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I just wrapped a work trip. As in, I just literally touched down at 11PM on a Friday night. Walked off the plane and grabbed my bag. All good. Deo Gratias!

But it’s what happened on the trip that I wanted to talk about.

The four astute readers of this blog will note that I have a little deal going with the Blessed Mother. Whenever I travel, I ask her to point me in the direction of a TLM. You know, they’re not the easiest things to find these days.

So imagine my surprise when I landed in Cincinnati yesterday, hopped in the rental car, and plugged in the directions to my hotel. It was a surprise because I could tell it wasn’t taking me along the standard highways, but via a back route through neighborhoods up and over some kind of a mountainous overlook on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River.

Obviously there was some kind of traffic getting into downtown.

And just as obviously. This was Blessed Mother’s way of leading me to her Son.

Over hill and dale I drove until I slowly rounded a corner on a bluff in a quiet hamlet and came upon what was quite obviously a Latin Mass parish.

You can always just tell…

I pulled into the parking lot and jumped out of the car. I just knew I was supposed to be here. I encountered a woman coming out of the church and I said, “Excuse me, but is this a Latin Mass parish?”

With shock as though she both expected and didn’t expect the question, she replied, “ Of course it is!”

I walked in to find Our Lord exposed in the Monstrance, waiting for me.

God is good. His Mother is also good. Call upon her. She will never let you down.

Call me dumb.

Painted on the wall outside an airport pub…

Cute.

Prayers, please

She’s one of my favorites and now her feast is upon us. The charity this woman exuded should inspire us all.

There is a story of her life that, as a young woman, she had an audience with Pope Leo XIII. Although she was simply supposed to kneel and pay her reverence to the Holy Father, she burst out with her desire that he allow her to be a missionary to the Far East. Pope Leo, perhaps inspired himself, quietly took her hands and said, “Not to the East, but to the West…”

Mother Cabrini, first saint of our land, pray for us!

Well this just seems odd, doesn’t it?

https://dioceseofraleigh.org/news/bishop-announces-additional-summer-2024-appointments

You may recall that Fr. Johnson (referenced under the “July 31” post above) is the priest with whom Mother Teresa Agnes of the Arlington Carmel was alleged to have had an inappropriate relationship.

Question: How can a priest who has been found guilty of an offense under Canon Law be considered “in good standing” and have “full faculties to exercise priestly ministry”? The answer is that he cannot. One can infer from the statement of the Raleigh Diocese, therefore, that Fr. Johnson was essentially acquitted of involvement in this case.

So the next question would be: If the priest is innocent, what does this say of Mother?

This certainly appears to be a declaration of the innocence of Fr. Johnson and, ipso facto, of Mother Teresa Agnes as well.

The Bishop of Fort Worth has yet to publish any of this on the diocesan website.

I doubt he will…

In your charity, please pray for a person who may be in final agony.

Thank you!