The Courage of the Resurrection!
This is the best thing I have seen since the scamdemic started. This Polish pastor kicks the Covidocracy Keystone Cops out, yelling "Gestapo!" and "Nazis!" at them. https://rumble.com/embed/vcqn5j/?pub=4 When I shared the above link on Facebook, someone told me he was a Protestant Pastor. I have never heard of a Polish Protestant Pastor, but if he is not Catholic, we have to ask: When are all Catholic priests going to stand up for their flock like this? Anyway, we're not afraid of a flu when Christ has conquered death either. Here is where I spent my first Solemn High Mass Triduum as Celebrant and also here below as sub-deacon for the Vigil of the Resurrection Solemn High Mass, seen here after Mass near midnight: Reveling in the Easter Son (and Sun) on the Gulf Coast.
Maundy Thursday Sermon 2021
Solemn High Mass at St. Patrick's. https://youtu.be/uX7y3sX0FO8
Cancel-Culture’s Liberal-Catholic Zombies Are After Me Again
I guess my Holy Week wouldn't be complete without false-accusations...again. This time, I'm considered "racist" for reporting how African immigrants see African-American culture on a podcast. My initial response to such ridiculous accusations is this: Reporting how, for example, Irish-immigrants see Irish-Americans would not be called "biased" by the cancel-culture liberals. Therefore, the very accusation that any comparison between African culture and African-American culture is "racist" naturally presupposes that blacks are an inferior race (which I do not hold, of course.) That the long-held premise of Democrats holding blacks as inferior is the only explanation to come to the conclusion that a discussion on African versus African-American culture is "racist." This is exactly why the cancel-culture has no idea what to do with people like Candace Owens: She does not accept the leftist view that blacks are to be [...]
Home-Chapel Check-List.
The above is me offering Holy Mass at a home chapel in the Midwest. With increasing persecution of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) more traditional families may desire access to their own personal traditional priest. However, they have no idea what is required in a chapel, not to mention a full-time cabin. Here’s the thing: You will attract many more traditional priests with a fully-stocked chapel than you will with a promise for a “priest hole” as if this were 16th century England. We’re not there yet. But even if we were, keep in mind there are 800,000 Catholics for every traditional priest. (This shocking stat comes from the Mass of the Ages documentary.) That means traditional priests will have to shuffle frequently between many families when everything gets shut down under “Order 66,” as I call it. And we're [...]
Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross, written by Fr. Simoulin, read by Fr. David.
Palm Sunday Sermon: Why Must We Suffer?
Given at St. Patrick's during Holy Week 2021. https://youtu.be/eQ2N1z8d4gI
“Take Away Both Our Place and Our Nation”
From today's Gospel in the Friday of Passiontide we read: So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this Man performs many signs. If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."—John 11:47-48 As Passion week ramps up its tension against Jesus, we are given a rare glimpse into the mind of the Jewish hierarchy today in the 1st century. We know the Pharisees were already willing to kill Jesus out of jealousy, but today we are given an additional reason: They now fear that if they (the Jewish hierarchy) do not compromise with the State, the State will come and take away "our place" (the Temple) and "our nation" (the nation [...]
TCE 16: Navy SEAL Speaks on the State of the State
Part two of two with Mike who is a highly decorated Navy SEAL and who, before retirement, had commanded SEAL Team Six as well as counter-terrorist task forces in crisis via contingency operations through 13 deployments to Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and southeast Asia. https://youtu.be/x-8sknJX-6Q
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Should lay people pray the Roman Breviary? As far as the old-school Roman Breviary as found in the featured image above, I would say no. Why would I say no? Because it is 8 "canonical hours" of the Psalms on repeat all day long and most of us pray it in Latin. It takes 2-3 hours a day and we pray all 150 Psalms a week in Latin. 2-3 hours of Latin prayers is appropriate for a hermit like me, but probably not for a lay person like most of you. However, if you insist on a couple of the old-school canonical hours, there is a good app that has the old Divine Office to be prayed in the English and the Latin (as well as the Roman Marytrology prayed at Prime) called BrevMeum also found at Divinum Officium with the [...]
TCE 15: Navy SEAL Speaks on the State of the Church
Part one of two with Mike who is a highly decorated SEAL officer and who, before retirement, had commanded SEAL Team Six and counter-terrorist task forces in crisis and contingency operations through 13 deployments to Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and southeast Asia. https://youtu.be/602rgNnPD0g