Casa Del Ermitaño
Blythe, California

December 7, 2005
Feast of St. Ambrose, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor

Dear Visitor,

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

3 For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears:
4 And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables. (II Timothy 4:3-4)

Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ. (St. Athanasius)

In the second half of the fourth century, St. Jerome wrote about how, a few  decades earlier, "the whole world groaned and marveled to find itself Arian." The heresy of Arianism denied the divinity of Christ. St. Athanasius, St. Basil the Great, Basil's friend St. Gregory of Nazianzus and his brother St. Gregory of Nyssa, and others eventually won the struggle against this heresy.

We are living today in far more dangerous times. In the last century, the Traditional Catholic Church faced the heresies of Modernism and Ecumenism. After the death of Pope Pius XII, the heretics seized control of the Vatican with the election of "pope" Angelo Roncalli, who styled himself John XXIII. Roncalli was succeeded by apostate "popes" Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI, who taught the Modernist errors. Most of clergy and the faithful accepted the false religion.

The doppelganger institution that calls itself the Catholic Church is a different religion from that of the previous institution of the same name. Indeed, the heretics call the new church the Conciliar Catholic Church, while the previous institution is identified as the Traditional Catholic Church.

In his closing speech at the Second Vatican Council on December 7, 1965, Giovanni Montini, aka Paul VI, said, “We more than anyone else have the cult of man..." These heretics teach a new religion of Man, who creates God out of his own need.

Rather than offer the sacrifice of the Mass, the Conciliar Church celebrates a Protestant memorial service. But they are willing to sacrifice any Catholic scripture or tradition necessary to accomplish union with the heretics and heathens. They changed the liturgy of the sacraments to deliberately render them invalid and to destroy doctrinal content incompatible with the object of Ecumenism: the new one world religion.

While some of the millions of Traditional Catholics have priests and bishops, most do not. The majority hobble on without clergy and without the sacraments.

The Traditional Church is not dead; it is eclipsed. One wonders how God will bring this third part through the fire. Let us pray the Lord will send faithful shepherds to rescue the Church as He did in the fourth century.

7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that cleaveth to me, saith the Lord of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to the little ones.
8 And there shall be in all the earth, saith the Lord, two parts in it shall be scattered, and shall perish: but the third part shall be left therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.  (Zechariah 13:7-9)

They shall call on my name, and I will hear them.

From all heresy and schism,
deliver us, O Lord!

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Sincerely,

William Henry Roll