Holy Thursday at Dachau

 Greetings in Jesus and Mary….
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Blessed Holy Thursday! The day Jesus gives us the Holy Mass and the Holy Priesthood. Blessed be God!

The below accounts are how Mass was conducted in their chapel at the Priest Barracks in Dachau. Also, below this is an account of an ordination of a priest by a bishop who was also imprisoned at Dachau! As time ticked forward and war was in full bloom, Pope Pius XII sent messages to the world against it - making things a little stricter for the priests. In fact, if words came out of Rome against the Nazi regime….a NEW punishment was issued for the priests held in these barracks. The Pope, of course, would not have known about the consequences of his words to our Lord’s priests.

Following taken from the book, “Martyr of Brotherly Love”….

THE HOLY MASS
“From January 21, 1941 on, there was a chapel in Barracks 26 where a Mass could be celebrated daily. The chapel was a picture of poverty: the altar was of crate slats, the chalice ws a metal bowl, and the tabernacle was made of tin cans. But it was enough to celebrate Mass. (In the book, "Priestblock 25487", it is stated that a monstrance was made from an open tin can, a broken broom stick and a block of woodl.)

Lay persons – and from Sept. 1941 on, the Polish clergy in Barracks 28 too could not take part in the Eucharistic celebration in the prison chapel of Barracks 26. Nevertheless, individuals sneaked in from time to time. Mass was also often disturbed by ruthless SS men. The Polish priests also had to turn in their rosaries and Breviaries. The commander forbade them, under threat of the severest penalties, every religious practice, even within their own barracks. In spite of this, there was an active religious life in Barracks 28.

Mass was celebrated often of various places on the camp grounds. Always, of course, without Mass vestments and candles and with a tin can or a water glass as chalice. The prisoners stood around a flower bed, or they squatted in the corner of a greenhouse, all the while watching out for the SS who could catch them.

Time and again, German priests succeeded in bringing hosts or particles of hosts to their Polish confreres or other prisoners, naturally always under great danger. Fr. Albert Riesterer of the Archdiocese of Freiburg writes: “Often I took a second host in my hand, carried it with me in a clean piece of paper to the plantation in order to be able to bring Communion to the poor Polish priests who had to do without this comfort. I had my tabernacle in a small fir tree.”

Following Taken from the book, Priestblock 25487”….

One morning Fr. deConinck pulls out a cellophane bag labeled “Vitamin C” from a fold in his shirt. In the good old days it was possible to buy such vitamin C at the camp store. Through the cellophane the shimmer of a piece of consecrated Host was visible, barely half an inch long. We all had difficulty hiding our excitement.

“Don’t give us away”, said Fr. DeConinck, A German priest from barrack 26 has sent the Lord to us.”

We decide to keep the most precious Treasure among us for the time being and then to divide it among ourselves for the day when each of us is put on a transport (which meant death). Those were days of celebration. Now when we spoke the prayers of the Mass together, Fr. DeConinck held the Host inconspicuously in his hand. How much consolation that brought to the hearts of the tormented priests, how much courage and readiness to sacrifice, cannot be expressed in words.”

THE ORDINATION

Taken from the book, “Martyr of Brotherly Love”…..

The high point of the priest’s camp life was the secret ordination to the priesthood of the deacon Karl Leisner by the imprisoned French bishop Gabriel Piguet from Clermont-Ferrand on the Third Sunday of Advent 1944. Maybe this was the most impressive ordination to the priesthood in all of church history, with hundreds of prisoner priests praying for the new priest. Father Engelmar was probably one of the clergy who laid his hands on the head of Karl Leisner in the Dachau camp chapel.

MODERN DAY JUDASES
Holy Thursday was also the day that poor Jesus received a kiss from one of His own...Judas. Below is a link to show how the modern day Judases betray their Master.

Tomorrow is Good Friday. I will present some information on what went on at Dachau on Good Friday as well as talk about the dismantling of the Mass by the Freemasons (Modern day Judases).

Below is a link showing the actions of the new Archbishop of Detroit and how he is dealing with the Diocese that has been known to hold the most TLM’s in the nation. Papa Bergoglio has set him to work!

God forgive them and may we offer reparation today until midnight and watch with Jesus in His Agony in the Garden. Let us pray and watch with Jesus today and always for the salvation of souls and for the glory of God. Please remain in the presence of Jesus today until He is taken away! May this be a night of Reparation with Our Lady before the Blessed Sacrament.

Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, pray for us!

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