The Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, UK; founded in 1132 and abandoned during the 16th-century dissolution of the monasteries

THE Rev. Frederick William Faber (1814-1863), the famous English theologian and hymnist, wrote his book Bethlehem three years before his death. An excerpt:

The Incarnation lies at the bottom of all sciences, and is  their ultimate explanation. It is the secret beauty in all arts. It is the completeness of all true philosophies. It is the point of arrival and departure to all history. The destinies of nations, as well as of individuals, group themselves around it. It purifies all happiness, and glorifies all sorrow. It is the cause of all we see, and the pledge of all we hope for. It is the great central fact both of life and immortality, out of sight of which man’s intellect wanders in the darkness, and the light of a divine life falls not on his footsteps. Read More »

Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem mortem autem crucis.
Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum: et dedit illi nomen quod est super omne nomen.
Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem mortem autem crucis.

Christ became obedient for us unto death, even to the death of the cross.
For which cause God also exalted Him and hath given Him a Name which is above all names.
Christ became obedient for us unto death, even to the death of the cross.

FOR MORE liturgical novelty, see Call Me Jorge.

E. MICHAEL JONES talks briefly on the connection between sodomy and usury.

Why is this emergency worker looking right into the camera instead of wiping this woman’s face?

JOHN Rappoport writes on the terrorist attack which occurred at 9:11 a.m. yesterday in the city where the E.U. is headquartered:

Somewhere in the bowels of the EU headquarters, a high-ranking official is standing in front of a mirror, applying tan base to his parched pale face, combing his sparse hair, rehearsing his upcoming statement to the press:

“Let’s see. Reality versus appearance. The reality is, this is perfect for us. An attack within a mile of our building. We couldn’t have anything to do with it. We’re victims. We’ve been making sure the governments of Europe keep their borders open, to let in terrorists, and so on. Now, when I appear before reporters…the appearance. I need to affect an expression of outrage mixed with sadness. Dignified. Do dignified. ‘The terrible events of today, the assault on Europe, on the stability of society. We will not rest until we bring the criminals to justice. At the same time, we must not fall into the trap of believing that all people coming to our lands are’…no, scratch that last part. Too early for that. The bodies are still lying on the ground. Stay with the outrage and the sadness. And assurances that we will work harder to gain control over the situation. We all stand united. Together. Our thoughts are with the grieving families…”

He walks out into a large hall, exits the building, and stands before a throng of reporters. He nods, steps to a podium. He looks out into the distance, as if summoning up a greater understanding. Read More »

A subway train in Brussels after a bombing attack which killed 34 people and is reported to be the work of ISIS.

From the dark world of conspiracies, a blogger predicted less than a week ago that this sort of event would occur in Belgium this week.

DAVID DUKE responds to the demonization of Trump in this video. While I don’t share Duke’s great enthusiasm for Trump, whom he views as a national savior, this is a good, succinct description of Jewish supremacism and power in America.

Bird’s Eye View of the Forum as Jesus Hears his Death Sentence; James Tissot

FROM God, The Teacher of Mankind by the Rev. Michael Müller (1880):

In what condition was mankind at the coming of the Redeemer?

With the exception of the Jews, all mankind had fallen into idolatry and all kinds of vices.

God the Father had promised a Redeemer to our first parents, but he did not send him immediately after their fall. He waited about four thousand years before sending him, in order that men might feel their weakness and misery, and the need they had of a Redeemer, sigh for his coming, and appreciate the great blessings which they were to receive through him. When Christ came at length, the grossest ignorance and immorality prevailed everywhere. The true God was hardly known, save in one single corner of the earth, in Judea: and even there, how very few knew and loved him! As to the rest of the world, some worshipped the sun, some the brutes, some the very stones, and others again even viler creatures still; nay, many even worshipped the very demons as gods.

Everywhere there reigned the night of sin which blinds souls, and hides from them the sight of the miserable state in which they are living as enemies of God, condemned to hell. The most degrading vices were extolled even as virtues. The world cried for light. Men could no longer see their way. Why are we here? Who made us? Whither are we going? Whence the evil in the world? Why have we a desire for immortality? Why does nothing on earth satisfy us? Why are our yearnings for perpetual happiness? Such were the questions that resounded everywhere in the schools of philosophy, in the forum, in the market-place, in the temple, at the fireside. No one could answer; and yet the social, domestic and religious happiness of the world was at stake on these questions then, as it is now. What remedy could be applied to heal such inveterate evils of the mind and the will? Pagan philosophers, poets and orators, had tried their best to elevate mankind, but they had tried in vain. It had become evident to all that no human means were adequate to remedy the evils of the world, and make mankind truly happy. “God himself,” exclaimed the great Plato,”must come down and be our master and our guide.” (De Legib. 1, 4.)

The Isabella Breviary, 15th century

“Go ye into the village that is over against you: and immediately you shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them to me.” (Matth. 21 : 2.)

FROM Dom Prosper Gueranger’s Liturgical Year (1870):

The miracle performed by our Saviour almost at the very gates of Jerusalem, by which He restored Lazarus to life, has roused the fury of His enemies to the highest pitch of frenzy. The people’s enthusiasm has been excited by seeing him, who had been four days in the grave, walking in the streets of their city. They ask each other if the Messias, when He comes, can work greater wonders than these done by Jesus, and whether they ought not at once to receive this Jesus as the Messias, and sing their Hosanna to Him, for He is the Son of David. They cannot contain their feelings: Jesus enters Jerusalem, and they welcome Him as their King. The high priests and princes of the people are alarmed at this demonstration of feeling; they have no time to lose; they are resolved to destroy Jesus. We are going to assist at their impious conspiracy: the Blood of the just Man is to be sold, and the price put on it is thirty silver pieces. The divine Victim, betrayed by one of His disciples, is to be judged, condemned, and crucified. Every circumstance of this awful tragedy is to be put before us by the liturgy, not merely in words, but with all the expressiveness of a sublime ceremonial.

FROM St. Corbinian’s Bear, a blogger who unfortunately believes this impostor is a valid pope:

This year’s Holy Thursday gimmick is washing the feet of refugees. Guess we’ll have to wait until next year for Pope Francis to wash the feet of polar bears to bring attention to global warming.

Your Holiness, the Bear respectfully suggests that you instead travel to Sweden, where immigration has brought the second-highest rate of rape in the world, and wash the feet of women who have been raped by refugees. If you can go there Halloween to celebrate the blessings of the Reformation with Lutherans, surely you could do something for Swedish women, whom statistics suggest 1 out of every 4 will be raped. Or do you not place the same value on the lives of personas que viven en el hemisferio norte?

Many refugees are more accurately described as “invaders.”

Winterthur Gardens

To an Early Daffodil

— Robert Frost

Thou yellow trumpeter of laggard Spring!
Thou herald of rich Summer’s myriad flowers!
The climbing sun with new recovered powers
Does warm thee into being, through the ring
Of rich, brown earth he woos thee, makes thee fling
Thy green shoots up, inheriting the dowers
Of bending sky and sudden, sweeping showers,
Till ripe and blossoming thou art a thing
To make all nature glad, thou art so gay;
To fill the lonely with a joy untold;
Nodding at every gust of wind to-day,
To-morrow jewelled with raindrops. Always bold
To stand erect, full in the dazzling play
Of April’s sun, for thou hast caught his gold.

A 2013 article by Denis McMahon at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth address this question:

Many of those who cannot accept the scientific evidence that refutes the official story of the collapse of the three WTC towers on 9/11/2001 argue, “If 9/11 was an inside operation, surely at least one whistleblower would have come forward by now. You couldn’t keep something like that secret.” While at first blush this argument might seem to be logical, closer examination shows that it makes no sense. Read More »

FROM Morgoth’s Review:

One of the problems Jews on ”The Right” have is to perform the juggling act of attacking Political Correctness while making sure their own ethnic group is shielded by a titanium like umbrella of social taboo and possible legal action if the gentiles get too uppity.

Consider this piece by Ben Shapiro, Breitbart boss and, increasingly, the most outspoken critic of Donald Trump:

”Now, I hate political correctness as much as anyone alive. I’m the sort of fellow who goes on national television and refuses to acknowledge politically correct garbage about men being women; I’m the kind of guy who tweets the truth about the circumstances of Trayvon Martin’s death when leftists decide to deify him as a racial martyr; I cut videos about the actual percentage of Muslims on the planet who believe in extremism. I believe political correctness gets Americans killed.”

It’s a boon for Zionist Jews to drip pearls of anti PC wisdom into the conservative mind, a mind which is literally dying for anything even resembling a release from the Marxist-Jewish infection of Political Correctness. It also serves a purpose, the more Hank in Alabama believes in a Muslim/Feminist alliance to take away his guns and freedom of speech while Islam invades the West, the more likely Hank is to send off Hank junior to die in the desert for Israel. Read More »

TEEN violent offenders and their teachers are safer and more engaged in a Philadelphia prison school than in a normal school where hellish anarchy prevails. The public schools are feeders for the prisons.

RELATIVES of those who died at the Bataclan Theater in Paris are reportedly angry that they have never been told details of the victims’ deaths. The police have staged a re-enactment of the event.

Book of Kells

FEW INDIVIDUALS have changed the course of a nation as much as St. Patrick. Instead of drinking green beer today, the Feast of St. Patrick, readers may enjoy reading part of these two 19th-century biographies of the saint (here and here).

And here is the tale of “St. Patrick, the Serpents and the Stolen Sheep” from “The Golden Legend,” by Jacobus de Voragine, A.D. 1275:

S. Patrick on a day as he preached a sermon of the patience and sufferance of the passion of our Lord Jesu Christ to the king of the country, he leaned upon his crook or cross, and it happed by adventure that he set the end of the crook, or his staff, upon the king’s foot, and pierced his foot with the pike, which was sharp beneath. The king had supposed that S. Patrick had done it wittingly, for to move him the sooner to patience and to the faith of God, but when S. Patrick perceived it he was much abashed, and by his prayers he healed the king. And furthermore he impetred and gat grace of our Lord that no venomous beast might live in all the country, and yet unto this day is no venomous beast in all Ireland.

After it happed on a time that a man of that country stole a sheep, which belonged to his neighbour, whereupon S. Patrick admonested the people that whomsoever had taken it should deliver it again within seven days. When all the people were assembled within the church, and the man which had stolen it made no semblant to render ne deliver again this sheep, then S. Patrick commanded, by the virtue of God, that the sheep should bleat and cry in the belly of him that had eaten it, and so happed it that, in the presence of all the people, the sheep cried and bleated in the belly of him that had stolen it. And the man that was culpable repented him of his trespass, and the others from then forthon kept them from stealing of sheep from any other man.