SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Act of Veneration to the Immaculate in Piazza di Spagna
Prayer of the Holy Father Francis
Saturday, December 8th 2018
Immaculate Mother,
on the day of your feast, so dear to the Christian people,
I come to pay you homage in the heart of Rome.
In my heart I bring the faithful of this Church
and all those who live in this city, especially the sick
and how many for different situations are more difficult to move forward.
First of all we want to thank you
for the maternal care with which we accompany our journey:
how many times we hear with tears in our eyes
from those who have experienced your intercession,
the graces that you ask for us for your Son Jesus!
I also think of an ordinary grace you give to the people who live in Rome:
that of facing the inconveniences of daily life with patience.
But for this we ask you the strength not to resign, indeed,
to do each day their own part to improve things,
because the care of everyone makes Rome more beautiful and livable for everyone;
because the duty well done by everyone assures everyone's rights.
And thinking of the common good of this city,
we pray for those who hold roles of greater responsibility:
get for them wisdom, foresight, spirit of service and collaboration.
Holy Virgin,
I would like to entrust you especially to the priests of this Diocese:
the parish priests, the vice-priests, the elderly priests who with the heart of shepherds
continue to work for the people of God,
the many priests students from all over the world who collaborate in the parishes.
For all of them I ask you the sweet joy of evangelizing
and the gift of being fathers, close to the people, merciful.
To you, a woman consecrated to God, I entrust consecrated women in religious life and in secular life,
that thanks to God in Rome there are many, more than in any other city in the world,
and they form a beautiful mosaic of nationalities and cultures.
I ask you for the joy of being, like you, spouses and mothers,
fruitful in prayer, in charity, in compassion.
O Mother of Jesus,
one last thing I ask you, in this Advent time,
thinking of the days when you and Joseph were anxious
for the imminent birth of your child,
worried because there was a census and you also had to leave your country, Nazareth, and go to Bethlehem ...
You know, Mother, what it means to bring life into the womb
and feeling around indifference, rejection, sometimes contempt.
This is why I ask you to stay close to families today
in Rome, in Italy, there are similar situations in the whole world,
because they are not abandoned to themselves, but protected in their rights,
human rights that come before any legitimate need.
O Mary Immaculate,
dawn of hope on the horizon of humanity,
watch over this city,
on homes, schools, offices, shops,
on factories, hospitals, prisons;
nowhere is it lacking what Rome has most precious,
and which preserves the testament of Jesus for the whole world:
"Love one another as I have loved you" (cf. Jn 13:34).
Amen.
How outrageous of this pope to insert his political agenda into the prayer - for what he said above is exactly the gist of the recent United Nations “Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration” (GCM), which the Vatican has been touting and promoting. In a recent article, L'Osservatore Romano reported that 160 nations have signed up on the GCM, whereas the U.S., Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Australia, and Israel, have not.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/12/11/vatican-continues-full-court-press-for-u-n-immigration-program/
'The human rights of migrants come before any legitimate need'??? What human rights? Their right to migrate wherever they want to regardless of the laws of the host countries? Are these laws - immigration laws have always been considered a legitimate right of every sovereign country for its own protection and for the good of its citizens - the 'legitimate need' that the pope considers should be relegated in favor of the unconditional 'right' to migrate anywhere???
The United Nations - its handful of ultraliberal big powers/sponsors and its majority of herd-mentality countries - is acting like the World Parliament it was never supposed to be. It was never intended to override the sovereignty of individual nations other than for purposes of peacekeeping in times of open war. It cannot unilaterally tell sovereign nations they cannot enforce reasonable immigration laws and minimize unwanted mass migration when their national resources can barely meet the basic needs of their neediest citizens.
The Vatican serving as UN handmaiden and PR tout for this outrageous trampling over national sovereignth is not surprising, of course, because this pope more than a year ago simply interfered with the internal affairs of a sovereign international institution, the Knights of Malta, and essentially trampled shamelessly over its sovereignty so that it now is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bergoglio Vatican, Inc.
P.S. I must note that on December 10, Antonio Socci's blog post for Libero was entitled "The 'Migrant Christ' theorized by the church of Bergoglio has nothing to do with the Jesus of the Gospels: Here is the true story" - which he apparently wrote without knowing about the December 8 prayer.
But the point he makes is all the same: that this pope and his followers will not hesitate to twist Scriptures and the Gospel to promote their self-serving egotistical and political ends.
1. No man of good will would oppose any action that promotes the social good in terms of the greatest good for the greatest number - not in terms of preferential treatment for a select aggrupation of individuals who are not all or even largely driven by the material and security needs that disadvantaged persons experience everywhere. That is why reasonable immigration laws exist in order to help those who are truly most in need.
2. Jorge Bergoglio's twisted priorities militate against any sympathy for his largely pro-Muslim initiatives. Has he shown any similar initiative at all to come to the aid of persecuted Christians in many parts of the world? And yet he is supposed to be the number-one Christian leader in the world. Why be so pro-Muslim and so neutral to Christians? It's like asking why he has been, in his own way, persecuting Catholics who think and act as well-catechised and well-raised Catholics do.
Do we need more than this to define how anti-Catholic this pope really is? Surely that is the most tragic paradox for the Church of Christ at this start of the third millennium.
I will post a translation of Socci's article as soon as I can.
PPS - BTW, that part of the prayer where JMB refers to consecrated women is just too hypocritical after his two papal decrees that have virtually gutted the monasticism out of female religious orders! I still owe a translation of Aldo Maria Valli's account of the Bergogliac tirade that his two top men at the congregation in charge of religious orders gave to hapless cloistered nuns during a 'forced' excursion into the world at the Vatican recently.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 13/12/2018 05:13]