Fr. Edward MacDonald: The Friendship of Pilate and Herod

Fr. Edward MacDonald: The Friendship of Pilate and Herod Mar 10, 2019 8:21:18 GMT

Post by Admin on Mar 10, 2019 8:21:18 GMT

On March 7, 2019, Fr. MacDonald wrote a brief summary of a recent capitulation of the Capuchins of Morgon to the Conciliar Church.

He notes how this concession has fostered a renewal of the working relationship between Morgon and the conciliar-SSPX:

The Friendship of Pilate and Herod

by Fr. Edward F. MacDonald

“And Herod and Pilate were made friends, that same day; for before they were enemies one to another.” — Luke 23,12.

Archbishop Lefebvre was told by the modernists ‘say once the New Mass and all be well’. This is not new. The old man in the bible was told just pretend to eat unclean meat and all will be well. He refused and died a holy martyr (2 Machabees 6:18-25). Many saints were martyred because they would not once burn incense to false gods.

A single evil act corrupts a man. Goodness requires integrity, that is, vigilance to never deny Our Lord. One act of denial corrupts one and makes him one of the corrupt. He becomes a friend of other evil men.

Pilate was a just man with a good wife and family. Herod was a corrupt man. But after Pilate was bullied by the Jews into condemning an innocent man, he became acceptable to Herod. They became friends. This is the friendship of the wicked. It is not true friendship.

The Franciscans of Morgon, France, recently had a hybrid wedding. A modernist priest from the Conciliar Church accepted the wedding vows of the miserable couple. Fr. Crispin, a priest from the Morgon Franciscan monastery, said the nuptial Mass. This is the method used by the new Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) for weddings. The diocesan bishop approves and regulates the marriages. They are recorded in the diocesan register. This is an about face from the system of Catholics. When the SSPX was Catholic the groom and bride signed a paper saying that they did not want to get married before a Conciliar Modernist priest where they would be in danger of getting a wrong formation, especially regarding the ends of marriage and the evils of contraception. They were validly and lawfully married before an SSPX priest. There was no danger of a modern marriage.

The Franciscans try to separate themselves from this evil wedding. They claim that Fr. Crispin, a liberal, organised this marriage without permission. However, Fr. Prior certainly could and should have stopped it and did not. He did give permission. Perhaps not explicit permission but he did not prevent it when he could have prevented it. He gave at least tacit permission. Fr. Crispin is a monk with a vow of obedience.

The Franciscans were rewarded for their treasonous act. The SSPX has forgiven all of their incidents of standing for the Truth and condemning the errors of the SSPX. The Franciscans are again permitted to have their ordinations at Econe. They are friends with the SSPX. This is the friendship of Herod and Pilate. It is not true friendship. Pilate’s life was miserable after he betrayed Our Lord and condemned an innocent man. The Franciscans will fade away and become Conciliarists. Their history and the history of the Church have now diverged. The Franciscans of Morgon will go down in infamy as traitors who joined the Conciliar Church, following Bishop Fellay and the New-SSPX.

Fr. Edward F. MacDonald

Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas

New Zealand

God bless Fr. MacDonald for pointing out the corruption in these compromises by the SSPX and now the Capuchins of Morgon with the Conciliar Church of Vatican II. Fr. MacDonald is a good priest. May God give him the same courage and conviction to also reject the compromises of Bp. Williamson with respect to the new Mass, novus ordo miracles, etc.

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Fr. Edward MacDonald: The Friendship of Pilate and Herod Jun 2, 2019 23:34:00 GMT

Post by incredulous on Jun 2, 2019 23:34:00 GMT

Pilate knew Our Lord was the Son of God, but he still fell into despair.

The Death of Pilate

And when Tiberius Cæsar, the emperor of the Romans, was labouring under a grievous disease, and understanding that there was at Jerusalem a certain physician, Jesus by name, who by a single word cured all infirmities, he, not knowing that the Jews and Pilate had put Him to death, ordered a certain friend of his named Volusianus: Go as quickly as possible across the seas; and you shall tell Pilate, my servant and friend, to send me this physician, that he may restore me to my former health. And this Volusianus, having heard the emperor's command, immediately departed, and came to Pilate, as he had been commanded. And he related to the same Pilate what had been entrusted to him by Tiberius Cæsar, saying: Tiberius Cæsar, the emperor of the Romans, your master, having heard that in this city there is a physician who by his word alone heals infirmities, begs you earnestly to send him to him for the curing of his infirmity.

Pilate, hearing this, was very much afraid, knowing that through envy he had caused Him to be put to death. Pilate answered the same messenger thus, saying: This man was a malefactor, and a man who drew to himself all the people; so a council of the wise men of the city was held, and I caused him to be crucified. And this messenger returning to his inn, met a certain woman named Veronica, who had been a friend of Jesus; and he said: O woman, a certain physician who was in this city, who cured the sick by a word alone, why have the Jews put him to death? And she began to weep, saying: Ah me! My lord, my God and my Lord, whom Pilate for envy delivered, condemned, and ordered to be crucified. Then he, being exceedingly grieved, said: I am vehemently grieved that I am unable to accomplish that for which my lord had sent me. And Veronica said to him: When my Lord was going about preaching, and I, much against my will, was deprived of His presence, I wished His picture to be painted for me, in order that, while I was deprived of His presence, the figure of His picture might at least afford me consolation. And when I was carrying the canvas to the painter to be painted, my Lord met me, and asked whither I was going. And when I had disclosed to Him the cause of my journey, He asked of me the cloth, and gave it back to me impressed with the image of His venerable face. Therefore, if your lord will devoutly gaze upon His face, he shall obtain immediately the benefit of health. And he said to her: Is a picture of such a sort procurable by gold or silver? She said to him: No; but by the pious influence of devotion. I shall therefore set out with you, and shall carry the picture to be seen by Cæsar, and shall come back again.

Volusianus therefore came with Veronica to Rome, and said to Tiberius the emperor: Jesus, whom you have been longing for, Pilate and the Jews have delivered to an unjust death, and have through envy affixed to the gibbet of the cross. There has therefore come with me a certain matron, bringing a picture of Jesus himself; and if you will devoutly look upon it, you shall immediately obtain the benefit of your health. Cæsar therefore ordered the way to be strewn with silk cloths, and the picture to be presented to him; and as soon as he had looked upon it, he regained his former health.

Pontius Pilate, therefore, by the command of Cæsar, is taken and brought through to Rome. Cæsar, hearing that Pilate had arrived at Rome, was filled with exceeding fury against him, and caused him to be brought to him. But Pilate brought down with him the seamless tunic of Jesus; and he wore it on him in presence of the emperor. And as soon as the emperor saw him, he laid aside all his anger, and immediately rose up to meet him. Nor was he able to speak harshly to him in anything; and he who seemed so terrible and fierce in his absence, now in his presence is somehow found to be mild. And when he had sent him away, immediately he blazed out against him terribly, crying out that he was a wretch, inasmuch as he had not at all shown him the fury of his heart. And immediately he made him be called back, swearing and declaring that he was the son of death, and that it was infamous that he should live upon the earth. And as soon as he saw him, he immediately saluted him, and threw away all the ferocity of his mind.

All wondered; and he himself wondered that he should thus blaze out against Pilate when he was absent, and that while he was present he could say nothing to him roughly. Then, by a divine impulse, or perhaps by the advice of some Christian, he caused him to be stripped of that tunic, and immediately resumed against him his former ferocity of mind. And when at this the emperor wondered very much, it was told him that that tunic had belonged to the Lord Jesus. Then the emperor ordered him to be kept in prison, until he should deliberate in a council of the wise men what ought to be done with him. And a few days after, sentence was therefore passed upon Pilate, that he should be condemned to the most disgraceful death. Pilate, hearing this, killed himself with his own knife, and by such a death ended his life.

When Cæsar knew of the death of Pilate, he said: Truly he has died by a most disgraceful death, whom his own hand has not spared. He is therefore bound to a great mass, and sunk into the river Tiber. But malignant and filthy spirits in his malignant and filthy body, all rejoicing together, kept moving themselves in the waters, and in a terrible manner brought lightnings and tempests, thunders and hail-storms, in the air, so that all men were kept in horrible fear.

Wherefore the Romans, drawing him out of the river Tiber, in derision carried him down to Vienna, and sunk him in the river Rhone. For Vienna is called, as it were, Via Gehennæ, the way of Gehenna, because it was then a place of cursing. But there evil spirits were present, working the same things in the same place. Those men therefore, not enduring such a visitation of demons, removed from themselves that vessel of malediction, and sent him to be buried in the territory of Losania. And they, seeing that they were troubled by the aforesaid visitations, removed him from themselves, and sunk him in a certain pit surrounded by mountains, where to this day, according to the account of some, certain diabolical machinations are said to bubble up.

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Source. Translated by Alexander Walker. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 8. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0812.htm>.