The Proud man literally does not understand who God is

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

Saint Augustine, in his book, On the Creed, in his sermon To Cathecumens, ch. 1, n. 2, comments on a truth which if we do not understand, we cannot be saved.

This truth regards God’s own limitation.

That God have limitations seems a self-contradiction.  But this contradiction only appears in a mind which knows not God or does not understand in what divinity consists.

For the Muslim, God can do anything, even deceive.

But for the Christian, our God is essentially different.

And this difference is seen in a limitation, which is actually the hallmark of true divinity.  A limitation which Lucifer did not comprehend, and which Saint Michael and the Holy Angels ever contemplate.

As St. Augustine says, in the above referenced passage: “This alone God cannot do: what He does not will do do”. Or as Peter Lombard explains in his First Book Sentences, Distinction 43: “But that must be understood thus: ‘this alone God cannot do: what He does not want, namely, Himself to be able to do”.

Amazingly, God is limited. He limits Himself. He constrains His own Will. He cannot do all things, because He wills not to do all things.

Another way of understanding this is that God, the true God, is infinite GOODNESS, TRUTH, UNITY, BEAUTY.  And as such, God’s Power is only to accomplish those things which are in accord with His own Nature, and thus He never does what contradicts Himself.

And this high truth is the key to immortality.

Because we cannot be saved unless we live according to God’s laws. For He promises salvation only to the believer in Christ, the obedient to the Holy Spirit, the faithful in all things.

And this is not an exterior rule for us alone. It is the same rule for God. For we cannot attain to live with God forever, if we refuse to live with God in time. And to live with God means to live according to the rule which He has placed about Himself: never to will to do what He does not will to God.

All sin, thus, begins with prevarication.  Prevarication occurs when we transgress God’s will. We go against it. We break His laws. We sin.

This spirit which leads us to act thus, is pride. The most difficult of all vices to uproot because it lacks most of all an appearance, being totally negative and formless.

Pride causes us to shut the eyes of our mind to the existence of God’s laws, to open our heart to the desire to do what we will, regardless of what God wills. Pride gives license to sin in darkness, in denial and in a deliberate ignoring of the truth.

And thus pride blinds.

And in blinding it separates us from God Who is the guiding Light of all rational creatures.

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Let us uproot pride, then, by being mindful of God: by praying habitually, keeping mindful of His laws, and by fearing more than all else that power which we have, to turn away from God and pretend He does not exist.

There is no eternal life for the proud, because since eternal life only exist with God and in God, those who chose to live according to the pretense that He does not exist, or would will what He does not will, are in death rewarded to meet the god which they imitated in live.

And such a god is not the true God, nor is such a place Heaven.

 

Parler Founder asks you to forget what just happened

The phrase, “Check your baggage at the door”, means put on a face to hide what you really think and do. It is a classic code phrase used by sodomite clergy to remind their disciples to pretend to be straight in public.

Do Catholics really want to participate on a social media platform where the founder spews out gobblygook like this?  Maybet the attack on Parler by Amazon is itself another theatre act, to prevent real uncontrolled opposition from arising. A sort of theatre du terror.

Complete List of 81 Court Cases about US Election Fraud

This handy list links to every one of the 81 legal cases brought to U.S. State and Federal Courts regarding the voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. NONE OF WHICH has heretofore resulted in even one court allowing examination of the evidence.  This is documentary evidence that the United States of America is no longer a democracy but rather an oligarchy which chooses candidates according to secret back room meetings. (Click image to read the list).

The Breggin Report: Fauci as the Mastermind of the Scamdemic

Click the image of Dr. Fauci to read the explosive report detailing Fauci’s collusion with China in inventing the pandemic.

“This report documents in detail how Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has been the major force behind a series of research activities and other government actions that enabled the Chinese Communist Party to create lethal SARScoronaviruses,leading to the release of SARS-CoV-2from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci continues to cover for the Chineseand for himself, denying the origin of SARS-CoV-2, and delaying and thwarting worldwideattempts to deal rationally with the pandemic.”

Gab just censored a President of the United States

Gab.com censored this meme, which the Catholic Party for America (@CatholicParty_1776) wanted to post.

Here is the lame reason Gab gave:

Finally, Gab.com sent the Catholic Party a nice passive aggressive hint, in the Green Button. Pressing it caused the user to be logged out. “Return Home” for Gab means, get the hell out and go back home.

Gab.com has shown themselves most eloquently to be a Deep State op. Don’t have anything to do with them. No wonder they just gave Dr. Taylor Marshall — “Bergoglio is the pope because munus = ministerium, because I say it is so!”, even though I cannot reven read Latin — a checked account!

By the way, the Catholic Party for America was founded by Andrew J. Baalman, a descendant/relative of 3 American Presidents: George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams.

 

 

Russian Citizens fight Putin’s Police State Forces

https://youtu.be/PTpCikO8k2w

The protests are demanding the release of Alexei Navalny from prison. Navalny was nearly killed by poisoning by Putin agents recently, but having recovered in a German Hospital returned to Russia and was immediately arrested.  Navalny, however, has connections to Skull and Bones at Yale University.

2nd Declaration of Independence

THE SECOND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

To be signed in a National Convention, as soon as possible.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with their Federal Government, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life from the first moment of conception, Liberty from oppression, and the pursuit of all that is honest.– And that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of the citizens of these United States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Masonic Political Class in Washington, D. C., — hereafter referred to as the Swamp — is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

That the Swamp has refused Assent to Laws, which are the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

That the Swamp, in the person of Mike Pence, the traitor, with the connivance of the Senate and House in Joint Session, and separately, has dared to transgress the civil rights and due process rights guaranteed by the 14th and 5th amendments, and to violate the 1887 Electoral Count act by counting as regularly cast the falsified Electoral Ballots of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, against overwhelming evidence of nationwide coordinated election fraud.

That the Swamp has planned and orchestrated an attack on the Capitol Building of these United States with the express and malign intent to frame a sitting President of the United States with the charge of insurrection.

That the Swamp, in the person of the House, has dared to impeach a sitting President, duly elected by the People, without following the due process rights to which he is guaranteed by the 5th Amendment.

That the Swamp, in the person of the Senate, has dared to hear the articles of impeachment so improperly and unjustly moved and voted.

That the Swamp has dared inaugurate as President of these United States a man who was not elected by the People.

That the Swamp has dared violate the sanctity of the Nation’s Capital by bringing in 25,000 Militia for the sole purpose of making their usurpation of the Federal Government appear justified.

That the Swamp has colluded for four years with the Main Stream Media, the FBI, the CIA, the Supreme Court, and many  Federal Agencies to topple a duly elected President of the United States on numerous documented bogus claims.

That the Swamp has shielded and protected notorious criminals and traitors from prosecution and conviction, such as Barrack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Joe and Hunter Biden, George Soros, Bill Clinton, Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg etc..

That the Swamp has conspired and colluded to alter the meaning of the Natural Born Citizen clause of the U. S. Constitution, whereby only one born on U. S. Soil of 2 U. S. Parents, at the time of the birth, can be a candidate for the office of President.

That the Swamp through the Senate’s appointments and Supreme Court has colluded to deprive the people of the right of petition and due process by denying them standing in Federal Courts against the injustices perpetrated against the People.

That the Swamp has forbidden the Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, but overturned them by novel and outrageous reinterpretations of the Constitution of these United States, against such as these:

  • To protect the right to life of innocent human persons from the moment of their conception to the last moment of natural life.
  • The right to speak the truth and to defend the reputation of honest men from calumny, libel and infamy.
  • To protect the right of the citizens to bear arms.
  • To protect the sanctify of marriage between man and woman.
  • To protect the rights of Christians to worship in private and public, to live and work and to conduct their affairs, according to their consciences.
  • To defend and uphold the legal traditions and rights which we have inherited from our forefathers.

That the Swamp has obstructed the promulgation of laws necessary for national defense of its borders, while engaging in numerous costly foreign wars to the ruin of the National Treasury and the devaluation of the savings of the People.

That the Swamp has created institutions to control the People and advantage itself which have no foundation or existence in the Constitution, such as the Federal Reserve, the IRS, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health and Human Services, etc.

That the Swamp has in violation of the Constitution appropriated to itself the lands of the several states in the Bureau of Land Management.

That the Swamp has endeavored to leave undefended the People of these States by allowing massive continual illegal immigration, coordinated by enemies of these United States, for the purpose of diluting the votes of the People, depriving them of work, endangering their lives and ruining the National Treasury with debt.

That the Swamp has obstructed the rights of the People by passing laws which punish the People for exercising their Christian liberties and natural rights guaranteed by God, common law, and the traditions of this Nation.

That the Swamp has made Judges dependent upon their Will alone, for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.

That the Swamp has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

That the Swamp has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our State legislatures.

That the Swamp has affected to render their Political Parties independent of and superior to the Civil power of the People.

That the Swamp has combined with China, international Marxism, the Masonic Lodges and foreign powers to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving their Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

  • For Quartering large bodies of illegal aliens among us:
  • For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
  • For destroying our national economy by moving our jobs to other parts of the world:
  • For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
  • For depriving us in many cases, from having Swamp creatures tried by a jury of the People.
  • For transporting us beyond the boundaries of our Sovereign State for pretended offenses.
  • For abolishing the free System of elections, whereby the people, individually, are guaranteed one vote, one ballot, and proper identification is used and diligently employed to prevent fraud in elections.
  • For taking away our legal traditions, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
  • For suspending the laws of our States and declaring that the Federal Courts are superior to the courts of our States.

That the Swamp usurped the Federal Government and declared it treasonous for the People to defend their right to elect their President, dispute election fraud, and to share facts and evidence in the public forum.

That the Swamp has plundered our National Treasury, ravaged our Cities, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people, by tolerating and promoting organized crime and Marxist insurrection.

That the Swamp is at this time transporting large Armies to our cities to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the government of a civilized nation.

That the Swamp has constrained our sons and daughters to bear arms in its unjust and corrupt wars, and has forced them to arrest and detain us when we stand up for our rights and make our petitions know in public assembly.

That the Swamp has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring upon the inhabitants of these States armies of foreign criminal organizations and gangs to the deprivation of our life, liberty and prosperity.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Government whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to those who claim to be our Representatives in the National Capital. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of the Constitutional and civil rights. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Free People of the United States of America, before the sight of Almighty God and mankind, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these States, solemnly publish and declare, That these United States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent of the Swamp; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Masonic Deep State, and that all political connection between them and this state of fiends, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

SIGNED,

THE FREE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Which is your Master? The Christ or the Antichrist

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

As Dante Alighieri points out at the beginning of his Divina Comedia, a life lived without discernment can lead one astray to such a point that he finds himself in a dark wood, where the path to the light is no longer found, and a guide is needed.

Here is the Petrocci edition, of the original text of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto 1:

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
2 mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
3 ché la diritta via era smarrita.

4 Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
5 esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
6 che nel pensier rinova la paura!

7 Tant’ è amara che poco è più morte;
8 ma per trattar del ben ch’i’ vi trovai,
9 dirò de l’altre cose ch’i’ v’ho scorte.

10 Io non so ben ridir com’ i’ v’intrai,
11 tant’ era pien di sonno a quel punto
12 che la verace via abbandonai.

Here is Longfellow’s English translation, for those who cannot read medieval Italian:

MIDWAY upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear.

So bitter is it, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Speak will I of the other things I saw there.

I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber at the moment
In which I had abandoned the true way.

I cite this, because, we are never too old to deepen our knowledge of Catholic Culture: Dante was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, and he wrote about 100 years after Saint Francis.

If you would like to see the source of the above, click this image. I will continue my editorial below it:

But if we have not a Beatrice to guide us out, we can at least take a spiritual exam, to help us find the right path.  And the best exam is this, to ask ourselves if we are serving Christ Jesus or the Antichrist to come?

So here is the exam:

  1.  Who is a truth teller, God or men?
  2.  Who are more trust-worthy, men who say “God” to the first question, or men who say “men”?
  3.  Is reality such that I should believe that the world is growing hotter or colder, based on what men say, or what I see?
  4.  Is health such that I should believe there is a plague, even if I do not see everyone  dropping dead around me?
  5.  Do I give men more power over me than God?
  6.  Do I believe that if the national legislature says we are gods, who can make up what is right and wrong, that we become gods?
  7.  Do I believe that I can do anything with my body, I like?
  8.  Would I, or do I, live each day the same, whether there is a God or not?
  9.   Do I pursue the promises of Christ with great zeal than any other personal goal or interest?
  10.   Do I think that I shall not be judged for each of my daily actions or choices?
  11.   Which always has more authority, Christ or science?
  12.   Which always has more authority, the State or the Church?

Shameless Ignorance

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

There is an old saying: When you do not know what you are talking about, it is best to keep your mouth shut, lest by opening it you certify your own ignorance.

Here goes.  From a blog which calls itself, “Shameless Popery” — I kid you not!

So Why Do People Deny That Benedict Resigned?

One of the most obsessive writers on this topic is one Br. Alexis Bugnolo, and his argument is (to put it nicely) a convoluted mess. Basically, canon law talks about resigning the office (munus) of the papacy, and Benedict spoke of leaving the “ministry” (ministerium) of the Bishop of Rome. Bugnolo has written thousands of words about the alleged differences between ministerium and munus, even though Latin dictionaries will tell you that the two words are synonyms.

But even assuming that the two words mean (slightly) different things, what’s the theory here? The only way that Benedict could cease to exercise the ministry of the Bishop of Rome is to cease to be the pope. Moreover, he explicitly announced that he was vacating the See, and that there would be a new pope to whom he pledged his loyalty. There’s no wiggling out of his words there, as if he was somehow unclear.

Resignation isn’t a magical spell that you have to word just right. If you tell your boss, “I’m ending my employment here, effective immediately,” he doesn’t expect you back on Monday because you said “employment” and not “occupation.” And the pope is free to resign however he wants, as long as he’s not doing so under duress or in some way prohibited by divine or natural law.

So that’s the technical argument, and as I said, it’s not much. Reading the advocates’ arguments, it’s easy to get lost in a maze of canon legalese and Latin vocab, but the simple argument they’re making is theologically bankrupt. Canon law doesn’t restrict the pope’s free authority to resign, and no reasonable person can deny that Benedict exercised this authority quite publicly in 2013.

I had no idea this blog existed, until it came to my attention today. I think the readers of FromRome.Info are well instructed enough to reply on their own. I doubt the author of this scribbling, would want me to write him.

Here is the link, if you would like to leave a comment on his blog: http://shamelesspopery.com/is-pope-benedict-or-pope-francis-the-true-pope/

Skull & Bonesmen tell you what to think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=53&v=SdLfnF3bulE&feature=emb_logo

Clint and Bush are Skull & Bones, but Obama was Rothschids. — Nothing they say here is truth, but the fact that they say it together shows that they never were enemies, they were all actors in the company to fool the American voters.