THIS video by Rosaria Fiore, a self-proclaimed expert on “old Italian tricks,” offers some common sense on soaking beans. It’s a little annoying because it’s too long, but you can skip around.
Everybody wishes they had a pre-feminism Italian grandma with her bag of housekeeping tricks. Some wish they were a pre-feminism Italian grandma.
“WHEN the righteous soul has thus arrived in purgatory, losing sight of everything else, it sees before it only two objects — the extremity of suffering, and the extremity of joys. A most tremendous pain is caused by knowing that God loves it with an infinite love, that He is the Chief Good, that He regards the soul as His daughter, and that He has predestined it to enjoy Him for ever in company with the Blessed: and hence the soul loves Him with a pure and most perfect charity. At the same time it perceives that it cannot see Him or enjoy Him yet, though it so intensely yearns to do so; and this afflicts it so much the more, as it is quite uncertain when the term of its penal exile, away from its Lord and paradise, will be fulfilled. This is the pain of loss in purgatory, of which the Saint says that it is a pain so extreme, that no tongue can tell it, no understanding grasp the least portion of it. Though God in His favour showed me a little spark thereof, yet can I not in any way express it with my tongue.”
— Purgatory, Rev. Frederick William Faber
“THIS will cause acute pain, greater pain than we have ever known; it will be like a sword going right through the heart. Were death still possible we would die for sorrow, but death is over and we have to bear it, till God relieves us. When Christ was in agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, He sweated blood and the drops of His blood fell on the ground. There was then no bodily pain, but only mental sorrow: ‘My soul is sorrowful unto death,’ He had said on entering the garden. He writhed in agony, and, prostrate on the ground, He pleaded: ‘Father, all things are possible unto Thee; let this chalice pass away; yet not My will but Thine be done.’ A picture indeed of our sorrows in purgatory, when our souls, shall be sorrowful unto death, when mere bodily death would be a welcome respite, when we would be willing to die a thousand times if thereby we could reach God one instant sooner.”
— J.P. Arendzen,. Purgatory and Heaven (Sheed and Ward, 1960)
“7. Is it not all the same to God whatever religion a person professes?
“If it were all the same to God whatever religion a person professes, God would not have forbidden, in the First Commandment, to worship Him in any other than in the true religion. Nor would Christ have solemnly declared: ‘He who will not hear the Church let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican.'” (Matt. 18:17.)
— Fr. Michael Mueller, Questions and Answers on Salvation
“THE Prophet Daniel, in the twelfth chapter, says that in the time of the end ‘many shall be chosen and made white, and shall be tried as fire; and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand’ that is, many who have known the faith shall abandon it, by apostasy. ‘Some of the learned shall fall;’ that is, they shall fall from their fidelity to God. And how shall this come to pass? Partly by fear, partly by deception, partly by cowardice; partly because they cannot stand for unpopular truth in the face of popular falsehood; partly because the overruling contemptuous public opinion, as in such a country as this [England], and in France, so subdues and frightens Catholics, that they dare not avow their principles, and, at last, dare not hold them. They become admirers and worshipers of the material prosperity of Protestant countries. They see the commerce, the manufactures, the agriculture, the capital, the practical science, the irresistible armies, and the fleets that cover the sea, and they come flocking to adore, and say, ‘Nothing is so great as this great country of Protestant England.’ [Ed., Or perhaps, ‘Nothing is so great as this great country of Protestant and Masonic America.’] And so they give up their faith, and become materialists, seeking for the wealth and power of this world, dazzled and overpowered by the greatness of a country which has cast off its fidelity to the Church.”
—- — Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy, 1861
This passage by Manning is a piercingly accurate description of the American Catholic as he has been for many years — materialist and traitor. It was the Americans who were some of the staunchest foes of the First Vatican Council and Pope Pius IX’s valiant efforts to define the all-important, and much misunderstood, doctrine of papal infallibility. American bishops returned home in a huff, so taken aback that they might have to defend the faith in the face of Protestant effrontery and opposition.
“THE Holy Fathers who have written upon the subject of Antichrist, and of these prophecies of Daniel, without a single exception, as far as I know,— and they are the Fathers both of the East and of the West, the Greek and the Latin Church — all of them unanimously — say that in the latter end of the world, during the reign of Antichrist, the holy sacrifice of the altar will cease. In the work on the end of the world, ascribed to St. Hippolytus, after a long description of the afflictions of the last days, we read as follows: ‘The Churches shall lament with a great lamentation, for there shall be offered no more oblation, nor incense, nor worship acceptable to God. The sacred buildings of the churches shall be as hovels; and the precious body and blood of Christ shall not be manifest in those days; the Liturgy shall be extinct; the chanting of psalms shall cease; the reading of Holy Scripture shall be heard no more. But there shall be upon men darkness, and mourning upon mourning, and woe upon woe.’ Then, the Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible, hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in lurking-places; for a time it shall be swept, as it were, from the face of the earth. Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early centuries.”
— Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy, 1861; pp 77-78.
Cardinal Manning continues — and please read his continued observations because he explains how the time of the Antichrist is not a time of frightening, apocalyptic bloodshed under a murderous tyrant, as is so often depicted, but a time of apostasy and heresy, of falling away from true worship of God. This prophesied apostasy, he states, will be centered in Rome itself, i.e., within the Catholic Church:
INDIFFERENCE to despotism, submissiveness and anti-Christian values — these are some of the traits that make Indians the ruling class’s ideal immigrants to America right now. Read more at Occidental Observer.
By the way, I myself have nothing against Indians personally. In fact, I like many of them. I don’t believe in unkindness or resentment toward them (or anyone else). We just don’t need their grasping, corrupt, materialistic culture, however charming and immensely lovable many Indians are. We have enough problems of our own. They have a land of their own anyway. It’s called India. I wish them well and want all good things for them. They themselves are victims of the engineered and artificial rootlessness of modern life. They too need an organic society. We are not enemies, but in this predicament together.
That said, America is going to suffer untold misery from of the encroachment of diabolical Hinduism within its borders, from its insatiable materialism and deceitfulness, from the tribalism of Indians, from the greed, arrogance and ingratitude that many, though not all of them, possess. If you think this claim of arrogance is paranoia, I suggest you visit the real world. Imagine white Americans moving to India by the tens of thousands and using government, low-interest loans (subsidized by Indian workers) to buy up Indian businesses and then treating the low-paid Indian workers like worthless peons, as I witnessed the Indian owner of a New England motel, one of many motels bought up by Indians, do to the older white women he employed and mistreated as a clerk. (And why wouldn’t they despise whites? After all, they’ve given up their own inheritance for the sheer thrill of a sick, suicidal conception of generosity.) Imagine white Americans moving to India and earning citizenship while taking the jobs of hundreds of thousands of tech workers, even those who are middle-aged and unable to move on from their lost employment. Imagine white Americans moving to India and replacing thousands of Indian lawyers, doctors, political leaders and business people. Imagine Indians not resisting this! No, this is arrogance and greed. This not a model minority, but a hard-working, often courteous and generally law-abiding invader and plunderer.
We have partly the Counterfeit “Catholic” Church and its abominable heresy of “ecumenism” to thank for this, as it loves nothing better than to encourage false religions, to worship their idols and to wreck the stable order of nations, particularly Western nations, with plutocratic “diversity” and its cleverly packaged replacement of the transcendent God with the transcendent “migrant” and exotic Other, thus ensuring that the Counterfeit Church’s greatest enemy — the true Catholic Church — will be demolished further by the demographic obliteration of the white man, who has it yet in his racial heritage, in his instincts and in the channels of undeserved graces poured on him despite his repeated betrayals to defend the Mystical Body of Christ, the only source of hope for any human being anywhere, and the greatest civilization on earth. Worship of something, after all, must replace the exalted and satisfying worship of God this Counterfeit abomination has overthrown from its sacred altars, replacing it with a banality that simply can’t compete with the virtuous adoration of, and ritual abasement before, the noble foreigner. This diversity racket feeds on spiritual emptiness and betrayal. Man must, he absolutely must, worship something other than himself. He must strive to perfect this world if he does not strive with his whole heart, mind and soul to attain the next.
One of the goals of the Trump presidency, I believe, was to increase and normalize Indian immigration under a supposedly anti-immigration presidency.
Mexicans, Central Americans and Africans are no longer the ideal immigrants. Indians are. Could it be … Could it be … Could it be that the reason is found in the certainty that Indians, blinded by their obstinate paganism and materialism, will never resist the oppression of us all? Do you think if Indians were faithful to the Triune God, embraced Jesus Christ as he is rather than various idols, and were pursuing holiness — not self-absorbed “enlightenment” and things — in significant numbers, they would be welcomed so enthusiastically by our rulers? Not on your life, pal. Not a chance. Besides, Indians would then be happier to remain where they are and to build God’s kingdom on earth, rejecting some material advancement for the sake of their own.
The target for those despots, whether they realize it or not, is not the white man, but Christ the King, lord of all and Savior of all, founder of the one divine society through which human beings may be saved — the Mystical Body of Christ, the true Catholic Church. He is rightful king of every nation, without exception, and threat to every power-hungry politician and utopian revolutionary who wants to ignore His supremacy, which is why governments so often resent Him. It’s not white supremacy they hate; it’s Christ supremacy.
It really is that simple. I know it’s hard to believe, but it is really that simple. Our enemies are not any of these immigrants or politicians, but the ‘powers and principalities’ behind them.
I would just like to add one more thing.
At the end of the day, you don’t care about anybody if you don’t care about that person’s spiritual welfare — and the spiritual welfare of those whom he affects and influences.
This sick, perverted baloney about owing others a life in America is just that — indifference and callousness to the true welfare of others. It’s not generosity. It’s not virtue. It’s not altruism. It’s collective selfishness. It’s the deliberate, selfish wrecking of the organic societies through which human beings flourish and come to know and love God, thereby gaining the only passport and the only citizenship worth having — the passport out of this vale of tears and the gaining of ultimate citizenship in heaven.
I LOOKED for a few moments at the coverage of the alleged plane crash this week near Palm Beach, Florida and it instantly struck me as fake. I saw no convincing evidence of a plane, people walking casually around a fiery crater, no sign of bodies, a cute co-pilot who looked like a model or actress, and cell phone footage that emerged just in time. The needle on my hoax meter jumped.
Women shouldn’t, in general, be airplane pilots for a number of reasons, but the instant story line about feminism being to blame for the crash struck me as coming straight from a government scripting team. Since when does the media blame feminism for anything? Only when it wants to create a circus or get people fighting.
Peggy Hall does a nice job of diving into the story.
The purpose of a fake story? To create fear and distraction, make money, manipulate the masses for the sheer thrill of it, vent some of the anti-feminist rage that might be building in a heavily woman-dominated election season — and who knows what else. It doesn’t matter to me. What matters is that at any time, what people see on the news may be entirely manufactured, and most people fall for it, wasting their mental energies on absurd propaganda and fairy tales. Every psyop is a tool for rendering the masses compromised morally and thus more easily controlled. Participate in lies — and you lose. Propaganda is dehumanizing because it’s made by people who view you as objects, as tools, as things they can control. They do not view you as human beings. They view you as less than slaves.
Every time you step back and think before you accept a sensational, fear-inducing story as true, you win. You potentially retain those most precious possessions — your mind and inner strength.
Better yet, don’t look at the news at all. Prove you are no slave. Prove and defend your own worth against the untold arrogance of psychological warriors.
And please, don’t shoot the messenger.
“THE existence of fire in Purgatory is vouched for also by numerous apparitions and private revelations. They demonstrate to our very eyes this fire as a material one, thus indicating that the words ‘fire’ and ‘fiery torments’ used by Scripture are to be taken in a literal sense. St. Bridget, of whom the Church, in her official prayer, says, ‘O God, who through Thy Divine Son didst reveal to blessed Bridget heavenly mysteries,’ was permitted in one of her ecstacies to witness how a soul was sentenced to a three-fold punishment: to an external and internal fire, an intense cold, and to furious assaults of the devil. Mechtildis of Magdeburg saw a lake of fire mixed with brimstone, in which the Suffering Souls had to bathe in order to be cleansed. According to St. Frances of Rome Purgatory consists of three apartments, one above the other, all alive with a clear, sparkling fire, unlike that of hell, which is dark and sombre. Bautz … relates of the Venerable Mary Anna Lindmayer: ‘Her friend Mary Becher and her mother appeared to her, and left marks of fire on one of her feet, which she saw and felt for weeks. At one time she beheld Purgatory in the shape of a torrent of fiery water, at another, as a prison of fire. The souls themselves appeared to her as sparks of fire falling about her. The appearance of some souls caused her to shiver with frost caused by the cold proceeding from them.’
“PEACEMAKERS are all those that have peace within themselves. That is, those who have set all the passions of their souls in order. This they do by subjecting their passions to reason, namely, to the mind and spirit. Thus, by conquering their fleshly desires, they have made of themselves a little kingdom of God. In this kingdom, everything is ordered into an harmonious whole, by virtue of the fact that the element which chief and pre-eminent in man (namely, mind or reason) ruleth, without resistance, over the elements which we have in common with the beasts. And in this fashion, the element of mind or reason, which is pre-eminent in man, is made subject to something pre-eminent to itself, namely, the Truth, even the Only-Begotten Son of God. For no one is able to govern except he be subject unto the higher powers. Now, herein we have set forth the peace which is given on earth to men of good-will. This is the life of one who is thoroughly and completely wise.
“From a kingdom such as this, which is a state of complete peace and order, the prince of this world is cast out. (more…)
“WE know nothing more reprehensible than the mambypambyism babbled by sentimental Catholics about the good faith of ‘our separated brethren.’ There may be persons in good faith amongst Protestants, but, if so, they do not lack opportunities of showing it, and of coming out from the Babylon in which they have been reared. Men cannot be saved without Christ, for there is no other name given under heaven whereby they can be saved. Without faith it is impossible to please God, and he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and is the remunerator of them that seek him; and how can those be saved by Christ who adhere to the party that rejects him and makes war on him. And how can they have faith or believe in God who commune with those who resolve all faith, all belief, all truth, indeed, into a mere opinion, or an inward sentiment, varying with each individual? (more…)
“IT is worthy of remark that in the war which Protestants** and infidels have hitherto waged against the Church neither has nor pretends to have any truth or principle to oppose to her. They do not fight for the truth, nor for any affirmative or Catholic principle that she denies or neglects; but for what they call the rights of the mind, which, translated into plain English, means the emancipation of the human mind from the authority of truth, and therefore from God who is truth, or, in simpler terms still, the liberty to treat truth and falsehood as of equal value, as equally indifferent, or to deny all real distinction between them, and therefore between right and wrong. Neither reason nor revelation can tolerate this sort of liberty – intellectual and moral license rather; and the very existence and presence of the Church condemns it. Hence the irreconcilable antagonism between the Church and the sects. (more…)
“THE history of Christianity in every age shows how alien to Christ is the heresy of indifferentism [the belief that all religions are paths to God], which was first popularized by the English Deists and the French Rationalists of the seventeenth century. In the first three centuries the Christian martyrs died by the thousands, rather than save their lives by a profession of indifferentism. Frequently they were asked by friends and kinsfolk to sacrifice to the gods of pagan Rome, or at least to allow their names to be written down as having sacrificed. “What difference does it make?” asked their pagan friends. (more…)
“HOW foolish therefore be they that seek God with their outward eyes, since it is in the heart that he is seen. Thus it is written elsewhere: In simplicity of heart seek him. For a pure heart is one that hath the simplicity of single-mindedness. And just as light can be seen only insofar as the bodily eyes have clear vision, so God can be seen only insofar as the heart is clear by reason of its single-mindedness of purpose.”
— St. Augustine
“AND so there is no night there, no darkness, no gathering of clouds, no asperity of heat or cold. But such is the nature of things there as no eye hath seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, except of those only who have been found worthy to enjoy it, whose names are written in the book of life; and who have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb, and are before the throne of God, serving him day and night. There is no old age anywhere there, nor misery of old age, for all are come to perfect manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.
“But far above all these things is the fellowship there. That is, to enjoy the companionship of the heavenly citizens: to look upon the choirs of Angels and Archangels, of Thrones and Dominions, Principalities, Powers, and all the heavenly Virtues on high: and to behold the army of the Saints shining more gloriously than the stars; of the Patriarchs glowing with faith; of the Prophets rejoicing in hope; of the Apostles judging the world reformed into twelve tribes of the new Israel; of the Martyrs resplendent in their ruddy crowns of victory; and of the Virgins wearing garlands of the purest white.”
— Sermons of St. Venerable Bede, the Priest, Ex Sermone 18. de Sanctis
“NO ONE … can be said to be without peace, who is perfectly content with his lot and extremely thankful for it, but the holy sufferers in Purgatory know that their present condition is the very one condition which suits them best, and is most for their good. They know that God has used towards them infinite mercy in not exacting from them a far greater amount of suffering, that they have deserved far more, and even Hell itself, and on this account they are overflowing with gratitude that their case is not harder than it is.
“Besides these elements of peace in the Holy Souls there are others which consist in or result from their condition in itself. We all know what are the dangers to peace in this life dangers so many and so great that it seems almost impossible to be at perfect peace as long as we are what we are. What a blessing we should account it to be free from all external temptation, from all molestation of the evil one, from all provocations to sin from objects external to ourselves, whether they attack us on the side of the irascible part of our nature, or whether their seductions are addressed to our concupiscence! But in the case of the Holy Souls there are no disturbances to their peace from the things which cause us pain or pleasure, which appeal to ambition, or pride, or anger, or envy, or jealousy. All the beauty in the world cannot be a danger to them, all the riches or honours of the world cannot even seem to them desirable, much less be the occasion of serious temptation. (more…)
ONLY IN SLEEP
Only in sleep I see their faces,
Children I played with when I was a child,
Louise comes back with her brown hair braided,
Annie with ringlets warm and wild.
Only in sleep Time is forgotten –
What may have come to them, who can know?
Yet we played last night as long ago,
And the doll-house stood at the turn of the stair.
The years had not sharpened their smooth round faces,
I met their eyes and found them mild –
Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder,
And for them am I too a child?
— Sara Teasdale
Music composed by Ēriks Ešenvalds