[C]HRISTIAN joy does not depend on anything sensible: it has its seat in the centre of the soul, where often it is not perceived in the inferior region, not even in its reasonable part. It abides there hidden, in order that it may be maintained in all its purity; for its Sowings over into the sensitive region, which sometimes happen, are greatly exposed to the danger of self-love, through the satisfaction which thence proceeds. It is quite compatible with sadness in the inferior region, as is evident in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Apostle, when he says that he exceedingly abounds with joy in all his tribulations, does not the less avow (1 Cor. L 8) that they afflicted him, ‘out of measure,’ so that he was ‘weary even of life’: which shows plainly that we must understand him to mean the joy which is in the supreme region of the soul; otherwise he would be in contradiction with himself. We do not thereby deny that the inferior and sensitive part of his soul had a share therein at certain times; we say only that it is sufficient that the joy should be in the summit of the soul, which finds her satisfaction in the order of God’s dealings with her, although, so far as feeling is concerned, she experiences only an overwhelming sadness.

“Neither does this joy prevent even moderate complainings in the inferior region, when the senses feel nothing but affliction and lament accordingly; our Lord regarding them as little children who cry when they are chastised. To prevent their weeping would be to stifle them. (more…)

“MINORITY White youth born into a normalized multiracialism where the greatest ‘evil’ is White preservation are now pairing up with nonwhites of the opposite sex at astonishing rates never before seen in the U.S. Utterly convinced that this behavior is not only normal, it’s moral in the centuries long struggle to unite the races and end racism.

“To say the Right has failed to educate White youth on the genocidal intent of multiracialism would be the understatement of the year.

“The assumption that it’s just a small percentage of White people who would behave interracially is no longer the case when the multiracialism has been normalized for decades and minority White youth are growing up among American-born nonwhites in a mixed ecosystem where everyone speaks English.”

— Mark Charlton

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“[F]EW persons become better for the infirmities of sickness. The reason is that they do not make a Christian use of them. Make, then, a good use of these afflictions, and to this end learn that the grace of bodily ailments is a very great one. “God,” says St. Catherine of Genoa, “converts the bodies of sick persons into a present Purgatory.” Learn that it is so great a grace that it is sufficient to bring a soul to a high degree of sanctity, as we read of many saints, whose life was one of unceasing bodily ailment. What works did these persons so eminent for sanctity perform? Did they visit the poor? Did they preach? What were their exercises and employments except this — to be sick and ailing. Seek help from Heaven, that you may obtain the gift of great patience; it is very necessary in maladies which are attended with acute pains or which are of long duration. Remember that ailments which last a long time ought to be carefully utilized for Eternity; it is the occupation which Divine Providence assigns to persons thus tried for gaining Heaven. Let them give good heed to make a faithful use of them; for usually their prolonged duration renders them wearisome.

“Further, keep a watch over the stratagems of self love, which insinuates itself everywhere; it will not fail to furnish you in this case with a multitude of pretexts, wearing even a plausible colouring of the glory of God: in order to render your maladies irksome to you, it will suggest to your mind that your infirmities make you a burden to those you live with, but God who wills these infirmities wills all the consequences of them. We too, then, must will them, and not disquiet ourselves, although we may be a burden and a trouble to others. It will represent to you that you are useless in the world; and especially, if you live in a community, it will try to sadden you with the thought; but be assured that sick persons who are true Christians are not useless, as is imagined by those who look at things only with the eyes of the flesh. Oh, what sweet mercies do these suffering souls draw down from Heaven on the houses where they dwell; and how incomparably more good they do there than is done by those busy, active persons who have so many schemes and projects, and abound in natural resources, and who are generally regarded as the mainstays of communities!”

— Henri-Marie Boudon, The Holy Ways of the Cross [trans. Edwin Thompson Healey]

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“ST. Teresa declared that our Lord sent most crosses to those whom He most especially loved. She had learned this doctrine from the very mouth of the Son of God, who had said to her, ‘My Father sends the heaviest trials to those whom He loves most.’ It is sufficient to know the facts of our holy faith to be thoroughly persuaded of this truth. Never was any one more beloved by the Eternal Father than the Divine Jesus; and never did any one suffer so much. Next to Jesus, the most holy Virgin surpasses all creatures in graces, and at the same time she surpasses them in sufferings. The measure of our happiness must therefore be taken from the measure of our crosses. Happy he who suffers; more happy he who suffers much; most happy he who is weighed down with all sorts of sufferings, whose daily food is the Cross, who spends his whole life thereon, after the pattern of our gracious Saviour and His holy Mother, and at last thereon expires.”

— Henri-Marie Boudon, The Holy Ways of the Cross [trans. Edwin Thompson Healey]

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“IF you commit a sin and take pleasure in it, the pleasure passes but the sin remains. But if you do something virtuous even though you are tired, the tiredness passes but the virtue remains.”

These words of wisdom come from St. Camillus de Lellis, (1550-1614) an Italian war veteran who gave up a life of dissipation to care for the sickest of the sick

O God, Who, to succour the souls of the dying in their last agony, didst ennoble the holy Camillus with an extraordinary grace of charity, we beseech thee to pour into our hearts, for his sake, the Spirit of thy love, that we may worthily prevail against the enemy in the hour when we depart hence, and pass to receive a crown of glory in heaven.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

Amen.

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“THEREFORE, where love is, there also must faith and hope needs be, and where there is love toward our neighbour there also must there needs be love toward God. For one that loveth not God, how can he love his neighbour as himself, seeing he hateth himself, for he is a blasphemous, wicked wretch, and the lover of wickedness is not the lover, but the deadly enemy of his own self.”

— St. Augustine, 83rd Tract on John

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From a Reuters review of the book The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, by Orlando Figes:

After countless biographies of Stalin, a new book gives voice to the millions of ordinary Russians who suffered the dictator’s reign of terror in silence.

“The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia”, by award-winning historian Orlando Figes, is based on hundreds of interviews with survivors of the era of Josef Stalin, and their stories still have the power to shock.

A slain boy becomes the hero of a propaganda cult, lionised in the press for denouncing his father to the police, neighbours betray neighbours, bravery is punished, cowardice is rewarded and innocents are executed….

…Parents were wary of voicing opinions for fear their children would repeat them, deliberately or not, to teachers at school. One wrong turn could lead to arrest, torture or worse, meaning Soviets were reduced to whispers in their own homes.

Because children of “enemies of the people” were often deemed guilty by association, they resented their parents. Wives came to believe the trumped up charges against husbands, while arrests and imprisonment tore families apart, often permanently.

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THEY were tried and convicted of being “fanatics,” “enemies of the people” and “annihilators of public freedom” on July 17, 1794 in revolutionary Paris.

Their true crime was leading a quiet life of prayer, never repudiating in words or actions the King of France or his family.

In his book To Quell the Terror, William Bush described the civil trial of the 16 Carmelite nuns, known as the Martyrs of Compiègne, who were guillotined that same day and whose feast day is today, 232 years later. Their story is instructive as to how the language of equality and freedom can be used to justify terror against innocent people. To be accused of being “fanatics” and “annihilators of public freedom” by people who truly were fanatics and annihilators of public freedom is a fascinating example of projection and a warning as to just how dangerous the intoxicating slogans of freedom can be.

From the book:

Armed with a mass of giant keys, and accompanied by huge mastiffs and lantern-bearing assistants, the jailer escorted the bailiff and his gendarmes through the maze of grilles partitioning off the cold, humid vaults stretching into the bowels of the earth. Creaking grilles echoed piercingly throughout the vast spaces as the procession was formed at the still-dark hour. The bailiffs gendarmes herded the accused together as they came forward in response to his rough repeated shouts of the names on Fouquier-Tinville’s list. (more…)

“THE extreme devastation of the Church will not be surprising, because, under the reign of the Antichrist, it will be reduced to solitude, given over to the beasts, and will suffer things that are not mentioned or recorded.”

— St. Jerome

Where is the Catholic Church today? See here.

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“IN such a society as we have in America today, where Jew materialism prevails, it is easy to understand why many of the young Christians are drawn to hippie life. They find the promised rejection of materialism a relief; an end to challenging competition, to responsibilities, and to discipline. These young often come from well-off environments, where parents, busy in seeking the ‘good life,’ have little time or attention for them. This situation is capitalized upon by Jewry. The young hippies-to-be see a country where the ‘under-privileged’ people, certainly blacks, get the greatest of attention. The young then enter into a life which is the antithesis to what they had known; in so doing, some find the attention (of sorts) which they failed to get at home, or in the ‘straight life.’ Many, many are lost to Traditional America and completely fall into the devilish arms of Jewry.”

— James Coombs, Christian Sheep and Satan’s Wolves, 1971

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“PEOPLE who grew up in pure Whiteness from childhood to adulthood allowed White countries to become nonwhite and were actively involved in making it happen.

“You’d think they’d know better, but their twisted priority was nonwhite people’s happiness.

“There’s a reason White parents don’t raise their children mixed with nonwhite children in nonwhite countries. They intuitively know the harm it would do to their children and their race.

“Nonwhite children placed with White children in a White school benefit greatly. Yet there’s no benefit the other way around. Only genocide.

“The races aren’t even close to the same, much less equal.”

— Mark Charlton

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FROM Christian Sheep and Satan’s Wolves by James Combs (New Christian Crusade Church, 1971):

The latest Jewish viciousness pawned off on Christians was glowingly described by Jewish TIME magazine (June 21, 1971). To degrade Christ, a vulgar “Jesus Revolution” has been energetically launched. One of the successful features of this blasphemy is the much-acclaimed stage drama Godspell. The Jew Stephen Nathan “stars” in it. The damning symbol of the “revolution” is pictured on page 61 of the TIME issue: a communist clenched -fist salute, with the forefinger pointing skyward !

If Christian belief in a hereafter can be destroyed and replaced with the Jew philosophy that you only have one life, and should make the most of it; then Jewry can tempt, with materialism and vice, weak men to yield to whatever Jewry desires. It is related in St. Matthew 23: 15 that Christ said to the Jews: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. ” How true this must be for all the ministers, businessmen, teachers and politicians who have played the Jewish “brotherhood” game and have sold out their white race, Christianity, and their nation!

Cultural Degeneracy Programs

To further soften up Traditional America, so that it will not have moral will to resist Jewish plans, including racial decay, Jewry has instituted many “programs” of a cultural -distorting nature.

Music

At least since the early 1920’s, negro music has been the basis for American musical “culture. ” To point this up, an article in the MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL (January 27, 1971) gave some revealing information. Public school music teachers were encouraged or forced to attend a program in Memphis, Tennessee, which aimed at giving blacks their “proper recognition” in history. Black songs from Africa were sung (“e je ko node ko na o”), and black “instruments” were studied. A white degenerate, believed gentile, and a black, both on federal funds, directed the affair. They told their audience, “…textbooks lie about the Negro’s roles in history, also that credit for inspiring the blues, acid rock and cool jazz has been denied the Negroes. ” This sickening display of ill-used tax-payers’ money is noteworthy only to the extent that it indicates Negroes should be given credit for “inspiring” degraded “music” into Traditional America.

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“GOD has only one natural Son, who is innocence itself, and who is sinless, and yet He has not exempted Him from the law of suffering. A holy bishop, well aware of this truth, having met a man who told him that he had always been honored and financially secure, enjoying good health, surrounded by abundant possessions and a prosperous family: ‘Alas!’ exclaimed this prelate, ‘these are great signs of God’s wrath; let us flee quickly from a house where there seems to be no cross.’ No sooner had he left than God’s wrath fell upon this man and his family, who were crushed beneath the ruins of their home.”

— Fr. Henri-Marie Boudin, The Holy Ways of the Cross

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“GOD, God wants you to be in that position, to hold that office, to suffer that illness, to be hidden and degraded in that corner, to be afflicted by that adversity, that contempt, that persecution. Yes, God wants it: that the world reason, that self-love complain: God wants it.

“And He wills it by always proposing our greatest good: He seeks, oh! supply, blessed spirits, our insufficiency to adore the goodness of the Creator; He seeks on every occasion our own benefit with a charity so provident that, if the veil were drawn back, if we were given to penetrate the secrets of divine Providence over us, we would approve without reservation what now gives us so much pain, and we would not make use of our freedom except to choose what happens to us by permission of heaven.

“How could anything else happen? The infinitely perfect Being, from whose eyes nothing is hidden (6), knows what is most advantageous to us, and can also give it to us, since He can do all that He wills (7). He will give it to us, therefore, because He loves us as the apple of His eye (8): He carries us in His bosom as a nurse usually carries the little one (9); consequently, everything that happens to us by His disposition happens for our greater good.”

— Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, by Aloysius Bellecius SJ

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“WITHOUT any authority, the family would fall into anarchy; if the balance of authority tips too far to the side or in favor of the husband, we will have the enslavement of the woman; if on the contrary it tips to the whims of the woman, the horrors known to paganism will follow.

“It is therefore necessary to seek balance; which, if it can be found in an atmosphere of cold calculation of rights and duties, is instead achieved and practiced when trusting love animates the relationship between both parties. If the one who commands loves, they will never exercise despotic control; if the one who obeys loves, they will never submit with a slave’s spirit.

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“Now, every family is a partnership in life: every well-ordered partnership needs a head; all authority of a head or leader comes from God. Therefore, the family you founded also has a head, invested by God with authority over the one he has given him as a partner to form his first nucleus, and over those who, with the Lord’s blessing, will come to increase and gladden it, like vigorous shoots around the trunk of an olive tree…

“Yes; the authority of the head of the family comes from God, just as the dignity and authority of the first head of the human race came from God to Adam, endowed with all the gifts he was to transmit to his offspring; that is why he was formed first, and Eve afterward; and, as Saint Paul says, Adam was not deceived, but it was the woman who allowed herself to be seduced and transgressed. Eve’s curiosity upon seeing the beautiful fruit of the earthly Paradise, and her conversation with the serpent—how much harm they caused to the first man, to herself, to all her children, and to us! To her, besides multiplying her worries and sorrows, God said that she would be subject to her husband. O Christian wives and mothers! Never give in to the thirst to usurp the center of the family. Your scepter—a scepter of love—must be the one placed in your hands by the Apostle to the Gentiles. The Savior, through the procreation of children, if you continue in faith, in love, and in holiness, with modesty.”

— Pope Pius XII, September 10, 1941

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“IN the persecution at Rome under Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, there were seven brethren, sons of the holy woman Felicity, whom the Prefect Publius first essayed to cajole by kindness, and then to shake by fear, to deny Christ and worship the gods but, by their own bravery and the exhortation of their mother, they remained firm in their confession, and were all put to death in diverse ways. Januarius was lashed to death with whips loaded with lead Felix and Philip were beaten to death with cudgels Silvanus was thrown over a precipice Alexander, Vitalis, and Martial were beheaded. Their mother gained the same palm of martyrdom four months afterwards. The seven Brethren gave up their souls to God upon the 10th day of July.”

Hymn (Proper of the Saints)

The martyrs’ triumphs let us sing,
Their blood poured forth for Christ the King,
And while due hymns of praise we pay,
Our thankful hearts cast grief away.

The world its terrors urged in vain;
They recked not of the body’s pain;
One step, and holy death made sure
The life that ever shall endure.

To flames the martyr saints are hailed;
By teeth of savage beasts assailed;
Against them, armed with ruthless brand
And hooks of steel, their torturers stand.

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KATHY G. writes:

There’s nothing Catholic about Chicago Bob, except his larping as a pope.

Americans were deliberately converted from the Christianity of their ancestors to a “civic religion” called “secular”, but which in reality imposed government as supreme authority in place of God. Oh, they are allowed to “worship” God, which means go to church on Sunday. But Jesus Christ must not be mentioned in government or publicly promoted. That is “religion” and must be private, and not imposed upon people. Biblical condemnation of sin is denigrated as “hate”, and silenced.

Atheist John Dewey openly planned and executed this conversion in the government schools, as well as dealing with what he called “the American reading fetish”, creating illiteracy with “modern” teaching methods. He promoted a dumbed-down class of people who would “serve society”, not knowing any better.

As Christians, in obedience to their state-god, compartmentalize their Faith, false religions are given free reign in the public square and in schools, with schools in the UK requiring the white British children to join in Muslim prayers, and even the Mason-captured Vatican providing prayer space for them.

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“[E]ach time those sweet hosannas to the Founding Fathers ring, my mind turns to a different fatherly fraternity, this one truly worthy of the name—that of the Church Fathers. How many American Catholics can name them? Or, perhaps more fairly, how many American Catholics honestly take them and their works seriously? I mean, really seriously? Oh, they may be piously remembered for miracles associated with their lives, or for one or two anti-Arian citations, or even a couple of passages from their writings, rendered noteworthy through repeated quotation on EWTN. Nevertheless, insofar as daily practical life are concerned, they are dead, buried, and forgotten, consigned to the doctrinal rubbish bin. There is simply no contest in this battle of the ancestors, fraudulent and echt. The score is always the same: Founding Fathers “666”; Church Fathers “0”. (more…)