Fr. Joachim Heimerl was ordained as a priest in Vienna, Austria, in 2019. He studied German and history in Munich and received his doctorate with a thesis on Goethe's Prometheus symbol. He worked as a university lecturer and authored various publications on 18th and 19th-century literature. Due to health issues, he is currently unable to continue his priestly duties and instead writes essays on church matters.
Fr. Heimerl is a strong advocate of traditional Catholic faith and holds critical views on Pope Francis' reforms and the traditional Mass. He argues that the direction of the modern Church undermines its traditions and faith. He is particularly opposed to synodality and the abolition of priestly celibacy, warning that such changes would destroy the Church.
Fr. Heimerl also opposes the introduction of female deacons and priests, emphasizing that it contradicts the immutable teachings of the Church. Due to his stance, he has participated in a petition against Pope Francis' document 'Fiducia Supplicans.'
These Last Days News - February 21, 2024
URGENT: Forward a link to this web page to your clergy, family, friends and relatives.
4-4. German Priest: Francis’ Fight Against the Latin Mass Is ‘a Fight Against the Church’...
TURN BACK
"This evil has penetrated far into the very heart of My House. You must now turn back and restore My House. I, your God, give you this command for the salvation of your own soul."
- The Bayisde Prophecies
Jesus, August 21, 1976
”I send to My clergy, those whom I have given the grace to represent Heaven upon earth, this warning: You must now return to your traditional rites! You must restore My House from its crumbling exterior and rotting interior. You must rebuild what you seek to destroy--now!
"Many who call themselves My chosen ones have set themselves to destroy from within. Your actions have not gone by unnoticed by the Eternal Father. Error, deception, deceit, in the guise of sanctity and piousness! You are unmasked before the Eternal Father. You shall start little by little and repair the foundation, or you shall be within and destroy.
"I look upon all manner of abominations being committed in My House. Do you think you will go much longer without chastisement? Awaken from your slumber, My clergy! You deceive no one!”
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, November 22, 1975
"This evil has penetrated far into the very heart of My House. You must now turn back and restore My House. I, your God, give you this command for the salvation of your own soul."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Jesus, August 21, 1976
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
LifeSiteNews.com reported on February 20, 2024:
by Fr. Joachim Heimerl
Anyone who has wondered why Francis not only rejects the traditional Mass but persecutes it has recently received an answer from his own lips: the Pope is not concerned with beautiful rites or Latin; instead, Francis believes that the Second Vatican Council made the reform of the Church dependent on the reform of the Mass. Anyone who is even slightly informed knows that this is wrong. What’s more, Paul VI’s liturgical reform went far beyond the Council’s proposals and led to a dramatic downfall of the Church.
But what does the persecution of the old Mass say about Francis?
A simple answer would be that he – like most Jesuits – has no sense when it comes to liturgy. Even worse: for him, the Mass is merely a vehicle for Church reform, which means that it is ultimately a political instrument. The loveless, even garbled papal liturgies that we are currently experiencing bear eloquent witness to that.
A more nuanced answer emerges when one studies the so-called “Ottaviani notes.” But what are they?
Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani turned to Paul VI in 1969 and expressed his reservations about the “new Mass” in writing. After all, Ottaviani had been prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and his voice was respected. His verdict was scathing and underlined the importance of the traditional Mass as a “complete monument” of the Catholic faith, as taught by all councils. The new Mass, on the other hand, was deficient and dangerous; it ultimately represented a new church.
If we apply this idea to our question, a clear picture emerges: The fight against the traditional Mass is a fight against the truths of the Church. But this also means that the old and new Masses are incompatible.
John Paul II and Benedict XVI tried to strike a pragmatic balance here: Both forms of Mass existed side by side. Ultimately, however, they simulated a continuity that never really existed and hoped to preserve the unity of the Church. The problems that Ottaviani recognized, however, remained unsolved.
Things have now come to a head under Francis. For him, Church unity is no longer the top priority. He is primarily concerned with implementing his “reforms,” and only from this point of view can his attitude toward the traditional Mass be understood: Francis is concerned with the rejection of Church tradition as a whole. After all, a pope who allows adultery and homosexual relationships to be “blessed” can no longer refer to the Church of Christ and the teachings of the Apostles, including when he wants to appoint “deaconesses” in the near future. His pontificate marks a historical rupture, which is also a rupture with the “old Mass.”
According to Ottaviani, the desacralization and Protestantization of the new Mass already laid the foundation for this disaster: The sacrificial character and the Real Presence are hardly expressed in it anymore and are even entirely absent from the problematic Second Eucharistic Prayer.
Overall, the Mass remains limited to the definition of a “meal,” there is no longer any mention of the representation of the sacrifice on the Cross, and there is no trace of the sacrifice of praise to the Most Holy Trinity or the expiatory sacrifice. Ottaviani writes: “None of the essential dogmatic values of the Mass, which constitute its true definition, can be found here.”
In addition: “The role of the priest is minimalized, distorted, falsified (…) and no longer differs in any way from a Protestant religious minister.” Instead, the people seem to be “clothed with autonomous priestly powers,” as, for example, in the Third Eucharistic Prayer, the impression is created that the people and not the priest are the “indispensable element for the celebration.”
What Ottaviani denounces as a heresy of the new Mass is now to take definitive form in the faith of the Church under Francis. As a “monument” to the true faith, the traditional Mass stands in the way of this and must, therefore, be eliminated according to the Pope’s will. His battle against the “old Mass” is, in truth, a battle against the Church; and that is the only reason why it is so significant and is being fought so hard.
Ottaviani considered the new Mass a fatal “blunder” by Paul VI, which would have “unforeseeable” consequences. He was right, and Paul VI also recognized this in the end. Shocked, he stated in 1972 that the “smoke of Satan” had entered the Church through “some crack.” No wonder: Paul himself had opened this crack with the new Mass.
He is said to have regretted his “blunder” from then on, but he never revised it. He was certainly not unaffected by the fact that Ottaviani pointed out at the end of his letter that Pope Pius V had condemned anyone who dared to lay a hand on the traditional Mass. And even if this warning of the “wrath of Almighty God” was addressed to Paul VI at the time, it is equally valid for Francis today. Ultimately, every pope is just a steward from whom the Lord will demand a clear account (cf. Lk 16:1-9). However, for the life of me, I cannot imagine that turning away from the truths of Holy Scripture in doctrine and liturgy can correspond to HIS will. The verdict on this pontificate could, therefore, be just as harsh as this pope’s fight against the Church.
"Many now rebel against their leader, their God-given leader, your Vicar. In matters of faith and morals, man must not change the God-given laws, coming from the seat of Peter, and established through tradition upon earth through My Son's Church."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1979
"Because of the fall in Babylon, many new languages were given because of the sin of Babylon. Therefore, as a member of one country, My children, with a universal language, you carried with you your own country's translation, and were you to visit abroad, you could enter upon any foreign edifice, Church of My Son, and feel comfortable and in one with the man, the priest, the one chosen by My Son to represent Him in His House.
"If you were, My child, to go from your United States to France, could you understand the words in French? But, My child, you would recognize the words in Latin and you would have your book with you to read in your American language, just as those in France could read in their French language, bringing upon the world a beautiful and common bond of language among all who have been given the grace to be called to the Roman Catholic Church of My Son.
"Do not leave My Son's Church though, My children, because they have taken this language from among you. You must wait and persevere and weep with My Son for this defilement by man."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, April 10, 1976
SOURCE:
The electronic form of this document is copyrighted.
Quotations are permissible as long as this web site is acknowledged with a hyperlink to:
https://www.tldm.org
Copyright © These Last Days Ministries, Inc. 1996 - 2024 All rights reserved.