Thank you, Father. God has given you wisdom and I, for one, always find your talks inspirational and so timely. I just finished listening to volume 1 of "If You Believed Moses" and have the hard copy of vol. 2. Will start reading it tomorrow, Septuagesima Sunday. We need to pray for the conversion of the Jews!
I knelt in front of a relic of the true cross when the Saints relics were displayed at a Church near me. I'm 60 years old and had a hard time standing back up but when I did get up the bones in my back cracked and since then I've been freed of my back pain. I consider it a miracle. ❤❤❤
Dear Father Mawdsley I've been listening to all of your wonderful podcasts on Podbean. The depth of your knowledge of Scripture is incredible. Much I need to listen to several times just to get a smidge of a grasp! Thank you!
Thank you Fr. Mawdsley for this video. Great This helps when we give the Good Friday praying card. Many could Not understand. It's reveration they said. Thank you for All your teachings.
I will not genuflect anymore, and am sharing your information about the Good Friday prayer, and the pre-1955 prayer card will be passed to others. We must always please and Adore our Lord. Let's pray to The Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph to help us share this many, many, many Catholics!
Thank you, Father. Yesterday, I was visiting Clifford’s Tower. (You know where). Regarding the alleged events of 1190, they have a recording of an actor voicing the imagined words of one of those there and he says “My people chose death rather than a shameful life of conversion to Christianity”. I’ve seen them called “martyrs”. A massive, unacknowledged culture clash. Just last August, the city’s first resident Rabbi since 1290 was installed. The community has its services hosted by the local Quaker Meeting House, which is curious in itself. There is a website with information about the community in past centuries. It says that a certain man who also perished at the Tower was “the wealthiest English J- in the 13th century”. It details the history without any suggestion that loaning money at extortionate rates of interest or coin clipping are wrong. Please pray for me, a sinner with many flaws. God bless you. 🙏
I’m blessed to have a pre-55 Holy Week available near me, I listened out for the prayer specifically last year, I suspect that a modernised version was used although I’m not totally sure. God willing we continue with the pre-55 this year 🙏🙏
I do separate prayers outside the church too so you can do that as well. I play the St Benedict prayer in Gregorian chant in front of a Mother Mary statue and just chant it and pray a rosary before going to Mass.
Awesome plan ❤🙏 (I've got the A team theme going on in my head at this point 😊 - "I love it when a Septuagesima Sunday plan comes together") Well done Fr JM - God bless the plan! ❤ "His Kingdom has no end...."
Thank you so much Father James Mawdsley ( JM, one of my nicknames is MJ 🤣😁😚 ). God bless you, thank you for teaching us about the 1955 Missal. Deo gratia 😇 Please pray for the Archdiocese of Washington DC where six / eight churches are being affected by the Bishop / Cardinal Milton Gregory to suspend / cancel the TLM. I feel sorry for Reverend Brian Sanderfoot whose community has been taken away from him. He gives both of the Mass ( TLM and NO ). My NO parish is a few blocks away from but I was driving 5 miles away to attend The Traditional Latin Mass which I started attending at the end of March of 2021.
This is a separate matter. Here we are talking about the Great Intercessions on Good Friday, where everyone is in their place. For the other Intercessions there is a genuflection between the bidding and the collect. For the prayer for the Jews there is no genuflection. As for the broader point you raise: when one enters the church before the solemn liturgy on Good Friday (i.e. after the removal of the Host from the tabernacle and the stripping of the altars on Holy Thursday), then in the location that you would usually genuflect to the tabernacle it is good to make a bow of the head to reverence the altar. However, once the Cross has been uncovered in the Solemn Liturgy (after the reading of the Passion and the Great Intercessions), then everyone comes forward to reverence / kiss the Cross, and after this point it is appropriate to genuflect to the Cross as one would normally genuflect before the tabernacle. Hope I have not made this sound more complicated than it is. Happy to be corrected if anyone knows better or can put it more succinctly.
I am very new to the TLM and do not know at what point in the Mass I should with hold . Now that I have found the TLM I strive to understand it and to learn but I will not know enough by Good Friday . I travel to attend and as yet have no relationship with the priest's but perhaps if I phone this may also help as hopefully others may also ask . To continue to promote, via compliance , that we should live in fear of the Jews is blasphemy and in part how we got to where we are now . As for the words " crucify Him " I doubt this will be requested but if it is I may well leave.........not in anger, simply because of my experience with compromise .
Don't leave! You are in the right place. Let yourself become familiar with the Liturgy and get to know some of the other parishioners. Having brunch after Mass is a good way to get to know people! Our church (FSSP) has a Sunday class for adults at which these things can be discussed. Our priests are always open to questions and suggestions and I expect yours may be too. If you read through the Good Friday Liturgy in your Missal, you will find the prayer. Place the original prayer in there. We have Fr JM's list on our fridge, have all is books and pray for him every day. Let's do this!
@Fr JM has cards for the prayer. It’s proper in the Fr. Lasance missal and the St. Andrew’s missal. The 1962 has the new prayer. I attend SSPX that uses the 1962 missal. But many bring their St. Andrew’s and Fr. Lasance Missals. Hope that helps. TLM shouldn’t have the congregation recite “crucify him”, but two cantors may sing that part.
In the TLM, two or three deacons chant the Passion. The congregation does not participate at all. It is a very formal, solemn, stark part of the GF Mass. The Catholic Church takes what is terrible & makes it beautiful. Google "pre 55 holy week" and you'll find a website with the texts of the Masses, as well as the Passion, so you can follow along.
You should receive conditional traditional Ordination from a traditional Rite Bishop. "Quo Primum Tempore" has a curse attached to anyone who alters or deletes Liturgy AND Sacraments.
I always thought yelling Crucify Him Crucify Him carried too much feeling and demonstration as if we were truly against Jesus. I spent time watching everyone. Acting like drama? I think its bringing out more. I said bye to N Ordo years ago for things like that and others. I like to see a A Strategy to Recover Tradition...Jesus' plan! God bless...
Father, I apologise if I have asked you this before, but I was wondering what specific liturgical calendar you would recommend the laity to purchase? Pax Tecum!!
Fr JM, I am a TLM altar server (serving the 1962 Mass) and this will be my first Good Friday, where I expect to serve. Seems to me this will be a little more difficult than for those sitting in the pews. What advise would you give to altar servers?
Apologies for this belated response. I gave an answer to your question in the Live Stream here: ua-cam.com/video/Mf2YMVUS6YI/v-deo.html from 33:55 mins. It is only very general, as I don't know your situation / priest, but I hope it helps. God bless, and may God hear all your prayers this Good Friday.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM Thank you for your reply. I will listen to the live stream. Our priest is coming around to the traditional mass. In our diocese,, the TLM is primarily to a Eucharistic Adoration Shrine, to which his oratory has been assigned by the Bishop for the last two years. He once said that two years ago he would have been all in for abolishing the TLM for all the reasons that are being broadcast today. However, because the shrine has the smallest congregation with a single mass on Sunday and as he noted it has the deepest faith, the greatest desire for the sacrament of confession and the strongest financial support of the other 3 parishes supported by the Oratory, he has changed his perspective. I find him to be a holy priest. He has been very helpful to me with my family struggles. And I have his ear. At the homily today, distracted, I was thinking how to navigate my desire to pray as recommended, his potential desire once he knows, offset by his obligations to the Bishop. I will watch the link and let you know. Thank you again. May God bless you and keep you close to Him.
Hello Father. Could you please respond!!! I listen to a lot of your videos and I think you’re an amazing priest. My question is: I hear people saying everything bad about the war is coming from Hamas and that Israel is doing there best to find all the terrorists and not kill any civilians. Can you point me to some sources to show what is really happening. Thanks. I will keep you in my prayers. Viva Cristo Rey!
I'll say something about sources for news / information after saying something on the specific claim that some people make that Israel is doing their best to find terrorists and to avoid killing civilians. Since Oct 7th there have been more than 25,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza. Very approximately, one third are men, one third are women and one third are children. This reflects (approximately) the demographic distribution of Palestine. Apart from the tragic high number of casualties, the distribution indicates that the Israeli forces are making little effort to target terrorists, but are indiscriminately bombing in rage or calculated ethnic cleansing. You only have to look at images of Gaza where whole neighbourhoods are flattened, or else to consider the huge size of munitions being used, to realise that it is patently false to claim Israel is using proportional or discriminating force. If you find a 'news' source saying this, you know they are dishonest or extremely misled. As for me, I listen to Catholics, Orthodox, Muslims, Jews and atheists / secularists on this question and related ones. It is in the spread of voices that we can hope to get a picture of what is happening. But more importantly, it is to check the 'message' against the Gospel, and the whole Bible. These are central truths. History follows the pattern which the Scriptures show to us (I don't mean a secret pattern). So the better we know the Scriptures, and if we have a solid knowledge of Church history, then we are not so easily misled by the current propaganda. We always have to be alert, because we can be misled or make bad or rash judgements. I don't think it will help for me to name a few 'sources' here, because they will be unrepresentative. I sincerely suggest that you make sure you are hearing or reading the Gospels or the other Scriptures every day, and then we are informed by reality, so we can weigh up other things. I hope this is of some use to you. Sorry I cannot be more helpful.
Maybe I should add, there is no point watching TV if you want to know what is happening. TV is deeply corrupt and brainwashing. If you have a TV, perhaps talk with your family about switching it off completely for Lent. You will be happier for it after a month. And if you continue leaving it off, after two months you will have forgotten about it (a good time to get rid of it), and if you ever see it again after three months without it, you will find it absurd and boring, even repulsive, not having any interest in it. It is used by the powerful to control our thinking. Best not to have one. And if we are not reading the Scriptures regularly, there is little point watching / listening / reading any news.
@Fr JM I haven’t paid for any television subscriptions for 4 years. I’m struggling with not watching this platform for lent, not wanting to miss any of your presentations that are spiritually enriching. Any suggestions, besides giving up the palate cleansing puppy rescue videos? We are living in a real world horror story with the needle poisonings dep0puIating the planet. What is occurring globally would give HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe night terrors. Deo Gratias
I think it depends on the parish. In some places they might genuflect for all the Great Intercessions, in other places for none of them. (It would be good to hear from people who have experience of either, because it has been 15 years since I was at a novus.) The traditional manner is to genuflect between the bidding and the collect of all the Great Intercessions except the one for the Jews.
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I voted, thank you. Please cover the topic which you mentioned in the past, about the location known as “the gates of hell” where Jesus spoke to St. Peter. I’m interested in the deeper meaning, analogy and nuance of these biblical events.
@@dr.julia-heyakarcic8862 I am not sure what this refers to, but it might be in the First Letter of St Peter, wherein he writes "In which also coming He preached to those spirits that were in prison" (1 Pet 3:19). If you read the verses before and after this, you will see that it comes after the death of Jesus, addressing those who died beforehand. So a safe interpretation is that this means Jesus went to the limbo of the fathers to proclaim the Gospel to the souls detained by death before His coming. This is their "prison". Some say this means just the souls destined for Heaven. Or we can think of Him showing the Gospel (Himself) to all the dead, and those who had rejected God in their lifetime, living in unbelief, had the reason for their condemnation shown thereby, and these are all stuck in hell forever. Meanwhile, those who had believed God's Promises (like Abel and Henoch and Abraham and Job and Moses and David), or else had followed the natural law and sought to please God, were set free (i.e. came to Heaven).
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM thank you Fr. i will read this which you suggest. Is there not a geographic region in the Holy Land built above a well which was known as “the gates of hell” where in one of the gospels The Lord instructs St. Peter; “you are the rock upon which i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”.?
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM thank you Fr. i will read this which you suggest. Is there not a geographic region in the Holy Land built above a well which was known as “the gates of hell” where in one of the gospels The Lord instructs St. Peter; “you are the rock upon which i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”.?
Bishops have been telling the faithful not to kneel for the Canon of the Mass. They want them to stand. Clearly this is profoundly wrong and not to be followed. Since the 1950s-60s, many of us have been brought up with the wrong ideas about the balance between the force of immemorial custom and the positivist decrees and instructions from then hierarchy. Although it is only part of the matter, you know there are no rubrics at all which dictate the posture of the faithful during the traditional Mass. It was all a matter of custom. And it worked! Of course the bishops have a vital role in governing the liturgy, and they have authority in so far as authority goes, but they cannot instruct us to do what is irreverent or theologically misleading, especially where that contradicts custom. Blessed Septuagesima!
Let me get this straight. You are teaching me that this verse, Gen. 3:15, which by both ancient Hebrews, Jews and Christians has always been believed to be the first announcement of the "promised seed, is actually announcing that a woman will fulfill this promise in act, having received the power of God to do it. Now, Hebrews 3:15 clearly tells us: "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;" This "destroying of him who has the power of death, the devil" is the meaning of the phrase in Gen. 3:15, "crushing the head of Satan," obviously. If you crush the head (the seat of intellect) of a purely intellectual being (which all angels including Satan are) you have destroyed him. But you say that Christ stands back and empowers Mary to do the actual crushing of Satan's head. So why did He come if He would have some human being do it for Him? This is not Catholic! The very essence of Catholicism is that we are saved by the Cross of Jesus Christ. We do not participate in our salvation except by our free reception of it through Grace and by our obedience in Grace. The Catholic Church has always taught that the Sacrifice of Christ is complete. It is He that saves us, and it is He that saves Mary. (Mary herself calls God her savior in the Magnificat.) Even if Mary were immaculate so that she would herself never die (which the Church has never claimed), her exemption from death would not exempt anyone but herself. What is this desire I see in Catholics to duplicate the, the acts and the purity of Christ in another completely human person? It is not enough that God is perfect, but some have to satisfy themselves in a perfect human being. In everything they attempt to make Mary the double of Christ; she is made our Mediator, she is made the Dispenser to us of God's grace in place of the indwelling Holy Spirit, she is Immaculate as God is, she is made co-Redeemer, she it is who comforts us even though Christ Himself told us our comforter was the Holy Spirit He would send us. As Christ our God is King, she is Queen and she it is that, by am ambiguity, can be believed to crush the head of Satan. But the Catholic Church teaches us (as does Sacred Scripture) that God is a jealous God and punishes those who attribute His works to fictions and idols. The goodness of man, no matter how good, has no proportion to the infinite goodness of God. No comparison can be made, even though we are created in His image. Romans 10:6 : Say not in thine heart, "Who will ascend into heaven, that is to to bring Christ down from above." Yet many Catholics expect this of Mary, that she only can lead them to Christ. So near to the end of time God tells us He will send Fire upon the earth. What is spiritual Fire? Is it not that which is able spiritually to consume? But what can consume the spiritual works of the Devil, which are lies, if not the contradiction of the Truth. Truth consumes the lie. Then fire is the contradiction of the Lie by the Truth. The Church must clean her house. She must dissolve every contradiction that has become attached to her. Who will do this? If the contradictions are there, all the posturing of a perfect Church is useless. We stand against our pope because he contradicts the Truth of Christ. But to believe Francis is the only liar who has ever been pope is to ignore the history of the Church. We have a huge job to do, and the time is very short. St. Peter has warned us that the Judgment will begin at the Church.
You are very confused. There is so much wrong in this comment. I'll list a few points. But would you be willing to answer what someone else asked you under another of your comments to this video: "Would you be Andrew M. Harmon Senior Associate Rector - St. James Episcopal Church in Louisiana, U.S. with PhD in Historical Theology by any chance?" If you are an Episcopalian, that explains why you are so confused. There are some Anglicans who like to call themselves "Catholic". But if you are a Roman Catholic, then please confirm this. The "Seed" promised in Gen 3:15 is obviously Jesus Christ. The multi-valence of "he" - "she" indicates that Jesus living in Mary will crush satan's head. (He does live in her. I hope you are not confused about that.) There is no Catholic in the world who believes that Mary is God, so I don't know why you are confused about that. Whereas Our Lady did overcome satan throughout her life by never sinning, and most fully on Calvary, the reference to the serpent's head we can take as signifying the Antichrist -- that is the 'head' of satan's 'members' (although we do not suggest satan has a body, not even mystical). This will be achieved in the last generation, with many suggesting, rightly I am sure, by souls devoted to and consecrated to our Blessed Mother. Your inexactitude is causing you problems. Christ is not "standing back", as you falsely say I said. But He lives in us who are baptised and in a state of grace (as does the Holy Trinity). And He lives most intensely in Mary, His Mother. So, yes, by her Immaculate Conception and by all the choices of her will, Our Lady is given grace by God such that she never, ever sinned. Total victory over satan. God is pleased to give victories to His creatures, for it is nothing for Him to overcome satan by His own omnipotent power. Rather, by His Incarnation Jesus, in His Sacred Humanity, overcame satan and death. And Our Lady shares in this like no other, also having a total victory over satan and, I believe, the Antichrist. This is a total humiliation for satan (read the OT about men being defeated by a woman). Your question about why Christ came is strange. Jesus is our sole Redeemer. He alone, being True God and True Man, has the power to redeem souls. And He chose His Mother Mary to participate in this work in a way analogous to God giving Eve to Adam as a helpmate. Please do not argue here about it but read the Fathers (e.g. St Irenaeus). The Church has never taught otherwise than that Christ by the power of His Cross redeemed Mary. But for her He did it differently than for the rest of us. For her it was prevenient: she received these graces in her Immaculate Conception (yes, even before the Crucifixion happened; I hope that does not cause you difficulties). To be honest, I don't know what the point is of continuing. We Catholics do not say that we are saved by Mary without Christ, but that Mary has a role in the redemption of all God's children. Our Lady participated perfectly on Calvary and therefore she is present and active at every Holy Mass, which continues the work of our redemption (I hope you are not confused by that too). Our Lady is not Co-Redeemer but she is Co-Redemptrix. The suffix is significant. The Woman participates in the work of the New Adam as suitable / perfect helper. Why do you protest God giving this role to her? He chose her for His own Mother and chose her to be spiritual Mother to all His children. It is nonsense what your write about Mary being a duplicate of Christ or replacing the Holy Ghost. Christ is the promised Messiah and He is God. The Holy Ghost is God. Mary is not God. No Catholic says otherwise, so I don't know why you bring these imaginings up on this channel. Mary is Immaculate. Without sin. Do you dispute that? If so, there is your problem. You do not know Catholic teaching. Or else you reject it, in which case you are a heretic (or an Episcopalian). How does the Holy Ghost being the Comforter exclude Mary from comforting us? What a weird notion. Can you not be comforted by more than one person? Why do you suggest Catholics commit idolatry in venerating Mary? How absurd. Why if you want to rail against us showing honour to Mary do you choose to do it here? I cannot think what the relevance or connection or stimulus for you is. No one here makes an idol of Mary. Why do you make the insinuation? If you do not like Mary being honoured above all other creatures then (somehow) you have not understood her privileges and her sacrifices. But do not accuse Catholics of idolatry. The Catholic Church teaches that Mary is the greatest of all creatures, but that compared to God she is infinitesimal, indeed less, as compared to God all creation is as zero. What is your problem? It remains that in relation to the rest of Creation Mary reigns above it as Queen of Heaven & Earth. What is your problem with that? The Mother of the King is the Queen. Surely you know that. You are confused in suggesting "only Mary can lead us to Christ". The truth is that many, many people, on earth and in Heaven, can lead us to Christ. But none will be led to Him without Mary. If you are Catholic you will know that the Church is the one and only Bride of Christ. She is divinely constituted. She is indefectible. Not all the sins of any number of popes takes away from that. If you have set your sights to attack the constitution of the Church or the privileges and prerogatives of the Blessed Virgin Mary then you will fail completely. Be Catholic instead. What a waste of time this back and forth is. I think you have some agenda which you are not declaring, all the while trying to pass yourself off as a concerned Catholic. No Catholic speaks as you do about Mary.
I think you owe me an apology. You accuse me of lying about being Catholic. You accuse me of great confusion, and of being an Episcopalian. You have made several disparaging statements about my intelligence, falsely accusing me of claiming Catholics believe Mary is God, insisting that I personally have a (non-specified) problem, making obvious statements and then declaring your reticence to believe I can understand them. You charge me with an undisclosed personal agenda, and deny that I can be Catholic and speak the way I do. Heavy insults for a conversation in which we are discussing objective subjects. But I am Catholic and all I have learned about the Catholic veneration of Mary I have learned from Priests like you. All I have learned of its practice I have learned from my Catholic friends, my own participation in innumerable rosaries, etc., the Consecration to Mary of Louis De Montfort that we at my SSPX parish were all required to recite at the end of Mass, and my great efforts in trying to understand what I have been taught about Mary and to bring it into sync with the Sacred Scriptures by which out Lord tells us we shall be judged. If you do not believe some Catholics worship Mary by ascribing to her powers that belong to God alone, you are not so familiar with the Catholic laity as I am. Why are you so surprised that all these divine attributes attributed to Mary like Co-Redemptrix, Dispenser of All Grace, and Spouse of the Holy Spirit may not confuse some poorly educated Catholics into grave errors concerning the salvic acts of Mary. You say I am confused. Then who confused me? I certainly learned none of this from the Bible. Christ does not teach any of this, but teaches Himself only as our Savior and Mediator. The Apostles say nothing of it. Even St. John never suggested that Mary was his mediatrix and should be ours. You could only give me Gen.3:15 as a definite statement about Mary's supernatural power, and I have labored to show the logical and grammatical error in this, which I think you have partly seen. As to your specific request, I did reply to the person who asked me if I was Andrew Harmon of Louisiana, who is an Episcopal Priest and has a PHD in Theology. The answer is no. But I am partly a swaged from your other insults by your thinking my capacity worthy of a PHD. @@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM
I apologise to you for asking if you are Episcopalian and suspecting that you were. I can see why that would cut deeply. Meanwhile, you actually accuse popes of being "liars" (and you complain that I suspect your honesty, though I never called you a liar), and this in regard to Marian teaching. You could settle a great deal of your confusion if, as I have said 3 times now, you would read "Ineffabilis Deus", Pope Pius IX's infallible encyclical which will explain to you in what sense Our Lady crushes satan's head. That is Catholic teaching. It is not too long for you to read, given how long our ridiculous comments to each other have become! You say you have participated in St Louis Marie de Montfort's Total Consecration to Mary. Then you should know what he says about exaggerated claims about Mary. He himself said, as I wrote in another comment, that compared to God, Our Lady is infinitesimally small. You seem to be concerned about "poorly educated Catholics", but these are not the problem. The children of Fatima are not the problem. It is the mighty of this world and the educated and even those high up the hierarchy who do not trust Our Lady (for example to do what she asked at Fatima). Btw, you have not shown me any grammatical error in Gen 3:15. The Bible does indeed show Mary's unique privileges and prerogatives (read "Crushing satan's head" if you can be bothered). If you will read "Ineffabilis Deus", then perhaps our exchange can be fruitful. But if you will not read that, or if you still argue against it, then we are wasting our time. Our Lady Help of Christians, pray for us.
If you want to restore the Apostolic faith to Catholics, you must dismantle the edifice of the worship of Mary. You may not be, but most of the Catholic laity are consecrated to Mary and believe she is to be placed between themselves and God as intercessor and dispenser of all Grace. This is a usurpation of the acts of the Holy Spirit. For all the reasons the Catholic Church has fallen into Apostasy, this is the reason it is unable to recover. Why should God answer prayers that are not addressed to Him. What is further from the Apostolic Faith than this preoccupation and for all practical purposes, worship of Mary, in place of Christ. Now you will say she is not in place of Christ. But do you see into the hearts of the Catholic laity who pray rosaries daily and believe themselves more pleasing to God by Mary's mediation than if they addressed God themselves. This was never taught either by Christ or the Apostles. It is a gnostic tradition that has seated itself in Catholicism and at length taken over the prayer life of the erstwhile faithful and become the focus of their love of the divine and their gratitude. You priests are totally responsible for this!!!!!!!!!
Oh dear. You chat away like you have an idea about what you are talking about, but I think you do both Catholicism and Gnosticism a disservice. We do not worship The Blessed Virgin Mary; we honour her, and see her as our blessed mother in heaven. Not innately divine, but blessed above all humanity. Praying the rosary is not simply asking Our Lady for favours, but meditating upon the life of Christ Jesus.
Jesus loved his mother dearly while He was on earth, and still does, as do we devoted Catholics. He loves to see her loved and revered. She presents our prayers to Him and how can He refuse his dear, beloved Mother? You, sir, have it entirely wrong. I will pray for your enlightenment on the doctrine of Mary.
@karencox3235 In addition to that, how does this individual presume to know the hearts and minds of prayerful Catholics??? Does he actually believe that The Lord did not hear our prayers first? Funny how outsiders know the catholic faith better than an actual, faithful Catholic.
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I will not be genuflecting on Good Friday…nor say, “crucify him”. 🙏🏽🕯🕊❤️🔥✝️
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My mother taught me to not do so.
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Thank you, Father. God has given you wisdom and I, for one, always find your talks inspirational and so timely. I just finished listening to volume 1 of "If You Believed Moses" and have the hard copy of vol. 2. Will start reading it tomorrow, Septuagesima Sunday. We need to pray for the conversion of the Jews!
Agreed. I can't help but feel very fortunate to have found this channel
I did it last year and will continue this until it is FIXED As Per GOD'S WAY. Thanks And GOD Bless You Father Mawdsley !!!!! Ave Maria !!!!!
I knelt in front of a relic of the true cross when the Saints relics were displayed at a Church near me. I'm 60 years old and had a hard time standing back up but when I did get up the bones in my back cracked and since then I've been freed of my back pain. I consider it a miracle. ❤❤❤
Thank you Fr. Mawdsley for helping bring back Tradition through a Theological solution Pre-55 Good Friday Mass. 🙏
Have a Blessed Septuagesima Sunday too Fr. Mawdsley. Praying for you always.
Dear Father Mawdsley I've been listening to all of your wonderful podcasts on Podbean. The depth of your knowledge of Scripture is incredible. Much I need to listen to several times just to get a smidge of a grasp! Thank you!
Thank you, Father.
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Thank you Fr. Mawdsley for this video. Great This helps when we give the Good Friday praying card. Many could Not understand. It's reveration they said. Thank you for All your teachings.
I will not genuflect anymore, and am sharing your information about the Good Friday prayer, and the pre-1955 prayer card will be passed to others. We must always please and Adore our Lord. Let's pray to The Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph to help us share this many, many, many Catholics!
Blessed Septuagesima, Fr
Thank you, Father. Yesterday, I was visiting Clifford’s Tower. (You know where). Regarding the alleged events of 1190, they have a recording of an actor voicing the imagined words of one of those there and he says “My people chose death rather than a shameful life of conversion to Christianity”. I’ve seen them called “martyrs”. A massive, unacknowledged culture clash. Just last August, the city’s first resident Rabbi since 1290 was installed. The community has its services hosted by the local Quaker Meeting House, which is curious in itself. There is a website with information about the community in past centuries. It says that a certain man who also perished at the Tower was “the wealthiest English J- in the 13th century”. It details the history without any suggestion that loaning money at extortionate rates of interest or coin clipping are wrong. Please pray for me, a sinner with many flaws. God bless you. 🙏
I’m blessed to have a pre-55 Holy Week available near me, I listened out for the prayer specifically last year, I suspect that a modernised version was used although I’m not totally sure. God willing we continue with the pre-55 this year 🙏🙏
Attend Thuc line or CSPV, those Apostolates don't alter the prayer.
Thank you for this videos Father. My boys and I loved your talks at the Conference in Dallas
I do separate prayers outside the church too so you can do that as well. I play the St Benedict prayer in Gregorian chant in front of a Mother Mary statue and just chant it and pray a rosary before going to Mass.
Awesome plan ❤🙏
(I've got the A team theme going on in my head at this point 😊 - "I love it when a Septuagesima Sunday plan comes together") Well done Fr JM - God bless the plan! ❤ "His Kingdom has no end...."
Thank you so much Father James Mawdsley ( JM, one of my nicknames is MJ 🤣😁😚 ). God bless you, thank you for teaching us about the 1955 Missal. Deo gratia 😇
Please pray for the Archdiocese of Washington DC where six / eight churches are being affected by the Bishop / Cardinal Milton Gregory to suspend / cancel the TLM. I feel sorry for Reverend Brian Sanderfoot whose community has been taken away from him. He gives both of the Mass ( TLM and NO ).
My NO parish is a few blocks away from but I was driving 5 miles away to attend The Traditional Latin Mass which I started attending at the end of March of 2021.
I always thought that we don’t genuflect because on Good Friday the Lord is not in the Tabernacle.
This is a separate matter. Here we are talking about the Great Intercessions on Good Friday, where everyone is in their place. For the other Intercessions there is a genuflection between the bidding and the collect. For the prayer for the Jews there is no genuflection.
As for the broader point you raise: when one enters the church before the solemn liturgy on Good Friday (i.e. after the removal of the Host from the tabernacle and the stripping of the altars on Holy Thursday), then in the location that you would usually genuflect to the tabernacle it is good to make a bow of the head to reverence the altar. However, once the Cross has been uncovered in the Solemn Liturgy (after the reading of the Passion and the Great Intercessions), then everyone comes forward to reverence / kiss the Cross, and after this point it is appropriate to genuflect to the Cross as one would normally genuflect before the tabernacle.
Hope I have not made this sound more complicated than it is.
Happy to be corrected if anyone knows better or can put it more succinctly.
Im starting to read your books, you are gifted with such wisdom and charity
More blessings and appreciation from Sydney Australia.
Hi Fr. , You may have heard? Louisa Piccaretta's cause has been suspended. I guess the recent conversation got the attention of those in Rome?
Many thanks Father Mawdsley!
I am very new to the TLM and do not know at what point in the Mass I should with hold . Now that I have found the TLM I strive to understand it and to learn but I will not know enough by Good Friday . I travel to attend and as yet have no relationship with the priest's but perhaps if I phone this may also help as hopefully others may also ask .
To continue to promote, via compliance , that we should live in fear of the Jews is blasphemy and in part how we got to where we are now . As for the words " crucify Him " I doubt this will be requested but if it is I may well leave.........not in anger, simply because of my experience with compromise .
Thank you for your work Father Jim.........
Don't leave! You are in the right place. Let yourself become familiar with the Liturgy and get to know some of the other parishioners. Having brunch after Mass is a good way to get to know people! Our church (FSSP) has a Sunday class for adults at which these things can be discussed. Our priests are always open to questions and suggestions and I expect yours may be too. If you read through the Good Friday Liturgy in your Missal, you will find the prayer. Place the original prayer in there. We have Fr JM's list on our fridge, have all is books and pray for him every day. Let's do this!
Let us pray for the perfidious Jews
@Fr JM has cards for the prayer. It’s proper in the Fr. Lasance missal and the St. Andrew’s missal. The 1962 has the new prayer. I attend SSPX that uses the 1962 missal. But many bring their St. Andrew’s and Fr. Lasance Missals. Hope that helps. TLM shouldn’t have the congregation recite “crucify him”, but two cantors may sing that part.
In the TLM, two or three deacons chant the Passion. The congregation does not participate at all. It is a very formal, solemn, stark part of the GF Mass. The Catholic Church takes what is terrible & makes it beautiful.
Google "pre 55 holy week" and you'll find a website with the texts of the Masses, as well as the Passion, so you can follow along.
You should receive conditional traditional Ordination from a traditional Rite Bishop.
"Quo Primum Tempore" has a curse attached to anyone who alters or deletes Liturgy AND Sacraments.
At our SSPV chapel, we do not genuflect.
P.s. Fr Mawdsley, are you permitted to say the pre 1955 Mass livestream? 🙏🕊
Septuagesima Sunday week today found Professor Jonathan Israel video From Spinoza to Marx
Would you comment on it Please?
I always thought yelling Crucify Him Crucify Him carried too much feeling and demonstration as if we were truly against Jesus. I spent time watching everyone. Acting like drama? I think its bringing out more. I said bye to N Ordo years ago for things like that and others. I like to see a A Strategy to Recover Tradition...Jesus' plan! God bless...
Fr. Mawdsley:
Thanks so much for sharing this with us!
Will your conferences 9-11 Feb 2024 be televised on this channel?
Pax Tecum,
Chris Bates
Parts of it likely will be at some point afterwards.
Father, I apologise if I have asked you this before, but I was wondering what specific liturgical calendar you would recommend the laity to purchase?
Pax Tecum!!
Sorry, I have no idea (praying the breviary is my calendar). Hope people will comment here with suggestions.
I'm not sure if it's just me, but the link to the printable prayer cards doesn't seem to work.
Fixed! (Sorry about that.)
Fr JM, I am a TLM altar server (serving the 1962 Mass) and this will be my first Good Friday, where I expect to serve. Seems to me this will be a little more difficult than for those sitting in the pews. What advise would you give to altar servers?
Apologies for this belated response. I gave an answer to your question in the Live Stream here: ua-cam.com/video/Mf2YMVUS6YI/v-deo.html from 33:55 mins. It is only very general, as I don't know your situation / priest, but I hope it helps. God bless, and may God hear all your prayers this Good Friday.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM Thank you for your reply. I will listen to the live stream. Our priest is coming around to the traditional mass. In our diocese,, the TLM is primarily to a Eucharistic Adoration Shrine, to which his oratory has been assigned by the Bishop for the last two years. He once said that two years ago he would have been all in for abolishing the TLM for all the reasons that are being broadcast today. However, because the shrine has the smallest congregation with a single mass on Sunday and as he noted it has the deepest faith, the greatest desire for the sacrament of confession and the strongest financial support of the other 3 parishes supported by the Oratory, he has changed his perspective. I find him to be a holy priest. He has been very helpful to me with my family struggles. And I have his ear. At the homily today, distracted, I was thinking how to navigate my desire to pray as recommended, his potential desire once he knows, offset by his obligations to the Bishop. I will watch the link and let you know. Thank you again. May God bless you and keep you close to Him.
I like to know when this prayer is said in the mass. Do they still say this prayer in the NO? When do they say it in the NO?
Hello Father. Could you please respond!!!
I listen to a lot of your videos and I think you’re an amazing priest.
My question is:
I hear people saying everything bad about the war is coming from Hamas and that Israel is doing there best to find all the terrorists and not kill any civilians. Can you point me to some sources to show what is really happening.
Thanks.
I will keep you in my prayers.
Viva Cristo Rey!
I'll say something about sources for news / information after saying something on the specific claim that some people make that Israel is doing their best to find terrorists and to avoid killing civilians. Since Oct 7th there have been more than 25,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza. Very approximately, one third are men, one third are women and one third are children. This reflects (approximately) the demographic distribution of Palestine. Apart from the tragic high number of casualties, the distribution indicates that the Israeli forces are making little effort to target terrorists, but are indiscriminately bombing in rage or calculated ethnic cleansing. You only have to look at images of Gaza where whole neighbourhoods are flattened, or else to consider the huge size of munitions being used, to realise that it is patently false to claim Israel is using proportional or discriminating force. If you find a 'news' source saying this, you know they are dishonest or extremely misled.
As for me, I listen to Catholics, Orthodox, Muslims, Jews and atheists / secularists on this question and related ones. It is in the spread of voices that we can hope to get a picture of what is happening. But more importantly, it is to check the 'message' against the Gospel, and the whole Bible. These are central truths. History follows the pattern which the Scriptures show to us (I don't mean a secret pattern). So the better we know the Scriptures, and if we have a solid knowledge of Church history, then we are not so easily misled by the current propaganda. We always have to be alert, because we can be misled or make bad or rash judgements.
I don't think it will help for me to name a few 'sources' here, because they will be unrepresentative. I sincerely suggest that you make sure you are hearing or reading the Gospels or the other Scriptures every day, and then we are informed by reality, so we can weigh up other things.
I hope this is of some use to you. Sorry I cannot be more helpful.
Maybe I should add, there is no point watching TV if you want to know what is happening. TV is deeply corrupt and brainwashing.
If you have a TV, perhaps talk with your family about switching it off completely for Lent. You will be happier for it after a month. And if you continue leaving it off, after two months you will have forgotten about it (a good time to get rid of it), and if you ever see it again after three months without it, you will find it absurd and boring, even repulsive, not having any interest in it. It is used by the powerful to control our thinking. Best not to have one.
And if we are not reading the Scriptures regularly, there is little point watching / listening / reading any news.
@Fr JM I haven’t paid for any television subscriptions for 4 years. I’m struggling with not watching this platform for lent, not wanting to miss any of your presentations that are spiritually enriching. Any suggestions, besides giving up the palate cleansing puppy rescue videos? We are living in a real world horror story with the needle poisonings dep0puIating the planet. What is occurring globally would give HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe night terrors. Deo Gratias
Do they genuflect in the Novus Ordo Good Friday?
They do.
I think it depends on the parish. In some places they might genuflect for all the Great Intercessions, in other places for none of them. (It would be good to hear from people who have experience of either, because it has been 15 years since I was at a novus.) The traditional manner is to genuflect between the bidding and the collect of all the Great Intercessions except the one for the Jews.
We kneel between each intercession. (N.O. parish)
Pater Mawdsley, is there a discount if you buy all five books?
God bless.
Agustin D.
There is no discount as they are sold individually through Amazon or Lulu (or other platforms). If anyone is struggling with the cost, there are 5 free chapters from each book uploaded onto Spotify / Apple Podcasts, with the link about halfway down in the video description. Hope this helps.
Sorry Father, I do not see the links of which you spoke, no poll/vote; no description of Fatima Center speech.
Thank you. Should be fixed now, but let me know if you do not see them.
I voted, thank you. Please cover the topic which you mentioned in the past, about the location known as “the gates of hell” where Jesus spoke to St. Peter. I’m interested in the deeper meaning, analogy and nuance of these biblical events.
@@dr.julia-heyakarcic8862 I am not sure what this refers to, but it might be in the First Letter of St Peter, wherein he writes "In which also coming He preached to those spirits that were in prison" (1 Pet 3:19). If you read the verses before and after this, you will see that it comes after the death of Jesus, addressing those who died beforehand. So a safe interpretation is that this means Jesus went to the limbo of the fathers to proclaim the Gospel to the souls detained by death before His coming. This is their "prison". Some say this means just the souls destined for Heaven. Or we can think of Him showing the Gospel (Himself) to all the dead, and those who had rejected God in their lifetime, living in unbelief, had the reason for their condemnation shown thereby, and these are all stuck in hell forever. Meanwhile, those who had believed God's Promises (like Abel and Henoch and Abraham and Job and Moses and David), or else had followed the natural law and sought to please God, were set free (i.e. came to Heaven).
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM thank you Fr. i will read this which you suggest. Is there not a geographic region in the Holy Land built above a well which was known as “the gates of hell” where in one of the gospels The Lord instructs St. Peter; “you are the rock upon which i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”.?
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM thank you Fr. i will read this which you suggest. Is there not a geographic region in the Holy Land built above a well which was known as “the gates of hell” where in one of the gospels The Lord instructs St. Peter; “you are the rock upon which i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”.?
Is the Pius V missal on an app?
I’m so confused.
But don’t Bishops have the authority to decide liturgical gestures and body positions?
Bishops have been telling the faithful not to kneel for the Canon of the Mass. They want them to stand. Clearly this is profoundly wrong and not to be followed. Since the 1950s-60s, many of us have been brought up with the wrong ideas about the balance between the force of immemorial custom and the positivist decrees and instructions from then hierarchy.
Although it is only part of the matter, you know there are no rubrics at all which dictate the posture of the faithful during the traditional Mass. It was all a matter of custom. And it worked! Of course the bishops have a vital role in governing the liturgy, and they have authority in so far as authority goes, but they cannot instruct us to do what is irreverent or theologically misleading, especially where that contradicts custom.
Blessed Septuagesima!
Let me get this straight. You are teaching me that this verse, Gen. 3:15, which by both ancient Hebrews, Jews and Christians has always been believed to be the first announcement of the "promised seed, is actually announcing that a woman will fulfill this promise in act, having received the power of God to do it. Now, Hebrews 3:15 clearly tells us: "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;" This "destroying of him who has the power of death, the devil" is the meaning of the phrase in Gen. 3:15, "crushing the head of Satan," obviously. If you crush the head (the seat of intellect) of a purely intellectual being (which all angels including Satan are) you have destroyed him. But you say that Christ stands back and empowers Mary to do the actual crushing of Satan's head. So why did He come if He would have some human being do it for Him? This is not Catholic! The very essence of Catholicism is that we are saved by the Cross of Jesus Christ. We do not participate in our salvation except by our free reception of it through Grace and by our obedience in Grace. The Catholic Church has always taught that the Sacrifice of Christ is complete. It is He that saves us, and it is He that saves Mary. (Mary herself calls God her savior in the Magnificat.) Even if Mary were immaculate so that she would herself never die (which the Church has never claimed), her exemption from death would not exempt anyone but herself. What is this desire I see in Catholics to duplicate the, the acts and the purity of Christ in another completely human person? It is not enough that God is perfect, but some have to satisfy themselves in a perfect human being. In everything they attempt to make Mary the double of Christ; she is made our Mediator, she is made the Dispenser to us of God's grace in place of the indwelling Holy Spirit, she is Immaculate as God is, she is made co-Redeemer, she it is who comforts us even though Christ Himself told us our comforter was the Holy Spirit He would send us. As Christ our God is King, she is Queen and she it is that, by am ambiguity, can be believed to crush the head of Satan. But the Catholic Church teaches us (as does Sacred Scripture) that God is a jealous God and punishes those who attribute His works to fictions and idols. The goodness of man, no matter how good, has no proportion to the infinite goodness of God. No comparison can be made, even though we are created in His image. Romans 10:6 : Say not in thine heart, "Who will ascend into heaven, that is to to bring Christ down from above." Yet many Catholics expect this of Mary, that she only can lead them to Christ. So near to the end of time God tells us He will send Fire upon the earth. What is spiritual Fire? Is it not that which is able spiritually to consume? But what can consume the spiritual works of the Devil, which are lies, if not the contradiction of the Truth. Truth consumes the lie. Then fire is the contradiction of the Lie by the Truth. The Church must clean her house. She must dissolve every contradiction that has become attached to her. Who will do this? If the contradictions are there, all the posturing of a perfect Church is useless. We stand against our pope because he contradicts the Truth of Christ. But to believe Francis is the only liar who has ever been pope is to ignore the history of the Church. We have a huge job to do, and the time is very short. St. Peter has warned us that the Judgment will begin at the Church.
You are very confused. There is so much wrong in this comment. I'll list a few points. But would you be willing to answer what someone else asked you under another of your comments to this video: "Would you be Andrew M. Harmon Senior Associate Rector - St. James Episcopal Church in Louisiana, U.S. with PhD in Historical Theology by any chance?"
If you are an Episcopalian, that explains why you are so confused. There are some Anglicans who like to call themselves "Catholic". But if you are a Roman Catholic, then please confirm this.
The "Seed" promised in Gen 3:15 is obviously Jesus Christ.
The multi-valence of "he" - "she" indicates that Jesus living in Mary will crush satan's head. (He does live in her. I hope you are not confused about that.) There is no Catholic in the world who believes that Mary is God, so I don't know why you are confused about that. Whereas Our Lady did overcome satan throughout her life by never sinning, and most fully on Calvary, the reference to the serpent's head we can take as signifying the Antichrist -- that is the 'head' of satan's 'members' (although we do not suggest satan has a body, not even mystical). This will be achieved in the last generation, with many suggesting, rightly I am sure, by souls devoted to and consecrated to our Blessed Mother.
Your inexactitude is causing you problems. Christ is not "standing back", as you falsely say I said. But He lives in us who are baptised and in a state of grace (as does the Holy Trinity). And He lives most intensely in Mary, His Mother. So, yes, by her Immaculate Conception and by all the choices of her will, Our Lady is given grace by God such that she never, ever sinned. Total victory over satan. God is pleased to give victories to His creatures, for it is nothing for Him to overcome satan by His own omnipotent power. Rather, by His Incarnation Jesus, in His Sacred Humanity, overcame satan and death. And Our Lady shares in this like no other, also having a total victory over satan and, I believe, the Antichrist. This is a total humiliation for satan (read the OT about men being defeated by a woman).
Your question about why Christ came is strange. Jesus is our sole Redeemer. He alone, being True God and True Man, has the power to redeem souls. And He chose His Mother Mary to participate in this work in a way analogous to God giving Eve to Adam as a helpmate. Please do not argue here about it but read the Fathers (e.g. St Irenaeus).
The Church has never taught otherwise than that Christ by the power of His Cross redeemed Mary. But for her He did it differently than for the rest of us. For her it was prevenient: she received these graces in her Immaculate Conception (yes, even before the Crucifixion happened; I hope that does not cause you difficulties).
To be honest, I don't know what the point is of continuing. We Catholics do not say that we are saved by Mary without Christ, but that Mary has a role in the redemption of all God's children. Our Lady participated perfectly on Calvary and therefore she is present and active at every Holy Mass, which continues the work of our redemption (I hope you are not confused by that too). Our Lady is not Co-Redeemer but she is Co-Redemptrix. The suffix is significant. The Woman participates in the work of the New Adam as suitable / perfect helper. Why do you protest God giving this role to her? He chose her for His own Mother and chose her to be spiritual Mother to all His children.
It is nonsense what your write about Mary being a duplicate of Christ or replacing the Holy Ghost. Christ is the promised Messiah and He is God. The Holy Ghost is God. Mary is not God. No Catholic says otherwise, so I don't know why you bring these imaginings up on this channel. Mary is Immaculate. Without sin. Do you dispute that? If so, there is your problem. You do not know Catholic teaching. Or else you reject it, in which case you are a heretic (or an Episcopalian). How does the Holy Ghost being the Comforter exclude Mary from comforting us? What a weird notion. Can you not be comforted by more than one person?
Why do you suggest Catholics commit idolatry in venerating Mary? How absurd. Why if you want to rail against us showing honour to Mary do you choose to do it here? I cannot think what the relevance or connection or stimulus for you is. No one here makes an idol of Mary. Why do you make the insinuation? If you do not like Mary being honoured above all other creatures then (somehow) you have not understood her privileges and her sacrifices. But do not accuse Catholics of idolatry.
The Catholic Church teaches that Mary is the greatest of all creatures, but that compared to God she is infinitesimal, indeed less, as compared to God all creation is as zero. What is your problem? It remains that in relation to the rest of Creation Mary reigns above it as Queen of Heaven & Earth. What is your problem with that? The Mother of the King is the Queen. Surely you know that.
You are confused in suggesting "only Mary can lead us to Christ". The truth is that many, many people, on earth and in Heaven, can lead us to Christ. But none will be led to Him without Mary.
If you are Catholic you will know that the Church is the one and only Bride of Christ. She is divinely constituted. She is indefectible. Not all the sins of any number of popes takes away from that. If you have set your sights to attack the constitution of the Church or the privileges and prerogatives of the Blessed Virgin Mary then you will fail completely. Be Catholic instead.
What a waste of time this back and forth is. I think you have some agenda which you are not declaring, all the while trying to pass yourself off as a concerned Catholic. No Catholic speaks as you do about Mary.
I think you owe me an apology. You accuse me of lying about being Catholic. You accuse me of great confusion, and of being an Episcopalian. You have made several disparaging statements about my intelligence, falsely accusing me of claiming Catholics believe Mary is God, insisting that I personally have a (non-specified) problem, making obvious statements and then declaring your reticence to believe I can understand them. You charge me with an undisclosed personal agenda, and deny that I can be Catholic and speak the way I do. Heavy insults for a conversation in which we are discussing objective subjects. But I am Catholic and all I have learned about the Catholic veneration of Mary I have learned from Priests like you. All I have learned of its practice I have learned from my Catholic friends, my own participation in innumerable rosaries, etc., the Consecration to Mary of Louis De Montfort that we at my SSPX parish were all required to recite at the end of Mass, and my great efforts in trying to understand what I have been taught about Mary and to bring it into sync with the Sacred Scriptures by which out Lord tells us we shall be judged. If you do not believe some Catholics worship Mary by ascribing to her powers that belong to God alone, you are not so familiar with the Catholic laity as I am. Why are you so surprised that all these divine attributes attributed to Mary like Co-Redemptrix, Dispenser of All Grace, and Spouse of the Holy Spirit may not confuse some poorly educated Catholics into grave errors concerning the salvic acts of Mary. You say I am confused. Then who confused me? I certainly learned none of this from the Bible. Christ does not teach any of this, but teaches Himself only as our Savior and Mediator. The Apostles say nothing of it. Even St. John never suggested that Mary was his mediatrix and should be ours. You could only give me Gen.3:15 as a definite statement about Mary's supernatural power, and I have labored to show the logical and grammatical error in this, which I think you have partly seen. As to your specific request, I did reply to the person who asked me if I was Andrew Harmon of Louisiana, who is an Episcopal Priest and has a PHD in Theology. The answer is no. But I am partly a swaged from your other insults by your thinking my capacity worthy of a PHD. @@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM
I apologise to you for asking if you are Episcopalian and suspecting that you were. I can see why that would cut deeply.
Meanwhile, you actually accuse popes of being "liars" (and you complain that I suspect your honesty, though I never called you a liar), and this in regard to Marian teaching. You could settle a great deal of your confusion if, as I have said 3 times now, you would read "Ineffabilis Deus", Pope Pius IX's infallible encyclical which will explain to you in what sense Our Lady crushes satan's head. That is Catholic teaching. It is not too long for you to read, given how long our ridiculous comments to each other have become!
You say you have participated in St Louis Marie de Montfort's Total Consecration to Mary. Then you should know what he says about exaggerated claims about Mary. He himself said, as I wrote in another comment, that compared to God, Our Lady is infinitesimally small.
You seem to be concerned about "poorly educated Catholics", but these are not the problem. The children of Fatima are not the problem. It is the mighty of this world and the educated and even those high up the hierarchy who do not trust Our Lady (for example to do what she asked at Fatima).
Btw, you have not shown me any grammatical error in Gen 3:15. The Bible does indeed show Mary's unique privileges and prerogatives (read "Crushing satan's head" if you can be bothered).
If you will read "Ineffabilis Deus", then perhaps our exchange can be fruitful. But if you will not read that, or if you still argue against it, then we are wasting our time.
Our Lady Help of Christians, pray for us.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJMI think that you’re very generous including with your time, Fr. Mawdsley.
I didn’t like saying “crucify Him”, but I have taken it as me admitting that I kill Jesus by sinning. Please pray for me. -Jorge
💚 Pray, for Anti-Pope Francis.
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The TRAGEDY of francis and his associates continues !! GOD, SAVE YOUR CHURCH !!!
If you want to restore the Apostolic faith to Catholics, you must dismantle the edifice of the worship of Mary. You may not be, but most of the Catholic laity are consecrated to Mary and believe she is to be placed between themselves and God as intercessor and dispenser of all Grace. This is a usurpation of the acts of the Holy Spirit. For all the reasons the Catholic Church has fallen into Apostasy, this is the reason it is unable to recover. Why should God answer prayers that are not addressed to Him. What is further from the Apostolic Faith than this preoccupation and for all practical purposes, worship of Mary, in place of Christ. Now you will say she is not in place of Christ. But do you see into the hearts of the Catholic laity who pray rosaries daily and believe themselves more pleasing to God by Mary's mediation than if they addressed God themselves. This was never taught either by Christ or the Apostles. It is a gnostic tradition that has seated itself in Catholicism and at length taken over the prayer life of the erstwhile faithful and become the focus of their love of the divine and their gratitude. You priests are totally responsible for this!!!!!!!!!
Looking forward to @Fr JM response to this erroneous understanding.
No, heretic.
Oh dear. You chat away like you have an idea about what you are talking about, but I think you do both Catholicism and Gnosticism a disservice. We do not worship The Blessed Virgin Mary; we honour her, and see her as our blessed mother in heaven. Not innately divine, but blessed above all humanity. Praying the rosary is not simply asking Our Lady for favours, but meditating upon the life of Christ Jesus.
Jesus loved his mother dearly while He was on earth, and still does, as do we devoted Catholics. He loves to see her loved and revered. She presents our prayers to Him and how can He refuse his dear, beloved Mother? You, sir, have it entirely wrong. I will pray for your enlightenment on the doctrine of Mary.
@karencox3235 In addition to that, how does this individual presume to know the hearts and minds of prayerful Catholics??? Does he actually believe that The Lord did not hear our prayers first?
Funny how outsiders know the catholic faith better than an actual, faithful Catholic.