THE FEAST OF SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS
March 7 (extraordinary form)

Saint Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, and one of the greatest Catholic theologians. he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis.

Prayer to St. Thomas Aquinas.

ANGELIC Doctor St. Thomas, prince of theologians and model of philosophers, bright ornament of the Christian world and light of the Church; O heavenly patron of all Catholic schools, who didst learn wisdom without guile and dost communicate it without envy, intercede for us with the SON of GOD, Wisdom itself, that the spirit of wisdom may descend upon us, and enable us to understand clearly that which thou hast taught, and fulfil it by imitating thy deeds; to become partakers of that doctrine & virtue which caused thee to shine like the sun on earth; and at last to rejoice with thee for ever in their most sweet fruits in Heaven together praising the Divine Wisdom for all eternity. Amen

Indulgence of 300 days, once a day.
Plenary indulgence, under the usual conditions, if this prayer is devoutly recited for a whole month, every day.

INTROIT Ps. 24:15-16
My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for He shall free my feet from the snare. Look upon me, and have pity on me, for I am alone and wretched.
Ps. 24:1-2. I have lifted up my soul to You, O my God; in You I place my trust. Let me not be put to shame.
V. Glory be . . .

COLLECT
O Almighty God, fulfill the petitions of the humble; and defend us with Your right hand of power. Through Our Lord . . .

EPISTLE Eph. 5:1-9
Brethren: Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children: And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks. For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or covetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Be ye not therefore partakers with them. For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light. For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth.

GRADUAL Ps. 9:20, 4
Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence. V. When my enemies shall be turned back, they shall be weakened and destroyed before you.

TRACT Ps. 122:1-3
To You who are enthroned in heaven, have I lifted up my eyes.
V. Behold, as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters.
V. And as the eyes of a maid are on the hands of her mistress, so are our eyes on the Lord, our God, until He have pity on us.
V. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy.

GOSPEL Luke 11:14-28
At that time, Jesus was casting out a devil: and the same was dumb. And when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes, were in admiration at it. But some of them said: "He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils." And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven. But he seeing their thoughts, said to them: "Every kingdom divided against itself shall be brought to desolation; and house upon house shall fall. And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? Because you say that through Beelzebub I cast out devils. Now if I cast out devils by Beelzebub, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges. But if I by the finger of God cast out devils, doubtless the kingdom of God is come upon you. When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things are in peace which he possesseth. But if a stronger than he come upon him and overcome him, he will take away all his armour wherein he trusted and will distribute his spoils. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will return into my house whence I came out. And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then he goeth and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself: and entering in they dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first."
And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: "Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck." But he said: "Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it."

OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 18:9, 10, 11, 12
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart, and His judgments are sweeter than honey and the honeycomb; for Your servant observes them.

SECRET
May this offering cleanse us from our sins, O Lord, and may it sanctify Your servants in body and soul for the celebration of this sacrifice. Through Our Lord . . .

PREFACE
LENT PREFACE

It is said from Ash Wednesday to Passion Sunday, in all the Masses of the Season, Feasts and Vigils, unless there is a proper Preface.

It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God; Who by this bodily fast, dost curb our vices, dost lift up our minds and bestow on us strength and rewards; through Christ our Lord. Through whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominations worship it, the Powers stand in awe. The Heavens and the heavenly hosts together with the blessed Seraphim in triumphant chorus unite to celebrate it. Together with these we entreat Thee that Thou mayest bid our voices also to be admitted while we say with lowly praise:

COMMUNION ANTIPHON Ps. 83:4-5
The sparrow has found herself a home, and the turtledove a nest in which to lay her young -- Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God! Blessed are they who dwell in Your house; they shall praise You forever and ever.

POSTCOMMUNION
O God, You have allowed us to share in this great Sacrament. In Your mercy free us also from all guilt and danger of sin. Through Our Lord . . .

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CHAPTER XXV. On Modesty in Dress.
S. PAUL expresses his desire that all Christian women should wear “modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety;” 125 —and for that matter he certainly meant that men should do so likewise. Now, modesty in dress and its appurtenances depends upon the quality, the fashion and the cleanliness thereof.

-As to cleanliness, that should be uniform, and we should never, if possible, let any part of our dress be soiled or stained. External seemliness is a sort of indication of inward good order, and God requires those who minister at His Altar, or minister in holy things, to be attentive in respect of personal cleanliness.

-As to the quality and fashion of clothes, modesty in these points must depend upon various circumstances, age, season, condition, the society we move in, and the special occasion. Most people dress better on a high festival than at other times; in Lent, or other penitential seasons, they lay aside all gay apparel; at a wedding they wear wedding garments, at a funeral, mourning garb; and at a king’s court the dress which would be unsuitable at home is suitable.

A wife may and should adorn herself according to her husband’s wishes when he is present;—if she does as much in his absence one is disposed to ask in whose eyes she seeks to shine? We may grant somewhat greater latitude to maidens, who may lawfully desire to attract many, although only with the view of ultimately winning one in holy matrimony. Neither do I blame such widows as purpose to marry again for adorning themselves, provided they keep within such limits as are seemly for those who are at the head of a family, and who have gone through the sobering sorrows of widowhood. But for those who are widows indeed, in heart as well as outwardly, humility, modesty and devotion are the only suitable ornaments. If they seek to attract men’s admiration they are not widows indeed, and if they have no such intention, why should they wear its tokens? Those who do not mean to entertain guests should take down their signboard. So, again, every one laughs at old women who affect youthful graces,—such things are only tolerable in the young.

Always be neat, do not ever permit any disorder or untidiness about you. There is a certain disrespect to those with whom you mix in slovenly dress; but at the same time avoid all vanity peculiarity, and fancifulness. As far as may be, keep to what is simple and unpretending—such dress is the best adornment of beauty and the best excuse for ugliness. S. Peter bids women not to be over particular in dressing their hair. Every one despises a man as effeminate who lowers himself by such things, and we count a vain woman as wanting in modesty, or at all events what she has becomes smothered among her trinkets and furbelows. They say that they mean no harm, but I should reply that the devil will contrive to get some harm out of it all.

For my own part I should like my devout man or woman to be the best dressed person in the company, but the least fine or splendid, and adorned, as S. Peter says, with “the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.” S. Louis said that the right thing is for every one to dress according to his position, so that good and sensible people should not be able to say they are over-dressed, or younger gayer ones that they are under-dressed. But if these last are not satisfied with what is modest and seemly, they must be content with the approbation of the elders.

CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE

"The original sin did not wound the man and the woman in the same way (...) it wounded them in a dissymmetrical way, (...) "The man wants a house to have a woman and the woman wants to have a man to have a house" (...) Both want the same things but in different ways (...) they will be affected by the same concupiscences and will incur in the same capital vices, but in different ways. Both suffer from gluttony, but the gluttony of the male is closer to animal voracity, while the gluttony of the female is more refined, inclined to treats, sweets and delicacies. Both will suffer from lust, but the male will regress toward animal instinct and physical possessiveness, while the female will tend toward affective possession and spiritual domination of the male's soul.

Both suffer from anger, but the male tends to manifest and vent his anger in bodily, physical form. We could call his anger hot anger; (...) the woman tends to vent (...) rather verbally, by means of hurtful words, offenses, slander and malediction: hurting with the tongue or indirectly and cunningly harming. His anger, although tremendous, can be described as cold anger.

(...) the male tends to return to the instinctive and to the appetites of the body. In him the animal pole tends to predominate and to become dehumanized (...) sometimes he is a real "pig" (...) we see how the male tends to eat and drink in excess, even if it hurts him (...) he becomes lustful, he is incapable of dying to his sexual passion for love of his wife when in reality (...) he would make her happy.

The woman, on the other hand, tends to become unbalanced by (...) the appetites of the soul or the concupiscence of the eyes. (...) she tends (...) to "usurp the divine" (...) she is inclined to the unlawful exercise of divinity, and to the usurpation of divine providence. And not for evil, she wants good but she wants to do it in her own way. And she wants to be the one who says what is good and what is bad (...) by this way of her own good intentions, is where the woman becomes dominant (...) and sometimes she uses the passional weakness of the man to manipulate him.

That is why it has been said that the dominant sin of the male is lust and the dominant sin of the female is greed, ambition. Because of this dissymmetry of the wounds of original sin, instead of seeking the good of the other, each one tries to take advantage of the weakness of the other. And in any case, since it is not understood that it is a wound, worthy of mercy, each one ends up being irritated by the wound of the other. The woman is irritated by the physical possessiveness of the man and the man by the affective possessiveness of the woman.

The sacrament of marriage has been instituted as a sacrament of healing of the wounds of original sin in the man and the woman. And the spouses are to be, one for the other, ministers of that healing. Therefore, the wife must collaborate to heal in the husband the wound of lust, and the husband must collaborate to heal in the wife the wound of insatiable affection, the exorbitant desires of the soul and the related terrors. The healing effects of the sacrament are respectively: chastity and obedience. Mortification of the instincts in the male and of the desires of self-will in the female.

That is why a sacrament of healing was needed. So that man and woman, wounded as they were from birth by original sin, and condemned to misunderstanding and perpetual misunderstanding, could be healed and live the conjugal happiness to which God the Father had destined them "in the beginning". History proves that this is not utopia."

"The House on a Rock" - Horacio Bojorge

Today is the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, greatest Doctor of the Church and exemplar of Dominican spirituality.

“Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.”

- Psalm 139:21-22


Reminder that the enemies of Christ want nothing more than to bring you down and away from His love. They wish to see our lives and all of our accomplishments erased in fire and brimstone, and we will not stand idly by and watch the destruction of our people.

Love your brothers. Love your neighbors. Hate the enemies of God, for they are enemies of you too.

We pray for their conversion, outside there is no salvation.

“The object of the MI is to strive for the conversion of sinners, heretics, schismatics, Jews... and especially of Freemasons, as well as for the sanctification of all, under the protection and through the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin.”
-St. Maximilian Kolbe

Saint Mateus Moreira, Brazilian martyr, who had his heart stripped through his back while chanting "Praise the Blessed Sacrament!"

He is one of the 30 martyrs of Cunhaú and Uruaçu, murdered by the Dutch Calvinist troops led by german jew Jacob Rabbi.

“Were they servants of God, they’d have said: Any government, democracy or dictatorship, that enshrines child murder into law has abrogated the natural law and declared war on its people; and it is the right of the people to defend themselves. Whether the people, collectively or individually, decide to take up arms in defense of its right in this circumstance is a matter of expediency, not morality.”

- Martyr Eric Rudolph

“The evil speaker, eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body, of his neighbour.”

St John Chrysostom (347-407) 

We submit to no-one else other than Christ. We bow down to no one else other than our Lord. Christians have suffered way worse than the lukewarm, and we will not bow down to those who don't even serve their own people, let alone care for them. We will not compromise God with 'Race First', while those who promote this go around and do the exact opposite. If you want an alliance? Prove it to Christians through your actions. Heathens have proven their words are nothing but empty, carrying no weight and bearing no promises. They are worth less than dirt.

You are either with Christ or against him. Our Lord comes first, there will be no compromise.