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Brother John at lived at the advent of the Friars Minor and enjoyed continuous consolation from Our Lord’s abiding presence with him. At a certain point Our Lord withdrew His sensible presence from Brother John and he wandered about sore distraught having lived in such intimacy with Christ. One day after some time had passedContinue reading “Brother John-OFM”

It is not to say that I don’t invariably favor one candidate over the other, but I would think it fair to say that the primary loser of last night’s ‘debate,’ if you can call that display a debate, is us. This is not to say we are victims of the elite establishment offering usContinue reading “The debate…opportunity lost”

Help me to forget myself and serve You. Usually I forget You and serve me. If you’re not doing penance you are asleep and have no idea of the exacting justice of God nor the time in which you live. The angel said to the three children at play “What are you doing?? Penance, Penance,Continue reading “Penance”

Modernity-Death by convenience God spoke and dust became man, man speaks and bread becomes God. If at Holy Mass the Sacrifice is one and the self-same as that of Calvary and my presence there is, as it were, as efficacious as being alongside the Blessed Mother and St. John, then all Masses are in effectContinue reading

The mask–if you disagree with the mask either because you don’t believe it’s effective or because you for some reason don’t think the civil authority has the right to tell you what to wear for any reason, health or otherwise, but you still wear it out of convenience so as not to be harassed, howContinue reading “Masks”

In the 21st Chapter of St. John we find the account of Our Lord’s appearance on the shore after His resurrection; the third appearance of Our Lord according to the apostle. We find St. Peter, who no doubt loved Our Lord, returning to fishing after the stupendous events of the previous days. A natural leader,Continue reading “On Holy Slavery”

https://nofacemask.blogspot.com/2020/09/heroic-priest-fr-daniel-nolan-fssp-i.html?m=1 Fr. Nolan telling it like it is. When I saw this I was reminded of the appendix to Thomas Walsh’s excellent account of the apparitions of Fatima, ‘Our Lady of Fatima,’ wherein he records a personal interview he had with Sr. Lucy. At one point in the conversation Mr. Walsh asks Sr. Lucy ‘WillContinue reading “The whole world will go communist”

Today I start this blog. I do not have any notion that I will add anything dramatically new to the public discourse as regards the state of our world with the plethora of information available out there. In general I feel that the computer age has had a deleterious impact on our society, yet hereContinue reading “Introduction”