Magesterium - Extraordinary and Ordinary

The word magisterium comes from the Latin word magister which means: master, ruler, president, chief, head, director etc. In the Church the office of teaching truths comes under the term, magisterium. The office of ruling is called jurisdiction. In this treatise We shall not be dealing with jurisdiction but only with teaching.

The function of teaching, that is, magisterium is divided into two categories, namely, extraordinary magisterium and ordinary magisterium. Ordinarily catechisms zero in on the extraordinary magisterium, while the ordinary magisterium gets only a passing explanation. At the first Vatican Council (1870), where the dogma of infallibility was solemnly defined, the Church came down hard with a clear and detailed explanation of when and how the Church teaches infallibly in a solemn fashion.

There are degrees of solemnity when the Church teaches matters that must be believed. If a Catholic does not believe such teachings, he is excommunicated and on the way to eternal damnation. The highest degree of solemnity is called de fide. In Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Dr. Ludwig Ott on pages 9 & 10 paragraph 8 reads: The Theological Grades of Certainty. Since Father Ott’s textbook is available from TAN Books those interested in those distinctions can go to that source. “Grades of certainty” is something like a person skating on a lake where the thickness of the ice differs in different places. The general public generally live with two warning signs. One says the ice before you is safe, and the other one says the ice before you is unsafe.

The A Catholic Dictionary by Donald Attwater gives the following: “The Church’s divinely appointed authority to teach the truth of religion, ‘Going therefore, teach ye all nations…teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you’ (Matt. 28, 19-20). This teaching is infallible: ‘And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world’ (ibid).

The Pope is free to choose any form of teaching or communicating that he wishes. He may use a solemn Bull, an encyclical, a radio broadcast, and the like formats. On one occasion when Pope Pius XII was speaking to married couples he said the following (abbreviated in Our own words, Pius XIII).

“We address the world in many forms, such as speaking to all through addressing the bishops. We do not confine ourselves to merely formal addresses, but We as a father of all, address simple folks as yourselves. It is a joy for us to tell you from Our own mouth the truths which God has confided to His Church the for the salvation of all men.” It is customary for the Pope to make a weekly visit to St. Peter’s Basilica or now the new auditorium in the Vatican. In 1970 when We visited Rome as a simple priest We attended one of those audiences. The Basilica of St. Peter was packed, and there was an upbeat spirit of great expectation as bogus-pope Paul VI was carried from the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica up the isle to a chair and throne a short distance in front of the great altar. He conducted a audience taking about forty-five minutes to an hour.

What We witnessed, in the order of divine providence, was an ordinary papal audience given by a bogus Pope, an anti-pope. Those audiences to deceive, if possible, even the elect started with John XXIII in 1958, and they continue to this day under the rule of bogus pope John Paul II. We would have gladly taken over the Vatican upon Our election as Pope on October 24, 1998. However, time is no problem for God. We must conduct the papacy from a tiny office in Springdale, Washington at the following address: Post Office Box 133, Springdale, WA 99173, (509) 258-9109.

One of the titles of the Pope is that of “Vicar of Christ.” Christ is enthroned in heaven, and He rules His Church through those who are His vicars on earth. All of God’s rational creatures are bound to love God. This command is given to us by Christ in Luke 10, 27 as follows: “He answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with they whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbor as thyself.”

We are laboring the obvious when We tell you that this command to love God binds all men and especially those of the household of the faith. Since the Pope is the Vicar of Christ all Catholics are bound to give special love and obedience to him. Anyone who claims to love Christ without loving and obeying His Vicar, the Pope, will march into a harsh judgment at the moment of death when he faces Christ his just judge.

The Jews whom the Good Friday liturgy calls “perfidious Jews” do not love Christ, and they do not love His Vicar on earth, the Pope. On the day of Christ’s crucifixion the Jews called down upon themselves and their children the blood of Christ, and to this day that willed curse is still upon their children. We pray that the day may be close at hand when the Jews will love Christ and His Vicar as they are commanded to do by God Himself. St. John in the opening words of his Gospel expresses their plight thus: He came unto His own and His own received Him not.

There is a whole plethora of people who call themselves Christians, who also claim to love Christ, but they refuse to love His Vicar. The Orthodox Christians, dating from the eleventh century, doggedly hold fast to loving Christ, but they hate His Vicar. That hate is set in their stone hearts by their categorical denial of papal jurisdiction and papal infallibility. Like the Jews they know who the Pope is, but they do not accept him. They claim to be right, and they claim that there is no such a thing as the Vicar of Christ. They call the papacy itself a bogus office.

The Protestant world knows Christ, and all the sects claim to love Christ “as their personal savior.” They deny that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, so they neither love nor obey him. As a matter of fact they like to call him the anti-Christ. They blindly imitate the perfidious Jews in hating Christ in His Vicar.

We could go on enumerating sects until doom’s day. The present and most hideous sect that claims to love Christ is the Novus Ordo Church, headed by bogus John Paul II. Mistakenly many of the faithful believe that they are obeying and loving Christ in their bogus Pope, who now is John Paul II. This is nothing new, for that phenomenon occurred often in the past two thousand years. During the Great Schism of the fourteenth century they had three men claiming to be Pope at the same time during about thirty seven years. Then it was solved, and there remained only one man claiming to be the Pope. Of course he is listed as a successor of St. Peter.

During the life of St. Bernard there were two men who claimed to be Pope, for both were elected Pope in the ordinary fashion. St. Bernard examined the election process of both the claimants to the papacy, and he found irregularities in both conclaves. He studied the men themselves. One was a sneaking criminal, and the other one was a good and holy man. St. Bernard concluded that he was the one who was accepted by Christ as His Vicar. With that conviction St. Bernard went to work at preaching to all the Catholics he could find. After seven years of hard preaching giving his reasons why the good man was the Pope, the Catholic faithful as a whole accepted the good man, and the criminal was eliminated.

Our Catholic faith is a mystery. It is a theological virtue implanted in the hearts of men by God when they receive baptism, together with sanctifying grace. Only those with this virtue of faith have a saving faith.

We just cannot pass up this topic of our Catholic and divine faith without giving you God’s own testimony concerning this mystery as stated in the book of Hebrews chapter eleven: “Now, faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not. For by this the ancients obtained a testimony. By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God: that from invisible things visible thing might be made. By faith Able offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh.”

God gives testimony only to the truth. The miracles of Christ were God’s signs that Christ was what He claimed to be, namely, the Promised Redeemer. It is a fact of history, that only a small number of people in the Holy Land accepted that testimony. They cooperated with the virtue of faith in order to believe in Christ. All the others either did not have the virtue of faith, or if having it they did not cooperate with it. That is how faith worked in the past and will continue to work until the end of time.

Only those with the virtue of divine faith can do the works of faith, that is, believe in God and believe everything He teaches through His holy Church. During the Old Testament God guided the world through the prophets and the like leaders.

We cannot pass up what could be a grave mistake. Arguments or miracles never make faith. They lead to faith, but they do not make faith. Hence, only one with the virtue of faith can draw any sensible conclusions from miracles. We shall repeat a statement given to Us by a Jew. He told Us that We can give him all the arguments in the world that Jesus Christ was a special creature, but do not hand me that baloney that He is God. Now the opening verse in Hebrew eleven should make more sense. “Now, faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.”

That We are the Pope and Vicar of Christ since Our election at a world wide conclave on October 24, 1998 is rightly fitted into the above quotation as follows: We are the substance of what is hoped for, and We are endowed with spiritual powers (of the papacy) that appear not. The conclave spoke to the world, and We like Christ are in the world which received Him not and does not now receive Us either.

The argumentation from God continues in John 15, 21-22: “But all these things they will do to you for my name’s sake: because they know not him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.” There are a number of very learned men writing traditional Catholic truths, and they even correct the errors of John Paul II and the entire Novus Ordo bogus Church. Nevertheless, they continue to call John Paul II the Pope and his Novus Ordo religion the Catholic religion. The argumentation for Our being the Pope since October 24, 1998 goes right over their heads. Why? They either do not have the virtue of divine and Catholic faith, or if having it they refuse to cooperate with actual grace. No matter which alternative is functioning, there is nothing that can be done for those persons except to pray that more and more potent graces work on their benighted souls. Those without faith must receive it, and those with faith must be lead to find “…the substance of things to be hope for… and …that appear not.”

It is likely that some of Our readers do suffer some form of persecution for professing and living the Catholic faith. That is to be expected, for we read in II Timothy 3, 12 & 13: “And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error.”

Our persecution is a regular routine. Just a few days ago the following came to Us. We preserve it in its original form as proof of the truth of what We speak to you. It is:

Now We know why evil men stoop so low as to call the Blessed Virgin Mary a whore and Jesus Christ a bastard. All of them are Bermuda Triangle devils. Indeed, We are likened unto Christ, speaking the truth and suffering for it. We defend Our mother by pointing out that she was the youngest child in a family of eleven where two of her sisters became Dominican Sisters and died in the Order. She had a brother who was a Jesuit Brother and died in the Order after over fifty years being a Jesuit. Our mother in a Catholic Marriage to a Catholic man had nine children with four boys all Capuchin priests and five daughters properly married before the Church. Follow the words of Christ: “By their works you shall know them.” May all those of satanic ill will be converted before they must meet their just judge at death and before the whole world on the general judgment day.

Put it this way. If We were not a threat to those Satan minions there would be no persecution.

In the Lord’s Prayer, Christ instructed the Apostles to pray: “Our father…” to the First Person of the Blessed Trinity. God the Father is the head of the entire family of angels and saints. A lawfully married man is called father by his children, and he is the head of the family. Strictly speaking a husband and wife living in a house do not have a home until they have children. Little children love their father with a great esteem. My father is strong. He can move the piano, sort of admiration. They run to mother and father when injured or hung up. In order for us to enter heaven we must have a great esteem for our heavenly Father, and also for all those who take His place. In Ephesians 3, 14 & 15 St. Paul says: “For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named.” The fourth Commandment of God commands children to honor and obey their father and their mother. Little children do that quite naturally. They know their weakness and the strength of their parents.

Generally the Pope is called the Holy Father, for he is the head of the family of the entire Church. The priests are called father, for they are the heads of the parish families.

Society today is destroying the father image where women have children and raise them without a husband. Even where the father is present, society tends to lower the esteem that he is suppose to have. All the faithful must develop a great esteem for the Pope. They should want to know not only what he defines for their beliefs, but they should also want to know his thinking and judging on world affairs. For example, what is the legality or non legality of modern day gorilla warfare? What about cloning? What about gene altering and so forth? Catholics should give a loving submission in faith and action to the words of the Pope as he wants to be understood. God gives him more help in seeing and defining truth than He does to all mankind put together.

While speaking to the Apostles Christ said (Luke 10, 16): “He that heareth your heareth me: and he that despiseth you despiseth me: and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.” This applies primarily to St. Peter and to his successors as Vicars of Christ.

Faith & the Pope

Without divine and Catholic faith it is impossible to recognize the Pope, for like Christ, he looks like just another man. Christ’s miracles were the foundation on which the faith of His followers believed in Him. God generally does not give miracles to recognize the Pope. What the faithful have to work on is a papal election. That election must have sufficient credibility to give credibility that it produced the Pope. Once again, no matter how good the papal election may be, only those with divine faith can and will recognize the Pope. It is important that the Pope be recognized, for Pope Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctam stated the infallible dogma (Dz. #469) “Furthermore, we declare, say, define, and proclaim to every human creature that they by necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff.” This should take the wind out of the sails of those who think that just being good, independent of the Pope, will get them to heaven. Every single person eventually will have to go to heaven or to hell for all eternity.

2004 Catholic Calendar

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We encourage you not only to follow the liturgy that is given in the calendar, but you do well to follow the special devotions that go with most of the months. Now in progress, the month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary and the Angels. The month of November is dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. They have accomplished their eternal salvation, but temporarily they are in purification before they can enter heaven. Even if nobody helps them they will eventually go to heaven, but we on earth can help them out of that place of suffering. Our help is a spiritual work of mercy, something all of us are bound to do.

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Shortly it will be Advent, a time of penance. By the way, for Protestants, according to their heresies, there is no such a thing as penance. In short, they hold that those who accept Christ as their personal savior have eternal salvation, so to say, all sewed up. What a surprise they are in for when they appear before the judgment seat of the just God at death!

Penance is performed by prayer, fasting and alms deeds. It can also include one’s proper support of the Church. We are very poor, and in order to remain free to work for the faithful We frequently do just day labor jobs around here. In this place there is only one person serving Us and the Church. Any and all support is most welcome. Do so not in the spirit of helping Us, but in the spirit of doing your duty as Catholics. God will reward those who do their duty, and punish those who do not do their duty. We make this helpful statement to you before you must stand before the judgment seat of God at the moment of death. May your reward be very great, calculated on your works done in the state of sanctifying grace.

Say (pray) often: “Jesus, Mary I love Thee. Save souls.” Queen of the Most Holy Rosary. Pray for us. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.