Are we sleeping?

Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques,
Dormez vous? Dormez vous?
Sonnez les matines, Sonnez les matines,
Ding dang dong, ding dang dong.

Brother John, Brother John?
Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping?
Morning bells are ringing, Morning bells are ringing,
Ding dang dong, ding dang dong.

Frère Jacques – Catholic song

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In his great Encyclical Letter, Humanum Genus, on Freemasonry, issued in 1884, Pope Leo XIII insists that “the naturalist and the Masons, not accepting by faith those truths that have been made known to us by God’s revelation, deny that the first Adam fell.” Thus we see the fundamental error of Masonry, namely, its Naturalism. Again the great Pontiff points out that “the ultimate aim of Freemasonry is to uproot completely the whole religious and political order of the world which has been brought into existence by Christianity and to replace it by another in harmony with their way of thinking. This will mean that the foundation and laws of the new structure of society will be drawn from pure Naturalism.” That involves the elimination from society of every acknowledgment of the Supernatural Life of members of Christ. In the Encyclical Letter, moreover, Pope Leo XIII shows the opposition of Freemasonry to five out of the six principal points of the Programme for Society of Christ the King. In regard to the fifth point, namely, the diffusion of ownership, the Pope insists upon the fact that “Freemasonry is not only not opposed to the plans of Socialists and Communists, but looks upon them with the greatest favour, as its leading principles are identical with theirs.”

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“In our time more than ever before”, said the saintly Pius X at the Beatification of Joan of Arc (Dec. 13, 1908), “the greatest asset of the evil-disposed is the cowardice and weakness of good men, and all the vigour of Satan’s reign is due to the easygoing weakness of Catholics. Oh if I might ask the Divine Redeemer, as the Prophet Zachary did in spirit: What are those wounds in the midst of Thy hands? the answer would not be doubtful. With these I was wounded in the house of them that loved me. I was wounded by my friends, who did nothing to defend me, and who, on every occasion, made themselves the accomplices of my adversaries. And this reproach can be levelled at the weak and timid Catholics of all countries.”

DENIS FAHEY, C.S.Sp. Forward to The War of Antichrist against the Church and Christian Civilization by Msgr. Dillon.