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 […]
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 […]
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 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: […]
“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.
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 […]
“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, […]
‘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
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 […]
Past time to end this squalid war against the Traditional Mass begun by the evil whim of one or our worst popes.
(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 […]
Leftists rely on the foolishness and greed of most of its adherents.
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, […]
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
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.
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.
(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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
She and her fellow sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary sang the Te Deum before they were beheaded during the Boxer Rebellion on July 9, 1900.
Plenty of raccoons in Central Illinois, always very bold thieves. My daughter when she was in high school would often hear them climbing up the side of our house from her second story bedroom. She rejoiced when one of them would lose footing and careen screaming to the ground, doubtless unhurt, worse the luck. […]
Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, was an American original. An ill-educated frontiersman, Morgan was also a natural leader of men, made easier by his height, well over six-foot, and his robust sense of humor, along with his willingness to use his fists to enforce discipline if necessary. He served in the French and Indian War, […]
The grief over losing one son I found almost too much to bear. How Mary Todd Lincoln continued to function with the crosses she had to carry is beyond me.
To remain at peace it is necessary to love while suffering, and to suffer while loving. Blessed Maria Romero Meneses
