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Miserablist Funeral & Killing Donors
‘Saint’ Acutis & Bad Customs
I appreciate your fight for good customs and manners. It is a thing that the clergy also should do, but doesn’t, unfortunately. Often times it does the opposite.
But now, with Francis making a saint of Carlos Acutis - who was a nice boy, no doubt, but far from being a saint - it will become much more difficult for you (for us) to keep the standard floating. Check this news report.
We live in strange times: besides preaching bad doctrine the Pope and the clergy also promote bad customs. It falls to laymen to restore them.
I believe the chastisement predicted in Fatima should not take long to come.
G.L.
Is a semi-naked Acutis a model for Catholics to follow?
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Advent in the Church’s Mind
What should I do during Advent to prepare for Christmas? What are the dates?
Thank you
P.F.
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TIA responds:
Dear P. F.,
The Church has always seen Advent as a time of expectation and longing for the coming of Our Lord. Thus you are correct in desiring to make a fitting preparation for Christmas. The date of Christmas is always the same (December 25), however the date of the first Sunday of Advent changes each year. The first Sunday of Advent is assigned to the Sunday that falls nearest (either before or after) the feast of St. Andrew (November 30). This year of 2024 the first Sunday of Advent fell on December 1.
Dom Guéranger describes the proper sentiments for a Catholic soul during Advent in his The Liturgical Year:
"If our holy mother the Church spends the time of Advent in this solemn preparation for the threefold coming of Jesus Christ; if, after the example of the prudent virgins, she keeps her lamp lit ready for the coming of the Bridegroom; we, being her members and her children, ought to enter into her spirit, and apply to ourselves this warning of our Savior: ‘Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands, and ye yourselves be like unto men who wait for their Lord!’ [Luke 12:35, 36].
“The Church and we have, in reality, the same hopes. Each one of us is, on the part of God, an object of mercy and care, as is the Church herself. If she is the temple of God, it is because she is built of living stones; if she is the bride, it is because she consists of all the souls which are invited to eternal union with God. If it is written that the Savior hath purchased the Church with His own Blood [Acts 20:28], may not each one of us say of himself those words of St. Paul, ‘Christ hath loved me, and hath delivered Himself up for me’ [Gal. 2:20]. Our destiny being the same, then, as that of the Church, we should endeavor during Advent, to enter into the spirit of preparation, which is, as we have seen, that of the Church herself."
This excerpt was taken from Volume 1 of his Collection under the chapter titled "Practice During Advent." In order that you may have a more complete understanding of the Church's spirit, we recommend that you read this chapter and Guéranger's previous two chapters on Advent: "The History of Advent" and "The Mystery of Advent."
You may also benefit from reading about the Catholic Advent customs of the past. The articles "The Medieval Spirit of Advent & the Rorate Mass," "The Golden Nights," and "The Feast of St. Thomas: Lively & Manly Customs" all describe these customs.
Cordially,
TIA correspondence desk
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Killing Organ Donors
Let us be informed of what is going on in hospitals and never be coerced into signing a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) Order. I was pressured to do so for my beloved stroke survivor Mother and regretted it deeply.
Now for those who sign both a DNR and agree to Organ Donations, there is an alternate (even worse?) criterion besides "brain death" that is used for harvesting organs.
In all organ donations, a living person is always being killed and may hear and feel what is being done.
Now this has come to our attention...
God help us!
In Maria,
E.Z., Ph.D.
Excerpts for You...
"In 1993, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center introduced a new protocol for harvesting organs from people who had consented to be given a “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNR) status called donation after circulatory death, or DCD. DCD is a death that is planned to occur at a specific time and place. These people are not brain dead, but are either not expected to survive or have decided that their quality of life is unacceptable and have requested that life support be withdrawn in a way that allows for organ harvesting. DCD donors are taken to the operating room and are removed from all life-sustaining care, including their ventilator. Once they become pulseless, doctors observe a two- to five-minute “no touch” period to be sure that their heartbeat does not spontaneously resume. Organ harvesting begins as quickly as possible thereafter, since warm organs very quickly become unsuitable for transplantation in the absence of circulation.
People are routinely resuscitated within this timeframe. Because DCD donors could still possibly be resuscitated, they are not yet dead. The only reason they are not being resuscitated is that the patient or their family has decided to forego resuscitation (even though it might have been successful) and become an organ donor.
A clinical professor of pediatrics and critical care at the University of Alberta, in reviewing the medical literature found a dozen patients whose hearts restarted without any medical intervention at all after as much as 10 minutes of cardiac arrest, with some of these patients making a complete recovery.
In one case, a woman's heart started beating again after she was opened up, and she started gasping for breath while doctors were removing her organs. Her manner of death was determined to be a homicide.
And, in the never-ending quest for viable organs, doctors have found a macabre new way* to skirt both the "brain death" and "circulatory death" criteria. Transplant centers around the country are removing people who have signed a DNR order from life support, waiting for their hearts to stop, and then immediately clamping off the blood flow to their brains to make them "brain-dead" on purpose. Then their organs are resuscitated, but the person doesn’t wake up because the circulation to their brain has been clamped off. Once blood flow to the heart is established, the heart will start beating.” How dead are you if doctors can re-start your heart in your own chest?"
* The initials for this new way are NRP (normothermic regional perfusion) -- banned in some countries, it is allowed in the US.
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Posted December 3, 2024
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Pope Francis wants a simple rite and to be buried outside the Vatican grounds, like any regular person. Also, no raised platform for viewing the body. Read below, please.
He just cannot stop destroying every remnant of pomp and ceremony in the Church and every good tradition the Church has made for two millennia.
M.G.
humble wooden casket and burial outside Vatican
Now Francis has announced that he will forgo the traditional, elaborate burial rites of his predecessors in order to help modernize the Catholic Church.
When the time comes, the 87-year-old pontiff has chosen to be laid to rest in a single wooden casket lined with zinc, breaking from the centuries-old practice of interring popes in three interlocking caskets made of cypress, lead, and oak.
On Wednesday the Vatican unveiled a new rite that reflects Francis’ vision of a more modest Church. You can read about it here.