FWIW. This will certainly be celebrated by the “WE ARE SO BACK” crowd. Good grief, people. Enjoy your crumbs from the antichurch.
I hope he sends someone in the night before to exorcise the joint. No joke.
Author: Mark Docherty
Harvey Millican has had enough
Enough!
In my native New Jersey that sentence would read as follows:
James F-ing Martin? /Da Fuk Outta Here/.
The subject and predicate are understood.
You have by now, no doubt, seen the fabulous pictures and accompanying tweets by the Jesuit fruitcake (but I repeat myself).
I’ve had enough.
That’s it.
I’ve had enough.
I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
Let me walk you through my life a little bit.
Richard Galdon? Ever hear of him? Priest of the Archdiocese of Newark from the 1960’s on. In 1986 he was arrested for molesting many members of the Boy Scout troop he oversaw and the altar boys. He heard my first confession when I was in second grade. Felt banners flew gently from the stone pillars as Dick said the Mass where I received my First Holy Communion. I didn’t know what he had done. It came out a few months later. Blessed Mother protected me. I don’t do “scouting”. Didn’t back then. I hate mocking the homeless so camping is not my thing. Didn’t serve Mass because I just wasn’t interested. Also, I think my parents suspected Dick was a creep. I’ll never forget our pastor making that announcement from the pulpit one Sunday morning and everyone thinking in shock that this was a one-off. My mom and dad sat us kids down after Mass and told us all about what had been told to us that morning. They were blunt. They were direct. And they made sure we knew in no uncertain terms that, priest or no, if we ever found ourselves in that situation we were to fight back and tell them and the police right away. Screw the chancery.
Ted McCarrick. Remember him? Years later he accepted me into his seminary. Didn’t take long to figure out it was a hotbed of homosex. Didn’t take much longer still to get kicked out for refusing to play the game.
I could go on. But you get the point. They were faggots. And I’m sick of their stranglehold on my Church.
Robert Prevost… Hmm…
Ann Barnhardt has publicly called him Antipope Prevost and you know what, I think I’m there. Ann’s a great lady and has done so much work to expose this rot. Ignore her at your peril. And, as she mentioned in her last podcast, no less a luminary than Cardinal Burke himself told her personally that we’re not in schism who doubt the validity of one man’s papacy. Thank you for that. Too bad the good Cardinal hasn’t done anything about it.
Today we see Martin the Queer posed up nicely with Prevost in the Vatican.
It’s so special! He’s going to continue the work of the previous antipope and “minister” to the sodomites! Lovely.
You know what I think?
When I walk down the street, if I see a man resembling anything close to Martin’s sachet, I cross the street. I don’t want to be near those demons and I sure as hell don’t want my kids near them either.
But Prevost poses with him. He allows him to publicize the message that he’ll continue journeying with him. Now imagine him posing with McCarrick, or Galdon, or Maciel, or Weakland. Take your pick.
There you have it.
Kind of says a it all.
Our Lady of Good Success, pray for us!
Matt Archbold explains, we are not living in a material world
It seems we mostly are choosing to ignore that Robert Westman, the young man who shot up a Catholic Church filled with children, drew a picture of a demon staring back at him in the mirror. Why? Because believing there’s more to the world than the physical realm, calls us to be more. And for some, that’s scarier than anything else.
So it’s being largely ignored.
We’ve dismissed it. The whole lot. With a wave of the hand. With a shrug. We call it “the Enlightenment.” It’s a flat world without shadows. A world without evil. Just… bad behavior. Bad parenting. Social ills. We dissect it. We diagnose it. We give it a name and a pill to remedy it. We make it small.
But look around. The facts. The hard, cold facts. The sheer, unmitigated evil that walks among us. Not the guy stealing bread but the cruelty that has no motive. The malice that defies explanation. The smile at other people’s pain. The senseless horror that slips the mask. The kind of evil that makes you want to lock your doors and look at the sky. What do you call that? ‘Complex socioeconomic factors’? ‘Psychological deviance’?
You call it what you want. Put it in a box and tie a ribbon around it. But the stain remains. It’s a tear in the fabric. A hole in the reality you’ve so carefully constructed. Because you’ve explained everything, right? The light. The sun. The stars. You’ve charted it all. But you can’t chart this. This… blackness. This thing that looks at us and hates us.
But you can’t see the shadow because if you admit the shadow, you must admit the light. We’re so eager to deny the demons. Why? Because then we can deny the angels. Angels have consequences. Love, salvation, faith, grace. These all have consequences that quarks, atoms, and leptons don’t. You can believe in them without changing your life. Without changing yourself. But love calls us out of ourselves, asks us to be loving and faithful. Love asks us to pick up our cross. So you can laugh it all off as myth. I get it. If you admit there’s more then you might have to be more.
So go ahead. Stick to your facts. Cling to your materialism. Call it science. Call it progress. But when you look into the eyes of true evil—the kind that makes the blood run cold—you’ll see something that doesn’t fit your spreadsheets. Something that can’t be explained away. And in that moment, in that sickening, soul-shaking instant, you might just find yourself looking at darkness so black you’ll pray for light. I pray that you’ll find it.
“The Antichurch is here and has been since 2013. What are you going to do about it?”
(another worthy substack here from our good friend, Andrew Dunn. -nvp)
On the 13th of March 2013, following the non-resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, an invalid conclave in Rome “elected” Jorge Bergoglio as (anti)pope. What followed were 12 years of daily, non-stop blasphemies, heresy and anti-Catholicism. I’m not going to dwell on the reasons why Pope Benedict’s resignation was blatantly invalid, nor why it is impossible for a non-Catholic like Jorge Bergoglio to be the pope – other people have already done that, much better than I.
So now that Bergoglio is dead, how about that Robert Prevost? The man that 95 plus percent of Catholics consider to be Pope Leo XIV? Yeah, how about how this younger, more intelligent, better mannered man than Bergoglio is undoing all the damage inflicted on Holy Mother Church by the pachamama’s pimp? How’s that working out all of you in the Diocese of Charlotte? Same for you Detroit? It sure is nice isn’t it to have a holy father who, following the Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis last week, condemned the satanic insanity of transgenderism which led to the shooting and dozens of others. Oh that’s right… he condemned gun violence instead and then hosted the militant Jesuit homosexual James Martin at the Vatican.
Folks, a holy father HAS TO BE CATHOLIC! If Jorge Bergoglio could be the pope then so can a muslim, a jew, a freemason, even an atheist. Hell, for that matter, some Amazonian witch doctor, permanently high on cocoa leaves and guano-infested river water could be the pope! Likewise, when the See of St. Peter is clearly vacant by all, a conclave has to be valid. Having someone pre-chosen by an antipope and rubber stamped by an obedient conclave of yes-men, most of whom are practicing homosexuals, means the conclave is invalid and the man “elected” is another antipope. That’s where we are now and Prevost, Martin x2 (Jimmy the Jesuit and Michael the sadist of Charlotte), Cupich, Tobin, etc. are laughing in your face and at Our Lord and His Blessed Mother who they regard with more contempt than your run-of-the-mill, anti-Catholic, evangelical protestant.
What are you going to do about it?
Everyone still donating to their Diocesan Church may want to re-consider – even if you attend a good parish with a solid priest. At this point, can you be assured that the percentage of the money you put in the collection plate that goes to the chancery is going to good use? And by that, I mean not going to the marxist Catholic Campaign for Human Development or even more scandalous… hush-money funds, rent boys, and drugs that enable old sodomite men to perform with rent boys and vice verse. Sorry to be so graphic but those are the kind of guys that have taken Holy Mother Church hostage.
We are commanded to support the Church but you can support the Church by tithing directly to priests that are under persecution. You can financially support traditional orders of priests and nuns, not tied to dioceses and the antichurch in Vatican City. On that later note, good traditional seminaries who can’t and won’t be shut down by antipope Prevost himself or by proxy deserve our prayers and our financial support.
But, but, but, my church will close!
What do you do when your vegetable garden is threatened by weeds? You pull up the weeds so they don’t choke the food source you’re cultivating. Since the close of the Second Vatican Council, NOTHING has improved in the Church, nor in society at large. Seriously, think hard about one good thing that improved in the Catholic Church since 1969. How about all those empty seminaries? The once thriving convents of devout nuns who built hospitals and schools, now nursing homes for feminist lesbians who practice wicca? The pedophile sex scandals which continue to this day? The devastating drop-off of Catholics who actually believe the Teachings of the Catholic Church? Look, I don’t want any Catholic Church to close – we’re going to need all of these closed churches when the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart occurs – but it makes no sense to keep watering and fertilizing the weeds while they overtake the vegetables. Throughout this wasteland of atheism and agnosticism, there are traditional oases of hope with young, devout men and women. Those places are the future of the Church.
My two cents (which are not going in the collection plate to my archdiocese).
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“In this supreme moment of need of the Church, the one who should speak will fall silent”
Laramie Hirsch (formerly of Forge and Anvil) has a new substack, which I highly recommend. He needs your help, as he explains here, so if you could manage even a meager subscription, say $4/month, anything helps. Today’s post starts with prophecy and ends with a throttling. Keep with it. -nvp
God’s Prophecies For Cardinal Burke…
…who even MET with Ann Barnhardt
Hindsight is 20/20. And now that the damage has been done and we are left with smoking craters, table scraps, endless clerical effeminacy, and a desolated, low-trust culture, let’s take a look back and consider some Catholic prophecies that likely transpired for those of us living through the Bergoglian regime. Namely, those surrounding Cardinal Burke, who at one time had the power to interrupt the evil machinations subverting the Church today.
There are many prophecies about this laxity from Catholic hierarchy. Today, we will examine just a few. First, we’ll start with antipope Bergoglio’s namesake prophet, St. Francis of Assisi:
“Some preachers will keep silent about the truth, and others will trample it under foot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them, not a true Pastor, but a destroyer.”
– from Works of the Seraphic Father St. Francis of Assisi, pp. 248-250
A rather broad prophecy. But we get the gist. Some bad things will cascade from the top of the Catholic Church, and the priests will either ignore what’s going on, or they’ll even actively work to destroy Catholicism. They will “keep silent about the truth.” Consequently, there will not be a real pope, but an antipope.
However, we can look to the Americas for a more specific prophecy, directed squarely at the Bergoglian regime. Namely, this prophecy from Quito, Ecuador. I will note in brackets who, particularly, I feel the following prophecy is addressing.
The Sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed, and despised [ALL OF THIS WAS DONE BY BERGOGLIO], for in this Sacrament, the Church of God and even God Himself is scorned and despised since He is represented in His priests. The Devil will try to persecute the ministers of the Lord in every possible way [CANCELLED PRIESTS]; he will labor with cruel and subtle astuteness to deviate them from the spirit of their vocation and will corrupt many of them. These depraved priests [FR. JAMES MARTIN], who will scandalize the Christian people, will make the hatred of bad Catholics and the enemies of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church fall upon all priests.
This apparent triumph of Satan will bring enormous suffering to the good Pastors of the Church, the many good priests, and the Supreme Pastor and Vicar of Christ on earth, who, a prisoner in the Vatican [THIS WAS LIKELY POPE BENEDICT XVI], will shed secret and bitter tears in the presence of his God and Lord, beseeching light, sanctity and perfection for all the clergy of the world, of whom he is King and Father. Further, in these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury which will ensnare the rest into sin and conquer innumerable frivolous souls who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women.
In this supreme moment of need of the Church, the one who should speak will fall silent [THIS IS CARDINAL BURKE].
– Our Lady of Good Success to Mother Mariana of Jesus Torres, January 21, 1610
Okay. Perhaps there’s plenty of blame and culpability to go around. There are other players in this drama that I’m intentionally not mentioning here. But certainly, the main characters in this cast are: Bergoglio, James Martin, Pope Benedict, and Cardinal Burke. I would say the role of these men was instrumental in putting us where we are today.
Cardinal Burke Did Nothing
I hope that Cardinal Burke is having a wonderful time wherever he’s at right now. I wonder if his present endeavors are “off limits” for Prevost’s demolition teams.
Before his current retirement job, His Eminence was Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. He was the leading canon lawyer in the Vatican’s highest court. He had a lot of power and ability to prevent enormous destruction in the Catholic Church. And he did nothing.
He was then removed from his Vatican privileges by antipope Bergoglio in 2014, and sidelined into the role of Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Cardinal Burke took it and liked it. And what is he doing these days? He states that he’s devoting himself to a shrine in Wisconsin.
Why come down so hard on Burke? Why express such disappointment in the man? Because we know with certainty that former-canon-lawyer Burke knows precisely what is wrong in the Catholic Church. He knows quite well that Bergoglio was a fake pope, and that now Prevost is likely another antipope. He knows everything that we, laity, know. And he’s done nothing about it. For years.
As a matter of fact, he had the facts clearly laid out for him by none other than Ann Barnhardt.
Yes, Ann Barnhardt met with Cardinal Burke.
After years of being silent about the matter, Ann Barnhardt finally has told the public about her meeting with the cardinal in her latest podcast: Barnhardt Podcast #233: The Surreptitious Social Life of Ann.
Cardinal Burke had a meeting with Barnhardt before the Covid lockdowns. He took copious notes. The way Ann described it, it is as though that was the first time Burke heard of the antipope situation described in this way. He asked Barnhardt what should be done in regards to the evil cardinal appointments by Bergoglio. She had to explain Ecclesia Supplet to the cardinal—the canon lawyer, the illegally deposed Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. This laywoman had to explain to him the idea of supplied jurisdiction, and that it can’t be used to ratify acts of evil or malice.
Cardinal Burke agreed with Barnhardt that a pope can’t just do whatever he wants, regardless of canon law. He agreed with Barnhardt—at that time when Pope Benedict and Bergoglio were still alive—that it was absurd to think that Pope Benedict had some sort of a master plan to fix the Church. Burke did not think Barnhardt was nuts. From her account, he seemed convinced.
In fact, Barnhardt was allowed to meet with Cardinal Burke a second time in 2020, at a time during the Pandemic when everyone was paranoid and masked up. She sat with him for an hour and forty five minutes and discussed the ongoing disaster.
They went over the Miller Dissertation. This is a 1980 paper more properly called The Divine Right of the Papacy in Recent Ecumenical Theology, and it explores the distinction between the Petrine Munus (office) and Ministerium (ministry/function) of the Papacy. This paper lays the groundwork for understanding how Benedict’s resignation from the papacy in 2013 was invalid. Barnhardt went over this with Card. Burke, and he did not disagree with her presentation.
He asked Barnhardt to give her absolutely every note she had on the matter.
Ann flatly essentially told Burke: “This is on your shoulders. You’re basically the highest living churchman right now. Though there are churchmen in the Vatican with higher positions than yours, they aren’t even Catholic.” And she told him that everyone she’s shared this information with agrees that this “Bennyvacantist” explanation—that Bergoglio is an antipope—makes sense and that this is an excellent case; however, these parties can’t “go along with this” until Cardinal Burke gives his approval of this. “I’m waiting for Cardinal Burke to say something.” As Ann recounts saying to the cardinal: “The remnant Church is looking at you, waiting, with bated breath—you—to act on this.”
She added, to his face: “I would solve this before dinner this evening. I would have people come—multiple people come with their phones, with video cameras—and if I were you, I would record a statement saying: ‘Serious canonical irregularities have been identified with regards to the putative resignation proffered by Pope Benedict XVI in February of 2013. Pending further investigation, I hereby declare a state of emergency suspense.”
He did nothing.
Cardinal Burke said to Barnhardt that her argument was extremely logical, extremely well-reasoned, canonically sound. The canonical citations are sound. And “YOU, ANN, ARE NOT CRAZY. AND YOU, ANN, ARE NOT A SCHISMATIC.” The cardinal said this to her.
The Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura has said that Ann Barnhardt’s “Bennyvacantist” stance is neither crazy, nor schismatic. This canon lawyer—the highest in the world—has said that her position is sound.
Yet he did nothing.
And now? The focus of his life is devotion to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The highest churchman who knows everything we laity have been discussing for years, who knows our plight, our position, our problems—how we’ve been terrorized and abused—this man who should be coming to our rescue…he has done nothing.
Bittersweet Conclusions
It may well be depressing and a huge let down to know that the right men were in the right place at the right time, and they did absolutely nothing for us. But there are some positive takeaways. For one, we can rest assured that the “Bennyvacantist” position is fine and not schismatic at all. We already knew that, but we can now say we’ve heard it from the lips of Cardinal Burke, himself.
Furthermore, while it seems that the Church will not avoid slipping into a dark period of Judases, we are at least assured that Providence knew this would happen, and we are promised that God will triumph in the end, and that these trials only purify the faithful all the more. As for Cardinal Burke and prelates like him who have done nothing to wrest control of the Church from the grip of Antichrist forces, fortune does not smile upon them:
“Within a short time, all the laws of the Church will fall under the blow of a most unjust and culpable violation. When reports of a threatening order reach their ears, many priests will not be last in breaking the laws (of the Church.) I grieve at the laxity of such a number that it makes Me shudder. I grieve at the little faith that abides in them. They are very guilty; not all of them, but many.
“In their [priests’] aberration, they will break their oaths. The Book of Life contains a list of names that ‘rends the heart.’
“Because of the little respect it has for the apostles of God, the flock grows careless and ceases to observe the laws. The priest himself is responsible for the lack of respect because he does not respect enough his holy ministry, and the place which he occupies in his sacred functions. The flock follows in the footsteps of its pastors; this is a great tragedy.
“The clergy will be severely punished on account of their inconceivable fickleness and great cowardice which is incompatible with their functions.
“A terrible chastisement has been provided for those who ascend every morning the steps of the Holy Sacrifice. I have not come on your altars to be tortured. I suffer a hundredfold more from such hearts than any of the others. I absolve you from your great sins, My children, but I cannot grant any pardon to these priests.”
– The Holy Spirit to Marie Julie Jahenny, June 1881
Not typically vindictive, I would not wish eternal punishment on a guy like Cardinal Burke. I say pray for his soul and ask God for mercy in regards to what he failed to do. And do the same for Pope Benedict as well. I don’t think that any of us would want to see these men not come out of this one way or another. It’s just that their inaction was so completely damaging to all of us. Honestly, it’s ultimately in God’s hands. But I’d choose to pray for these men.
As for the satanic cabal who now lord over us and wait to drop the hammer—in regards to them, I say: pray to God for deliverance.
https://theweltgeist.substack.com/p/gods-prophecies-for-cardinal-burke
Vicar of Murderous Trannies
This was NOT bad optics. This was intentional optics. Don’t they didn’t talk beforehand, and discussed whether it was bad timing, and then agreed that it was PERFECT timing to support transanity, with the murdered kids not even buried yet. I bet they both got high from the getting away with it.
When you’ve lost Eric Sammons…
We now know, unequivocally, that Cardinal Burke and Msgr Bux were informed years ago about the reality and root cause of the Bergoglian Antipapcy
If anyone should claim that Cardinal Burke and Monsignor Bux did NOT have the reality of Pope Benedict’s invalid abdication explained to them in excruciating detail, which they both acknowledged as intriguing if not incontrovertible, let him be anathema. I’ve seen the PowerPoints, y’all. It’s all in there.
Since a partial resignation is no resignation at all, the law (and plain reality) dictates that the situation reverts to the status quo. Hence the conclave of 2013 was wholly invalid, and could not have possibly elected a valid pope, since a valid pope yet lived, and continued to reign (whether he liked it or not). The burden of proof is so simple on this: If Benedict thought he remained “papal” in any way after 28 Feb 2013, his resignation was rendered invalid by the Substantial Error clause in Canon 188, the Properly Manifested clause in Canon 332.2, and quite possibly the Made Freely clause in the latter canon. Triple invalidation.
Miss B had multiple audiences, over a 22 month period, explaining all this. Email correspondence has been preserved. So now, after a respectful five years of holding all this in confidence, it’s time.
It’s worse for +Bux, whose deception has been laid bare in the past two weeks over Lettergate, wherein he stated in the Valli interview in 2018 that Benedict’s “resignation” was highly problematic and needed to be investigated, but now claims that Benedict had told him that idea was absurd, in a personal letter four years earlier in 2014. The man doesn’t seem to understand the inviolability of linear time. His enthusiastic encounter with Miss B was in early 2019, during which at no time did he inform her that Pope Benedict considered her thesis “absurd.”
As for ++Burke, at least he gets one thing right (Ann’s quote below):
“I have been personally assured by no less than his Eminence, the illegally deposed prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, that I am NOT schismatic nor in schism, and therefore neither are you “interregnists”. So we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.”
F.X. Wernz, P. Vidal: “Finally they cannot be numbered among the schismatics, who refuse to obey the Roman Pontiff because they consider his person to be suspect or doubtfully elected on account of rumours in circulation.” (Ius Canonicum, 7:398, 1943)
Rev Ignatius Szal: “Nor is there any schism if one merely transgress a papal law for the reason that one considers it too difficult, or if one refuses obedience inasmuch as one suspects the person of the pope or the validity of his election, or if one resists him as the civil head of a state.” (Communication of Catholics with Schismatics, 1948)
De Lugo: “Neither is someone a schismatic for denying his subjection to the Pontiff on the grounds that he has solidly founded [‘probabiliter’] doubts concerning the legitimacy of his election or his power [refers to Sanchez and Palao].” (Disp., De Virt. Fid. Div., disp xxv, sect iii, nn. 35-8)
Should anyone claim that interregnists are schismatic or in schism, let him be anathema.
Have a listen!
Barnhardt Podcast #233: The Surreptitious Social Life of Ann
In this episode, Art and Ann are joined once again by NonVeni Mark and Dr. Mazza. Recorded on the feast of St. Augustine, Dr. Mazza shares some quotes and insights on the great Church Father. Then, as promised, Ann finally, after over five years of respectful silence, reveals her several extremely cordial and warmly-received presentations to high-level clerics and prelates regarding the invalid resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the Bergoglian Antipapacy. If the few remaining churchmen today won’t do their part to defend the Petrine See from usurpers, at least I know that I did mine given my state in life, by the unfathomable, and occasionally surreal grace of God. And I have been personally assured by no less than his Eminence, the illegally deposed prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, that I am NOT schismatic nor in schism, and therefore neither are you “interregnists”. So we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.
Dr. Mazza’s two archived courses on Sedevacantism and St. Augustine
NonVeni Mark’s piece on DEROGATION
Desperado: A Poker Analogy to Explain How the Pope and Canon Law Relate to Each Other
Feedback: the email address for the podcast is Ann@barnhardt.biz.
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Pro-death gun-grabbing at the Angelus
How very Chicagoan of him. Also, no mention of the pandemic of transsexuals committing mass-murder nor anti-Catholic violence. -nvp
Pope Leo calls for end to ‘pandemic of arms’ after Minneapolis school shooting
Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis (sic), frequently condemned the arms industry and warned that the use of guns by civilians to defend themselves had become a “habit.” Leo, who was elected in May, has continued to condemn the “logic of weapons” and the arms trade…
“Apart from the Cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”
The first canonized saint of the Western Hemisphere, Rose of Lima (1586-1617) might also be considered a type of the special vocation of contemplative-in-the-world. Inspired by the example of St. Catherine of Siena, Rose became a Dominican lay tertiary and devoted herself to works of active charity while living a life of extreme austerity. She longed to evangelize the Indians, not at all discouraged by the thought that they would probably kill her. Saint Martin de Porres and Bl. John Masias were among her friends. She died at the age of 31, praying, “Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase Your love in my heart.”
COLLECT
O Almighty God, from whom every good gift comes, it pleased You that blessed Rose should blossom as a flower of purity and patience in the Indies under the shower of Your heavenly grace. May we, Your servants, follow the fragrance of her sweetness so that we too may become a pleasing offering to Christ; who lives and rules with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever.
St. Rose was born in April 1586 in Lima, Peru to Oliva and Gaspar Flores. She was the 7th of 11 children. Her birth name was Isabel. However, her mother and friends witnessed a mystical rose descend from the air and light on her face while she was just an infant. From then on she was called Rose.
Rose clearly had a religious calling from an early age. After reading about St. Catherine of Siena, she decided to imitate her. She fasted at least 3 times a week. She found ways to do penance and offer her suffering for the good of others. She understood redemptive suffering from an early age.
St. Rose wished to enter the convent. However, her parents refused to let her. Finally, after ten years of struggle and refusal to marry she became a Third Order Dominican. She lived in her home just as St. Catherine of Siena did. St. Rose received the Blessed Sacrament daily and lived her life in silence and seclusion, enjoying the family garden.
At the age of 31 St. Rose came down with a high fever. She died from the fever and paralysis. A multitude of people attended her funeral.
St. Rose was canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671.
“Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.”
“If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.”
“Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”
https://tridentine-mass.blogspot.com/2025/08/saint-rose-of-lima-1617-ad-saints-felix.html
https://catholicfaithpatronsaints.com/prayers-quips-and-quotes-st-rose-of-lima-feast-day-august-23/
F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin before fighter jet crashed itself into the ground
By Brad Lendon, CNN
A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says.
The January 28 crash at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks was recorded in a video that showed the aircraft dropping straight down and exploding in a fireball. The pilot ejected safely.
An Air Force investigation blamed the crash on ice in the hydraulic lines in the nose and main landing gears of the F-35, which prevented them from deploying properly.
Attempts to fix the landing gear caused the fighter jet to think it was on the ground, ultimately leading to the crash.
After going through system checklists in an attempt to remedy the problem, the pilot got on a conference call with engineers from the plane’s manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, as the plane flew near the air base. Five engineers participated in the call, including a senior software engineer, a flight safety engineer and three specialists in landing gear systems, the report said.
The pilot then tried two “touch and go” landings, where the plane briefly lands, to try to straighten out the jammed nose gear, the report said.
But those attempts failed to recenter the nose wheel and resulted in both the left and right main landing gears freezing up and not being able to extend fully to attempt an actual landing.
At that point, the F-35’s sensors indicated it was on the ground and the jet’s computer systems transitioned to “automated ground-operation mode,” the report said.
This caused the fighter jet to become “uncontrollable” because it was “operat(ing) as though it was on the ground when flying,” forcing the pilot to eject.
An inspection of the aircraft’s wreckage found that about one-third of the fluid in the hydraulic systems in both the nose and right main landing gears was water, when there should have been none.
The investigation found a similar hydraulic icing problem in another F-35 at the same base during a flight nine days after the crash, but that aircraft was able to land without incident.
The report notes Lockheed Martin had issued guidance on the problem the F-35’s sensors had in extreme cold weather in a maintenance newsletter in April 2024, about nine months before the crash. It said if the conference call participants had referenced the 2024 maintenance newsletter, “they likely would have advised a planned full stop landing or a controlled ejection instead of a second touch-and-go” that eventually led to the conditions that caused the crash, the report said.
Lockheed Martin referred questions about the findings to the Air Force.
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