FROM How to Root Out Hidden Faults by Fr. James F. McElhone:

Pride of timidity is self-love manifested by shyness, backwardness, cowardice. Pride of timidity is self-love protecting self through the hiding of weaknesses from fear of ridicule. Now it must not be thought that the quiet person is necessarily humble. A fine reserve is praiseworthy, but timidity is carrying reserve to excess. Quietness of disposition may not show that there is pride beneath.

Ordinarily the talented are not so subject to pride of timidity, just because they are talented. Still those who have ability are not so generally developed as not to have some weakness or other; and even a strong weakness, as they view it. Self-love seeks to protect, to hide that weakness, and so develops a habit of timidity from it. Moreover, the talented are sometimes very much under the rule of human respect. They fear what others may say or think about them; they are in certain circumstances afraid to do what is right or to avoid what is wrong. (more…)

"OUR perfection does not consist in doing extraordinary things but to do the ordinary well." --- St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows  

FROM the transcript of the searing documentary Hell’s Bells: The Dangers of Rock and Roll by Eric Holmberg:

Young people wake up to it, drive to it, play to it, study to it, and go to sleep to it. Studies show that between the 7th and 12th grades, the average teenager will listen to and watch 11,000 hours of rock music and rock videos – more than twice the time they will spend in class.

As Dr. Alan Bloom noted in his best-selling book The Closing of the American Mind, “Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.”

Incredibly, despite this unprecedented power and the mounting evidence that rock’s influence can be less than positive, most people have never stopped to consider what is really going on in and through contemporary music. Why is music so powerful? How does it affect us? What is its source? And to where is it leading us?

Throughout the ages, wise men have noted music’s profound impact on its listeners. For example, over 2,000 years before the birth of Christ, the musical systems of China were both highly developed and central to its society. It was to this that the philosophers directed much of their attention. Understanding its intrinsic power, they carefully checked their music to make sure that it conveyed eternal truths and could thus influence man’s character for the better.

To this end, tradition states that one emperor, by the name of Shun, would monitor the health of each of the provinces of this vast kingdom by simply examining the music they produced. Course and sensual sounds indicated a sick society, one in need of his intervention and assistance. (more…)

KARL HAEMERS writes at Taboo Truth: The master-minds at the World Economic Forum are offering to explain to us the current high cost of housing. They give us this simple paragraph: “Renting an apartment in major cities has become highly competitive and expensive, prompting historian Jacob Anbinder to investigate the reasons behind the housing crisis. Anbinder explores the economic and political factors that have made cities like New York, Boston, and San Francisco unaffordable for many Americans. He traces the political evolution of the Democratic Party as a contributing factor to the current housing shortage. Anbinder's research, supported by Cornell University, aims to uncover the interconnection between political liberalism and the housing crisis and will be published as a book.” Read more.  

WITH the death of Jacob Rothschild, a job has opened up and I imagine many people will be applying. Requirements: Willingness to enslave the planet Experience manipulating fake money and world media Tolerance for long meetings in Switzerland Psychological warfare training Compensation: Everyone's money Castles in England Girls Politicians everywhere

 I'M not buying the story of Aaron Bushnell. Too many crisis actors. Too much publicity. The footage of him on fire was not realistic or convincing. Aaron, or whoever, is probably playing video games in a nice hotel somewhere.  

JOEL OSTEEN gave a speech on Feb. 18, a week after the alleged shooting (wink, wink) at his Lakewood Church in Houston. The speech is filled with the sentimental platitudes and emotional trigger words that accompany a staged shooting: "Healing" "Family," "Praying," "Fear," "We Are Stronger Together," etc.  Shooting hoaxes create fear and subservience. Ultimately they are aimed at demonizing and disarming those who own guns. Get 'em cryin' and huggin', Joel. -- Comments -- Terry Morris writes: This is a bit off topic, but I'm pretty sure I've coined a new term - Judeo-Charismanity. It occurred to me after watching several Youtube videos of Charismatic, prosperity gospel loons (Olsteen and his congregants definitely included) make fools of themselves and a laughingstock of Christianity for anyone who watches their circus sideshow acts and doesn't know the difference. It's even worse than that, though; I truly believe that many of these people, leaders and congregants alike, are possessed of demonic spirits. My wife and I used to tune into their broadcasts from time to time back in the mid-90s purely for the entertainment value alone. Back then they seemed rather harmless, but, my have they come a long way since!  

"THE soul drinks of a water unsuited to it, when it seeks pleasure in the objects of sense. The wise man teaches that the soul need not quit itself, nor divert streams from some distant mountain, since it has within itself an everlasting and inexhaustible living fountain." -- Bossuet, (Sermons, Vol. V, p. 161)  

"THE wealth of God is not given to the soul all at once. It is to be increased as a reward for the soul's own efforts, sustained by the supernatural aid of the Almighty. Growth in grace is growth in true greatness. To do and endure after the manner of Jesus, steadily refusing to part with the divine treasure, under the menaces of hardship or the allurements of pleasure, is the active way of promoting this growth." --- Fr. Edward Leen (1885-1944), Why the Cross? (Sheed and Ward, 1938)  

A “racist” black South African speaks the truth.

This is really good.

To quote a commenter, “I honestly like racist black people more than virtue-signaling white saviors.” (more…)

FROM a comment By Pete F. in 2014:

Men are naturally barbaric; left to their own devices, many males are perfectly happy to live in relative squalor. (Those disinclined to believe this are urged to hang out with a young single guy sometime). What prevents this from happening? In the traditional societies of the past, both the father and the mother (as well as other relatives and respected figures in the community) had important roles to play in civilizing boys and turning them into men.

It was the job of a father, an older brother, or perhaps a priest, drill instructor or coach to teach the boy what behavior and conduct was expected of him as a man. The mother’s role was just as vital, but different. Her job was to educate and civilize her son – not only by teaching him how a gentleman conducts himself around a lady, but by providing a comforting home and exposure to the things such as culture, manners, and all of the other habits great and small that comprise civilized behavior. Grace, beauty, decorum, kindness and all of the things that comfort us – these are the things that turn a house into a home, and into a refuge from a sometimes cold world outside that front door. Only a mother or a wife can provide those things. (more…)

"THIS truth that Christ died for us is so hard a truth that scarcely can our intelligence take hold of it. Nay it is a truth that our intelligence could in no way discover. And St. Paul, preaching, makes echo to Habacuc, I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it to you (Acts xiii 14). "So great is God's love for us and His grace towards us, that He does more for us than we can believe or understand." --- St. Thomas Aquinas, Meditations for Each Day in Lent  

“LUCIFER is not the rival, he is the slave of the Most High. (The same must be said of his sectarians.) The evil he inspires or introduces into the soul and the world, he cannot do without the permission of the Lord. And the Lord only allows it in order to punish the wicked or to justify the righteous by the burning iron of tribulation. In this way, even evil is transformed into good under the omnipotent command of God Who has no equal, either in power, grandeur or prodigy; the One Who is He Who is, and who has drawn all that is, apart from Himself, from the abyss of nothingness.” --- Juan Donoso Cortes (1809-1853)  

ALAN writes:

The city of St. Louis is now run by a loose coalition of “Progressives”, Communists, Feminists, thieves, and shysters.  Under their leadership, downtown St. Louis now looks as Bolshevik Russia must have looked in the 1920s-‘30s, replete with abandonment, degradation, vandalism, lawlessness, and splendid examples of the calculated ugliness called Communist “art”.

It’s been a short path from yesterday to today.

In mid-afternoon on July 11, 1932, several thousand unemployed men and women gathered outside City Hall in downtown St. Louis “to demand relief measures of some sort”. Doubtless many in the crowd were ordinary men and women who were lured into the event by typical Communist agitprop methods.  A few well-trained agitators incited the crowd to move forward and attempt to rush into City Hall against 50 policemen who were there to stop them.

The resulting confrontation included tear gas bombs thrown into the mob by police, shots fired into the air in an attempt to disperse the mob, bricks and clubs thrown at officers by some people in the mob, glass doors and windows broken, theft from a vendor across the street, some people injured and some arrested. A World War I-vintage hand grenade was thrown at police, but it did not explode.

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MASSACHUSSETTS taxpayers are fitting the bill for thousands of illegal immigrants to live in shelters, hotels and motels. Those without kitchen facilities receive catered meals worth $64 a day. The state's Right to Shelter law requires it to provide families with refrigeration and basic cooking facilities. But some of the accommodations do not have those appliances leaving the state to contract out for food and delivery. Spinelli Ravioli Manufacturing Company in East Boston, a full-service drop-off catering company with 30 years' experience in the industry was awarded a $10 million-dollar six-month no-bid contract to provide and deliver meals. State officials say they must spend more than $800 million to respond to the "crisis." It is an entirely manufactured crisis -- and these costs are just the tip of the iceberg of the immense costs in the years ahead. The solution to this "crisis" is mass deportation, not ravioli.