Category: Faith - ROBERT E DUNN

roland of the west

5/16/2023

Song of Roland

Epic poem composed between A.D. 1040 and 1115, it contains in the Old French final text about 4,000 lines. For context, Homer’s The Iliad contains over 15,000 lines.

The Knights’ Code of Chivalry
1. To fear God and maintain His Church
2. To serve the liege lord in valor and faith
3. To protect the weak and defenseless
4. To give succor to widows and orphans
5. To refrain from the wanton giving of offence
6. To live by honors and for glory
7. To despise pecuniary reward
8. To fight for the welfare of all
9. To obey those placed in authority
10. To guard the honor of fellow knights
11. To eschew unfairness, meanness, and deceit
12. To keep faith
13. At all times to speak the truth
14. To persevere to the end in any enterprise begun
15. To respect the honor of women
16. Never to refuse a challenge from an equal
17. Never to turn the back upon a foe

Faith, Charity, Justice, Sagacity, Prudence, Temperance,
Resolution, Truth, Liberality, Diligence, Hope, Valor

wahlberg & teresa

5/15/2023

available at The Catholic Company, two books for under $45

hate map

5/15/2023

“Despite the many hits to its credibility, the SPLC [Southern Poverty Law Center] still carries a great deal of weight. Many prominent Democrats cited the SPLC’s 50th anniversary in 2021, and President Joe Biden has nominated an SPLC attorney to a federal judgeship.

“Amazon used the SPLC ‘hate map’ to screen applicants for its charity donation platform for years, and Apple CEO Tim Cook donated $1 million to the SPLC in 2017. The center has an endowment of more than $700 million and offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands.

“In 2012, a gunman used the ‘hate map’ to target the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., planning to shoot everyone in the building. He pleaded guilty to terrorism charges and is serving a 25-year prison sentence.

“Matt recalled getting ‘spooked’ when the SPLC first put him on the ‘hate map.’”

Michael J. Matt, a Catholic who holds to tradition, is editor of The Remnant newspaper and producer of Remnant TV. I have posted at least one of his videos.

https://firebrand.news/hate-group-leader-condemns-fbi-memo-exposes-splcs-crusade-against-traditional-catholics/?seyid=65630

Can’t you see the forces gathering against anyone who is traditional, Catholic, or not? The map appears to be SSPX locations, including Sacramento, CA, and maybe FSSP and ICKSP.

The SSPX is in the Catholic world. The map shows that all must be united. Elsewise, we are tribes. Is that a bold statement in the Catholic world? I don’t know.

monica

5/15/2023

latin prayer

5/14/2023

Here are some Latin words from the 1962 Missal, p 576. I could have taken words from the Epistle or Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (today), but the prayer is short, and looking at the Latin just once is enough.

bona – good (bonus)
procedunt – come (proceed)
largire – generously (largess)
suplicibus – beseech (supplicate)
cogitemus – think (cogitate)
inspirante – inspiration (inspiration)
gubernante – guidance (governance)

Here is harmony within a single Latin word (in another place, same day):
quidquam (short i, long a, Romance languages) – anything

Latin Mass Idealogues

5/14/2023

Yet another accusation has been made by Pope Francis.

On May 10, 2023, “Pope Francis said he implemented one of the changes of Traditionis custodes, the 2021 motu proprio restricting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, because the allowances granted by his predecessors were ‘being used in an ideological way.’”
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He perverted Lérins. “‘You must change, as St. Vincent of Lérins wrote in his Commonitory when he remarked that even the dogma of the Christian religion progresses, consolidating over the years, developing with time, deepening with age,’ he said.”

https://www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-francis-says-traditional-latin-mass-was-being-used-in-an-ideological-way

The dogma of the Christian religion progresses? He repeats modernist disharmony.

Truth came out of the mouth of Christ, and as soon as He ascended, the Catholic Church was forced to pronounce dogmas to refute false prophets and false teachers. He warned about them, and indeed they emerged from the “desert” and still proliferate today.

The earliest extant dogma is the Didache, c. A.D. 50. See the entry on 5/12/2023 (Newsom Didache).

Also read the following explanation of the unchanging dogma on human life:
https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/abortion/respect-for-unborn-human-life

That is the reality that required the publication of dogmas, and the singularity of the phenomena, as they happened, is not really singularity at all, and the phenomena will repeat until another universal event kills us all.

Descriptions of singularity abound. Try the one on artificial intelligence.

newsom didache

5/12/2023

“This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) office announced that the state is awarding $8 million in grants to 21 abortion facilities to bolster physical and data security. The statement claims that security monies are needed ‘as extreme politicians continue to attack access to essential reproductive health care.’”

https://patriotmomdigest.com/gavin-newsom-gives-8-million-to-abortion-facilities-for-security/

The Didache is the earliest, extant public statement by the Catholic Church on abortion. It is dated c. A.D. 50 and says, “You shall not kill a child in the womb.” See the entry on 4/25/2023 regarding the Didache date (Akin Autodidact).

Two uncial fragments containing Greek text of the Didache (verses 1:3c–4a; 2:7–3:2) were found among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri (no. 1782) and are now in the collection of the Sackler Library in Oxford. What is uncial? Of or written in a majuscule script with rounded, unjoined letters.

All people are subject to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Paragraph:
V. THE PROLIFERATION OF SIN
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1868 Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them: - by participating directly and voluntarily in them; - by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them; - by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so; - by protecting evildoers.

1869 Thus sin 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.”

candace owens

5/12/2023

In 2019, Candace Owens, born 1989, married George Farmer, born 1993. We all know who Candace is. George is the current CEO of Alt-Tech Site, Parlor.

His father is Michael Farmer, Baron Farmer, a British businessman, former treasurer of the Conservative Party, and life peer in the House of Lords. Because of that peerage, George Farmer and Candace Owens could call themselves, “The Honorable George and Candace Farmer.”

George is Catholic, and Candace was raised protestant but is considering becoming Catholic. I must give credit to Christine Niles of Church Militant for the prompt.

Right wing, outspoken, and far right are repeated, and then comes elite. Nope. They are an intelligent, religious twosome, and the combination gets the goat of the know-it-alls and celebrity-fixated every time.

sspx v la arch.

5/12/2023

2002: the Druids of the Los Angeles Archdiocese build a cathedral for $193 million.
2023: the SSPX build a church in St. Marys, Kansas, for $42 million.

Search YouTube for the starkly different consecrations of their architectures. I did not post the side-by-side video, because it makes everything look ugly, and the church is not. So, what was seen I have summarized. First is the cathedral, and second is the church, separated by a slash mark.

no detachment from the material/detachment from the material
no purification of the structure/purification of the structure
tabernacle not on the altar/tabernacle on the altar
box shape building/treasure chest shape building
unbiblical ceremony/biblical ceremony
invented words/established rubrics
no sanctuary/sanctuary
theater/church
olio/order

Score: Kansas 2,000 … California 0

latin mass website

5/11/2023

A new Latin Mass website is live, giving locations and the number of locations worldwide for FSSP 77, SSPX 163, ICKSP 29, Diocesan 348, College 14, and Other 56, and answers to frequently asked questions. I attend an FSSP church, St. Stephen the First Martyr, Sacramento, CA, USA. You are welcome to join me for any one of six Latin Masses on Sunday and get started. There are three Masses every day, Monday through Saturday. https://www.latinmass.com/

trump assault

5/10/2023

See real crime in today’s crime blog.

The woman won $5 million.

To the woman, 71, and her lawyers: “Memento mori. Remember, you must die … and you can’t take it with you.”

To Donald Trump: “Book of Psalms, Psalm 85, Inclina, Domine. A prayer for God’s grace to assist us to the end. 17 Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.”

Here’s a little sumpin sumpin for you:

May 6 poll

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bread and wine

5/10/2023

Here are the actual words of consecration from the 1962 Latin/English Missal. I provide them for people who have never seen or heard the words in English or Latin.

At High Mass during consecration, incense is rising and bells are ringing. The priest is touching the bread. He eats and drinks. Thus, all five senses are engaged: seeing, smelling, hearing, touching, and tasting. Catholicism is incarnational: a real body and real blood, just like you and I. We get scratched and bleed.

in vino veritas

5/10/2023

Copied from the 1962 Missal. The chalice of gold or silver holds the consecrated wine.

chi, span, eng

5/10/2023

Harpa Dei, Latin for the Harp of God. Three sisters and a brother originally from Germany sing in Chinese with Spanish and English subtitles and say they learned the song from a Chinese Catholic priest in Jerusalem. Uh, that is far far far far-ranging.

undesirables

5/10/2023

List of undesirable governments.
The criteria that puts a government on the list are 1) anti-Christian, 2) dictatorship, 3) oligarchy, 4) communist/socialist, 5) radical Islamist, 6) wildly corrupt.
The USA is No. 1 on the hit parade.
In alphabetical order: Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Cuba, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Palestine, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UK, Vatican, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.
The current Vatican titleholder lacks understanding of the amount of money Planned Parenthood receives from government, fails to exhort all women to not have an abortion, and allows pro-abortion politicians to receive the Eucharist.
Xi Jinping tops the maniac list, controlling 1.4 billion people, and Francis is second, trying to control roughly the same number of people.
The United Nations is not a country, nor is the World Health Organization and its satellites, but let’s deplore those cronies together.
If all these standing entities were replaced, we’d be better off.
The rest of the world is pretty benign, weak, and neighborly, given a little incentive.
Hungary and Poland are independent and doing well without an incentive.
Comment or send me something but not a bomb.

amer. patriots/latin mass

5/9/2023

Traditional Americans, Catholics and others, are patriotic SOBs.
The fastest growth of the Latin Mass is in the United States. France is second. Americans will go it alone against our enemies and Francis. We are type, loud about freedom and willing to shove tyrants aside, and we have the numbers - young men - and we are fine with others leaning on us. View the results of a national survey by the FSSP and Gallup about the growth of the Latin Mass among millennials and Gen Z. The FSSP post is dated June 5, 2020, three months before I joined “trads”.
https://fssp.com/latin-mass-among-millennials-study/
A survey on January 14, 2021 by Una Voce International is global, thus broader:
https://www.hprweb.com/2021/01/the-demographics-of-the-extraordinary-form/
On Sept. 21, 2021, the National Catholic Reporter, the dissenters’ home deluxe, reported the opposite with anecdotes from the disgruntled, not a legit survey, which is why Francis, the Argentinian, is terrified of the US.

epistle/apostle

5/9/2023

When I listened again to the Litany of Saints posted yesterday, without warning I noticed the similarity of epistle and apostle from the sound of the two words and their spellings. Epistle means “letter”, and apostle means “one sent”. We send a letter.

Epistle etymology: from Latin epistola “a letter,” from Greek epistole “message, letter, command, commission,” whether verbal or in writing.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/epistle#:~:text=partly%20from%20Old%20English%20epistol,%22%20(see%20epi%2D)%20%2B

Apostle etymology: from Late Latin apostolus, from Greek apostolos “messenger, envoy,” literally “person sent forth.” Compare epistle.

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=apostle

I also use the Catholic Encyclopedia for a variety of topics because it has been referenced by popes, which makes it credible. https://www.newadvent.org/

Note: I edit/shorten often because this is a blog. I scan what others write because time is short. For me, writing is a way of processing thoughts. Frequent returns to blog posts undo errors and straighten meanderings unedited by anyone other than myself. Send your comments. I use many resources, such as https://mailchi.mp/thomasaquinas/may23-e-letter?e=81108d0817

eucatastrophe II

5/8/2023

This is no small matter. There are 1.36 billion living Catholics. There are billions more from the first and second millennia, and how many are now our brothers and sisters in Heaven? The saints know all that is going on and pray for a quick restoration and an end to the Roman eucatastrophe.

All the canonized saints but two worshipped at the Latin Mass, and the two saints did not only because they were born after Vatican II, the aftermath of which suppressed the Latin Mass and told us all that it was no more. My anger over the false narrative has turned into resistance.

Eucatastrophe I

5/8/2023

Eucatastrophe is a neologism coined by Tolkien from Greek ευ- “good” and καταστροφή “sudden turn”. A eucatastrophe is a massive turn in fortune from a seemingly unconquerable situation to an unforeseen victory, usually brought by grace rather than heroic effort.

jacob kasak fssp

5/8/2023

Please join me in praying for Rev. Mr. Jacob Kasak, FSSP. He was admitted into the hospital with blood clots in both lungs and one of his legs. No other details are available. The heartbreaking news arrived today.

Jacob, 28, grew up in St Stephen the First Martyr parish Sacramento and was ordained to the diaconate March 25, 2023, the last step before becoming a Catholic priest, which will be next year. I posted his photo on 3/6/2023 because we are so proud of him.

I received the Eucharist from Jacob just a few weeks ago. It was his first time to join the priest at the rail. Marilyn and I talked with him afterward and rained some praise on this modest man and musician.

Good Friday, 2020. In the trio of singers, Jacob is on the right.

pope dumbo

5/8/2023

Well, well, well. With ears that span the globe, Francis has heard about The Immaculata that the SSPX has built in the middle of the United States and doesn’t like it. See 5/5/2023. That man is fixated on the United States, and so he should be. We are exposing him. “Obviously, a town of less than 3,000 people couldn’t erect such an edifice. The money to build comes from donations everywhere. Apparently, you and the other globalists, socialists, and communists want the money for yourselves.”

kinshasa

5/8/2023

African Catholics singing in French

They could sing it in Latin. Differences in pronunciation are nil. There are 242 languages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Kinshasa, 67% of the population in 2014 could read and write French, and 68.5% could speak and understand it (source - Wikipedia), making many bilingual at the very least.

Whitney Hetzel

5/7/2023

Whitney Hetzel and her husband, James, have been married for thirty-three years. They have nine children ranging in age from twelve to thirty-two. Whitney has been homeschooling for twenty-seven years and is an exercise mom who enjoys blogging about health and fitness over at 9 Kid Fitness.

However, her real passion is discussing faith, family, and the challenges of putting one foot in front of the other on a daily basis, all of which she writes about at Catholic Company Magazine and the Good Catholic blog.

Whitney has a B.A. in English and Journalism from Indiana University and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Saint Louis University.

nigerian visit

5/7/2023

Father Evaristus, one of four priests at St. Stephen Sacramento, went home to Nigeria to visit family and will be returning to us this week. Father’s namesake was born in Jerusalem A.D. 44 and was pope from A.D. 99 until his death in Rome in 107.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, Evaristus, Greek by birth, was fathered by a Jew named Judah from the city of Bethlehem. Evaristus was elected pope in the reign of Roman Emperor Trajan.

Preceding Evaristus were Peter, Anacletus, and Clement I, and all four saints braved gruesome martyrdoms.

Father has heard my confession. I won't gurgle up the penance.

winning france

5/7/2023

Choir at Notre-Dame de Paris (novus ordo) five years ago is excellent and merits a repost. The composer is Brother Jean-Baptiste du Jonchay, religious name Jean-Baptiste de la Sainte-Famille. He currently lives in the convent of Kaolack in Senegal. Règne à jamais. The translation is, “Reign forever,“ which a YouTuber translated for me not too long ago as, “Christ always wins.“