A Prophesied Catholic Devotion for the Latter Days to Fight Totalitarianism
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The best laid plans of mice and men often go to naught, as we ve seen so much in our world today. When we try and fight the things with our own ingenuity, our hard work, our political campaigns, we so often end up with failure. God has a different plan.
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This devotion has helped me to see that if we just give God great adoration and go back to
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Gregorian chant, that the enemy is just going to collapse because God will make it happen
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Hey friends, the best laid plans of mice and men often go to naught as we've seen so much
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in our world today. You know, when we try and fight the things with our own ingenuity, our hard work,
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our political campaigns and so on, we so often end up with failure. God has a different plan.
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Yes, he wants us to still work and to use the intelligence that he gave us, the hard work that
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we're supposed to do. Yes, we're supposed to do all of that, but first and foremost, we're to go by
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God's rules and he usually makes it very simple. Do you remember when the Israelites were fighting
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as God told them to, but they would lose when Moses, while he was praying, lowered his hands.
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As he raised them, they would be victorious. As he lowered them, they wouldn't be. That sounds kind
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of odd, but that's what our Lord wanted. Our Lord wanted to show that the victory is his. It's coming
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from him, not through the great fighters. And I'm sure there were great fighters among the Israelites,
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but he wanted to show that the power came from him. So Aaron and Joshua held his hands up and they
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were victorious. It's just like that throughout history. And so often we fail our Lord. Back in
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the day when St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was asked to tell the praying of France, let's put the image of
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the sacred heart of Jesus on the armaments, on the shields and the weapons of the French soldiers.
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France will be victorious. Our Lord will give France victory. Well, for a hundred years,
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the King of France didn't do that. The Kings of France failed to do that. And then came the French
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Revolution. The King of France, of course, was removed from his palace with his family and
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eventually killed. We had a similar thing happen back in 1917. Our Lady came to warn, to bring Heaven's
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warning that unless Russia was converted by being consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
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that Russia would spread her errors throughout the world. The Heaven specifically called on the Pope
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in union with the bishops of the world to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Guess what? It wasn't done. It wasn't done for over 50 years. In fact, it wasn't done really at all
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until very recently. And even that 83 consecration that was done by Pope John Paul II, it failed to
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mention Russia specifically as was demanded by Our Lady. And in that intervening time,
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Russia did spread her errors all throughout the world. And that's the same communism that we are
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facing all over the world. It's not only communism, it's a communism that has become global. It's
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manifested not only in China, but it's in all of the West. All of the nonsense we're experiencing
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with the woke culture is communism. All of the effort to make world domination basically in the most
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extreme form that was even imaginable, not even imaginable back in the day in 1917 for sure.
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But we're facing it now. Do you know, there was a solution for communism given as well.
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It's a very unknown devotion. It's called devotion to the Holy Face. It's actually quite simple.
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We're going to find out about it. And why is the key to fighting this battle against communism,
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which is worldwide right now, which we're facing. If you want to know the secret weapon,
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We always begin, if you wouldn't mind, leading us with the sign of the cross.
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Now, Father Carney, you've written this book, The Secret of the Holy Faith, The Devotion,
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Destined to Save Society. That's quite something. You know, in the intro, I talked about how heaven has
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all these methods for us, which are totally outside the world. The world has, you know, there's scheming
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and all sorts of the best laid plans of mice and men, if you will, to try and solve the great problems
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of the universe. But heaven comes with very simple solutions, solutions that the world wouldn't think
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of that really put God in charge. How does that concept get spelled out in this devotion of the
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Holy Faith? Yeah, that's a very good question. Jesus said, if anyone wants to enter the kingdom of
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heaven, he needs to become like a little child. And he held a child in his arms. He said, become like
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one of these. So this devotion helps us to be a simple child, to fight the battles, because God revealed
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to Sister Mary St. Peter, a blueprint of how to overcome the evils of this world today, especially
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the revolution against God, which Jesus actually named as communism, as part of it. If we follow this
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devotion that Jesus gave Sister Mary St. Peter, who was a humble nun in the 1840s, then we know that if we do
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what God says, then he will fulfill the promises that he gave us. And this is just like in the Old
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Testament, when the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, they started to do what God wanted them to do to the
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know, and that's how they escaped. And that's a similar situation that we have now, because it seems like
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the powers, the elites want to have world slavery. And one of the promoters of this devotion, his name
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is Venerable Leota Pont, and he lived in tourism in the 1840s until he died around 1880. And he saw
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that communist manifesto when it came out, and he said, if these revolutionary men have their way, the
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whole world's going to be enslaved. And he said, the churches are going to be closed up. And he
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mentioned this in the 1800s, way before it is kind of a dress rehearsal that we've seen in the last
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few years. It's an amazing thing that heaven has these seemingly simple solutions. You see this when
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Moses raised his hands, and the Israelite army was able to win. And as soon as he lowered them,
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they weren't. And you know, he had Joshua and Aaron, I believe, holding up his hands. Very simple
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things to demonstrate to mankind that God's in charge. What is the devotion to the Holy Face? What
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is the Holy Face? And how are people meant to engage with this devotion? Devotion to the Holy Face of
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Jesus is God. You give devotion to him. Venerable Leota Pont said that devotion to the sacred heart
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represents the humanity of Jesus, and devotion to his face represents the divinity of Jesus. Devotion
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to the Holy Face is old. But in the 1840s, Jesus gave Sister Mary St. Peter's revelations to give us
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a more specific way to be devoted to his Holy Face. And the object of the devotion that Jesus left with us
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is the Vella Veronica. This is the face of his passion. There's other miraculous faces that Jesus left,
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like the Shroud of Turin, which deals with not the passion, but the death. And then there's the Vella
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Montapello in Italy, which deals with the resurrection, because they think that was the napkin
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that's mentioned in the gospel when St. John and St. Peter rushed to the tomb. So in these times,
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1840s, Jesus told Sister Mary St. Peter that my father is greatly offended by two sins, and that is
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blasphemy and propanation of Sundays and holy days of obligation. So this was in the 1840s. And Jesus said
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to her, my father's not going to so much punish the human race with the elements, but he's going to
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punish the human race with the scourge of revolutionary men. So that's the main point
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of this devotion, because, you know, we know there's a world revolution going on against God.
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It's a neo-paganism. But this devotion helps us to become wise, because we see that God is actually
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the one giving us the curse, and he actually tells us how to get out of it. And that is to be
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devoted to reparation, which is restoring the relationship between God our father and the
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human race, because we keep sinning and offending God and turning our back on God. So we need to make
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reparations so that his face can turn upon us and be benign and smile. And we need to turn to him and not
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turn our backs on him and follow the Ten Commandments. So one of the things that this
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devotion illustrates is how important it is to focus on the first three commandments. We almost
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worship man instead of God. He's telling us in this devotion how we need to make reparation for
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idolatry, which has even happened in the highest places in our church, for irreverence in the
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sanctuaries, and to make reparation for blasphemy. And blessed Pius IX, he mentioned about
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reparation. He said, reparation is destined to save society. So that's why I titled my book,
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The Secret of the Holy Faith, The Devotion Destined to Save Society, because Jesus not only reveals that
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to Sister Mary St. Peter, but Pope Pius IX even mentions that reparation is destined to save society.
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Another part of this devotion is the three ends of sacrifice. So we know that they're
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adoration, petition, and thanksgiving. But reparation is one of them that it seems like
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we don't stress very much in our world and in our Catholic church. So this devotion helps us to become
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very tender towards making that relationship between our human family and God to restore that. And the
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devotion is the passion of our Lord. And to think of him crying and to think of him sweating in the mud
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on his face and the blood and the crown of thorns. It just really helps us to become very tender
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towards certain aspects of his passion. The origin story of this current revolution that seems all
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encompassing that seems to have taken over the world, that really seems we're at the apex of not
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only the world domination, the goal for one world government, it's kind of been a dream for all
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sorts of people of power who thought they could control the whole wide world. We're there in a very
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big way, like the world has never, ever seen before. The amount of control that they can have over
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people, especially with the advent of AI and this delving down into everyone's secret lives,
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you're being monitored 24-7. That kind of control was never even conceivable in the past, and yet it's
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here. But even beyond that, we're at a point of heresy where the whole wide world has gone much more
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so even than the Aryan heresy, because in the Aryan heresy, you at least had one heresy. Now we have
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modernism sort of a, it's all the heresies altogether, and everybody at this point can see it, and it's
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coming from all the levels of the church, quite literally. So we have this storm, and the Genesis
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story of that, how in the world did we get here, is answered in what you just said, which is super
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fascinating. Our Lord tells us that it was the blasphemy and the disregard for the Sabbath day
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for Sundays as a holy day, really the offense against God in the first place. And that's so
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interesting because it also follows exactly the progression of how we got here. Many people think
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that, for instance, oh, the very first thing that happened was, well, we legalized contraception
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and divorce, perhaps. And then it went from there to abortion, and then went from there to
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homosexuality and same-sex marriage eventually, and now it's just at everything. But actually, no.
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The very first thing we did was usually kick God out of public square. If you could speak to that part.
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What we do in the sanctuary determines what happens in the world, because the holy sacrifice of the Mass
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is the offering of Jesus Christ, who is a perfect God, to his Father. So it's a perfect offering to
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make satisfaction for the offenses that we as a human family have committed against God. So if we have in
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our sanctuary's true reverence, like getting back to the old Latin Mass, things like that, if we really
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do believe that God is on the altar, then that is the source that will change the whole world. Just
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like St. John Moriviani said, that if anyone knew the power of the priest, they were a cry of joy.
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So the priest and a bishop, they're the most powerful people in the world spiritually. It's just,
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down here, we've just forgotten our bearings that we have to follow the first three commandments. We can't
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just make up, okay, well, God's going to let us just do what we want there. No, if we can't get the first
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three commandments right, how can we get the last seven? So we got to go back to being more reverent, to
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overcoming idolatry, with reparation, and by blessing the name of God. You know, this devotion,
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as devotions in general make people tender towards certain aspects of God or his church,
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this devotion has helped me and the people that I talk to about it see the Psalms of David and
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in the Holy Scriptures, the holy face of God is mentioned 840 times in the holy name of God,
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and how important it is to keep his commandments. It really has just opened that up to me because
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at first I would pray the Psalms and these things would kind of gloss over. But when I got into this
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devotion, it's really helped me to become, I should say, to see things as God does, which
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the spiritual theologians say that that's wisdom. And when you see things as God does,
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you become very peaceful in a time of tribulation. And so what I've seen in this devotion is just helps
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me to see, wait a minute, God's behind all of this punishment. And in his providence,
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he's so perfectly good that what is happening, he's permitting, is the greatest and quickest way
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for the greatest good to happen. So when I tell people this that are just like the sky's falling,
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and they're just, they're so disturbed, this devotion, and telling no providence is at hand here,
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it brings them peace. And God does not want us to be so full of anxiety and agitation because that's
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the work of the devil. That happens not only on this sort of global level that we're talking about
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right now, it also happens personally because a lot of people are in just heartbreaking situations.
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But to realize, just as you said there, that whatever is happening is God's perfect plan for
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us, that the scriptures are really real when they talk about how all things work for good for those
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who love him, that what is happening to us, despite the horror, it is God's perfect plan for us that
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will bring us to salvation better and faster than anything else, is an immense consolation.
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you know, I work for some Benedictines of Mary, nuns, queen of apostles, they chant the divine office,
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Gregorian chant eight times a day. And you know, if we really got serious about giving great reverence
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to God and the holy sacrifice of the mass, it would change things. Because in the Old Testament,
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King Jeroboam, he was greatly outnumbered by the enemy. And he put the singing man in the vanguard.
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What did they do? They were chanting the Psalms of his grandfather, David. And they were chanting,
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great is the mercy of God, his mercy endureth forever. And so what did the enemy do? When they
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saw this vanguard of singing men, it was like their camp was destroyed and they started to fight against
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each other. So this devotion has helped me to see that if we just give God great adoration and go back
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to Gregorian chant, that the enemy is just going to collapse because God will make it happen.
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Because that's how we win. And we want to win for God. We want to give him greater reverence.
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And I tell people when I promote the devotion to the holy face, you know, this is so much fun because
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I'm promoting God. The one thing that God created us for was right worship. And so this devotion helps
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us to have a greater understanding of how to approach God with awe and to give honor to his
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name. And it's a practice for hopefully the beatific vision for us. Seeing the face of God
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Jesus gave us, our father gave us in the nativity of the passion, death and resurrection, to see his
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face is a practice, is practice for seeing the beatific vision. What St. Thomas says is the greatest
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gift God can give to a preacher is to see him face to face. So this devotion, when I first discovered
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it, I didn't know how rich it was going to be. I've been studying it for like six or seven years now,
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and it just keeps giving more and more treasures. It's like you find a treasure box and you've just
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put the shovel on the top of the box. You've hit it. I think that's where I'm at with this devotion.
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I can't wait to unlock it, open it up and see the rest of the secrets God wants to give us.
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And my goal is to promote this so that a million people get enrolled in the arch confraternity of
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the Holy Face. Now, people may ask, Father Carnie, what is the arch confraternity of the Holy Face?
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Well, it's a spiritual army that it was first a confraternity by the Archbishop of Tours,
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and he petitioned Pope Leo XIII to make it an arch confraternity, which his holiness did by the
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grace of God in 1885. And some of the first members to sign up were St. Charles of Lisieux of the
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Little Childies and of the Holy Face, and Zellie and Louis Martin, St. Zellie and Louis Martin now,
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her mom and dad. And this arch confraternity has six requirements. This is what's really important,
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John Henry. This is very important. Whenever heaven tells us to do something, we should do it exactly as
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it says. And Jesus told Sister Mary, St. Peter, I want this to have a canonical foundation before
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it's going to have any fruit. And that's when I saw that. I saw, wow, this is canonically founded.
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This is of the church. This is of a pope. It gives us these specific things. First,
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join the confraternity by enrolling. Second, there's only six. Second is receive the enrollment papers.
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Third is to wear an effigy, like a scapular or a cross or a medal. Fourth is to go to the monthly
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meetings. Fifth is to promote it. And sixth is once a day to say in from the Psalms, the Lord show us
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the face and we shall be saved. And then to say a potter, an Ave Maria, and a glory be. And that's it.
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And I tell spiritual directors and people that are interested in this, tell your spiritual director,
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if you have too much on your plate, this only adds one minute a day and maybe up to 30 minutes
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once a month, go to the monthly meetings. What is a confraternity anyway?
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It's a canonical group of people that has been established by something approved by the hierarchy
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of the church to get together and to unite on a certain front. And they usually produce statutes
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of how they're going to live as a confraternity. So it's con means to be with and fraternity brotherly,
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to be with each other together. So in the Catholic church, we Catholics have a right to assemble
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together with doing things, of course, that are upstanding and moral because we're crazy. We're
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a church. So that's basically what a confraternity is. And it's important. There's different levels
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in canon law. Some of them are private, some of them are public, and then some become of diocesan
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right and then papal right. So this large confraternity obviously is of papal right. So it's the highest
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form of the canonical union of people within the Catholic church.
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Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you stumbled into this in the first place.
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Sure. So I was ordained a priest in Wichita, Kansas in 2007. After six years, I took a sabbatical
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and went on a Camino in Spain. And I wore my cassock. And about a thousand people talked to me over
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those 32 days about God. It was really awesome. So I came back to the States and was discerning
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with my bishop what I should do. And I got invited to become the chaplain of these nuns
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in Gower, Missouri. And I said, I need to be able to keep walking because what happened on the Camino,
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I should take the States. So I went to St. Joseph, Eta Adiosif, go to Joseph, St. Joseph, Missouri.
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And I walked around for five years and people began to talk to me. And I was just, it came
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to me after six months that, wait a minute, this is one of the ways Jesus did it during
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his public ministry. He just started walking around. I did that for a while. And then one
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of the nuns, her name is Sister Scholastica. I had started a community of men at the time
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and I was writing a newsletter. I said, what should I write about? She said, write about the
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holy face. Now this nun is very holy. She's not really allowed to talk to me very much
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except like during Christmas and special times. So when she says something, I really take it
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to note. So when I started to read about this devotion, I saw that November 11th was a very
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important day of it because St. Martin of Tours is where this devotion really developed. And
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that's my birthday, November 11th. So St. Martin of Tours is a patron of this as long
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also with St. Michael the Archangel and St. Louis the King of France. So I've been promoting
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this devotion now for about five years. And it's such a joy to be able to do it with people
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like you. And last year, my Bishop of Wichita asked me to move back because there's a project
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that we hope to do with the nuns coming here someday. And I also continue to walk the streets
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and I have a chance to continue to promote the devotion to the holy face. So that's pretty
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much my life. I walk around and propagate the faith. I say the old traditional Latin mass
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and then I promote this arch-compaternity of the holy face and trying to get a million people
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before I die. And I'm inspired by that because St. Louis de Montfort wrote a book called The
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Secret of the Holy Face, where he talked about Blessed Alan de la Roche, who was a Dominican
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who was commissioned by the Blessed Virgin Mary to promote the rosary because it almost died.
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And he was like a second apostle of the rosary. And he died in 1475, but he got 100,000 people
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to enroll in the compaternity. So this devotion is very similar to the rosary. It almost died too.
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But our Lord told Sister Mary St. Peter that this devotion will grow cool over some time,
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but there will be some apostles in the latter times who will reinvigorate it and promote it.
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So I really feel like that's where we're at, is people like yourself and so many people are getting
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behind this devotion because once people start to see how powerful it is and how it is a devotion
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for our times, because it's about the face of God, the image of God. And the enemy is doing things
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like wanting to cover our faces. And it's just so many things like that. And, you know, to fight
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against communism, not so much with tanks and missiles and becoming a president of the United
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States or a governor of a state, but being the best Catholics we can be, God tells us in this
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devotion how we can change the tide of history.
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Beautiful. Father, today is February 21st. It is the feast day of the Holy Face. What's the
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Yeah, the feast day of the Holy Face is always on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.
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So Pope St. Pius X wanted it to be on that day, and then Blessed Pius XII extended it to the
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universal church. So that is the day that we celebrate the mass of the Holy Face. And it's
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such a fitting thing because we have this tug of war constantly going on between paganism and
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between Christianity. You know, Mardi Gras and just getting drunk in New Orleans and eating to
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gluttony is a pagan way of celebrating the day before Ash Wednesday. But the popes were seeing this and
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they were saying, no, we need to focus on preparing for Lent. And why not prepare with the devotion to
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the Holy Face of Jesus, starting to get our minds on meditating on his face throughout the different
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stages of his passion. So that's why we have that mass. There's more and more people that are
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asking their priests to celebrate it. I only have the Missal page insert for the Latin mass.
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So I don't know if it exists in the Novus Ordo, but it's just a beautiful thing to start the day
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before Lent. So we don't start off on like a paganism type of foot. We're Christians every day, not
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some days of the year. Father, there's an aspect that I wanted to get into a little bit more,
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and that is reparation. That is sort of the key to all of this. Define reparation for us,
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if you will. Reparation means to repair the damage and the relationship between
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the Trinity and the human family. So we can make reparation for our own sins, reparation for the
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sins of priests and bishops, for the sins of Catholics, for the sins of pagans, for the sins of,
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you know, non-Christians. So reparation is something that's destined to save society,
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as the Pope said, and it's restoring that relationship. So we have to remember that
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we're a human family, and we're responsible for each other, because Cain and Abel's story is very
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clear. When Cain killed Abel, what did our Lord, what did God say? You know, where are you?
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What have you done? Where's your brother? And he said, am I the master of my brother? I need to
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take care of my own self. And that's not a charitable way. We should have fraternal charity.
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So anyone that has a great amount of fraternal charity is a sign that they're in one of the
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highest stages in a unitive way. So reparation is having a care for everyone, wanting everyone to
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get to heaven, wanting to give God what is his due, which is called religion, to give God the honor and
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reverence that's due to him. So reparation is making acts of penance, fasting, abstaining, doing prayers,
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offering masses, holy hours in the spirit of reparation. And that helps to return that
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broken relationship between God and the human family. Father, what an incredible way for us to
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begin the day before Lent, to begin our Lent. And I'm sure a lot of people are going to have a
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pancake or whatever else, and there's no sin in that in terms of also getting rid of your
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sweets or whatever else you have at home before we start into Lent. But give us again, if you would,
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the name of your book, how we can access it. The book is called The Secret of the Holy Face,
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The Devotion Destined to Save Society. And it's put out by TAN Publishers. And TAN Publishers has a
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website where you can go and buy it for them directly. And then how you can enroll into the
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Arch-Concentrate of the Holy Face, the League of St. Martin, which is a pious association of faithful
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that I started. We promote enrollment to the Holy Face, Arch-Concentrate of the Holy Face, and of the
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Rosary. So if people type in League of St. Martin, they can go to our website and find out on the page
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called Ecclesiastical Enrollments, so they can sign up for the Holy Face and sign up for the Rosary.
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And the website is www.martinians.org. So I hope that a million people will go and sign up and become
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members of this very beautiful army that St. Charles of Lisieux is a part of. Because isn't it beautiful
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to have an Arch-Concentrate we can join? Because she is definitely working hard in heaven. She's saving
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souls out there in heaven. And I think that when more and more people join this, there's going to be
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a great superabundance of spiritual favors that God will bestow on our human family.
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Father Lawrence, thank you so much. Before you go, would you mind giving us your blessing, please?
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Benediccia demli potentis patris et fili, spiritus han shindit super, vos et mania et sempec. Amen.
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Amen. Thank you so much, Father, for all that you do, promoting the Holy Face, for walking around
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and getting asked questions to answer them for the faith. God bless you.
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Thank you, John Henry, for being a host and having me on your beautiful show.
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And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.