The Feast of the Holy Family: I hope you and yours are celebrating a family day!

We are!

I love this portrait of the Holy Family because it shows Joseph as a young man instead of a doddering old codger. Have a blessed final day of 2017! And may the Holy Family pray for us and our needs.

Claudio Coello, Spanish painter of the baroque period
c. 1642 - 1693

Europe...listen to the wisdom of Calvin Coolidge

I assimilated.

Europe, as well as the American Left, would do well to heed Calvin Coolidge's wisdom. Just insert "Europe or Europeans" in place of "America or Americans". 

“We are all agreed, whether we be Americans [Europeans] of the first or of the seventh generation on this soil, that it is not desirable to receive more immigrants than can reasonably be assured of bettering their condition by coming here. For the sake both of those who would come and more especially of those already here, it has been thought wise to avoid the danger of increasing our numbers too fast. It is not a reflection on any race or creed. We might not be able to support them if their numbers were too great. In such event, the first sufferers would be the most recent immigrants, unaccustomed to our life and language and industrial methods. We want to keep wages and living conditions good for everyone who is now here or 
who may come here."

"The Family that Prays Together Stays Together and a World at Prayer Will Be a World at Peace.": Fr. Patrick Peyton

Fr. Peyton addresses
one of his rosary crusades.

Sleep and I are not on good terms many nights. Last night was one of them. I woke about 3:45 this morning and got up at 4:15. Because of the mass visitation of family the past eight days, I haven't watched any Christmas movies (We play games more than we watch movies.) so I snuggled up under a blanket with my coffee and put on a silly black and white that isn't worth mentioning. Then, browsing through a list of "classic Christmas shows," I stumbled upon A Star is Rising from "rosary priest" Fr. Patrick Peyton about the coming of the three kings to Bethlehem. I've always loved Fr. Peyton so it was an easy choice.

Fr. Peyton was an Irish immigrant from a poor family who came to the United States as a young man in 1928 and worked in the coal mines. After being cured of tuberculosis through the intercession of the Blessed Mother, he decided to become a priest and spend his life working to spread the rosary. After organizing many rosary crusades in the U.S. and around the world, he decided to expand his reach through modern means of communication.

That Wicked Lying Lucifer - See, I Told You So.

The wallpaper of Islam's mind

It's getting to be a thing with me now - saying, I told you so. But I did, and no one listened. So when a world renowned esteemed author, blogger and all around super intelligent genius says the same thing, I think, I told them so! See! I was right but no one believed me because I'm just me and not in any way famous. But I DID SAY SO. I figured it out and told everyone but no one wanted to listen!

So here it is: Allah is Lucifer. Islam is the established religion of Lucifer where he sets himself up to be worshiped as God in place of the Holy Trinity. And Muhammad is Lucifer's prophet. Muhammad's "Gabriel" ("St Gabriel the Archangel")  was Lucifer making himself appear as St Gabriel.Yep, that same Lucifer who as Gabriel beat Muhammad into submission in the cave on Hira...literally beat the Quran into him! That's where the word Islam comes from - it means submission. Submission to Lucifer.

A Stable is the Perfect Place for a Child to be Born

This is a stable

Every Christmas we're inundated with comments from the pulpit (and websites and blogs) about how Baby Jesus was "born in a smelly stable", "born among filth", "born in a filthy stable", "born in a really cold dank smelly stable". I just want to jump up and cry, "WHAT are you talking about?! Obviously you have never even BEEN in a stable!"

It's evident that many of these priests/people never experienced the sweetness of a clean stable so how do they know what a stable is like? Several decades of my life were spent in barns—hunter/show barns, Thoroughbred race-horse barns, racetrack barns, sales barns, horse farms, cattle farms, sheep farms - and throw a few chicken sheds in there too. 

Guest Post: Pope Francis - The Our Father "Induces Temptation"

By David Martin

Pope Francis has said that the Lord's Prayer should be changed, arguing that the translation used in many parts of the world, including the Italian and English versions, go against the teachings of the Church and Bible.

In the centuries-old recited prayer, followers of the Christian Faith call on God to "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."

Speaking to Italian broadcasters on December 7, Francis argued this was incorrect, saying, "It is not a good translation because it speaks of a God who induces temptation."

A Christmas Message from Bishop Rene Gracida

Thank God for faithful Catholic bishops. And pray for all those who are not.

Go here to see the Christmas message from one dear bishop who is a fearless truth-teller.

Nativity Hymn in Arabic

...dedicated to all Arabic Christians murdered by Islam over the centuries

Rejoice and Be Glad: Our Savior is Born!

We've seen enough of the horrifying Nativity in St. Peter's Square. Let's look at some depictions of the Savior's birth that are beautiful and awe-inspiring. When I look at each of these pictures it makes me think of a Christmas carol. Don't you want to sing to the glory of God when you look at this? The only thing I think of when I look at the Vatican Nativity is the Nightmare Before Christmas!

Have a blessed and Merry Christmas. 

Rembrandt - O Holy Night!

The Grotto of the Nativity where Jesus Christ was Born