Posted on 08/03/2014 3:22:27 PM PDT by NYer
As you may have heard, some nitwits have scheduled use of a public venue in Oklahoma City for the purpose of a Satanic Black Mass. It is unclear if they have a consecrated Host.
This is, I think, mostly a sophomoric stunt. It is, nevertheless, a horrible blasphemy.
The Bishop of Tulsa, His Excellency Most Rev. Edward Slattery, has issued a letter to people in his diocese. HERE
A letter from Bishop Slattery
Countering with Prayer the proposed Black Mass in Oklahoma CityMy Dear People:
As has been widely reported, a Satanic Black Mass has been scheduled for September 21 in Oklahoma City’s Civic Center. As a part of Satanic worship, a Black Mass attempts to invert the action and meaning of the Eucharist in order to mock Christ’s sacrifice and worship Satan through an orgiastic ritual of pain and perversion. It blasphemes everything which we hold as sacred and redemptive; and the spiritual dangers it poses ought not be dismissed. Since the Civic Center has not responded positively to the pleas of the Archbishop of Oklahoma City not to host this event in a tax-payer supported public venue, I am asking the faithful Catholics in the Diocese of Tulsa to fight this blasphemy through prayer and fasting:
- Please keep the nine days prior to the Feast of the Assumption as an extraordinary period of prayer and penance. I am asking every Catholic to abstain from all meat and meat products from August 6 through the 14th. I am also asking that you consecrate your hunger with a daily recitation of a decade of the rosary and the familiar Prayer to Saint Michael. Printed copies of these prayers are available in the bulletin and at the entrances of the church. Be strong and encourage your friends to also be strong.
- On Assumption Day, August 15th, we will ask Our Lady on her Feast, to intercede for us and protect us. On that day I in the Cathedral, and every priest in his own parish, will pray a special prayer written by Pope Leo XIII for the defense of the Church against the attack of the Enemy and his apostate angels.
- Should these prayers and this period of fasting not effect the cancellation of this event, then I will ask every priest in the Diocese to conduct a Eucharistic Holy Hour on September 21 at the same time (7:00 p.m.) as this profanity is being celebrated in Oklahoma City. Wherever possible, I ask that Eucharistic Processions – especially outdoor processions – be arranged as part of these holy hours. Let us give a public witness to our faith in the Eucharist which is being so profoundly mocked and ridiculed by this event.
From the snares of the devil, deliver us, O Lord!
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Most Rev. Edward J. Slattery
Bishop of TulsaTo download and/or print this letter and the bulletin announcement in PDF format, click HERE.
To download and/or print the letter to the priests from Bishop Slattery which includes both the Novena prayers and the “Leonine Prayers” from the 1962 Rite of Exorcism, click HERE.
I invite all bishops and priests who read this blog, in solidarity with the Bishop of Tulsa and Archbishop of Oklahoma, to pray for the conversion of these deluded souls and for the overturning of this scheduled event.
Oh, please,... go and bore someone else with your spectacular reads, your psycho babble nonsense and excuse making for those popularizing the desecration of the sacred. No wonder the US is turned upside down, if such vacuous crap as this represents what Americans are now made of.
Sadly, I gotta’ hand it to you, though, your kind of sentimentism rules the day, but has killed a nation.
Lord, have Mercy. I so agree, I can’tell you.
May God use this desecration to His Glory for our correction, I beg.
You’re reading me wrong. I’m not going to give the guys any attention. It’s what they want. Your type of emotional reaction is exactly what the “Satanists” want. I’m not disrespecting G-d. Guys like those Satanists are like pesky mosquitoes He could swat down in 2 seconds. They are of no consequence.
Hey Jack- In the three days descent into hell Christ lost His Divinity and was subjected to further tests by Satan and was called out from Hell by The Father so he could be a “born again MAN”, this according to Copeland, Hinn and Joyce Meyer among others...who actually sound like you and near all the pentecostals so secure in your “Hey I’m protected by The Blood” heresies when it comes to demons, sin etc...little gods.
Perhaps we all need to pray Romans 8 today. Here is part of it.
Rom 8:35, 37-39
Brothers and sisters:
What will separate us from the love of Christ?
Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly
through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities,
nor present things, nor future things,
nor powers, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature will be able to separate us
from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Read the verses from Romans that I just posted.
Christ went to the wailing place, Paradise, to gather all those from the Old Testament that would enter heaven after him.
I’ve never believed that he was tested there. He was God, He had risen from the dead. Why would he be tested?
The power of the Eucharist will prevail.
Especially in procession about the venue.
“Sáncte Míchael Archángele, defénde nos in proélio, cóntra nequítiam et insídias diáboli ésto præsídium. Ímperet ílli Déus, súpplices deprecámur: tuque, prínceps milítiæ cæléstis, Sátanam aliósque spíritus malígnos, qui ad perditiónem animárum pervagántur in múndo, divína virtúte, in inférnum detrúde. Ámen”
Amen.
What is the significance, in Latin, of the accent marks? Is that where the stress goes? So “SAtanam” instead of “saTANam?”
“Wouldn’t this violate man’s free will?”
Is there no end to the silliness?
“Why would he be tested?”
I have wondered the same thing about “Why have you forsaken me.”
My insufficiently humble opinion, not backed AFAIK by the Catholic Church, is that one of His objectives was to experience everything that man can experience—except sin, of course.
Amen; and become a teachable moment and a point of conversion for those who don't understand the power of Christ's presence in the Eucharist.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb (Apocalypse 12:11)
u sure come off as a pent- anyways u got the ol justification/predestination confidence going.
O not that? Then it boils down to this:
James 1 [7] Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Apparently, you wish to fit me into a particular denomination or style of worship or, even, a cult.
I follow a Person, not a man-made philosophy or structure of imaginations. We call ourselves Christians and/or followers of The Lord Jesus Christ. We get together in groups known by various names to worship God.
The finest current TV teacher I can recommend is Charles Stanley in Atlanta. The names you mentioned earlier appeal to others; not to me.
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