Pope Francis Sides with Lefebvre + Pentecost Octave

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[00:00:00][music] >> Christ is risen. He is risen indeed.

[00:00:06]Welcome to this week in the church triumphant. I am Timothy Flanders for Pelican Plus. Today is Whit Monday. It's Whit Monday, a former holy day of obligation, Pentecost Monday. It is the third greatest feast of the church, Pentecost. Number one obviously is Easter, then there's Christmas, then there's number three, Pentecost. And this is a great great feast day. We we have an entire season called after Pentecost now, the the green season, the growing season, the season of life.

[00:00:38]The Holy Spirit is the Lord, the giver of life. There's lots of fun stuff you can do with your kids because there are three three main symbols of the Holy Spirit in Holy Scripture.

[00:00:46]There's obviously the dove, but there's also fire. Lots of great stuff to do with fire, of course, because kids love fire.

[00:00:55]And uh then there is water.

[00:00:58]Water is also a symbol. So, what we do what we like to do is drink red juice.

[00:01:03]So, we have get some kind of red drink, drink the red juice for Pentecost.

[00:01:09]And uh it is I I'm still saying um Christ is risen because the Marian antiphon, Regina Caeli, continues all the way to Saturday night. Saturday night is the first vespers of Trinity Sunday. That's when the shift happens. I think it's the first vespers, but it's Trinity Sunday is when it you know, it switches to Salve Regina. So, this is the official close of the Paschal Tide season, which is So, it's 50 total days. Pentecost is The word means 50. And then there's six more days in the Pentecost Octave.

[00:01:40]And this of course is beautifully depicted, as always, by Michaela Harrison on the Liturgy of the Home calendar.

[00:01:49]Liturgyofthehome.com Get this for your kids. I I love it because we have the the beautiful depiction of the Holy Spirit that in in the the the uh in the Acts of the Apostles, it says that they were persevering in prayer with Mary and the Apostles.

[00:02:07]So, I I love the depiction of Mary at the center of the church, and we'll talk about her in a minute.

[00:02:13]And then the Holy Spirit is coming down with a fire.

[00:02:16]And then we have the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. One tradition is to preach a sermon on one of the seven gifts on each of the seven days of the octave up to Trinity Sunday.

[00:02:28]And then we have this beautiful depiction here of the 12 fruits.

[00:02:34]Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, modesty, continence, chastity. Now, you may be wondering, aren't there only nine fruits?

[00:02:45]Uh maybe you've seen this before. Well, in fact, the issue is that in Galatians chapter 5, there's actually a Latin variant.

[00:02:57]Latin variant. If you read my book on the Holy Bible, you'll learn about variants.

[00:03:01]But the issue is that in Galatians chapter 5, it says that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, etc. In the Greek text, there are nine fruits mentioned in the Greek text. In the Latin text, they add three more.

[00:03:14]So, there's a Latin variant, and that's where it comes into the Douay-Rheims, and that's why in kind of the older list, they've got 12 fruits, and in the newer list, which follow the the original Greek, they have nine fruits.

[00:03:25]Variants are not a problem. Variants are the first commentaries on the scripture, is what they are. So, there's there's a little commentary that was added somewhere. That's what a variant is. And so, variants, the church has always accepted variants as an authentic aspect of the scripture, even if technically speaking, it's probably not a part of the original text. It's an accepted addition. So, not saying that's part of the depositum fidei in the sense of Revelation, but is it is it the most authentic, the most ancient commentary on the scripture. That's what that is.

[00:03:59]That's where the nine the nine versus 12 fruits come from. And this is a really great it's so important for all I really learned this from Dan Burke at the Avila Institute.

[00:04:11]Focusing on the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

[00:04:14]When we evaluate, especially like we're we're trying to discern the the movements of the spirit in our hearts and the truths of God and the lies of Satan, a good plumb line is to say, "Do these things incline me towards the fruits of the Holy Spirit?" Love, joy, peace, etc. We note also that the first three fruits have to do with the heart, love, joy, peace. They're not something that as much that we that are has to do with our intellect and will, but they're sort of foundational in our hearts. And this is the the the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of course. So, what's beautifully depicted here obviously is the the entire Pentecost Octave.

[00:04:57]We've got um all of the different depictions of the Gospels and the different Gospels also are said to correspond to the seven sacraments, which is really cool.

[00:05:09]Um and then we also have Ember Tide. So, Ember Tide begins this is the the summer Ember Tide.

[00:05:15]So, holy days of opportunity to fast Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

[00:05:20]And there's also a Byzantine custom to begin the Apostles fast through June.

[00:05:26]All of that is the glories of the Pentecost Octave, which we can uh there's so many different things to go into, but if you join my Reclaim group on Pelican Plus Social, on the Reclaim group I'll be posting every day about each day of the Pentecost Octave and we're going to be talking about the different fruits of fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Um so, lots of stuff to talk about, so you can join my other reclaim group on Pelican social. So, now today's feast however, there is actually a new feast day in the Novus Ordo Missae instituted by Pope Francis.

[00:05:57]Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. Now, this is really interesting.

[00:06:00]And here's why. I'm going to take out um The Rhine Flows into the Tiber by Father Ralph Wiltgen. This is the history of Vatican II.

[00:06:09]And so, what's kind of interesting here about this feast day is that I'm reading from here from page 240 and this is one of the older editions, but page 240 it says that quote, "The international group of fathers had collected signatures for a petition to the Pope. Now, who's the international group of fathers?" That's the Coetus Internationalis Patrum. That is the group that was led and co-led by Archbishop Lefebvre. So, here's the traditionalists at the council. They're at Vatican II and they have a petition to Pope Paul VI and what do they say?

[00:06:43]Here's the petition, quote, "At the fourth coming third session, may the Blessed Virgin Mary be proclaimed as Mother of the Church by the council.

[00:06:50]That is by your holiness as head together with the fathers as members."

[00:06:54]There were other petitions to the same effect. So, then Paul VI on November 21st, I believe this is Okay, this is 1964. November 21st Paul VI uh makes this proclamation.

[00:07:12]Um about the close relations of Mary to the Church.

[00:07:19]Uh to achieve this aim, we have considered it opportune to consecrate at this public meeting itself a title in honor of the Virgin which has been suggested by various parts of the Catholic world. It is particularly dear to us because it sums up in an admiral synthesis the privileged position recognized by this council for the Virgin in the Holy Church. Therefore, for the glory of the Holy Virgin Mary and for our own consolation, we proclaim the most Holy Mary as Mother of the Church, that is to say of all the people of God, of the faithful as well as the pastors, who call her their most holy mother, and we wish that from now on the Virgin should be still more honored and invoked by the entire Christian people by this most dear title." End quote. So, this is an instance where Pope Paul the VI sided with the traditionalists at the council to proclaim this particular title of the Virgin Mary, uh Mother of the Church.

[00:08:03]And this is in a chapter called or a section called Black Week. Why is it called Black Week? Because the the heretics and the modernists didn't like the things that happened. So, this was actually it made the modernists gnash their teeth uh as a result of the pro- proclaiming that Mary was the Mother of the Church. Now, there's another aspect of this and that is that one aspect is that associating Mary with ecclesiology was a win for some of the opponents of Mariology cuz they wanted to have a they did want to have a totally separate document about Our Lady, but then that it got rolled into Lumen Gentium as the as the final section instead. And so, that's another aspect of this, but I think we can be grateful to Pope Francis in this sense because uh you know, Mary is the Mother of the Church and it you know, it's it is a a win for the traditionalists because they wanted this title.

[00:08:56]So, if you uh this this text is um essential reading if you want to study of Vatican II, um Lumen Gentium, the final section of Lumen Gentium has the Mariology section, which is a beautiful section. Um but we have Mary, Mother of the Church, and I mean it I love this feast day because it is I mean it's it's kind of restoring something of the Pentecost octave because the Pentecost octave is obviously removed in the Novus Ordo Missae, unfortunately.

[00:09:21]Um so, there's something there, which is good. We should be grateful for that.

[00:09:25]And it really, you know, it's it's very Pentecostal because as we said, Mary, you know, the the apostles are persevering with Mary and the apostles, and that's when the Holy Spirit comes.

[00:09:35]Um and I and I love how this connects with Revelation 12 because Revelation 12 is one of my favorite passages and uh in that passage our lady is the icon of the church.

[00:09:49]She is the woman clothed with the sun who is also the icon of the church. So, lots of stuff to go into that, but we don't have time to get into all that, but uh we have there's actually two um two podcasts that we did with Dominique Del Masso about Mary and ecclesiology which are really beautiful stuff that he he brought out of this. Um so, we'll link that below.

[00:10:09]Um take a look at that. So, we also have today St. Gregory the VII, Pope St. Gregory the VII. Uh wonderful feast because uh he has these great final words when he fought for the liberty of the church. He said, I I have loved justice and I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile. Pope Gregory the VII, pray for us.

[00:10:29]Uh tomorrow we have St. Philip Neri, Wednesday and Thursday the new and traditional feast days of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Apostle to the English.

[00:10:40]Then we have Friday, May 29, Pope St. Paul VI.

[00:10:46]Now, here's it it's I didn't even realize it I what I laughed about this morning was I was thinking about the fact that we had Pope Peter St. uh Pope Celestine V. We talked about him last week. He was the last Pope who had to resigned who was only Pope for 5 months, but he was a terrible terrible Pope even though he became a saint.

[00:11:07]And some might say the same about Pope Paul VI. Now, I do think Paul VI has gotten too much bad press um because to his credit he really listened to a lot of his critics in the 1970s and he really tried to clean things up in the 1970s. He did initiate a Vatican Inquisition in 1975.

[00:11:28]He commissioned Cardinal Gagnon Gagnon to uh investigate all the Vatican Freemasonry and he did it for 3 years.

[00:11:35]He gave him full authority. He tried to clamp down on community in the hand. He sacked Bugnini. Um you know, so there are some great virtues in Paul the VI I think in in his later years in his later pontificate even if we we might critique some of the things that he did earlier because they were I mean quite disastrous in many ways and that's a reasonable thing to say. We could still say it with with full piety.

[00:11:59]Um but there are many people who question that if Paul the VI really is a saint. And that's that's reasonable if you do it with great piety and reverence for the fact that he could be a saint, you know, and obviously he is officially canonized. So uh I think it's pious to just side with the canonization process because it is a traditional opinion to say that canonizations are infallible. So but that's all I'll say about Paul the VI. Now finally, Saturday, Saint Joan of Arc.

[00:12:30]One of the greatest saints of >> [laughter] >> one of the greatest saints in the history of the church. I mean let's just say that. Uh Mark Twain has a whole book about Joan of Arc cuz he was so fascinated by wow, Joan of Arc is amazing and she is. She really is amazing. She is uh just clearly an amazing uh saint. Uh the actually Martin Scorsese in the um the new mini-series that he's done on the saints there the um one of the first episodes is on Joan of Arc and it's really good. It was really well done I thought. I I learned something new too. I didn't I did not know that when they burned her they they burned up her body but her heart was incorrupt and the the executioner tried to use sulfur and whatnot to destroy her heart but her heart was just incorrupt and indestructible and that's when the executioner realized that he had sinned against a saint and then he like repented.

[00:13:23]Um so it's a glorious uh fact Saint Joan of Arc incorrupt heart.

[00:13:28]Uh just a such a glorious saint, a glorious saint uh in so many different ways. I mean, she leads leads the uh she she's called by God to end the 100 100 Years' War, which is this fratricidal conflict between England and France that's really destroying Europe and in the so the the the decline of the so-called Middle Ages, the decline of this period of this high Christendom.

[00:13:50]And Joan of Arc comes to the fore and she obviously she's fighting for France, but she also her she flies under the banner that just says Jesus and Mary. She does not use weapons. She weeps and prays over the English who die.

[00:14:04]And so she's this great saint. It's it's just fascinating how what how God seeks to resolve this conflict. He brings out this amazing saint to end the 100 Years' War. So, a very very great saint uh to invoke in our times.

[00:14:20]And then we have uh on on Sunday, we have Trinity Sunday.

[00:14:25]Uh wonderful feast day that um and also the uh the Visitation of the Virgin Mary and the Queenship of the Virgin Mary, May May 31st. It's also the Sunday of All Saints in the uh in the Byzantine calendar. That's All Saints' Day. The Sunday after Pentecost is always All Saints' Day in the Byzantine custom.

[00:14:45]So, that's all we have today.

[00:14:48]Welcome to the new week of the Church Triumphant. So, let's let's pray. I just want to say a prayer and uh pray for all the Pelican Plus users, all our uh subscribers, founders, Holy League members. Uh just thank you all for being a part of this, building this this digital space that we're trying to make as a pure environment for our children to pass down to them against this Antichrist technocracy. Not technocracy. So, let's let's pray a prayer and uh pray for all of you, your intentions. We'll pray for all the Pelican users, the Pelican family. And we're going to invoke our Pelican uh patrons of Pelican Plus.

[00:15:23]Let's pray. In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.

[00:15:28]We pray for all those who will hear this podcast. We beg you, O Lord, to send us your grace that we may enter into the true spirit of the church triumphant by means of the Holy Spirit and his fruits.

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