The Last Word...
By Fr. Celatus
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Pope Dubius Maximus
Via Crucis
Leave no stone unturned or tradition unchanged,
The Last Word
has been inspired to write
The Stations of the Spirit of Vatican II
Amost ancient and venerable Christian devotion is that which we know as the Stations of the Cross. The original Way of the Cross, of course, was travelled by Jesus, along with His Mother and devout disciples at the time. Without doubt the Blessed Mother, the Apostles and disciples frequently retraced the Stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa through Jerusalem to Golgotha, in prayerful memory of the Lord. In the first centuries of the Church, in fact, this devotion was bound inseparably to the Holy Land.
But not all Christians could make an arduous and at times dangerous pilgrimage to Jerusalem and so eventually the Church, over time, granted permission for the Stations to be exported from the Holy Land. Originally entrusted exclusively to the care of the Franciscans, owing to the fondness of Saint Francis for this devotion, in time the Church authorized the placing of Stations in all churches worldwide.
Nowadays it is not uncommon to find blessed images of the Stations in the homes of the faithful, a laudable practice.
The number of the Stations as well as their individual designation has varied over the centuries but in the eighteenth century the Church officially fixed their number at fourteen, under the titles by which we have prayed them ever since. Ever since, that is, until changes made in 1991 under Pope John Paul II, who omitted Stations which were not mentioned explicitly in the Gospels— Jesus’ falling and Veronica’s veil.
But even these changes were not enough for Francis of Rome. This year,
invited a progressive French woman Biblicist to design and write the papal
prayed annually in Rome. In addition to introducing personal variations on the JPII Stations innovations, she quotes a schismatic and a heretic in her meditations.
is the mantra of Modernists.
Following in the footsteps of Francis,
its own set of Stations, drawing upon the Passion that the Mystical Body of Christ has suffered now for more than half a century.
The First Station: The Papal Coronation of Angelo Roncalli as Pope John XXIII V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Second Station: The Convocation of the Second Vatican Council V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Third Station: The Papal Coronation of Giovanni Montini as Pope Paul VI V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Fourth Station: The Reformation and Desecration of the Sacred Liturgy V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Fifth Station: The Mass Exodus of Priests and Religious from their Vocations V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Sixth Station: Homosexuals Infiltrate the Priesthood and Religious Communities V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Seventh Station: The Worldwide Compromise and Collapse of Catholic Institutions V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Eighth Station: The Institution of World Youth Day Celebrations with the Pope V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Ninth Station: Pope John Paul II the Great Kisses the Koran in a Mosque V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Tenth Station: The Bankruptcy of Dioceses Due to Rampant Clergy Sexual Abuse V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Eleventh Station: The Abdication of Pope Benedict XVI from the Papal Throne V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Twelfth Station: The Papal Coronation of Jorge Bergoglio as Francis of Rome V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Thirteenth Station: The Pope Washes the Feet of Women and Infidels—the First Time V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Fourteenth Station: Francis makes a mess at WYD in Rio de Janeiro V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Fifteenth Station: The Pope Washes the Feet of Women and Infidels—the Second Time V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Sixteenth Station: The Promulgation of the Papal Encyclical, Laudato Si V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Seventeenth Station: The Pope Washes the Feet of Women and Infidels—the Third Time V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Eighteenth Station: Francis of Rome Sabotages the Synod on the Family V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Nineteenth Station: The Promulgation of the Papal Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves
The Twentieth Station: The Collapse of Marriage and Morality under Francis of Rome V: Deliver us, O Lord R: From the ravages of modernist wolves One wonders how many more Stations could be added to this small representative number and how much longer the Mystical Body of Christ will suffer from the ravages of modernist wolves. It seems likely that impending Stations will include horrific chastisements upon the Institutional Church and the World, as we now approach the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Fatima. After all, pope after pope has hidden the Third Secret of Fatima and they have obstinately refused to consecrate Russia, as requested by our Lady.
But we have a precedent for hope; for after the Bloody Passion of the Incarnate Christ, there followed the Resurrection and the Triumph of the Cross. So too this Passion of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, cannot end in defeat but will be an occasion for some much greater good. Therefore it falls to faithful Catholics to suffer this passion patiently as we await the resurrection and triumph of Tradition. ■
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