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On persecutions, impostors, rigidity, and martyrdom

Non-Compromise Always Has One End

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.—2 Tim 3:12-13.

By Father David Nix

The word for “all” above in Greek is πάντες or pantes in the Latin alphabet. Just like the English above, all obviously means everyone. That is, every single person who desires to live a pious life in Christ will be persecuted, even if they are not looking for it. When seen from the point of view of heaven, this is more of a promise than a threat!

Notice also that imposters will go from “bad to worse.” That is why it’s funny how many people are praying for the main imposter foisted upon the Catholic Church over the last 13 years. Of course prayers are going to make him go from “bad to worse” in all his heresies. Why? Precisely because he is an imposter.

Look at St. John the Baptist. The great forerunner fearlessly defended marriage between one-man-and-woman against the corrupt hierarchy of his day and the pagan invaders. Eventually, the two groups saw to his execution. The Baptist lost his head over marriage and this fulfilled his role of preparing Israel for hundreds of thousands of converts to Catholicism. Now compare this to the heresy of Amoris Laetitia (demanding the sacrilege of two sacraments—marriage and the Eucharist) as well as the heresies of Fiducia Supplicans (yes, the word “couple” is in there in reference to blessing gays nine times.) Major heresies from the imposter.

But now consider St. Thomas More. He did everything he could to avoid martyrdom from a corrupt king and corrupt hierarchy. Yet the similarities between him and the Baptist are astonishing: Both of them defended marriage as being between one-man-and-woman to a corrupt hierarchy of their day (pertaining to the one true world religion of the time—even though both groups would quickly lose it—one by becoming “the Jews” and the other by becoming “the Anglicans.”) Yet the similarities go on. The quiet but witty British lawyer and the ascetic-man of the desert both had the exact same execution of being beheaded in store for them. Why? It came for defending the sacredness of marriage.

Non-compromise always has one goal: Union with God. In putting God ahead of man, some saints will live their non-compromise on their sleeves (like St. John the Baptist) and attain a speedy martyrdom. But other saints will live non-compromise quietly, like St. Thomas More. Perhaps we could even say St. Thomas More lived in a manner that could be deemed “conflict-averse.” Yet he still put God ahead of human respect and attained the glorious crown of martyrdom. Again, the two saints defended marriage and both died by beheading, even though their personalities (and sense of non-compromise) looked very different.

But we know that “all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”—2 Tim 3:12. This is true, regardless of having a personality like St. John the Baptist or one like St. Thomas More. The good news is you can be a firebrand or peacemaker, and yet still find martyrdom. The bad news is that if you get along with everyone without any persecution, you’re not living your Catholic faith. (Re-read the line from St. Paul if you think that’s an exaggeration.)

Non-compromise always has one end: White martyrdom or or red martyrdom. Some spiritual writers have said you need to either be a white martyr or a red martyr to enter heaven. In fact, the Word of God says just as much. Also, notice another aspect of complimentary theology in St. John and St. Thomas: One was a celibate and the other was a married man. Though only one was a virgin, both had the love of God to attain to the crown of martyrdom (even though one was quite the reluctant martyr.)

It’s not about being obnoxious. According to the approved apparition from the 16th century of Our Lady of Good Success, the Four Virtues required for Christians following the fallout of 20th century were made very clear by the Mother of God herself: “The freemen from the slavery of these heresies, those who the merciful love of my most Holy Son will destine for the restoration will have a great strength of will, constancy, bravery and much confidence in God. To test this faith and the confidence of the just, there will be times when it will seem all is lost and paralyzed. This then, will be the beginning of the complete restoration.”

Notice again the virtues you really need to make it to heaven right now to be a red or white martyr are: 1) a great strength of will 2) constancy 3) bravery and 4) much confidence in God.

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We now know there were over 15,000 “near misses” at DCA under Biden’s FAA… totally normal

Washington, DC via CNN —

Family members of some of the 67 people killed in January’s midair collision in Washington listened to the US Army and Federal Aviation Administration take fiery questions from lawmakers for the first time Thursday at a Senate subcommittee hearing on the preliminary findings of the accident.

The Senate hearing came two weeks after the National Transportation Safety Board, whose chair also testified Thursday, unveiled its preliminary report on the fatal collision between the American Airlines regional jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. It was the first major aviation accident in the United States in nearly 20 years. The NTSB issued two urgent safety recommendations with the report, which the FAA adopted rapidly.

Previously, investigators uncovered 15,214 “near miss events” between 2021 and 2024 where aircraft were within one nautical mile of each other, with a vertical separation of less than 400 feet. There were also 85 cases where aircraft were less than 1,500 feet apart, with a vertical separation of less than 200 feet, according to the NTSB.

The findings revealed a “systemic issue,” that lawmakers are demanding answers on, said Sen. Maria Cantwell, ranking member of the Senate’s Commerce, Science and Transportation committee.

“I want to know, why did the FAA not act?,” Cantwell said. “Why did the FAA not act on 15,000 reports of dangerous proximity? How were these helicopter routes allowed to remain when alarm bells were literally going off in the towers?”

FAA Acting Administrator Chris Rocheleau responded he was “very concerned” about what’s been learned so far.

“Clearly something was missed,” he said…

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/us/washington-midair-collision-senate-hearing-army-faa/

Nurse Claire sends: Why did TEN nurses in the same ward of a Boston hospital all get brain cancer?

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/newton-wellesley-hospital-nurses-brain-cancer-cases/

Nurse Claire: Ten nurses, yes 10, in the same ward have developed different types of brain tumors over the last several years. But don’t worry – the occupational safety team says there’s no environmental exposure that has led to these coworkers all growing tumors in their brains. What a coinkydink!

I’d like to know if the lot numbers of the vaccines these staff members took have been investigated? I’m talking not only Covid shots but flu shots, too.

Remember: there are no long term safety studies on mRNA “vaccines”, nor can anyone speak to the safety of repeated, yearly flu shots.

Nothing to see here.

https://nurseclairesays.com/2025/03/29/no-environmental-causes-they-say/

Secretary Kennedy, can we at least start with the covid jab?

Seriously. And while you are at it, Bobby, why don’t you ask DOJ to investigate how this happened:

March 16th 2020, deathvaxx already perfected for brand new virus, passed animal trials, and ready for human jabs… how’d they do that?

Originally posted June 8, 2021

Remember, no drug company or government had ever developed a successful (ie Safe and Effective) coronavirus vaccine… for ANY previous coronavirus. Yet after failing to develop a single vaccine for anything, in the history of the company, Moderna by Fauci whips up the perfect cure for the Rona-19 in five weeks. I shit you not, this is the official narrative. Don’t be a tin foil flat earther.

Monday, March 16, 2020

A Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating an investigational vaccine designed to protect against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has begun at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) in Seattle. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, is funding the trial. KPWHRI is part of NIAID’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium. The open-label trial will enroll 45 healthy adult volunteers ages 18 to 55 years over approximately 6 weeks. The first participant received the investigational vaccine today.

The study is evaluating different doses of the experimental vaccine for safety and its ability to induce an immune response in participants. This is the first of multiple steps in the clinical trial process for evaluating the potential benefit of the vaccine.

The vaccine is called mRNA-1273 and was developed by NIAID scientists and their collaborators at the biotechnology company Moderna, Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) supported the manufacturing of the vaccine candidate for the Phase 1 clinical trial.

News Flash: Andrew Tate is not your bro

(LifeSiteNews) — Internet influencer Andrew Tate is facing yet another allegation of sexual assault — this time in the United States.

Bri Stern, one of Tate’s girlfriends, alleges that Tate nearly choked her unconscious during a sexual encounter on March 11 at the Beverly Hills Hotel and has filed a police report to that effect. Her description matches the violent Tate modus operandi detailed by other alleged Tate victims. Tate is facing charges of similar alleged crimes — including rape and human trafficking — in Romania and the UK.

According to Stern, Tate began choking her and she begged him to stop, but he persisted, growing more violent as she begged him to stop. At that point, she says, she felt like she was fading into unconsciousness. She documented her injuries after the incident, and subsequently went to the emergency room in New York City, where she was diagnosed as “post-concussive.” Text messages published by TMZ reveal Andrew Tate informing Stern that he was looking forward to beating her.

These allegations are particularly significant in the context of an ongoing debate on the Right about Andrew Tate’s influence, which has been enhanced by several key conservative figures, including Tucker Carlson and Benny Johnson. Tate is one of the most repulsive influencers on the internet; as I noted at First Things earlier this year, he “is a self-professed Muslim who rejects monogamy and promotes polyamory, condemns the nuclear family, has vilely boasted about defiling young Christian girls, and claims that women are incapable of loyalty.”

Tate, who rose to fame as a former kickboxer and made his fortune as a self-professed pimp running a large camgirl operation, has spent “dozens of hours of online … boasting about their webcam operation, their physical abuse of women, their views on women in general, and in-depth investigative reporting detailing, step by step, their grooming tactics — including how to manipulate girls from Christian homes into doing pornography.” The fact that some conservative figures support and defend Tate is truly mindboggling…

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/take-note-conservative-supporters-of-another-sexual-assault-accusation-against-andrew-tate/

Israel breaks Lebanon cease fire, bombs Beirut neighborhoods

By “Tyler Durden”

Israel has conducted airstrikes on the Lebanese capital of Beirut for the first time since the ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect back in November.

Friday’s attack began with a threat and a warning, with the Israeli army telling people to evacuate parts of the southern Beirut suburb of Hadath. Middle East correspondents report a “heavy bombardment” of Beirut, as clearly the ceasefire is effectively dead.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun confirmed the Israeli attack, calling it a “continuation of Israel’s violation of the agreement sponsored by France and the United States.”

Aoun said “the international community must put an end to these attacks and force Israel to abide by the agreement, just as Lebanon is committed to it.”

Israel has claimed Hezbollah has been launching attacks again into northern Israel, and is framing this new aggression on Beirut as retaliation.

Casualties are already being reported in southern Lebanon as well. The Beirut strikes “came as Israel launched a wave of attacks in southern Lebanon on Friday, including a deadly strike on Kfar Tebnit in Nabatieh.” Middle East Eye continues, “The attack killed one person and wounded eight others, including three children, Lebanon’s health ministry said.”

“In the coming weeks, it is expected that Israel escalate further—possibly initiating a limited war on Lebanon,” Magnier continued. “The move is tied to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s interest in maintaining a state of war to avoid domestic scrutiny and preserve his grip on power.”

Read the rest, including video of the bombings: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-strikes-beirut-unleash-panic-first-attacks-november-truce

Beyond Parody

He really is this stupid.

75 days post-fire, why has LA issued only FOUR building permits for the Palisades it let burn?

By Carlos Granda

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (KABC) — More than two months after the Palisades Fire, only four permits had been issued as of Monday for homeowners to rebuild their properties — a low figure that one Los Angeles city councilmenber said was “concerning.”

Residents in the Palisades Fire zone are trying to figure out how to move forward, but there are several obstacles in the way — including the city’s permitting process and L.A.’s looming budget deficit.

People gathered at a City Council committee hearing Monday to try to get answers, but more concerns are being raised as the city tries to rebuild from the devastating fire.

“We want to get going,” one Palisades resident said at the meeting, held on the Westside.

“The blessing here is that we have been given an opportunity to show the world how you do disaster relief and rebuilding effectively,” said Jessica Rogers, president of the Pacific Palisades Residents Association.

But the Department of Building and Safety told the committee that so far the department has approved only four permits. Councilmember Traci Park, who represents the Palisades and attended the meeting, says that’s not acceptable.

“When I hear in the community meeting like we had today that only four permits have been issued — and we’re on day 75 post-fire — that is concerning to me,” Park said. “And I don’t think it’s a lack of interest in rebuilding, I suspect it is indicative of systemic issues that we need to continue to focus on.”

Mayor Karen Bass hired a private consulting firm to oversee the recovery effort. The contract with Hagerty Consulting is worth $10 million. Some councilmembers say that raises questions…

https://abc7.com/post/palisades-fire-low-number-permits-issued-rebuilding-homes-is-concerning-councilwoman-traci-park-says/16077658/

Feast of the Annunciation: “By the fire of your charity, by the unction of your humility, you have drawn the Divinity to come within you.”

Divine Intimacy #374, The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary:

https://www.baronius.com/divine-intimacy.html

MEDITATION

Let us try, through the inspired narrative of St. Luke (Gospel:1: 26-38), to enter into the dispositions of Mary’s soul at the time of the Annunciation.

The Angel sent by God finds the Virgin recollected in solitude, and “being come in,” says to her: “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.” At these words, according to the sacred text, Mary is “troubled”; we must not, however, take this phrase to mean real disturbance, which destroys the peace of the spirit; it means rather a profound astonishment at this unusual greeting, an astonishment so great as to cause a kind of fear. This is Mary’s first reaction to the angelical message, a reaction arising from her deep humility, which makes her think this extraordinary eulogy very strange.

Meanwhile, the Angel communicates to her his great message: God wishes her to become the Mother of the Redeemer. Mary had always lived under the continual direction of the Holy Spirit and under His inspiration had made a vow of virginity; therefore, she was convinced that she should remain a virgin and that this was God’s will. But now God lets her know that He has chosen her to be the Mother of His Son, and she, humble handmaid that she is, is ready to adhere to the divine plan. However, she does not yet understand how she can be at the same time a mother and a virgin, and she questions the Angel on this point: “How shall this be done?” The Angel explains: “The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee.” Her maternity will be the direct work of the Holy Spirit and will respect her virginity.

The will of God is then entirely clear to Mary, and she, who during her whole life has always been moved by the divine will alone, accepts it immediately, with an entire adherence and a most intense pure love: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to Thy word.” The total acceptance is accompanied by a total donation: Mary accepts by offering herself, and she offers herself by giving herself. She offers herself as a servant, or rather, as a slave, if we take the word in the full sense of the Greek text; she gives herself by abandoning herself as a prey to the divine will, accepting by anticipation everything that God may ask of her. Her adherence to Him is both active and passive: Mary wills all that God wills, and she accepts all that He does. Thus Mary appears as the model of a soul completely united to God, fully given up to His divine will.

COLLOQUY

“Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee! Not only is God the Son with you, to whom you gave your blood, but also God the Holy Spirit, by means of whose operation you conceived, and also God the Father, who generated from all eternity Him whom you conceived. The Father, who gives you His Son, is with you; the Son is with you, who, wishing to accomplish a prodigious mystery, conceals Himself in your maternal bosom without violating your virginal integrity; the Holy Spirit is with you, who, together with the Father and the Son, sanctifies you. God is truly with you” (St. Bernard).

“O Mary, Mary, temple of the Trinity … O Mary, vessel of humility, you were pleasing to the eternal Father, and in His own singular love, He has captivated you and drawn you to Him. By the fire of your charity, by the unction of your humility, you have drawn the Divinity to come within you.

“Did fear disturb you at the Angel’s word, O Mary? It does not seem that it did, although you were astonished. At what, then, were you astonished? At the great goodness of God, when, considering yourself, you knew you were unworthy of so great a grace. You wondered at the sight of your unworthiness, your weakness and at God’s ineffable grace … and thus you showed profound humility. But there also appears today in you, O Mary, the dignity and liberty of man, for before the Word was made incarnate, the Angel was sent to ask your consent. The Son of God did not descend into your bosom before you had consented; He waited at the door of your will which you opened to Him, for although He wanted to come to you, He would never have entered if you had not opened to Him saying: ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to Thy word ….’

“O Mary, my sweet love, you opened to the eternal Divinity the door of your will, and the Word immediately became incarnate within you. By this you teach me that God, who created me without my help, will not save me without it … but knocks at the door of my will and waits for me to open it to Him” (St. Catherine of Siena).

O Mary, by the ineffable mystery which was accomplished in you I beg you to teach me and help me always to open wide the door of my soul to every divine appeal, to every solicitation of grace. At each manifestation of the divine will, may I repeat with you a humble, prompt, “Ecce, fiat!”

https://www.baronius.com/divine-intimacy.html

Lenten Reflection on Your Particular Judgment

(Reworked from a reflection posted in 2019)

It’s a pretty good sign that you don’t really even believe in God if you think He can be deceived. There are few things God is incapable of… being deceived is one of them. The Four Last Things are reality for everyone. If you need to kickstart your Lent, read on.

Your Particular Judgment will not be a negotiation. In fact, your Particular Judgment won’t even be a dialogue in the normal sense. To the extent that any back-and-forth does take place, there certainly won’t be any sort of quid pro quo, bargaining, splainin, whining, rationalizing, or blame gaming. There will be zero deceit or falsehood. It will be pure Truth, pure facts, pure and perfect Judgment. You won’t be able to lie anymore, not to God, not to yourself, nor to anyone else. You shall be shown what you have done, and you shall respond, “Yes.”

Our Lord will be there, pointing to Himself on Calvary while he plays back your life choices, and then you will nod, saying, “Yes. I know you did that for me, and yes, I chose to do what I did anyway.” The only participation you will have is admission of guilt. It’s not a trial, nor a negotiation. Your life was the trial. You will literally have nothing up your sleeve at that point. No lawyer to get you out of it. Your Guardian Angel will be by your side, and on your side, but you’ve really put him through the wringer too, haven’t you?

If you look at anything in scripture and it makes you uncomfortable, it’s for your own good. And if you see something that makes you think you just can’t go on living your life unless the words must mean something other than the plain meaning of the words, go look in the mirror. Those are God’s words, and the problem is never with God, it’s always with you.

Lest you think that you’ll be due some disproportionate show of mercy at your own Particular Judgment, because all the good that you’ve done will surely make you totally irresistible in the eyes of God at that moment, cover all your sins, think again. Every ounce of good you have ever done was merited by responding properly and proportionally to the graces being offered to you. “Doing good” is simply you acting the way God designed you to act, ordered toward your own spiritual gain. Yes, these good behaviors are meritorious, but also what is expected of you. No one can earn Heaven on their own. It was already earned for you, ransomed for you by the Cross and Resurrection. The time to beg for mercy isn’t at your Particular Judgment, it’s now. Repent, beg for mercy, and start making better choices.

Does that sound harsh? Depressing? Unfair?

On the contrary, this is exactly the Good News. Your eternal reward has already been purchased for you. Someone else accomplished that for you. Your role is to admit that you are powerless to get there on your own, be sorry for your sinfulness, promise to try to do better, and really mean it. REALLY. MEAN. IT. You have to actually do something about it. You have to participate as a member of the Mystical Body of Christ through EFFORT and MERIT. It is by rooting out sin and conforming your life to the Will of God that your personal relationship with Jesus Christ is founded and fostered. He doesn’t give us rules to be a jerk or to make it hard. Yes, some of the rules are harder to live out than others, but all of it is there for our own good, because He loves us. Everything has been done for you out of love, and He desires your love in return.

“Yes, I know that You died for me, brutally, so that I might live, and yes, I chose to make those terrible choices anyway.” Every human being is going to have to say these words.

The thing you want to be really sure about, I mean really, really sure, is that you can count yourself among those who will be able to add:

“But You know that I am truly sorry, not just here at the end, but every time I failed you. It was I who betrayed you in the Garden, it was I who scourged you at the pillar, it was I who crowned you with thorns, it was I who nailed you to the Cross. But I am truly sorry. Through your grace, I learned to know, love, and serve you in this world, and I desire to be with you forever in the next. I detest all my sins, I love You with all my heart, all my soul, until my dying breath and unto now, and You know I always did EVERYTHING I could to conform my will to Yours. ‘I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.’ (2 Tim 4:7)”

Kickstart your Lent, folks.

God, graciously hear us.