tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153776562024-03-14T11:02:05.542-04:00Dymphna's RoadDymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comBlogger3054125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-55128362503413627052024-02-29T14:25:00.004-05:002024-03-07T13:22:42.463-05:00Another fake, fake, fake devotion.<p><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XP5_81wbj98" width="320" youtube-src-id="XP5_81wbj98"></iframe><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nt9-X-hDJeM" width="320" youtube-src-id="nt9-X-hDJeM"></iframe></div></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p>I encountered a very nice person who was big into the Divine Will fake devotion. He's educated and has written books on the Faith but I don't care. Whatever Luisa Piccaretta was talking to was <b>not</b> Our Lord or Our Lady. This disturbed woman's cause for beatification has been suspended and God willing won't go any further. WARNING -- In this video refuting the devotion, <span style="font-family: inherit;">Fr. Mawdsley<span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span>quotes </span>directly from Luisa's books and her words are so revolting it's physically painful to listen to but it is necessary to show that Luisa was either insane or speaking to a demon. </p><p> How on earth this filthy business ever caught on with anybody is astonishing. As Fr. said, "This is wrong, this is so wrong and it doesn't bear commenting on with so much that is suspicious and off and even sickening about this". </p><p>If anybody tries to promote this to you, be extremely wary. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-65940847725825193522024-02-26T16:12:00.003-05:002024-03-09T12:04:48.019-05:00Random thoughts on Monday afternoon.<p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"> I saw a video of a basketball game where a boy who says he is a girl injured a female player on the opposing team. Folks this is going to go until you remove your daughters from the playing fields. I keep hearing people say, "But she'll lose her scholarship," and I don't get it. Is any college worth so much to you that you let your daughter's nakedness be exposed the eye of a leering and possibly dangerous individual in the locker room and shower? <br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Is any college scholarship worth your girl getting knocked out, stomped, damaged internally, or her head cracked in during a sporting competition she had no chance to win?<br /><br /> Don't you love your daughter? <b>Does her dignity mean nothing to you? </b><span style="text-align: right;"> </span><span style="text-align: right;">In 1968, two black Olympians risked their medals and athletic careers for their cause. They faced screaming event attendees, </span><span style="text-align: right;">were kicked out the Olympic village and they received death threats. <br /><br />They won. Both went on to the NFL and are considered Civil Rights era </span><span style="text-align: right;">heroes today. The adult athletes and the parents of the minors have to leave the mad house and yes, sacrifices will have to be made if you are serious. It's not going to change by pleading. </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">A priest posted a photo of his <b>90 year old mother</b> and asked for prayers because she passed away. One person complained that the mother was wearing pants and chastised the loving son for showing an immodest photo. My brothers, if you experience temptation looking at a 90 year old woman I suggest that you step away from the Internet, possibly forever for any reason other than work, and get yourself to the nearest priest for spiritual guidance because ....something aint right. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>Ave Maria<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4Ug5vJiIzBI" width="320" youtube-src-id="4Ug5vJiIzBI"></iframe></div><br /></li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-19979603352131803592024-02-19T13:41:00.001-05:002024-02-19T13:41:50.685-05:00Our Lady of the Rosary, Pray for Us <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGs8wDEWMAADcCN?format=jpg&name=small" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="453" height="680" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGs8wDEWMAADcCN?format=jpg&name=small" width="453" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-9586485443138375112024-02-15T10:37:00.000-05:002024-02-15T10:37:36.253-05:00Parce Domine<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r7bQl3IubU0" width="320" youtube-src-id="r7bQl3IubU0"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p>Last night, Rocky and I tried to go the 6PM Ash Wednesday Mass after work but it was packed. We sat in the parking lot and went to the 7PM Mass instead. Both priests looked tired but happy. I hope everyone has a holy Lent. </p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-18410460119141570042024-02-11T10:52:00.003-05:002024-02-12T09:17:32.838-05:00“Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.”<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://media.timeout.com/images/105652224/750/422/image.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="422" src="https://media.timeout.com/images/105652224/750/422/image.webp" width="750" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Poor Pope Benedict. Eleven years after his resignation and I think that his fleeing for whatever the true reason, will be the only thing the sheep and the world will remember him for. </div>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-27073587577921396312024-02-04T10:45:00.001-05:002024-02-04T10:45:00.136-05:00Showing up at church is not enough <p> Something happened at Mass a few years ago that still disturbs me. A family came in late and pushed past an older lady. She got up and moved to another pew. The oldest boy whispered something to the father. The man snapped that the woman was just crazy. He said it loud enough that I, sitting a few pews back, heard him. I think the woman must have heard him too. I never saw her again. </p><p>This woman was a parishioner of many years. She was always reserved but friendly to me and struck me as being a very nervous and sensitive soul. I hope she just started going to Mass at a different time or at a different parish. </p><p>Guys, you may have a beard like Moses, wear a Savile Row suit and have a family size to rival the Patriarch Jacob's and you may lead your family to church every Sunday but if you act like a jerk when you get there what lesson are you teaching them? </p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-8834569928868899502024-01-27T00:00:00.007-05:002024-01-28T11:38:56.383-05:00This is bad<p> </p><p>This man, on a trip to his home in Utah, noticed illegal immigrants in the airport with NGO papers indicating that they were clients of Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona. As I have said before, there is going to be a backlash over this type of thing. When people start taking even their verbal anger out on Catholics I guarantee that our separated brethren and pagan groups wont raise even a peep in our defense or show a shred of fellowship. These NGOs need to have the word Catholic removed from their names. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">As I’m on my way home to SLC, UT <br />I noticed 6 illegal migrants are also boarding the same <a href="https://twitter.com/AmericanAir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AmericanAir</a> flight. <br /><br />Looks like I’ve got some new neighbors! <a href="https://t.co/J3w2w9Nrz2">https://t.co/J3w2w9Nrz2</a></p>— Tayler Hansen (@TaylerUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TaylerUSA/status/1746753947069534422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2024</a></blockquote><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p> <br /></p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-47693483173988188192024-01-19T17:17:00.008-05:002024-01-22T12:25:54.888-05:00Long break and other random thoughts<p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> Well, I took a long Christmas break and it was good. I hope everyone had a beautiful Christmas and Epiphany season. 2024 is going to be a doozy.<br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>I saw that Gonzalo Lira is dead. He was not a good man. He should have left Ukraine as soon as the war drums started beating. He was not a wise man in many ways but he's dead and it didn't have to be that way. Some people are angry that he didn't get the same attention that Britney Griner got but that's not saying much. Griner is back in the States but she doesn't appear to be her old self on the basketball court and probably isn't the same in private as she was before she was arrested in Russia. In many parts of the world getting arrested can lead to you kneeling in an unlit cell in the sub-basement of a building whose very name makes the local folks nervous. Even in places like Japan or Sweden you are not going to have a good time.<br /><br />In Lira's case, being taken into custody was deadly. To all the Americans who think that running off to Eastern Europe, Asia or South America is the way to go, know this: no matter how long you live there or how long you've been married to a native woman --its' usually men who talk about doing this--- you will<b> always </b>be that American and the locals will come for you if things go sideways. If other friendly locals don't come to your defense, what are you and your family going to do but end up as a cautionary tale?<br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>Do you have a diocesan priest who is clearly a man and a holy one at that? <b>Stop </b>showing his photo or reporting his comments on social media without his permission. You're not helping especially if his bishop already hates him. I'm sorry it's come this but here we are.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li> <i>Breakfast At Tiffany's </i>was about a prostitute. Medjugorje is a scam, at best. C.S. Lewis was not Catholic and showed terrible judgement in his personal life. Everyone involved in the film, <i>Pretty Baby</i> should have been publicly whipped. You don't have to go to college to be a good Catholic. <br /><br /><br /></li><li>There was a guy who posted regularly in the Catholic Twitter circle who started out interesting but completely lost it. He stopped writing about the Faith and just kept posting shirtless photos of himself. It got weird. Somebody must have started criticizing him for it because he shut down his account abruptly. I'm NOT talking about Voris. Apparently its common for men who are trying to get into body building level shape to send photo proof of their progress to their Accountability buddies, but dude, keep that private. Just as attention seeking Catholic women posting their photos every single day are off-putting, so too, are the men who do this. <br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>In December I saw a number of Professional Catholics post lovely photos of their very nice homes and they wished their followers who donate and make their lifestyle possible, a happy Christmas. I've seen it reported by many sources that Church Militant's donors were mostly middle-aged to elderly women. I hope that's not true but more than that, I hope that in light of what is coming out about CM many people are waking up and wising up about who they are donating to. </li></ul><p></p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-91190583684950335702023-11-24T09:36:00.005-05:002023-11-27T06:50:50.619-05:00Downfall<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Michael_Voris/status/1727102250311733320"> Michael Voris is gone.</a> Christine Niles says she submitted her resignation on November 10th. I'm not dancing a jig but it is for the best that this is so. Watching the whole Church Militant show play out over the years has been like watching a case of folie a deux syndrome and it became disturbing on primal level. Have you ever seen something so ugly that your skin tingled and your stomach tightened? That's the effect Voris's reportage had on me.</p><p>I've seen comments on Twitter condemning anyone who is gloating that <a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/official-statement-regarding-michael-voris">the board of Church Militant forced him to resign.</a> but while there were a few people who were delighted and expressed themselves in really crass ways, the majority of Catholic media has either been silent or been kind. </p><p>To those who say "Oh, this is a tragedy. Voris and Church Militant have done such good and been so influential for Catholicism,"I suggest that you read Randy Engel's 2017, article, "<a href="https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/engel/170419">All The Men Behind the Opus Dei Curtain,</a>" and then go to Mass this Sunday and afterward mention CM and Voris to your friends. Most will tell you they never watched or read his Tweets and the rest will ask, "Who?" The majority of Catholics around the world have no idea who Michael Voris is or who Taylor Marshall, Patrick Coffin, Michael Lofton or Kennedy Hall are. </p><p> Pray for Voris that he gets his spiritual life in order but I think we can all do without CM or Voris's type of journalism. Six months or so, if he shows up again on the media stage please don't give him money. Don't look to professional media Catholics to be your spiritual guides. </p><p><br /></p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-45351757032769293572023-11-11T21:23:00.001-05:002023-11-11T21:23:30.041-05:00Tertullian, St. Ignatius, a pop song and one lone bishop<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.archbishopetienne.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/st-ignatious-of-antioch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="648" height="324" src="https://www.archbishopetienne.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/st-ignatious-of-antioch.jpg" width="648" /></a></div><br />St. Ignatius of Antioch always leaves me awestruck. He was a disciple of St. John, the Evangelist, and was the third bishop of Antioch. In his old age during the reign of Emperor Trajan the holy bishop was taken prisoner in Antioch and carried off to Rome. He was going to be eaten alive by lions for the amusement of the Flavian Amphitheater going public. Most people today facing such an end would have been reduced to screaming hysteria, but Ignatius managed to write six letters to his fellow Christians encouraging them and letting them know that he was ready to lay down his life for Jesus. Read those letters and you will be amazed and inspired. <p></p><p>A bishop cannot be a coward. A bishop, if he is worthy of his cassock should be ready to suffer and die for the love of Our Lord and in defense of his flock. <a href="https://nonvenipacem.org/2023/11/11/full-text-of-bishop-stricklands-letter-from-a-friend-i-hope-he-reads-it-again-today/">Non Veni Pacem has posted parts of a letter to Bishop Strickland</a> from an unnamed friend of the bishop's that quotes Tertullian and exhorts Bishop Strickland to remember and behave like St. Ignatius. The bishop mentions the letter in a speech. Non Veni Pacem links to the <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-strickland-catholics-alive-during-this-crisis-must-remember-they-were-born-for-this/">whole thing. </a> It is a beautiful letter and the speech is one that will stick with me. When I read it, I remembered the first time I heard the song, <i>How This Ends. </i>That song is one of my all time favorites and was a calming factor during a very hard time. </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">How It Ends Lyrics</p><p style="text-align: center;">Hold your grandmother's Bible to your breast</p><p style="text-align: center;">Gonna put it to the test</p><p style="text-align: center;">You wanted it to be blessed</p><p style="text-align: center;">And in your heart</p><p style="text-align: center;">You know it to be true</p><p style="text-align: center;">You know what you got to do</p><p style="text-align: center;">They all depend on you</p><p style="text-align: center;">And you already know</p><p style="text-align: center;">Yeah, you already know how this will end</p><p style="text-align: center;">There is no escape from the slave catcher's songs</p><p style="text-align: center;">For all of the loved ones gone</p><p style="text-align: center;">Forever's not so long</p><p style="text-align: center;">And in your soul</p><p style="text-align: center;">They poked a million holes</p><p style="text-align: center;">But you never let them show</p><p style="text-align: center;">Come on, it's time to go</p><p style="text-align: center;">And you already know</p><p style="text-align: center;">Yeah, you already know how this will end</p><p style="text-align: center;">Now you've seen His face</p><p style="text-align: center;">And you know there's a place in the sun</p><p style="text-align: center;">For all that you've done</p><p style="text-align: center;">For you and your children</p><p style="text-align: center;">No longer shall you need</p><p style="text-align: center;">You always wanted to believe</p><p style="text-align: center;">Just ask and you'll receive</p><p style="text-align: center;">Beyond your wildest dreams</p><p style="text-align: center;">And you already know</p><p style="text-align: center;">Yeah, you already know how this will end</p><p style="text-align: left;">I think Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas has a pretty good idea how his current situation ends. No, he will not be fed to lions but the rest of his life is going to be quite different than what he may have expected when he first went to the seminary. St. Ignatius and St. John Fisher, please pray for your brother. </p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-90216354498380018982023-11-05T13:37:00.008-05:002023-11-24T09:40:34.643-05:00Random thoughts on a warm Sunday morning.<p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> A lot of people in DC and London are shocked and frightened by the huge anti-Israel marches. I'm mystified as to why. Did these people think that a Muslim person whether a refugee, naturalized citizen or second or third generation born citizen would go "Yay Israel,"!, on command? Have you read their book? It clearly states what they believe. <br /><br /> A lot of middle class people live in an intellectual and social bubble. They are so happy that a new restaurant from --- country has opened up or they fondly remember going to college with a person from --- country and assume foolishly, that everyone from --- is just like their old college buddy. Worse, they see minorities of all spectrums as mere symbols for them to patronize and virtue signal about. Northern Virginia and the whole DVM has a huge population of people from countries who don't like Israel. Of course, they are expressing themselves. Those of you who work for Catholic Charities migrant services or other NGOs especially have no excuse for being surprised.<br /><br /><br /></li></ul><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>I don't like professional Catholics. The man or woman who makes their living from the Faith will do and say whatever is necessary to keep the mortgage paid. Instead of going to the endless conferences these people keep putting on and fattening their wallets; why not read a a book written by a saint? Why not go to Adoration or on personal pilgrimage? <br /></b><br /><br /></li><li>I enjoyed the You Tube videos of a really interesting woman who had similar tastes in clothes, home décor, history, and art to mine but out of no where she dropped a bomb. She's a practicing "good" witch. Nope. I'm out. I blocked her channel and was quite disappointed. The typical occultist is not just that oddly smelling girl whom nobody liked back in school. It's gone mainstream and you'd be shocked to see how many apparently normal people you know are involved. <br /><br /></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>We're going to South Carolina this month to clean all the family graves and order any necessary repairs. I'll be bringing Klean Logik Headstone Cleaner and<a href="https://atlaspreservation.com/products/d2-biological-cleaning-solution"> D/2 Biological Solution </a> with me but I'll buy the brushes and water buckets at Walmart when I get there. Mama will supervise while I clean and Rocky and Uncle Junior can be the water brigade. It's been too long since I was last saw my father's grave and I'm really looking forward to saying a rosary there. <br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>In your charity, could you say a prayer for a particular priest? When I looked up at him during the processional I was shocked. He looked terribly sick and unsteady all through Mass and I wanted to grab him and check his pulse. </li></ul><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-5137353072100365262023-10-31T19:11:00.004-04:002023-11-05T13:56:23.620-05:00A Ghostly Tale for All Hallows Eve<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Avant Garde", Avantgarde, "Century Gothic", CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Years ago when I was still in high school I read a collection of ghost stories called "Haunted Heartland." Most of them weren't a bit scary and were presented in the dry businesslike fashion of a folklorist who is merely collecting materials for a dissertation, but one tale stuck with me. It was the story of Fr. Louis Lesches, a priest assigned to St. Mary's College in Minnesota, who tried to kill his superior, Bishop Patrick Hefron. The bishop was saying Mass in the seminary chapel one morning when he turned around and saw Fr. Lesches standing behind him. To the bishop's surprise, the priest was wearing a </span><a href="http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/004203.php" style="background-color: white; color: #b04ae8; max-width: 100%; text-decoration-line: none;">Prince Albert suit</a><span face=""Avant Garde", Avantgarde, "Century Gothic", CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"> instead of his cassock or clericals. To add to this surprise the bishop quickly realized that the priest was packing heat. Fr. Lesches fired a gun three times, hitting the bishop twice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444;" /></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />At that time Fr. Lesches was already the number one problem child of the diocese. Although he was said to be brilliant and had done well in the academic part of his seminary studies, he was also overly emotional, insubordinate, and felt that the bishop was persecuting him. He'd failed at all of his parish assignments and now Bishop </span>Hefron<span style="font-family: inherit;"> had recalled him to St. Mary's to keep a close eye on him. </span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: center;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Bishop Heffron's vestments, orneriness, and his great physical shape probably saved his life. Instead of dropping dead or swooning he yelled at his now panicked attacker and chased him out of the chapel. Fr. Lesches was captured and spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: center;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Students have been claiming to see the ghost of Fr. Lesches on campus for decades. It's a spooky tale but I hope everyone who hears or reads it will stop and say a prayer for this poor, strange, unstable man who never should've been ordained but is a priest forever and one who probably really needs our help now. </span></div>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-8502499084459756002023-10-01T10:35:00.007-04:002024-03-07T13:25:57.899-05:00What the heck is WRONG with people?<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> When 26 year old Baltimore CEO Pava LePere was found partially clad, strangled and bludgeoned to death in her own apartment building I noticed that MOST of the comments in both secular news and among men on Catholic Twitter mocked the victim and expressed satisfaction that she was dead.<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ScaryPoppins8/status/1707555094223274489/photo/1"> Pava supported</a> Black Lives Matter. The irony of her murder by a man whom she would have presumably championed and whom she naively let into her controlled access building was enough for an explosion of <span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">schadenfreude. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">One Catholic man in particular seemed triumphant and kept posting on Twitter, "She let him in." The last time I checked, he'd made his statement several times.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: inherit;">Look, I get that men are frustrated. There are many silly young women who flit from one fad to another with no deep thought about their own safety or much of anything else but <b>Pava was murdered</b>. How can you call yourself a Catholic man and revel in her death? She </span><span style="color: #202122;">obviously</span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: inherit;"> didn't grow up in a neighborhood like the one I did and unlike mine, her parents may have never taught her you don't open to the door to anyone you don't know because it's better to be seen as rude than dead. At 26, she was old enough to be my daughter and I look at her photo with sadness. Thank God, the killer, who so far, has attacked three women has been caught. </span><br /><br /></span></p><h2 class="styles_CardDetail__Description__KnSxe" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></h2>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-65716988921086499832023-09-10T13:59:00.001-04:002023-09-10T14:07:10.589-04:00Pray for Frank Walker!<p> Please pray for Frank Walker, of <a href="https://canon212.com/">Canon 212</a> and <a href="https://stumblingblock.org/">The Stumbling Block.</a> He has had a stroke. He's a fine man and has always been very gracious to me. </p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-50800366928097059742023-09-03T10:52:00.005-04:002023-09-08T10:41:09.333-04:00and the hits just keep on coming -- random thoughts for a chilly Sunday morning<p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> I went for my annual physical and the results weren't all sunshine and giggles. I've been anemic all my life but apparently this time the doctor was concerned that my hemoglobin is too low even for me so I'm off for more tests. I was advised to do this as soon as possible. I became weirdly angry and answered the doctor with one one word sentences and was pretty curt when I couldn't do that. Sorry about that. I stayed angry for two days and kept Ennio Morricone's music on repeat and now I'm so tired I'm just flat.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>Francis may be a legitimate pope or not but for practical purposes his bottom is firmly planted on Peter's throne and he is wielding power with glee. Just as Our Lady said repeatedly in different apparitions good priests, monks, whole convents, the occasional bishop and cardinal are being persecuted. We hear shocking heresy coming out of Rome daily. Men who pledged allegiance to Sodom are riding high. People who worship at a Latin Mass are being pushed out of their parishes. Even people who go to a reverent as possible Novus Ordo where the priest does not face the people while serving Mass are under attack. We have a pope who is mean. We've had bad popes in the past 2000, years but when was the last time in<b> living memory </b>did we have a pope who was so stunningly nasty and who spewed insults on a daily basis? Yet and still, we have to cling to the Bark of Peter. If the changes coming out the Synod are as bad as people are saying they will be many of us are going to have to make decisions. Find a decent priest. Go to a true Mass. Go in a basement, a field, a hotel room or cemetery chapel if you have to. Our grandparents did this and more when Vatican II landed on them and that is why you and I had the chance to go to a TLM. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>3 Reasons to Not Believe in Aliens....</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fRc7ZaLVRgg" width="320" youtube-src-id="fRc7ZaLVRgg"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>This is truly weird. <a href="https://twitter.com/colmflynnire/status/1697787536746377718?s=20">Colm Flynn of EWTN shows Chinese Catholics </a>who traveled to visit Francis in Mongolia. Since the Chinese government forbade this, Flynn is exposing these people to danger for what? A few clicks? A pat on the back in the comments? It reminds me of the Night Stalker case where then San Francisco mayor, Diane Feinstein blabbed details not known the public which led to the serial killer disposing of his shoes and continuing his reign of terror. Flynn should not have shown these people on camera. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/mccarrick-sexual-assault-charges">Theodore McCarrick successfully ran down the clock. </a>He's either faking dementia, or he and his protectors kept him going until he genuinely slid into the terrible mental fog of senility. We do not put people on trial who are too feeble minded to understand what is going on and speak for themselves so the charge of molesting a 16 year old at a wedding reception in 1974 ,was dismissed. This may make some readers angry but I don't think that if the case was tried fairly, there was much chance of conviction. Was there any forensic evidence? Were there any living witnesses to back up the victim's story? But this is besides the point. McCarrick should have been laicized, excommunicated, and tried in civil court DECADES ago. The festering sore of a scandal remains. Bishops and Cardinals knew what Uncle Ted was doing. Seminarians knew what he was doing and whispered about the New Jersey beach house. <br /><br />Father Issac Relyea is, to my knowledge the only person who has said with his characteristic bluntness what he thinks about the seminarians who complied with McCarrick's sexual demands. McCarrick's "nephews" are in high places today. For a long time nobody was appointed to a bishopric in the United States unless McCarrick vouched for them. Watching <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Farrell">Cardinal Kevin Farrell </a>telling an interviewer that he had no idea-- never saw or heard anything that made him raise an eyebrow about what McCarrick was doing in the whole five years he was a DC diocese bishop and living in the same four bedroom apartment as the cardinal was the icing on a stomach twisting cake for many people. St. Peter Damian, pray for us!</li></ul><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Stay Catholic.<br /><br /><br /></li><li>Maureen Mullarkey <a href="https://studiomatters.com/the-love-song-of-m-ivan-rupnik">has some thoughts </a>on the appalling Fr. Rupnik. <br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>Thank you <a href="https://canon212.com/">Canon 212</a> and <a href="https://harveymillican.com/2023/09/06/teddy-baby-tell-the-radio-good-night/">Harvey Millican. </a></li></ul><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: "YouTube Sans", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><br /></h1>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-83534495844386806322023-08-07T14:39:00.003-04:002023-09-03T10:52:45.025-04:00Random thoughts on a gut punch of a Monday morning. <p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> In your charity could you please pray for my oldest male cousin? He had an aneurysm yesterday and was taken off the ventilator today. He was only 57.<br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>I was reading a rant about Parental Alienation a few days ago and sighed. It reminded me of another man who was a talented writer and who was quite frank and unapologetic about his wild days back in the 70s and early 80s. He changed his life and overcame his addictions but did so too late. He blamed his divorced wife for turning their daughter against him to point where she refused any contact with him. What many Boomers forget is that bad episode in their lives --that hiccup in an otherwise okay life happened during their child's formative years. <b>Your episode was their life.</b> You being the bad guy or gal is the shadow over their childhood and no, despite what you were told by the experts, childhood resilience doesn't mean forgetting. Your ex may have manipulated the situation and caused every fight but your adult child remembers standing in the door way while you screamed and cursed and perhaps even got physical in your anger. <br /><br />There are wicked parents who use their children as weapons against their ex but if you gave your child a river of sad memories when they were young then you can't expect them to want your company now that you are old.<br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>World Youth Day has been a cringe worthy occasion probably going back to 1986. These mega Masses and goofy 1970s antics that are supposed to appeal to the young have to stop. Sacrilege at WYD is so common that people now accuse the pious who are shocked of "pearl clutching," and the sophisticated folks claim it's no big deal. Bishop Strickland<a href="https://twitter.com/Bishopoftyler/status/1686397382370476033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1686397382370476033%7Ctwgr%5E9544a2476aa70226b82bd7c706498f3faf994190%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Frestore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.com%2F"> pointed something out that actually gave me a little hope. </a> If the bishop is correct and this was the lowest attended WYD since 1986, then perhaps parents are wising up.<br /><br /><br /></li><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd4p06TabIv_0tLqKP6WBzbmMUGfzd53mNEDyb-OuUegeOBqig-CNjVXSIhwKTSoO81mjNRKY-EXU314tyZgoXcLNB8eb50X-5mFv1MWCGLtevOhHedOM_HJuwI7pMKsbeN14LnJtlGhZ5XY9m88rUp3xD6UkZ-2XHzFfNjMVIx22NerJzl3xI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="291" data-original-width="608" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd4p06TabIv_0tLqKP6WBzbmMUGfzd53mNEDyb-OuUegeOBqig-CNjVXSIhwKTSoO81mjNRKY-EXU314tyZgoXcLNB8eb50X-5mFv1MWCGLtevOhHedOM_HJuwI7pMKsbeN14LnJtlGhZ5XY9m88rUp3xD6UkZ-2XHzFfNjMVIx22NerJzl3xI=w400-h191" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </li></ul><p></p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-61068120213646306872023-07-12T21:55:00.001-04:002023-08-07T14:41:33.181-04:00Random thoughts on a Wednesday night<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NxGZ6V1Zu3Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="NxGZ6V1Zu3Q"></iframe></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> I've never heard Dr. Smith speak before. She's sharp as a tack. I think she's a bit too soft of JPII but for anyone who still is walking around with rose colored glasses about our bishops she's an excellent dose of reality. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>Taylor Marshall has dropped out of the presidential race...of course. <br /><br /><br /></li><li>I dislike the phrase human trafficking because it's a polite euphemism for pimping and sex slavery; things that should be should not be sugar coated. Some people comfort themselves with the idea that this only happens in the big city or in poor areas. These snobs are deluding themselves. A few years ago I read about a young man in his 20s who took his teen aged girlfriend to a motel room and would not let her leave. He and his friend placed an online ad and sold her to the degenerates who answered the ad and met them at the motel. This atrocity went on for weeks. Eventually, the police were notified by someone and she was rescued. Her family thought she was a runaway. This happened in a cute, historic tiny Virginia town that tourists visit.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>Covid sent a lot of people over the edge. Rocky and I went to Chesapeake Beach last week and I was fascinated by how many people were dressed like they were in their bedrooms. It was a whole lot of pajamas and lounge wear. I'm not talking about young people either. The worst dressed people with unkempt hair who looked like they had just come out of their dens were in their 40s and 50s. It's like a lot of people just don't have the will or energy to even groom themselves. <br /><br />In my area violent crime has exploded. People seem to have shorter fuses in general and something odd is happening with the homeless population. Psychotic episodes are becoming more frequent and going to the gas stations has become unnerving. There are so many wild eyed men standing in the parking lots glaring at people or demanding money. Rocky used to get gas before he went to work in the mornings. Now he goes in the afternoon when there are more customers at the station. </li></ul><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-55528463246632621992023-06-24T19:54:00.012-04:002023-11-06T06:38:57.214-05:00When the poisons hatch out<p> When Fr. James Jackson was arrested for viewing gigantic amounts of child and infant pornography it set off a bizarre chain reaction throughout certain corners of Catholic social media. For going on three years now I've watched a saga that has no heroes and a lot of people who have been taken for fools, driven mad or had their private lives exposed. </p><p>I suppose the second step after the arrest was the fundraiser Restoring the Faith Media podcaster, Mike Parrot set up to hire a private investigator to look into the accusations against Fr. Jackson. At the time I thought the effort was a well-meant act of folly, like Don Quixote tilting at windmills. Fr. Jackson did not have one or two nasty photos saved on a shared computer in the rectory living room. Albino character assassins from the Vatican didn't sneak into his rooms and plant smut on his computer. No lay person with a grudge just waltzed into the rectory, hit the Dark web for what must have been many hours and high stepped out like cartoon villain without a priest, a secretary, the sacristan or a housekeeper noticing and questioning. Maybe things are really loose in Rhode Island but from my childhood to today I've never been to the rectory without having a good reason and my presence was known and expected. Getting into a rectory or a separate parish office without an appointment is close to impossible. </p><p>Enter Church Militant. That crew seem to take great personal glee whenever they can report on a juicy nasty story especially if it involves sex or anyone who's considered to be in Traditional Catholic circles. For reasons that have never been clear, CM's leadership seemed to take a personal offense toward the fundraiser. A phone call was made to the RTF guy and he was told that he ought to stop the fundraiser and return the donor money. Both CM and RTF agree on this point but after that the story turns into a wildfire. RTF says that CM threatened and attempted to blackmail him. CM says that RTF was told that if the fundraiser was not stopped the public would be informed that the whole thing was unsound. RTF released a video declaring that he was being attacked and then the armies of supporters for CM and RTF formed. <br /><br /> On RTF's side were old friends who had blogs or Twitter accounts of their own, and many new people who were disgusted by CM in general and were naturally sympathetic to anyone who spoke back to them. On CMs side were their fans, Catholic media owners who had positive relations with CM and enemies of RTF.</p><p>CM advised a person who is described as a long-time friend to the organization that a story was going to be run on the RTF guy and hoped it wouldn't cause any trouble for the friend. The long-term friend ended his business relationship with RTF, who was naturally furious. RTF cried out that CM had gotten him fired from his job. Many people, myself included were appalled. CM fired back with grass burning fury. Rather than a naive young man whose family was in danger of going without due to his job loss, CM portrayed him in a much different light. A statement of a former business partner was published and a number of things were posted about his property and his relationship with the Oblates of St Augustine. <br /></p><p>At some point a lawsuit for defamation was filed and the whole saga moved to the sewer. Sordid things were posted daily. Accusations of grave sins by the leading parties were exposed to the public. In addition, there were accusations of hacking, invasion of privacy in regards to people's addresses and photos of homes, harassment and tale telling about people who weren't even part of the story but happened to be friendly with either side. </p><p>Finally the legal proceedings concerning the defamation claim concluded and the drama shifted to an administrative proceeding of the Marines. </p><p>Fr. Jackson plead guilty. The formal part of the saga is at an end. Neither side can let the revolting matter drop and neither side can resist in schadenfreude. Everyone involved with this thing looks horrible and it's one more example of what bad, really bad things can occur when lay people make their money and fame off the Faith. Please, instead look to the saints and pre-Vatican II catechisms for clarity, instruction and advice. </p><p><br /></p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-67263693691317695112023-06-11T11:05:00.004-04:002023-11-06T06:46:16.094-05:00Fr. Jackson gives his plea<p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> Father James Jackson plead guilty, The reaction has been quite muted in Catholic circles. I think everyone with any shred of sense knew after the Kansas arrest that he must be guilty. By this point even the people who donated to both his legal defense fund and the Mike Parrott private investigation now realize this. Of course there is sorrow but the idea that he was set up by someone who had access to both the rectory computer in Rhode Island and was able to follow him to Kansas is dead. The man who claimed repeatedly in public that he could barely check his e-mail was deep into one the most nasty and demonic corridors of the Dark Web. Are there innocent priests who have been falsely accused? Yes and St. Gerard could tell you all about it but the technological nature and precise locations of what Fr. Jackson was accused of made it almost impossible to be anything but guilty.<br /><br />My father-in-law refused for many years to have Internet access because he was afraid of seeing random sinful content. Attempts to tell him that the Internet isn't like a Monty Python sketch and he wasn't going to see a disembodied nude bosom float by while he was browsing on AOL were ignored and the family either sighed or chuckled. I think everyone knows by now that you have to go search for hardcore pornography. Sometimes you can see immodesty by accident, for example a lewd woman is photographed almost naked as she goes to an awards show and you see the photo on your news site, but to see carnal acts with underage probably kidnapped and enslaved victims you have to go on an deliberate hunt. You and I usually do our browsing on the surface Web and frequently do business and serious research on the Deep Web; sites that require registration, IDs and passwords and sometimes payment to obtain the information therein. Then there's the Dark Web where you can engage in criminal activity. I've met or read about people who have to go to the Dark Web to test their company's security or as part of criminal investigations and they all say that you can't just accidentally find it like Alice falling down the rabbit's hole. <br /><br />When the authorities allowed Fr. Jackson to go to his sister's house while waiting for trial they did so on several conditions. He was told to stay away from computers but they found one with internet access hidden on the premises. That's why he was removed from Kansas and taken into custody. Clearly this is a man who lied about being an Internet Luddite. <br /><br />What can we learn about this tragedy? Kipling would be shaking his head and adding a stanza to "The Gods of the Copybook Headings", if he were alive. It's the same old lesson: Perverts go where the object of their perversion is. <br /><br />As many Mormons, Boy Scout parents, public school parents, and Protestants can tell you, a pervert will go to school and get credentialed and even marry some poor woman as part of his cover in order to be around his chosen victims. The ones who aren't as smart as they thought they were, get caught after a few years but the really clever ones, especially the ones who join rings of like-minded monsters get away with it until they die and face the awesome and inescapable justice of God. Fr. James Jackson was not the man, many people thought he was but remember that Judas was not the man the Apostles thought he was either. <br /><br /><br /><br />Our Lady of La Salette, who said there would be priests like Fr. Jackson, pray for us. </li><li><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sspx.org/sites/sspx/files/styles/dici_image_full_width/public/news/4_vierge_pleur_3-644x362_0.jpg?itok=U8F7oGYb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://sspx.org/sites/sspx/files/styles/dici_image_full_width/public/news/4_vierge_pleur_3-644x362_0.jpg?itok=U8F7oGYb" width="400" /></a></div><br /></li></ul><p></p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-15292587557714761922023-05-18T10:25:00.004-04:002023-05-20T21:14:32.044-04:00The Taylor Marshall Presidential Bid Is RidiculousI like Fr. Nix. He's a loyal friend to <a href="https://twitter.com/FrDaveNix/status/1658662841103314945">Taylor Marshall</a> so although I think he's making a mistake, I get why he's defending Marshall's ridiculous bid to run for president. Dr. Marshall is in for a nasty surprise. He's a big fish in a small pond but he's going to get chewed up and spat out in the secular political media milieu. Marshall is used to either fawning attention or hysterical attacks from people who can't articulate why they don't like him. He's never been patted on the head and gotten the patronizing treatment some give to their eccentric but harmless relatives. He's also never faced an absolutely vicious attack by political operatives who have the ability to dig into his distant past, his finances, harass his family or search for bitter ex-girlfriends. <br /><br />Anne Barnhardt<a href="https://www.barnhardt.biz/2023/05/17/barnhardt-podcast-191-dire-progno-cis/"> had several things to say about his decision</a> and I have to agree. This is a publicity stunt. He will get a book out of it but I think he's also going to lose fans. Have you noticed that other than <a href="https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/taking-stock-a-marshall-matter-and">The Pillar</a> most of Catholic media land has been silent about Marshall's announcement? They aren't mocking him but they aren't cheering him on either. That silence means that even his buddies know that this is not a serious campaign. <br /><br /><br />Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-66607191725883159662023-05-02T10:53:00.004-04:002023-05-02T21:19:05.531-04:00Random thoughts on a Tuesday morning. <p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> I don't care for Taylor Marshall but I have to give him and Jesse Romero their due. They are, to my knowledge the only people who addressed the Satanic convention that happened last week-end in Boston. Everyone else maintained silence on the affair. I feel sorry for the poor housekeeping staff at the Marriot (I don't want to hear anymore nonsense about the owners being devout Christians), who had to clean up afterwards because you know darn well, that grotesqueries beyond what decent people should ever have to see took place in those hotel rooms. </li></ul><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Last week Rocky and I visited the Canons of New Jerusalem in West Virginia for Mass. As soon as Father began praying I was deeply moved and felt at home. This was the first traditional Mass that my husband and I have been able to attend since Cardinal Gregory and Bishop Burbidge reduced the TLM parishes. </li></ul><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>My allergies have been brutal this year. Yesterday I woke up with a headache, a scratchy throat and a stomach ache from my sinuses draining. I think I woke up two or three times from nausea and pain alone. Extra strength Tylenol and Spam fried rice made me feel better. Boy, I wish it would rain and clear out this pollen for a few days. </li></ul><br /><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Okay, <a href=" https://www.lifenews.com/2023/05/02/fbi-accused-of-scanning-vehicles-at-catholic-church-writing-down-license-plates/">this</a> scared me. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></li><li>Ireland is going to get it <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/ireland-set-to-pass-hate-speech-laws-will-make-possessing-hateful-content-on-your-devices-a-jailable-offense-elon-musk-weighs-in/">good and hard </a>and will fully deserve it. </li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-54543217555650402772023-04-07T13:00:00.003-04:002023-04-12T16:09:25.012-04:00Holy Week up to Easter Vigil<p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> Something was off about Palm Sunday Mass this year. There was no procession and Father must blessed the palms without his mic on or before Mass. The palms were brought out late and if you didn't grab a one right before Mass you didn't get one unless you were obviously disabled and the ushers brought it to you. The palms were also taken away after Mass and Rocky had to go to the usher's sacristy to get our. Father's homily, and the music were excellent. A lot of the regulars were not there and Rocky estimated it was about 100 less people than normal. </li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.mariansisters.com/uploads/2/7/8/8/27885129/800px-assisi-frescoes-entry-into-jerusalem-pietro-lorenzetti_orig.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="800" height="294" src="https://www.mariansisters.com/uploads/2/7/8/8/27885129/800px-assisi-frescoes-entry-into-jerusalem-pietro-lorenzetti_orig.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Frontispice_d'un_Missale_Romanum_%C3%A9dit%C3%A9_par_Friedrich_Pustet%2C_%C5%93uvre_de_Max_Schmalzl.jpg/377px-Frontispice_d'un_Missale_Romanum_%C3%A9dit%C3%A9_par_Friedrich_Pustet%2C_%C5%93uvre_de_Max_Schmalzl.jpg?20210419193220" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="377" height="640" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Frontispice_d'un_Missale_Romanum_%C3%A9dit%C3%A9_par_Friedrich_Pustet%2C_%C5%93uvre_de_Max_Schmalzl.jpg/377px-Frontispice_d'un_Missale_Romanum_%C3%A9dit%C3%A9_par_Friedrich_Pustet%2C_%C5%93uvre_de_Max_Schmalzl.jpg?20210419193220" width="403" /></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><br />We went to the Spy Wednesday Mass and Tenabrae service at our old parish<br />And whilst they were eating, he said:<span style="color: red;"><b> Amen I say to you, that one of you is about to betray me. </b></span></span><span style="color: red; text-align: left;"><b><a class="vn" href="https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=26&l=22-#x" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HEADB; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"> 22 </a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">And they being very much troubled, began every one to say: Is it I, Lord? </span><a class="vn" href="https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=26&l=23-#x" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HEADB; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"> 23 </a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">But he answering, said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, he shall betray me. </span><a class="vn" href="https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=26&l=24-#x" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HEADB; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"> 24 </a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed: it were better for him, if that man had not been born. </span></b></span><a class="vn" href="https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=47&ch=26&l=25-#x" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: red; font-family: HEADB; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;"> 25 </a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">And Judas that betrayed him, answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He saith to him: <span><b style="color: red;">Thou hast said it. </b><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">In this illustration of the Last Supper by Brother Max Schmalzl we see Judas clutching his bag of silver. I wonder if Brother Max was thinking of this passage from Matthew when he created this artwork. Notice the arrogance and disrespect of Judas's posture. Everyone else is in an attitude of worship, kneeling or standing but Judas looks like a bored guest. He called the Lord "Rabbi," something the Apostles hadn't done for nearly three years. Peter and the others said "Lord," "Master" and referred to Him as the Christ. Judas, says Rabbi, as if Our Lord were just any rabbi in any synagogue. <br /><br /><br /><br /></div></span></div></li><li><div style="text-align: left;">Mass of the Lord's Supper was wonderful. Fr. said the Novus Ordo as well as it can be done. I was impressed by the parishioners. Everyone was decently dressed. The parents paid attention to their children and the large church was so packed late comers had to stand. Father's homily was excellent. Rocky said he learned some things he hadn't thought of before. We wanted to do the seven church pilgrimage but Rocky was very tired and we needed to go home. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></li><li><div style="text-align: left;">Easter Vigil was okay...mostly. Bishop Burbidge preached a nice, inoffensive homily. The music was fine. The decorations were not as nice as in previous years and the crowd was again, noticeably smaller than last year. </div></li></ul>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-42830541401935534652023-04-01T16:00:00.011-04:002024-01-28T11:43:43.434-05:00 Rules for Catholic Twitter (Works for other sites too) Rules for Catholic Twitter<div><br /></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Do not go on any form of social media if you are easily hurt by other people's opinions. <br /><br /><br /></li><li>Do not ask for advice and become offended when people give it.<br /><br /></li><li>Don't offer marital or child rearing advice unless you are committed to calling the shot as you see it and don't really care what people think. <br /><br /></li><li>Do not show your children's photos. <br /><br /></li><li>Do not show photos of the outside of your home or the road near your home. It's really easy to find you that way. Practice OPSEC and use your common sense. <br /><br /></li><li>Do not use your real name unless you are a public figure. Normal people with jobs could end up fired or with an unhinged madman at the doorstep at 3 in the morning. See Rules 4 and 5 again. <br /><br /></li><li>If you use your real name or have made it easy to for complete strangers to figure out who you are don't shame your children and adult relatives by sharing their personal business. <br /><br /></li><li>Do not strip your loved ones of their dignity by showing the world photos of them in a helpless, sick and dying state then ask for privacy or be offended by the nasty and crazy comments you get. <br /><br /></li><li>Do not talk about how simple, poor and humble your life is while showing photos of your trip to Europe on "pilgrimage," and be shocked if you get blowback. Look, we all know you didn't bilocate to Europe. The passport, tickets, food and lodgings and in country transport cost big money. Some people will attack you because they are jealous, and shame on them but others will see you as a hypocrite and might call you out. <br /><br /></li><li>Do not keep posting about how much you hate whatever site you are on and how evil everyone is. <b>Just leave. <br /></b><br /><br /></li><li>Don't say shocking things just for views and then get all righteous when someone becomes alarmed and calls either the cops or CPS. <br /><br /></li><li>Do remember that everybody has an opinion and while a lot of them are better left unsaid, except for blasphemy and unrepentant admission or approval of certain sins, they have a right to them just as you have a right to yours.<br /><br /></li><li><b>Don't let what's happening on Twitter or any site turn you into a nut---please!</b> If you feel yourself becoming obsessed turn the computer off. Go be with your family. Attend to the duties of your state in life and consider leaving the site for good. <br /><br /><br /></li><li>Don't get mad if someone comments negatively about your immodest photos. You needed attention. You got it. <br /><br /><br /></li><li>Pray more. </li></ol></div>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-64002717635060452372023-03-12T16:04:00.001-04:002023-05-02T11:06:39.712-04:0075 days<p>In his homily our parochial vicar criticized the people who haven't come back to Mass after the shut downs. He implied that they were lazy sinners. He was right to an extent but didn't our bishops go right along with the shutdowns? With a few exceptions the only priests I saw doing outside Masses were SSPX. Most of the Faithful including the weak, the foolish, and the isolated were set adrift. For 75 days we couldn't even go unmasked into an empty church for private prayer without being threatened with arrest by the parish priest or a parish staffer. I've read many heartbreaking stories of people who wrote about how they begged their parish priest to come give a loved one Last Rites during the shutdown and were rejected. We were all told that watching Mass on TV, Facebook or You Tube was good enough and those who mourned the loss of the Mass were called neurotic and selfish. <br /><br />Even when the civil authorities allowed us to return to Mass, depending on where you lived, the restrooms were closed. Think of all the adults who need to visit the restroom before or after Mass because of age-related or some chronic physical condition. All these people had to choose between staying away from their parish or risk soiling themselves in public. Even porta-pottys were locked. How about an apology for abandoning the flock? That YouTube Mass didn't cut it. Frankly, as I sat in the pew and heard Father, I was pissed. </p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377656.post-30276994148725840592023-02-15T13:39:00.003-05:002023-02-15T17:29:34.343-05:00You aren't going to lose your TLM because somebody is grieving about losing theirs<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> This week I read a Tweet by a nice woman saying that the TLM will be cancelled in her parish. People rushed to accuse her of lying. People outside the diocese actually had the nerve to write that she apparently didn't hear what she heard her priest announce. Others rushed in to say that no, Bishop Barron, of World on Fire fame had actually given her an upgrade by inviting the SSPX to take over a church/chapel in another part of the diocese roughly two hours away. "See," they cackled. "Bishop Barron isn't cancelling anything!" How is losing the TLM in your parish that you've been attending and having to go elsewhere not cancellation? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The most disgusting part of this pitiful episode has got to be the self righteous Pharisees braying, "You bad Trads complain and will make the saintly bishop so mad he'll take the TLM away from all us! Thank God we're glad Trads and not stupid and ugly sinners like you!" <br /><br />That's like saying to an abuse victim to hush and not cry so much or they'll provoke the abuser to beat them some more. If your bishop is so thin-skinned, petty and evil that he crushes people because a handful irritate him then I hate to break it to you but you don't have a good and holy bishop. You don't even have a bread and butter bishop who's mostly decent even if he is a company man. You have a martinet, a cruel step-father and someone who ought not be a bishop. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I've always believed that the diocesan TLM was doomed and would not last much longer than Pope Benedict XVI's life. That doom has nothing to do with a grouchy Trad in Dubuque talking on Twitter, Facebook or Blogger. You aren't going to lose your TLM because somebody openly grieved about losing theirs. <b>You are going to lose it because Pope Francis and all his boys hate Tradition.</b> If you can't offer sympathy to a person who is sad because they can't go to Mass anymore then for the love of God, at least don't pile on with the abuse. </span></p><div><br /></div>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.com