Wesley Smith

[Wesley Smith @wesley_s_smith]

@bwwings I have not had service this slow in years. We have been here for about an hour, my food finally came out and my wife's still hasn't. The whole place is like this for everyone.

[Wesley Smith @wesley_s_smith]

@KLTV inform your hosts and anchors that Jesus name is never to be used as an expletive on the news. Some of us still consider it blasphemy.

[Universal Co-Masonry @CoMasonry]

THE PELICAN

From Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry:

"The pelican feeding her young with her blood is a prominent symbol of the Eighteenth or Rose Croix Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and was adopted as such from the fact that the pelican, in ancient Christian art, was considered as an emblem of the Savior. Now this symbolism of the pelican, as a representative of the Savior, is almost universally supposed to be derived from the common belief that the pelican feeds her young with her blood, as the Savior shed his blood for mankind; and hence the bird is always represented as sitting on her nest, and surrounded by her brood of young ones, who are dipping their bills into a wound in their mother's breast. But this is not the exact idea of the symbolism, which really refers to the resurrection, and is, in this point of view, more applicable to Christ, as well as to the Masonic Degree of which the resurrection is a doctrine.

In an ancient Bestiarium, or Natural History, in the Royal Library at Brussels, cited by Larwood and Rotten in a recent work on the History of Signs Boards, this statement is made:

The pelican is very fond of his young ones, and when they are born and begin to grow, they rebel in their nest against their parent, and strike him with their wings flying about him, and beat him so much till they wound him in his eyes. Then the father strikes and kills them. And the mother is of such a nature that she comes back to the nest on the third day, and sits down upon her dead young ones, and opens her side with her bill and pours her blood over them, and so resuscitates them from death; for the young ones, by their instinct, receive the blood as soon as it comes out of the mother, and drink it.

The Ortus Vocabulorum, compiled early in the fifteenth century, gives the fable more briefly: "It is said, if it be true, that the pelican kills its young, and grieves for them for three days. Then she wounds herself, and with the aspersion of her blood resuscitates her children." And the writer cites, in explanation, the Latin verses:

Ut pelicanu fit matris sanguine sanus, Sie Saneti sumus nos omnes sanguine nati.

As the Pelican is restored by the blood of its mother so are we all born by the blood of the Holy One, that is, of Christ.

Saint Jerome gives the same story, as an illustration of the destruction of man by the old serpent, and his salvation by the blood of Christ. Shelton, in an old work entitled the Armorie of Birds, expresses the same sentiment in the following words:

Then said the pelican When my birds be slain, With my blood I them revive Scripture doth record The same did our Lord And rose from death to life.

This romantic story was religiously believed as a fact of natural history in the earliest ages of the church. Hence the pelican was very naturally adopted as a symbol of the resurrection and, by consequence, of Him whose resurrection is, as Cruden terms it, "the cause, pattern, and argument of ours."

But in the course of time the original legend mas, to some extent, corrupted, and a simpler one was adopted, namely, that the pelican fed her young with her own blood merely as a means of sustenance, and the act of maternal love was then referred to as Christ shedding his blood for the sins of the world. In this view of the symbolism, Pugin has said that the pelican is "an emblem of our Blessed Lord shedding his blood for mankind, and therefore a most appropriate symbol to be introduced on all vessels or ornaments connected with the Blessed Sacrament " In the Antiquities of Durham Abbey, we learn that "over the high altar of Durham Abbey hung a rich and most sumptuous canopy for the Blessed Sacrament to hang within it, whereon stood a pelican, all of silver, upon the height of the said canopy, very finely gilt, giving her blood to her young ones, in token that Christ gave His blood for the sins of the world

But Doctor Mackey believed the true theory of the pelican is, that by restoring her young ones to life by her blood, she symbolizes the resurrection. The old symbologists said, after Jerome, that the male pelican, who destroyed his young, represents the serpent, or evil principle, which brought death into the world; while the mother, who resuscitates them, as the representative of that Son of Man of whom it is declared, "except ye drink of His blood, ye have no life in you." Hence the pelican is very appropriately assumed as a symbol in Freemasonry, whose great object is to teach by symbolism the doctrine of the resurrection, and especially in that sublime Degree of the Scottish Rite wherein, the old Temple being destroyed and the old Word being lost, a new temple and a new word spring forth—all of which is but the great allegory of the destruction by death and the resurrection to eternal life."

[Jeremiah “Jasper” Thompson @jjfThompson]

It must be manifest to every one that there has been a fatal subversion of the Constitution of the United States. In estimating the results of the war, this is one of the most deplorable; because it is self-evident that, when a constitutional Government once oversteps the limits fixed for the exercise of its powers, there is nothing beyond to check its further aggression, no place where it will voluntarily halt until it reaches subjugation of all who resist the usurpation. This was the sole issue involved in the conflict of the United States Government with the Confederate States; and every other issue, whether pretended or real, partook of its nature, and was subordinate to this one.

~ Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 2

[Wesley Smith @wesley_s_smith]

@vizrt your service is absolute garbage. I have what to me is an emergency issue and I call and your representative refers me to a website. Absolute crap. Tricaster is now a useless product for those who actually want it.

[Deacon Nick Donnelly @ProtecttheFaith]

Bishop Strickland rightly states that ‘Francis no longer teaches the Catholic faith’ @BishStrickland

Therefore, as the divinely instituted role of pope is to confirm the brethren in the Faith (Luke 22:32)

surely this means that Francis is no longer fit to exercise the office of pope.

Alternatively, when Bishop Strickland rightly states that ‘Francis no longer teaches the Catholic faith’

Isn't the implication that Francis is teaching heresy

because anything contrary to the Catholic Faith from the man occupying the throne of St. Peter is heresy.

And as Cardinal Muller stated, a pope teaching heresy automatically loses his office.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Vice president elect JD Vance has called out the Associated Press for framing an article connecting the Jerusalem Cross tattoo on the body of Pete Hegseth, an Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, as a white supremacist symbol.

“They're attacking Pete Hegseth for having a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. This is disgusting anti-Christian bigotry from the AP, and the entire organization should be ashamed of itself,” he said.

[Jeremiah “Jasper” Thompson @jjfThompson]

“It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their Independence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery…and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.”

~ Woodrow Wilson, “A History of The American People,” p.  231

[Dr Taylor Marshall™️ @TaylorRMarshall]

Make America Learn Latin Again

[Wesley Smith @wesley_s_smith]

He’s going to the hot place for sure.

[Bishop J. Strickland @BishStrickland]

Another opportunity for bishops around the world to finally speak up. What WILL it take!!!
BREAKING: Pope Francis' new preacher promotes homosexual reading of Scripture and Christ - LifeSite https://t.co/f06g7E22xT

[Wesley Smith @wesley_s_smith]

I had to learn this lesson the hard way many years ago. Wish I had understood then what he's saying now.

[John Lovell | the Warrior Poet @johnlovell275]

Question for the Christians who DIDN’T vote, or voted for a 3rd OPTION
Tag relevant persons please. I’d love an answer on this from pastors & leaders especially

[John Lovell | the Warrior Poet @johnlovell275]

Do you think Musk is right? If Kamala wins, will this be the last real election?

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

You need to understand something. Peanut the squirrel’s death isn’t about people getting outraged over a nothingburger. It’s not just about Peanut being a cute animal that met an unjust fate.

It’s also about how the state can barge into a man’s home at the stroke of a judge’s pen, strip him of all his rights and treat him like a felon, rifle through his belongings, and murder his pet animals over an anonymous complaint made thousands of miles away because the officers are “just following standard procedure.”

There are few places in the “free world” where the bureaucracy operates like this—the UK, Germany. Not pleasant. America is joining that list. It’s become overly bureaucratic and not only is to costing Americans trillions of dollars a year, that money is being used to deprive Americans of their Constitutional rights.

[Hodgetwins @hodgetwins]

Dewormers are being used to treat cancer

Big pharma won’t like this

[Bishop J. Strickland @BishStrickland]

Beginning tomorrow, October 13, let us pray a daily Rosary…

For the Vatican to abandon the Synodal path and embrace the fullness of the Gospel again,

For our nation to elect leaders who will denounce abortion and call us back to the Sanctity of Life,

For nations at war to find true and lasting peace in Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace,

May we pray these Rosaries from tomorrow to December 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, this will be 61 days of fervently praying the powerful prayer of the Rosary.

[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

Fulton Sheen saw the truth of Atheism

[Bishop J. Strickland @BishStrickland]

If God is for us (and He is) who can be against us? (No one).

Don’t fear a Vatican that has lost the path of God. Stay with Christ and His Church, God will sort this mess out and put the blasphemous fools in their place.

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

"Printing money is poison to our Economy" -@RepThomasMassie
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