Image from the Internet.Called by many the most noble woman living on the planet earth.
She is a model of Royal dignity and majestic bearing.
One of the most positive elements in the world has always been the British way of life. It always amazed other countries of the world. Today the English have forgotten how to be English. But there is hope.
Her life has been more filled with troubles than perhaps any of her predecessors in the long line of Kings, stretching back to the days before the Norman Conquest. She will be remembered as the Queen who forged a new personal link between monarch and people, as did so many of her countless predecessors.
In the mess of the twentieth century, it seemed the old days of kingship were gone. But, with the aid and support of many, and the background of family happiness in the persons of her small children and then grandsons, the Queen has overcome many a difficulty.
If Queen Victoria could come back to-day to see the firm high place her great-great-granddaughter the Queen and her family hold in the loyal affections and esteem of the country and Empire, she would be delighted. And we, especially the youth, ought to remember with grateful regard the great Queen, with a small body and a big heart, who has done so much for Britain.
With a quiet bearing and a deep religious sense of duty, she has maintained the position of the Crown above politics and has in many ways increased the status of kingship. Historians and learned folk know this.
Once received in audience by Ven. Pius XII. May he pray for her conversion to the fullness of Christian unity in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of Christ.
One God, one Bible, one Incarnation, one Revelation, one Baptism, one Church under the Holy See of Blessed Peter the Roman.
She is a world leader who understands art. The ethical value of art depends, among other things, upon the truthfulness of expression required and the just discrimination between contending interests.
Long may She reign! Rule Britannia!
Long to Reign over us! Happy and Glor-i-uss,God Save the Queen!
ReplyDeleteThere's an old prayer that used to be said after the Mass in the older days, in the UK, Canada, etc...
O Lord, save Elizabeth our Queen.
R. And hear us in the day when we call upon Thee.
Let us pray.
We beseech Thee, almighty God,
that Thy servant Elizabeth our Queen,
who has been called by Thy mercy to rule over this kingdom,
may also receive from Thee an increase of all virtues.
Fittingly adorned with these,
may she be able to shun all evildoing,
(in time of war: to conquer her enemies) and, finally,
being well pleasing before Thee,
together with her consort and the royal family,
attain unto Thee who art the Way,
the Truth and the Life.
Through Christ Our Lord.
R. Amen.
Catholics don't need to pay homage to an Heretic.
ReplyDeleteUnder her reign Britain is a shadow of its former imperial self.
ReplyDeleteI'll take the grace and class of Elizabeth II over what we see displayed in Anonymous 4:07's comment any day.
ReplyDeleteGood tribute John.
Free Catholic Ulster !!!
ReplyDeleteAs a Catholic, in charity,I pray for her to enter the one Ark of Salvation for the good of her soul. As an Irishman, again, out of charity, I will hold my tongue!
ReplyDelete-Donnacha
I'm curious, what are the atrocities this monarch has herself committed against the Irish / Northern Irish?
ReplyDeleteThe bitter anger of the Irish towards the English for what they did to them is definitely understandable but I wonder if the Irish nationalist movement of the 20th century ever considered establishing their own monarchy with an Irish royal family instead of a republic.
ReplyDeleteHowever they always declared themselves to be "republican" but I wonder why though. Were they fighting for their own sovereign Irish state free from religious/ethnic oppression or were they fighting for the modern egailitarian principle that all non-democratic or hereditary systems of government are instsically evil. That principle has been condemned by the Church in Pius X's apostolic letter "Notre Charge Apostolique".
It is also worth noting that the diabolical English republican dictator Oliver Cromwell committed more atrocities against Irish Catholics then most if not all English monarchs. At one point of his reign, Irish Catholic forces (who supported the British Stuart monarchy) even allied with English royalists to oppose Cromwell's tyrannical commonwealth.
However, as far as the Church goes, this acient conflict is irrelevant now since the Catholic faith in Ireland today is almost as foreign and repugnant as it has historically been in England. St. Patrick ora pro nobus!
On a side note here is a quote from an Irish Catholic Bishop on the character of monarchy: "The character of Kings is sacred; their persons are inviolable; they are the anointed of the Lord, if not with sacred oil, at least by virtue of their office. Their power is broad -- based upon the Will of God, and not on the shifting sands of the people's will... They will be spoken of with becoming reverence, instead of being in public estimation fitting butts for all foul tongues. It becomes a sacrilege to violate their persons, and every indignity offered to them in word or act, becomes an indignity offered to God Himself It is this view of Kingly rule that alone can keep alive in a scoffing and licentious age the spirit of ancient loyalty that spirit begotten of faith, combining in itself obedience, reverence, and love for the majesty of kings which was at once a bond of social union, an incentive to noble daring, and salt to purify the heart from its grosser tendencies, preserving it from all that is mean, selfish and contemptible." -- John Healy, early 20th Century Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland.
The Queen is not a heretic - if you don't believe me go read the documents of Vatican II - written almost half a century ago. Please try and get up to date before making comments.
ReplyDeleteWith all due respect, those Protestants outside the Church are either material or formal schismatics and/or heretics, depending upon how far they have severed themselves from the Doctrines of the Faith. Dogmatic Councils have taught us that; Vatican II's attempt to ignore defined teaching cannot, thank God, bring the Magisterium "up to date". Modernism, however, will never stop trying.
ReplyDelete-Donnacha
It isn't a question of Modernism - please read canon 751 in the light of the Dogmatic Constitution 'Lumen Gentium' and the Decree on Ecumenism; it isn't a question of 'bringing the magisterium up to date' either. It is simply a question of accepting what the Church teaches, again consult the canons in Book 3 of the Code - it is not up to individuals to interpret Church teaching according to their own lights. Likewise it makes no sense in endlessly quoting past magisterial statements if you do not accept current magisterial statements - it is for the Magisterium to interpret its own teachings. If you don't accept that - guess what - you become a Protestant!
ReplyDelete"It is simply a question of accepting what the Church teaches"
ReplyDeleteAmen, to that! And I pray that every soul [mine, too!] cooperates with grace, listens to Holy Mother Church, and reaches heaven!
Quoting "past magisterial statements" that are DE FIDE is what a Catholic is supposed to due in defending the faith. 2+2=4 when it comes to saving one's soul; the attempt to make 2+2=5 is an impossibility. It does not work for math; it cannot work for salvation.
-Donnacha
(D430) Ex cathedra: "One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved." (IV Lateran Council, A.D. 1215)
Ex cathedra: "We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is wholly necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff. The Lateran,November 14th, in our eighth year. As a perpetual memorial of this matter." (Unam Sanctam, A.D. 1302)
Pope Eugenius IV, A.D. 1431-1447, at Council of Florence: Ex cathedra: "It [the Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church] firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that none of those outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews, and heretics and schismatics, can become participants in eternal life, but will depart "into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels" [Matt. 25:41],unless before the end of life they have been added to the Church; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practised, even if he has shed [his] blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church." (Cantate Domino, A.D. 1442)
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DeleteDear Anonymous - it is clear you are neither a theologian nor an historian.
ReplyDelete"Father", that's no way to answer an argument. Anonymous has shown definitive statements from Popes. EX CATHEDRA DEFINITIONS. Now if I recall my Catechesis such pronouncements must be believed by Catholics IN ORDER TO BE SAVED. Compare that to documents issued by Vatican II, described by TWO Popes as being "pastoral". To quote the blog The Catholic Knight: "...the Second Vatican Council holds a lesser place in history than the First Vatican Council, or the Council of Trent, etc. Why? Because these councils clearly exercised the note of infallibility, defining doctrine in no uncertain terms. In effect, they were doctrinal councils, of the highest importance. While Vatican II was merely pastoral, outlining the desire for new methods and standards, but in no way defining new doctrine or exercising infallibility...
Delete'The Second Vatican Council has not been treated as a part of the entire living Tradition of the Church, but as an end of Tradition, a new start from zero. The truth is that this particular council defined no dogma at all, and deliberately chose to remain on a modest level, as a merely pastoral council; and yet many treat it as though it had made itself into a sort of superdogma which takes away the importance of all the rest.'
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI
given July 13, 1988, in Santiago, Chile
This echoes the words of Pope Paul VI, who concluded the Second Vatican Council, and also stated it was purely pastoral in nature, having not applied the "note of infallibility" to any particular document....
'In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided any extraordinary statements of dogmas endowed with the note of infallibility, but it still provided its teaching with the authority of the Ordinary Magisterium which must be accepted with docility according to the mind of the Council concerning the nature and aims of each document.'
Pope Paul VI
General Audience, 12 January 1966"
"Now in the Catholic Church itself we take the greatest care to hold that which has been believed everywhere, ALWAYS and by all. That is truly and properly 'Catholic,' as is shown by the very force and meaning of the word, which comprehends everything almost universally. We shall hold to this rule if we follow universality [i.e. oecumenicity], ANTIQUITY, and consent. We shall follow universality if we acknowledge that one Faith to be true which the whole Church throughout the world confesses; antiquity if we in no wise depart from those interpretations which it is clear that our ANCESTORS and FATHERS proclaimed; consent, if in antiquity itself we keep following the definitions and opinions of all, or certainly nearly all, bishops and doctors alike."
Are those outside the Church saved or not? To know the answer to this question (as well to all other questions of faith) you simply have to look up the pronouncements of our spiritual forbears, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and the pronouncements (especially the final and definitive ones) of the Bishop of Rome, His Holiness the Pope, Vicar of Christ the Son of the Living God, to whom were given the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and the Power to bind and lose in Heaven and Earth - and their answer is NO. You don't need to have a degree in theology or history to do that. Heck, you don't even need half a brain to do that.