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Linus Van Pelt on Translation Accuracy of the Gloria, and Moral Fortitude

That really is a sweet little clip. The child who voiced Linus had such a quintessentially warm American accent, even down to the little lisp. Magic in a bottle – from the voices to the soundtrack. It was made in ARSH 1965 and stands as a marker of the end of the Christian American culture, only recognized now in retrospect.

Here’s a super-cool observation on this clip that you might not have noticed before.  Note that when Linus gets to the words of the Angels to the Shepherds, “Fear not…”, he drops his security blanket, the motif for his (and our) fears and insecurities, and leaves it on the ground for the duration of his proclamation of The Word of God. Cool, huh?

But, a nit to pick, and a great lesson for all in how important an accurate translation of the Bible is. Most Bibles today read Luke 2:14 as:

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.”

The last clause is mangled, as anyone who knows the Gloria in Latin (as one should, because it is said at a plurality of Masses throughout the year) can see.

The Vulgate Latin, which is St. Jerome’s synthesis of the original source texts commissioned by Pope St. Damasus I, triple cross-referenced against each other in Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew in preparation for the eventual setting of the canon of scripture at the Councils of Rome in ARSH 382, and Carthage in ARSH 397, reads thusly:

“…gloria in altissimis Deo et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis”

In English, in the Douay-Rheims translation thus reads:

Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.

These are two completely different ideas. Radically different. The first translation has peace and goodwill together as co-subjects, as unqualified universals: “peace, goodwill TOWARD men”. The Vulgate clearly has goodwill not as the COMPOUND SUBJECT along with peace, but as the QUALIFIER. To men OF GOOD WILL. Good will isn’t the subject, it is the OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION.

The Peace of Our Lord is a massively qualified, and extremely rare and precious thing. When the priest says at Mass, “Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum” (The peace of the Lord be always with you), he isn’t just saying “nice things” as filler. This is a profound and precious prayer.

Why would God, in His Perfect Justice, wish good will towards those men who are at war with Him, and thus His Church? Is not the Second Person, God Incarnate in the Manger in Bethlehem, the Judge of mankind? Is not the Baby wrapped in swaddling clothes He who will sort the sheep from the goats? Is He not the One who is come to sift the wheat from the chaff? Did He not say:

“Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.”

Cornelius of Lapide says in his commentary on Luke 2:

But all the Latins, and, among the Greeks, Origen, S. Chrysostom, and Cyril, read, and with better reason, for ευ̉δοκία good will, ευ̉δοκίας—of good will, making the hymn consist of two members. For as glory is given to God as to Him who is glorified, so peace is given to men of good will as to those whom the peace of Christ belongs and befits; and in this way the concatenation of the whole sentence hangs better together. The peace on earth cannot be supposed to be other than that which belongs to men of good will.

Oh, but if we are under attack by Freemasonic-Communist-homosexualist infiltrators, pushing their heresies of “universal salvation” and Indifferentism, and we want God reduced to an abstract philosophical construct, an “I’m okay, you’re okay” joke of a deity, an effete, toothless “idea” that is merely an excuse for Freemasonic neo-pagan self-worship and narcissistic performance opportunities, then, by all means, mangle and rearrange the Word of God. As the infiltrators tell their victims, “It doesn’t really matter what the original texts said or did not say – all that matters is what today’s translation means to you . . . “

Luke 2:14 is a quick, easy way to check the veracity of any translation of the Bible. Break yours out and check right now. And then, when you find it incorrectly translated, as you almost certainly will, ask yourself what other verses have been mangled. And then ask yourself what you’re missing in the seven books that Luther removed. Uh-oh.

Then, just GET A DOUAY-RHEIMS and use the Church’s authoritative English translation without fear or worry that you are reading Freemasonic-Communist-homosexualist agitprop.

Have a blessed Ember Week in Advent and then… Christmas!

This day you shall know that the Lord will come and save us: and in the morning you shall see His glory.

Introit and Gradual of the Mass of the Vigil of the Nativity

Addendum over the transom:

Kaneohe Marine Corps Airstation; Oahu, Hawaii circa ARSH 1966

VISIBILITY, VISIBILITY, VISIBILITY: Antipope announces he’ll be buried out of St. Mary Major (TO CONCEAL MINUSCULE ANTICIPATED ATTENDANCE)

Visibility, visibility, visibility, folks. The hits just keep on a-comin’.

The current Antipope, the vomitous apostate wretch, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, just announced that when he shuffles off this mortal coil, he wants to be buried NOT out of the Petrine Basilica, but out of Santa Maria Maggiore – St. Mary Major.

BUT, but , but, the Bergoglian cultists will say, “He has such a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary!” To which I reply, “IN WHAT UNIVERSE??” His blasphemies against HER are COUNTLESS! He said that she wasn’t “born a saint, but became one.” He said that she “doubted and called God a liar at the foot of the Cross.” He despises the Rosary, and within months of his usurpation was openly laughing at people who had sent him a spiritual bouquet of Rosaries while talking to a group of religious sisters, saying, “Can you believe this? There are these crazy people who actually COUNT their Rosaries!”

Let me explain this. For those who haven’t been able to make pilgrimage to Rome, this maneuver is CRYSTAL, CRYSTAL clear to everyone who has been to Rome, and to all Romans.

The plaza in front of St. Mary Major is tiny. It only takes maybe three thousand people to fill it. Antipope Bergoglio has seen the EMPTY St. Peter’s Square, which holds 200,000+, for all of his sulphuric eruptions of verbal flatulence over the years, and knows that he is despised by pretty much everyone, ESPECIALLY work-a-day Italians, who have made up the vast majority of huge crowds at St. Peter’s. Folks, I was physically present at Pope Benedict’s “final audience” in St. Peter’s Square on 27 February, ARSH 2013, and when I tell you that we were packed in shoulder-to-shoulder, I’m not exaggerating in the slightest. I HAD to take off my backpack and put it between my feet because there simply wasn’t room to keep it on my back. There were, AT MINIMUM, 200,000 people in St. Peter’s Square that day. Most of them were local Romans, by practical definition.

Today, local Romans wouldn’t urinate on Antipope Bergoglio if he were on fire. The only reason a work-a-day Roman would show up to Antipope Bergoglio’s funeral would be to HECKLE. And rightly so.

Further, Antipope Bergoglio INCENSED the nobility of Europe and the world (such as it is) by the MASSIVE disrespect to Pope Benedict at his funeral in January. EVERYONE agreed that Pope Benedict WAS a sovereign head of state, a monarch, and the fact that he was buried with the level of disrespect that he was infuriated even non-Catholic nobles and aristocrats. Antipope Bergoglio knows that these people will probably not even show up to his send-off.

Finally, and most importantly, Antipope Bergoglio IS NOT THE POPE, and so, this is YET ANOTHER edifying and amazing manifestation of the Divine Providence, making the enemies of Jesus Christ and His Holy Catholic Church TESTIFY THEMSELVES to their own falsity. No, Antipope Bergoglio will most certainly NOT be buried out of St. Peter’s AS IF he were a Pope, because he is not, and never has been.

Ideally, Antipope Bergoglio will be buried in quiet obscurity in Argentina, after he is declared an Antipope and sent packing. Yes, I know this is a long-shot, but it is the IDEAL. And isn’t the history of Christianity and the Church just one spectacular long-shot after another… actually happening, actually coming to pass? Keep fasting and praying. KEEP THE FAITH.

And so let us add YET ANOTHER item to the “Visibility, visibility, visibility” list. NOTHING about this Antipapacy is hidden. No secret knowledge required. As the Gospel from Sunday, and the ferias of this week says, quoting Our Blessed Lord, speaking to the disciples of John the Baptist:

Eúntes renuntiáte Ioánni, quæ audístis et vidístis.

Go and report to John what you have heard and seen.

No, Antipope Bergoglio, most certainly shall NOT be buried out of the Petrine Basilica.

This is the Lord’s doing: and it is wonderful in our eyes.
A Domino factum est istud, et est mirabile in oculis nostris.

Psalm 117: 23

Basilica Of St Mary Major

The plaza of St. Mary Major. Relatively tiny. Pray that antipope Bergoglio is removed and banished from Rome before he dies and can stain Our Lady’s basilica.

Action Item: Draw up and make sure your family and/or attorneys have your burial instructions!

I just received an email from the son of a longtime reader who just died. She left no burial instructions and her son didn’t know what to do, but he did know from her browser history that she was a devout Traditional Catholic. To his great credit, he emailed me after seeing this website in her browser, asking for advice as to what his mother would have wanted. I informed him that Traditional Catholic teaching (pre 1963) is that voluntary cremation is forbidden, that she should have a funeral Mass with the body present, and then she should be buried in a Catholic cemetery (in Catholic cemeteries the ground is consecrated!) with clergy present for the final blessing at the graveside.

Folks, if you don’t have WRITTEN instructions worked up and left with your family and/or executors, do it. The Antichurch is now pushing cremation and scattering and even keeping ashes in homes, so you cannot assume that the fact that you are Catholic will ensure a proper burial.

Someone dear to me died this past year, and was buried, unembalmed (undertakers will know your state’s burial laws), in a pine box with a muslin lining in a dirt hole – no cement vault. I found the elegant simplicity moving, and it speaks to the belief in the resurrection.

In your charity, please say an Ave for the repose of the soul of CF.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.
Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Fidelium animae, per misericordiam Dei,
requiescant in pace.
~Amen~

Simple pine casket with muslin lining. Dignified and inexpensive.

Sticky post: The Full “Is the Pope Catholic?” Conference – viewing free for all

This really was a fantastic program from start to finish. Dr. Mazza has kindly made it available to all for free. Supernerd has worked up the timestamps below.

“Is The Pope Catholic?” — a conference seeking the Truth about the “Two Popes.” This conference was recorded on Saturday December 9, 2023, and features the following speakers: His Excellency Archbishop Carlo Vigano, Fr. Paul Kramer, Dr. Ed Mazza, Ann Barnhardt, and Elizabeth Yore.

Links:

“On The True and False Pope: The Case Against Bergoglio” by Fr. Paul Kramer — amzn.to/3RexURq

“The Third Secret of Fatima & The Synodal Church: VOL. I Pope Benedict’s Resignation” by Dr. Edmund Mazza — amzn.to/3uUU83l

“Yore children” — www.yorechildren.com

Ann’s Bergoglian Antipapacy homepage

Chapters:

0:00 – Intro
0:14 – Welcome to the Conference
6:36 – Speaker: Father Paul Kramer
46:53 – Speaker: Ann Barnhardt
1:16:20 – Speaker: Dr. Edmund Mazza, part 1
1:49:28 – Listener Q&A, part 1
2:24:57 – Speaker: Dr. Edmund Mazza, part 2
3:02:05 – Speaker: Elizabeth Yore, Esq.
3:53:11 – Speaker: Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano
4:29:33 – Listener Q&A, part 2
5:07:31 – Conclusion and Wrap-up

 

“Qué soï era Immaculado Councepcioũ.”

Pope Pius IX issued the Papal Bull “Ineffabilis Deus” on this date in ARSH 1854 in which the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was infallibly defined.

I wonder if Trad, Inc. “Fwanciss is definitely Pope and schism is virtuous!” partisans today believe that Pope Pius IX even had the authority to make such a dogmatic declaration, or if Catholics are bound to believe that the Blessed Virgin was, in fact, conceived without the stain of Original Sin?   They have declared war on the Papacy itself (I guess they think the Freemasons have been right all along??) in service to their intransigent error, and have already openly declared that Vatican I was “wrong” in service to their money-and-human-respect driven campaign to refuse to investigate much less acknowledge the obvious truth that Pope Benedict never validly resigned, so it’s a VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE to schism, heresy and total apostasy from there. For what? A few bucks, and a few social invitations? Men without chests, indeed….

Here is the text of the declaration. Only SEVENTY-FOUR words, in English.

We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful.

To confirm this, God sent The Blessed Virgin herself to a tiny village in southern France called Lourdes to appear to an illiterate teenaged peasant girl – at the town garbage dump.  Note that the Blessed Virgin did not appear to the theological faculty at Paris, or Leuven or Rome to confirm a nuanced and debated truth about her very existence.  No. She appeared to an illiterate teenaged peasant girl who had just recently been reprimanded in her catechism class for not knowing THE THREE PERSONS OF THE TRINITY.

It is shocking to think: how could someone who didn’t even know the Three Persons of the Trinity be deemed worthy to converse with the Mother of God?  First, because Bernadette Soubirous was 100% Catholic by virtue of the Sacraments, in which GOD IS THE ACTOR upon the person. But it is clear that Bernadette was deemed worthy because of her CHARITY and her HUMILITY.  She went to Mass and Confession and prayed the Rosary and did these things WELL without being able to pass a catechism test because her soul was pure and filled with love of God and of her fellow man, and because she was filled with humility.

It is also one a species of miracle – which the local clergy and bishop eventually realized – that an illiterate peasant girl like Bernadette could report back to the Bishop, per his request, that the Lady said to Bernadette that the Lady was the “Immaculado Councepcioũ”.  For an illiterate peasant girl who struggled to name the Three Persons of the Trinity, for her to drop this phrase – and not in French, and not in Latin, but in her own local dialect of the Occitan language, which is itself an interstitial branch between French and Spanish – was basically impossible unless Bernadette was taught the phrase by The Lady herself, exactly as Bernadette said.  Bernadette even said that the Lady had her repeat the words multiple times so that she wouldn’t forget, and then Bernadette kept repeating them as she walked back to town to tell the Bishop so that she wouldn’t forget them.

But why does it even matter if the Blessed Virgin was conceived without the stain of Original Sin?  Because the Immaculate Conception speaks directly to the Divinity of Our Lord.

This dogma and non-negotiable tenet of Christianity teaches that Mary was, by the grace of God, prevented from carrying the stain of Original Sin from the moment of her conception. To deny this is a deal-breaker. The logical consequences of denying the Immaculate Conception inevitably lead to denying the Incarnation and Divinity of Jesus Christ Himself. When the Blessed Virgin appeared to Bernadette and told her in no uncertain terms and in St. Bernadette’s local micro-dialect of the Occitan language, “Qué soï era Immaculado Councepcioũ” the Dogmatic Definition of just over three years earlier by Pope Pius IX was underlined by Heaven itself.  All that remained was for science to progress sufficiently to confirm this – and that has now happened.  More on that in a second.

Mary was saved from Original Sin by her Son, saved by Him like all of the other faithful, it is just that the timing of her salvation was different from everyone else. This is why Mary, sinless though she is, still calls God “my Savior” in her Magnificat in Luke 1:46-55. Instead of letting Mary fall in the mud puddle of Original Sin like the rest of us, God stuck out His Arm back through time from the Cross and kept her from falling in the mud puddle of Original Sin in the first place – but if it weren’t for God’s positive action of reaching out across time from the Cross and holding her from falling, she would have fallen. This is called “grace”, and is what the Angel Gabriel was referring to when he greeted Mary at the Annunciation with the words, “Hail! Full of grace! The LORD is with thee. Blessed art thou among women.” Luke 1:28

Full of grace means FULL. OF. GRACE. How full is full? Full is totally full. To the brim. Full does not mean half-full or mostly-full. Full means full. Mary was FULL OF GRACE.

And because Mary was FULL of grace, as we know directly from the inerrant words of the Gospel of Luke, there was absolutely no room for sin. Mary didn’t sin because God her Savior had filled her with grace and therefore she just COULDN’T sin. Most of us reading this have a tiny taste of what this is like. For example, I’m guessing that everyone reading this would be incapable of killing a baby. We just COULDN’T do it. No matter what threat was made against us, no matter what the adverse consequences to our own lives might be, we would take any adverse consequence before killing a baby. We are simply incapable of performing that act. Why? What is that internal force of energy that prevents us from committing acts of evil even when under intense duress and threat? It is grace. Pure and simple.

Sadly, most of us have a little grace, but are not in any way FULL of grace. I am personally much closer to being full of… detritus than of grace (which many of you have already pointed out to me – thank you very much), hence the daily, persistent, repeated sinning on my part. And I suspect it is a similar situation with you, dear reader, with the grace-to-detritus ratio being much higher for you than for me. I really am quite full of… detritus. With Mary there was no detritus because God her Savior had FILLED her with grace, and thus there was no room for detritus, and thus there was no sin. It’s really just 2nd grade math if you think about it. But WHY? Why was it essential for Mary to be sinless and sinless from the moment of her conception? That’s where the science comes in.

There are two phases to Mary’s existence. The first phase was from the moment of her conception until the Annunciation, which is when Jesus was conceived in her womb by the Holy Ghost. The second phase was from that moment of Jesus’ conception forward for all eternity. Each phase has its own physiological delight attached to it which required Mary to be a sinless vessel for Our Lord.

First, the pre-Annunciation period. As it has been discovered just within the last few decades, all baby girls have all of the eggs that are ever going to be in their ovaries fully formed not just at birth, but fairly early in their fetal development phase. Unlike men who are continuously producing new sperm, a woman’s eggs aren’t created and formed with each menstrual cycle. All that is happening during a cycle is that an egg, which has been fully formed in a woman’s body since she was a pre-born fetus, is released into the reproductive tract. What this means theologically is that the egg containing the 23 chromosomes that God would miraculously fertilize with 23 chromosomes that He miraculously supplied (including a Y chromosome) to become the Word Made Flesh, Jesus Christ, was physically present inside Mary’s body from the time that Mary was inside of her mother’s, St. Anne’s, womb. That egg, and those chromosomes, that physical constituent of Our Blessed Lord was present inside of Mary’s body, waiting to be . . . if I may use the word . . . consecrated. The word consecrate, when broken into its Latin components means:

Con: With
Secr: Holy
Ate: Territory of a Ruler

And so, Mary was, from the time she was inside St. Anne’s womb, already carrying a portion of Our Lord’s physicality, namely 23 of His chromosomes. And thus Mary was, from her very beginning, already a proto-tabernacle, already the Ark of the New Covenant, carrying within her what would be consecrated into The Law Incarnate, The High Priest, and The Bread of Life – just like the Old Ark, except perfected and fully fulfilled as God Incarnate. And as we know from the book of Exodus, the Old Ark had to be “perfect”. And thus, the Ark of the New Covenant was TRULY perfect, except this perfection was a perfection that only God Himself could accomplish: the perfection of Mary, full of grace and thus saved from all sin, including Original Sin.

The second phase is actually broken into two sub-phases. The first sub-phase is when Mary was pregnant with Jesus and His entire body was inside of hers.

The second phase is that phase from the time of Jesus’ birth forward into all eternity. Jesus is STILL, to this day, right now as you are reading this, physically inside of Mary in a unique way. It was discovered just a few short years ago that immune cells pass from a pre-born child to the mother across the placenta. Not only do these immune cells, which are the child’s and thus carry the exclusive and complete DNA of the child, pass across the placenta, but they persist in the mother’s body for the rest of her life. A woman who has carried a son has immune cells with Y-chromosomes in her bloodstream that can now be filtered out of her blood and observed. Female children also pass cells to their mothers.

Thus, a woman truly does carry her children around inside of her, with their DNA coursing through her heart, for the rest of her life. That isn’t just a sentiment – it is a physiological fact.

Thus, Mary continued and continues to this day to be a perpetual, living physical tabernacle of her Son, as she carries cells with His DNA in her bloodstream.

And so now we see why Mary was and had to be filled with grace and thus saved from the stain of Original Sin from the moment of her conception eternally forward – because she was and is a perpetual Ark of the New Covenant.

This also explains why Mary’s body was assumed into heaven immediately at the end of her earthly life, because her body literally contained living cells of Our Lord and thus her body could not remain on earth in physical death to decay in any way.

Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over Him.

Scientes quod Christus resurgens ex mortuis jam non moritur : mors illi ultra non dominabitur.

-Romans 6: 9

She simply was afforded the same physical resurrection that all of the faithful will receive, albeit immediately for her, given her very special state, both spiritually and physically. This is what is doctrinally referred to as “The Assumption”.

St. Bernadette, pray for us.

Our Lady, conceived Immaculate without the stain of Original Sin, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.


“Qué soï era Immaculado Councepcioũ.”

The Immaculate Conception, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ARSH 1768 – 86 years BEFORE the dogmatic definition

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Here’s Dr. Mazza being excellent, as usual, on the “Rules for Retrogrades” show. Absolutely FASCINATING stuff. Well worth the listen.

And don’t forget to enroll in Dr. Mazza’s big conference, taking place on Saturday!

“Is the Pope Catholic?”

A Conference Seeking the Truth about the “Two Popes”

Saturday December 9, 2023

Featuring:

His Excellency Archbishop Carlo Vigano

Fr. Paul Kramer

Dr. Ed Mazza

Ann Barnhardt

Elizabeth Yore

PLEASE USE THIS FORM TO SIGN UP

Please don’t lie to your children about Santa Claus bringing them presents. Because if you lied about Santa Claus, they’ll think you’re lying about Jesus and the Eucharist. Just… DON’T LIE.

Today is the Feast of St. Nicholas, and I’d like to take the opportunity to revisit a concept that always gets me a lot of grief when I bring it up, but I am absolutely determined in this: PLEASE DON’T LIE TO CHILDREN ABOUT SANTA CLAUS.

Or, put more simply, PLEASE DON’T LIE TO YOUR CHILDREN, PERIOD.

Think about it: Christmas is THE most important holiday of the year for children.  For most children, receiving presents is THE top feature of Christmas, and the Nativity of Our Lord is secondary, and I’m not attacking anyone in this – it is very natural. In the mind of a Christian child Christmas is “I get presents (primary) because the Magi gave Baby Jesus presents (secondary).”

So, the entire holiday celebrating the birth of Christ revolves around gift giving and receiving for children.  Now, do we really think it is a good idea to completely tie up in this a massive lie that the child’s presents were miraculously delivered by St. Nicholas? Let’s take the most important Christian holiday in the mind of a child and turn it into one giant exercise in deception… BY THE CHILD’S OWN PARENTS?

Folks, the Eighth Commandment exists for a reason.  When people are lied to, and the lies are discovered, as the lie of “Santa bringing gifts” is as a veritable rite of passage for children, this causes the person in question to be scandalized into LOSING FAITH.  Lying leads to a loss of faith.  In this case, the loss of faith comes between the child and the parents/adults.  What a HORRIBLE thing.  I cannot understand why any parent would ever do ANYTHING that would cause their children to lose faith and trust in them.  How is that anything other that completely awful? Why would anyone NOT shudder at the thought of driving ANY wedge between themselves and their children?

In this case, the damage can clearly be extremely grave.  A child looks a Santa and Christmas and thinks, “Well, if Santa was a lie, then Jesus is probably a lie too. They’re just waiting to tell me until I’m older, or that I’ll figure out that Jesus is just a story too.” And for children being raised Catholic, obviously this would also be projected by the child onto the Eucharist.  “Oh, that’s just a story, like Santa Claus bringing presents. The bread and wine isn’t ACTUALLY Jesus. That’s just something they tell kids, like Santa bringing presents.”

So what do I think parents should do? Tell your children all about St. Nicholas and all of his miracles.  By all means, decorate your house with St. Nicholas.  Just don’t tell the children boldfaced lies about the source of their presents under the tree on Christmas morning. It isn’t difficult. JUST. DON’T. LIE.

What about talking to children about horrific things like sexual perversion, rape and abortion? Do we need to traumatize children by telling them everything about these and other terrifying sins?  Of course not.  But we should be honest.  For example, if a six year old asks about one of these crimes, one could say:

“I can’t tell you exactly what the means right now, because it is very scary and might give you nightmares – it is scary to adults and gives us nightmares sometimes. Someday I will tell you, but not yet, because I don’t want you to worry.  These are things that adults have to worry about, not children of your age.  But I will explain it to you, probably when you are thirteen or fourteen. But not now.”

JUST. BE. HONEST.

PLEASE. DON’T. LIE.

Even to children. Especially your own children. Ever.  Breaking a Commandment isn’t “cute”. Tying the practice of Christianity to outright deception in the mind of a child BY HIS OWN PARENTS is NOT COOL.

I’m pretty sure St. Nicholas would agree with me on this one, and I would imagine that he is less than thrilled with what the post-Christian consumerist west has done with his name and likeness.

As a bonus, here is a WAAAAAAAY back pre-SuperNerd Podcast I recorded in December of ARSH 2013 wherein I discuss exactly this.  The Santa Claus topic begins at the 28:55 mark.  The embed below SHOULD be cued up.

As always, I hope this helps.

St. Nicholas of Myra, pray for us!

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us!

Can you feel the desperation in “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” yet?

Okay, folks. O Come, O Come Emmanuel is the only song anyone is allowed to sing until Christmas Eve Night!

Just kidding. But seriously, this is the penitential season of Advent. Christmas is from December 25th until Candlemas on February 2nd. Don’t lose sight of this!


With each passing year, the motif of desperate pleading for Christ to come grows stronger.

This isn’t the mere “Advent hymn” or “Christmas song” of ten years ago (before the Bergoglian Antipapacy), now is it? Not if you’re paying any attention. The notion of ransoming captives isn’t external to our experience anymore the way it used to be.

(*See above)

Three versions. Original Latin, Bluegrass and Instrumental. Bluegrass is by definition a mournful, longing sound, and the Cello in the instrumental selection likewise carries the mournful, pleading sound.

Latin:

English:

Instrumental: