QuickPod: Roe versus Wade overturned on Feast of Sacred Heart
https://rumble.com/embed/v174o7h/?pub=e5jg1
Why Murder of an Unborn Child May Be Worse than Murder of An Adult
Here's four ways abortion is possibly worse than the murder of an adult: 1. The level of innocence. I am not saying any babies are conceived without original sin. I'm simply saying they have no actual sin on their hands at the moment of their slaughter, unlike adult victims of homicide. 2. Abortion is a bloody sacrifice to demons as a mockery of the Mass. The Mass is an unbloody sacrifice to God. 3. Every abortion drags a dozen people to hell, regardless of where that baby goes (heaven, or much more likely—limbo.) 4. By the sheer number of these murders, chaos is introduced into a society and demons' power increases. Remember, there doesn't have to be an “end game” to demons promoting abortion, except the fact their destruction (and humans cooperating with it) is a direct affront to God, [...]
Balancing Self-Confidence with Humility
One of the things I find fascinating about Special Forces guys in the US Military is that they are usually soft-spoken. One of the things I find fascinating about fully-certifiable narcissists is that they are always the opposite: Whereas narcissists frequently speak about themselves in a self-centered manner, they secretly have extremely low self-confidence. So, what is the relationship between self-confidence and humility? The pious answer goes like this: "One should have confidence in God, not oneself." While this is true, it does not take into consideration the difficult balance that St. Thomas Aquinas makes between magnanimity and humility. In the Second Part of the Second Part of his Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas writes: Pride is the "inordinate desire of one's own excellence."—Q 162. “Magnanimity urges the mind to great things in accord with right reason. Hence it is clear that [...]
VLX 113: Drowned in the Depths
Mt 18:6-10. https://rumble.com/embed/v16hytk/?pub=e5jg1
CPX 112: Grades of Sin
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p.152-153 Q/A 1-14. https://rumble.com/embed/v15fe6r/?pub=e5jg1
Advice to Young Courting Catholics, Part I
If you want to marry someone, you need to have more than just the "checklists" covered of orthodoxy and wanting-lots-of-kids. You actually need to be in love (at least somewhat!) with someone of the opposite sex. And they should be (somewhat!) in love with you. You only got one shot at this, and you really don't want an annulment. Go slowly and deliberately in courting. Marry someone you love, but don't look for someone who is perfect, for perfect people don't exist. Yes, the checklist should exist as far as being a traditional Catholic, but there has to be some "chemistry" with the other person. So, don't "settle" for a loser, because it's better to be an old-maid or an old-bachelor than to marry the wrong person. You should only attempt to court another Catholic who is equally-yoked theologically. If [...]
VLX 112: Become Like Children
Mt 18:1-5. https://rumble.com/embed/v156yat/?pub=e5jg1
QuickPod: My Struggle with the Trinity
Live video I did in my car about a theological struggle in high school on the Divinity of Christ. https://rumble.com/embed/v15kpgb/?pub=e5jg1
CPX 111: The Beatitudes
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p.149-151 Q/A 1-15. https://rumble.com/embed/v14gx8a/?pub=e5jg1
Season After Pentecost or “Ordinary Time”?
p/c Star of the Sea, San Francisco. The 1950 Carmelite devotional Divine Intimacy reads: “The Father and the Word, mutually beholding Their infinite goodness and beauty, love each other from all eternity, and the expression of this unitive love is a third Person, the Holy Spirit. As the Word is generated by the Father by way of knowledge, so the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son by way of love. The Holy Spirit is, therefore, the terminus, and the effusion of the reciprocal love of the Father and the Son, an effusion so substantial and perfect that it is a Person, the third Person of the Most Holy Trinity, to whom the Father and the Son, by the sublime fruitfulness of their love, communicate their very own nature and essence, without losing any of it Themselves.”—DI #186. [...]