1. Prayers for the Moore, Oklahoma victims. Good grief. It just never ends.

2. The U.K. is totally lost. Musloids are literally sawing people's heads off in broad daylight in the middle of the street while encouraging others to video the beheading whilst screaming "allah akbar" and declaring "you will never be safe here" and the Brits report that they haven't pinned down a motive or determined if it is terrorism. Sign the papers. It is over.

3. Life in the van down by the river continues apace. I need to stop laying awake at night reading, though.

4. On a cool note, a chap named a racehorse after me this week. That doesn't happen every day. Meet ANN OF LONE TREE, a two year old Thoroughbred filly who will start racing this summer. What a beautiful horse! Goodness, I sure hope she doesn't prove to be unsound, break down and have to be turned into glue and Taco Bell chalupa filling.

Nah. She'll be fine. And will someday, while yet in her prime, retire to a pasture down by the river, no doubt.

5. This from a cattleman friend in Nebraska in response to the "So what can we do?" post:

Start calling bee-ess on bee-ess in your daily lives! Quit ignoring those around you doing something that is morally and or ethically wrong. Of course we don’t call bee-ess on our government officials, we won’t even call bee-ess on the people we interact with on a daily basis!

Amen.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. †

St. Michael. Protect those who are too stupid and deluded to protect themselves.

Via YouTube:

From: zxcvbnm1499 Altaf Hussain
RE: You little whore, You slut

i hope you get such a big c**k up your a** you need stitches.
i hope your kidneys rot and you die slowly .
i hope you never have kids and spread your retarded gene pool.
i hope you get run over by a mosqe van and they have to scrape you off the road.
i hope you get f****d so hard in the a** you have to wear a diper the rest of your miserable life. f**k you

i think you are a lesbian.
i think you are retarded.
i think you are a right wing redneck retard.
i think you dont like c**k you like p***y.
i think you can go to hell with all the other right wing retarded lesbians who dont like c**k but like to lick p***y f**k you slut

Speaking now as a vigorously heterosexual virgin, um, yeah, I think this indicates that in terms of the argument, I WIN. Is there any doubt, any doubt whatsoever, that islam is a satanic and thoroughly demonic political system?

Let me sum up.

IS THAT ALL YOU GOT, PLAYER?

And if any of the above ever happens to me, which I hope they don't, but if they do, then I look forward to being ever closer to Christ in heaven, beside St. Lawrence (roasted alive on a bar-be-que, who was so joyful that at one point he jokingly said, "I think I'm done on this side, could you please turn me over?") and St. Bartholomew (skinned alive). Don't think that I haven't been mentally and spiritually preparing for such an eventuality for years. I recommend that all of you do the same. The fruit of the Fourth Glorious Mystery (the Assumption of Mary into heaven) is the grace of a happy death - not a necessarily peaceful or calm death, just a happy death. Um, you are praying all 15 decades of the Rosary every day, right???

Saints Lawrence and Bartholomew, pray for us!

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence:

I have written on this before, but it has been a couple of years, and since my posts disappear into the void forever after falling off the bottom of this 80 post page, I'll just write it up again. Even within the last two years, the inroads made by the satanic sodomite culture have been staggering. And sadly, typically, no one seems able to make any sort of intelligent, informed response to the satanic sodomite propaganda. "That doesn't go there," while a pithy and witty enough retort in a Dorothy Parker sort of way to the sins of Sodom, does exactly nothing to genuinely explain WHY the sins of Sodom cry out for God's vengeance and cannot be tolerated in a culture that expects to survive, much less to actually help the people who are ensnared within them. The fact that the Church, the one body on earth tasked with standing in the breach between the satanic sodomite forces and leading the defense against their relentless, unceasing bayonet charge … has itself been massively infiltrated by sodomites just makes the situation all the more grave.

First, we have to understand the origins of same-sex attractions, because one of the major weapons being used by the satanic sodomite hordes is the lie that the origins are genetic, and thus on par with race. This is total, complete, utter nonsense. There is no "gay gene" any more than there is a "bestiality gene" or a "necrophilia gene" or a "rape gene". The satanic sodomite hordes are masterful at using the profound stupidity and total lack of critical thinking skills of the modern western mind, and know that all they need do is publish and spread the gay gene lie, and the average mush-brained American will eat it up. Nevermind anything like, oh, you know, EVIDENCE. Nah. "Kathy" will just KNOW it's true because a.) she saw it in writing on the innerwebz and everything on the innerwebz must be true and b.) it just FEELS true because Kathy's gay hairdresser and his boyfriend are just so CUTE and they tell her she is pretty every time she sees them.

Yes, that's right. The entire world is being sent careening down the latrine with zero resistance largely because a bunch of stupid, insecure, middle-aged women like being lied to about their looks, and the men are all too flaccid and emasculated to tell the "Kathys" of the world to SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP.

There are two broad classes of the origins of same-sex attractions. The first is sexual abuse in childhood itself. Interestingly, childhood sexual abuse may actually be the easier origin to correct in adulthood. An adult who was raped as a child can actually have an easier time getting their head around and correcting the psychological disorders that came from their childhoods. Childhood rape victims also tend to be less "flamboyant" in their carriages and comportments as adults and tend to fit well into healthy gender roles ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. The women tend to be feminine, not butch, and the men tend to be nominally masculine, not flamers.

Let's start with a female childhood rape victim. Did you know that in excess of 95% of female strippers and "exotic dancers" in the U.S. today were raped by men as children - with the vast majority having been raped by their mothers' boyfriends and husbands? Did you also know that the incidence of lesbianism amongst female strippers is massive? These girls are very feminine, obviously. The descent of these women into the world of the sex trade, specifically dancing, is, for them, about having power over their abuser. When they are on stage, they are in charge and they are, in a sense, dominating the men. The lesbianism is a manifestation of the deep-seated fear and mistrust of men in any truly intimate context, spurred on by the fact that they are immersed in a world of sexual perversion to begin with.

A guy worked in my office years ago who was a big-time Democrat, and presented himself as this super-pious Catholic, even teaching catechism classes in the biggest parish in Denver. One day a stripper showed up that one of his equally hypocritical clients had sent him for his birthday and he happily opened all of his blinds in his office so that all of the people outside eating lunch could see this girl strip completely naked and grind her genitals on his pelvis for ten minutes. I wonder how old that girl was the first time her mother's boyfriend slipped into her bedroom and felt her up. Seven? Eight? I wonder if she knew what was happening the first time she was orally or digitally raped. But you know the question that still haunts me?

I WONDER WHAT HER NAME IS.

Boys who are abused tend to likewise turn into fairly normal-looking, nominally masculine men. Their pathology is, again, centered around sexual power and domination. True pedophiles, that is to say men attracted to pre-pubescent little boys, are almost never "swishing, flaming" homosexuals. The guys at the hair salon or the florists probably aren't into little boys - they like men and probably sexually mature teenagers - more on that is a second. That is one of the big misconceptions in this culture and why true pedophiles have such an easy time victimizing children. There is a misconception that pedophiles are swishy, and they aren't. They are masculine and are looking to sexually dominate a child the same way that they were sexually dominated when they were children. Many true pedophiles are married with children themselves and are never suspected in their communities until they are caught.

And yes, this sexual abuse dynamic is basically THE driver behind every islamic culture on the planet. It is just a massive cycle of man-boy rape perpetuated for 1400 years, and yes, this absolutely helps explain why musloid men are all suicidal, homocidal, sexually perverted satanic rage monsters. Getting raped on a regular basis from the age of four will do that.

Now on to the more complex psychological genesis of same-sex attractions: self-loathing. This tends to be the domain of children and teenagers who are of above-average intelligence and are thus more acutely self-aware and emotionally sensitive. It can begin quite early in childhood, depending on the intelligence level of the child. The smarter the child, the earlier "the lights come on" and memories and emotional patterns start being laid down in the brain. For some people this happens very early - before the age of five. For some, it barely happens at all. Deep emotional sensitivity and self-criticality literally never happens for many people. They go through their lives largely unencumbered by feelings of angst, self-doubt, lack of confidence or navel-gazing. I view this as a tremendous mercy in God's Providence. He gives each of us what we will need in order to live up to the potential He plans for us. If it is not God's will that a man be a "welder", God does not shoulder that man with an "arc welder" that he has to carry around on his back. The question always is, are we living up to our God-given potential and using the gifts that He has given us? If our gifts are acute emotional sensitivity, above average intelligence OR a strong back and a love of manual labor, are we maximizing those gifts and traits to the glory of God?

Here is where things can go wrong. An intelligent, emotionally sensitive child can begin obsessively comparing himself or herself to their peers. Children with physical abnormalities are especially vulnerable to this: short, tall, fat, skinny, birthmarks, glasses, pigeon-toed or turned-out feet, severe overbite or underbite, etc. But really, even children who are average and even above-average can always find an example of the the boy who is just a bit more athletic, or the girl who is just a bit prettier. The bottom line is, the child, and then the adult, looks in the mirror and does NOT see the perfect human ideal (for simplicity's sake let's call that "Brad Pitt" and "Grace Kelly") staring back at them, and thus they become hyper-critical of themselves which easily morphs into self-loathing. Then, the jealous, envious fixation on the "Brad Pitt" for boys and the "Grace Kelly" for girls becomes an obsession. When puberty kicks in and testosterone gets added to the stew, with not a little help from the whispers of demons who are always lurking and see little Jimmy and Little Susie staring at themselves in the mirror and then bursting into tears, the envious obsession with the exotic "Brad Pitt" becomes the EROTIC obsession with "Brad Pitt".

Now our boy, Jimmy, is desirous of sexual congress with "Brad Pitt" because he thinks that if he gets close enough to "Brad Pitt" that he will TURN INTO BRAD PITT. Homosexuals in this psychological category are more likely to be EPHEBOPHILES, which is to say attracted to pubescent teenagers, because they get stuck in their adolescence and want to go back in time to junior high and high school and mount a conquest of the boy or girl present at the time of their onset of sexual feelings. Almost all of the priests who are child abusers fall into this category: homosexual men chasing after the cool teenaged boy in an attempt to relive and re-feel their own teenage years. This is VERY typical among effeminate homosexual men. This is also a common story among the lesbian gym teacher and girls basketball coach predator set. The men want the captain of the football team and the lesbians want the captain of the volleyball team.

Jimmy hates himself, remember. Jimmy self-loathes. Jimmy wants to literally be somebody else. And here is where it all comes together. Sexual congress between a man and wife is all about giving one's self totally to the other as a GIFT. The marital act is saying, "I want the two of us to be one person. I don't want to cease to exist. I don't want you to cease to exist. I want both of us to come together and be one unit in the eyes of God." This, of course, actually happens in the transmission of life. A child is the two people combined. This also serves as a great criterion by which you can know if you should be discerning marriage with someone. Are you desirous of seeing what the combination of your DNA with the other person's would look like? In other words, do you want to have kids with that person - even if that is physically impossible due to age? If the answer is "nope, not interested", you need to end any romantic association with that person, and certainly not get married.

If you hate yourself, you cannot, by definition, give yourself as a gift to anyone. The sodomite either hates the partner and seeks only physical domination and a sense of power over the partner (the victims of childhood rape), OR he self-loathes and wishes only for sexual congress so that he might "consume" the partner and thus replace himself. There is no such thing as healthy perversion. There is no such thing as benign sodomy. Even if both partners consent the act itself feeds dangerous, destructive psychological neuroses that will effect and DESTROY the broad culture like a metastasizing cancer.

This is why sodomites tend to be so promiscuous. They are looking for each sex partner to "transform" them, and every morning when they wake up and look in the mirror and have not been transformed into someone else and are still themselves, they become disillusioned and eventually hostile towards the sex partner who failed to transform them. This is why homosexual men are the most promiscuous class of human by orders of magnitude. This is why the per capita incidence of domestic battery is highest among lesbians. Ask any cop and they will tell you that lesbians just beat the tar out of each other.

I marvel at "libertarians" who claim that no government has the right to enforce any laws with regards to sexuality whatsoever. Are you morons blind? Can you not see what the tolerance of satanic sodomite culture has done over the last seventy years? Turn on your teevee. I know you have one. See all of that brain-dead perverted garbage it is perpetually spewing out? Do you think that just spontaneously happened? WHO and WHAT has been the driving force behind (N.P.I.) the utter debasement of the media, music and culture? WHO and WHAT culture began the embrace of promiscuity, adultery, divorce, cohabitation, contraception, abortion, pornography, perversion, sodomy and now is trying to totally destroy marriage and the family? Who kept pushing and pushing for the next more shockingly filthy rap lyric, the next more hard-core bit of porn, the next embrace of some ever-more unfathomable sexual perversion, all the while mocking and now openly destroying the lives of people who resist the plunge into hell.

SODOMITES.

If you want to pretend that "what consenting adults do behind closed doors" is irrelevant and you want to live in some irrational libertarian fantasy world, I won't be participating. I will only consent to a RATIONAL, MORAL government that acknowledges objective reality, and the objective reality is that sodomy is a cancer upon humanity and if not kept aggressively in check will CONSUME and DESTROY whatever culture deludes itself into believing that it is harmless. As I said recently, sodomy MUST be a felony-level offense or else the society is doomed. The compassionate side of this is the requirement to help people deal with these psychological perversions and either facilitate a recovery OR to live in chastity. Remember, the opposite of love (caritas, or charity) is NOT hate. The opposite of love is indifference. To abandon these people to their obvious massive psychological problems and then to go the satanic step further in smugly ratifying these crimes and calling it proof of our own self-righteousness is the epitome of indifference. There is not one shred of love, not one shred of charity in that - not toward the sodomite himself, and not toward your neighbors in the broad culture who will themselves be destroyed by the cancer of the sodomite milieu. Step one? At least have the stones to understand it, and explain it to "Kathy", even if she calls you a "hater" for doing so.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. †

St. Theodore Stratelates. Military man. Martyr. He was a general under the emperor Licinius who was persecuted for being a Christian. He was a total man. He invited Emperor Licinius down to his area to offer sacrifices to the gods. He ordered all silver and gold statues of gods collected and brought to his house for this big "offering" in the presence of the emperor. Then he had them all smashed and gave the pieces to the people. Heh. That's just macho. So in-your-face.

At first he was tortured and crucified, but found the next morning to be miraculously unharmed. Not wanting to flee a martyr's death, he presented himself for beheading and was martyred on February 8, 319 AD.

His icon hangs in a church near Damascus, Syria dedicated to him. At one point the church was overrun by musloids who were using it as a place to house their concubines and children. A musloid shot an arrow into the fresco of St. Theodore's image. The arrow his the face and penetrated as if it was flesh, and the fresco stated to bleed. Soon after, all of the musloids were killed inside the church.

After the musloids had been driven out and the church reclaimed, St. Anastasius reported that he had seen the fresco with the congealed blood still visible.

Don't mess with Ted.

But Ann! If having superfun social gatherings isn't really an effective way to fight evil, what can we possibly, possibly do?

Just off the top of my head:

1. Media strike

(A few of you have done this, but as a percentage it is miniscule. We must have our TV! We must watches our showses and our sportses. We can't lives withouts it, precious.)

2. Tax strike

DUH.

But, but, but the IRS will come after me!

Do you read the news, sweetie? THE IRS IS GOING TO COME AFTER YOU ANYWAY. Knowing what we know now about the IRS intentionally targting conservative groups as policy, do I now think that it is possible that my IRS audit which was initiated six weeks after I went viral with my koran burning was malicious and not coincidental? Yes. It is possible.

You people have got to stop living in fear. You cannot win if you are constantly trying to play defense and refuse to ever, ever, ever make any offensive moves. Just stop and think about it. How can an army that takes NO offensive tactical measures ever win a war?

3. General strike / work stoppages

This comes after the mass tax strike, not before, because it is collaterally harmful to the public. But let's be frank, you people can't even cancel your cable feed, so why bother talking about this?

4. Armed resistance and counter-revolution

This would require executing tactics one through three first, and a modicum of masculinity in the culture, so ... yeah. I'm not holding my breath. So long as the flickerbox is pumping the agitporn, and so long as Mickey D's is slinging the burgers and Coke, Amerika will be sated.

Coming up this week will be a series of essays on homosexuality. I will specifically cover the psychological genesis of same sex attractions, how it relates to faux-marriage, and how homosexuality must be a disqualifier for the priesthood. If no one else will explain any of this stuff, I will.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. †

St. Bavo of Ghent, Belgium. Former nasty character who converted and reformed his nasty ways. Interestingly, it is the good, converted to Christ and reformed in Christ St. Bavo shown above manfully wielding his ASSAULT WEAPON. He died naturally, and thus the fact that he is shown with an ASSAULT WEAPON is NOT indicative of martyrdom. He is shown manfully holding an ASSAULT WEAPON because that is what manful saints do. He is also the patron saint of falconry.

First, a quick link to the wonderful Lord Christopher Monckton. When Lord Monckton echoes everything you have said nearly word-for-word, it is an edifying feeling. The U.S. is over. He even recommends buying metals.

Click here for Lord Monckton's piece.

I know that America is toast and there will be no miraculous deliverance any time soon based off of one excruciatingly simple observation that anyone can make. It is simply this: is there or is there not sorrow and repentance for the sins of the nation?

Not only is the answer to that question a resounding "no", it is beyond that. We have plowed through the "zero" and are now delving into the negative. This culture relishes in and is proud of itself for being morally degenerated, perverse, murderous and satanic. This culture uses its parabolic descent into evil as the proof set of its own self-righteousness.

And may I just say that the opposition is tepid to the point of being utterly pathetic - the quintessence of lukewarmness. And we all remember what Our Lord said about the lukewarm. He will VOMIT the lukewarm out of His mouth.

And here is where I offend my readership. (No cries of "She's a sellout!" here, thank you.)

You people are doing NOTHING to fight any of this. I'm sorry, but having a fun outing wherein a bunch of people get together, do a fun activity, eat yummy food, socialize, say a prayer or two, and then distribute t-shirts proudly proclaiming that "WE RODE OUR BIKES THROUGH ESTES PARK AND THEN HAD A PICNIC ... TO END ABORTION" is frankly narcissistic to the point of being nauseating.

When the angel in the Third Secret of Fatima is screaming "Penance, Penance, Penance!" while waving a massive sword of fire, he isn't talking about having a bike ride, a movie night, a "march" followed by a fabulous 2.5 hour lunch, a softball game, a potluck dinner or a bakesale. And no matter how many t-shirts you have printed up, and no matter how frequently you wear your "I walked in a two mile circle with my friends this one Saturday to end abortion" t-shirt, you aren't doing JACK SQUAT to end, or even SLOW DOWN the parabolic descent into hell of your culture. You are NOT saving any lives. In fact, your benignity and lukewarmness is actually encouraging to the Enemy and those walking the line, because they know that if they choose evil, your response will be some ridiculous non-response response.

This far and no farther! One more step, one more legalization of baby killing, one more mandate that I must pay for child slaughter, one more ratification of sodomy and I'll ... I'll ... I'll HAVE A SUPERFUN SOCIAL GATHERING WITH MY FRIENDS!

The United States of America is O.V.E.R. It is hopeless. It will implode and be destroyed, and it deserves to implode and be destroyed. The only way this satanic culture will end is if it is done by force. You know what my prayer is? My prayer is that it is God who does it Himself and that angels with massive fire-swords are dispatched, because the alternative is that He uses the traditional scourge of sinful Christian nations, which is of course the musloid hordes. Oh, I'll take the angels any day. Angels don't rape. They chastise in the ferocious burning charity of the Lord.

And now, just to show you how it is done, I give you the third chapter of the book of Jonah:

And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying: Arise, and go to Ninive the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee. And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey. And Jonas began to enter into the city one day' s journey: and he cried, and said: Yet forty days, and Ninive shall be destroyed. And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.

And the word came to the king of Ninive; and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen nor sheep, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water. And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish? And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which He had said that He would do to them, and He did it not.

When abortion is a capital offense and sodomy is a felony, you let me know. Otherwise, I'll be in the van down by the river praying for God's Perfect Justice to rain down upon the U.S. This evil has to end. This cannot go on. To be delivered from God's Wrath with no correction of the culture is too horrific to fathom. Bring it, O Lord. Bring it now. So be it.

The repentance of the people of Nineveh:

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. †

Angel, with ASSAULT WEAPON, using said assault weapon to expel Adam and Eve from the Garden. I would recommend getting oneself familiarized with the idea of angelic beings with weapons, and using them on people. That is what it is going to take to make this satanic death spiral stop. God, please, please make it stop.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, along with the rest of the regime players, murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens. It was a hit. It wasn't incompetence. It wasn't deer-in-the-headlights collective inaction. It wasn't a kidnapping plot gone wrong. It was a hit.

The whole incompetence argument is simply the domain of moral and intellectual cowards who insist upon seeing the world through rose colored glasses and deny objective reality. My contempt for these people knows no bounds. It's one thing to be stupid. It is quite another to be a coward. Cowardice is a pure moral choice. This is why courage is the fruit of the Third Sorrowful Mystery (the crowning with thorns). If courage was a genetic phenotype, as baseline intelligence largely is (as opposed to willful ignorance), then Our Lord would not desire that we pray for the grace of courage every day. Show me someone arguing that the Obama regime is incompetent and I'll show you a quivering little coward.

Next is the whole "kidnapping plot gone wrong" argument. Sorry. It doesn't hold water. First, the theory that Obama wanted to do a prisoner exchange of Ambassador Stevens for the Blind Sheik right before the election in order to look like some sort of hero is simply ludicrous. Americans would have been repulsed and disgusted by such a move. Americans don't cotton to capitulation to kidnappers. And releasing the Blind Sheik? No, this would have worked against Obama in public opinion. The fact of one of our Ambassadors being kidnapped at all would have come off as a sign of profound weakness, and releasing the Blind Sheik would have pegged the needle on the ol' wimp-o-meter.

Next, this kidnapping scenario assumes that the Obama regime was relying on fairly contested elections, had no election fraud teams in place in the major metro areas of the swing states, and/or was truly Nixonian in its desire for a unanimous victory. Again, nope. They clearly weren't going for a unanimous or near-unanimous electoral college sweep as Nixon was trying to do. They were all about targeted fraud in the swing states. They had no care or concern about winning Kansas, Wyoming or Oklahoma. The motives simply don't match up.

Finally, we have to ask why the Clintons were co-conspirators in the murder of Stevens. WHY are the Clintons a.) participating in the initial murder of Stevens and b.) not throwing Obama and Jarrett under the bus? The Obama machine stole the 2008 primaries from Hillary, and both Bill and Hillary personally loathe Obama and his Chicago crew. Why this unholy demonic alliance?

Because Chris Stevens was a lynchpin in the running of arms by the Obama regime and Clinton's State Department in full cooperation with each other to the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda through Libya. And yes, it is absolutely sane and appropriate to assume that Huma Abedin (Hillary's consigliere and daughter of high-ranking Muslim Brotherhood leaders) figures into this. Both Obama's White House and Hillary's State Department were mutually and equally tied to this arms running, and both of their bacons were equally in the fire. The Obama White House, I am convinced, has plans for the retention of power beyond 2016 (Michelle?), and Hillary thinks she is going to be POTUS from 2017-2025. The bottom line is that the duumvirate of the most dangerous, evil psychopaths on the face of the earth decided for slightly different reasons that Ambassador Stevens needed to be dead in order to cover the gunrunning to the Muslim Brotherhood, and so together, they killed him. They withdrew all of his security (at the behest of the State Department), told the Muslim Brotherhood that it was all-clear, guaranteed that there would be no response or retaliation to an attack (only the Oval Office could issue the stand-down order), and even put the cherry on top by instantly framing the entire hit as some sort of musloid blasphemy propaganda. That was just gratuitous. Sickeningly gratuitous.

If it had been a kidnapping plot, Chris Stevens would have been KIDNAPPED. Remember, he had almost no security in the end. He wouldn't have been gang raped, killed and then had his dead body gang raped again.

The Clintons have a long history of having people murdered, all the way back into the early 1980's in Arkansas. Vince Foster. Ron Brown. These people are psychopaths and murderers. You have to deal with this.

The Obama machine, being neo-Stalinist, is also murderous, having seen to the assassination of at least three of Barry's sodomy partners from Trinity UCC cult on the South Side of Chicago. Purely as an aside, don't you think that it is odd that an attention whore like Jeremiah Wright saw three members of his cult murdered within just a few weeks of one another and never said a WORD publicly about that? No demands for a full FBI investigation on the front steps. No march through the streets with Jesse Jackson and Fr. Pfleger demanding that justice be done and that the targeted killings of his flock be given the highest priority by law enforcement. Nope. Nothing. It's almost as if Wright was neither surprised nor alarmed by the rapid serial killing of his "parishioners". I wonder what POSSIBLE EXPLANATION there could be for that?

Sadly, Chris Stevens was just another "expendable faggot" in the eyes of the Obama-Clinton machine. He was a dead man the day he accepted the position. And doesn't it seem odd that the Obama-Clinton machine would send a known sodomite man to be the ambassador to an unstable, backward muslim country to begin with? Again, it was probably done intentionally as a last-ditch hedge, an ace-up-the-sleeve as it were. Stevens could be killed, and then turned into some sort of sodomite martyr as a last-ditch plan. But, they didn't need that. They had the "blasphemy video". Eyeroll.

Finally, I would like to reiterate that the ultimate "expendable faggot" is Barry himself. I worry. I worried terribly after he showed up stoned to the first debate. I continue to worry now. Barry the man is in no way any sort of intellectual driver behind the regime. He is a puppet, a facade, a lazy imbecile and sodomite and nothing more. If the drivers decide that he is worth more dead than alive, assassinating their "expendable faggot" would be the mother of all Reichstag Fires, and would likely result in instant suspension of the Constitution and martial law. IF BARRY IS ASSASSINATED, THE FIRST THING THAT A TEXAS, A KANSAS, AND ANY OTHER REMNANT STATES LOYAL TO THE CONSTIUTION SHOULD DO IS SECEDE. LIKE, WITHIN MINUTES.

And you people keep paying taxes into this.

Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison.
Kyrie eleison.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. †

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on the hood of a Jeep on the field of battle. THIS is the beauty of simplicity and humility, not some intentionally stripped uber-ugly new-construction church that could be instantly repurposed as a prison, mall or office building. These men fought and died so that they could save and go home to their beautiful cathedrals and parish churches, and so that they, their progeny, their neighbors, AND EVEN THE ENEMY could be free to always have the Church and the Church's beauty available to them. Anyone who thinks that beauty is antithetical to God and the worship of Him has got to be a blithering, slack-jawed imbecile and theological illiterate. Or a Jesuit.

The Assault Weapons are the men kneeling of the left side of the frame.

My name is Ann Barnhardt, and I am a motivational speaker. Let me give you a little bit of a scenario of what my life is all about. I am 36 years old. I have never been married. And I live in A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.

And so long as YOU consent to living under and being taxed and regulated to death by a murderous neo-Stalinist regime, you're NOT GOING TO AMOUNT TO JACK. SQUAT.

You are going to end up eating a steady diet of government cheese and LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.

Bwa-ha-ha-ha. Couldn't resist.

Seriously, I'm fine, staying with friends, and happy as a clam. The wardrobe has been reduced by 90%, the shoe collection by 75%, and the furniture inventory by 100%. I recommend this mode of living HIGHLY.

So yeah, if you ask me, "Young lady, what do you want to do with your life?" the answer would have to be:

"I wanna live in a van down by the river ... and I ain't no lady."

Many, many thanks to all of you who have made purchases from the eBay estate sale. You are truly too kind and generous, and I am praying for you all daily. I think there are a few pieces of silverware left, and I'll be getting the china up later this week. Thanks also to my little elves back in Colorado who have been so unbelievably helpful to me during this time.

Here is my 720ann eBay homepage.

Now that I'm settled in, essays will commence tomorrow. First up, a restating of what I wrote about Benghazi back in September. It wasn't incompetence. It wasn't a kidnapping gone wrong. It was stone-cold premeditated murder by the Obama regime.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. †

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Or ends up in hell for all eternity. Be careful with those massive, pointy spears and other various and sundry assault weapons out there, y'all.

St. George, pray for us.

I'm moving so posts will be thin for a few days.

First, thanks to the buyer of the license plate for an amazing $1337. Once again, I am humbled.

Thanks also to all of the folks sending me emails telling me that I am a fraud and a thief and a moral degenerate for doing my estate sale auctions. Yes, I know. I can't win. If I sell stuff I'm going to hell for being a money-grubbing fraud, and if I don't do anything I am being prideful in not asking for help when it is needed, and there is nothing that sends a person to hell as quickly and surely as the sin of pride. So, yeah. It's pretty much existential for me. Waking up breathing makes me a sinner. Please pray for me. Obviously.

And, just so you know, the hits keep on a-comin'. After being told by the phone company that they were charging me a $1200 cancellation fee, the next day the security system company told me that they were going to charge me a $1000 termination fee.

The first punch didn't quite destroy my kidney. Please, just punch me right there again. It's cool. I have another kidney, so no prob.

But in all seriousness, this is just a testament to how far gone our culture is, and not just on the macro level. Fifty years ago people would never treat others like this. If someone went broke, or whatever, generally people didn't kick them when they were down. If contracts became untenable, human decency kicked in and contracts were voided according to A.) common sense and B.) human decency.

This ruthless interpersonal behavior is a direct function of the decent into Marxist-Communism or whatever you want to call this. When human beings are reduced to economic units by the government, that eventually trickles down to the personal level. It is the ultimate irony. Capitalism tempered by Christian culture has a built-in incentive for people to be good to each other - in business it is called "goodwill", and it is a very real asset. So while the Marxists lyingly claim that they will deliver a charitable, merciful culture, it is exactly the opposite. Marxism makes people ruthless, hard and unforgiving. Capitalism restrained by Christian culture yields the most fertile ground for charitable interpersonal dealings.

The funny thing is, if the security system company would have been cool about it, I would have totally plugged them here on the blog. They really were a good company in terms of their service. After I burned the koran I upgraded and added video surveillance and all the bells and whistles, and it was great. Too bad they blew the opportunity for massive "goodwill".

And no, I won't say their name in order to poison their well. I'll just bear their hardness with a smile - thanks to all of you.

And now, a little jukebox goodness: Bonnie Raitt's cover of "Runaway". Heh.

No, I will not autograph anything. BUT, I am sending thank you notes along with each purchase.

Why won't I autograph? Because it is just completely repellant to me. One of the big reasons this culture is doomed is this truly childish obsession with "celebrity" (to ANY degree) and the building up of cults of personality.

Yet another HUGE lesson in this happened just a few days ago. Are you people who still insist on clinging to the dead, fetid, rotting, maggot-ridden carcass of "politics" learning yet? How did it feel to see "your boy", Rand Paul, completely, totally sell all of you out and declare his support for the government killing US citizens on US soil without any due process with *#@$^$%& drones?

Are you getting this yet? These people are ALL psychopaths, and they are preying on YOUR "celebrity worship". Rand Paul, like EVERYONE involved in "politics" today, including his money-grubbing, crazypants daddy, is a power-hungry, money-grubbing psycho who will do and say ANYTHING in order to maintain and advance his power and wealth.

YOU CANNOT TRUST ANY OF THESE PEOPLE. EVER.

Um, the big hint that these people are psychologically and morally unfit to hold any public office is THE FACT THAT THEY HOLD AND/OR SEEK PUBLIC OFFICE.

So, no, I will not autograph anything, because I am just a person and I KNOW I'm just a person, and all I want to be is just a person, and I will not enable any "cult of personality".

I'm sending thank you notes, you know, like a normal, decent PERSON would do.

And once again, thanks to one and all for the incredible generosity that you have shown to this very normal, very flawed PERSON.

Many, many thanks to the buyers of the leprosy spoon ($200), the high-capacity assault spoon ($495) and the spork ($355), and to all of the buyers of the silverware to date. Payments are already coming in. The munificence on display is truly moving. Thank you all.

Now, here's a little something that I thought might interest someone:

AUCTION LINK HERE.

You are bidding on Ann Barnhardt's MOLNLBE Colorado Vanity License Plate. Ann can no longer tolerate having the emblem of a pot-smoking, gun-grabbing, sodomite-worshiping, communist totalitarian cess pit of a state on her vehicle, no matter how completely admirable and excellent the sentiment of the text itself. Galt's Gulch in Colorado? Oh, I think not, sir.

Opening bid is $0.99. Free shipping via USPS.

* The stickers are NOT included. The plates will be legally void, of course.

The auction continues apace, and I'll have more listings tonight and tomorrow. Meanwhile, the leper-spoon, spork and assault rolling pin are bid up to once again stunning levels.

Just an anecdotal example of where the estate sale revenues will be going for you:

I called CenturyLink to have my phones disconnected next week. I have been a customer since I was 20 years old, and have paid this company (first as US West, then as Qwest, and now as Century Link) tens upon tens of thousands of dollars over the last 16 years. I was under a four year contract on my business landlines and two toll-free numbers here at the office which expires in THREE MONTHS.

I called and explained that I had lost my business, and now my home and wouldn't even have the ability to forward the numbers to a new domicile. And remember, I have about 12 WEEKS left on my existing business line contract.

Do you know what they are going to charge me for "breaking the contract" TWELVE WEEKS EARLY, after 16 years and pushing $100k in revenues from me?

$1200.00

So there you go. THAT kind of stuff is what is going to consume the estate sale revenues.

Poverty is kinda expensive, huh? Ah, well. This too shall pass. I'm almost there. Just a little bit farther, and then home free.

Okay. I have heard you loud and clear, and now see the logic in this. Many folks are priced-out of the full auction items almost immediately. SO... I have put up my silverware at $50 PER PIECE in the Buy-It-Now format. So, just to be clear, if you click "Buy It Now" you are buying one random piece of my silverware (which is stainless steel, of course) for $50. Yes, you can buy multiple pieces if you so choose.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SILVERWARE BUY-IT-NOW PAGE.

Coming later will be my china, probably priced at $100 per piece, and my cups and mugs, probably at $75. I'll have to drag this out because Ebay has per-month dollar caps on how much you can sell. But the Silverware at $50 per piece is up and running.

I am also going to inquire to see if Masses can be said for everyone who buys something in the estate sale. I'm pretty sure that can be done.

Once again, I am truly humbled and grateful for your kind, kind consideration and munificence.

Look what I found! It is my 50-cal Assault Rolling Pin!

CLICK HERE FOR THE ROLLING PIN AUCTION.

You are bidding on Ann Barnhardt's Assault Rolling Pin. This monster is 23" long, and a whopping 4" in diameter. Gentlemen, this well and truly is the 50-cal of rolling pins. A person could roll out one big, honking pie crust with this beast. It can also be used to bludgeon feral dogs that may attack you while you are in your kitchen preparing pastries.

As with all items from Ann Barnhardt's kitchen, this item will instantly render your entire home and all food prepared in it non-halal.

$0.99 opening bid. No reserve. Free shipping.

Many, many thanks to the Australian chap who bought the glass firebowl last night. He wanted to pay exactly $732 for it in homage to Charles the Hammer, but $610 was the bid. The market has spoken.

I can't get the "buy-it-now" fixed-price listings up tonight because as a new seller on Ebay, I have to call tomorrow and be enabled for that.

BUT, I have three more spoons up in an open auction format, and yes, everything comes with a signed thank-you note.

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL OF MY LISTINGS.

WOODEN SPOON B WITH LEPROSY

You are bidding on another wooden spoon from Ann Barnhardt's kitchen. This spoon has white spots on it that look like leprosy, but probably has something to do with being put in the dishwasher. But if you want to pretend that the spoon has leprosy, and welcome it into your home, and take care of it like you would a leper, that's totally fine. Not all variants of crazypants are necessarily bad.

Signed thank you note included. If you and your leper-spoon-buying crazypants want to call that an "autograph", that's your right too. But it will just be a thank you note, in keeping with the traditions of civilized culture.

HIGH-CAPACITY WOODEN ASSAULT SPOON

This wooden high-capacity assault spoon is 17" long. DUDE. SEVENTEEN. INCHES.

It is simply terrifying, and will almost certainly be declared illegal soon. That is all.

Bidding begins at $0.99. Free shipping.

ANN BARNHARDT'S WOODEN SPORK

Is it a spoon?
Is it a fork?
It's so much better than either - it is a SPORK.

Are you tired of shallow, one-dimensional relationships with your kitchen tools? Why not enter the nuanced and subtly complex world of the SPORK? You'll laugh, you'll cry, this SPORK from Ann Barnhardt's kitchen will become a part of you.

Opening bid: $0.99. Free shipping via USPS.

Cruise over to Orbis Catholicus Secundus where Mr. Sonnen (voted best smirk-weasel in the Catholic blogosphere) is leading the way in reporting on young Martin Richard, the boy who was murdered in the Boston jihad attack.

Young Martin received his first Holy Communion the day before he died. Mr. Sonnen has pics.

That is a bittersweet consolation. God is good.

I got several inquiries asking if I still had that certain glass vase/bowl thingy, and yes, it was sitting upstairs in the video room.

And now, it can be yours.

CLICK HERE FOR THE AUCTION LISTING.

3 day listing. Free shipping. No reserve. Auction ends on Saturday night.

More listings coming tomorrow, including the high-capacity wooden spoon, the wooden spork, and some "buy it now" fixed price pieces, by request.

Thank you all once again for your kind consideration.

You are bidding on a glass vase that is 8 inches tall and 9 inches in diameter at the widest point. Apparently, something has been burned in this vase, the charred remains of which are still present in the vase, and are included in the auction. NOTE: The faint yet distinct odor of bacon is included free with this item. Free shipping. No reserve. Bidding begins at $0.99.

**The positioning of the item in the photographs with Ann Barnhardt's bar conspicuously in the background is purely coincidental and is not intended to mock or in any way make any commentary on any political system or systems that forbid the consumption of alcohol. Nosireebob. It's just a coinkidink.

Taken about 90 seconds ago, my front door, with Epiphany Blessing. HOA fine: $50 per month. And there is NO WAY IN HECK I am removing it. NO. WAY.

Exit question: Could this be construed as a Jizya Tax, much less a blatant violation of the First Amendment's Free Exercise clause? Discuss.

Michael Voris has hit the nail on the head and has come up with a question of extreme simplicity that will allow anyone to instantly discern the orthodoxy of any clergy, religious or layperson. The question is:

"Do you desire that everyone in the world be Catholic? Yes or no."

If the answer you get is anything other than an instantaneous, emphatic, and unqualified YES, then there is a massive, massive problem and all future dealings with that person should be addressed and parsed with the full knowledge that the person is NOT properly catechized at best, or a heretic or apostate at worst.

No matter who it is.

NO.
MATTER.
WHO.
IT.
IS.

I would encourage one and all to start asking this question. Frequently.

Spes Unica.

I'll be brief as it feels very crass to even discuss this after today's events, but the auction of Wooden Spoon A concluded at $610.00 and payment has already been made.

I am humbled at the generosity and munificence of all of the bidders.

I'll not put up any auction items tomorrow, again out of a sense respect for the dead, the maimed, and their families, but will add more items later this week.

As you go to bed tonight, think about what plans, dreams and expectations you have, and then imagine those same plans if you suddenly no longer had legs.

That happened to people today.

We are a nation under Judgment. May God have mercy on us, even though we in no way deserve it.

I'll post it here because you'll never see this on the "news".

While you are paying taxes to a "government" that is disarming you and confiscating your wealth as we speak, that same government has just lifted almost all restrictions on Saudis entering the U.S.

CITATION HERE.

First, a repost of a piece I wrote months ago on cash markets decoupling from the futures and derivatives markets, specifically in the context of metals. I have not changed anything, but I have bolded the key, key points.

For all of you Bitcoin fans, you are now realizing the massive flaw in the Bitcoin paradigm. You have no cash commodity to arbitrage. All you were ever dealing with was zeroes and ones on computer servers. I am hard-pressed to think of ANYTHING more vulnerable.

As I have been saying all along, if you can't stand in front of it with an assault weapon and physically defend it, then it isn't yours, and probably never was.

(Ahem. Cough. 401ks. Cough.)

Originally penned and posted on December 15, AD 2011, seven weeks after MF Global.

3. Finally, a very simplistic explanation of how the cash commodity markets are soon going to decouple from the futures markets. This is a little complex, but stay with me. I think this is important to understand because none of us who have lived our whole lives in the U.S. have ever seen a market disintegrate.

The threat (or promise) of delivery upon expiration is what keeps the futures markets tethered to the cash markets. Up until now, if an unreasonably wide spread between the futures price and the underlying physical commodity market got too out of whack, a process called “arbitrage” would kick in. Arbitrage is when a party simultaneously buys and sells on two separate but related markets in order to capture an inefficient spread between those two markets.

I’m going to use precious metals as my example commodity because there are alot of metals guys reading this, and because the metals markets will be the big tell in term of when decoupling and thus total futures market disintegration is upon us. But these examples apply to all of the physical commodities.

Let’s say that the physical silver market is trading far lower than the silver futures price. This is what is called a WEAK BASIS. The BASIS is the relationship between the cash market and the futures market and is very simply defined as (CASH minus FUTURES). If cash silver can be bought at $25.00 per ounce and the futures are at $30.00 per ounce, the cash is $5.00 under the futures. When cash is under the futures, this is called a WEAK basis.

Up until now, what would a metals trader do? In very simple terms, he would buy the cash silver at $25.00 per ounce and then simultaneously sell the futures at $30.00. Because he has short-sold the futures, he could hold the contract to expiry and then deliver the $25.00 cash silver he bought to make good on the contract and receive his $30.00 price. So his simple net profit would be $5.00 per ounce. As many traders saw this spread and simultaneously executed this same strategy of buying the cash and selling the futures, what effect would this have? Right. It would cause the cash-futures spread to move back in toward convergence by pushing the futures price down (lots of sellers) and propping the cash market up (lots of buyers).

Now the opposite scenario: a STRONG basis. Let’s say cash silver is trading at $32.00 and the futures are trading at $28.00. A trader might take physical silver that he has in inventory and sell it in the cash market, and then immediately take those proceeds and buy back and equal number of ounces in the futures market and take delivery. Since the same number of ounces in the futures market cost $4.00 per ounce LESS, he would end up with the same number of ounces in his inventory PLUS $4.00 per ounce in CASH in his pocket. If he and many other traders saw this condition and they all sold cash silver and bought the futures, this would, again, converge the spread between the cash market and the futures market.

The lynchpin that is holding this dynamic together and keeping the futures markets tied to the underlying cash market is the fact that the futures contracts are deliverable, and a trader can either deliver or take delivery of actual physical silver via his futures position.

Are we seeing a problem yet? The futures markets have lost their viability and trustworthiness because of the MF collapse and theft. At some point in the not-too-distant future, people everywhere are going to realize that the delivery mechanism is not reliable. Heck, just holding cash and/or positions in a futures account is no longer reliable. The the market itself is not reliable, traders will no longer attempt to arbitrage these basis spreads because the risk to the trader that the rug will be pulled out from underneath them is simply too great.

And in the metals markets, the delivery process itself is . . . um . . . shall we say, easily corrupted? When you “take delivery” of physical metals, it doesn’t get sent to your house. All you get is a certificate saying that X number of ounces are being held in a certified vault somewhere with your name on them. After the MF collapse, that sounds like a joke, right? A CERTIFICATE with my NAME ON IT? Yeah. That really is how it works.

When the arbitrageurs finally lose all confidence in the markets, the cash market will decouple from the futures because no one will be willing to take the risk of having their money, positions and/or physical metals stolen/confiscated. If no arbitrageurs are willing to trade these spreads – no matter how wide they may become – and thus there is no force causing the cash and futures to converge, we will see the basis spreads become extremely wide. As people flee the futures markets, the futures prices will drop, while the cash markets hold steady or even diverge and actually rise as all of the former paper players realize that physicals are the only remaining game to be played.

Watch for this. Watch for the gold and silver futures to sell off as people walk away from paper while the online cash dealers, seeing that market demand for their physical inventory is robust, begin to ignore the futures prices and hold their prices steady or even raise them. When you see this basis decoupling and absence of arbitrage, lo, the end is nigh. A parabolic spike is coming.

Next, people are asking why I'm not saying much about Cyprus and all of that.

Um, because I already did. Back in November of 2012. I made a 2.5 hour economics presentation that "called" and explained exactly what has and is happening in Cyprus, Europe, and eventually here. And, big props to Karl Denninger and Warren Pollock who were all over these ideas before I was. Warren, in particular, was warning of bank holidays and "bail-ins" two years ago.

Part 3 beginning at the 6:00 mark is where I discuss the sweeping confiscations of bank deposits.

I explain repos and CDS in the context of MF Global, but you can just substitute "Cyprus" for MF Global and it is the exact same thing. Cyprus was basically forced by the Troika (European Commission, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund) to lever up on Greek junk bonds. The Troika, through various "regulatory" arms were "fake auditing" the Cypriot banks (just as MF Global was being "fake audited" by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Chicago Mercantile exchange) and were valuing the worthless Greek bonds as having essentially full, "par" value. Then, when the Troika wanted to collapse the Cypriot banking industry and begin the process of seizing customer deposits, they did an about face and declared that the Greek paper that the Cypriot banks were holding - at the urging of and enabled by the Troika all along, remember - was worthless. Acknowledging this reality and marking the Cypriot banks' balance sheets to REALITY is what instantly collapsed the Cypriot banks. So, just making sure you understand, the Troika forced and enabled the Cypriot banks to load up on junk, and then when the Troika olgarchs, led by Obama Chicago crony Christine Legarde, wanted Cyprus dead and the accounts swept, they just dropped the sword of damocles. And, of course, we now know that the Russians and the Continental "elites" were given weeks of warning, and slithered out of the Cypriot banks, mostly via London. It's basically the mom-and-pop accounts that lost their funds in Cyprus - again, just like MF Global.

Guys, exactly the same condition exists in the U.S. banking system. If the U.S. banks were suddenly forced to mark their mortgages and credit cards to REALITY, and not full par, peak-of-the-bubble values, the entire U.S. banking system would instantly implode. And that doesn't even take into consideration the hundreds of TRILLIONS of dollars in derivatives on European junk bonds that all of the U.S. banks are holding, too. I lay all of that out in lurid, lurid detail.

This was recorded on November 2, 2012 in Colorado Springs, and is available on DVD HERE.

1. One sure way to know that you're on the right track is when the demons start attacking. For me, this is manifested mostly in my email box, which is a quite mild vector as those things go. But, you can always tell when the demoniacs are out and about. Today's example was extremely easy to spot, what with all of the satanic jargon and slogans, and the truly uncreative use of the "c" word. Before deleting it though, my eye happened to fall upon one line near the top that went something like this:

"What are you going to do? Pray to Baby J? LOL."

What an absolutely SPLENDID idea. Thank you.

I am happy to announce that the whole "estate liquidation" endeavor has now been consecrated to the Infant Jesus of Prague. Yay!

Long story short, Our Lord has seen fit to manifest Himself in ways particularly attached to a statue of Himself as an infant which resides in Prague. He wants us to love Him in every possible way, including as an infant. Why? Because babies are totally helpless and that helplessness reminds us of and points us to the Eucharist, wherein Our Lord is likewise totally helpless as He comes to us under the appearance of bread and wine. A Host, like the Baby Jesus (because a Host IS the Baby Jesus, remember), must be handled with exceeding tenderness and care, and can be dropped or otherwise mishandled at any time. And yet, despite this, God Almighty, for Whom all of creation is like less than a drop in the ocean to us, became incarnate and was a Baby, and comes to us on the altar, totally helpless and physically dependent in the Eucharist every day.

So, there's that, and then there's also the snuggling part. Baby Jesus just loves to snuggle. When we receive Him in the Eucharist, we are truly snuggling with God, as He settles right under our hearts and stays there for fifteen minutes or so. Show me a person who receives Holy Communion and the runs out the door and I'll show you someone who hasn't a CLUE what is going on, and probably has never heard word one about the Real Presence.

Thus, the statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague reminds people of the Baby Jesus (Who can easily be forgotten outside of Christmastime), and when people specifically call upon Our Lord in this way, miracles and extreme blessings tend to rain down. In fact, the Infant Jesus of Prague devotion is known to "keep us from all want".

I have said this before and I'll say it again. Satan and his minions are IMPOTENT. They can also be surprisingly obtuse, especially considering their angelic nature.

2. Which thus segues into the update on THE SPOON. As of this writing, the bid is at $500.00. Goodness. I am humbled.

3. Several folks have asked what will be done with estate sale proceeds. Well, it will probably help defray moving expenses, and by moving, I mean physically getting my furniture moved out of here and given away. EVERYTHING is going. Every stick and splinter. Some of it will require men and a van to move. Anything beyond that will help me establish a very new and very DIFFERENT mode of life. I can't wait. It is my intention to continue writing as long as I can, and as long as I have a server and access to an internet connection. I have plenty more to say.

4. And finally, I just had to share that my Home Owners' Association has started fining me $50 per month because I put the chalk Epiphany Blessing over my front door, which is so totally poetic.

You know, it almost makes me think that Someone is trying to tell me something.

How long, O Lord?

Oh, wait, just a few more weeks. HA!

Okay, I don't think anyone really "got" what I was getting at with my whole Ebay estate sale idea, but we'll give this a shot. Item number one has been listed. It is a wooden spoon, direct from my kitchen drawer. If this goes well, then dude, I have a whole drawer-full of wooden spoons. I don't want to get anyone overly excited here, but I will just say that I have a wooden SPORK, too. If the spoons sell well, then we can move into the whisks, the spatulas, and even into the tongs if things get really lively.

This auction is three days long, ending on April 15th at 1919:58 PDT and will determine if I bother to list any more items or not. Like I said, we'll just see how this goes. Thank you in advance for your kind consideration.

My Ebay handle is 720ann.

HERE IS THE LINK TO WOODEN SPOON A LISTING.

This is a wooden spoon direct from the kitchen drawer of Ann Barnhardt. It is thirteen inches in length, which is 33 centimeters for those of you in Yorba Linda. This spoon is made out of genuine wood, presumably from a tree of some sort. It can be used to stir food, to beat small, unruly animals and children, or to strike various percussion instruments. The possibilities really are endless. There is no reserve price on this stunning piece of Americana. Bidding starts at $0.99. Shipping is $5.80 via the world-renowned United States Postal Service. Beyond that, the USPS's ultra-luxurious PRIORITY MAIL service will be used to ship this truly luminous and essential kitchen tool. Only the best ... only the VERY best.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. †

St. Michael the Archangel.

With assault weapon.

AAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!eleventy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Another internet access outage coupled with glorying in Holy Week and now the Octave of Easter has kept me away. Here is my Easter gift to one and all, Bortniansky's Cherubic Hymn Number Seven. It is in Slavonic (the language of the Eastern Church), but this YouTube has the English translation subtitles. Be careful. You may just put this on perpetual repeat loop and lie on the sofa in a beauty-induced, tear-streaked coma for the next several hours.

Come, let us cast off all earthly care and forget every vain employ. For the King of All comes in triumph by unseen hosts of angels to us that bid Him welcome. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

2. My Psalm 68 citation is correct. Protestant Bibles *and some modern Catholic Bibles that are trying to be protestant) mis-number the Psalms. The Church, both in the West and the East, uses the Septuagint-Vulgate numbering. It is Psalm 68.

3. Regarding the Spectral Doughnut, a clever reader suggested that I point out that the conceptual image would be better if I pointed out that in life the Spectral Doughnut is not sitting flat, as a doughnut on a table, but rather is standing vertically on end. Thus when we move toward Truth, we are traversing UP, ascending to the top of the doughnut, and when we move away from God, either by the "right" surface or the "left" surface, we are moving DOWN, converging at the lowest point, which is hell. Excellent.

4. I have peacefully decided to let my office/home property go, and my eviction date is set in a little over a month. I could have contested the whole thing as the chain of custody of the mortgage is textbook fraud, but I want to move on and be rid of all property, and guys, I gotta tell you, since making the final decision I feel FANTASTIC. The fruit of the Third Joyful Mystery (the birth of Our Lord) is poverty, and it is indeed a joyful, joyful fruit.

I cannot bring myself to solicit funds, but I have had an idea. I obviously need to get rid of a lot of stuff. Most of my remaining property I will donate and/or give away, but I could put some small, random, easily shippable items on Ebay. I'm thinking small kitchen wares and stuff like that. Ebay is an auction, and thus I would have no control over the sale prices. The "market" would determine that. I'm still agonizing over this, but if you think that an "estate sale" is either a good or terrible idea, I would be interested to hear.

In Thy sight are all they that afflict Me; My heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with Me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort Me, and I found none.

Psalm 68: 21-22

I find it stunning how many emails I receive from protestants excoriating me for mentioning Our Lord's Passion, or for any feelings of wanting to make reparation for my sins and the sins of the world, or for wanting to comfort Our Lord in the Garden, in whatever hamfisted way possible, because "it is already done" and "nowhere in the Bible does it say anyone has to suffer for anyone else's sins."

I find these emails to be the saddest of all. I can understand how there can still be people emailing me asking if they should get out of their 401k or IRA. I can understand how people can walk around with zero understanding of the financial system, and even of simple arithmetic. It is terrifying, but I can understand it.

What I cannot understand is people who proudly proclaim their deep, intense "personal relationship with Jesus Christ" having absolutely no interest in or compassion for Him personally. I tell you over and over again that the Eucharist, that is the consecrated bread and wine is ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY JESUS CHRIST, and there is ZERO INTEREST. None. Zip. I tell you He is here physically and you can not only go be in His physical presence, but you can also physically take Him into your body if you enter into the Church.

Not interested.

Because, you know, when you are in a deep, intense "personal relationship" with someone, you have NO INTEREST in seeing them, being close to them, or being physically intimate with them.

And beyond that, when you are in a deep, intense "personal relationship" with someone, when they are suffering, the only thing that matters to you is whether or not you caused the suffering, and if so, are you legally dispensed from the liability.

I'm not a sodomite. I didn't actually kill any of those babies with my own hands. It is His job to bear that guilt. He chose to go into the Garden and take it. He chose to sob until His capillaries burst. This is a purely legal question. If I didn't do it, or if He legally contracted to suffer for my sins, then it is all on Him, and I'm certainly not going to dive back into any suffering with Him ... I mean, that would be missing the point, right? I'm saved. He took it, and so, LET HIM HAVE IT.

It seems to me that the only "deep, personal relationship" in that is with one's self.

Our Lord is a Person. A Divine Person. He is also the Person Who engineered and created the universe. Time is one of His engineered constructs. For Him, all of time is one, big NOW. Thus, everything that ever has happened or ever will happen is perpetually present and happening to Him. He is perpetually in the Manger in Bethlehem. He is perpetually in the Garden in agony. He is perpetually on the Cross. He is perpetually resurrected. He is perpetually ascended to the Father.

We meet Him upon the Cross at every Mass, in which He folds time so that we can all be physically at the foot of the Cross. Why does He do this? Because He looks for one that would grieve together with Him. He is comforted by the compassion of the very people who put Him on the Cross, and He provides this ability for temporal transcendence so that EVERYONE who loves Him can be with Him at Calvary, not just the few people who were there 1980 years ago. He does this so that Peter and the rest of the Apostles who fled could be there. He does this so that the little peasant woman in 9th century France could be with Him. He does this so that we can be with Him.

On Holy Thursday, He is especially comforted by those who truly, truly love Him, not as a piece of contract law or legalistic device, but as He is, a Person, and He affords us the chance to be with Him in the Garden; to approach Him as He lies prostrate in the dirt, sobbing, shaking, and already bleeding from the inside out, and ask to stay with Him and suffer with Him.

You do realize that is what the word "compassion" means, right? "Com" means "with". "Passion" means "suffer". To have compassion is to desire to "suffer with" another person.

It seems to me that if you really have a "personal relationship" with Jesus Christ, then the thought of NOT going to Him in the Garden, not just on Holy Thursday, but every single day of your life, is intolerable, regardless of who caused His agony, or whether or not it is "legally covered". If you are indifferent to the suffering of another, please stop lying to yourself and the world by claiming that you are engaged in a "deep, personal relationship".

"... And I looked for one that would grieve together with Me ... I sought for one that would comfort Me ..."

So, one weekday morning last year I got up with the chickens and went to the 8:30am Low Tridentine Mass uptown. It started out normally enough. In processed Father with one server. Father looked a bit flat-footed, but then this particular priest is pretty old, so one doesn't expect a Fred Astaire-like gait from the quasi-elderly. It wasn't until the consecrations of the Host and Chalice that it became clear that something was terribly, physically wrong with Father. At each genuflection he had to slightly twist his body and almost lay his upper body on the altar in order to genuflect, bearing much of his weight on his elbows both on the way down and on the way back up. It was obvious with each genuflection that Father was in excruciating pain. I sat in my little spot in the back of the church, at once horrified by the obvious physical distress I was witnessing, but also deeply moved by the courageous perseverance and uncompromising love for Our Lord that Father, seen by only the half-dozen or so people in the nave, demonstrated. Father wasn't putting on a show, because there was essentially no one there to see it. If he had been saying Mass alone in his room, he would have done exactly the same; of that I have no doubt. Why? Because he loved Our Lord, and to not genuflect to Him would be simply unthinkable. Our Lord, whipped until He was skinned and in shock, thrice bent His knee to us, falling three times beneath His Cross, to demonstrate His complete love for creatures that are totally unworthy of His love. How much more, then, should we bend our knees to Him who is our Creator, our King and our Savior?

It turned out that the priest had gone on a hike up in the Colorado mountains the day before and taken a terrible spill on the way down, tearing open his knee. Thankfully he was in a large group of men, and was thus able to be carried down, and transported to the emergency room in Vail where he had his knee sutured back together. The knee eventually healed, and all's well that ends well, but for the life of me I have no idea why such an old man was frolicking on such a difficult mountain trail.

I have lately also been reminded of the last years of John Paull II's pontificate. In the last years, suffering from Parkinson's, JPII became more and more frail, requiring more and more physical assistance. I can remember seeing Masses in which he was being essentially held up by one man on each side. Most especially, his genuflections after the consecration of the host and then the chalice were particularly moving because toward the end, he looked like a rag doll being lowered and raised by the two men at his sides. This, of course, points directly to the Fifth Station of the Cross, wherein Simon of Cyrene helps Our Lord carry His Cross. How beautiful to see the Vicar of Christ so clearly mirroring Our Lord in His perfect humility, and accepting help in order to bring to consummation and completion the Sacrifice of Calvary, made present in time upon the altar. As I have been told on a near-daily basis from every vector for the last several weeks, failing to ask for and accept help when it is needed is a pure function of pride, not humility. Indeed. I am very prideful.

There is a very important concept in the Church, and in life that says: Lex orandi, lex credendi. In Latin this means "the law of prayer is the law of belief", or "how we pray is how we believe." The Mass is a prayer - it is THE prayer par excellence. HOW we pray, and most particularly how we pray the Mass, is of unquantifiable importance. In the two examples above, we see that HOW we pray not only matters, but becomes meritorious and a massive conduit for grace, with the potential to turn instances of personal suffering into evangelical witnesses that could not be matched with any 50,000 word book or sermon. The world is collapsing and falling to pieces because of the destruction of the Mass and the lack of reverence toward Our Lord, most especially in the Mass and in the Blessed Sacrament. The two examples above demonstrated intense love for Our Lord in His Passion, and in His Resurrection by reverencing Him in His Real Presence in the Eucharist. The only hope for the world is MORE reverence in the Mass and towards the Eucharist, not less. The world will never believe that Our Lord is physically present upon the altar and in the Eucharist, in other words, the world will never believe the Gospel, if how we pray does not clearly reflect that supreme reality.

One of the greatest men in the history of the Church said it best:

"Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words."

Thus spake St. Francis of Assisi.

St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us.

1. The final collapse of western civilization will be pegged to March 19, 2013 when all notions of personal property rights were officially extinguished.

2. On the same day the Vicar of Jesus Christ declined to reverence the Consecrated Host in any way at his inaugural Mass. No bow, no genuflection. Nothing. Nah. No big deal. Nothing to worry about here. I mean, it is just objective reality. 2:00:35 is the timestamp you'll want to watch.

3. And, of course, Barack Obama is on the ground in Israel.

If I had a band, I'd name it "Spectral Doughnut". But I don't, so anyone who wants the name can have it.

Did you know that the official, fancy-pants mathematical term for a doughnut is "torus"? Well, not for a doughnut as a foodstuff, but for the shape of a doughnut: a tube bent around such that the two endpoints connect.

Conceptually, the torus is everywhere in life. Extremes on either side of a human spectrum have the nasty habit of being the same position. The most obvious example of this is in the political sphere, and while I'm not much of a Glenn Beck fan, Beck did explain this a few years ago. The far left is all about totalitarian control by a cadre of oligarchs. There really isn't any such thing as a true dictatorship, because one man cannot physically force an entire government or people to do his will. He will always have a cadre of enablers and henchmen around him, and if he loses the support of that cadre of henchmen, they will kill him. Thus even the most seemingly solitary dictator is really just a frontman for an oligarchy. Dictatorial oligarchies use brute force to impose their will and have no respect for the Rule of Law. They consider themselves to be the law. If they want it, they take it, and if you don't like that, they kill you. On the left, the most brutal thug with the worst case of psychopathy wins.

The far right is the same thing. The far right is anarchy, which means no government. This sounds good on the surface, especially when you're face with the truly satanic government we have now, until you realize that also means NO RULE OF LAW. Every man for himself. In this environment, the most brutal thug with the worst case of psychopathy wins.

While the philosophical paths may differ, the ends are exactly the same. No matter which arm of the doughnut you favor, if you move away from logic, reason and truth, proceeding out of which is charity in the true sense of the word, meaning love of neighbor, not just throwing "free stuff" at the nebulous conceptual mob of "the people", or as with anarchy a total indifference toward neighbor, you are going to end up with exactly the same end: an elite, minuscule, ruling class with a massive, brutally oppressed underclass, and lots and lots of dead bodies. In both the far left and far right, to quote Obama's Manufacturing czar Ron Bloom quoting Mao: All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

That is only partially true. All political power in a godless regime, either far right or far left, comes from the barrel of a gun. In a Godly monarchy, the power comes from God Himself. The same could possibly be said of an early Godly republic, but history proves that republics never last long.

Economically, exactly the same idea holds true. On the far left is a Marxist command economy, and on the far right is unrestrained capitalism. Pope Benedict made a remark earlier this year about the evils of "unrestrained capitalism" and the press instantly declared that Benedict had rejected capitalism and embraced socialsm. Nonsense. If Benedict rejected capitalism and embraced socialism, then according to that false logic I rejected capitalism and embraced socialism when I shut down my brokerage. Again, nonsense. I rejected exactly what Benedict spoke about: UNRESTRAINED capitalism, which is lawlessness and theft.

Socialism and unrestrained capitalism are basically the same thing: the two arms of the torus touch. Marxist-socialist-communist systems forcibly steal the property of the underclass and deliver it into the insatiably greedy hands of the minuscule oligarch class. Unrestrained capitalism does EXACTLY the same thing. A minuscule cadre of what are today called banksters, but used to be called robber barons, forcibly confiscate, in simple terms STEAL, the property of the underclass and hoard it for themselves. It is the same thing. This is why these banksters, who one would at first blush think of as capitalists, are always found in bed with Marxist politicians. Marxism and unrestrained capitalism are essentially the same thing: theft and looting of the underclasses by a cadre of super-rich oligarchs, with zero rule of law, only the brutal rule of men from the barrel of a gun.

This has become so clear today because the banksters and Marxist politicians now routinely swap jobs. Jon Corzine went from Goldman Sachs to the United States Senate and the New Jersey statehouse back out into MF Global. Hank Paulsen went from Goldman Sachs to heading the U.S. Treasury Department. Almost all politicians after leaving office either by being voted out or retiring (if they ever do), usually go straight onto corporate boards. For the politicians that never retire, they place their family members in corporate positions.

Bottom line: beware of ANYONE who is constantly pushing one of these political or economic extremes, because both move AWAY FROM GOD, and ultimately meet up in the same place: hell. When far leftists are beating the drum of "the poor" and "the people", that means there is about to be a massive, and utterly dehumanizing confiscation of wealth, which will end up in the hands of the oligarchs, and the poor will get poorer, thus "necessitating" more dehumanizing confiscations … in the name of the poor. And that is when the dead bodies REALLY start to pile up. Run away from that evil at full speed. And when capitalism becomes unrestrained and there is no Rule of Law, and all that matters is who you know and what connections you have, and the only way to "succeed" is to be a thieving thug psychopath, then run away at full speed. That's what I did.

And now, I am going to go have a doughnut because it will be a purely intellectual exercise, and thus will have no calories.

'... for the Administration.'

Thus spoken on CNBC this day.

A couple of points. First, there STILL is confusion about these confiscations, dating back to the MF Global theft. People are still trying to say that the money that was/is confiscated, both from the MF Global customers and the Cypriot bank accounts is somehow "investment" capital.

No, no, no, no, no.

If you deposit money in a custodial account, you are NOT investing in the brokerage firm or in the bank. The MF Global customers were not investors in MF Global or sharing in any way in MF Global's proprietary trading profits. The people of Cyprus are not investors in their banks. The people of Cyprus who deposited money in the bank were not signing on to a share in an uber-leveraged scheme involving repos and credit default swaps on Greek sovereign paper.

THEY WERE PEOPLE WHO SIMPLY DEPOSITED THEIR MONEY, THEIR PROPERTY IN CURRENCY FORM, THE FUNGIBLE PROXY FOR THEIR LABOR AND CREATIVE CAPACITY WHICH THEY HAD ACCUMULATED, INTO A SACROSANCT, INSURED, CUSTODIAL DEMAND DEPOSIT AND/OR TIME DEPOSIT ACCOUNT.

The MF Global accounts were the same - they were fully-backed demand deposit accounts that were used to margin the account holder's futures and options positions. They were the sole, private property of the account holder and MF Global had ZERO ownership interest in that customer money.

Do you know why people used to keep fairly large balances in brokerage accounts like MF Global? Because before MF Global, brokerage accounts were guaranteed 100% by the exchange. No maximums. If a firm failed, the purpose and role of the exchange was to backstop and guarantee the firm with zero liquidity interruption. And, remembering that on the day MF Global imploded and the customer funds were swept and wired to JP Morgan, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange had an emergency slush fund of over EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS ready to go, the fact that the customers were not made INSTANTLY whole by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is totally nefarious and criminal regardless of the circumstances.

Now the total integral failure of the brokerage paradigm has occurred in the retail banking paradigm. All deposits in the EU *were* insured up to 100,000 Euro, just like the farcical FDIC insurance. Now everyone knows that it is all total cow poop, just like the guarantees on brokerage accounts has been proved multiple times to be total cow poop.

Oh, and the oligarchs are trying to call this a "tax". Um, no. Taxes are passed by legislatures. This is Christine Legarde and some German bureaucrats arbitrarily, forcibly confiscating private bank accounts. Any "law" passed ex post facto in Cyprus will merely be a show trying to make it appear that this is not the arbitrary tyranny that it is.

Finally, I don't care how much Russian money laundering is going on in Cyprus, and yes, I know it is huge. This is totally beside the point. Just because criminal money laundering is happening through Cypriot banks doesn't mean that anyone has the right to confiscate the money of innocent Cypriots. The whole Russian money laundering excuse is a total red herring. Look, the nation with the largest absolute quantity of money laundering is the United States of America. Think HSBC. Think Wachovia. Think Washington Mutual. Think Bank of America. Does that mean that every bank account in the entire country can be levied - and not just in the banks with the money laundering but EVERY ACCOUNT IN EVERY BANK IN THE NATION? Of course not.

Bottom line: I shut down my brokerage firm precisely because I knew that there was no longer any rule of law and that customer money was totally indefensible. Now the same thing has happened in the retail banking sector and Obama regime cronies are openly declaring on national television that across-the-board private property confiscations are being regarded as "opening up enormous possibilities."

DO NOT sit around and wait for your money, be it in retirement accounts, stock accounts, money market accounts or even in simple bank accounts or CDs, to be stolen. There is probably going to be a small reaction lag as the low-information populaces of the Southern European countries (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal) are slow on the uptake of what has happened, but it won't last forever. Once Guido in Naples gets his head around this, the Eurozone will be O.V.E.R. And the the US banks carrying HUNDREDS OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS in leveraged European sovereign debt over-the-counter derivatives will implode into a black hole-esque singularity at the speed that information can cross the Atlantic Ocean, which AIN'T VERY DARN LONG, kids.

**If you haven't seen it already, I have an 8-part, 2.5 hour YouTube presentation recorded just recently in November 2012, explaining exactly these topics on YouTube. Click on the link that says "YouTube" on the left to go to my YouTube Channel homepage. Part 1 of the econ presentation should be at the top of the list.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. †

I'm going back-to-back with King St. Ferdinand III. I post this pic because of the look on his face. The look says it all. I also found this edifying little tidbit:

On the day Saint Fernando became a knight, he prayed:

“Christ, my Lord, I am in Thy hands, the same way this sword is in mine. Show me, my King, what Thou wantest of this Thy knight.”

In the silence and stillness of the night, St Fernando heard Christ answer him:

“I want to make your whole life like a representation and marvelous parable so that the coming centuries may contemplate the war that I, Eternal King and Universal Lord, wage against the powers of darkness, to conquer the entire earth for my Father. Fernando, you will be the noble and considerate king who leads his vassals in this great enterprise, the courageous and mortified King who, above all others, charges ahead in the midst of danger and endures the strain of hard work and the fatigue of battle. You will be the generous and magnanimous King who in victory does not worry about his treasures, but distributes the spoils among his faithful knights.”

God granted to Saint Fernando to see the stark outline of the life that was to be his, a life full of struggles and hardships and warfare. Yet his soul did not quake at the prospect, for he knew that he would be doing God’s will, and that God would be with him as long as he remained true. He was prepared to do whatever was required of him now, and all the days of his life.

King Saint Fernando became one of history’s most gifted and formidable warriors, while being at the same time one of the greatest monarchs who ever ruled. He, like so many men of his time, did not seek to enjoy a long life so much as he sought to live a good life. Thus, he spent his entire life in the service of God, rather than wasting his time in service to himself.

King St Fernando was a man of clear and deep faith, who realized that everything depends on God and that it is He Who grants the victory. He knew, nonetheless, that the Lord never wants to help those who are lazy but to assist with grace those who do everything that is in their power. This effort becomes a prayer of action, when combined with trust in Him.

As a consequence of his holy intentions, all of Saint Fernando’s ventures met with success. He was absolutely invincible, personally as well as while directing his armies, conquering hearts and minds as completely as he did cities and strongholds. He knew that there is no holier enterprise than to do one’s duty before God, and that his first obligation was to rescue his own country.

King St. Fernando, absolute monarch of vast fortune, pray for us.

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

Cyprus is MF Global on a national, retail banking scale. Corzine absolutely blazed this trail. The particulars are almost exactly the same. Both MF Global/Corzine and Cyprus were failing entities, both took massive, uber-leveraged risks on European sovereign debt, both swept sacrosanct customer money when the house of cards finally collapsed under the weight of its own math.

The indefensible zeroes and ones were instantly swept from the computer servers and customers were locked-out of their accounts.

Interestingly, both were goaded on and enabled by the same people. Corzine was a crony of the Obama regime, which is operationally a Chicago-based phenomenon, as are the regulators of the futures industry, along with the CME group itself.

Cyprus was goaded, overseen, and then "harvested" by the International Monetary Fund, which is chaired by Christine Legarde, who is a Chicago player, and who actually was a partner at Baker & McKenzie before being placed at the IMF by the Obama regime and bankster oligarchy. Cyprus was Christine Legarde's play, and Legarde is in the Chicago oligarch circle.

This will happen here. It already has with MF Global, Cyprus is testing the national, retail banking level, and then it will happen here. They might go straight to bank holidays here, as Warren Pollock has been talking about for over 18 months now, or they may do a levy confiscation like this on retirement accounts.

If you have any money exposed to the financial system, you're just stupid. That's it. Bottom line.

From 2011, Pope Francis, then Cardinal Bergoglio, celebrating a "youth Mass" complete with puppets. This is just about as bad as it gets, folks.

The consecrations are at the 5:30 and 6:15 marks. No genuflection. In fact not a single person there on the altar, such as it is, genuflects, much less kneels, except the young server in the front with the incense, who is on his knees. All of the rest of the concelebrating priests remain standing throughout, and of course, the two kid "cantors" just stand there between their performance opportunities.

I GUESS THEY MUST ALL BE CRIPPLED OLD MEN, TOO, HUH?

This is the state of the Church in Buenos Aires, and all of Argentina, as I have been told repeatedly by Argentinians who have emailed me, both laity and clergy. Banality, insipidity, sacrilege. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Calvary made present, is treated as a bad joke.

And now, a quote from Cardinal Hummes of Brazil, who is one of Pope Francis' closest friends and colleagues, as evidenced by the fact that Hummes was standing beside Pope Francis on the balcony on Wednesday night:

Q: In what sense is reform necessary?

Cardinal Hummes: Not just of the Curia, but many other things: our way of celebrating ("fazer", lit. "making", "doing") Mass, of doing evangelization, this new evangelization needs new methods. The pope spoke in the meeting with the cardinals of new methods, we need to find new methods.

Citation here.

After what you have read here about the incredibly deep and profound theology of the Mass and the Eucharist over the last several months, you cannot be an honest person and truly believe that there is nothing wrong here, and that everything is fine.

Further, do you honestly expect a man who would participate in such a breathtakingly undignified liturgy to provide any sort of solidity when it comes to economic systems and a realistic path forward out of economic and geo-political collapse?

We are about to have a world war, and the new Pope thinks that the key to evangelizing the world is more liturgical puppets and "fun" Masses, apparently. Yeah. That's what all people are searching for. And besides, that worked so well in the 1970s, we might as well double-down and do it again.

Being an adult and manfully facing objective reality is not pharisaical. Going through life denying that which is obvious and right in front of you; swearing that everything is great and fine when in fact everything is collapsing around you is not good or virtuous. It is ridiculous, childish and sometimes just plain evil. We see this in politics, as people refuse to acknowledge that "their guy" or "their team" not only isn't going to save the day, but that "their guys" are actually the enemy. We see it in finance as people refuse to accept the stark objective reality of simple arithmetic. We see it in current events as more and more thefts, confiscations, incursions and perversions are carried out in plain sight, but the masses refuse to acknowledge that any of these things are indicative of disorder, and that the people talking and warning about them, even when proved right again and again, are either "mean" or "crazy".

With regards to the Church, the gates of hell will never prevail against it, BUT individuals can be lost and are lost to hell. How many souls lost are YOU willing to tolerate for the sake of being "nice"? If you want to talk about charity, here is where you start. Stop worrying about being nice and universally loved, liked or even respected and start telling people the truth, no matter how ugly it may be.

I don't give a lick what any of you people think of me, and I will never ask anyone for any money, ever. There are no advertisements here. There is no cash flow. There is no career ambition. There is no cult of personality. And that is why I am willing to tell you the unvarnished truth. If you want to be lied to, I can direct you exactly where you can go for that.

God is angry. Pray hard. Be sorry for not just your own sins, but for the sins of the whole world. Do penance. Make reparation.

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

Viva il Papa.

**Many readers are emailing asking for suggestions IF Cardinal Hummes' quote proves true and the Traditional Mass, namely the Tridentine Rite, is in any way suppressed or oppressed. I do have a suggestion that you may want to explore. There are several "Eastern Catholic Rites" that are in full, complete communion with Rome and are 100% Catholic that it would be all but impossible for a Pope to mess with - and the chant is GORGEOUS. Look for Byzantine Rite, or Ukrainian Catholic parishes. There are other Eastern Catholic Rites, but Byzantine/Ukrainian are the most common Eastern Catholic rites in North America. Just be certain that you are looking at a Catholic, and NOT Russian Orthodox or Greek Orthodox parish, as the Orthodox are NOT in communion with Rome, and thus lack validity, and also teach heresy, such as contraception, divorce and remarriage, etc., not to mention having messed-up Trinitarian theology, which as we have discussed, if not spot-on leads to massive problems.

Yes, it is every bit as bad as it sounds, and worse. Word is that the initial plan was for a 40% (!!!!) levy confiscation of Cypriot bank accounts. They settled for a MERE 6.75% and 9.9% dual-layered compromise.

Yeah, you all need to do what I have been doing for the last several months and live within spitting distance of being overdrawn in your bank accounts. In other words, keep the BARE MINIMUM in the bank and feed your account just enough to cover the bills. As soon as money comes in, get it the heck out of there.

Looks like the IRS may prove to be the least of my worries with regards to levying bank accounts!

This has the potential to spark bank runs in other Southern European nations MERELY BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT IT ACTUALLY HAS HAPPENED. Pray the Greeks, Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese are all watching talent shows or soccer and don't notice. But if it does, if you have watched my eight-part economic presentation on YouTube, then you understand that we will blow sky-high as the big banks and their tens of trillions of dollars in repos and reverse repos and credit default swaps, many-to-most of which are written on European sovereign debt, blow.

In case you have been either under a rock or passed out drunk since yesterday:

Click here to be terrified.

UPDATE: I agree with various commentators that this is almost certainly a test-run by Brussels to see what the reaction of the Cypriots is. If no one is hanging from light poles by sunset on Tuesday, they will likely move on to Greece and the other Southern European economies, satisfied that the people have been sufficiently conditioned to roll over. Tiny Cyprus, an ISLAND mind you, makes the perfect test lab.

I anticipate that the light poles will remain undecorated. There is no fight left in the men of former Western Civilization; only indifference punctuated by self-loathing. Say goodnight, Gracie.

Goodnight, Gracie.

Here is the full video of Pope Francis' first Mass in the Sistine Chapel.

The consecration of the Host happens at 51:47. The consecration of the Chalice happens at 52:32.

I cannot believe I am about to type these words.

The Pope DID NOT GENUFLECT after either consecration. He did a weird bow thing, but didn't feel the need to bend his knee to God Almighty, physically present in his hands upon the altar.

HE. DID. NOT. GENUFLECT.

This is absolutely stunning. And unprecedented.

Oh yeah, we're in deep, deep trouble.

But hey, all of you guys who are sending me emails whining about how I'm not nice, or something, go ahead and explain this one. He is perfectly physically sound. He FREELY CHOOSES to not reverence Our Lord in the Eucharist upon the altar.

Oh, and he also didn't genuflect to Our Lord in the Tabernacle when he went to Santa Maria Maggiore on Thursday morning, either. Um, how can a man truly love Our Lady if he doesn't first show even the slightest respect to her Son? Someone please explain that one to me.

Hey! I have an idea! Let's do a Pope watch. First one to see the Pope genuflect to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, and not to a Superfun Rockband church pastor, wins! In the mean time, everyone should pray for Pope Francis and that he learns to show Our Lord the tiniest bit of respect and GENUFLECT to Him after He comes down onto the altar, and whenever he approaches or crosses the plane of a Tabernacle in which Our Lord is physically present. I think that would be a great prayer intention for one and all.

I never occurred to me that my desire to do penance in reparation to Our Lord for the sacrileges of the world would include the consecration rubrics of THE POPE.

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

UPDATE:

Thanks to the reader who suggested this. This is Pope Benedict's last public Mass on Ash Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Note that Pope Benedict, frail to the point of citing his frailty as a reason for his abdication, fully genuflects to the knee, as every priest MUST do as a non-negotiable rubric of celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

And for anyone arguing that it is simply too difficult for anyone over the age of twenty-four to genuflect, may I remind you that the rubrics call for both hands to be flat on the altar, which lends a great deal of physical support to the priest, and for there to be servers on each side who can assist with the genuflections by holding the elbows of the priest. That is one of the reasons the servers are there - to physically assist the priest if needed.

The genuflection after the consecration of the Host is at 1:19:33. The genuflection after the consecration of the Chalice is at 1:20:21.

Let me start with a positive comment. Remember, this is the best I could come up with:

If we had gotten the pope we DESERVE, we would now have Pope Snoop Dogg.

And thus ends the positivity.

Francis, like his homeland of Argentina, is a total disaster. He has overseen the near-total destruction of the Church in Argentina. He hates and despises the Tridentine Mass, which is to say that he hates the Mass - let's not mince words, and is a rabid persecutor of anyone in Argentina who shows ANY signs of tradition. A priest in Argentina literally risks the end of his career if he wears a cassock in public. He has forbidden the Tridentine Mass in Argentina, which is an act of direct disobedience, specifically against the papal decree Summorum Pontificum, but embraces horrific "charismatic" and "Superfun Rockband"-type liturgical sacrilege.

Which brings us to his regard for the papacy, and the Church itself. He said yesterday in his bizarre little speech, again and again, that he was the Bishop of Rome, which is true, but in being the Bishop of Rome the pope is the head of the Universal Church, not just the city of Rome. Francis does not believe this, and even made a reference to the idea that the pope is "first among equals". This means that he regards the Church as a mere loose confederacy, and also that he thinks the Church is, or should be, a democracy. The proof of this is, again, his blatant disobedience to Summorum Pontificum. He will never do anything to clean up the sodomite infiltrators in the Church outside of Rome because he doesn't feel that the pope has any authority outside of Rome. Bottom line here: many bishops and archbishops have been kept in line over the past eight years because Benedict was relatively aggressive in booting out extremely bad bishops. Benedict was feared in a healthy way. This guy is basically the big green light to every Marxist-homosexualist to just go ahead and do whatever, because they know Francis will never remove them or even chastise them, because Francis doesn't believe that the pope has any universal authority and is merely the bishop of the city of Rome proper - at least that is the excuse that will be given when nothing is done about abuses and heresies **that Francis is sympathetic towards.**

BUT, like all insecure leaders who say that they reject authority and obedience, reports from Buenos Aires are that he is an iron-fisted totalitarian against traditionalists, precisely because he has no confidence in or respect for his own authority, and thus assumes that no one else does either, and thus wields power against his perceived enemies only from brute force. Again, this is TEXTBOOK 20th century Marxist worldview and psychology. It is also the diametrical opposite of the virtue of MEEKNESS, which is power under control.

Next, he is an "ecu-maniac", which is to say that he is in the "all religions are equal and can't we all just get along" camp. In Buenos Aires he knelt before and received the "blessing" of a Superfun Rockband Church "pastor", and even received "communion" from a Protestant. There are pictures floating around of that episode. This is terrifying. He clearly does not have a strong belief in or understanding of Our Lord, His Church, the Mass or the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist. But, as I have stated repeatedly, almost none of the men ordained in the 1960s, 70s or 80s do.

Next, he's a Jesuit. Now, I must disclose that I have a deep personal, seething, visceral hatred of Jesuits, but my hatred of them is a corollary to the fact that they long ago descended into truly evil heresies and apostasy. Jesuits, in addition to being a cult of sodomites who hate God, are also … wait for it … Marxists. Now Francis has in the past put up some token resistance to so-called "Liberation theology", which is just Communist Totalitarianism in religious drag, but he is huge, huge, huge on "social justice", which is merely code for Marxism. This guy's worldview revolves around giving people free stuff because it's nice, which as we have discussed is contrary to logic and reason, specifically in the subset of mathematics, and thus is contrary to Our Lord who is FIRST the Logos, with the Divine Caritas (charity) proceeding out of the Logos. Bottom line, there will be zero positive assistance to the world from Francis with regards to the inevitable economic collapse. Not only will there be nothing helpful coming from him, he will almost certainly come out in favor of more debt, more "free stuff", and more rhetoric about how people are "entitled" to physical and service commodities (which are someone else's man-hours, remember) as "rights".

But Ann! He has gone on record against homosexual "marriage" and abortion!

Wow. Is this really how far we have sunk? The Roman pontiff is on record as being against sodomy and killing babies and we cite this as proof of ORTHODOXY? Really? I wonder if he also believes in gravity. Does belief in gravity constitute a conservative worldview now?

Benedict thought that between the "Natural Solution" (the passage of time yielding the death or retirement of the bad guys) and the appointments he was able to make over the last eight years that he had set up the College of Cardinals to elect a successor that was very much in the Ratzingerian camp. Benedict was wrong. Not only did they not elect a Ratzingerian, they elected the anti-Ratzinger. In the 2005 conclave Francis came in second to Ratzinger, which is to say that Francis was the "opposition". In what must have Benedict's mind reeling today, after eight years of purging and priming the College of Cardinals, the very men Ratzinger placed turned around and elected the anti-Ratzinger. This proves, as I have said all along, that playing prevent defense, namely the "natural solution" of waiting for the bad guys to die is UNSOUND. In war, you fix your bayonets, say your prayers, and you charge.

Tridentine Mass-goers and clergy, this guy will be on the warpath against us at some point. Prepare. Brace. He may attempt to undo Summorum Pontificum either directly or through intense passive aggression. Any hopes of reconciling the good guys in the SSPX is now totally over. Beyond that, the splinter factions will now claim that "they were right", and sadly even more schism will result, and more people will remain outside the Church. So sad.

We got what we deserved, and probably better than we deserve. God's chastisement of His people is sending them bad priests, bishops, and now, in all likelihood, a bad pope. What do you expect? Look around. The world is awash in staggering sin and blasphemy and no one will lift a finger to do anything about it. And, as my last essay on penance proved via my email box, no one is sorry or has any desire to make reparation to Our Lord for any of it. No one has the slightest comprehension of the notion of taking on the burden of guilt for sins that they didn't directly commit, which blows my mind because that is LITERALLY the ENTIRE POINT of the Incarnation. The mind reels at the collective obtuseness needed to miss that glaring point.

No one has the slightest comprehension of the idea of seeing Our Lord in agony and simply stepping over to Him and asking, "What can I do to help You? What can I do to make You feel better? Let me take some of Your burden. Let me go with You."

Nope. So long as we all leave Him alone in His Passion, He will leave us to our self-absorption and indifference.

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

Viva il Papa.

So I was praying the Rosary yesterday in a modest little church with a modest little Blessed Sacrament chapel and was struck right away by the First Sorrowful Mystery, which is the Agony of Our Lord in the Garden. The fruit of the mystery of the Agony in the Garden is sorrow for sin.

Look at those words again: sorrow for sin.

Not sorrow for just MY sins, but sorrow for all sin. And this, it seems to me, is where the world is in big, big trouble. If we read the Old Testament we see the same course of events repeating itself over and over again. People turn away from God, there is chastisement, the people repent and do penance, and God in His mercy forgives them and takes them back. But in every instance there must first be the acknowledgement of sin by the people and then penance. We see this both in individual contexts, as with David, and on the macro scale as with Israel over and over again. God does not and will not forgive sins unless there is a genuine turning away from the sinful activities. God does not and will not accept empty, hollow, dishonest faux-repentance, and certainly won't forgive an unrepentant people.

In visiting with people of late, it is very, very clear to me that there is basically ZERO sorrow for the sin beyond the individual level, and there is LESS THAN ZERO willingness to do penance and make reparation to Our Lord for the sins of the state, the broad culture, or for anyone other than one's self. Beyond that, the notion of penance itself has been watered down to nothingness. There are people running around living lives of utter decadence, ease and superficial happiness who will look you in the eye and swear up and down that they are living a life of penance because they pray every day, don't eat red meat on Fridays, and donate a little money here and there. Let's break that down. First, how is conversing with God penance, exactly? How would you feel if someone told you that conversing with you was an act of mortification for them? As someone who was recently told that very thing in so many words, and has heard that fairly consistently for most of my life, it isn't exactly fun. But then, Our Lord hears that from HIS OWN PEOPLE constantly. Hmmm. If nothing else, I guess I'm in good company on that point.

Next is the fasting thing. Let's be clear. The red meat fast is a good thing, but if you just order the Sea Bass, you know, the kind that melts in your mouth like butter from the sea, instead of the steak, is this really an act of penance? Are you REALLY making reparation to Our Lord for your sins and the sins of the world? No. At best the red meat fast makes you stop and think for just a moment about our Lord and His Passion. That is good, but if you dive into a meal that is otherwise sublime - just without one particular kind of food - this really isn't penance in any honest sense of the word.

Finally, almsgiving. Almsgiving that doesn't break the bank is fun. Especially when done in secret. That is one of the great joys in the well-lived life.

In the Third Secret of Fatima, which is being played out before our very eyes (the Fatima visionaries saw a bishop in white who they thought MIGHT have been the pope but were very confused about, which now makes perfect sense, whereas up until just a couple of weeks ago no one could make heads or tails of what that meant), an angel appears in conjunction with a great tribulation crying, "Penance, Penance, Penance!"

I'm afraid that a supernatural terror like that is what will be required to make anyone in this culture actually ponder the terrible, terrible crimes that have been committed against Our Lord and do any penance for them at all. Hundreds of millions of dead babies. The cult of sodomy. The destruction of the economic and financial systems and the resulting theft and deprivation of rightfully owned property and wages. The liturgical sacrilege of the Novus Ordo within the Church, and of all of the false religions and political cults all over the world that either pervert or deny Truth. It just goes on and on and on.

I, for one, will not wait until there is a giant angel with a flaming sword standing over me screaming, "Penance, Penance, Penance!" I love Our Lord now. I'm sorry not just for my own sins, but for the sins of the entire world right now.

What can I do, Lord? What can I do to console You as You suffer in the Garden? I know that most of these people are never going to wake up. I know that most of these people regard You as an abstract philosophical construct, a legalistic point of contract law, and a gift horse, and thus it will never occur to them that maybe You just want them to come to You in the Garden and ask to take on some of the burden of not just our own sin, but the sins of others, and to share in Your suffering - which is the real definition of the word "penance". When you love someone and you see them suffering, you should want to take it. We can't take all of it, but we can, like Simon of Cyrene, help. The merit comes not from the load of the penance we bear in and of itself, because we are talking about an infinite quantity. Infinity minus x still equals infinity. The merit comes in the movement of the soul in REAL CHARITY in desiring to share in Christ's sufferings through REAL penance just for His sake, and for the sakes of our neighbors, who we love not because of any quid pro quo, but because Christ loves them too. I don't personally like very many people, truth be told, nor is personal affection on my part required. But I am willing to suffer and do penance on their behalf because Our Lord loves them and desires their salvation, and so that is good enough for me. If it consoles Him, then that is what I want to do, because I love Him.

People, no matter who is elected pope, no matter what happens, none of this is going to be resolved in any way, shape, manner or form unless and until people start doing actual, real penance for the unspeakable, unprecedented sins of the world today. As in real, profound mortification and suffering, joined to Our Lord's Passion. Think prison. Think total loss of property and wealth. Think martyrdom. This culture not only refuses to do any real penance for the enormous sins we have committed against Our Lord, heck, we refuse to even acknowledge that any sins have been committed at all.

This isn't going to end well in an earthly sense. There exists no cardinal who can fix this as pope. All I'm praying for is that the next pope isn't a Marxist-homosexualist who hates God, hates His Church, hates the Mass, and hates Our Lord in the Eucharist. Given those criteria, pickins are slim, people. My advice to one and all is to embrace serious repentance and penance now motivated by true love for Our Lord (filial fear) and for neighbor, and not to wait until the motivation is abject terror rooted in selfishness and servile fear. Let me echo one more time the words of the angel in the Fatima vision: PENANCE! PENANCE! PENANCE!

Go to Him in the Garden now, and beg Him to let you help carry the Cross. But understand, if you ask this of Him, HE WILL LET YOU DO IT, and there will almost certainly be no earthly reward, only a heavenly one.

Here's the next Pope.

Angelo Bagnasco. Pope Leo XIV.

Very smart, and very elegant and dignified in a masculine way. Very kind, but will tear the face off of anyone who crosses him. And 70 years old. Plenty young and robust.

I like him.

(Please Lord, let me be right if for no other reason than to send all of the insane conspiracy theorists who say I am a government agent or shape-shifting lizard person simultaneously into low-earth orbit. Oh, and thanks again for our chat in the Sistine Chapel back in December. Amen.)

All of the Ayn Rand devotees need to read this one. Trust me.

All of you people who attend a Nervous Ardor, er, I mean Novus Ordo parish (new post-1968 Mass in English with gameshow host, er, excuse me, priest facing the people) need to understand what was cut out of the Mass by the Marxist-homosexualist infiltrators and why.

At the end of every Mass (with just a couple of exceptions per year), the first fourteen verses of the Gospel of John are read. So yes, there are TWO Gospel readings per Mass: the variable Gospel in the liturgy of the Word, which changes every day, and John 1:1-14 at the very, very end of the Mass. The Johannine Gospel is referred to as "The Last Gospel".

John 1:1-14 is, in my considered opinion, the single greatest and most beautiful bit of prose ever written. The Holy Spirit really pulled out all of the stops when He inspired John to pen these verses. It is simultaneously macho and elegant. Especially in Latin. It is just perfect. Here is the English:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was made nothing that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men: and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him. He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light. That was the true light which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.

He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them He gave great power to become the sons of God: to them that believe in His name: who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Perfect. So why did the Marxist-homosexualist infiltrators remove the reading of the most beautiful bit of prose EVAH from the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?

Short answer: Because they hate God.

Long answer: Because their satanic heresy, believe it or not, all turns on messing up the processions of the Trinity.

Huh?

It's actually quite simple. All of the Marxist-homosexualists are always going on and on about how giving people free stuff and letting people do whatever they want is the message of Christ and His Church, right? There is no sin, there is no hell, I'm okay - you're okay, do what you want and give people free stuff because ... wait for it ... God is Love. And love means free stuff, never ever having to say you're sorry, and sex.

The problem with this is that love PROCEEDS from logic and reason. Look at The Last Gospel. It's right there in the very first verse. In the beginning was THE WORD. Verbum in Latin. Logos in the original Greek. Logos means logic and/or reason in the Greek. John identifies God NOT as "The Caritas" (Latin for love, which is the root of the word charity) or The Agape (Greek for the ultimate self-sacrificial love). John does not say, "In the beginning was the Love..." No, no. John identifies God as THE LOGOS. The Word. Logic and reason. Existential Reality.

Why? Because Divine Love proceeds out of the Logos. Yep. Logic/Reason/Reality comes first, then only proceeding out of Logic/Reason/Reality is Caritas, which is love. Logic/Reason/Reality is the Divine Antecedent. Charity/Love is the Divine Corollary.

What satan, through his Marxist-sodomite helpers, has done is to REVERSE the processions. The Marxist-sodomite heretics preach that the "love" comes first and that logic and reason are massively subordinated at best, or the opposite and enemy of love at worst.

Kids, you mess up the processions of the Trinity and everything in your culture will fall apart POST HASTE. Just ask the Russians. And this is exactly what is happening to us since we have been overthrown by Marxist-Communists over the last 50 years, now fully accomplished by the Obama putsch regime, which is neo-Stalinist.

Think about it. The Marxist-homosexualists say that they want to give everyone free stuff, and the people have a "right" to free stuff. But that clearly doesn't jibe with reality. It is illogical and devoid of reason. Money has to come from somewhere. Physical commodities have to be produced and harvested at the expense of labor - MAN HOURS. Service commodities are a function of man hours and acquired human skill or talent. These things are not free, and do not exist in infinite quantities. A man can voluntarily choose to donate his labor, skill and time, but the donation, the charity, the LOVE therein MUST be preceded by the REALITY of the thing itself.

Let's just give everyone on earth a trillion dollars and call it good. Wouldn't that be *nice*? If we really loved our neighbor we would just give him a trillion bucks, right?

Um, yeah, except that would instantaneously collapse the currency and economy. Math will not permit such irrational insanity, and since math, as a subset of the Logos, precedes caritas, or love, we can't mandate that people be given free stuff. People can only be given free stuff in any sustainable way by other individuals acting from purely voluntary charity, not coercion. This is why MATH WINS, and why miracles like the multiplication of the loaves and fishes are exactly that - MIRACLES, not economic theories.

Oh, and with respects to sodomy, two men jamming things into each other's feces-laden colons or two women abusing one another is irrational. Like it or not, sex has to make anatomical sense and be ordered toward reproduction. And, nipping the screeching in the bud, sex between man and wife that is naturally infertile due to either a natural condition in a young woman, or due to the infertility of age in an older woman is 100% ratified by God in the miraculous births of Isaac and John the Baptist. Sodomy is irrational, intrinsically hateful and physically violent and is in direct opposition to the existential reality of human anatomy. Period. It can never, ever proceed from love.

This is why the Marxist-homosexualists removed the proclamation of The Last Gospel from the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, because it shoots down their Marxist rabble-rousing agitprop revolving around "free stuff" and the Sodomites' addiction to perverted sex acts.

Oh, and none of this has been taught in seminaries for over 50 years now. Your priest, bishop and the vast, vast majority of the Cardinals gathered in Rome know NOTHING about what an ex-cattle broker girl from Denver with an Amazon Prime membership just explained to you; never mind Superfun Rockband Church Pastor Jeremy.

And so, the answer to the title question of this post is:

In principio erat Verbum ....

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. †

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ASSAULT WEAPON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EVELENTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ABSOLUTE MONARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm skeerd. Hold me.

Oh, no. Wait. That's King Saint Ferdinand III of Spain. Thirteenth century manly-man. Pious and holy as the day is long. Zealous propagator of the faith and manful slayer of many, many musloids. The love of his people was second only to his love of Our Lord and His Holy Church.

If you scroll down, I made a post in January titled "Pulchra Vera", which I intend to be a periodic feature - just a catchall post for any little bit of beauty that I stumble across, be it music, art, poetry, prose, pictures of beautiful things in outer space, whatever. You will recall that "pulchra" means beauty and "vera" means true, or genuine. So Pulchra Vera in this sense means "genuine beauty".

In this essay, however, I am going to play on those words a bit and address the beauty of Truth Itself. Truth and beauty are both constitutive qualities of God. Things that are true are true BECAUSE they are congruent with or of God. One plus one equals two not because your teachers said so, or because centuries ago a bunch of really smart Greek guys took a vote and decided that was how it was going to be. No. One plus one equals two because mathematical truth, as a subset of all truth, is contained in God Himself, and it is thus extant within His creation, and beyond that is a way for us to see and know Him. "The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of His hands."

But what happens when the truth is actually ugly? Does it lose its beauty? Should ugly truths be suppressed? Should painful truths be hidden, or even denied?

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Goodness gracious this is so important. Please pay good attention to this.

When the truth is ugly, it must STILL be declared. Boldly. Loudly. Persistently. Failure to declare ugly truths is itself an act of dishonesty, a bearing of false witness, and it makes impossible any attempt to push through the superficial ugliness and get to the pure, holy beauty beyond. If you refuse to declare ugly truths, then progress (in the good sense of the word) is halted. Everything stops and the only direction that has any freedom for movement is BACKWARD, away from truth, and thus away from God Himself.

Guys, this dynamic is EVERYWHERE around us today, and it is why civilization is going to implode any day now. No one will declare any ugly truths, and thus we have hit the wall as a civilization.

Examples:

The Catholic church has been massively infiltrated by a cabal of Marxist-homosexualists who hate God and are actively trying to destroy His Church from the inside out. In excess of 90% of ethnic Catholics in the west have stopped attending Mass in the last 50 years since the Marxist-homosexualists destroyed the Mass and began preaching Marxism, tolerance of infanticide and sexual deviancy. Anyone who says otherwise is simply a liar. They are bearing false witness, no matter what their motivation.

The entire global economy and financial system are massive, mathematically impossible Ponzi scheme and debt bubble that can never, ever be repaid with "money". The economy WILL collapse, there will be war, and there will be a settlement of debt via landmass reallocation and blood. At the top of this list of mathematically impossible and unfixable Ponziconomies is the former United States of America. FORMER.

Democracy or representative democracy beyond the local level simply does not work. Stupid people should have say over their own lives and households, but stupid people should NOT have a say or vote over any system that affects other people. The ugly truth here is that there are within the human population spectrums of intelligence, practical ability, management skill, psychological fitness and moral fitness. The higher the level of governance, the more of these qualities leaders must possess, and a leader or leaders at the highest level should possess ALL of these qualities in abundance. Today, the world is literally being run by people who are mentally and functionally retarded, with many of them being sociopaths, psychopaths or at the very least malignant narcissists. The current political order will never, ever, ever fix any of this. Anyone who promulgates hope in "elections" is bearing false witness, no matter what their motivation.

Islam is an evil totalitarian political system from the deepest, blackest pit of hell, masquerading as a faux-religion. It was consciously set up that way, and must be exterminated from the face of the earth without remorse in order to save the souls trapped inside of it and to prevent any more people from being victimized and destroyed by it. Period. Anyone who says anything else is bearing false witness, no mater what their motivation.

These are just four macro examples. I could go on and on and on. Now, an interesting question for YOU. Why are you here? Why do you read me? Why are you all so attracted to my jeremiads? My stock and trade rhetorically is basically talking about horrific, ugly truths that no one else will talk about. Why are you attracted to that? Why do I get all of these emails and hand-written letters describing me as "a breath of fresh air" and the JOY people experience from reading my essays and watching my videos about horrifically ugly truths?

Because ladies and gentlemen, TRUTH is BEAUTIFUL. Even when it reveals something so ugly that you can barely stand to look at it.

If you haven't figured it out yet, the ultimate manifestation of this is Christ Crucified. This is why we have crucifixes - not just crosses but crucifixes with Christ nailed to the Cross. The crucifix is the most beautiful image in the world, because it reveals the most beautiful truth in the world by first making us push through horrific ugliness. The horrific ugliness is God Incarnate, perfect and sinless, whipped until He is skinned and nailed naked to a tree … BECAUSE WE PUT HIM THERE BY OUR SINS. How can this possibly be beautiful? Because it is the complete expression and manifestation of God's love for man. When man asks, "Is there a God and does He care about me?" the only way to fully answer that question is by showing him an image that is so horrific that it makes us wince and look away. But then we look back. And look. And look. And look. Because what we are looking at is TRUTH, and truth is beautiful, but only so long as we don't try to "clean it up" or make it "easier to swallow". When you try to make ugly truths either more palatable, or even try to obscure them all together, you are embracing a lie. God died a horrific death for your sins and thus you sins CAN be forgiven because first you ARE a sinner, and your sins are HORRIFIC - but you have to have the antecedent before the corollary: you have to have the CROSS before you can get to the Resurrection. The Catholic church HAS been massively infiltrated and suffered a massive destructive catastrophe in the last 50 years at the hands of Marxist-sodomites. Until this is acknowledged and acted upon with holy intransigence, there will be nothing but continued erosion and destruction. The global economy is going to collapse. The United States of America no longer exists. Beating dead horses is insane. Nothing will happen until civilization seeks a new horse. A major war is going to have to be fought to purge the earth of islam and save the people of good will trapped within it. Islam is a cancer, and cancers must either be cut out, or they will kill you.

Denial of ugly truths only leads to more and more ugliness. Denial of ugly truths is exactly what satan wants. Satan wants humanity to believe that there is no sin, there is no hell, everything is just fine in the Church and there is no problem - especially with sodomite priests and lesbian nuns, one plus one equals seven or thirty-four or whatever you want it to equal, government can solve all of our problems - not that there is anything wrong to begin with, infinite amounts of free stuff can be distributed and theft can be executed by oligarchs ad infinitum with zero consequences, and if we will all just hold hands and have a group hug we can all get along and coexist.

And so I now link to the very ugly and very serious report by the priest in Poland that has blown open the story on the horrific sodomite infiltration of the Catholic Church, and all I can say is YEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAWW!! YAY! YAY! YAY! FINALLY! THANKS BE TO GOD! WOOHOO! Because the Truth is a beautiful thing, no matter how ugly it appears on the surface, it must first be shouted from the mountaintops in order to have ANY HOPE of pushing through to the other side, which is nothing less than God Himself. PULCHRA VERA.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE REPORT ON THE SODOMITE INFILTRATION OF THE CHURCH.

1. Short story long, first I lost my internet connection, then had a massive hardware failure. Now up and running with a new computer. AHHHHHHHH....

2. I'm glad that I wasn't able to post, because if I had, I would have said things that I would have walked back, and I'm not a walk-back kind of girl. Now I'm just and ex-cattle broker from Denver, so what would I know? BUT I have it from a good source that ...

The 300 page dossier by the three cardinals on the homosexual mafia and the homosexual cardinals WILL BE READ ALOUD AT THE CONCLAVE in the presence of ALL of the voting cardinals with NAMES NAMED after the oath of secrecy is taken.

These recent resignations of cardinals may very well be the sodomites running scared.

And yes, the Vatican sodomites are tied to the Vatican bank. Are we really shocked that sexual perversion and financial crimes are linked? You people who are STILL falling for the "what people do in their sex lives doesn't matter" meme have got to wake up. Sex, be it homo or hetero, DOES MATTER. Bill Clinton's escapades with Monica DID MATTER, because if a person can operate in the realm of sexuality with zero morality, shame or remorse, what do you think that implies about their business dealings, political dealings or their general psychological state? Sexual perversion and promiscuity are directly correlated to sociopathy and psychopathy. Sane people don't treat other people like pieces of meat. Sane people don't treat themselves like pieces of meat. Sane people regard other people as subjects, not objects. Sane people have consciences. Sane people have standards of decency and are repelled by sexual perversion.

It's on, y'all. The Holy Spirit is on the move. When I was in the Sistine Chapel alone for those 20 minutes back in December, I stood at the foot of the altar, looking at the Last Judgment, and prayed (after the Judica Me) that the Holy Spirit would do SOMETHING at the next conclave to deliver the Church from the Marxist-homosexualist infiltrators - having NO FATHOM that it would be a matter of weeks and it would be on like Donkey Kong.

Oh, and the sodomites and their Marxist allies are learning that if you're going to play chess with a Bavarian rocking a buck-eighty IQ, YOU. WILL. LOSE.

3. Stop the Timothy Dolan as the next pope talk. Please. Dolan is a fraud, an intellectual lightweight and basically the John Edwards of the episcopacy. In other words, he is a total phony, and anyone with a brain knows it within a matter of nanoseconds of the guy opening his mouth.

May I be permitted to make a physics analogy? If Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) is the analogue of Einstein, to complete the physics analogy, Dolan would be Britney Spears. Or perhaps the lint from Britney Spears' dryer. As proof, here is Dolan at the rededication of St. Francis Xavier parish in Manhattan. This is the "gay parish", run by sodomite Jesuits (but I repeat myself ...) who celebrate and encourage sodomy, celebrate and encourage the practice of Buddhism AND witchcraft IN THE PARISH and IN THE MASSES there held. When I first posted this clip, a reader who lives right around the corner from St. Francis Xavier parish in Manhattan emailed me and said that during the so-called "prayers of the faithful", the congregation is directed to turn to the four directions, and that this is done as an open, explicit bow to the LESBIAN WICCA contingent in the parish.

Dolan is a cretin, a heretic and is on the path to hell himself for his politicking, which is nothing more than throwing the sheep to the wolves so that he can get invited to parties with politicians and celebs and fancy himself a "cool guy". Dolan is the kind of guy who will tell you what you want to hear with enormous faux-earnestness, and then ten seconds later tell the next person exactly the opposite with exactly the same level of faux-earnestness. His rehearsed faux-sincerity fools some people, sadly, but not everyone.

My favorite Dolanism is the ponderously-chewing-on-the-glasses move, which he must have spent many an hour rehearsing in the mirror. He does it at the 5:30 mark while the ACTIVE SODOMITE CLUB is introduced and cheered in the middle of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

It's time to pull out the big guns. No pun intended. Well, maybe just a little.

What you are looking at is the Blessed Virgin Mary wielding a sword in holy hatred. Hatred of whom? Why, satan, of course. Evil. Our Lady HATES EVIL and will aggressively attack satan and the demons in a manful yet always perfectly holy way.

Theophilus was a diocesan lay employee who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for power (ahem, cough, that has no application to today's "professional catholics" who enrich themselves and feed their own power structure and evil political and cultural cesspits of heresy by turning dioceses into their own personal feifdoms, does it? ahem, cough), and then later implored the Blessed Mother to come and fix his mess. And, being the perfect Mother that she is, she cleaned up Theophilus' mess.

She charged satan and demanded Theophilus' soul back, and because satan is impotent, he had to obey. Always remember that. Satan and the demons are IMPOTENT in the face of holiness.

Another word that is used to describe the Blessed Virgin Mary is intransigent. She embodies perfect, holy intransigence. Intransigence means that you refuse to moderate of compromise in any way on a position. When it comes to evil, we are ALL called to be INTRANSIGENT, exactly as the Blessed Mother is intransigent. She didn't ask satan for Theophilus' soul. She didn't invite satan to dinner and laugh at his jokes in the "spirit of compromise". Nope. She drew an enormous sword (which is an ASSAULT WEAPON) and she went at satan in full honey badger mode.

The ONLY acceptible response to evil, such as abortion, sodomitical abominations of every stripe and Marxism, is with total, complete, intransigence and holy hatred. Just like the Blessed Virgin.

1. I have been very busy for almost two solid weeks now, but am settled back in a bit and hopefully will be able to post more. Not that there is anything to talk about, or anything. (SLIGHT sarcasm there.)

2. Point taken on the FDIC post. It is probably still PER INDIVIDUAL PER INSTITUTION, not per individual across institutions - at least that section is still on the FDIC website (thanks for sending those citations in), however, my other point still overshadows that point: the FDIC only has a few billion in assets against ten trillion in customer deposits, with the big-5 banks having over a trillion in customer money each. The big point is, the FDIC is not in any realistic sense any sort of protection.

3. Like everyone, I am certainly taken aback by the Pope's abdication. The confluence of events happening right now is definitely frightening. But, I and many others have seen this coming for years. I knew we were in for big, big trouble with the usurpation by the Obama putsch regime in 2008. So, why be shocked now that it is coming to a head? I guess all of us have a little bit of normalcy bias and denial going on in our heads.

4. The papal abdication is very grim in my eyes. The precedent being set is horrible - the Pope will almost always be an "old man". If being an "old man" is a disqualifier, then ... who can be Pope? I have heard many conspiracy theories ranging from the slightly plausible to the patently absurd (shape-shifting lizard people, anyone?). Here is the BEST CASE scenario I can come up with - and bear in mind, I have no idea, I'm just saying this is the BEST CASE scenario: The Pope has been diagnosed with something that will eventually turn into dementia or some other form of incapacitation, and having seen John Paul II's descent into incapacitation and the vulnerability therein, B-16 is abdicating because he knows there is no one around him that will protect him in the way that he, as then-Cardinal Ratzinger, was able to effectively protect JPII from the nefarious actors around him - and we KNOW that there are nefarious actors very high up within the Vatican. This is why I keep harping and harping on the INFILTRATION by Communist-homosexualists. It is absolutely FOR REAL.

Again, what I have just laid out is not fact or knowledge on my part. It is simply the best-case scenario in my mind. Ugh.

5. For those of you who are harping on this as being "the end of the Church", um, you might want to go ahead and walk that back, because you are calling Christ Almighty a liar. What part of "and the gates of hell will not prevail against it" are we struggling to understand? The Church may get right up to the Gates of hell, but hell will never prevail. B-16 himself said a couple of years ago that the Church would become very "compact". I shudder at what he knows - especially after this. As I told someone not too long ago, so long as ONE valid Mass is said somewhere on earth per day, the Church will exist. The person I said that to winced and recoiled in horror. Yup. But remember, we have it coming. God knows we have it coming. Let His Justice be exacted. Whatever it takes to end this culture of child sacrifice and sodomy. This cannot go on.

6. On a personal note, the Petrine Primacy was the last hurdle I cleared in my conversion, and now it is a keystone in my faith. And do you know who explained it to me? It was my cattle marketing mentor, Bud Williams, who died just recently. Bud was not a religious man, but the Holy Spirit speaks through whomever it pleases Him to speak. Bud was extremely savvy when it came to management of PEOPLE. He was extremely perceptive and knew how to get the best out of people in the work environment. One evening, while sitting in Bud's living room, Bud began talking about feedyard management. I was in the process of converting to Catholicism, but was still not 100% sold, as I was still struggling with the whole papacy thing. As I was sitting there listening to Bud, he said one of the more profound things I ever heard him say (and that is saying something). He said, "When you are running a feedyard - or really trying to do ANYTHING involving a group of people together, SOMEONE HAS GOT TO BE IN CHARGE."

BAM. Like a punch in the face. I sat on that sofa with the word "PETER" pounding in my mind as Bud fleshed out his premise, and I absolutely knew that he was right.

It would have been utterly CRUEL for Our Lord to NOT establish the Petrine Primacy, and leave His Bride with no leadership, and thus total chaos. Not only did Our Lord establish that leadership, but He also sent the Paraclete to safeguard the Pope through the brilliantly subtle negative-protection dynamic of papal infallibility. And we know that it works because there have been six or so truly terrible popes in history, but not one of them ever made a false declaration on faith or morals speaking ex cathedra (that is officially, "from the chair"). The bad popes were too busy fornicating and scheming to ever bother with anything theological. So even the nasties never declared their own sins "licit" - which is utterly miraculous if you think about it, because that is the genesis of all of the heresies and schisms, like Luther wanting to have sex with Katarina von Bora, or Henry VIII wanting to dump whichever wife he was sick of and move on to the next concubine and have everyone applaud him for it.

Yep. I'm with Peter. To the end. Because Peter has the keys because Our Lord gave them to him, and Peter is the Rock because Our Lord said he was, and Peter loves Our Lord, and Our Lord loves Peter. Even if some of Peter's successors don't live up to their dignity. Remember, even Peter himself failed to live up to his dignity. He didn't fully unwind his betrayal of Our Lord until he himself was crucified.

Kyrie, agapo se.
Christe, agapo se.
Kyrie, agapo se.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

David manfully slaying Goliath with Goliath 's own ASSAULT WEAPON, after the initial takedown with David's own ASSAULT WEAPON, a slingshot. David is symbolic of Christ, Goliath is symbolic of heretics and their father, satan. The sword is symbolic of God's word - scripture, as we all know. The swath of gold behind the sword is heaven, and thus God slays the heretic and satan from heaven with the sword of scripture. Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Enough said.

A reader sent this in. Effective December 31, 2012, FDIC insurance became AGGREGATED with a maximum PER OWNER cap of $250,000.

Many of you are under the impression that FDIC protection is per account, and thus if you just keep your money spread around and never keep more that a quarter-mil in cash in any one bank that you are "safe".

Nope. It is tied to your Social Security number / Tax ID number now.

And remember, total bank deposits in the U.S. are somewhere around TEN TRILLION DOLLARS and the FDIC deposit insurance fund as of March 31, 2012 had a whopping $15 BILLION.

Bottom line: if you think your bank deposits are "insured" or "safe" because of FDIC protection, you're totally irrational.

CITATION HERE.

December 31, 2012

As scheduled, the unlimited insurance coverage for noninterest-bearing transaction accounts provided under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act expired on December 31, 2012. Deposits held in noninterest-bearing transaction account are now aggregated with any interest-bearing deposits the owner may hold in the same ownership category, and the combined total insured up to at least $250,000.

Many urban, suburban and newly relocated to rural area people email asking for remedial instruction in all things agricultural: farming, husbandry, pasture management, etc. I taught a cattle marketing school up in Montana earlier this week and one of the attendees was a chap who owns a company that does exactly this: agricultural education via the web for both adults AND junior high-high school aged kids. He has 18 separate curricula right now, and is expanding. He has students worldwide, including a significant following of homeschoolers - both the kids and the parents.

If you want to get smart on agricultural skillsets from your own home, at your own pace, inexpensively with online instructor support, I recommend

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† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

A WWI soldier with bayonet fixed. Read on:

Here is a description of an Easter Mass you don't see every day:

"Easter Sunday was quite a red letter day in the annals of the town (Pas de Calais, France). The regiment turned out in full strength, headed by the pipers, and crowded the sanctuary, every inch of the church, and out beyond.

I had eight stalwart sergeants standing guard with fixed bayonets (ASSAULT WEAPONS) round the altar.

At the Consecration and also at the Communion of the Mass the buglers sounded the Royal Salute which is given only to monarchs.

The guard at the word of command presented arms (In other words, they manfully brandished their ASSAULT WEAPONS), and in our poor humble way we tried to do honour to the Almighty King of Kings on the day of His glorious triumph.

I must not forget to add that the lassies and maidens did us the honour to sing during the Mass, casting many an envious glance (so rumour says) down on the handsome Irish lads praying so devoutly below."

This was in a letter written to his home by Fr. William Doyle, S.J., on Easter Sunday of 1917. It turned out to be his last Easter, as he was killed in action in August of 1917.

Originally penned and posted in January 2011.

The weekend before His Passion, Jesus went and stayed with His friend Lazarus (whom He had raised from the dead) and Lazarus' sisters Martha and Mary. Mary brought out a very expensive flask of ointment for the dead and applied it to Jesus' feet with her hair. The whole house was filled with the sweet smell of that ointment. And guess who gets all mouthy about this? Yep. Judas Iscariot - who already was planning to sell out Jesus, and had been planning on cashing in on Him since the miracle of the loaves and fishes a few days earlier. Specifically, when Jesus told the people that they must eat His Flesh and drink His Blood, and kept repeating it over and over and over again to be sure that everyone understood that He meant it literally, Judas (with urging from satan) decided that Our Lord was nuts and started planning to betray Him and profit from it. That whole episode is in John chapter 6. Read it.

Back to Lazarus' house in John 12. Judas gets all holier-than-thou and complains that the flask of ointment could have been sold for 300 pence and "given to the poor". Does this not sound like the godless Marxist liberals of today who are so quick to tell everyone else what they should be doing with their money and assets, all in the name of the poor, of course?

Then, an absolutely delightful verse - verse 6:

"Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things therein."

Um, hello? The Holy Spirit is talking to us. Are we listening? That verse should make the hair on your arms stand up. Is this not a PERFECT mapping to our contemporary situation? You have a "disciple" who doesn't really believe in Jesus or what He says - he just pretends to because he thinks he can gain power and wealth by associating with Jesus for now. He's just working the "Jesus angle". But everything he is doing behind the scenes is working in direct opposition to Our Lord. Now, this "disciple" starts trying to appear pious and devout by pontificating that all wealth and resources should, by definition, be redistributed to "the poor". But in truth, he is just a thief.

Dude. Can this be any more obvious?

Now here is the key passage from Jesus Himself:

"Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of My burial. For the poor you have always with you; but Me you have not always."

First of all, Jesus says, "Let her alone." (Sinite illam.)

Judas has appointed himself the arbiter of wealth and asset distribution and has decided that Mary's flask of ointment (or the cash value thereof) should have gone to the poor. And Jesus says, "Let her alone."

It is hers to do with as she (and her family) sees fit, and they have seen fit to use it to anoint their beloved Jesus.

Judas, sit down and shut your proto-Marxist piehole. THWAP!

In the next phrase, Jesus explains economics in eight words (FIVE in Latin):
"For the poor you have always with you."
(Pauperes enim semper habetis vobiscum.)

What does He mean? Does He mean, "Bah, forget the poor! Live it up!"

Absolutely not. What He is explaining is that in all free societies wealth will always exist within a SPECTRUM.

Let's compare a "poor" person in the U.S. to a "poor" person in Bangladesh. A poor person in Bangladesh lives in the gutter without so much as a cardboard shelter to sleep under. They are sick from malnutrition and starvation. They probably dress in rags, and certainly do not own a pair of shoes. Bathing only occurs when they can immerse themselves in a river, which is opaque with sewage. They own nothing except the rags that they wear. Every day is a struggle to get a bit of clean water and enough food to merely survive. That's a poor person in Bangladesh.

What constitutes a "poor" person in the U.S.? A poor person in the U.S. does not have cable. A poor person in the U.S. does not have broadband internet access, and may not even own a PC. A poor person in the U.S. may have just within the last year or two finally switched from a cathode ray tube television to a flat screen, digital model. A poor person in the U.S. receives food stamps, medicaid and a welfare check. A poor person in the U.S. is probably overweight. A poor person in the U.S. drives a car that is so old that it came with a factory cassette player. A poor person in the U.S. lives either in a trailer or a HUD apartment complex. A poor person in the U.S. probably DOES have a cell phone.

Understand that on a percentage level, these two descriptions are equivalent. A "poor" person in the U.S. has a standard of living that would be considered luxurious in Bangladesh and other impoverished countries. The notions of "wealth" and "poverty", by logical and mathematical definition, exist within a SPECTRUM. And no matter what we do, that spectrum will always, always exist. That is what Jesus is saying. There will always be a top-end, and there will always be a bottom-end. In some nations (like Bangladesh), that spectrum is very broad and reaches very far down into poverty, indeed. There are billionaires in Bangladesh, and there are people starving in the gutters in rags. In the U.S., we certainly have a wealth spectrum, but the low end is much higher and the spectrum is much narrower. We have many billionaires, but our lower-end is nowhere NEAR as low as Bangladesh's.

The point is, no matter how much you bring up the bottom-end, there will ALWAYS, by mathematical definition, BE a bottom-end. If the bottom-end was a $100,000 per year household income and a $300,000 home in today's dollars, then a household with a $100,000 income and a $300,000 home would be considered "poor", called "poor", and Marxists would tell those "poor" that they were being "oppressed" and "deserved" and were "entitled to" a $500,000 annual household income and an $800,000 home. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

Someone is always going to have more money and assets than somebody else. It is impossible to have a free society wherein every person has exactly the same level of wealth. Someone has to be the business OWNER, and someone has to be the EMPLOYEE. Someone has to be the wage PAYER and someone has to be the wage EARNER. If everyone in a culture was economically equal at all times, there would be zero employment because no one would work for anyone except themselves. You can't have a company with 10,000 CEOs. Conversely, you can't have a company that is nothing but entry-level laborers. Someone has to be responsible. Someone has to sign the paychecks. Someone has to determine the course of the business. Someone has to risk their assets and wealth to start-up the company in the first place. And, at the other end, someone has to scrub the toilets. The only way to get true, complete equality of wealth would be to kill EVERYBODY.

Since we know from Jesus that there will always be a wealth spectrum, it is obviously disordered to eliminate said spectrum and collapse it down to a single point of "economic equality". To do that would collapse the society itself and result is chaos and poverty for ALL. (Ahem, MARXISM, TYRANNICAL OLIGARCHY, cough, cough.)

What then should the objective be? I think that the former-U.S. and other free-market capitalist societies were the closest humanity has ever been to the ideal, and though imperfect, are certainly pointed in the right direction. The ideal is a healthy wealth spectrum that is always moving higher through growth and moral technological advancements and innovations, is open-ended on the top side, but has an intrinsic morality such that the top-end of the wealth spectrum always makes certain that the bottom end advances apace and that the spectrum maintains its proportional width - or even narrows a bit. This is achieved through personal charity AND through a moral, lawful society that allows for movement both up AND down the spectrum.

The top-end cooperates with the bottom end to enable upward mobility for those who work hard, and are innovative. Conversely, if someone on the top-end does not work hard or is dishonest in his dealings, he can and will fail and slide back down the spectrum.

This freedom of movement within the spectrum - both up AND down - is essential. Trapping people on the low-end (ahem, cough, WELFARE STATE, CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY, OBAMA REGIME, cough) is equally as immoral as the disgusting patrician upper-classes who think themselves immune from morality, the rule of law or personal responsibility (ahem, cough, OBAMA REGIME AND ENTIRE POLITICAL CLASS, cough, cough).

So, there you go. Economics as explained by our Blessed Lord in five little words while He was hanging out at His friends' house having supper the weekend before He died. And proof that Judas Iscariot was the intellectual father of Marxism and of scumbag politicians in general.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Oh my goodness! Look at that horrible man swinging that ASSAULT WEAPON like some sort of a masculine, manful manly man, or something. I'm scared! HOLD ME!!!

Oh, wait. That's St. Artemius. He was a commander in the Imperial Army under Emperor Julian the Apostate in the mid-4th century. When Julian condemned two priests, Eugene and Macarius to torture and death, Artemius SPOKE UP AND CALLED BEE-ESS, KNOWING THAT IT MEANT HIS OWN TORTURE AND DEATH.

Sound familiar? Do you see why I post these mini-bios? These are the people who did what millions upon millions of YOU should be doing - standing up and calling bee-ess on a tyrant and antichrist, even though it means certain destruction, imprisonment and maybe even death, eventually. I post these in part to SHAME all of you. Shame on you. Shame on your cowardice and faithlessness. Shame on your worshiping of your true god: your precious, precious crap.

Here is, in part, what Artemius said right to Emperor Julian's face:

Do not have illusions - O Emperor! - in following your love of Satan, do not persecute the Christians protected by God. The power of Christ is invincible.

Julian instantly had Artemius arrested, tortured in an attempt to get him to apostatize (which FAILED MISERABLY), and then finally after giving up, had Artemius beheaded.

You people do realize that the Obama regime is doing the same thing - they are using the coercive power of the government, specifically through the IRS, to get as many of you as possible to apostatize - and MAKE NO MISTAKE, capitulating to the regime, the HHS mandate and paying taxes which you know for a metaphysical certitude are going to pay for abortions and advance sodomite "marriage" under the law, not to mention reforming and arming the islamic caliphate, is apostasy from Christ.

Spare me your emails pleading for your property. I'm liquidating mine as we speak. I'm really not interested in your, "But, but, but I can't lose my house" whining. This time next year, if war hasn't broken out and I'm still alive, I'll probably be living in a van down by the river. And if it comes to it, I'll happily go to my imprisonment and execution and be grateful for the blessing.

Hell is forever. FOREVER. There is exactly one thing that is impossible, and that is for you to cease to exist. You will always exist. Forever. And ever. One hundred billion trillion years will be the "warm up". The question is, where will your existence be? Will it be inside the Trinity pondering the Beatific Vision, or will it be in hell? Ask yourself if your house is worth eternity in hell. Seriously.

Oh, and Julian eventually got greased himself, and his dying words were, "Vicisti, Galilaee." You have won, Galilean.

St. Artemius, pray for us.

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† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Back to an image of St. Paul sent in by a reader, this one being by the Sienese Mannerist Beccafumi.

(Yes - a Mannerist piece, which we likes. Don't hates us. It's just this one. We promises, Precioussss.)

On the left is Saul (soon to be renamed Paul by Our Lord) after being knocked off his horse on the Road to Damascus at the moment of his conversion. On the right is a graphic representation of Paul's beheading. We need to see these things. That's what really happened. One second there was Paul, the next second his head was laying in front of his bleeding-out neck stump.

Many folks upon my posting of the very first image in this series of the statue of St. Paul cried out, "But Ann! The only reason Paul is shown with a sword is because that was the instrument of his execution!"

True, true. But I still think we're missing the point.

In the center is a wonderful Paul, head firmly restored to body, as he sits and reads scripture while holding the same ASSAULT WEAPON that beheaded him, easily yet manfully across his lap and resting on his forearm. The reason martyr saints are depicted holding the instrument of their execution is because it is just so totally macho. It is the ultimate comeback. Dare I use the term, it is a bit of visual trash-talking, except the holy, sanctified kind.

"Oh, yeah, big man? You thought that cutting my head off was going to end this? Oh, no, no, no baby. That wasn't the end of it - that was just the beginning. Now that I'm in heaven I can REALLY get to work. And you better trust that my ASSAULT WEAPON is longer, sharper and more fearsome than yours could ever be."

Now map this onto today. Eventually someone in the U.S. is going to get shot by the government for being a Christian. Let's say that the person is shot with one of the 7000 AR-15s that Janet Napolitano just ordered. How should the dead person be pictured in iconography thence forward? They should be pictured just like St. Paul - manfully holding an AR-15, even if they never fired an AR in combat themselves. It is the ultimate jab at the tyrants - cut me down and it only makes me stronger, and I will embrace your own weaponry and wave it back in your face, sanctified. And then WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.

MACHO.

Click through and read the whole thing.

Here's the money quote:

Therefore, the question that is simply asked and objectively answered, without placing any of the SF or CIA operatives at mortal risk is a simple one. You see, the Kalashnikov rifle chambers a 7.62 mm round. The US M-4 rifle chambers a 5.56 mm round. What is widely reported and accepted is that at least two of the TDY Green Berets who were assigned by the CIA as ARSO’s (assistant regional safety officers) were badly wounded and were treated for multiple gunshot wounds after they rescued over 20 civilian CIA workers from the compound.

The single question that needs to be asked is: “Were the rounds taken out of the wounded ARSO’s 7.62 mm or 5.56 mm?” And when the answer comes back “5.56 mm”, it opens the door to the proof that the cover up was meant to hide the fact that the Obama administration had been caught once again arming offshore groups that did not have the interests of our country at heart.

**The Obama regime supplied countless AKs to the Mexican Drug Cartels in Fast and Furious and other similar programs (there were many - almost one for every ATF office, including inland offices supplying guns to Chicago branches of the Mexcian cartels), so a 7.62 round would by no means exonerate the regime. But a 5.56 would be extra-damning. Dollars to doughnuts says it's 5.56.

I get a steady stream of these types of emails, but I think the pace has picked up a bit lately. I post this so that all of the financial professionals of conscience out there can know that they are not crazy and they are not alone.

Guys, it's time to call it. I want you to go through the mental exercise I went through in early November of 2011. Pull up your equity run. Go through account by account. Think about the people therein listed, and their money that is with you. Then imagine having to call every one of those people and tell them that their money is gone. All of it. Up in smoke.

Now, in addition to having all of their money stolen, think about those people and ask yourself how many of them would be at risk for suffering any of the following eventualities as a direct result of being wiped out:

Business failure
Bankruptcy
Heart attack
Stroke
Alcoholism (either new or relapse)
Suicide
Loss of faith in God

I suspect that the Apple crash has something to do with this uptick in "I'm done" emails, as it appears that most of the guys I'm hearing from are on the equities side. Whatever. Whatever it takes to make you realize that it is absolutely morally incumbent upon YOU to do everything you can to protect whatever monies your clients have with you. Don't think for one second that Christ Almighty doesn't know and understand the term "fiduciary duty" and won't hesitate to drop it on you at your Particular Judgment.

Ann,

I'm a Catholic, a gun owner, a southerner, a family man, I'm also a financial advisor. I see where this is headed. I'm in the process of an exit strategy of the business. I can no longer represent a system that is rigged. I see these gutless masters-of-their-universe peers who are so far from a state of reality, I just can't do it anymore. I'm going to advise my clients to get out because I'm getting out. As you know, the money is good, but if I continue, I'm part of the problem. I don't know what I'll do, but I'll figure it out.

J.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Wow. Look at this Russian statue of a saint holding a massive, enormous ASSAULT WEAPON. Goodness. Look at that thing! That could put someone's eye out! What if children saw this statue? Young boys could be turned into masculine wanna-be soldier nightmares, or something. Who is this person, wielding this ASSAULT WEAPON and scandalizing children?

Um, that's Santa Claus.

This is St. Nicholas Mozhaisky, who is the same person as St. Nicholas of Myra that punched the heretic Arius right in the piehole at the Council of Nicea, that we all know and love today under his Dutch moniker, Santa Claus.

In the 14th century, the city of Mozhaisk, Russia, which is just west of Moscow, was being invaded and besieged by a Mongol-Tartar army. The invading army was massive and the locals were outnumbered. The situation was all but hopeless. So, the people turned to prayer, begging God for a miracle, because a miracle was their only hope.

God answered them. St. Nicholas appeared as a massive vision in the sky holding an ENORMOUS, GLISTENING ASSAULT WEAPON in his right hand, and the city in his left - which is shown in the statue above.

Upon seeing Santa Claus above them manfully wielding his GINORMOUS, HUGANTIC ASSAULT WEAPON, the Mongol-Tartar army who had been guaranteed a total victory by their size and tactical dominance of the city of Mozhaisk, dropped everything, turned around and ran away as fast as their little Mongolian feets could carry them. Mozhaisk was saved.

HO.
HO.
HO.

Pulchra: beauty
Vera: true

Pulchra Vera = True beauty, or genuine beauty

As the world around us descends into ugliness and lies, we must not descend with it. There will always be beauty no matter what happens, because beauty is a constitutive quality of God Himself. Beauty cannot be totally eliminated from the world any more than God can be eliminated from the world.

This is the vocal ensemble Chanticleer singing the Welsh lullaby Suo Gan.

Pulchra Vera.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Meet St. Mercurius, who was born Philopater in 224 AD to pagan parents. When he was a child, his father had a vision and promptly received baptism along with his wife and Philopater, who was rechristened Mercurius. Mercurius' father, rechristened Noah, was a war hero and POW. Upon Noah's death, the Roman Emperor Decius elevated Mercurius to take his father's place. Mercurius, despite his relative youth, was extremely courageous and a natural leader of men. When the Berbers attacked Rome, Emperor Decius himself rode out to fight, but when he saw how outnumbered the Romans were, he chickened out. It was Mercurius who had to give Decius manful encouragement, saying to Decius, "Do not be afraid, because God will destroy our enemies and will bring us victory."

Several days into the battle, our old friend, St. Michael the Archangel appeared to Mercurius and gave him a sword (which is an ASSAULT WEAPON) and told him to go manfully kill Berbers with it. St. Michael guaranteed Mercurius victory, but also told him that he would eventually suffer and be martyred for Christ.

Sure enough, against all odds, Mercurius whupped the larger Berber force, Rome was saved and Decius made him a prince. Soon after Emperor Decius started persecuting Christians and summoned Mercurius to go offer incense with him to the pagan gods in thanks for delivering the victory against the Berbers. Mercurius quietly refused to participate. Decius got all pissy and demanded to know why. Mercurius, being a stone-cold man, and knowing full well that it meant his torture and death, looked Decius square in the eye and said:

Your Majesty, the victory was not due to dumb idols made by human hands. It was accomplished by the grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who sent His archangel to give me a sword and strengthened me. I cannot deny my God and worship statues.

Decius ordered Mercurius arrested, had him tortured multiple different ways, always trying to elicit a denial of Christ, but Mercurius being the stone-cold man that he was bore all of his tortures in silence - to a miraculous degree. Finally Decius had him beheaded on December 4, AD 250. Mercurius' final act was to beg God's forgiveness for his persecutors and executioners. Mercurius was 25 years old.

Oh, by the way, the Berbers are the people of Western Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mali and Mauritania.

St. Mercurius, pray for us.

Let it burn.
Let it burn.
Let it burn.
Let it burn.
Let it burn.

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† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Meet St. Martin of Tours. He was a fourth century Roman soldier, and like many, many Roman soldiers was also a convert to Christianity. While he was yet being instructed in the Faith and before his baptism, Martin encountered a homeless man begging in the cold. The beggar was barely clothed in just a few rags. Martin, moved with compassion and pity for the man drew his sword, also known as an ASSAULT WEAPON, and cut his own cape in half, and gave half to the freezing beggar.

**I know this story seems completely unbelievable because everyone knows that people who carry and wield ASSAULT WEAPONS are incapable of anything like COMPASSION or CHARITY, but you'll just have to suspend your disbelief on this one.**

That night, Martin had a dream in which he saw Our Lord wearing the half of his cloak that he had shared with the beggar. In his dream, Our Lord said to the angels, "Here is Martin, the Roman soldier who is not baptized; he has clad Me."

Martin was received into the Church and went on to be a manful bishop who fought the heresy of Arianism.

St. Martin's cloak was kept as a relic and was carried into battle by the French Army. The French would set up a special tent on field of battle to house St. Martin's cloak. The word for cloak in Latin is "cappa". The priests who took care of the cloak were thus referred to as the "cappellani". Eventually, all priests charged with the care of soldiers were called "cappellani". The Latin word "cappellani" became "chapelains" in French, which eventually became "chaplains" in English.

How 'bout them apples?

As I have written about previously, there is NOTHING that will send a lesbian neo-pagan heretic witch nun into a full-on conniption fit as quickly and surely as a CHAPEL VEIL.

Which is reason enough, right there, why EVERY woman should wear a veil whenever she is in the presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. If it makes Sister-Comrade Crewcut flip out, then it MUST be a deeply, deeply good thing.

But I've got more mind-blowing theology to drop. Let's start with this axiom:

We veil that which is HOLY.

Okay, so what do we veil? Or, what are we SUPPOSED to veil? At this point, you poor people stuck in the Novus Ordo are just going to have to trust me.

The Tabernacle is veiled. The Tabernacle physically contains Our Lord in the Eucharist, therefore the Tabernacle is obviously holy. In fact, it is the Holy of Holies. (The Communist-homosexualist infiltrators stopped veiling the Tabernacle - heck they tried to get rid of it altogether in many parishes, because they don't want you to know or believe that He is physically there.)

The Chalice is veiled. The Chalice is the container in which the Precious Blood is consecrated and reposes. Therefore, the Chalice is obviously holy. (Again, Novus Ordo people have probably never seen a Chalice veil. It's all part of the satanic plan to desacralize the Mass and convince the people that the Mass and Eucharist are "a symbolic meal" and "no big deal".)

And, what else is to be veiled?

Women.

Why? Because women are the vessels and containers of life in their wombs. And, as we discussed, women reflect the vulnerability and responsiveness of Our Lord upon the altar at the consecration of the Eucharist. The Church has always taught, from day one, that women are to be veiled so that men will be reminded of the HOLY DIGNITY of women, and so that the women themselves will remember and live their lives in accordance with their own dignity.

And these stupid lesbian nuns shriek and bellow that veiling is DEGRADING. They are so far gone all you can do is pity them in their utter insanity.

Now the tie-in with the priest leaning down and putting his elbows on the altar, reflecting the marital embrace. When a husband is engaging in the marital embrace with his wife in the proper physical position (yes, face-to-face, with the husband above is the proper conjugal position - anything else is disordered at best, and gravely sinful at worst), the husband is VEILING HIS WIFE'S BODY WITH HIS OWN BODY.

When the priest puts his elbows down on the altar at the consecration, the priest is literally VEILING OUR LORD'S BODY WITH HIS OWN BODY. And remember, the Mass is the GREATER reality, and the marital embrace of husband and wife is the LESSER reality pointing mankind to Our Lord and the Mass.

Could this all be any more achingly beautiful? Seriously.

Top Image: Veiled Tabernacle
Bottom Left: Chalice Veil
Bottom Right: Veiled Woman in Prayer at Mass

Hat Tip on this piece to "Fr. Formaggio".

Um, so is THIS what they're talking about when they go on about the "New Evangelization"?

Can't this just be the "Old Evangelization"?

Thank you Ann, for your very insightful three-part essay on Why priests must be men. I am a priest that was trained in a seminary where such truths were not even thought of, let alone taught... and it is considered a fairly 'conservative' seminary. I have had to self-learn, as you say, a great deal of pre-Vatican II theology... but it has been worth every effort. When I read your article this evening it was another one of those 'Ah ha!' moments which I treasure. For several months now, after watching, and re-watching the videos from the series that you posted, I find myself increasingly drawn to the liturgical movements, spirituality and theology of the Tridentine Mass... Yes, I am leaning over, looking into the Host and Chalice during the words of Consecration (though not yet to the point of putting my elbows down).

Ann, because of what you have written, this week during the daily Masses I am going to do just that... and I am going to better understand that sacred moment than I ever have before. Thanks to you, and the One who inspired you to finally write what has been so long on your heart.

In Christ,
Fr. Paul

If a chick ex-cattle broker with a potty-mouth problem can make THAT happen, what possible excuse do the rest of you have? Seriously. Time's-a-wastin', gentlemen. Let's get with it, please.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Meet the Old Testament heroine Judith, and her ASSAULT WEAPON, which believe you me, she knew exactly how to use. She's so awesome she got her very own book of the Bible. Never heard of it? Oh yeah. That's right. The book of Judith is one of the books that Herr Psychopath (Luther) decided to tear out of the Bible. But Judith is all over the place in Christian theology, liturgy and art. She is one of the most popular subjects in Christian art. Everyone who was anyone painted or sculpted Judith back in the day.

The book of Judith is all about how the beautiful and courageous widow Judith had put up with just about enough of the invading Assyrians, and was thoroughly disgusted with the "roll over and take it" attitude of her fellow Israelites.

IS THIS SOUNDING THE LEAST BIT FAMILIAR???

So, she ingratiated herself to the Assyrian general Holofernes, and then one night, when he was passed out drunk, she crept into his tent and sawed his head off. When the Israelite men saw the severed head of Holofernes, they rallied and attacked the then-leaderless Assyrians who promptly dispersed, and thus Israel survived.

Hey, desperate times, desperate measures. If she would have had access to an AR, I am quite certain she would have preferred to have just put a round of .223 into Holofernes' brain stem and called it good. But, there were no ARs in the seventh century before Christ, so a chick's gotta roll up her sleeves and do what a chick's gotta do.

ESPECIALLY WHEN ALL OF THE MEN ARE CURLED UP IN THE FETAL POSITION, PEEING ALL OVER THEMSELVES, AND SOBBING LIKE LITTLE GIRLS.

Cruise over to DRBO.org and read the book of Judith. It's a quick read. Good stuff.

And Joachim the high priest came from Jerusalem to Bethulia with all his ancients to see Judith. And when she was come out to him, they all blessed her with one voice, saying: Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of Israel, thou art the honor of our people: For thou hast done manfully, and thy heart has been strengthened, because thou hast loved chastity, and after thy husband hast not known any other: therefore also the hand of the Lord hath strengthened thee, and therefore thou shalt be blessed for ever.
Judith 15:9-11

I was planning for this to be the last essay I ever wrote, and since we're into "any day now"� territory, and since I've had just about enough of these lesbian pagan witch nuns and their "female ordination"� horse diarrhea, I'm dropping the bomb. And yes, it's a bomb. I've delayed on writing this particular essay because it is really, really hardcore. Very, very advanced stuff. At least it is today. Five hundred years ago it was probably common knowledge, but today I don't think there are very many people who understand this concept. I explained it to a traddy-inclined seminarian recently, and even he didn't know. And, all of the essays I see around the blogosphere being written about "female ordination" (there's no such thing)� never get anywhere near this concept, instead relying almost exclusively on the "Our Lord only ordained men in the Upper Room" argument, which is true, but it is lacking. WHY did Our Lord only ordain men? A two year old sees the need for that corollary to be answered. You can't just leave it hanging. WHY is the ordained priesthood, now and forever, exclusive to men?

Not only does this question have an answer, it is an incredibly beautiful answer that needs to be shouted from the mountaintops in this time like never, ever before. The answer involves the concepts of gender, marriage and sexuality; the very areas of culture under profound, direct demonic attack; the very areas of culture upon which civilization lives or dies. And the answer resides, as it has for 1980 years, in the Mass.

First, let's talk about gender. God, in Himself, contains both masculine and feminine. GASP! God contains a feminine nature? Of course He does. Goodness. If God possessed no feminine nature, then that would mean that women contained a nature that was completely outside of God. How could God create something which He Himself did not contain? Well, you might say, God doesn't have an evil nature, but evil exists. No. Evil is merely the absence of good. Evil is not extant, just as cold is the mere absence of heat, and darkness is the mere absence of light. Femininity is an extant nature. Femininity is NOT the absence of masculinity. Femininity is an existential reality unto itself, and therefore God contains it in Himself.

Let's define masculinity and femininity with two axioms:

The essence of masculinity is INITIATION.

The essence of femininity is RESPONSE.

In all aspects of life, from sociology to courtship to sexual intercourse itself, men are vocationally the initiators - or at least they SHOULD BE. Men lead. Men make decisions. Men command armies and wage war. Men initiate courtship. Men are the head of the household. Even the male anatomy is initiatory. The man introduces his body into that of his wife.

Females are the receptors and responders in human existence. Females listen, and respond. Females follow. Females render assistance and are responsive helpmates. Females respond, in the affirmative or the negative, to the courtship advances of men. Females receive the love of their husbands and respond by submitting themselves to their husbands. The female anatomy is a physical receptacle for the body of her husband, which then returns to him from the same physical space the fruit of their mutual love - a child.

God the Father gives Himself fully to God the Son. God the Son fully receives the love of God the Father and then fully returns it. This intercourse of infinite love being perpetually given, received and returned yields a third - God the Holy Ghost. Thus, God, in His infinite capacity as both INITIATOR and RECEIVER/RESPONDER within Himself, clearly contains BOTH masculine and feminine nature. God isn't like men and women. Men and women are like God - created in His image, both male and female.

So why do we call God "He"� exclusively? Because in the God-man relationship, God is the INITIATOR and mankind is the RESPONDER. The relative disproportion here is so great that it can be said to be practically infinite. God created and perpetuates in existence the entire universe JUST SO MAN CAN EXIST. God became incarnate JUST SO THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND MAN COULD BE RESTORED. God died on the Cross JUST SO HIS LOVE FOR MAN COULD BE MANIFESTED TO THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE EXTENT. God comes to us in the Eucharist SO THAT WE NEED NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM HIM. Initiation, initiation, initiation.

Every man's life is nothing more than responding to desperate, pleading love overtures and nuptial initiation of God. We either say yes, or we say no. And like the Gentleman He is, He never coerces. He is there, infinitely powerful, infinitely virile and infinitely reaching out to us, but at the same time infinitely meek (meekness is power under control, remember), infinitely gentle and patiently persistent in His advances.

BUT, there is exactly ONE MOMENT wherein God, so utterly consumed and infinitely condescending in His love for mankind, actually goes so far as to permit man to take the role of initiator (masculine), and God Himself voluntarily, for just a moment, RESPONDS TO THE INITIATING ACT OF MAN. Yes, God makes His feminine nature manifest before mankind. That moment of total condescension of God to man is in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, specifically at the moment of consecration of the Host and the Chalice.

In the traditional, pre-Vatican II rites, such as the Tridentine, Ambrosian, and Byzantine rites, at the moment of consecration, when the priest, in an act of masculine initiation, is calling God to the altar, both at the consecration of the Host and at the consecration of the Chalice, the priest MUST bend over the altar, stare intently at the Host or the Chalice, and rest his elbows on the altar. In this posture, and this posture only, does the priest then say the words that actually effect the change of the bread and the wine into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ.

I was received into the Church at Easter 2007 in a Novus Ordo parish. I found and attended a Tridentine Mass for the first time in July of 2008. At the first Tridentine Mass I attended I was lost had my nose in the missal and missed the consecration. I didn't see it. I was looking down, and only looked up at the elevation when the server rang the bell. At the SECOND Tridentine Mass I attended, I resolved to LOOK and SEE the Mass and not worry so much about the missal that Sunday. When I saw the priest bend over and put his elbows down on the altar, hoo boy, I was never looking back. By the grace of God I instantly recognized what was happening, and a whole lot of Catholic theology fell squarely into place.

The priest puts his elbows down on the altar because the altar is A MARRIAGE BED, and the act of consecration is the consummation of the nuptial union between God and man, but in that moment the condescension of God is so utterly complete that God becomes, just for a moment, the feminine responder to the masculine initiating action of man who says the words of consecration. The priest lovingly holds the Host in his hands beneath him atop the supernatural marriage bed of the altar, leans over, looks intently at the Host and whispers, "HOC EST ENIM CORPUS MEUM / This is My Body,"� and then with the Chalice, "HIC EST ENIM CALIX SANGUINIS MEI / For this is the Chalice of My Blood." And then, in the hands of and lying completely vulnerable to man in the supreme act of loving response, is Our Lord, physically present, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.

So, for the sake of clarity, YES, the consecration of the Host and Chalice in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is a direct analogue to sexual intercourse between husband and wife. There. I said it. That wasn't so difficult, now was it? Goodness. In fact, the consecration is the GREATER REALITY, and the marital act between husband and wife is the LESSER REALITY which reflects and points to the greater reality of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. And, it works both ways. After the consecration, Our Lord goes right back to being the masculine initiator and the priest and the faithful become the normal relative feminine in relation to God in our nature as human beings as we RECEIVE Our Lord by taking Him physically into our bodies in the Eucharist, of which the marital embrace is also an image, only with the gender roles the other way.

The nuptial nature of the Mass was known immediately to the Apostles at the Last Supper. In the ancient Jewish tradition, at marriage feasts, the husband and wife would each take a piece of bread, and each would take turns holding the bread up, saying, "Eat this. This is my body," and then hand-feeding the piece of bread to the spouse. Where do you think the tradition of the bride and groom feeding each other a piece of the wedding cake at the reception comes from? So when Our Lord said, "This is My Body," the Apostles all instantly understood the mystical nuptial act that was going on, because they had seen it before at their own weddings and/or weddings they had attended.

Do you now see why sexual morality is so utterly, critically important, and why the Church has always, and must continue to always preach the extreme importance of sexual morality? Do you now see why sexual perversion is so damaging to mankind? Do you now see why marriage is truly, truly SACRED and not a mere point of civil contract law? Do you see why divorce is evil? Do you see why divorce and remarriage is intolerable? Do you see why sex outside of marriage is gravely sinful? Do you see why masturbation is gravely sinful? Do you see why sodomy and all of the other sexual perversions are so evil that they literally destroy entire civilizations? Do you see why contraception is evil?

Sex between a husband and wife is so incredibly important, so incredibly beautiful and so incredibly sacred not solely because it is the means of creating new life, but first because it is the mystical image of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, of God's infinite love for man. It is one of the most important ways by which humankind can understand the Trinity, and understand the mystical union between God and His Church, and between God and men as individuals.

Oh, and do you now see why the priest must, must, must be a man? In order for this moment of loving condescension of God to man to happen, the human initiator must be a man, leaning over and atop his God who responds and lays in perfect receptivity upon the altar. There must always be that contrast, that juxtaposition of masculine and feminine. If God is going to condescend all the way to the feminine in that moment, then there cannot be a female at the altar, because a woman cannot be the image of the masculine, no matter how tight she wears her crewcut, or how butch her comportment.

Do you think I'm making this up? Take a look at this picture. This is the Baldachin over the Papal Altar at St. Peter's Basilica. Many large basilicas and cathedrals built before the Church was infiltrated in the 20th century have baldachins. Do you know what a baldachin is? A baldachin is a bed canopy. And sure enough, there it is, right over the Altar - the marriage bed of God and man.

Continued ....

Now for you Catholics who go to a Novus Ordo or "new Mass"� parish. Watch your priest at Mass. Watch him at the consecration. Does he put his elbows down? Nope. What is he doing with the Host, and with his eyes? In the last Novus Ordo Mass I saw, the priest held the Host out in front of him, waving it like he was offering it to the people, did NOT look at the host, but rather looked OUT AT THE PEOPLE in full Broadway performance mode as he said the words of consecration. That is like a man who is in the midst of the marital act with his wife talking on the phone to someone else whilst looking at himself in a mirror. Are you squirming? Good. You should be, because it is absolutely awful. If a man doing such a vulgar and narcissistic thing to his wife is disgusting, think how much more disgusting it is when these priests do this to Our Blessed Lord in these Novus Ordo Masses.

The rubric of the elbows-down posture was intentionally stripped from the Mass by the Communist-homosexualist infiltrators in the 1960's because they hated Our Lord, His Church, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, His Real Presence in the Eucharist, and specifically because of the connection to the marital act. The infiltrators had as a goal the total destruction of sexual morality, because that is the fastest and surest way to demoralize and then destroy a culture. The Communist-homosexualist infiltrators of the Church wanted to convince everyone that sex was no big deal, and if sex is no big deal, then it really can't be connected to the concept of "sin"�, and thus DO WHAT YOU WANT! Contracept! Sleep around! Be a sodomite! Abuse yourself! Hey, it's not like what you do in private behind closed doors actually matters, right? Wrong. Our entire civilization is going to crash and burn first and foremost because of what people have done "in private behind closed doors"�, namely making a complete mockery of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Your Novus Ordo priest almost certainly knows nothing about any of this because he was never taught the theology of the Mass in seminary. In fact, as far as I can tell, today's Novus Ordo priests aren't taught much of anything in seminary aside from Marxism and pop psychology. The good ones have to self-teach, and even sneak around in order to learn the Traditional Rites. The Novus Ordo priests today are taught a load of Protestant nonsense about the Mass being a MEAL, wherein WE gather around THE TABLE and WORSHIP OURSELVES by eating a symbolic MEAL. Wrong, Father Jazzhands. The altar isn't a table. It's a bed, complete with bed linens. And it is NOT SYMBOLIC. The meal aspect is deeply subordinated first and foremost to the SACRIFICIAL aspect, followed by the nuptial aspect. The meal motif is, by far, the least important - but then non-important, pedestrian and even trivial is EXACTLY what the infiltrators want the Mass to be.

If you try to explain this to Father Jazzhands, good luck. You will get a very odd look, and then be dismissed. He doesn't want to hear anything about this, because it messes with his narcissistic Communist-homosexualist neo-pagan worldview. Same with the Superfun Rockband Church™ denizens and their for-profit macchiato-sipping insipidity. And the lesbian pagan witch nuns? Those sick broads are so far gone, they aren't even in the same galactic cluster. The vast majority of them self-excommunicated themselves decades and decades ago. I just wish that Rome would make it official.

Finally, to the idiots who read me just because they hate me so much. I delayed writing this piece for YEARS because of you. I would think to myself, "I can't talk about that, because if some Jimmy Swaggart-cultist drooling mouth-breather reads it, he'll say that I said that Catholicism is a sex cult or some slack-jawed imbecility like that."� Well, I'm done letting the slack-jawed mouth-breathers dictate the level of discourse. I'm sick of having to not discuss lofty ideas because we all have to pander to the lowest common denominator, which in this culture is about as low as humanity can possibly go. How would I feel if someone said to me, "I have some incredible information that could potentially change your life and make the difference between heaven and hell for you, but I can't tell you because a stupid person might overhear and misunderstand it."� If that was the standard, the world would be silent.

Nope. No more. You stupid people, by all means, send me as much hate mail as you would like. Tell me what a nympho-pervert, or an under-sexed harpy I am. Go ahead. I'll cherish every one.

To the priest and seminarian readers, put your elbows down, gentlemen, and take good care of Him up there.

And you MUST explain this to people. Like the Ethiopian with St. Philip, how will they ever know unless someone explains it to them? Stop being afraid and TELL THEM.

Here is an instructional video showing the details of the consecration in the Tridentine Rite, just so you can clearly see it.

†  Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen † 

Meet King St. Alfred the Great of England, shown here manfully wielding his ASSAULT WEAPON. He was a devout man who loved and served his people, and also repelled invading pagan hordes. He stressed the importance of education, the rule of law, economic integrity and stability, and a strong military.

From Wiki:

He believed, as did other kings in ninth-century England and Francia, that God had entrusted him with the spiritual as well as physical welfare of his people. If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been. Alfred's ultimate responsibility was the pastoral care of his people.

King St. Alfred, pray for us!

Time for this again.

Allegory: a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.

Now that we're all up to speed on our second person intimate pronouns, we can fully appreciate this:

Thou swell, thou witty, thou sweet, thou grand
Wouldst kiss me pretty? Wouldst hold my hand?
Both thine eyes are cute too, what they do to me
Hear me holler, I choose a sweet lollapaloosa in thee

I'd feel so rich in a hut for two
Two rooms and kitchen I'm sure would do
Give me not a lot of, just a plot of land
And thou swell, thou witty, thou grand

†  Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen † 

Who is this dashing figure manfully wielding his ASSAULT WEAPON whilst trampling and slaying a bunch of quivering, cowering musloids on a field of battle?

That's St. James the Apostle, son of Zebedee, big bruddah of St. John. I know you probably didn't recognize him because of the hat. Well, if you're going to miraculously appear in Spain in the 9th century and lead a vastly outnumbered Christian Army against an invading musloid force, slaying musloids by the boatload, someone is bound to give you their sweet hat.

St. James made a beeline for Spain to begin evangelizing after the Ascension of Our Lord. Tradition has St. James in Spain in the year A.D. 40. 804 years later, at the battle of Clavijo against the satanic musloid hordes, St. James miraculously appeared in his old home-away-from-home and, evidently, put on a clinic on killing musloids.

St. James, adopted son and patron of Spain, has ever since been known as "Santiago Matamoros", St. James the Moorslayer (mata = kill or slay, moros = musloids).

To this day the battle charge cry of Spanish armies remains:

Santiago y cierra Espana!

St. James, and strike for Spain!

MANFULLY ... WITH ASSAULT WEAPONS!