I am still reeling with shock at the attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7 which was for Catholics the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary which celebrates Christendom being saved from Muslim attack with the battle of Lepanto in 1571. In Israel it was the Shabbat and Simchat Torah (Rejoicing in the Torah) while in the Jewish diaspora it was the last day of Sukkot. I have lived in Israel in the past so it really brings home to one the horror of it all.
Father "Oliveira" of Brazil, as I mentioned in past post, predicted that a time of tribulation would begin in October 2023 and he spoke about the war increasing and earthquakes. On this same day a earthquake also hit Afghanistan killing many people.
The Synod on Synodality also convened in the Vatican and the anti-Pope Francis crowd started their slander against the Pope. The lies and distortions told have been covered well by "Where Peter Is" led by Mike Lewis and "Theology and Reason" by Michel Lofton and Mike Lewis has written an article praising Michael Lofton. It is also sad to see the Countdown to the Kingdom group with Mark Mallet and Christine Watkins continuing with the anti-Pope Francis rhetoric and misrepresenting the Church's teaching on the infallibility of the Pope. Christine states that papal infallibility only applies to doctrinal statements made ex-cathedra by the Pope and all the Bishops of the world.
The Pope in fact makes ex-Cathedra statements on his own and does not need the approval of the Bishops or Cardinals. The Pope is also infallible in the exercise of his ordinary magisterium on faith and morals, whether by himself or with those Bishops who teach in union with him. Even the Pope's non-infallible prudential judgements and non-doctrinal pastoral policies must be listened to with deference and respect and even when disagreeing with the Pope one must not impute ill-will to the Pope. One must also be obedient to the pastoral policies even if one thinks there are better applications or even if one thinks they are a bad idea. One of course can critique them in a polite and deferential manner.
It is heartbreaking to see what is happening in Israel with the murder, wounding and kidnapping by Hamas of Israeli civilians - men, women and children and the elderly as well as the murder of a young German women and her body being paraded in from of crowds of Jihadi supporting crowds in Gaza. Our prayers are with the Israeli people and the Israeli soldiers. They are also for the Palestinian civilians who are being controlled and manipulated by the terrorists.
So let us renew our consecration to Our Lady which the Marian Movement of Priests consecration in this growing time of confrontation.
Virgin of Fatima, Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Refuge of Sinners, we who belong to the Marian Movement of Priests consecrate ourselves in a very special way to your Immaculate Heart.
By this act of consecration we intend to live, with you and through you, all the obligations assumed by our baptismal consecration. We further pledge to bring about in ourselves that interior conversion so urgently demanded by the Gospel, a conversion that will free us of every attachment to ourselves and to easy compromises with the world so that, like you, we may be available only to do always the Will of the Father.
And as we resolve to entrust to you, O Mother most sweet and merciful, our life and vocation as Christians, that you may dispose of it according to your designs of salvation in this hour of decision that weighs upon the world, we pledge to live it according to your desires, especially as it pertains to a renewed spirit of prayer and penance, the fervent participation in the celebration of the Eucharist and in the works of the apostolate, the daily recitation of the holy rosary, and an austere manner of life in keeping with the Gospel, that shall be to all a good example of the observance of the Law of God and the practice of the Christian virtues, especially that of purity.
We further promise you to be united with the Holy Father, with the hierarchy and with our priests, in order thus to set up a barrier to the growing confrontation directed against the Magisterium, that threatens the very foundation of the Church.
Under your protection, we want moreover to be apostles of this sorely needed unity of prayer and love for the Pope, on whom we invoke your special protection. And lastly, insofar as is possible, we promise to lead those souls with whom we come in contact to a renewed devotion to you. Mindful that atheism has caused shipwreck in the faith to a great number of the faithful, that desecration has entered into the holy temple of God, and that evil and sin are spreading more and more throughout the world, we make so bold as to lift our eyes trustingly to you, O Mother of Jesus and our merciful and powerful Mother, and we invoke again today and await from you the salvation of all your children, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
We redo this consecration and all that is happening in Israel and the Church in God's Divine Will, fusing all into our messiah Yeshua. May the Kingdom of the Divine Will come soon!