As research on Diabolical Narcissism revealed, the demonic, murderous hatred that narcissists have for other people revolves around human beings who, unlike them, are capable of and have a massive capacity to love, and who experience all of those emotions which derive from love, including sadness and mourning, most especially the capacity to empathize and mourn for others. Diabolical Narcissists, by a free choice and movement of their will, have purged themselves of love, are thus incapable of empathy, and thus only experience the demonic emotional palate of anger, hatred, jealousy and fear. They invariably accuse people who experience normal emotions of being “needy”, “insecure”, self-absorbed”, “manipulative” and “emotional blackmailers”, and, ultimately, of being “crazy”. This is a species of gaslighting, a hallmark tactic of pathological narcissists.

We know from the example of Our Immaculate Mother, conceived without Original Sin, who suffered more than any non-divine human being, and the words of Christ Himself, that those who mourn are blessed, and will be comforted, that the Narcissists’ contempt for those who love and are normally, humanly affective is, in fact, diabolical.

Now we just said that the Blessed Mother suffered more than any mortal person before, or since, or yet to come. And science, specifically cardiology, has just recently identified that people can and do die of a “broken heart”, meaning from intense sadness and suffering. It is called “Broken Heart Syndrome”, or Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. It is a completely different physiological event from a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, even though the symptoms and outcome (heart failure) are exactly alike. It centers on abnormal movement of the interior heart wall of the left ventricular apex. Remember that. It is going to be important in a minute.

So, if Mary Immaculate did indeed suffer more than any mortal person ever, WHY DIDN’T SHE DIE OF A BROKEN HEART, WHICH IS A VERY REAL THING?

Well, as was initially covered in the Science of the Immaculate Conception and Assumption essay, cells pass from every unborn child to the mother, and then persist in the mother’s body for the rest of her life. Now, we all thought that factoid was pretty spectacular by itself, right? Oh, just wait until you hear THIS:

Some of the cells passed from unborn children to their mothers are STEM CELLS. These stem cells persist in the mother’s body for the rest of her life, and when a trauma happens to the mother, the stem cells from the baby spring into action, migrate to the area where help and healing are needed, where they then undergo cellular maturation and integrate themselves into the mother’s tissue. Guess what the most common locus for these healing events is?

Her heart.

The Blessed Virgin didn’t die of grief because she carried in her body stem cells from Our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which grafted themselves into her Immaculate Heart and kept her from dying of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. His stem cells kept her from dying of a broken heart – until she had completed the course of her earthly life and it was time for her to be assumed into heaven and crowned its Queen by her Son.

Three concluding points:

1. Women who have murdered by abortion their unborn children have been healed later in life by stem cells donated by the very children they murdered.

2. The locus of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in the heart is the interior wall of the left ventricle at the apex. This is literally “the bottom of your heart”, or the “depths of my heart”.

3. All of the Eucharistic miracles involving the Host manifesting as flesh that have been tested have yielded the same results. The flesh is that of a human male, blood type AB+, and the cells are myocardium – that is, interior heart wall.

Our Blessed Lord comes to us in the Eucharist, and will graft our broken hearts with His own flesh, just as He did with His Mother. But we have to love Him, which means follow His Law and confess our sins, and have hearts that are capable of breaking, and which we allow to be potentially broken in the first place by loving others.

…Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.
…Qui sanat contritos corde, et alligat contritiones eorum.
PSALM 146: 3

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary!

And yes, it’s everything. So comfortable, flattering and beautiful. I got it from eShakti. Just do a search for “tulle skirt”.

Red polka dot A-line dress, light beige tulle crinoline petticoat, flowered two-tone straw sun hat, red espadrilles, white viscose gloves.

Every day, folks. EVERY. DAY.

Folks, if this isn’t the disastrous intersection of American apocalyptic religious fervor, narcissistic grrrlboss “yaas queen” too-good-for-a-man, and the Traditional Catholic Faith, I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS.

Ladies, you can do it!

Ann,

I am a regular reader. Your Ivermectin posts helped to save my family.

Regarding your comment on Elvis Presley, you might be interested in knowing that when Elvis was stationed in Germany, one of his fellow soldiers was Hector Bolduc–later to become Father Bolduc. They were friends.

I never met Father Bolduc, but my understanding is that after Elvis returned from Germany, and Hector Bolduc was ordained a priest, that Elvis made a donation which resulted in Elvis Presley being remembered in the daily Mass in perpetuity. They pray for all benefactors. I do not know if Elvis had donated to the SSPX, or possibly to the Marian Fathers in Stockbridge, MA. I think it was the SSPX.

Father Bolduc was ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre and he remained a priest who prayed the Tridentine Mass.

One never knows about God’s Providence. Elvis has Masses said for his soul every day. Whodda Thunk?

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/greenbaypressgazette/name/hector-bolduc-obituary?id=10383766

Fr. Bolduc was a veteran of the US Army serving in the European Theatre.

Requiescat in Pace, Father Bolduc.

Requiescat in Pace, Archbishop Lefebvre.

Continued prayers and Masses for Elvis Presley’s soul.

Keep up your great work, Ann.

Yours in Christ,

RD

You know who else hates the Rosary? Antipope Bergoglio. He publicly mocked a group of faithful who sent him a Spiritual Bouquet of several thousand Rosaries prayed for him shortly after his usurpation of the Petrine See and occupation of the Vatican.

It’s all happening, folks! Stay confessed, and be of good cheer!

“One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world.”

-St. Dominic

Nicolás Gómez Dávila was a Colombian man who casually wrote down his thoughts, which were later discovered and published by admirers.  His Wiki article begins thusly:

Nicolás Gómez Dávila (18 May 1913 – 17 May 1994) was a Colombian writer and thinker who is considered one of the most intransigent political theoreticians of the twentieth century. His fame began to spread only in the last few years before his death, particularly by way of German translations of his works. Gómez Dávila was one of the most radical critics of modernity whose work consists almost entirely of aphorisms which he called “escolios” (that is, “glosses” or “annotations”).

Other sources describe him as a Radical Traditionalist.  Sigh.  A man after our own hearts, I daresay.

For the edification of all, a few quotes:

The criterion of “progress” between two cultures or two eras consists of a greater capacity to kill.

The word “modern” no longer has an automatic prestige except among fools.

One of my personal favorites…:

Clarity of text is the sole incontrovertible sign of the maturity of an idea.

From strength to strength…

To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.

The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another’s goods but the one who defends his own.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

And finally….

The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.

Elvis. Faced his Particular Judgment 45 years ago today. SO tragic. I think of Elvis and mourn when I contemplate Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. Elvis was baptized, but never had the Sacraments or the Rosary. And he lived and died like it, too. It was the dirty lie of “cheap grace” that allowed him to think that he could indulge his passions without consequence – because he was baptized and sang spirituals every night.

Our Blessed Lord says, “If you love Me, keep My Commandments.”
Si diligitis me, mandata mea servate.

He gathered his back-up singers, all gospel singers, male and female, and made them stay up and sing Southern Spirituals all night after their stage shows. He had no interest in singing anything recreationally other than spirituals.

But as John 14: 15 makes crystal clear, that’s not even remotely enough.

Elvis is yet another example of a man who should have been evangelized by the Holy Catholic Church – but the “laborers were few”, as Our Lord put it. Understatement of the day, right there.

I listened to Elvis’ spiritual oeuvre non-stop growing up. One of my absolute favorites, which has SO much more immediate meaning now is “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho”.

When do we march on the occupied Vatican? Anybody got a Ramshorn?

Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
Jericho Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
And the walls come tumbling down

God knows that
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
Jericho Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
And the walls come tumbling down

Good morning sister Mary
Good morning brother John
Well I wanna stop and talk with you
Wanna tell you how I come along

I know you’ve heard about Joshua
He was the son of Nun
He never stopped his work until
Until the work was done

God knows that
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
Jericho Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
And the walls come tumbling down

You may talk about your men of Gideon
You may brag about your men of Saul
There’s none like good old Joshua
At the battle of Jericho

Up to the walls of Jericho
He marched with spear in hand
“Go blow them ram horns,” Joshua cried
“Cause the battle is in my hand”

God knows that
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
Jericho Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
And the walls come tumbling down

You may talk about your men of Gideon
You may brag about your king of Saul
There none like Joshua
At the battle of Jericho

They tell me, great God that Joshua’s spear
Was well nigh twelve feet long
And upon his hip was a double edged sword
And his mouth was a gospel horn

Yet bold and brave he stood
Salvation in his hand
“Go blow them ram horns,” Joshua cried
“Cause the devil can’t do you no harm”

Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
Jericho Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
And the walls come tumbling down

Up to the walls of Jericho
He marched with spear in hand
“Go blow them ram horns,” Joshua cried
“Cause the battle is in my hand”

Then the lamb ram sheep horns began to blow
The trumpets began to sound
Old Joshua shouted “Glory!”
And the walls came tumblin’ down

God knows that
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
Jericho Jericho
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
And the walls come tumbling down

Down, down, down, down, down
Tumblin’ down

A lovely letter over the transom today!

Dear Ann / Miss Barnhardt,

I just saw your post where you referred to my recent anti-pope article. Thank you for that. Let’s hope this matter keeps gaining further traction!

With respect to your observation:

So one day I said to myself: I am going to look into it. I am going to read what people who claim Bergoglio is an anti-Pope have to say – and evaluate their arguments. Not their personality or writing style, nor their position within “society” or the Church, but the thrust of their arguments.

[He’s totally talking about me – at least a little. Yay! ]

Let me just briefly say that, actually:

1) that was kind of a generic comment (even if, sure, it pertains “a little” to you too 🙂 – because I have come across many different folks weighing in on this topic, and appreciated (& acknowledge) even some of the pointed differences, mannerisms etc. I’ve also gained in some respects from reading those not on board with the anti-pope thesis. But here’s the other thing:

2) I *like* your personality/writing style. I like your verve or tenacity or whatever the right word is. Boldness. I think there is definitely a place for that, and in fact that quality you have in spades is in too little supply, as far as I am concerned.

So I just wanted to say hi, and that I’ve benefited much from your work, and your zeal for the truth. And so I thank you for all that…and send you much encouragement going forward.

God bless you!

Matt