tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19739128428368345252024-03-28T12:37:44.555-07:00 The Okie TraditionalistRuminating and reflecting about life and society from the perspective of life in Oklahoma, a Christian, a Catholic, and a cultural Traditionalist Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger666125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-90191638453311748002024-03-28T12:30:00.000-07:002024-03-28T12:37:11.336-07:00My Thoughts on Recovering Trads Conference <p><span style="font-size: medium;">There is a woman who started a website for recovering Trads, who is organizing a conference for recovering Trads. She posted a video recently about her work commented on recently across the trado-sphere. The conference will feature the chief of anti-traditionalist popesplainers, known for his lack of charity to Trads. Here are my thoughts. This is simultaneously good and true, and evil and false. It is good and true because there are a lot of pathological elements in the trad movement: religious narcissism, elitism, and insularity to name a few. Many have been driven away and spiritually and psychologically damaged. They need something to help them heal. This is the elephant in the room. On the other hand, this women’s approach seems evil and false. She is characterizing Trads as a whole, as a movement, in this bad way, as something to come out of and distance yourself from. She characterizes objections to Vatican II and the liturgical reform as schismatic and disobedient. Like other popesplainers, her error is ultramontism aka papal maximslism. She acts as if Catholics are required to believe the pope is infallible outside his ex cathedra statements, a view which is not official Church teaching, one that Vatican I decidedly did not take up and teach. There are indeed doctrinal errors in conciliar texts and in the Novus Ordo, according to cardinals, bishops, priests, and theologians. To hold that view is not unorthodox. But to insist it is unorthodox is itself unorthodox and an error. We all need spiritual healing from the Crisis in the Church, including from within the trad movement on all sides, but those problems are ultimately the outcome of a Church not being led by its shepherds, who often persecute Catholics faithful to Tradition, generally speaking. We all need healing from that. The solution remains the traditional movement, but at the same time practicing charity and humility, and showing the proper respect for Church authority, neither rebelling against it or treating it as absolute. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-64313226132436013282024-03-27T20:04:00.000-07:002024-03-27T20:20:57.037-07:00Visit Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma <p><span style="font-size: medium;">I recommend early November for the cool temps and Fall colors. Lay out your clothes and books in your room then spend some time alone with Christ in the chapel. Stroll over to the bookstore and visit with always friendly Fr. Brown. Buy some sacramentals and have him bless them. In the traditions rite. Oh, and buy a hunk of their organic, homemade cheese. Better and actually cheaper than down at Walmart. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There are a few special moments you will never forget. One example is sitting in the refectory for meals, done in the most excellent of Catholic ways. You will experience a moment of serenity listening to the introductory reading before eating watching steam rise poetically from the soup which accompanies most lunches and dinners. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">You will be enchanted at the High Mass with Gregorian chant in its most pristine and organic form. But the must sublime experience will be in the almost complete silence of Low Mass, united to one particular Mass but aware there are many taking place simultaneously at nearby altars. It is very intimate and personal being around that little side altar united with a monk priest who you know by this singular daily act is continuously giving up life in the world to give pure worship to God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Working with the monks is also invigorating, as you are also called to pray while working, and when done you feel tired physically but refreshed spiritually, making dinner later that much more satisfying and edifying. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Don’t forget to ask to take a hike down to Eagle’s Bluff, and watch for bald eagles. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Clear Creek Abbey. A metaphorical epicenter of Catholic Tradition. As an Okie, it has had an instrumental role in my own conversion—yes conversion—-to traditional Catholicism. Don’t forget to later email your bishop to let him know of the splendors of Catholic Tradition represented there. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-37491404385674165722024-03-25T10:57:00.000-07:002024-03-25T11:18:38.813-07:00Carnivore. The True Human Diet <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Humans are not herbivores. Technically we are omnivores, but for the most part we are by design carnivores. Our proper diet is animal-based, high fat, medium protein, and low carb. This is the ancestral diet. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Our ancestors lived longer than we think. The lifespan was statistically less because of infant mortality, lack of antibiotics and dental care, and warfare. Otherwise many more lived beyond 100 than today, and they had little to no of what we call chronic disease. They were lean, muscular, high energy, mentally clear and focused. They had to be to survive and thrive. Or we wouldn’t be here. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We call this today the keto/carnivore diet. But it is the ancestral diet. The ancestral food pyramid is basically the false, inverted USDA food pyramid re-inverted in the proper order. At the bottom is fatty cuts of red meat; rib eyes, chuck roast, high fat hamburger meat, any beef, lamb, bison, chicken wings, chicken thighs, and chicken legs, pork ribs, pork belly, bacon. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The next level up is wild caught salmon, sardines, mackerel, shrimp, mussels, oysters, crab, and lobster. The next level up are eggs, especially farm fresh, organic, pasture raised. The next level up are occasional small amounts of organ meats: liver, bone marrow, heart, kidney, and sweet breads. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The next level up is a little dairy: especially grass fed butter, yogurt, keifer, and hard, high fat cheese like cheddar. The next level up are very modest amounts of low carb fermented veggies: saurkraut, kimchi, pickled artichokes/asparagus/cucumbers. The next level up are very, very modest amounts of non-fermented veggies: cruciferous vegetables, and leafy greens. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Towards the top is a small category for fruit: avocados and a few berries (blackberry, raspberry, and strawberry). At the very top is a daily piece of high percentage cocoa dark chocolate. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">If you follow this way of eating, and are dealing with serious chronic illnesses, this will radically improve your health. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-55583053696044628522024-03-23T21:40:00.000-07:002024-03-24T17:51:25.683-07:00Arthur the King Review <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We got to the movie theater and they were no longer showing Cabrini, even though their website still lists it. If I can see it in another theater soon, I’ll write a review of it, or at least after it comes out on Amazon Prime. I no subscribe to Netflix which has earned the reputation of putting out sacrilege. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So instead we saw Arthur the King starring Mark Wahlberg, who once put out trashy films until his reversion, now being a devout Catholic I was cautiously optimistic going into this film. It is very clean and family friendly, and I appreciate Wahlberg’s intent to put out more wholesome films, even though his Fr. Stu movie was neither wholesome nor a success. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">That said, he redeemed himself with this film. I give it 4 out of 5 stars, less so for the story-line, but more so for the intense, tear-jerking drama centered around his relationship with a stray dog who joined his team on their ultra-endurance race. What is amazing is it is based on a true story. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I recommend this movie. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-20163129492371842192024-03-23T10:33:00.000-07:002024-03-23T11:26:39.610-07:00Cabrini <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Some Trads praise it. Others don’t like it. I’m not sure why, except trailers suggest at least a bit of feminism. How much is the question. It was released on some feminist annual day for women. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Trailers show a nun sometimes with no veil, questioning the pope if her lack of Vatican approval was because she was a woman. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">On the other hand, SSPX-affiliated Catholic Family News’ new editor interviewed traditional Catholic YouTuber Mike Parrot, the guy sued be Church Militant accusing him of wrongdoing in his fundraiser for Fr. Jackson’s legal defense, about his role assisting the producers and even playing a minor role with his wife in the movie. His point is it’s a great dramatic film, not to let the perfect become an enemy of the good, and that evangelical Protestant Angel Studio did not have such a central role as portrayed by the media. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Film critics are praising this film on all counts. We’ll be treating ourselves tonight to a rare outing to the movie to see it, and I’ll write my own traditional Catholic movie review of it. I had been eager to see the film Padre Pio, and we all know how that went. I’ll give my impressions and whether or not I personally recommend it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Stay tuned. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-70855916572789347822024-03-19T12:13:00.000-07:002024-03-20T09:43:22.700-07:00New Vatican Document in April <p>Cardinal Fernandez, who unapologetically explained how his erotic, pornographic book had been misunderstood, who wrote and released the same-sex blessing document, who clarified it does permit blessing the couple relationship itself, will be releasing a new document next month about human dignity. If the deep church behind the Synod rolled out same-sex couple blessings, and plans to roll out more controversial pastoral changes, by means of Fernandez, which all evidence points to being the case, then I suspect this next document will be addressing the dignity of women, establishing a lay deaconate for women, in which they function as ministers, not only servants of the parish’s needs. </p><p>Tim Gordon believes the evidence points to this coming soon. I pray Pope Francis will not approve of this, but insiders say he favors it. So my prediction is it comes next month, and if so will send even bigger shock waves. Outside of how women in the early Church served as non-ordained deaconesses providing service to the parish, women cannot hold positions of pastoral authority in a parish, chancery, or the Vatican, without violating Scripture and Tradition. </p><p>It will be a new dividing line, conservatives shifting even more towards traditionalism due to the Francis effect, the silver lining in these changes. I pray God intervenes and this does not happen, and for the conversions of Pope Francis and Cardinal Fernandez to the fullness of Catholic Tradition. Christ gave to us ministers in the form of bishops, priests, and deacons, and according to His natural design and divine law, only men can be ministers because only their masculine nature is designed for that role. Women compliment that role in many other ways that does not violate their dignity. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-21999745906780177532024-03-15T09:48:00.000-07:002024-03-19T13:30:50.751-07:00Oklahoma Transexual Teen Suicide <p>According to news reports, a boy here in Oklahoma pretending to be a girl, a transexual, suffering from gender dysphoria and gender theory ideology, started a fight with girls in the girls bathroom, resulting in them responding in self-defense. This male committed acts of sexual harassment against these girls by going into the girls bathroom, and also by starting a fight in that bathroom. </p><p>The girls responded within their rights to protect their dignity. Apparently the result of the incident was the male became so depressed he took his life. I pray for his soul, and that before he died his conscience moved him to repent. </p><p>Suicide generally speaking is a bad sign that the person may not have been saved. But considering this boy suffered from severe mental illness, and was a victim of woke culture, I see hope for his salvation. </p><p>That said suicide, gender dysphoria, homosexuality, and all the perversions of the LGBTQ movement are straight from the fiery pits of hell. If that results in Google blogger cancelling me, so be it. Suicide and suicidal depression is high among homosexuals and transsexuals compared to heterosexuals. </p><p>Oklahoma is one of the leading states cracking down on gender theory and all forms of critical theory being pushed in public schools. Kids shouldn’t bully, including the LGBTQ kids, but the blame for these tragic stories rests with the monsters grooming the confused child to “transition” which is diabolical. </p><p>The Frankenstein doctor approving hormones and surgery, like giving out candy, the woke leftist parents and teachers pushing this, and school principles without the fortitude to put an end to endorsing LGBTQ ideology. May this child rest in peace. Sad thing to see in Oklahoma. God gave us gender and sexuality as something sacred and unchangeable. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-40066620114295434022024-03-14T10:57:00.000-07:002024-03-15T09:11:01.777-07:00Michael Matt to Climb Mount Kilimanjaro <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Frank Walker linked to this at C212 as his main headline today with a question mark, which itself and reading the link gave me a slight chuckle. Which is always welcome for my serotonin levels. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://traveldigg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Mount-Kilimanjaro-Pictures-with-Safaris.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://traveldigg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Mount-Kilimanjaro-Pictures-with-Safaris.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>MM is uniting the clans! By preparing a fundraiser for him climbing the highest mountain in Africa to raise $ for a traditional order/ mission in Africa. Unite the clans is a good thing by the way, generally speaking. See the fundraiser link at the Remnant to donate and support MM. I will say any mountain that has in its name what sounds like “kill a man” raises concern. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The majority fail to summit because it is even more grueling a trek to the top and mountaineering climb, minus technical climbing with a rope, than Everest, because of the extremely high altitude and very steep ascent. MM will need to be in very good aerobic health, probably take supplemental oxygen, have medical advisors to avoid altitude sickness, and have the grit of a David Goggins. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">He doesn’t look exactly athletic (neither am I), plus he’s not a young man, but considering his zeal for the cause of Catholic Tradition, and to raise that $, I imagine he’ll be training hard between now and July. My bet is he makes the summit. It’s all a bit comedic, but fun, inspiring, and will be a fun story to follow as a traditional Catholic. It does take 7 days to reach the summit, and I’m sure a few more to go back down. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe I’ll do something like this one day in the future to say raise $ for Silver City or Clear Creek monastery, but on a smaller scale. In my health recovery journey right now—see last post giving update—one goal is to get back into mountain biking, and a dream would be a two day bike journey to CC monastery and back. Maybe I’ll raise some $ for that. God speed MM. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-54220359870272897332024-03-10T15:31:00.000-07:002024-03-10T17:06:01.327-07:00Health Update. Please Keep Me in Your Prayers <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Blessed Sunday to you and yours. Since giving several health updates in the past few months, I trust there are readers who have been praying for me. Thank you. Please keep my full recovery in your prayers. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">First, to summarize, a year ago I had serious GI problems, then back issues, then a sudden outbreak of nerve and muscle pain in my arms and legs with extreme fatigue, etc. A very long story, but after a long process of treatment and seeing specialists, I began to seriously recover after Christmas, the pain itself subsiding to near zero, and fatigue levels lifting enabling me to work. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The extreme stress itself largely resulted in several rounds of bad ear allergies, including two ear infections, the last one a couple weeks ago that ruptured my ear drum Fortunately they heal typically within a few weeks or so. One of the symptoms is tinnitus. I already have mild tinnitus in the main affected ear over the years which has been very tolerable, yet with the ruptured ear drum it has spiked up which is distracting and stressful. But I’m offering it up, knowing that as the rupture heals, I expect it to resolve. God’s will be done.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The other factor was the antibiotics for the ear infection seriously affected my GI, which ironically actually makes allergies worse, considering the affect of the gut microbiome on your immune system and response to allergens. You also become much more sensitive to food. This led me down the path of healing my gut this last week. Fasting, probiotics, slowly reintroducing fiber and fermented foods and later more fatty food, good sleep, and daily exercise restores the GI after antibiotics kill off a lot of the microbiome. The allergy meds help but have a lot of side effects when taking several, which motivates me to come off these meds soon and others also affecting the GI. Most meds disrupt the GI microbiome affecting your whole health, one reason to avoid most, if you can. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For example, statins cause GI distress, but also chronic fatigue, tiredness, muscle weakness, and muscle pain, ironically all symptoms I’ve been having since this health crisis started. So I’m expecting major improvements ahead just from the careful weaning off of these meds. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So two specific prayer requests right now: for my eardrum to fully heal and therefore tinnitus level to resolve, and for my current allergy/GI sickness to resolve. And please pray for my general recovery, especially so I’m well enough to return to work in physical therapy and resume normal life. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The positive is that since Christmas there has been a major improvement, to the point I felt more or less recovered, except now for the ear/allergy/GI set back. But it’s only a temporary set back, a bump in the road, looking at it from the bird’s eye view. From that point of view, all things considered, I am thankful for what level of restored health I now have and the future opening back up. With my diet, exercise, and other changes, I have every reason to be optimistic for good health in the short term and very good health in the long term. I have learned many life lessons about taking care of my health, the hard way. I thank God for life, and the opportunity to have eternal life with Him. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That said, please keep me in your prayers as I will also pray for readers, especially those of you going through your own hardship right now. For everything there is a season. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-40129905249805270662024-03-08T18:47:00.000-08:002024-03-08T18:50:29.381-08:00The Gut Microbiome <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Public Service Announcement. God designed the microbiome of the human gut to control all bodily health: the brain, immune system, metabolism, digestion, pretty much everything is controlled by the gut microbiome. When it is the right diversity and balance, and properly fed, it will give you excellent health. If it’s out of wack, underfed, or killed off by processed foods, toxins, antibiotics, most drugs, or stress, it will wreak havoc on the person. Depression, anxiety, ADHD, autoimmune disorders, allergies, chronic fatigue and malaise, you name it. The standard American diet and lifestyle has destroyed our gut microbiome beginning in childhood. To repair it you need to eliminate processed and fake food, figure out what foods cause you allergies, GI distress, or general bad reactions and limit it, rebuild the gut with probiotics, fiber, and fermented foods gradually over time. This heals the leaky gut, and restores health. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-33626171598935657672024-03-05T13:50:00.000-08:002024-03-05T13:50:08.604-08:00History Repeats Itself <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">History repeats itself. If this is true, and in 2020 the Dems stole the election through mail in ballots, etc, they’ll do it this time again. Guaranteed. At least they’ll try 150%. All these court cases against Trump are proving ineffective in keeping him off the ballot, and from being the predicted winner. But Trump dropped the ball in 2020 in not going full court press to prevent the coup. He should have been more imsightful and aggressive to defend himself. I trust he learned his lesson. The MAGA wing of the GOP hopefully is taking all necessary measures to stop the Steal 2.0. Eight months out they better be. Go Trump. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-2696196475667247212024-03-02T16:36:00.000-08:002024-03-02T16:36:30.449-08:00Justice for All <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The title of a top 100 song, sang by the J6 prison choir with Trump. Listened to it this morning. It brought tears to my eyes. These men are patriotic heroes. They represent we The People oppressed by Big Brother. When Trump is back in the White House, he’ll pardon them. And probably throw a banquet for them at the White House. Something to look forward to. There will be a reckoning, and it will be from God because it will come through lawful authority. May God give justice for all. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-89061069087753971712024-03-01T14:57:00.000-08:002024-03-01T15:36:18.776-08:00FSSP Superior Meets with Pope Francis<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Care of Rorate C. And GloriaTV. Praise God the TLM still exists for now within the approved structures of the Church. Praise God for the work of preserving Tradition by the Ecclesia Dei societies. At the same time, did the Superior General express any concern to Pope Francis about his pontificate’s program to dismantle what is left of Tradition? The requirement to eventually bridge to the Novus Ordo? The homosexual blessings document? Many FSSP priests are hard core traditionalist, at the individual level, but what is the future of all the ED groups as organizations? Vatican II has still not been corrected, nor the liturgical reform, the errors of both which cannot be accepted even if that means being pushed underground. Support also the SSPX. Know the history of the fight for Tradition, and the principles at stake. Be ready to go underground if it comes to it, since traditional Catholicism has already been largely underground since 1970 anyway, to one degree or another, resisting the conciliar religion. Have a good weekend. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-7004792792291860102024-02-24T08:30:00.000-08:002024-02-24T16:11:42.599-08:00Low Potassium <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Potassium is the most important nutrient your body needs. It’s high in salmon, other oily fish, leafy green vegetables, avocados, bananas, nuts, grains, etc. When you have normal levels you feel energy, vitality, muscle strength. When you have low levels you feel brain fog, fatigue, muscle weakness/aches/nerve pain. Under stress, especially high stress, your potassium levels drop drastically and your body feels it in these symptoms, the same for depression or anxiety. I think most people are in a semi-sick state to a great extent from low potassium, but also low magnesium and dehydration. Now I’m getting all my mineral and vitamin needs on keto by blending a big pitcher every morning for smoothies: cocoa powder, stevia, three avocados, 4 cups raw kale, 1 cup blackberries 1/3 cup Greek yogurt, 2 tablespoons flax seed meal. Drink half with breakfast and the other half in the afternoon. Also drinking a gallon of water daily. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-8474338153447125682024-02-22T11:09:00.000-08:002024-02-22T11:12:02.428-08:00Science Searching for the Nature of the Universe? <p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was listening to a radio program of an astrophysicist talk about how modern science is searching for the ultimate nature of the universe. Science can’t know that. Theology and philosophy know that, through the lens of divine revelation. These scientists want more $$$ to keep themselves employed, and serve special interests in science and technology, ultimately for $$$. They know the public buys into this. Replacing religion with science. Science helps understand the universe materially, which informs philosophy to understand it formally. All that said, we already know the purpose of the universe: to serve the needs of mankind, to reflect the Creator so we know Him by means of Creation, and ultimately to manifest and give glory to God. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-42033337235916277472024-02-21T09:45:00.000-08:002024-02-21T09:45:57.471-08:00Vatican to Dialogue with Freemasonry <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Catholicism cannot dialogue with an ideology fundamentally anti-Catholicism. That goes for Communism, Satanism, and Freemasonry. It is metaphysically impossible without mutating Catholicism. But the new religion of modernism wants this. Freemasonry is evil. It opposes the truth there is only one true religion, that reality is vertical and supernatural, and life’s goal is salvation, and the kingdom of God in the next life. Pray for the pope he puts a stop to this and makes reparations before he dies. Just one more reason to be a traditionalist. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-51229100792827816502024-02-17T12:39:00.000-08:002024-02-17T12:42:03.379-08:00Putin Murdering People?<p><span style="font-size: medium;">He may be, but my thesis is he isn’t. Russia is effectively at war with the US and NATO countries. Speaking out against your president during war time how he is handling the war, in such a way that could undermine national security and the war effort, could be interpreted sincerely as treason. Past capital punishment for treason, especially during war time, seems reasonable. If Putin is giving the order to take out these dissidents, it’s because he regards them as traitors and dangerous to the country. And as president, he has the legal authority to take out people even in a clandestine way. As does ours. Also, their political structure isn’t democratic in the way the West is, and the Church does not condemn autocracy. It is akin to kingship. There is one man standing up to the globalist West, effectively standing for the old order of Christendom, for better or worse that is Vladimir Putin. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-67010820424056846752024-02-12T11:40:00.000-08:002024-02-12T15:33:30.496-08:00Woke Super Bowl Ad <p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Enlightenment convinced us the material is superior to the supernatural. This philosophy is celebrated through modern sports, where sports has become a religion. Making sports and the cult of the body a religion is called somatolatry, which has its grand feast days such as the NBA finals, the Olympics, and most of all Superbowl Sunday. The Left has taken over organized professional sports with wokism, with the likes of Mark Cuban. It’s like what Bud Light did with that ridiculous, in-your-face transexual ad. It being very bad for business suggests sinister people pushing this. When a Super Bowl ad preaches the “true meaning” of Jesus’ message by showing a priest washing the feet of a homosexual flaunting their homosexuality, or a woman washing the feet of a teenage girl outside a family planning clinic, i.e. involving baby killing, it’s time to boycott. It’s better to organize a Catholic version of Super Bowl Sunday watching old Super Bowl classics before it was taken over. Or better yet have a backyard football game followed by wings. But no more Bud Light. And no more NFL or NBA until they get rid of wokism. God would be happy. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-82475653470673062022024-02-11T09:12:00.000-08:002024-02-11T09:12:39.133-08:00Trump Chooses Vivek<p><span style="font-size: medium;">You heard it here first. Trump is choosing Vivek as his running mate. Vivek and his wife entered the party at Mar-a-lago with Trump and Melania. And Vivek had a joyful look on on his face. He’s the nominee. I do think he is a bit sophomoric to be the VP and potential president, but he is very conservative and full of energy. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-21612012220074111822024-02-10T08:02:00.000-08:002024-02-10T08:09:52.037-08:00Time to Get Pumped Up about Trump <p><span style="font-size: medium;">No more RINOS and Leftists. No more Marxist coups enabled by the GOP. We must stop the Leftists from turning this country into Venezuela or the USSR.Besides God, one man is literally our only hope. Because he is not bought and paid for and has zero fear. He will not stop. He created the MAGA movement as a political opposition to the leftist revolution. The next year will be a political battle more intense than four years ago. The Democrats will do everything in their power to win through fraud and a political witch-hunt. Once Trump IS the nominee, it will be political war. Time to get pumped up again. Catholics are political. Wear our Trump hats and fly our Trump flags, and rally. The future of the family, the unborn, the economy, the place of the Church in the nation, the nation itself depends on it. Go President Trump! </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-74793052952374954112024-02-09T11:52:00.000-08:002024-02-09T11:54:42.322-08:00Tucker Interviews Putin <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Tucker didn’t handle it well. He started off with a factually incorrect statement and then appeared angry the president was giving a long winded answer, which turned into a long thirty minute lecture on Russian history probably because </span><span style="font-size: large;">of Tucker’s bratty attitude. I like Tucker but this was one of his biggest interviews ever. Putin should have been more diplomatic though in engaging Tucker as a journalist representing the West, if he wants to prevent world war and find a diplomatic solution soon. At times he seemed proud, though in many respects I admire his leadership and agree with his world view about the West. This interview to me signals more war ahead. Kyrie eleison. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-31685961797657108112024-02-05T13:24:00.000-08:002024-02-05T13:56:26.623-08:00Cardinal Burke’s Silence <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The de facto head of the resistance to the Francis agenda has been silent since he was disciplined by Pope Francis, the release of the new same sex blessing document, and being called to meet with the pope. Meanwhile traditional Catholics are waiting to hear again from Cardinal Burke. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Burke knows the agenda will continue to unfold, the Church needing cardinals and bishops to lead the resistance, as he first did at the Synod on the Family, and that if he fades into the shadows that will only hurt this resistance movement and enable the further auto-demolition of the Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We should pray and offer our penances he doesn’t do this, but stands up even more boldly. What can they do to him realistically if he does? Take away his entire pension? Remove him from the college of cardinals? As long as he acts within his rights and duties, he can stand rightly before God, and surely benefactors would support him if he lost his pension. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">After Burke was called to meet with Pope Francis he was asked how it went, and all he said was “I’m still alive,” which indicated he was being reprimanded, and likely for being the de facto head of this resistance movement. I imagine he was told or warned to stop what he has been doing or else he’ll be punished more. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My interpretation of Burke is he very much doesn’t want any disunity between himself and the pope, no matter the doctrinal problems, to even give the impression of a schismatic rebellion or the impression he is the leader of such a rebellion. His temperament seems much more reserved than say an Archbishop Lefebvre. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I like Cardinal Burke. I don’t support his view that Vatican II in itself was not the problem but it’s implementation, or his over-the-top critical statements about the SSPX, but he is the most traditional Cardinal and one of the top five most traditional bishops. We owe a lot to him for his works on behalf of Tradition. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Cardinal Burke, if by chance you were to read this, God knows exactly why you are now being silent. There’s many factors we don’t know. But I hope you continue to fight the good fight for the Catholic Faith. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-83362960843593622782024-02-03T13:16:00.000-08:002024-02-03T13:16:26.497-08:00James Martin Meets with Irish Bishops <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He met with all or most of the Irish bishops to discuss how to implement the same sex blessing document, a priest who has said homosexual acts are not sinful. This confirms the interpretation some bishops will take a liberal approach to the document permitted by Rome. We can expect soon public blessing events in the parish church, in liberal dioceses (that would then seem to be most dioceses) as long as it’s not directly in front of the altar or wearing wedding garb. Fernandez confirmed the couple itself is blessed, and may be planned and inside the church. This would be affirming the relationship, if not the sexual act itself. The Vatican knows Martin counseled an entire country’s bishops on this, that he holds a heretical view on homosexuality, but is not and certainly will continue not to discipline him. The faithful bishops will take an orthodox approach to the document either not implementing it or allowing only blessing of the individual and discreetly. Kyrie eleison.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-42265867605064321142024-02-02T13:13:00.000-08:002024-02-02T15:22:10.059-08:00US Attacks Iran. Our Lady of Akita’s Prophesies. <p><span style="font-size: large;">We’re bombing today Iranian targets in Syria. Russia and China warned us not to. Iran is our sworn enemy, wanting to wipe us off the planet. To them we are the aggressor, that is Iran, China, and Russia in particular. We remain on the brink of world war. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Remember Our Lady of Akita, an approved apparition, that a) the world will fall into decadence, b) the Church will fall into apostasy, c) God will chastise us, d) through fire from heaven, e) more people dying than from the great flood. It’s an approved apparition echoing Fatima, La Sallete, etc. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I believe in these apparitions, and expect soon a Third World War that is nuclear. Start prepping, and pray and do penance. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A year plus supply of food, water, ammo, flashlights, batteries, matches, lighters, camper stoves, propane, short wave radio, ham radio, solar oven, portable solar panels, gardening tools, seeds, barter items: liquor, cigarettes, toilet paper, gold/silver, etc. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Blessed Feast of Candlemas. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973912842836834525.post-58521038037579990072024-01-31T20:55:00.000-08:002024-01-31T20:59:57.353-08:00Health Update. Please Keep Me in Your Prayers <p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Right after Christmas within just a couple days my symptoms greatly resolved, the fatigue, muscle and deep nerve pain in my arms and legs, weakness, etc.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">A couple weeks later the remaining burning nerve pain in my lower legs was gone for a week, but came back after I used the sauna at the gym, and from the cold last week.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It itself had been gone for over two months from mid September to the end of November. Saw a neurologist who said he didn’t know the cause, but didn’t suspect any neurological disease which itself is a blessing. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">He even thought from my tests and history that the nerve pain isn’t from actual nerve damage but inflammation. Recovery is still having its ups and downs.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">To review, I got a very bad GI illness last Spring needing to quit my job, losing my health insurance, sick for several months, then going through several major stressful events in a short period of time, including our one car getting stolen, and then within a day I broke out in intense nerve and muscle pain down both arms and legs, then had balance and walking problems, extreme fatigue, brain fog, becoming barely able to function in that state.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I also got a very intense painful condition of rosacea in my face for the first time, lasting itself two months.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">In the Fall thankfully the burning surface level nerve pain disappeared, but I had major sinus infections from the extreme stress of my state resulting in the virus spreading to my face causing Bell’s palsy, one side of my face drooping, thankfully clearing up after a couple weeks.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">But the higher level of already extreme stress that caused including my whole body still in pain and weakness, I think brought back the surface nerve pain in my legs, which has been showing signs of going away.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">My focus is on diet, weight loss, daily gym routine including swimming, stress management, and of course prayer.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> I also just finished two months of PT. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">At the moment I’m coming out of a pain flare up the last couple weeks, but the fact there were many days I felt almost no pain anywhere, and normal energy, sustains my hope in recovery. It may still take some time but I place my future in God’s hands, the Divine Physician, and offer my cross in reparation for my sins.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It’s better to suffer in this life than in the next.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I ask you please to add my recovery to your daily prayer intentions. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0