The Danger of Don Alessandro Minutella
This article was first written as the second part of the article, “Only a Remnant of the MMP Will Remain” (http://spir-food.blogspot.com/2018/08/only-remnant-of-mmp-will-remain.html; https://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2018/08/17/only-a-remnant-of-the-mmp-will-remain/).
This article was a reply to a couple of emails from a woman “very torn” here in Italy who is part of the Marian Movement for Priests (MMP). The Subject of her email is: “The silence of the Marian Movement of Priests”. Since the MMP is so important to Our Lady, I spent some time in gathering information which regards the problems and the division in the MMP after the death of Don Stefano Gobbi. This woman, Assunta, who had the courage to open her eyes in this period of great confusion, was tempted to follow Don Minutella.
Don Alessandro Maria Minutella (Palermo, Italy, 1973) was a priest of the diocese of Palermo and pastor of the Parish of Pope Saint Gregory at Boccadifalco (Pa). He received his doctorate in dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sicily with a theses on the relationship between the theology of purgatory and the mystical dark night in the writings of Saint Catherine of Genova. At the Pontifical Gregorian University he continued to complete a doctorate in the history of Christian dogma, with a theses on the Christological-Trinitarian eschatology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Don Minutella became the head of a traditionalist Catholic group of Palermo, “The Little Nazareth”, which does not recognize the election of Pope Francis. He was notified with a decree of excommunication for “the heresy and crime of schism” on November 13, 2018.
Here is the second part of the article, “Only a Remnant of the MMP Will Remain”.
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REGARDING DON ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA, after having read the whole Blue Book, it is not the style of Mary to do as does Don Minutella. Also a similar thing happened to me as to Don Minutella, having lost my parish because I preached the whole Gospel according to the CCC and not just the easy parts (Cf. http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html; http://cibo-spir.blogspot.it/2016/11/festa-falsa.html; http://cibo-spir.blogspot.it/2014/01/attirare-la-gente-chi.html; https://youtu.be/OhcOkeUhmsA). Yes Don Minutella was treated unjustly by his bishop of Palermo. Shortly before his bishop, Mons. Lorefice, put sanctions on Don Minutella, Mons. Lorefice, after having been given a bicycle, rode his bicycle in the cathedral, with the liturgical vestments and the miter (http://www.marcotosatti.com/2017/03/31/palermo-il-vescovo-in-bicicletta-toglie-la-parrocchia-e-impone-il-silenzio-al-prete-critico/). But I cannot image that I call the priests of Italy or of the USA to me, as did Don Minutella. I also cannot image saying to others that Our Lady directly gives me messages! I have had several experiences and studies and writings on the criteria of discernment regarding private revelation. Visit (in Italian: “Discernimento – Veggenti Falsi” (http://cibo-spir.blogspot.it/2015/04/discernimento-veggenti-falsi.html). In English: http://necedah-cult.blogspot.com; https://priv-rev.blogspot.com/.
Mary is the great general with more than five stars in this great battle between “the woman clothed with the sun” and the “great red dragon” (Rev 12), not a particular priest such as Father Joe or Don Minutella or Don Laurent L. or the Bishop Fellay (the superior of the SSPX)!!! With the “Arch of the Covenant” of the Old Testament the walls of Jericho came tumbling down (Joshua 5:13 – 6:27). The “Arch of the Covenant” of the New Testament is Mary, who carried in her womb God for nine months. How many times in the Blue Book Our Lady tells us that we priests must become little children in the arms of Mary, repeated often by Don Stefano Gobbi, “two month old babies in the arms of Our Lady”! It is Our Lady who God has chosen to crush the head of the serpent (Satan) in the period of time (Gen 3:15)!
When will the Queen of Heaven and Earth intervene?
“These children of mine should not be afraid to give themselves to me completely. They are now living in times of great confusion; in many of them faith in my Son and trust in me is diminishing. Bad example is everywhere increasing, and how discouraged are many of them becoming discouraged! This is the time to call on me, to yearn for me; this is all I am waiting for in order to reveal myself to them. That which most touches my Heart is TO HEAR THEM CRY LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN. Can a mother not be moved before her little child who is crying? Behold: when everything will have come tumbling down, ALL THAT WILL REMAIN WILL BE THE STRENGTH OF THEIR TEARS that will compel me to intervene in an amazing and terrible way. And my triumph will begin with these beloved sons, my priests.” (February 23, 1974).
In the end there will be a great risk that Don Minutella will lead many people in the same situation and into the same attitude of many schismatic groups, or he will leave many people very deluded and discouraged because in this period it is God who permitted the false pope “a destroyer”, as our just punishment (“The “Prophecy” of Saint Francis (Assisi)”; http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/11/prophecy-st-francis.html), due to our great lack of prayer and the general indifference regarding sin; behold why Satan has great power in this period.
Jesus lived 30 years in the hidden life with Mary and Joseph; He spent 3 years in the public life, and 3 hours on the cross to redeem the world. It is not the moment to organize a revolution against the Roman Empire (or today against the New World Order) as Barabbas or Judas Iscariot tried to do 2000 years ago; during his passion Jesus could have called down “more than twelve legions of angels” (Mt 26:53) but he did not! But it is the moment to be with Jesus on the cross and Mary at the foot of the cross in this period of the purification of the Body of Christ, the Church (cf. CCC 675-677). Having done perfectly the will of the Father, Jesus lost almost all of his followers on earth, He was humiliated on the cross publically, and He suffered more than we can imagine. Jesus was a priest on the cross and often in the Blue Book one finds the words of Our Heavenly Lady who prepares her priests for the same great vocation of our Lord Jesus, of our “immolation” with Jesus.
What was the reaction of the great majority of the poor and of the slaves under the Roman Empire? They were on the bottom of society and getting stomped and of course they were resentful and they were waiting for a hero to come and stomp the people who were stomping them! But the true Christians, the few true followers of Christ, OVERCAME their RESENTMENT and forgave their enemies, loved their enemies like Christ did on the cross and Mary at the foot of the cross. This is how Christianity came about, but that was sure is a miracle of grace, to overcome resentment by forgiving and loving their enemies! That was grace!
This reaction of RESENTMENT is typical of wives with difficult husbands or of husbands with difficult wives, or with parishioners with pastors not virtuous, or subjects under a dictatorial king or government.
Did things go better after the FRENCH REVOLUTION, or after the COMMUNIST E SOCIALISTIC REVOLUTION in Russia and in other countries??? Do things go better for the wife and children when the wife does not do as did Saint Monica and all the holy wives in the history of the Church?
When Archbishop Lefebvre was treated badly and unjustly by his fellow bishops, he broke away and many people followed him who were looking for a hero to come and “stomp the people who were stomping them”.
Were not even the apostles hoping that Jesus Christ would free them from Roman domination and “stomp the people who were stomping them”? BUT WHAT EXAMPLE DID CHRIST GIVE US IN THIS SITUATION? What example did all the true saints in the history of the Church give us in similar situations? Did Mary, the Mother of Jesus, seek a hero who would free her divine Son during his passion??? Or did Mary totally conform her will to the will of her divine Son who did the will of his Father in heaven? Our human nature prefers to cut off the ear of the high priest’s slave (Jn 18:10) than to submit to the Father’s will and undergo the crucifixion!
In the history of the Church, WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TRUE REFORMERS AND THE FALSE REFORMERS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? Which reformers produced truly good fruits for the Church and for souls and which reformers produced bad fruits for the Church and for souls? It takes time to recognize the tree by its fruits (L, 6:44; Mt 7:16-18). Unfortunately the false reformers, who lacked true humility and wisdom, caused considerable damage to the Church and to many misguided souls.
“TO THE PRIESTS OUR LADY’S BELOVED SONS” (October 18, 1975; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/):
“My Adversary will one day think that he is celebrating a complete victory: over the world, over the Church, over souls. It will be only then that I will intervene – terrible and victorious – that his defeat may be all the greater when he is certain in his conviction that he has conquered once for all.
What is in preparation is so extraordinary that its like has never happened since the creation of the world. That is why everything has already been predicted in the Bible. The terrible struggle between me, the Woman Clothed with the Sun, and the Red Dragon, Satan, who has now succeeded in seducing many even with the error of Marxist atheism, has already been foretold to you. The struggle between the angels together with my children and the followers of the dragon led by the rebellious angels has already been foretold to you. Above all, my complete victory has already been clearly foretold.
You, my sons, have been called to live through these events. It is now the time for you to know this, that you may be consciously prepared for the battle. This is now the time for me to begin disclosing part of my plan (not the plan of Father Joe or the plan of Don Minutella!!!).
First of all, it is necessary that my Enemy have the impression of having conquered everything, of having everything now in his hands. This is why he will be permitted to penetrate even into the interior of my Church, and he will succeed in plunging the sanctuary of God into darkness. He will reap the greatest number of victims from among the ministers of the sanctuary.
This will in fact be a time of great falls on the part of my beloved sons, my priests. Satan will seduce some of them by pride, others by love of the flesh, others by doubts, others by unbelief, and still others by discouragement and loneliness. How many will have doubts about my Son and about me and will believe that this is the end of my Church!
Priests consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, my beloved sons whom I am gathering together for this great battle, the first weapon that you must make use of is trust in me. It is your complete abandonment to me. Conquer the temptation of fear, of discouragement, of sadness. Distrust paralyzes your activity and greatly benefits my Adversary. Be serene; be joyful!”
And then regarding Don Minutella, there is always the danger of the mentality of the schismatic traditionalists who lack true humility. Visit: “The Great Difficulty In Overcoming Pharisaism – The Difference Between Schismatic Traditionalism and the False Pope Prophecies” (http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2016/05/overcoming-pharisaism.html). When I celebrate the Mass in a parish of the diocese, during the “Eucharistic Prayer”, I say: “Remember, Lord, your Church, spread throughout the world, and bring her to the fullness of charity, together with Francis our Pope and N. our Bishop and all the clergy.” If “Pope Francis” was not canonically elected, as is indicated in “The “Prophecy” of Saint Francis (Assisi)” and in many other indications (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/01/pope-benedict-xvi-force-to-resign.html), the prayers automatically go to Pope Benedict XVI. When I celebrate the Mass in private with friends who have their eyes open, during the “Eucharistic Prayer”, I say: “Remember, Lord, your Church, spread throughout the world, and bring her to the fullness of charity, together with our Pope and N. our Bishop and all the clergy.” For me, and I believe before God, Pope Benedict XVI is the valid pope!
It is not prudent or humble or in the ways of the messages “To the Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons” for a priest, like Don Minutella, to criticize or condemn the priests who during the Mass name in the Canon the name “Pope Francis”. Because many priests who say these words, does not mean that they are not faithful to the Magisterium of the Church of 2000 years, to the Truth that does not change with the world. When there will be “Soon Oath of Blind Obedience to Bergoglio” (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2018/02/soon-oath-of-blind-obedience-to.html), or “The Abomination of Desolation” (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2018/04/the-abomination-of-desolation.html), at that point when I celebrate the Mass in a parish of the diocese I will say: “Eucharistic Prayer”, I say: “Remember, Lord, your Church, spread throughout the world, and bring her to the fullness of charity, together with our Pope and N. our Bishop and all the clergy.” But when these things happen, I will lose my income, and everything, but Our Lady will be near as she was near to Jesus on the cross!
For Don Minutella do say that the priests who during the Mass name in the Canon the name “Pope Francis”, that their Mass is not valid, is a great error and imprudence on the part of Don Minutella and indicates the lack of humility.
During the International Spiritual Exercises, at Collevalenza – Sanctuary of Merciful Love (Madre Speranza), June 29 – July 5, 2003, Don Stefano Gobbi offered to over 200 priests and to over 10 bishops of the Marian Movement of Priests the following meditation. In the SECOND of four meditations given by Don Stefano Gobbi during this week of Spiritual Exercises (“The Woman Clothed With The Sun In Search Of The Little Ones”; http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/02/children-of-woman.html), he said:
“Our Lady, however, assured: “From the outside nothing can harm this Work.” (December 7, 1974). From the outside, that is from religious authority, nothing will be able to harm it … And so what does he do? He tries to destroy it from within hitting its members. And he strikes them in one way only: by destroying their smallness.”
In the Blue Book, “To The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons” (http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/), Our Lady tells us very often THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE TO BECOME SMALL, so as to be totally docile instruments in the hands of “the Woman clothed with the sun” (Rev 12:1) who will crush the head of the serpent (Gen 3:15), the “great red dragon” (Rev 12:3), in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21)!
IN THE LAST SIX YEARS, NOT ONLY FR. MINUTELLA, THERE ARE MANY CARDINALS, BISHOPS AND PRIESTS WHO ARE BEING SILENCED IN THE CHURCH IN MANY HIDDEN WAYS:
Tosatti: Vatican Unofficially Restricts Bishop Schneider, Cardinal Burke (November 6, 2018; https://onepeterfive.com/tosatti-vatican-unofficially-restricts-bishop-schneider-cardinal-burke/?fbclid=IwAR3mJMEk28PKV5RAiCbqia2SNRgfafHXm-tdGelHQxfiUjnGFoz0sBoWbXw).
“Behold my doubts as a priest and religious” (Padre Gabrielle Rossi, FAM):
Dear readers, the letter that you find below was sent to me by a priest and religious, belonging to a great congregation present in many countries. It is a significant witness, which brings to light a reality much more diffuse than what might be imagined. (…)
Since last December I was suspended “a divinis” from being the general superior: I can no longer celebrate Mass in public, nor preach, nor confess. I can only celebrate privately. (…) Signed, January 16, 2019 (https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2019/02/p-gabriele-rossi-fam-suspended-divinis.html).
“A Letter to My Bishop” (https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-letter-to-my-bishop.html).
How difficult it is to live as the saints, in particular regarding humility and to be detached from the works. From the Diary of Saint Faustina we read (no. 984):
“My Jesus, I understand well that my perfection consists not in the fact that You command me to carry out these great works of Yours-Oh no!-the soul’s greatness does not consist in this, but in great love for You. O Jesus, in the depths of my soul I understand that the greatest achievements cannot compare with one act of pure love for You. I desire to be faithful to You and to do Your bidding. I am making use of my strength and my reason to carry out all You are asking of me, O Lord, but I have not the least shadow of attachment to all this. I do it all because such is Your will. All my love is drowned, not in Your works, but in You yourself, O my Creator and Lord!”
The Novus Ordo Mass is a good valid Mass even though many groups, schismatic traditionalists, say that it is not valid. The problem is that many priests and bishops do not obey the Liturgical Books.
The Novus Ordo Mass is valid and licit. It was the organized bad interpretation which cause all the problems, as was explained by Mother Angelica (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/10/politically-correct-in-church-ewtn.html) and by Padre Gabiele Amorth (http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2879; http://www.vaticans.org/index.php?/archives/61-An-interview-with-the-Vaticans-chief-excorcist,-Father-Gabriele.html) and by many others. Pope Benedict began the reform of the reform; this demonstrated clearly that Pope Benedict knows well that the Novus Ordo Mass is valid and licit, but that the problem was the lack of obedience. To encourage people to appreciate the guidance of the Church in the Liturgical Books and to not lose or to rediscover the greatness of the Mass, Pope Benedict allowed all the priests in all the dioceses of the world to be able to celebrate the Tridentine Mass without the permission of the local bishop. Pope Benedict knew well that the majority of the bishops do not obey the Magisterium of the Church, both on the left and side of the spectrum, but also on the right side of the spectrum. Pope Benedict XVI in his first homily as pope said: “Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.” – Pope Benedict XVI homily during papal inauguration mass) (April 24, 2005; http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2005/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20050424_inizio-pontificato_en.html).
Preparation for the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION
Our Mass right now is valid, but we are being prepared for what we read in these prophecies. I think very few Catholics know The Four Conditions For A Valid Mass: A Mass of the Roman Rite is invalid: 1) WHEN the celebrant of the Mass is not a validly ordained priest, 2) WHEN the priest does not have the proper intention, 3) WHEN wheat bread or grape wine is not used, 4) or WHEN the words “This is my Body” or “This is … my Blood” are not SAID (not silently) by the Priest during the consecration of the Mass. (http://www.cuf.org/faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=188).
Most likely the hidden nullification of the Mass will be done by not fulfilling the fourth condition.
THE FOURTH CONDITION FOR A VALID MASS IS THE FORM:
Christ took the bread and the cup and gave thanks; He broke the bread and gave it to his disciples, saying: “Take and eat, this is my body.” Giving the cup, he said: “Take and drink, this is the cup of my blood. Do this in memory of me.” Accordingly, the Church has planned the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy around the parts corresponding to these words and actions of Christ. The key phrases which confect the Eucharist are “This is My Body” and “This is … My Blood,” which when SAID (not silently) by a priest with the proper intention and matter, truly show the priest acts in the Person of Christ. The other parts of the Eucharistic prayer are, according to St. Ambrose (also quoted in Summa Theologica), essentially preparatory; “by all the other words spoken, praise is rendered to God, prayer is put up for the people, for kings, for others, but when the time comes for perfecting the Sacrament, the priest no longer uses his own words but the words of Christ.” St. Thomas Aquinas also explains this requirement in great detail in the Summa Theologica (Third Part, Question 78, Articles 1 through 6). Changing the words of the preparatory parts of the Eucharistic prayer is illicit and gravely sinful for the priest, but would not invalidate the Eucharist as long as “This is My Body” and “This is … My Blood” are SAID (not silently).
THE CATECHISM OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (or The Catechism for Parish Priests) states very precisely that “the form consists of these words: This is My Body and This is … My Blood”.
“The ESSENTIAL signs of the Eucharistic sacrament are wheat bread and grape wine, on which the blessing of the Holy Spirit is invoked and the priest PRONOUNCES the words of consecration spoken by Jesus during the Last Supper: “This is my body which will be given up for you…. This is the cup of my blood….”.” (CCC 1412).
Abate Ildebrand Scicolone, OSB, blasoned liturgists and fixed guest for the weekly liturgies of the CEI, who goes around Italy to teach the catechists, said: “If one does not believe that there is the body of Christ in a Host, in reality you eat only bread, the sacrament does not arrive but not only in the sense that it is not arrived at in the sacrament, but also that in that bread there is not Jesus” (“IF ONE DOES NOT BELIEVE”!?!?!)! The presence of Jesus in the EUCHARIST does not depend on what a human being thinks or believes; it depends on God!?!?! Have we totally lost the faith, and there are no bishops to protect the sheep from the wolves such as Abate Ildebrand Scicolone, OSB?!?!? There is nothing new under the sun; most protestants have had similar beliefs for centuries! The pastors are forced (by Card. Vallini) to buy the so-called “The Eucharist Makes the Church” (“L’Eucarestia fà la Chiesa”) (edited by Abate Scicolone, OSB), which is full of liturgical inaccuracies and doctrinal errors, that MUST be given to each catechist!
We find in this new catechism A REDUCTION OF THE EUCHARISTIC REALISM, to consider, that is, the Eucharist almost as only a rite of communion, of socialization, forgetting very easily that in the Eucharist there is truly present Christ risen – with his risen Body.
The Eucharistic doctrine of Scicolone is perfectly super imposable to that of Kiko and Carmen (NEOCATECUMENAL WAY), since the liturgist that was his teacher is of the same school of the innovators of the post councilors that greatly impressed the young Carmen. Compare Scicolone’s teaching aid with the catechism on the Eucharist that Kiko and Carmen hold during the Retreat of the Amen (Convivenza dell’Amen), at the end of the initial catechism. One does not find any difference: the substitution of the dogmas of Faith in the Redemption and in the expiatory-propitiatory Sacrifice of Christ with the Father, with the Pasqual mystery of passage from death to life of the Lord, which makes them say that it is not with the Holocaust of Christ on the Cross by which we are saved, but only with His resurrection from the dead. Because of this the Mass is no longer an all-consuming contemplation-adoration of the offering of Love of a God who is consumed for us, to which we unite our little personal cross, but it becomes a jolly festive banquet of the remembrance of Easter, that draws everyone from death to life (without any importance given to how much this giving of life to us cost Jesus.). Visit: “Neocatecumenal Way – a Trojan Horse in the Church” (http://spir-food.blogspot.com/2018/07/neocatecumenal-way-trojan-horse-in.html).
CONTRAST THIS WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH regarding the Most Holy Eucharist in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1356-1381; http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P41.HTM).
I believe that we will lose the Eucharist in all the public churches of the world by way of a new Missal, probably during the first half of 2021 (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/12/signs-god-vs-satan.html). But before this great sacrilege of a mandatory invalid mass for all priests and bishops under the jurisdiction of the false pope, I believe the false pope will demand an Oath of Blind Obedience from all the priests and bishops under his jurisdiction (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2018/02/soon-oath-of-blind-obedience-to.html; https://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/soon-oath-of-blind-obedience-to-bergoglio/)! I believe also that the two corresponding prophecies of Lucia of Fatima and of Saint Pope Pius X will be fulfilled before we lose the Eucharist, that is, at some time in the future Pope “Joseph” will be killed! (“Saint Peter returns the keys to Jesus”; http://spir-food.blogspot.com/2018/09/saint-peter-returns-keys-to-jesus.html; https://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/saint-peter-returns-the-keys-to-jesus/). The Freemasons can also employ various diversions or distractions at their disposal, even terrorism and major conflicts, so as to take our attention away from the greatest devastation of taking away the Eucharist in all the public churches in the world. In any case, how many bishops, priests or lay people know the four conditions necessary for a valid Mass, or even care?!?
SAINT PADRE PIO said: “It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the HOLY MASS.” This saint also said: “The ROSARY is the weapon for these times”!
“In those confusing years after the Second Vatican Council when many priests left the priesthood, it seemed up for grabs the doctrines and the liturgical ceremonies of the Catholic Church. I have since discovered how the forces of evil were rather well organized right after the council to interpret the documents of the council in a false way so as to change the true teachings of the Church in the Catholic universities and seminaries so as to lead, in a subtle and prideful way, many Catholics, priests and seminarians away from the true teachings of the Church” (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/05/is-pope-catholic.html).
During the International Spiritual Exercises, at Collevalenza – Sanctuary of Merciful Love (Madre Speranza), June 22-28, 2008, Father Michael Gaughran offered to over 200 priests and to over 10 bishops of the movement these words in a meditation, with the title of the meditation, “The Church, The Movement and the current times” (http://wordbelife.blogspot.it/2014/11/spiritual-food-1411.html):
“[IT IS AN ATTACK ON THE TRUTH OF GOD.]
It grew gradually. It is enough to think of a subtle change that happened around the time of the Second Vatican Council. With the arrival of the “experts” there developed the fashion of theologians (Note 1), regardless of whether or not they deserved the name; the fact that they had published a book, in general that was enough. This continues and, with this, the center that guides the Church in the minds of many, has shifted from where God had placed it, in the hierarchy, the Pope and the bishops in union with him, and became the various opinions of all sorts of writers. [The students collected the books.] So, this has had an impact not only on the priests, but also on seminarians in many universities. This is the first part of the attack: the attack on the truth of God, the foundation of the Church. (…)”
It is much easier to put the blame on the highest ones in charge instead of making an examination of con science on how each of us have contributed to the confusion in the Church today. The “schismatic traditionalists” often put the blame on the highest ones in charge and thus also the Second Vatican Council instead of the great number of priests and bishops today who do not obey the true documents of the Council and the Liturgical Books of the Catholic Church and thus modify the Holy Mass as they want and how the people who want to put man at the center of the Liturgy instead of maintaining God at the center of the Holy Mass!!! “The liturgy is a gift to be received in humility, not something we construct for ourselves, not a fabrication” (The Titular Bishop of Manaccenser and Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Most Rev. Peter J. Elliott, MA Oxon, MA Melb, STD; “The Neocatecumenal Mass”; http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/02/the-neocatecumenal-mass.html). What could Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI do if the great majority of the bishops and priests do not obey?!?
A Mass of the Roman Rite is invalid: 1) WHEN the celebrant of the Mass is not a validly ordained priest, 2) WHEN the priest does not have the proper intention (that is, the priest has the intention to do what the Church would do), 3) WHEN wheat bread or grape wine is not used, 4) or WHEN the words “This is my Body” or “This is … my Blood” are not SAID (not silently) by the Priest during the consecration of the Mass. (“Soon No More Eucharist!”; http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/03/soon-no-more-eucharist.html).
THAT WHICH DON MINUTELLA IS TRYING TO INSINUATE recently is that if “Pope Francis” does not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, as did many Arian bishops more than 1600 years ago, all the Masses celebrated by priests who say the phrase in the “Eucharistic Prayer”: “Remember, Lord, your Church, spread throughout the world, and bring her to the fullness of charity, together with Francis our Pope (“una cum” – in union with “Pope Francis”) and N. our Bishop and all the clergy” is not valid! It is true that if a priest (or a bishop) “manifests” his intentions openly do not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, then his mass is not valid because “the priest does not have the proper intention”. Regarding “2) WHEN the priest does not have the proper intention (that is, the priest has the intention to do what the Church would do), IF A PRIEST IS TOTALLY DISTRACTED OR EVEN IN MORTAL SIN, THE MASS IS VALID AND THERE IS THE EUCHARIST, even though the priest in mortal sin commits another mortal sin (sacrilege!) because he celebrated in the state of mortal sin. The Mass depends on God, expressed in the phrase in Latin, “Ex opera operato”, otherwise, the Church (and the Mass) would have ended centuries ago, because Jesus founded his Church on twelve sinful apostles, not twelve perfect angels from heaven. The fact that the Church is still here on the earth after more than 2000 years, is a great proof that the Church, the Body of Christ, is not only human but also divine, as Jesus has two natures: human and divine!
Up until a few months ago, Don Minutella limited himself to explaining clearly how “Pope Francis” has promoted many heretical and destructive things. But now he is saying to people that all the Masses are invalid when the priest who during the Mass names in the Canon the name “Pope Francis”!
“EX OPERE OPERATO” is a Latin expression of the Catholic doctrine about the sacraments.
It literally means “by the fact itself of having done it”. It refers to the fact that in the sacraments the sin of the minister cannot invalidate the result of the sacramental action. For example, sacramental absolution given by a priest in mortal sin maintains all of its validity, since the minister has the intention to do what the Church would do.
The use of the expression was developed in the Catholic Church on the occasion of the opposition with the protestant doctrine: Martin Luther held the idea in fact that a priest in mortal sin could not administer the sacraments.
There is contrasted with “ex opera operantis”, which to the contrary affirms the necessity of the holiness of the minister for the sacrament to be valid.
In a similar way, the same Council of Trent, defined the infallibility of the pope, which does not depend on the personal holiness of the pope, but on the promise of Christ.
THE TEACHING OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT:
The Council of Trent defined on March 3 1547 against Luther that the sacraments confer grace “ex opera operato” (can. 8), and thus depend on God (can. 7):
“If anyone shall say, that by the said sacraments of the New Law grace is not conferred through the act performed (ex opera operato) but that faith alone in the divine promise suffices for obtaining grace; let him be anathema.” (Sess. VII, ca. 8; Denz 1611).
The phrase “ex opere operato”, as one can deduce from the discussions of the fathers of Trent, does not mean “automatically”, almost as if the sacraments might be magic rites, that act on a person independent of the person’s will, but rather means “independently from the intentions NOT MANIFESTED by the minister”, to which is asked to put exactly the sign “at least with the intention to do what the Church does” (can. 11), that is at least with the intention to carry out the sacred rite.
The purpose of this clarification, wanted by the council, was to take away from the faithful any doubt of conscience on the validity of a sacrament in the case of a minister who “fakes it” in administering the sacrament, but with the intention, non manifested, to not administer it. The Council says: if the minister has carried out correctly the rite (ex opera operato), God has worked and thus “ex parte Dei (= “for that which depends on God”) the sacrament is complete.
For the efficaciousness of the sacrament there can be lacking on the part that depends on the Christian, but regarding the possible bad dispositions that could render the sacrament non efficacious, he cannot not be conscious of, because the bad dispositions must be “manifested” by the minister of the sacrament.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC; ed. 1992, promulgated by Pope John Paul II; http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM) explains “ex opere operato”: CCC 1127-1128.
This above all does not mean that every priest who during the Mass names in the Canon the name “Pope Francis” believes as “Pope Francis” believes, that is, this does not mean that all the priests who had an Arian bishop more than 1600 years ago believed AS DID THEIR ARIAN BISHOPS!
Now to put in a difficult situation the simple faithful, TO DEPRIVE TODAY, in a very perverse world, the faithful of the traditional Mass because it is celebrated naming in the Canon the name of “Pope Francis” IS A GREAT IMPRUDENCE AND ERROR, which exposes the conscientious faithful to the proximate risk of not being able to live in the state of habitual grace, depriving them of all the Sacraments administered “una cum”. Holy Mother Church, in the Council of Trent, did the exact opposite, that is, to dispel from the faithful every doubt of conscience on the validity of a sacrament in the case of a minister who “fakes it” in administering the sacrament, but with the intention, non manifested, to not administer it. If there was not this “SILENCE OF THE MARIAN MOVEMENT OF PRIESTS”, there would be much less temptation for the members of the MMP to be deceived by Don Minutella or by other groups or by schismatic traditionalist groups, as Professor Don Ivan Pojavnik wrote: “In addition, by virtue of its ambiguity, the circular letter has led a number of members away from the Movement of Our Lady to another movement. … Don Stefano said, “We must be intelligent children, that is, children with open eyes, and not stupid children, that is, with eyes closed”.” The devil wants those few people who have not followed the easy way of “ignorance is bliss” and have struggled to keep their eyes open to the hidden and dangerous pitfalls of the devil, and thus Satan offers subtle temptations that can deprive these people in the state of grace the sacraments or to at least to lead them outside of the true Church which is undergoing the crucifixion with Jesus in the period!
We have not yet arrived to “The Abomination of Desolation” (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2018/04/the-abomination-of-desolation.html), when it will be ordered from the summit of the church to change the Liturgy of the Holy Mass, in the whole world, to the point that the Mass will no longer be valid in all the public churches. When we arrive to the Abomination of Desolation it will be much worse than today: “The moments which are approaching are more serious than you can possibly imagine” (“To the Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”; May 20, 1974), as indicated also by Jesus (Mt 24:15)! Certainly, there are already some priests and bishops who are doing a liturgy of the “Mass” with the protestants, and do not “say” the words of the consecration. This is the moment of the crucifixion of the Body of Christ, the Church (CCC 675-677); we must have patience and good will, without the hidden pride of protagonism in the name of Mary or of Jesus or crusaders for the “truth”, in order to remain at the foot of the cross with Mary, to not run away with a particular group as those of the “schismatic traditionalists” or with a group with Don Minutella. I have already tried that way with my parents and with my sister (http://necedah-cult.blogspot.com) which does not lead to true humility with Mary at the foot of the cross, but to pride and to feel better than the others, and to condemn the others, in the sectarian mentality. I do not want to repeat my mistakes (http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2008/03/rebuttal-to-schismatic-traditionalists.html)!
During the consecration of the Mass, if the words “This is my Body” and “This is … my Blood” are not SAID (not silently) by the Priest the mass is invalid, the bread remains bread and the wine remains wine and there is not the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ present. Such a mass would be a great SACRILEGE!!!
Let us read the words “To the Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons” (December 31, 1992; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/), to understand that this “Abomination of Desolation” is not a question of saying or not saying “together with Francis our Pope and N. our Bishop …”, but there will be “The Abomination of Desolation” when the Liturgy of the Mass will be changed by the false pope, by the “man of lawlessness”, from the summit of the church in all the public church in the world:
“The fourth sign is the horrible sacrilege, perpetrated by him who sets himself against Christ, that is, the Antichrist. He will enter into the holy temple of God and will sit on his throne and have himself adored as God.
`This one will oppose and exalt himself against everything that men adore and call God. The lawless one will come by the power of Satan, with all the force of false miracles and pretended wonders. He will make use of every kind of wicked deception, in order to work harm.’ (cf. 2Thes 2:4,9-10)
`One day, you will see in the holy place he who commits the horrible sacrilege. The prophet Daniel spoke of this. Let the reader seek to understand.’ (cf. Mt 24:15)
Beloved children, in order to understand in what this horrible sacrilege consists, read what has been predicted by the prophet Daniel: `Go, Daniel; these words are to remain secret and sealed until the end time. Many will be cleansed, made white and upright, but the wicked will persist in doing wrong. Not one of the wicked will understand these things, but the wise will comprehend.
`Now, from the moment that the daily Sacrifice is abolished and the horrible abomination is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he who waits with patience and attains one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.’ (Dn 12:9-12)
The Holy Mass is the daily Sacrifice, the pure oblation which offered to the Lord everywhere, from the rising of the sun to its going down.
The Sacrifice of the Mass renews that which was accomplished by Jesus on Calvary. By accepting the Protestant doctrine, people will hold that the Mass is not a sacrifice but only a sacred meal, that is to say, a remembrance of that which Jesus did at his Last Supper. And thus, the celebration of Holy Mass will be suppressed. In this abolition of the daily Sacrifice consists the horrible sacrilege accomplished by the Antichrist, which will last about three and a half years, namely, one thousand two hundred and ninety days.
The prophet Daniel tells us: “And from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up …” (Dan 12:11). This speaks of A TIME, A SPECIFIC MOMENT when “the continual burnt offering is taken away”! Before the manifestation of the Antichrist, “the continual burnt offering” (Dan 8:11; 12:11), will be taken away, and the “sacrifice and offering” will cease (Dan 9:27), which Jesus repeated (Mt 24:15). This sacrilege is the ultimate “Abomination of Desolation” (Mt 24:15; Mk 13:14; 2Thess 2:3-4; Dan 9:27; 11:31; 12:11)! And Our Lady tells us, “And thus, the celebration of Holy Mass WILL BE SUPPRESSED”, and also, “which will last about three and a half years, namely, one thousand two hundred and ninety days”, which again, indicates A TIME, A SPECIFIC MOMENT!
This period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21), of the “Abomination of Desolation”, is a very specific period. Certainly the followers of the Antichrist will slowly prepare for this period. But this period when there will not be the Most Holy Eucharist in the public churches throughout the world will last three and a half years. Our Lady tells us:
“The Sacrifice of the Mass renews that which was accomplished by Jesus on Calvary. By accepting the Protestant doctrine, people will hold that the Mass is not a sacrifice but only a sacred meal, that is to say, a remembrance of that which Jesus did at his Last Supper. And thus, the celebration of Holy Mass will be suppressed. In this abolition of the daily Sacrifice consists the horrible sacrilege accomplished by the Antichrist, which will last about three and a half years, namely, ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY DAYS” (December 31, 1992; “To The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/).
A few passages of Our Lady that refer to the Abomination of Desolation:
“My Church will be shaken by the violent wind of apostasy and unbelief, as he who sets himself against Christ will enter into its interior, thus bringing to fulfillment the HORRIBLE ABOMINATION which has been prophesied to you in Holy Scripture. Humanity will know the bloody hour of its chastisement: it will be stricken with the scourge of epidemics, of hunger and of fire; much blood will be spilt upon your roads; war will spread everywhere, bringing down upon the world incommensurable devastation” (March 15, 1993).
“The time will come when, unfortunately, this error will have even more supporters; and in the Church, the perfume of adoration and of the Holy Sacrifice will be, as it were, extinguished. And thus the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which has already made its way into the holy temple of God, will reach its culmination” (December 24, 1977).
“The man of iniquity will enter into her interior, and he will bring to its culmination the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, foretold in the Holy Scriptures. r Do not lose courage, beloved children” (January 1, 1994).
“There will enter into the Church the man of iniquity, who opposes himself to Christ, and who will bring into her interior the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, thus bringing to fulfillment the horrible sacrilege, of which the prophet Daniel has spoken. (cf. Mt 24:15). My secret concerns humanity. Humanity will reach the summit of corruption and impiety, of rebellion against God and of open opposition to his Law of love. It will know the hour of its greatest chastisement, which has already been foretold to you by the prophet Zechariah. (cf. Zec 13:7-9). Then this place will appear to all as a bright sign of my motherly presence in the supreme hour of your great tribulation. From here my light will spread to every part of the world, and from this fount will gush the water of divine mercy, which will descend to irrigate the barrenness of a world, now reduced to an immense desert. And in this, my extraordinary work of love and of salvation, there will appear to all the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of her who is invoked as the Mother of Mercy.” (March 11, 1995).
“When there will have entered into her the man of iniquity, who will bring to fulfillment the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which will reach its climax in the horrible sacrilege, as the great apostasy will have spread everywhere, then my Immaculate Heart will gather together the little faithful remnant which, in suffering, in prayer and in hope, will await the return of my Son Jesus in glory” (May 13, 1994).
“This merciful action of mine will be exercised in helping her to carry the cross of betrayal and abandonment, when the apostasy becomes general and the man of iniquity foretold by Sacred Scripture enters her, he who will bring the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION into her interior. My merciful action will become still stronger when my children will be persecuted and imprisoned, tormented and led to martyrdom. It is then that I will manifest myself to them in an extraordinary way, according to a mysterious design which my Immaculate Heart has, for a long time now, already outlined in all its particulars.”
It is not easy in this “thick, cold fog” of the greatest confusion in the history of the Church. Our Lady tells us: “Darkness, with a thick, cold fog, has entered the Church, obscuring it in the splendor of its truth. For this reason, every day, my word is forming you to the spirit of wisdom, that you may always see, in the light, the truth which my Son has taught you and proclaim it with courage to all in its integrity.” (“To the Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”; February 9, 1985). For many of the faithful there is a great desire to have a strong guide in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21), in this period of our just punishment from God. “The good as well as the bad” will suffer!
In the final message of the Blessed Virgin, October 13, 1973, on the anniversary of the last apparition and of the miracle of Fatima, at Akita, Japan, she said to Sister Agnes Sasagawa: “As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, THE GOOD AS WELL AS THE BAD, SPARING NEITHER PRIESTS NOR FAITHFUL. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms that will remain for you will be the Rosary and Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. WITH THE ROSARY, PRAY FOR THE POPE, THE BISHOPS, AND THE PRIESTS. The work of the devil will infiltrate even the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and opposed by their conferees, churches and altars sacked, the Church will be full of those who accept compromise and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord. The demon will be especially implacable against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of My sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no longer pardon for them.” (http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/akita.htm).
Pope John Paul II said to a group of pilgrims in Fulda, West Germany, in November 1980, speaking about the secrets of Fatima, that: “We have to be prepared to suffer, before long, great trials which will require of us the disposition to sacrifice even our life for Christ. Through your prayers and mine, it is still possible to diminish this trial (predicted at Fatima), but it is no longer possible to avert it, because only in this manner can the Church be effectively renewed. How many times has the renewal of the Church been brought about in blood! It will not be different this time.”
A woman in Perugia, who organizes the Bus to go to the Cenacles in Umbria, more than a year ago treated me badly, without respect, because on the Bus I gave to a few people Padre Quartilio’s letter; she said to me that Don Roberto A. says that you cannot give anything written to the people. I did not return to that bus. Later I said to this woman that Don Roberto A. does not have the authority to command anyone. How many times in the Blue Book Our Lady told us that She is the head of the Movement, and no one else. Don Laurent L. does not have the authority do command anyone. But the people who are not mature only know how to command in a structure (which Our Lady does not want in the MMP), instead of dialogue to seek the truth, that comes from God, together, with the help of the documents of the Church and also from the Blue Book. When I said to a priest in my area that if I follow my head (instead of God) I will go to hell, this priest strongly objected because, as so many priests today, is totally in the mentality of subjectivism and relativism, which means that the truth comes from ones own head!!!
As Padre Quartilio G. explained well in his letters, it is Our Lady who is in charge of the cohort who will crush the head of the ancient (Gen 3:15), as Saint Louis de Montfort explained well 300 years ago in his classic book: “True Devotion to Mary”.
“As for the rest, leave it to me. THIS IS MY WORK ALONE, and no one will touch it, because I am jealous of it with the very jealousy of God. This work is willed by me for the great triumph of God and the conclusive defeat of Satan. Do not become uneasy if you find that movements inspired by souls to whom I have revealed myself are springing up here and there: on the contrary, all is part of my great plan. And so each thing must be in its place. Your place is the Marian Movement of Priests. Through my priests, an immense number of the laity will again be consecrated to my Heart and entrust themselves completely to me. With simplicity and WITHOUT ORGANIZATION, let them give themselves to me as a little child gives himself completely to his own Mother” (June 7, 1975; “To the Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”; February 9, 1985; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/).
Our Lady did not say that no INTERNAL interference will be able to harm this work of mine, but she said:
“No OUTSIDE interference will be able to harm this work of mine” (July 30, 1974; May 27, 1974; December 7, 1974).
“For my Movement of Priests, I will manifest myself through you, you, AND NO OTHERS (not Don Laurent L.!!!); you are the instrument chosen by me for this mission. This must be understood by everyone in order to avoid any confusion whatsoever with which my Adversary will attempt to obscure my work. Those who will accept it through you will receive the gift of my most pure light” (August 23, 1975).
“Difficulties, misunderstandings and sufferings are permitted by me that this work of mine may be purified yet more. I want it to be purified of every human element that it may thus reflect only my most pure light” (May 3, 1976).
Don Stefano Gobbi was humble and was very happy that Our Lady guided all in the Movement. In the “Introduction” of the Blue Book one finds:
“In these times of grave danger, the Mother of God and of the Church is taking action, without hesitation or uncertainty, to assist first and foremost the priests, who are the sons of her maternal predilection. Quite naturally, this work makes use of certain instruments; and in a particular way Don Stefano Gobbi has been chosen. Why? In one passage of the book, the following explanation is given: “I have chosen you because you are the least APT INSTRUMENT; thus no one will say that this is your work. The Marian Movement of Priests must be my work alone. Through your weakness I will manifest my strength; through your nothingness I will manifest my power.” (July 16, 1973).”
“You have not understood, my son, that I have chosen foolishness to confound wisdom, and weakness to vanquish strength” (September 27, 1973).
I do not believe that Don Laurent L. believes to be foolishness or weakness; this is why Don Laurent L does not dialogue with people who he considers to be foolishness and weakness, with people who are not at his level of intelligence and wisdom, who are not in agreement with him! I believe also that after the stroke of Mother Angelica (the founder of the worldwide television channel, “The Eternal Word Television Network” (EWTN) in 2001, many of the ones in charge of EWTN believed to have more intelligence and wisdom than Mother Angelica (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/10/politically-correct-in-church-ewtn.html).
From the “True Devotion To Mary” by Saint Louis Mary de Montfort, we read:
“But Mary’s power over the evil spirits will especially shine forth in the latter times, when Satan will lie in wait for her heel, that is, for her humble servants and her poor children whom she will rouse to fight against him. In the eyes of the world they will be little and poor and, like the heel, lowly in the eyes of all, downtrodden and crushed as is the heel by the other parts of the body. But in compensation for this they will be rich in God’s graces, which will be abundantly bestowed on them by Mary. They will be great and exalted before God in holiness. They will be superior to all creatures by their great zeal and so strongly will they be supported by divine assistance that, in union with Mary, they will crush the head of Satan with their heel, that is, their humility, and bring victory to Jesus Christ.” (no. 54).
Assunta, you wrote: “Also Pope John Paul II, perhaps having perceived something, warned the cardinals …” You will find in the article “Pope Benedict XVI Forced To Resign” (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/01/pope-benedict-xvi-force-to-resign.html) that Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Constitution Universi Domini Gregis clearly forbids the cardinals and bishops, under pain of automatic excommunication (i.e. immediately imposed, without necessity of declaration), the canvassing for votes to manipulate the Church. The constitution of a “Mafia” like the Sankt-Gallen group is in clear violation of that papal order. In another section “Universi Domini Gregis”, Pope John Paul II expounded further on this. I believe that there was a coup d’etat, to manipulate the Church, not only at the conclave of 2013, but also something similar in the Marian Movement of Priests after the death of Don Stefano Gobbi! “Only a remnant of the Movement will be ready for the heroic climb of Calvary up to the end, but with this remnant Our Lady will obtain her triumph.” The vote of a cardinal in a conclave, who has been automatically excommunicated is not valid.!!! This is the first proof (among others!) that Bergoglio was not elected canonically, as Saint Francis of Assisi warned us about centuries ago!
If you read the book by ANTONIO SOCCI “It is not Francis” (in Italian: “Non è Francesco”) and then his successive articles, one discovers founded motives for the invalidity of the election of Bergoglio that contradict in many points the regulations of the conclave:
The successive articles in Italian of Socci which demonstrate the invalidity of the election of Bergoglio:
L’anticipazione Della Premessa Di “NON E’ Francesco” E Delle Prime Pagine Del Capitolo Sul Conclave Del 2013
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http://www.antoniosocci.com/lanticipazione-della-premessa-di-non-e-francesco-e-delle-prime-pagine-del-capitolo-sul-conclave-del-2013/
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Anche I Bergogliani Sono Ormai Sconcertati Da Bergoglio (LA Mia Risposta Alla Canonista Sull’invalidita’ Del Conclave 2013)
http://www.antoniosocci.com/anche-bergogliani-sono-ormai-sconcertati-da-bergoglio-la-mia-risposta-alla-canonista-sullinvalidita-del-conclave-2013/
Come Sara’ Il Giubileo (MENTRE Si Scoprono Due Nuove Irregolarita’ Del Conclave)
www.antoniosocci.com/come-sara-il-giubileo-mentre-si-scoprono-due-nuove-irregolarita-del-conclave/
It is not by chance that Our Lady, and also Don Stefano Gobbi, did not make any provision for the movement before the death of Don Stefano Gobbi. On the contrary, Our Lady says: “THIS IS MY WORK ALONE, … WITHOUT ORGANIZATION” (June 7, 1975).
“Do not be concerned about the spread of the Marian Movement of Priests. Let me act; trust me. (…) Do not look at the results. My way of acting and of evaluating is so different from yours. You do not have to be numerous, but you must be holy. And I will lead you all to great holiness, if you all truly entrust yourselves completely to me.” (October 13, 1973).
But after the death of Don Stefano Gobbi there was lacking trust in Our Lady on the part of some insecure priests, and thus “for motives of health Padre Quartilio G. had to resign; during the spiritual exercised of 2013 at Collevalenza there was nominated as General Responsible padre Laurent L., french.” (“Pastor of the Whole World – Biography of Don Stefano Gobbi” (“Parroco di Tutto il Mondo – Biografia di Don Stefano Gobbi”), by Mariadele Tavazzi; San Paolo, 2015; p. 134).
I was happy that Padre Quartilio Gabrielli, who passed much time with Don Stefano Gobbi, had the COURAGE to offer the following meditations at the International Spiritual Exercises in 2016:
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/11/courage-final-battle.html
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/01/courage-final-battle-ii.html
Satan is pushing many people off the Barque of Peter, the Church, on the “port side” (left side), who do not follow the laws of God infallibly interpreted by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. But also on the “starboard side” (the right side) of the Barque of Church, there are many who believe they have the “fullness of the truth and means of sanctification” and thus do not feel they need to dialogue with anyone or any group who do not totally agree with themselves, as did the Pharisees and Scribes, and as have done so many people and groups in the Church and outside of the Church throughout history, especially today in a world and in a Church full of confusion. It is true that the one true Church, the Catholic Church, has the “fullness of the truth and means of sanctification” (Lumen Gentium, no. 8), but an individual person or an individual group in the Church is not the Magisterium of the Church, and thus does not have the guarantee, the charism of infallibility, to INTERPRET the doctrines of the Church infallibly. This is why the humility to take the risk to dialogue is always necessary, as Pope John Paul II often encouraged us to do. It is so easy to slide back into what the Second Vatican Council sought to eradicate – to bring the Church back to true humility and to eliminate in the Church this triumphalism of being the true Church, with the fullness of Truth and the means of sanctification (LG 8) (“Evangelization VS the Trilogy of Devils in the Church: Triumphalism, Clericalism and Juridicalism”; http://trueevangelization.blogspot.com).
Thus we understand that it is difficult in this period for those who pray and keep their eyes open to the organized destruction of the Body of Christ, the Church. It is difficult to do as Our Lady at the foot of the cross seeing the destruction of the Body of Christ on the cross. There is a great temptation to do protagonism alone or in a special group, or to do as Peter “having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave” (Jn 18:10; Mt 26:51). One finds indications on a few blogs, such as “GloriaTv”, the conviction and the conclusions that the more that evil goes forward today in the Church that this means that the extreme right or the schismatic traditionalists or Don Minutella are even more correct!?! A criteria of discernment must be based on the Divine Revelation and the Magisterium of the Church of 2000 years, non on a reaction against the people on the left side in subjectivism and relativism. “Saint Thomas Aquinas tells us that virtue lies in the middle between the two extremes which is usually the more difficult path requiring much patience, discernment and humility. Let us not Satan push us off the Barque of Peter, the Church, on the “port side” (left side) nor on the “starboard side” (the right side). Let us welcome the words of the first successor of Don Stefano Gobbi, Padre Quartilio Gabrielli (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/05/ready-to-die-for-christ-truth.html):
“Dear ones, let us not be fooled, it does not help to put our heads in the sand; not just the messages of Our Lady where she talks about loving each other; but also these and many others, where she talks to us to unveil to us our mission.
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It’s been almost two months since I wrote to all the ones in charge of the M.M.P. and of the M.M. the two letters of great uneasiness and disappointment as to how the Movement is run in these times, in which they are called to defend the Truth and to uncover error, and especially about the loss of the true spirit left to us by Don Stefano. I have tried in so many ways to make it clear to the One in charge and to his assistant that the Movement was betraying the purpose for which it was desired by the Immaculate Heart of Mary for these times.
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Another very current point, in my opinion, is not so much the problem of organizing trips or anything else. After Don Stefano’s death, I do not believe that one should copy what he did, given the fact that he received a particular charism; now in most of the world there are people in charge named by Don Stefano, they themselves already know what they must to do. Now the most important commitment is that everyone live and does what Our Lady asks, the rest, even to fill up the stadiums, is not needed. Let us remember the example that Don Stefano quoted very often, the example of Gideon. Let us not forget, Our Lady speaks of the small remnant; she says “not so many, but saints“.
Questo che sto dicendo può sembrare come un abdicare agli impegni del Movimento: in alcune cose esteriori sì, ma, se approfondiamo bene, Lei non ha bisogno di mezzi umani, (tantomeno di disquisizioni umane). Quindi vorrei che si sappia, anche per chiarire lo scopo delle due lettere che ho spedito per email, di cui qualcuno si è persino scandalizzato: ora dico che il Movimento non ha bisogno di strutture, non ha bisogno dello statuto, non ha bisogno di resoconti, non ha bisogno di pagare viaggi o altro per fare 8 giorni di esercizi spirituali a Fatima, ora occorrono Sacerdoti, con il CROCIFISSO e la CORONA del ROSARIO, occorrono laici che sostengono e si uniscono in preghiera con loro un “cuor solo e un anima sola”, perché la seconda Pentecoste avvenga prima possibile.
What I’m saying may seem like abdicating the commitments of the Movement: in some exterior things yes, but, if we go deeply, She does not need human means (even less human disquisitions). So I would like it to be known, also to clarify the purpose of the two letters I sent by email, of which someone was even scandalized: now I say that the Movement does not need structures, it does not need the statutes, it does not need reports, it does not need to pay for trips or anything else to do 8 days of spiritual exercises in Fatima, now there is needed priests, with the CRUCIFIX and the ROSARY, there is needed lay people who support and join in prayer with them “of one heart and soul” (Acts 4:32), so that the second Pentecost takes place as soon as possible.
Quindi colui che guida il Movimento penso debba innanzi tutto incarnare lo “Spirito” del Movimento e nello stesso tempo tenere presente la figura di Don Stefano.
The M.M.P. becomes a reality not in the figures, in the resonance of names, in the efficiency of the organization, but insofar as one listens to Our Lady and one follows the work of the Holy Spirit, to the praise of the Most Holy Trinity. (Introduction – Spirituality, pp. 25, 26)
So the one who guides the Movement I think must first embody the “Spirit” of the Movement and at the same time keep in mind the figure of Don Stefano.
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I have always thought that the one who is designated as the Person in charge must keep in mind the figure of Don Stefano, but above all he must embody “the spirit of the Movement” as it comes from the messages of the “Blue Book”. For this reason, rather than saying “I am the one in charge” his job is to help keep faith in the messages of the Blue Book and the charism left to us by Don Stefano. Everything else: organizing, doing, even recalling: She will take care of things when someone does not behave well. Let us keep in mind the example of Don Stefano, and I would say also let us read and re-read the messages of the first ten years of the Movement, where we find messages that formed Don Stefano, and certainly if we live them they will form the true “Apostles of the last times”. These “Apostles of the last times” are not formed by the circular letters which we can write, Our Lady says that She forms them, and that as the first thing they must be:
(…)
Regarding the second commitment of the M.M.P.: unity and loyalty to the Pope. I would like to know if we as the Marian Movement of Priests must keep silent about the errors which destroy the true faith, generating such vast apostasy, which we find well described in most of the messages, to the point of reaching an unbelievable extension, because it has arrived “even to the summit of the Church” (June 13, 1989).
It seems to me that Our Lady asks us to unmask the error and to defend the Truth “even at the cost of shedding our blood.”
Padre Quartilio G. tells us: “Now in most of the world there are people in charge named by Don Stefano, they themselves already know what they must to do.” It is enough to continue the essential things – the Cenacles, the Rosaries, Adoration, Confessions … In any case, I believe that time is short (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/12/signs-god-vs-satan.html). There is not needed a one in charge who does not dialogue with the people who are not in agreement with himself and “defends a total and unconditional infallibility of Pope Francis. With this great mistake he has confirmed those members of the Movement who sleep as naive children in Gethsemane at this hour of the Church’s agony, and he has put to sleep many others. In addition, by virtue of its ambiguity, the circular letter has led a number of members away from the Movement of Our Lady to another movement” (Professor Don Ivan Pojavnik in the letter of Padre Quartilio).
When I entered into many Catholic groups in Facebook, my first post was always:
“To let people know at least a little about myself, as I wrote in other communities:
I am a diocesan priest in Perugia, Italy. I graduated from UCLA, Math, 1974. We are truly in the period when “the woman clothed with the sun” (Rev 12:1-2) will crush the head of the serpent (Gen 3:15), which is rather well explained by Saint Louis de Montfort, “True Devotion To Mary”.
Over three years ago a priest in my diocese committed suicide. Our Cardinal decided to put aside the topic of our monthly meeting to talk about this. Many younger priests lamented at that time the lack of support by the Cardinal. I then spoke before the more than 100 priests present with the Cardinal and told them that I took the advice of Archbishop Fulton Sheen 14 years ago to spend more than an hour every day in church before our Eucharistic Lord in the tabernacle. From that time on, even though I live alone, I never felt any loneliness whatsoever. I told them that when I suggested this practice to 20 priests in our diocese, all of them said that they did not have time. I responded to them that if I do not spend at least one hour with Jesus in the Eucharist every day, I end up offering to people a poor priest, Father Joe, instead of offering them Jesus Christ.
Please pray for priests and bishops because we have a tremendous responsibility. Pray that we truly are willing, and will be willing when it is even more difficult, to be ready to do as Christ, the Good Shepherd, to lay down our lives for the sheep (Jn 10:11), to lead them to Christ, the Truth which does not change with the world, and which sets us truly free (Jn 8:32), even though the Truth of God is very often uncomfortable and outright rejected, scorned and hated in our world today!”
“The whole of man’s history has been the story of DOUR COMBAT with the powers of evil” (CCC 409). “Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.” – Pope John Paul II. The true solution is to climb to Calvary with Jesus and Mary! “Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering we learn who is our true friend. True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering…” (Diary of St. Faustina, no. 342). Visit: “The Great Gift of the Cross” (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/09/the-great-gift-of-cross.html).
Satan has great power today to be able to manipulate and infiltrate groups of people. But the people on their knees before Jesus in the Eucharist in the tabernacle, with the Rosary, with much humility and faith and love, Satan cannot harm. “Make frequent visits to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and the devil will be powerless against you.” – St. John Bosco.
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Dear Assunta, here is a few thoughts to help us in this period of great confusion. As Padre Quartilio G. wrote in his letters, Our Lady want simple things, such as the Cenacles, sacrifices, adoration, Rosary. Let us allow Our Lady to do the rest. I try to offer the Truth in the period of confusion, but “WITHOUT ORGANIZATION”, which Our Lady asked u sto do. At my index web sites, I wrote:
There is less prayer than ever before, more sin than ever before, even worse, indifference as if sin no longer exists, and so we have given much greater power to “the father of lies”, Satan (Jn 8:44). In particular Satan has more power to “disguise himself as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14), to offer his very deadly beautiful lies as if they were the “truth that sets us free” (Jn 8:32)!
Thus it is very important in these times of great confusion, when even Catholic bishops are no longer in agreement about the fundamentals of our faith and morals, to not only pray much and to study the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults, but to keep our eyes open so as not to fall into the beautiful lies of Satan presented as if they were the Truth!
FOR UPDATES on some of these fundamental, hidden, and disguised deceptions of the ancient serpent, visit one of my index web sites to see the more important, latest articles:
(as well as the DOCUMENTS REGARDING ECCLESIAL APPROVAL of the TESTIMONY OF GLORIA POLO):
http://josephdwight.blogspot.com
https://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/joseph-dwight-index/
https://www.scribd.com/doc/282239978/Joseph-Dwight-Index
Father Joseph Dwight
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Appendix:
A web site, which had many articles about what is going on at Santa Marta, where Bergoglio hangs out, disappeared around March 7, 2018 (https://anonimidellacroceblog.wordpress.com).
Since this web site is no longer found, I offer one of the articles which regards Don Minutella (when I get time I will translate this into English):
“La mia affettuosa lettera a Don Minutella” Di Finan Di Lindisfarne”
Date: 03/04/2017Author: Anonimi della Croce
“La mia affettuosa lettera a Don Minutella” Di Finan Di Lindisfarne
Gentile Don Minutella,
a scriverle è il ‘secondo’ di questo blog, Finan Di Lindisfarne.
Non sono un sacerdote e scelsi questo pseudonimo per simpatia a questo Santo del nord Europa, di cui non sono paragonabile nemmeno al pari di un’unghia.
Ho letto in internet diversi articoli che la riguardano.
Dai preti “allineati” che si sono uniti al Vescovo Lorefice, a suoi Confratelli che hanno scritto il loro pensiero sulla vicenda e a tutto il resto dei cattolici che dice -ognuno- quello che pensa.
Fra Cristoforo, e questo lo testimonio personalmente, ha scritto secondo coscienza, come si scrive a un con-fratello. (Il trattino non è casuale).
Come potrà leggere dai commenti, siamo alla confusione più totale. Noi, popolo di Gesù, ognuno per la sua. Insulti compresi, con annesse accuse vicendevoli di “non essere nel discernimento come lo sono io”. Oppure accuse di “essere amico del nemico” a Fra Cristoforo perchè l’ha invitata alla prudenza a all’obbedienza.
Ma chiudiamo il quadretto.
Le esprimerò la mia personale opinione. Che è quella di un laico, il quale non ha alcuna pretesa di sentenziare.
Ma dato che, come lei, siamo tutti in una sorta di “regime di disobbedienza”, e, dato che consideriamo la barca di Pietro traballante, mi permetto di esprimerle -con rispetto- il mio personale pensiero.
Lei è un sacerdote appassionato. Ho visto alcune sue catechesi. Tiene alla Dottrina della Chiesa e alla salvezza delle anime. Predica il Vangelo.
Di certo non si è fatto prete per organizzare partitelle di calcio all’oratorio o per diffondere opere di misericordia 2.0 (è il mio neologismo per indicare quella finta misericordia di cui siamo spettatori).
Ma anche io ho delle perplessità sulla linea così feroce che lei ha scelto.
Non passa giorno che non mi venga l’orticaria per quello che questa ‘Chiesa’ sta combinando. E lo stesso vale per tutte le cose che Omissis ha detto o fatto, ponendo le basi per lo scardinamento di alcune basilari verità di Fede e di prassi della morale.
Ma come fedele, se dovessi scegliere e se fossi forzato a darle un consiglio spassionato, le direi: “Don Alessandro, aspetti un momento”.
Cosa mi spingerebbe a dirle questo?
L’avrei fatto nella convinzione e nella carità più profonda di non volerla vedere sfracellarsi davanti a quella cattiveria diabolica di cui potrà essere vittima, senza sortire i risultati desiderati.
Altri prelati più in alto in gerarchia si sono mossi prima di lei. E parlo dei 4 Cardinali. E non mi si venga a dire che la gerarchia non ha importanza perchè allora non solo non si è Cattolici, ma si banalizza qualsiasi tipo di ordine umano. Sarebbe infatti ridicolo allora soffrire perchè Omissis fa quello che sta facendo, se non riconosciamo l’importanza del concetto di gerarchia nella Chiesa.
Noi stessi abbiamo avuto notizia che i 4 Cardinali non faranno la correzione. Ma non è forse prudenza aspettare che siano loro stessi ad affermarlo? Se invece cambiassero idea?
Da parte mia preferirei che questo blog facesse la figura del “fake” -come del resto siamo stati accusati- e vedere un Cardinale fare la correzione, piuttosto che assistere alla resa dei 4 Cardinali e all’avvento di uno, cento, mille Don Minutella. E non perchè è lei, Don Minutella, ma perchè significa che la confusione regnerà sovrana.
Infatti, Don Alessandro, alcuni seguiranno lei.
Poi qualcun’altro si farà avanti. E seguiranno quell’altro.
Il rischio concreto è che il demonio usi l’orgoglio di ognuno per fregarci tutti. E dove c’è disordine, non c’è Dio.
Spero che lei prenda le mie parole non come un sofismo, ma come una ricerca del discernimento e della verità.
Per questo, secondo il mio modestissimo parere, di persona che non vale nulla e che non ha titoli teologici, ma solo preghiera (sempre da migliorare) e un pizzico di intelligenza (spero!), converrebbe aspettare di essere tutti sotto una stessa guida.
Se, poi, arriverà il giorno in cui figure come il Cardinale Burke -di cui attendiamo la prossima mossa- dichiarassero che si mettono in totale obbiedienza al Magistero di Omissis, allora ne riparleremo.
Fino ad allora (e non penso che passerà moltissimo) ogni mossa è prematura.
La mia sensazione, Don Alessandro, è che la constatazione del male che lei vede, in quanto uomo di preghiera, l’abbia fatta reagire istintivamente, stanco di vedere il marcio che dilaga.
Il che è nobile e ha tutto il mio appoggio.
Ma se dobbiamo tutti partire a correre, dobbiamo farlo insieme.
Non ha senso, a mio parere che lei vada a Verona, che non è nemmeno la sua Diocesi, causando comunque del frastuono che ora non giova, mentre lo stesso giorno si svolge una conferenza (http://www.lanuovabq.it/it/mediaVideoGallery-testimoni-da-tutto-il-mondo-con-una-richiestafare-chiarezza-subito-sullamoris-laetitia-video-19441.htm) internazionale, che comunque è un grande passo.
Forse in quella sede verranno prese delle decisioni.
Un passo mirato e attento.
Che se non ho male compreso (contradditemi nei commenti) sono gli stessi della Dichiarazione di Fedeltà (www.supplicafiliale.org). Ovvero quel gruppo di menti -ecclesiastici e non- ai quali onestamente mi affiderei con grande serenità.
Lei serve alla causa, Don Alessandro. Non si faccia massacrare gratuitamente, perchè tanto la resistenza si può fare lo stesso senza fare manifestazioni in piazza.
Cosa pensa che farà Omissis? Cosa farà, Don Alessandro, se la scomunicano?
Quanti fedeli pensa che la seguiranno? Quelli che magari fanno i leoni in internet, magari scrivendo commenti nei vari siti, pensa che la seguiranno fino al Calvario?
La vera resistenza potrebbe essere un giorno trovarsi a casa di qualcuno ad assistere ad una celebrazione vera, mentre nel frattempo in tutte le parrocchie verrà celebrata una farsa.
E ci si dovrà muovere nel nascondimento.
Sono convinto che se un giorno dovremo essere martiri in piazza, lo saremo tutti insieme. Ma ora è il tempo della pazienza, dell’attesa -Omissis è lì dov’è per permissione divina- e dell’organizzazione intelligente.
E lo dico essendo consapevole di essere un Anonimo della Croce, che dovrebbe a parere di alcuni lettori, essere un sobillatore. Invece non lo sono. E soffro quando penso a Benedetto XVI.
Un passo affrettato, mosso magari dal risentimento e dalla frustrazione di vedere la Chiesa peggiorare di giorno in giorno, potrebbe essere controproducente per tutti.
Ora, vi prego, commentate. Ve ne sarò grato, perchè lungi da me la pretesa di dire la verità e di avere ragione. Ho espresso quello che ho nel cuore.
Con affetto,
Finan
p.s. Mi unisco totalmente all’invito di Fra Cristoforo (https://anonimidellacroce.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/avviso-ai-naviganti-di-fra-cristoforo/). E’ ridicolo insultarsi a vicenda o dare dell’indemoniato l’uno all’altro. Per cortesia, amici, non diventiamo come le bestie. Siamo vittime del disordine, è vero. Ma non facciamo come i cani che si sbranano a vicenda per la rabbia. Stiamo tutti cercando la strada. TUTTI. Da Don Minutella a Fra Cristoforo, dai lettori pro-incontro a quelli contrari. Non rivestiamoci di quella spocchia presuntuosa di essere convinti di avere l’illuminazione e gli altri invece no. Santa notte.
https://anonimidellacroce.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/la-mia-affettuosa-lettera-a-don-minutella-di-finan-di-lindisfarne/
