DIES IRAE Day of wrath, day that will dissolve the world into burning coals, as David bore witness with the Sibyl. How great a tremor is to be, when the judge is to come briskly shattering every (grave). A trumpet sounding an astonishing sound through the tombs of the region drives all (men)
Let us strive to enter by the narrow gate. Just as the trees, if they have not stood before the winter’s storms cannot bear fruit, so it is with us; this present age is a storm, and it is only through many trials and temptations that we can obtain an inheritance in the kingdom of
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Hard to believe it has been a quarter of a century. My sons were just going on ten and my daughter was six. My surviving son celebrated his thirty-fifth birthday last week and my formerly baby girl is now thirty-one and a librarian. Distance helps in understanding a large historical event. A quarter century is
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The world changed that day. Quite a few people today want to pretend it did not, but it did. That event will echo throughout this century.
Twenty-five years since 9-11. Astounding We are now as far away in time from that unforgettable day as Americans in 1966 were from Pearl Harbor. Anyone today under 28 has no first hand knowledge of the event. Where were you on that day, assuming that you were alive then? It was a Tuesday and
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When they got up that Tuesday morning twenty-five years ago, the very last thing that the 33 passengers and the seven crew of United Flight 93 expected was to be engaged in a life and death struggle to retake an airliner that was headed to Washington DC as a terrorist missile. All they expected the
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My friend Art Leach turns a hundred on May 1. A retired banker, he is one of the last surviving carrier pilots of World War II. He flew Hellcat fighters off the Yorktown in the Pacific. His matter of fact stories to me about the many ways pilots could die in those days that
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A.D. 910. This year Frithestan took to the bishopric of Winchester. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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How beautiful is death, when earn’d by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country. Joseph Addison, Cato (1712) At age 21 Captain Nathan Hale was already marked as a man on the rise. A graduate of Yale,
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This Friday will be twenty-five years since the September 11 attack. I will be having my usual 9-11 posts up, but I thought it would be useful to start a discussion thread now. Normally on 9-11 I am not too often in the comboxes, my emotions still raw on that anniversary, and I assume that
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We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips. Saint Peter Claver
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Tell in the comboxes any Art, originals or copies, that you own. I have always found that a favorite piece of Art brightens a tad even the gloomiest day.
In negotiating trade deals Trump, trolling aside, has sought advantages for the US. This is par for the course in regard to trade deals between nations. That the Canadian leadership has used this perfectly normal attitude to launch an anti-American jihad in Canada, has much more to do with Canadian politics, where bashing the US
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I found Him who my heart loves; I want to hold Him and never let Him go. Blessed Maria Eutimia
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Leo can’t even make peace with traditional Catholics.
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The Virgin Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied; Woman! above all women glorified, Our tainted nature’s solitary boast; Purer than foam on central ocean tost; Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon Before her
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The American Revolution witnessed several examples of Yankee ingenuity that astonished the foes of the United States and delighted their friends. David Bushnell while an undergraduate at Yale in 1775 developed the plans for the Turtle, the first submarine used in combat. Among his innovations was using water as a ballast to raise and lower
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“I am completely dedicated to my faith, the only one for me, zealous to defend it and determined to die loyal to my faith.” Saint Marko Krizin
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( This post is from September 1, 2013.) Every Labor Day weekend two men always pop up in my mind: Saint Joseph the Worker and my Dad. When I was growing up I always associated Saint Joseph and my father. I thought of Saint Joseph as the strong, silent type. The Gospels recall
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Dale Price and his family have taken in a sick cat. Such acts of disinterested kindness are bright spots in this Vale of Tears. At the Particular Judgment the evil we have done will be recalled by Christ, but also our acts of charity.
“I go to death with joy in my heart, for I die for Christ and His Church.” Blessed Thomas Tsughi
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When God sent His Son into the world He chose a carpenter to be His foster father and Christ worked as a carpenter. What is regarded as humble and what is regarded as great in the eyes of Man, so very often is quite different in the Eyes of God. A good thought for
Ten films I recommend for Labor Day viewing, in no particular order: On the Waterfront (1954)- was Director Elia Kazan’s response to the criticism he received for naming names before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952. It was also a masterful examination of mob control of Longshoremen’s unions that made life on the
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Something for the weekend. A musical rendition of Kipling’s poem The Sons of Martha (1907) which seems appropriate for a Labor Day weekend. My Bride has always had a great deal of sympathy for hard working Martha and thinks that perhaps Jesus put on a apron to give her a hand after their conversation.
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My duty now, and my occupation during Eternity until the end of time, is, and will be to radiate Jesus upon all souls, through the Blessed Virgin. Blessed Dina Belanger
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News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: HELL — Feminist icon Gloria Steinem refused to allow Satan to hold the door open for her on the way into hell, in what many are calling her final act against the Patriarchy. “No way,” Steinem said as the Devil attempted to hold the door open
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1 And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is in the ministry of the church, that is in Cenchrae: 2 That you receive her in the Lord as becometh saints; and that you assist her in whatsoever business she shall have need of you. For she also hath assisted many, and myself also. Romans 16:
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The worse that clerics get at doing the jobs entrusted to them, the more they seek to take on tasks that have bupkis to do with their role in the Church.
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On August 16, 1777, General John Stark, a veteran of Roger’s Rangers during the French and Indian War, of the New Hampshire militia, fought and won the battle of Bennington. His force, consisting of 1500 New Hampshire militia, more than 10 percent of the male population of New Hampshire over the age of
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