This morning at the parish I attend when visiting family in New Jersey, we celebrated the external solemnity of the Sacred Heart.
In the Epistle from Ephesians we heard the following:
“For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you according the riches of His glory, to be strengthened by His Spirit with might unto the inward man, that Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and grounded in charity, you may be able to comprehend with all the saints, what is the breadth and length, and height and depth: to know also the charity of Christ which surpasseth all knowledge , that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.”
I thank God for sharing His paternity with me! Being a father has truly been the greatest joy of my life. I pray that I may also strengthen my family unto God.
Last year I posted about a flag of the Sacred Heart that I had ordered from a woman in Maine. I reached out to her recently. Unfortunately she is currently out of stock. However, the good folks at TradFlags appear to have plenty. Click the link and shop away!
I have stopped flying “Old Glory” altogether. This is for two reasons. Although I love my country, it is no longer what it once was. Heck, even the White House denigrated it last week by using it to flank the sodo-flag. Also, I want the Sacred Heart of Our Lord to fly high above all else. Side note: last year I proudly told one of my sisters about my flag. She replied, “So what, we can just put any design we want on a piece of cloth and run it up a pole and it’s a flag now?” “Yes,” I replied. “That kind of is the definition of a flag.”
So, buy those flags and fly them with pride. Show your neighbors and friends Who truly rules over your life and land.
Frank Walker linked to a CM article earlier in which Niles demands that the producers of Mass of the Ages essentially edit out Fr. Jackson’s footage from the documentary.
She includes the following tweet (captured in a screen grab from my phone so you don’t have to give them any traffic):
To Miss Audrey I would ask the following:
How does Christine feel working with a sodomite every day?
Fr. Jackson is guilty and should be hanged. There really is no doubt about that. But what she suggests is guilt by association. The documentarians, if I understand her correctly, are no better than him unless they gut their film of all references to him?
Is what he (Jackson) said in the film true? Should truth be expunged? How about the legitimate good work Gary did once upon a time? Should every Vortex be censored because he was a rump ranger and his sins cried out to heaven for vengeance? Or does this simply have to do with a loathing of tradition and a possible desire to deflect from other things?
I feel like this blog post will resemble the back cover of one of those Highlights magazines from the pediatrician’s office when I was a kid. If you know, you know.
First a clip I am sure many of you have seen… In fact the older among us probably lived through this. I came of age in the 1980’s and early 1990’s but believe me, we had one SSJ nun in particular at our parish who delighted in crap like this. So without further ado, the late Sr. Janet Mead:
Why did I just share that? Well, I believe laughter is a great medicine for the soul. And what’s not to laugh about with this? Apart from the cankle tapping at 1:49, there’s the outstretched arms supposedly of Our Lord in some kind of “Resurrecifix” that resembles an alligator at 1:38 (you cannot ever see it differently now and you’re welcome). And I didn’t even mention the groovy, infectious (like an ivermectin-resistant fungus) melody!
Why do we need laughter?
Have you seen the state of the Church lately? I leaned as a young boy when my twin sister died that Our Lord offers us a share in His suffering. But I also learned that He affords us moments of sheer uproarious laughter to help us through the darkness of this vale of tears from time to time. Make use of both. this is the laughter of the “it’s so bad it’s hysterical” variety. It’s also a good laugh at the train wreck that is the post-V2 Church.
Final note: I am currently with my sister and her family in New Jersey. My 30 year-old nephew saw this clip as I was “researching” for this post. His only comment:
“Who let this happen?”
Indeed. but I needn’t worry about him. Like all the others in the younger set, he’s discovered tradition and will never go back.
On a more serious note, why not offer an Ave for Sr. Janet… She died in the past year. It is never a bad idea to pray for the dead.
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“Now, let me be clear so that people can follow me. My religion outlaws sodomy and greatly shuns gay inclinations, gay relationships, and effeminate men. And if there are any such men in existence, then they need to be converted to normalcy. My religion says that God can be a jealous God, and that all other gods are demons, and that there is only one True Religion. All others are demonic lies. There is no such thing as divorce, and remarriage is adultery. We don’t live to be “greenpeace gardeners” of the Earth; we live to know and love God and one day meet Him in Heaven. And Christ didn’t resurrect to start up an NGO. He started a proselytizing organization on a mission during wartime to save humanity’s soul from the Devil. Also in my religion, the death penalty is one of the heaven-decreed penalties for a number of crimes. That is my religion.” - Laramie Hirsch (with permission)
