This evening after Mass I had an opportunity to visit in the hospital with a man from the parish who is ill. I was reminded of how this simple act of spending time with another who is suffering can be such a great work of true charity if done with the right intention.
Please keep this man in your prayers.
Our Lady, Health of the Sick, pray for us!
The above is the September offering from the folks at tradflags.com . I’m not an impulse shopper, I promise, but boy, when I’m on their page it’s like, “Hold me back!”
Also, today, Friday September 1, is First Friday. Likewise, tomorrow, September 2, is First Saturday. Click the links to learn about the devotions and then incorporate them into your lives.
Stay confessed!
Go to Mass!
Pray your rosary!
Do not be caught unawares…
I have had a feeling for some time that Bergoglio never actually laicized Theodore McCarrick.
I first got that sense when the late George Neumayr tweeted his own suspicions in December of 2022.
Everything in my gut tells me that the aging sodo-freak evil McCarrick is still a member of the clerical state. I have asked repeatedly over the past few years, “Why is a laicized man enjoying the benefits of Church property and patronage?” I refer to his living arrangements of late in religious order-run places like the Kansas friary. Draw your own conclusions.
And now Archbishop Vigano seems to be echoing the same sentiments.
“It doesn’t even matter to Bergoglio, who proceeded to condemn McCarrick through administrative channels (without ever publishing the document of his dismissal from the clerical state) in order to protect his accomplices…”
Time will tell. I surely do wish someone of George’s tenacity were here to dig into the details and find the truth.
Lord Jesus, have mercy on us all!
Cole Porter would be so proud. Here we are 89 years after he composed a hit musical and the Roman Catholic Church has decided to adopt its title song as Her motto. Also, Porter was a sodomite so maybe that’s the connection?
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now God knows…
Anything goes!
I could go on. Something about the world having gone mad and black being white and day being night and women chasing after gigolos…
Not sure what I mean? Many have only been warning about this for years, shouting from the wilderness like modern-day John the Baptist’s.
Take a look at the following headline from Canon212. And say a prayer for anyone in the path of Idalia.
Frank Walker deserves a prize for his skill in writing headlines. Brilliant.
So the German bishops, whom we have known to be apostate pseudo-Lutherans for a long time have finally crossed another of so many Rubicons in their march toward hell.
Sodomite “blessings” with no fear of reprisal? Perhaps no canonical penalties but there will be a Judgment for sure.
Remember folks, this is the same group who threaten Carmelite nuns with excommunication. That’s rich.
Consider if we took the above quote and applied it to, say, the SSPX.
“It is no longer possible to say that all who are in any so-called irregular [CANONICAL] situation are in a state of…”
See that? Anything goes with this crowd.*
Check out some more.
“If driving fast cars you like/If low bars you like/If old hymns you like/If bare limbs you like/If Mae West you like/Or me undressed you like… Well nobody will oppose!
Catchy tune, that.
Our Lady of Akita, pray for us!
*Unless you believe and practice what the Church has always believed and practiced prior to this clown show’s arrival on the scene. Then? Well, let’s just say anything does not go.
A new St. Rita Novena begins today for me. In the petition prayer for the novena I use it says the following:
“We promise, if our petitions are granted, to make known your favor and to glorify God for His gift…”
I like to think I’m keeping my end of that bargain but in case you don’t know anything about her, here’s a link to the novena. The same website has a biography of St. Rita.
Please also email me with any petitions I may add. I am only too happy to pray for your intentions.
St. Rita, pray for us!
One of the things I love most about homeschooling (or as I think of it, simply raising my kids) is that I am not bound to the schedule of any “outside”, “institutional” facility. There is a certain amount of being mentally locked to a calendar that cannot be avoided. For instance, we will always take breaks for the more formal book learning in much of the summer.
That being said, around these parts of the country schools universally have the kids back on the cellblocks in the classrooms by the middle of August. To this I draw deeply from my Jersey roots and say, “Yeah…. No.”
Here’s the history of that for some reason. When I first moved to Texas I, my father-in-law – God rest his soul – explained to me that, many years ago, schools would begin in mid-August in order to allow the school kids a sufficient break by early October. Why did they need that break in October? To help bring in the cotton harvest, or course. That certainly explains a lot. There would have to be a huge reason why you’d subject children to being in (at the time) un-air-conditioned classrooms in the hottest month of the year.
Even though no children are required to bring in family cotton harvests these days (though it might actually do them so good), schools still start in mid-August. “Just the way it’s always been,” I guess.
My point in all of this is that my children and I are still enjoying our last week of downtime. I’ll start when I’m good and ready and right now that’s looking like next week. That is, next week for the “formal learning” as I mentioned above. That’s the kind with the books and all…
True learning never stops.
Our Lady, Queen of Families, pray for us!
I had intended to write tonight asking for prayers for a special intention of mine and I still ask for those prayers. Please, if you read this, ask St. Rita to intercede for my intention. She knows what it’s about. And thank you.
But before I got to writing, I got a call from a young man who is a friend of mine. He asked if I could come and sit with him. He recently got out of the Marine Corps and tonight, he received word that another of his comrades committed the sin of suicide.
He tells me the stats are at 44 a day. A DAY!
I am starting to wonder whether the US service branches are demonically oppressed. This is not the first of his friends to commit suicide.
Either way, this has to end.
Young men are going off to serve their country. Brave men. Strong and true. And something is happening to them. This particular deceased was 21 years-old.
Young men are killing themselves and it must end.
I’ve had my own experience and I’ve written about it before. My older brother took his life during the Coof lockdowns. I will never understand it but at the end of the day I just kind of miss my brother even if I want to kill him for what he did.
So, prayers all around today, please. Pray for my intention for sure. I could use it. But pray for my friend and for the repose of the soul of his friend and for an end to this demonic nonsense.
Lord Jesus, have mercy on me, a sinner!
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