Traditional Dogmatic Catholics
Mary is -
Our first theologian & Satan's nemesis
She will -
Visit you personally, Guide you in death, Give you a Mission
Dir- BJH
This beautiful message shows us that:
Beyond Devotion and Prayer,
we also have a God-given Mission in life and an
Obligation to take action to achieve that Mission.
Friends, upon hearing the message of Gabriel concerning her own pregnancy and that of her cousin, Mary “proceeded in haste into the hill country of Judah” to see Elizabeth. Why did she go with such speed and purpose? Because she had found her mission, her role in the theo-drama.
I invite you to contemplate what God reveals to us in the visitation. Have you searched for your place in God’s story, abandoning the ego-drama for the theo-drama with a response as bold and simple as Mary’s?
CatholicNewsSvc: After three weeks at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, a hill town outside Rome, Pope Leo XIV returned to the Vatican Monday evening.
Mother Miriam has done a complete 180 on the SSPX: "God has established His Church, his universe, everything on obedience, everything on obedience.
Children are to obey their parents, not if their parents are holy and right, in everything but sin. Wives are to submit to their husbands, not because they're holy, not because they're right, but because God has given them that position — again, in everything but sin. Religious are to obey their superiors, whether their superior is right or holier than them, or no matter what it is, they are to obey in everything.
And Christ's sheep, which is us, every one of us is to obey the successor of Peter, whether we know for sure he is, whether we agree with him, whether we can point out definite heresy. If he's the Pope, then we obey in everything but sin. We don't come against him. So that's where I left it yesterday, and my heart was completely converted."
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Most Catholic men are trying to build a spiritual life from scratch, when two thousand years of tested wisdom is sitting right there unused. You do not have to figure out prayer alone. You do not have to invent your own path to God. The Church has a tradition, worn smooth by saints who already walked it, and it exists precisely so you do not waste your life guessing. That tradition is not dead weight. It is inherited knowledge. The fasts, the fixed prayers, the rhythm of the liturgical year, the practices of the desert fathers, all of it was refined by men who took God seriously and left you the map. When you ignore it, you are choosing your own instincts over the accumulated wisdom of everyone who got there before you. So stop improvising. Find the tradition, submit to it, and let it form you the way it formed the saints. Humility here is not weakness. It is the recognition that you were handed something greater than anything you could build on your own.
If you’re seeing this, I prayed a rosary for you.
God bless you all🙏🏻
If you are in need of additional prayer, just drop a note below. I’ll add you to my next rosary!
Mother Miriam has done a complete 180 on the SSPX: "God has established His Church, his universe, everything on obedience, everything on obedience.
Children are to obey their parents, not if their parents are holy and right, in everything but sin. Wives are to submit to their husbands, not because they're holy, not because they're right, but because God has given them that position — again, in everything but sin. Religious are to obey their superiors, whether their superior is right or holier than them, or no matter what it is, they are to obey in everything.
And Christ's sheep, which is us, every one of us is to obey the successor of Peter, whether we know for sure he is, whether we agree with him, whether we can point out definite heresy. If he's the Pope, then we obey in everything but sin. We don't come against him. So that's where I left it yesterday, and my heart was completely converted."
https://t.co/Ca4kxb6VcQ
I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.
It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.
For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.
Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.
As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.
To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”
As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.
When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.
When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.
Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.
In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”
It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.
Scott Hahn: “The ‘New Testament’ was a SACRAMENT—the Eucharist—before it became a DOCUMENT—ACCORDING TO THE DOCUMENT. Jesus said ‘Do this’—not ‘Write this’. My own study made me see the only way I could really be a New Testament Christian is by becoming a Eucharistic Catholic.”
Richard Feynman stood at a Cornell blackboard in 1964 and explained the problem every AI lab is fighting in 2026. The BBC filmed it. Almost nobody watches it.
The lecture is about why nature only answers in mathematics. Every team forcing language models to reason is hitting the wall he mapped 62 years ago.
He was 46. The Nobel Prize came 11 months later. The footage survived on film reels and now sits free on YouTube with fewer views than a keyboard unboxing.
Watch the blackboard section near the middle. He takes 1 of Kepler's laws and rebuilds it from nothing, with notation a 12-year-old can follow.
No slides. No jargon. 1 piece of chalk.
An ML engineer I know paused it 4 times and made his whole team watch it before standup.
You're 62 years late. The lecture is still free.
The Sabbatine Privilege
The Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel has promised to save those who wear the scapular from the fires of hell. She will also shorten their stay in purgatory if they should pass from this world still owing some debt of punishment.
This promise is found in a Bull of Pope John XXII. The Blessed Virgin appeared to him and, speaking of those who wear the Brown Scapular, said, “I, the Mother of Grace, shall descend on the Saturday after their death and whomsoever I shall find in purgatory I shall free so that I may lead them to the holy mountain of life everlasting.”
Catholicism has always held that miracles and healing can happen.
But historically the deeper Christian tradition was also about dying to the false self, humility, repentance, fasting, prayer, and transformation of the soul.
Modern culture often wants transcendence without ego dissolution or spiritual discipline.
A series is dropping next Saturday which is going to end any *serious* claims to the Patristics by Protestants.
In the first century alone, more than 20% of extant texts have Mariology and 10% have veneration. I identify two dozen similar texts from before Nicea.
"Vance has developed into the kind of Catholic who talks about 'civilization' a lot. 'Civilization' meaning a specific civilization with a specific arrangement of power and a specific God who has, upon examination, very few demands that inconvenience the rich and powerful. This isn’t Catholicism as I knew it; it’s a Catholicism stripped for parts and rebuilt as an ideology. The mystery is flattened, the ritual becomes signal, and the sacred language turns into a password."