“FOR the simple and obvious truth is that the world as a whole is up to the ears in debt to its banks and bond-holders, and while it desperately needs more money, it knows that its only means of acquiring it is by further borrowing from the former source, thereby increasing a debt burden which is already mathematically incapable of any resolution whatsoever. It has, in fact, discovered by bitter experience, that you cannot borrow yourself out of debt; especially if you have to pay eternal interest on all your borrowings or else forfeit personal property in lieu of it.

“For if we examine the specific examples which have been referred to, it will be discovered, if it has not already been stated, that the cause for the lack of money to exchange goods and services, is the universal imposition by finance, of an impossible burden of debt, which is fatally crippling the development and even threatening the very existence of individuals,  business concerns, nations and the actual bases of civilization itself.”

— Jeffrey Mark, The Modern Idolatry, Being an Analysis of Usury and the Pathology of Debt, 1934

FROM “Of Prayer and Meditation” by Venerable Louis of Granada:

HOW MANY the miseries are that be included in this misery alone, I will not take upon me to declare at this present. Only I will rehearse what a certain holy father saith by way of exclamation against death in this wise. O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee? How quickly and suddenly stealest thou upon us? How secret are thy paths, and ways? How doubtful is thy hour? And how universal is thy seignory, and dominion? The mighty can not escape thy hands: the wise can not hide themselves from thee: and the strong lose their strength in thy presence. Thou accountest no man rich: forsomuch as no man is able to ransom his life of thee for money. Thou goest every where: thou searchest every where: and thou art every where. Thou witherest the herbs: thou drinkest up the winds: thou corruptest the air: thou changest the ages: thou alterest the world: thou stickest not to sup up the sea: all things do increase, and diminish, but thou continuest always at one stay. Thou art the hammer that always striketh: thou art the sword that never blunteth: thou art the snare whereinto every one falleth: thou art the prison wherein every one entereth: thou art the sea wherein all do perish: thou art the pain that every one suffereth: and the tribute that every one payeth. Read More »

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O, THOU strong and sacred silence, self-contained in self-control;
O, thou palliating silence, Sabbath art thou of the soul;
Lie like snow upon my virtues, lie like dust upon my faults.
Silent when the world dethrones me, silent when the world exalts.

Tamper not with idle rumor lest the truth appear to lie;
Carve thy life to hilted silence, wrong shall fall on it and die.
Tamper not with accusation, harvest not what thou hast heard,
Christ stood in the court of Herod, but he answered not a word.

Know thou this that there is nothing in the sounding lists of life
That so fortifies thy manhood as the argument of life;
Listen not to old wives’ fables, draw thyself from such apart,
Keep the thought of life like Mary, virgin to a virgin’s heart.

It is well for us to suffer, it is well for us to wait;
Well to swing like little children all our life on death’s loose gate;
Well to feel a mortal sickness wean the soul from earthly spell;
Well to hear when all is over, that sweet whisper, “All is well.”

—from Silence by Samuel Miller Hageman

FROM End Wokeness:

The entire BLM/anti-white racial revolution is built on a throne of lies:

They lied about Trayvon Martin.
He wasn’t killed for being black. He was shot in self-defense while he tried to kill George Zimmerman. Read More »

PROPHETIC words by Timothy Fitzpatrick from 2019:

The perception of Russia as the anti-Zionist hero of the Middle East and as an Orthodox Christian ethno state serves the final goal of hoodwinking the last bastion of opposition to global communism: Western nationalists/conservatives. Win them over and it’s game over. This is where we are at today. Putinist Russia and the Trump regime are all about streamlining conservative/nationalist sentiment into communist hands in Russia. The Western Left is already Marxist; all that is left is to honeypot conservatives and anti-communists. This goal is almost a done deal, as most in the alt media and in the nationalist cause are pro-Russia, pro-Trump. What Jewry does next remains to be seen.

Hopefully by now, you can see how both Russia and Israel benefit from anti-Zionism. Anti-Zionism does not hurt Israel. It only plays into Jewry’s hands. Russia plays the good cop while Israel plays the bad cop. The bad cop pushes the Arab world into the seemingly loving arms of the good cop. Read More »

A SOCIETY that normalizes homosexuality is a cruel society.

Imagine a society that celebrated alcoholism and encouraged alcoholics to embrace their addiction. Imagine the covering over of the resulting disasters with platitudes of love. Then magnify that a hundredfold. For the affliction of the artificially-created homosexual is far worse, alienated as he is from the most basic roles and bonds of society.

The heartless modern world consigns him or her to an unhappy state — without exception. The more homosexuality is normalized, the more homosexuals convert their inner conflict into “pride.” The person who identifies as a homosexual will always be in deep conflict, and the acute awareness of this causes pain that no homosexual “community” can assuage.

But there is hope.

In the introduction to Dutch psychologist Gerard van den Aardweg’s 1985 book on this subject, Homosexuality and Hope: A Psychologist Talks about Treatment and Change, Paul Vitz writes:

Homosexuals are not condemned to a way of life that alienates, separates, and restricts a person greatly. Once we see and understand homosexuality as something like these other psychological problems from which one can recover, our perception changes in two ways. The homosexual is given hope for change and, at the same time, there is a kind of acceptance of the homosexual as part of normal, human society and, like the rest of us, subject to pathology. This is particularly true when we see homosexuality as a condition from which one can recover and in the process, God willing, become a stronger person for having successfully met the challenge. This needs to be emphasized.

Van den Aardweg, who wrote a later version of this book called The Battle for Normality, published his insights decades before there was “gay marriage” and he obviously did not fully anticipate how little his warnings and those of others would be heeded. Though this book is somewhat dated in this sense, its basic observations and insights remain true and often profound.

There is no such thing as an innate homosexual, van den Aardweg argues.

The knowledge we have at our disposal indicates that homosexually inclined persons are born with the same physical and psychological equipment as anyone else. It is no proof of an innately “different” nature, for example, that a certain percentage of men with homosexual feelings impress one as unmanly, even effeminate, in their behavior and interests. This is an effect of upbringing or of a learned view of themselves, a learned self-image. The “mannish” woman with lesbian feelings is not that way by natural disposition, but by habit and a specific inferiority complex. There are, on the other hand, distinctly “womanly,” “feminine” lesbians whom few people would suspect of these feelings at first glance.

In societies where sex roles and the differentiation between boys and girls are strong, there is almost no incidence of homosexual behavior. The homosexual condition is caused by confusion and a blurring of these roles. Feminism and the endless propaganda to make men and women the same has inevitably led to a plague of confusion. It is no wonder that many people are caught in a trap of unnatural desires. Read More »

HAMAS leader Yayha Sinwar expresses his support for the George Floyd psyop.

Charles Courtney Curran, Cliffs at Cragsmor

“MOST women would probably agree with me when I say that I accomplished more work in a day when I wore pants. Although, I never believed in the feminist movement, per se, I had a vague feeling of ‘control’ when I wore pants. A greater sense of self confidence, I would venture to say, a kind of pride. Some people may say that is good. But, this self confidence was from the world and not from God and so like a house of cards it could come tumbling down at any moment. For even the Bible tells us, ‘Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God, abideth forever.‘ John 2:15, 17. But more than that, when one feels on top of the world, full of himself, where is there room for God? It is only when we are humbled and needy that we seek Him out and reach out to Him. And wearing long dresses is one of the best acts of humility that a woman could practice. It is a wonderful opportunity for us to be humbled in an age of pride! I could firmly see this as I began to wear skirts and for the first time felt a sense of peace about me. Wearing pants may have helped me accomplish more work, but that work was done as a man would have done it. As I walked about the garden and felt the skirt around my legs I felt a great and overwhelming reverence for God, a great sense of gratitude for my life, for my womanhood. This feeling has never left me and my changing to dresses has done more to my spiritual life than all the years I spent in pants. I eventually learned to accomplish just as much in a skirt, but in a more feminine way, as perhaps Our Blessed Lady would have done, contemplatively. It is not something that is easy to put into words…”

— Rita Davidson, Immodesty — Satan’s Virtue

“LUXURIOUS clothing that cannot conceal the shape of the body is no more a covering. For such clothing, falling close to the body, takes its form more easily…. As a result, the whole make of the body is visible to spectators, although they cannot see the body itself.”

— St. Clement of Alexandria

Autumn on the Ramapo River, Jasper Francis Cropsey

“NOW, children, it is very necessary that we should thus practice self-examination; for man has many a little nook within, which covers up the ground of the heart, and is so overgrown, that it hides the truth from the man himself; so that, though he knows many other things, he does not really know himself. These sins surely resemble thirty or forty skins or hides, like those of an ox, which cover up the ground, lying one upon another, and so thick and hard that ye can neither confess them nor rid yourselves of them as ye imagine. What are these skins? They are all those things that thou hast in thyself, that thou thinkest of, and that thou usest, but of which God is neither the true beginning nor the end. They are all idols, images of things, such as self-will, self-pleasing, and the enjoyment of things pertaining to the senses. Man clings to these, as Rachel did to her idols when she sat upon them. Presumption, heedlessness, want of resignation in divine things, all these sins help to form the skins. They should not be all confessed outwardly, but man should examine his own heart about them, and acknowledge them humbly before God, meekly falling down in self-abasement at His Feet. If man will only thus fully acknowledge that he is guilty, all will be well with him; that is, if he seeks diligently to turn away from them, as far as he is able, with help of Almighty God.

— Fr. John Tauler, The Inner Way

Delaware Valley, William Lathrop

FROM The Inner Way by Fr. John Tauler:

Children, look to yourselves. This is not a question of small things. If ye were to be kept in a hot room a night and a day, ye would think it very hard; I say nothing of burning heat for many a year, or perhaps for all eternity. Therefore commune with your own selves, for the kingdom of God is within you. See with whom ye associate, with whom ye readily stay; and examine the reasons and the tendency to all evil habits. For if a man gives way to a fault for a year or two, that fault takes such deep root in his heart, that he can scarcely overcome it with all his might. Therefore young men should guard themselves carefully, so that no evil tendencies may take root in them. They must root out all infirmities at the beginning, when it is far more easy to do so than later. Now there are four things, especially, which man must guard against, four powers which are so injurious and evil that they are like jagged teeth.

The first is the love of visible things; and in this lies the strength of desire. It is scarcely possible to imaging or describe the harm men do to themselves thereby. Men who desire to be good, begin with this or that, with one thing or another, and are so occupied with the seed-sowing, that they do not keep to the full truth. They do not look into their own hearts, which are closed up, like some unknown thing a thousand miles off; there outward and visible things are of more importance to them. Thus they go on avoiding themselves, so that they do not know where they are. Read More »

“OF all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

— C.S. Lewis

“FOUR out of five Jewish Israelis believe the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are to blame for the mass infiltration of Hamas terrorists into Israel and the massacre that followed, a new Dialog Center poll released on Thursday found.

“An overwhelming majority – 86% of respondents, including 79% of coalition supporters, said the surprise attack from Gaza is a failure of the country’s leadership, while a staggering 92% said the war is causing anxiety.

“Furthermore, almost all the respondents (94%) believe the government must bear some responsibility for the lack of security preparedness that led to the assault, with over 75% saying the government holds most of the responsibility.” [Source]

$1.7 million: What the average American makes over the course of his entire life.

$1.7 million x 10: What the U.S. pays Israel every day to occupy Palestine.

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JUDITH Sharpe, at In the Spirit of Chartres, and I talked this weekend about the prevalence of tattoos today. More than 30 percent of adults in the U.S. now have one or more tattoos. It’s hard to believe that less than three decades ago, tattooing was illegal in New York and other parts of America.

How things have changed since the day when Captain Costentenus, above, appeared in freak shows as a human curiosity.

One of the main causes of the rise in tattooing, I contend, is immodesty in dress. Primitive people of the distant past did not fully cover their bodies either and they turned to crude forms of ink and paint to ornament themselves.

Judith is a very pleasant and astute person to talk with about the world around us. She was kind with my unpolished efforts to sum up this subject and I thank her for the time. Read More »