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2022-05-31 · 7:00 am

Visitation / Queenship of Mary: Pope Pius XII Marian Consecration

From 11 October 1954, Ad caeli Reginam

  1. Since we are convinced, after long and serious reflection, that great good will accrue to the Church if this solidly established truth shines forth more clearly to all, like a luminous lamp raised aloft, by Our Apostolic authority We decree and establish the feast of Mary’s Queenship, which is to be celebrated every year in the whole world on the 31st of May. We likewise ordain that on the same day the consecration of the human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary be renewed, cherishing the hope that through such consecration a new era may begin, joyous in Christian peace and in the triumph of religion.
  2. Let all, therefore, try to approach with greater trust the throne of grace and mercy of our Queen and Mother, and beg for strength in adversity, light in darkness, consolation in sorrow; above all let them strive to free themselves from the slavery of sin and offer an unceasing homage, filled with filial loyalty, to their Queenly Mother. Let her churches be thronged by the faithful, her feast-days honored; may the beads of the Rosary be in the hands of all; may Christians gather, in small numbers and large, to sing her praises in churches, in homes, in hospitals, in prisons. May Mary’s name be held in highest reverence, a name sweeter than honey and more precious than jewels; may none utter blasphemous words, the sign of a defiled soul, against that name graced with such dignity and revered for its motherly goodness; let no one be so bold as to speak a syllable which lacks the respect due to her name.
  3. All, according to their state, should strive to bring alive the wondrous virtues of our heavenly Queen and most loving Mother through constant effort of mind and manner. Thus will it come about that all Christians, in honoring and imitating their sublime Queen and Mother, will realize they are truly brothers, and with all envy and avarice thrust aside, will promote love among classes, respect the rights of the weak, cherish peace. No one should think himself a son of Mary, worthy of being received under her powerful protection, unless, like her, he is just, gentle and pure, and shows a sincere desire for true brotherhood, not harming or injuring but rather helping and comforting others.

Most Holy Virgin Mary, tender Mother of all, to fulfill the desires of the Sacred Heart and the request of the Vicar of your Son on earth, we consecrate ourselves and our families to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, O Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and we recommend to you, all the people of our country and all the world.

Please accept our consecration, dearest Mother, and use us as you wish to accomplish your designs upon the world.

O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and Queen of the World, rule over us, together with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, Our King. Save us from the spreading flood of modern paganism; kindle in our hearts and homes the love of purity, the practice of a virtuous life, an ardent zeal for souls, and a desire to pray the rosary more faithfully.

We come with confidence to you, O Throne of Grace and Mother of Fair Love. Inflame us with the same Divine Fire which has inflamed your own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Make our hearts and homes your shrine, and through us, make the Heart of Jesus, together with your rule, triumphant in every heart and home. Amen.

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2022-04-16 · 8:22 am

“Our Lady of Revelation” 75th anniversary: Pontificide & Assumption of Mary

12 April 1947 – 12 April 2022. Some years ago Rachel Lanz had an account at the NCRegister about Bruno Cornacchiola, a wanna-be assassin of Pius XII. Bruno was baptized Catholic, but then joined the anti-clerical marauders in Italy. He re-verted back to the Catholic Church by way of Our Lady of Revelation, who appeared at Tre Fontane on the outskirts of Rome, where Saint Paul had been beheaded.

At the time, Pius XII who was wanting to say something about the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, soul and body into heaven, and would do so with an infallible pronouncement three years, six months later, in 1950. Bruno saw Our Lady with his three children. She was dressed in white, wearing a green mantle with a pink band, holding the Scriptures. She had a message for Pius XII that Bruno himself had to deliver: “My body could not decay and did not decay. My Son and the angels took me to heaven.”

But there’s more to the story

In my own years of studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and in my years of using the library of the PBI for my doctoral thesis, I ran across a volume of the proceedings of the 1948 get-together of the just-then-founded and ever disgusting Associazione biblica italiana. Their very first symposium was effectively an answer to Pius XII’s inquiry about the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, soul and body into heaven. They did everything in every way, every angle, to destroy any possible biblical foundations for what Pius XII wanted to do. They didn’t succeed, of course. But Mary saw this coming a year before it happened.

Just my opinion, but what Mary accomplished at Tre Fontane as Our Lady of Revelation was directed against a particular cardinal who had everything to do with destroying the Catholic Church on all levels throughout the last century. He had everything to do with this get-together of the ABI, everything to do with rehabilitating the modernist heresy, everything to do with false ecumenism, everything to do with the absolute worst ambiguities of various sentences in documents of Vatican II, everything do do with the destruction and disrespect for Sacred Scripture, you know, that Cardinal, who shall remain nameless here, for even today, now more than 53 years after his death, he is still protected with extreme emotion at “Ecumenism” and the Secretariat of State in the Roman Curia. I have personal experience with that many times over, right to the top.

While this apparition brought about the re-version of Bruno, who was set on murdering the Pope, this apparition was also meant to be a wake-up call for that Cardinal, who was set on controlling the Pope, and not for the good.

So, notice this: Jesus’ good mom is out to convert lost souls. It worked in the case of Bruno, but did it work for the Cardinal? I don’t know. What I do know is that not all of us want to go to heaven. What I do know is that our Lady would want that we make it to heaven if we want to repent of our sins.

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2021-10-18 · 6:00 pm

“They’re all kill-shots, Father! Great!” the Jewish guy said. “Stop-the-threat-shots,” I answered, “but thank you.”

Targets out, I’m told, 125 feet, from the new balcony at the house of some parishioners. I was there to bless the house, but stayed for the Jewish-Catholic Dialogue. Really good. What a great family. Lots of exquisite food and drink. No alcohol for me!

The old man is one of the most studied up, practiced, scenario-ed constant trainer of decades, having all that the IDF etc have to offer down cold. As soon as he saw that I was carrying, like in a nanosecond, he said: “I like you already.”

Of course, we had to do up some target practice. He gave me Federal to use, which you simply cannot get these days.

The rubbish you see at the tree line above is the group of targets. A close up:

My favorite was the second from the left up top, just a few inches across. It got set to swinging, again and again and again.

I was happy to be accurate at that distance, which I’ve never practiced, ever. The most I’ve done is 25 yards out, just 75 feet, and only quite rarely, concentrating on 21 and 25 feet out. This was another 50 feet beyond the 75 feet, close to another 17 yards farther, with a mere pistol.

Since I haven’t practiced in forever, this was a confidence builder. Of course, without an abundance of ammo, the aim, so to speak, was accuracy, not speed. But I think that will also come back easily enough in future, unless these USA go total communist.

We talked quite about that, communism, and Russia. I said that the old USSR didn’t much like the Jews. No, he agreed. I said it was because they didn’t like moral principles, the Natural Law, such as is expressed in the Ten Commandments. That set off quite the commentary by many, all in agreement.

The conversation and the bullets were all on target. A great time. Surprising what carrying can open up.

In stepping up to shoot I apologized for not having practiced in a long time. Then I pulled the trigger a few times. Then they gave me a new nickname: Shot-Shark. :-)

Meanwhile, I’m still waiting for the Pontifical Family to go through the personal archives of the Holy Father – having the originals of all correspondence with any Pope – and provide me a copy of the letter of Emmanuel Célestin Cardinal Suhard to Pius XII. But they are afraid. Sooooo afraaaaid! They shouldn’t be. I got the response down cold. I just need to contextualize this with what actually instigated the response. I thought we were going to open up the archives, right? to help out with Jewish-Catholic dialogue, right? RIGHT?

If I got that and made commentary on it and somehow actually got published I would get another nickname from the anti-Semites, and it wouldn’t be so kind to me as Shot-Shark. It might be something like: Jew-Boy! Of course, I would take that as reality and a compliment. In fact, they could be combined: Shot-Shark-Jew-Boy. I like it, a lot. But seriously, that commentary would be done with accuracy such as I still retain with my firearm. ;-)

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2021-07-29 · 11:00 am

Pius XII and Father George

This Zucchetto, Skullcap, Kippah, Yarmulke, whatever you want to call it, belonged to Pope Pius XII. It was provided to certain people after a private audience with his Holiness way back in the day, before I was born. That’s them in the picture, and if you can read the document above, there are wonderful best wishes for them from the Venerable Successor of Peter. Its sewn to the backing of a professionally constructed shadow box (with its cloth container) obviously for display in a church or museum. These days, no one gives a hoot, and it was rescued from the outgoing trash by great young man and given to yours truly. [And, no, I didn’t take it out to put it on, yet, anyway!]

The Venerable Pope Pius XII is very much venerated by this Catholic priest for very many things:

  • In the scene above, Pius raises his arms to the heavens in prayer against the bombing of Rome while the bombs were falling around him and the crowd. Immediately behind him is the ancient Basilica of Saint Lawrence (fuori le mura), whose roof was destroyed by the bombs. No coward, he.
  • Pius saved more Jews during the onslaught of the Nazis that all others in the world put together. He was praised for this by all Jews and Jewish groups around the world until someone some hateful idiot called him Hitler’s Pope. Then all of Judaism turned against him, saying he didn’t speak up. With the opening of the archives, what we’re finding is that all that he did behind the scenes also in his quiet maneuverings were consistent with saving the Jews. Always. Knee-jerk reaction haters, instead, emotionally say he should have been shrieking from the loggia of Saint Peters. But I know someone whose idiot father did this in a small town on the French-German border, just yelling and screaming about it until nightfall, doing nothing to help the Jews escape, but only condemning the Nazis. He had been told that morning if he didn’t complain the non-Jews would survive. The Nazis returned that evening and killed everyone. Pius XII knew exactly what he was doing, and saved Jews. I love that.
  • Pius XII wrote a great deal about the Mystical Body of Christ, which I read as a teenager, and it changed my life. He wrote Humani generis, which sealed me fighting the good fight. On and on, but…
  • What I most like about Pius XII is that that after consulting my fellow biblical “scholars” about the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Body and Soul, into heaven, in 1948, even after getting terribly mocked by them, he forged ahead, rightly, and infallibly pronounced on the doctrine of the Assumption in 1950, that this truth, always believed in by the Church, is present in Sacred Revelation. This was extremely encouraging to me in my own studies on Genesis 3:15. The politics surrounding these chapters in Genesis are about enough to scare anyone to death. Pius XII is my hero whose example I strive to follow in my own unrepeatable circumstance of the Lord’s providence.

Perhaps just my imagination, but reception of this “relic” if we can call it that at this point in time, was like a visit from heaven, a personal visit, from this dear Successor of Saint Peter.

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