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Looking to the bright side having just entered Lent, I had a funny exchange with my teenagers yesterday. We had attended the Noon Mass in our parish. Father distributed ashes just prior to Mass. somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 people were there. It is beautiful to see.

First, my daughter noticed as we headed to the truck after Mass was over that I seemed perturbed. Asking what the matter was, I told her, “I have a forehead you can see from the Space Station and yet I always get a wonky smudge.” Seriously, Father, you can do so much better. With this canvas, I expect not only a cross, but the hill of Calvary, two thieves, and the Blessed Mother as well.

Second, on the drive home I let out a chuckle. My son asked what was funny. I told him, “Ever have one of those funny thoughts pop into your head where you have to laugh at the absurdity of it? Well, I was just remembering back to my earlier life when I was not a Trad. For the first forty years I went to Novus Ordo. You see, son, our priest just now pronounced Latin words. Memento homo… Remember man, thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.” In the other one they might say that but they’re ‘free’ to change it up. ‘Turn away from sin and do good,’ ‘Repent and believe in yourself,’ ‘Jesus loves you because someone should.’ are all things I’ve heard. But my favorite was a fruitcake old deacon who traced a cross on my head while saying, ‘Shuffle. Ball. Change. SPARKLE!’”

We laughed the whole ride home until I told them it might have been a slight exaggeration.

Anyway, today is the first Friday of the month of March. You know what to do.

https://fatima.org/first-friday-devotion/

Here below a selection by Liguori from a website recommended by Fr. Isaac Mary in his podcast Soldiers of the Immaculate:

To animate your fervour in the practice of mortification, I shall here place before your eyes, in his own words, what St. John Climacus saw in a monastery called the Prison of Penitents. “I saw,” says the Saint, “some of them standing the whole night in the open air, to overcome sleep. I saw others with their eyes fixed on Heaven, and with tears, begging mercy from God. Others stood with their hands bound behind their shoulders, and their heads bowed down, as if they were unworthy to raise their eyes to Heaven. Others remained on ashes, with their heads between their knees, and beat the ground with their foreheads. Others deluged the floor with their tears. Others stood in the burning rays of the sun. Others, parched with thirst, were content with taking a few drops of water to prevent death. Others took a mouthful of bread, and then threw it out, saying that they who have lived like animals are unworthy of the food of men. Some had their cheeks furrowed by continual streams of tears; and others had their eyes sunken. Others struck their breast with such violence, that they began to spit blood. And I saw all with faces so pallid and emaciated, that they appeared to be so many corpses.” The Saint then concludes by saying that notwithstanding their fall, he considered them, on account of their penitential rigours, more happy than those who had never sinned and never done penance. What shall be said of those who have fallen and have never atoned for their crimes by expiatory works?

Read the whole daily meditation (and meditations for every day) here:

https://www.religiousbookshelf.com/meditations-and-readings/day/2112-Thursday-after-Quinquagesima.html

Listen to Fr.’s podcast here:

https://www.soti.blog/

Very informative…

Originally posted Ash Wednesday 2024:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6670266

Certainly more information than all of the Vatican press releases combined so far for what it’s worth.

Before you read on, take a gander at this:

Look, I’m sure Darby O’Gill Colm Flynn* is a very nice man. But from the first seconds listen to his tack on this. Everything he says is preceded by the name of the agency who handed him the press releases.

Is there any real reporting being done here?

The late George Neumayr, with whom I was happily and providentially acquainted, would have donned a pair of scrubs, hung outside the emergency department entrance, lit a cigarette to chat with the doctors who would have been on their smoke break, and faked an Italian accent to gain access to the building. Then he would have gone in search of the patient to find out what’s actually going on. He might not have made it to the top floor but he sure as hell would have learned more about the actual truth than this uninterested lot.

From contradictory statements to an all too rosy portrait of a dying man to verifiably falsified images of crowd sizes (hint: there really aren’t many there and I have the proof), we are most assuredly not being given the truth. But why should that matter to a group of men who’ve been lying about many things for a long time. “We didn’t know he was a pedo when we transferred him sixteen times!” “I was shocked that the Cardinal was a perv!” “Take the shot. It’s the charitable thing to do!”

Give me a break.

For the love of God, will one of you “reporters” glance down for a moment? If you see anything at all where your man parts should be, then perhaps remember why they’re their and be a man and do the difficult things. Stop taking at face value everything “they’re” telling you and regurgitating it.

We are tired of the lies whether from them or from them through you.

*Relax. I’m Irish. I can poke fun at and if Colm is Irish too, he’ll find it funny.

The answers? 14 and 0 respectively.

Folks, something very suspicious is going on here and it’s telling that the world media isn’t concerned. Then again, the “reporters” of this day and age are hacks who simply take a statement from one person and read it to another with no thought taking place in the middle.

We trudge on.