Here is a list of the virtues and corresponding vices from Fr Ripperger’s talk, found here (beginning at 9:20). I am organizing the notes from his whole talk but wanted to get this list out there as soon as I could. There are many beautiful takeaways from this talk which I will try to go …
I was talking with a friend the other day and I mentioned that work and family are a lot to keep up with. You get done with work and you’re tired, but the kids are done with school and they are ready to play. Your wife has been dealing with the kids, she’s tired and …
This is a great talk from Sensus Fidelium on youtube called Abandonment to Divine Providence. Stress, worry and anxiety are chronic in modern america, and they are all self imposed, many times because we want to impose our will upon our lives rather than submit to the will of God. Read the full transcript of …
Many would say that economic collapse is a horrific thing, and to be sure, much of it is. But there is a great streak of beauty within american economic collapse as well. Because people will get back to living how they’re supposed to live. More family, more friends, more community, more love. Rely on others…not …
One of my sons recently finished reading Orwell’s 1984. I asked him what he thought about it. He said it was good, he liked it, but the ending was disappointing because the pigs just sat around smoking cigars and writing bad laws. And thus we live out 1984 in modern america. The great pigs of …
I tuned in to watch some of the Saints game on a recent Sunday and the final 2 minutes of the World Cup was on. France vs. Argentina. I had seen recently where Argentina had come under fire because the team had no people of African descent on it. I thought it was interesting that …
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In our age of modern art and the greyness of government totalitarian control, it is easy to forget how beautiful true beauty is. Just look at this painting. Friedrich Nerly, 1879
I recently watched A Christmas Carol (1984 version) and was struck by the beauty of Marley’s words, when he came back to warn Scrooge of endlessly chasing wealth above all things: ″‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, …
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Restaurant food is a toxic brew of ingredients, regardless of how well it is presented on a plate. I wrote about the prevalence of GMO ingredients and GMO raised animal products here. The video below discusses the seed oils in fryers and how they usually aren’t changed for weeks. This causes the seed oil to …
I took these notes from Fr. Ripperger’s talk on “The Rosary, A Spiritual Weapon.” I wasn’t planning on posting them but there is so much beauty in this talk I had to. All words below are from Fr. Ripperger (video at bottom). Bold is mine. “We are at war. A spiritual war that not only …
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In the Q&A period at the end of his talk on Rule of Life, Fr. Ripperger spoke about the qualities, especially virtue, children should have by certain ages. I had never thought about what I wanted my children to know by the time they turn 14 or 18 – I just thought, “My child is …
In modern America, wealth is made to be the greatest of goals. To be rich will make you happy, so they say. But St. John Chrysostom says the opposite, that if you see a rich person you should weep for them. For the man with a thousand acres of crops will fret that he doesn’t …
This video shows the global population change from 1800 to 2100. What I find interesting is the religious makeup of the most populous countries by 2100. Christianity is the majority in 4 of the top 10 – the US, Congo, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. Percent of Christians in the 10 most populous countries (using 2022 data): …
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I love this sentiment from St. John Damascus. He writes how a person will go to great lengths to meet a king, or secular famous person – a movie star, politician, or athlete. But he says that the saints, who are infinitely more powerful than politicians and stars, have true powers. They can help you …
Below is an excerpt from The Fathers of the Church by Mike Aquilina. In it, he discusses the life of St. Benedict, who lived during Rome’s collapse. I just wanted to highlight the similarities between Rome and America: Advanced stage of moral and cultural decadence The desire among the population to ‘head for the hills’ …
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It is fascinating to live when a great empire is falling. One can read of the fall of other empires…but it doesn’t compare to seeing the degradation and destruction blooming in technicolor right in front of your eyes. It is almost as if everything is following a script, as events happen steadily to further the …
I remember hearing a story about Murray Rothbard years ago. I forget who told it but they said that Mr. Rothbard, if he was asked to go out to dinner with whoever he was with, would always go to the closest restaurant to them. Why he did this the teller didn’t know, but I always …
Always Go to the Nearest Restaurant or Church – Murray Rothbard and St. Augustine Read More »
Fr Ripperger is a great genius of our time. I know he would dismiss this, but the fact remains. In this talk (embedded below) he discusses why you should actually strive for the good life: “Aristotle said – the reason we develop virtue is because once we have the good habits, the moral life becomes …
In this, our enlightened modern age, physical beauty is the lodestar of romance. Everyone aspires to be trim, botoxed and ‘beautiful’. Men are looked up to for having many romances. But it’s a fools errand – for it is only passion which sees physical beauty and that lasts but a month or two, “but then …
I am so glad to have read The Fathers of the Church by Mike Aquilina. In the book, he gives a brief overview of the many early Church fathers, along with samples of their writing. It’s a buffet. One father in particular – St. John Chrysostom – writes beautifully. I have seen his name at …
Great Advice For Parents – From the Saint Whose Name I Disliked Read More »