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The title of this post references a quote I have heard attributed to Don Propser Gueranger but may have been uttered by another. I could not quickly find a source for it.

Preaching on Lent, Don Prosper urges more and heroic fasting from Catholics.

“How will it look for you at your judgment when Our Lord asks of you what fasting you offered Him in this life and you have very little or nothing at all to reply? The Mohammedans have their Ramadan and you couldn’t even give me two days…”

So first, don’t ever listen to anyone who discourages you from an heroic practice of fasting. I’m even hearing traditional priests preach recently about the many “exceptions” to fasting one should make use of and that mothers and fathers in the home aren’t called to be Carthusian monks or some such nonsense. Of course we aren’t called to the monastic life. But all are called to sanctity. And correct me if I’m wrong but I thought sanctity was the heroic practice of virtue.

Repeat after me.

Fasting. Will. Not. Kill. Me.

I’ve discovered this great joy (and suffering) too late in my 46 years on this earth as a Catholic. But praised be to God, I have begun to understand.

New York Catholics on the other hand?

Peep this.

I truly don’t like having to refer to a Prince of the Church as a buffoon but I don’t know what else to say when the emperor has no clothes (and apparently no self awareness).

Your Eminence, please, in your desire to be loved in the media capital of the world (I’m just assuming) you are making an ass of yourself and denigrating the Catholic faith. And all of this on the heels of that abomination last month with the “mother of all whores” tranny-fest in your cathedral.

Ramadan is not anything like “our Lenten journey”. For starters, your ilk have watered Lent down to be almost meaningless. Secondly, for those who try to take Lent seriously, it is leading us in bodily practice and prayer to the celebration of Christ’s Passion and Death and our salvation. Compare that with a system who thinks the Second Person of the Trinity, God Incarnate, is inferior to their false god.

Cardinal Dolan, there are three weeks left of Lent. Perhaps give up going on camera. Or speaking.

This book was recommended to me. Although it may be a bit late to get the reading of the text in before the great feast next week (busy lives and all), I highly recommend joining in with the novena prayers found toward the back of the book.

https://archive.org/details/themonthofstjose00languoft/page/236/mode/2up

The book is called The Month of St. Joseph by Most Reverend M. de Langalerie who appears to have been a 19th century prelate from Auch, France.

Happy Laetare!

I hope your priest’s vestments were the manliest of pinks today. At my parish they drape a purple cloth over the front of the altarpiece during Lent to cover the image of the Last Supper depicted in relief there. Unfortunately whoever made the cloth also made a set of purple vestments from the same material. Ergo, our priests occasionally blend into the altar like a Vietnam-era soldier blending into the jungle. It’s interesting to say the least.

Ah yes, halfway there…

This Lent has not been without its ups and downs for me. The fast had been going very well until it wasn’t. I fell off that wagon a few days ago and struggled to get back on. But tomorrow is a new day and, by the grace of God, I will get back after it.

Otherwise, even if you’ve had great success this Lent, now is the time to double down. Pay careful attention to the Epistle and Gospel daily (and of course the orations which are so moving and poignant during these days).

Pray for me as I pray for each of you.

Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us!

No apologies. Thank you, Miss B!

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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!)