President Trump's Easter and Passover Message

Can you imagine Hillary - the Islamic OIC Globalist - saying this? We had better be thanking God that President Trump was victorious. We were given a 4 year (now three) reprieve from the powers of darkness. Pray for 2020, because if  Democrats win, there will be hell to pay for all "Deplorables". BTW - where is Huma Abedin now?

Why does the pope keep talking to Scalfari?

Vatican: Don’t trust report that Pope Francis denied reality of hell

Remember the old adage, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!" Can anyone explain why the pope keeps talking to atheist "journalist" Eugenio Scalfari? Every time he does (even when he didn't "grant an interview") the Vatican has to do damage control. The latest is the comment about whether hell exists or sinners just (poof!) cease to exist. Unfortunately, the Vatican response doesn't present the doctrine clearly, it just reiterates (once again) that Scalfari takes no notes or recordings and just remembers in his own words what the pope said. 

Seems to me that Il Papa and Scalfari should confine their discussions to the weather.

I always thought NPR was a joke! But they outdid themselves mis-defining Easter!

When I read that NPR (National Public Radio) said Easter was "the day celebrating the idea that Jesus did not die and go to hell or purgatory or anywhere at all but rather arose into heaven." I thought it had to be an April Fools joke -- albeit a little early. I always check out things that sound preposterous, and so I went to the source itself and there it was -- the revised article with a correction at the bottom. This is why I do not listen to NPR. Their ignorance and bias are so pervasive they can't even get a simple fact right, one that every Christian child knows. (This is one more reason NPR should be defunded! Why should taxpayers be forced to advance their liberal stupidity?)

But, hey, they're good for a laugh on this Holy Saturday and this should remind us to pray for liberal so-called "journalists" many of whom live in echo chambers devoid of Christians. Hence their ignorance of basic Christian beliefs. So let's all pray for liberal reporters at the Easter liturgy. It's a time of hope, after all. 

CorrectionMarch 30, 2018

An earlier version of this post incorrectly described Easter as "the day celebrating the idea that Jesus did not die and go to hell or purgatory or anywhere at all, but rather arose into heaven.

via GIPHY

Good Friday Silence

"But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed." Isaiah 53:5

Our Lover Comes; How Will You Receive Him?

In 2010 I posted this article by a dear priest, Fr. Robert Lange, who went to his eternal reward in 2015. On this Holy Thursday, I think it is worth repeating. I will be praying for Father at the service this evening. I hope you will too. 

And did you know that The Law of the Church is Communion on the Tongue? Receiving in the hand is an indult, an exception to the law, that was given to the bishops of the United States because of widespread disobedience by the flock, disobedience that many of the bishops encouraged. Sad, isn't it, the damage done by false shepherds acting more like the hireling? May we all pray and fast for our bishops and clergy that they will be able to say with Christ, "Zeal for your house consumes me." (Psalm 69:9, John 2:17)

Respect For Christ In The Eucharist – One Priest’s Perspective

[The picture above is of my home in Fort Valley, Virginia, and the light is coming from my chapel where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved. There is not light in the window and there is no sun out on the day of the picture.]

by Rev. Robert Lange

What do you think of this? Sounds like it started as a tornado response in Oklahoma

Looks like it would provide more protection than getting under your desk. Read more here.

Snowflakes on the March

The March was all about demonizing the NRA and gun
owners. Not one word of criticism was aimed at the shooter
or the cops who stood by while the killing occurred.

Last year on this date, I wrote about the snowflakes. I revisited that post today because of the snowflakes' big march, also call the March for Our Lives. It got me thinking once again about the snowflake generation that runs from chalk messages on the sidewalk but is happy to join a bullying mob like the students at Providence College who went after Michael Smalanskas for daring to promote marriage between one man and one woman.

The tragedy in Florida's Parkland school deserves a response, but not a rally reminiscent of liberal mob events used by leftists to stir up crowds against (take your pick) aristocrats (the French Revolution), the czar (the Russian Revolution), Catholics (the Protestant Reformation), Jews (Nuremberg rallies), the NRA and gun owners, etc.

The Passion Begins.... For the Underground Church in China

Bishop Guo of the underground church
allegedly refused to concelebrate Easter Mass
with excommunicated bishop.

Bishop Guo, underground bishop of Mindong, was arrested yesterday along with his diocesan chancellor. It seems appropriate that this terrible situation is taking place during passion week! 

What is especially tragic, however, is the part the Vatican is playing in the persecution. The headlines below highlight the betrayal of the poor, persecuted Catholics of China who have risked much to continue praying in the underground Church that remained faithful to the Holy See. In today's modern Church, it seem no martyrdom goes unpunished. The real bishops are being asked to step down so government-appointed bishops of the faux Catholic Patriotic Association can take their places. Is Et tu, Brute the proper reaction or Do you betray your master with a kiss? Perhaps both.

Monday of Holy Week: St. Francis de Sales on Humility and Obedience

I continue to read St. Francis de Sales' Sermons on Lent. On Palm Sunday, the focus was on humility

and obedience. St. Francis is a master of the spiritual life and we can certainly benefit from meditating on his writing during this Holy Week:

Everything in the world has two faces, because everything has two principles. The first is God, the first cause of everything that exists. The second is the nothingness from which everything has been drawn. Now, since God is the first principle of every being, there is nothing that does not contain something beautiful and lovable in it. But since very created things is drawn out of nothingness, each contains some imperfection.

Sunday Meditation: Holy Week Begins....On Betrayal and the Church in China

Our Lady of China, pray for the
persecuted underground Church.

Holy Week begins. The betrayal is imminent, a betrayal that continues throughout history like the expanding ripples in a lake. Judas isn't far from us. He lives in our hearts and we can see him in the larger events occurring around us as I realized once again this morning with sorrow.

I was reading a LifeSiteNews article reprinted in The Wanderer about Cardinal Zen and his dismay over the Vatican betraying China's underground Church and recognizing the unfaithful bishops excommunicated by previous popes.

What a head-shaker!

The suffering Church in China must be feeling the same betrayal as Catholics in England watching their bishops bend the knee to a lustful monarch who began the systematic dismantling of the Church. Except for St. John Fisher, I'm not aware of a single courageous English bishop who defended the faith.