This is the dangerous and threatening language that U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social just hours ago: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran! Is this the language of a sane president of any nation? Who asks God to bless the very people he wants to kill? Only a demented person could do that. It's desperate words a madman. Who is actually been doing for "47 years (the) extortion, corruption, and death?" Here's a comment made online that best up the insanity that is coming in both words and action from …
American Bishop Robert Barron posted a message for Easter on his Word on Fire YouTube channel titled, "The Earthquake of the Resurrection." He writes, "Friends, Happy Easter! We’ve come to the high point of the Church’s liturgical year, the reason why we’re Christians at all. If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, Christianity is a waste of time; the resurrection is the hinge point, the standing or falling point, of our faith. Taking Easter seriously is the source of our joy and our hope. Everything else is secondary to the great declaration of our Easter faith. In light of that, I want to talk to you today about earthquakes." His talk is in the video posted below. In his commentary, he tells us not to domesticate the message of Easter for it's truly an earthquake that should shake and radically transform everything about us. The Resurrection of Christ is: ... the earthquake. That's the light. Don't allow them to domesticate it. That's my message to fellow Christians listening to me. …
From the book, Lent and Easter With the Church Fathers by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, we post the reflection for Easter Sunday. Keep in mind that this is Easter Week and Easter season or Eastertide lasts until Pentecost Sunday, that's 50 days. We must let the meaning of Easter transform our souls and hearts. Easter: Resurrection Sunday: St. John Chrysostom, On the Resurrection, 3-5: Jesus has freed us from sin and from the power of death. He has joined what was separated by Adam and Original Sin. He redeemed the corrupt world through his Death on the Cross, and he paid the ransom for us all through his Resurrection. He has reestablished the original order before handing everything over to the Father on the last day. Let us celebrate this great and glorious feast of the Resurrection of the Lord, let us celebrate it with joy and devotion; the Lord is risen and has reawakened the whole earth. Adam sinned and died; Christ did not sin, but died. This is a new and surprising reality: the …
message. It's especially important this Easter, as the war against Iran and in Ukraine have not ended. ... Brothers and sisters, through his resurrection, the Lord confronts us even more powerfully with the dramatic reality of our freedom. Before the empty tomb, we can be filled with hope and wonder, like the disciples, or with fear like the guards and the Pharisees, forced to resort to lies and subterfuge rather than acknowledge that the one who had been condemned is truly risen!In the light of Easter, let us allow ourselves to be amazed by Christ! Let us allow our hearts to be transformed by his immense love for us! Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people. Indifferent to the …
Apr 3 Good Friday: the largest Cricifix in the world and the Canadian connection The "Cross in the Woods" is the "Catholic Shrine ... located in Indian River, Michigan. The Shrine is home to the largest crucifix in the world." About the shrine: The sculpture of the crucified Christ was titled 'The Man on the Cross' by the renowned Michigan sculptor Marshall Fredericks. It is made of bronze 3/8″ to 1/2″ thick. It weighs seven tons, is twenty-eight feet tall from head to toe, and the outstretched arms span twenty-one feet. The figure of Christ is attached by thirteen bolts 30″ long and 2″ thick that were made when the figure was cast in Norway. Fredericks wanted to portray Christ in a peaceful way. It was his dream to 'give the face an expression of great peace and strength and offer encouragement to everyone who viewed the Cross'. Apr 2 "You are clean, but not all of you" This is a very thoughtful homily given by Pope Benedict XVI for the Mass of the Lord's Supper. It was delivered at …
This is a very thoughtful homily given by Pope Benedict XVI for the Mass of the Lord's Supper. It was delivered at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on Holy Thursday, April 13, 2006 Dear Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood, Dear Brothers and Sisters, 'Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end' (Jn 13: 1). God loves his creature, man; he even loves him in his fall and does not leave him to himself. He loves him to the end. He is impelled with his love to the very end, to the extreme: he came down from his divine glory. He cast aside the raiment of his divine glory and put on the garb of a slave. He came down to the extreme lowliness of our fall. He kneels before us and carries out for us the service of a slave: he washes our dirty feet so that we might be admitted to God's banquet and be made worthy to take our place at his table - something that on our own we neither could nor would ever be able to do. God is not a remote God, too distant or …
MagnificatTwelve frightened men who feel that death is hovering near crowd around the Son of Man whose hand is lifted over a piece of bread and over a cup. Of what value is this gesture, of what use can it be? How futile it seems when already a mob is arming itself with clubs, when in a few hours Jesus will be delivered to the courts, ranked among scoundrels, tortured, disfigured, laughed at by his enemies, pitiable to those who love him, and shown to be powerless before all. However, this Man condemned to death does not offer any defense; he does nothing but bless the bread and the wine and, with eyes raised, pronounce a few words.It seems that, after [twenty] centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert, remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in …
Apr 1 How the Liberals have economically weakened and divided Canada From Real Women of Canada comes another sober article outlining the economic failures of Canada's Liberal government led by PM Justin Trudeau and now Marc Carney. Today all Members of Parliament will get a pay hike, whether they deserve or not. So, those backbencher MPs Canadians never hear from will get an increase of 4.2%, taking their base salaries to $211,000. The PM will receive $420,000 and ministers $300,000. No, it's not an April Fool's Day joke. Canadians surely wish it was. Here's the article by Real Women of Canada tilted, "Mark Carney Walks in the Footsteps of Justin Trudeau." We post the entry with permission. Everyone remembers when Justin Trudeau became prime minister in 2015. The election of a Liberal Government, under his leadership, was greeted with elation. Mar 30 Sacred art in the service of faith We post the art essay from the Magnificat's Holy Week liturgical reader. It's written by Jennifer Healy …
Political leaders in the West are no longer governing for the citizenry they ought to represent. No, they are governing for themselves and the oligarchs they serve. Canada is now a prime example. It’s one of the richest countries in the world when it comes to natural resources. However, the province of Alberta cannot sell their oil and gas openly on the market and to other provinces within Canada. This is intentional. Don’t be Canada.
I never think E. Michael Jones has anything worthwhile to say and this article was just another confirmation of that fact. But, I am happy to have found this site. If you want to read a worthwhile article from the same site try "Donald Trump and the Downfall of the American Empire." By Ron Unz. And notice how his thoughts are not scattered in every direction and his premises are supported with facts.
"God is using Iran to punish the United States and Israel for their wickedness." There are many examples of God going outside His people to avenge evil in the Old Testament.
Mar 30 Sacred art in the service of faith We post the art essay from the Magnificat's Holy Week liturgical reader. It's written by Jennifer Healy who taught art history for many years. It's titled, "Holy Week Sorrow and Hope," and offers a great analysis of the painting "The Tears of St. Peter" by Jusepe de Ribera. The denial of St. Peter is a reminder of our denials too. Something to think about this week. Wishing our readers a blessed Holy Week. This marvelous work by the young Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera provides for rich meditation on Saint Peter and the mercy of God. In this one captured moment, in symbols and style, a full story emerges. Of course we already know the story, and we hear it again in Holy Week at the Palm Sunday and Good Friday liturgies. Mar 30 What a sad day for Christians around the world "Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and Father Francesco Ielpo, the custos of the Holy Land, and two other priests were on their way to the …
Mar 29 Bishop Joseph Strickland defends Carrie Prejean Boller We all know at this point that Carrie Prejean Boller was kicked out of the Presidential Religious Liberty Commission. And for what? For expressing Catholic thinking out loud. Bishop Joseph Strickland has come to her rescue in an X post. He reminds us that any “opposition to political Zionism is inherently antisemitic” isn't true nor anti-Catholic. She questioned the meaning of antisemitism and if it included criticism of political Zionism and what has happened in Gaza. Isn't the Commission about religious liberty? We wonder if Bishop Barron and former Archbishop Timothy Dolan are paying attention. The two are on the Commission but have chosen to remain silent when Boller was abruptly ousted for her remarks. Here's Bishop Strickland's instructive statement regarding Mrs. Mar 28 Canada has become a post-nation state based on lies Recall when PM Justin Trudeau stated that Canada was a post-nation state with no core values? Yes …
Nice article. I think they knew in advance that she would take this position and it is being used by the antiChrist US government to portray Catholics who know their Faith as a "radical right wing" movement. Later to be rounded up by the protestant zionist zealots for extermination. Shades of the coming Fourth Reich. God bless you!
Recall when PM Justin Trudeau stated that Canada was a post-nation state with no core values? Yes, he said it. He admired China because government decisions could be made without citizenry consultation. democracy is an inconvenience. Trudeau didn’t tell Canadians that his new post-nation state is built on lies. More evidence to support the idea came out this week from an Ontario court decision. The Court of Appeal ruled on the side of the City of Hamilton in refusing to display and advertisement in its bus shelters. The appeal was filed by Canada's federal party the Christian Heritage Party. They paid for the ad. The ad features (see above) a woman with the dictionary definition of woman: “Woman: An Adult Human Female.” According to the court, the city made the right decision in rejecting the ad because it could make the transit system unsafe for the public. Really? How the court came to this flawed conclusion nobody really knows. We can only assume the court can read the future and …