Harvey Millican's Blog: Musings of a Trad Dad

The orations of the Mass for this saint are hilarious…

Remember, Joseph was know to have been able to fly. Like actually fly.

“O God, Who willed that all things be drawn unto Thy Son when He was raised above the earth, mercifully grant, by the merits and example of Thy seraphic Confessor Joseph, that, having been raised above all earthly desires, we may be found worthy to come unto Him.” -Collect of the Mass

Also, if you’re about to take a test, send up a prayer to him. He wasn’t too bright but somehow he managed to pass through.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us!

I’ve been trying to write something about Charlie Kirk’s widow – some encouragement, some prayer. It’s a struggle but I feel the need to post something with her and their young children in mind. In the meantime, here’s an image for mediation.

It’s a facetious question.

I glanced up at the priests and altar boys at a Solemn High Mass for The Seven Sorrows and felt a deep sense of…

Pride.

Unmitigated. Unqualified. Pride.

The priests – my priests – looked amazing in their gold vestments with their precise movements and perfect Latin. The young boys were flawless in their reverential attention to detail.

I know I had nothing to do with it.

But boy did my heart swell.

Humility, Lord… Grant me humility. And thank You for Your gifts to me.

Meditation on Our Lady’s seven dolors is of great spiritual benefit. From catholictradition.org:

1. I will grant peace to their families.
  2.They will be enlightened about the Divine mysteries.
  3. I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.
  4. I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my Divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.
  5. I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.
  6. I will visibly help them at the moment of their death, they will see the face of their Mother.
  7. I have obtained this Grace from my Divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.

Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us!

A beautiful tribute from the White House.

Jiggety jig?

Either way, I’m back at home after a long work trip that took place during the most bizarre week in American political history in a while.

Deo gratias!

It’s not my Towers and I’m still pissed.

Yes, friends, I am on the ground in Lower Manhattan this fine September 11th morning. I’m at a pub a block from Ground Zero shooting a documentary. In the bar, the TV’s are playing the reading of the names. This will never not be hard to bear.

God grant them (all 3000 of them) eternal rest.

Stay confessed.