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Film at 11.
Taking Up the Cross in Marriage
(Borrowed from Scott Hahn’s Facebook page)
TAKING UP OF THE CROSS IN MARRIAGE
According to Croatian tradition, when a couple gets married, the priest doesn’t tell them that they have found the perfect person. On the contrary! Instead, he says to them: “You have found your cross. It is a cross to love, to carry it with you, a cross that is not to throw away but to treasure.”
In Herzegovina, the Cross represents the greatest love and the crucifix is the treasure of the house.
When the bride and groom enter the church on their wedding day, they carry a crucifix with them. The priest blesses the crucifix. When the time comes to exchange their vows, the bride puts her right hand on the crucifix and the groom puts his hand on hers, so that both hands are joined together on the crucifix.
The priest covers their hands with his stole as they exchange their vows, according to the rite of the Church, to be faithful to each other, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, till death do them part.
Then, instead of kissing each other, the bride and groom kiss the crucifix. Those who witness the ceremony understand from it that if one of them leaves the other, he or she leaves Christ on the Cross.
After the ceremony, the newlyweds bring the crucifix to their home and put it in a place of honor. It will forever be the point of reference and the place of family prayer. In times of difficulty, the family do not go to the lawyer or the psychiatrist, but kneel down together before the crucifix in search of help from Jesus Christ. They kneel down and maybe even cry and open their hearts asking the Lord and each other for forgiveness. They go to sleep with peace in their hearts because they have received forgiveness from the only one who has the power to save.
Husband and wife will teach their children to kiss the crucifix every day and not to go to sleep like pagans, without first giving thanks to Jesus. They know that Jesus is holding them in His arms and there is nothing to fear.
H/t Toby Kenobe
Remain calm, you schismatic! Hagan Leo invites Lofton to Vatican as faithful “Catholic influencer,” okay?
h/t Dr. Mazza.
Blessed Feast of Saint Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patroness of all mothers
(Originally posted July 26, 2022)
“Anne and Joachim, her husband, were both of the royal house of David. They served God continually in prayer and good works, but were looked down upon by the Jews because they were childless. At length God gave them a daughter, who was to become the mother of His own divine son. Because St. Anne devoted herself ceaselessly to educating her child in innocence and sanctity, she is patron of all Christian mothers. St. Paul says that it is by a holy exercise of their parenthood that parents are to be saved (Col. 3:18-21).”
https://tridentine-mass.blogspot.com/2022/07/saint-anne-mother-of-blessed-virgin-mary.html
The Lesson for today is from the Mass of a Holy Woman Not a Martyr, and we hear it only a few times per year. It is the Valiant Woman passage at the conclusion of the Book of Proverbs. You won’t find that phrase in any prot bibles of course, and most Catholic bibles are even worse: The NRSVCE has it as “Capable Wife.” Good grief.
Anyway, it is an absolutely beautiful passage. The man and woman described here are models for us, for our spouse, or future spouse. Happy Feast! Could you please offer an Ave for my mother, Anne Docherty?
LESSON Prov. 31:10-31
Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her. The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils. She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life. She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands. She is like the merchant’s ship, she bringeth her bread from afar. And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens. She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm. She hath tasted, and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp shall not be put out in the night. She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle. She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor. She shall not fear for her house in the cold of snow: for all her domestics are clothed with double garments. She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and purple, is her covering. Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land. She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite. Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day. She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue. She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle. Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and he praised her. Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast surpassed them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.
Buttigieg Spent $80 Billion On DEI, Half DOT’s Budget, Instead Of Upgrading Air Traffic Control
by Tyler Durden
While the Trump administration has faced criticism for air traffic control outages and errors over the last year, recent developments suggest the current crisis may actually be rooted in the Biden administration (big surprise, we know…)
That’s because under Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, systemic issues with outdated infrastructure, controller shortages, and mounting flight delays worsened—even as the Department of Transportation (DOT) diverted massive resources toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, according to a new report by the NY Post.
During his tenure, Buttigieg allegedly showed little interest in modernizing ATC systems. “He was definitely pushing an agenda,” said one industry official. “Little to no interest” was given to fixing the aging infrastructure, and “definitely zero action” was taken, they added.
In a meeting with airline executives, Buttigieg reportedly dismissed the need for upgrades, saying improvements would simply let them “fly more planes, and so why would that be in his interest?”
Buttigieg Spent $80 Billion On DEI, Half DOT’s Budget, Instead Of Upgrading Air Traffic Control: Report
While the Trump administration has faced criticism for air traffic control outages and errors over the last year, recent developments suggest the current crisis may actually be rooted in the Biden administration (big surprise, we know…)
That’s because under Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, systemic issues with outdated infrastructure, controller shortages, and mounting flight delays worsened—even as the Department of Transportation (DOT) diverted massive resources toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, according to a new report by the NY Post.
During his tenure, Buttigieg allegedly showed little interest in modernizing ATC systems. “He was definitely pushing an agenda,” said one industry official. “Little to no interest” was given to fixing the aging infrastructure, and “definitely zero action” was taken, they added.
In a meeting with airline executives, Buttigieg reportedly dismissed the need for upgrades, saying improvements would simply let them “fly more planes, and so why would that be in his interest?”
Instead, the Post exclusive notes that the DOT approved around 400 DEI-related grants between 2021 and 2024 totaling over $80 billion—more than half of the agency’s typical annual budget.
An Open-Letter to Cardinal Burke
Your Eminence Leo Cardinal Burke,
Ave Maria.
On this Vigil of the Feast of St. James, I write to you today with the utmost respect for your office since I recognize you as a Prince of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
Your Eminence, I remember learning about you five years after my ordination as a Catholic priest when you tenaciously exposed the errors of Amoris Laetitia. You made a private correction, but then you went public.
Nine years ago, in 2016, you boldly wrote a public paternal correction in the form of several “dubia” (doubts) in regards to the moral theology heresies of Amoris Laetitia. If it went unanswered, you threatened (in the most charitable way) there would be a public correction from you. Not only was this promise made to the Vatican, but to all Catholics. And since we know there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church, you essentially made this promise to the whole world.
You never fulfilled that promise.
At this point in my letter, it would be wise to point out that Matthew 18 requires any fraternal correction be private before it be public. This is even more true for paternal corrections.
However, several years ago, a friend of a friend approached you in person, asking you to announce that the numerous peculiar circumstances regarding the purported-resignation of Pope Benedict required an investigation as to the validity of the act, and hence the validity of the subsequent Conclave.
We never witnessed you acting on this request to reveal (or even question) the obvious irregularities to Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation under duress. Nor did you expose the illegal activity that was publicized regarding the 2013 Conclave. Yes, this illegal activity was public, not a conspiracy theory.
Again, you charitably and courageously brought the paternal correction from the private forum to the public forum for the sake of another’s soul. So also, now I do the same for your soul.
First of all, we are nearly nine years from your promised public correction of the heresies of Amoris Laetitia. Although Francis is dead, his heresies remain in the Acta Apostolica with no significant challenges. Who among the Princes of the Church would have the grace and courage to challenge these remaining malignant tumors in the heart of the Church except you?
In fact, you gallantly proclaimed in the summer of 2025 that the message of Fatima “speaks about the practical apostasy of our time that is the going away from Christ by so many in the Church and the violence and death which are its fruit.” Thank you for saying that.
Of course, most Catholics are all still wondering about the Third Secret of Fatima, because only that will shed light on the current Church crisis. I do not claim in this letter to propose that you know the Third Secret.
However, we do have some idea as to what this might be. A famous non-Catholic American commentator visited Rome a few years ago. He claimed that a high-ranking Prelate in the Vatican told him the Third Secret of Fatima was “a bad Mass and a bad Council.” This American podcaster put this on his YouTube show reaching over a million people.
Of course, I can’t prove that the Third Secret of Fatima warned about “a bad Mass and a bad Council,” but when we look at how 50,000,000 Catholics left the Catholic Church immediately after Vatican II (not to mention the catastrophe that followed from 2013 onwards) we have to wonder if these were not in fact the words of Our Lady to the children of Fatima over 100 years ago.
This summer, shortly after speaking about the apostasy warned about at Fatima, you then strangely added these words to your social media accounts: “Prayer and the devotional life are essential. After the Second Vatican Council, there was a great emphasis on the Mass, which is wonderful; it is true that there’s nothing greater in our life than to participate in Holy Mass. But we’re human beings, and we need ways to express…”
Your Eminence, how could you promote the very apostasy that you condemned just a week earlier? Even if you do not believe that the Third Secret of Fatima has to do with “a bad Mass and a bad Council,” how can you say the period after Vatican II that bled 50M Catholics could ever be considered “wonderful”?
Again, Your Eminence, I respect you and I have the same love for the Traditional Mass as you do. But even Cardinal Zen said to EWTN a few years ago, “The Catholics in prison in China can live without the sacraments but they can’t live without the faith.”
So also, if you attempt to preserve the ancient Mass while letting the faith get destroyed by those in Rome, you may enjoy the same eternal reward as them. I do not use these words lightly, as I realize I will answer to God for every single word I put on my website, especially those addressed publicly to a Prince of the Church.
I do not want to believe the public naysayers who claim you promote Vatican II and remain silent on the episcopal appointments just because you got a birthday card in Latin. I would hope you are a man who cares for his soul more than that.
As a friend recently wrote on his site, “Leo has kept every major policy from Francis. He continues the Vatican’s China deal. He praises Laudato Sí. He backs Fiducia Supplicans. He promotes women to power over clergy, embraces synodality, and keeps [Cdl.] Fernández. He hasn’t said a word about restoring the Latin Mass.”
Cardinal Burke, I encourage you as a son in Christ to address all these issues this year of our Lord, 2025, in which I remain, filially yours in Christ,
Fr. David Nix
Nashville mass murderer trans Audrey Hale switched school targets so she would not be seen as racist
Below is the link to the final report of the various LEOs that completed the investigation of the March 2023 massacre at Covenant school in Nashville. I’m not able to cut and paste from this PDF because I have an old cheap Chromebook (or else I just don’t know how). It is 48 pages, but I bet you will read the whole thing. There are many interesting facets to this case. Rest assured, dear readers, the law in Tennessee forbids use of transgenderisms and insists on pronouns corresponding to biology, so she is referred to as she/her/hers throughout. The headline I wrote is absolutely true. She had originally targeted another former school of hers, where she had experienced hardships, prior to attending the Christian school. She was treated worse there than at the Covenant school. But since the former school was full of blacks, she amended her target. Because any person who decides to end their life as a mass murderer naturally doesn’t want to be remembered as a racist, after all. Clown World in cold blood.
https://www.nashville.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/Covenant_Final_Summary.pdf?ct=1743609642
Time Hop: It was 20 years ago when Bowling for Soup sang “1985” … which was about 20 years ago
The song “1985” was actually written by the band SR-71 and released in May, 2004. Then BFS did the cover later, and changed some of the lyrics (for the better). The lyrics and the visuals in the music video include countless parodies of 80s so-called popular culture, some of which go unnamed. For instance, the first scene of the band playing in the garage has them dressed up like the girls in the Robert Palmer “Addicted to Love” video. Anyway, it’s just a funny video and you know I love the time hop thing. I guess you had to live through 1985 or most of it won’t make sense. I dunno. But here is the exit question: If you were to sit down today with the intention of writing a parody about 2005, what would you write about? What was “pop culture” that year? If it helps your frame of reference, this was the year Pope John Paul II died. Other than that, I got nothin.
