THOU Prince of the angelic Hosts,
I lift my heart to thee.
And call to mind with grateful soul
Thy wondrous victory.
Chorus: Oh first of all the mighty Seven,
Before thy throne we bow,
And worship thee amidst the light
That streameth from thy brow.
For when dark Satan and his hosts
Rebelled against our Lord,
Thy mighty war-cry pierced the dark:
Who is like God adored? (more…)
IN HIS unfinished autobiography A Little Learning, the British author Evelyn Waugh remembered fondly his own mother: My mother was small, neat, reticent and, until her last decade, very active. She had no special literary interests, but read a book a fortnight, always a good one. She would have preferred to live in the country and from her I learned that towns are places of exile where the unfortunate are driven to congregate in order to earn their livings in an unhealthy and unnatural way. She had to be content with walking her dog on Hampstead Heath and working in the garden. She spent hours there, entirely absorbed; not merely snipping off dead heads but potting, planting, watering, weeding. (A man came one or two days a week to dig or mow or roll.) When my father in middle age, after the fashion of the family, chose epitaphs for himself and my mother, he directed that on his side of the gravestone should be inscribed: 'And another book was opened which is the book of life' and on my mother's 'My beloved is gone down into the garden to gather lilies'; but her flowers did not interest her more than fruit and vegetables. There was nothing pre-Raphaelite about my mother. I associate her less with lilies than with earthy wash-leather gloves and baskets of globe artichokes and black and red currants. [A Little Learning, Little, Brown and Company, 1964; p. 31]
THE utopian disdain for hierarchy common among today’s social egalitarians — a contempt especially directed at the moment toward Donald Trump, who is (wrongly) seen as an exemplar of evil caste systems — comes to us straight from our Puritan forefathers. This is not a novel point, but it’s worth remembering now and then.
From the website Hesiod’s Corner (unfortunately taken down):
Puritanism is notoriously part of the “low church” tradition. Puritanism rejected the ecclesiastical hierarchy in favor of a priesthood of all believers – a major theme in Reformed Calvinist theology and teaching. Due to Puritanism’s low ecclesiology, they adopted an ecclesiastical egalitarianism. For those who are not that familiar with Christian ecclesiology, ecclesiology is the philosophy of understanding the nature of what the “Church” is. In Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglo-Catholic circles, the Church is hierarchal and subdivided – this is because Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and High Anglicanism understand the church to be a living reflection and embodiment of the hierarchy of the natural world in-of-itself.
The Churches tower upward to the skies, the bells call one to participate in the Mass – like the Spirit calling over the face of the Deep in Genesis 1 – the church structure is filial and patriarchal, sustained by fatherliness but nurtured by “Mother Church” tending to one’s spiritual and physical ailments and needs, etc. Catholicism goes as far as even saying that within this hierarchy all have different gifts and spiritual needs that differ from person to person, and it is the responsibility of the father to recognize these talents, but also necessary for the individual to recognize these needs too (cf. St. Gregory the Great, Pastoral Rule).
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“WHEN we once accept the infallible truth that no man who is a heretic (or suspected heretic) pre-election could ever become pope (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Pope Paul IV), that no true pope could ever speak heresy on matters of faith, morals or discipline, (The Vatican Council, 1869-70), and that no one may usurp papal jurisdiction or change Canon Law in any way during an interregnum, then we have our answers.
1.Angelo Roncalli was a suspected heretic pre-election and a confirmed heretic post-election; he never became pope. None of his acts were valid or could ever become valid.
2.The 1958 college of cardinals was disqualified from ever electing another pope (Can 2391 §1.)
3.Ergo: (more…)
"YOU will not see anyone who is really striving after his advancement who is not given to spiritual reading. And as to him who neglects it, the fact will soon be observed by his progress." --- St. Athanasius
"O GOD who didst give us the Blessed Virgin Mary that we might venerate her as the Queen of All Saints and the Mother of Fair Love, mercifully grant that, under her protection, we may love Thee above all things here on earth, and enjoy the happy companionship of all Thy saints in heaven. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. (Taken from Liturgical Novenas and Triduums, Imprimatur 1941)
Link "ABRACADABRA, Goy. "I turn your pain into my joy."
FAKENUKES PHIL analyzes the recent alleged shooting at Florida State University. "The propaganda is against white males ... The birth rate is being manipulated through media events like this."
"YOU know that every evil is founded in self-love, and that self-love is a cloud that takes away the light of reason, which reason holds in itself the light of faith, and one is not lost without the other." --- St. Catherine of Siena
"THE prophecies of the Apocalypse show that Satan will imitate the Church of Christ to deceive mankind; he will set up a church of Satan in opposition to the Church of Christ. Antichrist will assume the role of Messias; his prophet will act the part of Pope, and there will be imitations of the Sacraments of the Church. There will also be lying wonders in imitation of the miracles wrought in the Church …There seems to be no reason why a false Church might not become universal, even more universal than the true one, at least for a time” (pgs.119, 155, [E. Sylvester Berry, D.D.]; The Church of Christ, An Apologetic and Dogmatic Treatise, Herder, St. Louis and London, 1927 and 1941). "If we are truly the apostolic Church of the ages, we will recognize the same authority. That authority was established in an unbroken line from St. Peter to the last true pope, Pius XII. Any deviation from the teaching and the succession to that line tells us it is not apostolic; that it cannot and does not issue from Christ to his Apostles and their successors. It is a terrible realization that we live in the reign of Antichrist, and the juridic Church no longer exists. But Christ has promised to not leave us orphans; we are yet the members of his Mystical Body on earth. It is up to us to find our way, as Pope Pius…
"I TELL you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy." --- St. Paul of the Cross
"I AM at the sea-shore; a drop of water is suspended from my finger. I ask this water: Poor drop, where would you wish to be? It replies: In the sea. And what do I in answer to this appeal? I shake my finger and let the poor little drop fall into the sea. Now, I ask you, is it not true that this drop of water is in the sea? Certainly it is there; but go and seek it, now that it is lost in the ocean, its centre. If it had a tongue, what would it say? Deduce the consequence and apply the parable to yourself. Lose sight of the heavens, the earth, the sea and its rivers, and all created things, and permit this soul that God has given you to lose herself in this infinitely great and good God Who is her first cause." --- St. Paul of the Cross, Flowers of the Passion, p. 61