Harvey Millican's Blog: Musings of a Trad Dad

Thank you to the several of you wrote yesterday with suggestions about my deep sea fishing trip.

In the end, I did not experience any motion sickness even though the boat I was on traveled 60 miles out into the Atlantic over rough surf. More importantly, I called upon Our Lady, Star of the Sea and she greatly assisted me in alleviating my fears. A good time was had by all we returned with eight large tuna.

It’s the beginning of a quote from either Lewis or Clark, I cannot recall which one.

“Ocean in view! O the joy!”

These words were uttered when one of the two above mentioned explorers first spotted the Pacific on their westward journey.

Today I literally shouted the same when I laid sight of the Atlantic.

We’ve begun our annual summer vacation. It’s four families with 8 adults and about forty kids and a handful of grandkids. Outer Banks, North Carolina.

But my reason for saying that line has to do more with fear than joy. You see, tomorrow morning at 4:45 AM my wife signed me up to go sixty miles off the coast in a small fishing boat with instructions to “bring back a good haul for the week.”

1. I hate fish.
2. I have only fished once in my life.
3. I am terrified of the ocean. It’s so vast and people have been dying in them since the Dawn of time.

So say some prayers I make it back. On the upside, I’ll probably get sick and vomit everything I ate on the 22 hour drive to get hear (straight through) so at least I’ll be nice and trim for the rest of the beach week proper.

Our Lady, Star of the Sea, pray for us!

Thank you all for the prayers. So far the journey has been uneventful except for the fact that we found ourselves in Mableton, GA just in time for a 6:30 TLM.

That Blessed Mother… She always comes through.

I humbly request prayers for a safe journey.

Thank you!

This could be the fate of any of us and will likely be the fate for all of us. I’m not talking about the resting in honored glory part but the “known but to God” part. Who will remember your name four generations hence and remember to pray for your soul which will likely and hopefully be in purgatory?

Pray for the dead in your lifetime.

Stay confessed.

And yes, God bless all those who gave their lives for our freedoms.

Worth a listen and about how I feel these days as well.

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2025/05/22/barnhardt-podcast-episode-226-bernadiddy-freak-off/

Sent to me by my nephew:

PRAYER OF ST PADRE PIO FOR AFTER CONFESSION
O Lord! I abandon my past to Thy mercy, my present to Thy Love, and my future to Thy Providence!