Something beautiful… and heartbreaking.

Here is a picture of the Palm Sunday Procession of the St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Philadelphia in ARSH 1958.

Every layman in this picture is black. St. Charles Borromeo was, at that time, in a black neighborhood. For those who know Philly, it’s at 20th and Christian on the South Side.

THIS is what black inner-city Philly was like in ARSH 1958.

The world today is so fallen, so impoverished, that if any one of us were to be transported there, for just a few hours, we would think that we had experienced a foretaste of heaven. There is nowhere left on this planet today that has 1% of the class and Christian civility that you see in this picture of inner-city Philadelphia, sixty-five years and five days ago. Look at how the people are dressed, and how the lad servers are comported. Consider how within seven years, LBJ’s Great Society was at full war against American blacks, in twelve years, it was all gone, and within fifty years… well. Some things are so foul and reprehensible that they can hardly be discussed, and the Rap/HipHop anti-culture is near the top of that list.

Never before in postdiluvian human history has so much been lost so fast.

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Palm Sunday and Fear of the Lord

Christ’s Entry Into Jerusalem, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, ARSH 1842-48, Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris

Zoom in on this fresco of Christ entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.  Look at the faces.  Look at the people in the crowd.  Look at the slack-jawed awe, and for some of them, fear – for example the man whose head is immediately to the right of the she-ass’ forehead – that dude is SCARED. And so should we all be.

So. Should. We. All. Be.

For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.
Quoniam Dominus excelsus, terribilis, rex magnus super omnem terram.

-Psalm 46: 3

The Earthly Junk is Moved. Whew!

My earthly estate is translocated, and the move went swimmingly. The “check engine” light came on in the truck about halfway along the way, but no issues were detected and the rig got us up into the high country with no problem. Thanks to one and all for your patience and extreme munificence. Truly. Paying movers these days ain’t cheap, but man, the guys I used were the absolute salt of the earth, and worth every cent. Prompt, quick, friendly, and they even crossed themselves when I prayed the Traveler’s Prayer as we departed:

St. Gabriel with Mary, St. Raphael with Tobias, St. Michael with all the heavenly host, be our safeguard and protection on this journey.

May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Here’s a little musical interlude as we prepare for Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Someone should re-lyric this song apropos to St. Paul and his travels.

Antipapal Deathwatch: Remember the 3rd petition of the Matthew 17:20 Intention: That Bergoglio REPENT, REVERT TO CATHOLICISM, die in the state of grace in the fullness of time, and someday achieve the Beatific Vision

Apparently Antipope Bergoglio was hauled to the hospital in an ambulance yesterday with lung and heart issues. If it weren’t serious they would have either driven him in a car, or had doctors come to the Vatican.

Yes, he’s absolutely revolting, but NO sin or life of sin is too much for God’s Infinite Mercy.

IF Bergoglio is the False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist, the Anti John the Baptist, even he could repent and go down in history as an inverse of Judas Iscariot. Jorge Mario Bergoglio doesn’t HAVE to go to hell, even after everything he has done. No one ever HAS to go to hell. Hell is a choice. Antipope Bergoglio could still choose God before he dies. Let’s pray that he does.

The Mob has formed outside of Lot’s house. The demand is ratification, approval and participation… or death. This is not a joke. This is not hyperbole. This is not exaggeration. This is life or death. Right here, right now.

Q:  What do the sodomites-transvestites want?  What is their endgame?  They already have their “faux-marriage”, they are clearly a de facto protected “victim class”.  They carry on openly with not only no pushback or protest, but are actively praised for their psychoses and depravity.  What is their endgame?

A:  They want nothing less than the entire world to declare that GOD IS WRONG, AND THEY ARE RIGHT.  And if God is “wrong” then God is not God, and the sodomites-transvestites are actually superior to God, and have been victims of an inferior being all this time.

I would point out a fascinating bit of exegesis regarding the events of Genesis Chapter 19 – Sodom and Gomorrah.

When the two angels had entered into Lot’s house, and “the men of the city beset the house both young and old, all the people together” (verse 4), the point of the gathering wasn’t primarily gang rape.  Think about it.  Sodom was a city of non-trivial size.  That mob didn’t show up with the expectation of every man in the city being able to rape the two men lodging in Lot’s house.  They were probably hoping for the two lodgers to be brought out, and perhaps instigating an orgy among them.

To see what their primary motive was, look at verse 9:

But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them.

The mob of Sodom arrived at Lot’s house in order to demand that both Lot and his two guests RATIFY THE SODOMITES’ SEXUAL PERVERSION. They were there to demand ideological conformity, preferably by PARTICIPATION in perverse genital acts.  Remember the 4-step progression of what evil demands: Toleration, Acceptance, Ratification, Participation.

Look at the words they use… WAS IT TO BE A JUDGE?

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

So, the objective of all sodomites, and especially of the vile wretches that have infiltrated The Church, and are now swiftly erecting their Antichurch with the objective of replacing the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is, as I have said for years now, rooted in a hatred of God Himself.

They seek nothing less than demanding that all Catholics, and eventually all people, under the fraudulent obedience they so desperately want to convince the Church is due to the criminal Antipope Bergoglio, to cry out, “God is wrong and has been wrong all along, and you (the sodomites-transvestites) are right, and have been right all along! 

In doing this, they think that they will be dethroning God, and enthroning “enlightened man”, and then eventually “the great illuminator” himself, satan.

Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.
2 Thessalonians 2: 3-4

The person on the far right, with a mustache, is a woman who has mutilated her body with surgeries and hormones in order to masquerade as a male. The woman on the far left masquerades as the woman’s “wife”.

Bubblewrap Blues

This is one of my favorite pieces of secular music, an instrumental bluegrass cover of Jimmy Buffett’s “A Pirate Looks at 40”. The problem is that the narcissist Boomer poster child Jimmy Buffett’s original lyrics are insufferable morally decrepit drivel about smuggling drugs and other pathetic Boomer debauchery. But the melody is absolutely gorgeous. The song needs wholesome new lyrics written for it. I’ve never even attempted poetry, but someday I should take a crack at it. Who knows? I might be a poet… and not even know it!

So, for today, inspired by my packing, I merely rechristen this song, “Bubblewrap Blues”. Enjoy.

Confirmation that dressing beautifully and modestly is the right thing to do.

Over the transom, this. Do you remember my recent post on the video of the woman walking down the street, simply being reasonably well-dressed and getting stared-at?

Well, THIS… female… doesn’t like it one bit.

I grew up thinking wearing a short skirt, or going braless or showing cleavage means I’m asking for attention, people won’t take me seriously, or men will take it as an invitation or make assumptions about me. It has taken me years to unpack this and realise that underwire shouldn’t be the reason someone respects me or thinks I’m hot.

Speaking of the naked truth, posted because context here is essential: the angry author:

This poor, poor gal.

I’m not so cruel so as to leave you without an offset, so here is the final installation of Ann’s Dresses:

Funny story about the white dress. I wore it to Mass one Sunday last summer with my big green hat, and a young male friend was in town visiting. As we stopped into a spot for a post-Mass refreshment, a man sitting outside offered us his warmest congratulations on having just been married. On a Sunday at 12:30pm, with me in a big green hat. I guess these days ANY solid white dress seems like a wedding dress to most people.

I took an obligatory picture of my “wedding ensemble”. 🤣 And yes, I use beautiful costume jewelry pins to raise and secure the neckline of dresses just a bit.