YOU CAN read about the miraculous Lenten fast of St. Francis, made by the saint in 1211 A.D. on the then isolated island of Isola Maggiore in Lake Trasimene in Central Italy (not far from Assisi), at Shield of Faith blog.

AN interview with Dr. Sherri Tenpenny examines the COVID vaccines, adverse reactions and the ongoing, over-the-top promotion of the shots. She explains the technology of messenger RNA drugs and what she contends are their risks.

I’m not endorsing everything said in this video. The first 20 minutes or so interested me the most.
 

“WHEN the penitent sinner inflicts corporal penance upon himself, God’s justice is appeased. We have a proof of it in the Ninivites. If the Almighty pardoned an infidel city, as Ninive was, solely because its inhabitants sought for mercy under the garb of penance; what will he not do in favour of his own people, who offer him the twofold sacrifice, exterior works of mortification, and true contrition of heart? Let us, then, courageously enter on the path of penance. We are living in an age, when, through want of faith and of fear of God, those practices which are as ancient as Christianity itself, and on which we might almost say it was founded, are falling into disuse: it behooves us to be on our guard, lest we, too, should imbibe the false principles, which have so fearfully weakened the Christian spirit. Let us never forget our own personal debt to the divine Justice, which will remit neither our sins nor the punishment due to them, except inasmuch as we are ready to make satisfaction. We have just been told, that these bodies, which we are so inclined to pamper, are but dust; and as to our souls, which we are so often tempted to sacrifice by indulging the flesh, they have claims upon the body, claims of both restitution and obedience.”

— Dom Prosper Gueranger, The Liturgical Year: “Ash Wednesday”

FROM The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis (Richard Whitford translation):

Jesus hath many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but He hath few bearers of His cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He findeth many fellows at eating and drinking, but He findeth few that will be with Him in His abstinence and fasting. All men would joy with Him, but few would anything suffer for Christ. Many follow Him to the breaking of His bread for their bodily refection, but few will follow Him to drink a draught of the chalice of His Passion. Many marvel and honour His miracles, but few will follow the shame of His cross. Many love Jesus so long as no adversity befalleth them, and can praise Him and bless Him when they receive any benefit of Him: but if Jesus a little withdraw Himself from them, and a little forsake them, anon they fall to some great grudging, or to overgreat dejection.

They that love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit and commodity bless Him as heartily in temptation, tribulation, and all other adversities as they do in the time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, yet would they always laud Him and praise Him.

O how much may the love of Jesus do to the help of a soul, if it be pure and clean, not mixed with any inordinate love to self! May not they then that ever look for worldly comforts, and for worldly consolations, be called worldly merchants and worldly lovers, rather than lovers of God? Do they not openly shew by their deeds that they rather love themselves than God?

A COMMENT posted by ‘Kalen’ under “5 questions to ask your friends who plan to get the Covid vaccine:”

COVID is a theatre of absurd produced by global oligarchy to make people mad, incapable of defending themselves from genocide of the brave, new, technocratic World of Reset.

In the COVID theatre of wilderness and pain, nobody is real, nothing is what it seems.

The devils play saints, demons play angels, inhumane play humane, liars play honest, cruel play gentle, greedy play generous, clueless play knowledgeable, oppressors play protectors, accusers play defenders, killers play doctors, eugenicists play saviors.

COVID tests are not COVID tests, COVID pandemic is not COVID pandemic, COVID cases are not COVID cases, COVID hospitalizations are not COVID hospitalizations, COVID deaths are not COVID deaths, COVID vaccines are not vaccines at all.

All of that is cultist illusion to distract and explain deliberately shuttered lives and piling up bodies.

FROM EuroNews:

A court in The Hague ruled on Tuesday that the current curfew in the Netherlands to stop the spread of COVID-19 should be lifted as it violates freedom of movement and assembly. Read More »

Among other things the Annals of Saucerology can teach us is that some endeavors in life are engineered for men and others for women.  That is the way it is—not because anti-feminists like me say so, but because Nature makes it that way.

ALAN writes:

As a diversion from current goings-on that are bad, worse, or still worse, I offer the following reminiscence from ancient times:

Many boys who grew up in the 1950s-‘60s had the good fortune to become cub scouts and boy scouts.  I did not have that good fortune.  But in the late 1960s, I became involved in another masculine endeavor.

One day in 1968, eight men sat around a table in a private home in St. Louis County and agreed to establish an informal organization.  Among them were a chemist, a mail carrier, a newspaper worker, two aerospace engineers, and a high school student.  I was that student and the youngest one there.

What we had in common was a desire to explore the controversy about Extraordinary Flying Objects.  Some of us had spoken with airline pilots or police officers who had reported seeing such objects in the sky.  The purpose of the group was to investigate and study any such reports originating in or near St. Louis.

In looking back to those years, nothing stands out more clearly than that our project was a decidedly masculine undertaking.  Such a project appealed to many teenage boys, young men, and engineering types.  It involved elements of astronomy, optics, aviation, eyewitness testimony, and detective work, things of interest primarily to men.  It was also a good introduction to the work of evaluating ideas and conflicting truth claims.

Thousands of men across the nation—businessmen, writers, engineers, professors, outdoorsmen, amateur astronomers—volunteered their time and interest in pursuit of the truth behind reports of Extraordinary Flying Objects.  But very few women did likewise.  I can remember fewer than 20 women who took an interest in that subject. Read More »

I DON’T KNOW who started the trend of “dancing nurse” videos. Unless you’ve lived in a cave for the past year, you’ve surely seen them.

Was it a marketing team from TikTok? I had never even heard of TikTok before this. The social media platform gained tons of publicity from the phenomenon. Was it a psychological warfare department in government or business? Was this another ritual humiliation invented by powerful occultists? Or was this all just from the beginning a spontaneous grassroots phenomenon that showed what a decadent society we have become?

I don’t know, but I’m sure of one thing. Videos promoted as widely and heavily on social media as these have been serve a purpose for the perverts in charge. Of that, I have no doubt.

Some people obviously find these cute-sy nurses with their peppy routines performed in the ugly, dumpy scrubs that make medical workers look like Maoist serfs to be wonderful and heart-warming. Many people, however, don’t find them wonderful at all. That’s why I say the phenomenon was encouraged for the express purpose of stoking outrage as well as providing entertainment. They seem intended to distract; to entertain and to annoy; to draw attention and create intense division. A segment of the public became steaming mad that nurses were dancing during a supposed pandemic. These feelings are similar to the outrage people feel when they hear or read of library drag queens, a real, though exaggerated phenomenon, intensely disturbing, that also seems intended to get ordinary people extremely upset. Emotion — whether it be fear or outrage — is a tool of control. People who are agitated often don’t get much done and end up feeling defeated.

That’s why I don’t post or comment on these incredibly idiotic videos which underscore the near-total lack of dignity of the nursing profession in feminist America. Obviously there are many real dancing nurses out there and they prove, among other things, that there is no ongoing medical catastrophe.

But I could care less what they do. Read More »

NEPAL, with 30 million people, was too poor to continue lockdowns as of July and too poor to test millions of people with an inaccurate test. Now public health officials say the virus is basically gone. 

THE Centers for Disease Control now has a page dedicated to deaths from COVID-19 vaccine. It reports:

Over 41 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from December 14, 2020, through February 7, 2021. During this time, VAERS received 1,170 reports of death (0.003%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. CDC and FDA physicians review each case report of death as soon as notified and CDC requests medical records to further assess reports. A review of available clinical information including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records findings revealed no link with vaccination. CDC and FDA will continue to investigate reports of adverse events, including deaths, reported to VAERS.

This is more than the 653 deaths I reported here a few days ago. Also, the Food and Drug Administration requires providers of the injection to report deaths. Read More »

THE famous tenor Mario Lanza, whose all too brief life and meteoric career ended when he died at the age of 38 in 1959, sings “Una Furtiva Lagrima,” an aria from Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “L’Elisir d’Amore” (“The Elixir of Love”).

In the opera, a poor peasant falls in love with a wealthy woman and, having no hope that she will return his love, he buys a love potion, which is actually cheap red wine sold by a trickster. In the aria, Nemorino, the peasant, sings of his belief that the potion has finally worked after seeing “a furtive tear” in the eyes of his beloved, Adina.

A translation: Read More »

SOME wisdom pertaining to romantic love on this St. Valentine’s Day from Frank Sheed’s book Sanity and Society (Sheed and Ward, 1953):

Sex is a power of the whole man, one power among many: and man is not an isolated unit, but bound to his fellows in society: and his life on earth is not the whole of life, but only a beginning. To use the power of sex successfully we must use it in balance with the rest of our powers, for the service of the whole personality, within a social order, with eternity to come. And all this is too complex a matter to be left to instinct or chance, to desire or mood or the heat of the blood or the line of least resistance. It calls for hard thinking.

A summons to think about sex will be met with no enthusiasm. Men are not much given to thought about sex; as we have noted, they expect no fun from thought and are not much inclined to it or good at it: whereas they expect a great deal of fun from sex and persist in thinking (in the face of the evidence) that they are good at it. Not only that. They feel that there is something rather repellent, almost improper, in the association of sex and thinking. A man must be cold-blooded, they say, to use his reason on sex. The taunt of cold-bloodedness is one that we can bear with fortitude. To the man with fever, a normal temperature seems cold-blooded—but vitality goes with normal temperature, not with fever. And modern sex life is not, even by its own standards, very vital. Too many men who have reached middle life have to admit that for themselves sex has not lived up to its promise—that on balance their life has been rather more begloomed by sex than delighted by it. They have had plenty of glowing anticipation, a handful of glowing experiences, a mass of half-satisfactions and whole frustrations—with the horizon drawing in, and the worried feeling that the splendour has somehow eluded them. Read More »

THE effort to impeach Trump seemed like just another attempt to demoralize and defame his supporters until a friend yesterday offered another explanation.

Trump must be impeached in case any of the pending lawsuits challenging the election, and the massive, premeditated and systematic fraud, succeed in court.

Conviction in an impeachment trial does not automatically disqualify Mr. Trump from future public office. But if the Senate were to convict him, the Constitution allows a subsequent vote to bar an official from holding “any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.” That vote would require only a simple majority of senators. There is no precedent, however, for disqualifying a president from future office, and the issue could end up before the Supreme Court. (Source)

Is it as simple as that?
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HERE’S another scene from the wonderful 1943 movie The Song of Bernadette with Jennifer Jones playing Bernadette Soubirous. The music is a bit over-the-top so you may want to watch it with the sound off.

Source

DEATHS from the experimental mRNA injection, or COVID “vaccine,” continue to increase. The Centers for Disease Control’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports 653 deaths and over 12,000 other negative reactions, as of Feb. 5, 2021. Update: The CDC and the FDA have together received reports of a total of 1,170 deaths, as of Feb. 7, according to CNBC. These numbers are likely a small fraction of the actual toll given that reporting is not mandatory; suspicious deaths or other negative reactions are not required to be reported by doctors or coroners. A Harvard study estimated one percent of adverse reactions make it to VAERS.

The injection does not have full approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Most of the victims are elderly, but there are deaths in all adult age categories. I found three suicides among the reports. (The injection causes extreme anxiety and agitation in some.)

A 36-year-old doctor in Memphis died weeks after getting the vaccine. Most deaths occurred shortly after the shot was administered. A 39-year-old doctor in Ireland died five days after receiving the injection. Both doctors were reportedly in good health.

Here are the reported details of the death of a 58-year-old woman in Virginia who became ill in the parking lot outside the facility where the shot was administered: Read More »