Ann Barnhardt Hit Me in the Mouth

Have you listened to No Agenda podcast yet? You should, but give the experience 4 listens to adjust to the vibe. Thank you for your courage.

Public Thanks to the Mother of God

And her Divine Son, obviously, for favors received. Her love for us cannot ever be adequately praised

Just Hanging Out

With my family and Our Lady at Blues City Deli on this beautiful feast day.

Feast of Saint Louis

I suppose no blog going by the name of Saint Louis Catholic should fail to note, with gratitude, the feast day of one of the greatest kings in Christendom. The patron of a once glorious city and a once glorious archdiocese.

On this feast day, I also wanted to give public thanks again to the courageous and zealous guardians of the iconic statue of our great saint– The Apotheosis of St. Louis, pictured above– the St. Louis Forever Rosary Coalition. Their courage and perseverance in the last 16 months spared our city the indignity of losing this iconic monument, and spared us the fate of other cities where mobs destroyed at will.

Read the post at Rorate Caeli, which gives details on a procession and rosary this evening.

Happy Feast Day!

St. Louis, pray for us!

Sunday. Santiago. Holy Year.

“The Only Means of Retaining Beauty to Old Age”

Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age. We may add in parenthesis that to preserve all this is the only means of retaining beauty to old age. Her hair had begun to grow grey and thin, there had long been little crow’s foot wrinkles round her eyes, her cheeks were hollow and sunken from anxiety and grief, and yet it was a handsome face…. Pulcheria Alexandrovna was emotional, but not sentimental, timid and yielding, but only to a certain point. She could give way and accept a great deal even of what was contrary to her convictions, but there was a certain barrier fixed by honesty, principle and the deepest convictions which nothing would induce her to cross.

From
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Prayers Needed for Canon Fragelli

I can’t say it better than Ann Barnhardt does, except to add that Sts. Benedict, Thomas Aquinas, and Therese are also Institute patrons, so I will repost her in full:

Action Item: Stricken Priest of the Institute of Christ the King on Life Support over in Italy. Prayers for a miraculous healing needed NOW.

Canon Henrique Fragelli is not merely on a ventilator, he is on full life support.

He fell ill at the ICK’s mission in Gabon, Africa and was medivacked to Italy a week ago. He has gone downhill and is now on life support.

A recent pic of Canon Fragelli (R) in Gabon

We’re into full Miracle territory here. Miracles are real, and happen – IF WE ASK FOR THEM.

So. Time to ask.

Let’s enjoin the patrons of the ICK, St. Francis de Sales and St. Philip Neri, and let’s enjoin Saints Cosmas and Damian, the twin brother physicians and martyrs, who are, I am reliably informed, the patrons of the hospital where Canon Fragelli is currently being treated.

For the full healing and recovery of Canon Henrique Fragelli, let us pray to the Lord, the Sovereign and All-powerful Trinity.

Sts. Cosmas and Damian, pray for us!

Sts. Francis de Sales and Philip Neri, pray for us!

Our Lady, Health of the Sick, pray for us!

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us!

Just some minor orthopaedic work…

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Hello Ann,

I’m just a reader and stranger..

But I have said a Rosary for the stricken priest. The Joyful Mysteries, because – the fruit of the Second Joyful Mystery, charity towards our neighbor. And I appealed to the saints you mentioned.

God bless,

G

Strike Another Match, Go Start Anew

I can’t begin to express the gratitude that I feel towards all the readers over the years, old and new, friend and frenemy, who have found this blog useful, funny, informative, or inspirational in some way. So I’ll just say thank you. Thank you. Each and all of you, from the bottom of my heart. I have prayed for you, I will continue to pray for you. Please pray for me.

Started just about 14 years ago with the purpose of promoting the Traditional Mass, defending the Catholic Faith, standing up for Cardinal Burke and the other few faithful shepherds, and just having fun expressing my thoughts about our beautiful faith, the blog’s most useful days are long gone. As Bob Dylan says so well, “The party’s over, and there’s less and less to say.” I’m all used up, creatively.

This doesn’t mean that I will never blog again. I may. If I do, I will try to make the site known as well as I can. From a high of more than a thousand unique visitors on a normal day several years ago, it is more like fifty a day now, so it shouldn’t be hard to make any new blogging effort as “well” known. Who knows? I may be finally down to my proverbial “7 readers” by now. No matter. Thank you all. (Update: I am reposting this last post after deleting all of the blog content, so the very kind comments made in the combox are unfortunately lost beyond reposting. I have them, and thank you for them just the same. By just deleting contents, I have saved the site address and platform, which will likely be the vehicle for any future comeback, should it occur.)

Whatever times come, stay strong in the faith. Keep close to Christ and especially to our Mother, Mary. I pray God that we all will be faithful to the end. Nothing matters except Christ. He is the Savior. He is the Victor. We know how this ends.

I pray that we all meet in the Heavenly Kingdom in God’s good time. Farewell.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

And, as you undoubtedly would have guessed, I will end with some wisdom from Bob Dylan: