Feast of the Miraculous Medal today

At the Church of San Andrea della Fratte, Rome at the 7.30 Mass today morning Our Lady’s apparitions to St. Catherine Laboure were recalled. The Mass was celebrated at the Altar of the Miracle where Our Lady appeared to Alphonse Ratisbonne who was wearing a Miraculous Medal given to him by a friend.

During the Prayer Intentions it was prayed that the Church be an instrument of salvation for all people. This is Dominus Iesus 22.I wish they had also made a prayer intention based on Dominus Iesus 20.Salvation is open for all but to receive it one needs to respond and enter the Church. Dominus Iesus 22 is vague and can be interpreted as heresy. It could be interpreted as the Church is necessary for all and all who are saved are saved through Jesus and the Church and so non Catholics do not have to convert. They can be saved in general without believing in Jesus or entering the Church. Even if all who are saved are saved by Jesus and the Church, Jesus’ Mystical Body, it does not negate the dogma which says there is exclusive salvation in only the Catholic Church and does not mention any exceptions.

All need to be visible members of the Church, with faith and baptism (AG 7). If someone objects and says that Fr. Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for saying that every one needed to be a visible member of the Church for salvation, know this is an opinion. Something implied. The text of the Holy Office 1949 does not state this. One has to imply it. The text refers to disobedience and not  doctrine as the basis for the excommunication.

The priest at the next Mass at 8 a.m said   10 years after Our Lady appeared to Catherine Laboure she appeared to Alphonse Ratisbonne, at that very altar where he was offering Holy Mass this morning. This sanctuary of Our Lady was special, he said, for the Polish priest St. Maximillian Kolbe for whom the Miraculous Medal was part  of mission and teaching.

St. Maximillian Kolbe and Alphonse Ratisbonne, I thought, did not teach the new doctrine of the dead who are saved being visible to us all on earth. Today Vatican Council II and the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 are being interpreted with this irrationality of the visible- deceased.

It is generally held that we are able to see the dead saved in invincible ignorance, a good conscience, implicit desire etc and so these known cases on earth are exceptions to St. Maximillian Kolbe’s understanding of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus in the 1930’s.

The Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) today cannot be granted canonical status unless they accept this new doctrine in the interpretation of Vatican Council II and the Letter of the Holy Office. The Archbishops at Ecclesia Dei and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,Vatican imply there is explicit implicit salvation mentioned in Vatican Council II.

 So all traditionalists are being forced to accept this and the SSPX could be penalized for being disobedient to this innovation.

The American under Secretary at the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei,Vatican Mons. Arthur Calkins F.I also holds on to this irrationality. He writes in praise of Alphonse Ratisbonne but cannot affirm the traditional dogma as did Ratisbonne who in a flash was shown the beauty of the Catholic Church and its necessity for the salvation for all people.-Lionel Andrades

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