Dear Ann,

I very much enjoyed your post on sweet, nostalgic memories. I agree that we need to create new memories for our children and grandchildren to treasure. Even in this crazy world, we can create beautiful spaces, customs and memories in our families. This is, in my opinion, why it is so important for a lady to stay home and be a homemaker, a house wife.

As ladies, we have the privilege to stay inside the cloister of our homes and create a little bit of Heaven on earth. If you dedicate your heart and soul to this, you will create a retreat where your husband and children can take refuge from the hostilities of the world they encounter around them. Even our adult children look forward to joining us on our back porch or in front of a warm fire to enjoy family and make more nostalgic memories.

I would like to send you a link to another story similar to the one you shared. This one is about the Christmas House in Oak Grove, Minnesota.

The Bourbeau’s are now a traditional Catholic family. Their grandson, Fr. John Bourbeau is a priest with the SSPX. He has been a friend for years. I thought you might enjoy this sweet news piece about his grandparents.

God bless you!

Mrs.

Dear Ann,

Firstly, I am still regularly offering Masses for you and your intentions. Thank you for all your good work.

Secondly, what prompts this brief note, is your posting about Cardinal Burke and Eucharistic piety and reverence. I could not agree more. Even with brother priests I consider to be quite holy and reverent, it’s amazing to me how non-chalantly they will use their fingers during and after the Roman Canon, but then go through the motion of purification and ablutions of their fingers afterward anyway. This is what ‘liturgical digits’ are for – believe it or don’t; use them or don’t, but don’t make-believe or just do things some of the time.

The liturgical law currently in force notes in GIRM 278 ‘Whenever a fragment of the host adheres to his fingers…’ as the predicate for wiping or washing fingers. I had a sacristan in one assignment in the military, a good Puerto-Rican guy who loved the Lord, tell me that Padre Pio said the angels will catch the crumbs that fall from the fingers of the priest, to which I responded that this doesn’t mean I should intentionally make more for them to do!

It’s so very basic that none of it even has to be said, let alone ever be done.

Pax et Bonum,

Fr. X

We discussed this in Barnhardt Podcast Episode #255, and finally found the clip.

It matters not a whit that this appears to have happened during the CovidScam. There is no excuse to ever, ever treat the Blessed Sacrament like this. If you believe in the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Most Holy Eucharist, you believe it ALL the time, not just when you’re at a Traditional Mass. Eucharistic reverence isn’t something you turn on and off like a switch, depending on what “audience” you’re in front of.

When they try and tell you that Cardinal Burke is “conservative” pic.twitter.com/JXHhwJ5Reo

— Matthew Joseph (@matthew_sede) May 29, 2026

So incredibly sad, but, as the saying goes, this explains much.

Altogether now:

In schism from WHAT? In schism from WHOM?

The former president of EWTN and new Prefect of the Dicastery for Communications at the Vatican thinks Jews should not become Christians. pic.twitter.com/Qy2vXBF58k

— LifeSiteNews (@LifeSite) June 3, 2026

UPDATE: This chick seems to be the AOC of the Antichurch. NOT a member of Mensa, methinks.

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, the great feast celebrating specifically the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.

Interestingly, but not at all surprisingly, Antipope Bergoglio held this feast in particular contempt, and effectively abolished the Antichurch’s celebration of it in Rome.

Antipope Jorge Bergoglio staring down his enemy.

Christ is called “The Good Pelican” and the pelican is a symbol of Christ because pelicans will, if need be, peck at their own chests and feed their young on their own flesh and blood.

Below is the literal translation of St. Thomas Aquinas’ hymn which he wrote for this great feast, “Adoro Te Devote”, “I devoutly adore You”. I find the literal translation to be more moving than the poetic versions.

This morning at the Procession I was able to attend, while we were processing, I was struck by the prefiguring of the Corpus Christi Procession in Genesis chapter 3, when Adam and Eve would walk with God in the Garden.

He STILL walks with us, whether it be in an urban area, suburbs, in the countryside, or in the mountains. The paradise of the Garden is reflected… everywhere. IF we have the eyes to see it.

I devoutly adore You, hidden Deity,

Who are truly hidden beneath these appearances.

My whole heart submits to You,

And in contemplating You, it surrenders itself completely.

Sight, touch, taste are all deceived in their judgment of You,

But hearing suffices firmly to believe.

I believe all that the Son of God has spoken;

There is nothing truer than this word of Truth.

On the Cross only the divinity was hidden,

But here the humanity is also hidden.

Yet believing and confessing both,

I ask for what the penitent thief asked.

I do not see wounds as Thomas did,

But I confess that You are my God.

Make me believe much more in You,

Hope in you, and love You.

O memorial of Our Lord’s death,

Living Bread that gives life to man,

Grant my soul to live on You,

And always to savor Your sweetness.

Lord Jesus, Good Pelican,

wash my filthiness and clean me with Your Blood,

One drop of which can free

the entire world of all its sins.

Jesus, whom now I see hidden,

I ask You to fulfill what I so desire:

That the sight of Your Face being unveiled

I may have the happiness of seeing Your glory. Amen.

St. Peter Canisius:

“As the Sacred Scripture says, the Sodomites were wicked and exceedingly sinful. Saint Peter and Saint Paul condemn this nefarious and depraved sin. In fact, the Scripture denounces this enormous indecency thus: ‘The scandal of Sodomites and Gomorrhans has multiplied and their sins have become grave beyond measure.’ So the angels said to just Lot, who totally abhorred the depravity of the Sodomites: ‘Let us leave this city….’ Holy Scripture does not fail to mention the causes that led the Sodomites, and can also lead others, to this most grievous sin. In fact, in Ezechiel we read: ‘Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor. And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me; and I took them away as thou hast seen’ (Ezech. 16: 49-50).

Those unashamed of violating divine and natural law are slaves of this never sufficiently execrated depravity.”

-St. Peter Canisius, Summa Doctrina Christianae, III a/b, p. 455

Note what St. Peter Canisius says here quoting Ezechiel: that the CAUSES that LED to this most grievous sin (sexual perversion) are, in a nutshell, a lack or absence of Charity.  Sexual perversion is a DERIVATIVE PATHOLOGY. It doesn’t “just happen”.  You have to have the self-purgation of love from the soul FIRST.  Then the sexual perversion follows.  This is why there is no such thing as a “psycho-spiritually healthy” sex pervert.  Sexual perversion in any form is, by definition, a monstrosity. Yes, MONSTROSITY.  This is why there is no such thing as a “benign” sodomite.  Because of the antecedent pathology of lovelessness (aka Diabolical Narcissism), ALL SODOMITES, BOTH MALE AND FEMALE, ARE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to others, but most especially children.

And, this quote from St. Peter Canisius should probably be framed and hanging in every home:

“Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church’s enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.”

I almost forgot! It’s summer, the sodo-luciferians are flying their wretched colors everywhere, so it’s important to counter-represent!

Cruise over to TradFlags.com and peruse their selection of beautiful, high-quality flags, banners and magnets. They have greatly expanded their selection since last year. New this year is this fantastic Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces garden flag. 💪🏻🤩

And this is their classic June Sacred Heart flag, which is gorgeous:

My Grandmother said frequently in her wisdom, “You can never go home again.” It’s a key truth. People waste and ruin their lives, and some their bodies, trying to go back to their youth, decades ago, in utter futility. We can’t go back. Time is linear. That world is gone. When this piece aired I was 6 years old, having just finished kindergarten one month before. Fond memories, to be sure, but memories.

What we should do is make today into something that we will look back in fond nostalgia of decades from now. We can and certainly should use the past as a pattern and example, but live in the present building every day as something that has its own ever-unfolding nostalgic potential.

So maybe be inspired by this lovely piece, but create the ARSH 2026 version. Don’t just sit in bitter paralysis trying to “go home again”, because that’s exactly what satan wants.

And now if you’ll excuse me, I have some nostalgia to go cook up, because these are “the good old days” of the future, if we choose to make today something memorable, beautiful and good, no matter the circumstances.