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Sunday, April 16, 2023

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: The True Renewal — or a Mere Memorial?

 


     Does Jesus Christ come to Mass? Not only does Our Lord come to Mass — He IS the Mass. The Catholic Church teaches that the Mass is the unbloody Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. It is "unbloody" in that Christ, "having died once, dieth now no more." Yet the Priest offering and the Victim offered are the same Christ, both on the Cross and on the Altar. And the purpose of the Sacrifice is also exactly the same: the redemption from sin. Mankind could always offer to God sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving and supplication. Only the Divine Redeemer could offer a sacrifice to obtain for us the forgiveness of our sins. Thus, to be the same Sacrifice as that of Christ on the Cross, the Mass must also be the sacrifice of reparation. If it is not the propitiatory sacrifice of reparation, it is not Mass!

The prayers of the Offertory — one of the three essential parts of the Mass — state the purpose (i.e. the "ends") of the sacrifice being offered. The significance of the Catholic doctrine of propitiation for sin is made clear in the Offertory prayers of the traditional Mass:

At the offering of the "host" — meaning sacrificial victim: "Accept, O holy Father, almighty and eternal God, this spotless host, which I, Thy unworthy servant, offer unto Thee, my living and true God, for my innumerable sins, offenses and negligences, and for all here present: as also for all faithful Christians, both living and dead, that it may avail both me and them for salvation unto life everlasting. Amen."

At the offering of the chalice: "We offer unto Thee, O Lord, the chalice of salvation, beseeching Thy clemency, that it may ascend before Thy divine Majesty, as a sweet savor, for our salvation, and for that of the whole world. Amen."

In the Offertory prayers of the true Mass, the nature of the Mass as the Sacrifice of reparation is made absolutely clear, both in the plea for forgiveness for "sins, offenses and negligences" at the offering of the host, and the plea for clemency — mercy — at the offering of the chalice. The offertory in the new order liturgy of Paul VI deletes this essential propitiatory character of the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross:

The new prayer for offering bread: Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. Through your goodness we have this bread to offer, which earth has given and human hands have made. It will become for us the bread of life. Blessed be God forever!

The new prayer for offering wine: Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. Through your goodness we have this wine to offer, fruit of the vine and work of human hands. It will become our spiritual drink. Blessed be God forever!

This transformation of the Catholic prayers of the Offertory of the Mass is not merely a change. It is rather an exchange of the Catholic prayers for what are purported to be prayers adapted from a Jewish Passover celebration. The significance of this substitution is made clear by the Council of Trent, which decreed: "If anyone saith that the Sacrifice of the Mass is only a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, or that it is a bare commemoration of the Sacrifice consummated on the Cross, but not a propitiatory sacrifice...let him be anathema." (Session XXII, Canon 3)

First Sunday After Easter

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

Why is this Sunday called Dominica in Albis or White Sunday?

Because on this day the neophytes laid aside the white dress which, as emblem of their innocence, they received on Holy Saturday, and put on their necks an Agnus Dei, made of white wax, and blessed by the pope, to remind them always of the innocence for which they were given, and of the meekness of the Lamb Jesus. For which reason the Church sings at the Introit:

INTROIT As newborn babes, alleluia: desire the rational milk without guile. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. (I Pet II. 2.) Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob. (Ps. LXXX.) Glory, &c.

COLLECT Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we, who have completed the paschal solemnities may, through Thy merciful bounty, ever retain them in our life and conversation. Through.

EPISTLE (I John V. 4-100.) Dearly Beloved, Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the spirit which testifieth that Christ is the truth. And there are three who give testimony in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that give testi­mony on earth: the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three are one. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater: for this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth in the Son of God, hath the testimony of God in himself.

INSTRUCTION As in his gospel, so in his epistles, and especially in this, St. John proves the divinity of Christ which had been denied by some heretics. He says that Christ had come to purify all men from sin by water and blood, that is, by. His blood shed on the cross for our rec­onciliation, and by the water of baptism to which He has given the power, the divine effect of His blood, and has thus proved Himself the divine Redeemer. This His divine dignity is attested by the Holy Ghost who lived in Christ and worked through Him with His fulness, and when sent by Him after our Lord's Ascension, produced most won­derful effect in the apostles and the faithful. As now on earth three, the Spirit, water, and blood, give testimony of Christ's divinity and agree in it, so also in heaven three, the Father, who calls Him His beloved Son, (Matt, III. 17.) the Word, or the Son Himself, who wrought so many miracles, the Holy Ghost, when He descended upon Him at the baptism in the Jordan, (Luke III. 22.) give testimony of His divinity, and these also agree with one another in their testimony. If Christ is truly God, then we must believe in Him, and this faith must be a living one, that is, it must prove fertile in good works, and this faith conquers the world by teaching us to love God above all, to despise the world with its pleasures, and to overcome it by indif­ference. Let us strive to have such faith, and we shal overcome all temptations and gain the eternal crown.

ASPIRATION O Lord Jesus! strengthen me by a lively faith in Thy divinity, so that I may not suc­cumb in the spiritual combat against the world, the flesh, and the devil, and be eternally lost.

GOSPEL (John XX. 1931.) At that time, When it was late that same day, the first of the week and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and stood in the midst, and said to them: Peace be to you. And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when, they saw the Lord. He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said: Peace be to you. Then he said to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither, and see my hands, and bring hither thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas answered and said to him: My Lord and my God. Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed.* Many other signs also did Jesus in the sight of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, you may have life in his name.

What follows is omitted on the Feast of St. Thomas, 21st of December.

Why does Christ so often wish peace to the apostles?

To show that He only, by His death and resurrection, has made peace between God and man, and that His fol­lowers should be known by their harmony. (John XIII. 35.) There is a threefold peace: peace with God, by avoid­ing sin; peace with ourselves, that is, a good conscience; peace with our neighbor, by the exercise of charity. This threefold peace is necessary for our salvation.

Why did Jesus breathe upon the apostles when giving them the power to forgive sin?

To show that as bodily life was once given to Adam by the breath of God, so should the spiritual life be given henceforth by the apostles and their successors, through the Holy Ghost in the Sacrament of Penance, to the children of Adam who were spiritually dead.

Why did God permit Thomas to doubt the Resurrection of Christ?

That Thomas, as well as we, says St. Gregory, should be strengthened in humble belief in the Resurrection of Christ, and that all doubts should be removed.

Had Thomas true faith when with his own eyes he saw Christ?

Yes, for he saw Christ only in His humanity, and yet testified to His divinity by exclaiming: My Lord and my God!

Is it true, meritorious faith not to be ready to believe before seeing that which is to be believed?

By no means; for faith consists precisely in firmly hold­ing as true that which is not seen. Therefore Christ calls him blessed who has not seen and yet believes.

When is faith true and meritorious?

That is true faith which firmly believes and does all that God has revealed, whether written or unwritten, and when one lives in accordance with that faith; for faith in Jesus simply does not save us, when that which He has commanded is not performed. (Matt VII, 21.; James II. 20.) That faith is meritorious which without doubting and without hesitation willingly submits the understanding to revealed truths which it cannot comprehend, and this for the love of Gods who is eternal truth and cannot deceive.

Whence do we know for certain that God has revealed certain things?

From the Church of Christ which alone preserves the revealed word of God faithfully and uncorrupted, as it is contained in the Bible and in tradition; by the Holy Ghost all truth is given to the Church, and Christ remains with her until the end of the world. (Matt. XXVIII. 20.)

Has the Church of Christ any marks by which it may be known?

Christ's Church has these four marks: it is One, it is Holy, it is Catholic, and it is Apostolic.

How is the, Church one?

The Church is one, because all its members agree in one faith, are all in one communion, and are all under one head. (Matt. XVI, 18.; Eph. IV. 37.)

How is the Church Holy?

The Church is Holy, in her Founder, Jesus Christ, and by teaching a holy doctrine, by inviting all to a holy life, and by the eminent holiness of so many thousands of her children.

How is the Church Catholic?

The Church is Catholic or Universal, because she subsists in all ages, teaches all nations, (Matt. XXVII. 19, 20.) and maintains all truth.

How is the Church Apostolic?

The Church is Apostolic, because she comes down by a perpetual succession from the apostles of Christ, and has her doctrines her orders, and her mission from them.

Which is this true Church?

The Roman Catholic Church, for she alone has these marks. She is One in her head, the Pope of Rome, in her doctrine, and in her Sacraments, which is evident since she excludes all those who do not accept all her dogmas. She is. Holy, for Christ her Founder is holy; and her doctrine and Sacraments lead to holiness, as shown by the multitude of her saints whose sanctity God arms by great miracles. No sect has saints. She is Catholic or Universal, for she has been in existence always from the times of the apostles, as is clearly shown by the fact that from the times of the apostles there have always been some who separated from her and founded sects. The Catholic Church has always existed, and cannot perish or be­come corrupt, since Christ has promised to remain with her to the end of the world; she is also spread over the whole world, is always being announced to all nations, and is fitted for all generations and for all people. She is Apostolic, for she accepts no doctrine which does not come from the apostles, and she can prove that the ministers of the Church, the bishops, have come down in unbroken succession from the apostles.

Can those who remain outside the Catholic Church be, saved?

The Council of Trent (Sess. V. in the Introduction) assigns the Catholic faith as the one without which it is impossible to please God, and the Roman Catechism teaches: (I part. art. 9.) "The Church is also called Catholic or Universal, because all who desire eternal salvation must cling to, and embrace her, like those who entered the ark to escape perishing in the flood." According to this doctrine of the Church, which the holy Fathers affirm, only those idolaters and obstinate heretics are excluded from salvation who knowingly deny the truth, and will not enter the Church. The Catholic Church does not condemn the unbelievers, she prays for them, leaves judgment to the Lord, who alone knows the heart, and knows whether the error is culpable or not, and she calls on all her, members to pray for their enlightenment.

Are we then already saved, if we belong to the true Church?

No, we must also live up to the faith which she teaches make good use of all means of salvation, regard and honor all her regulations and commands, for otherwise the words of Christ will be verified in us: And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: but the children of the kingdom (the true Church) shall be cast out into exterior darkness. (Matt. VIII. 11.)

A Long History of Crime

 By Anna Von Reitz

Information provided to H.E. Cardinal Mamberti and the Vatican Chancery Court in regard to our Claims, March 5th 2005January 19th 2023, in seq:

Both the Roman Civil Law and the Ecclesiastical Law condemn fraud and it is universally held to taint everything that it later touches.  

When we attempt to get to the root of this most recent round of lies, war-mongering, and greed, the trail leads back to King Henry VIII, and a brain child of his Administration, the Enclosure Acts, (originally spelled as "Inclosure"), which started the long trek toward the total destruction of  individual property rights in England --- without any authority to do so. 

Henry VIII and his daughter got caught up in other issues and didn't carry forward with their plan, but King James I, seized upon it with a vengeance. More than 5,200 separate Enclosure Acts were passed in England from 1604 to 1914 and all of them were fraudulent for a number of reasons. 

These Enclosures were land grabs, in which commonly held community land rights were stripped from local Lords and Freemen, and dumped into the ownership of Public Trusts controlled by the Commonwealth, otherwise known as the Territorial Government.    

All the Kings and Queens supporting these actions were acting in fraud themselves. All of them were acting as the Pope's Overseer of Commonwealth Lands, and the Enclosures benefited them in undisclosed ways, increasing their personal wealth and power as more and more land came under their control, and the immovable estates sitting on the land also came under their control, which then gave rise to The Chair of the Estates, yet another undisclosed Royal Office. 

Their gross conflict of interest, like their undisclosed Offices within the Holy Roman Hierarchy, and the methods used to obtain their ends, all served as a template for further fraud and for undermining the public government with their so-called "private government" agendas. 

The parallels between their frauds in England and their frauds in America are exact. 

Henry II becomes "a" King in France, and stands as an equal among the many Kings of England created by The Settlement of the Norman Conquest, but then passes himself off as "The King of England" without a Royal Grant--- a fraud that was the source of his argument with Thomas of Beckett.  Henry II, like his Forebears, is serving as the Pope's Overseer of Commonwealth Lands in England, and getting rich off his share of the tithes, an undisclosed conflict of interest the whole time he is claiming to be King of England.  

We see the same story mirrored by Abraham Lincoln, "a" President of the British Crown Municipal Corporation Subcontractor housed in the District of Columbia, passing himself off as "The President" owed to this country.  
He, too, is a man with an undisclosed conflict of interest, secretly serving as an Officer of the Crown at the same time he passes himself off as serving in an American Public Office --- an office he has been prohibited from occupying for many years prior to his spoof.  

The Perpetrators in England set up a Public Interest Trust scam implemented by the Enclosure Acts, to seize upon the Common Law Lands and the land rights of the local Freemen and Lords, with the result that these assets were placed in trusts controlled by the Commonwealth (also known as the "Territorial" Government) instead.  This secretly serves to increase the wealth and coercive power of the Pope's Overseer of Commonwealth Lands, and gives him or her more collateral that can be borrowed against. This also unlawfully converts the political status of  Freemen owning Freeholds of Common Law Land, into the status of being Tenants of a Commonwealth trust.  

The same basic schtick was employed in America.  The Perpetrators led by Lincoln claimed a "custodial interest" -- that is, a Public Trust Interest, in our land and property and justified it using the chaos created by the Mercenary Conflict they themselves engendered in Breach of Trust on our shores.  Just as with the Enclosure Acts, this merely presumed-to-exist custodial interest allowed the Perpetrators to put American assets into public trusts that were then administered by the Territorial Government -- with the same exact results as the Enclosure Acts in England.  The Perpetrators gained wealth and coercive power and collateral to borrow against, while the free and independent Americans in possession of their land grants and patents were unlawfully converted into Tenants of a Municipal Trust.  

We are here to tell you that we are not Tenants of any Municipal Trust and our land and our property interests are not subject to any custodial relationship with the treasonous Territorial Government represented by the United States of America, Incorporated, a criminal Municipal Corporation housed in the District of Columbia, or housed in any other place, including the present iteration of this corporation that has sought protection and charter in India. 

We publish and declare all these lies and fraud schemes perpetuated in Breach of Trust, so that they and the Legal System that has been used to bear profit from these acts of treason, non-disclosure, and fraud, may all be nullified and removed from our sight.  

Both the British Crown-Operated Municipal Corporation housed in the District of Columbia and the City-Operated Municipal Corporation housed therein, and all their enclaves worldwide, stand forfeit for their crimes against us, their loyal Employers, and against all of Mankind, for at least the last three hundred years.   

The Legal System and the Bar Attorneys and their Bar Associations which have served as the means to create, perpetuate, and enforce these gigantic fraud schemes --- must go, never to return.  Our ancestors called them Merchants of Deceit and our own experience confirms this, as these professionals have been willingly and in many cases knowingly administering and profiting from these crimes against the living people and their national governments. 

We wish for all incorporated franchises of the Bar Associations and their members to be liquidated for the benefit of their victims.  

We wish for the Bar Associations and their teachings and form of law to be uprooted and for their coded language(s) to be outlawed for any purpose whatsoever.  Our official language is English.  Any provider of any service in this country needs to speak English and speak it without double meanings and layers of deceit intended to mislead, defraud, or obfuscate using professional jargon and codes. 

The reform of the Admiralty begun circa 1756 has self-evidently failed, together with all the Municipal Corporations which have failed to be reliable vendors and service providers; the Officers of these Municipal Corporations have often acted as petty despots, parasites, and thugs.  

We wish for the remaining duties of the Admiralty Courts, which have allowed them to entertain fictitious salvage claims and led to the equally fictitious hypothecation of debt against both living people and national governments, to be removed from them. They have grossly abused these empowerments intended to address actual salvage operations at sea for criminal purposes and provided another means to embezzle unjust enrichment from our country via manipulation of tax claims as excise tariffs owed on seaman's wages.  

This obvious fraud, charging hypothecated debt against the wages of non-existent British Merchant Mariners and enforcing this rubbish as an excise on seaman's wages speaks for itself.  

We wish for the forfeiture of all assets associated with the Legal System and the return of all our public property including but not limited to the records, courthouses, jails, prisons, and equipment associated with these operations.

We wish for the release of all non-violent offenders.  

We wish to return to the simple and moral Common Law requiring that actual injury to people or property must exist as a condition for crime to exist.  

Clearly, constructive fraud and games of legal supposition based on deceitful language practices and undisclosed contracts to promote illegal and unlawful property conversion and confiscation in the name of vacuous Public Interest Claims, Insurance Fraud, and various Substitution Schemes have been a very long term occupation of the White Collar Pirates responsible.   

We must recognize that these crimes, although created on paper, are enforced with guns, and the inland piracy involved is a capital crime prohibited by both the Geneva and Hague Conventions, as well as violating the Canon Law on the part of the Magistrates who fail to dissolve the Public Trusts.  The immense fraud and unlawful injuries perpetuated by these Municipal Corporations violates the Ecclesiastical Law that allows these Legal Fiction Entities to exist at all.   

This is far from the first time these issues have been addressed. The Justinian Deception being reprised by PARSE Syntax is 1500 years old, the repeat of the Bottomry Bonds Scandal --- aside from the fact that the modern version is using people as ships and their estates as cargo --- is 220 years old, the Insurance Fraud is as old as the concept of Life Insurance, the phony Public Interest Claims began in earnest in 1666, the use of Executors de Son Tort followed, and the  Substitution Schemes, with respect to both persons and money, have been common as dirt since the Kingdoms of Egypt and Samaria. 

The illegal and unlawful secret occupation of Britain and most of Western Europe, the former Commonwealth, The United States, Japan and many other countries by commercial mercenaries acting as Territorial Forces -- men under contract to provide good faith service and taking their pay from the pockets of their victims -- has been a known since the days of the Hanseatic League when German Merchants and German Merchant Bankers used similar methods to undermine the national governments. 

Does anyone think it is coincidental that the architects of this situation are German Investment Bankers?  Bankers who have cashiered the wealth of Britain and controlled both the private wealth of the German-British Royal Family since 1840 and the British Crown since 1763? 

They've done it before and they are doing it again, with collusion from British and Chinese co-conspirators--- and nobody can pretend that we don't know what they are doing and how they are doing it, because we have seen it all before.    

This is why we have known Nazis occupying top positions of trust in NATO, INC. and DOD, INC. Municipal Corporations, and this is why we have war in the Ukraine, and organizations like the WEF, INC.--- which are just more Municipal Corporations and franchises--- committing crime for profit.  

This is why we have all these evils rampant and in our faces -- again. We failed to recognize them for who and what they are in the immediate aftermath of wars they have created for profit, but we've caught up to them now, and our eyes are wide-open.  

We've learned our lessons and have no need to repeat them: we wish for these guilty Municipal Corporations--- all of them, globally--- to be  forfeit, so as to best benefit the security and well-being of the national governments and the living people of this planet. 

These Municipal Corporations have sought profit mindlessly, for the sake of profit only.  They have worshiped their own delusions and the works of their own hands and their idols are all dead. They are no match for the Living God who now seeks his vengeance. Let the full weight of their sins against the Innocent rest on them. 

Issued by: Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
                 The United States of America
                 In care of: Box 520994
                 Big Lake, Alaska 99652

April 15th 2023

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