Month: April 2019 (page 1 of 2)

Burned

Why Don’t People Go to the Malls Anymore?

Another day, another mall video…

Obama Part II

Even Mexico has no respect for us. We’re the laughingstock of the world.

Two U.S. soldiers were confronted and one disarmed at gunpoint earlier this month by Mexican troops operating on the American side of the border, military officials confirmed Wednesday.

A Mexican soldier reportedly took the service pistol from the hip of one of the American soldiers.

The confrontation between the two sides took place south of the border fence but north of the actual border itself. The Mexican soldiers who approached the U.S. forces reportedly drew their weapons and ordered the American troops out of the vehicle.

Which drew this response from the Commander in Chief:

So… no consequences then? Just more Twitter bluster?

Sound familiar?

Does anybody think that China or Russia is worried about us?

 

Agnus Dei

Exodus 12:1-7, 11-14, 21-27

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

This month will stand at the head of your calendar; you will reckon it the first month of the year.

Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every family must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household.

If a household is too small for a lamb, it along with its nearest neighbor will procure one, and apportion the lamb’s cost in proportion to the number of persons, according to what each household consumes.

Your lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats.

You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole community of Israel assembled, it will be slaughtered during the evening twilight.

They will take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

This is how you are to eat it: with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you will eat it in a hurry. It is the LORD’s Passover.

For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every firstborn in the land, human being and beast alike, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt—I, the LORD!

But for you the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you; thereby, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come upon you.

This day will be a day of remembrance for you, which your future generations will celebrate with pilgrimage to the LORD; you will celebrate it as a statute forever.

Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and procure lambs for your families, and slaughter the Passover victims.”

Then take a bunch of hyssop, and dipping it in the blood that is in the basin, apply some of this blood to the lintel and the two doorposts. And none of you shall go outdoors until morning.

For when the LORD goes by to strike down the Egyptians, seeing the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over that door and not let the destroyer come into your houses to strike you down.

“You will keep this practice forever as a statute for yourselves and your descendants.

Thus, when you have entered the land which the LORD will give you as he promised, you must observe this rite.

When your children ask you, ‘What does this rite of yours mean?’

you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice for the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt; when he struck down the Egyptians, he delivered our houses.'”

Isaiah 53

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him: Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth. He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him. And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for his death: because he hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in his mouth. And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a long-lived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand.

Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the transgressors.

 

The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him, and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

 

Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled… (1 Peter 1:18-19)

 

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

The Second Station

There is a popular and old devotion called Stations of the Cross, where the faithful recall and meditate on the events of the Way of the Cross, beginning with the moment Jesus was condemned to death to when He was placed in the sepulcher.  And in the Second Station we consider the moment when Jesus accepts His Cross.  In The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson puts a fitting reflection on this scene.  If you recall, it depicts Our Lord embracing His Cross with great anticipation and love — not anger and bitterness, but love — to the great incredulity of the two thieves.

In this sense, we realize that ever since the beginning of time Jesus greatly longed for this singular moment when He would redeem humanity.  And it had finally arrived.  Therefore, the wood of the Cross is not taken as simply an instrument of death, but rather as the weapon of God’s final victory over evil.

A Reflection by St. Alphonsus Liguori

V: We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You. (Genuflect)

R: Because, by Your holy cross, You have redeemed the world. (Rise)

V: Consider Jesus as He walked this road with the cross on His shoulders, thinking of us, and offering to His Father in our behalf, the death He was about to suffer. (Kneel)

R: My most beloved Jesus,
I embrace all the sufferings You have destined for me until death.
I beg You, by all You suffered in carrying Your cross,
to help me carry mine with Your perfect peace and resignation.
I love You, Jesus, my love;
I repent of ever having offended You.
Never let me separate myself from You again.
Grant that I may love You always; and then do with me as You will.

 

Adoramus te, Christe

Tune: Theodore Dubois (1837 – 1924)
Text:  Good Friday Liturgy (6th century)

Adoramus te, Christe,
et benedicimus tibi,
quia per sanctam crucem tuam
redemisti mundum.

We adore Thee, O Christ,
and we bless Thee,
who by Thy Holy Cross
hast redeemed the world.

Holy Week 2019

Through the ages, the Cross is victorious.

The message of Holy Week is clear:  No Cross, no crown.  No pain, no gain.  No guts, no glory.  There is no Easter Sunday without first passing through Good Friday.  So for he who desires an eternal reward, let him pick up his Cross and mortify himself and follow the Lord; for there is no other path to salvation.

And unlike any man-made pursuit, victory is assured for those who persevere.

 

Metaphor of the West

“The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.”

And when your church is nothing more than a tourist attraction, God is going to take it away.

CBS: Punch a “Nazi”

In a new episode of some dumb TV show designed to brainwash America, we have CBS promoting the idea that it’s okay to “punch a Nazi” unprovoked because certain political views — i.e., Nazism, which means voting Republican — are so beyond the pale that they can’t be tolerated in any fashion.

In the minds of CBS executives, political violence is a sometimes necessary and good thing.

For the future, remember that it is them who have written the rulebook to follow.

Here is the show’s actor, Nyambi Nyambi, telling us all about it.  Nyambi Nyambi feels quite smug lecturing the whites who built America about the evil of advocating for their self-interests.  After all, his family recently came from Nigeria, in Africa, where their amazingly civilized society has given him much to brag about.  It really makes one wonder… if black countries are so great and white countries so evil, why do they come or stay here in the first place?

Think of all the anti-white violence going on in the country today and ask yourself: aren’t the media and entertainment industries complicit in this? Aren’t they outright contributing to and encouraging this political violence? Well don’t give them a dime of your money. This isn’t the 1950s anymore. The people who run these corporations hate you and want you dead.

Keeping Perspective

This past week, despite the many serious and pressing problems facing Americans today, the US Congress took time out of its busy schedule to hold hearings to learn about the supposed problem of “white nationalism” in our country.  The hearing was triggered after Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali Muslim, criticized Israel.  According to the FBI, upwards of fifty people have been killed over the past twenty years due to “white nationalism”. We have been told that this is such a serious threat that those advocating in favor of white interests should be surveilled and investigated by law enforcement under domestic terrorism laws.

But do you know what kind of hearing the Congress really needs to hold? We need a hearing to discuss the extraordinary epidemic of black-on-white violence that is going on in this country, largely under-reported.

It seems every day it’s a new event of the same story:

A child was rushed to a hospital Friday morning after reportedly being thrown from a balcony at the Mall of America, and one person has been taken into custody.

A witness at the Bloomington mall told WCCO that a woman was screaming that someone threw her child from the third floor balcony. This was near the southeast corner of the mall.

“She was screaming ‘Everyone pray, everyone pray. Oh my God, my baby, someone threw him over the edge,’” Brian Johnson said.

Bloomington Police reported that the victim was 5 years old.

The real terrorism in this country is that you can not go out to the mall without worrying about your child being thrown off a third-story balcony.  Or that you can’t walk down the street without fear of being sucker-punched from behind as part of the “Knockout Game”.

 

On Trial

Well they’re not even hiding it anymore. “Go away and die, or we’ll use the government to make you.”

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