The John-Henry Westen Show - March 17, 2020


Catholic historian： Our Lady of Fatima's connection to the coronavirus outbreak


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15 minutes

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162.11305

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2,498

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126

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

Coronavirus is about to result in a worldwide lockdown. The rapid spread of the virus is unheard of in modern history, and results from Italy are totally staggering. There are some fascinating ways in which priests are attempting to safely distribute Holy Communion and hear confessions, and we must recognize this as a chastisement from God. All that and more on this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The coronavirus is about to result in a worldwide lockdown.
00:00:04.260 The rapid spread of the virus is unheard of in modern history and results from Italy are
00:00:09.480 totally staggering. There are some fascinating ways in which priests are attempting to safely
00:00:14.720 distribute Holy Communion and hear confessions, and we must recognize this as a chastisement
00:00:19.960 from God. All that and more on this episode of the John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.
00:00:30.000 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father,
00:00:50.680 and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. For the first time in Rome in hundreds of years,
00:00:57.740 there will be no celebration of Holy Week. No Holy Thursday, no Good Friday, no Easter Sunday.
00:01:04.120 That didn't even happen during the World Wars. Not, says historian Professor Roberto de Mate,
00:01:10.660 since perhaps when Napoleon invaded Rome at the end of the 18th century. The professor told Life
00:01:16.300 Sites Dr. Micah Hickson that he supports, and I quote, restrictive health measures. He supports
00:01:22.760 these restrictive health measures because, he says, faced with the coronavirus epidemic. I believe
00:01:29.740 that the Italian line, which aims to protect people's health, is more fair than that of some
00:01:36.400 countries, such as England, which attribute primacy to the economy. Professor de Mate explained,
00:01:43.180 in fact, he rebuked Great Britain for its approach to let the illness run its course without many
00:01:48.660 restrictions so far. Boris Johnson's position seems to be based on eugenics and Darwinism,
00:01:54.420 and I'm afraid that it will bring misfortunes to his country, he said. As a side note, I'm sure many
00:02:01.220 of you would have seen the leaked briefing for the government's National Health Service published
00:02:05.800 in the Guardian newspaper yesterday. It was entitled UK coronavirus to last until spring 2021,
00:02:12.140 and could see 7.9 million hospitalized. The document says that, and I quote, as many as 80% of the
00:02:19.640 population are expected to be infected with COVID-19 in the next 12 months, and up to 15%, and that's
00:02:26.160 7.9 million people, may require hospitalization, end quote. The paper points out that with a 1% mortality
00:02:34.280 rate, that would lead to over half a million deaths this year, except the World Health Organization
00:02:41.460 has suggested a mortality rate of over three. So, there's no surprise that Professor de Mate says,
00:02:48.660 I am therefore in favor of restrictive health measures, but he also reminds us that in Italy,
00:02:54.180 it is forbidden to leave houses unless you have to go to work, to a pharmacy, or to a supermarket.
00:03:00.220 But Professor de Mate, at the same time, reminds us of the importance of our spiritual lives.
00:03:05.640 He regrets that masses are currently abolished in Italy, saying that, in my opinion,
00:03:10.420 it would be possible to authorize them with due precautions. Now, we are receiving, he says,
00:03:19.220 extra misam communion every day from a zealous priest. That is, communion outside of mass.
00:03:25.940 So, communion in the mouth, he says, cannot carry the virus if the priest disinfects his hands every time
00:03:34.560 he distributes it. So, let me explain then what they're doing in Italy right now, at least some
00:03:40.260 priests in Italy are doing. Some very ingenious ways to, they would be open to celebrating mass when
00:03:47.120 that gets allowed again, by, by the way, restricting the number of people that are allowed to come into
00:03:51.800 the church at any one time, to 50 or so, whatever the requirement that the government sets is in order
00:03:57.940 to limit the spread of the virus. Also, to just have people sit six feet apart. And also, when they
00:04:04.440 come up for holy communion, one at a time, again, six feet apart. And when the priest does administer
00:04:10.200 holy communion to the first one, he then cleanses his hands in a solution of water and alcohol before
00:04:16.220 administering communion to the next person. And so, therefore, you have a very clean, if you will,
00:04:23.740 or disinfected way of distributing holy communion. Moreover, in the U.S. and other places, there are
00:04:31.280 priests who are administering holy communion in different ways, in different kind of ingenious ways.
00:04:39.220 There are solutions proposed for outdoor masses with the churchgoers in their cars, either getting
00:04:45.120 holy communion in their cars or making spiritual holy communions from their cars, at least being able to
00:04:51.140 witness the holy sacrifice of the mass live. Some, of course, are watching their masses on TV. Some
00:04:57.020 people are live streaming masses. Some priests are doing them over radio. Also, confession in vehicles
00:05:03.700 with a good priest, a priest a good distance away. Again, three to six feet away or whatever the government
00:05:10.460 proposes its legislation. And then the priest is able still to hear, making sure people aren't in
00:05:19.120 earshot. But this can be set up back of a parking lot type of thing and having, you know, people
00:05:25.540 able to confess their sins. This is an absolute requirement when people are in need of a good
00:05:32.320 confession, especially if they're in danger of death. And the thing is, of course, we're going to
00:05:37.000 be publishing on LifeSite ways of making your spiritual holy communion a perfect act of contrition when
00:05:42.640 there's absolutely no possibility of getting to a priest. You are able to, with the intention
00:05:47.540 of making a confession, if possible, make a perfect act of contrition, which can actually also forgive
00:05:55.780 even mortal sins. Professor DeMatte stresses, we must certainly do everything to preserve our lives,
00:06:04.440 but we must also ensure the spiritual goods that we need in order to persevere in the difficult days
00:06:09.860 ahead. Practically speaking, the spiritual means are, he says, the daily holy rosary and holy communion
00:06:17.820 as frequently as possible, even extra misan that's outside the mass. But above all, we must love the
00:06:23.400 justice of God, because without justice can be no mercy, and God is infinitely merciful, because he is
00:06:29.180 infinitely right. So to understand what this, about this remark, or what this means, we must understand
00:06:35.740 the gravity of our current anti-God world. There's more sin now than in any other time in history,
00:06:41.980 and that's simply a fact. Many people actually say, oh no, there's not. There was, you know, so much sin
00:06:46.240 before, before. Ah, you know what? Nonsense. First of all, let's do a quick proof. Our Lady of Fatima came
00:06:52.280 in 1917, told the little children, more people go to hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other
00:06:58.200 reason. And yet, sins of the flesh, of course, sins of impurity, which we've explained many times, and yet
00:07:04.680 there are more people today who view porn regularly than there were people alive in 1917. So don't let
00:07:13.840 someone tell you it was worse before it wasn't. Moreover, we have the most extreme heresies of all
00:07:19.520 time, accepted by a majority of Catholics and pushed by the Pope himself. So we must also have an outlook
00:07:28.000 of joy, by the way, rather than only worry, and not to worry. We have to have the hope of eternal
00:07:34.160 salvation. The prospect of death is not terrifying. It is the only way of entrance into eternal life.
00:07:41.920 In his talk on the matter, Professor de Maté said, and I quote, it is time to multiply the calls for
00:07:47.000 conversion and repentance and to nourish the supernatural spirit of those close to us. De Maté also puts this
00:07:54.600 current crisis in the context of the message of Fatima, or Lady of Fatima, saying that this is the
00:08:01.960 moment to remember the message of Fatima because the divine punishments, which have already been
00:08:07.000 affecting the Church for many years, are making themselves visible to the whole society, end quote.
00:08:12.840 And that's perhaps, at least for me, one of the most interesting comments of all. Remember the vision
00:08:18.060 of Fatima when you see a night, and now this was the words of the vision of Fatima, when you see a night
00:08:22.700 illumined by an unknown light, know that this is a great sign given you by God, that he is about to
00:08:27.140 punish the world for its crimes by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and the
00:08:31.520 Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart
00:08:36.460 and the communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, said Our Lady,
00:08:42.380 Russia will be converted, and there will be peace. If not, she will spread her errors throughout the
00:08:46.920 world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred. The Holy Father will have much to
00:08:52.140 suffer. Various nations will be annihilated. In the end, she said, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.
00:08:58.620 The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will
00:09:04.340 be granted to the world. But then the third part, released in 2000, stated, and I quote again,
00:09:10.580 we saw an angel with a flaming sword in his left hand. Flashing it gave out flames that looked as though
00:09:16.320 they would set the world on fire, but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady
00:09:23.020 radiated towards him from her right hand. Pointing to the earth with his right hand, the angel cried
00:09:29.800 out in a loud voice, penance, penance, penance. We saw an immense light that is God, something similar
00:09:35.880 to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it. A bishop dressed in white, with the
00:09:40.560 impression that was the Holy Father. Other bishops, priests, men and women religious going up a steep
00:09:45.400 mountain, at the top of which there was a big cross of rough hewn trunks, as of a cork tree with
00:09:51.320 the bark. Before reaching there, the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins, now pay
00:09:57.100 attention, and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the
00:10:03.420 souls of the corpses he met on his way. Now that's very interesting to note, because if we look at the
00:10:12.120 numbers of deaths that are possible in Italy with only a one, or that are possible with only one percent
00:10:19.480 of the nation of the UK, is over 500,000 deaths. Italy is actually seemingly worse right now. In the Lombardy
00:10:29.400 region, it's not a one percent morbidity, it is a 6.6 percent morbidity. We'll see what, how that plays
00:10:36.540 out, what that means. We'll probably see it in the coming weeks, but this is going to be very scary
00:10:42.220 indeed, and the prospect of having to step over corpses is very real. Professor DeMatte, nonetheless,
00:10:50.860 recalled an earlier essay on the coronavirus. In an earlier essay on the coronavirus, he recalled the
00:10:57.700 similarity of the third Fatima Visions angel with the account of the miracle of the stopping of the
00:11:03.860 bubonic plague, or Black Death, as it was known, which, if you remember, wiped out half of the population
00:11:09.440 of Europe. The angels, in fact, are, he says, the executors of divine punishments on people, as the
00:11:17.220 dramatic vision of the third secret of Fatima reminds us by calling us to repentance. The Black Death
00:11:23.620 ended with a miraculous intervention of Our Lady via an image of her painted by St. Luke the Evangelist.
00:11:31.960 As the plague ended, Pope Gregory witnessed angels singing the Regina Celi, and that's, by the way,
00:11:38.560 where we get the prayer from, the song Regina Celi, which we sing during Easter. And then he saw St.
00:11:45.780 Michael the Archangel atop what is now called Castle San Angelo, sheath, that means put back into its
00:11:51.860 a bloody sword. And that's when they knew that the plague had ended. And, of course, this seems
00:12:01.980 somewhat dire because here is another angel looking or now sheathing his sword of punishment for the
00:12:08.800 world. But despite his being in the hardest hit of nations suffering from coronavirus, Professor
00:12:16.640 DeMatte remains hopeful. He tells us to remind one another that everything that happens is, and I
00:12:22.700 quote, for the salvation of the elected and for the triumph of the church, adding that, quote, the
00:12:28.880 closer the punishment is, the closer will be the triumph of her immaculate heart, the immaculate heart of
00:12:34.700 Mary that Our Lady has promised us. The solution to all of this is that of Our Lady and Our Lady of
00:12:42.880 Fatima. It's not a battle against flesh and bud, but principalities and powers. It's waged first and
00:12:49.380 foremost in our own hearts. The formula for success is easy. It's daily mass wherever possible, the five
00:12:56.080 first Saturdays, three Hail Marys, the rosary, confession, consecration to Our Lady of ourselves
00:13:02.100 and our families, the scapular intercession of the saints and guardian angels, and never ever lose hope.
00:13:09.760 In the end, my immaculate heart will triumph, Our Lady promised. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia
00:13:17.220 to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world. In 2017,
00:13:24.780 Cardinal Raymond Burke called on the Pope to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
00:13:30.020 He said, and I quote, regarding the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I do not
00:13:34.460 doubt for a moment the intention of Pope St. John Paul II to carry out the consecration on March 25th,
00:13:41.060 1984. The servant of God, Sister Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart indicated that Our Lady
00:13:48.840 had accepted it, but it is evident that the consecration was not carried out in the manner
00:13:54.280 requested by Our Lady. Recognizing the necessity of a total conversion from atheistic materialism and
00:14:01.140 communism to Christ, the call of Our Lady of Fatima to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart in
00:14:06.580 accord with her explicit instruction remains urgent, he said. For those who may still object
00:14:14.760 to calling for the consecration of Russia, Cardinal Burke recalled the words of Pope St. John Paul II
00:14:20.160 himself, who said in 1982 during his consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart, and I quote,
00:14:25.900 Mary's appeal is not for just once. Her appeal must be taken up generation after generation
00:14:32.500 in accord with the ever new signs of the times. It must be unceasingly returned to. It must ever be
00:14:40.140 taken up anew. So let's renew our own consecration to Mary this March 25th, the Feast of Her Annunciation,
00:14:49.160 where she became the living tabernacle of God, the Ark of the New Covenant, the Theotokos,
00:14:54.440 the God-bearer, or simply the Mother of God. And with that, we can say with great confidence to
00:15:02.000 the Eternal Father, behold not me, but behold the handmaid of the Lord. Let's ask again for the
00:15:08.980 consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Let's do our part to honor the Mother of Jesus
00:15:14.840 so that we might worthily honor her Son, in her, with her, and through her. For LifeSite News,
00:15:22.040 this is John Henry Weston, and may God bless you.