Mark your calendars! Set an alarm on your phone! At roughly 6:30pm EST the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered for all of my benefactors and supporters. Our Lord knows who all of you are and exactly what you need, and you and your intentions will be on the Paten with Our Lord’s Body and inside the Chalice immersed in His Precious Blood, carried by the angels to God the Father in heaven.
“See” you there and then!
This clip is from a 15-year old movie which I didn’t particularly like, and stars Jack Nicholson, who I really don’t like as an actor at all. I don’t recommend this movie, but I remembered this scene which is a great secular example of the very, very first step toward filial fear. Long story short, he is telling her that he loves her. This line is the punchline of the entire movie.
“You make me want to be a better man.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THtv5VM5LSY
Our Lord should make you want to be a better man because of Who He is (God Almighty) and what He has done for You (the Incarnation and Passion). The “Who He is” part is servile fear, the “what He did” part is filial fear. The filial fear must be informed and magnified by the servile fear.
You must have both kinds of fear. If you only have filiar fear towards Our Lord, and no servile fear, then Jesus is basically your boyfriend. And not even your serious your boyfriend, but your totally shallow, thirteen-year-old-Tiger-Beat-Justin-Bieber-groupie imaginary “boyfriend”. {{Shudder}}.
If you have all servile fear and no filial fear, then God is a thuggish, aloof slavemaster. (Paradigm sound familiar? Cough. Non-existent pagan moon deity. Cough.)
Michael Voris over at ChurchMilitant.TV recently had a Vortex episode in which he urged his listeners to pray to God to be made a saint. This could also be phrased, “Father, You make me want to be a better man. Please make me a better man. Amen.”
I’m just going to let that quote sit up there, and after you are done reading this, you can go back and re-read what Pope Francis, South American Jesuit and Child of the late 1960s and early 1970s, said again and then ponder it all in your hearts.
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Fear of the Lord is utterly, utterly essential. If you do not fear God, then the odds are that you don’t actually love and worship God at all, but rather a mere idea, philosophy or imaginary friend that you call “god” or “jesus”, that you have made up out of whole cloth in your own head, which is to say when you boil it down to brass tacks, you are worshiping yourself.
There are two types of fear that need to be defined. The two types of fear are SERVILE FEAR and FILIAL FEAR. Let’s start with SERVILE FEAR. Servile fear is the fear we must have of God because He is, well, GOD. He is all-powerful. He is all-knowing. He made you, atom by atom. He sustains you, and the entire universe. He made it, and if He decided to do it, He could snuff the whole kit-and-caboodle out of existence whenever He felt like it. The laws of physics are His to break whenever He feels like it. He is perfectly good and perfectly just. He is incomprehensible. He is pure love, pure beauty, pure truth. He is reality itself. He is infinitely powerful, infinitely strong. He knows all. He sees all. He contains all. HE. IS. GOD.
He is God, and we are not. He is infinite, and we are teeny, tiny, puny little finite specks. Therefore, we stand, kneel and fall down on our faces trembling in awe before Him. If you view God as a nebulous “life-force”, or a kindly, doddering old man in the sky, or an indifferent “watchmaker”, or your “buddy”, then you had better get your mind right post haste. Fear Him because He could snuff you out of existence, or even more terrifying, give you exactly what you deserve and cast you into hell, eternally separated from Him and His loving goodness, to rot alone for all eternity. If you do not have a servile fear of The Lord, then dollars to doughnuts says you don’t actually worship God, but rather yourself.
Now FILIAL FEAR. Filial fear can best be described as the fear of breaking someone’s heart by disappointment. God loves you. Infinitely. He knows your every thought, word and deed. He knows you better than you know yourself, because He cuts through all of the lies and delusions that we saturate ourselves with, thus blinding us to our true selves. This works in both directions. Not only can God see how truly awful we are; how manipulative, how dishonest, how prideful, how narcissistic, and how selfish we are; He can also see how wonderful we are. After all, He doesn’t make mistakes. Every person He creates in His own likeness and image. He sees you as He created you to be. To make an analogy, let’s take a person that is universally agreed to be physically beautiful. I dunno. Brad Pitt in his prime. Okay. Go with that. Let’s say that “Brad Pitt in his prime” is beautiful. Now, take “Brad Pitt in his prime” and cover him in dirt and grease, unwashed, unkempt, smelly and dirty. We know what Brad Pitt would look like if he was perfectly clean, and it is very, very good. So, in a sense, no matter how dirty and nasty you make “Brad Pitt in his prime”, we can still see through the dirt and grease, and we still know how beautiful he is under all of the filth and disorder. This is why God continues to love us no matter how much we sin, and thus why His mercy is always available and inexhaustible. A parent does not stop loving a child when they are dirty or sick. Parental love is likewise a reflection of God’s love for us.
So, knowing this, and knowing what God freely chose to do for us in His Incarnation, Passion and Death; knowing that God is Our Father, Brother and Divine Spouse, how can we not fear breaking His Most Sacred Heart? How can we not fear disappointing Him? How can we not fear nailing him to the Cross as He freely takes upon Himself all of our sins? What kind of a psychopath would one have to be to delude one’s self into believing that since one is “saved” one can now sin without care or worry since God is now “contractually obliged” to forgive you and receive you into heaven? Um, what about the Second Person of the Triune Godhead? What about Jesus Christ, scourged, crucified and dying? WHAT ABOUT THE FACT THAT EVERY ONE OF YOUR SINS BREAKS OUR LORD’S SACRED HEART? Do you care? Does that bother you? Do you even think about it? If you think salvation is a mere contract and that you need not worry about your sins, then you are completely lacking in FILIAL FEAR.
It is thought that at the Particular Judgment of every person, they are made to recount their entire lives and see how their thoughts, words and deeds conformed to God in his perfect goodness. Terrifyingly, we will also have to see the agony and suffering that Our Lord endured in His Passion and Death for us. We will somehow be made to know exactly how we made Him suffer, and how we wounded Him.
Fear this. Live every second of your life in fear of this. This fear is what will keep you from sin, and when you do sin, will make you truly sorry and get you into the confessional to beg for God’s mercy and pardon. This fear is what will help you navigate your way through this fallen world, this outpost of hell, with all of hell’s spawn roaming free and seeking the ruin of your soul. Fear the day when you will stand before Perfect Love, whipped until He is skinned and nailed to a tree FOR YOU.
Now, some might say that fearing God can only lead to a reduction in intimacy with Him. This is wrong, Wrong, WRONG. As intimacy with Our Lord increases, so does the filial fear. The more you know Him, and the more you love Him, the more you desire to NOT disappoint Him, much less nail Him to the Cross. We experience this dynamic amongst each other. We essentially don’t care what a stranger on the street thinks of us, but we certainly care about what someone we love thinks of us, and care more yet about what someone we are in love with thinks of us. The greater the love, the greater the filial fear.
Likewise, the more we ponder God’s enormousness, His vastness, His infinite depth and power, thus engendering a healthy and completely appropriate SERVILE FEAR, the more we then appreciate His Incarnation and the tenderness with which He loves us, which in turn leads us to greater filial fear. If God is just a big Golden Retriever in the Sky, or a conglomeration of the laws of physics, or a mere subset of your consciousness, then really, what does it matter? What does sin matter to a celestial pet, the laws of physics, or to you in the form of an imaginary friend?
Fear the Judgment. Fear our Awesome God. Fear the day when you are made to see and understand what exactly it is that you have done to Him. And then, avail yourself of His Infinite Mercy and Love through His Holy Church. Whining to your friends or a therapist, or to yourself in your head is NOT the Sacrament of Confession. Going to a rock concert/motivational speaking event on Sunday mornings is NOT the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. “Fellowship” is NOT reception of the physical substance of Our Lord into your body and soul in the Eucharist.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: His praise continueth for ever and ever.
-Psalm 110:10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence.
-Proverbs 9:10
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
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Here is the text in Latin and English of the troped Orbis Factor Kyrie posted yesterday that you all liked so much. You’ll like it even more when you hear the beautiful words… Sigh.
Latin:
1. Orbis factor rex aeterne, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
2. Pietatis fons immense, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
3. Noxas omnes nostras pelle, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
4. Christe qui lux es mundi dator vitae, eleison. Christe, eleison. Christe, eleison.
5. Arte laesos daemonis intuere, eleison. Christe, eleison. Christe, eleison.
6. Conservans te credentes confirmansque, eleison. Christe, eleison. Christe, eleison.
7. Deum scimus unum atque trinum esse, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
8. Patrem tuum teque flamen utrorumque, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
9. Clemens nobis adsis paraclite ut vivamus in te, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
English:
1. Maker of the world, King eternal, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us.
2. O immense source of pity, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us.
3. Drive off all our evils, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us.
4. Christ who art the light of the world and giver of life, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us.
5. Consider the wounds produced by the devil’s art, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us.
6. Keeping and confirming thy believers, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us.
7. We know that God is one and three, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us.
8. Thou and thy Father, an equal light, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us.
9. Thou, merciful unto us, art present with the Holy Spirit that we might live in thee, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us.
Another moving note from a male reader abandoned by his wife:
Dear Ann,
I enjoyed reading the email from the gentleman who spoke so well about the indissolubility of marriage, as did you. I also am the victim of an “unwanted and unnecessary divorce.” Despite having four children and a 28 year marriage, my wife abandoned it all with the approval and assistance of her parish priest and other parishioners. Her reason: She was never really in love and needed to find her personal fulfillment. That such an egoistic philosophy should be supported by any priest is jaw-dropping. I am now in the middle of a financially crippling and litigious court battle that has left my children utterly disillusioned with the validity of the Church. Despite a pleading letter to the Arch Bishop of Baltimore, I received no advocacy. We have fallen so far.
By drawing an analogy between human marriage and that great act of spousal love displayed by the selfless act of Christ on the cross, you made evident the true archetype of Christian marriage. I, like your reader, have chosen to continue in my vows, knowing that they may never again be reciprocated. Christ’s marriage vow to us that “He will never leave us or forsake us” remains the only true lifeline. That these words were spoken to souls in human flesh, who fall daily, perhaps even by the minute, makes it all the more precious.
In Christ,
B
I post this because I want the B’s of the world to know that they are not alone, and to remind the general populace that men are, in my opinion, the greater victims of the post-Christian no-fault divorce culture. Believe me, the story Bill tells is positively endemic in the Baby Boomer generation. We all know middle and upper-middle class women who have callously abandoned their marriage solely because they wanted to be “free” and “recapture the youth that was stolen from them”. Many of these women are encouraged to do this by so-called “therapists”, of whom my contempt knows no bounds. Also, these women time their divorces so that they strike while their husband is in the peak of his earning years – usually the late 40s or early 50s, thus callously scheming to maximize their alimony and property packages. In today’s feminized, devirilized culture, men are always painted as the wrong-doers, and women are the universal victims. This is so wrong. There are countless men who have been and will be utterly blindsided by their larcenous wives in this way, and are helpless to stop it, both in the civil courts, and most sickeningly, also in the rotting-on-the-vine Novus Ordo wing of the Church.
The only thing I can say to these men (and also women to whom this happens) is to unite your marital sufferings to Our Lord and Divine Spouse, abandoned, denied and persecuted in His Sorrowful Passion. God Almighty has been through exactly the same thing that you are going through, only worse, and on a far bigger scale. There is nothing that could ever be of greater consolation than that truth, which is all a derivative function of the Incarnation, which we continue to celebrate in these 40 days of Christmas.
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
Here is a unique Kyrie that I have been listening to of late. You Tridentine Mass-goers will recognize the melody. This Kyrie however, is troped, which means there are text insertions between the Kyries. We are highly, highly in favor of troped Kyries. This one goes on for almost six minutes. In my opinion, the Kyrie simply cannot go on long enough. And you will also notice that this is stylistically … different. The most notable features are the drone (I like droning – it sounds very Eastern) and the melodic flourishes. Again, it has an almost Byzantine flavor that I find intriguing. Sadly there is no way to know if this is really what chant sounded like over a thousand years ago, because there was no notation at that time. Ah well. It is a fun listen, inasmuch as begging Almighty God to have mercy on us can be “fun”. You know what I mean.
Kyrie eleison. (Lord have mercy)
Christe eleison. (Christ have mercy)
Kyrie eleison. (Lord have mercy)
1. Many, many thanks to all of you who have mirrored and uploaded my Islamic Sexuality and other videos to YouTube. It has been wonderful to see all of those copies populating on YouTube over the last several days. We definitely made lemonade out of lemons in the battlespace! I don’t care how many views I get on my own channel. All I care about is getting this information out and in front of as many people as possible so that the whole “islam is a religion” lie can be killed within this generation. But I have to admit, it is pretty cool to (help) lead that charge. And let it be a lesson to one and all: yes, one person CAN make a difference. One person CAN initiate and lead a successful campaign against a 1400 year old satanic, perverted, militaristic political system. And all it took was a video camera and a little courage. Now, imagine what an entire civilization could achieve if it just stopped being afraid, trusted in God, and stood manfully against evil. Sigh.
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2. On to the death threat from the stupid musloid kids in Fairfax, Virginia. Some would say, “Oh Ann, as a Christian you have to forgive the kids and take their info down.” Stop. You are conflating the concepts of forgiveness and permissiveness. Perhaps better stated, you are conflating MERCY with permissiveness. I can forgive the stupid kids, and in fact, have. BUT, it is precisely because I am NOT INDIFFERENT to them and their eternal fates that they MUST feel the consequences of their actions. I actually spoke to the boy the day after the incident and he was fake-crying and “swearing on Jesus” that he would never do it again. Damn right, you won’t. Why? Because he was made to know the consequences of his evil, stupid, satanic actions. IF however, I had called off the dogs, what would he have learned? That he can “get away with it”, that all he need do is fake-cry and invoke the name of Our Lord and all Christians will instantly roll over. In this case, these kids need desperately to learn about justice, and the most merciful thing I can do is help teach them that lesson. I am reminded of Dr. John Senior’s quote on justice now:
Justice is simply the social good, and it must therefore be done. It is defined as “giving each his due” – cuique sum, “to each his own.” A man is due his life because he is a living thing; it is his nature to have life; and, since it is also his nature to be moral, if a man commits a crime, he must be punished because punishment is retributive – punishment is the penalty due the criminal in justice to him. Proportioned punishment is due him, too, and you cannot deny him that right without yourself committing an injustice against him deserving punishment in turn. The judge who fails the criminal in punishment himself incurs a greater guilt.
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3. This email just in from a male reader on the topic of the indissolubility of marriage:
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
(I have received emails complaining about the trespasses-debts wording. Solution? I’ll post the Latin, y’all can learn the Latin, and then we can all just say it in Latin together. One Church. One language. It is SO much easier, sensible and unifying that way. God is good and merciful in His desire for a liturgical language that transcends all of the myriad local languages, thus unwinding the unfortunate events around the unfortunate Tower of Babel incident.)
PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
It is probably a bit easier to learn it in the context of chant. There’s something about the presence of a melody that facilitates learning and memorization. The only quibble I have with this video is the translator uses “your’ instead of “thy”. As we have previously discussed, in English, “you” is actually the FORMAL second person pronoun, where as “thou”, “thee”, “thy” and “thine” are the INTIMATE, or INFORMAL second-person pronouns. Our Lord spoke and the scriptures reflect that the second person intimate pronouns are correct. Our Lord speaks to us in the familiar, and more remarkably, but in complete keeping with His words to us in John 15:15 and in the Lord’s Prayer itself, beginning with the words “our FATHER”, that we are on intimate terms in BOTH directions. To translate scripture into english WITHOUT the “archaic” thee-thy-thou pronouns is to destroy a massive theological point and stunning reality. God is indeed OUR FATHER, and our Brother, and our Divine Spouse.
If anyone wants to follow up on this, (703) 622-0373 just called my phone number listed on the Contact page and told me they were going to “come and kill me”. Well, good luck with that, kids. It was one male and one female, young adults. I’m just tickled that it was in the D.C./Arlington area! Woot! Movin’ on up, yo!
UPDATE: What excellent readers! Caller I.D.’d as AZHAR RAFAT of Fairfax, VA. I told you they were all riding an I.Q. bellcurve shifted two standard deviations to the left. This is what happens when your dad is also your uncle for thirty generations: you can’t understand the subtle nuances of CALLER I.D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09qnRfZY-k
Okay. I have received the following from YouTube:
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AND this, which I don’t understand because I disable all comments on my videos and always have:
Regarding your account: AnnBarnhardt
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So, what I need is for you guys to either mirror other mirrored versions of my Islamic Sexuality videos that are already on YouTube and repost them to YouTube, LiveLeak and whatever other online video servers there are, AND/OR buy the DVD version from NewPixel Productions and then upload that content. The more this is done the better. I would also recommend naming the files including my name and the words “Islamic Sexuality”. The entire original filename was “Ann Barnhardt: Islamic Sexuality; A Survey Of Evil”.
You have to start thinking tactically, and especially learn how to turn the adversary’s minor moves into huge victories. When something “bad” happens, the first thing you should think is NOT, “Oh, this is terrible!” Look, the enemy is going to do what the enemy is going to do. The first thought you should have is, “Okay, how do I turn this development in the battlespace into a huge win for me?”
Bottom line, what I have just described is a masculine, aggressive, proactive, offensive posture. Lean forward. Step INTO your punch. Always advance. “Prevent defense” is WORSE than surrender. If the forces of evil to advance against you, hoist the Banner of Christ, charge into his ranks at full speed and make him regret the day of his own birth.
Take your balls out of the pickle jar on top of your teevee and execute like a baws.
And since I am not actually anyone’s CO, I will offer my sincere thanks for your help in advance and not wait for the surrender ceremony when our victory has been secured. 🙂
That is all.