Blasphemy On Christmas

Blasphemy On Christmas
©Lucio João Mascarenhas.

Circumcision of Our Lord Christ Jesus
Dear Friends,

This is to bring to your attention that "Gay Bombay", an organisation of sodomites in Bombay is organising a party in a South Bombay restaurant on the night of 31^st December 2003 carrying over into the morning of 1^st January 2004, which is the Solemnity of the Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ. I request prayers for reparations to our Lord, and that our Lord should reach out his hand and punish these impudent malefactors for this blasphemy!

Yours sincerely,

Lucio João Mascarenhas

More Blasphemy on Christmas Day
An article appeared in the O Heraldo, Ponjhe, Goa, EIP, dated 28^th December 2003, datelined 27^th: The Spirit of Christmas too was high among the Hindu brethren in Panjim city as a tiny Ganesh temple in the heart of Panjim market was festooned with X'mas stars and lanterns for the festive season.

Though it was a part of Panjim Ablaze, a festival of lights, still it did represent the spirit of Christmas season.

This small temple or roadside shrine looked after by the truck owners and drivers that park near it, is enthusiastic about Christmas.

Large pictures of Jesus Christ and Ganesh are displayed at the shrine. This succinctly typifies the unique community spirit of Goa where Hindus, Christians and Muslims live in harmony. As before, I request that prayers of Reparation, as prescribed by the Angel of Portugal to the Visionaries of Fatima be made, to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Christ Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of our Lady Mother Mary... (See here).

We can extend this Act of Reparation to the blasphemies worldwide, including the recent ones in Fatima, and pray that our Lord shall empower us to end these hateful spectacles and to overthrow the malefactors...

Towards this end I add below the prescription of His Holiness the Pope.

Yours sincerely,

Lucio João Mascarenhas

Regulations For December 31, 2003 and January 1, 2004
By H.H. Pope Michael I

The Raccolta reminds us: The faithful who devoutly assist at the religious service, to return thanks to the Most Holy Trinity for blessings received and to implore God�s help, held during the last half-hour or the old year and the first half-hour of the new year, and pray for the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff, are granted: an indulgence of 10 years, a plenary indulgence with the addition of confession and Communion, if they perform this exercise privately, for some time at least, immediately before and after midnight, they may gain: an indulgence of 7 years; a plenary under the usual conditions, if no public service is held. (#685) We have commuted this to an Holy Hour sometime on New Year�s Day, if they are unable to perform the exercise at midnight prescribed above. However, if one is awake at midnight, one should be praying, unless one is called by some duty elsewhere.

They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With desolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that considereth in the heart. (Jeremias 12:11)

And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour? Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Mark 14:37-38) We have asked all to make a Holy Hour on all Holydays of Obligation, which includes all Sundays. Indeed this is how we change Sunday into the Lord�s Day. If the Mass were available, we would spend well over an hour in going to church, assisting at Mass and returning home.
And what excuses do we use:
I must take care of the children. And this one is in part proper, especially if one has infants.

However, if older children are keeping you from praying there are two reasons. First they aren�t praying, since those over 14 and even younger should be making the Holy Hour as well. Let us stop and think, any child who can sit and watch a 2 hour movie can certainly make a Holy Hour. Secondly, they may not be properly trained, and this lack of training is most probably a mortal sin of neglect.

But I have to watch 22 men fight over a piece of pigskin. Can�t you make the Holy Hour before they hit the field? The same is true of a bunch of guys running around on a road to nowhere, when the Holy Hour helps us get to our true home, heaven. And the same can be said about the people who act out how to solve the problems of their world and/or their own problems in movies, which are available 24/7 on TV.

I must jump on the computer and �. Well, if the computer is keeping you from God, maybe it ought to go out the door. (The same can be said of all other distarctions, such as the TV)

I have to call � on the phone, see 3.

Any more excuses?

A Prayer for the Sanctification of Festival days
Most glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph, obtain, we beseech Thee, from our Lord Jesus Christ His most plentiful blessings upon all those who keep festival days holy; and grant that those who profane them may realize while there is yet time, how great is the evil they commit and the punishments they draw upon themselves both in this present life and in the life to come; and grant that they may be speedily converted.

O most faithful Saint Joseph, thou who in thine earthly life wast ever faithful in keeping the law of God, grant that the day may soon come, when all Christian people shall refrain from those works that are forbidden on festival days, devote themselves earnestly to the salvation of their souls and give glory to God: Who liveth and reigneth for even and ever. Amen. (Raccolta 700, 300 days, Saint Pius X, May 30, 1905.)
A Prayer for the Sanctification of Festival days
Most glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph, obtain, we beseech Thee, from our Lord Jesus Christ His most plentiful blessings upon all those who keep festival days holy; and grant that those who profane them may realize while there is yet time, how great is the evil they commit and the punishments they draw upon themselves both in this present life and in the life to come; and grant that they may be speedily converted.

O most faithful Saint Joseph, thou who in thine earthly life wast ever faithful in keeping the law of God, grant that the day may soon come, when all Christian people shall refrain from those works that are forbidden on festival days, devote themselves earnestly to the salvation of their souls and give glory to God: Who liveth and reigneth for even and ever. Amen. (Raccolta 700, 300 days, Saint Pius X, May 30, 1905.)
A Prayer for the Sanctification of Festival days
Most glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph, obtain, we beseech Thee, from our Lord Jesus Christ His most plentiful blessings upon all those who keep festival days holy; and grant that those who profane them may realize while there is yet time, how great is the evil they commit and the punishments they draw upon themselves both in this present life and in the life to come; and grant that they may be speedily converted.

O most faithful Saint Joseph, thou who in thine earthly life wast ever faithful in keeping the law of God, grant that the day may soon come, when all Christian people shall refrain from those works that are forbidden on festival days, devote themselves earnestly to the salvation of their souls and give glory to God: Who liveth and reigneth for even and ever. Amen. (Raccolta 700, 300 days, Saint Pius X, May 30, 1905.)

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Christmas Blasphemy

Hindu temple celebrates Christmas
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By Narad in Bhopal Thursday, 25 December , 2003, 12:45

A Hindu temple in Madhya Pradesh, central India, joined churches in celebrating Christmas with a tableau depicting Jesus Christ's birth joining its idols of gods and goddesses.

The grand temple dedicated to Balaji, an incarnation of Krishna, Hinduism's most revered god, has been decorated with the tableau and a big Christmas tree, festooned with balloons, ribbons and toys. The temple's priests gave up their saffron robes to dress up as Santa Claus as they performed religious ceremonies.

The tableau placed in front of the temple's huge edifice with the idols of Hindu gods and goddesses inside became the talk of the town in Betul.

Though the temple's owner, Sam Verma, a famous industrialist and aviator of Madhya Pradesh, mooted the idea for the celebration, it was none other than the temple's priests who toiled day and night to decorate the Christmas tree.

On Wednesday night, a priest dressed as Santa Claus was seen distributing toffees and small gifts to children visiting the temple. Christmas carols too were sung at the temple, along with Hindu devotional songs.