St. Patrick’s Confessio

“MY NAME IS PATRICK. I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers. I am looked down upon by many. My father was Calpornius. He was a deacon; his father was Potitus, a priest, who lived at Bannavem Taburniae. His home was near there, and that is where I was taken prisoner. I was about sixteen at the time. At that time, I did not know the true God. I was taken into captivity in Ireland, along with thousands of others. We deserved this, because we had gone away from God, and did not keep his commandments. We would not listen to our priests, who advised us about how we could be saved. The Lord brought his strong anger upon us, and scattered us among many nations even to the ends of the earth. It was among foreigners that it was seen how little I was.

“It was there that the Lord opened up my awareness of my lack of faith. Even though it came about late, I recognised my failings. So I turned with all my heart to the Lord my God, and he looked down on my lowliness and had mercy on my youthful ignorance. He guarded me before I knew him, and before I came to wisdom and could distinguish between good and evil. He protected me and consoled me as a father does for his son.

“That is why I cannot be silent – nor would it be good to do so – about such great blessings and such a gift that the Lord so kindly bestowed in the land of my captivity. This is how we can repay such blessings, when our lives change and we come to know God, to praise and bear witness to his great wonders before every nation under heaven. (more…)

[Originally posted, March 17, 2015] JOE LONG from South Carolina writes: Top o’ the morning to you. A bit of doggerel for your dialogue. I generated it last year, in response to the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade quarrel. Those familiar with “The Wearing of the Green” might consider singing it with the proper mix of melancholy and defiance. Oh, I met with Napper Tandy, and he took my by the hand - "Well, tell me what I'd see, if I were on New York's grandstand!" "It's the most distress-ed Patty's Day march you have ever seen - "For they're dressin' men like women, for the Queerin' o' the Green!" "When you've cut through the blarney, it's a sorry tale to tell - "The road may rise to meet you, but it's headed straight to hell - "And all that once was innocent, makes way for the obscene - "They've bade us stand aside and watch, the Queerin' O' the Green." "No more the Leprechaun may say, the rainbow leads to gold; "Its varied hues now celebrating buggery so bold; "Nor need we wonder where the serpents fled, from St. Patrick "They crossed the sea and slithered into New York politics. "But where are the shillelaghs, now, and have the heroes gone? "Where are the Fightin' Irish, as their coats are trod upon? "We'll see whether cheap green beer now is all St. Patrick means - "And whether…

THE FOLLOWING is a formal complaint written by James H., a reader and medical doctor whose 23-year-old daughter committed suicide last year after an overbearing and manipulative relative who worked as a certified psychotherapist convinced his daughter, with no evidence, that her parents had sexually abused her as a child. The daughter later admitted the accusations were untrue in writing, but was overcome by remorse and by a general breakdown.

The father is attempting to have the relative barred permanently from the psychology profession and the complaint is addressed to the relevant state licensing authorities.

The complaint reads:

Our daughter, Lizzy Marie, committed suicide on January 4, 2023. I hold Ms. Larington responsible for Lizzy Marie’s suicide.

In summary, Ms. Larington:

*Irresponsibly and recklessly intervened at S— University hospital to deny Lizzy Marie the help she so desperately needed by lying, purposely misdirecting the staff and by claiming expertise as a professional counselor formerly licensed in the state of M— even AFTER Lizzy Marie accused Ms. Larington herself of abuse.

*Recklessly cultivated and promoted false memories of sexual abuse by me, her father, alienating Lizzy Marie from her mom, sisters and me for FOUR years, destroying the only support Lizzy Marie had ever known and leaving her completely isolated. Ms. Larington then abandoned Lizzy Marie in the face of overwhelming evidence of her worsening delusions even ignoring Lizzy’s accusations against Ms. Larington herself.

* Failed to exercise ordinary precautions and standards of care required of her profession. (more…)

KATHY G. writes: Henri Ryssen deserves much credit for compiling this large sampling of subversive films and TV shows. Another one from the Wachowskis (I believe both now wear "womanface") is V for Vendetta. I was anxious to see this movie, as it was supposedly based on resistance to totalitarianism. Like The Matrix, the message is twisted, and there is a sub-plot of homosexual persecution. The totalitarian state is, of course, religious in nature and there is the obligatory pedo-perv bishop. I seem to recall crosses colored red prominently displayed when the dictator spoke. The hero wears a Guy Fawkes mask, which would indicate some understanding of who he was, yet there is no mention in the movie that he was a Catholic dissident. Maybe this was an attempt to recast Fawkes as a libertarian? I don't know. If we actually had schools, a class on understanding the propaganda nature of "the media" would be required in every grade.  

Canticle of the Three Children (Daniel 3)

All ye works of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever. 
O ye angels of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
O ye heavens, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
O all ye waters that are above the heavens, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him above all for ever.

O all ye powers of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
O ye sun and moon, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
O ye stars of heaven, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
O all ye spirits of God, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

O ye fire and heat, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
O ye cold and heat, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
O ye dews and hoar frosts, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
O ye frost and cold, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
O ye ice and snow, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever. (more…)

D. writes:

Is it just me being overly suspicious, or do these public boxes of books for children seem like potential threats to their innocence? If our children were walking home from school and passed one of these I would tell them they could not participate in this, and check to be sure they hadn’t.

I don’t know where the idea started but if it came from the national government libraries then for sure they are suspect as being part of the woke agenda that is targeting children; innocent enough to begin with but an absolute resource for wrong materials being spread around.

Every time I see one I feel troubled. (more…)

ALAN writes:

The assault on the girl in Hazelwood in St. Louis County last week prompted me to remember the following passage written in 1963 by St. Louis attorney Lee Meriwether.  (The girl in Hazelwood did not die. What little information St. Louis “news reporters” have seen fit to disclose claims that she is still in hospital recovering from the vicious assault.)

Mr. Meriwether: (more…)

"AND I if I shall be lifted up from the earth, shall draw all things to myself." -- St. John xii, 32  

FOR 11 full years, Jorge Bergoglio has fooled the world into believing he is pope. And the world has gone along with the act.

In reality, Francis has been the vulgar emperor of a pagan city, a common celebrity, a publicity hound and the official representative of a global religion that proudly rejects the One True Church, indulges in flagrant irreverence and promotes secular humanism. If this global religion did not seductively mix truth with falsehood, if it did not attract many good people, if it did not count on those people indulging in mindless obedience, it would be much less successful. The Church had been so glorious that this false religion could only claim its banners and citadels through stealth, clever duplicity and gradual indoctrination.

Leaving aside his outrageous public acts and statements, increasingly too outrageous and too much a temptation to anger to speak of here, Francis embraced the doctrines and official worship of his Vatican II predecessors before he was elected and therefore even if he had been much less the audacious loudmouth and revolutionary, even if he had nodded reverently to tradition as did Benedict, even if he did not constantly insult true Catholics, calling them “rigid” and “narcissists,” he still would be an anti-pope and not so much as a lowly member of the Catholic Church. (more…)

FRENCH author Hervé Ryssen, in this video, expands upon his book Satan in Hollywood, which shows how Christians have been depicted in movies and on TV for decades. Negative and false caricatures have had a profound impact and represent a deliberate campaign.  

(Warning: disturbing content.)

A GIRL was fatally beaten to death, her head repeatedly slammed into a concrete pavement, outside Hazelwood High School in St. Louis County, Missouri.

Beatings, killings, thefts — the sadistic thrill of revenge pervades black culture.

Blacks have always been physically stronger and more aggressive than whites. They should not be together except under strict barriers.  These differences are innate and unchangeable. Perhaps this girl’s parents couldn’t afford to send her to a mostly-white private school, as many holier-than-thou liberals do while simultaneously condemning “white supremacists.”

The only consoling fact in this girl’s horrible victimization — and the gruesome deaths of so many other young people — is that more and more people are coming to see through the utopian dream of racial integration. Videos like this are a dime a dozen. Whether it’s a white man pushed onto train tracks and killed by an oncoming train or an innocent white man, fresh out of college, walking down the street at night only to be shot in the neck by a teenager in a face mask or brawls by out-of-control “teens” started by someone who didn’t instantly get the candy bar he wanted — more people know.

The dream is dying — at the despicable expense of thousands of lives, demoralization and decimated cities.

Those who insist, despite boundless evidence to the contrary, that race is only about skin color and those goody-two-shoe, so-called Christians who distort spiritual universalism into a material universalism in multicultural Babylon deserve our deepest contempt. They most definitely share the blame for deaths such as this. (more…)

A significant minority of people in our competitive society are selfish and stealthy manipulators.

Traditional psychological therapy focuses on the neurotic, the person who suffers from a surplus of self-deprecation. Manipulators torment others with an excess of hidden aggression and the desire for control. They are often overlooked and only in recent years have the problems faced by their victims been more adequately addressed. I think the reason for the neglect of this issue is that manipulators just aren’t good customers. After all, they usually don’t seek psychological help because they think they don’t need it. The manipulator has little interest in the error in his or her ways.

In his writings and interviews, psychologist George Simon, author of In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People, has tried to help victims of manipulation identify and understand the tactics of people who are covertly aggressive. These are people who are “at heart fighters.” Although Simon doesn’t mention it, I believe the rise of competitive careerism and sports competition among women, both of which cultivate aggression, has led to a true epidemic of female manipulators. That’s not to say men don’t use the art of tormenting others with smiles and stealth too or that female manipulators haven’t been around for thousands of years.

Many manipulators have charm and likability; they often are socially popular. They use these skills to bring others under their control. Some have an insatiable drive to dominate. They have no problem complimenting with smiles one minute and stabbing in the back the next. They have no problem praising you and then destroying your career. They have no problem using an arsenal of covert and artful tactics to get what they want or to punish those who displease them. Their consciences, at least when it comes to subtle deception and bullying, are weak. As long as their crimes are undetected, they are untroubled by them.

It can be fatal not to understand this personality type. For the innately compliant and submissive, a relationship with a manipulative person can lead to exhaustion, defeat, intense self-doubt and depression. Victims describe the effect as similar to slow poisoning by a noxious gas. They are suffocated by an invisible toxin. Arm yourself with knowledge of this poison. Otherwise, this type may unexpectedly take you off guard in the workplace, friendship, romance and family relationships. Simon writes on his blog:

There’s hidden power in manipulation tactics. That’s just one reason why the tactics are so effective. The tactics are inherently powerful persuasion tools, which is why manipulators use them. But the persuasive power behind them eludes easy detection.

Because the power behind manipulation tactics isn’t easy to see, it’s  important to understand personality, character, and the ways some folks operate in this world. Once you know certain people are, and how they generally operate, it’s easier to discern what they’re probably up to when they engage in their tactics with you.

The stealthy power of manipulators often comes from their insight into the character of their victims:

Manipulators gain advantage over you by knowing what makes you tick. So, they know just what tactics to use to play on your sympathies or create doubt in you.  But you gain power back when you know who they are and what they’re up to. You gain even more power by knowing what to say and do in response to their tactics. Actually, the less you say, the better. Too many folks erroneously believe what traditional psychology told them: mainly that manipulators don’t really know what they’re doing. That’s why victims often waste time and breath trying to get their abusive partners to “see” what they already see.

The key to empowerment in manipulative situations is in the doing, not the saying. Dismissing the tactics as just that: stealthy attempts to get you to cave-in or knuckle-under, and then standing firmly on principles of respectful conduct is where the power is.

The word “gaslighting” has become part of the popular lexicon. That’s because more people are the actual victims of gaslighting in their private lives and, of course, by manipulators in government and popular culture. Simon writes: (more…)

"DISCOURAGEMENT ... is no part of penance. It atones for nothing, satisfies for nothing, merits nothing, impetrates nothing. It does not make us more careful next time. On the contrary by dejecting us it makes us at once more open to temptation and less masculine in resisting it. But on the contrary there is much good in not being cast down. We shall be less teased with the imperfection in ourselves, and more occupied with the infidelity to God. To fall and not be out of spirits with it is not only to keep the courage we had, but to gain more. It is the humblest course, and on that account the must acceptable to God. It is the most reasonable, and therefore has the greater blessing." --- Frederick Faber, Growth in Holiness, or The Progress of the Spiritual Life

Litany of Humility

O Jesus, meek and humble of heart, hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed, deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being loved, deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled, deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being honored, deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being praised, deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being preferred to others, deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being consulted, deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being approved, deliver me, O Jesus. (more…)

“[IF] there can be a sign of a society inverted, and of the moral order of the world reversed, it is the putting of woman out of her proper sphere — the domestic life — where she is sovereign, and the putting her in that sphere where she ought never to set her foot — the public life of nations. To put man and woman upon an equality is not to elevate woman, but to degrade her. I trust that the womanhood of England — to say nothing of the Christian conscience which yet remains — will resist, by a stern moral refusal, the immodesty which would thrust women from their private life of dignity and supremacy into the public conflicts of men. This, again, is a part of the lawlessness of these days, and shows a decline of the finer instincts of womanhood, and a loss of that decisive Christian conscience which can distinguish not only between what is right and wrong, but between what is dignified and what is undignified both for women and for men. This clamour about women’s rights may be taken as one of the most subtle and most certain marks of a lawlessness of mind which is now invading society.”

— Henry Edward Manning, The Four Great Evils of the Day, 1871 (more…)

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