Sexagesima Sunday
academy awards
The LORD, your God, shall you follow, and him shall
you fear; his commandments shall you
observe, and to his voice shall you listen; him you shall serve, and to him you
shall hold fast.
How do we follow God? First
follow Him not because you fear Him but that you revere and have awe for all He
has created. Out of this revere with love obey all His commandments of which
the two greatest are to love the Lord your God with all you heart, mind, soul
and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself.
What is God’s voice? The
self-absorbed are deaf to the voice of God but alive to the voice of the
adversary. Therefore to hear God you must not only listen to the Holy Spirit
but also see and hear those who are people of God around us. The above verse
states that we are not only to hear God’s voice but to listen.
Sexagesima-The perils of
exile (persecution) and the fruits of asceticism (the Word being sown into our
hearts).
Sexagesima literally means "sixtieth,"
though it only falls 56 days before Easter. During these weeks contemplate the
ways you can build up your fear of the Lord remembering that fear of the Lord
is really a deep abiding love for God.
Brothers and sisters: Strive eagerly
for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall show you a still more excellent
way. If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am a
resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and
comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own,
and if I hand my body over so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain
nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it
is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not
quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over
wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. If there are
prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if
knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially, and we
prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a
child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see
indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know
partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So, faith, hope, love
remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor. 12:31-13:13)
Sadly,
the annual live Oscar telecast has been a husk of its former glamorous self for
years. The tired, soap-opera essence of the Academy’ s annual celebration of
mediocrity lies in the predictable moral preening of its amoral participants. What
used to be a shimmering celebration of widely-accepted great films and great
stars has degenerated into a cesspool of dirt, sleaze and depravity, made worse
by its obvious contempt for the average American. The only mystery and
excitement that remains is guessing which Hollywood one-percenters will seize
the microphone to dish out some PC political rant, complete with a righteous
torrent four-letter words. Worse, this alleged celebration of film
entertainment has become all about politics all the time. Each year it reminds
those of us still aware of world history that the Long March of Marxism
continues to infect every American institution it invades. Hollywood fell to
the leftists’ long march a long time ago. More recently, NFL football and the
just-concluded Winter Olympics joined the lefty crowd by marching in lockstep
to the same seductive tune. Every time this happens in the entertainment
industry (which now includes sports), it’s box office death. (Just look at the
annually declining numbers.) But the one-percenters who run these entertainment
entities apparently don’t care, even as the flow of red ink increases.
Cultural leftism is
inevitably cultural suicide. Most viewers who actually watch tonight’s phony Hollywood
posturing and insincere moralistic bloviating, will switch off the TV before
the major awards are announced and head for bed. After all, tomorrow is a work
day for actual Americans, so why watch the tired, predictable crap put on by
filthy rich movie stars who actually hate at least half their fans? After
Hollywood insults a majority of tonight’s dwindling viewership – again – even
more of them will solemnly vow never to watch the Academy Awards show ever
again.
1.Carl
Theodore von Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928.
2.Cecil B. DeMille, King of Kings, 1927.
3.Frank Capra, Lady for a Day, 1933.
4.John Ford, The Informer, 1935.
5.Frank Borzage, Strange Cargo, 1940
6.Henry King, The Song of Bernadette, 1943.
7.John M. Stahl, The Keys of the Kingdom, 1944.
8.Leo McCarey, Going My Way, 1944.
9.Leo McCarey, The Bells of St. Mary's, 1945.
10.Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, 1946.
11.Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, 1966.
12.Michael Powell, Black Narcissus, 1947.
13.John Ford, The Fugitive, 1947.
14.John Ford, Three Godfathers, 1948.
15.Leo McCarey, Make Way for Tomorrow, 1947.
16.Vittorio De Sica, The Bicycle Thieves, 1948.
17.Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, 1950.
18.Roberto Rossellini, The Flowers of St. Francis, 1950.
19.Gordon Douglas, Come Fill the Cup, 1951.
20.Robert Bresson, The Dairy of a Country Priest, 1951.
21.Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru, 1952.
22.Vittorio De Sica, Umberto D, 1952.
23.Alfred Hitchcock, I Confess, 1953.
24.Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront, 1954.
25.Raffaello Matarazzo, The White Angel, 1955.
26.Carl Theodore von Dreyer, Ordet, 1955.
27.Alfred Hitchcock, The Wrong Man, 1956.
28.Luis Bunuel, Nazarin, 1959.
29.Fred Zinnemann, The Nun's Story, 1959.
30.William Wyler, Ben Hur, 1959.
31.Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, 1959.
32.Mervyn LeRoy, The Devil of 4 O'Clock, 1961.
33.Richard Fleischer, Barabbas, 1961.
34.Nicholas Ray, King of Kings, 1961.
35.Otto Preminger, The Cardinal, 1963.
36.Peter Glenville, Becket, 1964.
37.Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964.
38.Carol Reed, The Agony and the Ecstasy, 1965.
39.Luis Bunuel, Simon of the Desert, 1965.
40.Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons, 1966.
41.Robert Bresson, Mouchette, 1967.
42.Michael Anderson, The Shoes of the Fisherman, 1968.
43.Franco Zefferelli, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, 1972.
44.William Friedkin, The Exorcist, 1973.
45.Anthony Harvey, The Abdication, 1974.
46.Joseph Hardy, The Lady's Not for Burning, 1974.
47.Franco Zefferelli, Jesus of Nazareth, 1977.
48.Robert Bresson, The Devil Probably, 1977.
49.Ermanno Olmi, Tree of the Wooden Clogs, 1978.
50.John Huston, Wise Blood, 1979.
51.Francesco Rosi, Christ Stopped at Eboli, 1979.
52.Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire, 1981.
53.Charles Sturridge & Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Brideshead Revisited, 1981.
54.Ulu Grosbard, True Confessions, 1981.
55.Martin Scorcese, The Age of Innocence, 1982.
56.Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982.
57.Jerry London, The Scarlet and the Black, 1983.
58.Robert Bresson, L'argent, 1983.
59.Norman Stone, Shadowlands, 1885.
60.Alain Cavalier, Therese, 1986.
61.Roland Jaffe, The Mission, 1986.
62.Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, 1987.
63.Gabriel Axel, Babette's Feast, 1987.
64.Rodney Bennett, Monsignor Quixote, 1987.
65.Maurice Pialat, Under the Star of Satan, 1987.
66.John Huston, The Dead, 1987.
67.Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Decalogue, 1988.
68.Krzysztof Kieslowski, A Short Film About Love, 1988.
69.Ermanno Olmi, Legend of the Holy Drinker, 1988.
70.John Duigan, Romero, 1989.
71.Denys Arcand, Jesus of Montreal, 1989.
72.Bruce Beresford, Black Robe, 1991.
73.Stijn Coninx, Daens, 1992.
74.Nancy Savoca, Household Saints, 1993.
75.Mel Gibson, Braveheart, 1995.
76.Liv Ullmann, Kristin Lavransdatter, 1995.
77.Lee David Slotoff, Spitfire Grill, 1996.
78.Marta Meszaros, The Seventh Room, 1996.
79. M. Knight Shyamalan, Wide Awake, 1998.
80.Joe Johnston, October Sky, 1999.
81.David Lynch, The Straight Story, 1999.
82.Agnieszka Holland, The Third Miracle, 1999.
83.Patrice Leconte, The Widow of Saint-Pierre, 2000.
84.Jim Sheridan, In America, 2002.
85.Alexander Payne, About Schmidt, 2002.
86.Bruce Beresford, Evelyn, 2002.
87.Denys Arcand, Barbarian Invasions, 2003.
88.Mel Gibson, The Passion of the Christ, 2004.
89.Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, 2005.
90.Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel, 2005.
91.Pavel Lungin, The Island, 2006
92.Alejandro Monteverde, Bella, 2006.
93.Jean-Pierre Dardenne, L'enfant, 2006.
94.Martin Provost, Seraphine, 2008.
95.Mark Pellington, Henry Poole is Here, 2008.
96.John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, 2008.
97.Klaus Haro, Letters to Father Jaakob, 2009.
98.Xavier Beauvois, Of Gods and Men, 2010.
99.Philip Groning, Into the Great Silence, 2007.
100. Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, 2011.
2.Cecil B. DeMille, King of Kings, 1927.
3.Frank Capra, Lady for a Day, 1933.
4.John Ford, The Informer, 1935.
5.Frank Borzage, Strange Cargo, 1940
6.Henry King, The Song of Bernadette, 1943.
7.John M. Stahl, The Keys of the Kingdom, 1944.
8.Leo McCarey, Going My Way, 1944.
9.Leo McCarey, The Bells of St. Mary's, 1945.
10.Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, 1946.
11.Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, 1966.
12.Michael Powell, Black Narcissus, 1947.
13.John Ford, The Fugitive, 1947.
14.John Ford, Three Godfathers, 1948.
15.Leo McCarey, Make Way for Tomorrow, 1947.
16.Vittorio De Sica, The Bicycle Thieves, 1948.
17.Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, 1950.
18.Roberto Rossellini, The Flowers of St. Francis, 1950.
19.Gordon Douglas, Come Fill the Cup, 1951.
20.Robert Bresson, The Dairy of a Country Priest, 1951.
21.Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru, 1952.
22.Vittorio De Sica, Umberto D, 1952.
23.Alfred Hitchcock, I Confess, 1953.
24.Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront, 1954.
25.Raffaello Matarazzo, The White Angel, 1955.
26.Carl Theodore von Dreyer, Ordet, 1955.
27.Alfred Hitchcock, The Wrong Man, 1956.
28.Luis Bunuel, Nazarin, 1959.
29.Fred Zinnemann, The Nun's Story, 1959.
30.William Wyler, Ben Hur, 1959.
31.Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, 1959.
32.Mervyn LeRoy, The Devil of 4 O'Clock, 1961.
33.Richard Fleischer, Barabbas, 1961.
34.Nicholas Ray, King of Kings, 1961.
35.Otto Preminger, The Cardinal, 1963.
36.Peter Glenville, Becket, 1964.
37.Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964.
38.Carol Reed, The Agony and the Ecstasy, 1965.
39.Luis Bunuel, Simon of the Desert, 1965.
40.Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons, 1966.
41.Robert Bresson, Mouchette, 1967.
42.Michael Anderson, The Shoes of the Fisherman, 1968.
43.Franco Zefferelli, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, 1972.
44.William Friedkin, The Exorcist, 1973.
45.Anthony Harvey, The Abdication, 1974.
46.Joseph Hardy, The Lady's Not for Burning, 1974.
47.Franco Zefferelli, Jesus of Nazareth, 1977.
48.Robert Bresson, The Devil Probably, 1977.
49.Ermanno Olmi, Tree of the Wooden Clogs, 1978.
50.John Huston, Wise Blood, 1979.
51.Francesco Rosi, Christ Stopped at Eboli, 1979.
52.Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire, 1981.
53.Charles Sturridge & Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Brideshead Revisited, 1981.
54.Ulu Grosbard, True Confessions, 1981.
55.Martin Scorcese, The Age of Innocence, 1982.
56.Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982.
57.Jerry London, The Scarlet and the Black, 1983.
58.Robert Bresson, L'argent, 1983.
59.Norman Stone, Shadowlands, 1885.
60.Alain Cavalier, Therese, 1986.
61.Roland Jaffe, The Mission, 1986.
62.Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, 1987.
63.Gabriel Axel, Babette's Feast, 1987.
64.Rodney Bennett, Monsignor Quixote, 1987.
65.Maurice Pialat, Under the Star of Satan, 1987.
66.John Huston, The Dead, 1987.
67.Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Decalogue, 1988.
68.Krzysztof Kieslowski, A Short Film About Love, 1988.
69.Ermanno Olmi, Legend of the Holy Drinker, 1988.
70.John Duigan, Romero, 1989.
71.Denys Arcand, Jesus of Montreal, 1989.
72.Bruce Beresford, Black Robe, 1991.
73.Stijn Coninx, Daens, 1992.
74.Nancy Savoca, Household Saints, 1993.
75.Mel Gibson, Braveheart, 1995.
76.Liv Ullmann, Kristin Lavransdatter, 1995.
77.Lee David Slotoff, Spitfire Grill, 1996.
78.Marta Meszaros, The Seventh Room, 1996.
79. M. Knight Shyamalan, Wide Awake, 1998.
80.Joe Johnston, October Sky, 1999.
81.David Lynch, The Straight Story, 1999.
82.Agnieszka Holland, The Third Miracle, 1999.
83.Patrice Leconte, The Widow of Saint-Pierre, 2000.
84.Jim Sheridan, In America, 2002.
85.Alexander Payne, About Schmidt, 2002.
86.Bruce Beresford, Evelyn, 2002.
87.Denys Arcand, Barbarian Invasions, 2003.
88.Mel Gibson, The Passion of the Christ, 2004.
89.Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, 2005.
90.Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel, 2005.
91.Pavel Lungin, The Island, 2006
92.Alejandro Monteverde, Bella, 2006.
93.Jean-Pierre Dardenne, L'enfant, 2006.
94.Martin Provost, Seraphine, 2008.
95.Mark Pellington, Henry Poole is Here, 2008.
96.John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, 2008.
97.Klaus Haro, Letters to Father Jaakob, 2009.
98.Xavier Beauvois, Of Gods and Men, 2010.
99.Philip Groning, Into the Great Silence, 2007.
100. Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, 2011.
There are many and varied ways in which sin
and evil are presented to us in an attractive way.
The
Kingdom of Darkness
·
This
kingdom offers a false peace and happiness in sin. Man is capable, especially
in heaven, but even here on earth, of experiencing a deep joy and a deep peace
given by God. Many of us have experienced this. The false joy offered, for
example, in the sin of drunkenness or drug abuse. This false joy is also
offered in the sins of sex before marriage, adultery after marriage, or
homosexuality.
·
When
people are deeply involved in these sins, or in murder, violent anger or in
deep hatred, jealousy and unforgiveness, they are really living in the kingdom
of darkness and can open themselves up to the possibility of direct attacks
from the evil spirits.
·
The
danger today is that sin has become very "respectable" in our
society. Sex before marriage, adultery, heavy social drinking, abortion, and
homosexuality have all attained a certain "respectability." They do
not seem so bad. That is because they are not bad in the kingdom of darkness.
Eliminating
the Kingdom of Darkness
·
Our
homes should be sacred, peaceful places in which to live. Our homes need to be
clean. We should not let them become dirty or allow disorder by having junk and
filth accumulate in our drawers and closets. The power of evil abhors
cleanliness.
·
Remove
anything in your home that has had something to do with witchcraft, a
spiritualist, a curandero, a medium, an oriental religion or cult or that has
been used in a superstitious way. Destroy it or see to it that it is destroyed.
Do not keep jewelry that is symbolic of witchcraft or is a sign of the Zodiac.
Remove and burn all pornographic pictures and magazines--even those that have
been put away in a drawer, closet or trunk. Get rid of all religious literature
that does not agree with the basic truth of our faith that Jesus Christ is
divine. He is the Son of God, our only Savior who brings us to the Father.
Remove and destroy literature from the Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, Christian
Science, Unity, Science of Mind, Scientology, Hare Krishna, Yoga,
Transcendental Meditation, Divine Light Mission, Unification Church of Sun
Myung Moon, the Children of God and the Way International. None of this or
similar literature should be around our homes. Do not allow the influence of
evil to come into your home through television. Carefully monitor the programs
that are seen. The values taught by television advertising are not the values
preached by Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapters 5, 6
and 7.
Novena to the Holy Face
To prepare
ourselves for union with God; I recommend we start a Novena to the Holy Face of
Christ. I try to do this yearly in preparation for lent.
The Novena will end on Tuesday before Ash Wednesday which is the day
that Judas went to the Sanhedrin to betray Christ.
NOVENA TO THE HOLY FACE
[4]The
Golden Arrow
(as dictated by Our Lord to Sister Marie of St. Peter)
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on Earth, and under the Earth by all the creatures of God and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen. Eternal Father, I offer Thee the adorable Face of Thy Beloved Son for the honor and glory of Thy Name, for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of the dying. Amen.
(as dictated by Our Lord to Sister Marie of St. Peter)
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on Earth, and under the Earth by all the creatures of God and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen. Eternal Father, I offer Thee the adorable Face of Thy Beloved Son for the honor and glory of Thy Name, for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of the dying. Amen.
All those who honor My Face in a spirit of
reparation will by so doing perform the office of the pious Veronica. According
to the care they take in making reparation to My Face, disfigured by
blasphemers, so will I take care of their souls which have been disfigured by
sin. My Face is the seal of the Divinity, which has the virtue of reproducing
in souls the image of God.
1.
Those who by
words, prayers or writing defend My cause in this Work of Reparation I will
defend before My Father, and will give them My Kingdom.
2. By offering My Face to My Eternal Father, nothing
will be refused, and the conversion of many sinners will be obtained.
3.
By My Holy Face,
they will work wonders, appease the anger of God, and draw down mercy on sinners.
4.
As in a kingdom
they can procure all that is desired with a coin stamped with the King's
effigy, so in the Kingdom of Heaven they will obtain all they desire with the
precious coin of My Holy Face.
5.
Those who on
earth contemplate the wounds of My Face shall in Heaven behold it radiant with
glory.
6.
They will receive
in their souls a bright and constant irradiation of My Divinity, that by their
likeness to My Face they shall shine with particular splendor in Heaven.
Novena
in Honor of
the Most Holy Face of Jesus
the Most Holy Face of Jesus
"I firmly wish that my face reflecting
the intimate pains of my soul, the suffering and love of my heart, be more
honored! Whoever gazes upon me already consoles me." (Our Lord Jesus
Christ to Sister Pierina)
DAILY PREPARATORY PRAYER
O Most Holy and Blessed Trinity,
through the intercession of Holy Mary, whose soul was pierced through by a
sword of sorrow at the sight of the passion of her Divine Son, we ask your help
in making a perfect Novena of reparation with Jesus, united with all His
sorrows, love and total abandonment.
We now implore all the Angels and Saints to
intercede for us as we pray this Holy Novena to the Most Holy Face of Jesus and
for the glory of the most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
(Start novena)
"All those who, attracted by my love,
and venerating my countenance, shall receive, by virtue of my humanity, a
brilliant and vivid impression of my divinity. This splendor shall enlighten
the depths of their souls, so that in eternal glory the celestial court shall
marvel at the marked likeness of their features with my divine
countenance." (Our Lord Jesus Christ to St. Gertrude)
First
Day
(Console Holy
Face and recite Daily Preparatory Prayer)
Psalm 51, 3-4.
Have mercy on me, O God in your goodness, in your great tenderness wipe away my faults; wash me clean of my guilt, purify me from my sin.
Have mercy on me, O God in your goodness, in your great tenderness wipe away my faults; wash me clean of my guilt, purify me from my sin.
O most Holy Face of Jesus, look with
tenderness on us who are sinners. You are a merciful God, full of love and
compassion. Keep us pure of heart, so that we may see Thee always. Mary, our
Mother, intercede for us; Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Through the merits of your precious blood
and your Holy Face, O Jesus, grant us our petition, Pardon and Mercy.
Prayer to Our Almighty Father
Almighty Father come into our
hearts, and so fill us with your love that forsaking all evil desires, we may
embrace you, our only good. Show us, O Lord our God, what you are to us. Say to
our souls, I am your salvation, speak so that we may hear. Our hearts are
before you; open our ears; let us hasten after your voice. Hide not your Face
from us, we beseech you, O Lord. Open our hearts so that you may enter in.
Repair the ruined mansions, that you may dwell therein. Hear us, O Heavenly
Father, for the sake of your only Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and
reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever Amen.
Pray one (1) Our Father, (3) Hail Mary’s, (1) Glory Be,
O Bleeding Face, O Face Divine, be every adoration Thine. (Three times)[6]
O Bleeding Face, O Face Divine, be every adoration Thine. (Three times)[6]
"Read
these counsels slowly. Pause to meditate on these thoughts. They are things
that I whisper in your ear-confiding them-as a friend, as a brother, as a
father. And they are being heard by God. I won't tell you anything new. I will
only stir your memory, so that some thought will arise and strike you; and so
you will better your life and set out along ways of prayer and of Love. And in
the end you will be a more worthy soul."
Don't do more penance than your Director allows you.
Daily Devotions
[1]https://www.commdiginews.com/entertainment/2018-academy-awards-broadcast-99605/
[7]http://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-1.htm
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