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a call to arms

                      Father Anthony Mellace’s  Divine Mercy Sunday Homily

(7 and 9 o’clock packed Masses of the Immaculate Conception Parish)

My dear friends,

Eight days after Easter we celebrate the very beautiful feast of Mercy Sunday. Jesus, the Incarnate Expression of the mercy of the Father comes to spread his mercy to the entire world. What is the meaning of mercy? Mercy in Latin is “misericordis” and is composed of two words signifying “misery” and “heart”. There is no need for me to explain to you what misery is, we have all experienced it at one point or another in our lives. We know full well what misery is. Heart is synonymous to sensitiveness, compassion, concern, etc. for the miseries that others are full of or suffer from. He who is merciful or practices mercy is compassionate and sensitive to the miseries of his fellowmen and women.

Is mercy opposed to or in conflict with justice? Was God unjust in showing mercy to the prodigal son or the workers of the last hour? No, actually mercy is the most noble and sublime part of justice and one of its harmonious aspects. Mercy takes into account many more factors and see deeper into the qualities of a person or situation than does simple justice. A mother does not give less food and drink or less love and affection to her child for being bad, but is generous and loving to all of them. God is the same way with all of us and lets the rain pour on the good and bad alike.

Jesus had compassion on all of our miseries. He came to free us from all of them. He eradicated physical miseries by curing countless sick people. He came to free everyone of emotional suffering and misery. He brought back smiles to the sad, courage to the dismayed, peace to the fearful, new meaning and hope to the depressed, etc. He freed us of our moral miseries with the forgiveness of sins. Jesus is the incarnate mercy of the Father who extends his helping hand to all. Jesus, the king of mercy, is present amongst us and will continue until the end of times to pour out his wonderful mercy on all of us.

One of the most beautiful scenes of the Gospel is the dinner that Jesus had together with Lazarus, Martha and Mary Magdalene. Can you imagine the inexpressible joy that Martha had at that moment? She had with her around that table the persons she most loved and cherished in this world. She had lost them at a certain point in her life and suffered a deep anguish in her heart. Lazarus, her beloved brother had died from a sickness and Mary Magdalene had left home to lead a promiscuous sexual life in whorehouses. Martha, however, did not lose her faith but fought perseveringly in prayer and sought Jesus during her profound emotional pangs interceding to him for her brother and sister.

Jesus answered her prayer and restored Lazarus to a new physical life and Mary Magdalene to a new moral and spiritual life. Now the four of them enjoyed a fine dinner together celebrating this wonderful feast of mercy shown to the newly united family. This is Jesus mission of mercy, to restore and unite all in his love and goodness. What joy Martha felt to have her brother restored to life sitting at her side and conversing with her. What joy Martha felt to see her sister converted from sin, fully restored as a human being and sharing a new and deep life with her. Finally, we have the Son of God together with them and pouring out jewels of wisdom from his heart to share with the whole family during this meal. This was truly heaven on earth.

The greatest expression of mercy is forgiveness. Jesus was spit upon, insulted, flagellated, crowned with thorns, rejected, abandoned, betrayed, condemned to death, crucified, etc. How did he respond to all of this? From the height of Calvary he simply forgave his persecutors and said “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” This was Jesus’ greatest act of mercy towards all of us. We do not even suffer an ounce of what Jesus suffered and even are still incapable of forgiving others. I know that forgiveness is not easy, but if we are to imitate the mercy of Jesus and practice it amongst ourselves as true Christians, then we must have the courage to forgive each other.  The way we practice mercy towards others will be the way it will be meted out to us on judgment day (with what judgment you judged, you shall be judged, with what measure you measured, it will be measured unto you).

The opposite of mercy is vengeance or a spirit of revenge and exaggerated sense of quick and rapid justice. We see this everyday in the news. Thieves not only steal, but they also murder their victims for no reason at all. Boyfriends kill their girlfriends for jealousy or possessiveness. Parents whip and beat their children mercilessly. Managers lie to, cheat and fraud their workers, people swear and beat each other in the middle of a traffic jam. Many do not even argue, but pull out a gun and shoot the person dead on the spot.  I could go on and on and on citing so many examples of this spirit of vengeance and deep revenge and hate in people’s heart.

Brazil needs mercy and needs it very badly. We have to learn to be tolerant, patient, forgiving, understanding, kind and good. This is the way to true peace of heart and social harmony. Violence is no solution and leads to nowhere except death and destruction. If God were to act solely on pure and rigid justice, none of us would survive. He truly loves us and practices mercy towards us to give us every possible chance for salvation and moral recuperation. He is extremely indulgent and would like us to be likewise one towards the other.

I was deeply saddened when I found out about the final decision of the Supreme Court of Brazil in regards to unborn babies with cerebral defects. They were condemned to death in an 8 to 2 vote. Up to that moment, Brazil was one of the very few nations admired by the Pope and humanity for being one of the last bastions where human life was still respected and legally defended in the world. Now this is no longer true. The cowardly and shameful decision of the eight judicial assassins destroyed that beautiful image before the world. The whole procedure was a flagrant scam because it was realized during the Holy Week when people’s minds were distracted by the religious ceremonies. True medics, researchers, experts on the brain and diseases, geneticists, representatives of various Faiths, scientists, etc. were not consulted nor invited to present their material as valid arguments in regard to the issue. They were not taken into consideration, but ignored.

The cerebral damage that they cited to legalize abortion is something that is easily cured and resolved by medical science, but they blocked and ignored this evidence.  There are over 120 university degree professionals in the world who live a normal life and practice their profession but possess no brains. Their skulls are completely empty or have a very thin lining near the spinal column. Why did the Supreme Court not cite this interesting fact? If they are concerned about the mother’s health, why not let her bring to term the baby and then kill him outside the womb, seeing that they will murder him anyways? What difference is there to take his life in or out of the womb seeing that he is condemned either way? At least, they won’t have to damage and perforate the womb of the mother!

My friends, we need to react to react to this horrendous and monstrous decision of these judicial assassins.  The true reason as to why they want abortion is to get rid of the babies of the women that they themselves made pregnant. They have money, power, influence, etc and they don’t need God or us in their lives. I would suggest that everyone in this congregation write to his or her congressmen to quickly introduce a bill that will protect the lives of deformed babies and annul the Supreme Court decision. The minister of health said that he is quickly going to allocate money to open abortion clinics and train doctors to perform abortions because “the demand for abortion is now going to be great” (his words). Funny, he did not say that the demand for abortion of babies with brain defects is going to be great, but simply “abortion”. The whole judicial decision was a plot and scheme of the socialists to sneak abortion in through the back door.

Before I end, I would like to know if there is anyone in the congregation that has children with physical and mental defects (Down syndrome, brain defects, mongoloids, etc).

(several people get up and bring their children to the altar where Father Anthony is giving his homily. Father Anthony greets each one and asks them several questions)

What is your name?

(Ricardo, Jose, Paula, Ana, Silmara, Wagner, Betina)

If the Supreme Court had ruled the murder of defective children when at the time that your wives were pregnant with these children and you had the legal chance to abort them, would you have aborted your child in that period?

(all answer emphatically “no”)

Do you all love and deeply cherish your children?

(all answer emphatically “yes”. Father Anthony looks at each one in the eyes and shakes their hands)

To me, you are the true heroes of this country and authentic Brazilians. Congratulations on your fine courage to assume human life!

(everyone in the Church get up and enthusiastically applaud the families with the  defective children)

You see, my friends, the Court lied to the country. It said that families were in anguish to abort their children, but they did not consult one family on the issue. It was all corruption, lies and international money that now brought this wicked curse on Brazil. I pray to God that he have mercy on this nation and that the chastisement be avoided by active Christians who will do everything possible to remove the plague of abortion from this nation.

Father Anthony Mellace

Horrors of Slavery

              Many things that happen today are really nothing more than modern and updated versions of ancient evils. Slavery and stem cell research are such incidents:

           Stem Cells and Human Commerce  

              There is really no difference between today's researchers of stem cells (ugh, what a way to term a living image of the Holy Trinity!) and the Negro slave traffickers of the 16th century in the city market of Cartagena. The Spanish mariners of that Holy Catholic Nation would go to Africa buy a shipload of human commerce at 20 dollars a head, and re-sell them in Cartagena for the fantastic price of 200 dollars a piece. 30% of the Negroes died en route to South America in the overcrowded galleys. The captains did not dispose of their bodies however. They found a practical use from the carcasses. They separated the human fat to grease the keel of their ships and drew out the blood to dye their sails. Didn't the Nazis peel off the skin of the gassed Jews and utilize it as a lampshade for their light bulbs? All you need to do is to use your imagination and be ghastly creative! So we complain about the great number of hurricanes and why God is punishing us? Is He supposed to be pleased with us for fooling around with human life, manipulating the tissues of it in order to reek in fortunes to satisfy our greed? But let us get back to our slave tale:

           The slaves in the bottom of the ship (lucky enough to make it alive) stunk worst than a hundred dead skunks piled up on a highway. With no air circulating, they had to support the stench of the mixture coming from their dung, blood from their open wounds and scars (due to their whippings), diseased leprous skin and limy mold that formed itself around them. The only man who had the courage to go in there and give them some food, water and words of comfort was the Jesuit, St. Peter Claver. He administered to thousands of them and baptized them before they died. In his humility he evened kissed their wounds crawling with vermin and called them "the brothers of Christ".

       Following death, each one of us will find himself in one of two places: the final manifestation of the hell we created for others, or the heaven we ourselves constructed by the courageous love we dared to show to the least of our brethren, be they the unborn of today. 

Anthony Mellace

Bloopers

Women are Not Swine

     In a letter to the Utica Observer-Dispatch, Kristin Smith from Chadwicks stated that “courts should have the rights to step in and mandate birth control…why allow women to keeping on having more children…if they cannot care or support them?”

     It is interesting that Kristin Smith did not say “courts should mandate birth control for men (who get women pregnant)...” but went and targeted the women, as if they carry the blame for everything. What she stated is a typical macho cliché and, as a female, she ought to be ashamed of herself! In her cowardice, she simply kept silence in regards to the males, but places all the responsibility on the mothers.

    Another point to note is how Kristin Smith really knows little about government functions and the role of the various parts. It is not the judicial, but the legislative branch that makes laws, and they themselves are subject to a higher law called the “Divine One”. 

    Artificial birth control, whether physical, mechanical or chemical is a violation of the exercise of a basic human right: the right to the recognition of and respect for one’s dignity as a human being. We are not pigs, dogs or cats that need to be castrated or have the healthy parts of our body mutilated. We all possess a right to the protection of our physical and moral integrity and no branch of government can violate this right.

    What the government can morally do is to limit or define conditions on the exercise of the right to marriage (but not take away the right itself).  She could make laws prohibiting someone from marrying until they can prove that they are prepared to care for offspring in a responsible and mature way. The government could obligate them to go through therapy or psychological testing to show what their ability is in taking on the responsibility of a child or a wife in marriage.

    If one is to make a barbarous statement declaring that courts should cut a woman’s tubes or stick hormone pills down her throat in order for her not to get pregnant, while, at the same time, tolerating the macho practices of male brutes is tantamount to a gross ignorance and grave irresponsibility. It is the same as saying “courts should mandate the slicing off of a person’s hands and feet since he simply refuses to get a job and work.” Come on, Kristin, God gave us a brain to use, and not an ass to reason with in its place!

Father Anthony Mellace

Brilliant Brazilian Victories

Pro-Abortionists in Retreat

At our latest Sao Paulo State RTL meeting, it was communicated that the pro-abortionists in Congress are giving up the fight. Their forces are weakening and the pro-death front they set up is now crumbling into pieces. This was encouraging news to us and we are now doubling our strength to give them final blows.

The elected feminist from Rio de Janeiro, who started the whole mess in the Brazilian Congress, abandoned the abortion project and disappeared. She saw that she was getting nowhere with so much pressure on her and decided not to go ahead with the proposed law. This now leaves only one pro-abortion socialist representative to still fight for his proposed law. He too, though, is weakening in his position and soon will throw in the towel. Pro-lifers, however, suspect that these obsessive pro-abortionists might try to get the law through by means of other departments in government. This is no problem for the Brazilian pro-lifers since we have these murderers covered and their every movement well investigated.

Everyone is getting the last details in place for the great march on the nation’s capitol on August 15^th. I myself was given a free plane ticket to able to participate. I filmed the whole event. Another positive piece of news item is from Portugal. It was found out that the doctors of the country have refused to perform abortions and the women are going to Spain to kill their babies. One of our successful projects is the elaboration of the Brazilian pro-life web-site: www.emdefesadavida.com.br where we hope to illuminate all the Portuguese speaking peoples on the question of abortion. After the August 15^th event, we will open a “life formation center” in Sao Paulo where all the teachers and professors of the schools of the city will be invited to receive a solid formation on the question of human life. They, in turn, will then transmit this information to their students. God bless Brazil!

Father Anthony Mellace

A Memorable Event

Pro-Life “D-Day”  (Launching the Great Offenisve!)

  After the tremendous success of May 26^th, 2007, in which 16 lecturers spoke on the physical, psychological, moral, legal, political and social aspects and effects of abortions before an audience of over 500 medical students and professionals in two universities of Sao Paulo, 17 other universities and faculties of medicine, law and psychology invited our team to repeat the event in their areas and towns. We are now swamped with solicitations.

   While all this was taking place in Sao Paulo, our other pro-life activists were in the northeastern part of the country, marching with the population in a second anti-abortion rally. Thousands of people took to the streets. Two prominent pro-abortionists were challenged to appear before the people in a public debate. They accepted the invitation and put forth their arguments in favor of killing the unborn babies (it is a woman’s body, the huge number of deaths of women through clandestine abortions, etc). Our well prepared professionals in the issue exposed their false arguments and lies with solid founded facts and reasoning. The pro-abortionists were laughed at by the people and they quit in the middle of the debate. They left the area with shame and confusion.

  Our next planned event will now be the great “pro-life D-Day” invasion of Brasilia, the capitol of Brazil, by our spiritual soldiers. The memorable day marked for the event was August 15^th, 2007. On the preceding dawn, buses from all over Brazil converged on the capitol for the first national pro-life march of the country. A great caravan of buses left for Sao Paulo for the 16 hour trip. Each city along the way joined the long train of vehicles to the capitol. We all shouted for life, waving our banners and flags all along the way to Brasilia. Spiritists, Catholics, Evangelicals and all believers in the defense of life joined forces and took part  together in this dramatic event. Our spiritual “generals” in our meeting spent some long hours planning the “invasion”. I myself was given the task of calling the hotels in the area to put up all the people that came from Sao Paulo.

I counted with everyone’s prayers for the wonderful success of our planned event in favor of the defense of the unborn whose lives are threatened by socialists butchers.

Father Anthony Mellace

What is a Catholic?

The Definition of a Catholic

       In the November, 2006 issue of the “….”, Michael …. was asked, in question 18, the position that he held on abortion. The then District Attorney answered: “I believe abortion should be rare and safe, but must remain legal.” With this sort of response, it is plain as one’s nose that Mr. … intelligence is about as low as that of a third grader. I don’t believe he even had any schooling in logic. Has Mr…. ever seen an abortion or know what it is all about? The answer he gives is one of an ignorant demagogue, not a wise political leader.

     To say that we need to make abortion safe is tantamount to, and makes about as much sense as declaring that we need to remove a rake from the steps of a house, so that the burglar not trip and break his leg while breaking in! Who is abortion safe for, the mother or the child? Both suffer physically and emotionally from it and one becomes the death victim. With this statement, ….manifests about as much moral character as Pilate did. Pilate declared to the Jews: “I find no crime in this man, so I will punish and release him!” If He is innocent, how can you justly chastise Him? If abortion is safe for no one, why should it be kept legal?

       A Catholic is defined as a person who obeys the Magisterium of the Catholic Church and participates in her sacramental life. The Church, in one of her canonical laws, stated that anyone who promotes practices or defends abortion is automatically excommunicated from her fold. Such a Catholic ceases to be one and is prohibited from receiving the sacraments. If he should approach them, he commits the double sin of sacrilege. If he dies unrepentant, he will suffer the eternal fires of hell. Michael…, a Catholic, has publicly declared himself in favor of abortion. He is therefore automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church and not allowed to receive Holy Communion. The priests who do give him support and recognition and Holy Communion are likewise excommunicated and all their sacramental acts therefore invalidated. All those Catholic voters and journalists who put him in office are also excommunicated and out of the Church’s fold. If they continue receiving Christ’s Body and Blood during the Mass, they receive it for their own condemnation, as St. Paul wrote.

     Our Catholic Faith will not be mocked by clowns who do not take it seriously, but cause grave scandals through their hypocritical standings and practices. Christ wants His Church to be a pure one and will remove of all those who entered without wedding apparel.

Father Anthony Mellace