It’s Official

Novak Djokovic is my favorite tennis player.

He and his father are hinting that he may skip the Australian Open due to their insane and tyrannical death injection requirement.

Any player in the top ten, especially Rafael Nadal, should announce they are withdrawing if Djokovic is not allowed to play without proof of death injection. If Nadal plays and wins in the absence of the best player in the world, his grand slam title will not be recognized in this tiny corner of cyberspace. I’m sure that will influence Nadal to do the right thing, right?

Tell Me Why She’s Wrong

Go ahead, I’ll wait.

First Sunday of Advent

Wishing you all a profitable and holy season of Advent, that time of the year so strange for the practicing Catholic in this world of modernists. One wants to prepare and practice some type of penance while of course looking forward with hope and joy to the coming of Our Lord at Christmas. Yet always the people around us begin Advent at whatever level of stage 4 Chrimbo they will ever get, a ‘cheer’ that ever dwindles until it is spent at or likely before Christmas Day. I don’t know about you. But it seems the decorations this year have been up since November 1.

Anyway, back to my point. I wanted to post this quote from a sermon by Peter of Blois on Advent, proving God’s Word is always relevant, and His plan perfect:

When they shall say, peace and security, says the apostle, then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

Gratitude for the Proofs of Our Faith

Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers! As gratitude as a matter of justice towards God, and invites Him to shower us with greater blessings, I am happy to post here today an excerpt on the proofs of our faith by Saint Alphonsus Liguori:

Proofs of Faith

In the first place, the truth of our holy faith is loudly proclaimed by the prophecies of Holy Scripture. These prophecies were uttered hundreds of years ago and in later years for filled to the letter. Thus, for example, the death of our Savior was foretold by several prophets and the time and circumstances accompanying it minutely described. It was prophesied that the Jews, in punishment for the deicide, would be driven from the temple and the holy land and, hardened and obstinate in sin, would be dispersed throughout the world; this prophecy, we know, was literally fulfilled. It was prophesied that after the death of Christ the veneration of human deities would give away to the worship of the true God. The event has verified the prediction, for the apostles of our Lord, in spite of the innumerable obstacles thrown in their way and armed with no weapons save the cross of Christ, have conquered the world and brought it captive to faith in the living God.

In the second place, the truth of our holy faith is evident from the miracles that were wrought by our Lord, by His Apostles and the saints of the Catholic Church as a sanction of her holy teaching. Miracles are beyond the powers of nature. They can happen only by the power of God, to whom all creation is subject. Accordingly, if a religion has real miracles to show in confirmation of her doctrine, that religion must be divine, for it is impossible for God to sanction and promote a false religion by the performance of genuine miracles.

Can the Jews, the heathens, the Mohammedans, or the heretics point to a single miracle right in favor of their religious tenets? They have no doubt made efforts in the past to deceive the people by trickery and the seemingly miraculous; the deception was soon discovered. But the miracles that God has worked through His servants in every age of the Catholic Church are simply innumerable. In the Catholic Church alone have the words of our Blessed Lord been fulfilled: “Amen, amen I say to you either believe within me, the works that I do he also shall do; and greater than they shall he do.” (John 14:12).

Without doubt, in the early days of the Church, miracles were more numerous than they are today, since they were necessary for the spread of the Faith. But still they have never been wanting in any age, and they have constantly aided in the conversion of heathen and infidel nations. Numberless miracles were performed, for example by St. Francis Xavier, St. Louis Bertrand, and other holy missionaries in India. Were one to call into question the extraordinary facts recorded in the annals of Church history and in the lives of the Saints, I would simply ask him: By what right do you refuse to believe such men as St. Basil, St. Jerome, St. Gregory, and others when you willingly except what Tacitus, Suetonius, or Pliny has said?

Moreover, God has been pleased to allow certain miracles to go on uninterruptedly in the Church as a continual reproach to the unbelief of the wicked. Recall to mind the famous miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of Saint Januarius at Naples. This blood, which usually is found in a hardened, coagulated condition, liquefies several times a year when brought near the head of the Saint. This has been attested by thousands of eyewitnesses. Infidels have tried in vain to find natural explanations for the phenomenon; but the miracle continues to baffle their efforts and to humble their pride.

A third proof for the truth of our holy faith is furnished by the courage and constancy of the martyrs, and this proof is even more convincing even than that of miracles. 15 Roman emperors in succession used every means in their power to destroy the Christian faith from the face of the earth. Under the reign of Diocletian, who inaugurated the ninth persecution, 17,000 Christians were executed within a single month, not to speak of the thousands were banished from the country.

According to the account of Genebrard, 11 million martyrs were put to death during the ten great persecutions. If these were gathered within the space of one year, it would be 30,000 murders for each day. Now in spite of the fact that these confessors of Christ were subjected to every imaginable torture, such as the tearing of the flesh with iron hooks, roasting their bodies on a gridiron, and burning them with lighted torches, the number of those who were willing and anxious to die for their holy faith was never diminished but seemed always on the increase.

Tiberius, the governor of Palestine, wrote to Emperor trading that they were so many Christians he decided to die as martyrs that it was impossible to execute them all. Here upon Trajan published an edict in which he commanded the Christians to be left in peace for the future. no I ask: If the Faith of these valiant martyrs, which is the same that our Holy Church professes today, were not the True Faith of Christ and had it not God assisted them to witness to that phase with their very blood, would they ever have been able to endure those fateful tournaments in to deliver them selves up freely and joyfully to a cruel death? Have there been any murders in the sex that fell away from the Catholic Church and had it not God assisted them to witness to that Faith with their very blood, would they ever have been able to endure those frightful torments and to deliver themselves up freely and joyfully to a cruel death? Have there been any martyrs in the sects that fell away from the Catholic Church? Have they perhaps a St. Lawrence who offered his roasted limbs to the cruel tyrant for a banquet?

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One more proof of our holy faith becomes evident and we consider that from the time of the Apostles down to our own days our Faith has continued unaltered. The Apostles and their successors were careful to preserve the doctrine of our Divine Redeemer and its primitive purity and integrity. Christ Himself imposed upon them this sacred duty when He said: “going there for, teaching all nations; teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” (Matt. 28:19-20). Therefore Saint John exhorts the faithful: “let that which you have heard from the beginning abide in you.“ (1 John 2:24).

—from 12 Steps to Holiness and Salvation

Have No Illusions: If They’ll Kill Your Babies in the Womb…

…They’ll kill them in your arms.

Today is a Day for Justice

Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted on all counts. Thank God in Heaven.

This is not the day to note how bad things are. That will come, maybe tomorrow. Yes, the rule of law (as in ‘are our laws just?’) died when Epstein’s pal John Roberts killed the Constitution to protect Obamacare. But today, in the remains of the former USA, barely, an innocent man received the protection he should received from the jury process, in the face of tyrannical governmental persecution.

Friends, today, rejoice. Thank God. The rule of law in the criminal process lives. Barely. By the skin of its teeth.

Mary, please act! Lord Jesus, maranatha!

This needs to be settled.

They Have to Pull Their Punches Even with a Headline Like This

They can’t face the sum of the facts. They really don’t fear the worst.

Nothing to See Here

Hundreds of patients in Leeds are waiting over six weeks for vital heart scans, says charity

Young athletes are becoming corpses at an alarming rate

One Descriptor They Do Not Apply to Him

…at Rorate Caeli is this one: pope:

HE HAS GOT TO GO

Cruel. Mean. Wicked. A bully. A gossiper. A hypocrite. A paranoid tyrant. A dictator. Ambiguous. Heterodox. An enabler of paganism. An enabler of atheism. Perverse. Perverted. Intolerant. A liar. An abuser of consciences. A philistine. A barbarian. A phony. Brutish. Boorish. Coarse. Vulgar. An all-around really bad, bad, bad person. 

Unlawful. Unconscionable. Outrageous. Evil. This Diktat Must Be Defied.

Let’s see if anyone will stand.