Category Archives: Church Teachings

Man’s insatiable need for love

by Joseph Saraceno

Sacred Heart-18Made in the likeness of God, who is love, man has such an insatiable need for love that he is hunted by the desperate fear of not being loved enough. Even the love of God, proved in favors every minute of the day, seems not to be real enough. But that depends largely on how much love for God and men there is in our heart. The more perfect our love for God, the less we will fear and doubt. Actually, so overwhelming is God’s love that we cannot understand it; we have to believe it. As for mankind, the stronger a person’s love for all peoples, the more tolerant will he be, and the more ready to forgive.

(God bless God) In Christ, Joseph

Taken from the first Sunday after Pentecost
Maryknoll Missal 1959

Today is the last day of Easter, Pentecost, Paschal Time, And the general judgment

by Joseph Saraceno

QWEENThe extra lessons in today’s Mass allow for the conferring of one of the four minor orders or one of the three major orders after each lesson.

Bearing in mind, that since today is the last day of the general, testimonial judgment and also the last day of the Pentecostal season, Trinity Sunday, falling on the 31st, would also be Our Lady’s Queen-ship day.
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Jurisdiction:The HIGHEST LAW is the SALVATION of Souls

by Joseph Saraceno

Heaven1SALUS ANIMARUM SUPREMA LEX Quotes on Jurisdiction: ‘Necessity makes licit what is illicit.’ Pope Gregory IX ‘It is true that one sins against the rule who adheres to the letter and leaves aside the spirit’ Pope Boniface XIII ‘The HIGHEST LAW is the SALVATION of Souls’ Pope Pius X Canon 2261.2-3, 1917 Code of Canon Law: “… The Faithful may for any just cause ask The Sacraments or Sacramentals of one who is excommunicated, ESPECIALLY, IF there is no one else to give them (c. 2261.2). Continue reading →

The Limbo of the Fathers also called Paradise and the Opening of Heaven

by Joseph Saraceno

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A place and state of rest wherein the souls of the just who died before CHRIST’S ASCENSION were detained until he opened HEAVEN to them; referred to as “Abraham’s bosom.” (Luke xvi,22) and “Paradise” (Luke xxiii, 43) and notably in Eph. IV: 9  1 Peter III: 18-20.
Council of Trent Catechism Article VII-V pg.79
A Catholic Dictionary  D. Attwater  1931-1949 Limbo pg.292

 

Pentecost Sunday & Easter Sunday have the same Rank

by Joseph Saraceno
Thursday Evening, Holy Thursday, Maunday ThursdayPentecost Sunday and Easter Sunday are of the same Rank but most Catholics and the Fathers don’t treat them equally.
We are now in the original Easter Season. Pentecost Sunday is the last SUNDAY of the Easter Season (Pasch).  Catholics are getting more like protestants. After resurrection Sunday, it’s all over. The day that Heaven gets opened is Ascension Thursday, Mostly forgotten. Pentecost Sunday is an equal Rank with Resurrection Sunday and unless family’s are involved with confirmation, that to is mostly forgotten.

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All Catholics have to accept, per pain of MORTAL SIN, the deposit of Faith

by Joseph Saraceno
DEPOSITAll Catholics have to accept, per pain of MORTAL SIN,  the deposit of Faith. The deposit of faith consists of,  the BIBLE, the Hierarchy, (Pope & Councils)  and Tradition, (customs). The church is the sole interpreter of the Bible.
All revelation ended with the last book of the Apocalypse and is contained in the Traditions of the Church. Anything of faith is old not new.

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Week of the Creation ~ Happy Birthday World, Adam and Good Friday

by Joseph Saraceno
adam_birthday4Around March 21st  would be the week of the creation by the solar calender but God went by the Spring Full Moon so this year the creation week starts on March 29th. So Adam’s birth or his creation day would fall on Good Friday April 3.  Ex:12. The reading  on Good Friday,  Holy Saturday Gen: 1.
 
How ironic that our Lord would die on the day He created Adam. Some say that they were both buried in the same area but I can’t vouch for that.

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Pope Leo XIII “Unity of the Church” “it is as wrong to divide the Church as to fall into heresy”

by Joseph Saraceno
LEODear friends of the faith:
In as much as there are different opinions among traditionalists on the status of the church today. It is safe to say that after 45 years no agreements are going to be reached among the Fathers before the coming of of the Lord. We must and should understand that.
“……it is as wrong to divide the Church as to fall into heresy”

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God will transform your whole being into readiness for Heaven

by Joseph Saraceno
heavServe Christ in the unlovable, in the least of men. Center your life in Charity, joy, prayer, and gratitude to God. Through these virtues God will transform your whole being into readiness for Heaven..
I Thess: 5:14-23
And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men.  See that none render evil for evil to any man; but ever follow that which is good towards each other, and towards all men.
The unquiet: That is, such as are irregular and disorderly.
Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing.  In all things give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you all.  Extinguish not the spirit.  Despise not prophecies.
But prove all things; hold fast that which is good.  From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves. And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things; that your whole spirit, and soul, and body, may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.On that last week of Pentecost.
In Christ, Joseph

Baptism of Desire and Blood

by Joseph Saraceno
st. dismusThis website has now been updated. There has been NO comments saying that it is wrong. Not even the Dimond brothers. This is one of the best.
The Sacrament of Baptism, which was instituted by Our Lord Jesus Christ, imprints a “character” on the soul, admitting the recipient to membership in the Catholic Church. The matter of Baptism is natural water poured over the head of the person to be baptized. Throughout the history of the Catholic Church it has been unanimously taught that both Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood, while not Sacraments in themselves, can supply the grace of the Sacrament, when Baptism of Water becomes a physical or moral impossibility. MORE

The purpose and meaning of the General Judgment and the Great Chastisement

by Joseph Saraceno
general judgmentFaith is the subjective pre-condition for the communication of eternal life, and for the preservation from damnation at the judgment.
In so much as the need to be prepared for our personal judgment, many  of the enemies of the faith will not make it past the Great Biblical Chastisement. Those who survive need to focus on the fact that Purgatory will not be available for us. This is what the Church teaches.

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The Church Does Not Teach, “No One Knows When the End Will Come”

by Joseph Saraceno

ENDPope St. Gregory I, also known as “the Great”, made it very clear that we are not  to say Jesus Christ did not know when the end of the world would come.  In the Pope’s Epistle, “Sicut agua frigida”, he writes: “ It is written: In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…All things were made by him (John 1:13 ). Continue reading →

A highly recommended suggestion for Lent

by Joseph Saraceno
A good way to get the feel and have your hand on our Lord’s pulse would be to read the Readings and Gospel for each day in lent if daily Mass is not available.Most of the main events that take place in Scriptures take place, from Lent to Pentecost Sunday, Creation of the World, Adam & Eve, The Passover, Ten Commandments, The Flood? The Annunciation, The Crucifixion, Resuurection, Opening of Heaven on Ascension Thursday, The Birthday of the Church & Christ’s Return on Pentecost Sunday. And I might add so should the Great Chastisement which precedes the Second Coming of Christ.

Grace be with you, In Christ, Joseph