First, Deacon Nick Donnelly tweeted my words for me:
A thing cannot be simultaneously itself and its negation, boys. Pull ya pants up. 🤣
Do you LIKE the Bible?
Thank St. Jerome (died 30 September ARSH 420). He was fluent in… everything, so he was tasked with doing a definitive Latin translation of everything in preparation for setting the Canon of Scripture. Hence, we have to this day St. Jerome’s translation which synthesized perfectly the Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic original texts. I use St. Jerome’s translation, which is the official version of The Church, called the “Vulgate”, translated into modern English, which is called the “Douay-Rheims”.
St. Jerome was known for not being… cuddly. Hence, I always think of him as Grumpycat.
Now, be inspired by St. Jerome’s grumpy wisdom. Be attentive!
It is our part to seek,
His to grant what we ask;
ours to make a beginning,
His to bring it to completion;
ours to offer what we can,
His to finish what we cannot.
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
Grumpy, but holy.
Today is the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, commonly called “Michaelmas” in the Anglosphere up until not too long ago. Michaelmas was one of the four Quarter Days, upon which rents were due, employees were hired and school terms began. The four Feasts that are Quarter Days are:
March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, considered the first day of the new fiscal year and the beginning of spring
June 24, Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the end of the spring quarter/term and beginning of summer
September 29, Feast of St. Michael, Michaelmas, the end of summer and beginning of the fall quarter/term
December 25, Christmas, the end of the fall term/quarter, the beginning of deep winter
If you’re following current events, you’ve probably noticed that within the past few weeks with the rap/hip-hop world and media and entertainment generally being exposed finally as a satanic, sodomite cult from the very beginning, there has been a rapid increase in open revelations and discussions among secularists of Satanism, the demonic, demonic rites, human sacrifice and preternatural control of massive structures and industries through both blackmail and ritual “selling of one’s soul”, as well as the huge increase of satanism and unrepentant evil, always connected to sodomy and intense sexual depravity, in the media. (Star Wars “The Acolyte” lesbian space witches, and MCU “Agatha” lesbian witches with one boy faggot warlock, to name just two).
Then there is the nexus of evil in the world today, the principal hellmouth, Washington DC, and…
Antipope Bergoglio and the satanic, Marxist, sodomitical Antichurch now occupying the Vatican, where “all religions, including atheism, lead to ‘g’od (aka Satan), EXCEPT Traditional, orthodox Catholicism, which must be suppressed and exterminated.”
Everything, including sodomy and atheism, is to be tolerated and embraced except the Truth.
Bottom line: we REALLY need more St. Michael in our lives.
This is an open book test, folks. Not only is it not difficult, but the answers are literally right in front of you, highlighted, with The Teacher standing next to you pointing at the answers. There is no excuse to fail an open book test.
I highly recommend for us in these days this Chaplet, which enjoins not only St. Michael, but ALL of the choirs of angels, especially YOUR guardian angel.
And… GO TO CONFESSION.
• Sign of the Cross (In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.)
• The chaplet begins with the following invitation: O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”
(Say one Our Father and three Hail Marys after each of the following nine salutations in honor of the nine Choirs of Angels)
• 1. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Seraphim may the Lord make us worthy to burn with the fire of perfect charity.
Amen. (Our Father, Three Hail Marys)
• 2. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Cherubim may the Lord grant us the grace to leave the ways of sin and run in the paths of Christian perfection.
Amen. (Our Father, Three Hail Marys)
• 3. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Thrones may the Lord infuse into our hearts a true and sincere spirit of humility.
Amen. (Our Father, Three Hail Marys)
• 4. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Dominations may the Lord give us grace to govern our senses and overcome any unruly passions.
Amen. (Our Father, Three Hail Marys)
• 5. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Virtues may the Lord preserve us from evil and falling into temptation.
Amen. (Our Father, Three Hail Marys)
• 6. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Powers may the Lord protect our souls against the snares and temptations of the devil.
Amen. (Our Father, Three Hail Marys)
• 7. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Principalities may God fill our souls with a true spirit of obedience. Amen.
(Our Father, Three Hail Marys)
• 8. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Archangels may the Lord give us perseverance in faith and in all good works in order that we may attain the glory of Heaven.
Amen. (Our Father, Three Hail Marys)
• 9. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Angels may the Lord grant us to be protected by them in this mortal life and conducted in the life to come to Heaven.
Amen. (Our Father, Three Hail Marys)
• (Four Our Fathers. One in honor of each of the following leading Angels: St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael and our Guardian Angel.)
• O glorious prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the Divine King and our admirable conductor, you who shine with excellence and superhuman virtue deliver us from all evil, who turn to you with confidence and enable us by your gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day.
• Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of His promises.
• Almighty and Everlasting God, Who, by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, has appointed the most glorious Archangel St. Michael Prince of Your Church, make us worthy, we ask You, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into Your Presence.This we ask through the merits of Jesus Christ Our Lord.
Amen
Women shouldn’t have the right to vote for myriad reasons, but at the top of the list is the female proclivity towards emotion at the total expense of logic and reason, and thus hysteria.
The problem today isn’t that half of the population is female, because there SHOULD be a balance between male and female- even a healthy complementarity. The softness and empathy of morally sane women living in the State of Grace should inform and balance their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons, who then cast votes and provide political and administrative leadership in Christian society.
The reason our culture and society is corkscrewing into the ground is that the men have become FEMININE themselves. I coined the term “heterosexual faggotry” to describe this. So if your culture is dominated by women AND feminized men that have had their masculinity browbeaten and now literally chemically purged out of them since they were toddlers, forming a monolithic block where emotions rule, logic and reason are despised, and hysteria is the default response, and there is no masculine complementarity to offset much less balance, you’re done as a civilization.
Welcome to our world. Brought to you by… women’s suffrage.
Here’s the essay, which I originally saw at IOTWreport.com .
Second half of the Offertory of the Requiem Mass
Pope St. Linus, pray for us, and for the Petrine See, vacant these 632 days and counting.
Meet St. Maurice, or Mauritius. Today is his Feast, and you need to know ALL about him. St. Maurice was the leader of the elite Roman Theban Legion headquartered in Egypt. The Theban Legion was comprised of 6,666 men, who all converted, with their commander Maurice, to Christianity en masse late in the Third Century. Emperor Maximian ordered the Theban Legion from Egypt to France in order to put down a peasant revolt.
When the Theban Legion arrived in France, Maximian ordered them to start persecuting Christians. The Theban Legion, led by Maurice, REFUSED TO OBEY MAXIMIAN’S ORDERS. Ahem. Cough.
Maximian ordered a decimation of the Theban Legion as punishment. The actual meaning of the word “decimation” means to kill one out of every ten men. After Maximian’s men had killed every tenth Theban, Maximian again issued orders for the Thebans to persecute Christians. Under Maurice’s virile, manful, authoritative and inspiring leadership, the Theban Legion stood firm and still refused Maximian’s orders, even though it meant certain death. Ahem. Cough.
Maximian ordered the entire remaining Theban Legion killed to the last man in what is now present-day St. Maurice-en-Valais, Switzerland.
Now, look at the picture above. St. Maurice is the soldier in the middle in full battle armor, manfully grasping his ASSAULT WEAPON as he consults with St. Erasmus, on the left.
St. Maurice was a black African. He wasn’t a north African. He was a sub-Saharan black man.
St. Maurice was HUGE in the Church, and was THE patron saint of the Holy Roman Emperors. In fact, the Holy Roman Emperors knelt and were anointed before the altar of St. Maurice at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The Austro-Hungarian emperors used St. Maurice’s spurs and sword (assault weapon) as an integral part of their coronation rite until ARSH 1916.
Compare this to the pathetic, flaccid, supine pseudo-men of today who can’t even figure out if Antipope Bergoglio is a heretic, much less an apostate, much less an Antipope usurper, much less the likely False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist. It’s just sickening.
St. Maurice, pray for us.
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.
(I’m also going to include a picture of this famous statue of St. Maurice purely for its “trigger” value.)
Isaiah 3:12
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.