The FG has strayed from it's intended role by abrogating various subsidiaries of traditional authority and guidance. This includes state governance, city governance and finally familial governance. Traditionally, these institutions had roles never intended for the FG.
This priest and Abbot was a good friend of mine, a neighbor and a singular influence for bringing into the Catholic faith. I will miss him greatly. Rest in peace, Father.
Friends, please remember a friend of mine, who I went to school with in Vietnam, he was ordained a priest in Texas and was an abbot of a Vietnamese Benedict community in Texas, he passed away on Christmas Day afternoon. His baptismal name is Fr Dominic. May he rest in peace.
The modern State looks to monopolize claim on all authority. That is why fatherhood and masculinity are so aggressively targeted. Family is a naturally ordered hierarchy (patriarchy) that challenges the technocratic hierarchy of the modern State. The world needs more fathers.
There are 4 measures of a man.
- What he does when no one is watching him.
- What he says about things that don’t concern him.
- How he treats those that can do nothing for him.
- What he leaves behind when time is up for him
What if convincing people to buy bitcoin isn’t the correct pitch? Buying bitcoin requires a follow up step, establishing an address you control the private key to. Why not convince people to open a wallet first? Just empty. Void. But 100% theirs. What’s the odds it stays empty?
The thug who created Kwanzaa kidnapped African women and kept them in his basement, brutalizing and torturing them relentlessly.
Kwanzaa was a smokescreen to distract from his criminality. A criminal defense, if you will.
@StJude_OPN Prayers are with you, man. As a convert from churches that had "dedications", it certainly isn't a sacrament. It's more of a commitment from the parents that you will raise the child in the precepts of God. Maybe there's a written piece you could examine first and show a priest?
Always a pleasure to chant at the Midnight Mass at our local parish. My brothers and I provide the traditional Latin Gregorian chants for each Sunday. Midnight Mass at Christmas is a beautiful one.
The popular association of the Catholic Church with the ambiguously defined period of the "Dark Ages" has been one of the most successful psy-ops in history IMO.