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The Most Holy Trinity, in His own words

The first reading in the Novus Ordo for today is Proverbs 8:22-31, and I find it totally sublime. The Triune Godhead is eternal, and here He is talking about Himself, through the hand of King Solomon. Blessed feast, everyone.

Thus says the wisdom of God:
“The LORD possessed me, the beginning of his ways,
the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago;
from of old I was poured forth,
at the first, before the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no fountains or springs of water;
before the mountains were settled into place,
before the hills, I was brought forth;
while as yet the earth and fields were not made,
nor the first clods of the world.

“When the Lord established the heavens I was there,
when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep;
when he made firm the skies above,
when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth;
when he set for the sea its limit,
so that the waters should not transgress his command;
then was I beside him as his craftsman,
and I was his delight day by day,
playing before him all the while,
playing on the surface of his earth;
and I found delight in the human race.”

Wars and Rumors of Wars

Posted by the excellent thetimman at Saint Louis Catholic…

3 And when he was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation of the world? 4 And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you: 5 For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.

6 And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places: 8 Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. 10 And then shall many be scandalized: and shall betray one another: and shall hate one another.

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many. 12 And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold. 13 But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom, shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come. 15 When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.

16 Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains: 17 And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat. 19 And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days. 20 But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the sabbath.

21 For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. 22 And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened. 23 Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe him. 24 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. 25 Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.

26 If therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold he is in the closets, believe it not. 27 For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west: so shall the coming of the Son of man be. 28 Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together. 29 And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be moved: 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty. (Mt. 24)

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It is never a bad time to read the 24th and 25th chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel, but they seem especially appropriate today. The riots in Los Angeles and other cities, clearly well-funded and coordinated, are ominous reminders of the appetite for evil and destruction held by so many Godless, or worse, people. On the other hand, the military mobilization for the parade announced for Saturday also triggers warnings. Existing on the internet, even for the small-fry blogger, introduces one to all of the current “rumors of wars”, so to speak.

You want the Q theory? The parade is a blind to allow the culmination of the glorious movie so-long planned out by the guardians of civilization to take down the satanic cabal of globalist pedophiles. We just have to sit back and watch. Of course, I was bid to sit and watch four years ago as the presidency was stolen by that same cabal.

So there’s that.

Naomi Wolf and Alex Jones are teaming up to predict Bolshevik revolution along with a mass-casualty event. Nice. I actually think they make a great couple.

The larger point being this: a godless society reaps what it sows. We are near the end, if one takes the proper eschatological perspective. We are two thousand years on from the Incarnation, life, passion, death, resurrection and ascension of the Messias. Our days dwindle and one day will at last be the last day. These times are bad indeed. Whether or not the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart comes first or after (and it will come), we shall see that horrible day when antichrist assumes power. It hasn’t happened yet, and that time will make this seem like Xanadu.

We have a duty: love Christ, live for Him, die for Him, believe in Him and belong to His Church. Against the forces, natural and preternatural, that assail us we do not have the strength to win. We have to ask for the strength of Christ. With it, and the help of the heavenly hosts, we cannot fail.

Stay alert always. Have humility and have confidence. Cling to Our Lady.

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.

Amen.

https://stlouiscatholic.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/wars-and-rumors-of-wars/

Purged Tulsa Trads = ¡Unity!

By Laramie Hirsch

They’ve finally done it. At the end of June, the Catholic Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma is finally ridding itself of its diocesan Latin mass community. The era of a grudging apartheid is over. The time for complete extermination has arrived…for the city’s diocesan Latin Mass, that is. Now is the moment for the permanent segregation of these people into their designated ghettos. The Synodal Church doesn’t want traditional homeschooling families meeting together, sharing coffee and donuts, talking about challenges of the world, discussing homeschool tips, or arranging playdates or barbecues. Not on diocesan property, and not on their watch. No, these people are to be promptly removed. This rabble can no longer be tolerated in any official diocesan capacity.

Before now, only through a lone Facebook post or The Okie Traditionalist’s blog would you learn that Tulsa’s diocesan Latin Mass is being culled. When the purge is complete, and Traditional liturgy is stripped from the city, the leftover undesirables can herd themselves into either the FSSP on the edge of town, possibly a once-a-month TLM parish 45 minutes away in Wagoner, the monastery that’s more than an hour away, or off to the SSPX—if they DARE—in Oklahoma City. Whatever happens to these people, the point is that Tulsa Trads are pariahs, and they will now have their community destroyed.

This signals a major milestone for the Synodal Church in Tulsa, so congratulations to them. This was over a decade-long quest to utterly annihilate the legacy of the infamous Bishop Slattery, who defiantly sought the faith of his fathers and reintroduced Traditional Catholicism to the city. And now, with his death last September, and a new Pope Leo XIV—ever-ready to carry on with Bergoglio’s Freemasonic legacy—the Catholic Church in T-Town can relieve itself of this undesirable minority.

This community’s destruction has been a passion project for the New Order Church in Tulsa. Parishioners here have a history of being on the receiving end of spiteful treatment, as I covered HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. But Okie Traditionalist summed it up most succinctly:

“[C]onsider that since Bishop Slattery (RIP) retired in 2016, the works of traditional restoration under him have over and over been as a matter of fact ended. This includes the Doloran Fathers, Mother Miriam’s Daughters of Mary, the traditional style Ad Orientem Novus Ordo Mass on Sundays at the cathedral, weekly Sunday Vespers at the cathedral, etc. That is in fact a pattern.”

With traditional life being cordoned off, the Tulsa diocese can now move on and catch up with Tulsa’s ever-growing liberal trends. From the Kaiser Foundation’s unending machinations, to a castrated police force, to reparations, DEI quotas, and pagan city council prayers, Tulsa is on her fast track to becoming a successful 15-minute city, much in the same vein as Austin, Chicago, or even LA. Gentner Drummond can’t take over fast enough!

Meanwhile, perhaps the Traditional community is either so meek or so beaten down, as to take this news with an air of cynical expectation. Heads hanging low, they’ll shuffle off to some other meadow to graze. A new diaspora of Trads for 2025. At least, I suppose, they won’t be trampling on the crumbs of our Lord’s Body in the diocesan worship space they were permitted to share. It’s doubtful there will be any protest.

In Tulsa, New Church intends to smother authentic Catholicism with a pillow, such that it dies a quiet death. Supposed shepherds would like nothing better than for wholesome, Traditional Catholic families to go away. We’re not the flock they want. They wish our communities were aborted—so that they’d not have to trouble themselves with our small minority. And these same powers will use their authority to culturally “contracept”, and prevent Tulsa from producing any more such people.

Today, however, people will hear about this and know. We will not be gaslit. No matter how passive-aggressive and silent local Church authorities remain on these injustices.

Paragraph 33 of Vatican II’s absolutely wonderful and fraternal Lumen Genitum affirms that laypeople “share in the priestly, prophetic, and kingly office of Christ,” and that we are to be active in the Church and the world. Tulsa’s diocesan Catholic shepherds will, apparently, NOT carry the lamp of faith for castoffs like the Trads. So, I guess in the name of synodal accompaniment, I’ll have to call out what my lying eyes see.

Who, specifically, is to blame? No one knows, gollee-gee. Take your guesses. A dense fog of plausible deniability clogs the air, preserving the decision maker(s) from any optically-poor blowback. Their attack style established these past years, we can perceive an aggressor, always circling, unseen and unblameable. The laity is left with no one to blame for the theft of their patrimony.

It just boggles my mind. Who’s been in charge this entire time? I simply can’t figure it out. Shucks.

Prelates will dress in schnazzy vestments and pretend they’re on our side—even going so far as to chant or even say Latin Mass themselves. But they betray who they are with their silence. (I was talking about Pope Leo XIV. Who’d you think I was talking about?) Someone important once warned that in our troubled era, “He who should speak seasonably will remain silent.” But, really, what could a synodal priest do with Tulsa’s newly-excised rabble except get rid of them? As Good Pope Francis said, “ The Church cannot be closed in on itself, but must be close to the world.“

On that note, I’ll just leave this right here:

Friendship with the world is hostility toward God. Whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4

Wherein St. John helpfully explains, you don’t need anyone’s permission to judge a heretic, even a heretic in white

A Blue-Collar Catholic Can Recognize a White-Collar Heretic

By Father David Nix

Most American Catholics do not know the definition of a heretic. However, a smaller percentage of mainstream Catholics who have studied a little theology might know that Catholics used to call Protestants “heretics,” whereas they now prefer the term “separated brethren.” An even smaller percentage of Catholics, namely traditionalists, still prefer to label Protestants as “heretics” (as well they should.) However, most traditional Catholics today are hesitant to grant the moniker “heretic” to anyone in the clergy without a formal canonical trial. Why are they so free with the first group and hesitant with the second group?

They are afraid that an obvious heretic in the hierarchy as such undermines the indefectibility of the Church. (The indefectibility of the Catholic Church is her invincibility against any error of faith or morals, that the gates of hell will not prevail against her, and I very much believe in it.) However, many traditionalists today have a false understanding of the Catholic Church if they erroneously believe the Church’s indefectibility depends on modernist heretics. (One need only study the Arian crisis a little bit to see that not every bishop in pretty vestments is a Catholic. In fact, the Catholic Church eventually ruled all the Arian bishops to be non-Catholics even if they had valid sacraments at the time.)

But back to the topic that everyone is debating online today: Can an average lay Catholic recognize and reject a heretic in the alleged-hierarchy? I happily admit there are longer (and superior) articles to this one to show that any blue-collar Catholic can recognize a material public heretic (even if he be a member of the clergy) including Matthew McCusker writing here and Mark NVP quoting a Pope here and a longer article sourced from Fr. Paul Kramer here.

But today I’m going to give a shorter and Scriptural proof as to why you can recognize a heretic in the hierarchy without need of anyone in authority confirming it for you. In other words, a well-formed blue-collar Catholic can recognize any white-cassock heretic (er, I mean “collar”) even before the latter undergo a formal canonical trial or that mythical “imperfect Council.”

A few weeks ago in the old Divine Office, every priest had to read the second letter of St. John the Apostle. Although we read it in Latin in our ancient Roman Breviary, I will include the verses that stopped me in my tracks in English from two translations of the same chapter:

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.—2 John 1:9-11 (ESV.)

or the same verses in an older translation with some original manuscript variations:

Whosoever revolteth, and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both the Father and the Son. If any man come to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house nor say to him, God speed you. For he that saith unto him, “God speed you,” communicateth with his wicked works.—2 John 1:9-11 (DRB.)

Whichever translation you choose above, we know that the above verses were written under inspiration of the Holy Spirit by St. John the Apostle as he exhorted a laywoman and her children on how to keep the faith pure. (See 2 John 1:1 if you doubt this.) Think about it for a minute: One of the first Apostles instructed a laywoman with no formal training in the First Century that she had the ability (and duty!) to recognize and reject (not resist!) anyone who came to her who did not remain in the doctrine of Christ (non manet in doctrina Christi—v.8.)

But wait! Was she supposed to wring her hands and complain that she was not trained in theology first? Was she supposed to show false-humility and say she couldn’t recognize a crafty goon not maintaining Apostolic doctrine (hanc doctrinam non adfert—v.10) until she receive approval from a bishop? Or perhaps she was courageous enough to recognize such a heretic, but then this new believer in Ephesus was supposed to text (on her mythical ancient cell-phone) St. Peter to make sure someone in Rome agreed with her appraisal of the bad man as a heretic?

Of course, all these propositions are ludicrous. St. John truly believed a blue-collar Catholic—even a new convert—could recognize a heretic straight-away. That woman did not have to wait for a bishop (like St. John) to confirm her smell-test. She didn’t even need to write her Apostle friend to confirm her well-informed intellect. The Apostle expected her to avoid anyone who didn’t hold to Apostolic Catholicism. Why? Because real Catholicism is simple, not complex. In the first century, she didn’t have the luxury to wait for a Cardinal in red to identify a wicked man on her doorstep as a material public heretic. In fact, her salvation depended on common-sense, not canon law.

St. John finished his letter to the lay woman with a pretty terrifying warning: Any minor interaction of that laywoman with a heretic meant she was “cooperating in his evil works” (communicat operibus illius malignis—v. 11.) This would be true for blue-collar trads today who do damage control for a certain white-collar heretic, even if they proceed with soft words to “give him the benefit of the doubt for awhile.” Such Catholics think they are taking the safe route of salvation because they walk the pathway of ostensible-obedience. However, they are actually on the most dangerous road in obeying imposters and heretics. Just look at the evidence before you accuse me of calling names.

Of course, St. John the Beloved would be the first to admit our judgment as Christians will primarily be the extent to which we lived with supernatural charity. But charity cannot exist without faith. And faith cannot exist while one follows a heretic, even if one thinks him to be in the hierarchy. This is why a blue-collar Catholic can and must recognize and reject (not resist) a white-collar heretic and avoid him before being tempted to enter into any canonical games. It’s common sense. It’s Biblical. It’s clear in Church history.