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Father Luigi Villa

    Who is Father Luigi Villa?  That's an important question that every catholic should be asking today.  Fr. Villa  was given an assignment by Padre Pio, "You must dedicate your entire life to defend the Church of Christ from the work of Freemasonry and Ecclesiastical Masonry."   There have been seven assassination attempts on his life and the stories on how he survived can only be described as a miracle.  I ordered this incredible book about Fr. Villa from Our Lady of Good Success for only $7.50.  You can also check the book out here.   Be sure to visit this website where you can read Fr. Villa's, "Chiesa Viva" Magazine articles on the Vatican II Popes which are well written and may certainly shock many of you who don't think there is a crisis in the church.  May God bless Fr. Villa for exposing the wolves in sheep's clothing and warning us!

Fr. Daniel Cooper (The First Sunday of Lent)

Fr. Stephen Somerville

The very first time I heard the name of this priest was when I found out that Mel Gibson had a Canadian priest, Fr. Stephen Somerville, celebrate the Traditional Roman Catholic Latin Mass for the film crew each day for the movie, The Passion of the Christ.  After that I found out about the open letter below which I think every catholic should take very seriously because we are living through the apostasy that the Bible warns us about and the danger of being deceived by wolves in sheep's clothing.


An Open Letter to the Church Renouncing my Service on I.C.E.L.
by Father Stephen Somerville, STL.

Dear Fellow Catholics in the Roman Rite,
1.  I am a priest who for over ten years collaborated in a work that became a notable harm to the Catholic Faith. I wish now to apologize before God and the Church and to renounce decisively my personal sharing in that damaging project. I am speaking of the official work of translating the new post-Vatican II Latin liturgy into the English language, when I was a member of the Advisory Board of the International Commission on English Liturgy (I.C.E.L.).  Read the entire letter here.

On July 15, 2004, Fr. Stephen Somerville was suspended from the priesthood by Toronto's Archbishop Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic.  There are always two sides of the story and in defense of Fr. Somerville you should read this information.

Fr. Somerville is one of many Novus Ordo Priests who returned to the Latin Tridentine Mass.  An excellent book documenting the stories of the other priests can be found  here.

Eugenio Zolli, Former Chief Rabbi of Rome

“Conversion consists in answering God’s call. Man does not chose the moment of his conversion, but he is converted when he receives this call from God. Then there is but one thing to do: obey”. 

 

 Several months ago I was looking at books in the St. Vincent De Paul Thrift Shop and a friend held up the book, "Why I Became a Catholic" by Eugenio Zolli.  The new title is "Before The Dawn".  I was so excited because I wanted to learn more about him so I eagerly purchased the book and read about the life of a Jewish man who converted to Catholicism that is truly amazing and inspiring.

One day the Jewish child Israel Zolli saw in the home of his classmate Stanislas, the Christian son of a widow, a crucifix hanging on a white wall. The profound, indelible impression he took away from this was secretly to guide his entire spiritual quest to come.

In 1944, while in the synagogue celebrating Yom Kippur, Zolli experienced a mystical vision of Jesus Christ. Within a year he was baptized a Catholic at which time he changed his first name from Israel to Eugenio, the same Christian name as Pope Pius XII. He did this to honor the Pope for the help he gave Jews trying to escape the Nazi's  during World War II.  Eugenio tells us about the charity of Pope Pius XII in his own words and more information here. 

An important witness to the role of Pius XII in wartime Italy is Rabbi Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome. He was an eye-witness of the deportation of Rome's Jews by the Gestapo in 1943. In his book, Antisemitismo, he states: "…No hero in all of history was more militant, more fought against, none more heroic than Pius XII in pursuing the work of true charity!...and this on behalf of all the suffering children of God."

At three o'clock in the afternoon, just like Jesus

Through the Holy Father's intervention, Eugenio Zolli was named a professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. In October 1946, he entered the Third Order of Saint Francis, the distinguishing feature of which is evangelical poverty practiced by lay people in the world. Zolli, a faithful parishioner at Stella Matutina, discreetly attended talks on the Gospel given by his parish priest. During Christmas 1955, he himself gave a conference on the announcement of the Redeemer in the Old Testament. But in January 1956, he came down with pneumonia. His wife Emma was also sick and elderly. Their younger daughter, Miriam, who was married and had given birth to a little girl, Maura Brigida, stayed at her father's bedside in this final illness. A week before his death, Eugenio confided to a nun who was caring for him, "I will die the first Friday of the month, at three o'clock in the afternoon, just like Our Lord." On Friday, March 2, in the morning, he received Holy Communion. Having fallen into a coma at noon, at three o'clock in the afternoon Eugenio Zolli committed his soul to God.  He had written at the end of his memoirs: "We can trust in nothing save the mercy of God, save the compassion of Christ, whom humanity put to death because it did not know how to live in Him. We can rely on nothing but the intercession of Her whose Heart was pierced through by the lance that pierced Her Son's side."

  

Fatima & The Great Conspiracy

     I think the book, "Fatima and The Great Conspiracy" by Deirdre Manifold is one of the most important books that Catholics and even non-catholics should read today.  I have the updated version which is full of facts that you need to know about Fatima and the history behind certain world events.  The book can be read here.    My free book giveaway is available only for those who live in the United States.  The giveaway contest of one book starts today.  Just reply to this blog post telling me why you would like to receive this free book and I will pick one winner on 30 September 2010. 
  
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
Franklin D. Roosevelt 

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