Friday, July 29, 2011

Adam and Eve


Hi Blogger Insiders,

God created man in His image and likeness.  The first man's name was Adam (from the Hebrew Adamah meaning ground).  God made Eve from Adam's rib as related in the book of Genesis.  Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, a paradise.  They suffered no ailments.  Adam and Eve were perfect human specimans.  God said they could eat of any tree in the Garden.  The only tree they could not eat from was the tree in the middle of the Garden.  One day the serpent (the fallen angel Lucifer) tempted Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit of the tree in the middle of the Garden.  Eve saw that the fruit (popularly believed to be an apple) was very delightful and fair to the eyes.  She ate it and gave some to her husband Adam.  He ate it as well.  For this disobedience to God, Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden. 
Adam and Eve are our first parents.  Their first two sons were Cain and Abel.  Cain killed Abel.  Adam and Eve had a third son, named Seth.  Adam and Eve eventually had many sons and daughters. 
Evolution is garbage.  The world did not come about through a process of evolution, directed by God or otherwise.  There is no evolution.  Evolution theory was invented (advanced) by Darwin in the mid-1800's AD.  I don't know if Darwin was beaten up in Catholic school or how it came to be that he would not accept the truth of God's creation, but I do know that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and everything in it in seven days (actually six days, He rested on the seventh).  This is recorded in the ancient Hebrew scriptures known as the Torah and is recorded word for word in the Holy Bible in the book of Genesis. 
It should go without saying that the Universe couldn't possibly create itself out of nothing, no matter how much time was given it.  And there is absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever that one species ever became another.  Evolution is a lie.  The truth is that God created the entire Universe out of nothing. 
Jesus is called the second Adam.  Obviously there must have been a first.  As well, the Holy Bible says that through Adam death entered the world.  And that through Christ (the second Adam) life was restored.   
Adam and Eve existed.  Period.  They were cast out of the Garden of Eden circa 4000 BC, that is to say, about 6000 years ago.  We came from Adam and Eve.  We did not come from monkeys, birds, fish, one-celled amoebas or three-toed sloths.  We are human beings, created in the image and likeness of God.  Each of us has an individual soul.  We have intellect and reason.  We have free will.  Animals do not have these characteristics.  Animals go on instinct. 
Evolution is a convoluted theory that attempts to replace the complexity and immensity of God's creation with the deluded notion that all matter and even the Universe itself evolved from nothing.  It might be excusable that Darwood fell for this delusion.  What isn't excusable is why the present-day "scientists" are advancing this delusion.  We were never rocks or animals.  We are first and always human.
Take care, fellow Bloggers.
God Bless you,
In Christ the King,
Michael the Lionheart

Friday, July 22, 2011

The New Order of Mass

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Vatican II had put forward the guidelines for the New Mass.  Now it fell to Archbishop Annibale Bugnini (a suspected freemason), to devise a new Mass.  He, with the help of his modernist collaborators, concocted the new rite of Mass.  The New Order of Mass (or Novus Ordo Missae) was then promulgated by Pope Paul VI on April 3, 1969 (Good Friday, of all days).  Our Lord was crucified on Good Friday and now His Holy (Latin Tridentine) Mass was crucified on the same day.  Today, the New Order Mass is the Mass that the majority of Catholics in the West attend.
The New Order Mass eliminated 28 Catholic prayers from the Latin Tridentine Mass.  The objective here was to eliminate Catholic elements from the Mass making it more acceptable to the protestants.  Six protestant observers were even on hand to ensure protestant sensibilities were respected (as well, they had influence and input on the contents of the New Mass).  Hannibal (Bugs) Bugnini was in his glory day.
The New Order Mass has been a disaster for the Catholic Church.  The Catholic theology of the Mass is altered substantially.  Catholics don't know the Faith.  Mass attendance is disappearing.  Catholics today contracept, abort, and divorce at the same rate as the secular culture. The old Catholic saying, "lex orandi, lex credendi" (law of praying, law of believing), always proves true.  How you pray is what you will believe.  The New Order Mass has produced New Order Catholics. 
New Order Catholics are Catholics who attend the New Order Mass.  They are the conservative Catholics (aka Neo-Catholics).  They are similar to modernist (liberal) Catholics in that they do great harm to the Catholic Church.  New Order Catholics accept every novelty foisted upon them.  Instead of kissing the Pope's ring, they kiss the Pope's butt, so to speak.  Meanwhile Catholic teaching says to call the Pope out whenever he does or says something wrong.  New Order Catholics have a taste for the New Mass and reject the Latin Tridentine Mass.  Today's Catholics who have heard of the Latin Tridentine Mass are threatened by it.  Some Catholics are vociferous in their opposition against the ancient Latin Mass.  Yet the Latin Tridentine Mass is needed for the restoration of Catholicism.  Here me now and believe me later.  There will be no Catholic restoration of any kind without the restoration of the Latin Tridentine Mass.  Period.  The New Order of Mass has been extremely damaging for the Catholic Church.  There has been a major collapse of Catholic belief and practice.  The New Order Mass experiment is a failure.  It is high time to jettison the New Order Mass before the Church becomes just a stain on the landscape.
Pope Benedict XVI called the New Order Mass a fabrication.  He said it was a banal, on the spot product (which of course it is).  Who wants to attend a banal, on the spot fabrication ever again, let alone every Sunday?  I am a traditional Catholic.  I no longer attend the 1969 New Order Mass of Paul VI, a Mass that isn't even as old as I am.  Catholic tradition didn't start in the 1960's.  It is 2000 years old.  Catholics are to stand fast and hold the traditions (2Thess2:14).  Traditional Catholics do this.  Traditional Catholics keep the Faith.
I invite all people to become traditional Catholics.  Traditional Catholics (the good ones, that is) have love in their hearts for God and for all souls.  They defend the truth of Christ and are not intimidated by their opponents.  Traditional Catholics are the modern-day Crusaders.
God Bless you,
In Christ the King,
Michael the Lionheart
 

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Vatican II

Hi Blogger Insiders,

The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (Vatican II) was the 21st Council of the Catholic Church.  It ran from October 1962 to December 1965.  It produced 16 documents which have had a profoundly negative effect on Catholic belief and practice.  Most Catholics do not blame Vatican II for the current problems in the Church.  I will tell you that no other Church Council is to blame.  Let's have a look at the Council that is Vatican II.
Vatican II documents are ambiguous.  They contain vague and even contradictory language.  Vatican II documents say that Latin is to remain the language of the Mass, but that the Ordinary of the Diocese (that is, the Bishop) can authorize the use of the vernacular to some extent. This has resulted in the entire Mass being said in the vernacular (English, etc.).  Vatican II documents say that the organ is to have pride of place, but that other musical instruments may be used.  This has resulted in guitar Masses and/or tamborine Masses.  Vatican II says that Gregorian Chant is the official music of the Church, but that other music can be used if it suits the liturgy.  Gregorian Chant ended up being the only music that didn't fit the liturgy.  Vatican II said that the Eucharist is the heart and center of the Church, but most Catholics today don't believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, and on it goes ad infinitum.
Know your history! Vatican II was a pastoral council.  It was not a doctrinal council.  Therefore, nothing from Vatican II is binding on the faithful.  Vatican II was to promulgate the new Mass.  It also established the new ecumenism, the new theology, and ergo the new modernist Church.  A church made in the image and likeness of man.  It is now known that Vatican II was hijacked by liberals (modernists).  Vatican II is their twisted vision of the Church.  Most people aren't aware that the original schemas of Vatican II were literally thrown out.  As in garbage can, file G.  Those original schemas were the work of the Holy Spirit as it is He who guides the Catholic Church and her councils. The schemas that took their place were the calculated schemas of the modernists.  From here on in it is their council.  Man has free will and the bad fruits of Vatican II substantiate this.  Vatican II brought many changes to the Church.  They were all bad. 
That Vatican II has been an unprecedented disaster for the Catholic Church is plainly evidenced.  There has been a 90% drop-off in Catholic belief and practice since Vatican II.  It's documented.  It can even be said that Vatican II has ushered in the era of the biblically prophesied great apostasy.  There is talk of the aftermath of Vatican II.  One talks about the aftermath of nuclear war.  But the aftermath of Vatican II?  Yes.  That's how bad it is!  Vatican II was a nuclear device dropped on the Church.  The Catholic Church would have faired better surviving an actual nuclear attack.  Less damage would have been done!  Vatican II was the first of a one-two punch to the Catholic Church.  The second and final punch was the upper-cut punch of the New Order Mass.  End game. 
In 1960, Catholicism was flourishing on all fronts.  Even the President of the United States was a Catholic.  By the end of the 1960's, Catholicism was in full retreat on all fronts.  The 1960's were ruinous for the Church.  If only in 1960 we could have had a warning of some kind.  Someone to send us a message of great import warning us of the dangers to the Faith that would happen to the Church after 1960.  If only, if only. 
Our Lady of Fatima, in the Third Secret, warned us about all these things now coming to pass.  She gave us this secret warning and said that it is to be revealed to the world in 1960!  Does the Third Secret mention the council?  How could it not?
Pope Benedict XVI (then Fr. Ratzinger) was pictured at the council in civilian clothes (and pictured beside a notorious dissenter).  That the Pope has gone from being a liberal Catholic to being a conservative Catholic to becoming a traditional Catholic can be historically documented.  The Pope has a monumental task in front of him and that is to bring the Church back to her pre-Vatican II health.  To do this he will have to go contrary to the "spirit of Vatican II".  Good.  Catholics have been haunted by that "spirit" long enough.  The "spirit of Vatican II" is the "spirit of the world".  It is only since Vatican II that many documents (including papal and concilliar documents) have been substantially unclear and worldly.  The trend of weak and ambiguous documents can definitely be traced back to Vatican II.  Christ ordained that the universal Church that He established teaches the truth clearly and with His authority by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Catholic Church teaching has always been crystal clear.  A crystal clear papal document (of the old school variety) will be needed to help free us from the modernist chains of bitter bondage.  History will record the final damage count inflicted on Catholics and on the world because of Vatican II.  Yet the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council could never have done the damage it did without the aid of the New Order of Mass (Novus Ordo Missae).  The New Order Mass will be the subject of my next blog. 
God Bless you,
In Christ the King,
Michael the Lionheart

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Pope John Paul II

Hi Blogger Insiders,

Pope John Paul II had the 3rd longest pontificate in the history of the Catholic Church.  He was the Pope for 26.5 years.  Only Blessed Pope Pius IX (32 years) and St. Peter himself (34 years) had longer pontificates. 
The recent beatification of now Blessed Pope John Paul II was not without its many critics.  I was a "fan" of John Paul II for the first 24 years of his pontificate.  I've been heard saying 'John Paul II we love you'.  I attended World Youth Day (aka Catholic Woodstock) in Toronto in 2002.  I almost got close enough to see him without the aid of the gigantic video screens.  On one of the days I wasn't there, a thunder storm ripped part of the roof off of the largest stage ever constructed and the rain soaked 600 bishops and cardinals and even soaked the Pope (John Paul II).  It seemed as though a message was being sent to the Pope who could do no wrong? 
The pontificate of John Paul II had many scandals.  The child sexual abuse scandals were the worst (so far, 2% of priests have been indicted).  John Paul II's pontificate also saw money laundering scandals, political scandals, liturgical abuse scandals, the scandals of disobedient bishops and priests (John Paul II was notorious for not disciplining wayward bishops, priests, and "Catholic" theologians), and ecumenical scandals (e.g. Assisi I & II, taking the dot of shiva on his head, "cultural" masses, etc.).  And let's not forget the scandal of Pope John Paul II kissing the koran.  Oh no. Let's not.
John Paul II kissed the koran.  And that's a fact.  It has been photographed and I heard that it is incessantly run on a foreign network (al jazeera).  I have this to say about it: "The Pope should not have kissed the koran. Period."  Good Catholics would willingly be tortured and killed and still never do such a thing.  Let's face it, John Paul II was gaga on ecumenism.  It eventually led him to this extremely ignoble act.  Never before has a Catholic Pope done this.  And never again will a Catholic Pope do this. 
Pope John Paul II was the most travelled Pope in history, visiting over 100 countries.  I wish the Pope had stayed home and cleaned house.  Thankfully, Pope Benedict XVI is cleaning house (among other things). 
To people who say he is John Paul the great, I say John Paul the great what?  Pope Gregory the Great was great.  St. Basil the Great was great.  St. Gertrude the Great was great.  John Paul II not so much.  I do not judge the Pope here.  No one has the jurisdiction to judge the Pope.  So there was a major drop-off in Catholic belief and practice during his reign.  How much of this can really be accredited to him?  Some said he was a Pope who would go far.  Some said he went too far.  But I say you can't keep a good Pope down.  He made his own Code of Canon Law, his own Catechism, his own version of altar boys (girl altar boys or GABs, approved in 1994), and he even made his own Rosary in 2002 (I have to conclude with other humble Catholics that the Pope has changed the Rosary).  Maybe he did get too big for his spats?
At any rate, I don't like to speak ill of anyone, especially a Pope.  For now, John Paul II remains a Blessed in the Church.  One more miracle attributed to him could fast-track him on the road to Sainthood.  The Pope who made more Saints than all the other Popes combined (thanks to his revision of qualifications for Sainthood) could now himself be put through his own Sainthood factory and become a Saint in the Holy Catholic Church.  I hope that this does not happen.  The Modernists would love to have a post-Vatican II Sainted Pope on their side. It would help to silence the opposition to the modernist heresy that seeks to destroy the Catholic Church.  As it stands, the last Sainted Pope is Pope St. Pius X, the very Pope who stood down the modernists of his day.
I appeal to Pope Benedict XVI.  Review the qualifications for Beatification, and review the Beatification of John Paul II.  Catholics have recourse to the Pope himself if we see an injustice being wrought in the Church.  Catholics kiss the Pope's ring, not his butt.
John Paul II is the previous Pope.  He is no longer the Pope of the Catholic Church.  Benedict XVI is the Pope and he is no JPII clone.  Long live Pope Benedict XVI.
Ok Bloggers.  Be good.
God Bless you,
In Christ the King,
Michael the Lionheart


Friday, July 8, 2011

Dungeons and Dragons

Hi Blogger Insiders,

Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy role playing game.  This blog will attempt to explain that it is far from being just a game.
The Dungeon Master is the MC of sorts while the others play the game.  Players gather with their characters each time to start their adventures.  The players battle trolls, vampires, bugbears, and other various monsters and mythical characters.
One of the problems with the game is that it uses names of actual demons.  Invoking the name of some fictional character is bad enough but when it is the name of an actual demon, then there is a major problem.  There is reason to believe that demonic forces are present.  Demons are present in some quantity anyway but during this "game" demonic forces can be legion, so to speak.  My best friend and I used to get into the most violent arguments while playing this game.  Another problem with D & D is the casting of spells.  Witchcraft is very much a part of this game.  As well, other occult phenomena are present.
As a final note, it is known from police files that the game D & D has come to the forefront in investigations of animal mutilation, black masses, and even human sacrifice. 
This game should be avoided.  Similar to the ouija board, engaging in this game opens demonic doorways that are obviously better left closed.  In the final analysis, I would rather be exposed to real dungeons and dragons than to be exposed to this game even one more time.
Take care, Bloggers.
God Bless you,
In Christ the King,
Michael the Lionheart

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Underground Radio

Hi Blogger Insiders,

The main-stream press is totally corrupt.  We are lied to by the media on a daily basis.
Marxist scum have so much control over the media that they have the power to convince many that the media is controlled by right-wing conservatives.  Left-wing unions have bought into this notion that the media is right-wing. 
Let me say right here that the media is controlled by left-wing Marxist pinko-commies.  Period.  Marxist scum control the horizontal and the vertical.  They control what you see and hear (in the mainstream media, MSM).   Marxists control Hollywood.  They control TV, radio, and the press (on all levels whether national or local).  The lies are coming at us fast and furious.
There is a move among the populace to cancel cable subscriptions.  I endorse this.  Even the Discovery channel and the History channel are packed with lies, errors, and half-truths.  And many of these channels are owned by the Marxist dirtbag Ted Turner.  Besides all that, there's never anything on anyway.
Underground radio is the place to be for accurate information.  Whether it is Radio Free America or Radio Free Canada or Radio Free Europe or Blog Talk Radio, underground radio is the last out-post where the truth can find a voice.  Christianity embodies the truth but wherewith can it find its voice but in underground radio.
I am a fan of Bloggers, of blogging, and of underground radio.  To Freedom, fellow Bloggers, to Freedom.
God Bless you,
In Christ the King,
Michael the Lionheart

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The Holy Bible

Hi Blogger Insiders,

The Holy Bible is God's Holy Word.  It is the best seller of all time.  As well it should be.  The Holy Bible is perfect.  It is the inspired word of God.  That is to say, the Holy Bible was written by men inspired by God.
The Holy Bible is the salvation history of the world.  From the book of Genesis to the book of the Apocalypse, the salvation history of mankind unfolds.  After the fall of Adam and Eve in Genesis, a Redeemer (the Messiah) is promised.  Abraham believed in the Messiah and he even longed to see His day, as is recorded in the Gospels.  God made a Covenant with Abraham.  This is known as the Old Covenant.  The Hebrew priests would have to make animal sacrifices to God constantly in order to make due reparation for sins.  This continued for millennia while the Hebrews waited (patiently) for the promised Messiah.  Christ Jesus, the Son of God, is the Messiah.  He arrived on the scene 2000 years ago.  He established a New Covenant in His own Blood.  The New Covenant, so to speak, is the unbroken continuation of the Old Covenant.  Now Jesus is to be the Sacrifice offered to God the Father for the remission of sins.  Animal sacrifices were no longer sufficient to atone for sins.  The veil of the Sanctuary was torn in two the moment Christ died.  Soon after, in 70 AD, the Jewish Temple was completely destroyed ending Jewish animal sacrifice.
The Holy Bible relates how faithful Jews carry on the Covenant now established anew in the Blood of Christ.  This is the Holy Mass of the Holy Catholic Church.  It is the Holy Catholic Church that has the Sacrifice.  The Holy Catholic Church was founded by Christ Jesus Himself in order to re-present the Holy Sacrifice on Calvary, to bring the good news of salvation to all the world, and to baptize the people in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  The supreme law of the Church is the salvation of souls. 
God is the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.  The Holy Bible relates how God declares the end from the beginning.  It is true.  God has given us His Holy Bible that maps out in detail, from the beginning to the end, the salvation history of man.
God Bless you,
In Christ the King,
Michael the Lionheart

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Soviet Canuckistan

Hi Blogger Insiders,

Patrick Buchanan was quoted as calling Canada "Soviet Canuckistan".  With those two words, Mr. Buchanan summed up the current Canadian political landscape.
Canada is a socialist oligarchy.  Canadian Senators are all entirely appointed.  Senators have their seat until death or age 75, whichever comes first.  No senator is elected by the people and therefore no senator is accountable to the people.  The Senate was established this way so that the political power of the unwashed masses could be kept in check!
Power should be in the hands of the people, not the government.  It is the government whose power must be kept in check.  The government is always the most dangerous entity in any country.  That's why when America established it's Constitution back in 1776, they set out dividing the government powers (into executive, legislative, and judicial).  Even the people who establish governments understand that those same governments must be kept in check.  The government has a natural propensity to become the enemy of the people.  Once again, the government is the most dangerous element in your country.  Hear me now and believe me later.  Big government is evil and wrong.  The government makes terrorists look like girl scouts weaving a daisy chain. I would rather face a terrorist cell over the government any day.  Citizens who agree to give up liberty for security will end up with neither.
In 1969, then Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pushed the omnibus bill through parliament.  With this one bill abortion was decriminalized (among other things), and Canada's rivers have been running red with the blood of the innocent ever since.  Pierre Trudeau is considered a Canadian hero.  In hindsight, he was the most dangerous man in Canada.  Trudeau was a socialist pinko-commie in his own right.  Canada is still reeling from his Marxist reign.  In Canada there is a welfare state, socialized medicine, abortion up to the time of birth, same-sex everything, open flood-gate immigration, exorbitant taxes, a staggering national debt, and many unjust laws.  Each year Canada gets closer to moral and financial bankruptcy and the coming communist tyranny.  
As of 2011, Canada still has an elected parliament.  This is the last vestige of democracy in Canada.  However, even Canadian members of parliament will tell you that they cannot make their voice heard.  The average Joe Canadian clearly has no voice in Canada if even the elected MP's have no voice.  Besides all that, the Canadian people believe what they see on TV.  The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is a national propaganda tool that the government uses very effectively to keep Canadians distracted through the old "bread and circuses" and three-card monte routines.  Canadians are now in such a deep sleep that they are by and large comatose. 
The Marxist dirtbags are entrenched in every level of government, commerce, medicine, education, media, religion, and industry in Canada.  Through the help of media propaganda, the majority of Canadians are now socialists.  Under the guise of tolerance, political correctness, and being nice, evil has flourished.
Canada was and is a beautiful country.  Canada is the second largest country in the world (by area), and stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.  The Canadian motto is "a mari usque ad mare" (from sea to sea).  It is taken from Psalm 71:8 (72:8 in some translations) and in Latin reads, "Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare".  In English it reads, He (Christ Jesus) shall have dominion from sea to sea.  The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms acknowledges in its preamble the Supremacy of God and the rule of law.  Our beloved country Canada will thrive only to the extent that she continues to receive God's Blessings.  Since she seems determined to remove God from the public square, it seems certain that God's Blessings will so be withheld.  May God continue to bless Canada.  Amen.
God Bless you,
In Christ the King,
Michael the Lionheart

Monday, July 4, 2011

The American Empire

Hi Blogger Insiders,

Independence Day, July 4th, is celebrated in  America.  It is a national holiday.  On July 4th, 1776, America made it's Declaration of Independence from Britain.  The original 13 British colonies came into their own and formed what became the beginning of the United States of America.
Since then America went on to become the greatest country the world has ever known.
I am a Canadian.  I grew up watching American TV.  I eat American food.  And I followed American sports (the Superbowls with Dallas and Pittsburg come to mind, and the WWF with Hulk Hogan).  I learned about American politics, culture, and history. 
America has exported her culture worldwide (this was a good thing).  Pax Americana was looking good for a while there.  But then something went terribly wrong.
In 1913, the Federal Reserve Act was passed creating a "Federal Reserve" Bank.  The Federal Reserve Bank is in reality a private banking cartel owned by the worst criminals in human history.  These criminals came into their own in the 1960's.  To date they have stolen countless trillions of dollars from the American people.  These criminal bankers are traitors to the United States of America.  Honestly, if America wants to keep from financial collapse, these criminals must be arrested.  The FBI and every other federal law enforcement department in America should do an Elliot Ness-style raid on the FED (as the federal reserve bank is known).  The Fed's computers should be confiscated, their offices closed, and every mid-to-high level executive should be arrested.  The owners and highest-level executives of the Federal Reserve Bank should be tried for high treason against the United States of America and, if found guilty, summarily executed.
Some of these men (David Rockefeller, George Soros, Warren Buffet, Ted Turner, and others) are already on record as saying that they want to collapse the United States of America.  They are traitors and enemies of the Republic.
In the early 1960's, then President John F. Kennedy was making moves to shut down the Fed.  He wanted America to print her own money.  He was assassinated in short order.  Is there a connection?  What I know is that every president since then has been more or less a puppet ruler.  The current president, Barack (two years to produce a birth certificate) Obama, is a Soros lap dog and a Marxist stooge (not to mention the first Kenyan to occupy the White House). 
We the People created the best and most powerful democratic Republic in world history.  Americans are to be commended for this.  It is unfortunate that these criminal bankers, who consider themselves the illuminati or enlightened ones, got a stranglehold on America.  They are Marxist dirtbags.  These "enlightened" pinko-commies consider themselves the elite of the world and the rest of us are just the unwashed masses.  America might be one nation under God, but these guys don't want any part of it.  "They" want to destroy the American dream.   Don't let them.  The answer to 1984 is 1776.  Don't let the sun set on the American Empire. 
In God we trust.
Happy 4th of July America!
Be good.
God Bless you,
In Christ the King,
Michael the Lionheart

Friday, July 1, 2011

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Hi Blogger Insiders,

The Catholic Church has many venerable feasts.  July 1st is normally the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus (in the Tridentine Rite).  This Feast is held tomorrow due to another Feast that happens to fall this year on July 1st., that is the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is the Heart that loves us extremely.  It is said that if we knew the depth of the love that the Sacred Heart of Jesus has for us, we would die of happiness.
The Roman centurion, Longinus (the man who struck Jesus in His side with a lance), was later converted to the Catholic Faith.  The lance had pierced Jesus' Heart and out came water and blood.  In retrospect, this can be considered to be the beginning of the attention given to the Heart of Jesus.
A French Roman Catholic nun, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (Marguerite Marie), further brought the devotion to the attention of the Church when in the late 1600's, Jesus appeared to her in a series of visions explaining to her about His Most Sacred Heart.  Jesus wanted this devotion known throughout the Church (and the world).  The devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus developed over the centuries until finally Blessed Pope Pius IX made it a Feast of the Universal (Catholic) Church in 1856.
The Litany of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was made an official litany of the Church by Pope Leo XIII in 1899.  Today the Litany of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus remains as one of the sweetest and most beloved litanies in the Holy Catholic Church.
God Bless you,
In Christ the King,
Michael the Lionheart

Happy Canada Day!