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“The Attorney General is talking in circles,” said Greg Burt, Vice President of the California Family Council. “Bonta [CA Attorney General] and Tony Thurmond [CA State Superintendent of Public Instruction], representing the Department of Education, have been suing and intimidating school districts across California for adopting parent notification policies, claiming these violate state law. If that’s true, then how can their attorneys [representing the state] say the state’s secrecy policy was simply a suggestion, not an enforceable law?”
https://www.californiafamily.org/2024/05/ca-ags-attorney-says-states-gender-secrecy-policy-not-enforceable-only-guidance/ Parent notification refers to California’s secrecy policy compelling teachers to deceive parents about a student’s "gender dysphoria". The dinosaurs, on the other hand, are not an illusion, and teaching students about authentic history and settled science, even speculative science if so designated, is a good. Two French angels assist the Welsh hermit-priest who mingles with us and overlays the video with a poem written at Fontgombault. Did you know that every angel in Heaven is present at Mass? They worship, too. If my friend Josh and I, not angels, were present at this Mass, stifled laughter would have interrupted solitude. The little guy is doing his best. A parent sent me this video of a self-driving car in San Francisco. The owner is Waymo, LLC, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, CA. These cars are common in SF, and stop and hazard lights go on when an obstacle is encountered, and seem to have a problem near the street cars (MUNI light rail). I asked her if other drivers drive around them when that happens, and she said, "If there's room." The cars have limited human supervision. "This question was sparked recently when a Tesla Model S crashed into a parked fire truck in Los Angeles.[5] The driver claimed that the vehicle was in Autopilot mode at the time of the accident, and Tesla has since clarified that its Autopilot feature is not meant to be used without supervision. This incident highlights the need for more straightforward liability guidelines in autonomous vehicle accidents." https://www.thezebra.com/resources/car-insurance/self-driving-car-insurance/ She received it.
Better choice - say no. Basis for that - Litany of Humility. From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being loved... From the desire of being extolled... From the desire of being praised... From the desire of being preferred to others... That others may be loved more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. Etcetera. Anthony Stine of Return to Tradition (YouTube channel) reads a letter from Father Donald Kloster, a diocesan priest, not a priest of the SSPX or any other of the Latin Mass orders. The letter will shock the New Mass people. When I say "New Mass people", I mean those still attending the Mass instituted in 1969/1970. At the time we were led to believe that the Latin Mass had been replaced. That was a lie. Anthony Stine, PhD, Public Affairs and Policy, Portland State University
Only Anthony has the letter. I uploaded his full presentation for that reason. Enlarge the screen so that you can read the letter along with Anthony. Reference is made to Bryan Froehle, Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies, Palm Beach Atlantic University. The school is not affiliated with the Catholic Church. I have written about Kloster before; see Father Donald Kloster. Date: 05/2/2024
Here are the signatories to a letter, "Call for the Resignation of Pope Francis":
What is one peter five? For all the Neanderthals who think we don't know the Bible, and Chopin got very frustrated with the type - www.drbo.org/chapter/67005.htm I did not time my comments yesterday on Francis 5/3/2024 to the above letter issued the day before 5/2/2024. I did not know of the letter's existence until today. Revulsion to this man is coinciding and rising. These definitions and explanations come from Bill, one of my very good friends. He did the research. See The Tower.
sere (especially of vegetation) dry or withered nonce (for the nonce) 1) the one or present occasion, purpose, or use 2) the time being eidolon In ancient Greek literature, an eidolon is a spirit-image of a living or dead person, a shade or phantom look-alike of the human form. nepenthe Nepenthe is a possible fictional medicine for sorrow – a "drug of forgetfulness" mentioned in ancient Greek literature and Greek mythology, depicted as originating in Egypt. (Poe speaks of this drug.) Neb This might be a word Lovecraft invented. Nephren-Ka Nephren-Ka, "The Black Pharaoh" (also called Nophru-Ka), is a fictional pharaoh of Ancient Egypt invented by Lovecraft, who depicted him as a worshipper of the Outer God Nyarlathotep. Later versions of the Cthulhu Mythos presented him as an avatar of Nyarlathotep himself. Nitokris Nitocris (Greek: Νίτωκρις) was possibly the last queen of the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Her name is found in writings long considered as relatively accurate resources: a major chronological documentation of the reigns of the kings of ancient Egypt that was composed in the third-century BC by Manetho, an Ancient Egyptian priest, and by the ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, in his Histories (430 BC). She is thought to be the daughter of Pepi II and Neith and to be the sister of Merenre Nemtyemsaf II. Bill provided another source for Lovecraft stories: https://archive.org/details/hplovecraftcompleteworks/HP-Lovecraft-Complete-Works-Vol-I/mode/1up?view=theater NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) organizes its work into five broad scientific pursuits: Earth Science, Planetary Science, Heliophysics, Astrophysics, and Biological and Physical Sciences.
No mention of aliens.
In science, it is smarter to ignore the unqualified or conspiracy theorists. In religion, it is smarter to ignore prophecies. Stay grounded. Paragraph 1869 [Complicity]
[S]in makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness. “Structures of sin” are the expression and effect of personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. In an analogous sense, they constitute a “social sin.” Paragraph 2272 [Abortion] Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,” “by the very commission of the offense,” and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. Catechism of the Catholic Church (any edition) procure (verb) Cambridge Dictionary example: Low interest rates support bonds by making it cheaper for investors to procure funds and invest in fixed-income securities. To procure is to give or obtain funds. One accompanies the other. Planned Parenthood affiliates received about $148 million in federal grants from 2019 through 2021. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106215 How is that possible? Everyone knows women go there for an abortion, not health services. You go to an emergency room doctor, not Planned Parenthood, if a sewing machine needle has penetrated your finger or you've been raped. I've sat with three girls in the emergency room. Because Joe Biden formally cooperates in abortion, he is excommunicated latae sententiae. His bishop, Wilton Gregory, has not informed him and has refused to do anything. His superior, Jorge Bergoglio, has not ordered Wilton to do anything. Have they twisted some canonical law to excuse themselves? All three are complicit. Frank Pavone Remember Father Frank Pavone, the prominent, outspoken pro-life priest? He was canceled and is still canceled. That means his priestly faculties were taken away. I just googled him, and the answer was that he was a former priest. How stupid! Once a priest, always a priest. It's a sacrament and leaves an indelible mark. Removing his faculties was pure evil. I have not heard one bishop say out loud what I have said. Many American Catholics ignore what has happened. And that describes the state of the Catholic Church, one cruelty after another after another after another. When it comes to praying for the pope at Mass, I have a mental reservation. I pray for A pope, not one who is schismatic and disloyal. Forget about diverting attention to someone else. It is also a moral injunction that one vote for the lesser of two evils. Robert T. Lincoln, 78, son of Abraham Lincoln, was photographed in 1922 as he was assisted up the steps to attend the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. You can see that the white uniform was enhanced to sharpen lines or deal with some fading.
I'm going to quote my Austrian friend, Joe Ketzer, also a tutor:
Today is the feast of my Patron Saint. It was introduced in 1955 under Pope Pius XII as St. Joseph the Worker (The Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the BVM, Patron of the Universal Church). He had a very challenging life, providing for the Holy Family, managing the escape to Egypt, sometimes one of his clients might have run out of assets and couldn't have paid for the built house - maybe Jesus was inspired by such an event for His parable of the unfinished tower (Luke 14, 28). At least he was spared as witness to the cruel death of Jesus. In the FSSP magazine of Austria I read that there's a tradition that believes that St. Joseph was among the deceased who were resurrected immediately after Christ's dying on the cross and appeared to many people in Jerusalem after the Resurrection. Not a dogma, but a beautiful story. “Obviously, the Catholic Church does not favor a theocracy, in which the state would be ruled by God through His representatives, the clergy. Rather, the ideal state as taught by the Church is the Catholic confessional state. In such a setup, Church and state each have their separate domains, but ultimately both are working towards the same end, and the state is always subject to the Church, albeit indirectly. Pope Leo XIII laid out all the principles on Church-state relations in his encyclical letter Immortale Dei (1885), but of course this was all overthrown by Roncalli‘s robber synod known as the Second Vatican Council (1962-65).”
novusordowatch.org In this short scene, several times the ballerina must hold herself on pointe without his support, and that is what everyone is watching.
The 1991 performance is the best version I've seen and is full of images of love and chivalry. Lights are dimmed for a reason: you get my drift. At the end he almost tips backward, live, not pre-recorded, and from the male point of view, I mean, look at who the composer and choreographer are, and you might think that the man is in charge, but look again, at her hands and the placement of them! This is a great visual for the writer to develop characters. Look at her eyes: she is always aware of where she is. He is an imbecile, just happy about what he's done. You didn't know so much was packed into a few minutes of ballet grace. I'm here to help. Composer: Frenchman Daniel-François-Esprit Auber 1782-1871 Choreographer: Russian Victor Gsovsky 1902-1974 (1949) Another priest cancelled: Father Thomas Held. Who did it? Bishop Robert Gruss, 68, Saginaw, MI. Gruss ordained him, then canned him. It can be inferred that the perpetrator behind the scenes staged the whole thing to get Held ousted. Numbers of Catholics have no experience when dealing with the possibility of malice aforethought. Also, there are two priests in the diocese who wear suit and tie for the official diocesan photo. That alone signals something is wrong. But for Held, none, including the bishop, hold beliefs in line with what the Church teaches. It's all about protecting themselves and sinecures.
Alexander, my 10-year-old writing student, pulled a fast one on me. He bought the Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1. I asked him if he wanted to study Latin, and he said, "No, it's for you to learn." Ha-ha-ha. So, I asked his mother if he wanted to begin, and she said, "It's up to Alexander." Here I am, having to prepare the first lesson and no idea what that will be.
Date: May 5, 1945. Catholic Mass for imprisoned priests at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany after its liberation toward the end of WWII. See X's and badges on coats.
Date: Feb. 12, 1945. LST-782 (Landing Ship Tank) Pacific Ocean off the coast of Iwo Jima, roughly halfway between Saipan and Tokyo. If American sailors get it, what's your excuse? aftermath - 5th Marine cemetery dedication The silence of the past is more powerful than today's voices, and I listen to it.
Blogging will slow now. I will be doing other things. Thanks for listening. If anyone wants to send me an entry, please do so. I will create a space for it. One last thing. I run into Catholics who tell me how to practice my faith. No. Not allowed. I do not tell others how to practice their faith. The way I do it is peculiar to me. So much more is seen in the dark. Magdalene’s Complaint at Christ’s Death Thirty-four-year-old Robert was beheaded and quartered at Tyburn on Feb. 21, 1595, for the crime of being a Catholic priest. He came from the Douay-Rheims group (NT - 1582, OT - 1609-1610).
Southwell and Shakespeare “Apart from their mutual acquaintance with the Earl of Southampton, and the strong circumstantial evidence that they must have known each other within the confines of London’s close-knit Catholic recusant community, the strongest evidence for Southwell’s and Shakespeare’s friendship is to be found in their respective works. … “Shortly before his capture in July 1592, Southwell had been working on a manuscript of his poems and had penned a Preface addressed to the author’s ‘Loving Cousin’. Since Southwell and Shakespeare were distant cousins, it has been conjectured that the Preface was addressed to Shakespeare, though others have suggested that the ‘Cousin’ in question was perhaps Southampton, since Southwell’s brother and sister had each married Southampton’s first cousins. “Either way, the Preface itself is an appeal to poets in general, or perhaps to Shakespeare in particular, to use their God-given talents in the service of the Giver of them: ‘Poets, by abusing their talents, and making the follies and feignings of love the customary subject of their base endeavours, have so discredited this faculty, that a poet, a lover, and a liar, are by many reckoned but three words of one signification….’” theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/07/romeo-jesuits-robert-southwell-joseph-pearce.html#:~:text=Since%20Southwell%20and%20Shakespeare%20were,each%20married%20Southampton's%20first%20cousins. Shakespeare wrote a poem to honor Anne Line and her husband, but you will find no mention of her name in it. The Phoenix and the Turtle Catholics were subject to a COE tax and fines and had two choices: pay the tax and lay low or be jailed and executed. Shakespeare chose the former; the Line's and Southwell chose the latter. Two other women were executed for hiding priests: Clitherow and Ward. Title: Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Artist: Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, b. 1632, d. 1675 Delft) Date: c. 1670–72 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 45 x 35 in. (114.3 x 88.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 Accession Number: 32.100.18 Vermeer had 10 children. From the curator This picture, made at a moment when public celebrations of the Mass were forbidden in the Dutch Republic, draws on the complex language of allegory to depict the triumph of the Catholic Church. A woman, representing the church itself, places one foot atop a globe, while in the foreground the cornerstone of the church crushes the serpent of evil. Vermeer converted to Catholicism before his marriage, and this painting, which includes a table laden with chalice, missal, and crucifix, may also refer to the celebration of the Mass in "hidden churches" within private homes. The Crucifixion scene in the background is based on a painting in Vermeer’s collection by the Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens. French arthouse film from 1978 with English subtitles, it is an excellent example of realism and of kindness, physicality, and intimacy, everything that is lacking today in this post-virus world. What you will see is a defense of Christendom.
The film, a beautifully muddy 1 1/2 hours and shot in France, is on YouTube. "Every failure is a victory." It is another significant movie like Diary of a Country Priest (1951), Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960), and The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962). I am posting this short story for a second time for a reason. It first appeared on 6/08/2023. Ever made to feel like an outsider? The boy/young man climbs a black tower and finds an image that is shunned and cast out. I made a decision affirmed today by another. As I said when the story was first posted, one of my students feels shunned on account of his genius. His math tutor and I survived a slew of tutors and therapists because we are nonconformists. My shunning is for a different reason, for no reason at all. Cruelty whispers, "I'm a better Catholic than you." The echo rebounds, "I am a better man." Others have left. I am not alone, now gone elsewhere. I am not sad, rather content. Those of us who know, know we go for the Latin Mass. Some go for the merriment in... The Tower. A patch of purple, pink, and yellow flowers stretch across a normally barren desert. Death Valley National Park, photo by Alice Li, filed April 13, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT, The Washington Post. I don't savor fish, but there is such a variety. I don't handle insects, but there is such a variety. I don't approach snakes, but there is such a variety. But I admire birds from little to big, and there is such a variety. Snow, trees, lakes, and the sound of ocean waves. How much more could He do? Knock on your front door? Maybe He has, and you weren't home, and because you weren't there, He couldn't point you to the beauty of His Death Valley. I am not a trailblazer. Over 40 established trails have led the way. |
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