Mass attendance is down 18% in 5 years!

 As we warned, the legacy of Thomas "No Mass For You" Collins has come to fruition and rotten fruit it is. Mass attendance is down 18%! What did he and the rest of them expect when they shut down churches five years ago this month? What did they expect when they told Catholics that Mass wasn't important enough to come to in person and that watching on television or a computer sufficed? What did they expect when they threw their lot in with globalists, communists and atheists? 

A valley of tears of their own making. 

A rotten tree cannot produce good fruit. 

Mass numbers hover below pre-pandemic level | The Catholic Register

Where recent trends show Catholic Mass attendance levels in the United Kingdom and the United States have all but returned to post-pandemic levels, the Archdiocese of Toronto finds itself still with a ways to go.

The Archdiocese is witnessing approximately 18-per-cent fewer people in its parishes' pews for Mass compared to pre-pandemic years, though the faithful have slowly returned since church doors have reopened.

Statistics from the Office of Spiritual Affairs show that the recorded weekend Mass attendance in 2019 was 266,519 parishioners. As many parishes pivoted to virtual offerings following outright cancellations of Mass in 2020 when COVID shuttered the doors of churches everywhere, the number plummeted to 89,386, a decrease of more than 65 per cent.

As restrictions eased in 2021, attendance rose to 114,550 before increasing by 47.9 per cent to 169,482 in 2022. The 200,000 mark was surpassed a year later with an average of 204,713 in 2023 before climbing again to 217,780 last year.

Maribel Mayorga, director of communications for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, said information on attendance numbers would be collected diocese by diocese and that no formal reporting structure to the CCCB for national numbers exists at the moment. Still, the pattern in Toronto is shared by dioceses across Canada.

Miserere Mei, Deus

Looking back to a past Shrove Tuesday

It was Shrove Tuesday, which fell a few weeks earlier than this year in 2015, a decade ago. I was sitting with a colleague at lunch when an email came across the Blackberry: "Letter to Domet." What is this? I exclaimed. A letter from the prominent Toronto law firm of Fogler Rubinoff and a well-known solicitor within the Italian community named Nina Perfetto. I was being sued by Thomas J. Rosica, a Basilian priest and Executive Producer of Salt + Light Television, Vatican apparatchik, Francis minion and all-around annoying bully to anyone in his path. Within hours of the upload of the interview below, the internet went wild. Emails from all over the world, offers of financial support for the lawsuit, messages through third parties from Cardinals and Bishops in Rome and Europe, but not a thing from mine in Toronto. It was an explosion! Even the law firm was taken to task by readers around the world so much that the "pro-bono" lawsuit was quickly no longer. Fogler Rubinoff met its nightmare.

Tom Rosica, now suspended, shamed and taken down by his own actions as a serial plagiarist,  (first exposed by this writer) and found to have been coming out of a "gay" bathhouse in Toronto and eventually being sued by another priest for alleged "sexual assault" finally held to some form of account.

But I did it first.

Happy Anniversary, Tom!

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

YOUR BLOGGER VOX CANTORIS IS THREATENED WITH A LAWSUIT BY VATICAN OFFICIAL AND PAPAL ADVISER - FATHER THOMAS ROSICA, CSB

On Shrove Tuesday, February 17, 2015, I received a letter from Nina Perfetto, a Litigation Solicitor with one of Toronto's most expensive law firms, Fogler Rubinoff. The threat of a lawsuit was from Father Thomas J. Rosica, a Basilian priest, Executive Producer of Salt + Light Television, Consultor to the Pontifical Council on Social Communications, English-language Synod spokesman for the Holy See and member of various academic institutional Boards.

A few weeks later, after incredible international pressure and bad publicity, intervention by Cardinals of the Holy Catholic Church, letters, and other pressures, he dropped the lawsuit, saying, " It was never intended" and that the lawyer was working "pro-bono."

This post shall remain through this front page link permanently as a matter of public record.

The rest of this story can be read at the following links:

My thanks to Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider.
http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/03/thank-you-your-eminence-and-your.html

My thanks to Michael Voris
http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/03/success-has-many-fathers-and-michael.html

Father Rosica's statement
http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/03/father-thomas-j-rosica-csb-on-threat-of.html

Support and commentary from other blogs and media
http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/02/vox-populi.html

Entire file:

http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/search/label/Rosicagate

Letter from Fogler Rubinoff, Barristers & Solicitors (online at ChurchMiliant.com)

On Pope Francis

Pope Francis may be in his last days. What can we believe from these Rome apparatchiks? Last night's public rosary in St. Peter's Square is certainly a sign. Yet, the ghouls are out with all the speculation and inside sources. It would be a wonderful sight to see the Dean call a press conference and state, "Holy Father Francis is not expected to recover; we pray for his sweet passing to the LORD." How about that?

Instead, we have people calling for prayers for recovery and longer life. Longer life, for what? More of the last twelve years? No, thanks. I want an end to it. He is 88, he's had a long life, and if this is his time, then pray he has a Catholic death, repented with the sacraments. 

After twelve years of assault on me by this Pontiff, and yes, that is how I feel and have felt nearly every day, that is the best I can do. He has disturbed my peace, slandered my work, mocked my beliefs and betrayed me in every way. When he came out that dark night in March 2013, I did not know him, but I felt sick and wanted to vomit. It lasted for hours. May he repent from his sins, may he repent from the damage done, receive the sacraments and pass in peace.

That is my hope for him. That is the best I can do.

The rest is up to God.

Oh, look. The Diocese of Charlotte in the United States of America has a new bishop.

 

Another horrific story of the coverup of satanic ritual and sexual abuse of a woman and covered up by the Church in America. But what of right here in Toronto?

As a result of the lawsuit by a priest against Thomas J. Rosica for an alleged "sexual assault" of asking him to "cuddle" whilst he was wearing boxers and a T-shirt lying on a bed, I decided to write something I have been sitting on for several years. I had had enough of the cover-up and what I know that has failed to ever be addressed or acknowledged. 

A story was told in The Desolate City; a book published in 1986 by Anne Roche Muggeridge of a memorandum issued by the long-ago rector of St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto. There was no internet, no email to forward news. It was an occurrence buried in the book about a scandal at the seminary which occurred in 1980 or 1981. Further research on my part uncovered an old Globe and Mail article from the later Rector, the "James Martin" of his era (1976) calling for "understanding" of gay priests and seminarians and others referring to the "fems" and the "machos," -- the nicknames of the seminarians at St. Augustine's Seminary at the time. We know what the "fems" were and, are! The big find was the actual memorandum by the Rector. I discovered an old microfiche-type story of it from a long-defunct Toronto "gay" magazine called The Body Politic. I spent much spare time transcribing it and with the continued coverup of the Rosica matters, now public including the alleged spotting going in and coming out of a "gay" bathhouse in Toronto, I had enough and I published it. There has been blowback for the disclosure. I wrote it for a few reasons the primary being the belief that Catholics of the Archdiocese of Toronto had and have a right to know what I know and what coverups have continued to occur here. (By the way, I was told by a priest that you have no right to know what I know.) The second reason was as a service to our new Archbishop, Francis Cardinal Leo. When this saga first started (with an article in the Globe and Mail by a priest who would go on to become Rector and then after being removed by Emmet Cardinal Carter due to the scandal and later returned under Cardinal Ambrozic to serve as Judicial Vicor until his retirement under Thomas Cardinal "No Mass for You" Collins) Francis Cardinal Leo was a boy of six years old in Montreal. That is how long ago this was and many of those involved then are still active. Unless he asked or some chancery minion told him of the sordid perverted "gay" history of the Archdiocese of Toronto, he would know nothing of the history or the details of some of the men still in active ministry or around him in 2024 courting his favour and seeking their influence. That post, which can be read at the link below, caused a quiet outrage. As if it were possible, I have been ostracised even more. Priests, whom I thought were friends, whom I worked with for years, supported and advised -- who ate my food, drank my wine and Oban, and relaxed in the "safe space" of the home of my wife and me, have betrayed me and revealed themselves for the cowards they are. Those whom I considered friends have abandoned me as I recall the Office of Tenebrae--"Omnes amíci mei dereliquérunt me." As a good friend said just a few days ago when I was kvetching about the matter, "David, there is a price to pay for being a whistleblower." 

Those who cover up and those who say that you do not have a right to know not only betray you, they betray Our Lord Jesus Christ because they sit by and allow the corruption to perpetuate to another generation and another and another.  

Vox Cantoris: A look back at The Desolate City of the Archdiocese of Toronto and a lost "Dialogue of Trust"

When I continue to speak and hear the stories of victims right here in Toronto when I see for myself the results of abuse, the health problems--physical,  psychological and even spiritual and the difficulties of PTSD on daily functioning, when I still deal with the anger due to the actions of those Toronto Basilian priests to a 13-year-old boy in 1969; when I read public letters such as this one by Lisa Roers of Elgin Nebraska or the post below by Rachel Maria Mastrogiacomo below this post, I know that my decision was the correct one and that the ostracisation and betrayals against me are a small price to pay for the truth and the ongoing shaming of abuse victims by evil churchmen and their chanceryrats.  

These maggots have no place in the Church. These vile and despicable cretins deserve the Hell to which they are headed. If they repent, I trust the LORD to assign them the lowest rung of purgatory until the Second Coming and then the most distant circle of heaven. But they won't repent, they won't acknowledge what they did and continue to do. The very depths of Hell are where they are headed and what they deserve, whether they believe it exists or not.

(Caution: the letter below contains explicit language as to the abuse)

Clerical corruption abounds

A week ago I watched a series of posts by Joseph Sciambra regarding the mocking of him by just one other Catholic grifter, Matt Fradd. Joseph Sciambra was sexually assaulted by Catholic priests and told as far as being "gay"; "God made you that way." A demonic lie, of course. Fradd took the liberty to mock Sciambra and his suffering. A disgraceful and repugnant action made worse by Fradd's continuing social media commentary.

Rachel Maria Mastrogiacomo is a woman who was raped and assaulted by priests engaging in ritual sexual abuse. 

NEWS – RACHEL MARIA MASTROGIACOMO

Robert McElroy covered up the crimes against Rachel and Francis rewarded him as the new Archbishop of Washington. McCarrick. Wuerl. Gregory. Now McElroy. My sympathies to the actual Catholics of the Archdiocese of Washington that you are subjected to this insanity. You are being ruled by a miscreant who has covered up abuse and violence. You are being mocked by Rome. Wear it with a badge of honour.

To my readers here in Toronto: Do you think for one moment this filth, this demonic action, these lies and cover-ups of the sodomites in the Church here and abuse did not happen? They all covered up and they continue to do it. To those of us who dare to confront it, they sanction, threaten and undertake gossip, calumny, character assassination and threats. They think they have won. They have not. They will not. They have already lost. 

Do you not think that they knew all along about Tom Rosica?

How many others?

Victoria Scholars: The Three Kings, H. Willan

Mendelssohn, There shall a star come out of Jacob

Palestrina "Tribus Miraculis"

Tribus miraculis ornatum diem sanctum colimus: hodie stella magos duxit ad praesepium, hodie vinum ex aqua factum est ad nuptias, hodie in Jordane Christus baptizari voluit ut salvaret nos. Alleluia. 

We honor this holy day, adorned with three miracles: today the star led the Magi to the manger; today water was turned into wine for the wedding; today Christ desired to be baptized in the Jordan that he might save us. Alleluia.

INTROIT Mal. 3:1; 1 Par. 29:12 

Behold, the Lord, the Ruler, is come. He has dominion over all, and in His hand is power and might.Ps. 71:2. O God, with Your judgment endow the king, and with Your justice, the kings son. V. Glory be . . . 

COLLECT

O God, who by the star this day revealed Your only-begotten Son to all nations, grant that we, who know You now by faith, may be brought one day before the vision of Your majesty. Through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord . . . 

LESSON Isa. 60:1-6

Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For behold darkness shall cover the earth, and a mist the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all these are gathered together, they are come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters shall rise up at thy side. Then shalt thou see, and abound, and thy heart shall wonder and be enlarged, when the multitude of the sea shall be converted to thee, the strength of the Gentiles shall come to thee. The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Madian and Epha: all they from Saba shall come, bringing gold and frankincense: and shewing forth praise to the Lord. 

GRADUAL Isa. 60:6, 1

All they from Saba shall come, bringing gold and frankincense, and showing forth praise to the Lord.V. Arise and be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.

Alleluia, alleluia. V. Matt. 2:2

We have seen His star in the East and have come with gifts to worship the Lord. Alleluia. 

GOSPEL Matt. 2:1-12

Now when Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of King Herod, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, saying: "Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and are come to adore him." And King Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And assembling together all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born. But they said to him: "In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written by the prophet: 'And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come forth the captain that shall rule my people Israel.' " Then Herod, privately calling the wise men learned diligently of them the time of the star which appeared to them; And sending them into Bethlehem, said: Go and diligently inquire after the child, and when you have found him, bring me word again, that I also may come and adore him.

Who having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star which they had seen in the East, went before them, until it came and stood over where the child was. And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, (here, genuflect) and falling down they adored him: and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having received an answer in sleep that they should not return to Herod, they went back another way into their country. 

OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 71:10-11

The kings of Tharsis and the isles shall offer gifts; the kings of Arabia and Saba shall pay Him homage, all nations shall serve Him. 

SECRET

O Lord, look with favour upon the gifts offered by Your Church. It is not gold, frankincense, and myrrh that is offered now, but the King, God and Saviour, who was signified by these gifts, is Himself our Sacrifice and our Food, Jesus Christ Your Son, our Lord; who lives and rules with You . . . 

COMMUNION ANTIPHON Matt. 2:2

We have seen His star in the East and have come with gifts to worship the Lord. 

POSTCOMMUNION

O Almighty God, grant that we may understand with pure minds the revelation of Christ which we here solemnly commemorate. Through Our Lord . . .

Gesu Bambino by Pietro Yon, Duet arrangement by Deux, Vocal Duo!

I wish you all a blessed Christmastide for 2024 and give you this from last year.

I'm very honoured to have Angela Malek as a reader of this blog. Angela is a wonderful singer who recorded a lovely Christmas album with Crystal Jarrell Johnson in 2019. I was to post about it then, but something happened just before Christmas that year—a foul wind from Wuhan. Well, better late than never.

The recording includes some real gems among them, There is No Rose, which my choir will be singing before the Vigil Mass of the Nativity on the Lord, this Sunday, before Mass.

1. There is No Rose of Such Virtu, Trad./ arr. Deux

2. Veni, veni Emmanuel, Trad./ arr. Jerome Malek

3. Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, Trad. Gerald Self, recorder; Alison Fletcher, violin

4. Hodie Christus natus est, SWV 315, Heinrich Schütz

5. Laudamus Te, Gloria, Antonio Vivaldi, Alison Fletcher, violin

6. He Shall Feed His Flock/Come Unto Him, Messiah, G. F. Händel

7. Maria Wiegenlied, Max Reger

8. Ave Maria, Camille Saint-Saëns

9. Il est né le divin enfant, Trad./ arr. Gabriel Fauré/ Deux

10. Quand Dieu naquit a Noël, Trad./ arr. Claude Balbastre/J. Malek

11. Gesù bambino, Pietro Yon

The exquisite rendition of Pietro Yon's Jesu Bambino is below.

More information can be found at:

Deux - Vocal Duo, Music, Classical Musicians (deuxofficialwebsite.com)

And:

(10656) Deux - Classical Vocal Duo - YouTube

Remember, O Thou Man

O Emmanuel

O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver,

 the Expected of the Nations and their Saviour,

come to save us, O Lord our God.

O Rex Gentium

O King of the nations, and their desire,

the cornerstone making both one:

Come and save the human race,

which you fashioned from clay.

 

O Oriens

O Dawn of the East, Brightness of the Light Eternal and Sun of Justice,

come and enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.

O Clavis

O KEY of David and sceptre of the House of Israel;

you open and no one can shut;

you shut and no one can open:

Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house,

those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.

"I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and no one shall shut; he shall shut, and no one shall open." Isaiah 22:22

"His authority shall grow continually, and there shall be endless peace for the throne of David and his kingdom. He will establish and uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time onwards and for evermore." Isaiah 9:7

 "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house." Isaiah 42:7.

O Radix

O ROOT of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples;

before you kings will shut their mouths,

to you the nations will make their prayer:

Come and deliver us, and delay no longer.

"On that day the root of Jesse shall stand as a signal to the peoples; the nations shall inquire of him, and his dwelling shall be glorious." Isaiah 11:10 

"A shoot shall come out from the stock of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots." Isaiah 11:1

O Adonai

O ADONAI, and leader of the House of Israel,

who appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush

and gave him the law on Sinai:

Come and redeem us with an outstretched arm.

"But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his loins." Isaiah 11:4-5

"For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our ruler, the Lord is our king; he will save us." Isaiah 33:22

O Sapientia

O WISDOM, coming forth from the mouth of the Most High,

reaching from one end to the other,

mightily and sweetly ordering all things:

Come and teach us the way of prudence.

"The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord." Isaiah 11:2-3 

"He is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom." Isaiah 28:29

Toronto readers - A "Catholic" Service of Nine Lessons and Carols!

St. Thomas More Parish of the Canadian Deanery of St. John the Baptist, part of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, presents the traditional Service of Nine Lessons and Carols with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament this coming Saturday, December 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the Oratory Church of St. Vincent de Paul, 263 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto. 

I look forward to seeing some of my readers there to Make Advent Great Again!

"Let nothing trouble you." St. Theresa of Avila

 Keep your peace.

Smart commentary on Russia, Ukraine and the World

This is one of the smarter commentaries on the situation between Russia and Ukraine from any Catholic. It is honest, forthright, and historically accurate. My own view is this: Russia is not my enemy, and the United States, Canada, and the rest of NATO are responsible for this disaster.

Thank God above that Donald J. Trump is on his way.

Russia, Ukraine, and the World – A Sign of Hope

Notre Dame de Paris - a Stunning restoration

 

Archdiocese of Toronto - Mass attendance falling off the cliff!

St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto

Multiple reports indicate a worsening crisis for the Archdiocese of Toronto. Since 2016, Sunday mass attendance has fallen by over 30% to a typical attendance level of 9%. The decline began in 2016 but fell off the cliff with Thomas Cardinal Collins's "No Mass for You" policies and bedding down with corrupt authoritarian governments in 2020 and 2021. All of this was predicted, and they were warned, and still they did it.

There is no indication that any of the senior priests or episcopal leadership have a plan to reverse the trend. The "new springtime" is a bleak winter, and parish closings will be on the agenda. At the same time, bishops live in new, multi-million dollar real estate rather than rectories. They are not familiar with the smell of the sheep. They all have their own Casa Santas now. At least the real estate value will grow.

Yet, their rage is not at the reality of numbers or for their own failings but directed at those who expose it. The problem in the Catholic Church in Toronto began long ago. They were and are more concerned about the body politic than the Body of Christ. They have turned the Church here into a desolate city. There is no dialogue of trust, notwithstanding all the talk on listening.

They can't handle the truth. 

The truth? You can't handle, the truth!