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“I CANNOT believe I am dying a horrible agonizing death for trying to do the right thing by society. I cannot believe even more that after a lifetime of knowing me, just about everyone who used to love & value me have abandoned me to my fate over the politicization of the reason.”

— Mike O’Mara

“MOST Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.”

— Joseph Sobran

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“CANADIAN doctors have been dying unexpectedly and in unprecedented numbers–now upwards of 100–since the rollout of the Covid-19 “vaccines” December 2020. Dr. William Makis, MD and cancer researcher, along with his team have been tracking and reporting the alarming number of sudden deaths in young doctors. His pleas to the Canadian Medical Association to investigate any correlation with the experimental mRNA injections have been ignored and publicly deemed misinformation. Read More »

Benozzo Gozzoli; Magi Chapel (detail)

“WE know, each one of us, that our lives are bound up with the lives of others in a most wonderful way, and that the actual result and outcome of all is, in each case, linked by a thousand ties with the lives of those across whom we have come in our path through this world. So that it may be said that God has arranged each single life of all His millions of children, not for itself alone, but with endless and countless relations and influences produced on others or received from others, and all this is an exercise of His wisdom most beautiful, most perfect, and most worthy of study and thankfulness. And the history of the whole race is the history of each single soul combined and connected with that of all other souls. Here is a marvel and a wonder far surpassing anything that can be found in the material universe, because souls are free, and the elements are not free. All this is to be revealed to us at the Last Day, hence we may truly say that we are in a certain sense to judge, not only one another, as we shall do when the whole of the secrets of each single heart are made manifest to all; not only angels, for, as St. Paul says, we shall then know not merely the whole history of men like ourselves, but that also of the other spiritual beings who are so like us in nature — nay even the works and doings of God Himself will be made manifest to us for His glory and for our instruction, to furnish us with matter for eternal praise of Him in His dealings with His creatures, and for the perfect justification of Him before the eyes of the whole world.”

— Henry James Coleridge, The Return of the King: Discourses on the Latter Days, 1894 (p. 283)

“IMPATIENCE is one of the most foolish of all faults. It gains nothing for us; it does not relieve our sufferings, but aggravates them. No one enjoys any peace as long as he is yielding to feelings of impatience; he is discontented, miserable, uneasy. He finds intolerable what he could bear well enough if only he would make the necessary effort, and gulp down the rising irritation or suppress the angry words. He is always in a fever, and is a nuisance to himself and to all around him. Do not I know this by experience? If not, I must thank God for giving me so happy a disposition.

“Impatience is also one of the most ridiculous of all faults. There is something laughable and contemptible in the fuming of the impatient man over some trifle, in his rage because he cannot overcome some difficulty or have his own way as he desires. An impatient man always makes a bad impression. If I could see myself as others see me when I give way to impatience, I should be thoroughly ashamed and very careful not to make myself so foolish again.”

— from Patience, Meditations for a Month, by Richard F. Clarke, S.J.,

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The Holy Family, Giambattista Pittoni

O GENTE FELIX HOSPITA

O House of Nazareth the blest,
fair hostess of the Lord,
the Church was nurtured at thy breast
and shared thy scanty hoard.

In all the spreading lands of earth
the wandering sun may see
no dearer spot, no ampler worth
than erst was found in thee!

We know thy humble tenement
was heaven’s hermitage:
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JEFF GREEN describes the final weeks of his 98-year-old grandfather’s life:

He practically begged me to call the ambulance. I knew what this would mean. He would now be subjected to dangerous medical treatments that would very likely damage or kill him. When the EMTs arrived, they picked him up and he stood up with their help. One of the EMTs said, “If his hip is broken, I would be very surprised.” He turned out to be partially right.

In the ER, he was initially asked if he had been vaccinated for ‘COVID’, tetanus, and so forth. I told them no. In fact, he had not been vaccinated in nearly 25+ years or so. The nurse informed me of the dangers of tetanus complications from surgery, but I continued to reaffirm to her that he did not need any vaccines.

He had to be transferred to the ER in a larger hospital out of town, about 25 miles away. They did not do such procedures here locally. Once we arrived there, one of the head doctors there described to us that he would need surgery. I asked, “Is surgery absolutely necessary for him?” She described to me that he would need a rod placed into his femur. After the initial x-rays of the leg, I found out that he merely had a hairline fracture, not a complete break, which I had suspected all along. The surgeon came into the room. He described the hip surgery process and told me that my grandpa would be out of surgery and walking the next day. Of course, this was something that I didn’t believe, and indeed, that never transpired. In fact, my grandpa was never able to take another step after surgery.

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FROM Thuletide on Telegram:

Friendship in the 1990s vs friendship today: More “connected” than ever before, but more alone.

Two major factors are to blame for this: Left-Wing politics and modern technology.

Every single agenda pushed by the Left (multiracialism, anti-family, anti-religion, anti-traditional culture) fragments society, destroys cohesion, increases isolation, decreases trust, and so on. It’s basically a recipe for making people lonely and miserable.

In addition to this, the psychotic behavior of modern Leftists (snitching on their friends and family, ruining lives for the tiniest of thought crimes) has created a culture of distrust, similar to the USSR.

The technological aspect is straightforward: We’ve all sat in a restaurant and noticed tables full of people silently staring down at their mobile phones. Social media provides simulated friendship, the internet provides endless escapism, more people are working remotely, etc., etc.

FROM The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Guéranger:

There was another custom, which originated in the Ages of Faith, and which is still observed in many countries. In honour of the Three Kings, who came from the East to adore the Babe of Bethlehem, each family chose one of its members to be King. The choice was thus made. The family kept a feast, which was an allusion to the third of the Epiphany-Mysteries – the Feast of Cana in Galilee – a Cake was served up, and he who took the piece which had a certain secret mark, was proclaimed the King of the day. Two portions of the cake were reserved for the poor, in whom honour was thus paid to the Infant Jesus and his Blessed Mother; for, on this Day of the triumph of Him, who, though King, was humble and poor, it was fitting that the poor should have a share in the general joy. Read More »

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THE FEAST OF THE Epiphany on January 6 marks the day when three cultured philosopher-kings came from the East to Bethlehem. Their systems of thought and pagan divination now exhausted, these seekers were drawn by a mysterious revelation to search for a child. They were kings looking for a king. They found a baby in a cave, surrounded by none of the prerogatives of power. Here was no symbol or sign. Here was the very Wisdom they craved incarnated. Here was no illumination of the mind alone. Their hearts were enlightened too. Their search ended; they fell to their knees and adored. “We have seen His star, and are come to adore Him” – Matt, ii, 2.

As Eastern mysticism and “mindfulness” continue to spread in the West, let’s remember today that these ideas are not new, but as old as time. This road was traveled by the Magi.

Some relevant words by G. K. Chesterton:

“It is still a strange story, though an old one, how they came out of orient lands, crowned with the majesty of kings and clothed with something of the mystery of magicians. That truth that is tradition has wisely remembered them almost as unknown quantities, as mysterious as their mysterious and melodious names; Melchior, Caspar, Balthazar. But there came with them all that world of wisdom that had watched the stars in Chaldea and the sun in Persia; and we shall not be wrong if we see in them the same curiosity that moves all the sages.They would stand for the same human ideal if their names had really been Confucius or Pythagoras or Plato. They were those who sought not tales, but the truth of things; and since their truth was itself a thirst for God, they also have had their reward.” (The Everlasting Man, Ignatius Press; p. 176)

“O God, who by the direction of a star didst this day manifest thy only Son to the Gentiles; mercifully grant, that we, who now know thee by faith, may come at length to see the glory of thy Majesty.”

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‘THE Church very clearly points out what truths are articles of Faith, that we may distinguish them from pious beliefs and traditions, so that no one can be guilty of the sin of heresy without knowing it.

“So far, so good, right? Most of you are nodding your heads in agreement, and shrugging: ‘So, what about it?’

“Well, the problem ‘traditional Catholics’ are facing today is the fact that the ordinations of all the ‘traditional’ priests ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre, and Archbishop Thuc, as well as bishops consecrated and stemming from these lines are illicit. These priests, in general, will admit this fact but brush it off lightly and continue to function in violation of Divine Laws and Dogmas of our Catholic Faith.”

— From “Are You Still a Catholic?” by Patrick Henry and an anonymous author

Originally published at Identity Dixie by Terry Morris

Grandson: “Grandpa, I asked my dad why we have to eat black-eyed peas every New Years, and he said I should ask you.”

Grandpa: “Did he? Well, then, let’s sit down and talk about it.”

Grandson: “Okay!”

Grandpa: “First of all, we should never think of it as *having* to eat black-eyed peas to bring in the New Year, like it’s a burden to us or something we don’t want to do; we should instead look upon it as an honor and a privilege that we do cheerfully and with gratitude and thanksgiving. Pay attention and I will explain why.”

Grandson: (look of attentive curiosity) Read More »