Today is the feast of St. Francis de Sales.

“While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.”
-St. Francis de Sales

UPDATE: I knew it wouldn’t take long. Well done, everyone! May God reward you! The Communion of Saints exists in the Church Militant, too! I’m sure the Sisters have a whole list of items their nascent community could use, so don’t be dissuaded from donating and giving them some extra windfall in these final days of Christmastide!

They’re almost there. Let’s get it done tonight, y’all. With maybe a little extra money to boot. 😇🙏🏻

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Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

-St. John Chrysostom

Happy Feast of St. John Chrysostom!

Years ago, before the CoronaScam Crime Against Humanity, as I was walking to Mass one evening, some jerk sexually propositioned me as I walked past his storefront. This rarely happens to me because I never leave the house dressed in anything other than what modern people literally consider formal-wear, and that sort of dress and comportment rarely receives gutter attention. Dress like a lady, be treated like a lady. Dress like a skank, be treated like a skank. Dress like a slob, be treated like a slob.

After Mass, I stopped into a nice sushi bar for a quick dinner, and the owner/manager before seating me leaned in and said, “Can I ask you something?” And I thought, “Here we go again. You’ve gotta be kidding me…”

Cynically, I was expecting something lascivious having been lasciviously addressed just a couple of hours before. Here is what he said:

“We see you walk past here every day, and you’re always so HAPPY. Why are you so HAPPY?”

“Because I live here, I get to eat sushi, and I get to go to the Latin Mass every day.”

“There is a Latin Mass? Here? Where?”

I told him, and then I ate sushi, as one does.

Unagi roll!!!

The highest prayer is The Mass. Next is the Divine Office. The next highest prayer is the Rosary, which is actually a proxy for the Divine Office in a sense. The Rosary is called “Our Lady’s Psalter” because the 150 Hail Marys (15 Mysteries X 10 Hail Marys per Mystery) map to the 150 Psalms, and thus could be the layman’s participation in the Divine Office.

St. John Chrysostom wasn’t blowing smoke. If you pray, you’re happy, you’re confident, and you’re at ease. Because if you pray, you aren’t scared or worried. You know Who is in charge, and you know that He loves you, and is driving everything toward greater good and ultimately total consummation. You trust Him, and are abandoned totally to His Providence, which is always perfect.

St. John Chrysostom, pray for us!

Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us!

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us!

(Originally penned and posted eight years ago today, 25 January, ARSH 2017. I keep reposting this on The Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, of which it is the Epistle reading,  precisely because “kicking against the goads” is such a massive, massive problem of moral failure among men today. The right thing has to be done. The Truth MUST be acknowledged, sooner or later. Fighting it, trying to avoid it, trying to kick the can down the road and foist unacknowledged disaster off on future generations is just about the most effeminate act there is. IT JUST MAKES EVERYTHING EXPONENTIALLY WORSE. The only way out is through, and the “through” is The Cross. –Alpha Bravo ’25)

The Conversion of St. Paul on the Road to Damascus, detail. Caravaggio, ARSH 1601, Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome.

Today is the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

Nearly all Protestant Bibles and Post-Vatican II Bibles delete the words of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to Saul in Acts 9:5. The full verse of Acts 9:5 is:

VERSE 4:  And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?
Et cadens in terram audivit vocem dicentem sibi: Saule, Saule, quid me persequeris?

VERSE 5:  Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And He: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.
Qui dixit: Quis es Domine? Et ille: Ego sum Jesus, quem tu persequeris: durum est tibi contra stimulum calcitrare.

What does “It is hard for thee to kick against the goad” mean??

A goad is a type of cattle prod, a stick with a sharp iron tip that was used to drive oxen pulling a plow in antiquity. You might have heard the verb “to goad”, as in, “She goaded her husband into buying her a fur coat.” The way the goad worked, if the ox kicked at it to resist it, it would actually drive further into its flesh.  So, the more the ox tried to resist the prod of its master, the more it suffered. In this saying, Christ is referencing a well-known ancient Greek proverb:

“To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.”
-Pindar (died 438 B.C.)

See how that ties directly to Our Blessed Lord’s use of the imagery of the yoke in Matthew 11…?

VERSE 29: Take up My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls.
Tollite jugum meum super vos, et discite a me, quia mitis sum, et humilis corde: et invenietis requiem animabus vestris.

VERSE 30: For My yoke is sweet and My burden light.
Jugum enim meum suave est, et onus meum leve.

The more we resist the Truth of Jesus Christ and His Holy Church, of which The Law is an integral part, the more we suffer, and the harsher God’s discipline necessarily becomes.

Proverbs 13:15 says, “The way of the unfaithful is hard…” and Proverbs 15:10 says, “Stern discipline awaits him who leaves the path.”

The reason that Antipope Bergoglio is so popular with “the world” is because he ratifies and confirms people in their mortal sin, most particularly those sins relating to the Sixth Commandment, and also because it is very clear that he DOESN’T ACTUALLY BELIEVE ANY OF THAT CATHOLIC “BULLSHIT”, thus ratifying and confirming all of those who are heretics and apostates within The Church, are outside The Church, have left The Church, and atheists.  They falsely believe that Bergoglio is The Vicar of Christ, or at least a legitimate representative of The Church, and that he is finally confirming that the Natural and Divine Law is not only BULLSHIT, but that they will be HAPPIER and their lives EASIER and BETTER if they break it, and he, Bergoglio, is their “all-merciful liberator” from it. What Antipope Bergoglio is trying to do is vilify and suppress the conscience of man such that it is totally silenced and replaced with sensual, material, earthly, effeminate, narcissistic, concupiscent pleasure as the only metric by which man weighs and judges his decisions.

This is, quite simply, SATANIC, and if one STILL can’t see that Antipope Bergoglio is a man wholly in league with satan, actively seeking the ruin of souls, then I reckon one never will.

Ever wonder why sex perverts become more and more miserable, many unto suicide, despite the fact that our depraved culture hails them as heroes?  Why did multi-millionaire celebrity pop singer George Michael, as just one example, despite all of his wealth, popularity and complete cultural acceptance, cruise filthy public toilets for sodomy with strangers, and ultimately kill himself with alcohol and hard drugs, crack cocaine being his purported favorite?  Why do transvestites, today held up as heroes and as superior beings, have one of the highest suicide rates in the world? Why are psychopathic arch-criminals like John Corzine and Hillary Clinton, among so many others, so consistently horrible, miserable, cruel, abusive, evil people behind closed doors? Ever wonder why divorce rates skyrocketed after the introduction and social acceptance of birth control in the 1960s?

Because it is hard to kick against the goad.

Now you know what that means.

And please, get yourself a Bible that includes EVEYTHING, properly translated, and when you see some word or phrase you don’t understand, LOOK IT UP.  This pretty much means, for English speakers, a Douay-Rheims Bible.

Here is an online version:  www.DRBO.org

St. Paul, pray for us.

Christ, have mercy on us.

And this was obvious as early as February 2020 when they were already saying that they would have a “vaccine” for a “novel virus” that HADN’T EVEN ARRIVED IN THE U.S.

Beyond that, five minutes of research on mRNA technology and Moderna would clearly show you that not only was mRNA technology a complete failure that simply did not work in any context, but that it was also HIGHLY and CUMULATIVELY TOXIC, and had never gotten out of animal trials because it KILLED THE ANIMALS.

So… yeah. A little late asking, “What’s in my arm.” Yo.

The question is, will these idiots fall for this AGAIN as Warp Speed Daddy launches phase two of the mRNA death injections with the psycho Ellison, Gates and Stargate A.I. serving as the scapegoat? You know they’ll blame everything on the computers this time. No need for pardons. It will all be the fault of those pesky computers, darn it.

Some language here:

👀 Andrew Schulz Panics Over Fauci's Pardon

"What's in my arm? Why are you taking a pardon on what's in my arm? … You told me I need to put some sh*t in my arm. Now you can't go get pardoned … What's about to come out??" pic.twitter.com/cL6WdPHfuV

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 22, 2025

The philosopher he references is PETER KREEFT. I highly recommend Kreeft’s writings.

I’ve never heard anyone else put the context of the evilness of abortion so prophetically as he did. 🥹 pic.twitter.com/u2HGOPXbKQ

— Talk Church (@churchtalkative) January 20, 2025

To cleanse the palate, here is a reminder: REAL MEN KNEEL BEFORE THE EUCHARISTIC LORD. God bless and protect the Swiss Guards, many of whom are Traditionalists.

Interesting fact: when we genuflect to The Lord we put the left foot front and touch the right knee to the ground. If we live to see another Pope after Pope Benedict, and you should have an audience with the Pope, you genuflect when greeting the Pope with the right foot forward and left knee down to differentiate between Christ’s Vicar on Earth and Christ Himself. The Swiss Guard here isn’t double genuflecting (both knees down) before The elevated Host because he is wearing a sword on his left hip, and he is at the ready to leap up and physically defend The Lord and those present, as is his job. Everyone else except the Celebrant (singular!) SHOULD be kneeling on both knees at the Consecration.

I’m genuinely concerned that folks are going to totally relax and rest on their laurels, convinced that Trump is going to “save us”, and even worse that “Trump can do no wrong.”

I’m delighted and relieved that the J6 hostages are all released.

I’m overjoyed that he has ended Birthright Citizenship.

I’m ecstatic that he has abolished “Didn’t Earn It” in FEDGOV.

I’m over the moon that he has declared that there are two sexes.

I’m thrilled that he has withdrawn the former U.S. from the WHO and the Paris Accords.

It’s a good start.

I’m sickened that he’s rubbing shoulders with Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos., Cook, etc.

I’m disgusted that Trump launched a “crypto token” on Friday, the fakest fake money in a world totally awash in fake money, which allegedly puts his net worth at $58 billion… up from $1 billion… in 48 hours. Nigerian romance scammers are more credible.

It’s vomitous that he’s constantly winking at the sodomites by using “YMCA” as his principal theme song. 🤢🤮🤮🤮 And why would he have “Snoop Dogg” perform at an inauguration gala?

It’s heartbreaking that Melania released a book revealing herself to be a militant pro-infant slaughter partisan.

We’re all still waiting for any sort of apology for “Operation Warp Speed”. Tens of millions of people (and counting) killed by the death jabs were unavailable for comment.

I’ve received angry emails from those who think he can do no wrong, which I clearly don’t believe, and from those who think he didn’t swear on the two Bibles because he has converted to Talmudic Judaism, which I also don’t believe barring hard evidence.

Bottom line, yesterday, today and tomorrow:

Nolite confidere in principibus, in filiis hominum, in quibus non est salus.

Put not your trust in princes: In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

Psalm 145: 2-3

Interestingly, it doesn’t seem like Trump placed his hand on the Bible while swearing in.

Why do you think that is? pic.twitter.com/7CZb0oxqgt

— Donnie Discerned (@DonnieDarkened) January 20, 2025

And there are two books. What exactly are they?

Stay confessed.