A Treasure To Be Shared

Trillium ovatum | Pacific or Western Trillium The Trinity is the answer to the questions of Plato. If there is only one God, what does He think about? He thinks an eternal thought: His eternal Word, or Son. If there is only one God, whom does he love? He loves His Son, and that mutual love is the Holy Spirit. The great philosopher was fumbling about for the mystery of the Trinity, for his noble mind seemed in some small way to suspect that an infinite being must have relations of thought and love. But it was not until the Word became Incarnate that man knew the secret of those relations and the inner life of God, for it was Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who revealed to us the inmost life of God. - Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least particle, is a being in relation, and thus God-relation shines forth, ultimately creative Love ...

Padre Pio strangling a demon. Marcats : marginal Catholics. Tradlodytes : sedevacantists. Phews : fake+news, because it smells; see also gossip. Cathotonic : 1) paralyzed by sloppy liturgy; 2) what Catholics drink for spiritual health. Litorgy : Mass made in the image of narcissistic liturgists. Thurifare : the path a thurifer walks in procession from the sacristy to the sanctuary. Ritual Nopes : not unlike Ritual Notes; a collection of liturgical no-nos. No-Fuss Ordo Mass : no frills, no thrills. Patrimoney : Traditional currency. Unevensong : unintended heterophony.

 - from the FB page of Saint John Henry Newman Ordinariate , Victoria, BC Two parishioners, Murray and Patrick, restored a magnificent eagle lectern recovered from a Lower Mainland parish. The lectern made its appearance this Whitsunday in the church. Though, Sunday Ordinariate Masses were held outside. According to the restorers, the lectern weighs in at approximately 300 pounds.

Wesleyan Methodists on parade. Note the uniformed band! hwit adj: white, bright, shining ( hwitan dat sing neut) Catholic England On þisan Eastron com se kyng to Wincestre, & þa wæron Eastra on .x. kalendas Aprilis, & sona æfter þam com Mathild seo hlæfdie hider to land, & Ealdred arcebiscop hig gehalgode to cwene on Westmynstre on Hwitan Sunnandæg. This Easter came the king to Winchester; and Easter was then on the tenth before the calends of April. Soon after this came the Lady Matilda hither to this land; and Archbishop Eldred hallowed her to queen at Westminster on Whit Sunday. - Anglo-Saxon D Chronicle for 1067 Whitsun, Whitsunday, Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit... an occasion for parading, processing, dancing, feasting. Imagine droves of people celebrating the Faith... publicly... without fear of reprisal. And all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need....

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. - Saint Matthew 11:28-29 In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things. – Epictetus For nothing will be impossible with God. - Luke 1:37 He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed. - Psalm 107:29 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. - 1 Peter 5:6-7 The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. - George Burns Life is divided into three terms -...

We live and die in a vulture culture We crucify anyone we hunger Gemini and a broken brother We live and die, my friend. - chorus, Vulture Culture by Fangclub Vulture Culture A workplace or organization that seems to feed on itself, picking over the bones of failure and blaming everyone else, rather than itself. You sometimes find yourself wondering what it would be like to work freely without the fear of a hungry hoover hovering above waiting for you to mess up. Or, your company is so paralyzed by indecision (or political correctness) because no-one wants to stand up and raise their head above the parapet. If any of these sound familiar, you might be in the grip of a Vulture Culture. Vulture Cultures are particularly damaging because the enemy is within, and not always easy to pinpoint. - Urban Dictionary https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-when-the-woke-come-for-conservatives-of-colour If Canada is a place where an immigrant professor is attacked and hurt, for saying the cou...

John Lydgate, monk and poet, enjoyed significant fame during his lifetime, at times exceeding the reputation of Chaucer. John Lydgate, (born c. 1370, Lidgate, Suffolk, Eng.—died c. 1450, Bury St. Edmunds?), English poet, known principally for long moralistic and devotional works. In his Testament Lydgate says that while still a boy he became a novice in the Benedictine abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, where he became a priest in 1397. He spent some time in London and Paris; but from 1415 he was mainly at Bury, except during 1421–32 when he was prior of Hatfield Broad Oak in Essex. Lydgate had few peers in his sheer productiveness; 145,000 lines of his verse survive. His only prose work, The Serpent of Division (1422), an account of Julius Caesar, is brief. His poems vary from vast narratives such as The Troy Book and The Falle of Princis to occasional poems of a few lines. Of the longer poems, one translated from the French, the allegory Reason and Sensuality (c. 1408) on the theme of ch...

There are plenty of reasons these days to be upset, disgusted, angry, or frustrated. The news is concerning, to say the least. Bätzing Crazy :  https://www.ncregister.com/blog/bishop-batzing-kirchentag In his latest salvo to challenge Rome's authority, the president of Germany’s bishops’ conference has said that any German Protestant who wishes to receive Holy Communion in a Catholic Church on Ökumenischen Kirchentag — a day of Christian unity in May — may do so. “Anyone who is Protestant and attends Communion can receive Communion,” Bishop Georg Bätzing told an online discussion in Frankfurt on Thursday about the May 15 event that usually brings thousands of Christians to the city for ecclesial events. “We want to take steps towards unity,” he said, adding that “whoever believes in conscience what is celebrated in the other denomination will also be able to approach [the altar] and won’t be rejected.” Comment: Besides rejecting papal authority, Vatican II recognized that the Prote...

Tapestry, ca. 1550-1560 wool warp, wool wefts Tapestry, First Four Articles, Flemish ca. 1475-1500, wool and silk Pieter van der Heyden 1568 Compost et calendrier des bergers, 1493 Duodecim articuli fidei editi a duodecim apostolis Twelve articles of faith set out by twelve apostles Illuminated manuscript, 14th C. Apostles writing the Creed, Mazarine Library, Paris, late 13th C. The Apostles' Creed I believe in God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty. From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life ev...

America Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. - John Adams Dismantling Deception Excerpt from Politicizing the Eucharist  - from the pen of the theological titan the Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM Cap . To refuse to give Holy Communion to dissident Catholic politicians, however, is not to politicize the Eucharist. The politicizing of the Eucharist occurs in the act of the Catholic politician presenting himself or herself to receive Communion even though he or she is well aware that to do so is contrary to what the Church teaches. Those who are objectively in the state of mortal sin, or who dissent from or promote contrary positions to the Church’s fundamental dogmatic or moral teaching are forbidden to receive the body and blood of Jesus, for they have made themselves unworthy to do so. Thus, such Catholic politicians, in presenting themselves, are using – and so abusing – the Eucharist for seemingly p...