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Happy Labor Day!
Today, we honor the value of labor, not just for what it produces, but for how it shapes our souls when united with prayer and sacrifice.
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No event has traumatized me so much as watching nearly the whole of the professional, media, and academic class be entirely fine with the sudden imposition of totalitarian controls on association, movement, and speech provided they could luxuriate at home - believing there to be a killer virus extant - and hang out on video chats as the workers and peasants kept society running and delivered groceries to their front doors. That same group was thrilled to receive trillions in payments for having done this.
Again, nearly the whole of the top 1/3 of society was just fine with this, and certainly raised no objection. Many within this group manufactured excuses for their deeply disgusting disdain for others.
I doubt I can ever recover the respect I once had for the wealthy, the educated, the credentialed, and the successful. In the Covid period, they deployed their privileges as a weapons against modern ideals and against all the people they (secretly) regarded as their lessers.
This really happened. And it revealed everything.
In the end, they were rewarded for their disgraceful attitudes and behaviors. This reality, again, more than anything I've ever personally witnessed, has shaped my views on nearly everything and fundamentally disrupted much of what I once believed.
Yes, amongst the ranks, conversations are spoken in low tones and behind closed doors to avoid perceived retribution. There is finally a crack in the wall. I assure you, every trade union will be meeting in DC tomorrow for high level discussions.
Teamsters was huge. He called it. Rank and file union lean Trump but Labor hierarchy endorse Biden. Many abstained or voted as told out of loyalty. The door just opened.
The process is legit. Can weld autogenous or wire feed filler. We've run successful welding code pull tests. Also able to clean and passivate stainless. And less warpage on thin gauge.
Hard hitting but pretty accurate. I've instructed my son that when the time comes, to forego any of the "he's in heaven now... nonsense" but to ask for prayers that God show me mercy.
It might be the time for the Eulogy talk at Catholic funerals.
To be clear at my parishes, I ask people to not you do eulogies.
If they fight me, I let them win.
Fighting with people in grief never ends well.
With that, here’s some thoughts on eulogies at Catholic funerals.
First of all, there is a cultural problem with most eulogies. Catholics don’t do funerals to honor the dead, though many Americans do.
Catholics do funerals for two reasons:
1. To pray for the soul of the deceased.
2. To ask God to strengthen our hope in the resurrection.
The dead are usually honored during the mass, but that is not the goal. The goal is to raise peoples hope in Jesus, not in the good life of a human.
To be blunt, humans cannot earn heaven, but many eulogies unintentionally tell people they can.
A great way to think about it is this: a person doesn’t go to heaven because they do good things, but people who are going to heaven do good things. That might sound minor, but theologically there’s a huge difference between those 2 ideas.
Beyond that, with more and more Americans being unchurched, more and more people walk into church with no clue how to act and nothing shows it more than what people say at eulogies, what they talk about and what they value in the deceased person.
It’s really, really hard to offend me, but most of the times that it happens is at eulogies.
To be clear, I don’t act offended, people don’t mean to be offensive, but it pierces the heart to hear some of the things people say about the dead while they are standing in a Sacred place doing a Sacred thing.
Finally & frankly, most people are not good public speakers.
I’m a good public speaker, but I work very, very hard at it. I spend at least an hour a day working on my homily for Sunday.
Even with that, it’s tough.
Most eulogies are frankly not well done. They’re overly long, with a lot of mumbling, or with folks doing a kind of public therapy while standing up there.
Part of being a good public speaker is being aware of time.
The funeral ritual itself is about 50 minutes. Funerals with eulogies tend to be about 80 minutes.
This is not an exaggeration.
If you’re not a public speaker, and the priest tells you that the eulogy should not be more than four minutes, most people intend to comply with that. They simply have no idea how much content that is.
So, they get up and they talk and they talk and the schedule (which is always tight for a priest, Church & funeral home) ends up unnecessarily blown up.
Eulogies can be a lovely thing, but it is my opinion that they are best done at funeral homes or gravesides, not in a Catholic Church.
Thus endeth my lecture.
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Cathedrals are more than just stone and glass; they are a testament to the divine inspiration of the human spirit.
Here are 25 of the most magnificent cathedrals in the world 🧵
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That is NOT what Catholic subsidiarity is:
“Subsidiarity is the principle, formulated by the Catholic Church, that matters *ought to be handled by the smallest, LOWEST, or least centralized competent authority* RATHER THAN by a higher and more distant one, whenever possible.”
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Construction worker's are drug tested on all Federal projects. But the Secret Service can't figure out who belongs to the West Wing cocaine.
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Trying to share all the evidence I have found to back this up for free. LOTS more coming. It took years to acquire, and it will take years to organize and systematize. But the truth is worth it!
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Perhaps the most frightful protestant error I am glad to have been liberated from is the error that grave sin does not imperil your salvation.
This is a lie from Hell that has deceived countless souls. The Church Fathers are unanimous: Christians can absolutely endanger their salvation by grave sin.
Not all protestant sects believe this error. But most do. Even as a protestant, however, I could find no basis for this belief in Scripture.
A few verses spoke of the profound mystery of predestination.
But absolutely everywhere in Scripture, Christians are constantly warned about falling into grave sin—and those who do are not told they were “never saved to begin with,” but that they have “fallen from grace.” In other words, they had grace—and then they lost it. They had the seed planted by Christ—but then it was choked out or failed to grow deep roots. They had left their vomit—but then returned to it. You cannot fall from grace, if you never possessed it; nor be a plant that dies if it was never alive to begin with; nor return to vomit if you never left it.
Every parable of Christ on the subject shows a genuine forgiveness of sins, followed by a relapse into those and worse sins. The Apostles teach similarly, constantly warning *Christians* about falling into grave sins, saying (among other things) “I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” (Gal. 5:21)
The protestant framework of “once saved always saved” simply isn’t there. And the fact that God knows who will be saved and who won’t be is NEVER once used to argue that therefore Christians can claim to possess the same knowledge. Quite the opposite. St. Paul himself declared he could fall, which is why he disciplined himself so stringently, “lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.” (1 Cor. 9:27)
I wanted to believe this heresy—it would have been very convenient, because one can always deceive oneself that you’re truly “sorry,” and never even have to tell anyone.
But the witness of the ancient Church in every century, and the way the Church Fathers opened the Scriptures, showed me I simply couldn’t believe this. My instincts were right—there was zero basis for this belief in Scripture. Indeed, no Christian believed this until protestantism was born in the 16th century.
Then the question arises—what do I do as a Christian if I fall into grave sin? Well, Jesus tells us in Scripture: go to the Apostles and their successors. They have the authority to forgive or retain your sins. When you go to them, you can hear the same voice of absolution as everyone who came to Christ heard. They continue His ministry through time, and throughout the world. And if you are contrite, they absolve you with the authority Christ gave them. One must no longer guess whether your sins have been forgiven—with the words of absolution, they are.
What glorious freedom this has brought! Far from the neurotic caricatures I had heard all my life, the confessional has been a source of profound freedom and grace. It is one of the most wonderful springs of mercy Jesus gave us. I want all my protestant brethren to one day find themselves before a priest of Jesus Christ, repenting of their sins, and coming into the full communion of His Catholic Church.
“Not every one who says to me ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’” (Mt 7:21-23)
“Peace be with you [the Apostles]. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” (Jn 20:21-23)
A great tourist attraction if visiting CA and many are still functioning parishes.
My kids went to school with Caveziel's. Spent some time with Verastegue and Monteverde has been to my home. All solid passionate Catholic men. I'm very much looking forward to the film.
