THE REAL WAR NOBODY WANTS TO NAME On Christ, Antichrist, the Errors of Russia, and the Shape of Reality There is a war going on. You can feel it. Most people can feel it even if they cannot name it. And because they cannot name it, they name the wrong thing. They say it is a war between races. Or between nations. Or between the globalists and the patriots. Or between Islam and the West. Or between men and women. Or between the rich and the poor. None of that is wrong exactly. But none of it is the real thing. Those are the shadows of the war, not the war itself. The real war is between Christ and Antichrist. And if that language does not work for you yet, try this: it is the war between reason and unreason. Between the natural order and the war on that order. Between those who accept that reality has a shape — and those who have declared war on that shape. Christ and reason are not two different things. They are the same thing. That is the claim this piece is built on, and it is worth …More
First Large-Scale Art Installation at Freiburg Cathedral: The Cathedral of Freiburg, Germany, is currently hosting a large-scale contemporary art installation. Beginning in the choir in front of the Marian High Altar, a female artist is creating a thread-based installation that extends through the church interior and will continue to grow over the four weeks leading up to Pentecost. The project budget is approximately €43,000.
Im Freiburger Münster entsteht erstmals eine großformatige zeitgenössische Kunstinstallation aus Fadengewebe von Elke Maier, die sich bis Pfingsten vom Chorraum durch den gesamten Kirchenraum ausbreitet; das Projektbudget beträgt rund 43.000 Euro.
2 Peter 2:21-22 It would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back and abandon the holy commandment that was handed on to them. What happened to them manifests the truth of the proverbs: “The dog returns to its own vomit,” and “The washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.” Hebrews 10:26 Apostasy Remains Unforgiven. If we deliberately persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, then there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins.
St. Padre Pio ~~~ The number of devils active in the world is greater than all the people who have been alive since Adam. If they all took on bodily form they would blot out.
Our Saintly Catholic Grandparents Were Right Our saintly Catholic grandparents and great grandparents did not have the philosophical vocabulary of St Thomas Aquinas. They did not cite the canons of Trent from memory. But they had been formed by a Church that had absorbed fifteen centuries of patristic and scholastic teaching through its liturgy, its confessional practice, its popular piety, and its catechisms — and that formation had deposited in them the correct instinct: that the marital bed is not inherently clean, that it requires penance, that it should be received seriously and with some degree of righteous shame, that it is not something one celebrates but something one governs. They affirmed the marriage bed's liceity. What they refused was the rehabilitation of the marriage bed into something radiant and sacred. In that refusal they were aligned with St. Augustine, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Gregory the Great, St. Peter Lombard, St. Thomas …More
Rogation Day Mass today in Rome at Santa Maria Maggiore. A beautiful Solemn Mass with the Institute of Christ the King in the Sforza Chapel, several meters from the tomb of Pope Francis.
NON SERVIAM The Rebel’s Gospel and the Damnation It Purchases St. Paul did not mince words. He rarely did. “Let every soul be subject to higher powers: for there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, purchase to themselves damnation.” (Romans 13:1–2, Douay-Rheims) Purchase. To themselves. Damnation. Not inconvenience. Not imprudence. Not a regrettable tactical error. Damnation. The Apostle uses κρίμα — condemnation, judgment — the same word used for the verdict rendered at the last hour. And he says the rebel brings it on himself. It is self-purchased. Self-willed. The logical terminus of a soul that has decided it knows better than God’s providential ordering of the world. Keep that word in mind. We’re going to need it. THE REBEL’S ONE MOVE Every rebel, in every age, makes the same move. He does not simply oppose a specific unjust act. He delegitimizes …More