For your “Just Too Cool” file, a reminder of a beautiful detail from the Resurrection: the significance of the “napkin” that wrapped Our Lord’s head in the tomb. Today, Saturday in Easter Week, we hear in the Gospel:

Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulchre, and saw the linen cloths lying, and the napkin that had been about His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place.
John 20: 6-7

Over the transom came an explanation that a reader heard in a homily:

It was Jewish custom in the relation between master and slave that the dinner table was prepared with a cloth that was to be used as a napkin of sorts, sitting by the other utensils. After dinner, if the master was finished with his meal he would wipe his hands and face, and then crumble up the cloth and leave it near the plate. This was the signal to the slave that the master was finished and had left the dining area.  If however, he folded the cloth and left it a bit farther away from the plate, it indicated he would be returning to finish his meal.

We see this today in table etiquette, particularly when eating in a fancier restaurant.  If one gets up mid-meal, the convention is to either fold the napkin and leave it beside the plate, or to leave it upon the cushion of the seat.  This signals the waitstaff that the guest will be returning, and in more elegant restaurants, if the napkin is left on the chair, the waitstaff will re-fold and place the napkin on the table awaiting the return of the guest, or replace the napkin entirely.  When one gets up to leave, the napkin is left crumpled on the table.

This neat folding of the “napkin” indicating the Return of the Master is echoed in the Mass, of course, when the priest replaces the folded Corporal into the burse.  

Interestingly, the Pall (the small starched square of linen which covers the Chalice) represents the stone that sealed the tomb.

WOW. Folks, you know as well as I do that massive, heavy chains don’t… just… break by themselves.

At EXACTLY the moment that an Antipope dies.

God is so good.

Visibility, visibility, visibility.

Don’t worry – we’ll be able to see who’s who and what’s what in the coming weeks. God isn’t trying to trick us or give us the shake. He loves us, and He’ll light this thing up, one way or the other. I can’t promise that we will have a valid Pope, but I can absolutely promise that we will be able to SEE what is happening, just as we have been able to clearly SEE the Bergoglian Antipapacy – if we just bothered to look with honesty.

https://www.gloria.tv/post/D92CtnJgzdmN4hzs3QMh3ge7a

The tomb of #PopeFrancis at the Basilica of St. Mary Major has been revealed. It's Ligurian marble with just his name, Franciscus, and a reproduction of his pectoral cross. pic.twitter.com/RRzlxwTuv6

— Catholic News Service Rome (@CatholicNewsSvc) April 24, 2025

My extensive reportage on the satanic cross design, originated by the Satanist faggot Cardinal Joseph Bernadin who was the rapist of the child “Agnes” in the black mass recorded in the opening of Malachi Martin’s “Windswept House” and also bankrolled none other than Barry Soetoro / Barack Obama in the 1980s in Chicago, can be found here:

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2023/09/14/the-satanic-bernardin-bergoglio-pectoral-cross-why-are-the-feet-facing-different-directions-because-the-figure-isnt-christ-it-is-the-antichrist/

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021/02/20/swine-hellfire-and-sodo-imagery-the-bernardin-bergoglio-pectoral-cross-is-an-icon-of-the-antichrist-read-on-for-disposal-instructions/

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021/02/18/more-photo-evidence-on-the-satanist-cardinal-bernardin-his-creepy-pectoral-cross-that-antipope-bergoglio-also-wears-and-the-satanic-grand-orient/

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021/02/10/remember-antipope-bergoglios-creepy-pectoral-cross-well-its-exactly-the-same-cross-worn-by-the-satanist-pedophile-rapist-cardinal-joseph-bernardin/

Next Pope: Apostasy or Hope?

If true, this is completely unsurprising.

ANTIPOPE BERGOGLIO WAS A RAGING APOSTATE AND PROBABLE SATANIST WITH A PUBLIC DEVOTION TO JUDAS ISCARIOT.

HE WAS NOT CATHOLIC, AND HATED JESUS CHRIST AND HIS HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH, WHICH HE SOUGHT TO DESTROY BY WREAKING SUFFICIENT INTERNAL DAMAGE TO BE CONSIDERED “IRREVERSIBLE.”

His fetid corpse should be tossed in the Tiber so the PachaDemon can row him across the River Styx.

This isn’t hard, folks. This whole Antipapacy has been visible since the get-go. Anyone who can’t see it is failing an open book test.

👀😳Cesare Sacchetti: "According to Vatican sources Bergoglio refused the sacraments before dying. It was his final outrage to God. Now the game of the conclave begins. Ecclesiastical Freemasonry is split. Is this the end of the false church prophesied by Padre Pio?" #popefrancis https://t.co/5suKckJ5WF

— Novus Ordo Watch (@NovusOrdoWatch) April 23, 2025

Over the transom from a Rome resident. This is real.

The Romans hated Antipope Bergoglio’s guts. His dripping corruption and facilitation of the invasion of Italy by African and musloid “migrants” was too much for even the cynical Italians.

Behold, the “outpouring of grief”.

St. Catherine of Siena in prayer, Cristofano Allori, ARSH 1610

Won’t you join me in a Novena to St. Catherine of Siena, asking her intercession for the restoration of the Papacy?

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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Heavenly Father, Thy glory is in Thy saints. We praise Thy glory in the life of the admirable St. Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor of the Church. Her whole life was a noble sacrifice inspired by an ardent love of Jesus, Thy unblemished Lamb.

In troubled times she strenuously upheld the rights of His beloved spouse, The Church. Father, honor her merits and hear her prayers for each of us, and for Thy Holy Catholic Church.

Help us to pass unscathed through the corruption of this world, and to remain unshakably faithful to Thy Holy Catholic Church in word, deed, and example.

Help us always to see in the Petrine See and true Vicar of Christ an anchor in the storms of life, and a beacon of light to the harbor of Thy Love, in this dark night of Thy times and men’s souls.

Grant also to each of us our special petition:

For the restoration of the Papacy from twelve years of usurpation by an Antipope and 28 months of vacancy since the death of Pope Benedict XVI; for a true, valid, virile, deeply Catholic Pope; that we receive the gift of Counsel so that we may quickly and accurately discern the truth of current events and react rightly, and above all, that God’s will be done.

We ask this through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, in the unity of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us.

St. Peter, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

No one around him cared enough to correct him, depose him, and enjoin him to repent.

Alright, let’s pray for the Petrine See. It’s been vacant for 842 days. Will the vacancy continue or will the Papacy be restored? I don’t know. Like Our Lady and the nascent Church on Holy Saturday, we watch and pray.

Let’s see what the Divine Providence has in store. Let’s give Him room to work, always trusting implicitly in His goodness, and that His Church is VISIBLE.

I can’t tell you if things are about to get worse, or about to get better, but I can tell you that WE WIN IN THE END, and that we mustn’t be afraid.

This is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Today is a day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.

He is risen, as He said.

When God Incarnate says He is going to do something, YOU TAKE IT TO THE BANK. To have faith in Jesus Christ and His promises is NOT a species of psychological infantilism, being “dippy”, or a “refusal to deal with reality”.  As events continue to unfold, ALWAYS remember the words of the angel at His empty tomb: “SICUT DIXIT”.

AS HE SAID.
AS HE SAID.
AS HE SAID.

And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.
Luke 22: 31-32

If you see a man calling himself “the Pope”, whose faith has clearly failed, and who not only refuses to confirm the brethren, but is actively attempting to lead them into apostasy, not only is that man not the Pope – HE NEVER WAS.

Please accept my warmest Easter greetings. I pray that we will all sing the eternal praises of God Almighty together in the Eternal Beatitude that His Passion, Death and Resurrection has purchased for us.

He is risen.
As. He. Said.

Alleluia.

(Let the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, speak to us, console us, and edify us as The Blessed Mother surely did in the Cenacle as she awaited the fulfillment of her Son’s promise, never doubting for an instant, despite the horror of the previous day, that He would do as He said He would.

Holy Saturday is HER day. She held the nascent Church together. –AB ’25)

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From the descent of Christ to hell we may learn, for our instruction, four things:

1. Firm hope in God. No matter what the trouble in which a man finds himself, he should always put trust in God’s help and rely on it. There is no trouble greater than to find oneself in hell. If then Christ freed those who were in hell, any man who is a friend of God cannot but have great confidence that he too shall be freed from whatever anxiety holds him. “Wisdom forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners; she went down with him into the pit and in bands she left him not” (Wis. x. 13-14). And since to His servants God gives a special assistance, he who serves God should have still greater confidence. “He that feareth the Lord shall tremble at nothing, and shall not be afraid: for he is his hope” (Ecclus. xxxiv. 16).

2. We ought to conceive fear and to rid ourselves of presumption. For although Christ suffered for sinners, and went down into hell to set them free, he did not set all sinners free, but only those who were free of mortal sin. Those who had died in mortal sin He left there. Wherefore for those who have gone down to hell in mortal sin there remains no hope of pardon. They shall be in hell as the holy Fathers are in heaven, that is for ever.

3. We ought to be full of care. Christ went down into hell for our salvation, and we should be careful frequently to go down there too, turning over in our minds hell’s pain and penalties, as did the holy king Ezechias as we read in the prophecy of Isaias, “I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell” (Is. xxxviii. 10).

Those who in their meditation often go down to hell during life, will not easily go down there at death. Such meditations are a powerful arm against sin, and a useful aid to bring a man back from sin. Daily we see men kept from evildoing by the fear of the law’s punishments. How much greater care should they not take on account of the punishment of hell, greater in its duration, in its bitterness and in its variety. “Remember thy last end and thou shalt never sin” (Ecclus. vii. 40).

4. The fact is for us an example of love. Christ went down into hell to set free those that were His own. We, too, therefore, should go down there to help our own. For those who are in purgatory are themselves unable to do anything, and therefore we ought to help them. Truly he would be a harsh man indeed who failed to come to the aid of a kinsman who lay in prison, here on earth. How much more harsh, then, the man who will not aid the friend who is in purgatory, for there is no comparison between the pains there and the pains of this world. “Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me” (Job xix. 21).

We help the souls in purgatory chiefly by these three means, by Masses, by prayers, and by alms giving. Nor is it wonderful that we can do so, for even in this world a friend can make satisfaction for a friend.

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St. Thomas Aquinas. Meditations for Lent. Passages selected from the works of St. Thomas by Fr. Mezard, O.P.; translated here by Fr. Philip Hughes. London: Sheed and Ward, 1937. 139-141.