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Monday, 11 November 2024

November is the month to pray for the souls in Purgatory! It is our duty!

 We have duties towards our dead relations and friends. November is dedicated to the holy souls in Purgatory.

First - we must bury and NOT  burn our loved ones (ie cremation). This has always been Catholic teaching until the Catholic Church was taken over by freemasons at the Second Vatican Council. 

This respect for the body has always been church doctrine - the dead people's souls are eternally alive,, even if they are in Hell, Heaven or Purgatory. The pagans, 1000s of years ago used to burn the dead. When the Catholic Church started on Pentecost in AD 33, this practice of burning the dead was condemned by the Church. 

We are duty bound to pray for the souls in Purgatory. How do we know who is and who isn't in Purgatory? We don't know - so it helps to pray for someone and add "if it benefits so and so"

The souls in Hell can never escape, so prayers are wasted on them - as they are wasted on souls already in Heaven. However - no prayers are wasted - as they will go towards the souls in Purgatory who need prayers the most.

The good news is that - if our prayers help a soul from Purgatory into Heaven - that soul will be able to help us in turn!

I find it most alarming that people cremate their loved ones and then this hideous fashion of scattering ashes in random places. This is so sad. How will future generations visit their dead relations if the ashes have been scattered?! They will soon be forgotten as there is no grave to visit - let alone a headstone with their name on!

It's a useful exercise to write down the names of all your dead relations and friends on paper and refer to it every now and then. It's a custom in Catholic Churches to write down all the names and give to the priest - who will put them on the altar.

Sunday, 20 October 2024

Decluttering and Tidying Services in South East England


INTRODUCING DomMary’s Decluttering & Tidying Services.


 I have been a declutterer ever since I can remember, since childhood. It’s a pleasure rather than a chore.

Recently I decluttered my aunt’s wardrobes and drawers. She was very happy to find items she had forgotten she had, and she was very happy to give away clothes she no longer liked. Luckily her sister and another niece took some items before they were sent to the charity shop.

My mother is moving house and I have spent several sessions decluttering all the rooms, so that she doesn’t pack unwanted items for the new home. 

Once an area is declutterred, I then clean the area before putting the wanted items back.

I am based near Heathfield, East Sussex and I cover parts of Kent and West Sussex. Part of my  service includes taking your unwanted items to charity shops and/or the dump. I can also advise on how to sell items via Facebook and EBay. I have an antiques diploma so I can also advise on saleable items.


If you would like more information, prices and references please contact me via email - domstemp@gmail.com




Monday, 7 October 2024

October is the month of the Holy Rosary! Pray it!

 October is traditionally the month of the Holy Rosary.

Pope Leo 13th (1810-1903) wrote 11 encyclicals on the rosary. Why?

He said there were 3 errors at the time.

1 - A distaste for the ordinary life of physical labour had crept into society. The working man was becoming discontent with his lot.

2 - A repugnance for any type of suffering, instead of having a supernatural outlook and 'offering it up'. When one offers up suffering of any kind, it becomes less burdensome, as God uses that suffering to do good elsewhere. 

3 - The loss of people thinking about Heaven, and the loss of the supernatural. 


He saw that man was no longer content with life - and society was collapsing. This was over 100 years ago! He said society was becoming spoilt, and children expected their parents to indulge them all the time!

People were beginning to be influenced by Marxist atheistic communism. In the 1890s he said that people were chasing false gods of this world - and becoming like the pagans, who were addicted to worldly things. Ironically the pagans did have a supernatural outlook, and regarded life as a journey to something supernatural. The pagans had a thirst for eternal life. The pope said that society in the 19th century was worse than the pagans!

So with all these modern problems, the pope was exhorting people to pray  the Rosary. The rosary is the remedy to help all types of situations.

The Joyful mysteries help us to cope with our state of life.

The Sorrowful mysteries teach us how to suffer in union with Our Lord.

The Glorious mysteries help us to strive for Heaven.

The Rosary doesn't take long. Start with a decade and gradually increase it to the full rosary - 5 decades. Eventually increase this to all 3 rosaries - 15 decades. One rosary takes around 15 minutes. Surely people have 15 minutes to pray the Rosary. If you count the hours of how much rubbish TV, sport etc - you have time to say the Rosary! The television is a horrible distraction.

The pope was wanting families to pray the rosary together.

Pope Pius XI also wrote about the Rosary in 1937.

Pope Pius XII wrote about the Rosary in 1951

If you search for  "Rosary Encyclicals" you will find much more on this most important of prayers.



Thursday, 26 September 2024

The Latin Mass/Old Rite Mass is the only valid Mass in the UK. And that's if the priest is validly ordained in the first place!

 I was baptised in Blackheath in the Old Rite Latin Mass.

 It was during a time of growing upheaval in the Catholic Church - when the Second Vatican Council was underway, and the  conciliar eruption was simmering like a volcano, waiting to explode onto the world - the eruption began in earnest after the close of the Council on 8th December 1965, 3 years after it started. The church had been well and truly infiltrated by freemasons right up to the highest levels of the church, including pope John 23rd. Freemasonry was always banned in the Church - under pain of excommunication. The nuns at my mother's school in Shaftesbury told the girls that the freemasons get the devil out of the box. That's very apt.

One of the disastrous results of this heinous council was the change to the ancient Mass, from Latin to the vernacular. This was under the guise of making the mass more attractive to Protestants and other denominations. Of course, during the Reformation - the Church of England changed the Latin mass to the vernacular, and the modern mass is akin to the protestant church service. The Latin Mass never went away during the Reformation, it went underground and brave priests were hunted down and martyred if they were caught saying the ancient Mass. That's why there are priest holes in country houses.

Back to the modern council - the Latin Mass went from Latin to the vernacular in around 1969.

My mother describes the changes as - 

'One Sunday we had Latin Mass, and the following Sunday we had guitars".

A handful of brave cardinals did not accept the New Mass - and one of them was the late Archbishop Lefebvre. He refused the say the new mass, as he said it was protestant, and probably invalid. He started the Society of St Pius X, which was to preserve the ancient rite of the Mass. 

Around about the same time as the modern 'mass' was in force, pope Paul 6th decided to change the episcopal rite of ordination - and this, according to Archbishop Lefebvre, made the rite at best - dubious. The implications were massive, because, if the newly ordained bishop was only dubiously ordained, it rendered the priests he was ordaining as dubious too! Just think about that - over many decades of using the new rite, eventually all priests would only be dubiously ordained. If their ordinations are invalid, it invalidates their sacraments! How terrible is that! The modern day Confirmation rite is also dubious and it's a good idea to get a conditional confirmation by a valid bishop.

God obviously used Archbishop Lefebvre to preserve the ancient Mass, and not only that - he ordained 4 bishops in the ancient rite, so that they could validly ordain new priests. The brave Archbishop was excommunicated by pope John-Paul 2. 

Out of the SSPX, came the Sedevacantist movement, which holds that all the popes since John 23rd are invalid, as is the Second Vatican Council. 

I studied Vatican 2 at Maryvale Institute in Birmingham in the early 2000s. What stuck me was the duplicitous language of the documents - and the slippery language used. It was Cardinal Kasper who said in an interview, that the wording of the council documents was deliberately done, to make the documents ambiguous! That my dear people should make you flee from the modern catholic church as fast as possible. Compare the slippery language to the Vatican 1 council of 1870, and you see that the 1870 documents are black and white - no ambiguity anywhere!


If you want the true valid Mass you need to do your homework! Find a Latin Mass -  but more importantly, find out whether the priest was ordained in the new or ancient rite. Many so called conservative  priests say the old Latin Mass, but their ordinations are dubious and therefore you might not be attending a valid Mass!

IF YOU GENUINELY LOVE THE TRUE CATHOLIC FAITH YOU REALLY NEED TO WAKE UP TO THE DISASTROUS VATICAN 2 AND ONLY ATTEND A VALID LATIN MASS. 

If you are a priest reading this - ask yourself - was I ordained properly or not? if not - please get conditionally ordained asap. 


Friday, 13 September 2024

Episodes from my youth. Chapter 1

 I was born on a December morning in 1962 at the Woolwich Memorial Hospital in Shooters Hill, London. I was overdue. It was a normal birth and I was a normal weight. I was named after debutante Dominie Riley-Smith - who married George Courtauld in the year of my birth. My mother Mary was 23, and my father Robert, aka Bob, was 3 weeks shy of his 29th birthday. In the hospital photos my father resembles a film star, with slicked back dark hair and a silk leopard cravatte.

When I was born, it was quite usual for mothers to stay in hospital for 10 days.

I was baptised at around 5 weeks old - this was the norm for Catholics. Without baptism a child below the age of reason (around 7 years old) cannot get to Heaven. An unbaptised child under the age of reason goes to a place called Limbo, which isn't Heaven, and it isn't Hell. My baptism was at Our Lady Star of the Sea in Greenwich. I was fortunate to be baptised in the Old Rite, which is much more powerful than the new Vatican 2 rite. Catholics name their children after saints, as the saints can, and do intercede for us when we pray to them. My second name is Mary - after Our Lady, Mother of God, who IS the greatest female saint. 

My Godparents were 2 Catholics.


END


Notes

Baptism is SO important that, in an emergency, anyone can baptise, providing they use the correct formula and pour water on the forehead of the person - WHILE saying the words - "I baptise you in the Name of the Father, and of The Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen"

Baptism of blood (martyrdom) and desire are also valid. 



Saturday, 10 August 2024

Wrapping presents creatively

 No one has to buy special purpose wrapping paper! I haven’t bought wrapping paper for years.

Go to charity shops and use your imagination!

Often, vintage maps are for sale - they are large when opened out, and make excellent and interesimg gift-wrap.

Use old wallpaper rolls - often in charity shops.

In fact you can use old magazines - old catalogues - old brochures - anything really! It’s proper recycling.

I only go to charity shops which  are pro life - many charity shops such as the big cancer ones, support embryo experimentation. I don’t go to those. If you go to the SPUC website - it has a traffic light list of charities. The green ones are pro life, the amber ones are to be treated cautiously, and the red ones are to be avoided.



Happy shopping.!


Saturday, 22 June 2024

Calling all Catholics. You have a moral duty to vote for pro-life candidates at the 2024 General Election! No excuses!

 We all have a moral duty to vote in General Elections. Even if you don’t like ANY of the candidates, you can spoil your vote or write why you won’t vote, and the election officer has to read out any messages to the prospective candidates. So a spoiled vote is not wasted as such. If the country experiences a lot of spoiled votes, the next government would need to note this. So it’s better to spoil your vote, than to not vote at all! Please vote!

Catholics have a moral duty, to find out, where the candidates in their constituency stand on pro life issues. If there is only 1 pro life candidate but you don’t like the party they represent, you should still vote for them. 

There is only one pro-life party in the UK at present. When I say pro life I mean from conception to natural death. Yes. Pro life also stands for anti euthanasia. All Heritage Party candidates are vetted with regard to pro-life issues. Unfortunately there are only 41 candidates, as there was too little time to sign up more candidates. The party continues to grow. 

I am standing for the Heritage Party in Sussex Weald. I got involved in the pro-life cause many decades ago. It shocks me that the unborn still have no rights. I am alarmed at the aggressive euthanasia lobbies too. Every life has value.

The Heritage Party is the party of common sense and the full comprehensive manifesto is on the website

heritage party.org

The Conservative Party stopped being conservative decades ago, and they are disingenuous for keeping the same name. If they were honest, they would have done the right thing and changed their name to a more appropriate name, such as ‘liberal progressive’ or something like that.

The whole electoral system is rigged to support the 2 horse race of Labour and Conservative. Proportional Representation would be fairer. 

If the polls are correct, and if there really is a Trotsky takeover (well we all know it’s a baton handover from one trot to the other trot), then I bet the so called Conservative Party will be desperate for PR. You bet they will be!

I admire George Galloway. His party is truly for the working person. He’s also very pro life. The reason I could not stand for his party was that his manifesto says it’s a requirement to be a socialist, and I’m not. 


Don’t dismiss Independent Candidates. Some are probably pro-life.

Sunday, 9 June 2024

Monday, 6 May 2024

The Heritage Party - I am a prospective candidate.

 Many people are complaining about the ghastly Conservative Party, but the Labour party isn’t very different from the Conservative party. There used to be a big difference many decades ago, but alas, they both have the same policies more or less. Their policies over the last decades have attacked the traditional family - in subtle but deadly ways. The Liberal Democrat party is as anti family as the other 2.

I remember when the Conservative  party used to support families, through the tax system, and there was a married man’s allowance. They then  abolished it. The married man’s allowance recognized the fact that brining up children is expensive, and this allowance was very helpful to families.

Then the Conservative government further eroded families by making Child Benefit only applicable to those earning under £50,000. And it is only for 2 children (shades of China’s anti child policy? - too right!).

Yet the absurdity of this is that - if the 2 parents are earning £49,999 each, they qualify for Child Benefit, and yet a parent earning £50,000 while the other parent (usually the mother) looks after the children - they get nothing! This wicked Conservative government hates families and hates children and hates mothers who actually want to look after their own children. The Conservative government has succeeded in implementing Communist measures by making as many children under 5 go into day care all day long. Studies have shown that the bond between a mother and her child is very strong, and much harm can ensue if children are left in daycare all day long, with an array of different staff whom they can’t bond with. 


As a traditional Catholic, I have not been able to vote for any of the main political parties, for a very long time. Invariably the Conservative MP in my constituent is a supporter of abortion, and therefore I cannot vote for him. The other main parties tend to be anti life too.

What’s the point of complaining if I’m not prepared to do something about it!

I found out about the Heritage Party on Uk Column News, and it piqued my interest. I read their manifesto and I agree with everything on it. It’s the only pro life party, from conception to natural death.

The party was founded in 2020 by David Kurten, a former London Assembly member.

Please read their manifesto. It really is the party of common sense. The policies on tax, education, immigration, farming etc are all spelt out on the website. 

I have joined the party and I have also been accepted as a prospective candidate for the General Election.

The website is 

www.heritageparty.org


I was also elected as a parish counsellor for Heathfield and Waldron Parish Council, East Sussex. It is allegedly the largest parish council in England, with 21 counsellors.






Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Exercise, which is intellectually stimulating aswell! And free!

 This is a very effective exercise routine, which I do when it’s very cold outside . It costs nothing.

Make sure you wear non slip shoes.

Make sure there are no hazards on the floor.

Put on some wrist weights and/or ankle weights - I use 1lb weights for my wrists.

Put your phone timer on for 30 minutes

Select something interesting or useful to watch on your phone. Or put classical music on.

Hold your phone horizontally, chest height, and firmly with both hands.

Turn the programme on and the timer, and start walking around your house, while moving the phone backwards and forwards.

If you have chosen something interesting to watch or listen to - the time will fly by.

You will be giving your hear and arms a good workout, and also your legs.


Wednesday, 3 January 2024

Modern wines are too alcoholic!

 When I was a teenager, popular alcoholic drinks were Sherry, Dubonet, Cinzano ,Gin and tonic etc. Wine was reserved for mealtimes, and the selection was fairly limited.

Wine has steadily become more popular and with its popularity - the alcoholic content has got stronger - which is not good.

A 12% alcoholic wine used to be the norm - which is 1.5 units per 125ml small glass.

I have seen wines with 13 - 15% alcoholic content. Not good!

I am challenging myself to find good 12% red wines. Let me know if you find any.


I recommend the drinkaware app, which is free, and it allows you to chart your weekly units of alcohol. 14 units is the most anyone should drink - per week.

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