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THE JUBILEE YEAR (4/12): HOW TO GAIN THE JUBILEE INDULGENCEThe Jubilee Indulgence is the plenary remission of the Tempor...
15/11/2024

THE JUBILEE YEAR (4/12): HOW TO GAIN THE JUBILEE INDULGENCE

The Jubilee Indulgence is the plenary remission of the Temporal Punishment due to sin, and requires the following: 1) Pilgrimage to a Jubilee Church; 2) Sacramental Confession; 3) Reception of Holy Communion; 4) Prayer for the Pope’s Intentions.

Whenever we commit a mortal sin, we deserve the Eternal Punishment, which is Damnation to Hell; and the Temporal Punishment, which is the just reparation for having offended God, and for causing scandal and damages to our neighbor. The Eternal Punishment is removed by the Sacrament of Confession; while the Temporal Punishment, by Prayers, Works of Mercy, the Sufferings in Purgatory, or a Plenary Indulgence.

The Jubilee Indulgence may be gained only once a day, for oneself or for a Soul in Purgatory. One Confession applies for many indulgences (provided one remains in the State of Grace), but Holy Communion and Prayer for the Pope must be repeated each time.

Those who cannot legitimately visit a Jubilee Church, like the sick and prisoners, may substitute this requirement with one of these: attending online Mass, practicing one Corporal of Spiritual Work of Mercy, or offering to God their sufferings or hardships.

THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025: THE JUBILEE DOOR (3/12)The Jubilee begins with the opening in St. Peter’s Basilica of the Holy Do...
14/11/2024

THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025: THE JUBILEE DOOR (3/12)

The Jubilee begins with the opening in St. Peter’s Basilica of the Holy Door, which represents Jesus Christ as, “The Door to Paradise”. He declared: “I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved” (John 10:9).

All Jubilee Churches should have a Holy Door, so that pilgrims passing through it may profess their Faith in Jesus Christ and in His One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

The scheduled opening and closing of the Holy Doors are as follows:

OPENING

24 December 2024: Opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica;
29 December 2024: Opening of the Holy Door of St. John Lateran;
1 January 2025: Opening of the Holy Door of St. Mary Major’s Basilica; as well as those of Cathedrals, Co-Cathedrals, Minor Basilicas, and Approved Shrines, Urbi et Orbi (“In Rome and Worldwide”).
5 January 2025: Opening of the Holy Door of St. Paul’s Basilica;

CLOSING

28 December 2025: Closing of Holy Doors of St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, and St. Paul in Rome; as well as those of other Jubilee Churches, Urbi et Orbi.
6 January 2026: Closing of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica.

THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025:THE JUBILEE LOGO (2/12)The “Jubilee Logo 2025” engraves the following elements:FOUR PERSONS: They ...
13/11/2024

THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025:
THE JUBILEE LOGO (2/12)

The “Jubilee Logo 2025” engraves the following elements:

FOUR PERSONS: They represent the whole of humanity, coming from the four corners of the Earth. They embrace each other, to indicate their love in Christ; but are of different colors, to denote their cultural peculiarities.

THE CROSS: It symbolizes the passion of our Lord, through which He defeated sin and death, and opened the gates of the Paradise. Whenever we worthily make the Sign of the Cross, we profess our Christian Catholic Faith to the world.

WAVES AND ANCHOR: The Waves indicate the storms and raging winds that shatter the Boat of Peter – the Catholic Church, as well as our personal life. The Anchor, which protrudes from the Cross, represents Jesus Christ, our safe harbor and protection.

THE WORDING: The Latin Motto, “Peregrinantes in Spem”, meaning, “Pilgrims of Hope”, gives the spiritual leitmotif to the Jubilee Year; it is printed in Green, being the Color of Hope. The Latin inscription, “IUBILAEUM A.D. (ANNO DOMINI) MMXXV”, translates as: “Jubilee of the Year of the Lord 2025.”

THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025:HISTORY OF THE JUBILEE (1/12)The Jubilee is a Year of Grace celebrated ordinarily every 25 years, ...
12/11/2024

THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025:
HISTORY OF THE JUBILEE (1/12)

The Jubilee is a Year of Grace celebrated ordinarily every 25 years, with the purpose of reconciling the Catholic Faithful to God, by restoring the State of Grace and removing any Temporal Punishment due to sin. This is achieved by the Jubilee Indulgence, which requires: 1) Pilgrimage to a Jubilee Church; 2) Sacramental Confession; 3) Reception of Holy Communion; 4) Prayer for the Intentions of the Pope.

The name “Jubilee” comes from the Hebrew word “Yobel”, or “Ram’s Horn”, which was blown every year to proclaim the Day of Atonement (“Yom Kippur”); and pertinently every 50 years to mark the beginning of a Jubilee. That special year was intended to reconcile man to God - by atoning for sins and engaging in spiritual activities; and to his neighbor - by waiving all debts, and granting freedom to captives (cf. Leviticus 25:8-13).

Following the lead, in the year 1300 AD, Pope Boniface VIII established the Jubilee Year for the Catholic Church, to be celebrated every 100 years. In 1342, in response to the people’s pleas, Clement VI reduced the frequency to 50 years; and in 1470, Paul II to 25 years, and this has been the rule up to present times.

WHO WROTE THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS?During yesterday’s Sunday Mass, in a faraway parish, a lector declared: “From the Le...
21/10/2024

WHO WROTE THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS?

During yesterday’s Sunday Mass, in a faraway parish, a lector declared: “From the Letter of St. Paul to the Hebrews”; causing a murmuring among the other lectors, who commented in a not-so-low voice: “Remove the name of St. Paul, because he was not the author of that Letter”. The discussion continued after the Mass, until they decided to consult via email truly yours. “Father – they asked – who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews?”

And this was my answer: “St. Paul the Apostle indeed wrote the Letter to the Hebrews.”

Here are the three proofs:

1) The UNINTERRUPTED TRADITION OF THE CHURCH holds that St. Paul wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit 14 letters, which were inserted in the Canon of the New Testament as early as the Council of Rome in 382, by no less that Pope St. Damasus.

2) The TRADITIONAL ROMAN MISSAL, dating back at the time of Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-604 AD), which was used for two millennia by all Catholic Saints, Bishops and Popes, has this incipit: “Epistle of St. Paul Apostle to the Hebrews”.

3) The COUNCIL OF TRENT, declared as a Dogma of Faith that St. Paul the Apostles wrote 14 Letters under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, which includes the “Letter to the Hebrews” (4th Session 1546, Decree of Canonical Scriptures).

Unfortunately, in the past 60 years, self-appointed modernist Bible scholars have denied this truth of faith, arguing that the Greek style of the Letter to the Hebrews is different from the other 13 Letters of St. Paul.

They should have known that the difference of style was already explained by St. Gerome in his book, “De Viris Illustribus” (393 AD) in these terms: St. Paul wrote 13 letters in Common Greek, which was the popular language of the time; but when addressing specifically to his fellow Jews, he wrote in Hebrew language, which was his mother tongue. Afterwards, a Greek scholar translated the Letter into Classical Greek; and this explains why its style is different from the other 13 letters.

On a lighter note: a new lector of our parish was so nervous during his first reading that at the conclusion, instead of saying: “The Word of the Lord”; she declared: “The end of the World”; at which all the faithful replied: “Thanks be to God”.

HOW TO GAIN THE PLENARY INDULGENCE FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY ON NOVEBER 1-8?The “Plenary Indulgence for the Souls in Pu...
20/10/2024

HOW TO GAIN THE PLENARY INDULGENCE FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY ON NOVEBER 1-8?

The “Plenary Indulgence for the Souls in Purgatory” is the remission of the Temporal Punishment due to sin, which the Souls are atoning for in Purgatory. For instance: A man, after a life of debauchery, was able to make a good Confession, but he died before being able to atone for the Temporal Punishment due to his sins by means of prayer, fasting or almsgiving: his soul cannot enter directly in Paradise, but as to make the due expiation in Purgatory – for as long as God will decide. If a relative gains a Plenary Indulgence for his soul from November 1-8, then all his Temporal Punishment will be atoned for and the soul may enter into the glory of Paradise.

Here are the conditions for gaining the Plenary Indulgence for the Soul in Purgatory:

1) Going to Confession (either 8 days before, or after this date);
2) Receiving Holy Communion on the day of the visit;
3) Visit a cemetery and pray for the Poor Souls (1 Our Father and Credo will suffice);
4) Pray for the habitual intentions of the Pope (1 Our Father, Hail May and Glory Be, will suffice).

JOIN US IN PRAYING THE 30-DAY NOVENA OR THE SOULS THIS NOVEBER
19/10/2024

JOIN US IN PRAYING
THE 30-DAY NOVENA OR THE SOULS
THIS NOVEBER

ON THE POPE’S INFALLIBILITYPopes can issue two kinds of teachings: “Extraordinary Magisterium”: which is infallible and ...
19/09/2024

ON THE POPE’S INFALLIBILITY

Popes can issue two kinds of teachings: “Extraordinary Magisterium”: which is infallible and demands the Virtue of FAITH; and “Ordinary Magisterium”, which may be fallible and demands the Virtue of OBEDIENCE.

1) EXTRAORDINARY MAGISTERIUM: Whenever a Pope issues a Dogma of Faith “Ex Cathedra, de Fide et Moribus”, meaning, “From the Papal Chair, about Faith and Morals”, his teaching is protected by infallibility, and must be accepted by FAITH. As Jesus declared to Simon Peter, the First Pope: “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven” (Matthew 16:19).

2) ORDINARY MAGISTERIUM: Whenever a Pope simply educates about faith and morals: his teaching is not protected by infallibility, and should be accepted by OBEDIENCE. For instance, on Pentecost Day, Simon Peter said, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ” (Acts 2:38): in his excitement, he forgot the other two Persons of the Trinity – the Father and the Holy Spirit, whose mention is essential for the validity of the Sacrament of Baptism.

Since the time of the Council of Trent, only three acts of Extraordinary Magisterium were declared: In 1854, the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Pius IX with the bull, “Ineffabilis Deus; in 1870 the Dogma of the Infallibility of the Pope by Pius IX with the bull, “Pastor Aeternus”; and in 1950 the Dogma of the Assumption of Mary by Pius XII with the bull, Munificetissimus Deus”. All other papal teachings, whether in the form of apostolic constitutions, encyclicals, apostolic exhortations, bulls, briefs, motu propria, sermons, catechesis, and media interviews: are Ordinary Magisterium and require only the Virtue of Obedience.

Whenever a teaching of the Ordinary Magisterium contradicts the Public Revelation (Scriptures and Tradition) and the Dogmas of Faith, it cannot be followed; for the reason that the Virtue of Faith has priority over the Virtue of Obedience. For instance, if a Pope were to preach that the Virgin Mary was born a sinner, he could not be obeyed, because the statement contradicts the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. St. Paul in Antioch corrected Simon Peter, who was not acting according to the Gospel, and was afraid of mingling with the Christian converts from paganism: “When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he clearly was wrong” (Galatians 2:11).

The “Papolaters” on one side, believe that every word uttered by a Pope is cover by infallibility; the “Popephobics”, on the opposite side, that nothing true might possibly come from Rome. We Catholic love the Pope and pray for him, and follow the principle: “Infallibilis ex cathedra, sed fallibilis ex scabello”.

NOW AVAILABLE: THE JUBILEE CALENDARS 2025
19/09/2024

NOW AVAILABLE: THE JUBILEE CALENDARS 2025

DELIVER US FROM “NEGATRONS”“Negatrons” are those unhappy men who see always the negative side of things, and nobody is s...
18/09/2024

DELIVER US FROM “NEGATRONS”

“Negatrons” are those unhappy men who see always the negative side of things, and nobody is spared from their dark cloud of criticism: family, neighbors, politics … and the Church of course.

If the Priest is young, they say that he has no experience;
if old, that he is like a dinosaur and should retire.

If the Priest is always in the church, he does not mingle with the parishioners;
If he makes family visits, he is never in the parish.

If he preaches long, he is boring;
if short, he is not prepared.

If he goes around with a big vehicle, he is squandering the faithful offerings;
if he rides a motorcycle, he cannot even afford a car.

If he talks with a woman, he is a womanizer;
if with a man … he he.

Even John and Jesus were not spared by the Negatrons:
John the Baptist ate grasshoppers and drank only water;
and they said: “He is crazy”;
Jesus ate good food and drank wine,
and they said: “He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

I remember my father’s story.

A farmer and his son went to the market to buy a Carabao. Then he places his son on it and started his way home. The Negatrons said: “That child is shameless, he does not respect his elderly father”. So, the father took the child down, and sat on his place. Again, they commented: “This is child abuse: sitting on the carabao while his little child is walking on the street”. Then, the farmer and his son sat together on the carabao, and they said: “Poor carabao, it has to carry the weight of two people”. Eventually, the farmer put the carabao on his shoulders, and they ridiculed him: “What a crazy farmer, he is carrying the carabao instead of the other way around.”
Mat the Lord deliver us from Negatrons …Amen.

07/09/2024

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