Pete Hegseth's pastor, Doug Wilson, says here that, in an ideal society, processions in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary would be banned, along with eucharistic processions. Hegseth recently invited him to D.C. to talk to his troops.
Friday, March 13 – From the feria – Friday of the third week of Lent – Blessed Agnello of Pisa, companion of Francis, First Franciscan Order – Saint Euphrasia, Virgin – Feast of the Holy Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ
March 13 - Quo Graviora - Condemnation of Secret Societies - 1826 - Papal Bull - Pope Leo XII - Rome For if they were not acting wickedly, they would never have such great hate for the light. Quo Graviora, On Secret Societies.
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[Preparing Genocide?] Retired Israeli general Uzi Dayan said on Israel’s Channel 14 about Israel’s next step in Lebanon: “We need to act fast and with full force—occupy the territory, expel everyone there, destroy everything there, and turn it into a death zone, meaning no one moves around there.”
What to do now that the Strait of Hormuz is being blocked? Some analysts have proposed a desert canal bypass to move oil around the world’s most critical energy chokepoint.
DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics Iraqis are RUTHLESS: "Bahrain, it belonged to Iran, it goes to Iran. Kuwait goes to Iraq. The Emirates return to Oman, return to its origins. Saudi Arabia might take Qatar as well." Iraqi TV analysts discuss the redrawing of the Gulf map if the war continues. "Kuwait is not a state. Neither is Qatar a state." If Bahrain's 27km bridge to Saudi Arabia is hit, the Gulf Shield can't reach them. Iranian missile boats are 200km away. Bahrain has a Shia majority with grievances against the regime. "What remains of the state?" On the UAE: "Ten million foreigners and 750,000 Emiratis." They pay expats $50 each to fill football stadiums "because they have no people."
we entered the basilica again with a different perspective, aiming to describe St Peter's as seen by visitors. We got the impression that it is a gigantic tourist attraction, where the sense of the sacred is in danger of being lost amidst the confused and disorderly clamour of tourists from all over the world, most of whom have lost their sense of the sacred. They wander around haphazardly, as they would in the Colosseum. Partly because there are no signs encouraging them to do so and partly because no one makes them reflect on this, they show no reverence, unlike in other temples or churches where the sacred is immediately perceived...
On March 10, Dutch Auxiliary Bishop Robert Mutsaerts wrote on his blog VitaminExp.blogspot.com that he sides with Cardinals Müller and Sarah, who hold that the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX) consecrations on July 1 would constitute a schismatic act. He considers Bishop Schneider’s position to be "based more on wishful thinking than legitimacy". If the FSSPX consecrates bishops again without a papal mandate, it is almost certain that the consecrating bishops and the new bishops will be excommunicated. This could be perceived as a deliberate break with Rome. "The first ordinations (1988) could still be seen as a dramatic escalation in a conflict. A second round of episcopal ordinations, planned for July, would be much more difficult to interpret as anything other than a parallel hierarchy, and thus a practical schism." Msgr. Mutsaerts notes that canon law distinguishes between an illicit episcopal consecration, which results in automatic excommunication, and a formal schism …More
When the United States and Israel launched their joint operation against the Iranian regime this month, the geopolitical map of the Middle East shifted within hours. Iran’s leadership, strategic targets, command centers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, ballistic missile launchers and nuclear facilities have been targeted in coordinated strikes aimed at dismantling Tehran’s terror machine. Yet there have been unexpected obstacles — not in Tehran, but in Madrid. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government flatly refused to authorize the use of Spanish airspace or the joint bases at Rota and Morón for American forces. For decades, these installations have been vital logistical hubs for US military operations in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. This time, Madrid said no. President Donald Trump reacted with fury, warning of serious economic consequences for a NATO ally that chose to obstruct a critical operation against one of the world’s most dangerous regimes. The White …
… "These Hours are the order of the Universe; they put Heaven and earth in harmony, and restrain Me from sending the world to ruin. I feel my Blood, my wounds, my Love and all I did, being placed in circulation; and they flow over all to save all. As souls do these Hours of the Passion, I feel my Blood, my wounds, my anxieties to save souls, being put in motion, and I feel my own Life being repeated. How could creatures obtain any good if not by means of these Hours? Why do you doubt? This thing is not yours, but mine. You have been the strained and weak instrument." … May 16, 1917 Effects of the Hours of the Passion. Finding myself in my usual state, I was fusing all of myself in my sweet Jesus, and then I poured all of myself into the creatures, in order to give the whole of Jesus to all. And my lovable Jesus told me: "My daughter, every time the creature fuses herself in Me, she gives the influence of Divine Life to all creatures; and according to their own needs, the creatures …More
The Church in Mexico offered a solemn Mass of reparation on March 11 after the desecration of the Metropolitan Tabernacle of San Luis Potosí during demonstrations marking International Women’s Day.
#FlatEarth If you are able to prove to an atheist that the Bible is right. That there was no collapse or explosion that made the sun come first. Then you have made that atheist believe Genesis 1:1. ------------------------------------------------- But if the atheist is able to convince you that the sun came first, then you have to believe the source of the atheist. You have to believe one.
[Father Dom Lorenzo Scupoli – XVI-XVII Century AD; Otranto, Kingdom of Naples/Naples, Kingdom of Naples; (aged 79-80); Priest; Spiritual Writer] “Chapter X ~ Of the Exercise of the Will, and the end to which all our actions, whether Interior or Exterior, should tend. Besides this necessary exercise of the understanding, you must so regulate your will that it may not be left to follow its own desires, but may be in all things conformed to the Divine pleasure. And remember, that it is not enough only to strive after those things which are most pleasing to God; but you must so will them, and so do them, as moved thereto by Him, and with a view to please Him alone. In this exercise of the will, even more than in that of the understanding, we shall meet with strong opposition from nature, which seeks itself and its own ease and pleasure in all things; but especially in such as are holy and spiritual. It delights itself in these, feeding greedily upon them as upon wholesome food. As soon, …More
"Thus, when we choose or refuse anything for our own interest and satisfaction, we often imagine that we are choosing or refusing it in the hope of pleasing, or in the fear of displeasing, God. The true and effectual remedy for this delusion is purity of heart, which consists in this - which is indeed the aim and object of all this spiritual warfare - the putting othe old man, and the putting on the new. And to this end, seeing you are full of self, take care in the beginning of every action to free yourself as much as possible from all admixture of anything which seems to be your own. Choose nothing, do nothing, refuse nothing, unless you first feel yourself moved and drawn thereto by the pure and simple will of God."