Did You Not Know I Must Be About My Father's Business?

The Third Sorrow of Our Lady, the Finding or the Child Jesus in the Temple.

When Our Lady finally found Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple after searching for Him for three days, she was scolded.  "How is it that you sought me?  Did you not know that I must be about my father's business?"  And St Joseph took the Child Jesus and spanked Him while saying: "How dare you be so disobedient, not being in the caravan, and not asking my permission to remain in Jerusalem?  You know how dangerous a place that is!"  (You know this Wolf is kidding.)  The first enigma here is nobody sinned and nobody was to blame, not the Child Jesus, or Our Lady, or St Joseph.  The First Two were completely free from all stain of sin, and Holy Tradition has it that St Joseph, unlike any of the Apostles, never committed a deliberate actual sin, even a tiny little venial one.  The second enigma is that the Sacred Heart, repository of the Divine and knower of all things, could subject the Immaculate Heart to such sorrow- sorrow greater than that of the pain of loss the entire lot of the damned will suffer for all eternity, proportionate to the boundless love of Our Lady for God and the things of God.

This mystery is related to another Mystery, which St Paul calls the Mystery of Iniquity, and which the philosophers of the French Revolution call "The Problem of Evil".  They ask how a Good God could allow Evil to grow to such enormous proportions that it would kill billions of people with a Death Jab... er, "vaccine", while setting up both Altar and Throne for the reign of the Antichrist. And once again Our Lady is caught in the middle, pleading from the Foot of the Cross for a river of graces calling souls to repentance while submissive to the All Holy Will of God and crying in travail after each reprobate soul immediately after death descends into the Bottomless Pit of Hell for all Eternity.

Another group of men were also about their Father's Business.  Our Lord Jesus Christ identified their father and his agenda while disputing with the Pharisees in the precincts of the Temple.  "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof."

The men who bargain with the Devil are after the joys of this life.  And those men who bargain most completely with Satan, as Adam did, want to be gods.  They wish to be lord and master of all they see, to dispose with as they wilt.  They wish to live forever in Iron, Graphene, and Electronic  Avatars with enhanced brains and powers of cognition.  Completely blinded by their perverted lusts, they court a most miserable destruction.

At some fateful point the popes joined the bargain for a piece of the action.  This Wolf is confident all the details will be revealed on Judgment Day.  In the meantime, the trail, thanks to Our Lady of Fatima, becomes more discernible with each passing day.

Back in the days when popes still spoke like popes, Gregory XVI said of the railroads: "chemin de fer, chemin d'enfer" ("road of iron, road to hell").  The Papal States were not full of reactionary nonagenarians against the "march of progress".  Rather, they knew exactly where that march was going.  "Great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect" were in the air.

When the Railroads came to town, they were more than a passing fad that curious passengers could ride, speeding down tracks three times as fast as a galloping horse.  Now Trade could proceed with the swiftness of cheetahs, rather than the lumbering pace of horse and wagon, or sailing ship.  Steam power on land and sea opened vistas to sprawling markets that would devour the best quality at the cheapest price.  At last the Cabal had a battering ram against the recalcitrant Landed Gentry and the pastoral workshop.  Railroads gave rise to sprawling factories where the cogs never slumbered.  And those factories gave rise to the great Robber Barons, the machinery of socialism, and the bane of usury.  Railroads and steamships set in motion a chain of events which continues to this day.

But behind all that vaunted technological "progress"- if one can call the catastrophic decline of art, music, and literature of every stripe "progress" (Just look at what passes for Churches these days.  Nothing says McCulture quite like a gaudy suburban Megachurch.)- the Great Plan was conceived.  The Great Plan had three simple steps: Magnify the Papacy against the Traditional Faith, use the Papacy to destroy the Traditional Faith, and then destroy the Papacy.  (Mission almost accomplished.)

Vatican I, which was opposed by such luminaries as Cardinal Pie of Poitiers, set the first stage in motion.  While the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility is harmless if one is cognizant of the fine print, this doctrine took on a life of its own in the ordinary affairs of the church.  The Ultramontanes, opposing the Papacy to the Revolution, began to see in the popes not only the center of unity of the church, but the drill sergeant of the counter-revolution.  Consequently, they could endure no criticism whatsoever of the policies or the program of the Chair of Peter.  

This whole tendency is encapsulated in this long quote from Pius X: "And how should the Pope be loved?  When we love someone, we seek to conform to their thoughts, carry out their wishes, and understand their desires.  And just as our Lord Jesus Christ said of Himself: 'If anyone love me, he will keep my word,' to demonstrate our love for the Pope, we must obey him.  Therefore, when one loves the Pope, there is no room for discussions about what he ordains or demands, or how far obedience should go, or in what matters obedience is required.  When one loves the Pope, one does not say that he has not spoken clearly enough...  One does not doubt his orders...   One does not limit the scope in which he can and should exercise his authority.  One does not put the authority of other, albeit learned, individuals who dissent from the Pope ahead of the Pope's authority; individuals who, if they are learned, are not holy, because one who is holy cannot dissent from the Pope.  [ I ] deplore the behavior of many priests, who not only allow themselves to discuss and scrutinize the Pope's wishes, but are not ashamed to arrive at impudent and brazen disobedience, causing great scandal to the righteous and much harm to souls."  

So much for St Bonaventure, who roundly criticized the actions of contemporary pontiffs.  So much for St Catherine of Sienna, who pleaded with the Popes of Avignon to do the Will of God and return to Rome.  So much for Dante, who painted a contemporary pope in hell- where one dares to say that pope went unless he did some massive repentance.  So much for St Paul, who "withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed".  No, now we must march in lockstep behind the Chair of Peter, the whole Church being the Amen Corner of the Sovereign Pontiff, blindly obeying just as Protestants over the centuries mockingly accused Catholics of doing, because the Pope is infallible, his every utterance being inspired by the Holy Ghost.  (One would hope the above quote would evoke at least some suppressed chuckles from Michael Matt's "Recognize and Resist" cadre.)

After fifty years of being so battered by three Piuses, little wonder that the vast majority of priests and faithful accepted the Abomination of Desolation at the hands of Paul VI in 1970, and meekly applied themselves to Baptizing the Revolution.  Despite all appearances, they were told, the Vatican was "playing four dimensional chess" and just wait- the New Springtime is right around the corner.

Fortunately, Our Lord Jesus Christ is still about His Father's Business, which is the establishment in the World True Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. “It will never be too late to have recourse to the Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary.”