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.

And when He had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, He drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables He overthrew. And to them that sold doves He said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of My Father a house of traffic. And His disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
John 2: 15-17

Forty-six and one-half minutes of me ranting and stating the blatantly obvious but ne’er spoken. For those who enjoy that sort of thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkzly2lCpwU

1.  Salmagundi is a type of salad that contains a little bit of everything.

2.  I have added several more essays to the “The One About…” page, including the one about Sharia Finance, the one about Jesus and Guns and the one about Jesus Christ: Economist.  I’ll try to get some more up today.

3.  Yes, I saw that the Obama regime is threatening to arrest any priest chaplain who says Mass.  Obviously, every Catholic priest chaplain should IMMEDIATLY go offer the August and Unbloody Holy Sacrifice in the most public way possible every single day and then force the Obama regime to either arrest them and physically drag them off the altar or sit down and shut up.  Fix bayonets and CHARGE!  No army ever won a war by cowering in fear.

4.  Speaking of which, here is a great reader comment on the “’78 Chryslers and Prayer” piece:

At the end of your “Mopar vs GM, Prayer” you added an addendum about the contemptative/cloistered orders.  This thought did occur to me when you mentioned that prayer isn’t the purpose, but I’ve read just enough about the lives of cloistered Saints to realize that your analogy fits them even better than us in the secular world.  Prayer is their fuel too, but the work they are doing is more sublime and more direct than what we do.  Being a military nerd and member of the Church Militant, I have taken to calling the cloistered religious the Heavy Artillery of the Church Militant.  Just look at the life of the Little Flower (St. Therese of Lisieux): her spiritual combat on behalf of missionaries was like a thousand howitzers “softening up” an enemy formation before sending in the infantry to finish the job — only more so.  Just as every Mass is a bending of space and time which summarizes all time and brings us into physical contact with Christ crucified on Calvary, so the cloistered religious, behind the walls of their monastery, do direct combat with satan and his minion without the constraints of physical space getting in their way.  There have been dramatic examples of this in history — like Blessed Mary Agreda** — but before reading your addendum I thought it was even more the case for the religious.

And what happens to a military ground force when it loses artillery or air support — or worse yet, those assets target them instead of the enemy?  That’s what we’re seeing in the Church with the loss of the monks and nuns and the perversion of the few that remain.

And now our commander-in-chief is ordering us to discard our weapons and stop fighting with our enemies…. I think the minor chastisement is upon us. 

A ten quintillion Hungarian Pengo note circa 1946. Guys, the U.S. economy and debt bubble is far, far worse than anything that was going on in Hungary. The only difference is the fact that the reality of the Hungarian situation was acknowledged by the market – because that is what people USED to do: acknowledge reality.

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.

Guess the saint:

This saint joined a Crusade to Egypt in the hopes of PROSELYTIZING as many musloids as he could before being killed.  This saint was not killed, but was instead received into the court of a sultan.  Our saint then offered to engage in a trial by fire – literal fire – with the sultan’s musloid “scholars”.  Our saint offered to enter into a fire pit and if he emerged unscathed, the musloid scholars would then have to concede that the CATHOLIC GOD (the word “catholic” means “universal”, so of course God is Catholic, and of course His Church is Catholic) and not the phoney musloid god (our saint, like any intelligent person, knows that the thing called “allah” is a non-existent pagan-Bedouin moon deity concocted by the inventors of the musloid political system, inspired by satan himself) is the One, True God.  Naturally, knowing that their non-existent deity could not duplicate such a miracle, and not wanting to be burned to a crisp, the musloids declined the challenge – BUT the sultan granted our saint permission to PROSELYTIZE and win souls for Christ in his territory WHILE THIS VERY SULTAN WAS FIGHTING CRUSADERS.

Who was this saint who knew that not only was PROSELYTIZING not “solemn nonsense”, but was utterly essential and demanded by Our Lord – a direct corollary to the two Great Commandments, to love God and to love our neighbor?

Yep.  It was St. Francis of Assisi.

Giotto’s fresco depicting St. Francis’ Trial by Fire. The musloids are on the left, slinking away. Apparently this was all a terrible mistake on St. Francis’ part. He should have merely “encountered” the musloids in a spirit of “dialogue” and listened to their lies and then declared that they should all engage in good works and “meet each other there”. Because, you know, there isn’t a “Catholic God”, and the god the musloids believe in is the same as the Triune Godhead, or something. And God Himself being Goodness Itself, and good and evil being whatever the individual “conceives” them as being, “God” is whoever or whatever the individual says He, She or It is. Thank “god” we have Smart Francis today to correct all of the errors of Stupid Francis of Assisi.

“For God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him, will never be lonely, and will always have a job.”

The actual quote, in case you missed it:

“The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old.”

And then there’s this gem:

Your Holiness, is there is a single vision of the Good? And who decides what it is?
“Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.”

Your Holiness, you wrote that in your letter to me. The conscience is autonomous, you said, and everyone must obey his conscience. I think that’s one of the most courageous steps taken by a Pope.
“And I repeat it here. Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.”

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Francis is a scourge.  He is a chastisement upon us, and we deserve it because we have done basically NOTHING while the Church has been all but destroyed, the Mass turned into an abomination and a mocking of Our Blessed Lord upon the Altar and in the Tabernacle, and Western Civilization destroyed as a direct result.

50 million children are murdered every year in the world.  Sodomy and fornication are destroying lives and souls at a clip never before seen in human history, and now have as their goal the total and complete destruction of the family unit and the sacrament of marriage.  The financial system has been destroyed and the livelihoods of billions of people are, as we speak, being stolen and the loot being distributed amongst a cadre of oligarchs.  Mohamedism is running totally unchecked and is now explicitly supported by the maggot-infested carcass of post-Christian civilization, led by the former American republic.

Every day souls are lost forever to hell in numbers that are far too horrific to comprehend.

And Pope Narcissus I just said that the two greatest problems in the world are youth unemployment and lonliness among old people.

Well, let’s see, I’m technically unemployed, and now poor, and am terrified of what will become of me if I should live to old age.  Gee, I wish I had been torn limb from limb and then had my brains sucked out of my skull.  If only I wasn’t so hindered by OBJECTIVE MORALITY, I might have gone to a nightclub and assuaged, even if only temporarily, my loneliness.  Because, you know, good and evil are just “conceptions” in my mind.

Even if the Holy Spirit strikes Francis dead tomorrow, the fact that he has said these things and has given the enemies of God and His Holy Church these rhetorical cudgels will live on until Our Lord returns in Glory.  These quotes will be used henceforth to discredit and sow confusion.  We will be beaten with them non-stop from now on.  Paul VI remained silent in the face of abject insubordination and sat and watched as the Mass and Christian culture were dismantled in the 1960s and 70s.  But Paul VI wrote Humanae Vitae.  As horrible as his silence was, even Paul VI can be defended because his words, when he said anything, were Catholic.  Francis is making positive statements, albeit NOT ex cathedra statements, but still private statements made important by the massive dignity of his office, that are now clearly outside of Catholicism and are textbook Modernism.  That is a whole ‘nother level of ugly, friends.

Go to confession early and often.  And remember, there is no salvation outside the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.  If you leave and reject the Church, you are leaving and rejecting Christ.  Period.  The separation of the wheat from the chaff, the sorting of the sheep from the goats, the sorting of the catch in the nets.  That’s what this is.

Hey, at least he’s not lonely … or worse, unemployed!

“Here’s why I’ll never leave the Catholic Church: because it was founded by Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, for the salvation of souls, and to leave it is eternal death.”

-Hilary White
LifeSiteNews.com

1.  Sorry for the break in posts of late.  I took the Van out for a spin and parked it next to a different body of water for a while.  But I’m back in my home-base parking spot now.  Home sweet home.

2.  Yes, I saw that Karl Denninger announced that he is going quasi-Galt.  By the sounds of it I don’t think he has declared a tax strike per se, but only committed to voluntarily reducing his income in order to minimize his tax liability, but will still be filing returns, etc.  I personally do not think this goes far enough.  I think that a bold refusal to even file is what is required.  The regime clearly doesn’t care if a person or persons reduces their income – heck, the Cloward-Piven strategy and Marxism in general are all about destroying small businesses and the middle class, getting as many people out of work as possible, and running up debt until the system implodes.  Voluntary reduction of income without the clear refusal to recognize the IRS and the FEDGOV as legitimate by refusing to file, it seems to me, isn’t really sending a message of fearless resistance to the tyrannical regime.  By filing at all, there is still the acknowledgment of a deference to and a fear of the regime.  So at that point, the reduction in income is only hurting the individual and any employees, because as many have pointed out, the FEDGOV will just print that which it does not collect because currency debasement is a feature for these people, not a bug.  This question isn’t about money per se.  It is about refusing to acknowledge or fear an illegitimate state.  It is the act of moral courage and defiance that is the weapon – not the reduction in economic activity.  The analogy would be as if the man in Tiananmen Square was standing in front of the tanks in order to force the Chinese government to have to incur the cost of cleaning his blood and squished guts off of the tank tracks, and NOT making the moral statement that he was not afraid of the state, even unto the point of death, and thus the state had no real power over him.  But, having said that, I have mad respect for KD and certainly wish him well.

3.  Thanks to one and all who have sent emails sharing their experiences in the janitorial arts field.  We all agree that it is a wonderful, contemplative mode of work and time well spent.  I actually knew this before, as I cleaned the house of a neurosurgeon and his family when I was a teenager, and the quality of the “thinking time” was second only to the deep thinking that goes on in the shower.  Having a repetitive or routine task to keep the body occupied sets up the mind the soar.  I pretty much planned out my life, meaning education and career path, vacuuming those folks’ house.  I still remember where all of the electrical outlets are in that house!

4.  I heard a rumor about a month ago that I alluded to in the last post but sat on, but I think I’ll go ahead and post it here because it looks like it may be coming to fruition within the next few days.  The Pope is probably going to dissolve the College of Cardinals, and perhaps even the Cardinalate itself.  Now given the individual men who comprise the college of Cardinals today, one might be tempted to say, “Yipee!”  Indeed.  Roger Mahoney should be arrested and die in prison.  Timothy Dolan is a politicking imbecile who missed his calling as a third rate Mexican game show host.  I could go on and on.  There are literally only three or four Cardinals today who could be called “decent”.  So what’s the problem if in fact Francis dissolves the Cardinalate?

We have to understand Bergoglio’s politics first.  Bergoglio is a Peronist-Fascist.  You all know the Argentinian strongman Juan Peron and his wife Eva Peron from the musical Evita.  The closest comparison one can make of the Peronist milieu is to Mussolini’s Blackshirt Italy.  Yeah.  Charming.  Bottom line, we are talking about a Marxist variant that demands state control of private business.  Peronist-Fascism is also rabidly, rabidly anti-aristocracy and anti-clerical.  This is why when I heard the scuttlebut that Francis was going to dissolve the College of Cardinals, I thought it a very plausible scenario.  The Cardinals are an aristocracy – they are literally the Princes of the Church.

IF Francis does this, it will gin up populist support – but don’t be fooled.  This is a very common maneuver among Marxists.  What the strongman does after dissolving a body is to then reform a new body populated entirely with his own hand-picked men.  Same song, second verse.

We must also remember that Bergoglio is a Jesuit hippy straight out of the 1970s.  Hippies are defined by their hatred of authority.  Thus, as I have said from the beginning, Bergoglio has always and still does hate the central authority aspect of the Church.  This is why he referred to himself from literally his first moment as Pope not as “Pope” but as “Bishop of Rome”.  We have a pope who in his heart rejects the papacy itself.  Bergoglio does not believe that the Church should be governed by a central authority and instead should be broken up into local synods and bishops conferences who then basically “vote” on what their local “churches” hold as truth.  In short, Francis wants to turn the Catholic Church into the Episcopal “church”, which is to say, to destroy the Catholic Church from the inside-out.  If you don’t believe me, just look at this quote from his now-infamous interview with the heretical Jesuit magazine America published two weeks ago:

“The image of the church I like is that of the holy, faithful people of God. This is the definition I often use … the people itself constitutes a subject. And the church is the people of God on the journey through history, with joys and sorrows. Thinking with the church, therefore, is my way of being a part of this people. And all the faithful, considered as a whole, are infallible in matters of belief, and the people display this infallibilitas in credendo, this infallibility in believing, through a supernatural sense of the faith of all the people walking together.”

This is not Ratzinger talking.  This is the not-terribly-bright South American Jesuit Bergoglio talking, so we must unpack this statement as such.  This is Bergoglio falsely painting the popular will of the people as infallible, and truth as a derivative of the people.  The Truth is Jesus Christ, and the Church and every person that ever has or will exist is a derivative of HIM.

Francis wants to de-centralize the Magisterium, reduce to nothing the teaching authority of the Church, and essentially put things up to a vote in order to make himself and the post-Vatican II “newchurch” popular in the world, which is his entire metric of success.  Souls attaining the Beatific Vision or being lost to hell?  Not so much.  Stop and think about that.  90+% of ethnic Catholics of breeding age contracept, which is a mortal sin.  53% of ethnic Catholics in the U.S. voted for an antichrist in the 2012 election.  It is now thought that more than 50% of ethnic Catholics in the U.S. and Europe favor sodomite faux-marriage, and reject the notion that sodomy is even a sin.  Fewer than 20% of Mass-attending Novus Ordo Catholics in the U.S. and Europe know or believe that Jesus Christ is physically, substantially present in the Eucharist.

And now a truth that many of you will find deeply unpleasant.  Democracy is a terrible system that rapidly devolves into the tyranny of the mob who then, without fail, install a tyrant.  The founders of the now-dead American republic were quite open about this.  Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”  Yup.  And the American republic didn’t even survive 240 years.  The best system of government is a meritorious aristocracy that elects a monarch.  Think about it.  Shouldn’t the good, moral, intelligent people be elevated to positions of power irrespective of their family ties?  And then, shouldn’t those people elect from among their ranks a “chief executive” who serves as a final authority when needed?  Because as we all know, SOMEONE has got to be in charge; the buck has to stop with someone or else utter chaos ensues.  Remember the term “subsidiarity”?

Bergoglio and his Jesuit-hippy milieu reject this truth.  They gin up popular support by declaring that the “poor” are intrinsically morally superior to the “rich”, and that the “poor” should call the shots and the “rich” should be suppressed.  The problem with that is that a healthy society does tend to stratify in terms of economics, academics and administration along intellectual and/or moral lines – note I said a HEALTHY society, which our modern society clearly is not.  Today in the West imbeciles and psychopaths prosper in business and government while intelligent people of morality are marginalized if not destroyed, and genuine academia is destroyed while a faux-academe becomes a propaganda arm of the state.

While I will be the first and loudest to concede that the College of Cardinals today is a wretched hive, the STRUCTURE is good.  The unworthy men inside the College should be purged and replaced with men who actually MERIT the title “Prince of the Church”.

IF Francis actually does dissolve the Cardinalate, don’t kid yourselves – there will still be a ruling body – in fact, the new ruling body will be far, far more “powerful” and compact, and will be composed entirely of a close circle of pure idealogues hand-picked by the top man who will be hailed and glorified as a hero of the people, and will, no doubt, attempt to impose their modernist agenda, all the while trumpeting that it is all the “infallible will of the people”, and being done for “the good of the people”, and the world and its Prince will love them for it.  There is nothing new under the sun.  History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes without fail.

Sweet Jesus, please let me be wrong, and please grant your Church relief from the Gates of Hell which are pressing down on us harder every day, even though we richly deserve hell for our faithlessness and tepidity.

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. Jerome, patron saint of grumpy people.

One of my favorite St. Jerome quotes:

“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes, without speaking, confess the secrets of the heart.”

Yes.  It has finally happened.  I have joined the New Black Panther Party.  Y’all dirty crackers can call me Queen Beyonce Shabazz henceforth.  Hotep.

Nah, I just want to take this opportunity to put one of the more edifying books of scripture in front of y’all dirty crackers, er, excuse me, sorry — in front of y’all gentle people as we all navigate these dark and frightening days in the Church.

If you aren’t familiar with the Canticle of Canticles, aka the Song of Songs, aka the Song of Solomon, dude, get about it.  The depth and aching beauty of this love poem, and the jaw-dropping prophecy in every single phrase is something that could, by itself, convert people, if only people would explain it and talk about it.

Yes, it is erotic poetry.  Darn right, because as I have tried to explain many, many times, love, sex, boy-girl and then husband-wife relationships and all of that good stuff is of enormous importance and is one of the most powerful means that God uses to help us understand Him and His relationship to us in our earthly lives.  The reason why satan uses these very same things as his number one tool in destroying lives and ruining souls is precisely because erotic love and the marital sex act itself are so good and powerful, and thus able to be corrupted and turned into such horrific evil, to wit: sodomy.  The best way to combat satan in his use of the marital embrace  and erotic love is NOT to pretend that sex doesn’t exist, or that it is intrinsically evil.  The best way to combat satan is to explain it so that people can see the beauty and most especially the POTENTIAL HOLINESS uniquly imbued into erotic love and the marital embrace.  Sadly, I think most Christian people today have a warped view of the marital embrace as an embarrassing yet necessary physical process akin to the elimination of waste.  And don’t get me started on how the feminist culture has nearly destroyed courtship and marriage.

Anyhow, the Canticle of Canticles is a dialog between Jesus Christ and His Bride, The Church.  Again, most people don’t know this, and the dialog isn’t demarcated so you have to pay close attention to catch the shifts in the voice between Our Lord and His Bride.

I post this today because literally the very first verses in the Canticle speak directly to those of us who are looking at what is going on in the Church today, namely the chastisement that is Pope Francis, the Vicar of Christ and the Successor to the See of Peter, and the majority of bishops and priests today who are themselves also a “most terrible castigation” upon the world, to quote St. John Eudes, and may be tempted to despair.

The first thing I would remind one and all of is the fact that we richly, richly deserve this.  As I said back in March when Francis was elected, if we had gotten the Pope we actually deserve, we would now have Pope Snoop Dogg.  God is Just.  And God is angry.  Very, very angry.  With us.  The world slaughters at least 50 million innocent babies per year, with cheerleader and financier numero uno being the Former United States of America.  Sodomy is everywhere, with cheerleader and financier numero uno being the Former United States of America.  Fornication is everywhere.  Blasphemy is everywhere.  Apostasy is everywhere, with cheerleader and financier numero uno being the Former United States of America.  What do you expect?  What kind of God would He be if He not only sat back and allowed all of this, but continued to BLESS His faithless, degenerate, apostate people in the Former U.S. and everywhere else in the now-defunct “Christian World” who haven’t just turned their backs on Him, but are actively in league with satan, fighting Him tooth and nail?  And since basically NO ONE is doing any penance or making any real effort to seriously fight evil and turn back to God, y’all can expect things to get MUCH, MUCH worse.

Second, Our Lord told us that “the gates of hell will not prevail” against His Church.  If there was ever anything that one could “take to the bank”, that’s it.  Now, we have our faces smushed up against the gates, and it seems like more and more pressure is being exerted and the smushing is getting more and more intense, but the Church Militant will exist, uninterrupted, until Our Lord returns in glory to judge the living and the dead, no matter what Francis says or does, and guys, I suspect there are things coming from Bergoglio that are going to make it appear that he is literally attempting to dismantle the Church from the inside out.  More on that soon.

And now to the Canticle:  I’ll paste the key bit here with the footnotes, but I really encourage you to go over to DRBO.org and read the whole thing WITH THE FOOTNOTES, which truly illuminate the allegorical phophecy and make clear which voice – Our Lord or The Church – is speaking.

Let me add one header note – and this is so cool.  Whenever mention is made of “breasts” or “two breasts”, that is referring to the two Great Commandments:  Love God and Love thy Neighbor.

This is chapter one, verses one through five and is The Church speaking to Christ:

Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine, smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee. Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the righteous love thee. 
I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.

[1] Let him kiss me: The church, the spouse of Christ, prays that he may love and have peace with her, which the spouse prefers to every thing delicious: and therefore expresses (ver. 2) that young maidens, that is the souls of the faithful, have loved thee.

[3] Draw me: That is, with thy grace: otherwise I should not be able to come to thee. This metaphor shews that we cannot of ourselves come to Christ our Lord, unless he draws us by his grace, which is laid up in his storerooms: that is, in the mysteries of Faith, which God in his goodness and love for mankind hath revealed, first by his servant Moses in the Old Law in figure only, and afterwards in reality by his only begotten Son Jesus Christ.

[4] I am black but beautiful: That is, the church of Christ founded in humility appearing outwardly afflicted, and as it were black and contemptible; but inwardly, that is, in its doctrine and morality, fair and beautiful.

Is that not just amazing?  Oh, man.  “The sons of my mother have fought against me…” says the Church to Our Lord.  It makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.  And then you think about all of the poor ignoramuses who have fallen for the “black church” con-artists like Jackson, Sharpton and Wright using this passage as some sort of black supremacy battlecry, and it is JUST. SO. PATHETIC.

Yes, some foolish people are probably going to apostasize over Francis.  Those are the same people who deep down probably don’t believe in the Real Presence (er, how could anyone possibly abandon Our Lord in the Eucharist if they actually believe and know that He is there?), and go to Mass as a mere vector for socializing and/or personal glorification.

But, if you get blue, as will be only natural, I strongly, strongly recommend reading the Canticle of Canticles for a reminder of just how much Our Lord loves His Church, no matter how blackened she may be made by those men inside her fighting against her.

Our Lord and His Bride, The Church.
Aw.

From Letter 16, St. Catherine of Siena:

I beg you to make it so, so that hard word will not be said to you as a reprimand from the First Truth, saying, “Cursed be you who were silent.” Oh, be silent no more! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that, through being silent, the world is spoiled, the Bride of Christ has paled, her color taken from her …Don’t sleep in negligence any longer. Act at the present time, however you can. I believe that there will come a time when you can no longer act; but now, at the present time, I invite you to strip your soul of all self-love, and dress it in hunger and real, true virtue, to the honor of God and the health of your soul.