VIDEO: “Come Hell Or High Water”

Posted on 17 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I received this video today via email and looked it on YouTube. This is from 2018, a city council hearing in Greensboro. It is fully applicable today.

This guy is terrific.

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The 16th of the month, is a very lean day.

Posted on 16 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

UPDATE:

Thanks to new subscriptions by

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I regularly pray for and say Masses for my regular and occasional donors, those who send items from my wishlist and all of you who use of my Amazon link [US HERE – UK HERE].  It is my pleasure and duty to do so.

If this blog is helpful to you, please consider subscribing to make a monthly donation.  This is how I make all ends meet and you wind up regularly on my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I periodically say Holy Mass.

Regarding subscriptions, today, the 16th of the month, is a very lean day.


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And I set up a

CONTINUE TO GIVE

account, which functions rather like PayPal.  Some of you use it. Here is a QCode you can use with your smart phones.  Try it!

Continue To Give is changing its structure around and I am working with them to make alterations.

Also, some of you have decided to send via snail mail!   How retro!  But it works!

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#ASonnetADay – 64. “When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced…”

Posted on 15 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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Hilarious screenshot from HARRIS.. no… BIDEN campaign Health Care ad

Posted on 15 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This is hilarious.  I did a screen grab from a Biden ad about his healthcare plan.

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In the ad it flashes by really fast, but I spotted LATIN!
It’s nothing but …
Lorem ipsum makes more sense.
Biden… Catholic… old….
I wonder how he did in Latin in school.
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Of Latin, Papa Ganganelli, and the suppression of the Jesuits

Posted on 15 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I enjoyed this…

The book in question is …

Ossa Latinitatis Sola ad Mentem Reginaldi Rationemque: The Mere Bones of Latin According to the Thought and System of Reginald by Reginaldus Thomas Foster 

US HERE – UK HERE.

Here is the book itself!

It’s not small.

Massive quantities of text along with a description of how Latin works, from the inside out.

What is this?   This is Clement XIV’s suppression of the Jesuits in 1773!

And what’s better there is CLEMENT XIV SWAG available!

One good way to celebrate the glorious event of his election would be to order some Papa Ganganelli Swag!

>>HERE<<

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As a matter of fact, there is an fairly recent addition to the Clement XIV items.  There is now available a “mega mug” which holds, not 17… not 18… not 19… but 20 whole ounces!

Don’t suppress your urge for that great mug of Mystic Monk Coffee!  That would be … jesuitical!   You don’t want to be jesuitical do you?  No, of course you don’t.

>>HERE<<

Meanwhile… a while back in Rome I visited the Pope’s tomb in Ss. Dodici Apostoli.

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As you can see, he is conferring his blessing on the mugs.

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Speaking of Papa Ganganelli suppressing the Jesuits – a good day’s work that – I knew that you would not be satisfied with just coffee mugs.  Ergo…

Reflecting the Jesuits themselves, there are light Tees and dark.

But wait!  There’s more!   What do we find on the back?

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The salient bits from Clements 1773 Bull Dominus ac Redemptor Noster – the document in the photos at the top – by which he extinguished the Jesuits.  I found the whole thing in the Bullarium but there are excerpts on the Vatican website HERE (there is a slight variation in that in the Bullarium the word “gymnasia” is omitted… I follow that text).

The text on the dark shirts is in white… and for technical reasons I won’t bother to explain it has a slightly different format.

For all the selections click

>>HERE<<

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Cocktail suggestion: “Stare Decisis”

Posted on 15 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Over the last couple days I watched a great deal of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

In the second day, I was gratified to see that, even as the Dems hectored her about the ACA and racism, they spoke in in such a way as to suggest they fully expected her confirmation to go through.

Of course it isn’t over until it’s … you know.   I fully expect the Party of Death will come up with some machination to delay her confirmation.

Meanwhile, I was thinking about a cocktail in honor of the confirmation of Judge Amy to the SCOTUS.   How about this?

Stare Decisis

– 4 ounces of Everclear
– Elixir Vegetal de la Grande-Chartreuse (69%)
– liquid nitrogen

Add splash of Elixir Vegetal de la Grande-Chartreuse to 4 ounces of Everclear. Chill with liquid nitrogen. Serve neat, with a legal twist, in a Nick & Nora glass resting on a legal pad inscribed with “stare decisis”.

Drink with an icy stare.

Perhaps you have your own ideas.

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Jesuits PROMOTE “Pachamama Day”. I am not making this up. Vatican “Earth Mother” coin.

Posted on 15 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Pachamama… this is a demon cult from S. America.

Pachamama was venerated in an obvious pagan rite in the Vatican Gardens at the opening of the 2019 Synod of Bishops.

At the close of the Synod a ritual Pachamama cult bowl was placed on the ALTAR of St. Peter’s Basilica at the expressed direction of Francis.

OVER the bones of Peter!

Since then all HELL has swept over us.

I note that Easter was not celebrated at the main altar of San Pietro this year.

Now I see this, on Twitter from Nick Donnelly.

Jesuits are promoting “Pachamama Day”.

I am not making this up.

What the actual HELL is going on?

“Grupo de Ecologia Integral.”

Please, my dear readers, I beg you.

REPARATION!

If that weren’t bad enough did you see the dreadful coin that the Vatican has minted?

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#ASonnetADay – 63. “Against my love shall be as I am now…”

Posted on 14 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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Making an upgrade to the “Two Trinities Chapel”

Posted on 14 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Above my private altar in the “Two Trinities Chapel” I have a high quality print of Murillo’s Earthly and Heavenly Trinities.  From above God the Father and God the Holy Spirit hover over the Child who stands between Mary and Joseph.  Nexus of the Holy Family and Holy Trinity.

The painting hangs in the National Gallery in London.  It has been a favorite of mine for decades.

Over time, looking up at that print, I have desired a larger version, with a finer frame.

Finally, recently, I ordered from the National Gallery and received a larger print.

The original is 293 x 207 cm.  My new print is 58.2 x8.41 cm.  Quite a bit smaller than the original, but bigger than my present.   The original, clearly an altarpiece, seems to have been for a Capuchin church in Cádiz.  It was in a collection of the Pedroso family, and hence is  ‘The Pedroso Murillo’.

Today I want to the frame shop.

We tried a lot of nice frames but, when we check with the manufacturers for availability, quite a few were either not obtainable or they were not obtainable on account of price.  We worked on finding a good combination.  Most were okay, but we kept coming back to one.  The phone call was made: yes, they had enough. Frames, as it turns out, are expensive.   This print will need some 10 feet of frame.  The glass will be that high clarity. museum stuff, virtually invisible.

The price… eventually I received a very good discount on the price per foot for the frame and then there was an online coupon, which helped.

At this point, I would like to invite any readers – especially those who have followed daily streamed Masses over the last few months – to help with the project. Subtracting what I am personally covering, I hope to raise $600. I’d prefer to have just one, two or three get involved, because I want also to put their names on the finished product so they will be remembered for as long as this is present at my altar for Holy Mass.  Feel free to contact me HERE.  [FULFILLED!  Some of you have stepped up and I have enough for the framing.  THANK YOU!   There are always other things to upgrade, of course. And I will eventually attempt a fabric “baldachin” and other things.]

BTW… in chatting with the people at the frame shop, they said that they have had more, rather than less, business.  As it turns out, people get tired of looking at the same stuff on their walls and they make changes, or clean out stuff and decide to frame old treasures.  I guess that’s what I did, though I wasn’t tired of my beautiful Murillo print.  I like it so much I want a bigger one.  Still…

Here is a photo from our laying out the print and frame choice with the glass (there is plexiglass in the way because… COVID-1984.

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Control the meaning of words and you control thought. A note about #AmyConeyBarrettSCOTUS

Posted on 14 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

When I worked with the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” one of our office mates was a German religious sister who had survived Dresden and then bombing in the Wuppertal.  She was one of the holiest people I’ve ever met and I cherish my time with her, every day.

One day we were working on something in German. I don’t recall how the topic came up exactly, but she showed me entries for the same word in two dictionaries, once published in West Germany and another published in East Germany. They were substantively different.  The nuances were striking.

Dictionaries can be either prescriptive, telling us what the word is to mean, or descriptive, telling us how the word is being used. There is the famous case in English of the Webster’s Third, which shifted lexicography.

Lately, we’ve been hearing how the dems, especially the HARRIS/Biden ticket and their surrogates, have been trying to change the meaning of the phrase “packing the court”. We heard yesterday the loopy Sen. Hirono upbraid Judge Amy Coney Barrett – just making things up, as dems do now – about her use of the phrase “sexual preference”.

Today I saw this fascinating tweet.

I think you can understand why the East Germans shifted the meanings of words in their prescriptive dictionaries: thought control.

Control the meaning of words and you control thought.

That is why it is important to have LATIN in our liturgical rites and people should have access to different sound translations.

We are our rites.

Change the WORDS of our prayers and you will – over time – change what people believe.

 

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