I love to listen to talks by the American Priest/ Exorcist and Trad (who is very famous now) Father Ripperger. There are many reasons to respect the good Father and learn from him. Firstly he is a very experienced Exorcist . Which means he is like a Green Beret of the clergy in the very front line against Satan which to me would imply that he is very holy indeed and very open to belief in the supernatural and praeternautral which is so rare these days. He has degrees and higher degrees like you wouldn't believe. He would put any Jesuit to shame with his immense learning and reading. He is Trad and hyper orthodox. He is a relaxed and entertaining speaker with a very good sense of humour. He loves to tell tales from his own immense personal experiences which I love. Anyhow in this talk he was telling about the Oath against Modernism instituted by Pope St Pius x:
At the end of his talk there was a very good question and answer session in which someone asked him about how far the Modernist heresy had spread in the Church and I found the Father's answers alarming. According to Father Chad Modernism is pretty well everywhere and we're all hit with it to some extent including nearly all the Modern Popes. It reminds me of going into your house and finding damp everywhere. How could any Pope or Bishop combat something so widespread? It seems so extensive. But the next thing I listened to was was a film on the life of Saint Andre Bisset , the Montreal recent lay brother, such a gentle , saintly and humble servant of St Joseph. I have watched this film several times, a great favourite and good for prayer.
It seems to me there was a huge contrast between what Fr Ripperger was saying and how Father Andre was living which illustrated two great strands in the Church, that of the head, of the intellect and that of the heart, of the mystical and supernatural. I am not saying one is better than the other , we need to use both the head and the heart. But it seems to me that what Fr Chad was saying about heresy being everywhere needs a mystical remedy and that this is one that Our Lady has already given us. The Rosary. Our Lady has encouraged people to say the rosary over and over again. It never occurred to me before but this must be because the rosary is the best remedy of all against heresy. It will instantly give us total vaccination against it. It will kill it in our hearts...and in the hearts of others.
Our Lady is a bulwark against heresy. I am making it my life's mission to get to know her more every day to find out one new thing every day about our Lady. And I am astonished at the graces I am receiving. More recently the grace of joy when I reflect on her beauty. She is even interested in little old me. I am convinced her Rosary is the answer -
In fact I feel called to be a (little) apostle of our Lady and to make her more known and understood.
Here is the key insight that unlocked the door to Marian spirituality for me -- this is my own reflection - In praying the daily Rosary we join the school of Mary and she becomes our teacher. Mary is the Theotokos (God-bearer). She has a unique relationship with God unlike any other human creature. This helps to explain why we need Mary in our lives because she is intimately connected to the Holy Trinity. If we see Mary in the light of the Trinity we see that she is indeed God’s masterpiece, the vessel of God’s grace and our advocate – she is the one who can teach us about God because she knows God better than any human creature who has ever existed. Mary is related to the Holy Trinity in the following manner -- She is the daughter of the Father She is the mother of the Son She is spouse of the Holy Spirit No other creature, man or angel has this unique relationship with the Holy Trinity. Since Mary has a unique relationship with God, it is certain that she has found favour with God and that there is nothing that He will not deny her.
Father Chad said he has a sister whom he says will sometimes comment on what a priest has said during mass and say things like, 'That did not sound right!' He says this is because good prayerful Catholics have a natural sense of what is right and what is wrong (The Sensum Fidelium....the snese of the Faithful). A kind of spiritual sense of Right and Wrong. This of course stems from a good prayer life, especially from the rosary. It was no accident that the Dominicans were such Great Apostles of the Rosary.
It's funny you posted this - as when I came across it here, I'm listening to the good father. An older talk - put up 7 years ago.. 'St. Vincent Ferrer the angel of the apocalypse'. He is indeed a good, holy priest.
St Vincent was known is his day as, '|The Angel of the 'Apocalypse', as he forecast the End of All things if Folks did not mend their ways. It is popularly supposed if it was not for his efforts the blinds would have come down back then. We are a thousand times worse now.
I just feel the Great Tribulation has always been around the corner, only been held back by the holy sacrifice of the mass. I read the gospels recently, the tribulation happens after the abomination of desolation take place in the temple of God. In the Old Temple of God, an abomination took place and the Jews were chastised. The New Temple of God is the Catholic Church, where the mass takes place daily around the world. When you read prophecy in the New Testament much of what it says about Jerusalem also speaks about Rome: city of seven hills, city in which the Lord was crucified (every mass), a bride who thinks she will never know sorrow despite diluting teaching.
I still think the line in the sand was pachamama. That was the abomination in the Holy Place. I just can't read it any other way. Right in the Vatican gardens. Over the bones of St Peter!!!
And at that same time, Our Lady gave an emergency message to Sr. Agnes of Akita to put on sackcloth and pray the penitential Rosary. After that, the pandemic erupted, and the churches were closed. So, yes, I think the line in the sand was the worship of pachamama in the Holy Place.
