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STATES and the federal government have represented the interests of Big Agriculture for many years and have engaged in a longstanding war against the small farmer, which appears to be intensifying. (more…)

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I thought I’d commend you for being a thinking housewife. As a believer in male headship, as well as a great admirer of the Brontë sisters, I hold that the ideal wife is a thinking being who is a complement to her husband.

From Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley:

“Solomon’s virtuous woman … had something more to do than spin and give out portions: she was a manufacturer – she made fine linen and sold it: she was an agriculturist – she bought estates and planted vineyards. That woman was a manager: … a worthy model! … Men of England! Look at your poor girls … envious, backbiting, wretched, because life is a desert to them; or, what is worst of all, reduced to strive, by scarce modest coquetry and debasing artifice, to gain that position and consideration by marriage, which to celibacy is denied. … Seek for them an interest and occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the maneuverer, the mischief-making talebearer.” (more…)

WHO can understand sins? From my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord; and from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have no dominion over me, then shall I be without spot; and I shall be cleansed from the greatest sin. And the words of my mouth may be such as may please: and the meditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my redeemer. Psalm 18, 13-15  

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"IT IS NOT in the power of man gladly to bear the Cross, to chastise the body and make it submissive to the will of the spirit, to flee honors gladly, to sustain reproofs, to despise himself and to desire to be despised, patiently to suffer adversities with all the displeasures that accompany them, and not to desire any manner of profit in this world. If you trust in yourself, you will never bring this about. But if you trust in God, he will bring you strength from heaven, and the world and the flesh will be made subject to you." ---- The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis  

“The concept of ‘racism’ posits that preference for those closest to you genetically is immoral.”

“The fact that anti-racists oppose family is …. the concept of racism taken to its logical conclusion.”

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I have a great devotion to this saint because I have so often experienced, that he can obtain so much from God. For many years I have been accustomed to ask a special grace on his festival, and my prayer is always answered.

St. Alphonsus de Liguori

KNOWN as “Mirror of Patience” and “Terror of Demons,” Joseph has played a miraculous, inestimable role in history. Meditating on his humility, courage and strength has enriched untold lives and roused the indifferent. St. Joseph is famous for his intercessions for the dying. He is a patron of workers and of the Universal Church.

O Joseph, heavenly hosts thy worthiness proclaim,
And Christendom conspires to celebrate thy fame,
Thou who in purest bonds wert to the Virgin Bound;
How glorious is thy name renowned.

Thou, when thou didst behold thy Spouse about to bear,
Wert sore oppressed with doubt, wert filled with wondering care;
At length the Angel’s word thy anxious heart relieved:
She by the Spirit hath conceived. (Source)

From Daily Meditations in March on St. Joseph by Rev. R.F. Clarke, S.J.:

St. Joseph had a privilege on earth which for all other saints is reserved for the eternal Paradise, of being in the continual company of his God, of gazing on the Sacred Humanity of the Incarnate Word, of hearing from Him words of love and gratitude, of drinking in delicious draughts of heavenly delight from the words and looks of the Incarnate God. His life must have been one long ecstasy. If those who touched the hem of Jesus’ garment received an inflow of heavenly virtue, what must he have received who nursed Him in infancy, and bore Him the closest company in youth and manhood!

Pierre Chaignon wrote in 1907 (Source):

From the moment that the angel had revealed to him the mystery of the Incarnation accomplished in his august spouse, his life was a continual contemplation. What did he contemplate, if not the love of God for us, impersonated in the Word made flesh?  “God has so loved the world.”

Dom Prosper Guéranger in the nineteenth century wrote in his Liturgical Year: (more…)

"WE find in the Passion of Christ a remedy against all the evils that we incur through sin. Now these evils are five in number. (i) We ourselves become unclean. When a man commits any sin he soils his soul, for just as virtue is the beauty of the soul, so sin is a stain upon it. How happeneth it, O Israel, that thou art in thy enemies land? Thou art grown old in a strange country, thou art defiled with the dead (Baruch iii. 10, 11). --- From Meditations for Each Day in Lent, by St. Thomas Aquinas  

IF YOU are nauseated by the binge-drinking festival known as St. Patrick’s Day, now a week-long binge-drinking festival in some parts of America, you may find this 1985 interview with an Irish-American housewife who valued simple, homemade food and conversation to be refreshing and charming in comparison.

A KITCHEN WITH ROOTS IN IRELAND

Mar 10, 1985

By Marilynn Marter, Philadelphia Inquirer Food Writer

“And this is my little bit of Irish heaven,” says Agnes Patricia Songster McCafferty, introducing visitors to her domestic domain in Upper Darby, a kitchen with a decor that gives one the illusion of being, at once, both in and outside a cozy country cottage.

The morning sun seems to stream through the dimity-curtained windows, despite a cloudy sky. To push aside the curtains, a visitor feels certain, could reveal only the lush green lowlands and rolling hills of the Emerald Isle itself.

We’ve come in advance of St. Patrick’s Day to sample Irish dishes, particularly the McCafferty specialty – scone (pronounced scahn), one of the best known of the traditional Irish foods. While here, we will glean a few recipes from this fine Irish cook. (more…)

IS THE current war in Israel a hoax to drain the West of resources, flood it with immigrants and turn the world against the United States? I am not at all endorsing all the content of this site, but it provides compelling evidence of fakery in Gaza.  

ON this Patrick’s Day, when the Irish wear green hats, drink cups of green beer and drown the memory of a holy saint in hedonism and nauseating sentimentality, it’s a good time to bear in mind that the Irish fully deserve the chastisement they are currently experiencing. I say this as someone with 100 percent Irish heritage.

The Irish as a distinct people face one of the gravest threats in their entire history, under the heel of “globalist” forces and the planned, lavishly-funded invasion of foreigners.

And they deserve it. They are a decadent and hard-hearted people. I include myself in this description. I too have been decadent and hard-hearted. I am not proud to be Irish today.

The Lord brought his strong anger upon us, and scattered us among many nations even to the ends of the earth. It was among foreigners that it was seen how little I was.

St. Patrick spoke these words in the fifth century. He was not Irish, but his statements easily apply to the land he helped convert, after arriving as a Roman-British slave.

We deserved this, because we had gone away from God, and did not keep his commandments. We would not listen to our priests, who advised us about how we could be saved. (more…)

St. Patrick’s Confessio

“MY NAME IS PATRICK. I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers. I am looked down upon by many. My father was Calpornius. He was a deacon; his father was Potitus, a priest, who lived at Bannavem Taburniae. His home was near there, and that is where I was taken prisoner. I was about sixteen at the time. At that time, I did not know the true God. I was taken into captivity in Ireland, along with thousands of others. We deserved this, because we had gone away from God, and did not keep his commandments. We would not listen to our priests, who advised us about how we could be saved. The Lord brought his strong anger upon us, and scattered us among many nations even to the ends of the earth. It was among foreigners that it was seen how little I was.

“It was there that the Lord opened up my awareness of my lack of faith. Even though it came about late, I recognised my failings. So I turned with all my heart to the Lord my God, and he looked down on my lowliness and had mercy on my youthful ignorance. He guarded me before I knew him, and before I came to wisdom and could distinguish between good and evil. He protected me and consoled me as a father does for his son.

“That is why I cannot be silent – nor would it be good to do so – about such great blessings and such a gift that the Lord so kindly bestowed in the land of my captivity. This is how we can repay such blessings, when our lives change and we come to know God, to praise and bear witness to his great wonders before every nation under heaven. (more…)