Fr. Hewko's "Mary, the Cause of Our Joy!" January 2020
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Issue 10 - January 2020
Mary, The Cause of Our Joy!
Season of Christmas: January 2020
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A Few Scenes from the American Mass Circuits
A view of the cotton fields along the route of the Mass circuits of Tennessee and Alabama.
A view of the cotton fields along the route of the Mass circuits of Tennessee and Alabama.
Sweet Margaret Buschmann makes her First Holy Communion!
At the VFW in Pulaski, Wisconsin, little Edward Ullmer has truly been added to the spiritual 'Wall of Honor' upon the occasion
of his First Holy Communion!
Meanwhile in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
tiny Stella Marie Moan was baptized and received into the Catholic Church,
pictured here with her happy parents and godparents.
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'Postcards' from the Australian Mass Circuits
View of the ocean in Streaky Bay, in southern Australia.
They grow them big in Australia!
A 1953 picture highlights the size of the sharks swimming in the southern Australia waters, near Streaky Bay.
John Cash, the good shepherd of Streaky Bay, tends his sheep and waters his flock!
Mr. Cash is pictured here standing in front of the chapel his father helped build in the 1920's for the canonized Tridentine Mass,
long before Vatican II!
The Streaky Bay Resistance Chapel and altar where the Blessed Sacrament is kept!
Some friendly kangaroos of Australia!
Notice anything interesting in this picture? Take a closer look [below]
At the edge of the hill, a kangaroo curiously pops up to see what all the commotion is about!
The Enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
in the home of the Simos family, outside of Sydney.
A house blessing in Adelaide! Notice that it is a Catholic custom that when a priest comes to bless a house,
everyone present carries a lit candle.
This master carpenter, a craftsman since his youth, carved this supple chain from a wooden stick - all by hand!
Aerial view of a part of New Zealand. If you look closely, you might see Hobbits wandering amongst the hills!
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Back to the Winter of the U.S.
The Chapel and home where Fr. Hewko resides in Massachusetts gets a White Christmas
with Tom Crepeau snow blowing over two feet of snow!
These hand-painted vestments of Our Lady were a gift to Fr. Hewko from a kind Italian family in New Jersey. God bless them!
Candlelit Christmas Midnight Mass at Fr. Hewko's home chapel, Our Lady of Fatima.
"Tidings of great joy" are chanted at the Gospel of Christmas Midnight High Mass.
Letter from Father Hewko
January 2020
Christmastide
Christmastide
Dear Devotees of Our Lady,
Saluting the Blessed Virgin Mary with the greatest veneration and esteem, St. Anthony of Padua speaks on verse five in Psalm 64: “We shall be filled with the good things of thy house!” He applies it to Our Lady, saying: “To you, O Blessed Virgin, be praise and glory, for today we are filled with the goodness of your house, that is, of your womb! We who were empty before, are full; we who were sick, are healthy; we who were cursed are blessed, because as Canticles IV says: ‘Thy fruits are are paradise!’ (Canticles IV, 13).”
How are we empty ? The Devil left us born empty by original sin and mortal sin leaves the soul devastatingly empty! But the Sacred Heart of Jesus fills the contrite and penitent soul with His sanctifying grace, the virtues, Gifts of the Holy Ghost, actual graces and immeasurable blessings!
Yet He urges us to hunger more and more for that happy Vision of the Most Holy Trinity, Who alone can fill the souls of men. “Lord, our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee!” exclaimed St. Augustine. The Holy Ghost speaks of Our Lady actively increasing this desire in us by saying: “They that eat me (i.e. by contemplation), shall yet hunger (i.e. desire to see God); and they that drink me (i.e. by imitation of my virtues) shall yet thirst (i.e. grow in union with the Heart of Jesus)” (Ecclus. 24:29).
Saluting the Blessed Virgin Mary with the greatest veneration and esteem, St. Anthony of Padua speaks on verse five in Psalm 64: “We shall be filled with the good things of thy house!” He applies it to Our Lady, saying: “To you, O Blessed Virgin, be praise and glory, for today we are filled with the goodness of your house, that is, of your womb! We who were empty before, are full; we who were sick, are healthy; we who were cursed are blessed, because as Canticles IV says: ‘Thy fruits are are paradise!’ (Canticles IV, 13).”
How are we empty ? The Devil left us born empty by original sin and mortal sin leaves the soul devastatingly empty! But the Sacred Heart of Jesus fills the contrite and penitent soul with His sanctifying grace, the virtues, Gifts of the Holy Ghost, actual graces and immeasurable blessings!
Yet He urges us to hunger more and more for that happy Vision of the Most Holy Trinity, Who alone can fill the souls of men. “Lord, our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee!” exclaimed St. Augustine. The Holy Ghost speaks of Our Lady actively increasing this desire in us by saying: “They that eat me (i.e. by contemplation), shall yet hunger (i.e. desire to see God); and they that drink me (i.e. by imitation of my virtues) shall yet thirst (i.e. grow in union with the Heart of Jesus)” (Ecclus. 24:29).
How are we sick? We are sick and crippled by sin. “Christ is the Doctor, let us go to Him!” (St. Augustine). Health of the soul is the result of sanctifying grace, ever driven towards good works. “The charity of Christ urges us!” (II Cor. 5:14).
How are we cursed? We are cursed by sin. Mortal sin brings us the horrible curse of eternal damnation and separation from God forever. But with Our Lady, we become filled with blessings because She draws Her devotees to get up again and again, by Confession, lending Her helping hand by the Rosary and Scapular, to strive relentlessly for Heaven!
So, there follows the next point by St. Anthony: “‘And She brought forth Her firstborn Son.’ (St. Luke 2:7). What goodness! What a paradise! Run, then, you famished, you avaricious and usurious people, to whom money is dearer than God, and ‘buy without money and without price’ (Isaias 55:1), [buy] the Grain of Wheat (i.e. Christ Himself!) which the Virgin has brought forth this Christmas day, from the storehouse of Her womb! She brought forth a son. What son? God, the Son of God. ‘O happiest of the happy, who has given a Son to God the Father!’ (St. Bernard of Clairvaux). ‘The Father gave Deity, the Mother humanity; the Father gave majesty, the Mother weakness. (St. Augustine).” Indeed, “Thy fruits are paradise,” for “Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus!”
Run, then, to be filled with the good things of Her house! But we are equally to flee and run away from the toxic bread of heresy, error, and compromise of the Holy Faith! These are not from Her house! Hold the line, like soldiers of the last flank in Battle, hold the line of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre!
“My dear friends, we have been betrayed. Betrayed by all those who ought to be giving us the Truth, who out to be teaching the Ten Commandments, who ought to be teaching us the true catechism, who ought to be giving us the true Mass – the one that the Church has always loved; the one that was said by the saints; the one that has sanctified generations and generations! Likewise, they must give us all the Sacraments, without any doubt concerning their validity. Sacraments which are certainly valid. It is a duty for us to ask them for these things and they have a duty to give them to us. […] We have the duty not to collaborate in the Church’s destruction! But on the contrary, to work – to work ardently, calmly, serenely, for the Church’s construction, for the reconstruction of the Church, for the preservation of the Church! Each one of you can do your duty in this regard – in your villages, in your parishes, in your institutions, in your professions - wherever you are! Set up true parishes. And let these Catholic parishes be confided to true priests!” (Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Sermon – Ordinations, June 29, 1978).
These is the marching orders for the True Catholic Resistance, until Rome, at last, converts to Tradition! Then souls will be filled again “with good things of thy house!”
In Christ the Infant King,
Fr. David Hewko
How are we cursed? We are cursed by sin. Mortal sin brings us the horrible curse of eternal damnation and separation from God forever. But with Our Lady, we become filled with blessings because She draws Her devotees to get up again and again, by Confession, lending Her helping hand by the Rosary and Scapular, to strive relentlessly for Heaven!
So, there follows the next point by St. Anthony: “‘And She brought forth Her firstborn Son.’ (St. Luke 2:7). What goodness! What a paradise! Run, then, you famished, you avaricious and usurious people, to whom money is dearer than God, and ‘buy without money and without price’ (Isaias 55:1), [buy] the Grain of Wheat (i.e. Christ Himself!) which the Virgin has brought forth this Christmas day, from the storehouse of Her womb! She brought forth a son. What son? God, the Son of God. ‘O happiest of the happy, who has given a Son to God the Father!’ (St. Bernard of Clairvaux). ‘The Father gave Deity, the Mother humanity; the Father gave majesty, the Mother weakness. (St. Augustine).” Indeed, “Thy fruits are paradise,” for “Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus!”
Run, then, to be filled with the good things of Her house! But we are equally to flee and run away from the toxic bread of heresy, error, and compromise of the Holy Faith! These are not from Her house! Hold the line, like soldiers of the last flank in Battle, hold the line of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre!
“My dear friends, we have been betrayed. Betrayed by all those who ought to be giving us the Truth, who out to be teaching the Ten Commandments, who ought to be teaching us the true catechism, who ought to be giving us the true Mass – the one that the Church has always loved; the one that was said by the saints; the one that has sanctified generations and generations! Likewise, they must give us all the Sacraments, without any doubt concerning their validity. Sacraments which are certainly valid. It is a duty for us to ask them for these things and they have a duty to give them to us. […] We have the duty not to collaborate in the Church’s destruction! But on the contrary, to work – to work ardently, calmly, serenely, for the Church’s construction, for the reconstruction of the Church, for the preservation of the Church! Each one of you can do your duty in this regard – in your villages, in your parishes, in your institutions, in your professions - wherever you are! Set up true parishes. And let these Catholic parishes be confided to true priests!” (Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Sermon – Ordinations, June 29, 1978).
These is the marching orders for the True Catholic Resistance, until Rome, at last, converts to Tradition! Then souls will be filled again “with good things of thy house!”
In Christ the Infant King,
Fr. David Hewko
Contacts and Resources
- Rev. Fr. David Hewko can be reached at 315-391-7575 or fr.d.hewko@gmail.com
- Correspondence mailing address and Mass Requests and Stipends: Rev. Fr. David Hewko, 16 Dogwood Road South, Hubbardston, MA 01452
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