Don’t Get on the Truck!

I went to a hardware store today, and while I waited for my items, I started a conversation with the owner.  I live in one of the more conservative counties in Maryland, Frederick County, so I touched upon our second amendment.  I mentioned that talk of anti-gun legislation has gotten the attention of law abiding citizens in several states, and after rumored reports of the Virginia Governor’s plans to confiscate guns with UN troops or the National Guard, over 20 counties and towns in Virginia have declared themselves Second Amendment Sanctuary Cities.  His opinion, simply put was: “Assault weapons are unnecessary for non government personnel”, but “If they take our gun rights, there will be a war.”  Really?  The disturbingly strange thing is, about 6 years ago, I got almost the exact conclusion from another business owner in our County:  Assault rifles bad, but don’t take our guns.  

Many compassionate conservatives fail to see the flaw in this logic.  If you give them, or allow them to take, your AR, what are you going to use to stop them when they come to take your 22, 38 or BB gun?  If there is to be a war after surrendering the semi-automatic rifles, my money is on the government guns. 

I have twice had the pleasure of being with Sheriff Richard Mack, outspoken champion for our second amendment rights.  This man took the gun-grabbers to the Supreme Court, and won.  Our second meeting involved us giving him an hour ride, to the airport.  He talked most of the ride and he left us with this advice: “What ever you do, never, ever ,give up your guns!”

If we do lose our second amendment, at least keep one.  After watching “Missing”, based on a true story of a missing American in Chile, during our CIA sponsored coupe.  This missing young man’s father, and wife, were systematically dragged through multiple bureaucratic roadblocks, only to find his body rotting in the basement of a stadium with a bullet in his head.  The last time he was seen, was when they rounded him up, and put him in the back of a truck.  Therefore: “Don’t get on the truck!”  

Coming Soon!

I just finished an Advent retreat, but for some unknown reason, my mind keeps coming back to an old friend, Neal.  About twenty years ago, I became friends with a Shri Lankan 7-11 employee, who was a distant relative of the owner: kind of an indentured servant.  He  was working in the States to make money for his kids’ education, back home with his wife.  He was torn, but he was here for them.  He also knew that I was looking forward to that seasonal, long awaited, Pumpkin Spice coffee.  Every time I would go to 7-11 to get my coffee, he would smile, and melodically announce loudly, with his “Indian” accent, “Coming Soon!”  “Coming Soon!”

Can you feel it coming?  As a Christian do you sense the increasing anti-Christian culture?  As a fiscally responsible citizen, can you sense the hopeless inability of the FED to print fiat money, to inflate our currency, fast enough to keep-up with our virtual debt?  As a peace loving American, are you sensing the inability of anyone in government, to stop the nuclear saber-rattling war machine, that dominates both political parties?  Is it, “Coming Soon”?  Is He, coming soon?

For me, I would say, "yes"!  Maybe not the end times, but as Psalm 90  states, “Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty if we are strong,..”  So either way, as I zoom through my 69th year, Christ is coming to me, soon.

If it is the end times, Luke says, “When these things begin to happen, stand erect and hold your head high, for your deliverance is near at hand.”  Lk 21;28.  And if its not, Jesus instructed the delivered man, formerly possessed by "Legion", “Go home to your family and make it clear to them how much the Lord in his mercy has done for you.” Mark 5:19

Well, here goes!  Prayer, and the grace provided by Jesus Christ, has helped me overcome: an addiction to porn, an affinity to “Mary Jane”, a social crutch of alcohol, a scrapping and reordering of moral norms, and more..  In His mercy, He has given me four children, eleven grandchildren, a beautiful wife who loves me, and a Church that continues to provide a channel for grace, reverence, and a refuge.

“......Happy are all who take refuge in Him.” Psalm 2

Red Flagged in Her Late Eighties

I ran into an old friend and he was upset because his mom was "Red Flagged".  Knowing his mom, I was shocked, because I just couldn't see this almost 90 year old, packing.  It was evidently a traffic "red flag".  If an elderly person gives the police any indication that they were confused, they can be "red flagged": their license is revoked, and they get a hearing.

Then he proceeds to tell me about his new job with some huge intelligence firm; the one that Snowden worked for.  I immediately volunteered that Snowden is one of my heroes!  To which he stated his opinion, "He should get a bullet!"  "He took an oath!"

Well, old friends are just that: "old friends".  How about the Constitution?  Maybe we should be required to report to the DMV to take a biannual oath to the Constitution, as we are surrendering our 4th amendment: submitting our biometrics, and our personal information to the world elites data base?  If we can get a red flag for owning a gun, or operating a vehicle, then maybe we should give one for not knowing our rights and duties of citizenship, as enumerated in the Constitution  We could even give him a hearing.

Thorough, Concise, and Catholic

We just completed “Infiltration”, by Dr. Taylor Marshall.  The area that we appreciated was the apparent weakness found in virtually all the Popes, from and including Pius XII to Francis, and the tangible evil propagated by the Freemasonic influences within the higher levels of the Church.  
Taylor’s review of the dismally declining stats, of Kenneth C, Jone’s, “Index of Leading Catholic Indicators: the Church Since Vatican II”, allowed us to put numbers on what we have been living through.  
Having also read, “Work of Human Hands” by sedevacantist Fr. Cekada, we feel Dr. Marshall’s work gives faithful Catholics a non-schismatic reference to understand the devastating harm done by the likes of Monsignor Bugnini.

Deliberate Ignorance Is Not a Virtue!

Many in today's Catholic world of church corruption, turn a blind eye to negative reports of whatever is happening.  I guess, if they are unaware, they think they can simply plead "ignorance"?  This logic may be acceptable, if the source is not trustworthy; that is one with a history of spreading disinformation.  But, if the source has a track record of honesty: not so., Not so!

This intentional ignorance has been addressed in James 1: 18,  "And let every man be swift to hear but slow to speak and slow to anger."  I, like most of the members of today's scandal ridden "Church of Nice", only read the last two phrases of this admonition.  They seem to have skipped over the the first, "and let every man be swift to hear,"  Catholic media outlets like Church Militant, Life Site News, Taylor Marshall, The Remnant, etc. have a long record of honest reporting.  These same outlets are often painted with an "unacceptable" brush by the establishment Church.  This has resulted in many Catholics who are unaware of how thoroughly corrupt the current Roman Catholic Church is:  Priests and Bishops in hiding for fear of their lives, Vatican deals that have thrown the Church in China under a totalitarian bus,  a homosexual current that has infected many aspects of seminary formation, a Pope that has been credibly accused of heresy, and now a Pope that has been proven to be a liar.

Many apparently believe it is virtuous to avoid these Catholic news sources, to maintain their comfort in the pews.  It is not virtuous to avoid knowing the truth.  St. James says, "be swift to hear".

Copulating With a Dead Chicken

Raising chickens for some forty-plus years has periodically reinforced my appreciation of human morals.  It started after allowing a hen to hatch-out a clutch of chicks.  The problem is: half are hens, and half are roosters.  As they mature, one rooster can normally service about a dozen hens, and a relationship of sort is formed.  So with too many roosters, each morning the hens stare at each other, to see whose turn it is, to be the first off of the roost, as the young cocks line-up to mate.  One quickly appreciates the difference with our human moral code.  This daily interplay becomes the impetuous to cull the flock, which has the added benefit of meat in the freezer.

I currently have two roosters.  The older cock, is a Rhode Island Red, services about 15 hens, and is a gentleman.  He eats only after the hens, keeps the peace amongst the hens, and keeps the younger rooster outside of the chicken run.  This younger rooster is the elder’s son, and he keeps a constant patrol, which also acts as a deterrent to keep the hens from flying-out, over the chicken-run fence.  The young rooster is walking the perimeter, hoping to chance upon a hen.  

Just recently, I checked the feeder in the coop, and noticed one of my older hens had died, which occasionally happens.  I didn’t have time to dispose of her, so I threw the carcass out of the coup, onto the barn floor, to take care of the body later. The next day, I went into the barn to search for something, and I heard some commotion.  I looked over to see the young rooster attempting to mate with the dead chicken.  He seemed to be having a grand time, but I put a stop to this perversion immediately.  I couldn’t believe this bird; it disgusted me.  In this case though, falling back on my appreciation of human society's morals, doesn’t seem to hold water.

Think about it.  Our young males may not be copulating with the dead, but break-out the cock films, the porn, or some other dead image of another human being.  Is it any different?  Thankfully we have laws to protect our young women as they come off of their roosts and move amongst us.  But what affect does copulating with dead images have on our young males’ ability to relate to our young women, or even a mixed gender group of live people, with souls?

Returning to Tradition

Emmitsburg seems to have a significant number of Catholics, but you don’t have to be “Catholic”, to realize that there are serious problems within the “Bark of St. Peter”.  Just two years ago, the Baltimore market was shocked with the revelations in “The Keepers”, recently followed by the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report.  There now seems to be a developing cottage industry of alternative reporting programs focused on this problem, on Youtube and other platforms.  Programs such as TNT with Taylor Marshall, Michael Matt with the Remnant Underground, Life Site News, and Michael Voris with Church Militant refuse to just report on the Catholic world as the bishops may wish.  Church Militant’s “Vortex”, has focused on the almost daily exposures of rot, which they report is contributing to massive payouts to victims, parishes closing, drops in the numbers of ordinations, etc. 

Many Catholics who have “red pilled” to this problem, are becoming as lost sheep:

                     some wandering off, while others searching for tradition, seeing modernization as one of the possible problems. “Modernization” was condemned by Pope Pius X, and has been chipping away at the Church of Rome since the early 1900’s.  Changes were being made in the years prior to Vatican II, and the years since then.  This attack is thoroughly explained in a book, “Work of Human Hands”, by Fr. Cekada.  The result has not only been a liturgy with: the priest facing the people, communion in the hand, trashing of statues, clapping in church, and an otherwise lessening of reverence, but the introduction of what some call weaponized ambiguity, that has affected doctrine.  Many have argued that changes in the prayers, also reflects changes in belief.  “As you pray, so as you believe.”  “Lex orandi, lex credendi”

As a young boy, some almost 60 years ago, I served at the altar for Latin Mass in my parish.   Looking for tradition has been a sort of coming home.  Even though the Extraordinary (Latin) form of the Mass had been all but eliminated, there are Chapels in the area, which offer the Holy “Sacrifice” of the Mass, in Latin.  Judging from the attendance, there seems to be larger numbers of faithful searching for this Traditional worship.

Some churches, that I am aware of, are: St. Alphonsus in downtown Baltimore, with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, St. Mary’s in Hagerstown, the new Carmelite Monastery in Fairfield, and the Seminary at the Mount has one on Monday mornings.  We prefer the Augustinian monks in Charles Town, West Virginia, at the Priory of the Canons Regular of New Jerusalem.  It is only about a 50-minute drive.  They have two Latin Masses everyday, and administer the sacraments according to the old rite.

Over the years, the Catholic Church has been the force defending the dignity of the individual, the importance of the family, and the primacy of our Trinitarian God.  Please pray for the Catholic Church: the good priests, good seminarians, and the Truth.  We will pray for you.