Sentimentality is the over-use of the heart, and heartlessness its under-use. We live in a world awash in a sentimentality that disguises heartlessness. It is a brilliant seduction, the heartlessness clothed in talk of love. Love is cheapened and misrepresented. Warmth can be coldness and animosity when forgetful of the soul. Only in the Sacred Heart of Jesus can we find love purified.
O Heart of love, I put all my trust in Thee; for I fear all things from my own weakness, but I hope for all things from Thy goodness. --- St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
FROM Racism, Guilt, Self Hatred, And Self Deceit (2010) by Gedaliah Braun:
In August 1976, when I left America to teach Philosophy at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, I did so somewhat reluctantly. On the subject of blacks and Africa, I was a tabula rasa [a ‘blank slate’]. I grew up in a typical ‘liberal’ environment where one was taught never to use the word ‘nigger’ (the American equivalent of the South African term ‘kaffir’) – and until 1969, in New Orleans, I don’t think I’d ever heard the word actually used. I was not involved in the Civil rights movement but was certainly not opposed to it. My hometown in upstate New York had few blacks, though in the mid-fifties our high school did have a black cheerleader. While I had no black friends as a youth, this was not by design, and when, in 1968, I met a black man (a fireman), I had no difficulty in forming a friendship – a friendship which has remained to this day.
So when I went to Nigeria I was neither anti-black nor an afrophile (a ‘lover’ of things black). Nevertheless, I immediately felt ‘at home’ there and because I went without prejudices, I was able to observe things with an unjaundiced eye; and I made some remarkable discoveries. (more…)
WHEN a black criminal was killed (he wasn’t really) by a white cop in the course of arrest, it was cause for international vilification of whites and weeks of riots.
When an innocent, white child is knifed to death by an angry black woman in a supermarket parking lot, it’s a “random” attack with no larger significance.
This murder is tragically similar, by the way, to that of a 26-year-old mother in a South Carolina supermarket parking lot last year.
One family was left without a mother, another without a child. Whites have often fled integrated neighborhoods for good reason. It can be a matter of life and death. In the most ordinary places, a black may turn violent and attack with sadistic savagery.
BRITISH COMPOSER Ralph Vaughan William’s orchestral piece “The Lark Ascending” is based on a poem of the same name by George Meredith (1828-1909). Vaughan Williams included these words from the poem on the flyleaf for the work:
He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound,
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake.
For singing till his heaven fills,
‘Tis love of earth that he instils,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup
And he the wine which overflows
to lift us with him as he goes.
Till lost on his aerial rings
In light, and then the fancy sings.
EXCELLENT COMMENTARY from Gab: This is why Jews had to orchestrate and carry out the 10/7 theater. Gen Z REJECTS the Holocaust narrative. It's not even a rejection of facts as much as it a rejection of Jewish victimhood. Gen Z has been raised completely surrounded by Jewish power. They cannot connect Jews to victimhood unlike older Whites who never really knew Jews growing up. Gen Z might be lazy and they might not be able to tell time or write or read cursive, but they see through the ridiculous bullshit that previous gens did not. Accordingly, JIPs (Jews-in-Power) made sure 10/7 was at a concert to "connect" with the Gen Zers. It was such a blatant Hollywood script it's not even funny. (Source) [Note: Above recording is alleged to be of Jonathan Greenblatt. It sounds like him, but it is possible it is not.]
E. MICHAEL JONES glibly employs Catholic language while comparing gun ownership to sexual perversion, raising the question once again of his true loyalties.
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A LITTLE recent history for "Pride Month:" In 2021, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus made fun of the millions of victims of homosexual predation in their musical video featuring the song, "We'll Convert Your Children." The connection between homosexuality and pedophilia has been known for thousands of years and has been abundantly confirmed by recent studies: Of 86 – 88 million heterosexual men, 9 percent of them victimized 8 million girls under age 18, which constitutes 25 percent of all girls. An uncertain percentage of the estimated 2 million homosexual men victimized 6-8 million boys, under age 18, amounting to 17 – 24 percent of all boys. Therefore, considered in the aggregate, 3 to 4 boys are sexually molested per homosexual adult male. Only .09 girls are sexually molested per heterosexual adult male, which is to say that, on average, 1 in 11 heterosexual males victimizes a girl under 18. Further corroborating these findings, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the following facts: 50 percent of male AIDS victims reported having sex with an adult male by the age of 16. 20 percent of male AIDS victims had sex with an adult male by age 10. (Source) Nevertheless, the chorus made fun of the idea that homosexuals create homosexuals through child abuse. The many young people whose lives have been decimated, who have turned to suicide or drugs, who have never had children of their own, all…
ACTIVISTS for the "gay rights" movement candidly admit that homosexuality is a choice, not an innate condition. From Ryan Sorba's book The Born Gay Hoax: Dr. John DeCecco is a psychologist, Director of the Center for Research and Education in Sexuality at San Francisco State University, and Editor of The Journal of Homosexuality. Dr. DeCecco calls himself “gay” but insists that such attractions are a changeable preference not an orientation. He explains in his book entitled, If You Seduce A Straight Person You Can Make Them Gay, that, the whole born gay and immutable characteristic idea is just “gay and lesbian politics” and is aimed at achieving “gay” rights. Dr. Vera Whisman writes in her book, Queer by Choice: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Politics of Identity, “The political dangers of a choice discourse go beyond the simple (if controversial) notion that some people genuinely choose their homosexuality. Indeed, my conclusions question some of the fundamental basis upon which the gay and lesbian rights movement has been built. If we cannot make political claims based on an essential and shared nature, are we not left once again as individual deviants? Without an essentialist [born gay] foundation, do we have a viable politics?” Lesbian writer Jennie Ruby admits, “I don’t think lesbians are born…I think they are made… The gay rights movement has (for many good, practical reasons) adopted largely an identity politics.”98 Jan Clausen, lesbian author of the book Apples and…
"USUALLY parents are so proud of their children that they fail to give them any religious training during their infant and childhood years, much less school them in the virtues of humility and the fear of God. Instead, they worship them as the fulfillment of all their desires, the same way other people love their dogs and cats. Contrary to all logic, instead of seeing the child as a poor sinner, whom it is their duty before God to save from his innate pride and selfishness, they are consumed with such adoring love of him (or her) that they proceed to destroy them with toys ... and cooing and coddling and compliments. Many modern parents are misfits, who refuse to grow up to their awesome responsibility. They seem beset with a mortal fear that their child will not love them, or thanks to their carefully-instilled phobia about child brutality, they find it impossible to punish or discipline him. ".... As might be expected, such a child will grow up to be an insufferable, unmanageable ingrate ... (All such children should be named Nero and Caligula.) Later in life, he is a sociopath, who hates himself, and everyone else. His summation of his life is printed on his dirty, black T-shirt, something like: "No Fear!" or "Life Stinks." Not infrequently he destroys himself with play, drink, drugs, crime, sexual perversion, and/or suicide. "The child who is seriously spoiled in his or her…
BRING FLOWERS OF THE RAREST
Bring flow’rs of the fairest,
Bring flow’rs of the rarest,
From garden and woodland
And hillside and vale;
Our full hearts are swelling,
Our glad voices telling
The praise of the loveliest
Rose of the vale. (more…)
ALAN writes:
I have no doubt that anti-feminist philosopher Anthony Ludovici would agree with your remarks and those of Kathy G. in the entry “Grandma Police Chief.” I would extend those remarks to include women police officers, mayors, governors, and “congresspersons.” All such victories for feminists are merely additional signposts on the road to national and cultural suicide. A corollary question is: Why do we Americans submit to this?, as Dr. Susan Huck asked in her 1997 book by that name. But why they put up with it is less significant than that they put up with it.
Regarding the consequences of female emancipation in England in 1918 and the years after, Dr. Ludovici wrote:
I was alone in pointing out that the dominance of women must culminate in an era of rampant anarchy, and I made myself extremely unpopular for so doing.
….That feminine dominion must consequently lead to a general decline in discipline, law and order, should have been recognized by all well-informed leaders of society. Yet we have seen the era of indiscipline and laisser-aller come about, with all its accompanying symptoms of increasing crime, raging juvenile delinquency and general social anarchy….”
(Anthony Ludovici, “Feelings masquerading as thoughts in the modern world,” 1963)
His words are noteworthy because they describe exactly the conditions of life in St. Louis today in the wake of two women mayors. Crime, vandalism, anarchy, agitation, and militant contempt for rules, laws, and civility have surged to a degree I have never seen in seven decades of life in this city.
But instead of law enforcement, what do feminists offer us? Mush.
“Your Congressperson Loves You!” That ludicrous blurb appears in a poster in the corner window of that “congressperson’s” office in downtown St. Louis. Rep. Cori Bush is in the forefront of agitation for any destructive ideological cause you could think up. “Radical love is the driving force behind my work in Congress,” she says. (Speaking of “radical love,” Bush was campaigning to defund police, threatening the further loss of physical security for her crime-embattled constituents, when she married her security guard, hired for a generous sum to protect her after they became romantically involved.)
ON this feast in honor of the Eucharist, of which there is nothing greater in creation, readings can be found here.
O precious and wonderful banquet, health-giving and full of all sweetness! What could be more precious than this banquet, in which no longer as under the law the flesh of calves and goats is eaten, but Christ the true God is set before us that we may receive Him?
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Even in this time of the great apostasy, when this mystical bread has been withdrawn from us as a much deserved chastisement, we can honor this sacrament, and like the Israelites of old who received miraculous manna as nourishment, seek it as indispensable spiritual nourishment, expressing our gratitude for this heavenly food come from above. What are we wretches without Thee, Sweet Bread? Nothing at all.
Act of Spiritual Communion
O Jesus, my soul hungers and thirsts after Thee. I long to receive every day Thy most Holy Body. I implore, at least, Thy spiritual presence. I beg of Thee to descend into my soul and give me some share in the infinite merits of Thy death, the memory of which we celebrate in this Mass. Grant, O loving Saviour, that I may be made one in union with Thee and Thy Mystical Body.
(St. Andrew’s Missal)
Adoro Te Devote
I devoutly adore you, O hidden God,
Truly hidden beneath these appearances.
My whole heart submits to you,
And in contemplating you,
It surrenders itself completely.
Sight, touch, taste are all deceived
In their judgment of you,
But hearing suffices firmly to believe.
I believe all that the Son of God has spoken;
There is nothing truer than this word of truth. (more…)