Unless you are praying the Novena before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, stop right now and go to Crisis and read: A Unified Theory of “Backwardism” What was so awful about the pre-Vatican II Church that its memory needs to be … Read More →
Getting your Christmas shopping done early allows you later to focus more attention on the mysteries we celebrate in this Advent/Christmas season. Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance. To get started, click a link and Amazon will … Read More →
Today is the 2nd Day for a Novena before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Will you participate? Even if you are late to starting, that’s okay! Start anyway. And remember that there is no one way to observe this … Read More →
And to think that I have a priest friend in the Diocese of Chur. To think that Archbp. Wolfgang Haas was once Bishop of Chur. The Diocese of Chur includes Zürich. Three famous Benedictine abbeys are in the diocese Einsiedeln, … Read More →
Today is the 1st Day for a Novena before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Will you participate? Even if you are late to starting, that’s okay! Start anyway. And remember that there is no one way to observe this … Read More →
Meanwhile… Black to move and escape death. This is messy and there are different options. NB: I may hold comments with puzzle solutions a little longer than others so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Priestly chess players, drop me … Read More →
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A couple weeks back Hell’s Bible (aka NYT) published an airy yet vicious attack piece about Catholics who attended the Traditional Latin Mass. Apparently, if you go to the Vetus Ordo, you might be a white right-wing extremist of some … Read More →
Lit for a wedding. Common in Rome. Hardly anyone goes to Mass, but they all want fancy wedding photos. And… the fussing wedding guy was in the way for a bit. Black to move and mate in 6. NB: I … Read More →
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Click for a larger image. Meanwhile, white can mate in 6. NB: I may hold comments with puzzle solutions a little longer than others so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. In times of fasting, monks used to drink beer. … Read More →
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for the 1st Sunday of Advent – … Read More →
GO TO CONFESSION! Meanwhile… White to move and win material. NB: I may hold comments with puzzle solutions a little longer than others so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Please remember me when doing your Christmas shopping online. Thanks … Read More →
The essence of a cliché is that it is unoriginal and often repeated. However, as the old Latin phrase goes, repetita iuvant… repeated things help. Allow me to get an initial cliché out of the way: with the 1st Sunday of … Read More →
Today in the calendars of both sides of the Roman Rite is the Feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria, virgin, martyr. As a matter of fact, she is celebrated by just about all Christians (who have any doctrine and history). … Read More →
It’s Black Friday, and therefore there are lots of “deals” which the thoughtful and prepared can use to great effect, especially in view of Christmas, a month away. Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance. US HERE – UK HERE Meanwhile, … Read More →
Fellow hams, it is time to revive ZedNet. Here’s a notice about ZedNet for Sunday 27 Nov ’22 – evening at 2000h EST. (0100h ZULU Monday). I’ve gotten my hardware working again. I’ll keep my rig on. So far so … Read More →
Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance. US HERE – UK HERE Meanwhile, BLACK to move and mate in 3. And three is the key! This is fun. NB: I may hold comments with puzzle solutions a little longer than others so there … Read More →
Our nation is being torn by organized factions. The followers of those factions are mostly blind and dim dupes, the ultimate products of a long-targeted education system precisely for these days. We run the risk of losing all that our … Read More →
From my old neighborhood and near where I stay in Rome in Rione Regola. Via Caritatis Wine GIFT CARDS HERE Meanwhile, black to move. NB: I may hold comments with puzzle solutions a little longer than others so there won’t … Read More →
I’ve been reading something co-written by scholars whom I have hitherto respected. These are not “libs”. These are not Fishwrap types. They are sound scholars. What they signed is over-the-top ideological cant about the Novus Ordo and its Spirit-inspired glories, with a strong polemical … Read More →
Have you ever had one of those days wherein it seems like the entire world, at the same time, wants your attention “NOW!”? That’s my day so far. Pardon my brevity. I am trying to write a couple of things … Read More →
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Everyone, work to get this into your parish bulletins and diocesan papers.
The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
St. John Eudes
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
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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.”
“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
- 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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