Nazis Run Alberta Providence In Canada

When I wrote my April 5th post, I neglected to mention that incident happened in Calgary within the province of Alberta.  Today we all received word of another incident of jack-boot behavior, this time in Spruce Grove, still within Alberta.  The church that is literally under siege by local police is Grace Life Church, pastored by James Coates.  

This pastor was recently jailed for not limiting the number of attendees at his church services.  He was recently released, but made clear that he did not intend to humor the little despots who currently occupy local government there.  Anticipating that Coates might engage in the dastardly deed of conducting church services, the local jack-boots erected a barricade around the perimeter of the church

My!  Alberta must be so free of petty little crimes - you know, teensy little nuisances like murder, rape, robbery, etc - that the police departments can focus their attention on the real nefarious threats like people praying in churches, listening to Bible readings and acting like normal people.

While Canada has, in the past, conducted itself like a free nation, I don't believe that they have anything like the Bill of Rights enshrined in their laws.  We do.  However, we have had incidents this past year.  Like Pastors Coates and Pawlowski in Canada, we must stand up to the tyrants, not violently but forcefully.  We must do the same with their enablers, even if those enablers wear clerical collars.

Hats Off To This Canadian Protestant Pastor!

Would that our Catholic priests had half the backbone that Artur Pawlowski displays in the video below.  This gentleman does not have the graces of the Sacrament of Ordination, yet he stood against the thugs in uniforms who apparently intruded on his church service.  Let's all take some lessons from this man.

The Calgary police tried to justify their wanton actions; Vox Cantoris has a copy of their ridiculous tome.

Important note: when I implied that Catholic clergy lacked backbones, I was referring to those who aren't actually in cahoots with the progressive, great-reset crowd that includes many bishops.  They too, like the ones who refuse to apologize to Deirdre Hairston in Texas, need to be resisted to their faces.

Restricted Churches Will Mean Restricted Dollars

Last Sunday, Laetare Sunday, the priest at Mass gave a homily regarding the link between the Eucharist and the priesthood.  He recalled to our memories that Our Lord instituted both the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Holy Orders on the first Holy Thursday.  The Holy Thursday mass commemorates both those realities.  That is why it is an abomination that women have their feet washed along with men during the Novus Ordo version of that Mass, but I digress.  Father went on to point out that the Church would cease to exist without these two Sacraments.

Whether or not Father intended to shed some additional light upon the current state of sacramental life in the Churches throughout the world, I don't know, but he did.  The shutdowns as inflicted upon the Catholic Churches are an attempt to strangle the Church to death and to choke off a necessary avenue of grace for our world that is obviously in dire straits.  I think it could very well be a deliberated goal on the part of some corrupt clergy, but it clearly is of the devils.  There are, of course, the clergy who really have no faith in God nor belief in the spiritual realm, so they play right into the hands of the other masterminds.

The immediate dissembling and capitulation of our bishops in the face of immoral and unconstitutional intrusion by civic officials is nothing short of sinful.  Indeed, in many cases, the bishops outdid the government in choking off the sacraments, and the graces that would flow from them.  Now that some of the local governments are backing off the restrictions, some bishops are moving to retain them.  The situation in Texas comes to mind.  Governor Abbott has done away with most restrictions, but that state's bishops, with the exception of Bishop Strickland, are keeping the sacraments from their flocks.

We now have a situation in which the world is spiritually and physically dying for lack of Masses being offered and other Sacraments being conferred.  It is up to us, the laity, to insist that Sacramental life be restored immediately, with our without the permission of increasingly rogue states.  No more can we just suffer this situation in silence.  If ever there was a time when "offering up" was simply a sanctimonious excuse for cowardice, now is that time.

For starters, please find below a petition that can be downloaded and mailed to your local bishop.  When you send it in, sign your name.  If you'd rather not spend the postage, you will be pleased to realize that many of the dioceses are having their annual appeals about now.  Many of those campaigns include the distribution of postage-paid envelopes in which you can send donations.  Well, use it for something more profitable to your diocese.  Put your letter therein and send it.  Please send them no money until they open both the Churches and the Sacraments.