Democrats Are The Party of the Barking Mad
Not pejorative, but descriptive.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Charbel
You exist in this world to give and to serve. Saint Charbel
1381 The Great Peasants’ Revolt
Now reigneth pride in prize and covetousness is held wise, and lechery without shame and gluttony without blame. Envy reigneth with treason and sloth is taken in great season. God do boot, for now is time. Amen. John Ball, Priest and one the leaders of the Peasants Revolt Medieval Europe rested upon the work of […]
July 17, 1969: Halfway to the Moon
Fifty-six years ago Apollo XI was traveling 5000 miles per hour on its journey to the Moon, the gravity of the Earth gradually slowing the velocity of the spacecraft from the initial 25,000 miles per hour. The total distance of the trip, one way, was 238, 900 miles. Columbia’s engines were fired for about three […]
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Mary Magdalen Postel
I want to teach the young and to inspire them with the love of God and liking for work. I want to help the poor and relieve them of some of their misery. These are the things I want to do. Saint Mary Magdalen Postel
Burn of the Day
However he is not a devotee of the traditional Mass, so all is well in the eyes of the Vatican. Go here for some background on the award he was given.
July 16: Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
HE was descended of a good family in Kent. From his infancy he turned all his thoughts and affections to attain to the most perfect love of God, and studied to devote all his moments to this glorious pursuit. In this earnest desire, in the twelfth year of his age, he retired into […]
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Bonaventure
Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can. Saint Bonaventure
July 15, 1870: Georgia Readmitted to the Union
Georgia was the last of the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union. Congress refused to sit Georgia representatives or senators in Congress in 1869 due to the action of the Georgia legislature in expelling black members of that body. This was followed by an attack by a white mob in the town […]
End of Changing the Clocks?
I support this, but I predict that if it becomes law it will be quickly reversed. Kids will be walking to school in darkness and that will cause an avalanche of stories about how unsafe this all is. Happened before in the seventies, in 1973-1974 when I was a junior in high school, and […]
Thought for the Day
Music and silence—how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell—though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express—no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, but all has been occupied by […]
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.
