The Gospel reading for this, the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost – the Sunday in the Octave of Corpus Christi – is the “Highways and Hedges” Gospel. This is yet another example of God Almighty telling us that the Church Militant is going to be a mixed-bag at best, and implied trainwreck until the very, very end.

In the Lucan version of the “Highways and Hedges” Gospel, I note the rare instance wherein Our Lord warns of placing EVEN ONE’S SPOUSE above Him- He Who Is Truth Itself. In the “Non veni pacem” discourse, he mentions all family connections except marriage, but here He makes it perfectly clear that putting one’s spouse above Him is idolatrous and damnable, even with the privileged status of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.

I cannot help but think of how many millions of men have had themselves injected with poison, and have been injured, killed, and will yet die for unnatural reasons because of their harping, money-grubbing, materialist, pagan wives. Being a cuckold to satan… sow the wind, reap the whirlwind of fire.

Christ Almighty will do the final sorting and sifting, NOT US. So…

Luke 14:16-24.

At that time, Jesus spoke to the Pharisees this parable: A certain man gave a great supper, and he invited many. And he sent his servant at supper time to tell those invited to come, for everything is now ready. And they all with one accord began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a farm, and I must go out and see it; I pray you hold me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am on my way to try them; I pray you hold me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ And the servant returned, and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house was angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and the crippled, and the blind, and the lame.’ And the servant said, ‘Sir, your order has been carried out, and still there is room.’ Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and make them come in, so that my house may be filled. For I tell you that none of those who were invited shall taste of my supper.’

Let’s go OLD-school downhome, as the Carter Sisters sing “In the Highways”. I actually had the pleasure of seeing the Peasall Sisters perform this in the “O Brother, Where Art Thou” soundtrack tour back in the aughts in Denver. Second row center. And yes, I absolutely rocked out to Dan Tyminski singing “Man of Constant Sorrow.” And I sat in reverent contemplation as Dr. Ralph Stanley intoned “O, Death.” It was even better than the album version. Probably the best live music show I’ve ever seen. Or perhaps tied with the Everly Brothers.

Anyway… in the Highways and Hedges.

In the highways in the hedges

I’ll be somewhere a workin for my Lord

If He calls me I will answer

I’ll be somewhere a workin for my Lord

Truly, words to live by. You ARE called. Make sure that by your freely chosen life and decisions that you are… CHOSEN. It’s entirely up to you. If you are outside The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, get in. If you’re in, get in the State of Grace, and make it your top priority to stay there. Move heaven and earth. Your eternal soul utterly depends on it.

(I originally wrote and posted the piece below on March 29, ARSH 2010. This was fully a year before I went viral for the first time after my koran burning. I had a tiny bit of a non-agricultural readership, just a few thousand, but nothing like now, of course.

I began screaming and yelling about politics and broad-market economics in ARSH 2008, against all advice, when I saw that the U.S. was in the process of being overthrown, and lots of agricultural people thought I was nuts, and I doubtless turned a bunch of people off. That’s why I was getting emails from people advising me to watch my mouth and not “get myself crossways with the Powers That Be.”

I had a very sad conversation with a neighbor. He is a great guy, maybe forty, a small business owner, and is married with two kids, ages 5 and 2.  We were discussing current events, and I repeated, as I always do, that barring supernatural intervention it will never, ever end without HOT WAR.  This man, who I like and would characterize as a very normal man of his generation, said without missing a beat, “You’re right, hopefully the war doesn’t happen until I’m an old man.  I’m just going to wait it out.”

Think about what this man’s mindset is, and how totally inverted this is from all previous human history: this man WANTS TO PAWN ALL OF THIS OFF ON HIS CHILDREN.  His plan is to kick the can down the road and make his own children fight HIS WAR.  Folks, this is sadly the mindset of even the most “normal” and even “conservative” men today – the utterly slothful and wildly EFFEMINATE shirking off of responsibility onto future generations in order to avoid having to do anything difficult or even unpleasant.  Just run the clock and let the kids deal with it. He is willing to let this shitshow continue for DECADES and destroy the lives of his children just so that he can avoid having to fight and sacrifice. This mindset was UNTHINKABLE until just a few decades ago. UNTHINKABLE.

I’m reminded of Chesterton:

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

I’m also reminded of Thomas Paine.  If a rabidly Christ-hating man like Paine could understand this, what POSSIBLE excuse do any of us have?

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.”

-Alpha Bravo ’26)

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Read this until you get it. Unless and until you people man up and stop cowering in fear, unless and until you fully understand that the only way you can possibly win is being willing to lose everything, up to and including your life, the outcome is utterly certain: evil will triumph. You and your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will live and die under satanic totalitarian rule.

Yes, Christ will win in the end, but as billions of human beings before you would happily remind you, Jesus returning in glory to grease all the bad guys before you die IS NOT A GIVEN.

Cowardice is a sin. Courage is a virtue. Man up and take care of business. For the love of God.

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“Ann,

Why do you write stuff and make videos like that? Why don’t you lay low? If this gets serious you’re going to be in big trouble. You might be in trouble already.” -a cattle client in an email to me in ARSH 2010

Because bravery and cowardice are a zero-sum game. When a man cowers, he isn’t just merely shielding himself from danger and nothing more. What he is doing is shirking off on to some other man his share of bravery that justice demands. Because the good German people cowered and failed to stand up and stop what they clearly saw happening in the mid-to-late 1930s, their collective failure in courage cumulated and compounded. Where their failure in courage all eventually ended up was on the shoulders of these guys:

Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. They are charging machine guns on the ridge above them.  Yes, they absolutely failed to raise their children right, but AT LEAST they did this. At least they could say they did SOMETHING.

See how that works? Good will always prevail, but there is no limit to the amount of suffering that will be required for that victory to occur. If men stand up early on, the suffering will be minimized because it will be spread over many people. The worst that might happen is that some folks go to bed scared for a while, but widespread bravery will allow good to prevail without much suffering.

If, however, there is a decided lack of courage displayed by a large group or society early on in an advance by the powers of evil, that aggregated courage requirement will be borne by a relative few at a later time. The longer this goes on, the worse it will be for the few who have to bear the weight of the cowardice of the broad society.

So, why am I so mouthy right now? Simply put, because I don’t want you, your son, or daughter, to end up trending on Twitter, sprawled on some city street with his legs blown off by a Marxist-Islamist-COVIET RPG bleeding to death because he had to shoulder my personal failure in courage. Got it? That is all.

Originally written 29 March, ARSH 2010.

Reaffirmed, and still mouthy
Ann Barnhardt
6 June ARSH 2026

Dear Ann,

I very much enjoyed your post on sweet, nostalgic memories. I agree that we need to create new memories for our children and grandchildren to treasure. Even in this crazy world, we can create beautiful spaces, customs and memories in our families. This is, in my opinion, why it is so important for a lady to stay home and be a homemaker, a house wife.

As ladies, we have the privilege to stay inside the cloister of our homes and create a little bit of Heaven on earth. If you dedicate your heart and soul to this, you will create a retreat where your husband and children can take refuge from the hostilities of the world they encounter around them. Even our adult children look forward to joining us on our back porch or in front of a warm fire to enjoy family and make more nostalgic memories.

I would like to send you a link to another story similar to the one you shared. This one is about the Christmas House in Oak Grove, Minnesota.

The Bourbeau’s are now a traditional Catholic family. Their grandson, Fr. John Bourbeau is a priest with the SSPX. He has been a friend for years. I thought you might enjoy this sweet news piece about his grandparents.

God bless you!

Mrs.

Dear Ann,

Firstly, I am still regularly offering Masses for you and your intentions. Thank you for all your good work.

Secondly, what prompts this brief note, is your posting about Cardinal Burke and Eucharistic piety and reverence. I could not agree more. Even with brother priests I consider to be quite holy and reverent, it’s amazing to me how non-chalantly they will use their fingers during and after the Roman Canon, but then go through the motion of purification and ablutions of their fingers afterward anyway. This is what ‘liturgical digits’ are for – believe it or don’t; use them or don’t, but don’t make-believe or just do things some of the time.

The liturgical law currently in force notes in GIRM 278 ‘Whenever a fragment of the host adheres to his fingers…’ as the predicate for wiping or washing fingers. I had a sacristan in one assignment in the military, a good Puerto-Rican guy who loved the Lord, tell me that Padre Pio said the angels will catch the crumbs that fall from the fingers of the priest, to which I responded that this doesn’t mean I should intentionally make more for them to do!

It’s so very basic that none of it even has to be said, let alone ever be done.

Pax et Bonum,

Fr. X

We discussed this in Barnhardt Podcast Episode #255, and finally found the clip.

It matters not a whit that this appears to have happened during the CovidScam. There is no excuse to ever, ever treat the Blessed Sacrament like this. If you believe in the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Most Holy Eucharist, you believe it ALL the time, not just when you’re at a Traditional Mass. Eucharistic reverence isn’t something you turn on and off like a switch, depending on what “audience” you’re in front of.

When they try and tell you that Cardinal Burke is “conservative” pic.twitter.com/JXHhwJ5Reo

— Matthew Joseph (@matthew_sede) May 29, 2026

So incredibly sad, but, as the saying goes, this explains much.

Altogether now:

In schism from WHAT? In schism from WHOM?

The former president of EWTN and new Prefect of the Dicastery for Communications at the Vatican thinks Jews should not become Christians. pic.twitter.com/Qy2vXBF58k

— LifeSiteNews (@LifeSite) June 3, 2026

UPDATE: This chick seems to be the AOC of the Antichurch. NOT a member of Mensa, methinks.

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, the great feast celebrating specifically the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.

Interestingly, but not at all surprisingly, Antipope Bergoglio held this feast in particular contempt, and effectively abolished the Antichurch’s celebration of it in Rome.

Antipope Jorge Bergoglio staring down his enemy.

Christ is called “The Good Pelican” and the pelican is a symbol of Christ because pelicans will, if need be, peck at their own chests and feed their young on their own flesh and blood.

Below is the literal translation of St. Thomas Aquinas’ hymn which he wrote for this great feast, “Adoro Te Devote”, “I devoutly adore You”. I find the literal translation to be more moving than the poetic versions.

This morning at the Procession I was able to attend, while we were processing, I was struck by the prefiguring of the Corpus Christi Procession in Genesis chapter 3, when Adam and Eve would walk with God in the Garden.

He STILL walks with us, whether it be in an urban area, suburbs, in the countryside, or in the mountains. The paradise of the Garden is reflected… everywhere. IF we have the eyes to see it.

I devoutly adore You, hidden Deity,

Who are truly hidden beneath these appearances.

My whole heart submits to You,

And in contemplating You, it surrenders itself completely.

Sight, touch, taste are all deceived in their judgment of You,

But hearing suffices firmly to believe.

I believe all that the Son of God has spoken;

There is nothing truer than this word of Truth.

On the Cross only the divinity was hidden,

But here the humanity is also hidden.

Yet believing and confessing both,

I ask for what the penitent thief asked.

I do not see wounds as Thomas did,

But I confess that You are my God.

Make me believe much more in You,

Hope in you, and love You.

O memorial of Our Lord’s death,

Living Bread that gives life to man,

Grant my soul to live on You,

And always to savor Your sweetness.

Lord Jesus, Good Pelican,

wash my filthiness and clean me with Your Blood,

One drop of which can free

the entire world of all its sins.

Jesus, whom now I see hidden,

I ask You to fulfill what I so desire:

That the sight of Your Face being unveiled

I may have the happiness of seeing Your glory. Amen.

St. Peter Canisius:

“As the Sacred Scripture says, the Sodomites were wicked and exceedingly sinful. Saint Peter and Saint Paul condemn this nefarious and depraved sin. In fact, the Scripture denounces this enormous indecency thus: ‘The scandal of Sodomites and Gomorrhans has multiplied and their sins have become grave beyond measure.’ So the angels said to just Lot, who totally abhorred the depravity of the Sodomites: ‘Let us leave this city….’ Holy Scripture does not fail to mention the causes that led the Sodomites, and can also lead others, to this most grievous sin. In fact, in Ezechiel we read: ‘Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor. And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me; and I took them away as thou hast seen’ (Ezech. 16: 49-50).

Those unashamed of violating divine and natural law are slaves of this never sufficiently execrated depravity.”

-St. Peter Canisius, Summa Doctrina Christianae, III a/b, p. 455

Note what St. Peter Canisius says here quoting Ezechiel: that the CAUSES that LED to this most grievous sin (sexual perversion) are, in a nutshell, a lack or absence of Charity.  Sexual perversion is a DERIVATIVE PATHOLOGY. It doesn’t “just happen”.  You have to have the self-purgation of love from the soul FIRST.  Then the sexual perversion follows.  This is why there is no such thing as a “psycho-spiritually healthy” sex pervert.  Sexual perversion in any form is, by definition, a monstrosity. Yes, MONSTROSITY.  This is why there is no such thing as a “benign” sodomite.  Because of the antecedent pathology of lovelessness (aka Diabolical Narcissism), ALL SODOMITES, BOTH MALE AND FEMALE, ARE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to others, but most especially children.

And, this quote from St. Peter Canisius should probably be framed and hanging in every home:

“Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church’s enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.”

I almost forgot! It’s summer, the sodo-luciferians are flying their wretched colors everywhere, so it’s important to counter-represent!

Cruise over to TradFlags.com and peruse their selection of beautiful, high-quality flags, banners and magnets. They have greatly expanded their selection since last year. New this year is this fantastic Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces garden flag. 💪🏻🤩

And this is their classic June Sacred Heart flag, which is gorgeous: