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. Amen.

PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

“Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.”

-St. Peter Damian

…would be a career-ending move.

“Damned” if you do, damned if you don’t.

If only there were an historical precedent we could look to – something maybe even in the events surrounding the Passion of Our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Oh well….

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iXaDZU7-Hlk

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. Amen.

PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

Be ye valiant in warfare, and fight with the old serpent: and ye shall receive an everlasting kingdom.
-Antiphon at the Magnificat, Vespers of the Feast of St. Matthias

I’m 40 years old now, y’all, and it occurred to me today that it has been TWENTY-FIVE YEARS since I had a formal Spanish language class.  Thus, I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I simply CAN NOT REMEMBER the Spanish word for:

“Trafficking Bolivian-Indian child sex slaves”.

I know.  That word is year-one Spanish, but I just can’t for the life of me remember the word for

“Trafficking Bolivian-Indian child sex-slaves.”

If any of you can remember your high school Spanish better than I can, help me out.

Apropos of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL, here is a pic of a man named GUSTAVO VERA having lunch with his very, very, very, very, very close “friend” Jorgito Bergoglio. This appears to have been taken in the dining room of the Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican. Gustavo would visit Jorgito ROUGHLY ONCE PER MONTH from Buenos Aires, and when Gustavo was back in Sud America, he and Jorgito were on the phone constantly.  Gustavo has a very stressful job – he is an Argentinan legislator and also the head of an NGO specializing in radical feminism and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) advocacy.  What a profound act of charity for Gustavo, from his meager wages, to pay for MONTHLY ROUND-TRIP FLIGHTS TO ROME to accompany body-to-body, with closeness and the most exquisite tenderness, his very, very, very, very, very close friend, Jorgito.  Thankfully, Jorgito would return the extreme charity by installing Gustavo in the luxury hotel he lives in inside the Vatican, the Casa Santa Marta.

Pray for these two very, very, very, very, very close friends, because apparently Jorgito “broke up” with Gustavo last week.  And it must have been one heck of an argument, because Jorgito had the SWISS GUARD break the news to Gustavo, and escort him off the premises.

Not even a text message, Jorgito?  Ma n’do sta la tua misericordia?

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe…”

And now, apropos of absolutely nothing at all, a musical interlude courtesy of some Latino dude singing one of my favorite Neil Sedaka songs in Spanish.

Again, that name, if you didn’t get it, was GUSTAVO VERA.

An interesting thing happened yesterday.  I am looking at making a pilgrimage in the spring, and since the pilgrimage site is close enough to a big enough city, I decided to sniff around on Airbnb to see if it would be more afforadable for a group of us to split an apartment, rather than book hotel rooms.

Lo and behold, what greets me, but the following:

Before you continue

Whether it’s your first time using Airbnb or you’re one of our original travelers, please commit to respecting and including everyone in the Airbnb community.

I agree to treat everyone in the Airbnb community – regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age – with respect and without judgment or bias.

ACCEPT

DECLINE

Well, I don’t need to tell you that I hit “decline” and was immediately notified that I my account was cancelled.

INSTANTLY one thing popped into my head:

Folks, I’m telling you, very, very soon YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT, CREDIT CARD, MOVE MONEY, BUY, SELL, OR ENGAGE IN ANY SORT OF COMMERCE, OWN OR RENT PROPERTY, UNLESS YOU EXPLICITLY AFFIRM YOUR PERSONAL RATIFICATION OF MEN JAMMING THEIR PENISES IN EACH OTHER’S MOUTHS AND UP EACH OTHER’S RECTUMS.  YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BUY OR OWN A CAR OR RECEIVE BASIC SERVICES UNLESS YOU KNEEL BEFORE THE SODOMITES AND THEIR FATHER SATAN, AND SCREAM FROM THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS THAT GOD IS WRONG AND THAT THEY ARE RIGHT, AND THAT YOU CHOOSE THEM OVER GOD.

And it will all be done “under the law” in the name of “the state”.

Fear mongering?  Damn right I’m fear mongering.

Come Lord Jesus.

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. Amen.

PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

People are losing their faith.

They are losing their faith because a man who is not the pope is masquerading as the pope, people are calling him the pope, he is an agent of evil, enacting a satanic agenda, and tearing the Church apart before their eyes.

And people keep calling this man “the pope”.

I get emails and I know other bloggers get these same emails, because I have seen them address them.  Badly.  Well, here is an amalgamated sample of the things I hear.  And below is a FIRM ANSWER.  Not some idiotic nonsense about, “Well, don’t bother your pretty little head about Pope Francis, just focus on the other good popes!  Adopt a pope! Read all about Leo XIII and pay no attention to “Pope Francis” while he drives your children, grandchildren, friends and enemies into hell.  Just look away and pretend it isn’t happening!”

Isn’t the pope supposed to be supernaturally protected from ever doing even a fraction of the satanic, evil things this man is doing on a near-daily basis?  Didn’t Jesus say that Peter was the Rock upon which He would build His Church? Didn’t Jesus say that he had prayed specifically for Peter and that this prayer extended forward to ALL of the popes?  Is it all just a lie?  Is the Church a lie? Is the papacy a lie? Is Jesus a lie? Is God a lie?

We pray and pray and pray for “Pope Francis”, and yet it just keeps getting worse!  Tell me why I shouldn’t lose my faith!

Of course God hears our prayers.  Every one of them.  He even hears the groaning of our souls that we aren’t even consciously aware of, or able to articulate in words.  The problem is with us, and in this case, what we are praying for.

Praying that God make “Pope Francis” a good pope is like praying to God that He make “Caitlyn Jenner” the prettiest woman in the world.

“Caitlyn” Jenner is a man named BRUCE Jenner.  So we have a problem right off the bat.  Yes, God knows that when someone says “Caitlyn” Jenner they are referring to Bruce Jenner, but in calling Bruce Jenner by his drag queen name, it is clear right off the bat that the person in question praying the prayer has a completely disordered connection to reality, and in this case, sexual morality.  THEN, when a person asks God to “make Caitlyn Jenner the prettiest woman in the world”, because the petition is not only asking God to ratify, support and magnify public mortal sin and scandal, but is primordially detached from OBJECTIVE REALITY, namely that Bruce Jenner is A MAN, NOT A WOMAN, well, what do you think God does with such petitions?  How do such clearly immoral petitions, detached from reality, square or jibe with God’s Perfect Holiness, His Perfect Justice, or His being the Author and Sustainer of Reality Itself?  Now, God is omnipotent and can certainly do whatever He wants, but He is also RATIONAL, and thus is always internally consistent.  Scripture POUNDS on this truth of God being IMMUTABLE – that is, UNCHANGING.  His IMMUTABLE WILL is intimately tied up with His RATIONALITY. That is why we can trust Him, His Promises, and His Law.

I think the Bruce Jenner example makes the concept easier to understand, but it maps precisely to asking God to make “Pope Francis” a good Pope.  First, “Pope Francis” IS NOT THE POPE, so how can God make an Antipope a “good pope”?  This defies the principle of non-contradiction.  In the case of the Bruce Jenner example above, beauty is a good thing, in fact, beauty is an attribute of God Himself.  For women to be authentically beautiful is certainly an intrinsically good thing.  HOWEVER, in the case of Bruce Jenner, the “beauty” being asked for is a false beauty, tied directly to a lie.  It is actually a scandalous monstrosity for a man to ape the beauty of women, so even though beauty qua beauty is good, to twist beauty into a satanic mockery of beauty is evil.  Such is the case with Bergoglio.  We all want a good Pope, but asking for that attribute in the context of an ANTIPOPE is simply irrational.  Bergoglio IS NOT the pope, so what, exactly do you expect God to do with your petition that he be “a good pope”?  Once again, here we are right back at the principle of non-contradiction.

What we all should be praying for is Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger, and that he do no further harm, repent of what he has done, and be liberated from whatever fear, coercion, error or disorientation he is under.  THEN we should all pray that ANTIPOPE Bergoglio be removed, and that Bergoglio repent of what he has done, REVERT TO CATHOLICISM, die in a state of grace, and achieve the Beatific Vision.  

Now there’s a petition completely in accord with reality that God can work with.  And the odds don’t matter.  Remember Lepanto.  What matters most is whether or not what we are asking God for is in line with Reality and His Perfect Will and Justice.

Now, after reading this, can not every single one of you look back upon your lives and see numerous instances in which your prayers, in retrospect, turned out to be based on a false premise, or asking God to bring about, strengthen or maintain something that was sinful?  I know I can.  “What I want” is not by virtue of itself a valid petition that God can or will answer.  The key with prayer – MATURE PRAYER – is the discerning of the specific petition in and of itself.  Does it make sense?  Is it rooted in Reality and Truth? Is it perfectly Just? Is it in accord with God’s Will?

This is why prayers for “Pope Francis” to be “a good pope” are not only not doing any good, but actually causing people to lose their faith.  All false premises, eventually, after enough logical corollaries, lead straight to hell, straight to the feet of satan, “the father of lies”. This Antipope Bergoglio thing is going to get MUCH worse.  I think the odds are high that he is the False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist, and that he is going to set up a OneWorldReligion tied directly to the NewWorldOrder (U.N/Soros/etc.). He is going to split the Church and institute a new “liturgy”, which, it seems probable, will be the “abomination of desolation”.  People who cling to the false premise that this man is the Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth will, it seems to me, either lose their faith, or go completely batshit bonkers, because there is only so much irrationality and internal contradiction that the human psyche can bear before it snaps.

I hope this helps.

Pray for Pope Benedict XVI.

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. Amen.

PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

The more one learns about St. Bernadette Soubirous, the more one can’t help but love and admire her.  Mind you, this was a girl – a mere girl, who had tremendous difficulty keeping up with beginner catechism lessons.  St. Bernadette was nothing even approaching an “intellectual”.  She was excoriated by her teachers and peers as “dumb” and “dimwitted”.

An yet, when I was searching for quotes of hers for yesterday’s post, I came across the following, which was so genuinely, perfectly humble that it truly set me aback.  That is what TRUE humility does.  It takes your breath away.  It makes you instantly recognize your own pride.  But at the same time, it is in no way dishonest – humility is being honest about YOURSELF – both the good, but since we are all fallen sinners, most prominently the bad.  But also OUR PLACE.  St. Bernadette knew her place, and even when chosen by God Almighty to be His instrument, and the instrument of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, even after that, St. Bernadette still KNEW HER PLACE.  And she meant it.  When she said the quote below, she meant it with every fiber of her being. No “only I have the humility and ambition …” vomitus, just true, and, ironically, SPECTACULAR humility.

And she was rewarded for it.  Not only was she given the Beatific Vision very, very quickly after her death, but her body was maintained incorrupt.

I can’t recommend strongly enough the movie “The Song of Bernadette”, in the public domain on YouTube.

Here is the quote that so embodies true humility:

“The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.”

-St. Bernadette Soubirous

St. Bernadette, pray for us.

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. Amen.

PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

St. Bernadette Soubirous, Visionary of Lourdes, instrument of The Immaculate Conception

I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them. I shall do everything for Heaven, my true home. There I shall find my Mother in all the splendor of her glory. I shall delight with her in the joy of Jesus Himself, in perfect safety.

-St. Bernadette Soubirous

Ann,

As of yesterday I stopped calling Bergoglio the pope.

That’s one down. A billion and a half to go. I do discuss the matter with others who might hear, or care.

Besides, Benedict could borrow his brother’s outfit, if he really wanted a black one.

Thank you for keeping up with your work.

Warmly,

J

It isn’t about me “winning” or “losing”. Truth is truth. Reality is what it is. All of us make the choice to either conform our rational intellects to it, or not. Whether the rest of the world agrees is simply irrelevant, as the Apostles learned well after Our Lord delivered the Bread of Life discourse (John 6).  It is a very bizarre thing to see the most strident Trad Catholics rail against modernism and humanism, and then turn around and in the same breath appeal not even to the “sensus fidelium”, but to, essentially, a mob of arch-heretic sodomites and their itchy-eared willing thralls and their acclamation of Bergoglio as Pope as their proofset, with the actual Vicar of Christ, physically present and visible. It isn’t even as if Pope Benedict were being held in a prison somewhere, invisible to the world.  He’s right in front of us.

But suddenly, in this context, despite the Good Shepherd discourse and countless admonitions and reminders that “going with the group” is one of the most unreliable modes of discernment, truth and reality are declared to be derivative of popular opinion.

It is very hard to think of the number of souls being lost to hell not just now, but in the future, and apply the word “win” to any of this.