Milwaukee ICKSP offers Guadalupe, Cristeros pilgrimage

March 31 to April 7, 2014

The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest is happy to announce a Spring 2014 Pilgrimage to see the holy sites in Mexico. Canon Benoît Jayr will lead this group and serve as Chaplain. Holy Mass and devotions will be offered each day. In addition to Mexico City, you will also visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Shrine of Mexican Martyr Blessed Miguel Pro, and travel in the Footsteps of the Cristeros.

Space for this fabulous Pilgrimage is limited. Seats are already being spoken for and they will go fast!

Departure is March 31st from Chicago (O'Hare International Airport) and return April 7th.

Questions should be directed to St. Stanislaus Oratory in Milwaukee at (414) 226-5490 or email at ststanislaus@institute-christ-king.org

"¡Viva Cristo Rey!"

View the Flyer (PDF)

Institute - Milwuakee

I just now heard about this so I'm not sure if there's still space left.  What an awesome idea!

"¡Viva Cristo Rey!" - update

This is the incorrupt body of Blessed Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio, martyered during the Cristero War in Mexico in 1928 at the age 14. 84 years later his body is free from any sign of decomposition. He was among 90,000 Catholics that were killed for their faith during this war. His last words were "Que Viva Cristo Rey!"

Source

Update: It's a "hoax".

The remains of Bl. José Luis are cremated and this is a mannequin of what he would have looked like.  (I'm not sure how I feel about the mannequin, seems kind of tacky....  On the other hand, it does help pilgrims visualize the event, maybe a painting or an upright statue would help clear the confusion. )  Below are the real remains of Bl. José Luis being venerated.  (thanks Carlos!)

The Bishops are being played. Like cheap fiddles.

I keep thinking of the Cristeros war in Mexico... Vivo Cristo Rey! Read Patrick Madrid's bio of Blessed Miguel Pro if you have time.

From the Sancte Pater blog:
I do not understand how it is that this isn't glaringly, beat-you-over-the-head obvious, but whatever. I'll explain it. Listen up. Especially if you have a hat shaped like the blade of a posthole digger in your wardrobe, and people actually call you "Excellency."

Withdrawing health insurance (like Franciscan University at Steubenville, Ohio), shutting down schools, closing adoption agencies, soup kitchens or ANYTHING ELSE in "protest" of ObamaCare and the HHS "mandates" is EXACTLY, PRECISELY, TOTALLY and COMPLETELY what the Obama regime wants.

Further, the reason why the "press" has OBVIOUSLY been given the order to keep all of this quiet and to not report in any way on the lawsuits filed by the dozens of various Catholic organizations this week against the Obama regime - the largest religious legal action ever taken against the U.S. government by a long shot - is obvious.

The Obama regime is sitting back and watching all of you cowardly fools fold your own tents. None of the stupid bread-and-circus addicted crowd knows anything about any of this. You have to break out of your narcissistic little world and understand that even though these things are earth-shattering to you, uh, most people in this country don't even know that their "government" has declared war on the Church.

So, in a few months, after you all have played right into their hands and shut down your facilities, hospitals, schools and services, congratulating yourselves on your "brave protest", the Obama regime is going to make a ginormous propaganda offensive telling all of the stupid TV-addled idiots that the Catholic Church doesn't give a crap about "the people" because they have shut down their hospitals, schools, their soup kitchens, their adoption agencies and won't even provide health insurance plans to the poor, poor youths attending their universities. The Catholic Church hates "the people", hates charity, hates sick people, hates women, hates children, hates poor people and is hoarding all of its money.

Oh, but the Obama regime LOVES you. The Obama regime will provide you and anyone else who joins their Free Shit Army with all of the "free healthcare", "free education", "free food" and free unicorn farts they could ever want or need.

Listen, you fools. YOU DON'T SHUT ANYTHING DOWN. You keep going exactly as you have been, and you force those dirty rotten SOBs to literally storm your hospitals and shut YOU down at gunpoint. And I'm not kidding. Make them physically shut down your hospital by dragging you out at gunpoint. Make them physically shut down your schools. Make them shut down your university by force because you won't cover abortions in your student health plan. Make them physically shut down your soup kitchens. Make them shut down your adoption agencies because you won't hand a baby boy over to two men who like to jam various and sundry body parts up each others' rectums.

In other words, STAND AND FIGHT.

The only proper course of action is total non-compliance with these totalitarian edicts of the regime, and FORCING THEIR HAND.

Anything less than that, and you LOSE. MEN fight wars. If you refuse to do your duty and act like MEN, then the war is already lost. And make no mistake, cowardice is a grave sin, and you will answer for it.

Every bishop is given a crosier upon his ordination to the episcopacy. A crosier is a shepherd's staff. It is a six to seven foot long staff that a shepherd uses to beat the crap out of wolves. That's your job. Beating the crap out of the wolves - not killing all of the sheep yourself so that there is nothing left for the wolves to eat.

MAN UP!!!! FIGHT, YOU FOOLS!!!

When the Catholic faith was outlawed

I wrote last year about how much I enjoyed the movie "Of Gods and Men". If you haven't rented it yet, do it!

On June 1, "For Greater Glory" will be released in theaters. I find the parallels between present-day U.S. and 1920 Mexico thought-provoking. (Ie... what would you do if it came to this in the US?) 

During the Cristero War, Catholics were hanged by the Mexican government along railroad tracks near Zapotlán el Grande (City Guzmán), in Jalisco. The media fallout from this photograph was so negative that President Calles later ordered the Secretary of War to hang people away from the train tracks in the future.

Doom and gloom is a common theme in my movie choices, apparently.

Movie review from Catholic World Report:

After decades of seeing their Church maligned in cinema, Catholic moviegoers have enjoyed a smattering of pro-Catholic movies in recent years. The latest of these, For Greater Glory starring Andy Garcia, will be released in the United States on June 1. The movie tells the story of the Cristero War in Mexico (1926-29), a peasant uprising against the stridently anti-Catholic policies of the Mexican government under President Plutarco Elias Calles. Garcia portrays General Enrique Gorostieta, a retired federal general hired by the Cristeros to be their leader.
“It’s a fascinating story, and one I previously didn’t know anything about,” Garcia said about the Cristero uprising.
The war erupted in 1926, after Calles implemented the “Law for Reforming the Penal Code” or “Calles’ Law,” which severely restricted the free practice of religion in Mexico. Among other regulations, the law levied a 500-peso fine (nearly $5,000 in the U.S. today) on priests or religious wearing clerical garb in public, and clerics who spoke out against the government could be jailed for five years.
The Mexican bishops suspended public religious services in response to the law, and supported an economic boycott against the government. Violence soon erupted, as bands of Catholic peasants battled federal forces. Priests were shot and hung, Church property seized, and many religious institutions closed. Ninety thousand would die over the next three years. The Cristeros’ battle cry was, “Viva Cristo Rey!” (“Long live Christ the King!”).

For Greater Glory

Releases June 1st, perfect timing!

Details at AmericanCatholic