Eleison Comments

Drexel’s Pope

Drexel’s Pope on August 8, 2020

Originally this last of four issues of “Eleison Comments” being drawn from Fr. Drexel’s booklet on Faith is Greater than Obedience was going to argue in favour of the booklet’s position that Pope Paul VI was of good intentions when at the head of the Catholic Church between 1962 and 1965 he presided over the Second Vatican Council and brought about its revolutionary change of the Church. Of course human intentions are the secret of God who alone can know them infallibly, but Our Lord tells us to judge the tree by its fruits, and it is here that Paul VI is found wanting. We are now 55 years on from the end of the Council, and its fruits have proved to be disastrous for Catholicism in any true sense of the word.

Therefore amid the many excellent things contained in Fr Drexel’s Messages from the 1970’s contained in Faith is Greater than Obedience, it is difficult to include his portrait of Paul VI. In brief, here it is –

Paul VI loved the Church – 3-XII-71– He feels pain and sorrow for consecrated souls turning from the Church to the world. 4-VIII-72 – He is abandoned by many who could have supported him with vigour and loyalty. With tears and sweat he wrestles to save the Church, he sorrows for unfaithful priests, he grieves still more for bishops more interested in their comfort than in caring for the faith or for souls. 1 – VIII-75– He is oppressed by false advisers. 7-IV-72 – He becomes more lonely, and those loyal to him are persecuted. 5-VII-74 – He prays, sacrifices and suffers constantly, but many break faith. 7-XI-75 – Never have there been so many sacrileges as since the New Mass, but My visible representative bears no guilt for this. His will is interior participation at the holy sacrifice, in reverence and in love ( . . . ) it is priests who are sinning in this way and act contrary to the word and work of the successor of Peter.

Notice in particular the last of these references, from November of 1975. The categorical statement that the Pope bore no responsibility for the multiple sacrileges that came with the New Mass cannot be true, however good his intentions may have been. “The way to Hell is paved with good intentions,” because men are fallible, they make mistakes and what they intend is not always what they achieve. However, as soon as a good intention has a bad result, then if they really intend the good result, they will change whatever was producing the bad result. But in the 1970’s Pope Paul changed little or nothing from his liberal revolution of the 1960’s, on the contrary he did everything in his power to crush the counter-revolution of Archbishop Lefebvre from inside the Church. Therefore the Pope’s real intention was not “interior participation at the holy sacrifice” but the bringing into line of the Catholic Church with the modern world, a re-aligning to which the Archbishop was an unacceptable obstacle.

As the Archbishop said, Pope Paul was a liberal catholic, in other words a man deeply divided between two irreconcilable loves: his true love of the Church by his Catholic faith, and his false love of the modern world by his liberalism. Inside any one man these two loves must fight to the death. Inside Paul VI the Catholicism would not die, so towards the end of his life he wept for the loss of priestly vocations, but his liberalism ran deeper. It was intellectual, ideological and implacable. Woe to anybody who got, or gets, in its way. Then suddenly the liberal dove brings out its claws, which are those of a hawk. Such was Paul VI. In comparison with his liberalism, his faith was sentimental. Hence his Council and his Mass.

And where does that leave Fr Drexel? When Heaven makes use of a human messenger, it leaves him with his free will and personality. Women and children make the most docile messengers, the most completely faithful to the message being entrusted to them, but men . . . many men have struggled to achieve their views on life, and these may consciously or even unconsciously colour any message of Heaven or earth passing through them. Very possibly Our Lord spoke to Fr Drexel from the 1920’s until his death in 1977. Very possibly Fr Drexel’s own solution to the agonising problem set by Pope Paul was the solution adopted by many a pious Catholic after the Council: the Pope means well, it is the bishops who are the real problem. Alas . . . as today, the bishops were a problem, but so was the Pope.

Kyrie eleison.

Drexel’s Bishops

Drexel’s Bishops on August 1, 2020

Having reminded ourselves last week (EC of July 18, 2020) of how well the Messages from the 1970’s of Fr. Drexel’s Faith is greater than Obedience still fit the situation of Catholics in the 2020’s, let us see what view these Messages took of the Church’s pivot between Pope and priests, namely the bishops. These Messages are very severe for the clergy that virtually abandoned their flocks in the wake of Vatican II, especially for the bishops who had handed over their God-given responsibilities to man-made Bishops’ Conferences (see July 5, 1974 below. Two years later Archbishop Lefebvre was “hated and ridiculed”) . . .

December 3, 71 But the greatest pain to My Heart was given by those who should be shepherding the faithful – and these are the bishops, who have become silent, indifferent and cowardly. Not only a few, but many of them, are afraid of men and are far from the fear of God. This is the reason why the wolves were able to break into the flock, bringing such confusion and devastation and destruction upon the Church. Indeed, they try to wreck and smash the rock of My Church, but millions of souls, of immortal souls, are being lost. For these souls, those apostate shepherds and tepid bishops must render an account before My eternal Judgment! Once I wept over Jerusalem and over the people of this city and over their priests and high-priests; and still their sin was not as great as the sin of those who, in the Church of today, instead of being leaders become seducers, instead of shepherds become mercenaries, instead of counsellors become traitors. But there are certainly also true shepherds of souls and vigilant bishops, who stand with firmness and charity alongside the successor of Peter.

August 4, 72 While My son Paul ( . . . ) receives with great sorrow the news about priests who abandon their flocks, their vocation, and their office, and he entreats these fugitives and faint-hearted ones, nevertheless his grief is greater over the many shepherds (bishops) who, by virtue of their office and vocation, are obliged to assist with clearness and firmness the head, leader, and father of all the faithful, and to respect his instructions. But instead they lead a comfortable life, and because of laziness and cowardice, they omit being vigilant in their parishes and omit taking care of the faith with great, rigorous attention for the maintenance of discipline and the preservation of the faith.

December 1, 72 So many of the faithful hunger for a good shepherd. Yes, the bishops have been called and appointed as shepherds. But they become mercenaries and wolves, because they have abandoned the road to loyalty. The souls entrusted to them will one day testify against them at the Judgment.

July 5, 74 The distress of souls cries to Heaven; in the meantime , unasked persons take power in the Church and in meetings, and all this is happening because of the bishops, who do not stop them, and who do not set up boundaries.

November 1, 74 Consider: A great confusion has pierced My one and true Church. Books filled with false statements and heresies are accepted by bishops, who are supposed to be shepherds, while writings that tell the truth are rejected by the Church’s representatives, so great has become the confusion!

February 7, 75 Some of the shepherds and guardians who have been anointed ( . . . ) have abandoned the faith and give freedom to heresies. ( . . . ) Oh, would that all of those shepherds might understand what responsibility they carry and how much this responsibility is increasing upon them, because those who still believe and pray do not find protection any more.

July 2, 76 Why are there not guards, who protect the faith any more, and consequently the faithful people, the youth and the children, from having their souls murdered? But those who stand up against the damaging of the faith are persecuted, and their serious and heavy sorrows are exposed to hate and ridicule.

Kyrie eleison.

Drexel’s Crisis

Drexel’s Crisis on July 25, 2020

In the 1970’s when Our Lord (as one may believe) gave to the Austrian priest and Professor Fr. Albert Drexel the Messages contained in the booklet Faith is Greater than Obedience, Catholic Tradition was still deeply discredited because of Vatican II. Catholics simply could not believe that they had been so betrayed by their own priests. Only many years later would Tradition begin to regain the primacy due to it in the Church of Our Lord. As first of a brief series of these “Comments” drawn from the Messages, here are a few to show how relevant they were, and are, to the unprecedented, ongoing drama of the Church.

September 4, 1970.

The number of the faithful shall become small, but their fearless profession of the faith shall shine like a light in the world, and will be blessed by the power and the grace of the Holy Trinity. The Eucharistic sacrifice shall be celebrated in private homes, in places where the temple of God has been desecrated.

November 6, 1970.

Among the rebels, one can find more and more of the consecrated servants of the Church. These are the ones who make themselves guilty of the sin of Judas, who gave Me with his kiss not love, but the greatest pain. And because of the shepherds (bishops) who were appointed to their office and who became weak, the truly faithful have to supplement with their prayers, their struggles, and s ufferings what these priests have neglected and missed. Therefore, I look with great compassion upon the praying people and the victim souls. Their suffering is great in their heart, but magnificent and beautiful shall be the love that is awaiting them at the threshold of eternity.

June 4, 1971.

Numerous people shall turn away from My one and true Church, because they have lost faith in the triune God, and have been misled and blinded by wicked priests and teachers. These proud and disloyal ones speak about a religion without the supernatural, without mystery and prayer. They speak only about man and no longer about God! They turn charity upside down and give primacy to love of neighbor, but forget, lose, and deny love toward God with outrageous presumption. They are trying to found a Newchurch, in which the world and man mean everything – and God and Heaven nothing.

July 7, 1972.

Should those who are faithful and loyal in grace be sad about this? It is true that I Myself wept over Jerusalem, because its inhabitants rejected My grace. Yet it is My will and that of the Father, that the children of the faith should be joyous, like Saint Francis, who praised Heaven with his canticle of the sun, or happy like the young Saint Therese, who, filled with love of Me, happily and smilingly walked through the garden of creation.

May 4, 1973.

Numerous people of the Church, whose names are registered in parish registers, have lost the sense of what is Holy and who are the Saints. Priests consecrated to the service of the altar and to souls turn instead to the world and forget and despise the commandments of God, and pay homage to a dangerous spirit of the world. More and more people fall under the attraction of a moral corruption, that Saint John names the ‘Harlot of Babylon’ in the Apocalypse. What My visible successor in Rome said about the disintegration and dissolution of faith in the Church is his grievance and his accusation.

December 7, 1973.

The prayer of the faithful shall triumph over the talks and gatherings of those who are cold in faith. Yet, those faithful to God are still suffering, but they should know and consider that the sacrifices of their suffering are bringing down blessings upon the Church. Those who suffer this way shall share eternal glorification with Me, and the love of My Heart.

Kyrie eleison.

Drexel’s Return

Drexel’s Return on July 18, 2020

The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) was a huge event in Church history, designed by its movers and shakers to deceive a mass of Catholics, clergy and laity, into replacing the true Catholic Church with their own Newchurch, adapted to modern times. But the agony for believing Catholics from then on was that the betrayal of Catholic Truth had come from the true Church authorities, whom they had learned from their Catholic cradles always to obey and never to criticise. Even Our Lord and Our Lady when they spoke to human beings would, to avoid scandalising Catholic souls, rarely criticise their own priests.

But here was the particular interest of Faith is greater than Obedience. For if these Messages which came through Fr Drexel truly came from Our Lord Himself, as they purported to do, then here was God Himself scathing in His criticism of the bishops, theologians and priests responsible for the Newchurch emerging from the Council, and obviously dispensing Catholics from their normal duty never to criticise priests. Here was God telling Catholics that a mass of their shepherds – not all – had turned into wolves. “I know what agony you faithful souls are suffering,” say the Messages, “but hold on to your faith and do not let these traitors change it. They are wrong, you are right, as time will tell, and great will be your reward if you persevere.”

Such a message was apt to solve one agony of true believers after the Council, but it was apt also to create another agony: what then of the unfaithful Church authorities? In particular, what of the Pope? The popular perception of papal infallibility goes way beyond the reach of its strict definition in 1870 with the four conditions. Then how could John XXIII have convened the Council of wolves, and how could Paul VI have guided it to its conclusion and presided over its being put into practice afterwards? This agony is such that many serious and believing Catholics from the end of the 1970’s, soon after Fr Drexel died, began resorting to sedevacantism for instance, whereby the Conciliar Popes have not been true Popes at all. The solution of Fr Drexel’s Messages is rather that Paul VI was not himself one of the wolves. He is clearly criticised (in at least two of the Messages), but he also had good intentions, he was not aware of all that his subordinates were doing, he agonised over what was happening to the Church.

Yet one must say that Paul VI’s personal responsibility for the Conciliar disaster was huge. Then some followers of Catholic Tradition will draw the conclusion that Fr Drexel’s “Our Lord” was certainly not truly Our Lord, but emerged somehow from Fr Drexel’s own “pious” reflections. In that case we would explain the leniency of the Messages towards Paul VI as being the solution of many “good” bishops and priests at the time to their agony, namely, the Conciliar bishops were terrible but not the Pope himself. On the other hand if the Messages did come from Our Lord Himself, then one might guess that Our Lord was being lenient in them towards Paul VI maybe in order to head off the reaction of Catholics being tempted more or less to despair of Our Lord’s own structural Church – He Himself was saying that he was still behind it, and He needed to say nothing untrue in order to say that.

Deo volente, this issue of these “Comments” is prelude to a second little series drawn from Faith is Greater than Obedience because of the value found by these “Comments” in the Messages given to Fr Drexel in the 1970’s. There should be three issues, on the Church Crisis, the Bishops and Paul VI, all as presented in Faith is greater than Obedience. Whether the Messages did then come from Our Lord Himself or not, readers of these “Comments” should be better able to judge. In any case it is clear that in this Church crisis they must make up their own minds.

Kyrie eleison.

Mammon Strikes – II

Mammon Strikes – II on July 11, 2020

So when in 1913 the money-men finally tricked the United States Congress into creating the Federal Reserve as a central bank to take control of the money supply in the USA, they knew that they were well on their way to controlling the USA altogether. Notice that if only more Congressmen had loved their country more and money less, the law creating the Fed would surely never have passed, but in modern democracies it is the people who vote into office the politicians who pass the laws. Let nobody pretend that the peoples in a democracy are not to blame for the misfortunes coming from their politicians. It is God who appoints the rulers in any country (Prov. VIII, 15), in function of what the people deserve.

For over a century since the founding of the Fed, it has only gained in power and influence. World War I (1914–1918) required money. The Fed provided it. The USA became a world power. World War II (1939–1941) required a lot of money. The Fed provided it. The victorious USA became a world super-power. From now, how could even patriots complain of the Fed? Even if Woodrow Wilson, President for the whole First World War, would write “Some of the biggest men in the USA, in the fields of commerce and manufacture are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere so organised, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak of it above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” It is this power that has directed the Fed ever since, and of which one President after another has been merely the puppet. Money motivates. God alone motivates more, but by 1914 in few countries did enough of the people turn to God for Him to overwhelm the money-power.

So having promised to end the cycle of boom and bust, in 1929 the Fed engineered the biggest bust of all up till then, the Great Depression, which greatly enhanced their power. Many patriots over the years saw clear, and tried to get Congress to dissolve the Fed, but the hidden money-power, serving its own interests, has been too strong, up to this day. In our own time, September of last year, to “save” the floundering USA economy from collapse, the Fed began emergency cash infusions of their money, made out of thin air, into the Repo Market which was threatening to seize up for lack of cash. The Fed promised the infusions would be temporary, but they have only increased ever since. Then came the forced Corona-panic and the closure of so many businesses that the Fed has had a perfect excuse to expand its balance-sheet ever since. To say it is now buying up the world is hardly an exaggeration. Since people still have confidence in the dollar, then the Fed can still “save,” with its “funny money,” systems failing anywhere in the world, at least until that confidence collapses, but by then all systems “saved” will be in the chains of debt – to the Fed.

The Corona-panic and George Floyd riots are direct successors of 9/11 – panics fabricated by the lies of politicians and their wretched media, be it “deadly terrorists” or “a deadly virus,” when everybody now knows that 9/11 can only have been an inside job, and the Corona virus is no worse than any other flu virus. As for the riots, Floyd’s autopsy showed that he died not by police suffocation but from the heavy overdose of a dangerous drug. However, Woodrow Wilson’s money-power has long known that panic fear is one of the best means of manipulating the people, and so their politicians and media are still sustaining the money-power’s lies as far back as Pearl Harbour (1941) and the Kennedy assassination (1963), and so on and so on. When the peoples turn away from God who is the Way, the Truth and the Life (Jn. XIV, 6), they turn away from the Truth, and are bound to lay themselves open to the Father of Lies (Jn. VIII, 44). And Satan gladly steps in, disguising himself of course as an angel of light (II Cor. XI, 14–15).

But how can a District Superior of the Society of St Pius X now be saying that the Corona-panic is “none of our business”? How can any Catholic churchman say that these huge lies serving to corrupt the entire world are “none of our business”? Where do souls to be saved for God’s Heaven come from, if not from the world around us? How can any Church leaders not see it as part of their duty to challenge these “operations of error,” branded by God as His punishment for lack of love of the truth (II Thess.II, 11)?

Kyrie eleison.

Mammon Strikes – I

Mammon Strikes – I on July 4, 2020

You cannot serve God and Mammon, says Our Lord, because Mammon means riches, or the devil of greed for money, and so either we will serve God or we will serve money (Lk. XVI, 1–13). The modern world turning its back more and more on God falls naturally under the power of money. Today the banksters, or banker-gangsters, rule the world, and right in front of our eyes are the steps they are taking by means of money to complete their control of the entire world. The following presentation of those steps owes much to an American commentator accessible on the Internet at Highimpactflix.com

From the beginning of the United States in 1776, there was a great struggle for control of the new nation. True patriots like Presidents Jefferson and Jackson strongly opposed the founding of a national central bank, because they knew that the money-men would control the USA for their own interests and not for those of the nation. This resistance to the money power lasted until 1913, when by various subterfuges the money-men succeeded in getting Congress to pass a law founding the so-called Federal Reserve, clever name for the first American central bank, because there was in fact no federal or government connection at all. To this day the Fed, as it is commonly known, has belonged to a consortium of private bankers, in other words the money-men. And true to form, they promised at the outset to put an end to the disastrous business cycle of financial boom and bust, but in fact they have presided over a century-long fall in the value of the American dollar which is now worth only a fraction of what it was worth in 1913.

Today, says Brian of Highimpactflix, “The Fed has been and is involved in fuelling a global scheme to steal the wealth of the world and to control the people of the world by bringing us to our knees economically.” Some people will say that this scheme goes back a hundred years. Other people will say it goes back even further. What concerns us here is how the scheme is unfolding today. What follows is merely some of the bare bones of that scheme.

What is essential to understand about the Fed is that it always has been independent from the US government, and yet in 1913 it was given control of the United States’ money supply, which according to Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) means virtual control of any government. And coming out of the Second World War, the USA was replacing Great Britain as the leading world power, so that the dollar replaced the pound sterling as the world’s leading currency. The dollar was backed until 1971 by the US gold reserves, but in that year it was taken off the gold standard so that it became mere paper backed only by the worldwide prestige and confidence which it still enjoyed, indeed in 2020 it still has no rival as a practical worldwide currency. However, being henceforth merely paper or electronic figures in a computer, dollars could be multiplied almost without limit by the Fed, which gave the banksters owning it even more power, unless and until they so multiply dollars as to make them completely worthless.

Now as the Western peoples have over several centuries turned more and more away from God, so they have turned more and more towards materialism and money, giving prestige and power to the banksters and their central banks (controlling the governments). And the banksters have built around their central banks, in their own interests, a financial system so intrinsically crooked that in the early 1900’s Henry Ford could say that it was just as well if the peoples of the nations did not understand the Western banking and monetary system, because he believed that if they did, there would be a revolution overnight.

And so what is happening today is that by two unspeakable frauds (the covid-panic and the George Floyd riots) the banksters are collapsing the economies of the Western nations and “rescuing” them with floods of unreal dollars riding on what confidence remains in the existing dollars, thus indebting them to the Fed and making them its servants, and the banksters’ slaves (Debt enslaves – Prov. XXII, 7).

Next week – the two frauds, the Fed’s tentacles and the judgments of God.

Kyrie eleison.