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Traditional Mass Propers For The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost - 9 July 2006 A.D.
Robert Drobot | 09 July 2006 A.D. | The Most Holy Trinity

Posted on 07/09/2006 10:01:26 AM PDT by Robert Drobot


Traditional Mass Propers For The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost - 9 July 2006 A.D.
Missa Exáudi, Dómine
....go first to be reconciled to thy brother....

9 July 2006 A.D.

"Nothing is so consoling, so piercing, so thrilling, so overcoming, as the Mass, said as it is among us. I could attend Mass forever, and not be tired. It is not a mere form of words; it is a great action. The greatest action that can be on earth. It is. . .the vocation of the Eternal."

-- John Henry Cardinal Newman



TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; History; Moral Issues; Orthodox Christian; Prayer; Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: communion; consecration; epistle; gospel; mass; obedience; praise; prayer; romancatholic; supplication; transubstantiation; truechurch

Traditional Holy Mass Proper Prayers for
The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost

Missa Exáudi, Dómine
....go first to be reconciled to thy brother....

9 July 2006 A.D.

"All whatsoever you do in word or work, do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
giving thanks to God and the Father by Jesus Christ our Lord," --- Blessed Apostle Saint Paul

T he week of the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost used to be called the week after the Feast of the Apostles, for it is among those which rather often coincide with the Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The Mass as presented to us by the Church on this day contains a great lesson in Christian Charity. We must live in union. Having entered the Church - the Kingdom of the Father - we are the children of God, and we must love Him in our neighbor who participates - as we do in the divine - nature.

Indeed, the Epistle and Gospel show us that our prayer is of value only if we are all of one heart in unison with God's will, not man's. If not, our petitions are in vain, and the Collect makes us ask God to grant us His love, as it is our love for God which is the motive of our love for our neighbor.

A special 'Thank you' to the Friends of Fatima for these Proper resources. Sources: Saint Andrew Daily Missal and the Marian Missal 1945.

Colors: Green Vestments

Semi-Double Observance

Introit ¤ Psalm 26:7-9

    Exáudi, Dómine, vocem qua clamávi ad te: adjútor meus esto, ne derelínquas me, neque despícias me, Deus salutáris meus.. Psalm 26:1. Dóminus iiluminátio mea, et salus mea quem timébo? v. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Repeat Exáudi, Dómine...

Hear, O Lord, my voice with which l have cried to Thee: be Thou my helper, forsake me not, nor do Thou despise me, O God, my Savior. Psalm 26:1. The Lord is my light, and my salvation, whom shall I fear? v. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Repeat Hear, O Lord...

COLLECT

    Deus, qui diligéntibus te bona invisibília præparásti: infúnde córdibus nostris tui amoris afféctum; ut te in ómnibus, et super ómnia diligéntes, promissiónes tuas, quæ omne desidérium súperent, consequmur. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Collect For The Intercession Of The Saints

A cunctis nos quæsumus Dómine mentis et córporis defénde perículis: et intercedénte beáta et gloriósa semper Vírgine Dei Genitrice María, cum beáto Joseph, beátis Apóstolis tuis Petro et Paulo, et ómnibus Sanctis, salútem nobis tríbue benígnus et pacem; ut destrúctis adversitátibus et erróribus univérsis, Ecclésia tua secúra tibi sérviat libertáte. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Collect For God's Holy Church

Ecclésiæ tuæ, quæ-sumus, Dómine, preces placátus admítte: ut, destrúctis adversitát-ibus et erróribus univérsis, secura tibi sérviat libertáte. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

O God, Who hast prepared for them that love Thee such good things as pass understanding: pour into our hearts such love towards Thee, that we, loving Thee in all things, and above all things, may obtain Thy promises which exceed all that we can desire. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.

Collect For The Intercession Of The Saints

D efend us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, from all dangers of mind and body: and through the intercession of the blessed and glorious Mary, ever Virgin, mother of God, of St Joseph, of Thy holy apostles, Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy loving-kindness grant us safety and peace; that, all adversities and errors being overcome, Thy Church may serve Thee in security and freedom. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.

Collect For God's Holy Church

Graciously hear, O Lord, the prayers of Thy Church that, having overcome all adversity and every error, she may serve Thee in security and freedom. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.

EPISTLE ¤ Blessed Apostle Saint Peter ( 1 ) 3:8-16

   Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Romanos
Fratres, Exístimo quad non sunt condígnæ passiónes hujus tempóris ad futúram glóriam, quas revelábítur in nobis. Nam exspectátio creatúræ revelatiónem Fíliórum Dei exspéctat. Vanitáti enim creatúra subjécta est non volens, sed propter cum qui subjécit eam in spe: quia et ipsa creatúra liberábitur a servitúte corruptiónis in libertátem glóriæ filiórum Dei. Scimus enim quad omnis creatúra ingemíscit, et párturit usque adhuc. Non solum autem illa, sed et nos ipsi primitías Spíritus habéntes, et ipsi intra nos gémimus, adoptiónem filiórum Dei exspectántes, redemptiónem córporis nostri: in Christo Jesu Dómino nostro.

Lesson from the first Epistle of Blessed Apostle Peter to the Romans.
Dearly beloved Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble, not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this you are called, that you may inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. Let him decline from evil and do good let him seek after peace, and pursue it because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and His ears unto their prayers, but the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things, And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good? But if also you suffer anything for justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear, and be not troubled: but sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts.

GRADUAL ¤ Psalm 83:9, 10

    P rotéctor noster áspice, Deus: et réspice super servos tuos. V. Dómine Deus virtútum, exáudi preces servórum tuórum. Allelúja, allelúja. v. Psalm 20:1Dómine, in virtúte tua lætábitur rexet super salutáre tuum exsultábit veheménter. Allelúja.

Behold, O God our protector, and look on Thy servants. v. O Lord God of hosts, give ear to the prayers of Thy servants. Alleluia, alleluia. v. Psalm 20:1 In Thy strength, O Lord, the king shall enjoy and in Thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly. Alleluia.

GOSPEL - Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 5:20-24

   † Sequentia sancti Evangelii secundum Matthaeum.
In illo témpore: "Nisi abundáverit justítia vestra plusquam scribárum et pharisæórum, non intrábitis in regnum cælórum. Audístis quia dictum est antíquis: Non occídes qui autem occíderet, reus erit judício. Ego autem dico vobis: quia omnis, qui iráscitur fratri suo, reus erit judício. Qui autem díxerit fratri suo: Raca, reus erit concílio. Qui autem dixérit: Fátue, reus erit gehénnæ ignis. Si ergo offers munus tuum ad altáre, et ibi recordátus fúeris quia frater tuus habet aliquid advérsum te relínque ibi munus tuum ante altáre, et vade prius reconciliári fratri tuo et tunc véniens ófferes munus tuum."

† Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew
At that time, At that time Jesus said to His disciples: "Except your justice abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment and whosoever shall say to his brother: Raca, shall be in danger of the council and whosoever shall say: Thou fool, shalt be in danger of hell fire. If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift."

Homily The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Missa Exáudi, Dómine

9 July 2006 A.D.
by Father Louis J. Campbell
A Branch Cut Off

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

The curses detailed in Leviticus, which God promised if the Jews ever broke their Covenant with Him, were carried out in the Apocalypse because of their rejection of the Messias and His teachings. In our times, are we not having a repeat of the very same consequences for those who have abandoned the Truths and Traditions of Holy Mother Church in favor of Modernism, Humanism and Ecumenism? We pray for reconciliation with our brothers of all beliefs, but never compromise or concession. Stand unflinchingly for Christ and His True Church and nothing else!

Do we have any other evidence that the destruction of Jerusalem was the result of the Covenant curses? Well, we have the testimony of Blessed Apostle Saint John, who wrote the Book of the Apocalypse. Considered very difficult to interpret, the Apocalypse is generally understood to be prophetic of the events of the 'end times,' which may even now be upon us. But even if this is true, some Scripture scholars say it had an earlier fulfillment even before the death of the last Apostle, Blessed Apostle Saint John, who authored the book. The Apocalypse tells the story of the punishment of the unfaithful spouse (the earthly Jerusalem) and the purification of the faithful spouse (the heavenly Jerusalem, the Church) to be the Bride of Christ. The punishment is carried out in exact fulfillment of the Covenant curses found in the Book of Leviticus."

Note: In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, he focuses on today's Gospel in which our Lord reminds His disciples how important it is to heed the Lord thy God and not be as the Scribes and Pharisees. In the Gospel for the Fifth Sunday Jesus also speaks of being reconciled with thy brother. But at what cost, Father asks, to deny what Christ has taught? Never! But that is exactly what the current occupant of the Chair of Peter indicates in his constant heresy that a religion that rejected the Messias can still be saved by waiting for another to come and not only that, but there is no need now for them to convert as Christ commanded in Mark 16: 15-16 and Matthew 28: 19-20. Thus we have the conciliar compromise that carries so many Catholics further into apostasy. Benedict, who should be a Scripture scholar considering his background, seems to forget the curses in Leviticus which Father reminds and the correlation to the Book of the Apocalypse. Pray for those who have been deceived, pray the Offertory prayer today that says "I will bless the Lord, Who hath given me understanding." In these times we see history repeating itself for the God of Justice and Mercy has withdrawn His graces because a withered branch has no life, the salt has lost its savor, and thanks to the global apostasy of those who were once Catholic, as Father explains in his sermon, the conciliar church, the Newchurch of Vatican II is, like the Jews.

The word of God is "living and efficient and keener than any two-edged sword…" ( Hebrews 4:12 ). God speaks to us through the Prophet Isaiah: "So shall My word be, which shall go forth from My mouth. It shall not return to Me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it" ( Isaiah 55:11 ).

According to Jesus Christ, the "Word made flesh," the Holy Scriptures are fulfilled in Him: "Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to destroy, but to fulfill" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 5:17 ). His word is truth. The Gospel for today ( Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 5:20-24 ) opens with Jesus warning His disciples; "Unless your justice exceeds that of the Scribes and the Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 5:20 ). We must conclude that the Scribes and Pharisees of Jesus' time, except for those who believed in Him, would be unable to enter Heaven. They would not be saved because they rejected Him and denied His Divine authority.

In the light of this, we take note of recent words of Benedict XVI to a general audience on June 28, 2006 ( Zenit.org ), in which he speaks of the settlement of a dispute in the early Church between Christians of Jewish origin and those of pagan origin:


"On the one hand, the unbreakable relationship is recognized that links Christianity to the Jewish religion as its perennially living and valid matrix; on the other, Christians of pagan origin are allowed to preserve their own sociological identity, which they would have lost if they had been constrained to observe the so-called Mosaic ceremonial precepts: These now were no longer to be considered obligatory for converted pagans. In essence, a reciprocal praxis of esteem and respect was being initiated, which, notwithstanding subsequent unfortunate misunderstandings, sought by its nature to safeguard all that was characteristic of the two sides."

Can a religion that so adamantly rejects Jesus Christ and condemns Him as an apostate be at the same time the "perennially living and valid matrix" of Christianity? Impossible! Jesus Christ Himself is the one, true and perennially living Matrix out of Whom all true religion flows. A religion which has cut itself off from Him is like a branch cut off from the vine; it has no source of life; it withers and dies. But Jesus made this promise to the woman at the well in Samaria, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again. He, however, who drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up unto life everlasting" ( Blessed Apostle Saint John 4:13,14 ).

Perennially living? The Jewish religion was already dead when Jesus Christ offered Himself to the Father, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, with the words: "For this is My Body; For this is the Chalice of My Blood of the new and eternal Covenant, the Mystery of faith, which shall be shed for you and for the many unto the forgiveness of sins" ( Consecration of the Traditional Latin Mass ).

The demise of the Jewish religion occurred because it rejected its Covenant with God, which it effectively did when it rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah. This incurred for the apostate Jews the Covenant curses enumerated in the Book of Leviticus ( Leviticus 26:14-39 ). The terrible consequences of breaking the Covenant are spelled out in Chapter 26, where a series of woes or curses are pronounced by God against the unfaithful: "But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these commandments, if you reject my precepts and spurn my decrees…I…will punish you with terrible woes…" ( Leviticus 26:14-16 ). The punishments would become seven times more intense each time the Covenant was broken again: "If then you become defiant in your unwillingness to obey Me, I will multiply My blows another sevenfold, as your sins deserve" ( Leviticus 26:21 ).

God must be true to His word. Although Jesus wept over Jerusalem and its fate, He would invoke the Covenant curses against the Pharisees with extreme severity, beginning each time with the words, "Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 23:13-36 ). ( There are eight woes recorded in Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew's Gospel, but Scripture scholars believe that one of them was not part of the original text). "Amen I say to you," Jesus prophesied, "all these things will come upon this generation" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Matthew 23:36 ). In fact, within forty years the words of Jesus were fulfilled when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D., amid unimaginable horrors.

Do we have any other evidence that the destruction of Jerusalem was the result of the Covenant curses? Well, we have the testimony of St. John the Apostle, who wrote the Book of the Apocalypse. Considered very difficult to interpret, the Apocalypse is generally understood to be prophetic of the events of the "end times," which may even now be upon us. But even if this is true, some Scripture scholars say it had an earlier fulfillment even before the death of the last Apostle, Blessed Saint John, who authored the book. The Apocalypse tells the story of the punishment of the unfaithful spouse (the earthly Jerusalem) and the purification of the faithful spouse (the heavenly Jerusalem, the Church) to be the Bride of Christ. The punishment is carried out in exact fulfillment of the Covenant curses found in the Book of Leviticus.

As the Covenant curses unfold, seven seals are broken ( Apocalypse 6:7 ), seven trumpets are sounded (Apocalypse 8,9, and 10 ), and seven bowls of wrath are poured out ( Apocalypse 16 ), with horrendous disasters and the utter destruction of the great city "Babylon." "Babylon" is sometimes thought to represent pagan Rome, but it seems unlikely that these were punishments against Rome, since the Romans had no covenant with God and the Covenant curses would not apply to them. The Apocalypse itself, however, identifies the city for us as "the great city, which is called mystically Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified" ( Apocalypse 11:8 ), which is clearly Jerusalem. In the Apocalypse, then, we see depicted the falling of the Covenant curses upon unfaithful Jerusalem, so as to leave in it not "one stone upon another" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Luke 19:44 ).

With all good will towards the Jews, and hope for their eternal salvation, they got sidetracked when they followed their religious leaders into apostasy. Is the same thing happening today to the world's Catholics? Will the Covenant curses now descend upon them? The horror of it, for us, is that the Vatican is now declaring, through its chief representative, that the Catholic Church is linked to the Jewish religion as its "perennially living and valid matrix." Don't believe it! If modern Judaism is the matrix of Vatican Catholicism, then Vatican Catholicism is as dead as its source. But the true Catholic religion finds its source in Jesus Christ, the Source of all grace and life, Who declared: "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last, and he who lives; I was dead, and behold, I am living forevermore…" ( Apocalypse 1:17-18 )

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

OFFERTORY ¤ Psalm 15:7-8

    Benedicam Dominum, Qui tribuit mihi intellectum: providebam Deum in comspectu meo semper: quoniam a dextris es mihi, ne commovear.

I will bless the Lord, Who hath given me understanding; I set God always in my sight; for He is at my right hand, that I be not moved..

SECRET

    Propitiáre, Dómine, supplicatiónibus nostris: et has oblatiónes famulórum famularúmque tuarum benígnus assúme, ut, quod sínguli obtulérunt ad honórem nominis tui, cunctis profíciat ad salútem. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Filium Tuum, Qui Tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Secret For The Intercession Of The Saints

Exaudi nos Deus salutáris noster: ut per hujus sacraménti virtútem, a cunctis nos mentis et córporis hóstibus tueáris, grátiam tríbuens in præsénti, et glóriam in futuro. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen..

Secret For God's Holy Church

Prótege nos, Dómine, tuis mystériis serviéntes: ut divínis rebus inhæréntes, et córpore tibi famulémur et mente. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. R. Amen.

Be merciful, O Lord, to our humble pleading: and favorably receive these offerings of Thy servants and handmaidens, that what each of us has offered to the honor of Thy Name, may profit us all unto salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God Forever and ever. Amen.

Secret For The Intercession Of The Saints

Graciously hear us, O Heavenly Father, and, by virtue of this Sacrament, defend us from all enemies of soul and body, bestowing upon us Thy grace here and Thy glory hereafter. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.

Secret For God's Holy Church

Protect us, O Lord, who assist at Thy mysteries, that, cleaving to things divine, we may serve Thee both in body and in mind. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, Forever and ever. Amen.

PREFACE OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY

   Vere dignum et justum est, aequum et salutare, nos tibi semper, et ubique gratias agere: Domine sancta, Pater omnipotens, aeterne Deus. Qui cum unigenito Filio: tuo et Spiritu Sancto, unus es Deus, unus es Dominus: non in uninus singularitate personae, sed in unius Trinitae substantiae. Quo denim de tua Gloria, revelante te, credimus, hoc de Filio tuo, hod de Spiritu Sancto, sine differentia discretionis sentimus. Ut in confessione verare, sempitiernaeque Deitatis, et in personis proprietas, et in essential unitas, et in majestate adoretur aequalitas. Quam laudant Angeli atque Archangeli, Cherubim, quoque ac Seraphim: qui non cessant clamare quotodie, una voce dicentes: SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS...

It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God: Who, together with Thine only-begotten Son, and the Holy Ghost, are one God, one Lord: not in the oneness of a single Person, but in the Trinity of one substance. For what we believe by Thy revelation of Thy glory, the same do we believe of Thy Son, the same of the Holy Ghost, without difference or separation. So that in confessing the true and everlasting Godhead, distinction in persons, unity in essence, and equality in majesty may be adored. Which the Angels and Archangels, the Cherubim also and Seraphim do praise: who cease not daily to cry out with one voice saying: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY...

COMMUNION ¤ Psalm 24:4

    Unam pétii a Dómino, hanc requíram: ut inhábitem in domo Dómini ómnibus diébus vitæ meæ.

One thing I have asked of the Lord, this I will seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

POSTCOMMUNION

    Quos cælésti, Dómine, dono satiásti: præsta, quæsumus; ut a nostris mundémur occúltis, et ab hóstium liberémur insídiis. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Postcommunion For The Intercession Of The Saints

Mundet et múniat nos quáesumus Dómine dívini sacraménti munus oblátum: et intercedénte beáta Vírgine Dei Genitríce María, cum beáto Joseph, beátis Apóstolis tuis Petro et Paulo, et ómnibus Sanctis; a cunctis nos reddat et pervérsitátibus expiátos, et advérsitátibus expedítos. Per eúmdem Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fiiium tuum: Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spíritus Sancti, Deus. Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Postcommunion For God's Holy Church

Quæsumus, Dómine Deus noster, ut quos divína tribuis participatióne gaudére, humánis non sinas subjacére perículis. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fiiium tuum: Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spíritus Sancti, Deus. Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

May the Mysteries which we have received, we beseech Thee, O Lord, purify us, and by their virtue defend us. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God. For ever and ever. Amen.

Postcommunion For The Intercession Of The Saints

May the gift of this Divine Sacrament which we have offered, cleanse us and defend us, we beseech Thee, O Lord; and through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God, of St. Joseph, of Thy holy apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, free us from all iniquity and deliver us from all adversity. Through the Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God. Forever and ever. Amen.

Postcommunion For God's Holy Church

O Lord our God, we pray Thee that Thou suffer not to succumb to human hazards those whom Thou hast been pleased to make sharers of divine mysteries. Through the Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God. Forever and ever. Amen.

† - Holy Queen of Heaven and Earth, pray for us. - †


1 posted on 07/09/2006 10:01:32 AM PDT by Robert Drobot
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PRAYER FOR HOLY PRIESTS

O my Jesus, I thank Thee, that Thou art truly, actually, and substantially, human and divine,
present here in the mystery of the Sacrament of the Altar.

Thou hast said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you."
See, Lord, I come and knock. I ask Thee:
Send us holy priests!

O my Jesus, Thou hast said: "Whatever you ask the Father in MY Name, it shall be granted you."
See, Lord, in Thy Name I ask Thy Father the grace:
Send us holy priests!

O my Jesus, Thou hast said: "Heaven and earth shall pass away but My Word shall not pass away."
See, Lord, in trust of the infallibility of Thy Word, I ask Thee:
Send us holy priests!

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in Thee!
Please bless Thy priests!

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, it is not possible for Thee to have no sympathy for us wretches.
Have mercy on us sinners, and grant us through the threefold full of grace, beautiful, and
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Thy Mother and ours, the grace to which we pray to Thee. Amen.

O Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us:
obtain for us many holy priests.

O Lord, grant unto Thy Church saintly priests and fervent religious.

Send forth, O Lord, laborers into Thy harvest.

O Lord, grant us priests!
O Lord, grant us holy priests!
O Lord, grant us many holy priests!
O Lord, grant us many holy religious vocations!

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us.

2 posted on 07/09/2006 10:02:59 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.)
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Prayer for the Universal Church

Pray for those who have been wandering and wondering in the conciliar desert for lo over 40 years. Pray for the conversion of the Novus Ordo hierarchy from the highest to the lowest echelons of the clergy, who, in the same manner as the Arian bishops, have apostasized from the True Church which Jesus Christ established on the Rock of Peter. Pray that they will wake from their devastating slumber, cast off their lukewarmness, and demand the unadulterated dogmatic Faith with no novelties, no ecumenism, no modernism, no anything but truly Catholic, embodied by true shepherds who will mandate the only possible Catholic worship - the true and continual sacrifice: the Traditional Latin Mass, set in stone for all time by Pope St. Pius V.

O God, our refuge and our strength, smite those failing to lead Thy Holy Church,
by and through the intercession of Saint Michael the Archangel; the immaculate Virgin Mother Mary; Beloved Saint Joseph; Thy blessed apostles Peter and Paul; and all the saints.
Hear our fervent prayers for more holy priests consecrated according to Thy will;
Provide Your Church leadership with the courage to convert all heretics, pagans, false idolaters and false god worshipers, and especially non-Catholics who refuse to accept the One True Church founded by Your Son and our Redeemer, Christ Jesus;
We pray for a sacred reformation of our Holy Mother Church - according to Your servant, Pope Pius XII in his Apostolic Constitution Sacramentum Ordinis.
We pray for these intercessions through the mercy and grace of Your Son, our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus.
Amen.

3 posted on 07/09/2006 10:06:03 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.)
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CALENDAR of the SAINTS

9 July 2006 A.D.


Our Lady of Chiquinquira
In the mid-16th century the Spanish painter Alonso de Narvaez created a portrait of the Virgin of the Rosary. He painted in pigments from the soil, herbs and flowers of the region of modern Colombia, and his canvas was a rough 44" * 49" cloth woven by Indians. The image of Mary is about a meter high, and stands about a half moon. She has a small, sweet smile, both her face and the Child's are light colored, and she looks like she's about to take a step. She wears a white toque, a rose-colored robe, and a sky blue cape. A rosary hangs from the little finger of her left hand, and she holds a scepter in her right. She holds the Christ Child cradled in her left arm, and looks toward him. Christ has a little bird tied to his thumb, and a small rosary hangs from his left hand. To the sides of Mary stand Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Andrew the Apostle, the personal patrons of the colonist and monk who commissioned the work Don Antonio de Santana and Andrés Jadraque.
In 1562 the portrait was placed in a rustic chapel. It was exposed to the air, the roof leaked, and soon the damage caused by the humidity and sun completely obscured the image. In 1577 the damaged painting was moved to Chiquinquirá and stored in an unused room. In 1585 Maria Ramos, a pious woman from Seville, cleaned up the little chapel, and hung the faded canvas in it. Though the image was in terrible shape, she loved to sit and contemplate it.
On Friday 26 December 1586 the faded, damaged image was suddenly restored. It's colors were bright, the canvas cleaner, the image clear and seemingly brand new. The healing of the image continued as small holes and tears in the canvas self-sealed. It still has traces of its former damage, the figures seem brighter and clearer from a distance than up close. For 300 years the painting hung unprotected. Thousands of objects were touched against the frail cotton cloth by pilgrims. This rough treatment should have destroyed it, but it healed and survives. Pope Pius VII declared Our Lady of Chiquinquirá patroness of Colombia in 1829, and granted a special liturgy. In 1897 a thick glass plate was placed over it to stop the weather and the excesses of the faithful. The image was canonically crowned in 1919, and in 1927 her sanctuary declared a Basilica.

Saint Adrian Beaus


Saint Adrian Fortescue
English nobility; the son of Sir John Fortescue, and a cousin of Anne Boleyn. Made a Knight of Bath in 1503, frequently serving in the royal court of King Henry VIII. Fought for England in France in 1513 and 1522. Knighted of Saint John in 1532. He collected several lists of proverbs and folk sayings, often writing them in the margins of his Book of Hours. On 29 August 1534, for reasons never explained, he was arrested by the king's order, and imprisoned for several months. Arrested again on 3 February 1539, and sent to the Tower of London. Without trial, he was condemned to death in April for treason, though no specific act was alleged, only general "sedition and refusing allegiance", a consequence of his loyalty to Rome. Beheaded with Venerable Thomas Dingley on 9 July 1539 on Tower Hill, London, England.

Saint Adrian van Hilvarenbeek

Saint Agigulf
Educated at the Benedictine monastery of Stavelot-Malmedy. Abbot. Bishop of Cologne, Germany in 747. When King Pepin was dying, Agigulf counseled against naming Charles Martel as the new king; when Martel came to the throne, he had Agigulf killed in the year 751.

Saint Anatolia

Saint Andrew Wouters


Saint Antonino Fantosati
Franciscan missionary bishop. Vicar apostolic for southern Hunan, China. One of the Martyrs of China, killed during the Boxer Rebellion on 7 July 1900 in China.

Saint Anthony van Hoornaer

Saint Anthony van Weert

Saint Anthony van Willehad


Saint Augustine Tchao
Soldier. Escorted Blessed John Gabriel Dufresse to Beijing, China during his missionary work. Convert. Priest. Worked in the Su-Tchuen province. Arrested for his faith and work, and died in 1815 due to poor conditions in prison. One of the Martyrs of China.

Saint Brictus

Saint Cornelius van Wyk

Saint Cornelius

Saint Everild


Blessed Fidelis Chojnacki
Youngest of six children born to Waclaw and Leokadia Spurinska. Raised in a pious family. Studied in public schools and a military academy. Worked for a year at Szczuczyn Mowogrodzki in the Institute of Social Insurance. Worked at the Central Post Office in Warsaw. Member and administrator of Catholic Action. Worked against alcohol abuse and helped recovering alcoholics in his region. Joined the Secular Franciscan Order at the Capuchin church in Warsaw. Friend of Blessed Anicet Koplinski. Joined the Capuchins on 27 August 1933, taking the name Fidelis. Developed a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Studied philosophy at Zakroczym. Founded a Club for Intellectual Collaboration for the seminarians. Continued his work with alcoholics, working a group of Franciscans. Studied theology in Lublin, beginning in 1937; his studies were interrupted by the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Arrested for his faith on 25 January 1940 and held in the "Fortress of Lublin". On 18 June 1940 he was moved to the prison camp at Sachsenhausen. To this point Fidelis has kept his optimism, hope and simplicity, but this camp broke him; the abuse of himself and the other prisoners sent him into depression. On 14 December 1940 he, with other priests and religious, was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp; tattooed with his prisoner number, and subjected to more abuse. Abused, starved and over-worked, he developed a serious heart condition, and finally died of excessive abuse. His last words to fellow prisoners as he was being taken away were, "Praised be Jesus Christ; we'll see each other in heaven." Martyred on 9 July 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp due to assorted abuse; body burned in the camp's crematorium ovens.


Saint Francesco Fogolla
Franciscan missionary bishop. Martyred in 1900 in China. One of the Martyrs of China.

Saint Francis Rod


Saint Godfrey of Duynen
Also known as Gaufrid of Duynen, Geoffrey of Duynen, Geoffroy of Duynen, Geofroi of Duynen, Gioffredo of Duynen, Godefrid of Duynen, Godefridus of Duynen, Goffredo of Duynen, Goffrey of Duynen, Gofrido of Duynen, Gotfrid of Duynen, Gottfried of Duynen, Jeffrey of Duynen.
Parish priest. Rector of a school in Paris. Hanged Calvinists on 9 July 1572 at Gorkum, Holland for "papism" and his belief in the Real Presence in the Eucharist. One of the Martyrs of Gorkum.


Saint Godfrey of Merville
Also known as Gaufrid of Merville; Geoffrey of Merville; Geoffroy of Merville; Geofroi of Merville; Gioffredo of Merville; Godefrid of Merville; Godefridus of Merville; Goffredo of Merville; Goffrey of Merville; Gofrido of Merville; Gotfrid of Merville; Gottfried of Merville; Jeffrey of Merville.
Painter. Custos of the Franciscan house in Gorkum, Holland. Hanged on 9 July 1572 at Gorkum, Holland by Calvinists for "papism" and his belief in the Real Presence in the Eucharist. One of the Martyrs of Gorkum.

Saint Golvinus

Saint James Lacop
Norbertine monk at Middelburg. In 1566 he apostatized, writing and preaching against the Church. He later repented, rejoined his order, and retired to his abbey to do penance. Martyred by Calvinists in 1572 One of the Gorkum Martyrs.


Saint Jane Scopelli
From an early age, Jane felt drawn to religious life. Her family opposed the vocation, and she obeyed them, living a pious, austere life in her parents' home. On their deaths she founded the Our Lady of the People Carmelite priory at Reggio, Italy, and served as its first prioress. She refused all endowments or gifts to the convent unless they were given as alms with no strings or conditions attached. Her prayers reportedly resulted in miracles.


Saint Jerome of Weden
Franciscan missionary to Palestinian Muslims. Returning to Europe, he preached forcefully against Calvinism. Vicar of the friary at Gorkum, Holland. Hanged in 1572 by Calvinists at Gorkum, Holland. One of the Martyrs of Gorkum.


Saint John of Cologne
Dominican, though the persecutions of the time made it impossible for him to wear his habit. Parish priest of Horner, Holland. When he heard of the arrest and abuse of Catholics in Gorkum, he visited them in prison, smuggling in the Eucharist. When he was found out, burned, beaten, hanged and mutilated in 1572, He became one of the Gorkum Martyrs.


Saint John of Osterwick
Augustinian at Briel. Spiritual director of and confessor to a community of Augustinian nuns at Gorkum, Holland. Hanged in 1572. One of the Gorkum Martyrs.

Saint John van Hoornaer

Saint Justus of Poland

Saint Leonard Vechel

Saint Leonard Wegel

Saint Marie-Anne-Madeleine of Saint Melania de Guilhermier

Saint Marie-Anne-Marguerite of the Angels de Rochers


Martyrs of Gorkum
Nineteen martyrs hanged by Calvinists on 9 July 1572 at Gorkum, Holland for loyalty to the Pope and for their belief in the Real Presence in the Eucharist. They include:
Saint Adrian Beanus
Saint Adrian van Hilvarenbeek
Saint Andrew Wouters
Saint Antony van Hoornaer
Saint Antony van Weert
Saint Antony van Willehad
Saint Cornelius van Wyk
Saint Godfrey of Duynen
Saint Godfrey of Merville
Saint James Lacops
Saint Jerome of Weden
Saint John of Cologne
Saint John of Osterwick
Saint John van Hoornaer
Saint Leonard Vechel
Saint Nicholas Janssen Poppel
Saint Nicholas Pieck
Saint Peter of Assche
Saint Theodore van der Eem

Martyrs of Orange


Saint Mary Hermina Grivot
Daughter of a cooper and a housekeeper. Irma was an active, affectionate, sensitive, intelligent but sickly child, and her education stopped at the elementary level. She felt drawn to religious life, but her family opposed it, She worked as a tutor to make her own way, and in 1894 she entered a pre-novitiate of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary at Vanves near Paris, France, then her novitiate at Les Châtelets in July, taking the name Marie Hermine de Jésus. Her poor health caused her to spend a longer than usual noviate, proving that she was capable of the rigors of missionary life. She served in her house by taking care of the accounts in Les Chatelets and Vanves, caring for the sick in Marseilles, and then as superior of the missionaries in Taiyuanfu. In 1898 she and six sisters were sent to the Shanxi diocese in China to serve the poor in hospitals, and care for the unwanted or other destitutes in orphanages. There they were all beheaded on 9 July 1900 at Taiyuanfu, China in one of the periodic crackdowns against foreign missionaries. She is included as one of the Martyrs of Shanxi and the Martyrs of China.


Saint Mary of Jesus Crucified
On 25 March 1919 she and her friend Marija Telenta joined the Sisters of Charity. However, in May the superior died, the Italian sisters were forced to leave the country, and Mary, Marija and two other Croatian sisters were left to handle the work in the area. Mary was put in charge, and requested that the remaining Sisters follow the Rule of the Third Order Franciscans. Few as they were, in 1919 the Sisters still opened a recovery center, a child-care facility, and an orphanage.
On 25 August 1920, Mary wrote the first Constitutions of a new order. On 4 October 1920 it was founded as the Congregation of the Daughters of Mercy, Mary taking the name Marija of the Crucified Jesus. Superior General of the Congregation for over 30 years, she helped found 46 communities of the Daughters serving in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, seminaries, and parishes. Her health failed in her later years, and she was partially paralyzed the last three years of her life; dying on 9 July 1966 of natural causes.

Saint Nicasius Jonson

Saint Nicholas Janssen Poppel


Saint Nicholas Pieck
Son of John Pieck and Henriea Clavia, a pious Catholic family with a long history. Educated at Bois-le-Duc. Joined the Friars Minor at Bois-le-Duc. Studied at Louvain where he was ordained in 1558. He evangelized throughout Holland and Belgium, preaching against heresy, encouraging Catholics to stand by their faith. Known as a friendly, open, happy, modest man, endlessly working to bring people to God. Appointed guardian of convent in Gorkum where he preached against Calvinism and in support of the Real Presence in the Eucharist.
When the citadel of Gorkum was seized by the Watergeuzen, the Calvinists imprisoned the priests and religious. They tortured Nicholas by hanging and burning him with a torch. He and his fellow prisoners were offered their freedom if they would renounce the authority of Rome; they declined. He was martyred 9 July 1572 at Briel, Holland; most relics still at Briel. One of the Gorkum Martyrs.

Saint Patermuthius


Saint Paulina do Coração Agonizante de Jesus
The daughter of Antonio Napoleone Visintainer and Anna Pianezzer, she was born to a poor but pious family. In September 1875 her family, along with 100 other folks, about a fifth of her home town, emigrated from Italy to the state of Saint Catherine in Brazil to seek a better life. There the Italian émigrés founded the village of Vigolo (modern Nova Trento). Received First Communion about age twelve. In her early teens Amabile began teaching children catechism, visited the sick, and cleaned the church.
On 12 July 1890 Amabile and her friend Virginia Rosa Nicolodi were caring for a woman suffering from cancer. From them and their work began the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, approved by José de Camargo Barros, bishop of Curitiba. They and Teresa Anna Maule took their religious vows in December 1890; Amabile took the name Sister Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus. Their congregation grew quickly, and in 1903 Mother Pauline was elected Superior General for life. Even with her new responsibilities, she left Nova Trento in late 1903 for Saõ Paulo to work with orphans, the children of slaves, and aged slaves who had been left to die because they could no longer work.
In 1909 she was relieved of her duties as Superior General by Duarte Leopoldo e Silva, Archbishop of Saõ Paulo following a series of disputes within the congregation. She was sent to work with the sick and aged at the Hospice of Saint Vincent de Paul at Bragança Paulista. She spent her spare time in prayer in support of the Congregation. In 1918 she was recalled to the Congregation's motherhouse of Ipiranga. She lived there for over 20 years, caring for sick sisters, praying, and living away from the world. In 1938 her health began a long, slow decline as she fought a losing battle with diabetes.
The Congregation continues its work today in Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua, Chad, Zambia, Mozambique and Italy. They combine interior spirituality with service to those in need, drawing strength from devotion to the Eucharist, the Immaculate Virgin, and Saint Joseph. She is the first Brazilian citizen to be canonized.

Saint Peter of Assche

Saint Theodore van der Eem


Saint Veronica Giuliani
Born to wealthy parents, Francesco Giuliana and Benedetta Mancini. In her youth, Veronica developed a deep spirituality and desired nothing more than to dedicate her life to God. Received visions as a child, and her first words were reported to be "Do justice, God sees you." Veronica's father presented suitors in hopes that one would marry her; Veronica became ill at the idea of not devoting her life to God, and Veronica finally received her father's blessing.
Joined the Poor Clares on 17 July 1677 at age 17, receiving the veil on 28 October. Soon after she began receiving visions of Christ accompanied by the pain of the wounds of the Passion. Much skepticism of her stigmata, and many examinations, but it was never disproved; Veronica never tried to prove it, just submitted to the exams.
Novice mistress for over thirty years. Abbess for more than a decade. Author of the 10-volume Diary of the Passion which catalogues her religious experiences.

Saint Willehad of Denmark

Saint Zeno


4 posted on 07/09/2006 10:23:36 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.)
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Petitions


Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.

Precious Martyrs conceived in His image and likeness,
denied their right to a full and blessed life as He intended,
please forgive us.

Terri Schindler-Schiavo, please forgive us.

Saint Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church and Protector of the Faithful,
pray for us.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, comforter to the many who seek your healing grace, pray for us.
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.
Saint Jerome, pray for us.
Pope Saint Gregory the Great, pray for us.
Pope Saint Pius V, pray for us.
Pope Saint Leo the Great, pray for us.
Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us.
Saint Padre Pio, pray for us.
Saint Athanasius, fierce fighter of the Arians, pray for us.
Saint Clare, the great apostle of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration, pray for us.
Sister Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart, pray for us
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, pray for us.
Father Gommar DePauw, pray for us.
Father Paul Wickens, pray for us.
Saint Michael the Archangel, protect the faithful from the snares of the disciples of Lucifer in disguise, and
bring ruin to those who intimidate, oppress, imprison, torture, and murder His faithful servants
throughout the world.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world,spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

5 posted on 07/09/2006 10:29:36 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.)
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Prayer for Heretics and Schismatics
    Orémus et pro hæréticis et schismáticis: ut Deus et Dóminus noster éruat eos ab erróribus univérsis; et ad sanctam matrem Ecclésiam Cathólicam, atque Apostólicam revocáre dignétur. Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui salvas omnes, et néminem vis períre réspice ad ánimas diabólica fraude decéptas; ut omni hærética pravitáte depósita, errántium corda resipíscant, et ad veritátis tuæ rédeant unitátem. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, Qui Tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Let us pray for heretics and schismatics, that our Lord and God may deliver them from all their errors, and vouchsafe to recall them to their holy Mother, the Catholic and Apostolic Church. Almighty, eternal God, Who dost save all, and willest not that any should perish, look upon the souls deceived by diabolical fraud, that, abandoning all heretical depravity, the hearts of the erring may regain sanity and return to the unity of truth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who livest and reignest, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.


6 posted on 07/09/2006 10:31:51 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.)
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7 posted on 07/09/2006 10:34:25 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.)
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To: Piers-the-Ploughman; St. Johann Tetzel; murphE; NWU Army ROTC; ArrogantBustard; ...

All glory to our Lord and Savior;
In the presence of the many;
During every Holy Mass.
Amen.


8 posted on 07/09/2006 10:38:49 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.)
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To: Salvation

ping for your consideration. Also, I*m sending you a private message.


9 posted on 07/09/2006 10:40:41 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
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To: Robert Drobot; cpforlife.org; All

Please remember all those who are suffering today in your prayers.

10 posted on 07/09/2006 1:19:33 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Robert Drobot; All
"Do we follow the laws of the world, which always change, or the law of God, which can never change?"

Sermon for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost by Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer

"We are not right wing, we are not left wing, we are Catholic...This is one of the tricks of the devil in trying to get us to fall into the path of sin, is to get us to make one of two wrong choices. So it doesn't matter which one we choose, either way we fall into the pit" - Fr. Pfeiffer

11 posted on 07/09/2006 8:03:00 PM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Robert Drobot

Hi, please remove my name from the list.

Thank you.


12 posted on 07/11/2006 10:18:36 AM PDT by ElPatriota (Let's not forget, we are all still friends despite our differences)
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To: Robert Drobot
BTTT and thank you, Robert, for the ping, as always.
God bless...

vox

13 posted on 07/11/2006 9:33:40 PM PDT by vox_freedom
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To: vox_freedom

Thanks for your kind thoughts, my brother in Christ.


14 posted on 07/16/2006 12:34:48 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.)
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To: ElPatriota; Robert Drobot

Please add my name to the list. Thanks.


15 posted on 07/16/2006 1:06:44 AM PDT by reductio
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