Border patrol says the situation of illegal migrant crossings in El Paso sector is “unprecedented” and they are “overwhelmed” pic.twitter.com/mOSSi1zryA
This disaster at the border is likely to be the immigration legacy of the Trump administration. One million more illegal settlers. https://t.co/XUP0wMsokC
"These groups can not be repatriated expeditiously and are GUARANTEED release, to remain in the US indefinitely" – CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan#ElPasopic.twitter.com/sQnVLidS2h
It saddens me to see Trump supporters sending tweets to POTUS BEGGING and PLEADING with him to build the wall and secure our country as he promised so many times. People BEGGING for the life of our country. It's very depressing that we are at this point of desperation. 💔🇺🇸
⛔ Gallup Poll: 42 MILLION want to settle in US. 5 mil will to do do so in next 12 months. So, what’s the plan? ⛔ 5 MILLION just from Central America!!!https://t.co/bRO1CRUzjO
So, what do you think? Does voting mean anything? Does anybody really believe in democratic institutions any more?
How many people have gone into the voting booth year after year and voted to transform the United States into Honduras? How many people voted for that? Was that ever on the ballot?
They come, drop an anchor baby ($25,000 for hospital delivery — and you pay for that), and 18 years later that’s another Democrat voter.
Say goodbye to your country… and all because a President was too afraid to be called racist, and his supporters were too weak to hold his feet to the fire.
Hungarian authorities detained a Syrian man on Friday accused of taking part in beheadings in Syria as a member of Islamic State, Budapest prosecutors and the European judicial co-operation agency Eurojust said.
The 27-year-old man, identified by Hungarian authorities as F. Hassan, is suspected of executing about 20 people in 2016, all family members of a person in Homs city who refused to join Islamic State, Hungarian prosecutors said.
The suspect had refugee status in Greece, it said.
Wow, what kind of a racist would be against bringing somebody like that into his country?
These “refugees” are being brought in without any serious vetting at all, and especially since so many are coming from countries where there is no way to do proper vetting. And then Western people are surprised when rapes and murders and knifings are on the rise?
The conspiratorial side of me wonders if the authorities are bringing these people in as a conquering force to keep the native people in check from any potential uprisings. Why do our governments not care that ISIS fighters are coming through unfiltered?
Consider for a moment that this ex-communist used to be the head of the CIA, and then ask yourself: How can Americans have faith in their political and media institutions anymore?
Gut check: After all of this hysteria, are we going to be more or less inclined to trust the honesty of our alphabet soup agencies in matters of national security and foreign affairs?
John Brennan has a lot to answer for—going before the American public for months, cloaked with CIA authority and openly suggesting he’s got secret info, and repeatedly turning in performances like this. pic.twitter.com/EziCxy9FVQ
In what has now become an endless joke, there is yet another caravan of thousands of “migrants” on the way from Central America:
Another caravan on the way from Central America. This one's said to be about 1,200 strong right now, all Central Americans, just crossed the border from Guatemala and to Tapachula, Mexico…heads up from my Guatemala journo buddy who go onto their Whatsapp channel. pic.twitter.com/TlC2A5VMam
And what is Mr. National Emergency doing about it? He’s busy playing golf, of course.
Why is he not calling up the Mexican president and demanding that the country stop providing travel for these invaders? These people aren’t simply walking thousands of miles. Why hasn’t he closed the border? Last year the Supreme Court ruled that the president — alone — has the constitutional authority to prevent ANY foreign alien from entering this country for ANY reason at all and using ANY means available and, if they do enter, he has the authority to deport them immediately. What is going on here? Doesn’t it seem like we’ve been had by a big con-artist?
They’re not even bothering to patrol border checkpoints anymore:
Border Patrol checkpoints desigend to combat dangerous cartel smugglers are now being abandoned so those agents can work the bed and breakfast to import more Central Americans. Nothing matters until this issue is dealt with https://t.co/1qOcIfpcyp
What is the excuse here? Why is the president failing to act?
Not that Trump’s been away from his desk completely. After all, he did just sign an order recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. Remember that campaign promise that helps Make America Great Again? The Golan Heights? Remember when he talked about that at EVERY rally for EVERY day of the campaign? Yeah, me neither.
Seriously… what the hell is going on here? Who controls our government? Unless I’m blind, it’s definitely not the American people.
I’m wondering when these people will apologize to Americans for dragging their country through the mud for two years? I won’t be holding my breath.
A short two-minute video for those of you in the media pitifully insisting that no media reckoning is needed and journalists performed beautifully, soberly and responsibly throughout this whole saga: pic.twitter.com/PF5s2kTcYA
Congressional Dems are suddenly doubting Mueller’s findings after treating him as the holy oracle and hailing his indictment of a St Petersburg troll farm owned by a hot dog vendor as evidence of a Pearl Harbor/9-11 level assault on America. This farce won’t end. https://t.co/qJIh0hwDjx
Luke Smith talks about the phenomenon of being a “bugman”, which has become more common in young folks today who have taken the cultural Marxist idea of “rebellion” to its ultimate end: where people are rejecting the traditions of their families to the point of completely ejecting themselves from tribal identity altogether, and embracing a superficially mundane and individual identity that ultimately destroys social cohesion.
You also see this pattern in businesses, churches, and sports that are quick to reject their traditions on the belief that embracing something new is always better.
Or consider this analogy: If you want a really good lasagna, what is the best way to prepare it? Using the long-standing, tried-and-true family recipe that has been handed down for generations? Or sitting down with your books and researching the best way to mix the scientifically-correct proportion of ingredients? Call me old-fashioned but I think I’ll take mom’s lasagna every time.
“Even if you don’t understand why they make sense, sometimes they do.”
The portion from 6:35 – 7:50 is probably the perfect explanation for why the old, Traditional Latin Mass is preferable to the New Mass. The former was handed down and perfected for 1,900 years whereas the latter was drawn up in a “clean room” by a handful of “scholars” who didn’t know anything about the things they changed.
We are creatures of habit — both good and bad habits. And with a decent effort we can establish new habits. Science tells us that it takes about two months of repetition to cement a good habit or uproot a bad habit. As it turns out, Lent is a period that lasts just long enough to form good habits. But what’s better is that in Lent we receive special graces to make our efforts more fruitful, and we should avail ourselves of these graces.
To that end, one of the best habits we can fortify is spending some time in prayer. And prayer is like any other pursuit — you have to put out the effort to make it happen; it’s not something that’s going to happen by accident. Just like you have to carve out and schedule time to exercise or do the laundry or anything else, you just have to make the time.
Setting aside a half-hour every Friday to meditate on the events of Our Lord’s Passion and Death is a great starting point for forming a habit of prayer. For never has it been known that a person has regretted a single moment spent contemplating Our Lord’s suffering.
Perhaps some setup for meditation is required.
Recall that in all of the ancient religions the idea of sacrifice is pertinent. There is an innate understanding that man has failings, and some form of sacrifice is required to make justice to the gods. In the Old Testament, the Jews would often offer sacrifices of oxen and lambs, and animal sacrifices were common in other religions as well.
But since God is infinite, even the smallest sin is an infinite offense against Him, and no sacrifice that man can offer can bridge the gap of this infiniteness. And so, in God’s plan to meet what we lack, He decided to offer Himself up as the sacrifice to make justice. He did this by assuming a human nature, joining the Divine nature with a human nature in a single person — the Second Person of the Trinity. The Son of God, in the form of the God-man, would offer Himself to the Father as both priest and victim, for the salvation of the human race.
Consider, then, with great pity the suffering and humiliation Our Lord willingly endured for us:
How he was betrayed by one of his very own friends to be handed over to the chief priests. And how all of his disciples scattered and left him alone, save St. John, who stayed by his side to the end.
How Pilate, acting as the competent authority to judge on behalf of the State, proclaimed to the crowd: “I find no cause in this man,” only to have the mob shout “Crucify him!” And Pilate, in fear, pleaded with them, “Why? What evil has this man done?” But the mob only became more violent. “And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made; taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man; look you to it.” And so even though the State decreed Our Lord innocent, he was put to death simply to satisfy the mob.
How he was scourged relentlessly until he was covered in blood.
How the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and placed it on his head to mock him — laughing at his humiliation. Imagine, the Great Majesty that created the entire universe being mocked in such a way.
How he was pressed to carry his heavy cross, and fell along the way under the weight of it.
How, on the same way, he met his dear mother and saw the heartbroken look on her face.
How his garments were torn off with such violence that the flesh stuck upon from the dried blood came off with it.
And how finally he was nailed and lifted up on the cross, to hang there for three hours in agony. (Now, the Romans at the time were highly intelligent people and actually went about devising the most tortuous way to die, and came up with crucifixion.) The weight of his body pulled down on the nail holes in the hands. As his body would tire and slump down, air would be blocked through the throat, and he would have to press down on his feet to push his body up to get air, and in turn the nails in the feet would re-open the wounds. It was three hours of pure agony, bleeding out until his life was finally extinguished.
And his mother was there to watch every moment of it.
Why did he do it?
Because it was necessary for our salvation. And all of the humiliation, suffering, and dying agony that he endured, when put in the balance, did not weigh more than his love for us. That is why it is said that he would do it again as many times necessary, even if you or I were the only persons in the world.
And it is true that God could have redeemed us and made justice in any manner, but this is the method he chose. And even shedding a single drop of blood from a scrape would have been sufficient, but he willed to go all the way so that no person can doubt how much he loves us. He offered himself over totally.
Surely contemplating these pitiable events of Our Lord’s Passion are most salutary for the soul. For who could not be stirred with great sentiments of gratitude and love at the thought of God’s great love for us?
This is the true purpose of Lent.
O Sacred Head Surrounded
Tune: Passion Chorale, Hans L. Hassler (d. 1612) / Johann S. Bach (d. 1750) Text: Salve caput cruentatum, St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)
O Sacred Head surrounded
By crown of piercing thorn!
O bleeding Head so wounded,
Reviled and put to scorn!
Death’s pallid hue comes o’er Thee,
The glow of life decays,
Yet angel hosts adore Thee,
And tremble as they gaze.
I see Thy strength and vigor
all fading in the strife,
and death with cruel rigor,
bereaving Thee of life;
O agony and dying!
O love to sinners free!
Jesus, all grace supplying,
O turn Thy face on me.
In this, Thy bitter passion,
Good Shepherd, think of me,
With Thy most sweet compassion,
Unworthy though I be:
Beneath Thy cross abiding,
Forever would I rest;
In Thy dear love confiding,
And with Thy presence blest.
What language shall I borrow
to thank thee, dearest Friend,
for this, Thy dying sorrow,
Thy mercy without end?
Lord, make me Thine forever:
Thy servant let me be;
And let me never, never
outlive my love to Thee.
Sometimes it’s easier to live in denial but the effects can’t be escaped long-term.
After the shooting in a mosque in New Zealand, we see many efforts in the country to show solidarity with the Muslim community. But for members of Islam — a militant religion that conquers every where it goes — these efforts will be perceived as signs of weakness and signs that Islam is getting the upper hand. Consider that Muslim Friday prayers were broadcast on nationwide television as New Zealanders bent over backwards to virtue signal their support for the conquerors.
Police officers and even the Prime Minister herself have taken the hijab to show “respect” for Islam. Can’t they see this is perceived as a sign of submission? Or perhaps there is a subconscious desire on their part to submit to the forces of Islam?
In general, it is preferable that women not be police officers or heads of state or governors or the like. Women have, as part of their feminine perfections, a natural inclination towards submission. And when invading forces are afoot, that inclination can be disastrous for a country.
Recently many people have been pondering the question of whether or not there is ongoing a “replacement migration” of native peoples in first-world countries by the great global powers. What we do know for sure is that in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe there is an organized and coordinated plan of mass immigration with which all of the global “elites” (i.e., “the powers that be” (hereafter TPTB) that run the world and our countries) are in agreement. Even Japan now has accepted this policy of mass immigration.
What is the purpose?
Many white people are now unsettled with the fear that the motivation is to get rid of whites altogether. The explanation is this: white people, in general, are difficult to control because they have certain historical expectations of freedoms and rights: to labor, to participate fairly in society, to bear arms to defend against tyranny, etc. Combined with a high IQ, white people have been relatively hard to wrangle. Comparatively-speaking, those from the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America are easier to control: brute force and free bread can usually keep them under thumb. This theory is given credence by the almost universal anti-white propaganda that is coming from TPTB these days. Throw in the fact that many groups — like Michelle Goldberg above — truly hate us, and it’s plausible:
But this UN report shows that “replacement migration” has been studied for decades:
United Nations projections indicate that over the next 50 years, the populations of virtually all countries of Europe as well as Japan will face population decline and population ageing. The new challenges of declining and ageing populations will require comprehensive reassessments of many established policies and programmes, including those relating to international migration.
Focusing on these two striking and critical population trends, the report considers replacement migration for eight low-fertility countries (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States) and two regions (Europe and the European Union). Replacement migration refers to the international migration that a country would need to offset population decline and population ageing resulting from low fertility and mortality rates.
I have no doubt that when world leaders saw this report, they committed themselves to a policy of mass immigration. Low fertility rates and ageing populations aren’t the death knell of a nation per se; they would simply require a temporary constriction on the standard of living, and a pause on economic growth. But TPTB are not interested in pausing economic growth. The current system is driven by consumption and leveraging debt. They want to keep the massive ponzi scheme that is the modern economic order going for as long as they can. For these people, bringing in cheap labor and vast numbers of consumers is pivotal for keeping the system afloat. And I think this is essentially the motivation. The fact that whites are being replaced as a result of it all is just a bonus for them.
In history, there have been times when nations were wiped out. So we shouldn’t think it’s impossible. In past cases, they were often conquered by a stronger foe. But I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything at this scale, where entire continents were being replaced so efficiently. At this point we might have to hope for a quick economic collapse — as soon as possible — and a collapse of our entire disordered political systems just for the sake of self-preservation.
And all of that explains the new Trump administration policy of not even bothering to detain or track illegal immigrants that are apprehended at the border. The goal of “replacement migration” will continue here in America at break-neck speed:
Border patrol officers will start releasing many of the myriad migrants crossing the Rio Grande without even going through the formalities of temporary detention or strapping removable tracking-devices to the migrants’ ankles, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
The policy comes as the migrant wave is expected to reach 100,000 this month, and shortly after Congress again refused to seriously fund a border wall or to fund additional detention beds for migrants, to penalize companies which hire illegals, or to reform border laws or even to bar the courts from cutting loopholes in the border laws.
Traffickers have established a low-cost bus route through Mexico to deliver thousands of economic migrants from Central America to U.S. blue-collar jobs, according to the Washington Post. The business model is being called the “conveyor belt” system, and large groups of customers are charged from $2,500 to $7,000 per adult and child, depending on amenities, says the Washington Post.
In the modern era of secularization it is easy to forget that St. Patrick’s Day is not just a party day but rather a Feast Day in the Universal Church to celebrate — you guessed it — St. Patrick and all that he has done for the Irish people and the Church at large. So let’s take a moment and reflect on his remarkable life and how he allowed himself to be used as an instrument for God. As we will see, God desired to bring even this tiny island nation located somewhere off the corner of a map into His fold.
Patrick was born in Kilpatrick, Scotland in the late 4th century and was of Romano-Briton ancestry (so perhaps of Welsh or Roman blood). When he was just sixteen years old, he was captured by pirates and taken to Ireland and sold into slavery, as was not uncommon at the time. These six young years of captivity and hardship were pivotal for forming Patrick and preparing him for his life’s mission. He spent much of his time in prayer, devoting himself to God, and learning about the Celtic customs, language and druid religion which was predominant at the time.
After six years in slavery, he escaped his master and traveled to the shore — about a 200-mile journey — and returned by ship to his hometown. No sooner was he home than did he desire to return to Ireland and convert the Irish race to the Catholic religion. He studied under St. Martin of Tours and was ordained a priest by St. Germain. He traveled to Rome and went before Pope St. Celestine I to receive his blessing to be an apostle to Ireland. Shortly thereafter he was ordained bishop by St. Maximus. And at the ripe-old age of 45, he was off to Ireland to conquer the nation.
He was met with both resistance and success, but the big breakthrough came early in 433 AD. Patrick went to Tara — then the center of the kingdom — where the High King Laoghaire ruled, hoping to secure his approval of his mission. Shortly before Easter, the druids celebrated an annual festival of fire and before the festival the king decreed that no fires should be lit until the festival, under penalty of death. But at the Easter Vigil, Patrick went up to the Hill of Slane, near Dublin, and lit the Easter Vigil Pascal fire in plain view of the king. (Hey, it’s the Easter Vigil — what do you expect?) Of course the king was outraged and a confrontation ensued between the druid priests and Patrick, but the druids were not able to extinguish the fire. As the days went on, Patrick was able to win over the king, mostly through the works of miracles, and received permission to convert the Irish people.
From there, Patrick went out to the whole nation, preaching to the people, winning over the chieftains (local rulers), building churches, and ordaining priests. It is remarkable to consider how, in just a single generation, almost all of Ireland was converted to the Holy Faith and the old pagan beliefs were extinguished. God wanted so much for this nation to be His own that He ordained these extraordinary events.
In summary, one has to reflect on the great courage and faith that St. Patrick had in order to confront the king and local rulers with such boldness. He believed in God’s plan and put his full trust in Him and was able to accomplish something that is almost unmatched in history. Second, we should recall that those six arduous years of slavery, in his youth, were necessary to form him. Often we can grow bitter in our trials and tribulations, but St. Patrick shows us how to bear them with trust that God is going to use that for a greater good.
Finally, we must acknowledge that the situation in Ireland today, in regards to the Faith, is regrettable. It has collapsed as quickly as it once spread in St. Patrick’s day — a matter of only a couple of decades. This generation has failed to pass on to its children what it received from its ancestors. It has dropped the ball. It is said that by 2050, because of the migration of people from the third world, Ireland will be minority Irish. The current prime minister is a gay Indian atheist who, last year, made the following outrageous statements: “We live in a country that is a republic and we make our laws here. And while we respect people of faith, we respect religion, religious principles don’t decide why there is law in Ireland; don’t decide what the values of our republic are.” To say that Irish values aren’t informed by the Catholic religion is to deny the very nation’s character and ancestry. This is what happens when you take someone from outside and make him leader of your nation. And now the Irish support gay “marriage” and have just legalized abortion.
But perhaps the current situation of Ireland is found in this final vision that St. Patrick had just before his death, as relayed by the Catholic Encyclopedia:
St. Patrick, having now completed his triumph over Paganism, and gathered Ireland into the fold of Christ, prepared for the summons to his reward. St. Brigid came to him with her chosen virgins, bringing the shroud in which he would be enshrined. It is recorded that when St. Patrick and St. Brigid were united in their last prayer, a special vision was shown to him. He saw the whole of Ireland lit up with the brightest rays of Divine Faith. This continued for centuries, and then clouds gathered around the devoted island, and, little by little, the religious glory faded away, until, in the course of centuries, it was only in the remotest valleys that some glimmer of its light remained. St. Patrick prayed that the light would never be extinguished, and, as he prayed, the angel came to him and said: “Fear not: your apostolate shall never cease.” As he thus prayed, the glimmering light grew in brightness, and ceased not until once more all the hills and valleys of Ireland were lit up in their pristine splendour, and then the angel announced to St. Patrick: “Such shall be the abiding splendour of Divine truth in Ireland.”
On St. Patrick’s Day, let’s take a moment to remember the real man. Even if it’s just five minutes. To know his mindset, we can find it in the prayer for protection that he composed, which we now call St. Patrick’s Breastplate: “Christ be in all hearts thinking about me / Christ be on all tongues telling of me / Christ be the vision in eyes that see me / In ears that hear me Christ ever be.”
When we think of St. Patrick, do we then think of Our Lord? We should! Because that’s what he would want!
Aren’t you glad that St. Patrick worked so hard so that we could have the Holy Faith?
Christ be beside me
Christ be before me
Christ be behind me
King of my heart.
Christ be within me
Christ be below me
Christ be above me
Never to part.
Christ on my right hand
Christ on my left hand
Christ all around me
Shield in the strife.
Christ in my sleeping
Christ in my sitting
Christ in my rising
Light of my life.
Christ be in all hearts thinking about me
Christ be on all tongues telling of me
Christ be the vision in eyes that see me
In ears that hear me Christ ever be.
There is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion: it is a proven truth, a historical fact. — St. Pius X
