"ALL the mysteries of the Word Incarnate were to close with his Ascension; all the graces we receive are to end with ours. This world is but a figure that passeth away; and we are hastening through it to rejoin our Divine Leader. In Him are our life and happiness; it is vain to seek them elsewhere. Whatever brings us nearer to Jesus is good; whatever alienates us from him is evil. The mystery of the Ascension is the last ray of light given to us by our Creator, whereby he shows us the path to our heavenly country. If our heart is seeking its Jesus, and longs to come to him, it is alive with the true life; if its energies are spent upon created things, and it feels no attraction for its Jesus, it is dead." -- Dom Prosper Guéranger, "The Ascension of Our Lord"  

TODAY is the Feast of the Ascension of Christ, which commemorates the stunning and miraculous event witnessed by the Apostles, Mary and close to 100 others outside Jerusalem when Jesus ascended into the heavens, 40 days after his Resurrection. This miracle was in itself testimony of Christ’s divinity. Only God could suspend the laws of nature in this way. St. Luke gave an account to Theophilus, a Christian in Antioch in the Acts of the Apostles:

The former treatise, I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach, until the day on which, giving Commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom He had chosen, He was taken up. To whom also He showed Himself alive after His passion, by many proofs, by forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God.And eating together with them, He commanded them, that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard (saith He) by my mouth: for John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. They therefore who were, come together, asked Him saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? But He said to them: It is not for you to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power; but you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth. And when He had said these things, while they looked on, He was raised up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they were beholding Him going up to heaven, behold, two men stood by them in white garments. Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come as you have seen Him going into heaven. (Acts i. 1 – 11.)

In Eleanor Parker’s translation of an Old English poem on the subject, Christ II, we get a sense of the soaring of Christ heavenward: (more…)

YEARS from now when people who were injected with a poisonous and unnecessary "vaccine" when they were adolescents under 15 years old develop serious health disorders, Dr. Janet Woodcock, who also played a starring role in the deaths of hundreds of thousands from opioid prescriptions, will be long gone as director of the Food and Drug Administration, and perhaps gone from this world. But her crimes will live on. There could be no more blatant lie than her claim that this drug is necessary for "returning to a sense of normalcy." It's no secret that some of the wealthiest people in the world want population reduction. Woodcock is their faithful servant.  

MILES MATHIS looks behind the mainstream history of Martin Luther. His conclusion: So the Reformation wasn't actually about religion at all, at least not from the viewpoint of the governors who pulled it. From their perspective, religion was just a cover for the real machinations, which were entirely financial. Again, same as now. Same as always. Reform was simply the excuse for them to seize church assets. Once seized, the Church couldn't just be eliminated, since it continued to perform an important function at the time: more misdirection. It kept the citizens' eyes looking up to heaven, and while their gaze was so diverted, they could be robbed the more easily. So the governors needed to “reform” the Church, making some cosmetic changes that would appeal to the citizenry, while keeping the main planks in place. In pursuit of that, some real improvements were made—such as the “more direct line to God” idea of Luther—but the governors were more interested in the idea of weaning the audience off of expensive furnishings, which they wished to steal for their own castles. In that line, they needed to accustom church goers to more spare surroundings: much less gold, fewer paintings and sculptures . . . in short a stripped-down worship. That is the true source of all Puritanism and Amishness: more for the rich and less for the poor. The Church survived. And will always survive.  

SINCE Mel Gates and her husband are in the news for alleged personal conflict, I thought you might enjoy this post I wrote in 2012 on Mel, "Melinda Gates: Anti-Mother Imperialist." This was one of a couple of posts I did on Melinda, who loved nothing more than preventing others from having children. She was like a witch from ancient fairy tales who snatches babies from their cribs. Her contempt for motherhood, clothed in romantic deception and globalist visions, was profound. At that time, almost ten years ago, I viewed many pictures of her online. I distinctly remember her face. I was startled last year to observe that the Melinda Gates of today looks distinctly different from the pictures I saw, many of which have apparently been altered or scrubbed on the Internet. She now looks manly, with a huge schnozzle, big chin, bushy eyebrows and beefy calves. She looks like just the sort of tranny who would hate the natural order and babies in their cribs. Maybe lying has just transformed her. They say it makes the nose grow. I could care less, of course. I could care less about the alleged divorce of these two nauseating, murderous megalomaniacs with their poisoned needles, whoever they are. Did people in Soviet gulags take a sincere interest in the love life of Stalin? I hope not. The Gates Divorce is like the Meghan and Harry story -- soap opera slop for the…

THIS video was made by Claudia Stauber in September, 2019.

ALAN writes:

My mother was the principal architect of the happiness and warmth and security and serenity that I knew during my boyhood. To say that I owed her a huge debt for all of that would be the understatement of my life.

She saved 45 greeting cards that I gave her in my boyhood years in the 1950s-early’60s. Nine of them were Mother’s Day cards. At some point I must have stopped giving her such cards. Why was that?  Simple: I was an idiot — and more so because I didn’t know I was an idiot.

When I was a boy, I had no idea what a “benevolent sense of life” could be, even though it was right there in front of me every day. It was there in the person of my mother:  In how she lived, acted, and spoke; in her frame of mind and her perspective on life;  in her sense of humor; in what she found funny, what she found beautiful, or what she found repulsive, and why.

I am quite confident she never thought about such things. She was not a philosopher. She was too busy living and discharging the responsibilities that she had assumed or that life handed her. There was no need for me to think about such things when they were the essence of her character.

Her sense of life was like that of uncorrupted children: Children who love life and are alive to its beauty and wonders, but with a grown-up’s ability to differentiate between substance and illusion, between genuine and contrived.

Nor did I know that it was her benevolent sense of life that would inspire her to take photographs of the beauty that nature provides just for the looking or that men and women create when they share that sense of life. (more…)

THERE’S only one good thing about tyranny: Resisting it.

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