Author: Mark Docherty

Originally posted AUGUST 29, 2017, way back when the Amoris adultery lurv was fresh out of the box, the majority of Cardinals were still BXVI and JPII appointees, and we still thought it possible that ONE prelate would call out Benedict’s failed abdication (or at least the suspicion thereof), and the subsequent installation of a raging apostate antipope teaching heresy as Authentic Magisterium (which is impossible). Good news, gentleman; it’s not too late. -nvp

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A Reflection for the Cardinals on the Beheading of St. John the Baptist

“I spoke of Thy testimonies before kings, and I was not ashamed; I meditated also on Thy commandments, which I loved exceedingly.” (Ps. 118:46-47) Introit for the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist

How’d that work out for St. John the Baptist? What was his earthly reward for speaking Truth to power? What price are you willing to pay for defending the indissolubility of marriage? Was the price paid by John just TOO MUCH? Should he have been more pastoral? More accompanying? More discerning? More tender and merciful? Ask yourself: Did St. John the Baptist err in his defense of marriage? Is this the error now being corrected in Chapter Eight of Amoris Laetitia? There can be only one Truth.

“Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence: for I will make thee not to fear their countenance. For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a pillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of Juda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of the land. And they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.” Jeremias 1:17-19, Lesson for the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Our Lord did not lie when he proclaimed divorce and “remarriage” as adultery, and our Lord did not lie in today’s Lesson. Our reward is not of this earth. Where is the St. John of our times? Where are the men willing to sacrifice everything to defend our Lord and His Church? Where are those who will stop worrying about what they might lose and STEP UP? Have you no care for the souls which are perishing? If you’re not willing to defend the Sixth Commandment, you’re not much committed to the First Commandment.

“The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus in the house of the Lord. To show forth Thy mercy in the morning, and Thy truth in the night. Alleluia, alleluia. The just shall spring as the lily, and flourish forever before the Lord.  Alleluia.” (Ps. 91 13-14, 3; Hos. 14:6) Gradual for the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist

If flourishing forever before the Lord sounds glorious to you, get cracking.

From the combox on the previous post:

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I am a professional counselor specializing in sexual and identity issues. I’ve worked with many young men and women who suffer with this condition, both those who wish to go through the mutilation process and those who wish to be cured of their disordered feelings.

In nearly every case, I have had the opportunity to get to know the parents of these young people. In every single case, the mother has severe unresolved mental health issues like Depression, Borderline Personality Disorder, and/or Narcissistic Personality Disorder. There was even a study done in 1991 comparing the moms of boys with Gender Identity Disorder to the moms of normal boys. 100% of the moms of boys with GID were found to have clinically significant mental health problems of the kind stated above.

We see another type of psychopathology in the mothers who try to turn the sons into “trans” kids, namely Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. These mothers are different than the ones above in that these mothers are intentionally trying to make their kids “trans” for the purpose of showing that they are great and attentive mothers.

The mothers from the study above aren’t intending to turn their kids “trans”, and many times are horrified at it. These mothers more fit the “devouring mother” archetype who uses the son for emotional gratification and scapegoating.

If you want to stop these shooters, we have to address psychopathology in women. For the Munchausen cases, those women need intensive and long-term inpatient care and be kept away from their children. The “devouring mothers” need serious help as well, and these women cannot be relied upon to get help for themselves. They must be compelled.

These acts of terrorism by people calling themselves “transgender” will not cease if the upstream causes are not addressed.

Matthew Sciba, M.Ed.
Tyler, Texas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today’s entry into the already-lengthy trans murder Hall of Horrors. To Roman’s point, when will the gun control crowd call for pre-crime bans on purchasing/possessing firearms by mental patients? Oh wait, most mental patients already are banned. Just not the special genital mentals. So it will need to be the other side who does this.

Joanna Rowland-Stuart

Bradford Morris

Cameron Arnold

Trever Eugene/Trish Elizabeth Osterhout

Christopher Hudson/Julie Mikela Winters

Reya Jasmin

Nina Devillez

Jordan Love

Alexander Leatham

Liam Thanh Tam Nguyen

Zachary Vizee Liberto

Enver Marius Zueros

Alice Michael Joseph Attwood

Maddison Wilson

Graham Bain

Kyle Waugh/Kimberley Smith

Seth “Andrea” Gregori

Nicol Suarez

Zizians

Ryan Michael English

Ami Avanti

Morgan Geyser

Jaia Cruz

Robert William Perry II

Mohamad Al Ballouz

Hannah Viramontes

Corey Burke

Adam Laboucan

Paul Gavenonis

Barbie Kardashian

John Jacobson Jr.

Alex Ray Scott

Colt Gray

William John “Selena Leyc” Milligan

Julia Grace Egler

Unnamed Spanish guy

Myles “Margot” G. Lewis

Miguel Tapia

Collin Bailey

Rosa Montoya

Cameron Downing

Louise Thomas

John “Joan” Eikens

Jonas

Joanna Rowland-Stuart

Jared Ravizza

Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll

Karon Fisher

Andrea Ye

Adam Hetke

Alexia Willie

Kayla Alery

Bryan Kim

Joshua Cooper

Luka Magnotta

Scarlet Blake

Jonathan Richardson/Autumn Cordellionè

Genesse Ivonne Moreno

Elizabeth West

Thorsten Heinz P.

Steven Buchanan/Susan Monica

Dylan Butler

Kendall Stephens

Leion Butler

Jason Lee Willie

Audrey Hale

Kimbrady Carriker

Maya McKinney

Snochia Moseley

Anderson Lee Aldrich

Moses Lopez

William Whitworth

Shanu Varma

A guy calling himself Lara

Zion William Teasley

Jason Michael Hann

Cali Anderson

Dana Rivers

Vivian Ginger-Rain Shemansky

Linnea Pugmire

Mark Campbell

Paul S.

13 KIA 26 August 2021. Biden’s “signature moment” desiring to be the one to withdrawal from Afghanistan in haste, leaving it in Taliban hands, but ISIS had other plans (and we knew it).  It didn’t need to end this way.

11 Marines, one Navy Corpsman, one Army SSG. RIP.

• Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31, from Salt Lake City, Utah
• Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25, from Lawrence, Massachusetts
• Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23, from Sacramento, California
• Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22, from Indio, California
• Cpl. Daegan W. Page, 23, from Omaha, Nebraska
• Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22, from Logansport, Indiana
• Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20, from Rio Bravo, Texas
• Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20, from St. Charles, Missouri
• Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20, from Jackson, Wyoming
• Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20, from Rancho Cucamonga, California
• Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20, from Norco, California
• Navy Petty Officer Third Class Maxton W. Soviak, 22, from Berlin Heights, Ohio
• Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23, from Corryton, Tennessee

The pictures don’t do it justice. 70 mph winds, crazy dust and rain, Sky Harbor shut down, all planes diverted to LA or Vegas.

 

h/t VoxDay

(I took one look at this person, pre-crimed her, then one look at her LinkedIn, and everything made sense. And just like the Bud Light Marketing VP who hated her own brand and its core consumer, nothing will ever lead a leftist to learn anything. How could the bitter clingers and deplorables possibly be right? Oh and this isn’t about just the logo… search for pics of the interior redesign. -nvp)

Cracker Barrel’s Board Should Fire The CEO Immediately

Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance via Zerohedge

Cracker Barrel is learning the same lesson Bud Light did: fat, bearded, gun toting middle Americans not only dislike change — especially the “woke” kind — but will also turn on you for taking a staple brand they love and pile-driving it into the ground.

Today Cracker Barrel’s stock cratered more than 10% after the company unveiled a rebrand that scrapped its iconic barrel-and-man logo in favor of a sterile, text-only “woker” design minus the old white guy and the…well, cracker barrel.

The move, pushed by CEO Julie Felss Masino, has triggered furious backlash from customers, conservatives, and investors alike, with many calling it the chain’s “Bud Light moment…” I mean, honestly. How do you become (redacted) CEO of Cracker Barrel without understanding that this is your demographic?

How does the company’s CEO just not walk into one of their own restaurants and open their eyes? How does she not understand that nobody has ever said, “Let’s pull off at Exit 49 for a plate of woke minimalism.”

People go for biscuits the size of baseball mitts, kitschy décor that hasn’t changed since Nixon, and that faint smell of maple syrup soaked into the walls. Instead, the CEO has singlehandedly torched decades of brand identity with a text-only logo that looks like it was spit out by a bored intern with Microsoft Word.

The backlash has been ferocious. Meanwhile, CEO Julie Felss Masino is insisting the feedback has been “overwhelmingly positive,” which is corporate-speak for “I muted my notifications yesterday morning and set my e-mail to my ‘out of office’ reply”.

Masino’s vision is essentially to strip away the hokey charm and replace it with something she clearly believes will appeal to “younger, more diverse diners.” The menu is being tinkered with too—lighter options, healthier twists, a nod to “evolving tastes.”

But here’s the obvious question: did she learn nothing from Bud Light? After watching the number-one beer in America self-immolate by alienating its core base, Masino still thought bulldozing nostalgia in favor of bland “relevance” was a stroke of genius?

Today is the feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. That we are living through Fatima, there can be little doubt. Make First Fridays and First Saturdays. Why wouldn’t you?

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Five First Saturdays Devotion of Reparation to The Immaculate Heart of The Blessed Virgin Mary

Originally posted DECEMBER 4, 2021

https://holycross-olog.vermontcatholic.org/five-first-saturdays-devotion

• The following is an explanation of the conditions contained in Our Lady’s request at Fatima, Portugal regarding the Communion of reparation on the on the first Saturday of the month for five consecutive months.
• The promise made by Our Lady to Lucia on July 13th, 1917, that there would be a future manifestation concerning the practice of the Five First Saturdays, was fulfilled on December 10th, 1925. Lucia was then a Postulant Sister in the Dorothean Convent at Tuy, Spain. On this occasion Our Lady appeared together with the Child Jesus, Who spoke first to Lucia:“Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment, while there is no one who does an act of reparation to withdraw them for her.”
• Our Lady then addressed Lucia as follows:“Behold, my daughter, my Heart encircled with thorns, with which ungrateful men pierce It at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Give me consolation, you, at least; and make known on my behalf that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all who on the First Saturday of five consecutive months confess their sins, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the purpose of making reparation to my Immaculate Heart.”
• WHY FIVE SATURDAYS? It is sometimes asked why Our Lady asked for Communions of reparation on five first Saturdays, instead of some other number. Our Blessed Lord answered that question when He appeared to Sr. Lucia May 29, 1930. He explained that it was because of five kinds of offenses and blasphemies against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, namely: blasphemies against her Immaculate Conception, against her perpetual virginity, against the divine and spiritual maternity of Mary, blasphemies involving the rejection and dishonoring of her images, and the neglect of implanting in the hearts of children a knowledge and love of this Immaculate Mother.
• The spirit of reparation is a loving desire to make reparation to and console the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Our Mother. It considers the offenses which the Immaculate Heart of Mary now receives from those who reject her maternal intervention and despise her prerogatives. One should make this intention before carrying out Our Lady’s requests. A renewal of the actual intention at the time is best.
• 1. Confession On February 15, 1926 the Child Jesus alone came to visit Sr. Lucia and asked if the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was being propagated. Sr. Lucia spoke of a difficulty some people have in confessing on the first Saturday, and asked if they might be allowed eight days in order to fulfill Our Lady’s requests. Jesus answered: “Yes, even more time still, as long as they receive Me in the state of grace and have the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
  Confession: Repentance and Conversion: In order to fulfill this requirement in a truly worthy manner, we must look beyond the mere formality of going to confession at the appointed time, to a heartfelt spirit of repentance and lasting sorrow for our sins. This spirit of penance should pervade our entire life, in such a manner that it compels us to walk always in the path of that amendment of life for which Our Lady asked. In all true devotion to Our Lady — and devotion to her Immaculate Heart is the perfect expression of this true devotion — there must always be an effective repentance, that is, the returning of our hearts to Christ Our Savior. For all of us (sinners all), it is a call to conversion to the path of grace and submission to God’s holy Will. Even for those souls who already habitually live in the grace of God, true devotion to Our Lady impels them more and more to travel the pathway to holiness, by striving to purge themselves daily of all that is not of God. And it is this true devotion, based as it is on heartfelt repentance and conversion, that creates in them a truly authentic spirit of the Christian apostolate — the desire to lead others along the same path to the Heart of God.
  If one cannot go to confession the first Saturday of the month, one can go within eight days. Even one’s monthly confession would be sufficient, which would need the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
• 2.Receive Holy Communion
• 3.Devout Recitation of the Rosary with Meditation“Keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary.”
• The question is often asked: Does the meditation while reciting the Rosary fulfill this condition, or is there required an additional fifteen minutes of meditation? That an additional 15 minutes of meditation is required was recently confirmed by Sr. Lucia of Fatima. It is clear too from a statement by the first Bishop of Fatima.The last entry in the chronology of Fatima, published in the official Calendar of the Sanctuary for the year of 1940, and signed by Dom Jose Correia da Silva, the first Bishop of Fatima, gave a summary of Our Lady’s requests concerning the Five First Saturdays. From that official statement in the Calendar of the Sanctuary, we read the Bishop’s enumeration of the various items that pertain to the devotion of the five Saturdays:It consists in going to Confession, receiving Communion, reciting five decades of the Rosary and meditating for a quarter of an hour on the mysteries of the Rosary on the first Saturday of five consecutive months. The Confession may be made during the eight days preceding or following the first Saturday of each month, provided that Holy Communion be received in the state of grace. Should one forget to form the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, it may be formed at the next Confession, occasion to go to confession being taken at the first opportunity.The meditation embraces one or more mysteries; it may even include all, taken together or separately, according to individual attraction or devotion; but it is preferable to meditate on one mystery each month.Speaking of the requirement of “keeping me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary,” Bishop da Silva’s comment that “it is preferable to meditate on one mystery each month” could apply only to an extra fifteen minutes, for each decade of the Rosary must have its own particular meditation.
  Like the Rosary, this meditation may be made any time or place during the first Saturday. Yet again, like the Rosary, a very fitting time and place would be in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament before or after Mass. The question has been asked: “Would an extra Rosary, which would require about fifteen minutes, fulfill this request? It would seem, if fruitfully meditated, that it would. Or again, the time could be spent reading meditatively on one of the fifteen mysteries, which is a form of mental prayer that involves reading with frequent pauses to reflect on the matter read.
• 4.With the intention of making reparation. All of the conditions mentioned above – in numbers 1 to 3 – should be fulfilled with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On the occasion of the visit of the Child Jesus to Sr. Lucia (Feb. 16, 1926), she asked: “My Jesus, what about those who forget to make the intention?” Jesus answered: “They can do so at their next confession, taking advantage of their first opportunity to go to Confession.”The above are the minimum requirements for fulfilling the conditions of Our Lady’s promise to obtain for us “at the hour of death the graces necessary for salvation.” Yet, thes e Communions of reparation, as has been pointed out, are only a portion of the devotion of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These few pages are meant to help bring about a frame of mind and heart that will make us aware of the need of reparation all through the month, and not just on the first Saturday.
• The Promises attached to the Five First Saturdays Devotion.
• 1. Salvation of our own soul To all those who, on the First Saturday of five consecutive months … fulfill all the conditions requested, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for the salvation of their soul. This little devotion practised with a good heart, is then enough to procure infallibly for us – ex opere operato so to speak – as with the sacraments – the grace of final perseverance, of eternal salvation! And this promise is without any exclusion, limitation, restriction. To all who ….. I promise. Heaven for eternity for five Holy Communions!
• 2. Salvation of sinners So numerous are the souls which the justice of God condemns for sins committed against Me that I come to ask for reparation. Sacrifice yourself for this intention and pray. (Our Lady to Sister Lucy at Tuy, June 13,1929.) In consideration of this little devotion, They (Jesus and Mary) wish to give the grace of pardon to souls who have had the misfortune of offending the Immaculate Heart of Mary, wrote Sister Lucy in a letter of May, 1930.
• 3. Peace in the world Whether the world has war or peace depends on the practice of this devotion, along with the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is why I desire its propagation so ardently, especially because this is also the will of our dear Mother in Heaven. Sister Lucy, March 19,1939.