Message received from Fr. MacDonald and published with his permission
Dear Faithful,
May God grant you a blessed new year. Last year was very strange. 2021 promises to be even stranger. However, God does not change. His truth does not change. The Faith is always the same. However the way we serve Him depends upon our circumstances. Some have lost their jobs or businesses. This is not good. If you are one such you must find something useful to do. Do not be idle or spend your time with children's games. Ask St. Joseph to help you to be productive and if you have a family to provide for it.
Also, try to learn more about your faith. You may be called to be a hero for Christ. You want to be ready to answer that call.
I apologize for my tardiness in publishing this sermon for the Feast of St. Stephen [see below]. I had also intended to write something for the 850th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas of Canterbury. President Trump trumped me on this with his timely Proclamation in honor of the Saint. What he did is good and quite remarkable for a President to do. However, his advisors are probably in the modern Church. He errs in thinking that St. Thomas died for religious liberty. At that time there were no Protestants. The Catholic Religion was the only religion in England and in Europe. The heresy of "religious liberty" did not exist. St. Thomas died for defending the rights of the Church against the King. King Henry II was trying to exercise authority over the Church and bishops. St. Thomas refused to let him do so. Several hundred years later another Henry, King Henry VIII, would try the same thing. Although opposed by St. John Fisher, whom he killed, he successfully got control of the Church and led England into the heresy of Anglicanism.
Today again the governments around the world are interfering in Church affairs. A few bishops are standing up for the rights of the Church but most are acquiescing and surrendering their rights to the secular power. Now in Sydney a church must have 4 sq meters (> 40 sq. feet) for every worshipper. And they are limited to 100 persons in the church. This goes far beyond the authority of the state. The bishops should tell them no. We will have Mass as normal. But they will not do so. There are none with the courage of St. Thomas of Canterbury or St. John Fisher.
Please keep up the prayers, also we must pray for the pope and bishops.
As we celebrate Epiphany, let us ask the intercession of the Three Kings so that God and His Church may be made known to the nations.
God bless you,
Fr. MacDonald
Feast of St. Stephen 2020 — Adelaide, South Australia
Today we celebrate the Feast of the first martyr of Holy Mother Church. St. Stephen was one of the first seven deacons ordained by St. Peter to assist the Apostles. We read in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles at today’s Mass that he was full of grace and fortitude did great wonders and signs amongst the people. Various men of bad will from several groups who opposed the Gospel gathered together against him: Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians and others all disputing with Stephen. However, he was full of the Holy Ghost and they could not resist his wisdom. They had the opportunity to accept the truth that he was speaking but refused to do so. Instead they became enraged against Stephen and gnashed their teeth at him. Ultimately shouting they stopped their ears so that they could not hear him and then dragged him out of the city and stoned him. St. Stephen entered into heaven. His last words were “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.” And in the prayer for today’s Mass we ask for the grace to imitate St. Stephen “Grant us we beseech thee O Lord, to imitate what we venerate, that we may learn to love even our enemies; for we celebrate the birth to
life everlasting of him who knew how to pray even for his persecutors.”
Saul was one who agreed with the stoning of St. Stephen. He did not participate himself but held the coats of those who were throwing the stones. Saul became a great persecutor of the Church. However God had heard St. Stephen’s prayer and Saul was the beneficiary of it. Our Lord converted him with a special grace and he became a greater Apostle of the Church then he had been an enemy. He suffered a great deal for Our Lord and converted many nations to the Faith.
The Gospel teaches us “the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ”. And Our Lord answers Pilate: “Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice.” Our Lord was speaking through St. Stephen and those wicked men who were not of the truth refused to hear him. Also the majority of the people of Jerusalem refused to hear the Apostles and convert to the Faith. St. Peter had admonished them “save yourself from this perverse generation”, many did and were baptized but most did not. And as Our Lord prophesied in the Gospel reading for today and warned the scribes and Pharisees that all the just blood that had been shed on the earth from the blood of Abel to their day would come upon them, and Jerusalem was completely destroyed in punishment for refusing Our Lord.
Truth comes from Our Lord “Jesus saith to him (Thomas): I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.” Our minds were made to know truth and when we hear truth we must embrace it and submit to it. We must make efforts to learn the truth, especially the Supernatural Truths of our Faith. Our Faith is supernatural. We believe Supernatural Mysteries, for example, the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, Transubstantiation. We believe these because they are true and were revealed by God who can neither deceive nor be deceived.
Before Our Lord came into the world most men believed lies, fables and myths. They worshipped devils under the forms of various idols. The devil, a master of deceit from the beginning when he first deceived Eve had perverted the minds of men to embrace his lies. Our Lord through His Church was now going to change this. Missionaries would be sent throughout the world to teach the truth to those in error and baptize the believers. So that they might be saved and populate heaven. This is the purpose of the Church.
Continued
1 January 2021 — Brisbane, Queensland
The Second Vatican Council changed this, teaching that the errors and lies originating with Satan have equal rights with the Truth originating with Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are no longer going to proclaim the truth to all men. Immediately men started believing errors. With no one teaching the truth the world plunged into darkness. Immorality and injustice followed in the wake of error. Selfishness, envy and hatred replaced charity.
Vatican II taught that it was foolish to die for the Faith. There would be no more glorious martyrs. It is better to dialogue and discuss differences in belief without attempting to convert one another. There would be no more truth. Our Lord would never more be the “Way, the Truth and the Life”. Now there would be many ways, no truth and no life.
The life is the supernatural life of Grace raising us above the mundane and making us children of God and heirs of heaven. It is a gift given to Christians and not to unbelievers, apostates, heretics and sinners. There are two classes in this world. Those with the true Faith and those without it. The haves and the have-nots. The Haves are divided into the Just and the sinners. The Just have a living Faith which is accompanied by supernatural Hope and Charity. The Sinners have a dead Faith; they have expelled supernatural Hope and Charity from their souls.
The Just obey the law of God. They demonstrate their Love for Our Lord by keeping His Commandments. Especially the Two Great Commandments which were new commandments given by Our Lord Jesus Christ. They necessarily include the Ten Commandments of God given to Moses.
The first is: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, thy whole mind, thy whole will and all of thy strength.
The Second is like it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
The Just willingly keep these commandments. Love of God demands that we practise the one true Faith, submitting to the teachings of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. With their minds the Just learn what the Church teaches and believe these teachings; with their heart the Just love the Truths taught by the Church. With their Will The Just are determined to practise the Faith, especially they desire to keep the moral law and hate sin. With their Strength the Just publicly defend the Faith and are willing to imitate St. Stephen by dying for it.
Love of neighbour demands the practise of the works of Mercy. The Corporal works of Mercy and even more the Spiritual works of Mercy.
The Corporal works of Mercy are: 1. Feed the Hungry; 2: Give drink to the thirsty; 3. Clothe the naked; 4. Shelter the homeless; 5. Visit the sick; 6. Visit the Imprisoned; 7. Bury the dead.
The Spiritual works of Mercy are: 1. Admonish the sinner; 2. Instruct the ignorant; 3. Counsel the doubtful; 4. Comfort the sorrowful; 5. Bear wrongs patiently; 6. Forgive injuries; 7. To pray for the living and the dead.
The Conciliar Church generally agrees with the Corporal works of mercy but does not like nor promote the Spiritual works of mercy. In their false charity they think that the sinner will be offended if I admonish him; therefore I will not tell him he is sinning and will even condone his sin. Pope Francis does this. He sins against charity leaving sinners in their sins and sending their souls ultimately to Hell. Likewise the Conciliar Church refuses to instruct the ignorant preferring to leave them in their ignorance of the True Faith. This again is sending souls to Hell as souls not knowing, loving and serving the true God will be sent to Hell. St. Stephen laid down his life instructing the ignorant because of his great charity. The Conciliar Church not having Charity will not instruct the ignorant.
Many men who think that they are just refuse to bear wrongs patiently and forgive injuries. Their justice is not true. St. Stephen bore the injustices from his persecutors with great patience and forgave them their sins against him.
It is important to know the lives of the Saints and Martyrs because they are examples and models for us. What they did we should strive to do in our circumstances.The Conciliar Church has persecuted the Just for nearly sixty years. Now the state has joined this persecution, often with the support of the Bishops. Satan is behind all of it and wants to bring all of the Just down. He wants to make them sinners and lose the Faith. He wants them to give up Hope and become uncharitable. The Conciliar Church instead of doing its duty and opposing him, has joined forces with him and is persecuting her own Children who want to be Just.
Now the nations are using a false pandemic as justification for preventing Christians from assisting at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; publicly praying the rosary and other means of true worship of the True God. Even in many places they are not allowed to bury the dead. Some have been persecuted violently but most of us have not. The persecution is more subtle; more diabolical than the violent persecutions in the early ages of the Church that populated heaven with so many martyrs. The Second Vatican Council caused the vast majority of Christians to lose the Faith or to have a false idea of it. Most baptized persons are ignorant of the Faith and incapable of instructing the ignorant. They do not know God.
They have also been taught, which is a teaching directly from the documents of the Second Vatican Council, that if they think that something is right, then it is not a sin. The serpent told Eve “you will be as gods knowing good and evil.” Vatican II agrees with this and tells Catholics: you are gods knowing good and evil and can decide for yourself what is right or wrong. Thus Pope Francis when faced with immorality that by any objective standard is grave sin can only say “who am I to judge.”
We are obliged to learn what God wants us to do and love doing it, what God forbids and abstain from it. Those striving for perfection, the true Just, will also avoid whatever God does not like even though it is not sinful.
During this persecution when we cannot get to Mass as we would like, and as is normally our duty; when we cannot receive the other sacraments, Confession, Confirmation we must accept these evils as having been permitted by God. We should ceaselessly pray to be delivered from these afflictions; while simultaneously bearing these wrongs patiently. If we can remedy the problem we should do that.
We must also be determined to conquer our sins, asking Our Lady, the refuge of sinners, to enable us to have perfect contrition for our sins and a determination not to return to them.
Dear Faithful,
May God grant you a blessed new year. Last year was very strange. 2021 promises to be even stranger. However, God does not change. His truth does not change. The Faith is always the same. However the way we serve Him depends upon our circumstances. Some have lost their jobs or businesses. This is not good. If you are one such you must find something useful to do. Do not be idle or spend your time with children's games. Ask St. Joseph to help you to be productive and if you have a family to provide for it.
Also, try to learn more about your faith. You may be called to be a hero for Christ. You want to be ready to answer that call.
I apologize for my tardiness in publishing this sermon for the Feast of St. Stephen [see below]. I had also intended to write something for the 850th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas of Canterbury. President Trump trumped me on this with his timely Proclamation in honor of the Saint. What he did is good and quite remarkable for a President to do. However, his advisors are probably in the modern Church. He errs in thinking that St. Thomas died for religious liberty. At that time there were no Protestants. The Catholic Religion was the only religion in England and in Europe. The heresy of "religious liberty" did not exist. St. Thomas died for defending the rights of the Church against the King. King Henry II was trying to exercise authority over the Church and bishops. St. Thomas refused to let him do so. Several hundred years later another Henry, King Henry VIII, would try the same thing. Although opposed by St. John Fisher, whom he killed, he successfully got control of the Church and led England into the heresy of Anglicanism.
Today again the governments around the world are interfering in Church affairs. A few bishops are standing up for the rights of the Church but most are acquiescing and surrendering their rights to the secular power. Now in Sydney a church must have 4 sq meters (> 40 sq. feet) for every worshipper. And they are limited to 100 persons in the church. This goes far beyond the authority of the state. The bishops should tell them no. We will have Mass as normal. But they will not do so. There are none with the courage of St. Thomas of Canterbury or St. John Fisher.
Please keep up the prayers, also we must pray for the pope and bishops.
As we celebrate Epiphany, let us ask the intercession of the Three Kings so that God and His Church may be made known to the nations.
God bless you,
Fr. MacDonald
Feast of St. Stephen 2020 — Adelaide, South Australia
Today we celebrate the Feast of the first martyr of Holy Mother Church. St. Stephen was one of the first seven deacons ordained by St. Peter to assist the Apostles. We read in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles at today’s Mass that he was full of grace and fortitude did great wonders and signs amongst the people. Various men of bad will from several groups who opposed the Gospel gathered together against him: Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians and others all disputing with Stephen. However, he was full of the Holy Ghost and they could not resist his wisdom. They had the opportunity to accept the truth that he was speaking but refused to do so. Instead they became enraged against Stephen and gnashed their teeth at him. Ultimately shouting they stopped their ears so that they could not hear him and then dragged him out of the city and stoned him. St. Stephen entered into heaven. His last words were “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.” And in the prayer for today’s Mass we ask for the grace to imitate St. Stephen “Grant us we beseech thee O Lord, to imitate what we venerate, that we may learn to love even our enemies; for we celebrate the birth to
life everlasting of him who knew how to pray even for his persecutors.”
Saul was one who agreed with the stoning of St. Stephen. He did not participate himself but held the coats of those who were throwing the stones. Saul became a great persecutor of the Church. However God had heard St. Stephen’s prayer and Saul was the beneficiary of it. Our Lord converted him with a special grace and he became a greater Apostle of the Church then he had been an enemy. He suffered a great deal for Our Lord and converted many nations to the Faith.
The Gospel teaches us “the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ”. And Our Lord answers Pilate: “Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice.” Our Lord was speaking through St. Stephen and those wicked men who were not of the truth refused to hear him. Also the majority of the people of Jerusalem refused to hear the Apostles and convert to the Faith. St. Peter had admonished them “save yourself from this perverse generation”, many did and were baptized but most did not. And as Our Lord prophesied in the Gospel reading for today and warned the scribes and Pharisees that all the just blood that had been shed on the earth from the blood of Abel to their day would come upon them, and Jerusalem was completely destroyed in punishment for refusing Our Lord.
Truth comes from Our Lord “Jesus saith to him (Thomas): I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.” Our minds were made to know truth and when we hear truth we must embrace it and submit to it. We must make efforts to learn the truth, especially the Supernatural Truths of our Faith. Our Faith is supernatural. We believe Supernatural Mysteries, for example, the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, Transubstantiation. We believe these because they are true and were revealed by God who can neither deceive nor be deceived.
Before Our Lord came into the world most men believed lies, fables and myths. They worshipped devils under the forms of various idols. The devil, a master of deceit from the beginning when he first deceived Eve had perverted the minds of men to embrace his lies. Our Lord through His Church was now going to change this. Missionaries would be sent throughout the world to teach the truth to those in error and baptize the believers. So that they might be saved and populate heaven. This is the purpose of the Church.
Continued
1 January 2021 — Brisbane, Queensland
The Second Vatican Council changed this, teaching that the errors and lies originating with Satan have equal rights with the Truth originating with Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are no longer going to proclaim the truth to all men. Immediately men started believing errors. With no one teaching the truth the world plunged into darkness. Immorality and injustice followed in the wake of error. Selfishness, envy and hatred replaced charity.
Vatican II taught that it was foolish to die for the Faith. There would be no more glorious martyrs. It is better to dialogue and discuss differences in belief without attempting to convert one another. There would be no more truth. Our Lord would never more be the “Way, the Truth and the Life”. Now there would be many ways, no truth and no life.
The life is the supernatural life of Grace raising us above the mundane and making us children of God and heirs of heaven. It is a gift given to Christians and not to unbelievers, apostates, heretics and sinners. There are two classes in this world. Those with the true Faith and those without it. The haves and the have-nots. The Haves are divided into the Just and the sinners. The Just have a living Faith which is accompanied by supernatural Hope and Charity. The Sinners have a dead Faith; they have expelled supernatural Hope and Charity from their souls.
The Just obey the law of God. They demonstrate their Love for Our Lord by keeping His Commandments. Especially the Two Great Commandments which were new commandments given by Our Lord Jesus Christ. They necessarily include the Ten Commandments of God given to Moses.
The first is: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, thy whole mind, thy whole will and all of thy strength.
The Second is like it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
The Just willingly keep these commandments. Love of God demands that we practise the one true Faith, submitting to the teachings of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. With their minds the Just learn what the Church teaches and believe these teachings; with their heart the Just love the Truths taught by the Church. With their Will The Just are determined to practise the Faith, especially they desire to keep the moral law and hate sin. With their Strength the Just publicly defend the Faith and are willing to imitate St. Stephen by dying for it.
Love of neighbour demands the practise of the works of Mercy. The Corporal works of Mercy and even more the Spiritual works of Mercy.
The Corporal works of Mercy are: 1. Feed the Hungry; 2: Give drink to the thirsty; 3. Clothe the naked; 4. Shelter the homeless; 5. Visit the sick; 6. Visit the Imprisoned; 7. Bury the dead.
The Spiritual works of Mercy are: 1. Admonish the sinner; 2. Instruct the ignorant; 3. Counsel the doubtful; 4. Comfort the sorrowful; 5. Bear wrongs patiently; 6. Forgive injuries; 7. To pray for the living and the dead.
The Conciliar Church generally agrees with the Corporal works of mercy but does not like nor promote the Spiritual works of mercy. In their false charity they think that the sinner will be offended if I admonish him; therefore I will not tell him he is sinning and will even condone his sin. Pope Francis does this. He sins against charity leaving sinners in their sins and sending their souls ultimately to Hell. Likewise the Conciliar Church refuses to instruct the ignorant preferring to leave them in their ignorance of the True Faith. This again is sending souls to Hell as souls not knowing, loving and serving the true God will be sent to Hell. St. Stephen laid down his life instructing the ignorant because of his great charity. The Conciliar Church not having Charity will not instruct the ignorant.
Many men who think that they are just refuse to bear wrongs patiently and forgive injuries. Their justice is not true. St. Stephen bore the injustices from his persecutors with great patience and forgave them their sins against him.
It is important to know the lives of the Saints and Martyrs because they are examples and models for us. What they did we should strive to do in our circumstances.The Conciliar Church has persecuted the Just for nearly sixty years. Now the state has joined this persecution, often with the support of the Bishops. Satan is behind all of it and wants to bring all of the Just down. He wants to make them sinners and lose the Faith. He wants them to give up Hope and become uncharitable. The Conciliar Church instead of doing its duty and opposing him, has joined forces with him and is persecuting her own Children who want to be Just.
Now the nations are using a false pandemic as justification for preventing Christians from assisting at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; publicly praying the rosary and other means of true worship of the True God. Even in many places they are not allowed to bury the dead. Some have been persecuted violently but most of us have not. The persecution is more subtle; more diabolical than the violent persecutions in the early ages of the Church that populated heaven with so many martyrs. The Second Vatican Council caused the vast majority of Christians to lose the Faith or to have a false idea of it. Most baptized persons are ignorant of the Faith and incapable of instructing the ignorant. They do not know God.
They have also been taught, which is a teaching directly from the documents of the Second Vatican Council, that if they think that something is right, then it is not a sin. The serpent told Eve “you will be as gods knowing good and evil.” Vatican II agrees with this and tells Catholics: you are gods knowing good and evil and can decide for yourself what is right or wrong. Thus Pope Francis when faced with immorality that by any objective standard is grave sin can only say “who am I to judge.”
We are obliged to learn what God wants us to do and love doing it, what God forbids and abstain from it. Those striving for perfection, the true Just, will also avoid whatever God does not like even though it is not sinful.
During this persecution when we cannot get to Mass as we would like, and as is normally our duty; when we cannot receive the other sacraments, Confession, Confirmation we must accept these evils as having been permitted by God. We should ceaselessly pray to be delivered from these afflictions; while simultaneously bearing these wrongs patiently. If we can remedy the problem we should do that.
We must also be determined to conquer our sins, asking Our Lady, the refuge of sinners, to enable us to have perfect contrition for our sins and a determination not to return to them.