His sisters sent to Him saying: Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick.–John xi. 3.Three things here call for thought.

“1. God’s friends are from time to time afflicted in the body. It is not, therefore, in any way a proof that a man is not a friend of God that he is from time to time sick and ailing. Eliphaz argued falsely against Job when he said, Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed? (Job iv. 7).

“The gospel corrects this when it says, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick, and the Book of Proverbs, too, where we read, For whom the Lord loveth, He chastiseth: and as a father in the son He pleaseth himself (Prov. iii. 12).

“2. The sisters do not say, “Lord, come and heal him.” They merely explain that Lazarus is ill, they say, he is sick. This is to remind us that, when we are dealing with a friend, it is enough to make known our necessity, we do not need to add a request. For a friend, since he wills the welfare of his friend as he wills his own, is as anxious to ward off evil from his friend as he is to ward it off from himself. This is true most of all in the case of Him who, of all friends, loves most truly. The Lord keepeth all them that love him (Ps. cxliv. 20).

“3. These two sisters, who so greatly desire the cure of their sick brother, do not come to Christ personally, as did the centurion and the man sick of the palsy. From the special love and familiarity which Christ had shown them, they had a special confidence in Him. And, possibly, their grief kept them at home, as St. Chrysostom thinks. A friend if he continue steadfast, shall be to thee as thyself, and shall act with confidence among them of thy household (Ecclus. vi. 11).”

— Meditations for Lent by St. Thomas Aquinas

[See comments below. This video is satire. I sincerely apologize for misleading readers. Sad to say, it’s close to the truth. Now if only this Disney executive’s statement was satire!]

A TEACHER in Fort Worth, Texas comments at school board meeting. This man (or is he a woman?) needs a strait jacket, not a podium.

We are surrounded. More and more people are flagrantly insane. It’s not surprising.

This reminds me of a bright boy who had a beautiful smile.

One day when he was in college, not long after he “transitioned” to a woman, he drove to a state park and hung himself from a tree.

Pray for these people. They have nothing left. Read More »

THIS post is dedicated to my dear friend, Lawrence Auster, who died of pancreatic cancer nine years ago today. As fate (or as Mr. Auster would say, “synchronicity,”) would have it, I will be doing an interview later today that touches on some of his ideas. And so, sadly, I will have to postpone visiting his grave until tomorrow. But when I do, I take with me all the good intentions of those whom he touched in his years as a writer, laying some flowers (artificial so the deer won’t eat them) on his grave and praying for his eternal rest.

I choose these words on spring not just because Mr. Auster died on Good Friday in spring, but because he understood what this author is saying: we are not walking abstractions, souls with inconvenient bodies, but, like our magnificent Redeemer, we are incarnated in physical creation. And this creation, despite its imperfections, is good. The modern Manicheans would have us despise ourselves and become a disembodied, abstract “humanity.” Is a daffodil guilty for being a daffodil? Should it be a representative of all flowers instead? Mr. Auster detested the homogenizing ugliness of modern egalitarianism.

I also like this excerpt because it mentions gratitude for simple things. I feel grateful today for something so simple as a true friend. He who is a friend at death is a friend forever, his companionship an uplifting consolation through the years he will never see.

Anyway, this is from “Catholicism And The Modern Mind” (1928) by Michael Williams:

There was that morning in springtime when I suddenly stood still before a bush in a little suburban town through which I had been walking, as if an invisible hand had halted me, and an unheard voice was speaking, and my vision was enlarged, so that I could see beyond the reach of my eyes. I could see where the extremest point of the most tiny and fragile of the roots of that bush, down in the earth, amid the moist soil, drew from the earth those fructifying elements distilled by the mysterious chemistry of spring that its life required, together with those even more impalpable, yet not the less real, elements which the most delicate filaments of its top-most twig, so slender and fine that it melted away into the air around it, drew, as our lips draw down, the sunshine and the air. And where the lucent green of the tiny buds, with their little hearts pinker than the inside of a baby’s lips, touched the clear, rain-washed black of the bark a black as radiant with life as the green itself I, for one instant of an instant, glimpsed and almost (Ah, but the immeasurable gulf of that “almost”) understood the mystery of the transmutation of spirit into matter, and their union. But if I could not really understand, I could, however, do something even better: I could worship, I could praise, I could thank, I could love the God whose will was working its unending work of love in that dear bush, by the side of that mean [road.]

…

Nature, itself, is sacramental. On earth, in the limits of time, spirit operates in and through matter. This is the real reason why saints, made powerful through sanctity, are able to work what we, in our wonderment, call miracles. It is the reason why poets may penetrate, by flashes of genius, the obscure frontier between nature and supernature and thrill our souls with intimations second only to the revelations of God of the beauty within and above all that visible beauty which is one of the myriad minor street, on the lawn of somebody’s humble home.

The little house that Bill and Dot called home, in a section of St. Louis County that was once known as Luxemburg. It is now a “hair studio.”

ALAN writes:

Dear Bill,

I thought I should send you a letter in these waning days of Western Civilization. (Not that that would surprise you. More about this below.)

Nearly twenty years have gone by since you left us. You might not have left us then had it not been for outrageously incompetent hospital staff who hastened your departure.

Forty years have gone by since we last talked, in a brief telephone conversation. I did not realize it would be our last contact, and neither of us planned it that way. But modern life is full of diversions and detours.

It was 1969 when we met, owing partly to a mutual interest in the night sky. In the years afterward, we met and talked at many meetings, lectures, and skywatches involving other amateur astronomers.

You and your wife “Dot” were most kind to that foolish young man. Read More »

“THE Communists try to exploit these national, racial and religious differences in order to weaken, undermine and subjugate America to Moscow. Like a serpent, they use guile to seduce each group. At no time have the Communists even hinted or suggested to any group, other than the Negro, that their clannishness or tendency to colonize a given area creates a “Ghetto” or “Quarters.” Were they to do so, they would be jeered out of each section as crackpots.

“Evidently the reds had international propaganda in mind when they described Negro sections as “Ghettos” because the definition of the word Ghetto in no way applies to a Negro section any more than it does to a German, Irish, Jewish, Chinese or any other section in America.

“The Encyclopedia Britannica states:

Ghetto, formerly the street or quarter of a city in which Jews were compelled to live, enclosed by walls and gates which were locked each night. The term is now used loosely of any locality in a city or country where Jews congregate.

During the Middle Ages the Jews were forbidden to leave the ghetto after sunset when the gates were locked, and they were also imprisoned on Sundays and all Christian holy days.

“Negroes band together in sections like other races and national groups much for the same reasons. Like other racial and national groups, they can buy land, build communities, settle in any section of the country. Like other racial and national groups, they can make their sections as nice and attractive as possible. The maximum business, cultural, sanitary and social services are within their reach as with other groups.

“The Communists, through propaganda, have sold a number of Negro intellectuals the idea that the Negro section is a ghetto; that white Americans created it, set its geographical boundaries; that it is the product of race hate and the inhumanity of white Americans. Therefore, it is a struggle of Negro against “white oppressors” for emancipation.

“Naturally, those holding such views have no community pride, no interest in doing anything to improve its services because that would be aiding and abetting “segregation” and maintenance of the ‘ghetto.'”

— Color, Communism, and Common Sense, Manning Johnson (1958)

“PROBABLY never in the history of the United States have we seen such a strangle-hold by the national press and other mass media of communication in suppressing the viewpoint of a great section of the country. The extent to which certain of the more authoritative and influential newspapers and magazines, such as the New York Times and the Time-Life group, are using their columns for sheer propaganda has become laughable. In a moral sense we are confronted with what might almost be called a trilogy of conspiracy, fraud and intimidation: conspiracy to gain control of important citadels of learning and news dissemination, fraud in the teaching of false racial doctrines, and intimidation in suppressing those who would preach the truth. To speak of academic freedom in the United States today is to make a mockery of the term.”

— Carleton Putnam, Race and Reason: A Yankee View, 1961 Read More »

INTERVIEWER: Your honor, can you provide a definition of the word “woman”?

Judge No, I can’t. I am not a biologist.

Int.: Can you provide a definition of the word “cat?”

Judge: No, I cannot. I am not a zoologist.

Int: Can you provide a definition of the words …. “cotton candy?” Read More »

Nine Ways of Sharing Guilt:

1.Advising another to sin,
2.Commanding one to sin,
3.Provoking another to sin,
4.Consenting to another’s sin,
5.Showing one how to sin,
6.Praising another’s sin,
7.Concealing, saying or doing nothing to prevent sin,
8.Taking part in, or enjoying results of another’s sin,
9.Defending another’s sin.

(Source)

FOLLOW the mysteries of the Rosary with French composer André Caplet’s Le Miroir de Jésus. The entire cycle recorded by the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie with mezzo-soprano Brigitte Desnoues can be found here.

Caplet devoted most of his compositional energy to religious music, and Le miroir de Jésus emerges as his spiritual masterpiece. Cast in three sections, it is fashioned after the Rosary, its tripartite structure divided into sequences devoted to the birth of Jesus, his Passion and crucifixion, and the Resurrection. Each section is announced by the chorus, leading to an instrumental prelude, after which the mezzo-soprano sings five sonnets to texts by Henri Ghéon.

Though the piece is economically orchestrated for just strings and harp, Caplet manages to pull off an incredibly broad range of emotions and sounds. (Source)

Thanks to a reader for the suggestion.

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THIS 2021 video by Johnny Gat is absolutely must-viewing for anyone seeking to understand the Kremlin’s role in controlling dissident nationalists in this country.

Don’t be fooled by the demonization of Putin by the media and politicians. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.

WHEN something I do understand,
When one of my actions goes right,
I find myself hoarding the credit,
Consid’ring myself very bright.

But when something escapes my grasp,
When I stumble or make a mistake,
I excuse myself as imperfect,
And none of the blame do I take.

— Andrew West

“THE indignities and sufferings anyone suffers are measured according to the dignity of the person concerned. If a king is struck in the face he suffers a greater indignity than does a private person. But the dignity of Christ is infinite, for He is a divine person. Therefore, any suffering undergone by Him, even the least conceivable suffering, is infinite. Any suffering at all, then, undergone by Him, without His death, would have sufficed to redeem the human race.

“St. Bernard says that the least drop of the blood of Christ would have sufficed for the redemption of us all. And Christ could have shed that one drop without dying. Therefore, even without dying he could, by some kind of suffering, have redeemed, that is, bought back, all mankind.”

— St. Thomas Aquinas, Meditations for Each Day of Lent

ACCORDING TO Forbes:

On paper, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems like a humble statesman with a modest income.

The Kremlin claims that Putin earns an annual salary of $140,000. His publicly disclosed assets include an 800-square foot apartment, a trailer, and three cars.

But according to some experts, he may be the wealthiest man in the world with assets totaling up to $200 billion.

While that is a ridiculous amount of money for anyone to have, this figure may not be so far-fetched for Putin. Here’s why … [cont.]

SOVIET defector Igor Shepherd writes:

 … Infiltrated cronies who have been secretly pushing toward a one world government for many decades have waited patiently for their cue to bolt onto the world stage and show arm muscle. The phony pandemic was act one with which the global elites were able to openly introduce their global goals. Act two, the Russian-Ukrainian drama, will soon reveal the true strength behind those bulging biceps.

You may ask, how advanced is globalization? Dear readers, it is done! Out of 195 countries in the world, 193 of them are members of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and participators under Agenda 2030. This is the final great reset of all nations under one global authority, and all previous governments of the world will be dismantled and no longer exist by the year 2030. Do I have your attention?

Sustainable development, if it was listed in an honest dictionary, would be defined as “infiltrated communism.” It was introduced by communist sympathizers as a means to “save the environment,” but that was just a front, along with climate change, to fast-track the global agenda and persuade the nations to hop on board. Behind SDGs are the tools with which to effectively infiltrate new communism into the heart of every nation. Under this new reign of dictatorship, old communism will pale in comparison. [cont.]

I HAVEN’T had the time to watch this yet, but any video about the PCR test deception, one of the biggest frauds in history, is well worth watching.