by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, LifeSite News:

Popular devotion celebrates this solemn day with the name “Easter of Roses” [Pasqua delle rose], recalling the ancient custom of symbolizing the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles and on Mary Most Holy with a cascade of rose petals. It is so similar to Easter that, on the eve of Pentecost, holy baptism was solemnly administered to those who had not been able to be regenerated during the Vigil of Holy Saturday. Just as the Jewish Passover was a prefigurement of the Christian Passover [Pasqua or Easter], so the Jewish Pentecost – in which the promulgation of the Ten Commandments was celebrated seven weeks after the flight from Egypt – was a prefigurement of the new Pentecost, this time extended to all peoples.

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At Easter, the κόσμος (world) bows to the majesty of Christ the King and High Priest, per quem omnia facta sunt – “by whom all things were made.” On Pentecost, creation renders homage to the Creator Spirit, to the Creator Spiritus who in His power renews the face of the earth. At Easter, the messianic promises of the ancient law are fulfilled. On Pentecost, the promises of the Messiah Himself are realized in His Mystical Body, the Holy Church, the mother of saints – Madre de’ Santi – as Manzoni calls her in his famous sacred hymn for this feast.

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The apostles are locked in the Cenacle propter metum Judæorum “for fear of the Jews” (Jn 20:19): they had not yet received the Holy Spirit, and their human fears would disappear only ten days after the Ascension of the Lord, with the descent of the Holy Spirit. Today that same fearful inaction is repeated in reverse, with a hierarchy that culpably ignores, culpably remains silent, and hides and nullifies the sanctifying work of the Paraclete even after His descent, and even after two thousand years of Christianity have demonstrated the Spirit’s divine power in winning souls to God and building up the Holy Church.

We must not underestimate the gravity of this act of hiding: it is deliberate, knowingly oriented to cause harm, because the mercenaries are aware that in order to demolish civil society and the Church it is necessary to prevent as much as possible the spread of grace and its action through the sacraments, which stop the right hand of God’s justice by means of the Holy Mass. They want to ensure that the sacrifice of Christ is nullified, so that by drying up the torrents of grace, souls will be weakened and die of thirst as they cross the desert of a hostile world. Their fault – just as we saw with doctors during the pandemic farce – is not incompetence or inability: it is instead a desire to do evil, to serve the enemy, to support the power of the New World Order in the vile and abject illusion of seeking a place in the court of the Antichrist. Miserable traitors, for whom the only reason for living is to consume themselves in this sordid libido serviendi.

This subversive work – because such it is in all respects, with regard to God, the Church, and souls – has as its aim the usurpation of the Lordship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, so that in His place the son of perdition, the Antichrist, may sit in the holy place, in a grotesque counterfeit of both civil and religious authority. We cannot believe that a successor of the apostles could deny and contradict the mandate received from Christ and instead serve His enemy, without understanding that by doing so he becomes complicit in the satanic plan of the revolution.

No, dear faithful: after decades of the systematic dissolution of the Church – and over two centuries of social dissolution – no pastor in good faith can still think that the innovations introduced by Vatican II have nothing to do with the disastrous state in which the world finds itself. For those who still defend the indefensible supposed “orthodoxy” of the council and its liturgy, in the face of the massacre of souls of the last sixty years, the words of the great Bossuet are perfectly suited: Dieu se rit des hommes qui déplorent les effets dont ils chérissent les causes – “God laughs at men who deplore the effects while approving the causes.”

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