“OUR Lord’s word effected what it said. It made her the Mother of men therefore, not merely by an outward official proclamation, but in the reality of her heart. He opened up there new fountains of inexhaustible love. He caused Her to love men as He loved them, as nearly as her heart could come to His. He as it were multiplied Himself in the souls of sinners millions of millions of times, and gave her love enough for all. And such love! so constant, so burning, so eloquent, so far above all earthly maternal love both in hopefulness, tenderness, and perseverance! And what was this new love but a new power of sorrow? We cannot rightly understand Mary’s sorrow at the Crucifixion under any circumstances, simply because it is above us. But we shall altogether miss of those just conceptions, which we may attain to, unless we bear in mind that she became our Mother at the foot of the Cross, not merely by a declaration of her appointment, but by a veritable creation through the effectual word of God, which at the moment enlarged her broken heart, and fitted it with new and ample affections, causing thereby an immeasurable increase of her pains. It was truly in labour that she travailed with us, when we came to the birth. The bitterness of Eve’s curse environed her spotless soul unutterably in that hour of our spiritual nativity.”

— — The Foot of the Cross, Frederick William Faber, D.D. (more…)

"THE WORLD IS A MYSTERY. Life, time, death, doubt, good and evil, and the uncertainty which hangs about our eternal lot, are all mysteries. They lie burning on the heart at times. But the Crucifix is the meaning of them, the solution of them all. It puts the question, and answers it as well. It is the reading of all riddles, the certainty of all doubts, and the centre of all faiths, the fountain of all hopes, the symbol of all loves. It reveals man to himself, and God to man. It holds a light to time that it may look into eternity and be reassured. It is a sweet sight to look upon in our times of joy; for it makes the joy tender without reproving it, and elevates without straining it. In sorrow, there is no sight like it. It draws forth our tears and makes them fall faster, and so softly that they become sweeter than very smiles. It gives light in the darkness, and the silence of its preaching is always eloquent, and death is life in the face of that grave earnest of eternal life. The Crucifix is always the same, yet ever varying its expression so as to be to us in all our moods just what we most want and it is best for us to have. No wonder saints have hung over their Crucifixes in such trances of contented love." --- The Foot…

"WHAT cross we shall meet today we know not; sometimes we cannot guess. But we know that if we meet Jesus we shall meet a cross, and evening will find us with the burden on our backs." -- The Foot of the Cross, Frederick William Faber, D.D.1858  

  

AND when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it. Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side. And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. St. Luke, Chapter 19:41-44  

"THERE is nothing more peculiar to God's nature than to be merciful and to spare. To understand this rightly, ft must be considered that God is our father. Our divine Saviour assures us of this. He has taught us to pray, "Our Father who art in heaven." Again and again in Holy Writ He calls God by the endearing name of "Our Father." Now, what is meant by the term " father "? Let us try to understand fully the meaning of this beautiful word. We see a poor man laboring day and night, watching and praying, suffering cold and hunger. Who is he? Why does he endure all this ? It is a father. He has children whom he loves, and would wish to see happy. That thought makes him forget all his own sufferings. Should one of those children go astray and become wicked, how sorely is the heart of that poor father grieved ! But still he keeps on suffering and toiling, even for his wayward child. He says to himself, " Who knows? perhaps my child will have more sense by and by. Perhaps he will be sorry for his faults, and lead a better life." "Now, such a father is God — a good, kind, compassionate father, who is infinitely merciful." --- The Prodigal Son, or, The Sinner's Return to God, Fr. Michael Müller, 1875  

  

In The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, Eamon Duffy describes Palm Sunday before Protestantism took hold in England:

The Palm Sunday procession was by the end of the Middle Ages the most elaborate and eloquent of the processions of the Roman rite, with the possible exception of the Sarum rite. The parish Mass began as usual with the blessing and sprinkling of holy water. Immediately that had been done the story of Christ’s entry into Jerusalem and greeting by the crowds with palms was read from St. John’s Gospel. The priest then blessed flowers and green branches, which were called palms but were usually yew, box, or willow. The palms were distributed and clergy and people processed out of the church, led by a painted wooden cross without a figure. The procession moved to a large cross erected in the churchyard, normally on the north side of the building at its east end, the choir singing a series of anthems recapitulating the biblical story of Palm Sunday (Pl. 3). (more…)

  

YOU don't need to follow the Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony show to know how serious black crime is. In March, 2025 alone, 17 whites lost their lives to black violence. Here is a quick round-up. These cases didn't make the national news. A white person is killed by a black person every 12 hours in the United States. That's two white people killed every day by black people. Compared to one black person killed by a white person every 96 hours in the United States. That's one black person killed every 4 days by white people. Now, inject total population size comparison. Whites are 196 million of the United States' total population at 60%. Blacks are 42 million of the United States' total population at 13%.  

"SORRY Trump but the illegals that steal the most from American citizens are the ones who work. They drive down wages, increase inflation, buy houses and cars contributing to increased demand, send billions to their home countries instead of reinvesting in the economy that PAYS THEM, and they take massive tax refunds every year. The illegals working in hotels and on farms are NOT NEEDED by anyone but the great replacers who don’t want to hire White people." (Source -- on Gab)  

The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Simeon’s Prophecy (Lk. ii. 34,35)

Flight into Egypt (Mt. ii. 14)

Loss of the Child Jesus (Lk. ii. 43-46)

Meeting of Mary and Jesus (more…)

JORGE Bergoglio, the false pope in Rome, is a successor to Salome, the stepdaughter of King Herod who asked for — and received — the head of John the Baptist after he objected to Herod’s “marriage’ to his brother’s wife.

Francis is the successor of King Henry XVIII who tore apart the unity of Europe and the world so that he could dump his wife, Catherine of Aragon.

He is a successor of those who executed of St. Thomas More and St. Edmund Campion — and many thousands more.

Francis has beheaded marriage. In an extraordinary betrayal of all those who suffered and died for the sacredness of marriage, Francis gave his blessing this week to King Charles and Queen Camilla on the occasion of their wedding anniversary. In the eyes of God, they are not truly married. Camilla Parker Bowles already has a husband.

Not a pope and not a marriage.

It wasn’t a surprising thing, as Francis has worked tirelessly in public statements, acts and encyclicals to undermine the Christian definition of marriage. This perhaps more than anything else is what he will be known and remembered for.

In this, he is merely following, though more boldly, in the footsteps of his predecessors in the Vatican II Church, which has dissolved hundreds of thousands of valid marriages in its sixty-some years of existence. Some spouses have even received brutal notices in the mail that the vows they made in good faith before supposed clergy at supposedly Catholic altars were obliterated without their consent or input. Make no mistake about it, this attack on Natural Law is intensely cruel and heartless, causing untold suffering to children and adults. It is not possibly the action of the Catholic Church. (Read more about this in a 2014 post.)

Since Francis is ailing and does not have long to live, we can assume this public act by someone with limited strength was highly calculated. In any event, it is a parting blow of breathtaking arrogance to immutable doctrine on behalf of the modernists. Be grateful for this clear and obvious warning to all those who still mistakenly consider this One World religion the Catholic Faith. Francis is nothing more than a celebrity. He is not head of the Catholic Church and is not even a member of it — not according to my opinion, but according to divine law, not according to my beliefs but according to all the true popes who preceded him. He partakes of its glory and betrays it at the same time. (more…)

GOOD commentary here on the ongoing Austin Metcalf operation: Religion and churches are constantly used in hoaxes to further the programming of the herd. Both vigils were held at the Hope Fellowship church and many of the church members just so happened to be on the scene when the alleged stabbing took place. The Fake funeral will also be held at the Hope Fellowship church on April 12th. Riding the gullible wave of "blind belief" and zealotry. Pastor John McKinzie is a big player in this farce and he has been giving special sermons this week discussing "trauma" and "unity." As always, these psychological operations strive to collectivize the duped and the complicit into a "united community." This carnival barker skillfully weaves scripture and UN verbiage together sinking his deluded congregation into an even greater level of deception. [Hope Fellowship website and its trauma seminar.] ... Notice the UN-styled artwork and language used. The sentimentality of this "Evangelical" Christianity destroys people's minds.

"ST. Mary of Cleophas (First Century) was one of the 'three Marys' who stood at the foot of the Cross on Calvary. She was the mother of St. Jude, St. James the Less and St. Simon, Apostles, and of St. Mary Salome, the mother of the Apostles St. John and St. James the Greater." Credit  

"SO tired of hearing that poverty is why black people commit crime. "There are 32 million more white people living in poverty in the US than black people. "But blacks commit 60% of the murders. "Clearly it’s not poverty." Apolitical  

PRIOR to the Second World War, one could still speak of the more noble word propaganda; before the First World War, it was still possible to speak of public opinion. Today, the manufacturing of opinion is a gigantic industry. This industry revolves around the axiom launched only fifty years ago: “A lie repeated a thousand times ends up being accepted as truth”; and falsehood has become an art of great finesse and flexibility, rid of the gross brutality of the past, embellished by all the seductions of the many modern means of presentation. All the major means of presentation are connected, directly or indirectly, forming a vast network that circles the earth, so that a global campaign to steer minds one way or another is a daily possibility." --- Adrien Arcand, Is Christianity Bankrupt?, 1954; p. 17