Category Archives: Church Teachings

Feeneyites support Jansenist Heresy, “no grace is given outside the Church.”

by Joseph Saraceno
L FeeneyFather Leonard Feeney 
Actual Grace is needed for conversions

God will not force His grace upon anyone. He insists that every person accept His ordinary channels of grace: the sacraments, sacramental s, people, circumstances, events, things. When a man does not believe in God’s power to use anything or anybody as His instrument, God gives His grace to other men who do so believe. To disbelieve, and to reject God’s way and time for answered prayer, is to be like the Nazarene s who rejected Christ. (1) Continue reading →

The Conduct of Priests & Prophets Deuteronomy 18:9

by Joseph Saraceno

jesus_demons[9] When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations. [10] Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard, Continue reading →

Limbo: Is any place between Heaven and Hell.

by Joseph Saraceno
The limbo of the Fathers. A place 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. and I Peter iii, 18-20.
It is of faith that all, children and adults, who leave this world without the Baptism of water, blood or desire (qq.v.) and therefore in original sin are excluded from the vision of God in Heaven. Paradise was eliminated once Heaven was opened.Purgatory will eventually come to and end as well. Continue reading →

Public (Divine ) Revelation’s of the Church, briefly:

by Joseph Saraceno
Public revelation is contained either in the Bible or in the deposit of Apostolic tradition. After the death of the last Apostle there could be no addition to public revelation. Both fonts of public Revelation, Scripture and tradition, have been given to the Church : only the Church can authentically interpret the Bible: only the Church can authoritatively declare the context of the Apostolic tradition. Any thing of Faith is Old not new.  Catholic Encyclopedia. 1949. Continue reading →

Christian’s lack Exercise

by Joseph Saraceno
Christian's lack ExerciseOne might question my title on what exercise has to do with being a Christian. Like the body, the mind and soul needs spiritual exercise in order to stay in shape to meet the challengers we are confronted with on a daily basis. Christians need to focus on the fact that we are not just Christians but were supposed to be Christian Soldiers. One can easily observe the high rate of obesity in society today, but not noticeable when it effects the mind and the soul. Continue reading →

The Demise of the Apostles’ Creed

by Joseph Saraceno
apostles creedJust about the only time the Apostle’s Creed is said today is when and if one recites the Rosary or at a Baptism and possibly at ordination. However since the ordination rite has been changed, I wonder if it’s being said at the ordinations anymore? At the Baptismal ceremony only parts of the creed  is recited by the God parents during the renewal of Baptismal Promises.  Continue reading →

The Origins of the Roman Rite and its Liturgical Books

by Joseph Saraceno
It was always my belief that St. Jerome had a role in developing the Missal for the Mass. Joseph
By about the middle of the 4th century there were certainly some liturgical books, How long before that anything was written one cannot say. The first part of the liturgy to have been written appears to have been the Diptychs. The word Diptych is derived from the Greek for twice­folded. Continue reading →

St. John the Baptist, Last of the Major Prophets, Vigil June 23

by Joseph Saraceno

st. john the baptistThe important feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist is preceded by a vigil. An Angel announced to the saint’s father Zachary, a priest of the house of Aaron, that the child should be called John  and that many would rejoice in his birth. God had chosen John to be the Herald of mankind’s Redeemer, the Morning Star to usher in the Daylight of Justice and of  Truth. Continue reading →

The Great Apostasy in DVD now available

by Joseph Saraceno

cover002Dear Friends of the Faith:

My booklet “The Great Apostasy” came from my first and only PUBLIC lecture that I gave in November 6, 1999 where the principle speaker was Father Gregorius Hesse. (RIP) and because a priest and two Ladies were sitting about ten rows from my speakers stand continued talking while I was speaking I had to stop and say, “Father, I was quite when you were speaking, I expect you to be quite while I’m speaking.” Continue reading →

Baptism of Desire & Blood is De Fide Taught by the Church Before the V-2 Council

by Joseph Saraceno

dismas-good-thiefTo whom it may concern:

Baptism of desire generally means, one who has the desire to know and love God but he doesn’t know who he is. This means that God has already given him this Grace in the first place as one can not obtain it himself.

This comes from Christ, the Apostles (Acts 17:23 To the Unknown God,) and has been always taught by the Universal Church, as I point out in the article below. This in it self makes it De fide, and is Ex Cathedra because it is to be held by the whole Church and therefore carries INFALLIBILITY. Continue reading →