The Mental Health Trap

Do you think everyone needs counseling? Some people do -- especially counselors. After all, that's their bread and butter. So it's refreshing to see a professional psychiatrist, Dr. Roger McFillin, say this:

Why Focusing on Your "Mental Health" Is Harmful

What Do You Want of Me Lord?

When the Blessed Mother appeared to the three little children at Fatima in 1917, Lucia asked, "What do you want of me?" The lady responded telling the children to pray the rosary every day and come to the cova on the 13th of the month. They were simple requests. She gradually led the children to become little victim souls suffering for peace and the salvation of "poor sinners." She showed them a vision of hell with the dying falling into the abyss "like snowflakes." Anyone who believes there is no one in hell, judges the Blessed Mother to be a sadistic monster who terrorizes children. Hell is real. Let's not go there and let's try to save as many "poor sinners" as we possibly can!

LifeSiteNews Reports on Likely Date of TLM "Final Solution"

Reports: Vatican planning to enforce a ‘final’ ban of Traditional Latin Mass, likely on July 16

Here's a bit from the article:

Wisdom from Fulton Sheen, Peter Kreeft, and St. Francis deSales

I  recently read a quote from Archbishop Fulton Sheen that made me laugh. "The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble man his blessings."

And then the insight....Omigosh! How many bloggers count their visit statistics and views?

Mea culpa! Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa!

Some days I think about throwing up my hands, deleting my blog, retiring my newsletter and saying with St. Thomas Aquinas, "It's all straw." Actually, if Thomas' magnificent writings were straw, mine are the poop-covered shavings from the chicken coop...or the waste products on the bottom board of the bee hive.