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To: Hermann the Cherusker
Are you sure? It was "The Apostles of Infinate Love of The Order of The Magnificat of the Mother of God" --- they have a website and I also grabbed some liturature from the religious goods store where I spotted them.

They almost appear like they are living in a time warp.

27 posted on 09/12/2003 9:37:51 AM PDT by american colleen
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To: american colleen
This group is very untraditional. They have a very weird attitude toward the theological status of their founders, a very heterodox eschatology, they "ordain" women and have a laxer position on contraception than the Vatican.

They still use the Tridentine Rite, but they resemble in many ways a certain strain of High Church Anglicans who love ritual and vestments and incense and the trappings of liturgy while ignoring doctrinal orthodoxy. The kind of people who would say the Rosary for aesthetic reasons but who would not be overly doctrinaire on the question of whether Our Lord's Virgin Birth actually happened.

29 posted on 09/12/2003 10:50:47 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: american colleen
Are you sure? It was "The Apostles of Infinate Love of The Order of The Magnificat of the Mother of God" --- they have a website and I also grabbed some liturature from the religious goods store where I spotted them.

These are the St. Jovites we are talking about, right?

I'm absolutely certain. These folks are worthless heretics, founded by a Priest, Michael Collin, who has made himself into a "Bishop" and also "Pope". He has been continually condemned by the Church since 1951 with decrees of degradation, suspension, excommunication, etc. Succeeding him, in a certain way, is his fellow excommunicate John of the Trinity, aka "Pope" John Gregory XVII.

From the summary of Modern Anti-Popes:

Another anti-Pope of the late twentieth century, albeit now deceased, was Michel Collin. Collin had actually been a Catholic Priest and a member of the Order of the Sacred Heart. He was dismissed from the latter and excommunicated from the Church in 1951 after declaring himself to be Pope Clement XV in 1950. Collin established himself and the headquarters of his movement at St. Jovite, Canada.

Collin predicted a world wide catastrophe would occur on February 20th 1969 and when his prophesy was disconfirmed accused his detractors of ‘quibbling over dates’.

Among Collin’s more unlikely supporters at this time were members of a Danish UFO cult called IGAP (International Get Acquianted Program), led by one H. Peterson and inspired by the famous American contactee George Adamski.

The movement started by Collin has had various names over the years including; The Apostles of Infinite Love, Order of the Mother of God, Apostles of the Latter Times, Renovated Church of God and The Order Of The Magnificat Of The Mother Of God.

Clement XV/Michel Collin seems to have retired from the Papacy naming his successor as pope and head of the St. Jovite based movement. This was Gaston Tremblay or Gregory (sometimes Jean Gregory) XVII. Tremblay who took up the Papal mantle in 1968. Collin himself died in 1974.

I encourage you to throw in the trash whatever "literature" you received from them.

How to Perceive Women Priests.

In effect, there are signs the Church cannot ignore: the penury of priests, the growing desire among women religious for access to the priesthood, whereas not so long ago they could not have even considered such a desire. It would be wrong to think that ordaining women is an unconditional gesture in favor of "women's liberation" and everything that might imply. The nuns and ladies we have ordained aspired to the priesthood for reasons on a far higher plane than any desire for "equality" or any other prideful motivation. To be able to celebrate Holy Mass, the essential function of the priest: this was their great desire! In instituting the priesthood, Our Lord wanted above all to be certain there would be souls to perpetuate the Eucharist on earth, souls that would apply the infinite merits of His Passion to the world by the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice. In the difficult times we are living in, the Church has need of humble priests, entirely dedicated to the offering of the Divine Victim. Obviously, some will be engaged in a more visible ministry, but a discreet one nonetheless. "The little ones ask for bread, and there is no one to break it for them," declared a Dominican nun, upon requesting the priesthood in the name of many other Sisters. The field of action open to women priests among families, women and children is a boundless one and presently, due to the lack of priests, a very neglected one. ...

Besides the merciful and mighty intervention of the Virgin Priest, it is no doubt the ardent desires and the sufferings of so many Saints that have obtained the priesthood for women. It is now a Will of God. Churchmen who do not understand this should pray on it. If they sincerely desire to know and do what God wills, setting aside their personal feelings and views, they will not fail to receive divine light.

John Gregory XVII
Servant of the Church of Jesus Christ
Sanctuary of the Keys of Saint Peter
Saint-Jovite, June 24, 1994
Feast of Saint John the Baptist


31 posted on 09/12/2003 10:55:28 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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