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"THEY that are taken with this disease, not only do not consider the heinousness of the sin, but are even proud of it, and think it a mark of distinction. For it is against nature, against its laws and definitions. When Paul says, 'And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another,' he indicates that the desire is not only for luxury, but for that which is against nature. For there are many ways of being lustful, and the apostle here names the one which is the most grievous." --- St. John Chrysostom (Homily 4 on Romans)  

WORDS of wisdom from the greatest anti-feminist book:  And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her. --- Ecclus. vii:27  

GORGEOUS June — month of roses and warbling wrens. Month of baby bunnies and lush lawns. Month of wedding bowers and youthful innocence.

June is joy. June is love. June is the best of months.

But, wait.

Depraved June — month of thorns. June is brutal fatsos in leather thongs; Bolsheviks with purple hair, witches with facial fish hooks, corporate managers with approving grins; crayon rainbows, pornographic parades, perverse propaganda, cultural suicide and the theft of innocence.

June is the best of months and the worst of months. June is petals and thorns.

File your petitions and fund your lawsuits. It won’t make a bit of difference. You can’t overturn institutionalized tyranny through legal channels. You can’t overturn a contempt for law by appeals to law. You may live in a remote town, seemingly normal, but the bloodhounds will find that town and force depravity down your throat — and the local police will protect them. The bloodhounds will hunt down innocence wherever it may be — and your employer will cheer them on. (more…)

"THE gift of Knowledge enables the soul to evaluate created things at their true worth -- in their relation to God. Knowledge unmasks the pretense of creatures, reveals their emptiness, and points out their only true purpose as instruments in the service of God. It shows us the loving care of God even in adversity, and directs us to glorify Him in every circumstance of life. Guided by its light, we put first things first, and prize the friendship of God beyond all else. 'Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it.'" --- Novena to the Holy Spirit  

"FAVOUR is deceitful, and beauty is vain; the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. "Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her works praise her in the gates." --- Proverbs, 31:30-31    

FROM Dom Prosper Guéranger’s reflections on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost, which, he explains, are seven energies infused into the soul which possesses sanctifying grace:

"GRANT me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal, the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth, the Spirit of Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude that I may bear my cross with You and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation, the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God and know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints, the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable, and the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord with the sign of Your true disciples, and animate me in all things with Your Spirit. Amen." --- From the "Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit"  

Now it is very much like this: as if we were sailing in ships across cold water, over the sea-waves, beyond the wide ocean in water-steeds traversing the floods. The waters are perilous, the waves immeasurable, amid which we journey here through this frail world, the stormy oceans, across the paths of the deep. Dangerous was that life before we came to land across the rough waves. Help came to us that we might be led to a haven of healing, God's Spirit-Son, and gave us grace that we might find, by the ship's side, where we could moor our water-steeds, our ancient wave-horses securely anchored. Let us fasten our hope on that haven which the Ruler of the skies opened for us, holy in the heights, when he ascended into heaven. --- excerpt from the Old English poem, Christ II  

"ASK, and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For everyone that seeketh, receiveth; and him that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened." --- St. Luke, Ch. XI, 9-10  

"ON a chilly night in November 2022, police in Wildwood, Florida found a woman tied to a chair in the backyard of a home. Officers would soon discover that the woman, Nichole Baker, had developmental and physical disabilities that made it nearly impossible for her to advocate for herself." Source We will never know how many whites -- and blacks, of course --  have been brutalized by their black "caretakers."  

"THE Rogation Days were instituted for another end besides this of averting divine anger. We must beg our heavenly Father to bless the fruits of the earth; we must beseech him with all earnestness of public prayer, to give us our daily bread." -- Dom Prosper Guéranger Read more on these three days before Ascension Thursday (tomorrow).  

"WHEN the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue" --- St. Philip Neri  

WILLIAM F. Strojie was a great early commenter on the Vatican II Crisis, rightly rejecting both Modernism and "Traditionalism." His views on the papacy, however, were confused and ultimately illogical, similar to what is known today as the Cassiciacum Thesis, or the argument that it is possible to be a pope and not be a pope at the same time. Here's a balanced analysis of Strojie's shortcomings, which he might very well have recognized had he been given more time.