Harvey Millican's Blog: Musings of a Trad Dad

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Apparently the demented old man screamed and slurred his way through an address to Congress earlier. It appears he invited a woman from Texas to sit in the gallery so he could praise her for murdering her baby when she found out the child had a genetic disorder. Because that’s apparently what one does when a child is less than perfect. I thought of including a clip below but it’s unwatchable on several levels (even when he openly mocks the Justices of the Supreme Court to their faces). All this took place on the day we in my family celebrated what would have been the 16th birthday of my niece who was born with anencephaly and lived just five days. She was a beautiful little girl and she was loved much and her life was a gift from God.

But he should still be given Holy Communion, right? Asking for a priest friend.

As we pass the midpoint of Lent, here’s a sobering reality check. But be courageous and stay strong.

There is nothing more precious than time; but by many there is nothing less valued. At the hour of death, to obtain even one short hour men would give all they possess–wealth, honours, pleasures,–but this hour shall not be given them. They will weep and say: O fools that we have been! O time for ever lost!

Read the rest here. (Courtesy the Liguori Daily Meditations, and thank you Fr. Isaac Mary for this game changer!)

The autobrew feature on the coffee pot only works when you actually set the coffee pot up.

It’s been a long few days.

Hope your Lent is productive. Only three and a half more weeks

Shockingly, my state’s primary election is upon us again. And not for the first time in recent years, I really don’t care. There’s no voting our way out of any of the current messes we’re in. I’ll probably still go into the polling place and check a few boxes for old time’s sake.

I came across this while reading the daily meditations of St. Alphonsus Liguori which were recommended by Fr. Isaac Mary in his podcast:

“St. Bonaventure remarks that “those wounds which were scattered over the Body of our Lord, were all united in the single heart of Mary.” Thus was our Blessed Lady, through the compassion of her loving heart for her Son, scourged, crowned with thorns, insulted, and nailed to the Cross. Whence the same Saint, considering Mary on Mount Calvary, present at the death of her Son, questions her in these words: “O Lady, tell me, where didst thou stand? Was it only at the foot of the Cross? Ah, much more than this, thou wast on the Cross itself, crucified with thy Son.” Richard of St. Laurence, on the words of the Redeemer, spoken by Isaias the Prophet: I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me (Is. lxiii. 3), says, “It is true, O Lord, that in the work of human redemption Thou didst suffer alone, and that there was not a man who sufficiently pitied Thee; but there was a woman with Thee, and she was Thine own Mother; she suffered in her heart all that Thou didst endure in Thy body.”

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Mary, Queen of Martyrs, pray for us!