23/10/2025
24th October - Feast of St. Raphael Archangel
Our Sacred Tridentine Mass (the pre-1950 'reform' Missal according to the decree "Divino Afflatu" by Pope St. Pius X)
4PM - Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Chapel
Los Banos, Laguna
"In those days, the Angel Raphael said: ... They who commit sin and iniquity are enemies to their own soul. I discover then the truth to you, When you prayed with tears, and BURIED THE DEAD*, and left your dinner**, and hid the dead by day in your house, and buried them by night, I offered*** your prayer to the Lord. And because you were acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove you. And now the Lord has sent me to heal you, and to deliver Sara your son’s wife from the devil" (Tob 12.10-14).
* Burial, more so the BURIAL, is of the Spirit of God; CREMATION is pagan and therefore of the deceitful spirit, the devil. That the "New 'Catholic disOrder'"-hierarchs consent to the latter - blessed be God and His Archangel who now again "discover[s this] truth to you! - is another eloquent incontrovertible testimony of the Eternal Word against them: "For such false apostles are DECEITFUL workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ" (II Cor. 11.13)
** Fasting is a necessary wing of an authentically pious prayer pleasing to God - practically demolished by the Vatican II-'Church' hierarchs in their "new moons" (the "New", so-called "Novus Ordo". 'liturgical' calendar), restricting it to Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (if at all!) - as if the 'Church' in the modern times has no greatest need for it why the graver calamities. And so those deluded "New 'Catholic disOrder'" hierarchy - drunk with their "New 'Catholic [t]HEOlogy" (their perverted proud idea of revising God, being fed in post-Vatican II seminaries and monasteries and schools : He is no cruel punishing with the deepest hellish miseries; the reason why the "New liberal-Modernist ' ' ' ' of the mainstream-Church has no such need of great penances as has been the discipline since of Old and even more urged by our Apostolic Tradition) - are not heard in their "Oratio Imperata" , responded to but with rather greater chastisements: "The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to Me, I am weary of bearing them" (Is. 1.13-14).
*** The Catholic teaching on the power of intercession by the blessed spirits who see us with the Beatific Vision.
St. Raphael Archangel adds the other necessary wing of prayer pleasing to God by one who communicates to Him IN TRUTH (for, Ps. 144.18: "the Lord is nigh to those who call upon Him, [BUT] to those who call upon Him in truth [that, is according to our - "whole and entire" (Athanasian Creed), in the same terms with the same one Catholic understanding as has always and everywhere been held through out the ages past - which has the Eternal Word "made flesh" (Jn. 1.14) Himself for its "Author and Finisher" (Heb. 12.2) : "Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold. For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting" (Tob. 12.8-9).
In your almsgiving, then, kindly remember "Alms for the Traditional Carmel of Our Lady" - stipend-Mass intentions: GCash/PNB 0-92-729-881-03; BPI (mobile app transfer or CAM deposit) 0919-4991-92; https://PayPal.Me/StJosephCarmel
Fr. John, C.D.
San Jose-Carmel House of Formation