"THE fine is now less than € 2,000 (instead of € 7,200), but the amendment to the law against vaccination opponents is explosive in terms of democratic politics: Vaccination critics in Austria face a year of custody in the future. The amendment already passed the parliamentary committee. There should be their own detention rooms for the vaccination critics, the costs for food will be charged to 'the obligated.'" Read more here. (Click on translation option.) In related news, Germany is preparing to vaccinate young children in schools and daycare centers. (Click on translate.)  

 "'NAZISM' is a typical Talmudic ideological product at its root. It is a blow to Christian (Catholic) values in society; It shifts the focus of attention from spirit to flesh; thus placing body above the soul." --- From "Hitler and the Kabbalist, Talmudic Creation of World War II" See more here.

"Consider first, my soul, that not very long ago thou hadst no being at all, nor any share in the transactions of the world; thou was not even so much as thought of by any creature upon earth. In this low abyss of nothing thou hadst been ingulphed from all eternity; and there of thyself thou must have remained to all eternity, infinitely beneath the condition even of the meanest insect, or the most inconsiderable of all God's creatures; so that whatsoever thou hast at present above this mere nothing is no acquisition of thy own, nor any property of thine, but the pure gift of thy Maker. Down, then, with all self-conceit and presumption; down with all vain-glory; acknowledge thy true original, thy original nothing; sit always down in the lowest place; ascribe nothing to thyself as of thy own growth, but thy manifold sins; give the whole glory of all the rest to thy Maker." -- Bishop Richard Challoner, 1807  

 MANY people approach winter with fear and loathing. Do this dread and hostility make them more susceptible to illness and depression? "I make of every winter a summer," says the Dutch fitness guru Wim Hof. "Behave as if you are in summer. Think about that. That is the power of your mind being able to switch your body into a powerful being." Hof is a fervent promoter of cold weather and low temperatures. He claims that cold showers or daily ice baths generally stimulate health, cure auto-immune diseases and prevent winter flus and depression. "It's amazing to go into icy water every day. If you die once a day then you know what life is all about." He teaches deep breathing techniques to help acclimate to extreme cold. The cold is a teacher, not an enemy. Hof is a New Age pantheist. But we can find in his theories the cleansing power of self-mortification and trust in a loving God who gives us winter for our benefit. Observe a woodpecker on a dead tree in January. He  survives.  Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? We were made for winter. The more you plunge into cold, the better winter is.    

We are so surrounded by the tacky, trashy schmaltz of commercial Christmas that the hidden life of Advent, found in the ancient practices of contemplation and repentance, may seem unreal.

It’s been said before, and must be said again. That hidden season is reality — and all else is show and evasion. There is no Christmas joy without the inner preparation of Advent. This season is so profoundly beautiful that only God himself could have conceived it. A farmer prepares his field for growth. The earth of our souls must be turned over. The seeds of spiritual life need our attention. We can reject the pseudo-season for the real by self-examination and repentance. The Lord will give his goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.

Don’t let the events of the world distract you. Abstain from the daily news; the circus of deception and distraction is not going anywhere. The biggest problems we face are within us. We sometimes lie to ourselves as much as the powerful magicians and scam artists working for their worldwide, luciferian government  lie to us.

Here let us admire the goodness of our God, who, remembering that man hid himself after his sin, because he was naked, vouchsafes himself to become man’s clothing, and cover with the robe of his Divinity the misery of human nature. Let us, therefore, be on the watch for the day and the hour when he will come to us, and take precautions against the drowsiness which comes of custom and self-indulgence. The light will soon appear; may its first rays be witness of our innocence, or at least of our repentance. If our Savior is coming to put over our sins a covering which is to hide them forever, the least that we, on our part, can do is to retain no further affection for those sins, else it will be said of us that we refused our salvation.

— Dom Prosper Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, First Sunday in Advent

From a sermon for the First Sunday of Advent by Bishop Ehrler in 1891:

I. The care of our soul is the most necessary duty of our life.

1.All other cares are but transient, superficial, trivial; the care of our souls involves our deepest and holiest interests, the decision of our lot for all eternity. Before many years, this body of ours, the object of so much solicitude, which we feed and clothe so carefully, will return to dust. The goods and joys of life are as glittering dust, which will be swept away by the storm preceding the General Judgment, and which is of no value in the eyes of God and his Saints. The friends and relatives whose well-being is very near our heart, are little more than transient acquaintances whom we meet and part from at a wayside inn, bidding them farewell after a short greeting. “I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.” (Eccles. i: 14.) Our souls will not die nor decay. Their eternal happiness or misery depends on the care or carelessness we manifest in their regard. Is there then a greater necessity than to care for our immortal soul? (more…)

BELOW are a few of the common signs that a mass shooting, terrorist attack or car/van attack is staged.

Bear in mind when reading this that the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 made it legal for the U.S. government to conduct state-sponsored propaganda events domestically and abroad. These events, ostensibly to protect Americans, are obviously carried out with less benign objectives in mind, such as unconstitutional gun control, increased surveillance, distraction of the public, division and glorification of governmental authority. The last is always the winner in the end. Private contractors (such as manufacturers of body scanners) potentially reap big rewards. Participants are obviously well compensated (beyond their wildest dreams) and face serious harm if they disclose details. Here’s one person’s awakening to a staged mass shooting.

A few signs of staging:

** Initial release of blurry, jerky, confusing video imagery

** Despite presence of dozens or hundreds of cell phones at scene, no clear imagery of the attack as it occurred or convincing carnage

** Active shooter drills conducted in vicinity same day or soon before

** Lack of normal emergency response; victims may not even be taken to hospital

** Police or ambulance staff standing around

** Implausible marksmanship by perpetrator

** Flashing police and ambulance lights convey chaos and emergency (more…)

DESPITE immense changes in American life since the 17th century, the early Puritans, honored (well, kind of) every Thanksgiving Day, live on.

The material success of this country speaks of their industry. The Puritans were not lazy people. The Northern colonies rapidly became scenes of busy commercial manufactures and trade under their enterprising efforts. (As an aside, the honesty that still characterizes all kinds of commercial and personal transactions is reminiscent of the strong ethical sense they upheld in business.)

But the Puritans elevated work to a religious calling; if one was not successful at this calling, one was not one of the spiritually predestined. Many families today arrive at the Thanksgiving table exhausted from the pace of life. Everyone must be ambitious and prove himself by work outside the home. Workaholism even afflicts high school students. The decline of private home life and the family is the inevitable by-product of their intense commercial spirit.

The uniform style of dress popular today, though much more scruffy, casual and immodest than that of the Puritans, shows evidence of their disdain for material finery. The rejection of color and patterns is Puritanical.

Radical politics will be in evidence at Thanksgiving dinners throughout the land and, yes, the Puritans did not believe in gender equity or mandatory “diversity.” Nevertheless, they brought a zealousness to their work, along with a disdain for intellectual activity, contemplation and the passive virtues, that would lead to a hyper-active do-goodism. The have-nots of society are utterly condemned under the Calvinist work ethic (the Puritans did not see poverty as potentially virtuous) and so one of the unintended consequences of Puritanism is a compensatory effort to elevate the losers who have no inherent value because they do not have successful careers. Behind the strident calls for equity in the corporate workplace is the belief that if any group or individual does not possess material success through work they are nothing.

The food at many American tables will, let’s face it, be bland and dull. The Puritans would not have envisioned or necessarily desired packaged meals, but could they really condemn their necessity? There is no time to produce meals, let alone elaborate meals, today and for the Puritans, time was money — and money was a means of salvation. The cookbooks of the Pilgrims may be treasured for their antiquity, but hardly for their great recipes.

Finally, the fact that a surprising number of people will spend Thanksgiving either alone or with few, though certainly not a common phenomenon in the colonial settlements, is the inevitable result of the intense individualism of the Calvinist theology embraced by the Pilgrims. (more…)

“AFTER creating man, God created woman and determined her mission, namely, that of being man’s companion, helpmeet and consolation…It is a mistake, therefore, to maintain that woman’s rights are the same as man’s. Women in war or parliament are outside their proper sphere and their position. There would be the desperation and ruin of society. Woman, created as man’s companion, must so remain under the power of love and affection, but always under his power. How mistaken, therefore, is that misguided feminism which seeks to correct God’s work. It is like a mechanic trying to correct the signs and movements of the universe. Scripture, and especially the three epistles of St. Paul, emphasizes woman’s dependence on man, her love and assistance, but not her slavery to him.”

— Pope St. Pius X, in address to a delegation of the Union of Italian Catholic Women in 1909 (more…)

 THESE are stirring words from Congressman Clay Higgins, the Republican from Louisiana. (However, it is important to point out that it was the Republican Party under Donald Trump that kickstarted the vaccine mandates with Operation Warp Speed and that initiated the entire Covid scam.)