“A PERSON who trusts that he can find rest in the delights and abundance of earthly things is deceiving himself. By the frequent disorders of the world, and at last by its end, such a one is proven convincingly to have laid the foundation of his tranquility upon sand. But all those who have been breathed upon by the Holy Spirit, and have taken upon themselves the very pleasant yoke of the Lord’s love, and following his example, learned to be gentle and humble of heart, enjoy even in the present some image of the future tranquility.”

— St. Bede the Venerable

O Come, Creator Spirit, visit our souls;
and with Thy heavenly grace fill
the hearts that were made by Thee.

Thou art called the Paraclete,
the Gift of the Most High God, the Living Fountain,
Fire, Love, and Spiritual Unction.

Thou art seven fold in Thy gifts;
the Finger of the Father’s hand; the Father’s solemn Promise,
that enrichest men with the gift of tongues. (more…)

"NEVER suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning." --- Tob. iv. 14  

“THE TRUMP administration is quietly assembling a centralized data infrastructure on the American population. To build it, they’ve enlisted Palantir, a powerful data-mining company with deep ties to the intelligence world. Co-founded by Peter Thiel — Trump’s longtime ally and megadonor — Palantir was originally seeded by the CIA to help the government make sense of large, fragmented data sets.

“In March, Trump signed an executive order demanding that agencies ‘eliminate information silos.’ The language sounds bland, even bureaucratic. But the real implications are sweeping. By ordering agencies to pool citizen data, Trump signaled interest in something once unthinkable: a master file on American lives.

“According to The New York Times, Trump hasn’t spoken publicly about the plan since. But behind the scenes, his administration has moved quickly. ”

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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."