I’m discerning a 3rd order and have been praying the hours for about a month now. I love it. It ties your whole day and life into the liturgy. I don’t do every hour but I do the readings, laudes, vespers, and compline. Highly recommend! My day doesn’t feel complete anymore without it!

Just my thoughts exactly! May God protect dear Fr JM (from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales!)

Agreed 💯

Здорово получить от вас весточку. Надеюсь, у вас всё хорошо. Будьте крепкими. Im Gebet verbunden!

PS…. What version of the breviary do you pray & specific hours?

Can you tell me your father's first name and I will remember him at Mass.

(For the below question, until Vatican II, the Divine Office was prayed integrally -- all the hours, every day, by every cleric, under pain of grave sin. That is how traddie priests pray the Office (including myself). The 'Liturgy of the Hours' (novus ordo) is something very different; Prime abolished, and two hours made optional, and all of them diluted.

@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM Paul Bates

Father, thanks so much for for this!!! I am eternally grateful and hope to purchase your books soon!! In Domino et Domina, Chris Bates Ithaca, New York USA

Keep praying and find a Traditional Catholic church - sayton hates Latin.

Are you sure you have demons inside you? That may be a lie from the Devil

Just for clarification: it was the hour of Prime that was abolished by Sacrosanctum concilium (Vaitcan II), not Compline. Plus SC made optional any 2 out of the 3 minor hours of Terce, Sext and None. Woeful. God bless you.

@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM thank you for setting me correct.

I am wary of too much 'knowledge' about angels, and especially demons (though I respect Fr Ripperger knows what he is talking about). Do you have any references for that idea of Lucifer's purpose? While it is OK to speculate, that sounds extravagant. I cannot think of any Church Fathers or scholastics who would give all those details. It might have come later in someone's devotions, but it does not make sense to me. In any case, here is a footnote from "Crushing satan's head", which I think outlines safe speculation which is not required dogma. "Whereas St Ambrose, St Anselm and St Thomas favoured the teaching that God became incarnate in order to redeem man from sin, Bl Duns Scotus took the position that God would have become incarnate whether or not man sinned. He taught that God’s very first decree in relation to Creation was the universal primacy of Jesus Christ. The Virgin Mary, as Jesus’ Mother, is raised by the fullness of grace above all other creatures. All this is prior to sin or redemption. Followers of Scotus speculated that the specific realisation that a woman would be Queen of Angels provoked Lucifer to rebel. He might have willingly bowed to God made Man (though it is not sure he knew this profundity in God’s Plan), but he was not willing to serve a human creature, given humans were by nature lower than angels (cf. Ps 8:6). The devil’s refusal to freely subject himself to the Woman is made explicit in the works of the Venerable Mary of Ágreda and St Maximilian Kolbe."

Going to a priest to make sacramental Confession once each month is ideal (whether one has mortal sin on one's conscience or not). Jesus and Mary show us this with the First Friday and First Saturday devotions. If one has sinned mortally, one can go more often, as needed. If one has not sinned mortally, once a month is fine. For a religious or seminarian or priest, then every two weeks is ideal. To go more often than this (laity or clerics) is permissible but not always advisable. As you mention, the absolution in Holy Mass, especially when there is a second Confiteor prior to the distribution of Holy Communion (or at the beginning of Mass in the 1962 rites), is powerful in remitting all venial sins, according as one is contrite. In general, venial sins may be remitted by prayer, almsgiving and penances. Mortal sin requires going to Sacramental Confession. The advantage of going monthly to Confession even for venial sin only, is that by articulating our sins to a priest, we become more aware of what they are, because we should name them (although it is not strictly necessary for venial sins). And we get an idea of which sins persist. And we have a chance to receive advice from the priest. And the Sacrament is gives great graces. Hope this helps.

Yes, he can. But it is better with a priest who can bless the incense. But as priests might be very busy in the Epiphany Octave (travelling from home to home), then it might be needful to alternate years with him coming or the head of the household leading a similar blessing.

@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM Thank you, Father Mawdsley. I am learning a lot from your books. Especially "If you believed Moses." With what is happening in Isreal, I believe your books were providentially inspired for our times. God bless you!

Temptation comes from the world, from the Devil and from our own broken nature which is inclined to sin (concupiscence). The Devil knows a lot about us as demons observe us to find weaknesses to exploit. It might feel your mind is being read but it's not true at all. If the Devil could read minds it would be easy for him to tempt everyone enough away from God.

He can see how you react to certain temptations.

The traditional blessing for holy water (such as is used for the Asperges before a sung Sunday Mass) includes prayers of exorcism and blessing for both the salt and the water. Stronger prayers are used for Epiphany and Easter water. All three (obviously) are very good. I don't know what the novus prayers are.

I don't think our Guardian Angel can read our mind. But they know us very well, better than any of our family or friends know us (they have been watching over us constantly). They 'hear' the prayers we address to them, and it may well be that they hear literally all of our prayers, spoken or unspoken, by God's arrangement. They communicate with us such inspirations as we might assume are 'intuition'. I mean, often do we know not where thoughts come from. Perhaps these are sometimes spoken to us by the angels. Obviously some people are more in tune than others, some more deaf than others. A few saints (like St Francesca of Rome) had clear apprehension of guardian angels. But most of us are not like this, perhaps because some people would get puffed up if they imagine their own ideas come from angels, and others would be despondent if they thought they were missing out. So God keeps it all very subtle, and that evidently works best.

Those are good questions, and I don't know the answer to them either. I am reminded, however, of Hebrews 12:22-24 which tells us that in Christ, we "have come to...innumerable numbers of angels." My guess would be that because of their office God gives them the power to hear our mental prayer.

When you invoke your angel, or a saint, (or heaven forbid, a demon) you grant them access by calling upon them. Now I suspect there is more to what your guardian angel has been given access to as well, but what precisely, I couldn't say.

I mean as a creature of God, so that includes all humans. Baptism brings us into His household as children of God.

This is from the Vulgate ("Benedic") and Douay-Rheims ("bless"). The LXX has "say any word to God" (εἰπόν τι ῥῆμα εἰς κύριον). The Hebrew has "curse" (בָּרֵךְ ... minus the leftermost two dots). I forget the story behind the changes, but it is something to do with a reluctance to read out (or even write down) the words "Curse God". And so it was renedered as "bless", but 'everyone' was supposed to know what was meant by the context and general good teaching. Alas, the good teaching might be lacking! Corrections / further information etc very welcome from contributors here.

Very interesting! Thank you so much. God bless 🙏

I don't mind anyone copying / dubbing / posting the videos (though an attribution to this channel would be appreciated)... but I am at my limit of spending too much time at the computer. Sorry I cannot help.

Satan lost his name Lucifer when he rebelled against God. He is no longer known as Lucifer, only in regard to before his fall.

@@debbieramsey8933 Right. I was just stating that the one known as Satan is the former Lucifer.

I am not sure enough about these things to say much. But I am pretty sure you are right that satan will not "rule in hell" (a mistake by Milton). He will be despised there by every demon and human, in the deepest and darkest part of hell, I reckon utterly isolated (he will not even have the company of torturers to console him). I might be wrong.

@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM Thank you. Not really a subject that is enjoyable to ponder.