Raising a glass, especially to those now actively carrying the torch of freedom!
Have a ball and no heel-taps.
Today, instead of my usual daily carry coin, I’ll haul this one around.
Raising a glass, especially to those now actively carrying the torch of freedom!
Have a ball and no heel-taps.
Today, instead of my usual daily carry coin, I’ll haul this one around.
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St. John Eudes
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”
- Fulton Sheen
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- C.S. Lewis
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Almighty and eternal God, who created us in Thine image and bade us to seek after all that is good, true and beautiful, especially in the divine person of Thine Only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant, we beseech Thee, that, through the intercession of Saint Isidore, Bishop and Doctor, during our journeys through the internet we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Semper Fidelis Fr. Z, all here, and to all Marines afloat and ashore. A hearty salute to the Air Force, Army, and Navy who have lent a hand on more than one occasion since 1775.
“Stay calm, Marine. God is with us all today.”
– Fr. Vincent Capodanno to a dying Marine in Vietnam.
The USS Capodanno was a Navy frigate from 1973-1993. The ship was blessed by St. John Paul II.
For one of my Navy career years I had the privilege of being cross-assigned to a Marine Air Group. It was an honor indeed to have served with some of the nation’s finest warriors.
Thank you Marines! Happy Birthday to the Corps.
Semper Gumby: Don’t forget the USCG who have a very symbiotic relationship with the Corps.
Happy Birthday to all Marines including my nephew!
Semper Fi
Though the body is battered
and broken
and no longer fit for the fray
The spirit cries out
and is willing
and again will carry the day
Semper Fi is a code
and a motto
but some know its deeper side
that lives in the heart
of the soldier
who is this nation’s pride
for it’s the heart that
is always faithful
that is ever so willing
to die
For the Cause
and the Nation
and Freedom
it has always been
Semper Fi
When liberty’s honor
is threatened
and the straits
are desperately dire
the Corps will come
to the forefront
to offer her men
for the pyre
that burns on the
altar of freedom
and must not ever
die
Though we often
forget these heroes
they never forget
their cry:
“For the Cause
and the Nation
and Freedom
there will always be
Semper Fi”
written by: Tim Taylor
Thanks to all who served. We enjoy our freedoms because of those who are willing to fight to keep us free.
My Marine son is a 2nd Bn Tank Officer presently at 29 Palms.
https://www.2ndmardiv.marines.mil/News/News-Article-Display/Article/1991643/second-marine-division-to-conduct-largest-war-game-in-more-than-three-decades/
Keep all of them in your prayers.
Semper Fidelis and best wishes for a Happy 244th to all of my fellow Marines particularly to former Marines Father James Jackson FSSP and Father Daniel Nolan FSSP. Father Nolan delivered a noteworthy condemnation of the idolatrous goat rodeo sinod this morning. Ooh-Rah Father Nolan.
Jack: Great point. carndt: Will do.
Happy Birthday to the Marine Corps and a happy Veterans Day to all who serve or have served in the Armed Services. Today is also the feast day of St. Martin of Tours, that Roman soldier who left the service to become a soldier for Christ. May we all serve as faithfully as he did as soldiers in the Church Militant. “Therefore put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground” (Eph 6:13).
JonPatrick USAF 1971 – 1975.
To all Marines, past, present and future, thank you for your commitment and sacrifice. To my nieces’ husbands who are former Marines – John and Jan – thank you for your service and your love of God and Country. Happy Birthday Marine Corps — Sto Lat!!!
AA Cunningham: robtbrown commented once that the Abbot of Clear Creek Abbey is a former Marine.
Fr. James Jackson wrote “Nothing Superfluous.”
Fr. Daniel Nolan was homeschooled (Seton) and entered the Naval Academy. From the FSSP website:
“Four years later he graduated with a BS in Systems Engineering and received a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. After training as an infantry officer, he was stationed in Camp Lejeune, NC, and over the next three years deployed to Okinawa, Cuba, Kuwait, Iraq, and the Republic of Georgia.”
Here is an article, with video, about Fr. Nolan skiing while playing the bagpipes:
https://fssp.com/skiing-for-gold/