St. John Eudes will always be a favorite because he has one of the most informative and explicatory quotes about what is happening to us, the Church and the world.  He simply and directly answers the question, “My God, why is this happening?”:

“The most evident mark of God’s anger, and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world, is manifest when He permits His people to fall into the hands of a clergy who are more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds. They abandon the things of God to devote themselves to the things of the world and, in their saintly calling of holiness, they spend their time in profane and worldly pursuits. When God permits such things, it is a very positive proof that He is thoroughly angry with His people and is visiting His most dreadful wrath upon them.” 
–Saint John Eudes 

Only truly malignant and totally blind narcissists could possibly claim that “I dindu nuffin to deserve this!” Oh, every one of us is guilty to one degree or another. Remember the ways that one can be complicit in sin:

1. By counsel (to give advice, one’s opinion or instructions.)

2. By command (to demand, to order, such as in the military.)

3. By consent (to give permission, to approve, to agree to.)

4. By provocation (to dare.)

5. By praise or flattery (to cheer, to applaud, to commend.)

6. By concealment (to hide the action, to cover-up.)

7. By partaking (to take part, to participate.)

8. By silence (by playing dumb, by remaining quiet.)

9. By defense of the ill done (to justify, to argue in favour.)

(Note: To participate in the sins of another person means that one is just as guilty of the sin as the one who committed them. For example, if you encourage someone to have an abortion, you are guilty of the sin of abortion.)

Always beware the man who refuses to say those three little words: mea maxima culpa. Beware the man who declares that Jesus Christ and His Holy Catholic Church aren’t worthy of his presence, thus inverting the Domine non sum dignus into “Lord, You are not worthy to enter under my roof…” Talk about total, satanic inversion….

Here is another quote from St. John Eudes on the effect of our sins on Our Lord’s Sacred Heart.  Read it well.

The first cause of those most painful Wounds in the Sacred Heart of Our Redeemer is our sins. We read in the life of Saint Catherine of Genoa that one day God let her see the horror of one tiny venial sin. She assures us that, although this vision lasted but a moment, she saw nevertheless an object so frightening that the blood froze in her veins and she swooned away in an agony that would have killed her if God had not preserved her to relate to others what she had seen. Wherefore she declared that if she were in the very depths of a sea of flaming fire and it were in her power to be set free, on condition that she should once more behold such a spectacle, she would choose to remain rather than to escape. If the sight of the smallest venial sin brought this saint to such a pass, what must we think of the state to which Our Saviour was reduced by seeing all the sins of the universe? He had them continually before His Eyes, and His vision being infinitely more powerful than that of Saint Catherine, He could behold infinitely more horror.

He saw the immeasurable insult and dishonour it caused His Father; He saw the damnation of a countless number of souls resulting from those sins. As He had infinite love for His Father and His creatures, the sight of all those sins rent His Heart with countless Wounds, such that if we were able to count all the sins of men, which are more numerous than the drops of water in the sea, we would then be able to count the Wounds of the loving Heart of Jesus.

The second cause of His Wounds is the infinite love of His Sacred Heart for all of His children, and His constant vision of all the afflictions and sufferings that are to happen to them, especially all the torments that His holy martyrs are to suffer. When a mother watches her beloved child suffering, she feels the pain more keenly than the child. Our Saviour’s love for us is so tremendous that if the love of all parents were centred in a single heart, it would not represent even a spark of the love for us that burns in His Heart. Our pains and sorrows, ever present to His vision and seen most clearly and distinctly, were so many Wounds bleeding in His paternal Heart. These Wounds were so painful and deep that they would have caused His death a thousand times over, even immediately after His birth, if He had not miraculously preserved Himself, because during His whole earthly life His Sacred Heart was continually pierced by many mortal Wounds of love.

Therefore we have the greatest obligation to honour the gracious Heart that sustained so many Wounds of love for us. With what affection should we embrace, and endure all our afflictions, out of love for Jesus, our Saviour, since He first bore them for love of us! Should they not be most sweet to us, since they have already passed through His most gentle and loving Heart? What a horror we should have of our sins that have caused so many Wounds and such intense grief to the divine Heart of our Redeemer!

Let us learn from the foregoing example that it is not our Redeemer’s fault if we are lost. There are hearts so hard that, even if Jesus Himself were to come down from heaven to preach to them and they were to see Him covered with Wounds and bathed in His Blood, they would still not be converted.

O my God, let us not be one of them, but give us the grace to open our ears to the voice of all the sacred Wounds of Your Body and Your Heart, which are so many mouths through which You call us unceasingly: ‘Redite, prævaricatores, ad cor — Return, transgressors, to the heart’, which means to My Heart that is all yours, since I have given it entirely to you. Return to that most loving Heart of your Father, which is full of love and mercy for you, which will receive you home, heaping upon you blessings.

Today is the Feast of St. Joachim, father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lord’s grandfather.

Long story short, Joachim and Anne were childless, and thought that this was a sign of God’s displeasure. St. Joachim went off and did penance, and God, His ways being unsearchable and perfect, told St. Joachim to go home to St. Anne, and they would conceive a child. At the same time St. Anne was told in a locution to go meet her husband at the Golden Gate, and that they would conceive.

This image is by Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, and is stunning in its bold depiction of marital love. Especially for ARSH 1305.

The Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived naturally in the marital embrace, albeit without the stain of Original Sin. But she was conceived naturally by her elderly, up-until-then barren parents. The Embrace at the Golden Gate communicates with subtle yet unmistakable clarity the marital love and even “romance” between these Saints, and their kiss is symbolic of the subsequent conjugal act that resulted in the Immaculate Conception.

It is especially edifying to see this in these dark days wherein anything to do with the marital embrace is being warped, twisted and perverted, and we’re all at risk of becoming totally cynical, or already are, with regards to marriage and its fruits.

Romeo and Juliet? Phuff. For REAL romance, it’s Joachim and Anne.

I promised a longtime reader I would post this today. This composition is from the 11th Century. Listen and remember that you have been taught for your entire life by “enlightened” American culture that these were the “Dark Ages”. What a lie. Look out your window and behold a truly Dark Age, abominable and desolate. 

Enjoy, and happy Feast of the Assumption. 

Hail mother of Mercy, mother of God and mother of Pardon, mother of Hope and mother of Grace, mother full of holy gladness. O Mary! 

Hail, honor of mankind. Hail worthier Virgin than the others because you surpass all of them and in heaven you occupy the highest seat of honor. O Mary! 

Hail Blessed Virgin yet bearing child: For He who sits at the Father’s right hand, The ruler of heaven, of earth and sky, has sheltered Himself in your womb. O Mary! 

Become, O mother, our solace: Be for us our source of joy, and at the last, after this exile, unite us rejoicing to the choir of angels. O Mary!

Happy Vigil of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Body and Soul, into heaven!

If you would like read about the incredibly cool SCIENCE that goes with this Great Feast, CLICK HERE. That essay, which is included in my paperback apologetics book, has, over the years, spurred the investigation and ultimately the conversion of numerous people.

Folks, it is TOTALLY okay to be attracted to Jesus Christ and His Holy Church intellectually; by science, or even mathematics. “The heavens show forth the glory of God…” Also, Prime Number Theory shows forth the glory of God. And in this case, CELLULAR BIOLOGY shows forth the glory of God.

If you read the FIRST essay and want even more COOL and simultaneously heart-rending science on the same topic, CLICK HERE. You won’t be sorry.

Every year at the Holy and August Sacrifice of the Mass on the Feast of the Assumption, I am gobsmacked by the Lesson – from the Old Testament book of Judith, one of the books “censored” by the arch-heresiarch fornicator priest, who probably committed suicide, Martin Luther. Reading this, you can see why that wretched forerunner of the Antichrist tried to conceal it.

Folks, read this as if it were written to speak directly to us, in these days of unprecedented darkness, because in a very real way, it was.

SHE. WINS.

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Lesson

Lesson from the book of Judith

Judith 13:22-25; 15:10

The Lord has blessed you by His power, because by you He has brought our enemies to nought. Blessed are you, O daughter, by the Lord the Most High God, above all women upon the earth. Blessed be the Lord Who made heaven and earth, Who has directed you to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies, because He has so magnified your name this day, that your praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men, who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord forever; for you have not spared your life, by reason of the distress and tribulation of your people, but have prevented our ruin in the presence of our God. You are the glory of Jerusalem, you are the joy of Israel, you are the honor of our people.

R. Thanks be to God.

SHE. WINS.

In the year ARSH 1240, the beautiful Italian noblewoman Clare of Assisi who had become a nun after hearing St. Francis preach, saved her convent and all the sisters therein from a massive hoard of musloid invaders – mercenaries from then-musloid Sicily paid by Emperor Frederick II to exert his control over the Italian peninsula.  How did she do it?  With the musloids putting ladders against the walls of the convent preparing to enter and… do what musloids do to women – can you imagine the abject terror the dear sisters and Clare must have felt? – brave Clare went to Our Lord and placed Him in a monstrance and then carried Him herself out to the walls, where she placed Him in view of the musloid mercenaries.  Clare and the sisters then fell down prostrate before Our Lord Jesus Christ, physically, substantially present in the Holy Eucharist, and prayed.  At this sight, a wave of fear crashed over the musloids and they dropped everything, turned, and fled.  The sisters and Assisi were saved.  It was a miracle.

St. Clare of Assisi, repeller of musloid hordes, pray for us.

Now, WAS THAT SO HARD?

This is a good step. People will cite +Vigano’s fake “excommunication” from the Bergoglian Antichurch as discrediting him, but I think at this point faithful Catholics who aren’t financially dependent upon remaining in the public “good graces” of the institutional Antichurch and are thus blinded by their own unwillingness to suffer, know perfectly well that Antipope Bergoglio and Touchme Fagnandez have as much genuine authority in the Catholic Church as Kim and Khloe Kardashian. In fact, I’m still seriously awaiting my own “official” Antichurch document of “excommunication”. I would frame it and carry it up to the Communion Rail with me every time I made a Sacramental Communion to show to Our Lord. 😇

+Vigano makes several excellent points in this statement.:

-A holy Pope would/will declare Vatican II a failed council and declare it null

-A holy Pope would/will abrogate the Novus Ordo Mass, obviously

-The Third Secret almost certainly regards a “bad council and bad Mass”. Again, pretty obvious.

-+Viganò calls out the SSPX for their sloth and effeminacy for playing nicey-nice with the Bergoglian Antichurch. Hear hear!

-Viganò rightly shoots down 1958 Sedevacantism, and then uses a turn of phrase which I REALLY like and will use myself: “Even if it is appropriate to suspend … judgment on the popes of the Council, it is necessary to put everything that they have produced ‘in parenthesis’ so to speak,”

That’s exactly right. Everything in this past Vatican II/Novus Ordo/Bergogkian Antipapacy epoch will obviously all go “in parentheses” for all of history. It’s clearly a state of emergency exception.

Do click over and read/watch the whole thing.

And shout-out to Dr. Mazza, NonVeniMark, and all of the other people of good will who have been beating this drum for going on a decade now. This is no time to back off. Quite the opposite. We must lean FORWARD into this momentum. We must never let up, because as I’m sure you’ve noticed, evil never lets up, never relents. We must match and exceed evil’s effort until evil is completely crushed under Our Lady’s heel.

Let’s GOOOO!!!

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-vigano-bergoglio-is-an-anti-pope-benedicts-resignation-was-certainly-invalid/

If you’re interested, I have three videos on the Bergoglian Antipapacy: Part 1 (ARSH 2018), Part 2 (ARSH 2019), and Part 3 (ARSH 2023). My Bergoglian Antipapacy page with links and timestamps is HERE. And here’s my Part 3 video from last year, which is a stand-alone presentation for those just getting up to speed on how the Bergoglian Antipapacy happened in the first place back in February-March of ARSH 2013.

As always, I hope this helps.

Pray for the Petrine See, vacant these 588 days and counting, and for the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.

St. Lawrence, St. Matthew, St. Andrew, St. Peter, Our Lady of Copacabana, pray for us!

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us!

I’ll start a list. If you think of any other examples of television families in which one or both parents were “inexplicably sterile” in the ’50s and ’60s, let me know.

Leave It to Beaver: Cleavers, 2. Rutherfords, 2. Haskells, 1. Mondellos, 4 (miserable/abusive household).

Dick Van Dyke Show, Petries, 1. Helpers, 1.

Ozzie and Harriet, 2.

Andy Griffith Show, 1 *father a widower.

Donna Reed, 2.

I Love Lucy, 1.

My Three Sons, 3 *father a widower.

Happy Days, 3.

Beverly Hillbillies, Clampetts, 1 *father a widower. Bodines, 2 (Twins) *mother a widow

Father Knows Best, 3.

Make Room For Daddy, 3 (blended).

The Brady Bunch, 6 (blended), remarried widow and widower produce no children together

Dennis the Menace, 1.

The Munsters, 1.

The Addams Family, 2.

The Patty Duke Show, 2, plus 1 identical cousin.

Bewitched, 2.

The Flintstones, 1 Flintstone, 1 Rubble.

Jetsons, 2.

Honeymooners, 0. (Dr. Mazza says Jackie Gleason set it up thusly because parents arguing in front of their children wasn’t acceptable back then.)

Anyone who isn’t a “bread and circuses useful idiot”, of which there are literally *tens of dozens* of us in Western Civilization by my reckoning, now knows that islam is a totalitarian political system that has nothing to do with “the life of the world to come” or the worshipping of and loving relationship with any deity, much less the One True Deity, but rather with global territorial conquest and the resulting dual-caste totalitarian political regime that rules every aspect of every life under its evil iron fist.

One of the things that you hear from musloid lovers and musloids themselves is that violent territorial conquest has also been the modus operandi of Christendom, specifically the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Here’s a bit of history that the Marxist education system has completely edited out of the book.

I, along with the reader who sent this to me, had always assumed that the family of the Aztec Emperor Montezuma was killed by the Spanish, namely Hernan Cortes, in order to keep the Aztecs from rallying to them and trying to re-establish the Aztec throne with his children. Montezuma did die, but it is unclear HOW he died. Admittedly, Cortes may have had him killed, but there are also accounts of Montezuma being stoned to death by his own people AND accounts of Montezuma starving himself to death. We just don’t know.

What we do know for a metaphysical certitude is what happened to Montezuma’s children – and brace yourself because this is going to be a shocker. They all converted to Christianity, and were quickly created titular Spanish royalty by the King of Spain. Not only were Montezuma’s children and grandchildren not killed, but they were recognized and respected as royalty and integrated into the Spanish Royal caste as Dukes, Duchesses, Counts and Countesses. They then relocated to Spain and married other Spanish royalty, and their lines and titular houses exist to this day, with those houses receiving pensions all the way up until ARSH 1934.

The crest of the House of Moctezuma.

What this shows is the amazing respect that the Spanish had for the people that they encountered in the Americas, DESPITE the horrific pagan atrocities that the Spanish encountered. The Spanish must have been utterly revolted at what they found in the Aztec culture, but STILL RECOGNIZED THE HUMANITY of the Aztecs. And yes, I do attribute this to the fact that the Spanish were working under the auspices of the Church, and the most important aspect their mission was to spread the Gospel to the peoples of the Americas. They didn’t view the Aztecs as sub-human. They viewed them as a pagan people that Christ Himself longed to have integrated into His Body.  And you know what?  MISSION. ACCOMPLISHED.

I am always shocked by how many Christians, falling for the Marxist propaganda of the last 50 years, LAMENT that the Latin American pagan cultures were converted to Christianity. This betrays the fact that most modern Christians really don’t believe in Christ or the Gospel deep down. How could a believing Christian LAMENT souls entering the Body of Christ? Furthermore, look at the Aztec, Maya and Inca cultures themselves. They were absolutely horrific. The amount of human sacrifice was massive. Life-or-death sporting events were also very common. Are we really so brainwashed by Marxist propaganda that we believe that the world would be a better place if such horrors were never exterminated and continued to this day – because ANYTHING is better than Christianity? Really? Every Christian should regularly offer prayers of Thanksgiving to Our Lord for the conversion of Latin America, the joy of many millions of people coming to know Christ and hear the Gospel, and for the extermination of the horrific, terrifying culture of human sacrifice that was swept away – may it never, ever return.

Oh… wait.

I know. Quit obsessing.

Now compare this to islam. Do you honestly believe that when the muslims fully overthrow England, for example, that they will honor the royal family? No, they will slaughter them like animals. Beyond that, the koran specifically states that some “infidels” may be allowed to live IF they pay the jizya tax of submission and live as third-class citizens, with muslims having full rape rights of the infidel women and children.

There is absolutely no comparison, and don’t let either a Marxist or a musloid trick you into believing otherwise.

Source citation here.

Longtime readers of this space know well of my secular devotion to The Everly Brothers.

I’ve also been struck by the lovely and voluminous emails after any “hearing theological truths in ‘pop’ music’ posts.”I agree.

There is something special about realizing that the Divine Providence and the Divine Bridegroom finds His way into our lives, hearts and experiences even outside the Holy Liturgy.

He does not lock Himself inside His house like a misanthrope psycho cat lady. He is so in love with us as individuals that He manifests to us, low-key, in our daily lives. He is always peeking around the corner, that we might notice Him. Remember well what He said to St. Teresa of Avila, and realize that this applies to every human being EVER CONCEIVED.

“I would create the universe again just to hear you say that you love Me.”

Folks, that isn’t hyperbole. He means it. This is why possibly the highest and best prayer is “I love you, Jesus.” “Jesus, mercy” and, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, a sinner” are also essential all-day-every-day prayers. But the reason He created the universe (which the Hubble and James Webb telescopes keep demonstrating to us in knee-collapsing detail) is just so that YOU, individually, JUST YOU, could say, “I love You, Lord Jesus.”

God-hating apostates claim that this is ‘cultish’, that God is ‘needy’, and those especially far-gone into the abyss of lovelessness and narcissism think this is proof that God is therefore evil. What they totally fail to comprehend is that God is INFINITE and therefore is outside all human categories. When The Second Person of the Triune Godhead Himself says, “I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” it is because He can’t say anything else, because HE IS. You cannot apply the same standards or calculi to God that you apply to ANY man. Infinite Love requires a different metric, obviously.

When God, Infinite Love, says, “You have to love Me in order to be saved and be with Me forever in heaven (which is nothing less than in-dwelling in Me),” this applies in a way that DOES NOT APPLY to ANYONE else. Because He is God. This, it seems to me, is literally a few MINUTES of contemplation of the Triune Godhead, but so many miss it utterly and completely. They conflate men with God. If you’re in love, you could never mistake the one you love for anyone else, much less some random sodomite criminal apostate. Or even a GOOD priest!

When Infinite Love says that He loves the relative gnat, the gnat should listen, listen well, and believe. Because there is no incentive for the Infinite to lie or manipulate the gnat. The only POSSIBLE explanation is infinite, gratuitous LOVE. To reject this is… Luciferian. In the purest sense.

This is why I harp and harp, SCREECH even, about the absolute necessity of a PERSONAL relationship with Jesus Christ and, therefore, with His Bride, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is no salvation. And, obviously, this is why we love His Vicar on Earth, the Vicar of Christ, and why we fight and defend that Office, and its authority and jurisdiction – especially against SUBSTANTIAL ERROR in a juridical matter by the Holy Father himself. Especially. Because we are all living the catastrophic fallout of such error.

Well. That was a tangent. All from… The Everly Brothers? Absolutely.

Here is “Walk Right Back”, which I have always heard as God calling us to repentance, confession and most especially to THE EUCHARIST. To this day, when I approach the Communion Rail, after being shriven and appropriately fasting and preparing per my state in life, I hear this as I walk up the aisle of the nave, Our Eucharistic Lord, speaking to me.

Shut up. I ain’t cryin’. You cryin’.

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I want you to tell Me why you walked out on Me

I’m so lonesome every day

I want you to know that since you walked out on Me

Nothin’ seems to be the same old way

Think about the love that burns within My Heart for you

The good times we had before you went away, oh Me

Walk right back to Me this minute

Bring your love to Me, don’t send it

I’m so lonesome every day

I want you to tell Me why you walked out on Me

I’m so lonesome every day

I want you to know that since you walked out on Me

Nothin’ seems to be the same old way

Think about the love that burns within My Heart for you

The good times we had before you went away, oh Me

Walk right back to Me this minute

Bring your love to Me, don’t send it

I’m so lonesome every day

I’m so lonesome every day

I’m so lonesome every day

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Shut you cryin’. Y’all cryin’. I ain’t cryin’. You know you cryin’.

Go to confession.

Tell Him that you love Him, then go outside tonight, look up at the stars and know that’s it’s ALL for you, and all ever was for you. So that you could know Him and love Him. And then know, however how, that He incarnated, suffered, and died for you.

It’s funny- I watch so many video clips – Cosmology, Astrophysics, Joe Rogan desperately trying to answer his own questions; and the root answer is always exactly the same:

You cannot begin to understand ANYTHING until you realize that the answer to every question is… LOVE.

What holds every electron in the universe in its valence shell? LOVE

Why is Pi everywhere in the physical universe? LOVE.

Why are we made as we are? LOVE.

Why was I born to my parents, no matter how shitty they might have been? LOVE.

Why does my suffering persist if I’m ready to die? LOVE.

Why aren’t my (stupid and pious) prayers answered? LOVE.

What am I even chasing? What is the Beatific Vision? LOVE HIMSELF. Not a taste, not a mere encounter. Heaven is existence INSIDE the Holy Trinity, experiencing everything, everyone, every sweetness in Itself. Omne delectamentum in se habentem.

If you come up on a question about the One True Faith, ask yourself, “Is the core answer to this question… Love?”

Joe Rogan could tie up about three dozen open ends of scientific inquiry if he would just acknowledge the terrifying reality that he is loved beyond his comprehension by the Creator/Sustainer of the universe who incarnated and died for him.

THAT is the 42 answer. To everything. LOVE. Not the hippy sentiment, but the real, diamond-edged grinder pain-to-gain situation.

It almost always is. Including, why does God allow… X… Y… Z??? The failure to address and divinize human suffering through the Cross of Christ is 90+% of the moral/cultural problem.

We’ve lost the capacity to suffer meritoriously for the sake of LOVE. True love, charity. Not lust or bullshit girlish fantasies of the satanic zeitgeist.

Folks, y’all better find it. With a quickness.

Transfiguration of Christ, Paolo Veronese, ARSH 1555-56, Cathedral of Santa Maria, Montagnana

This is paragraph 15 from “Sermon on the Transfiguration of our Lord and God and Savior, Jesus Christ” by St. Ephraim the Syrian. It seems to me that a simple verbatim recitation of this would make a spectacular sermon or homily by itself, Fathers.

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“The facts themselves bear witness and His divine acts of power teach those who doubt that He is true God, and His sufferings show that He is true man. And if those who are feeble in understanding are not fully assured, they will pay the penalty on His dread day.

If He were not flesh, why was Mary introduced at all?
And if He were not God, whom was Gabriel calling Lord?

If He were not flesh, who was lying in the manger?
And if He were not God, whom did the Angels come down and glorify?

If He were not flesh, who was wrapped in swaddling clothes?
And if He were not God, whom did the shepherds worship?

If He were not flesh, whom did Joseph circumcise?
And if He were not God, in whose honor did the star speed through the heavens?

If He were not flesh, whom did Mary suckle?
And if He were not God, to whom did the Magi offer gifts?

If He were not flesh, whom did Simeon carry in his arms?
And if He were not God, to whom did he say, “Let me depart in peace”?

If He were not flesh, whom did Joseph take and flee into Egypt?
And if He were not God, in whom were words “Out of Egypt I have called My Son” fulfilled?

If He were not flesh, whom did John baptize?
And if He were not God, to whom did the Father from heaven say, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well-pleased”?

If He were not flesh, who fasted and hungered in the desert?
And if He were not God, whom did the Angels come down and serve?

If He were not flesh, who was invited to the wedding in Cana of Galilee?
And if He were not God, who turned the water into wine?

If He were not flesh, in whose hands were the loaves?
And if He were not God, who satisfied crowds and thousands in the desert, not counting women and children, from five loaves and two fishes?

If He were not flesh, who fell asleep in the boat?
And if He were not God, who rebuked the winds and the sea?

If He were not flesh, with whom did Simon the Pharisee eat?
And if He were not God, who pardoned the offenses of the sinful woman?

If He were not flesh, who sat by the well, worn out by the journey?
And if He were not God, who gave living water to the woman of Samaria and reprehended her because she had had five husbands?

If He were not flesh, who wore human garments?
And if He were not God, who did acts of power and wonders?

If He were not flesh, who spat on the ground and made clay?
And if He were not God, who through the clay compelled the eyes to see?

If He were not flesh, who wept at Lazarus’ grave?
And if He were not God, who by His command brought out one four days dead?

If He were not flesh, who sat on the foal?
And if He were not God, whom did the crowds go out to meet with glory?

If He were not flesh, whom did the Jews arrest?
And if He were not God, who gave an order to the earth and threw them onto their faces?

If He were not flesh, who was struck with a blow?
And if He were not God, who cured the ear that had been cut off by Peter and restored it to its place?

If He were not flesh, who received spittings on His face?
And if He were not God, who breathed the Holy Spirit into the faces of His Apostles?

If He were not flesh, who stood before Pilate at the judgement seat?
And if He were not God, who made Pilate’s wife afraid by a dream?

If He were not flesh, whose garments did the soldiers strip off and divide?
And if He were not God, how was the sun darkened at the cross?

If He were not flesh, who was hung on the cross?
And if He were not God, who shook the earth from its foundations?

If He were not flesh, whose hands and feet were transfixed by nails?
And if He were not God, how was the veil of the temple rent, the rocks broken and the graves opened?

If He were not flesh, who cried out, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned Me”?
And if He were not God, who said “Father, forgive them”?

If He were not flesh, who was hung on a cross with the thieves?
And if He were not God, how did He say to the thief, “Today you will be with Me in Paradise”?

If He were not flesh, to whom did they offer vinegar and gall?
And if He were not God, on hearing whose voice did Hades tremble?

If He were not flesh, whose side did the lance pierce, and blood and water came out?
And if He were not God, who smashed to gates of Hades and tear apart it bonds? And at whose command did the imprisoned dead come out?

If He were not flesh, whom did the Apostles see in the upper room?
And if He were not God, how did He enter when the doors were shut?

If He were not flesh, the marks of the nails and the lance in whose hands and side did Thomas handle?
And if He were not God, to whom did He cry out, “My Lord and my God”?

If He were not flesh, who ate by the sea of Tiberias?
And if He were not God, at whose command was the net filled?

If He were not flesh, whom did the Apostles and Angels see being taken up into heaven?
And if He were not God, to whom was heaven opened, whom did the Powers worship in fear and whom did the Father invite to “Sit at my right hand”. As David said, “The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, etc.”

If He were not God and man, our salvation is a lie, and the words of the Prophets are lies.”