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As I was meditating on the verse: "Remember thy last end and thou will not sin", the telephone rang. The moment I answered I knew this was not an ordinary phone call. I was informed that a family member has some serious health concerns, and that the doctors suspect cancer. I ask prayers. After the call, i returned tto prayer and was recalling that none of us know the day not the hour. I was also meditating on the sanctification part of the Crusade of Sanctification, Prayer and Penance to beg God to end the Great Apostasy. Sanctification begins at home, and I was meditating on what I need to do to sanctify my own self. This afternoon I will have a couple of hours alone on the road to meditate further on this.
In discussing the redesign of the website, which is now in place, I was reminded that everything we need to know to find the truth is out there. So why aren’t people doing this? What is the missing piece? Mom read this morning that all of us are given the grace to pray. And by corresponding to this grace to pray, we ask God and receive the other graces we need to save our souls. And our goal is to find our way to our true home in Heaven, and that trip could be sooner than we think. And I was reminded of the book Read Me or Rue It, which I hope to post later today on the internet.. We should be aiming to go straight to Heaven. I will post more considerations later and may also discuss this live.

Pope Michael

"He must increase, and I must decrease," Saint John the Baptist said of himself. I must decrease and let God increase in my life!

Let us read from Dom Gueranger: "The world is hard to teach, else it would have long since learned this truth, that a Christian people can never see with indifferent a pastor put to death for fidelity to his charge; and that a government that dares to make a martyr will pay dearly for the crime. Modern diplomacy has learned the secret; experience has given it the instinctive craft of waging war against the liberty of the Church with less violence and more intrigue-the intrigue of enslaving her by political administration. It was this crafty diplomacy which forged the chains wherewith so many churches are not shackled, and which, be they ever so gilded are in-supportable."
I read this this morning and realized these are the times we live in. The Enemy has become quite crafty and would rather kill us by luxury than by the sword. Saint Hilary says of Antichrist: By a strange ingenious plan, which no one had ever yet discovered, thou hast found a way to persecute, without making Martyrs. Let us return to Gueranger: "There is but one way to unlink such fetters-break them. He that breaks them will be great in the Church of heaven and earth, for he must be a martyr: he will not have to fight with the sword, or be a political agitator, but simply to resist the plotters against the liberty of the Spouse of Christ, and suffer patiently whatever may be said or done against him" Let us pray that this Saint comes soon. Indeed, it is most likeley one of us. If God wills, may He strengthen me to be that Saint! The Vatican In Exile revision will go in place today, although there is still much work to do there.
I will be setting up a temporary page for feed back on this Crusade.
This will also be discussed at the egroup..

I have had some good feedback already. I mentioned one on the broadcast yesterday. It was a simple suggestion, that it needs little preparation. Simply devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus and reciting this Holy Name as a prayer. Another feedback is to make this a Crusade of Sanctification, Prayer and Penance, and this is a very good idea. There have been some good suggestions at the temporary page and Guestbook, but I can see that one of our old nemeses has also showed up there. (I expected him to show up somewhere he has been quiet for a while.) Of course, you can continue to email suggestions directly to me, as some of you have already. Someone mentions the Third Secret of Fatima, and if you have more information on this, please do send it to me. So, let us sanctify ourselves, pray and do penance, begging God to end the Great Apostasy, for we know there will be a universal conversion.

I will be setting up a temporary page for feed back on this Crusade.
This will also be discussed at the egroup..

I am calling for a Crusade of Prayer to end the Great Apostasy. I will be setting up a temporary page for feed back on this Crusade. I am sure many of you have visited many websites. Do you know of any that advocate prayer to end the Great Apostasy? If so, please let me know about these websites. Do you have any recommendations on possibles prayers and/or penances that should be recommended to people to obtain this end? Any other feed back? This will also be discussed at the egroup. If you wish to join, please provide some way of letting us know you are sincere. We have had a great deal of trouble with fools at the egroup, and have had to impose security measures to keep the fools out so there is no distraction to honest members.

We wish all in the world a Blessed Christmas. May we have Christ’s Mass next Christmas!

My friends, I have been reading from Gueranger. But before I give my thoughts on this, I would like to ask all to make a special Holy Hour for the Restoration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and an end of the Great Apostasy. At the egroup, I have called for prayer, and would like to call for a Crusade of Prayer to be spread throughout the world. In fact, I would like to make this a project of all Christians to get on their knees and pray. I will be updating this at the Vatican In Exile, which is currently under redesign.
I will be talking about the economy of prayer on Sunday as well as the necessity of detachment from the world, which requires silence. Also I will be considering over the next few weeks the necessity of prayer and penance. In discussing the redesign with someone, he stated that everything is now publishing and we are using is already readily available. So it is not a lack of the information, but something else that is holding back the Universal Conversion. In my opinion what is needed now is an increase in prayer and penance! Email me with your thoughts on all of this!
I will be discussing this at the egroup, here on my blog, on the broadcasts, and basically everywhere. I would like all who read this, whether you agree with my position on the Church or not, to undertake extra prayer and penance for the end of the Great Apostasy. It is only through more prayer and penance that the Great Apostasy will end.

From Saint Alphonsus: Jesus lying on the Straw.
Jesus is born in the stable at Bethlehem. His poor Mother has netiher wool nor down to make a bed for the tender Infant. What does she do then? She gathers a small handful of straw into the manger, and puts it there for him to lie on: And she laid Him in the manger. (Luke 2:7) But, O my God, how hard and painful is this bed for an infant just born; the limbs of a babe are so delicate, and especially the limbs of Jesus, which were formed by the Holy Ghost with a special delicacy, in order that they might be more sensible to suffering: A body Thou has fitted Me. (Hebrews 10:5)
Wherefore the hardness of such a bed must have caused him excessive pain,-pain and shame; for what child, even of he lowest of people, is ever laid on straw as soon as he is born? Straw is only a fit bed for beasts; and yet the Son of God had none other on earth than a bed of miserable straw. St. Francis of Assisi heard one day as he sat at table these words of the Gospel: And laid Him in a manger; and exclaimed, What? My Lord was laid on the straw, and shall I continue to sit? And thus he arose from his seat, threw himself to the ground, and there finished his scanty meal, mingling it with tears of tenderness as he contemplated the sufferings that the Infant Jesus endured whilst he lay on the straw.
But why did Mary, who had so earnestly desired the birth of this Son-why did she, who loved Him so much, allow Him to lie and suffer on this hard bed, instead of keeping Him in her arms? This is a mystery, says St. Thomas of Villanova: Nor would she have laid Him in such a place, unless there had been some great mystery in it. This great mystery has been explained by many in different ways, but the most pleasing explanation to me is that of St. Peter Damian: Jesus wished as soon as He was born to be placed on the straw, in order to teach us the mortification of the senses: He laid down the law of martyrdom. The world had had been lost by sensual pleasures; through them had Adam and multitudes of his descendants till then been lost. The Eternal Word came from heaven to teach us the love of suffering; and he began as a child to teach it to us by choosing for Himself the most acute sufferings that an infant can endure. It was, therefore, He Himself who inspired His Mother to cease from holding Him in her tender arms, and to replace Him on the hard bed, that He might feel the more cold of the cave and the pricking of this rough straw.

Tomorrow is the Vigil of the Nativity of our Lord, also known as Christmas. Let us observe the required fast and complete abstinence, asking God to restore Christ’s Mass to us in the most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Between now and next Sunday, I will be performing routine computer maintenance. Therefore I will be offline part of that time. The Christmas 8am broadcast will go on as scheduled, as will the customary 8am and 11am broadcasts, the Lord willing and the creek don’t rise. I have been asked for some good reading for this season, and I will publish this later today just before taking the main computer offline. Let us observe this silence of Christmas in holy contemplation of the Infant Jesus.

Today I am working on making the various websites more focused. The Vatican In Exile is focused mainly on presenting the current situation of the Catholic Church. And this shall continue and be expanded as needed. In checking website statistics, the Pope Michael site, which was my original website from 2000, is now being devoted to my autobiography, which is expanding. And this autobiography, which is still under construction, has drawn a lot of attention. The Pope Speaks is my blog. Since I have launched a book project, I plan on also placing parts of it in here as it is developed, since I will also be blogging about it. I hope to begin this after the first of the year 2010, and clean out and redesign this website as well in order to have things a bit more focused. Previously I have given some spiritual advice and summarized them into a list of Requests of Pope Michael. Does anyone ever read these and are they even useful? Feed back is always helpful.

On the broadcast yesterday I announced a project I am starting. I am writing a spiritual book, using Saint Louis de Montfort’s Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary as the template. I plan on repeating this consecration before the 20th anniversary of the Papal Election. Starting next week, I will discuss some of the things that go into this book, as I prepare it on the Tuesday and Thursday 8pm broadcasts. Broadcasts are also scheduled for Friday 8am, and of course Sunday 8am and 11am as usual. Also I will blog about this.
Saint Augustine said: "Heresies are only embraced by those who had they persevered in the faith, would be lost by the irregularity of their lives." I have watched people depart from the Catholic Church after seeing them live irregularly. The goal of my project is to learn and teach how to live a regular life, that is a true spiritual life. And remember that those who are truly devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary will be saved.