The Dark Side of the Moon

The Dark Side of the Moon, by Anonymous is a book about the terrible events that occurred when Russia took over Poland and exported to slave labor camps all those people who had ever had anything to do with national Polish loyalty.  It is maybe one of the saddest books I've ever read.  

General Sikorski Monument

Polish general and beloved hero, Wladyslaw Sikorski collected these accounts with the desire to preserve them and share them with the world which needed to know what went on so far away it might as well have been the other side of the moon, shut off from world press and beyond anyone's imagination.  The general died in a mysterious plane crash the soviet pilot managed somehow to survive.  His widow later published  the information he had collected, but did not take any credit, leaving the authorship unknown.  

Islam Conquering the World through the Halal Movement

Halal is sacrifice to Allah, in other 

words, sacrifice to an idol which is 

forbidden for Christians and Jews

Thanks to Creeping Sharia and Kirralie Smith for the following information:

Halal certification fees of billions is a modern day invention which began in the 1990s. There are three choices for Muslims for dealing with non-Muslims: 1) violent jihad, 2) conversion, 3) dhimmitude through jizya tax. It is this third choice of dhimmitude in the form of jizya tax that we are dealing with when it comes to halal certification where Muslims exercise dhimmitude (slavery) over Western civilization. It is a global push for Islamization. 

And where does the money go? Sixty percent of halal food is controlled by Muslim Brotherhood organizations and ends up funneled into the hands of Islamic organizations which support terrorism. It is being done by stealth and we fund it every day through our grocery purchases.

Always Read with your Critical Thinking Scan in the On Position!

Just because a man wears a roman collar
doesn't mean he's telling the truth.

I picked up a book of Easter season daily readings written in 1980 and I'd say it shows all the
evidence of post Vatican II...mmm...for want of a better word...confusion. Today, for Friday of the 2nd week of Easter I read this:

...we have the assurance -- if a work is of God, it cannot be destroyed. To fight it is to fight against God....And as we look about us at people who have survived heroic tests of endurance or at institutions that have continued to exist over the centuries, we ought to be convinced that such expressions are godly. Otherwise, they would have died a long time ago. There are many such institutions which deserve much more respect than we often give them. They must have proven not only that they are from  God but also that their motivation is divinely inspired.

Hooray for Fra' Matthew Festing!

Fra' Matthew Festing, former Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, was a member of the Grenadier Guards. I hope he hears their marching song this weekend when HE IS IN ROME despite orders from Pope Francis to stay away from Saturday's election there of the order's new Grand Master. Fra' Festing has every right to be in Rome and millions of people pray he is elected to replace the current puppet placed there by Pope Francis. This is for Fra' Festing:

What Difference Does it Make?

         

Upon this rock

A book fell into my hands last week that I never expected to read, but which I am excited to tell you about because it has given me yet another reason to be grateful that I found my way to the Catholic Church 49 years ago.  At first, I planned only to read the introduction, but I knew from the first few words, this was going to be a book I would not be able to put down.  The title is  Let There Be No Divisions Among Them, Why All Christians Should be Catholic, by Rev. John MacLaughlin, first published in 1891.  It begins this way,

Introduction

       "In the following pages, I propose to answer the question, ‘Is one religion as good as another?’

In other words, I propose to discuss indifferentism, the popular theory that teaches that all Christian creeds find equal favor in the eyes of God and that it doesn’t matter which branch of Christianity a man belongs to, provided he be a good man after his own fashion."

Reading Acts of the Apostles for the Easter Season

Send me, Lord!

If I had to choose a favorite book in the Bible I think it would be Acts of the Apostles. What an adventure it relates about the early days of the Church.

When someone asks me about the Bible or comments on its difficulty, I always suggest they read Acts first. It's easy to understand and shows the zeal and commitment of the apostles after they receive the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. What an adventure story with Paul being shipwrecked and marooned, jailed and beaten. (Robinson Crusoe and the Count of Monte Cristo have nothing on Paul.) What models those early evangelizers offer us!

Where Will You Be on May 13th?

My kitchen shrine to Our Lady and Jacinta.

I wish I could say that I will be in Fatima for the 100th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady to the three little shepherd children: Jacinta and Francisco Marto, and Lucia dos Santos. That's where Pope Francis will be and during his visit he will canonize Jacinta and Francisco. Praised be to God!

 I love those little ones who present such a heroic example of piety and sacrifice. The penances they embraced to "save poor sinners from hell" would challenge the strongest adults. They even suffered a spiritual martyrdom when they kept Mary's secret to the point of believing they would be boiled in oil for their faithfulness. 

If you haven't read their story, make it a priority. As the Scripture says, "A little child shall lead them." (Isaiah 11:6)

Since I can't be in Fatima I intend to be at a Marian shrine. In fact, I intend to do that on all the anniversaries of the apparitions. Mary appeared to the children six times -- on the 13th of the month from May through October when she displayed a miracle of the sun for the world. Only once did she come to the children later than the 13th-- on August 19th-- because the little ones were prevented from going to the Cova de Iria, the site of the apparitions, by the mayor of Ourem who kidnapped them and held them in jail for two days. Our Lady appeared a few days after their release.

I saw God at the pet shop Friday night

Mother Teresa said, “Where there is love, there is God.” I saw God at the local pet shop Friday night where I stopped after work to buy food for our family’s pet rabbits.

The aisle with rabbit food also has food for guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils and ferrets plus cages and various products for each type of animal. I was looking at bunny treats when God quietly slipped into the aisle and stood beside me. He appeared as Love.

An old hunched over woman shuffled into the aisle. She had close cropped grey hair in no particular style, old Bermuda shorts, a T-shirt and a dingy pink sweater. The right side of her face was darkened with some sort of bumps on her skin and she had very few remaining teeth.

We were beside each other, kind of shoulder to shoulder but facing opposite directions since she was looking at hamster cages on the other side of the aisle. I looked at her and she looked at me. We both smiled. Then I went on trying to choose pet food for the rabbits.

Suddenly a boy about age 7 raced into the aisle. He was excited and trying to make up his mind which of the 3 hamster cages he liked best. One cage had a circular staircase with a box at the top for the hamster to sit in, another had an attached ball so the little thing could run to its hearts delight and the third had several tunnels and tiny box houses on top.

On this Divine Mercy Sunday Let's Pray for Mercy on Holy Mother Church

The Church is in crisis primarily because of the casual treatment of the Eucharist. Several cardinals and bishops are boldly expressing their concern about the loss of faith and calling for more reverence in the liturgy. Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi, "as we worship, so we believe, so we live."

Robert Royal and Fr. Gerald Murray discuss this on The World Over in the video (after the page break). It is well worth reflecting on during your Divine Mercy devotions today.

Love the Holy Mass. Approach the altar in fear and trembling and with deep gratitude, because to eat the Body of the Lord and drink His Blood unworthily is a disaster for your soul!

How Does the Evil One Mess with You?

Two hives down with contents now in the belly of the beast!

If you're a beekeeper like I am, there is one thing that really messes with your bees. (Well, there are other things, but this one is a weapon of mass destruction.) I'm talking about bears! A bear got into our bee yard during the night between Spy Wednesday and Holy Thursday. We had four hives in the bee yard. He wiped out one completely and munched through about a dozen frames of nectar/pollen. He upset another hive turning it upside down which may have protected the bees since he couldn't pull out the frames without righting the box. He dragged half a dozen frames into the woods where he apparently munched in private and left several other demolished frames in the bee yard.