Correspondence with Pope Michael

As I publish

I am on a Sunday enjoying the fruits of someone's good prayers for my comfort (except for a good night's sleep). I am also wondering if Pope Michael could have sth to do with that. I am however reluctant to have my life run on bases that make publishing of my blogs on paper - republishing - and family very hard to get, if he's praying for that too.

Other item, I am publishing before parsing urlfor most links, so, be patient while I update, please!/HGL

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Pope Michael to me

10/10/2017 at 3:11 PM

Frater's sermon

Frater Francis Dominic's Sermon

Sermon for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost

Fasting and praying for our Priest, our Parishes and the Church.

The whole movement of Israel FROM BABYLON TO JERUSALEM was born and carried forward by men who were selflessly concerned for the furtherance of God's work. For this they fasted and prayed. This is how it is going to be in the Church to day. Those who seek the honour of God's Name, the coming of His kingdom and the fulfillment of His will on earth as it is in heaven, will fast and pray and thus accomplish God's purposes.

Daniel was a man who frequently fasted and prayed. Ezra too was a man who knew how to fast and pray when leading a group of Israelites from Babylon to Jerusalem ( I Esdras 8:21).

Nehemiah wept and fasted and prayed when he heard that Jerusalem was broken down and its walls burnt with fire (II Esdras 1:4). He didn't criticise the Israelites in Jerusalem for being lazy or selfish. No. He fasted and prayed for them. He was so burdened that even the king noticed his grief. Finally, Nehemiah gave up his position and his comfort in the palace in order to go and rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Have we ever been grieved like Nehemiah, because the work of the Lord is not progressing? Have we ever fasted and prayed like he did, because we saw that things were not going well with the church? Do we ever pray for the Pope and the clergy the way we should?

I wonder if we realise that those who serve God and preach His Word faithfully are targets of Satan's wrath. They are high on Satan's hit-list. Let me recommend that we be careful about criticism we might give about them, for Satan can do that job quite well, without our help! Instead pray for them a little more in the coming days, that they will be preserved from the attacks of the enemy.

As in Israel 2000 years ago, so it is in today's world, many of the Lord's sheep are scattered here and there, without shepherds to care for them. Many are the hirelings in our land who capture there souls. Few are the shepherds who are willing to lay down their lives for the flock. No-one has the right to preach God's Word to God's flock if he has no burden for the sheep, and if he does not pray for them regularly.

Matthew 9:36-38: And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd. Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.

Jeremiah 3:15: And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.

Pray that the Lord of the harvest will give us shepherds after His own heart into the harvest at this time.

Our Comments

Dom Gueranger comments: “The Holy Ghost, Who has guaranteed the infallible purity of the doctrine taught officially from the apostolic Chair, has not pledged Himself to protect in a like degree from all failure either the virtue, or the private judgment, or even the administrative acts of the Sovereign Pontiff. In order to promote this marvelous union which the Creator made to reign both upon earth and in heaven, our Lord, when He founded the society of saints upon the authentic and immutable basis of the faith of Peter, willed that to the prayers of all should be confided the charge of completing his work by obtaining for the successor of Peter such preservative graces as do not of themselves spring from the divine constitution of the Church.”

To effectively discharge Our duties as Pope We need the support of your prayers.

Pope Pius IX said on one occasion: “Give me an army to spend its time on the battlefield of prayer and I will conquer all those who oppose me.” The greatest battles won over the powers of darkness have been gained by the praying army of the Church. We can preach and teach, but without the support of fervent prayer We cannot succeed. Remember God softens hearts and opens them to receive His Word. We are merely a transmitter of these truths to the hearts God has opened.

Our prayer must have several qualities.

After the Ascension and before Pentecost we read: “All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.” And Jesus told the Apostles: “But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.” (Matthew 24:13) The first quality our prayer must have is perseverance. It took Saint Monica eighteen years to bring about the conversion of her son, Augustine.

We must have faith that God will fulfill all of His promises and provide us with all that we need. “And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.” (Luke 17:6)

We must also be thankful for all of the many graces and benefits God has bestowed on us. God has blessed us to enable us to be a blessing to others. This we do through prayer and good works.

“Saying: Father, if thou wilt, remove this chalice from me: but yet not my will, but thine be done.” (Luke 22:42) We must pray and be in the will of God.

“For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.” (James 5:16) And finally we must be just. Job (18:9) says: “And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.” We must be clean and this is where we may be failing, which is why our prayers are not being answered.

In the matter of conversion we desire for another person what we do not truly desire for our own self. We are content with giving God 99% of our self, but hold back a portion for our self. Let's take a gallon of chocolate chip ice cream and stir in an ounce of mouse droppings. Do you want a bowl? And yet what we would not eat our self is what we are offering Almighty God. We want to keep our pet sins, rather than desiring a complete change of our customs and habits. We are content with half measures rather than a complete conversion. We must give up everything and conform our self completely to His holy will. He will then clean our hearts and our prayer will become effective.

Saint Peter advises us: “Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.” (II Peter 1:10) We need to examine our conscience and make sure we are truly where God wants us and that we are holding absolutely nothing back. This is especially true, if our prayers are not being answered.

And so, let us ask God to purify our hearts and then let us pray,

+Michael pp

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Me to Pope Michael

10/10/2017 at 4:31 PM

Re: Frater's sermon

Your Holiness, II Peter 1:10 will come handy when continuing this tomorrow:

http://creavsevolu.blogspot.fr/2017/10/cmi-strays-into-protestant-hagiography.html

http://greatbishopofgeneva.blogspot.fr/2017/10/what-luther-got-wrong-more-pt-2-of.html

http://greatbishopofgeneva.blogspot.fr/2017/10/was-bible-for-or-against-luthers-work.html

That said, some support for my getting things printed and sold would be appreciated.

My Swedish benefector who sends me 100 € / month got a booklet not yet folded which he could have reproduced before folding and sewing, and, since it was recondite Creation Science (on carbon dating, a kind of limit for how fast and slow the carbon build up between Flood and basically times of Abraham could be). He seemed less interested in ANY reproduction. While I am not against his reprinting my poetry at all, I got a vague impression he could have meant I should make a poetry collection myself.

I am basically a writer more than a printer.

http://enfrancaissurantimodernism.blogspot.fr/2017/06/on-campus.html

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Pope Michael to me

11/3/2017 at 5:18 PM

Help

Dear friends in Christ, We are working on a project to prepare a book, which covers why we held a papal election 27 years ago. We would like your input and questions to help Us cover all important points. As We prepare thing We will post them here http://pope-michael.com/pope-michael/summary-of-the-position/

We have already posted a great deal, as much is already written and merely needs editing and in some cases expansion. We look forward to your input and help.

+Michael pp

This is an act of Catholic Action, encouraged by several Popes, including Pope Saint Pius X. We all have a duty to Almighty God. http://pope-michael.com/pope-michael/summary-of-the-position/duties-of-catholics-to-the-church-and-to-the-members-of-the-church/catholic-action/

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Me to Pope Michael

11/3/2017 at 6:30 PM

Re: Help

Important points:

• if certain cardinals could have been bona fide, were they contacted (thinking specifically of Cardinal Stickler
• how many in the Catholic resistance were contacted.

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Me to Fr Anthony Cekada

On Sep 25, 2017, at 8:36 AM

traditionalmass.org | INFORMATION REQUEST

On Una Cum English monarch: http://filolohika.blogspot.fr/2017/09/una-cum-rege-nostro-n.html

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Fr Anthony Cekada to me

Monday, September 25, 2017 at 2:42 PM

Re: traditionalmass.org | INFORMATION REQUEST

Dear Mr. Lundahl,

Thanks for the link!

Fr. Cekada
St. Gertrude the Great Church
4900 Rialto Rd • West Chester OH 45069

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Me to Pope Michael and Fr Anthony Cekada

11/16/2017 at 3:37 PM

Re: traditionalmass.org | INFORMATION REQUEST

Here is another one, on St Gertrude's day!

http://nov9blogg9.blogspot.fr/2017/11/no-paul-price-no-pastor-kim.html

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Pope Michael to me

12/2/2017 at 3:59 PM

Internet Radio

http://www.viecatholicradio.com/

Dear friends in Christ,

With the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, we are launching our internet radio station.

Many other things are moving forward slowly here. We ask your prayers, especially in Advent, which we should observe as a little Lent. May God bless all of you and We extend Our Apostolic blessing as we enter this holy season.

+Michael pp

p.s. What are you getting for Jesus for His birthday this year?

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Pope Michael to me

12/25/2017 at 2:10 PM

Blessed Christmas

Dear friends in Christ,
We will be praying for all of you this Christmas season, that has just begun. This has been a very busy year for us, which is why We have not written as much. Let us all bring the gift of our heart to Jesus on this, His birthday.

At the beginning of Advent, we launched our internet radio station here. Check it out. https://www.viecatholicradio.com/

May God bless you this Christmas season,

+Michael pp

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Me to Pope Michael

12/26/2017 at 3:48 PM

Re: Blessed Christmas

same to you, Your Holiness!

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Pope Michael to me

12/30/2017 at 4:40 PM

New Year's Resolution

Oremus,

Dear friends,

We do not ordinarily ask for or make resolutions for the beginning of the New Year. This year We are making an exception. Let us make 2018 the Year of Prayer.

The Church runs on prayer. The success of the Pope in accomplishing his task depends not on the abilities and talents God has given Us. No, it depends on the prayers of the members of the Church. Your prayers are essential to the Church.

We would like to quote from one of Our staff: “God is looking for men and women even today in our land, who will stand in the gap for the Church - selfless people, who are not taken up with just their own needs, but who are concerned about God's work. Many believers think that sanctification means just the refinement of their personal conduct and behaviour. But true sanctification makes a person selfless like God is - or in other words, like Jesus. …

“Many are willing to deny themselves and take up the cross if that will bring them some benefit - perhaps some spiritual benefit such as a place in the Bride of Christ finally - but still something for themselves. But if we were to ask ourselves, what we have denied ourselves solely for the benefit of others, we may discover that the answer is, 'Almost nothing'.”

There is never a time to ask: “what is in it for me?” Instead we should say: “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” (Acts 9:6) As we pray for the needs of the Church; let us also ask God what He wants us to do to help His holy Church.

And so, let us pray,

Oremus,

+Michael pp

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Me to Pope Michael

12/30/2017 at 6:58 PM

Re: New Year's Resolution

you know, being able to pray has sth to do with material situation

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Pope Michael to me

1/1/2018 at 3:58 PM

As we begin to pray

Dear friends,

We woke up this morning to the following from Francis Dominic:

"And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap........ and I found none." (Ezekiel 22:30).

God has many tasks he desires to have accomplished in this world, and all of them are not as equal in how hard they are. For some tasks, He may use anyone. But for the harder task, the tasks that take more work and sacrifice, not everyone is prepared to do. For such vital tasks, God has to have a person who has been tested and proved through many trials and testings. And if such a person is not immediately available, then God will wait until such a person IS available. God does not do His work with the best available person, as men do. He will wait to do the work when he has someone perfect for the job.

We should never therefore desire to be merely used by God. We should seek to be valuable to His work. If that sounds strange to the ears listen to What Saint Pauls has to say to Saint Timothy:

"But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and earth: and some indeed unto honour, but some unto dishonour. If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, prepared unto every good work." (2 Timothy 2:19-21).

A man may use vessels of different materials in his work. But he will not value the earthen pots and the wooden crates as much as he values the gold and silver vessels. In the same way, although all who are Christians may be equally children of God, every child of God is NOT equally useful to Him in His work. Although there is no partiality with God, yet every vessel is not (in the words of Saint Paul), a sanctified,profitable, useful vessel. God prizes only very few, because they alone seek His will and His glory wholeheartedly.

This is why we must cleanse ourselves constantly from "all filthiness of the flesh and spirit" (in other words, from everything that is unlike Christ within us), if we are to be valuable vessels to God.

"Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God" (2 Corinthians 7:1)

Once a person becomes a valuable vessel, God will depend on him greatly for His work. If such a man fails God, God's work will be halted temporarily, until God can find another man whom He can use. Or take the vessel of silver or Gold that is unusable and melt it down and purify it in the fires until it is moldable for His use again.

In the history of the world, of Israel and of the Church, we see a number of examples of how God has very often been dependent on just ONE man in a particular situation to accomplish His purposes. But one man with God is always a majority.

And We would like to comment as we begin praying this year. Someone receiving this email is called to make an act of total self-sacrifice, because the person God calls is called to a life of selflessness. The rest of us are called to back you up in every way possible.

Oremus,

+Michael pp

p.s. Frater, We would like more inspirations.

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Me to Pope Michael

1/1/2018 at 5:18 PM

Re: As we begin to pray

parlando di questo, santità! normalmente un papa è vescovo di Roma

normalmente un vescovo di Roma reside a Roma e no a Avignione o a Topeka

supposto che su santità è il vero papa, tosto o tarde Dio va far una possibilità per residere a Roma

su santità è preparato? gia parla italiano, al meno un poco?

(I am sorry, I can only write it, not sure even if it is "a Roma" or "in Roma" for Italian, "a Roma" could be a gallicism).

La risoluzione di apprendere italiano al meno è fatta, santità?

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Pope Michael to me

1/2/2018 at 2:43 PM

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, end the Great Apostasy

Dear friends in Jesus,

Over seven yeas ago, someone recommend that all of us pray regularly: “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, end the Great Apostasy.” As we celebrate the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, let us consider how powerful this Holy Name is. This is what inspired someone so many years ago to write this prayer.

We are asking Jesus to end the Great Apostasy. Let us ask Jesus to begin by ending the spirit of apostasy in our own hearts. Saint Augustine says: “Heresies are only embraced by those who had they persevered in the faith, would be lost by the irregularity of their lives.” If we go back seven decades and look at the lives of the average practicing Catholic, we find that there were faithful to Mass on Sunday, fish on Friday and five bucks in the collection place. After that their lives were quite irregular. They already had the spirit of apostasy in their hearts. This worsened in the 1950's. Catholics had become lax minimal Catholics. Yes, they avoided the worse sins in the main, but they were lax, especially in their entertainment. Much could be said on this, but rather let us look at our own lives.

How worldly are we? Saint Paul tells us: “And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.” (Romans 12:2) The word ecclesia, which is where we get the Latin word for Church, means called out ones. We are called out of the world unto sanctification. We are called to live differently than our worldly neighbors.

Jesus, help me to remove the spirit of apostasy from my own thinking and from my own life,

Oremus,

+Michael pp

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Me to Pope Michael

1/2/2018 at 4:26 PM

Re: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, end the Great Apostasy

" This worsened in the 1950's. Catholics had become lax minimal Catholics. Yes, they avoided the worse sins in the main, but they were lax, especially in their entertainment. "

Let us put it like this.

1920-30's Catholics had to become, if not Puritan, at least vigilant about cinema. There was much smut back then.

Then came the Hays' code, and Catholics thought the establishment had taken over the duty of vigilance, which means a legitimate softening, except for doctrinal matters.

However, at the same time Hollywood is often portraying its version of Christianity as having Catholic externals (Dracula is of course a bit unusually specific in confessional matters, since the consecrated hosts were obtained from Old Catholics with the mention Catholics refused to provide them for that purpose).

This means, one is not exactly either in an atmosphere where Catholics need to watch anti-Catholic slurs in entertainment (very unlike the work of for instance Victor Hugo, where Paris in 1482 - ten years before Columbus - is portrayed as having a very corrupt bishop who is simply not to be identified historically, very unlike the work of Voltaire, in which Candide shudders at Spanish Fanaticism, I am not sure if there was any film version this era of Washington Irving, but if so, I think Hollywood might have softened the AntiCatholic bent of Columbus compared to original novel).

Sherlock Holmes may be an Atheist, but he is not of the Dawkensite type. A Catholic viewer of cinema or television would be spared some of the anti-metaphysical side, and what came through could be considered as a weakness in a person one would pray for (in my fan fic on mainly Susan Pevensie, but also some others, I have Sherlock Holmes dead when the story starts, reconciled to the Church by Father Brown who is also a friend of the Doctor Watson who testifies Susan is not mad).

In other words, I don't think the lack of specific vigilance would be really the equivalent of laxism.

It seems St Pius X was more laxist than some Spanish bishop - that one seems to have forbidden dancing, while the holy Pope allowed one couple to perform a tango and concluded "I don't think it is a mortal sin, but it is less pretty than the Furlana".

It is also possible, the tango as performed before the Pope was downtoned and less evocative than what was going on in Habana (tango being a developed Habanera) or in Argentina (Buenos Aires being the home of tango proper). If so, this may or may not mean tango as danced now, normally has been influenced by what H H Saint Pius X could accept in laymen.

I can't totally exonerate entertainment, but more because it was, in the past century, overwhelmingly taking certain non-Catholic tenets for granted. This is a thing which can be avoided. Songs with dubious content can be replaced by instrumental music, which is what I am usually composing. Entertainment, both as song and as film and as written form story can instead take Catholic values for granted, or even better, defend them against a fictitious opposition which matches the real one (see Father Brown, see Tolkien and CSL)./HGL

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Pope Michael to me

1/4/2018 at 4:00 PM

Two important questions

Dear friends in Christ,

A century ago a Bishop sent out two simple questions to his clergy. We would like to ask all of you, who We are in contact these same questions:

• 1. What is your own practice of prayer?
  
  
• 2. What are you teaching others about prayer?

Obviously this second question will vary, depending on your state of life. For the single, there may not be much to say. For married people, especially those who have children, how are you teaching your spouse and children? And of course, for the clergy, what and how are you teaching your flock about prayer?

We await your answers.

+Michael pp

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Me to Pope Michael

1/4/2018 at 4:22 PM

Re: Two important questions

• 1) I used to pray 5 to 15 decades a day, but worldly worries have brought me away from this (when I have time by being awake very early, I am too tired and angry to pray)
• 2) I recommend the Rosary and the Jesus prayer.

You may be interested also in what I had to say about alpha state (a k a hypnotic state) and prayer:

http://hgl-hypno-journal.blogspot.fr/2017/03/viii-quora-what-do-islamic-99-names-and.html

I wonder some why a question originally posed to clergy is here being posed to laymen, though ...

On the other hand, the second question is a fair one for a writer.

When Protestants of certain brands consider that Rosary / Jesus prayer etc is "praying like gentiles", I definitely reccomend them to take a look at last words of a then and there Gentile, Velleius Paterculus, whose Roman history breaks off in 16th year of Tiberius, about the time when Our Lord spoke His teaching, and where his books ends with a prayer to the Pagan gods.

It does NOT look like meditative types of prayer./HGL

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Pope Michael to me

1/4/2018 at 6:04 PM

Publishing books

Dear Hans,

I recall you making a comment on Facebook about my never publishing your book for you.

There are several reasons I publish books. The first is if I believe that people need this knowledge, especially to advance in their spiritual life. The second is to provide good Catholic books in general. And the third is that I like to have a place to lay my head and to eat a couple of times a day. Proverbs says that all things obey money.

Now I need money to promote the work of the Church, such as running the website and the internet radio station. In fact, I have taken a part time job helping a handicapped person in order to raise more money to move Church work forward.

Let us look at the book you want published. First of all, in its current format, it will take a lot of work to complete. I simply do not have the time to publish this particular book, unless I am being paid. Scripture also says that the laborer is worthy of his hire.

Consider the work that needs to be done. The various parts need to be copied into a Word document and formatted. Then I need to proof read the book as well as study it before issuing an imprimatur. I wonder what the Church charged for the work of studying books for issuing imprimaturs?

After all of this, corrections must be made. The final interior file must be prepared. Also a book cover needs to be made. Ask Frater how long that takes him to do.

Createspace charges $300 for up to 10,000 words and three cents a word after that for editing.

A cover costs $400.

And so you see a minimum of $700 and we have not allowed for the imprimatur work.

Now you could cut costs by getting the book formatted in Microsoft Word, which will cut this time. You could submit for imprimatur. And finally you could learn how to design your own cover.

Self-publishing books takes time and money. I know, I have done many books in the last few years.

And the prospect for making money? For Christ the King Library I am making $1.30 per title. True some have never sold, while others make pretty good money. The good news is that once a title is published, it remains available forever and continues to make money, since this information is timeless.

We republished a book seven years ago: “The Pontifical Decrees Against The Doctrine Of The Earth's Movement”. It has sold nine times, so there may not be much interest in this subject.

If you wish to proceed, get to work and compile the book into a single document and send it over for consideration and an estimate on what it will cost to move forward with this project.

+Michael pp

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Me to Pope Michael

1/4/2018 at 9:07 PM

Re: Publishing books

Answering several points severally:

"The first is if I believe that people need this knowledge, especially to advance in their spiritual life."

In my case, I am not trying to advance someone's spiritual life, as St. Francis of Sales, I am not a bishop.

I am a layman, and like C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton I am an apologist.

"The second is to provide good Catholic books in general."

I am neither trying to provide a bad nor an un-Catholic one.

"And the third is that I like to have a place to lay my head and to eat a couple of times a day."

My precise most pressing reason for not being quite content with having the blogposts just on internet.

"Now I need money to promote the work of the Church, such as running the website and the internet radio station. In fact, I have taken a part time job helping a handicapped person in order to raise more money to move Church work forward."

In so far as I want to get paper published, I am of course considering the person doing the physical job as getting a deserved part of the money - as he is adjudging it. My conditions say voluntary and that means percentage etc. at discretion royalties. I believe 10 % is customary, and it is about what I expect from a professional publisher. (French computers are forcing me to do extra work because capitalising unduly by spellcheck "Professional Publisher" and "Under" and some more. As "Learning" below. Or "Xerox" - but that I leave as correct.)

That would leave between retailers and yourself 90 %, and your part to be divided between the work you are needing to do the edition and keep it going, and the work you want to get done with money you earn.

"Let us look at the book you want published. First of all, in its current format, it will take a lot of work to complete."

Not so sure of that. It could be tome one of several (there is at least as much material on).

"I simply do not have the time to publish this particular book, unless I am being paid."

I think it would pay you.

"Scripture also says that the laborer is worthy of his hire."

My point about wanting to get an income from the writing I am doing anyway.

"Consider the work that needs to be done. The various parts need to be copied into a Word document and formatted. Then I need to proof read the book as well as study it before issuing an imprimatur. I wonder what the Church charged for the work of studying books for issuing imprimaturs?"

The thing I sent you already went through a word document and formatting. It can be easily copied double face A4 copies, folded, sewn and cut in top to make a readable volume.

This would give you comfortable time to study it while turning pages.

IF you are then interested in a better thing, technically, you could of course put same blog posts onto a word document of yours.

And format it as you like. In such a case you could also include blog posts for my foreseen part II.

However, learning the technique of reproducing in this format by Xerox copies may be a great asset if ever you need to go through a persecution where you need to replenish book stocks in smaller scale and discretely.

"Then I need to proof read the book as well as study it before issuing an imprimatur."

Why not study and issue imprimatur first before any labour on proof reading?
"I wonder what the Church charged for the work of studying books for issuing imprimaturs?"

Presumably nothing, for two reasons :

• 1) some authors were Capuchins and Minims who could pay nothing;
• 2) bishops had incomes through tithes (in Swedish Middle Ages the grain tithe was divided into 1/3 for parish priest, remaining 2/3 divuded in 1/3 bishop, 1/3 Church and 1/3 poors - except coastal areas where there was a fish tithe divided otherwise, and minor tithes to parish priest only, like the Cheese tithe).

"After all of this, corrections must be made."

Such as? I foresee having left very little to correct.

Obviously, if I spell British, I don't think you need to respell American. You may speak American in US and pronounce the R and all that, and pronounce "ego non sum" as "I ain't", but that involves no obligation to spell labour (from Old French labour, later labeur, from Latin accusative laborem) as if "labor" came directly from Latin nominative.

As for an order of a certain president of yours, I am reminded of the saying "Caesar non supra grammaticam". Such an order was totalitarian in nature, and I am opposing a similar one about Swedish, also from 1906.

As to corrections in content, that would involve commenting under the original blog posts, since the first publication of all content in that book is on my blogs. If I accepted one, I would obviously in the post be saying "I have changed in obedience to Pope Michael" on such or such point.

"The final interior file must be prepared. Also a book cover needs to be made. Ask Frater how long that takes him to do."

If I went to a traditional publisher, all of this would be at the publisher's charge, and one way of the author contributing is waiting for royalties until all of that is paid. $700? Get that before paying me anything, then!

"and we have not allowed for the imprimatur work."

And you should not, since charging for that would be simony.

"You could submit for imprimatur."

I practically already did that. Some time ago, [and I got] neither imprimatur nor condemnation of content.

"And finally you could learn how to design your own cover."

If you didn't notice, my page i (not 1 which is further in) IS a cover.

I designed it.

"Self-publishing books takes time and money. I know, I have done many books in the last few years."

I have done so too, but it takes one thing more for doing so commercially (on artisan or industrial scale) : stocking space, the one thing a homeless man has not. Hence the scale has been domestic, sending out examples to relatives and friends and for at least one book to you.

"If you wish to proceed, get to work and compile the book into a single document and send it over for consideration and an estimate on what it will cost to move forward with this project."

But I did : printed out on top of that!

"We republished a book seven years ago: '(The Pontifical Decrees Against The Doctrine Of The Earth's Movement'. It has sold nine times, so there may not be much interest in this subject. "

Some of my work might rekindle interest.

You remind me of Thorin Oakenshield, some, Your Holiness!

Hans Georg Lundahl

XIX

Me to Pope Michael and Fr Anthony Cekada

1/9/2018 at 6:25 PM

On Continuationism vs Restorationism and Ecclesio-Imperfectionism, and Protestants being mostly shilly shallying between the latter two

Link:

http://greatbishopofgeneva.blogspot.fr/2018/01/restorationism-is-consistent.html

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Pope Michael to me

1/11/2018 at 4:07 PM

I die daily...

Dear friends,

Frater Francis Dominic has posted several good things on Facebook about dying to self and dying daily. We recommend that you go over and read these things, of ask for a copy.

"I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord."

[1 Corinthians 15:31]

How many of us are truly dead to self and totally conformed to the Will of Almighty God?

The spiritual life is actually quite simple: All Thee, Almighty God, and no me. Let us pray that God will kill off our self-sill and replace it with His holy will, as we pray daily: “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” May God's will be done in all of us/

Oremus,

+Michael pp

XXI

Me to Pope Michael

1/12/2018 at 10:53 AM

Re: I die daily...

Your Holiness, have you considered that St Paul who said these words was as an Apostle obliged to Apostolic perfection.

The faithful come in three batches, called in a parable 100-fold, 60-fold and 30-fold fruit.

On the single issue of sexuality, one can describe them as virgins, widows, married. That St Thomas does.

In more general terms, one can describe them as religious, devout laymen and laymen trying to keep the commandments.

Before you say "but the best way to keep the commandments is to be devout", note, the best way to be devout is to be religious. But not all faithful are required to be religious. Therefore too not all faithful are required to be devout.

Again, lifelong virginity and widowhood are not the normal means to matrimonial happiness.

The Catholic Church is Catholic, not a club for the most devout.

Some things you say would have been very appropriate from St Francis of Sales to Jeanne de Chantal (not sure if she was cannised or just beatified, but he made her holy, by his direction).

He would not have tried that on her nieces.

After a sermon against immodesty, he caught her nieces showing locks beneath the headgear. They blushed. He gently adjusted the locks into the headgear and, from their blushing, probably, concluded what he told them "I don't think God is too displeased withy you."

XXII

Me to Pope Michael, Fr Anthony Cekada and Luka Popov

1/14/2018 at 3:52 PM

"fruit of the earth and work of human hands" - which is more damning?

See my update on the post on Liturgy of Paul VI probably (from Eucharistic miracle in Buenos Aires) having been valid in certain cases:

http://hglundahlsblog.blogspot.fr/p/ordo-missae-of-paul-vi-per-se-valid.html

Cain can't have sacrificed wheat if Göbekli Tepe is Babel - since wheat that is cultivated is from a mutation occurring near Göbekli Tepe./HGL

XXIII

Me to Pope Michael and Father Anthony Cekada

1/20/2018 at 1:49 PM

On Imprimatur question

http://filolohika.blogspot.fr/2018/01/some-lessons-on-imprimatur.html

XXIV

Me to Pope Michael

2/20/2018 at 6:09 PM

saw the video on special vocation

I hope I am not one you are guessing about.

XXV

Pope Michael to me

2/21/2018 at 12:17 AM

Re: saw the video on special vocation

What is stopping you from giving your life entirely to God and His work? IF you think it means you, then God may be telling you He has a job for you to do.

XXVI

Me to Pope Michael

2/21/2018 at 9:28 AM

Re: saw the video on special vocation

If I think YOU meant me, then God might have been telling me that you are trying to exchange the job God has given me as a writer (which is compatible with layman) to another status.

Now, if instead God really and truly does not want me to marry, why has He not yet ended my life?

I asked Him one day to end my life or give me a wife.

Some people's prayers may have interferred with mine.

I am very sorry I disobeyed God when I lie down weeping on the road to St James and talked to that couple, I later found out she is a Bulgarian shrink, and told them what I felt.

This means, some people may very well have heard of this in advance. I think "John Paul II" prayed for God not to hear my prayer, and as I had given God one year, Wojtyla died within one year. Later in 2005, I came to villages where more bells were ringing death knells than marriages, and where more marriages were sounded by Muslims paying a limousine than by Church bells. This happened within a year of my prayer.

I told you, if you had prayed for me to remain single, that could be the reason why God took away your brother in cancer.

Keep guessing like that, and God may damn me, because His Church refused to give Him honour for making me happy the way I wanted.

XXVII

Me to Pope Michael

2/21/2018 at 9:40 AM

Re: question

"What is stopping you"

Apart from a general will to marry and to get paid for my work as a writer, which I think is a godly work if not a sacred one requiring monastic or clerical status, I am caught between two girls, both "nominally Catholic."

One who has fallen away to Buddhistic or Atheistic non-Theism is the one I have known longer and desired longer. / email withheld from public /

The other, whose problem is "technical schism", is practising in a Novus Ordo parish. / email not published /

As I am not paid for writing, which would be feasible and has been so for years, except some have blocked, I do "extra work" mornings, evenings and sometimes even nights, not to mention weekends to survive. I panhandle with usually my blog urls as "recompensation", a bit like a song was so, back when I still had a voice. I stood in market places and sang, now I sit with a cardboard stating:

NOV9BLOGG9.BLOGSPOT.COM
Something to read in English
Un peu à lire en français

B u t the morning coffee of some parishes (and for morning coffee that is usually Novus Ordo, I used to go to an evening soup at St Nicolas du Chardonnet too (FSSPX parish you must have known about in Winona) spares me some of that extra work, and that is where I met a countrywoman, a fellow Swede.

Both know I am somewhat torn between them.

XXVIII

Pope Michael to me

2/21/2018 at 4:26 PM

Re: saw the video on special vocation

Hans,
You are in no condition to get married. Writing is at best a sideline. If I had to live off what my own books have made in the last seven years, I would starve. Altogether I have made less than $500.

Basically you want a good living delivered to you without much work. Sorry, but this will not happen. If you want to get your books out, prepare the documents in Word format for submission for editing and then submit to publishers. As for Imprimatur, send something that is near ready to be published.

If you want a wife, get a full time job that you can support a family with. Otherwise, you are in no condition to even consider marriage.

I pray you do God's will. And yet, you want your own will.

Enough said

+Michael pp

XXIX

Me to Pope Michael

2/21/2018 at 7:01 PM

Re: saw the video on special vocation

"Writing is at best a sideline. If I had to live off what my own books have made in the last seven years, I would starve. Altogether I have made less than $500."

Nice, but you cannot compare, since your books have at least been published on paper and sold.

Mine haven't, your presumption is, mine would sell as poorly as yours, which is not necessarily the case, they might instead boost yours.

"Basically you want a good living delivered to you without much work."

If you knew how much time I spent writing, you would simply not say that.

THis post is a documentation of harrassment from computer admins here. But it also serves to document how much I work, how much work an article of mine is.

First time signature on first screen shot says 9:56. While last say 14 sth, that is from a PS, after I had already published it, but here we get 11:06 on second to last.

http://nov9blogg9.blogspot.fr/2017/12/bu-de-nanterre-harcelement.html

A normal post of mine can take about an hour. True, screen shots are not much words, but they take time too, and that is about what the article would have taken if same space had been only words too - or perhaps even longer.

This I published today:

http://assortedretorts.blogspot.fr/2018/02/against-abokhansa.html

The finishing touches today may have been about half an hour, and the pre-work of listening to the video of that Muzz was probably one hour first hearing and half an hour final one yesterday, and I even heard some this morning just to be able to comment on his peroratio.

This one has had update after update since I came into a debate with Robert Sparling:

http://assortedretorts.blogspot.fr/2018/01/nor-that-isaac-asimov-is-excellent.html

The debate with him has been partially tormenting, I thought I owed him as one would owe a biology specialist, and only today I found he was actually in psychology.

Psychology students have a heavy Dunning Kruger effect when it comes to biology (his case), linguistics (the case I think of was a paramedic, next three links or four) and some more perhaps too:

http://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2018/01/dave-robson-and-me-on-darwins-children.html

http://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2018/01/continuing-with-dave-robson.html

http://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2018/01/i-posed-question-on-quora-if-god-had.html

http://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2018/02/anthony-zarrellas-answer.html

AND I am behind on material already debated, but not added in updates or separate post on that debate, which was more harrassing (the parts with him, first and second link) than the one with Robert Sparling.

If you think this is when I am unusually active, I took these four links from the appropriate page:

http://nov9blogg9.blogspot.fr/2018/02/13i-13ii2018-autres-blogs-other-blogs.html

Between Octave of Epiphany and February 13, I published on blogs other than this main one 70 articles.

And except for one, connected to another of those given that link list, I did not even post the ones I made on my main blog up to its 19th index in each of French and English, since mainly given on those ones, here they are:

https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2018/02/index-xix-eng-immaculate-conception.html

https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2018/02/index-xix-fr-immaculee-conception-2017.html

Me wanting anything "without much work"? You are joking. Any father confessor telling me such a thing is a licit reason to stay away from confession, if I can't get a better one. I do NOT need sacrilege with a man who takes the occasion of confession to bully me with lies which can destroy my life since he builds his admonitions around them.

Next detail of your sentence; you speak of a good living, I am in fact content with a living. As per now, I work full time as writer, and overtime to live.

You are treating my production much like the Muslims over here do. There are so many both Trads and Prots who wonder why I don't say more about Muslims, well, why should I if said people give me less bread but equally bad credit for my writing as the Muslims do.

I have compared Mohammed and Joseph Smith as having equally bad claims to have gotten the true religion by revelation, with each other and with Hesiod's Theogony revealed by Nine Muses, and with Numa Pompilius receiving his divinatory arts from the nymph Egeria.

I have also more than once called aboKhansa on above video (see the link within the second link), with his claim St Paul wrote 82 % of the Bible either liar or a nincompoop trusting liars.

So, Muslims have some excuse for treating me as if my work didn't matter, it is perhaps their way of finding an excuse not to kill me. What is YOUR excuse? You heard an SSPX priest in US, who heard Écône, who heard St Nicolas du Chardonnet, where last time I was told I was not well off to marry was more about "instabilities in the faith" as I had just come back from the Orthodox. But there too you have guys who won't touch my blogs with pincers, partly because they are so trusting in Dictionnaire Apologetique de la Foi Catholique which encourages old earth and not taking the Flood as global and is from before the death of St Pius X (1911), partly because they have a similar attitude to Geocentrism, but even more because I recognise you, when you were not elected in an as yet upcoming conclave by Cardinal Burke et al, but even most of all, because well off people in that parish, old timers, people who have been around for 20 years or more, go to a café across the street, which is run by Muslims who think they do right to treat me as a drunkard. So, you are treating me as the Muslims do in this respect.

"If you want to get your books out, prepare the documents in Word format for submission for editing and then submit to publishers."

A publisher should respect that:

• 1) my blogs are the first publication, same as if I had published previously in a paper before publisher collects articles from it
• 2) I am willing to submit either word or pdf (seems more popular here) if publisher first is willing to look at my links and thoroughly respect point 1
• 3) I am not willing to spend an hour making a pdf if I don't know in advance they have looked and I have some kind of at least primary approval.

"As for Imprimatur, send something that is near ready to be published."

Did. You missed it. Or rather, it is already published, but so far printed on a non-commercial scale. Here is the link to the printing sheets once again:

http://nov9blogg9.blogspot.fr/2016/07/published-online.html

"If you want a wife, get a full time job"

Already have that : writing.

"that you can support a family with."

That is where I have been failed by enemies who are basically doing the Muslim's work for them. Including so far ... never mind ...

"I pray you do God's will. And yet, you want your own will."

Sure it is not God's, just because it is my own?

"Enough said"

Nope, I am still waiting for a sensible word from you - if you are sensible.

A Pope's position is supreme judge over the Church Militant, not that of a too grumpy father confessor with too much bourgeois attitudes towards a man who is homeless. If you want to sign with pp after your papal name, earn the respect which comes with papacy, not the loathing which Aramis had for the Jesuits in "20 years later" (which I read before being a Catholic and without knowing it was on the Index).

Hans Georg Lundahl
given from Nanterre University Library on the feast of St Severian of Scythopolis in Palestine.

XXX

Me to Pope Michael

2/22/2018 at 9:37 AM

oh, by the way

In case this sermon displaying on FB was on your prayers, I consider YOU as providing the tares and thistles.

Here is the sermon:

Sermon

The devil approaches the God-man with temptations.
Who among men is free of them?

He who goes according to the will of the evil one does not experience attacks, but is simply turned more and more toward evil. As soon as one begins to come to himself and intends to begin a new life according to God’s will, immediately the entire satanic realm enters into action: they hasten to scatter good thoughts and the intentions of the repentant one in any way they can.

If they do not manage to turn him aside, they attempt to hinder his good repentance and confession; if they do not manage to do that, they contrive to sow tares amidst the fruits of repentance and disrupt his labors of cleansing the heart.

If they do not succeed in suggesting evil they attempt to distort the truth; if they are repulsed inwardly they attack outwardly, and so on until the end of one’s life. They do not even let one die in peace; even after death they pursue the soul, until it escapes the aerial space where they hover and congregate.

You ask, “What should we do? It is hopeless and terrifying!”

For a believer there is nothing terrifying here, because near a God-fearing man demons only busy themselves, but they do not have any power over him. A sober man of prayer shoots arrows against them, and they stay far away from him, not daring to approach, and fearing the defeat which they have already experienced.

If they succeed in something, it is due to our blundering. We slacken our attention, or allow ourselves to be distracted by their phantoms, and they immediately come and disturb us more boldly.

If you do not come to your senses in time they will whirl you about; but if a soul does come to its senses they again recoil and spy from afar to see whether it is possible to approach again somehow.

So be sober, watch, and pray—and the enemies will do nothing to you.

+ St. Theophan the Recluse, Thoughts for Each Day of the Year

My own words

What I said was NOT a temptation, it is my longstanding resolve.

God may continue to block it out of respect for your prayers, for some time, BUT if you continue to pray for me to "encourage" me to get "back" to a resolve which is NOT mine, you are in fact continuing the unjust persecution of my work. OK, next question?