‘Every knee should bend’: Australian Archbishop Fisher urges kneeling for the Eucharist

 Citing Scripture and Catholic Tradition, the archbishop of Sydney urged renewed devotion to the Eucharist through kneeling, adoration, and faithful observance of liturgical rubrics.

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Gaetano Masciullo

SYDNEY (LifeSiteNews) — Australian Archbishop Anthony Fisher, O.P., has issued a pastoral letter for the Feast of Corpus Christi calling the faithful of his diocese to renewed Eucharistic adoration and reverent kneeling in worship.

On June 3, The Catholic Weekly published a pastoral letter entitled “Adoring the Eucharistic Lord: ‘Let us kneel before the God who made us,’” issued by Fisher, archbishop of Sydney, Australia, for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. The letter was addressed to priests, religious, and lay faithful of the archdiocese, and forms part of preparations for the International Eucharistic Congress scheduled to take place in Sydney in 2028.

Of these physical postures, kneeling most clearly reveals what we believe about God and our relationship to Him,” the archbishop writes. “We are also called to make a sign of reverence before we receive Holy Communion at Mass. In most cases this reverence is shown by bowing deeply, however many people choose to genuflect, or even to receive Communion kneeling. This is a perfectly valid option envisaged in the current Missal. Kneeling was the default position of receiving Holy Communion in the Latin Church for many centuries.”

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Worldly loss and spiritual reward

From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 10:16-22
At that time, Jesus said unto His disciples: Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. And so on.

Homily by St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople.
34 on Matthew.
It is as though He said Let not your heart be troubled although when I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, I bid you be harmless as doves for, albeit, if I would, I could now make things otherwise, and suffer not that ye should have to bear anything grievous, neither be at the mercy of the wolves as are other sheep, but on the contrary, could make you more dreadful to the lions than the lions to you nevertheless, thus must it needs be, and yourselves it will make more glorious, and My power it will wholly show forth. For thus was it that afterwards the Same Lord said unto Paul: My grace is sufficient for thee, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9. It is I that have made you to be what ye are.

But let us look what wisdom it is which the Lord requireth. It is the wisdom of the serpent. The serpent draweth all the rest of his body after his head, and it is no matter to him if his body be cut through, so long as he keepeth his head unharmed. Thus, O Christian, is it with thee. It is no matter to thee that for thy faith's sake thou shouldest lose all things else money, or body, or, if need be, life itself. thy faith is thy head, and the root of thy being hold fast to that, and, as long as thou hast that, although thou shouldest lose all things else, it will only be to receive them back again with interest an hundredfold. And thus it is that the Lord biddeth us, not to be single-hearted only, nor wise only, but both together, that therefrom we may be strong.

- St John Chrysostom 

Matt Walsh, EWTN, Catholic Answers all fall for the alien deception

 Catholic Inc. doesn't seem to understand that belief in extraterrestrials turns Catholic dogma into rubble.

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David MacDonald

LifeSiteNews) — As Disclosure Dayapproaches, extraterrestrials are in the news, movies, documentaries, books, and government “transparency” files. It’s reminiscent of the COVID media blitz.

Catholic media personalities and UFOs

Even as Matt Walsh expressed disappointment in the “grainy” government UFO files, he said “I’ve been a UFO believer for so long.”[1] In another video he admonished doubters:

[C]onservatives tend to be more religious … [they] think they can’tbelieve [in aliens] because it would call their faith into question. There is nothing … out there in the universe … that would call your faith into question. … The Bible … [is] focused on what is happening here [on earth] … you can be open-minded.[2]

 Catholic authors who promote ETs, such as Jimmy Akin (Catholic Answers), Father Robert Spitzer (EWTN), and Vatican scientist Brother Guy Consolmagno, have been on the podcast circuit. TAN Publishing is promoting the late Paul Thigpen’s attempt to normalize alien belief in Catholicism.[3]

 Journalist Robert Duncan promoted ETs on Catholic News Service (CNS).

Podcasters Lila Rose, Trent Horn, and Chris Stefanick platformed ET promoters, with no opposing interviews. Father Mike Schmitz and traditionally-minded Brian Holdsworth correctly warned us not to become distracted with UFOs while simultaneously floating the faulty rationale that there could be other biological lifeforms in this “big” universe.

Matt Fradd interviewed Jimmy Akin and the late Paul Thigpen. It was almost four hours of unbridled ET promotion. After an avalanche of comments requesting balance, Matt invited Daniel O’Connor to present an opposing view but then apparently ghosted him. Daniel responded with “Who Spooked Matt Fradd?” which went viral.

ET-promoting “Catholic” YouTube videos have exceeded 2 million views, with millions more on other platforms.

LGBT-friendly Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., kicked an exorcist out of his diocese for simply suggesting UFOs are diabolical activity. The priest, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, was a 20-year veteran with an impeccable track record. EWTN News reported the story as if the exorcist was at fault. The message is clear, like COVID and LGBT politics, that dissent is not permitted.

Catholic Inc. doesn’t seem to understand that belief in extraterrestrials turns Catholic dogma into rubble.[4]

During the Arian heresy, half the priests and bishops went bad. Cardinal John Henry Newman said the lay faithful held the Church together during that crisis. That hour appears to have arrived again.

ET belief is a gateway drug into the New Age

Gifted apologetics legend Jimmy Akin is a good example of where the ET rabbit hole leads. On Pints with Aquinas, he speculated about sacramental marriage between aliens and humans, if humans can have sex with aliens.[5] Then he defended Freemasonry, which is condemned by the Vatican.[6] Now he’s teaching psychic studies at Rhine.[7] His Mysterious World increasingly and carelessly dives into phenomena the Vatican warned us about in 2003:

New Age Spirituality is … spiritual narcissism or pseudo-mysticism … strange and exotic beings … extraterrestrials … psychic powers and occult…[8]

When Matt Fradd asked how alien belief could be reconciled with Mary’s elevated position in heaven, Jimmy Akin mused:

Well, if there are other mothers of Jesus out there, they wouldn’t be as high as our Mary.

Wait! Aren’t aliens supposed to be “superior” to humans?

Jimmy says:

It’s not always demons … if UAPs[9] … blow up and leave fragments of metal and stuff, we need to go with the premise that they are physical objects.[10]

There is no such evidence. Father Chad Ripperger, an exorcist, asserts demons are capable of all documented exotic “UAP” activity.

Wherever there is deep-seated belief in aliens, there follows a whole parade of darkness and other occult practices.

We’re being groomed for a pseudo-religion

The argument for non-rational micro life on other planets is a wedge issue, like incest and rape in the abortion debate. The micro life discussion always ends up being about UFO visitations to earth, “because the Church hasn’t ruled on ETs, don’t ya know!” Strangely, these alien visitors are always humanoid looking, between 4-8 feet tall. Why not the size of a bacteria or the moon? Because ET promoters have made aliens in their own image.

The mainstream pseudo-religion that this fuels teaches us:

• Aliens provide a “science-based” spirituality of love and peace, which absorbs “divisive and archaic” world religions.
• Aliens are superior; they taught Jesus to bend the laws of physics and gurus how to open their chakras.
• Humans can communicate with ETs via CE5 meditation.[11] (Guess who receives the call?)
• The Bible is outdated.[12]
• ET deniers are uneducated; they don’t “follow the science” (pseudo-science).
• Conspicuously absent are Jesus’ words, “I am The Way, the Life and the Truth, no one comes to the Father except through me.”[13] and “Repent and be saved.”[14]

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/matt-walsh-ewtn-catholic-answers-all-fall-for-the-alien-deception/?utm_source=FB&fbclid=IwZnRzaASWJCFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeEXCcvCubakmhCjx0iD2GVtHwXvOF9brS5yoNkLOKC-VDj29d6vDBE86q6S0_aem_UfftNiuioNBPaRs9jxPTog

Schneider: Loss of faith among bishops?

Bishop Schneider to @MattGaspers on the loss of the faith in the hierarchy: 

“A remarkable number of high ranking clergy have no more the Catholic faith. 

They want another Church: half protestant, half worldly, adapted to the impression of the world.

Or have even lost the Catholic faith…There are a remarkable number of them over the past 60 yrs”

They’ve promoted this desire to change the Catholic faith”

Source: @MLHaynes

No Excommunications Here

The latest morally dangerous fantasy: Masses celebrating sodomy.

They’re promoting the new religion! No penalties needed. 

For the SSPX, who want to remain Catholic and preserve the sacraments for that reason? Only the rod of excommunication.

Incompatibility Problems

@JChimirie66677

.@Keir_Starmer, your statement says you have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.

With respect, tolerance is not the issue. Nobody tolerates a near beheading on a residential street in Belfast. The question your statement carefully avoids is prevention. And prevention requires honesty about a pattern your government has consistently refused to name.

A man in his thirties, a Somali national, pinned a man to the ground on a residential street and stabbed him repeatedly in the face and neck. Members of the public intervened with a hurling stick. A woman required hospital treatment for the stress of witnessing it. This happened in Northern Ireland, a place that has known more than its share of violence, and even there residents said they had never seen anything like it.

Your government has presided over record small boat crossings. It has failed to proscribe the IRGC despite repeated promises. It has blocked the grooming gang inquiry for a year before being forced to concede it. It has spent £10 billion on asylum accommodation contracts. It has actively resisted measures that would have reduced the number of unvetted individuals entering and remaining in this country.

The victims of these attacks are not statistics. They are British people, going about their lives on their own streets, who were failed before the attack happened. Failed at the border. Failed by a system that prioritises the rights of those who arrive illegally over the safety of those who were already here.

Your thoughts are with the victim. So are ours. The difference is that thoughts are not policy. Thoughts do not secure borders. Thoughts do not remove individuals with no right to be here. Thoughts do not protect the next victim, whose name we do not yet know, on a street we cannot yet identify, from an attack that has not yet happened.

How many more before the thoughts become action?

June 25, 2026: The Wanderer Catholic Newspaper

 

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