Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
“Mother, look at this cross; oh! how beautiful it is! It has been my whole happiness during my life, and I advise you also to make it yours.” Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Thought for the Day
Go here to read the article. A favorite author of my Bride. She has read some of her works in the original Norwegian.
Burn of the Day
Attacking a politician for not having his nose in the trough is a new one on me, and I frequently disagreed with the late Senator Graham.
In Honor of Bastille Day
The three best scenes from Casablanca. Shocked! Shocked! Round up the usual suspects.
The Gaslighting Began Early
I recall when I was a kid that some of the older priests I quietly observed, seemed distinctly less than enthusiastic about Vatican II. They rarely spoke out, but they did not reflect the rah-rah official tone about Vatican II. Of course we were being taught Catechism by reading the Baltimore Catechism, and I could […]
July 13, 2024: Lest we Forget
Amazing, and very troubling, that we still know almost nothing about the motivation of the would be assassin, who came within a fraction of an inch of altering American history.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Clelia Barbieri
I shall remain always with you and I shall never abandon you! Sain by Saint Clelia Barbieri to her fellow sisters as she was dying at age 23 in 1870. Since that time her voice has been heard during Scriptural readings and hymns at Masses, in houses of the Order she founded, Little Sisters […]
The Shock of Almost Recognition
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: BIRMINGHAM, AL — Local man Brett Callahan informed his wife that he wouldn’t be able to mow the lawn today as he was completely tied up playing a lawn-mowing simulator. Despite his wife’s pleas that the grass was now taller than their toddler, who had been […]
EuroPoors
The US in the past ten years has grown its economy to be a third larger than the economy of the European Union, and the richest country in the European Union, Germany, has a gross domestic product per capita slightly less than Mississippi, the poorest State in the US. That the average America is […]
Jesus Didn’t Like Everyone
Jesus loved everyone. He created each and every person in love. He loved and always will love everyone. His love, the love of God, keeps each person in existence every moment of their lives from now until forever. His love was limitless, divine. It was the kind of love that could not be any greater: […]
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint John Gaulbert
“I cannot refuse what you ask in Christ’s name. I grant you your life, and I give you my friendship. Pray that God may forgive me my sin.” Said by Saint John Gaulbert to his brother’s murderer, a man whom the Saint had pledged to kill, and who was now pleading for mercy.
July 12, 1944: Hero Priest of Guam Executed
Eighth of December 1941 People went crazy Right here in Guam. Oh, Mr. Sam, Sam My dear Uncle Sam, Won’t you please Come back to Guam. Resistance song sung by the people of Guam during World War II Acquired by the US pursuant to the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War in 1898, by the […]
Plunder
“Since the realm of England was first a realm was there never in it so great a robber and pillager of the Commonwealth read of nor heard of as is our king” (Thomas Hale, Priest executed in the reign of Henry VIII) The Reformation greatly enhanced the power of the Caesars of the day, […]
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Olga of Kiev
‘Through thy prayers, Holy Father, may I be preserved from the crafts and assaults of the devil!’ Saint by Saint Olga of Kiev upon her conversion to Christianity
Marines’ Hymn
Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don’t have that problem. Ronald Reagan Something for the weekend. The oldest of the official songs of a branch of the US military, the composer of the Marines’ Hymn is unknown, but is thought to have […]
From His Lips to God’s Ear
Past time to end this squalid war against the Traditional Mass begun by the evil whim of one or our worst popes.
Chesty Puller and Catholic Chaplains
(Originally published in 2011. One of my more popular posts.) Some men become legends after their deaths and others become legends while they are alive. Lewis Burwell Puller, forever known as “Chesty”, was in the latter category. Enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1918 he would serve until 1955, rising in rank from private to […]
Leftist Policies Kill the Golden Goose of Business and Then Blames Capitalism for the Murder
Leftists rely on the foolishness and greed of most of its adherents.
If It Worked For Mengele
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: BUENOS AIRES — American politician Graham Platner suspended his race for the U.S. Senate this week amid allegations of sexual assault and Nazism, and reportedly fled to Argentina. According to federal agents, Platner was believed to be hiding out in a small house in Vicente López, […]
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Theodosius Pechersky
I promise you, my children and brethren: although I leave you in body, I will always be with you in spirit. When one of you dies in our monastery or even outside the monastery (but with the blessing of the abbot) I will answer for his sins before God. Saint Theodosius Pechersky
Yep
Most of the seventies are half a century in the past now, and Catholics are still subjected to endless repetition of banal hymns from that decade and the sixties.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Amandina of Schakkebroek
I pray God, not to save the martyrs, but to fortify them. Said by Saint Amandina of Schakkebroek during the Boxer Rebellion in China in which she and her seven fellow sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary would be martyred.
Scandalous Priest and Glorious Martyr
(This post is from 2012. I will be reposting it each July 9.) When July 9 rolls around each year I am always reminded of my personal belief that before our end, perhaps especially for those of us sunk deep in sin, God gives us an opportunity to atone and turn aside from […]
July 9, 1896: Cross of Gold
The greatest of acceptance speeches for president was doubtless the Cross of Gold speech delivered on July 9, 1896. Strictly speaking it was not an acceptance speech, but it might as well have been. It catapulted dark horse candidate Bryan, the youngest nominee of any major party at age 36, into the Democratic nomination […]
Hamilton, The Tragic Founding Father
“That bastard brat of a Scottish peddler! His ambition, his restlessness and all his grandiose schemes come, I’m convinced, from a superabundance of secretions, which he couldn’t find enough whores to absorb!” John Adams on Alexander Hamilton One of the more brilliant of the Founding Fathers, and imagine what it meant to stand out […]