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borgia

5/31/2022

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One of the best things about St. Stephen the First Martyr is that boys will tell me very freely that they are considering priesthood and/or religious life. That is a sign of a healthy Catholic culture.

A healthy Catholic parish is not something I have seen since 1970, and I have belonged to eleven: St. Anne, St. Cecilia, St. Anastasia, St. Ignatius, St. Apollinaris, St. Lucy, Holy Family, Our Lady of the Pillar, All Souls, St. Joseph, and St. Joseph Marello. Why? The modern Mass and everything associated with it wiped out Catholic culture. Any Catholic in my age category knows what I have said is the truth.

The modern Mass needs to die. There are many good Catholics who attend the modern Mass. Update: I met one today, 6-4-22, at confession. She still has her prayer book from second grade! I go to confession occasionally at St. Teresa of Avila in Auburn because it is 10 minutes away.

Several years ago, when I was buying at the cemetery, I was talking to a nun at the main desk. You would never have known she was a nun. I told the Sister of Mercy about my cousin and that she entered in 1961. She said, “O yes, when there were lots of vocations.” She stopped herself. She must have sized me up. I was not going to tolerate her explanation of the drop in vocations.

How could she acknowledge that others had a vocation but were sent packing? How could she acknowledge that others with a vocation never followed it to the end because they would not consent to mediocrity and cowardice in religious life? How could she acknowledge the nuns who abandoned the schools, and for what, or the priest who couldn’t get his ass out of bed to bring my brother the Sacrament of the Sick?

The arrogant woman is not God and cannot save the world. She is typical of my bankrupt generation, entrenched in lies.
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I hope wishy-washy Catholicism dies the way the Anglican church did.


On the other hand, here is Father Borgia casting out a demon...
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St. Francis Borgia Helping a Dying Impenitent
By Francisco de Goya 1746 - 1828
oil on canvas c. 1788
“Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía S.J. (1510–1572), venerated as Saint Francis Borgia, was a great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI, a Grandee of Spain, a Spanish Jesuit, and third Superior General of the Society of Jesus.

“In 1546 his wife Eleanor died, and Francis then decided to enter the newly formed Society of Jesus, after making adequate provisions for his children. He put his affairs in order, renounced his titles in favor of his eldest son Carlos de Borja-Aragon y de Castro-Melo, and became a Jesuit priest.

“He helped in the establishment of what is now the Gregorian University in Rome.

“Upon Francis’ return from a journey to Peru, Pope Julius III made known his intention to make him a cardinal. To prevent this, Borgia decided, in agreement with St. Ignatius, to leave the city secretly and go to the Basque Country, where it was thought he would be safe from the papal desires.

“He felt incompletion to spend time in seclusion and prayer, but his administrative talents also made him a natural for other tasks. In time his friends persuaded him to accept the leadership role that nature and circumstances had destined him for: in 1554, he became the Jesuit commissary-general in Spain where he founded a dozen colleges.

“After only two years, St. Francis was crowned for missions in the East and West Indies. In 1565, he was elected the third ‘Father General’....”

Source: Wikipedia

The current Father General is a disgrace. He does not believe in Hell!
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good-bye

5/31/2022

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Christ taking leave of His Mother
by Piotr Stachiewicz (1858-1938), oil on oak wood, done 1900, 22.8 inches by 14 inches, in the National Museum of Warsaw, source photographer cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl
​Catholic art I can interpret.
Notice their positions relative to each other.
​I know how He feels about Mom. ​There is no greater woman. 
Every loving son would take his mother to heaven first. 

Every dying soldier says, "Tell, mom, I love her."​
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trad priests

5/30/2022

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make them an army
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pelosi reveal

5/30/2022

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french rev Carms

5/30/2022

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July 17, 1794
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​Ages youngest to oldest
29, 30, 34, 42, 42, 46, 49, 51
52, 52, 52, 53, 54, 58, 78, 78

One of the nuns executed had five biological sisters in religious life.

Choir Nuns
Mother Teresa of St. Augustine, prioress, 42
Madeleine-Claudine Ledoine
Born Paris 1752
Professed 1775
  • Only child of an employee of the Paris Observatory, had educational advantages and cultivated artistic and poetic gifts, some of her work has been preserved, her dowry to enter the convent was paid by Marie Antoinette
 
Mother St. Louis, sub-prioress, 42
Marie-Anne Brideau
Born Belfort 1752
Professed 1771
  • Father a professional soldier probably stationed at Compiègne (place of execution) at some point in his career
 
Mother Henriette of Jesus, ex-prioress for two terms, novice mistress
Marie-Françoise Gabrielle de Croissy
Born Paris 1745
Professed 1764
  • Great-niece of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, King Louis XIV's minister, having spent half her life as a Carmelite at the time of her execution, coming to Compiègne when she was just 16. She was refused entrance at first by the prioress at the time because of her youth. She was sent home for another year and finally made her profession in 1764.  According to Mother Teresa, Henriette “won all hearts by her natural gentleness and affection, as might a real mother”, and like Mother Teresa, Henriette wrote verses and was a talented artist; some of her work has been preserved.
 
Sister Mary of Jesus Crucified
Marie-Anne Piedcourt
Born 1715
Professed 1737
  • While mounting the scaffold she said, “I forgive you as heartily as I wish God to forgive me.”
 
Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection, ex-sub-prioress and sacristan
Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret
Born Mouy 1715
Professed 1740
  • The oldest of the martyrs and possessing a very lively mind, naturally inclined toward gaiety. Her father died early in her life. She nursed other sickly nuns despite the toll it took on her own body and was miraculously healed after toxic exposure to lead paint left her seriously cognitively impaired for two years.
 
Sister Euphrasia of the Immaculate Conception
Marie-Claude Cyprienne
Born Bourth 1736
Professed 1757
  • Entered in 1756 at age 20, witty, humorous, and “possessed an undeniable exterior charm”, she wrote priests and others in the religious life for spiritual direction and left a voluminous correspondence during her 30 years in the community, letters revealing a strong personality plagued by restlessness, something potentially problematic in a cloistered community.
 
Sister Teresa of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Marie-Antoniette Hanisset
Born Rheims 1740
Professed 1764
  • Daughter of a saddle maker, Carmel’s interior turn sister, receiving goods for the community from the outside world
 
Sister Julie Louise of Jesus, widow
Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville
Born Loreau 1741
Professed 1777
  • Married a cousin despite her calling to the religious life, but after he died prematurely, received help from a cleric associated with her family and recovered her mental health with a new sense of calling, writing five stanzas of verse for her sisters as they prepared for death  

​Sister Teresa of St. Ignatius
Marie-Gabrielle Trézel
Born Compiègne 1743
Professed 1771
  • Called a mystic with a sense of the absolute
 
Sister Mary-Henrietta of Providence
Anne Petras
Born Cajarc 1760
Professed 1786
  • Before joining, she was a member of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, where her natural beauty in a congregation that constantly exposed her to the outside world she thought would be harmful, thus, she joined the Carmelites; five of her sisters were also nuns in the Nevers order, and two of her brothers were priests.
 
Sister Constance of St. Denis, novice
Marie-Geneviève Meunier
Born Saint-Denis 1765
  • Sister Constance was the youngest member of the community. She was barred from making her final vows as a nun due to the revolutionary laws outlawing it, so she professed them to Mother Teresa before going to her death. When it became obvious to her family that she would not be able to legally profess her vows, they sent her brother to force her to return home. She refused, so he brought in the police, but they were convinced that she was in Compiègne by her own choice and did not force her to leave with her brother. She died age 29.
 
Lay Sisters
Sister St. Martha
Marie Dufour
Born Beaune, 1742
Entered 1772

Sister Mary of the Holy Spirit
Angélique Roussel
Born Fresnes 1742
Professed 1769

​Sister St. Francis Xavier
Julie Vérolot
Born Laignes, 1764
Professed 1789
  
Externs
Catherine Soiron, born 1742
Thérèse Soiron, born 1748


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disagreements

5/29/2022

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​Father Julian Larrabee says a simple Latin Mass according to St. Pius X rubrics at St. Gertrude the Great Catholic Church, West Chester, Ohio. The school choir sings all the unchanging parts of the Mass. There are 600 parishioners. The website of Queen of All Saints Online Academy states:

“He was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. After completing high school, he attended the University of California at Berkeley, receiving a B.A. with honors in Latin and Greek.

“Upon graduation, he entered Most Holy Trinity Seminary in the fall of 2003, being ordained in 2009. After ordination, he served as Assistant Pastor at St. Gertrude the Great Church in Ohio for three years, returning to California in 2012.
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Now he is in Modesto and teaches with Queen of All Saints Online Academy.

I admire him because he resisted all the modern cultural trends: 1) trampling God, 2) worshipping woman, and 3) brainwashing children.


Any child could say, “I’m not a vet, but I know what a dog is. I’m not a doctor, but I know what a woman is.”
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https://www.qasonline.org/father-larrabee

The Latin Mass is Christianity 101.

A mentally challenged child or adult knows this.

Whether you are using the 1962 Missal or an earlier one makes no difference. If you are receiving the sacraments, that’s all that matters.


To my fellow traditional Catholic: Look, if your lived experience were Saigon in the Vietnam War or France during WWII, disagreement would not matter. If you happen to be living in present-day Ukraine, disagreements don’t matter. You go to church where you can. That’s how I judge disagreements. Down-to-earth people do not engage them. If you have spent any time working the street or the classroom, you know this.

None of the Mass needed changing. The elitists and crackpot academics should have been quarantined, not us. The modern Mass brought division, and evil entered the Church with it. The horrendous problems and terrible decline of the United States and the West, which we are seeing now, are the result of a half century of departing from the true faith. We must leave the false church of modernism.

A good example of pure evil thought in the US is Anthea Butler

https://rels.sas.upenn.edu/people/anthea-butler

A good example of leaving the modernist church is Alfredo Méndez-Gonzalez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_M%C3%A9ndez-Gonzalez

Many I know have given in to modernism. I can’t do that. All my life I have rejected servile obedience – to principal, school board, peer group, friends. Perhaps, that is the reason God kept me out of the priesthood. I would not be misled.
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It is hard to be a remnant or recusant. I know what it is like to be excluded by people who are supposed to love me. I have drifted toward the outcast because I am an outcast. My parents were the only exceptions; they were the only people who actually knew me.

The Latin Mass is not going away. We will go underground if necessary. This is what Christ would want.

One of the things I have noticed about the traditional priests is that they are disciplined, which guarantees that 99% are living a chaste life. A priest who is not is condemned to hell.

It is so sad how many Catholics have strayed. Any time I talk with these people, I am 100% disappointed. It is so sad how many non-Catholic Christians have failed by way of their own invincible ignorance to find the true Church. Any time I talk with these people, I am 100% bored.

My attitude about ecumenism is ‘u-can-come-in-ism’.
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I have lots of patience for children and none for adults. As a result, I would make the terrible missionary I never aspired to be.
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wyatt earp

5/28/2022

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Some correlations to the Earp men

1879
Virgil Edwin Earp was born in Tombstone, AZ, on April 19, the son of Newton Jasper Earp, Wyatt Earp’s half-brother.

Wyatt Earp moved with brothers, James and Virgil, to Tombstone where a silver boom was under way.


1881
The shootout at the O.K. Corral occurred on October 26 in Tombstone. Thereupon, Wyatt Earp left Tombstone and moved to San Francisco.
 
1890
Louise Perkins, my grandmother, was born in Tombstone, AZ, on June 20. She and her twin sister were delivered by Dr. Goodfellow. He attended the wounded at the O.K. Corral gunfight.

1897
Grandma’s father was working as a mining engineer in Tombstone and was called out to California to build and superintend a stamp mill at the Jamison Mine, a gold mine, in Johnsville, CA.


Virgil was the Sheriff of Paradise Valley, NV.

1909

Virgil moved to Sacramento, CA.

1911

Grandma married George Dunn, and they moved to San Francisco.
 
1918
Virgil listed on his WWI draft registration card that he worked as a collector and solicitor for the San Francisco Chronicle.

1943
Virgil listed on his WWII draft registration card that he worked at the Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA.

1958
The game show where Virgil was a contestant, “The $64,000 Question”, aired. I watched the television show as a young boy.

1959
Virgil died in Sacramento at age 80.

1980
Louise died in San Francisco at age 90.
 
2019
I moved from the San Francisco area to the Sacramento area.
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minecraft for pelosi

5/27/2022

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Bishop Burbidge of Arlington, VA, is blocking Pelosi from receiving communion in his diocese. He is correct. Cordileone’s ban follows her wherever she goes. Arlington is across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, and seven miles from Congress.
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rooster

5/27/2022

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disgraceful

5/27/2022

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The headline is a bit off. We do not worship him, but it is a tradition to kiss his ring. He is out of touch with people's emotions. Fatherliness? None. I wonder if he has ever sat next to a child and felt a child's desire to hold his hand or kiss him or just be still in quiet awe, fear, and love. No, he is too busy with all his stupid adult advisors. Kissing the ring gains significance when people speak different languages and cannot communicate in any other way. That priest standing next to the pope is in awe of himself being so close to power.

"The kissing of objects and hands surely spread to Holy Mass in a courtly context.  There’s nothing wrong with that, by the way. There is nothing wrong with respect and decorum. Liberals accuse traditionalists of clinging to the useless bowing and scraping of ancient court practices. They won’t kneel! No! They’ve evolved beyond all that. Liberals would rather have us, as they do, kneel and bow and scrape to the world, the flesh, and the devil.” -catholicnewslive.com Father is talking about a High Mass (Latin).

​A good example of kissing the hands of a priest is the entry "Disagreements".

The Beautiful Hands of a Priest
We need them in life’s early morning,
We need them again at its close;
We feel their warm clasp of true friendship,
We seek them when tasting life’s woes.
At the altar each day we behold them,
And the hands of a king on his throne
Are not equal to them in their greatness;
Their dignity stands all alone;
And when we are tempted and wander,
To pathways of shame and of sin,
It’s the hand of a priest that will absolve us,
Not once, but again and again.
And when we are taking life’s partner,
Other hands may prepare us a feast,
But the hand that will bless and unite us
Is the beautiful hand of a priest.
God bless them and keep them all holy,
For the Host which their fingers caress;
When can a poor sinner do better
Than to ask Him to guide thee and bless?
When the hour of death comes upon us,
May our courage and strength be increased,
By seeing raised over us in blessing
The beautiful hands of a priest.
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Mass of the Ages

5/26/2022

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Mass of the Ages Part 2 is released today. The link is under the More tab, New Movie. The film traces the history of the radical changes to the Mass after Vatican II. The changes appear graphically at about 37 minutes. Whole portions of the Mass were scratched and worse. I am proud to say that I am a contributing producer. Cameron O’Hearn is the young director and  producer with over six years creating Catholic documentaries. He and his wife and four children attend the Latin Mass.
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latin in song

5/26/2022

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I was telling one of our altar boys that, for me, the best entry point for learning Latin would have been the 1962 missal. He is homeschooled and has completed two years of Latin.

Another good entry point is song, here Cantiones Sacrae pro quinis vocibus, Sacred Chants for five voices.

The letter that looks like a weird “f” is an “s”, so it is
posterius, root word for posterity, from Latin posteritas or posterus (“following, coming after”), but here, when combined with prius, means before and after.

There is another meaning of posterity: the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation, which harkens back to Eve and looks forward to Mary who is the second Eve.

The English translation rhymes. An English tutor is happy to hear a student say, “I am taking Latin next year," and I have.

Peter Phillips was a boy chorister, composer, and organist who fled England. He was ordained a Catholic priest after his wife and child died.
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gambling

5/25/2022

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What is the probability of getting an odd number or a number less than 4?

When a single die is rolled, then the probability of rolling an odd number or a number less than 4 is 2 out of 3, or 2/3, or 67% (.6 repeating).

The probability of an event happening will not be less than zero: something will happen. However, the probability of an event happening will not be more than one: something will not happen more than 100% of the time.
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train wreck

5/25/2022

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photographer's epiphany

5/25/2022

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From the TED organization:
“TEDx is a grassroots initiative, created in the spirit of TED’s overall mission to research and discover 'ideas worth spreading.' TEDx brings the spirit of TED to local communities around the globe through TEDx events. These events are organized by passionate individuals who seek to uncover new ideas and to share the latest research in their local areas that spark conversations in their communities.”
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Note: The Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare is now the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. According to Wikipedia: "Most of the over 250 faculty hold degrees from both secular and ecclesiastical universities. It offers an ongoing formation both to its academic staff to students, providing them with information on current issues. The ratio of academic staff to students is 1:9. The members of the faculty know and use at least five major modern languages (Italian, English, Spanish, French, and German), which enables them to fulfill their academic task of teaching an international student body coming from different continents, cultures, and language groups."
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Schwortz and Father Guerra, photograph courtesy of shroud3d.com
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sweet authority

5/25/2022

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​This is what Catholic nuns should look like. They commanded; they had authority. Do you think you could fool around in their presence? Do you think you could talk back? I have a forward-looking view of how authority is established. Dress is key.
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pelosi took

5/24/2022

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At Sunday Mass on 5-22-22, Nancy Pelosi received communion at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington DC despite being told not to present herself. Several sources confirmed, and she can be seen on the church’s own live stream. She wore something that gave her away. Canon 915 is not political. Pelosi, a public figure, knows what’s up.



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m777 howitzers

5/24/2022

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The M777 howitzer is a towed 155 mm artillery piece. It is used by the ground forces of Australia, Canada, India, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and the United States.
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four firefighters

5/24/2022

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Dozens of firefighters were presented with an outstanding achievement award from
Cardinal Glennon Hospital.
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ukraine medic

5/24/2022

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You might have to avert your eyes when watching this video, so I will just link it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9AW1_YyAhQ&t=276s
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"earth is flat"

5/24/2022

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​We get this proof that the earth is not flat from Chris Harrington, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Academy of Art University, 2011, Actor, Writer, Audio Imagineer at Doctor Geek's Laboratory of Applied Geekdom, 2011-present. I quote: "Edit: before we look at the photos, I just want to clarify what this image actually shows, since there seems to be some confusion from both sides of the issue. At any altitude above the surface of a sphere, you are looking *down* at the horizon. Even when you are standing with your eyes six feet above the surface. People say “the horizon is flat and level,” and yes, that’s true, but it’s a flat, level *circle,* and that circle is NOT centered around your eyes, it’s centered roughly two feet below the surface you’re standing on. If you are looking at the horizon from a viewer height above sea level of six feet, then the horizon is 24 inches within the sphere under you, so you are eight feet ABOVE the center of the circle, and you SHOULD see curvature at the edge. Not curvature “down,” but the curvature at the edge of the circular horizon centered two feet below your shoes. And THAT’S what these two photos show!"
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trans

5/24/2022

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Per Bill Pan, a reporter for The Epoch Times, “Auto and home insurance giant State Farm has encouraged hundreds of employees to donate books promoting transgenderism to young children to their local schools and libraries, according to an email leaked by a whistleblower.” Report filed today. State Farm said, “We no longer support the program.”
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repeating decimals

5/24/2022

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exonym

5/24/2022

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Exonym? Name used by foreigners for a place. Examples: Florence for Firenze and Ho Chi Minh City for Saigon. People use both names, and the airport code is still SGN. Here is a Vietnamese food video from yesterday. Yummy. V cuisine is in my top three alongside Italian and French, all of it after my mom’s table. The video comes from a California guy married to a Vietnamese woman and living in Saigon.
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british politician

5/24/2022

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Jacob Rees-Mogg, born 1969, Conservative Member of Parliament for North East Somerset since 2010, cabinet member, prays the rosary frequently and attends the Latin Mass.

Jacob is one of five children of William Rees-Mogg. His father was Editor of The Times from 1967-1981 and signed a petition sent to Pope Paul VI for the continued use of the Latin Mass. William served as High Sheriff of Somerset and was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and Vice-Chairman of the BBC’s Board of Governors. So that was his father.

Now, for the best part, the names of Jacob’s 
children, ages 5 - 15:

Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher
Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan
Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam
Peter Theodore Alphege
Mary Anne Charlotte Emma
Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius

One is named after Saint Alphege of Canterbury (c. 953-1012), whom Jacob sees as a model of opposition to unjustly high taxation. Another is named for the staunchly royalist Earl of Stafford, who was beheaded by seventeenth century Puritans and was an ancestor of his wife.

Jacob joked that he should be called “the member for the early eighteenth century”.
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Location of the ceremonial county of Somerset within England,
Nov 23, 2009, Source Ordnance Survey OpenData, Author Nilfanion,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Somerset_UK_locator_map_2010.svg
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