Speluncarum habent troglodytam.

“They have a Cave Troll.”

If I am ever made Grand Duchess of Etruscany and Latium, I’m claiming this as my Grand Duchessal Motto.  Start embroidering now.

I use the light over my stovetop as a nightlight, and it burned out, as it does once per year.  The bulbs are cheap – less then $5.00 – and I’m convinced that they last longer if you keep them on 24-7. Why not?  Having that light over the stove is a HUGE help and difference when cooking and browning yum-yums.  You need to SEE what you are cooking. Not to mention when you have guests who need to get cold water from the fridge.  Fiat LUX!

Changing the bulb involves opening the hood and seeing the fiberglass grease filter batting.  You need to change that too so your grease fan will actually work.  Every HomeDepot or small town Ace Hardware/Tru Value store will have that filter batting. Cheap.  It’s just a matter of doing it.  Either take it to the store with you, or measure it if yours is especially… shameful.

Frankly, if your over-stove isn’t a greasy mess, then… I’m ashamed of you.  Fish don’t fry in the kitchen, beans don’t burn on da grill… Took a whole lotta tryin’, just to get up dat hill….

This is the option you are given to engage. Daily. No joke.

You know where you can find me. I’ll see you in the Garden. I’ll see you at the foot of the Cross. Until the End. However you get there, whatever route you have to take, I’ll see you there. I will be there because by the grace of God, His Mother Ever Virgin, and my patrons, especially St. Philip Neri, I am within walking distance of the Old Mass. Because I have been given this grace and favor per my state in life and the Divine Providence. If you are not within easy walking distance, do the best you can. We’re all there together. I’ll see you there. With the entire Church Triumphant.

Just love Him.

The Parable of the Weeds from Matthew 13 also speaks DIRECTLY to the question of what to do IF IF IF there is absolutely no possible way you can get to a Traditional Latin Mass or Divine Liturgy until such time as you are able to move to be within commuting distance:

Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seeds in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.

And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. And the servants of the goodman of the house coming said to him: Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it cockle? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it.

Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

Matthew 13: 24-30

Dymphna also had a good post on this topic a few days ago titled, “Home Alone Is a Dangerous Practice”.  Check that out HERE.

Watch this until you understand. No matter how many times it takes.

He’s there. He is there at the Novus Ordo Mass.

IF there is absolutely no alternative, MOVE, but until you have moved – HE IS THERE.  Go. Comfort Him.  Tell Him you love Him.  Weep salty tears as He is ignored and desecrated.  Comfort Him. LOVE HIM.

He isn’t a philosophy.  He isn’t a codex. He isn’t an aesthetic.  He isn’t even a Rite.  He is A DIVINE PERSON. And He loves YOU personally, and infinitely.  What He wants to give you for all eternity – the reason He made you – is so good that it is, for now, completely beyond your comprehension.  But you have to love Him, and love Him personally, and that means being willing to suffer with Him in His Passion.

Please, please, please – while you still can – go to Him and love Him, even in an illicit yet valid Novus Ordo Mass IF IF IF that is all that is available to you.

Remember, what Longinus gave Him to drink wasn’t poison – it was vinegar.  Bitter, to be sure, but NOT poison.  Sound familiar??

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.

And they gave Me gall for My food, and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 68: 21-22

Folks, His thirst was a thirst FOR SOULS.

Via NonVeniPacem, LOOK at this:

Do you know what the rumor has been in Philly for a while? That +Chaput was being booted, and that… wait for it… James Martin Ethh Jay would be elevated and immediately be given Philly. That’s just a rumor, but the bulletin above sure makes it clear that +Chaput is getting the ol’ tomahawk chop at the stroke of midnight on his 75th birthday.

Fauxp.

First up, a sickening story about a priest in Idaho that was recently convicted of absolutely heinous crimes involving child p***ography and satanism (he admits to urinating in Communion wine – which invalidated the consecration of that wine, but people consumed the befouled wine.)

I draw your attention to this quote from the satanist priest, as reported by the Idaho Statesman:

As Faucher solicited more videos of young boys, he wrote that he felt “wonderful indifference,” Brumbaugh told the courtroom.

Yep.  Because as we have covered in this space countless times, Diabolical Narcissism is the total self-purgation of CHARITY, or LOVE from the soul.  The opposite of Love is NOT hate, because right-ordered LOVE must co-exist with hatred of evil, and of sin.  No, the opposite of LOVE is INDIFFERENCE.

The satanic pedophile priest, Faucher, confirmed this in no uncertain terms.

Next, here is an email across the transom, regarding the children of divorce being gaslighted:

Dear Ann,

I recently red a compilation of stories from the now-adult children of Divorce by Leila Miller, Primal Loss. It’s struck me that gaslighting happens almost always particularly intensely toward the children who are told to shut up, be ashamed of their feelings of hurt and celebrate their parents’ decision to destroy their marriage.

I think highlighting the gaslighting that the children (and other victims) of divorce go through may be of interest to you.

(Leila Miller’s old blog)
http://littlecatholicbubble.blogspot.com/2017/09/from-child-of-divorce-what-i-wish-they.html

“There must be something wrong with YOU to feel so bad and broken over something that isn’t really a big deal.”

Best Regards,
S

Yep. the new “virtue signal” is celebrating and congratulating people on their depravity and sin. The more depraved, the more enthusiastic the congratulations and “support” must be. And if you don’t tell these people how “happy” you are for them, and “how exciting this new phase of your life is going to be”, then YOU are the horrible, evil “hater”.  See:

Priests marrying their concubine

Priests ditching the priesthood

Announcing civil divorce

Announcing an adulterous relationship and/or faux “marriage”

Announcing sexual perversion (sodomites “coming out”)

Announcing insanity and self-mutiliation (Bruce Jenner)

Murdering one’s own child (Abortion)

Suicide (self-euthanasia)

What a cool image! This is an illumination (an illustration decorating a manuscript) from the Bible Moraliseé, made in Paris between ARSH 1225-1249, today housed in Vienna.

In the bottom scene, we see God the Father delivering The Church, the Bride of Christ, from the wound in Christ’s (the New Adam’s) side (at His rib), after Christ has “fallen asleep” upon the Cross, from whence flowed the waters of Baptism and the Precious Blood of the Eucharist, hence The Bride holding the Chalice in her hands.

To the right we see the major Four Founders of religious orders, St. Augustine (in miter), St. Benedict, St. Dominic and St. Francis.

Now look above. We see God the Father delivering Eve from the side of Adam while he is asleep, who is Adam’s Bride, and note that Eve’s hands are empty, only raised in supplication to God.

Across the transom, this prayer request was submitted to Contemplative Carmelites today.

“Ask and you shall receive. Knock and the door shall be opened.”

Folks, it can’t hurt to ask. In fact, the very asking is in itself a vector for God to work, and work He does, in mysterious ways.

Ask contemplatives to pray the Matthew 17: 20 intention.

Yes, Apollo 11 was on final approach to lunar orbit. But please don’t forget that:

Mary Jo Kopechne was suffocating in the air void in the back of Ted Kennedy’s overturned and submerged Oldsmobile.

Kennedy was notorious for knowing every Chappaquiddick joke, and loved telling them to shocked and titilated listeners.

Because for Diabolical Narcissist Psychopaths, the greatest rush in life comes not from the commission of their crimes and sins, but from the GETTING AWAY WITH IT.

“Justice is simply the social good, and it must therefore be done. It is defined as “giving each his due” cuique sum, “to each his own”. A man is due his life because he is a living thing; it is his nature to have life; and, since it is also his nature to be moral, if a man commits a crime, he must be punished because punishment is retributive – punishment is the penalty due the criminal in justice to him. Proportioned punishment is due him, too, and you cannot deny him that right without yourself committing an injustice against him deserving punishment in turn. The judge who fails the criminal in punishment himself incurs a greater guilt.”

-John Senior, The Death of Christian Culture

Because we as a nation and as a culture have failed for over 50 years to properly apply justice to the criminals among us, we have committed crimes against the criminals themselves, our neighbors, ourselves and God. And for that, we are now being punished. Justice will be done.

When Ted Kennedy was permitted to murder Mary Jo Kopechne in ARSH 1969 with no punishment whatsoever, Kopechne’s blood was spread from the hands of Kennedy alone to the hands of the entire nation.

“There is another justification for punishment besides retribution. Pain and deprivation are medicinal. They hurt so much that the criminal can learn that crime does not pay – or at least that the victims pay back. If you want to teach the prisoner a trade or put him to useful work, well and good; but those things are secondary and must never interfere with the first and proper use of punishment, which is the restoration of the equality of justice not only in society but in the person of the criminal. A person who commits a crime has indulged his will against reason; a disequilibrium has been established in his soul, as Plato says, which can only be righted by retributive exercise of reason against his will. The greatest evil in the world is to do wrong without being punished.”

-John Senior, The Death of Christian Culture

Let us make the assumption for a moment that Ted Kennedy is in hell. It is impossible to know as Christ’s Mercy is infinite and Kennedy MAY have repented of his life of grave sin before his death. If Kennedy is in fact in heaven, he will not mind us using him as an instructive hypothetical example. In fact, he will delight and rejoice in it.

If Ted Kennedy is in hell, a massive contributive dynamic to his failure to repent will have been the fact that we, his neighbors, his brothers, failed to punish him and see justice done upon him. Because Kennedy was never made to feel any pain or retributive justice for murdering Mary Jo Kopechne, he was never deeply confronted with his sin, or the fear of what the consequences would be for his immortal soul in the next life – because there were zero consequences in THIS life. In fact, it made him bolder in his sin. If Ted Kennedy is in hell, we are partially complicit in his being there, and justice will be meted out upon US for our failure in charity towards him.