The Introit of today’s Mass, Sexagesima Sunday, references Matthew 8: 23-27, wherein Our Lord is asleep on the poop deck of a boat during a terrible storm on the Sea of Galilee.
Matt 8:23-27
At that time, Jesus got into a boat, and His disciples followed Him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves; but He was asleep. So they came and woke Him, saying, Lord, save us! we are perishing! But He said to them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the sea, and there came a great calm. And the men marvelled, saying, What manner of Man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?
The Introit of today’s Mass, remarkable in its boldness, is actually the prophecy of the Jesus sleeping in the storm event, written by King David a thousand years before Christ’s Incarnation. It is the conclusion of the 43rd Psalm:
23 Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
Exsurge; quare obdormis, Domine? exsurge, et ne repellas in finem.
24 Why turnest thou Thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
Quare faciem tuam avertis? oblivisceris inopiae nostrae et tribulationis nostrae?
25 For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
Quoniam humiliata est in pulvere anima nostra; conglutinatus est in terra venter noster.
26 Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for Thy Name’s sake.
Exsurge, Domine, adjuva nos, et redime nos propter nomen tuum.
Exsurge. Arise, GET UP, WAKE UP!
The Poop is the raised deck or cabin in the stern (the hinder part) of a boat or ship. That is where Our Lord was having His little snooze.
The Bergoglian antipapacy is by far the worst tempest to ever toss the Barque of Peter. The past heresies, especially those in the first thousand years of the Church, including Arianism, Donatism, Manichaeism, etc., were all – I can’t believe I’m typing this – SUBTLE compared to what is going on now. What is going on now is new territory – the denial of the NATURAL LAW, which by definition human beings can easily know and understand even OUTSIDE THE CHURCH.
All human cultures know and understand marriage. All human cultures know that sodomy is wrong. ALL HUMAN BEINGS KNOW THAT THERE ARE TWO IMMUTABLE SEXES, DETERMINED AT CONCEPTION. All human beings, including those who NEVER knew or know the Church will be judged on the Natural Law. The pre-Columbian Amazon Basin dweller was/will be judged on, for example, the sin of Sodomy, because sodomy is known to every human being as grave sin through the Natural Law. Likewise transvestitism. Those poor people today on Sentinel Island, and in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, for example, know perfectly well that masquerading around as a member of the opposite sex is gravely, gravely wrong, and fundamentally evil. They may not know much, being so far removed from the Light of Christ through His Holy Church, but just through their very humanity and the Natural Law attendant to every human being, they KNOW that transvestitism is wrong.
The Bergoglian antipapacy denies and seeks to utterly destroy even these obvious truths, known to all through the Natural Law, thus attempting to INVERT at the most fundamental level, the Natural Law. The Bergoglian Antipapacy and Antichurch is clearly, obviously Luciferian.
But, we must trust Our Lord, even though it seems that He is having a nap while this all goes on. How can we be surprised by this? How can our faith be shaken when there have been countless prophecies and apparitions of Our Lady warning of exactly these events, as it is now crystal clear? Cardinal against Cardinal and bishop against bishop, mass apostasy, an antipope, confusion about who actually is/was the pope, a “destroyer pope”, the False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist who is an anti-John the Baptist, and on and on. La Salette, Akita, Fatima, Quito, Holy Scripture….
And, as I and many others have said over and over again, how could we POSSIBLY expect God to continue to bless a culture that is the largest cult of child sacrifice, sodomy, humanicide, theft and warmongering ever seen in human history, by many orders of magnitude? How could we expect God to turn a blind eye to the sacrilege that is endemic to almost every Novus Ordo Mass offered on the planet for the last 54 years – while the entire Church sat in the silence of complicity, more concerned with worldly approval than the Sacred, Wounded Heart of Our Blessed Lord, and His Mother?
So, yes, He is sleeping under the poop as the storm rages, but we must remember His admonition: Why are you fearful? have you not faith yet?
He WILL rise up, and He WILL say, “Peace, be still.” And the Barque of Peter will be saved from these devils, and it will lower its nets and bring in a great harvest of souls. We know this. We CANNOT doubt this. And He will do it in HIS good time, not ours, being that He is omniscient, and we most certainly are not, to put it mildly.
But what I love about this morning’s Introit is the fact that Holy Mother Church encourages and enjoins us to go back to the Poop Deck, kneel down beside Him, and very boldly beg Him, and might I even use the word harangue Him, to WAKE UP! GET UP! We must always maintain a healthy servile fear of The Lord, but the fact that we are enjoined to speak to Him so boldly is a testament to the Divine Intimacy that we are called to – a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, as the saying goes.
See you on the poop deck!
ARISE! WAKE UP! GET UP! WE PERISH!