising the minds of the faithful by means of these visible signs of religion and piety, to the contemplation of the sublime truths contained in this sacrifice.”[94]

102. All the elements of the liturgy, then, would have us reproduce in our hearts the likeness of the divine Redeemer through the mystery of the cross, according to the words of the Apostle of the Gentiles, “With Christ I am nailed to the cross. I live, now not 1, but Christ liveth in me.”[95] Thus we become a victim, as it were, along with Christ to increase the glory of the eternal Father. (Pope Pius XII, Mediator Dei, November 20, 1947.)

Jorge Mario Bergoglio cares nothing for the external splendor of the ceremonies of Holy Mass. Indeed, he hates them, and he has also instructed priests to be active in the “world,” to be “with the sheep,” and to avoid being isolated and turned in of themselves in their own prayer lives.

Such an attitude is so far removed from the nature of the Catholic priesthood as described by Pope Pius XII, who denounced what he called the “heresy of action” in Menti Nostrae, September 23, 1950:

60. For these reasons, while giving due praise to those who in the years which have followed the long and terrible war, urged by the love of God and of doing good to their neighbor under the guidance and following the example of their Bishops, have consecrated their entire strength to the relief of so much misery, We cannot abstain from expressing our pre-occupation and our anxiety for those who on account of the special circumstances of the moment have become so engulfed in the vortex of external activity that they neglect the chief duty of the priest, his own sanctification. We have already stated publicly in writing[60] that those who presume that the world can be saved by what has been rightly called “the heresy of action” must be made to exercise better judgment. The heresy of action is that activity which is not based upon the help of grace and does not make constant use of the means necessary to the pursuit of sanctity given us by Christ. In the same way, nevertheless, We have deemed it timely to stimulate to the activities of the ministry those who, shut up in themselves and almost diffident of the efficacy of divine aid, do not labor to the best of their ability to make the spirit of Christianity penetrate daily life in all those ways demanded by our times.[61] (Pope Pius XII, Menti Nostrae, September 23, 1950.)

This is the exact opposite of what Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the self-styled “street priest” from Buenos Aires, Argentina, has practiced and professed throughout his destructive career as a lay Jesuit revolutionary who hates absolutely everything about the era before the false “pontificate” of Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII, which began on October 28, 1958.

The Argentine Apostate is also a foe of priestly sanctification and does not see that the first service about which a Catholic priest must be concerned is the sanctification and salvations of souls, starting with his own.

This is what Pope Pius XII wrote about priestly sanctification and the salvation of souls in Menti Nostrae:

61. We earnestly exhort you, therefore, to labor with all solicitude for the salvation of those whom Providence has entrusted to your care, closely united to the Redeemer with whose strength we can do all things[62] How ardently We desire, O beloved sons, that you emulate those saints who in past times, by their great deeds, have shown what the might of Divine Grace can do in this world. May you one and all, in humility and sincerity, always be able to attribute to yourselves — with your spiritual charges as witnesses — the words of the Apostle, “But I will most gladly for my part, spend and be spent myself for your souls”.[63] Enlighten the minds, guide the consciences, comfort and sustain the souls who are struggling with doubt and groaning with sorrow. To these forms of apostolate, add also all those others which the needs of the times demand. But let it always be clear to everybody that the priest in all his activities seeks nothing beyond the good of souls, and looks toward no one but Christ to Whom he consecrates his energies and his whole self.

62. In the same way that, in order to urge you to personal sanctification, We have exhorted you to reproduce in yourselves the living image of Christ, so now for the sanctifying efficacy of your ministry We excite you to follow constantly the example of the Divine Redeemer. Full of the Holy Ghost, He “went about doing good and healing all who were in the power of the devil; for God was with Him”.[64] Strengthened by the same Spirit and encouraged by His Strength, you will be able to exercise a ministry which, nourished and enkindled by Christian charity, will be rich in Divine virtue and capable of communicating this virtue to others. May your apostolic zeal be animated by that divine charity which bears everything with peace of mind, which does not let itself be overcome by adversity, and which embraces all, rich and poor, friends and enemies, faithful and unfaithful. This daily effort and these daily hardships are demanded of you by souls for whose salvation Our Saviour patiently suffered grief and torment unto death in order to restore us to the Divine Friendship. This is, and well you know it, the greatest good of all. Do not allow yourselves, therefore, to be carried away by the immoderate desire for success, do not allow yourselves to be dismayed if, after assiduous labor, you do not gather the desired fruits. “One sows, another reaps”.[65] (Pope Pius XII, Menti Nostrae, September 23, 1950.)

Pope Pius XII also explained that priestly charity for souls includes the duty—yes, the absolute duty—to fight error and vice. Jorge Mario Bergoglio spread error and he reaffirms those living dissolute lives in the name of “accompanying” them rather than exhorting to convert immediately. As Saint Alphonsus de Liguori noted in a sermon to explain that those who put off their conversion until “tomorrow” may not have the morrow coming their way: “Who has promised you tomorrow?”

Here is what Pope Pius XII wrote about the duty of the priest to fight error and repel vice, specifying that do so priests must fight error with all their strength but also to have compassion for the erring and those steeped in sin, a compassion that neither minimizes the gravity error nor reaffirms sinners in their lives of perdition:

63. Furthermore, let your apostolic zeal shine with benign charity. If it be necessary — and it is everyone’s duty — to fight error and repel vice, the soul of the priest must be ever open to compassion. Error must be fought with all our might, but the brother who errs must be loved intensely and brought to salvation. How much good have the saints not done, how many admirable deeds have they not performed by their kindness even in circumstances and in environments penetrated by lies and degraded by vice? Of a truth, he who to please men would gloss over their evil inclinations or be indulgent about their incorrect ways of thinking or acting, thereby prejudicing Christian teaching and integrity of morals, would be betraying his ministry. But when the teachings of the Gospel are preserved and those who stray are moved by the sincere desire to return to the right path, the priest must remember the reply of Our Lord to St. Peter when he asks Him how many times he must forgive his neighbor. “I do not say to thee seven times, but seventy times seven”. (Pope Pius XII, Menti Nostrae, September 23, 1950.)

Our last true pope thus far had words that categorically condemned the whole life and antipapal presidency of Jorge Mario Bergoglio:

Of a truth, he who to please men would gloss over their evil inclinations or be indulgent about their incorrect ways of thinking or acting, thereby prejudicing Christian teaching and integrity of morals, would be betraying his ministry. (Pope Pius XII, Menti Nostrae, September 23, 1950.)

The sixth in the current line of antipopes, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, glosses over evil inclinations, especially those engaged in what he dismissively and irreverently calls “below the belt sins,” and has, as noted so many hundreds upon hundreds of times on this website, indulged himself in incorrect ways of thing or acting, going so far at one point to say in May 23, 2015 video message, "“I feel like saying something that may sound … heretical”. There is no way that such a man, nor any of the five who have preceded him on the conciliar seat of apostasy, can be a legitimate Successor of Saint Peter. The religious sect to which Bergoglio to belongs is false, and he is simply the continuing the destructive work of those who preceded him, albeit doing so in a more open, vulgar, and obvious manner than had been done heretofore.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio wants his priests and presbyters to involved with the “people” and their temporal needs, laying aside Pope Pius XII’s summary of Holy Mother Church’s consistent teaching concerning the nature of the Holy Priesthood:

64. The object of your zeal must not be earthly and transient things but things eternal. The resolution of priests aspiring to holiness must be this: to labor solely for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. How many priests, even in the straitened circumstances of our time, have taken the example and the warnings of the Apostle of the Gentiles as a rule of conduct! The Apostle of the Gentiles, content with the indispensable minimum, declared: “. . . but having food and sufficient clothing, with these let us be content”.[67]

65. Through this disinterestedness and this detachment from earthly things worthy of the highest praise, in conjunction with trust in Divine Providence, the priestly ministry has given the Church ripe fruits of spiritual and social good. (Pope Pius XII, Menti Nostrae, September 23, 1950.)

“But having food and sufficient clothing, with these let us be content.”

By the way, speaking of having sufficient food, have you seen a photograph of the very unmortified Jorge Mario Bergoglio lately?

It was said of the first in the current line of antipopes, Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII, that he had a “glandular problem,” which is why he was morbidly obese. As a former priest friend within the conciliar structures said to me decades ago, “Glandular problem, my foot. He ate like a horse!” (The profile of Bergoglio just above is very similar to the profile of Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII.)

Well, so does Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has constantly scoffed at bodily mortification, including doing so early in his false “pontificate:”

(Vatican Radio) To meet the living God we must tenderly kiss the wounds of Jesus in our hungry, poor, sick, imprisoned brothers and sisters. Study, meditation and mortification are not enough to bring us to encounter the living Christ. Like St. Thomas, our life will only be changed when we touch Christ’s wounds present in the poor, sick and needy. This was the lesson drawn by Pope Francis during morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta Wednesday as he marked the Feast of St. Thomas Apostle.

Jesus after the Resurrection, appears to the apostles, but Thomas is not there: "He wanted him to wait a week - said Pope Francis - The Lord knows why he does such things. And he gives the time he believes best for each of us. He gave Thomas a week. " Jesus reveals himself with his wounds: "His whole body was clean, beautiful, full of light - said the Pope - but the wounds were and are still there" and when the Lord comes at the end of the world, "we will see His wounds". In order to believe Thomas wanted to put his fingers in the wounds.

"He was stubborn. But the Lord wanted exactly that, a stubborn person to make us understand something greater. Thomas saw the Lord, was invited to put his finger into the wounds left by the nails; to put his hand in His side and he did not say, 'It's true: the Lord is risen'. No! He went further. He said: 'God'. The first of the disciples who makes the confession of the divinity of Christ after the Resurrection. And he worshiped Him”.

"And so - continued the Pope - we understand what the Lord’s intention was when he made him wait: he wanted to guide his disbelief, not to an affirmation of the Resurrection, but an affirmation of His Divinity." The "path to our encounter with Jesus-God - he said - are his wounds. There is no other”.

"In the history of the Church there have been some mistakes made on the path towards God. Some have believed that the Living God, the God of Christians can be found on the path of meditation, indeed that we can reach higher through meditation. That's dangerous! How many are lost on that path, never to return. Yes perhaps they arrive at knowledge of God, but not of Jesus Christ, Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity. They do not arrive at that. It is the path of the Gnostics, no? They are good, they work, but it is not the right path. It’s very complicated and does not lead to a safe harbor. "

"Others - the Pope said - thought that to arrive at God we must mortify ourselves, we have to be austere and have chosen the path of penance: only penance and fasting. Not even these arrive at the Living God, Jesus Christ. They are the pelagians, who believe that they can arrive by their own efforts. " But Jesus tells us that the path to encountering Him is to find His wounds:

"We find Jesus’ wounds in carrying out works of mercy, giving to our body – the body – the soul too, but – I stress - the body of your wounded brother, because he is hungry, because he is thirsty, because he is naked because it is humiliated, because he is a slave, because he's in jail because he is in the hospital. Those are the wounds of Jesus today. And Jesus asks us to take a leap of faith, towards Him, but through these His wounds. 'Oh, great! Let's set up a foundation to help everyone and do so many good things to help '. That's important, but if we remain on this level, we will only be philanthropic. We need to touch the wounds of Jesus, we must caress the wounds of Jesus, we need to bind the wounds of Jesus with tenderness, we have to kiss the wounds of Jesus, and this literally. Just think of what happened to St. Francis, when he embraced the leper? The same thing that happened to Thomas: his life changed. "

Pope Francis concluded that we do not need to go on a “refresher course” to touch the living God, but to enter into the wounds of Jesus, and for this "all we have to do is go out onto the street. Let us ask St. Thomas for the grace to have the courage to enter into the wounds of Jesus with tenderness and thus we will certainly have the grace to worship the living God. " (www.news.va/en/news/pope-at-mass-we-encounter-the-living-god-through-h">http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-at-mass-we-encounter-the-living-god-thro...">We encounter the Living God through His wounds.)

Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a demon stressed up to look like a human being. an insidious little pest. He is a heretic and a blasphemer. This Argentine layman posing as the "Petrine Minister" of the counterfeit church of conciliarism remains absolutely obsessed with propagating every 1970s Jesuit revolutionary cliche imaginable, including posing absolutely false, "straw maa" distinctions between meditation and the Corporal Works of Mercy while at the same time disparaging penance and mortification altogether. He is also a distorter of truth as penance and mortification are of the essence of the interior life, but especially in the lives of priests and consecrated religious.

Although not a priest, Saint Francis of Assisi, whose life has been a constant source of distortion and misrepresentation by one conciliar revolutionary after another, was a model of penance and mortification after abandoning his cavalier ways:

As was the case with another of his sons, one coming from the Capuchin branch of the Franciscans, Padre Pio, Saint Francis's embrace of the Cross of the Divine Redeemer and his deep devotion to the Most Blessed Sacrament caused him to be tempted repeatedly by the devil. The adversary despised the fact that priests were reforming their lives because of the example of Saint Francis. He was angered by how many men and women, starting with Saint Clare of Assisi in the year 1212, left the world and all of its pleasures to embrace the Franciscan life of prayer, poverty, chastity, obedience, and severe bodily penances and mortifications.

The Golden Legend narrates one encounter between the devil and the Seraphic Saint of Assisi:

While Francis was at prayer, the devil called him three times by name. The saint responded, and the devil added: "In the whole world there is not a single sinner to whom the Lord will not grant pardon if he repents; but if someone kills himself with excessive penances, he will not obtain mercy forever." by a revelation, the saint instantly recognized the lie and the liar, and saw how the demon was trying to cool his ardor to lukewarmness. The ancient enemy, seeing that his effort was of no avail, aroused in Francis a violent temptation of the flesh, but the man of God, feeling this, took off his habit and scourged himself with a coarse rope, saying to his body. "See here, brother [donkey]! Either behave yourself or take a beating!" But the temptation persisted, so the saint went out and threw himself naked into the deep snow. Then he made seven snowballs, which he set in front of him, and spoke again to his body: "Look here," he said, "the biggest ball is your wife, the next four are two sons and two daughters, and the last two are a manservant and a maidservant. Hurry up and clothe them, they dying of cold! Or if it bothers you to give them so much attention, then serve the Lord with care!" Thereupon the devil went away in confusion, and the man of God returned to his cell glorifying God. (Archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, O.P., The Golden Legend.)

Saint Francis of Assisi knew that his life of poverty and penance and mortification would be misunderstood and reviled by many

A Pope Pius XI pointed out in Rite Expiatis, April  11, 1926, the misrepresentation of Saint Francis of Assisi as a man who was unconcerned about Catholic doctrine is a fundamental injustice against the Seraphic Saint:

What evil they do and how far from a true appreciation of the Man of Assisi are they who, in order to bolster up their fantastic and erroneous ideas about him, imagine such an incredible thing as that Francis was an opponent of the discipline of the Church, that he did not accept the dogmas of the Faith, that he was the precursor and prophet of that false liberty which began to manifest itself at the beginning of modern times and which has caused so many disturbances both in the Church and in civil society! That he was in a special manner obedient and faithful in all things to the hierarchy of the Church, to this Apostolic See, and to the teachings of Christ, the Herald of the Great King proved both to Catholics and nonCatholics by the admirable example of obedience which he always gave. It is a fact proven by contemporary documents, which are worthy of all credence, "that he held in veneration the clergy, and loved with a great affection all who were in holy orders." (Thomas of Celano, Legenda, Chap. I, No. 62) "As a man who was truly Catholic and apostolic, he insisted above all things in his sermons that the faith of the Holy Roman Church should always be preserved and inviolably, and that the priests who by their ministry bring into being the sublime Sacrament of the Lord, should therefore be held in the highest reverence. He also taught that the doctors of the law of God and all the orders of clergy should be shown the utmost respect at all times." (Julian a Spira, Life of St. Francis, No. 28) That which he taught to the people from the pulpit he insisted on much more strongly among his friars. We may read of this in his famous last testament and, again, at the very point of death he admonished them about this with great insistence, namely, that in the exercise of the sacred ministry they should always obey the bishops and the clergy and should live together with them as it behooves children of peace. (www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vati...">http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fw...">Pius XI, Rite expiatis)

Pope Leo XIII, writing in Auspicato Concessum, September 17, 1882, explained, quite contrary to the spirit of effeminacy that is extant in the counterfeit church in general and in many of the provinces of the Franciscan friars attached to its nefarious structures, the Holy Founder of the Order of Friars Minor was a Catholic man who bravely embraced the the folly of the Cross no matter what anyone thought of him, bearing within his own body the very brand marks of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, namely, the stigmata:

And even as at that period the blessed Father Dominic Guzman was occupied in defending the integrity of heaven sent doctrine and in dissipating the perverse errors of heretics by the light of Christian wisdom, so was the grace granted to St. Francis, whom God was guiding to the execution of great works, of inciting Christians to virtue, and of bringing back to the imitation of Christ those men who had strayed both long and far. It was certainly no mere chance that brought to the ears of the youth these counsels of the gospel: "Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor money in your purses; nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats. nor shoes. nor a staff." And again, "If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor . . . and come, follow Me." Considering these words as directed personally to himself, he at once deprives himself of all, changes his clothing, adopts poverty as his associate and companion during the remainder of his life, and resolves to make those great maxims of virtue, which he had embraced in a lofty and sublime frame of mind, the fundamental rules of his Order.

Thenceforth, amidst the effeminacy and over-fastidiousness of the time, he is seen to go about careless and roughly clad, begging his food from door to door, not only enduring what is generally deemed most hard to bear, the senseless ridicule of the crowd, but even to welcome it with a wondrous readiness and pleasure. And this because he had embraced the folly of the cross of Jesus Christ, and because he deemed it the highest wisdom. Having penetrated and understood its awful mysteries, he plainly saw that nowhere else could his glory be better placed.

With the love of the cross, an ardent charity penetrated the heart of St. Francis, and urged him to propagate zealously the Christian faith, and to devote himself to that work, though at the risk of this life and with a certainty of peril. This charity he extended to all men; but the poorest and most repulsive were the special objects of his predilection; so that those seemed to afford him the greatest pleasure whom others are wont to avoid or over-proudly to despise.

Therefore has he deserved well of that brotherhood established and perfected by Jesus Christ, which has made of all mankind one only family, under the authority of God, the common Father of all.

By his numerous virtues, then, and above all by his austerity of life, this irreproachable man endeavored to reproduce in himself the image of Christ Jesus. But the finger of Providence was again visible in granting to him a likeness to the Divine Redeemer, even in externals.

Thus, like Jesus Christ, it so happened that St. Francis was born in a stable; a little child as he was, his couch was of straw on the ground. And it is also related that, at that moment, the presence of angelic choirs, and melodies wafted through the air, completed this resemblance. Again, like Christ and His Apostles, Francis united with himself some chosen disciples, whom he sent to traverse the earth as messengers of Christian peace and eternal salvation. Bereft of all, mocked, cast off by his own, he had again this great point in common with Jesus Christ, -- he would not have a corner wherein he might lay his head. As a last mark of resemblance, he received on his Calvary, Mt. Alvernus (by a miracle till then unheard of) the sacred stigmata, and was thus, so to speak, crucified.

We here recall a fact no less striking as a miracle than considered famous by the voice of hundreds of years. One day St. Francis was absorbed in ardent contemplation of the wounds of Jesus crucified, and was seeking to take to himself and drink in their exceeding bitterness, when an angel from heaven appeared before him, from whom some mysterious virtue emanated: at once St. Francis feels his hands and feet transfixed, as it were, with nails, and his side pierced by a sharp spear. Thenceforth was begotten an immense charity in his soul; on his body he bore the living tokens of the wounds of Jesus Christ. (Pope Leo XIII, Auspicato Concessum, September 17, 1882.)

Mistakes were made on the path toward God?

Go tell that to hundreds of saints, starting with the last of the Old Testament Prophets, Saint John the Baptist, whose life of penance and mortification was summarized as follows in a prayer found in 1957 English language edition of The Raccolta:

I. O glorious Saint John the Baptist, greatest prophet among those born of woman (Luke 7, 28), although thou wast sanctified in thy mother's womb and didst lead a most innocent life, nevertheless it was thy will to retire into the wilderness, there to devote thyself to the practice of austerity and penance; obtain for us of thy Lord the grace to be wholly detached, at least in our hearts, from earthly goods, and to practice Christian mortification with interior recollection and with the spirit of holy prayer.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, etc.

II. O most zealous Apostle, who, without working any miracle on others, but solely by the example of thy life of penance and the power of thy word, didst draw after thee the multitudes, in order to dispose them to receive the Messias worthily and to listen to His heavenly doctrine; grant that it may be given unto us, by means of the example of a holy life and the exercise of every good work, to bring many souls to God, but above all those souls that are enveloped in the darkness of error and ignorance and are led astray by vice. (The Raccolta: A Manual of Indulgences, Prayers and Devotions Enriched with Indulgences, approved by Pope Pius XII, May 30, 1951, and published in English by Benziger Brothers, New York, 1957, pp. 345-347)

Consider the words of Pope Pius XI about the parental obligation to foster mortification in their homes as to provide a fertile ground for the fostering of priestly vocations among their sons:

In an ideal home the parents, like Tobias and Sara, beg of God a numerous posterity “in which Thy name may be blessed forever,” and receive it as a gift from heaven and a precious trust; they strive to instill into their children from their early years a holy fear of God, and true Christian piety; they foster a tender devotion to Jesus, the Blessed Sacrament and the Immaculate Virgin; they teach respect and veneration for holy places and persons. In such a home the children see in their parents a model of an upright, industrious and pious life; they see their parents holily loving each other in Our Lord, see them approach the Holy Sacraments frequently and not only obey the laws of the Church concerning abstinence and fasting, but also observe the spirit of voluntary Christian mortification; they see them pray at home, gathering around them all the family, that common prayer may rise more acceptably to heaven; they find them compassionate towards the distress of others and see them divide with the poor the much or the little they possess. (Pope Pius XI, Ad Catholici Sacerdotii, December 20, 1935.)

Similarly, Pope Pius XII commended acts of voluntary mortification in his encyclical letter on the Sacred Liturgy, Mediator Dei, November 20, 1947:

In the period of Advent, for instance, the Church arouses in us the consciousness of the sins we have had the misfortune to commit, and urges us, by restraining our desires and practicing voluntary mortification of the body, to recollect ourselves in meditation, and experience a longing desire to return to God who alone can free us by His grace from the stain of sin and from its evil consequences. (Pope Pius XII, Mediator Dei, November 20, 1947.)

So much for “mistakes have been made in the path toward God,” Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

The wheelchair bound Jorge Mario Bergoglio, whose knees would be a whole better if mortified himself and lost about a hundred pounds (something that one can do, speaking as one who did so twelve years ago with the help of Our Lady’s grace, if one desires to amend for overeating and thus realize the bodily benefits that accrue therefrom), is desperately trying to weed out any and every vestige of “Pelagianism,” of “rigidity,” of “unhealthy attachments” to the things of a supposedly “bygone era.” In this, of course, as in everything he does, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is doing nothing other than the work of Antichrist.

Catholics embrace penance and mortification as a means of conquering self, of dying to self, in order to live more fully for Christ the King as He has revealed Himself through His true Church.

A true Jesuit and a true priest, Father John Croiset, wrote as follows on interior mortification:

It is not enough to mortify ourselves in some things, for some time; we must, as far as possible, mortify ourselves in everything and at all times, with prudence and discretion. A single unlawful gratification allowed to human nature will do more to make it proud and rebellious than a hundred victories gained over it. Truce with this sort of enemy is victory for him; “Brethren,” said Sr. Bernard, “what is cut will grow again, and what appears extinguished will light again, and what is asleep will awake again.”

To preserve the interior spirit of devotion, the soul must not be dissipated with exterior distractions, and as the prophet says, must be surrounded on all sides by a hedge of thorns. Now, if we omit to do that, it will be for us the cause of tepidity, back sliding, and want of devotion. When we mortify our disordered inclinations in one thing, we generally make up for it by some other satisfaction which we allow ourselves. During the time of retreat, we are recollected, but as soon as it is over, we open the gates of the senses to all kinds of distractions.

The exercise of this interior mortification, so common in the lives of the saints, is known by all who have a real desire to be perfect. In this matter we have only to listen to the Spirit of God. The love of Jesus Christ makes people so ingenious, that the courage and energy which they display and the means of mortifying themselves with which the Holy Spirit inspires even the most uncultured people, surpass the genius of the learned, and can be regarded as little miracles.

There is nothing which they do not make an occasion to contradict their natural inclinations; there is no time or place which does not appear proper to mortify themselves without ever going beyond the rules of good sense. It is enough that they have a great desire to see or to speak, to make them lower their eyes or keep silent; the desire to learn news, or to know what is going on, or what is being said, is for them a subject of continual mortification which is as meritorious as it is ordinary, and of which God alone is the Witness. The appropriate word, a witticism in conversation, can bring them honor, but they make it the matter of a sacrifice.

There is hardly a time of the day but gives opportunities for mortification; whether one is sitting or standing, one can find a place or an attitude that is uncomfortable without being remarked. If they are interrupted a hundred times in a serious employment, they will reply a hundred times with as much sweetness and civility as if they had not been occupied. The ill-humor of a person with whom we have to live, the imperfections of a servant, the ingratitude of a person under obligations to us, can give much exercise for the patience of a person solidly virtuous. Finally, the inconveniences of place, season or persons suffered in a manner to make people believe that we do not feel them are small occasions of mortification, it is true, but the mortification on these occasions is not small; it is of great merit.

It may be said that great graces and even sublime sanctity usually depend on the generosity with which we mortify ourselves constantly on these little occasions. Exact fulfillment of the duties of one’s state and conformity in all things to community life without regard to one’s inclinations, employment, or age involve that continual mortification which is not subject to vanity but which is in conformity with the spirit of Jesus Christ.

If occasions for exterior mortifications are wanting, those for interior mortification are ever at hand. Modesty, recollections, reserve require mortification; honesty, sweetness and civility may the effects of education, but are more usually the result of constant mortification. Without this virtue it is difficult for a person to be always at peace, to be self-possessed, to do his actions perfectly, and be always content with what God wills. (http://fatima.ageofmary.com/penance/true-mortification/">Mortification.)

Our true popes have called for personal sacrifice and mortification through the history of Holy Mother Church, an example of which can be found in Pope Leo XIII’s Exeunte Iam Anno, December 25, 1888.)

Now the whole essence of a Christian life is to reject the corruption of the world and to oppose constantly any indulgence in it; this is taught in the words and deeds, the laws and institutions, the life and death of Jesus Christ, "the author and finisher of faith." Hence, however strongly We are deterred by the evil disposition of nature and character, it is our duty to run to the "fight proposed to Us," fortified and armed with the same desire and the same arms as He who, "having joy set before him, endured the cross." Wherefore let men understand this specially, that it is most contrary to Christian duty to follow, in worldly fashion, pleasures of every kind, to be afraid of the hardships attending a virtuous life, and to deny nothing to self that soothes and delights the senses. "They that are Christ's, have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences"-- so that it follows that they who are not accustomed to suffering, and who hold not ease and pleasure in contempt belong not to Christ. By the infinite goodness of God man lived again to the hope of an immortal life, from which he had been cut off, but he cannot attain to it if he strives not to walk in the very footsteps of Christ and conform his mind to Christ's by the meditation of Christ's example. Therefore this is not a counsel but a duty, and it is the duty, not of those only who desire a more perfect life, but clearly of every man "always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus." How otherwise could the natural law, commanding man to live virtuously, be kept? For by holy baptism the sin which we contracted at birth is destroyed, but the evil and tortuous roots of sin, which sin has engrafted, and by no means removed. This part of man which is without reason -- although it cannot beat those who fight manfully by Christ's grace -- nevertheless struggles with reason for supremacy, clouds the whole soul and tyrannically bends the will from virtue with such power that we cannot escape vice or do our duty except by a daily struggle. "This holy synod teaches that in the baptized there remains concupiscence or an inclination to evil, which, being left to be fought against, cannot hurt those who do not consent to it, and manfully fight against it by the grace of Jesus Christ; for he is not crowned who does not strive lawfully." There is in this struggle a degree of strength to which only a very perfect virtue, belonging to those who, by putting to flight evil passions, has gained so high a place as to seem almost to live a heavenly life on earth. Granted; grant that few attain such excellence; even the philosophy of the ancients taught that every man should restrain his evil desires, and still more and with greater care those who from daily contact with the world have the greater temptations -- unless it be foolishly thought that where the danger is greater watchfulness is less needed, or that they who are more grievously ill need fewer medicines. (Pope Leo XIII, Exeunte Iam Anno, December 25, 1888.)

Pope Leo XIII explained that is not a "counsel but a duty" to walk in the footsteps of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and conform our minds to His as seek to live in a penitential manner and refuse to be drawn into a spirit of worldliness, especially during Holy Week, the week in which our redemption was wrought on the wood of the Holy Cross on which the Saviour of the world paid in His Sacred Humanity the debt of human sin that was owed to Him in His Sacred Divinity. We are not to have the false spirit of the world within our hearts, which must beat in unison with the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Thus, the entirely unmortified Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s mockery of lace used in liturgical vestments is a mockery of God, Who wants everything about the Sacred Liturgy to reflect beauty, order, and perfection, not that which is profane, ugly, and disordered. Although he does not realize it, his mockery of God has earned him a special place in hell, something that Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi pointed out in a description of one of her mystical visions:

She sees the souls of two people known to her condemned to eternal torments.

In the year 1594 on the 22^nd of December, her spirit being raised above her senses, she saw the soul of an unhappy man at the moment that he passed from his death to the eternal torments. God revealed to her that the chief cause of his damnation was his having held in contempt the treasures of Holy Church, laughing at the indulgences and al the other graces of the Church benignly imparts on her faithful children; which contempt indicates the depth of iniquity into which a wretched man may fall. (Father Placido Fabrini, The Life and Works of Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi: Florentine Noble, Sacred Carmelite Virgin, to Which Are Added Her Works, A Narration of the Miracles Wrought Through Her Intercession Down to Our Days, and Prayers for the Novena in Her Honor. Translated from the 1852 Florentine Edition by Father Antonio Isoleri, p, 111.)

Case closed against Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who always laughs or denounces the treasures of Holy Church and never fears to blaspheme Our Lord, His Most Blessed Mother, countless other saints, nor to disparage those who keep seriously the binding precepts of the First, Second, and Third Commandments.

On this day, Trinity Sunday, which this year is also the commemoration of Saint John of San Facundo and of Saints Basilides, Cyrinius, Nabor, and Nazarius, may we have recourse to the Mother of God under her title of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity to help us remain steadfast in our refusal to make the slightest concession to the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Each Rosary we pray will help us to have the desire to mortify our own senses and desires and to better equip us to recognize heresy, mockery and to persevere in our prayers for the restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter.

As the late Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P., used to pray after the Prayers after Low Mass, “O Lord, grant us a true pope.”

Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, pray for us.

Saint John of San Facundo, pray for us.

Saints Basilides, Cyrinius, Nabor, and Nazarius, pray for us.