(Painting by Jan Provost)
And I beheld, and lo a lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters, and as the voice of great thunder; and [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Firstfruits to God and to the Lamb
Posted in Pictures, tagged Apocalypse, Divine Liturgy, God the Father, Heavenly Liturgy, Jesus Christ, Priesthood, Sacrifice, Scripture Quote, Son of David, Son of God, Traditional Latin Mass on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Peace of Christ in His Kingdom
Posted in Pictures, tagged Christ the King, Jesus Christ, Papal Encyclical, Papal Tiara, Peace of Christ, Pope Pius XI, Priesthood, Scripture Quote, Son of David, Son of God on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
If the desire for worldly possessions were kept within bounds and the place of honor in our affections given to the things of the spirit, which place undoubtedly they deserve, the peace of Christ would follow immediately, to which would be joined in a natural and happy union, as it were, a higher regard for [...]
Trads Local to NYC
Posted in Pictures on April 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
There will be a Mass on the Vigil of the Ascension at the Church of Our Saviour at 6:00 (Fulfills the Obligation for Ascension Thursday).
There will be a Mass at Our Lady of Good Counsel (290 East 90th St. – 4, 5, 6 Train to 86th St.) on Thursday at 7:30pm (Ascension Thursday).
Also, Mass in [...]
2008 Elections: Vomit in Terror! State of the U.S.
Posted in Humor, Opinion on April 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ah, The Simpsons hit the nail on the head concerning the 2 party system with this clip from many years ago. (p.s. I don’t know who “Adams” is)
Also, how they dance around abortion in American politics
Also, a clip from the funniest movie I have seen in a long time. [...]
Judged by a Babe
Posted in Paintings, tagged Catholic Morality, Patristics, St. John Chrysostom, Abortion, Infanticide, Abomination, Child Murder on April 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Why sow where the ground makes it its care to destroy the fruit? where there are many efforts at abortion? where there is murder before the birth? for even the harlot thou dost not let continue a mere harlot, but makest her a murderess also. You see how drunkenness leads to whoredom, whoredom to adultery, [...]
Real Presence? What say the Fathers?
Posted in Paintings, Pictures, tagged Catholic Teaching, Catholic Tradition, Eucharist, Jesus Christ, Mass, Patriarch, Patristics, Real Presence, Son of God, Traditional Latin Mass on April 24, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I have no delight in corruptible food, nor in the pleasures of this life. I desire the bread of God, the heavenly bread, the bread of life, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who became afterwards of the seed of David and Abraham; and I desire the drink of God, [...]
Take Wings As Eagles
Posted in Pictures on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. (Isaias 40:31)
Romanism!… Uh,um,Well maybe not.
Posted in Humor, Opinion, Pictures, tagged Bishop, Carried Chair, Catholic Teaching, Papal Traditions, Papist, Petrine, Pope Pius XII, Popish, Romanism, Romish, Sedia Gestatoria, St. Peter, Traditional Catholic on April 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Oh, those silly trads wanting to restore the Sedia Gestatoria..Don’t they know it’s old-fashioned, and stupid? It’s just so…so…Romish, so particular! Don’t they know it causes ecumenical problems with our seperated Eastern Brethren? How it elevates the Bishop of Rome!
Whoa! wait, hold on a minute, these fellas don’t look like the Bishop of Rome (the [...]
A servant in the house of his Master
Posted in Pictures, tagged Catholic Liturgy, Catholic Tradition, Eucharist, Pope St. Pius X, Real Presence, Reverence, Silence, Traditional Catholic, Traditional Latin Mass on April 21, 2008 | 12 Comments »
“It is not fitting to applaud the servant in the house of his Master.” Pope St. Pius X on clapping in church.
Lest I be accused of being a malcontent “rad-trad”, or some “internet anti-pope” who only quotes Pre-Conciliar Popes to enforce my own “subjective opinions”, a comment from our current Holy Father, (then Cardinal Ratzinger) on clapping during the [...]
Listen! Listen!
Posted in Rant on April 21, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Hello Friends,
Sad and alarming news (if true),
A reader of this blog left a message and a link alerting me of an Ebay post that purports to be selling a Consecrated Host from today’s Papal Mass. It could be legit, I don’t know. Either way, please contact Ebay to stop this Sacrilage . If you have a [...]
Confirm thy Brethren
Posted in Opinion, Pictures, tagged Papal Mass, Pontifical Mass, Pope Benedict XVI on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, Holy Father, how did you like N.Y.?
Well, you live for many more years, and you can honour us with another visit. How about that?
The New York leg of the trip was superb. Every local station in NYC showed the Mass. Our Lord Jesus Christ on every channel. His Vicar was there to present His legitimate [...]
Peter in the City
Posted in Pictures on April 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Welcome Holy Father!
3 years ago:
Kudos to Cardinal Egan, and his crew. Nicely done.
Some ugliness, perhaps better not to show, but, some of our “seperated brethren” were there to protest the presence of the Vicar of Christ. Heretical sects have swallowed up large sections of New York Hispanics. Most of these sects are virulently hateful of Christ’s One [...]
Something’s not right
Posted in Link, Paintings on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Go to the ever insightful Mr. Mitsui’s blog for something I kind of always felt about a few paintings by this particular artist. He points out some creepy stuff, in a Rosemary’s Baby kind of way.
Oh, over at Carolina’s, I won (actually tied) for the “Most Underappreciated Blog” award, and was runner-up for “Best Visual Treat”. Thank you all [...]
Mass! The Musical! Limited off-Broadway engagement!
Posted in Humor, Opinion, Pictures, Rant on April 17, 2008 | 14 Comments »
The Papal Mass today. What can I say ? So nice to see blatant liturgical abuse done in the presence of the Pope. The “lovely” Indian drum music, with Pan piping in the background. How embarrassing for the Church. The whole country/world was watching, and this was the best American Catholicism can offer? When not [...]
Unfortunately Still Pertinent
Posted in Pictures, tagged Holy Land, Israel, Jews, Muslims, Palestine, Pope Pius XII, War on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Indeed , if there exists any place that ought to be most dear to every cultured person, surely it is Palestine, where, from the dawn of antiquity, such great light of truth shone for all men, where the Word of God made flesh announced, through the angels’ choir, peace to all men; where, finally, Christ [...]
They liked the last one better
Posted in Humor, Opinion, Pictures on April 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »
(Pray for Benedict)
Unease with Pope Benedict XVI’s approach to Islam has led a U.S. Muslim group to decline joining in an interfaith event with him later this week. The pope has been praised by supporters for his frankness in approaching Islam and interfaith dialogue in general, but critics have called him insensitive.
Muslims in many nations [...]
Life Leads to the Knowledge of Truth
Posted in Paintings, Pictures, tagged Catholic Teaching, Catholic Tradition, Pope Pius XI, Sedia Gestatoria, St. Thomas Aquinas, Vatican Museum on April 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Such a combination of doctrine and piety, of erudition and virtue, of truth and charity, is to be found in an eminent degree in the angelic Doctor and it is not without reason that he has been given the sun for a device; for he both brings the light of learning into the minds of [...]
Not much has changed
Posted in Opinion, Paintings, Pictures on April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
And the high priest asked them, Saying: Commanding we commanded you, that you should not teach in this name; and behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us. But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather [...]
Laid the Foundation
Posted in Pictures, tagged Archbishop, Bishop, Consecration, Scripture Quotes, Traditional Catholic on April 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For we are God’s coadjutors: you are God’s husbandry; you are God’s building. According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation no man can lay, but [...]
Tagged? Me? Oh, Alright!
Posted in Humor on April 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Since I was tagged by my homeboy Archistrategos, here it goes:
1) What I was doing ten years ago:
1.a) April 1998 – Don’t Remember, probably working, going to school
2) Five Things in My To-Do List
2.a) Buy my own house
2.b) Quit smoking
2.c) Go back to the gym
2.d) Finishing reading some of the less than great books I’ve [...]
Our Holy Religion
Posted in Paintings, Pictures, tagged Bl. Pius IX, Catholic Teaching, Catholic Tradition, Papal Encyclical, Papal Sculpture, Pio Nono, Pope Pius IX, Religion on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our holy religion was not invented by human reason, but was most mercifully revealed by God; therefore, one can quite easily understand that religion itself acquires all its power from the authority of God who made the revelation, and that it can never be arrived at or perfected by human reason. In order not to [...]
Primacy of Rome? What say the Fathers?
Posted in Paintings, Pictures, tagged Catholic Teaching, Catholic Tradition, Church Fathers, Fathers of the Church, Papacy, Papal Pictures, Papal Tiara, Papal Traditions, Patriarch, Patristics, Petrine, Photian Schism, Schism on April 8, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Ignatius . . . to the church also which holds the presidency, in the location of the country of the Romans, worthy of God, worthy of honor, worthy of blessing, worthy of praise, worthy of success, worthy of sanctification, and, because you hold the presidency in love, named after Christ and named after the Father. [...]
Thy Altars, O Lord of Hosts
Posted in Paintings, Pictures, tagged Altar, Catholic Liturgy, Eucharist, God the Father, Jesus Christ, Lord of Hosts, Oblation, Sacrament, Sacrifice, Solemn, Traditional Catholic, Traditional Catholic Pictures, Traditional Latin Mass on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of host! My soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God. For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, [...]
I am the Good Shepherd
Posted in Paintings, Pictures, tagged Catholic Images, Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of God on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth: and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep: And the hireling flieth, because he is [...]
Hey you Mugs!
Posted in Humor, Pictures on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hey you Mugs! Go over to Carolina’s place to cast your vote. I am nominated for most “Underapprieciated”, and “Best Visual Treat”. You know what to do! Tell em’, Puff Doggie Diddy Dog Daddy,whatever!
This and That
Posted in Opinion, Pictures, tagged Altar Boys, Altar Girl, Altar Server, Destroy Church, Feminism, Gender Egalitarianism, Girl Altar Boy, Vatican II, Vocations on April 3, 2008 | 13 Comments »
This:
Get’s that:
And this:
This:
Get’s that:
And this:
However, we could use some of these (remember them?):
Superstition of the Ishmaelites
Posted in Paintings, Pictures, tagged Cult, False Prophet, False Religion, Islam, Mohammed, Muslims, Prophet Mohammed, St. John Damascene on April 2, 2008 | 9 Comments »
St. John of Damascus
The superstition of the Ishmaelites which to this day prevails and keeps people in error, being a forerunner of the Antichrist. They are descended from Ishmael, [who] was born to Abraham of Agar, and for this reason they are called both Agarenes and Ishmaelites. They are also called Saracens, which is derived [...]
The Continual Sacrifice
Posted in Pictures, tagged Catholic Mass, Catholic Pictures, Catholic Tradition, Eucharist, Priesthood, Sacrament, Sacrifice, Traditional Catholic, Traditional Catholic Pictures, Traditional Latin Mass on April 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The Priest cries aloud, “Lift up your hearts.” For truly ought we in that most awful hour to have our heart on high with God, and not below, thinking of earth and earthly things. In effect therefore the Priest bids all in that hour to dismiss all cares of this life, or household anxieties, and [...]
