This video is put up for the SF Archbishop. Google rankings and algorithms determine views, but I can hope he sees it and knows my appreciation, for he gives the most detailed, transparent response I have ever heard from a bishop, and when he talks about Junipero Serra, Cordileone recites facts. The Church can handle losses.
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12th Promise of the Sacred Heart
I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments. My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment. With 1,000 other boys, this is what my brother and I did during the nine months of the school year for each year of high school, totaling 36, a perfect square, and Tom received the sacraments before his death. Catechism of the Catholic Church
Paragraph 2267. “Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person’, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.” Francis revised this paragraph on 2/08/2018. I understand that this is not dogma. There is no obligation to accept it, and I don’t. This is an example of what a strictly political pope does. He does nothing about important challenges facing the Church, for example, the sharp decline in numbers of priests or even exhorting them to live chaste lives or even knowing them. I’m hoping his replacement is a priest from the FSSP, SSPX, or ICKSP. Probability? Odds? One in 100, 1/100, .01, 1%. The joy of being a cat is that he doesn’t have to face moral issues in his life, but then again, he won’t be going to Heaven, so I’m fine with our statuses. Are there generic cats in Heaven? Dunno. Church Militant is a group of journalists. The broader term is communal and means the entire Church on Earth. I wish CM had not diverged into his anger and language, but what is important is his statement that presenting the Catholic faith and hoping for a conversion is a sin. That is an outright lie. Michael James Nazir-Ali (Urdu: مائیکل نذیر علی; born 1949), dual citizen of Pakistan and Britain, is a British Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop of Rochester from 1994 to 2009.
“Eucatastrophe” A word is invented. See entries on 5/8/2023. At age four, after the death of his loved dog Jacksie, Lewis adopted the name and became “Jack” evermore. I know almost on sight, but not quite, that a Catholic has had the fleeting glimpse. Some words might need exchanging, and then I know for sure, an immortal binding.
It is no accident that the symbol of peace is the symbol of the Holy Ghost. Yesterday, He alighted on 120, A.D. 33. They included Mary, the Magdalen, and the Twelve Apostles, Matthias having replaced Judas. Another symbol: tongues of fire. Speaking in tongues is understanding other human languages, like Latin, not gobbled goo.
with us You must come to a Latin Mass church to meet the girls and boys. The girls are in a class by themselves and include those beyond my years. Their sanctity has won the respect of the beast called man. 771: Construction begins. 1194: Fire destroys the framework and leaves only the crypt and part of the western façade intact. 1260: New structure is re-consecrated in the presence of King St. Louis IX. 1594: Henry IV is crowned. 1789: Revolutionaries seize the property and forbid Catholic worship. 1805: Rehabilitation begins. 2009: Restoration starts with a budget of $18.5 million. The Monuments Historiques division of the French Ministry of Culture embarks on a mission to clean the interior and exterior, protect stained glass with a coating, and paint inside masonry creamy-white with trompe-l'œil marbling and gilded detailing to achieve a 13th-century look. Wikipedia assist on detail  This is an example of trompe-l’œil and is titled, Escaping the Criticism,
by Pere Borrell del Caso (1835-1910), residing at the Bank of Spain headquarters.  If I could use my hands, I would play Field and record it as a little tribute to Rupert Brooke and a high school friend, a violinist who was educated in Catholic schools and at Yale, when I could not sit with him for the great distance between us at his death in Paris. As I do for my parents and brother, I pray for my friend, when I remember to, which is another reason to be Catholic, because I want to see him again and express the world’s regret for crushing him, and my lack. 17, last time I saw him, not forgotten I’ve never acknowledged blog helpers, but some I can name. Algorithms found her. Satan also hates Mary, “a lowly woman.” She crushed the head, past, present, and future. Exorcists say that one Hail Mary is another blow to Satan. Our Lord becoming a man elevates every man and woman, most especially His mother, to Himself. Sayes!
 St. Philip Neri in Ecstasy by Guido Reni
commissioned 1614, oil on canvas, 5.9 feet x 3.6 feet Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome Neri 1515-1595, Reni 1575-1642 A girl asked a guy in our mutual set of friends if he would lie for me. Without hesitation, Josh said he would. I would have said the same thing. I would lie for him. Would you do that for a friend? A fourteen-year-old said in a separate conversation, same place, he would never lie. That generated many comments about ways around lying. What is interesting is that I would never lie for a son. Loyalty vs Charity.
I’m a Roman Catholic, period. The designation needs no further clarification. Accepting and believing all that is in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), including attendance at Sunday Mass, does not make me a “traditionalist Catholic”. Latin Mass goers use words like “trad” to signify that they attend Mass every Sunday and accept all of tradition, which is a minimum. Unless very sick, failing to go every Sunday is a mortal sin, destination Hell, not Brazil. Tradition is a pillar without which the Church is apostate. Some will refer to this Church as “the ape of the Church”. Close to 100% of Latin Mass goers attend every Sunday. As for other American Catholics, 20-25% attend Mass every Sunday. The rest will go where they don’t want to go if they do not get to confession first or confess on that deathbed, which brings me back to terms. Attending every Sunday does not make me a traditionalist. By going, I’m just doing the minimum. I recommend everybody follow the rules of the game. Read the CCC and you will get a passing score, and you won’t have to read all these books.  The Reading Room – Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Quora uses ChatGPT to answer questions. Uh-oh! Has Chat read all these books?  It is not often I get to take a picture. Stephen (A.D. 5 - 34) is in the middle.
If you would like to read a powerful story by a woman of our parish, St. Stephen the First Martyr, Sacramento, CA, who has returned to the Church and Mass because of her mettle and a man who listened, Father Joshua Curtis, FSSP, please visit the site of her account (Associated Press). Dorothy, a writer and strong advocate, graciously gave me the information. https://apimagesblog.com/sundays-after/2019/12/19/sundays-after-dorothy-small Here is another link: inspiritandtruth.substack.com. The story is entitled, Survivors’ Voices: Reporting to the Police. Dorothy says, “‘I wrote the second share beginning with ‘It took me a long time....’”  photo courtesy of the website
Every young ‘trad Cath’ knows, without having to view this video, that the old priest from Ireland will not relate to the present and that his statement that there are no new vocations is a Catch-22, that is, a difficult situation in which the solution to a problem is impossible, because it is also the cause of the problem. No Catch-22 for young trads. Is the old man aware that he anticipates his own replacement? As a follower of this blog, you know by now that there are many young
Turk trads on YouTube, and what I have presented is just a smattering. …
“The New Hope Family Services in New York earlier won a battle against a state agency trying to shut it down for not meeting the state’s faith requirements. … “A report from the ADF, which fought in court on behalf of the agency, said New Hope ‘secured a second victory against New York state officials.’ “The second dispute involved a state agency that also wanted to punish New Hope for following its religious convictions. “ADF lawyers brought the case, New Hope Family Services v. James, in 2021 after the state Division of Human Rights threatened to investigate and penalize the Christian nonprofit – because it places infants with couples consisting of a married mother and father.” … https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/faith-based-adoption-center-wins-2nd-battle-with-state/?utm_source=PNA&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=PNA7&utm_content=PNA7 Am I a male chauvinist pig? Yes. I take after my Republican mother, but I’m very polite about it. I’m only that behind your back, much the same way my mother would leave the room rather than argue with my father who was a Democrat. The only arguments were over their four children and each other’s families, but it was a seldom thing for the disapproval my mother had of argument and the fierce will she would not relinquish. Odd thing is, my dad wasn’t an MCP. He wore the pants of a gentleman, and I will never fit into them. Their love made possible the chase Francis Thompson describes. A determined will is small compared to another’s pursuit, but her matrilineal DNA is in the Pursuer and my mother’s in me forever. They drive away love from thee, who drive away me.
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” -John Muir. I don’t know how religious Muir was, or was not, but his words of wisdom apply directly to interpreting the Bible. One cannot pick out this or that passage and overemphasize it to the exclusion of everything else, which is what all these “church founders” did. That is why it is necessary to lodge with the Catholic Church. She considered the aggregate, canonized it, and formulated a catechism. Else ways, you get potluck, which is common in places where people have been directed to memorize Bible passages. Skip that and stay with memorizing the periodic table. The table is one reason Altan, a former student, enrolled himself in Latin. The man doing the chemistry video does math videos, which I have posted, and when Pb was taken out of crystal glass as harmful to one’s health, the product became worthless, so don’t buy that junk. We drank out of these glasses and pitchers, and no one died from lead poisoning.
Lead leaching is an occurrence in leaded glass, but the quantity that leaches into a glass of wine or other beverage, let stand for a few hours, is much smaller than the quantity of lead consumed daily in the ordinary diet. Therefore, food or beverage consumed from leaded crystal glassware is completely safe. He didn’t have anything to say about cobalt. Art students know about cobalt. Cobalt and its compounds are used to make bright and vibrant colors for inks and pigments. The most famous of these is “cobalt blue”. However, the metal is used for other colors, including purple, violet, green, light blue, turquoise, pink, brown, and yellow. For Fe, think of Ferris wheel, which is made of iron, or was. The noble metals, Ag and Au, must be used for the sacred vessels. That is elementary. Sulfur - S. No - Pu. Sacrifice Association Focus is on the altar, mighty cedar, Focus is on everyone else, sprinkled sugar
Universal with gestures that convey. Do you understand anything they say? Altar boy kisses the hand of the priest, No one kisses this man's hand, They are fed from the altar. The feeding is but a Walter. No lay hands touch Him. Touching is indiscriminate. Appointed men are in charge. Disappointed women are in charge. Words do not distract. Words playact. I wonder if we are still on the FBI terrorist list. The blue nuns must be concealing Uzi’s. Seeing the flower, missionaries took heart. It reminded them of Christ’s Passion and the compelling reason they were toiling about looking for souls in moist jungles. This is what they saw in the physical aspects of flower and plant: Purple: the color of penance and sacrifice Five sepals and five petals: the ten Apostles who neither betrayed Our Lord like Judas nor publicly denied Him like Peter (note that the missionaries weren’t trying to slur Peter—who, unlike Judas, repented and became a great saint!) Three stigma: the nails piercing Jesus’ hands and feet Five anthers: His five wounds Circlet of corona filaments: the crown of the thorns Three-pointed leaves: the Holy Trinity Vine: God’s attachment to the earth The missionaries used the flower to teach people about the Passion. They sent descriptions of this miraculous plant back home. The Spanish people came to know it as, “The Flower of the Five Wounds.” Since then, the flower’s name in almost every language has reflected its beautiful representation of the Passion. Credit for educating me goes to Catholiccompany.com.  Marco Rubio speaks to the LA Dodgers.
“The group’s ‘Easter’ ceremony features children’s programming followed by a drag show where adult performers dress in blasphemous imitation of Jesus and Mary. The group hosts pub crawls mocking the Stations of the Cross and even the Eucharist, the sacrament that unites more than one billion Catholics around the world.” Coming to Dodger Stadium this June. I hope every Hispanic in the United States reads it. The letter will take the Dodgers down. And if any other American watches what is about to happen, consider yourself standing in line for The Exorcist because in short shrift you will be next on the levitating bed. https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2023/5/rubio-to-mlb-dodgers-aren-t-inclusive-and-welcoming-to-christians It’s extremely sad to see what is happening to our country, the terrible moral decline in all our institutions, not in Americans themselves, but everything around us. It’s like becoming a country within a country. The same thing is happening within the Catholic Church. We are becoming a church within a church. I don’t see any place in the world or any institution that is unaffected. If you do, say so. Sometimes I think I should bow out of blogging, but I don’t think Our Lord would be happy with that, so I might take minivacations from world events, notifications, emails, and phone calls. The amount of research necessary for blogging is taxing, and its worth, doubtful. Father Thomas Davenport, OP, Providence College, Providence, RI
College founded in 1917 by the Dominicans (Aquinas was a Dominican) Engineering-Physics Faculty, Areas of Expertise: Theoretical Particle Physics (Particle Colliders); Philosophy of Science/Philosophy of Nature; Relationship between Faith and Science First pagan accounts of Catholicism: A.D. 112 Epistulae X 96 Pliny the Younger, 61-113, Roman Governor of Bithynia and Pontus, sends a letter to Emperor Trajan (r. 98-117) asking for counsel on what to do with Catholics who have been put on trial following anonymous accusations. A.D. 115/16 Annals Tacitus, 56-120, Roman politician/historian, references the crucifixion of Christ in connection with Emperor Nero (r. 54-68) and his persecution of Catholics. A.D. 121/22 Lives of the Twelve Caesars Suetonius, 69-122, Roman historian, writes about an expulsion from Rome of Jews by Emperor Claudius (r. 41-54) and punishments exacted by Emperor Nero and that the actions taken were caused by disturbances instigated by a certain ‘Chrestus’ [sic]. Manuscript Tradition The manuscripts that preserve a given work are collectively called its tradition. As every act of copying introduces fresh errors, the extant writings differ among themselves and from the lost original. As you read, recall that medieval monks were the copy machines of the time. Verified by scholars:
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