Donald Sutherland’s delivery is masterful.

Remember, the earliest exponent back in the mid ‘50s of the whole “we must fundamentally transform the Papacy into a collegial, synodal shared ministry” crap was… wait for it… Avery DULLES, S.J., son of John Foster Dulles and nephew of CIA founder Allen Dulles. Just sayin’.

Given the events of this summer, this hits harder. MUCH harder.

*** To no one’s shock, you can only see this on a VPN set to outside the former U.S.

The tweak is super-simple. At the very beginning, the singer intones the word “Kyrie” three times. To make the song explicitly Trinitarian, just change the second Kyrie Eleison to CHRISTE Eleison using AI replication of the vocal quality. I’m sure it could be done.

The 80’s really were an amazing period for music. How fortunate some of us are to have lived sentient childhood, when memories are so deeply and vividly engrained, in the last days of anything of quality music-wise. Remember, kids today have no music. They have sodomites and whores grunting and moaning and screeching pornographic utterances over mindless percussion tracks. Share the good music of your life with younglings whenever you can, from chant to classical to the music of living memory – big band, consonant jazz, country, bluegrass, even good pop that isn’t filthy. Like “Kyrie”, there was plenty of clean, beautiful music even with electric guitar and drums.

Lord, have mercy, down the road that I must travel.

Christ, have mercy, through the darkness of the night.

Lord, have mercy, on a highway in the light.

Happy Feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

This image is making the rounds, of the Mass schedule of St. Francis of Assisi parish in New York City from way back in the day…

It drives home a point we discuss in this space, but most people don’t like to discuss.

The reason there are no Masses after 1:00pm is because up until ARSH 1953, the Eucharistic Fast was FROM MIDNIGHT, including water, under pain of mortal sin. The evening liturgy of the Church was Vespers. There were no evening Masses because an evening Mass would require the priest and any faithful that wished to make a Sacramental Communion to fast from all food and water for eighteen hours or more. This is certainly possible, I have done it many times, but the times we live in are abnormal, to put it mildly. After the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart, the Eucharistic Fast will be restored, and evening Masses will likely cease, and Vespers will once again be common.

In ARSH 1953, Pope Pius XII relaxed the fast to allow water and necessary medication, and then in ARSH 1957 the Eucharistic Fast was relaxed further to only three hours. Pope Pius XII was very ill and dying in ARSH 1957, and it is suspected that infiltrators took advantage of the situation and rammed this effective elimination of the Eucharistic Fast through. Paul VI finished off the Eucharistic Fast in ARSH 1964 by reducing it to one hour, which was put into the 1983 Code of Canon Law, specifically Canon 919.

Interestingly, the Masses in the 02:00am hour were called “Printers’ Masses”, because men who worked newspaper printing presses had to be at work to print the day’s newspapers at 03:30-04:00am, so Holy Mother Church made certain that those men could hear Mass before going to work. I remember hearing a Novus Ordo priest years ago announce during his homily that he was ALWAYS unavailable from 10:00-11:00am Monday-Friday, because that was when The Price Is Right was on TV, and that was the best part of his day, and he could not be disturbed. And he was as serious as cancer. Talk about textbook EFFEMINACY. 🤢🤢🤢🤮

If you would like to read more about The Eucharistic Fast, my original piece is HERE.

There is nothing more toxic to our society than Protestantism fused with unchecked femininity. Fire-and-brimstone Baptists are far, far “less bad” than this. At least they acknowledge the reality and horror of sin and instill Fear of the Lord, even if only servile fear. Look at how this woman vilifies Fear of the Lord and hatred of even the most vile sins, and stealthily embraces the lie of universal salvation… even for unrepentant sodomites and literal practitioners of witchcraft and satanism.

According to the church of ‘karen’, the only sin is to hate sin, aka “not being nice.” Because some dyke witch might get her feewings hurt. To hate sin, especially grave sin, and desire justice to be done by its active elimination from society is “barbaric doctrine”. And note how ‘karen’ attempts to gaslight by conflating holding the Catholic faith whole and entire – that is, Christianity – with the satanic political system of islam. If you manfully hate sin, you’re the Taliban. Sadly, our civilization is so far gone that a majority of people fall for this clumsy, effeminate rot.

I say this: For the first time in decades, today there is neither sodomy nor Satanism/witchcraft being practiced in Asheville, NC. He brought a stop to it Himself through His Divine Providence, because after decades of merciful patience, no one else loved Him enough to do it. It was easier for people to remain silent, look the other way, and console themselves with heresy and soothing lies. And now Asheville, like the accursed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah that it openly emulated, is no more.

This is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. Blessed be the Name of the Lord, now and forever.—AB, Catholic Fanatic, and trying to become more fanatical and less lukewarm every day. 🙏🏻

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Ann —

I’m not a Catholic but I am a Christian and while I don’t always agree with your perspective on things I appreciate so much of what you write, what you’re fighting for and against, and especially the ivermectin info on your site. You have saved lives with that, and for that there is much gratitude.

But I write now to say I am dismayed by your recent post, which seems to delight in the deaths of men, women and children you do not know, and therefore have no right to judge as being deserving of their terror, suffering and deaths.

https://www.exploreasheville.com/stories/post/lgbtq-asheville-gay-friendly-travel/

I am dismayed by your apparent assertion that the devastation wrought by the hurricane is somehow God’s judgement on a godless area.

You of all people should know that we, as humans, cannot understand the divine in all its complexity. The best we can hope for is the strength to speak up for the good and defend the innocent and helpless wherever we find them.

I don’t know what, if any, divine meaning is held in the hurricane and its destruction. Neither do you. But to say what you’ve said is horrifying, and reeks of glee at others’ suffering.

You condemn Islam and Muslims for their fanatical adherence to a barbaric doctrine. Do you not see that you are sounding as fanatical and intolerant and hateful as those you condemn?

I don’t expect you to care about what I’ve said, or even think about it, or reconsider your stance for a moment.

I just wanted there to be one person who challenges you.

When my aunt became a born again Christian, I said two things. I’m pleased for you — and please, whatever you do, don’t make Jesus look bad.

With that post, you make Jesus look bad.

‘karen’

Dr. Beep, a convert from generational Protestantism, has some corrections (fact-checking? MANSPLAINING?) to make to ‘karen’s’ missive.

“Don’t make Jesus look (like he has any standards)“

“…. like he means what he says”

“… like anything other than a limp-wristed commie whom I can hug in my imagination to make me feel better when I get scared at night.”

I’ve never visited and have almost zero knowledge of the Southeast. Apparently, Asheville, NC was a sodomite hellmouth. And now, it is a muddy ravine.

Don’t be surprised if the Deep State redirects a few billion from Ukraine to the city of Asheville… just to get the gay bars and bathhouses reopened. Maybe rebuild a library so the trannies will have access to the children again.

And remember, as St. Paul made clear in his letter to the Romans, it isn’t just the physical practitioners of sodomy, it’s also those who TOLERATE it, that share in capital crime:

Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.  Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

 For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.  And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.  And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient;  Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers,  Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.  

Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Romans 1: 24-32

Shot:

Asheville, NC May Be the Most LGBT-Friendly City in the U.S.

Chaser:

First, Deacon Nick Donnelly tweeted my words for me:

https://x.com/ProtecttheFaith/status/1840657890710831159

And now, for the visual learners out there, here is an allegory of trying to argue that Jorge Bergoglio is simultaneously an open, observable apostate (which he obviously is) AND also totally the Vicar of Christ on earth.

That pesky Law of Non-contradiction will hang you up by your drawers every time… 😂🤣

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”.

Www.DRBO.org

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!

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The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

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.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

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.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

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.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

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.

Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

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.

Here is the Chaplet of St. Michael the Archangel, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ. An audio version in English is below, if you’re just getting started and would like to pray along with a recording.

• 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