Ye speak of honour, but I speak of labours and toil; for this is no time for rewards, but rather for slaughter, battles, and perils. -St. Chrysostom
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"I saw that many pastors allowed themselves to be taken up with ideas that were dangerous to the Church. They were building a great, strange, and extravagant Church. Everyone was to be admitted in it in order to be united and have equal rights: Evangelicals, Catholics, sects of every description. Such was to be the new Church..."
"I saw the fatal consequences of this counterfeit church; I saw it increase; I saw heretics of all kinds flocking to the city [of Rome]. The local clergy grew lukewarm, and I saw a great darkness..."
"I see that the false Church of darkness is making progress and I see the dreadful influence it has on the people. The Holy Father and the Church are verily in so great a distress that one must implore God night and day..."
"It seemed to be a large, old house like a town hall with columns in front. I saw no altar in it, but only benches, and in the middle of it something like a pulpit. They had preaching and singing, but nothing else... And lo, a most singular sight! Each member of the congregation drew an idol from his breast, set it up before him, and prayed to it."
"They want to take from the shepherd his own pasture grounds! They want to fill his place with one who will hand all over to the enemy!"
"I had another vision of the great tribulation. It seems to me that a concession was demanded from the clergy which could not be granted. I saw many older priests, especially one, who wept bitterly. A few younger ones were also weeping. But others, and the lukewarm among them, readily did what was demanded. It was as if people were splitting into two camps."
"Very evil times are coming... The non-Catholics will mislead many. They will use every possible means to entice them from the Church, and great disturbances will follow."
"All sorts of abominations were committed in it... The priests let things go their way and said Mass very irreverently; only a few of them were still a little intelligent and pious... Then my Heavenly Spouse bound me as He Himself had been bound to the pillar, and He said: 'So will the Church yet be bound. She will be tightly bound before she shall again arise.'"
"I saw in all places Catholics oppressed, annoyed, restricted, and deprived of liberty, churches were closed, and great misery prevailed everywhere with war and bloodshed."
"Again I saw in vision St. Peter's undermined according to a plan devised by the secret sect while, at the same time, it was damaged by storms; but it was delivered at the moment of greatest distress. Again I saw the Blessed Virgin extending her mantle over it."
Bl. Catherine Emmerich (1774- 1824)
Pascal retweeted
Odin got off his tree and fell to the ground,
He pulled at his hair and took off his crown.
Up he looked and there he saw,
The rising Son, in peril and awe
Weeping and humbled, close he crept
To kiss the King that conquered death
Pascal retweeted
The Patriotic Poaster Finals are set, the matchup will be between @KarinHanson9’s Red, White, and Blue Quilt and @TheMiddleborne’s Sword of Liberty!
I’ll get that poll going later on today, in the meantime you can preview the two finalists here, and also check this thread for this week’s normally scheduled Post of the Week prelims, vote for your favorites to advance!
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Today, while browsing 100 Famous Paintings by Marina Vaizey and Beyond Caravaggio by Letizia Treves et al, I came across an old remembrance card tucked under the hardback cover of the latter as a bookmark, commemorating a friend of my relatives.
I was … (cont. in comments)
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I feel like this must also be true of ourselves.
Hatred of the evil within us is love of the good God is working in and through us…
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St. Basil on relics:
"When someone died in the Jewish law, the remains were detestable; when a man dies for Christ, the relics of his saints are precious. Of old it was said to the priests: 'He will not be defiled by some dead man;' now however, 1/2
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This is my daughter Arwen’s official 2,778th grade photo…
Thank goodness her generation of Elves are such pathetic wussies that I really don’t have that much to be worried about.
I think.
I hope.
😱🤦♂️🤷♂️
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Prayers up for my 17 year old brother, in the hospital with possible meningitis. He’s had 2 X-rays and CT’s and stuff and they’re waiting results to see if he does actually have it and if so how serious, but they’re waiting results and think it’s serious.
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The anniversary of Columbus' discovery is a good day to review the hatchet-job that caused the Admiral's reputation to fall so far in recent decades.
From the opening paragraph of the mega best-seller A People's History of the United States (published 1980), the communist Howard Zinn lies about the great man. Zinn weaponized ellipses and inserted them into passages from Columbus' journal, warping the meaning beyond recognition and making the words maximally sinister:
“They have no iron. Their spears are made out of cane. . . . They would make fine servants. . . . With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
This, again, is from the opening of a book that sold 4M copies.
If you look at the actual entries, Zinn's methods become laughable. The part about making "fine servants" suggests that Columbus' first thought on seeing them. It wasn't. The comment was Columbus' attempt to make sense of the wounds he saw. Zinn of course leaves the context out:
“I saw some who bore marks of wounds on their bodies, and I made signs to them to ask how this came about, and they indicated to me that people came from other islands, which are near, and wished to capture them, and they defended themselves. And I believed and still believe that they come here from the mainland to take them for slaves.”
Similarly, the part about "fifty men" does not come from that same journal entry, nor even the same day. The entries are two days apart. To repeat: two days apart! But Zinn quotes it like it was one train of thought.
Columbus was more interested in linking up with the Great Khan to fight against Islam and was intent on treating these natives kindly.
The point of Zinn's exercise is turn Americans against Columbus and against their own country. And he succeeded. The book shaped the thought of countless history teachers across America. Zinn was a communist and this is what communists do. Understand what you're up against.
But thankfully the Admiral of the Ocean Sea's reputation is on the rise again. "In this house, Columbus is a hero, end of story." Happy Columbus Day to all patriots.
Art: The Inspiration of Christopher Columbus
by José María Obregón, 1856
