The Name of Mary

“LET us speak a little about this name, which is said to mean “star of the sea,” and which so well befits the Virgin Mother. Rightly is she likened to a star. As a star emits a ray without being dimmed, so the Virgin brought forth her Son without receiving any injury. The ray takes naught from the brightness of the star, nor the Son from His Mother’s virginal integrity. This is the noble star risen out of Jacob, whose ray illumines the whole world, whose splendor shines in the heavens, penetrates the abyss, and, traversing the whole earth, gives warmth rather to souls than to bodies, cherishing virtues, withering vices. Mary is that bright and incomparable star, whom we need to see raised above this vast sea, shining by her merits, and giving us light by her example. (more…)

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September 12, 1683

                                 King Jan II Sobieski

ON THIS day in 1683, the Ottoman Empire’s centuries-long efforts to conquer Europe were decisively and permanently defeated in the Battle of Vienna. The combined forcs of the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under the command of the Polish King Jan III Sobieski changed the course of history, a fact often forgotten when the survival of Europe for so long is taken for granted or even regretted. In 2024, the city of Vienna rejected a proposal for a statue in honor of Sobieski on the ground that it would be “Islamophobic.”

Before the battle almost 60,000 men, women and children were taken into slavery in the village of Perchtoldsdorf outside Vienna when it was captured by the Turks as preparations for the final siege of the city were underway. The villagers were among the hundreds of thousands — more than 1.25 million in all, according to historian Robert Davis — of Europeans who ended up as slaves in the East. The residents of Perchtoldsdorf, thousands of whom were killed, had surrendered after being promised their lives and safety.

Capturing the city of Vienna had long been a strategic aspiration of the Ottoman Empire, due to the control the city had over the Danube and the overland trade routes to Germany and the Eastern Mediterranean. During the years preceding the siege, the Ottoman Empire, under the auspices of the Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha, undertook extensive logistical preparations, including the repair and establishment of roads and bridges leading into the Holy Roman Empire and its logistical centers, as well as the forwarding of ammunition, cannons, and other resources from all over the Empire to these centers and into the Balkans. The Siege of Szigetvár in 1566 blocked the advance of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent towards Vienna and stopped the Ottoman advance towards Vienna that year. Vienna was not threatened again until 1683. In 1679 plague had been raging in Vienna. (Source)

Protestants in league against the Holy Roman Empire would join with the Turks to undermine their common enemy.

In the final battle, despite their greater numbers, the Ottomans would lose about half of their force (estimated to be 120,000 at the start of the siege) to death and desertion, leading to humiliating defeat on the evening of September 12.

Today’s Feast of the Holy Name of Mary was instituted in gratitude for a victory attributed to divine intercession.

Since Sobieski had entrusted his kingdom to the protection of the Blessed Virgin (Our Lady of Częstochowa) before the battle, Pope Innocent XI commemorated his victory by extending the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, which until then had been celebrated solely in Spain and the Kingdom of Naples, to the entire Church… (Source)

Our Lady of Czestochowa
The Ottoman Army surrounds Vienna, by Frans Geffels
The Ottoman Army surrounds Vienna, by Frans Geffels

 

If thou follow her, thou wilt never go astray. If thou pray to her, thou wilt never have need to despair. If thou keep her in mind, thou wilt never wander. If she hold thee, thou wilt never fall. If she lead thee, thou wilt never be weary. If she help thee, thou wilt reach home safe at the last and so thou wilt prove in thyself how meetly it is said And the virgin’s name was Mary. 

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

 

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9/11, a Money-Making Scam

FROM Gemma Dougherty at Substack:

9/11 is but a giant – and still ongoing – money-making scam. It rotates around the most well-funded and profitable hoax of modern history. Everyone involved in the scheme is reaping a sizeable return from their ‘investment bond’ which, naturally, has “SILENCE” printed all over it. For anyone to ‘speak out’ would be both ruinous and suicidal – a most distasteful option. To be sure, ‘suicidal heroics’ only exist in journalistic fairy-tales such as the outlandish newsmedia’s narrative of 9/11 and its “nineteen religious fanatics”.

The skeptics objecting that “too many people would have had to be in on this” fail to account for the most fundamental aspect of human nature: our survival instinct. The master plan of 9/11 was to demolish the redundant, asbestos-filled WTC complex in Lower Manhattan – 9 buildings in all. The area would naturally be evacuated (as for all such demolitions) in order to prevent a slaughterhouse of dreadful proportions – not a good idea at all. To be sure, this was no mass murder scheme – just a formidable opportunity for massive financial gains and military propaganda. The military (and its various intelligence affiliates) would manage the ground logistics, such as securing the area, raising smokescreens to hide the proceedings from public view, and last but not least, electromagnetic countermeasures to keep any private cameras from filming the mayhem. The WTC complex was thus ‘safely’ destroyed in bright daylight. It was a magician’s trick, pulled off by sleight of hand to fool the few (the NY onlookers) – and with computer graphics to fool the world (the TV viewers). The rest was (and still is to this day) a gigantic simulation staged and upheld by the complicit news media propaganda machine.

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Good Morning, Morning

Albert Bierstadt, Sunrise on the Matterhon

O THREE in One, and One in Three,
Who rulest all things mightily:
Bow down to hear the songs of praise
Which, freed from bonds of sleep, we raise.

While lingers yet the peace of night,
We rouse us from our slumbers light:
That might of instant prayer may win
The healing balm for wounds of sin.

If, by the wiles of Satan caught,
This night-time we have sinned in aught,
That sin Thy glorious power to-day,
From heaven descending, cleanse away.

Let naught impure our bodies stain,
No laggard sloth our souls detain,
No taint of sin our spirits know,
To chill the fervor of their glow.

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9/11 and the Power of Imagery

MORE from Simon Shack at September Clues:

Television is – and has always been – a Weapon of Mass Distraction.

The power of TV-imagery was the driving force behind the 9/11 deception.

Whenever a major news event is reported by the mainstream media, it will invariably be illustrated with photographs or videos in order to convey to the public some visual impressions of the event. Undeniably, the imagery connected with any given news story enhances our emotional relation to it. The way we relate to news imagery has an almost hypnotic effect on our psyche: we have come to consider the visuals of any given news story as proof of that news story’s authenticity. This is truly a ‘weak spot’ of our brains’ readiness for critical-thinking. Thus follows, unfortunately, that to challenge the authenticity of a catastrophic event shown on Live TV is way beyond what most people are willing to contemplate. However, the time has come for everyone to call television by its most appropriate, military-sounding name: “Weapon of Mass Distraction”.

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Dummies Guide to 9/11, No. 7

FROM Simon Shack at September Clues:

I have chosen to commemorate the Grand 9/11 Hoax – on its 25th anniversary – by reviewing the ‘snuff movie’ known as “9/11” (released in 2002) which was passed off as a real-life documentary by two French filmmaker brothers (Jules and Gédéon Naudet) who, as the story goes, just happened to capture BOTH of the alleged WTC1 and WTC2 plane impacts, at 8:46 and 9:03 AM. The movie’s director, we are told, is one James Hanlon – a former journalist at The New York Daily News (who then became a firefighter…). Here’s from Hanlon’s IMDB page: (more…)

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The Dummies Guide to 9/11, No. 3

One Meridien Plaza, Philadelphia; 1991

A short video by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth shows fires in skyscrapers around the world that did not result in buildings collapsing:

This three-and-a-half-minute video — “9/11 In Perspective”— presents footage of eight buildings, ranging from nine to 62 floors, that have been either partially or fully engulfed in flames and yet remained standing despite massive internal destruction. Their major fires shown in these clips range from 1988 to 2008, and took place in U.S. cities (Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles) and abroad (Caracas, Madrid, Beijing, Delft).

Seeing the stubborn resilience of these high-rise steel structures makes one question the U.S. government’s contention that the Twin Towers were leveled by jet crashes and kerosene-fueled fires, and that a third building, World Trade Center 7, was destroyed by fires alone on September 11, 2001.

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The Controversial Theory: No One Died on 9/11

SIMON SHACK has spent more than 20 years studying the events of 9/11 and has come to the conclusion that it was all a brilliantly-executed, made-for-TV drama that could never have been successfully pulled off if there were thousands of real victims. He has collected extensive evidence that many of the alleged victims were not real people.

In this 2024 interview with Gemma Dougherty, he discusses his research, which can be found at September Clues.

Many thousands of people died, of course, as a result of 9/11, which was key to instigating the Iraq War. Americans were psychologically traumatized into supporting a war they would have otherwise resisted.

As we come upon the 25th anniversary of this elaborate and ingenious propaganda event, the trauma will be relived — all the disturbing and upsetting images will make people once again abandon reason and be guided by deliberately manufactured emotion. Let’s call this what it is — a form of magic and a ritual of mind control. The magicians with their monstrous superiority complex — a hubris inconceivable to the ordinary man — view their targets as so much malleable material.

Fear not, dear reader. The soul lives and the truth shall make you free. God is with us and he sees all.

Please remember, the most revered of America’s Founders — George Washington and Benjamin Franklin — were Freemasons. So were many others.

What does a Freemason hold dear? Secrecy. He believes devoutly in secrecy. He is also inculcated with the mystique of universal, world government and the ultimate transcending of religion (especially Christianity), nation and family. Thomas Jefferson enthusiastically supported the genocide of the aristocracy of France during the revolution that followed upon America’s as night follows day, so much was he too imbued with these Masonic ideals.

Freemasonry has always upheld secrecy because most people wouldn’t support its objectives if they were openly declared.

Secrecy and manipulation were enshrined in the United States government from the very beginning. And you are shocked — shocked — to be deceived? You are shocked that the United States government and allied organizations spend hundreds of millions every year to control minds and to lead us to that New World Order — that universal rule that is proclaimed in the imagery on every dollar bill and in the Masonic architecture of Washington, D.C.?

I think not.

Americans are in some ways similar to those Africans who sold their people to slave dealers. They sold them in exchange for what? Often for nothing more than rum! And so Americans would sooner sell their people into slavery than to give up the intoxicating dream that they are the most free people on the face of the earth.

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The Dummies Guide to 9/11, No. 1

THE BBC reported the collapse of World Trade Center 7 — a building which was not hit by a plane that morning of Septmber 11, 2001– 20 minutes before it happened:

“A video from the archives shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11. The incredible footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. How did the BBC know that it was going to collapse? And why did they report the collapse when it is clearly standing in the background?

“The BBC said they ‘lost’ the tapes of this curious incident, then, lo and behold, they ‘found’ them!”

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Ah! Ooo! “The Man in the Red Bandana”

ASTUTE comment found on Gab:

The [Powers that Be] have very handily directed the narrative away from their obvious architecture of 9/11 to the emotional extraction “stories” of various “hero” characters. That’s the entirety of the WTC 9/11 museum. Keep White people emotionally fragile and give them a virtuous figure to root for and they will never push back on the lies.

Just go visit the museum. Black cubes of Saturn inverted sit where the towers were. An absolute … blood ritual. But as long as they focus on stories of “heroism,” it is verboten to call it out.

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Mothers Must Be Wards of the Absolute State

ALAN writes:

In regard to Morgan C’s commentary (Sept. 4) on the Lindsay Clancy case:

1. What is “organic news”?  Does that mean the truth?  Why is “organic news” better than “the truth”?

2. The Lindsay Clancy “case” is said to be a “televised circus”.  But of course.  Everything that gets presented on television is a circus, a show, a theatrical performance–or is made into one.  (But fictional stories not nearly so much as the “evening news” and “documentaries”.)

3.  Morgan’s assessment of the ballyhoo in the Lindsay Clancy “case” is largely correct.  But the professional mendacity on display throughout that ballyhoo is more fundamental than she seems to realize.  It begins with vocabulary.

Men who seek to attain power over other people cannot come right out and say so in plain words.  To achieve that goal, they invent arcane vocabularies of impressive-sounding words to deceive their intended victims (meaning: all of us).  (more…)

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Good Morning, Morning

Daniel Garber, September Morning

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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Grow Up, Sweet Little One

“Queen of Angels, thou art our Queen also; accept us as thy liegemen. On this day, when the first movement of thy holy soul was towards God, and the first smile of thy lovely eyes was for thy happy parents, may holy Anne allow us to kneel and kiss thy little hand, already filled with the divine bounties of which thou art the predestined dispenser. And now, grow up, sweet little one! Let thy feet be strengthened to crush the serpent, and thy arms to carry the treasure of the world! Angels and men, the whole of nature, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, all are awaiting the solemn moment, when Gabriel may fly down from heaven, to hail thee full of grace, and bring thee the message of Eternal Love.”

— From a prayer for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, The Liturgical Year, 1903

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