[To argue that the example of Hitler and National Socialism are no solution to the problems of contemporary life, that they led Germany to disaster and that they embraced godless paganism is not to justify all that was done to Germany during the world wars and their aftermath nor to deny all the lies and exaggerations about that time.]

FROM Between the Church and the Third Reich, by Rev. Julio Meinvielle, 1937:

“Hitler stated explicitly in 1924 that the new German church must be an Aryan church, not a universal church like the Catholic Church, but a strictly German one. ‘We want no other god than Germany,’ he declared. ‘Fanaticism in our faith, in our hope, and in our love for Germany—that alone is our religion.’ Ludendorff, always brutal in his expression, declared, ‘In the Catholic Church we find our most dangerous enemy. The black peril in Germany is greater than the red peril.’ This was simply following a directive from the German episcopate: Catholics were prohibited from being registered members of Hitler’s party, and the sacraments were denied to party members. When the party officially inquired about the basis for these prohibitions, the bishop replied, ‘We must give these instructions because the program of the National Socialist party contains principles incompatible with Catholic doctrine.’ The National Socialist party program contains principles incompatible with Catholic doctrine, especially paragraph 24, which no Catholic can accept without renouncing their faith. This paragraph states that the party grants freedom to creeds that do not endanger its existence, and recognized party leaders include the Catholic Church among the creeds dangerous to the state … (more…)

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THE SECRET of existence — a golden rule that will never fail no matter what happens  — is to remain always, in some essential part of one’s being, a child.

Not a child physically or intellectually, of course. But in the supernatural order, in the depth of our souls, we should always be children. Children are immature, willful, stubborn, emotionally unstable and unknowledgeable. But, most important of all, they are trusting. They are highly conscious of the benevolence that lies behind all things. A child knows he is loved and he loves in return with an undivided heart. He has momentary fears, sometimes they are severe, but he does not suffer from existential anxiety or dread. He is not plagued with constant worry. It is often when adults don’t understand the complete trust and love of the child that they mistreat him. The child has confidence that he is protected even when he lives in miserable surroundings or has irresponsible parents.

And so it is with us — or should always be with us.

We are loved and protected. Benevolence surrounds us — and if we are not conscious of it, something is terribly wrong with us. Everything that happens expresses the will of God. He wants the best for us in his fatherly protectiveness. But we cannot know him as a true Father unless we are true children. We can turn everything to good if we trust in his love and fatherliness.

Even when we are in our busy prime years, with important affairs and responsibilities, and even when we are old, this beautiful truth holds — we are children all the same.

He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little, is unjust also in that which is greater.

[St. Luke 16: 10]

Yoga instructors say we should empty ourselves. But nothingness cannot love us. Nothingness cannot satisfy us. Nothingness is nothing. The child knows there is something. He is never seduced by blankness. His heart is too full for blankness. He cannot attain that aridness.

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Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did. But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men, And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: for he knew what was in man.

(John 2:23-25)

From Bible commentary by Bishop Juan Straubinger (quoted and translated here):

“When we are still unfamiliar with the language of the divine Master and the Bible in general, it is surprising to constantly find a certain pessimism, which seems excessive, regarding the wickedness of man. Because we think that people who act out of love for evil must be very rare. Our surprise stems from ignoring the immense scope of the first of the biblical dogmas: original sin. The Church has defined it in very clear terms (Denzinger 174-200). Our upbringing, with its mixture of proud humanism and materialistic sentimentality, leads us to confuse the natural order with the supernatural, and to think that it is charitable to believe in the goodness of man, when in fact such a belief lies the Pelagian heresy, the same as that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the origin of so many contemporary evils.

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Hymn {from the Psalter for the season of the Church year}

Who madest all and dost control,
Lord, with thy touch divine,
Cast out the slumbers of the soul,
The rest that is not thine.

Look down, Eternal Holiness,
And wash the sins away,
Of those, who, rising to confess,
Outstrip the lingering day.

Our hearts and hands by night, O Lord,
We lift them in Our need;
As holy Psalmists give the word,
And holy Paul the deed.

Each sin to thee of years gone by,
Each hidden stain lies bare;
We shrink not from thine awful eye,
But pray that thou wouldst spare.

Grant this, O Father, Only Son
And Spirit, God of grace,
To whom all worship shall be done
In every time and place,
Amen.

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THE following applies to all “Traditionalist” sects, including Society of St. Pius X and various other alphabet soup groups such as SSPV, CMRI and RCI, that lure in the unsuspecting with false promises of true sacraments in this terrible period of apostasy and apocalyptic chaos:

“It is universally known that the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church is founded on the solidity of Saint Peter, the Rock, but these sects want us to believe that we must disobey His Holiness Pius XII, the Foundation Stone of the Church, and that we must follow them, they who claim to know the spirit of the letter, which is none other than disobedience and the ‘non serviam’ (I will not serve), that we must follow them to their dens of thieves, intruders, foxes, and wolves, sail on their rafts, and let ourselves be guided by these pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, filibusters, thieves, and desecrators of the treasures of the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church, that we must be deceived by the glitter of their miters, hooks, and their plunder and loot, under the guise of ritual, incense, and pomp, and that we must defect from Saint Peter, Prince of the Holy Apostles and Foundation Stone of the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church, who speaks in his successors assisted by the Holy Trinity in its entirety; these treacherous thieves who came out of the depths of Babylon the Great want to kidnap us through sophistry and disguises to take us back from where the One and Triune God took us out for free without us deserving it.

“What a betrayal of the good God and such compassion it would be to return to that place from which we were taken for our health, that is, salvation!

“May the Triune God grant that we do not fall through our personal sins and be lost, and that He keep us firm in not abandoning His Holy Church founded on Peter, on the solidity of the Rock, and entering into the false churches of feet of clay and shifting sands, abandoning the Mystical Body of Christ our Lord!”

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“LOUIS IX, King of France, was born on the 25 th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1215. At the age of twelve years he lost his father. He was brought up under the godly care of his mother, Blanche of Castile. In the twentieth year of his reign he fell grievously sick, and the thought then occurred to him of delivering Jerusalem out of the hands of the Moslems. On his health being restored, he received a banner from the Bishop of Paris, and crossed the sea (to Egypt) with a very great army. In his first battle he put the Saracens to flight, but, a great number of the soldiers perishing by disease, he was himself conquered and taken prisoner.

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LOVING your country is nothing compared to loving your race because when your country becomes completely nonwhite you’re not going to love it.

— Mark Charlton

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From the Book of Moral Reflections on Job by Pope St. Gregory the Great [540-604 AD]:

Some there are who are careless concerning their true life, greedy of the things which pass away, but as to the things which are eternal, either understand them not, or, understanding them, holding them to be but of little moment they feel no sorrow, nor know how to take wise advice and, in forgetfulness of the heavenly possessions which they have lost, they deem themselves — alas, poor wretches — happy in their goods. They lift not up their eyes to the light of truth for which they were created; no keen desire ever maketh them to cast a longing look toward the everlasting Fatherland. Leaving alone the chief end for which they were made, they fix their affections upon the exile which they are enduring, instead of upon their home, and make merry in the blindness which they are suffering, as though it were glorious day-light.

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BLESSED is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners,  nor sat in the chair of pestilence.

But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season.

And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 1: 1-7

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“WE say anything is pure or clean when there is nothing of a lower or coarser nature mixed with it or resting on it. In this way we speak of a pure spirit as one not made for union with a material body; pure water, again, that is not mixed with any foreign matter that will dull its brightness. Remark that purity does not mean coldness or stiffness. If snow is the emblem of purity, it is because of its heaven-born whiteness and stainlessness–not because of its coldness. Once let the clay and soilure of earth be mixed with the drift, and though it has not ceased to be cold it has ceased to be pure. The icicle which the poet has made the emblem of chastity is no fitting emblem either in its coldness or sharpness–but (if it be a fit emblem at all) in its transparent clearness. To-day, however, we see the true emblem of purity, better than snow or ice, however spotless; for we see a human heart, warm with the warmest human love, throbbing and yearning as with the love of all hearts in one, and yet, nay by very reason of its vehement love, the home and emblem of purity–the most loving of the loving, and the purest of the pure.”

— “The Pure Heart of Mary” by Rev. Arthur Ryan, 1877

From readings and devotions on today’s Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The day on which we celebrate this feast was instituted by Pope Pius XII on May 4, 1944, in honor of a devotion that began in the 17th century.

Heart of Mary, refuge of sinners, pray for us.

Hymn {from the Common or Feast}

The God whom earth, and sea, and sky
Adore, and laud, and magnify,
Who o’er their threefold fabric reigns,
The Virgin’s spotless womb contains.

The God, whose will by moon and sun
And all things in due course is done,
Is borne upon a maiden’s breast,
By fullest heavenly grace possest.

How blest that mother, in whose shrine
The great artificer divine,
Whose hand contains the earth and sky,
Vouchsafed, as in his ark, to lie.

Blest, in the message Gabriel brought;
Blest, by the work the Spirit wrought;
From whom the great desire of earth
Took human flesh and human birth.

All honour, laud, and glory be,
O Jesu, Virgin-Born, to thee;
Whom with the Father we adore,
And Holy Ghost, for evermore.
Amen.

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“THE seemingly limitless panorama that technology unfolds before the eyes of modern man, however vast it may be, is, in fact, nothing more than a partial projection of life onto reality, for it expresses only the relationship of life to matter. This is why it is a panorama that deceives and ultimately imprisons the overly credulous man within the immensity and omnipotence of technology, in a prison that is certainly vast, but circumscribed and, therefore, in the long run, unbearable to his genuine spirit. His gaze, far from extending toward the infinite reality that is not only matter, will feel constrained by the barriers that this reality necessarily presents. From this arises the deep anguish of contemporary man, who has become blind by having voluntarily surrounded himself with darkness.”

— Pope Pius XII, Christmas Radio Message of 1953

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ALAN writes:

Years ago I wrote about an array of rusting steel plates that occupy a city block in downtown St. Louis. They were put there in 1982 and officially called the “Twain Sculpture,” but usually referred to as the “Serra Sculpture,” after Richard Serra — the con artist who created the monstrosity. At that time and as if on cue, the city’s “Liberal” newspaper, the local intellectuals, and all public officials took turns gushing over it. They called it a work of “art”. Ordinary citizens called it a collection of junk. Not one bureaucrat or apparatchik on the public payroll ever called it anything but a work of “art”.

For 44 years, people walking or driving through downtown have had to look at the indescribably-ugly thing. What’s funny about that is: Souvenir shops have never sold framed portraits of the thing or miniature replicas for visitors to take home with them and remember it by. But the “official truth” was –and remains– that it is a work of “art”.

A few months ago, men built a fence around the thing. Why?  Supposedly, to illustrate and accentuate its artistic merit — strange that 44 years went by before that idea occurred to anyone — and to protect the thing from being vandalized.

Law-abiding citizens who venture downtown are on their own against panhandlers, predators, thugs, car thieves, and philosophers on street corners who shout their philosophy to passers-by. But the city will build a fence around the “Serra Sculpture” monstrosity to “protect” it.  At this point, you should be laughing uproariously. The city proposes to achieve the impossible: To prevent anyone from vandalizing an array of junk that is itself the very essence of vandalism to language, art, and thought.

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[Preached at Vezelay in Burgundy, France on, March 31, 1146:

“IF it were announced to you that the enemy had invaded your cities, your castles, your lands; had ravished your wives and your daughters and profaned your temples – who among you would not fly to arms? Well, then, all these calamities, and calamities still greater, have fallen upon your brethren, upon the family of Jesus Christ, which is yours. Why do you hesitate to repair so many evils; to revenge so many outrages? Will you allow the infidels to contemplate in peace the ravages they have committed on Christian people?

“Remember that their triumph will be a subject for grief to all ages and an eternal opprobrium upon the generation that has endured it. Yes, the living God has charged me to announce to you that He will punish them who shall not have defended Him against His enemies.

“Fly then to arms! Let a holy ire animate you in the fight, and let the Christian world resound with these words of the prophet, ‘Cursed be he who does not stain his sword with blood!’ “If the Lord calls you to the defense of His heritage think not that His hand has lost its power. Could He not send twelve Legions of Angels or breathe one word and all His enemies would crumble away into dust? But God has considered the sons of men, to open for them the road to His mercy. His goodness has caused to dawn for you a day of safety by calling on you to avenge His glory and His name.

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FROM “burnt toast;”

MASS MIGRATION IS AHISTORICAL

Because historical population movements occurred as small-scale mercantile travel the modern reality of rapid, state-managed global migration is a recent artifact of advanced transportation that departs entirely from traditional patterns of human settlement.

OPEN BORDERS IS HISTORICAL DURING CONQUEST

The open immigration policies of the Ellis Island era provided European arrivals with a critical psychological and familial security that allowed them to successfully integrate into the American body of politic.

During the peak of Ellis Island immigration, European migrants generally did not face strict, multi-decade visa backlogs or permanent separation from their immediate and extended kin. This structural openness meant that once an individual arrived, they could reliably bring their families over, allowing them to quickly shift their focus from existential survival and family preservation to civic participation and Americanization. (more…)

“THE evil of our day is this: that the line of demarcation between Christian and non-Christian, between Christian and heretic, between Christian and idolater, is gradually fading away. The cancer of Liberalism attacks everyone and we must be careful not to be infected ourselves. Those who still call themselves Catholic live, too often, like those who have renounced this title. Women who go to church dress just the way women who do not go to church dress; they read the same books and magazines as these women; they go to the same – often immoral – shows as these women; they no longer pray or do penance. It is a confusion of license and worldliness. As a result of these customs, the Church is beginning to disappear in the world. Christianity is being lost. Only rarely does one find Catholics to whom the following words of Saint Paul can apply: “…be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world”. (Phil.2:15). The early Christians stood out among the pagans like shining torches in the dark, and the example of their courage and their virtue attracted the pagans strongly to the Faith. This is something which we do not see today, except in rare cases. Everything is a mish-mash of unrestraint.”

— Rev. Fr. Dom Bernard-Marie Maréchaux (1927)

[Fr. Maréchaux was writing almost 100 yers ago and his words now seem almost quaint. Things are much worse, and the Christian is usually anti-Christian in behavior and beliefs. He has embraced the world fully and without qualms.

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A Homily by St. Peter Canisius, the Priest
De Maria Deipara Virgine, lib. 5, c. 6

The Church frequently and reverently keepeth feastdays dedicated to the Mother of God, realizing that it is a work pleasing to God and worthy of the faithful if many feasts, with fixed dates and public ceremonies, are celebrated in honour of the most blessed of all the blessed in heaven, the Mother of our Lord and God. Among all these feasts which have been celebrated so devotedly for so many years, even unto the present day, the Feast of the Assumption is considered the greatest and holdeth chief place. Indeed there was no happier or more joyful day for Mary, if we duly consider the happiness of both body and soul granted to her on that day. Then especially, as never before, her spirit, soul and body rejoiced wondrously in the living God and she could rightfully say: He hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden; for behold, all generations shall call me blessed; for he that is mighty hath magnified me.

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Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

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