Sermon for Friday after the Fourth Sunday of Lent
We hear in today's Gospel how the messengers of Mary and Martha come to the Lord Jesus and announce to Him: "The one whom You love is sick." Mary and Martha, as Saint Augustine notes in his comment…
The Gospel: The Raising of Lazarus
We hear in today’s Gospel how the messengers of Mary and Martha come to the Lord Jesus and announce to Him: „The one whom You love is sick.‟ Mary and Martha, as Saint Augustine notes in his commentary on today’s Gospel, do not send to the Lord Jesus in order to ask Him to come. They merely inform Him: the one whom You love is sick. For if we love someone, the mere news that things are going badly for him is sufficient. There is no need to explain to us, to point out what we should do.
And so the Lord Jesus sets out for Bethany to awaken Lazarus from sleep, as He tells His disciples — to perform a great miracle, to raise him, to raise him from the dead.
Lazarus as a Figure of the Sinner
And the Church Fathers point out that Lazarus is a symbol, a figure of the sinner. Sin causes sickness. Mortal sin can even lead to death. And at the mere news that a man is sick, God’s grace is moved and strives to lead that man to conversion, to healing — and if he has fallen into mortal sin, to raise him, to bring about the recovery of supernatural life.
The Post-Conciliar Church and Its Talk of "Mercy"
Dear faithful, in the post-conciliar church, mercy is spoken of very often and very frequently. In recent years we have heard a whole load of nonsense proclaimed by Bergoglio, his collaborators with Fernández at the helm — about how one must go out to the peripheries of the Church, meet people, listen.
Archbishop Viganò's Attempts to Reach Leo XIV
A few words today about the events of recent months, which have already been disclosed by Archbishop Viganò. Since they have been made public, I am no longer bound by confidentiality.
On the 4th of June of last year, he addressed an extensive letter to the Roman chameleon — an extensive letter containing a series of confidential, sensitive information, proposing a meeting. This letter remained without a response.
In August, at the end of August, Archbishop Viganò contacted the Prefect of the Papal Household, and the Prefect of the Papal Household announced that an audience would be arranged, because Leo XIV wishes to hear everyone out.
At the end of September, Archbishop Viganò was notified that the date of the audience had been set — around the 11th of December, at the Apostolic Palace. Two days before this audience, he unexpectedly receives word that it is being cancelled. Two hours later, an invitation arrives — a special one, on a special form — for the audience. And after another two hours, yet another letter arrives cancelling the appointment.
He therefore contacts the Prefect of the Papal Household, who announces that all is well, the audience is merely being postponed, but Leo XIV wishes to hear everyone out.
The Meeting with Cardinal Re
At the end of December, he tries once more to establish contact with the Prefecture of the Papal Household — without success. At the end of January, he telephones his long-time collaborator, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, the over-90-year-old Cardinal Re, who, surprised by the phone call, states that of course it is a great joy that the Archbishop is making contact, and that by all means certain steps need to be taken — to meet, to talk.
A meeting with Cardinal Re takes place at the end of January on the grounds of the Apostolic Nunciature in Italy, at which Archbishop Viganò spends over an hour trying to explain what is wrong with the Bergoglian church.
Cardinal Re, completely impervious to any arguments, refuses to take another letter to Leo XIV and states — which is very significant — that one must listen to the Pope and be obedient to him, even if the Pope does not listen to God.
Such is the quintessence of modernist thinking.
Subsequently, the Archbishop sends by post the letter he had prepared for the meeting with Cardinal Re — and to this day, silence. That is what this „listening to everyone‟ looks like in the church of the chameleon.
Leo XIV: A Faithful Continuator
Dear faithful, Archbishop Viganò wished in this way to demonstrate that there is absolutely no readiness to listen to the voice of truth in the chameleon. And we should not be surprised by this, because he is a faithful continuator of Bergoglian thought, a faithful executor, a builder of the conciliar religion. It was no accident that he was chosen, and all the illusions of traditionalists — that this is a traditional Pope, that there will be concessions to Tradition, and so on — are a pipe dream, they are nonsense. He is a heretic of the same stripe as Bergoglio was.
The Pachamama Photograph
And just yesterday or the day before, a piece of information appeared, a photograph appeared, which shows Fr. Prevost in 1995 at a gathering, a meeting of Augustinians in South America. And this photograph shows him participating in rites in honour of Pachamama — kneeling, bowing down before Pachamama in 1995. So what can one expect from such a man? All these tales of dialogue, of listening to everyone, are nonsense, are hogwash.
In the post-conciliar church, there is room for every error, for every heresy, for every distortion — but there is not the slightest room for truth. Truth is something these people fear, something they flee from. Hence, hence they are not even able to hear a few words of truth, because Leo would certainly have had to reckon with the fact that a meeting with Archbishop Viganò would not have proceeded in as pleasant, joyful, and congenial an atmosphere as the meeting of Fr. Pagliarani with Cardinal Fernández. Both gentlemen emphasized in their statements precisely this friendly, pleasant atmosphere of the meeting.
Call to Prayer and Perseverance
Dear faithful, we must therefore pray — pray for the Holy Church, pray for perseverance for all those who see the danger flowing from the new post-conciliar religion, but who, as a result of the passage of time and weariness, are losing their vigour, giving in, beginning to seek compromise.
May we, my dear ones, not fall into that trap, for the time is evil and the time is short. The time is short. We must, my dear ones, reckon with the fact that the purification will come soon. We probably no longer need to count in years, but rather in months.
But may we, my dear ones, survive these months, this time of trial and persecution; may we reach the finish line. May we, my dear ones, not get spiritual breathlessness along the way, as has happened to a whole mass of so-called traditionalists. May we not collapse somewhere along the road; may we finish the race to which we have been called by our Lord Jesus Christ. And for those who reach the finish line, the goal — there awaits, after all, the unfading crown of glory.
Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.