White to move. Mate in two.
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Now that the conference (my destination) is over, and I am again reparked near Chicago with friends, I can post some images of the journey so far. It is winding down.
Along the way driving, I saw some great midwestern sights including a zippy crop-duster doing its thing, a heifer calving and a bull making another, beautiful rolling hills of southwest Wisconsin, a super moon, two spectacular churches, a famous baseball field and lots of birds of the north which I miss including robins, grosbeaks and my favorite chickadees.
It is always a pleasure to arrive at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
It IS possible to build beautiful churches that don’t look like municipal airports.
Each of the side altars have 1st class relics. Here is St. Therese. Over the years I’ve been getting reproductions of the altar pieces. This year: St. Therese, who has been good to me.
Here is a relic of a great martyr.
Part of my view during the conference. On the right is Archbp. Cordileone.
The book on the top left is by one of our speakers. The lower left, a very important book on sensus fidelium.
Does Traditionis Custodes Pass the Juridical Rationality Test?
by Fr. Réginald-Marie Rivoire FSVF and Fr. William Barker FSSP
The Faith Once For All Delivered: Doctrinal Authority in Catholic Theology
The area around the Shrine is replete with flowers and busy bees.
Some pretty hard questions and answers during the speakers panel.
After the conference I went south to Dyersville to meet up with a priest friend from the conference held by the St. Paul Center (earlier in July). First, a stop at Petersburg.
All I can say is: “Holy Cow”.
Thanks to Larry and Lois for letting me in and turning on the lights.
On to Dyersville.
Off to the local supper club. Which drink is mine?
In the morning I headed over to see the “Field of Dreams”. Fun.
Ah the joys of traveling. Not exactly vintage rectory bathroom tile. (This is NOT at a rectory.)
Arriving at my friends place, fresh homemade scones were available.
White to play and mate in TWO.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
It has been a hot summer. CLIMATE CHANGE! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DROWN IN THE GLACIERS!
This was spotted at American Thinker.
What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about our current heat wave
The current heat wave is being relentlessly blamed on increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but there is a much more plausible explanation, one that is virtually endorsed by two of the world’s leading scientific organizations. It turns out that levels of water vapor in the atmosphere have dramatically increased over the last year-and-a-half, and water vapor is well recognized as a greenhouse gas, whose heightened presence leads to higher temperatures, a mechanism that dwarfs any effect CO2 may have.
So, why has atmospheric water vapor increased so dramatically? Because of a historic, gigantic volcanic eruption last year that I – probably along with you — had never heard of. The mass media ignored it because it took place 490 feet underwater in the South Pacific. Don’t take it from me, take it from NASA (and please do follow the link to see time lapse satellite imagery of the underwater eruption and subsequent plume of gasses and water injected into the atmosphere):
Both NASA and the European Space Agency agree that because of the huge amount of water vapor ejected into the atmosphere by that volcano (enough to fill 58K Olympic pools) increasing the atmospheric water load by 13% we will have warmer weather for a couple of years until it dissipates.
REMEMBER: YOU… YOU… are to blame for climate change. Therefore you must be legislated and jabbed into a bio-dissolver tank of some sort to help feed the crickets that will feed the rest of us until we follow you. After all, they can’t put face diapers on volcanos, but they can put them on you.
Is there anyone out there who knows about and does 3D printing of rather large objects?
Here’s the issue.
Some time ago, I shot many photos against a green background from many angles of the altar cards used on the daily Mass altars at Ss. Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome.
I was hoping that, using those photos, some cleverboots in the readership could render a 3D printing file from the 2D images and, therefore, print frames that could be gussied-up and filled with their proper texts. I understand that such a thing is possible.
A couple shots.
Today is the Feast of the founder of the Jesuits.
May I say from the onset that I have some spiffy Pope Clement XIV gear? HERE
Here is the Martyrologium Romanum entry for this great saint, Ignatius of Loyola. To the right is my first class relic.
Memoria sancti Ignatii de Loyola, presbyteri, qui, hispanus in Cantabria natus, in aula regia et militia vitam egit, donec, post grave vulnus acceptum ad Deum conversus, Lutetiae Parisiorum studia theologica complevit et primos socios sibi ascivit, quos postea in Societatem Iesu Romae constituit, ubi ipse fructuosum exercuit ministerium et in operis conscribendis et in discipulis instituendis, ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
Here is the spiffy Collect from 1962 edition of the Missale Romanum:
Deus, qui ad maiorem tui nominis gloriam propagandam, novo per beatum Ignatium subsidio militantem Ecclesiam roborasti: concede; ut, eius auxilio et imitatione certantes in terris, coronari cum ipso mereamur in caelis.
LITERAL VERSION
O God, who strengthened the Church militant with a new reinforcement through blessed Ignatius, in order to spread widely the greater glory of Your Name, grant that we, who are contending on earth by his help and example, may deserve to be crowned with him in heaven.
The experts who cut and pasted together the Novus Ordo Collect for Ignatius weenied-down the content:
Deus, qui ad maiorem tui nominis gloriam propagandam
beatum Ignatium in Ecclesia tua suscitasti,
concede, ut, eius auxilio et imitatione certantes in terris,
coronari cum ipso meramur in caelis.
Notice anything important missing?
Let’s have your perfect renderings of the prayers.
Here is a shot of the altar and tomb of St. Ignatius in the Church called the Gesù in the heart of Rome. It is a must stop if you ever visit Rome.
Now that’s an altar.
Church architecture reflects the Church’s understanding of her own identity.
Each era has a different expression. Compare and contrast to what is being built and used now.
The dopey Jesuits removed the Communion rail for this altar, thus turning decorative metalwork into inexplicable objects and destroying the integrity of the design. To the right of the altar is a heroic marble group depicting of the Triumph of Truth over Heresy. Heresy, in this case, is manifest by the books of the error-filled works of Calvin and Luther. The little angel is tearing up a bad book. The ugly heretical bad guys shrink from the Cross and the light that Truth holds.
Under the lower heretic, there is a book with a visible spine that says MARTIN LUTHER. The dopey Jesuits, who now probably idolize Luther, hid it. For shame. You have to know they are there to make out the letters now. Calvin and Zwingli are on the spines of the other books.
See? Nearly invisible now.
I found an older photo of the spine before it was wussified:
Zwingli
Calvin
And then there’s this. No, this is not a rendering of a Jesuit.
Were these statues to have experienced a true aggiornamento, they’d be tearing up a certain book by James Martin, though though there are many other candidates.
Meanwhile, since our church architecture tells present and future generation about our Catholic identity at the time it was built, let’s have a few shots from inside the church.
The cupola:
The Holy Name of Jesus (which in its iteration at Georgetown the Jesuits covered over when Obama spoke there):
A glimpse of me, shooting the photo of the ceiling of the nave in a mirror angled just so for viewing ease.
The altar with the arm of St. Francis Xavier
My favorite version of the Sacred Heart, which you can find repeated all over Rome, in a small chapel to the Epistle side of the sanctuary.
There is an adage in Latin, corruptio optimi pessima. The corruption of the best, is the worst kind of corruption.
Some might dispute the notion that the Jesuits were the best. But there is no dispute that they have been among the best.
The Enemy works relentlessly to take us down. Hence the Enemy will focus not only on the rank and file, but in a special way on leaders.
It is one thing to destroy or corrupt a small start up group of religious. It is another entirely to twist the largest group of male religious, with universities and colleges. It is one thing to lead some garden variety cleric into sins. It is entirely another to subvert a Cardinal who is influential in conclaves and in the appointment of bishops.
Bring down a great group like the Jesuits? What a coup for Hell.
I hope and prayer that great saints will rise within the Jesuits who will Make the Society Great Again.
Today, let us ask the intercession of St. Ignatius, and the other saintly founders of the Society, to intercede with their ultimate General, Christ Jesus, to guide and correct them or to bring them down until they can do no harm.
How I would dearly prefer the former to the later.
I’ll take either one.
White to move and mate in 2.
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It’s the 9th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo and the 17th Sunday of the Novus Ordo.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation?
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
I have some thoughts about the Sunday Epistle reading posted at One Peter Five.
A taste:
When Moses descended the mountain in Exodus 32 and found what was going on around the Golden Calf he had the males of the Tribe of Levi, Levites, go through the people and slaughter the miscreants. That’s when the males of the Jews were stripped of their Adamic and Noachic priesthood and the new Aaronic priesthood began as well as the imposition of the Law. The first “ordination” of priests was quite literally a bloodbath. Then there was the fornication of the people who “played the harlot” and began to worship Baal. The avenging angel in the form of a plague slew 23,000 in a single day. It would seem that God doesn’t like idolatry.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
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