Title: The Vale of Tears (Tap on title for larger view and details.) Artist: Gustave Doré, b. Strasbourg 1832, d. Paris 1883 Paradise Lost
Doré did illustrations for Dante's The Inferno, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", and Poe's "The Raven". Coleridge and Poe are in the Reading List. https://www.artpassions.net/dore/dore.html From the Vulgate, from the Greek, Luke Ranieri, my man the polymath, quotes in ecclesiastical, classical, and other pronunciations, the conversation between Pontius Pilate and Jesus on Good Friday, yesterday. Latin and Greek have different alphabets but sound similar. I had a conversation with Altan and said that one day he will appreciate his Latin studies. 6 Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. follow Luke
Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silent because the King is asleep. The earth trembled, and is yet still, because God has fallen asleep in the flesh, and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and Hell trembles with fear. He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him, Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: 'My Lord be with you all.' Christ answered him: 'And with your spirit.' He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying: 'Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light. I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your descendants I now, by my own authority, command all who are held in bondage to come forth, all who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise. I order you, O sleeper, to awaken. I did not create you to be held a prisoner in Hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person, and we cannot be separated. For your sake I, your God, became your son; I, the Lord, took the form of a slave; I, whose home is above the heavens, descended to the earth and beneath the earth. For your sake, for the sake of man, I became like a man without help, free among the dead. For the sake of you, who left a garden, I was betrayed to the Jews in a garden, and I was crucified in a garden. See on my face the spittle I received to restore to you the life I once breathed into you. See there the marks of the blows I received to refashion your warped nature in my image. On my back see the marks of the scourging I endured to remove the burden of sin that weighs upon your back. See my hands, nailed firmly to a tree, for you who once wickedly stretched out your hand to a tree. I slept on the cross and a sword pierced my side for you who slept in paradise and brought forth Eve from your side. My side has healed the pain in yours. My sleep will rouse you from your sleep in Hell. The sword that pierced me has sheathed the sword that was turned against you. Rise, let us leave this place. The enemy led you out of the earthly paradise. I will not restore you to that paradise, but I will enthrone you in Heaven. I forbade you the tree that was only a symbol of life, but see, I who am life itself am now one with you. I appointed cherubim to guard you as slaves are guarded, but now I make them worship you as God. The throne formed by cherubim awaits you, its bearers swift and eager. The bridal chamber is adorned, the banquet is ready, the eternal dwelling places are prepared, the treasure houses of all good things lie open.' The kingdom of heaven has been prepared for you from all eternity. The Catholic Company La Reina Sofia presided, and this is the first translation I have ever seen. This is the real Spain. Nothing is covered up: all is rendered bare and free and safe when you stand shoulder to shoulder, and she blessed herself as He passed. not about macho men, rather, where their loyalty is
People who go to the Latin Mass and do not receive communion, their venial sins are forgiven anyway. This forgiveness does not happen in the New Mass.
Check your daily New Mass missal if you have one, and probably you don't. I reproduced that throw-away paper once before in another entry, not this time. Forgiveness is important to people who cannot attend Mass for any reason, such as a disability, or those watching Mass online and making a spiritual communion. People watching the Latin Mass (and supporting it) will hear those words. Words matter, which is the reason so much care was given to the Latin Mass and to translations, and the reason I study words and carefully choose them, and the reason editors scrutinize them.
Let's make some connections. Penitentiary comes from the Latin paenitentia, meaning "repentance." A penitentiary is a place you are sent to make repentance for a crime committed. Penitentiary also can be used as an adjective to describe something done to show penance, as in the penitentiary scarlet "A" on Hester's chest, The Scarlet Letter, by Hawthorne, and check out Leavenworth Penitentiary in "Hearts and Hands" in the Reading List. Now, think. What bread is unleavened? Jerome on unleavened bread... Jerome: “Or otherwise; The woman who takes the leaven and hides it, seems to me to be the Apostolic preaching, or the Church gathered out of diverse nations. She takes the leaven, that is, the understanding of the Scriptures, and hides it in three measures of meal, that the three, spirit, soul, and body, may be brought into one, and may not differ among themselves. Or otherwise; We read in Plato that there are three parts in the soul, reason, anger, and desire; so we also if we have received the evangelic leaven of Holy Scripture, may possess in our reason prudence, in our anger hatred against vice, in our desire love of the virtues, and this will all come to pass by the Evangelic teaching which our mother Church has held out to us. I will further mention an interpretation of some; that the woman is the Church, who has mingled the faith of man in three measures of meal, namely, belief in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; which when it has fermented into one lump, brings us not to a threefold God, but to the knowledge of one Divinity. This is a pious interpretation; but parables and doubtful solutions of dark things, can never bestow authority on dogmas.” Wikipedia treats St. Jerome better than any other source. Amazing it is, too, that I have felt more loved outside the Church. I have no explanations. I write about various topics, sometimes political, but I am reminded that conservative-minded people and liberal-minded people alike can fall victim to the following:
Several men are robing and disrobing in the locker room of a golf club. A cell phone lying on a bench rings. A man engages the hands-free speaker function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen. MAN: “Hello.” WOMAN: “Hi Honey, it’s me. Are you at the club?” MAN: “Yes.” WOMAN: “I'm at the shops now and found this beautiful leather coat. It’s only $2,000. Is it OK if I buy it?” MAN: “Sure, go ahead if you like it that much.” WOMAN: “I also stopped by the Tesla dealership and saw the new models. I saw one I really liked.” MAN: “How much?” WOMAN: “$90,000.” MAN: “OK, but for that price I want it with all the options.” WOMAN: “Great! Oh, and one more thing. I was just talking to Janie and found out that the house I wanted last year is back on the market. They’re asking $980,000 for it.” MAN: “Well, then go ahead and make an offer of $900,000. They’ll probably take it. If not, we can go the extra eighty thousand if it’s what you really want.” WOMAN: “OK. I'll see you later! I love you so much!” MAN: “Bye! I love you, too.” The man hangs up. The other men in the locker room are staring at him in astonishment, mouths wide open. He turns and asks, “Anyone know whose phone this is?” Dear Members of the United States House of Representatives:
You have a Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Pope Francis signed a secret deal with the CCP. No one knows what is in the deal. He is suspected of being a communist, a possible enemy of the US. Please establish a Select Committee on Pope Francis. Yours sincerely, Robert E Dunn America magazine published an article quoting a man who left the Catholic Church after attending the Latin Mass. He joined Quakerism, one of hundreds of heretical sects. The Jesuits shot themselves in the foot, and I am jumping up and down. Story by Pat Nugent, Nov. 28, 2017. I will not link pathetic wimps who can't shoot straight.
A conservative estimate of the words written by the Dominican theologian-philosopher priest from the 13th century is eight million. His last words were, “Such secrets have been revealed to me that all I have written now appears as so much straw.” Lie down on the couch and listen without thinking too much.
Aquinas read the Vulgate Bible (St. Jerome, A.D. 400). The Vulgate is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible. In 382 Jerome had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Vetus Latina Gospels used by the Roman Church. Reading anything that is not a translation of the Vulgate can mislead. Aquinas wrote encyclopedic theological treatises, such as the Summa theologiae and the Summa contra gentiles; Questions on Truth; On Being and Essence; commentaries on Aristotle and on other philosophical texts; and biblical commentaries. Monday morning, Christ returned to Jerusalem. According to the Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, it is on this day that Jesus walked with firm purpose into the Temple and drove out the moneylenders, castigating them for making His Father’s house a “den of robbers.”
Jesus also began His final days giving the people a holy torrent of parables and warnings. Many of His most famous teachings and parables—such as the widow who gave two pennies, the parable of the wicked tenants, and the dispute about paying taxes to Caesar—happened during Passion week. I summarized a message from The Catholic Company. The Last Supper this Thursday is the daily Mass. We relive Passion Week every year. St. Peter's is boring. After the modernists are defeated and a new pope is elected, marches will precede him in the sedia gestatori every time he enters the basilica, 30,000 soldiers in dress uniform, bootlickers having been evicted already and no room for anybody else. He will have two altar boys dressed in junior military uniforms serving him. That's all he needs. No televisions cameras allowed. Mass will be for Almighty God and those present. Military officers and soldiers will be billeted there, take over administration of the city state, and issue a limited number of passports, and world leaders will have to beg for one. Only the Vatican Museum will entertain paying visitors. Church is not an efing museum. Vatican diplomats will live outside the walls: these men reek of perfume. Sample march...1 2 3 4 and 1 2 3 4 Discuss amongst yourselves.
Palm Sunday 3/24/2024
Most psalms were written between 1010 BC and 930, 1,000 years before Christ. Psalm 68, written by King David (born c. 1035 BC, died c. 970), told what would happen to Christ. www.newadvent.org/cathen/12533a.htm Stephaton (Steven), is the name given in Catholic tradition to the Roman soldier or bystander, unnamed in the Bible, who offered Jesus a sponge soaked in sour/bitter vinegar wine at the Crucifixion. He is frequently portrayed in art with Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced Jesus' side with a spear. "I looked for one that would grieve together with Me, and there was none." I grieve with Him. This has been the strongest pull on me through the years, even more so now that my brother is dead. I propose that no man can be without a brother or brotherhood, and no counter-argument can succeed. Why are the statues and paintings covered? 56 Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it, and was glad. 57 The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58 Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am. 59 They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple. Padre Daniel Heenan is assigned to Mexico. Why does he kiss the altar multiple times? Christ is the altar. I could attend his Mass and understand it all, or serve, and I don't speak Spanish.
The rosary followed, and from that I learned what contigo means. The best way to learn a foreign language (and the way Latin should have been taught to me in high school) is by studying something you believe in. A pamphlet on manners is as important as the Catechism or the Missal. The only proof I have is an event that 99% of Christians forget, fear, or dismiss. Judas kissed Jesus. This kissing event tells you what custom was; otherwise, the trick would not have worked. What is the root cause of the lapse in manners? Four pseudo-religions and their offspring: Calvinism, Marxism, feminism, and legalism.
I first read a shortened version of this poem when I was 17. It came in a prayer book given me by Father John Enright, SJ, but all these years later the poem means more. Who is the hound that shelters me? Enright paid for the book with his own money, and he had very little. I know cuz one day he had to pick up his dry cleaning, and I went along in the community car, and he had to ask the bursar for $10. left poet
right priest (Enright photo courtesy of Joe Schallan) Chapter 2. The Second Commandment: Gross Sin Forbidden
And the second commandment of the Teaching; You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, Exodus 20:13-14 you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, Exodus 20:15 you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is begotten. You shall not covet the things of your neighbour, Exodus 20:17 you shall not forswear yourself, Matthew 5:34 you shall not bear false witness, Exodus 20:16 you shall not speak evil, you shall bear no grudge. You shall not be double-minded nor double-tongued; for to be double-tongued is a snare of death. Your speech shall not be false, nor empty, but fulfilled by deed. You shall not be covetous, nor rapacious, nor a hypocrite, nor evil disposed, nor haughty. You shall not take evil counsel against your neighbour. You shall not hate any man; but some you shall reprove, and concerning some you shall pray, and some you shall love more than your own life. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0714.htm#:~:text=Remember%2C%20Lord%2C%20Your%20Church%2C,God%20(Son)%20of%20David! If we do not speak out against sins and even go so far as to protect those who sin, we become complicit. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states in paragraph 1869, “Sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them.” didaché means doctrine, from Greek διδαχή, ῆς, noun
Last Sunday, Father Evaristus quoted Malthus in his sermon, which explained that Divine Providence made a place for everything on Earth and every person on Earth, and debunking Malthus (1766-1834), a Church of England cleric. We listen to our priests, not Francis, the politician who said that Ukraine should negotiate for peace. I don’t want any more sanctimony, anymore.
Please pass this on to boys you know. A priest is priest through all eternity, forever and ever. How do I know? The BVM gave a vision of Hell to the three children of Fatima. Divine Providence planned it all, knowing the children could handle seeing some priests and popes in Hell.
Ordination is an honor and privilege, one you and I do not share. Our Lord chooses His men, but this knowledge might confirm a boy's decision and call. Once he senses the call, he knows. |
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