Beware of False Priests

Not long ago I posted that there had been a somewhat unspecified threat against the local Carmel here in my neck of the woods. I also mentioned that the diocese had issued a warning to all the parishes here about a this same threat.

Well, it seems the local branches of the MSM have picked up on the story.

“Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Warns of ‘Father Martin’, a Fake Priest Stealing from Churches”

There is more to the story that KHOU did not report. For instance, this “Father Martin” has used, on at least one occasion, the line that he was “sent from Rome to take a census of Mass attendance on Sundays”. Whoever this guy is, he’s bad news. He certainly seems to know enough of the lingo to worm his way into private areas of rectories. He was previously seen in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Say a prayer that the police catch this guy.

And as always, STAY CONFESSED.

Our Lady, Queen of Peace, pray for us!

She was Waiting for Me

I just got home after a week away for a family wedding. Look who was in my mailbox…

New novena starts on Wednesday. Send your intentions and I will add them.

Contemplating the Four Last Things

Lay Papal Electors? LOLZ

The Remnant is reporting this.

And who would be these pay electors? Whoopi Goldberg? Bono? I’d expect nothing less from the fabulously tacky, stuck-in-the-70’s antipope.

St. Louis Catholic has it right, friends. If the right folks don’t step up soon, it won’t really matter.

As Frank says, “Pray for the Church.”

Memento Mori

For your edification/meditation:

Pray for the dead!

Stay confessed and do penance in this life!

And if this image of a TLM requiem Mass doesn’t move you to those sentiments, there may not be anything that can.

Well That Was Different

I went to my niece’s wedding this afternoon.

Byzantine.

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, Passaic, NJ

Prayers for the new family, please.

The Dead

I am currently traveling. My family and I arrived in the Fatherland yesterday (New Jersey) for the wedding of one of my nieces. It was All Saints Day. The rest of the gang made it to the early Mass at home before our flight. Yours truly still had some packing to do and so I went to a sung Mass at the ICK oratory I usually attend when I am home. It was, as it always is, magnificent. Laudetur Jesus Christus!

Which brings us to today. November 2nd. All Souls Day.

As I am “back home” for the next few days, I will have the opportunity not only to attend Masses for the dead but to visit the old family plot at the cemetery.

There isn’t much more I can add to this other than the exhortation to pray always for the souls in purgatory. In God’s infinite Mercy you and I may be among them one day.

Offer prayers, sufferings, and good works for the souls of the faithful departed this month and always.

Here is a link to a set of daily prayers for the dead that I use. But even the simply “Eternal rest grant unto them” prayer we were all taught growing up is perfectly acceptable. Make the sign of the cross when you pass a cemetery. Pray for them!

Crucifixion Window, St. Mary’s, Fort Worth, TX