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Vatican Persecutes Traditionalist Benedictine Nuns...

CHURCH OF MAN
"There must be change, My children, but a change back to reality and tradition. My Son has given you a true foundation, but many come now with axes and they chop away. They seek to build a church without spirit, a church of man. The walls will crumble, the earth will shake. The Eternal Father will send His wrath upon mankind." - Our Lady, December 6, 1975

THE GOOD SHALL BE TRODDEN UPON
"My child and My children of grace, remember in the days ahead: your world and your country shall appear to all those in the light as though insanity has come upon them. The good shall be trodden upon, and the evil ones shall gain in worldly goods until all voices cry to Heaven: 'Lord, Lord! When shall you send Your vengeance upon them? Why do the wicked go about their way in gain while they trod underfoot the godly?'
     "My children, the Eternal Father has a way that no human mind or man could understand. He is patient; He is all-suffering and long-suffering, never wishing that one should be lost to satan.” – Our Lady, April 2, 1977

TURN BACK
"This evil has penetrated far into the very heart of My House. You must now turn back and restore My House. I, your God, give you this command for the salvation of your own soul." - Jesus, August 21, 1976

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ChurchMilitant.com reported on February 27, 2023:

by Jules Gomes

An Italian diocese is using paramilitary police to intimidate traditionalist nuns who refuse to submit to Vatican diktats, which include banishing the prioress to a progressive, quasi-Protestant community. 

Thirteen nuns from the monastery of Mary Temple of the Holy Spirit have slammed Cdl. Augusto Paolo Lojudice of the Montepulciano–Chiusi–Pienza diocese for the "fake news and distortions" aimed at "defaming" them and "creating a gratuitous and inopportune climate of scandal."

Sources close to the monastery say that the Vatican and the cardinal are seeking to oust the nuns so that they can sell the prime property on the site of the diocese's former seminary and stamp out the Tridentine Mass, which the nuns "discovered" in 2020. 

Cardinal Lojudice has also refused to allow the sisters to receive Holy Communion on the tongue while kneeling, humiliating them before the whole city by making them stand up and receive the Blessed Sacrament in the hand, Church Militant has learned.  

Soon after his appointment as bishop of Montepulciano–Chiusi–Pienza, Lojudice rebuked the nuns while in the sacristy, telling them that they could do as they wished in their monastery, but they had to conform to common practice regarding the reception of Communion in public. 

The nuns have also provoked the wrath of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life, headed by progressives Cdl. Braz de Aviz and Abp. José Rodriguez Carballo, by refusing to join a "federation" (a group of monasteries sharing a spiritual and governmental approach). 

The community, consisting of mostly young and international sisters, is not obliged to be part of a "federation," since the previous Bp. Stefano Manetti constituted the monastery under the canonical status of sui juris — autonomous and directly under the jurisdiction of the Holy See.

In 2017, Manetti welcomed the sisters to the diocese after they were expelled from Holland by Bp. Jozef Marianus Punt under pressure from the Neocatechumenal Way — a controversial lay movement with allegedly heterodox teachings and liturgical practices.    

The bishop also accommodated them in the defunct seminary, offered to pay their utilities and promised the sisters that he would find an appropriate permanent home — a canonical requirement for a monastery operating sui juris.

Months later, hoping to evict them from the site, Manetti offered the nuns a 19-year loan contract, revocable without any reason, on the condition that the sisters provide for their expenses and bear the costs of renovating and upgrading the building. 

In April 2022, when he was transferred to the episcopal see of Fiesole, Manetti verbally revoked the permission to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass that he had granted to the nuns in 2020. The nuns were even deprived of Mass in the New Rite on Sundays and weekdays.

He also told them that Fr. Antonio Canestri, the rector of the abandoned seminary, was seeking to evict them. Days later, Canestri entered the seminary to claim ownership of the property, even violating the cloister by entering the cells of the nuns.  

In September 2022, Cdl. Lojudice informed the nuns that he wanted to visit them to make a real estate valuation estimate of the building. The nuns, who were away on retreat, succeeded in postponing the cardinal's visit to Nov. 8. 

However, on Oct. 11, Fr. Giordano Rota, consultor of the Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life, arrived unannounced at the monastery with a mother superior and another person. They found the monastery vacant because the nuns were still on retreat.   

Rota returned on Nov. 2 and announced that he was instituting a three-day apostolic visitation — during which he subjected the sisters to rigorous interrogation. The questions included liturgical issues like the altar facing the wall and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Latin.

On Nov. 15, Cdl. Lojudice visited the monastery with his vicar general, Fr. Canestri, and confronted the nuns, asking them if they were selling supermarket-purchased jam under the false pretext of making it themselves.

On Feb. 17, a posse of diocesan hierarchs accompanied by the Pienza carabinieri and two other armed officers from the local police arrived at the monastery. The sisters captured the incursion on video. Later, the carabinieri informed the sisters' relatives that they would be summoned to give statements about the monastery.

Two days later, the diocese published a press release stating that the Vatican had ordered a change of leadership at the monastery. 

The diocese said it would continue to fulfill its financial obligations to the nuns if they were obedient "to civil laws and canonical provisions and in the acceptance of the provisions of the Holy See in communion with the Church."

On Saturday, the nuns issued a statement blasting the diocese press release as "mystifying and defamatory" and explained that the Vatican dicastery had ordered the removal of their abbess, Mother Diletta Forti, "for a surreal three-year period without any support."

The Vatican ordered that the prioress be transferred for one year "to the promiscuous and ecumenical community of Bose, which notoriously has nothing to do with Benedictine spirituality," the nuns said, noting, "Such measures are both lacking in reasoning and flawed in procedure and contain manifestly disproportionate measures."

"Obedience is a submission of the intellect and will to legitimate commands and according to justice, not blind and supine subordination to arbitrary commands," the sisters added.

Church Militant obtained a notice from diocesan legal advisor Alessandro Pasquazi that accused the nuns of engaging in "a series of behaviors that are totally misaligned with their choice of life, in open violation of the regulatory norms of the Code of Canon Law and of their Order." 

"Women or men who freely and knowingly decide to embrace the religious path are certainly not allowed to contest publicly and through 'communications' published on the media, on the web and even on the gate of the monastery," the notice warned.

The notice also claimed that Mother Diletta Forti continues to use the title of "abbess," which "was revoked from her by the Holy See." 

Earlier in February, the Vatican expelled cloistered nuns from their convent in Ravello despite the sisters offering the Holy See assets worth 50–60 million euros to prevent the closure of the ancient Santa Chiara monastery.

An order signed by Pope Francis also stripped two nuns, Sr. Massimiliana Panza and Sr. Angela Maria Punnackal, of their vows for refusal to leave a 13th-century convent, Church Militant reported.

Hoping to secure the future of the convent, the three remaining sisters transferred the assets of the monastery to the Vatican's papal charities. 

"As soon as we made the donation to the pope, our transfer was decided," Sr. Panza told concerned locals. "In reality, we haven't been transferred but dismissed from the order."

Faithful Catholics have voiced concerns over the closure of several monasteries under the Francis pontificate, including the Dominican Monastery of the Most Holy Annunciation in Marradi, the Monastery of the Visitation in Milan, the Monastery of the Visitation in Pistoia, the Cenacle of Montauto in Anghiari and the Poor Clares convent of Montalto in Marche.

In his recent book Claustrofobia, Vaticanist Aldo Maria Vallihas demonstrated how cloistered orders are being targeted by the Vatican because the progressive hierarchy prioritizes social commitment over contemplative life. Observers say that the Vatican is also attempting to seize vast properties owned by the traditionalist orders.

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"Many now rebel against their leader, their God-given leader, your Vicar. In matters of faith and morals, man must not change the God-given laws, coming from the seat of Peter, and established through tradition upon earth through My Son's Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1979

"Because of the fall in Babylon, many new languages were given because of the sin of Babylon. Therefore, as a member of one country, My children, with a universal language, you carried with you your own country's translation, and were you to visit abroad, you could enter upon any foreign edifice, Church of My Son, and feel comfortable and in one with the man, the priest, the one chosen by My Son to represent Him in His House.
    "If you were, My child, to go from your United States to France, could you understand the words in French? But, My child, you would recognize the words in Latin and you would have your book with you to read in your American language, just as those in France could read in their French language, bringing upon the world a beautiful and common bond of language among all who have been given the grace to be called to the Roman Catholic Church of My Son.
    "Do not leave My Son's Church though, My children, because they have taken this language from among you. You must wait and persevere and weep with My Son for this defilement by man." - Our Lady, April 10, 1976

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YOU WILL STOP EXPERIMENTING
"My child and My children, I come once more with an urgent and pleading message to the hierarchy in the Church, My Church upon earth. I want you to know now that We look upon you and find many that do not fall into grace. They are falling out of grace and misleading many of Our sheep.
     "Therefore, I warn you now as your God: You will stop your intricacies within My Church. You will stop experimenting. I gave you the rules to follow many years ago, two thousand years approximately. And why now, two thousand years later, do you deem it necessary to change My Church upon earth? I, your God, say to you, you will be judged accordingly. You will return My Church to its former glory, and in that manner you will have more vocations and more entering the seminaries, and not fleeing from them as they hear the heresies and all other innovations that are going on within My Church. This is My last and final word to My clergy: Change now or suffer a just punishment and banishment." - Jesus, June 18, 1986

RETURN TO YOUR TRADITIONAL RITES
”I send to My clergy, those whom I have given the grace to represent Heaven upon earth, this warning: You must now return to your traditional rites! You must restore My House from its crumbling exterior and rotting interior. You must rebuild what you seek to destroy--now!
     "Many who call themselves My chosen ones have set themselves to destroy from within. Your actions have not gone by unnoticed by the Eternal Father. Error, deception, deceit, in the guise of sanctity and piousness! You are unmasked before the Eternal Father. You shall start little by little and repair the foundation, or you shall be within and destroy.
     "I look upon all manner of abominations being committed in My House. Do you think you will go much longer without chastisement? Awaken from your slumber, My clergy! You deceive no one!”  - Jesus, November 22, 1975

CHANGING THE CONSTRUCTION
“You will not bring about a conversion of those who are presently apostate by compromising your Faith or changing the construction of the exterior lines of My Church; and by that I mean the physical appearance and the manner in which you conduct the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
     “Many are giving My Body in a manner that can only be called blasphemy. Many are accepting My Body in the Eucharist in a manner that defames the Divinity, and also promotes unholiness, paganism, and impurity of heart and actions during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.” - Jesus, May 26, 1979

CHANGES MUST BE STOPPED AND REVERSED
"There is no excuse accepted now by the Eternal Father among the clergy, who now offend the Eternal Father by misleading the children of God upon earth. The experimentation and changes must be stopped and reversed! There is no other course.” – Our Lady, August 4, 1979

“RESTORE MY HOUSE!”
"My Mother has given you My way. It is a simple road that must be followed. The rules have been given to you that must not be changed, as you cater to the basic carnal nature of man, a generation that has fallen! You will not make changes within My House, for you have dispersed My sheep. You will restore My House to its former glory. Strip you hearts of your pride! Recognize your errors and restore My House!
     "I say this to you for your Creator, as your God: Restore My House, or I shall come down and restore it Myself with a firm hand! And shall you stand before Me, O pastors, and say that your teachings have been pure in My sight? I shall take you and spit you out as spittle into the fires of eternal damnation! Vermin that came out of the flowers!”  – Jesus, December 28, 1976

STOP CHANGE AND NOVELTY
"My child and My children, make it known to all that the road to Heaven was never easy, but you can make it much easier upon yourselves and your families if you follow the rules, if you follow the Commandments from the Eternal Father. The changes that We see taking place in My House and upon earth are not good, for many, many souls are falling into hell. And a great measure of responsibility now is with those who have been called to the holy orders, who have given themselves to represent Me upon earth. Shall I say that I have found many Judases now within My House? Cannot this situation be changed?
     "There is only one way that this can be stopped, this evil that has seeped into My House and into the hearts of all mankind. You must stop now your seeking for change and novelty. You must restore My Church to its former glory. Admit your error. Do not conceal this with pride and arrogance.
     "Remember there was the time when it was necessary to cast Luciel and his followers from Heaven--Lucifer, who now goads you on to hell with him, upon earth. He had to be cast from Heaven because he, too, became prideful and arrogant, seeking to make himself another living god. This cannot be done. You cannot be above your Creator.” – Jesus, September 7, 1978

DO NOT ACCEPT
"My children, you must retain Tradition; you must retain a firm foundation of your faith by keeping all of the good publications. Do not accept the changes that have been made by satan to seduce your souls.” – Jesus, November 19, 1977

INDOCTRINATED
Veronica - The books are being changed to cover the evil being perpetrated now. The young are being indoctrinated to accept changes which will take away Tradition and even doctrine. Our Lady said we must all pray a constant vigilance of prayer. It has a great power over the demons. – November 19, 1977

NOT FROM HOLY SPIRIT
"I must, My child, make it known at this time that you must go back in the immediate years and bring the knowledge to mankind that these changes, the changes that have given bad fruits, have not been given to you through the Holy Spirit and through your Vicar, Pope Paul VI. It is the web of satan reaching out. Many are now, My child, puppets. The strings are being pulled by Benelli, Villot, and Casaroli and their followers.” – Our Lady, September 27, 1975

YOU HAVE STRAYED
"O My children, how far you have strayed from the truth! The knowledge given to you by your prophets were written down in truth to guide you, but now you change the words to suit your basic carnal human natures. Go back and read, My children, the true words of your prophets. But do not accept changes in the Book, for these changes have been promoted by satan. Heresy, O mournful heresy, whatever shall become of you!
     "Parents, I caution you anew to guard the souls of your children by your teaching and example. You cannot save your children's souls by giving them to false teachers and the world, for the world has now been given to satan.” – Our Lady, June 5, 1976

“WE DO NOT CONDONE VARIATIONS AND CHANGES"
"It has grieved Me much in the past, as it grieves Me now, that mankind is making changes to My words. I assure you, My children and pastors within My houses, My Church upon earth, there is no necessity to change My words. Heaven, hell, purgatory, and especially, My children, the word 'hell' must be retained in your prayers.
     "Repeat, My child, the confessional prayer.
     O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I confess to all my sins, because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell, but most of all because I love Thee, my God, Who are all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen.
     "Yes, My child, We do not condone variations and changes. It is the enemies of your God that have set themselves to promote change upon My words. The word of your God is eternal and must not be changed.” – Jesus, February 10, 1977

ONLY SATAN SEEKS CHANGE
"We ask--the Eternal Father speaks, and demands that all bishops in the houses of God throughout your world must turn back to prayer. They must turn back from the road they have chosen, a road filled with error, corruption, and sin. Man will not make changes in the House of God to please the basic carnal nature of mankind! But man in the House of God--the leaders, the clergy chosen by the Eternal Father, shall turn man from his path of destruction and bring him into the House of God. This he will not accomplish by lowering the rule or standards. Man must change his ways and follow the ways of God.
     "You are, My children, living in the era of Antichrist. Recognize the signs of your times, and you will not fall into error. Read the Book, My children. You read books of corruption and vile debauchery. Restore the truth in your heart, into your children and homes. Open the good Book, the Bible, and read it in your homes.
     "My Son has already set up the rule for the houses throughout the world, the churches. They are written in the Book of love and life, the Bible. Read and learn, and follow the truth!
     "There is no time or change in Heaven. The Father never changes. It is only satan who seeks change to disturb, corrupt, and degrade. Satan roams wherever there is darkness of spirit. He will debase mankind in a manner so foul that you will know that no human could conceive of such vileness of sin.” – Our Lady, March 22, 1975

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“Kneel before your God in the Eucharist”
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Vatican on kneeling for holy Communion
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Should women cover their heads in Church?
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Vatican II, part 1: Infiltration of the Church
https://www.tldm.org/News6/VaticanII-1.htm

Vatican II, part 2: Dark clouds forming before Vatican II
https://www.tldm.org/News6/VaticanII-2.htm

Vatican II, part 3: the satanic revolution gains momentum at the Council
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Links...

Mass appeal to Latin tradition, Washington Times, October 28, 2007
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071028/NATION/110280043/1001

Latin Mass returns to Mexico City's cathedral, California Catholic
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=ff5cc479-c389-4714-894f-3c26f58d2668

Why Latin? The Latin Mass Society of Ireland
http://indigo.ie/~colmgren/latsoc/template/latin_hist.htm

The Popes on the Latin language, Una Voce
http://www.unavoce.org/popes.htm

Pope John Paul II strongly encourages use of “immortal language”, Una Voce
http://www.unavoce.org/popelatin.htm

The Sacredness of Tradition, by Alice Von Hildebrand

Una Voce website
www.unavoce.org

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