I realized last week that I needed a part for my gutter. I looked briefly online and couldn’t find it. So I started calling gutter installers within a 50 mile radius to see if they had the part in stock. Out of the 10 businesses I called, not one answered the phone. 2 days later, none of the businesses have returned my call.
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The Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy
I heard a story recently about an old lady who told her priest that at her funeral Mass she didn’t want him to say she was a good person or was going straight to Heaven. Why?
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Thoreau made the perfect pencil, then never made another
Regarding society, I keep thinking back to Dylan’s song – Everything is Broken. What other way is there to describe society? Everything actually is broken. It is almost pointless to talk about how broken everything is. Why? Because there is no firm philosophical footing to stand on. Should money be made by the market? Sure. But that’s not how it is and not how it’s going to be for the foreseeable future. Best just to hunker down, stand up for what is right in whatever way you can, take your family to church. Prepare for more brokenness. None of these problems are going to get ‘fixed’ in any meaningful way. Society is headed to catastrophe, and then after that something else can be built. Hopefully in a way which follows the light of Christ.
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This is a fascinating talk by Father Chris Alar MIC on many topics. The first is the Red Army invading Poland after WWI. “Lenin wanted to take the communist revolution worldwide.” So he started with Poland. No one came to their aid. Poland was outnumbered 10 to 1 and looked set for easy defeat. “The entire country, led by the bishops, began prayer, began adoration, began eucharistic processions.”
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The Rabid desire for more fake fiat bucks, endless amounts of fake wealth…the great illusion
I see so many toil endlessly for money. And though I can appreciate the desire for money and having money – for it can buy freedom from necessity, I cannot understand the endless grubbing for it. If someone has a million they want 2. If someone has a billion they want another. I heard Rick Rule say recently that he and his wife can live the rest of their lives in comfort, never having to sweat again. They have more money than they need. Then he said, “I want more.”
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There is so much beauty in The Divine Mercy Image. From St. Faustina, who had it painted from her memory from when Jesus visited her, to the great words He said: “Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.”
From thedivinemercy.org, here:
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I know a man who volunteers at a St. Vincent de Paul Society center that helps the homeless. They give them food, wash their clothes, provide showers, etc. I used to look down on places like this. But thinking recently, trying to put myself in the shoes of a homeless man, I thought it is probably pretty easy to lose the dignity of life. Living in squalor most of the time, begging for money, getting food wherever you could find it. It would be easy to become a barbarian.
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This is an excerpt from a book by Joseph Breig. Find the full text here.
THE FAMILY AND THE CROSS
THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS AND THEIR RELATION TO FAMILY LIFE
By Joseph A. Breig
III-JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME
THE FATHER WHO has never reached the heights in business, industry or a profession is often the loudest in condemning his son for not making a brilliant record in school. The mother who bores all her friends stiff is not infrequently the first to criticize her daughter for not excelling in social graces.
Continue reading “Are You Overly Critical of Those Around You?”Mortgage Rates Are Exploding Higher
There’s no way the rise in mortgage rates can maintain this trajectory. If it does, the housing market will collapse post haste. If housing goes, everything goes.
Either way, massive changes are coming to America that will result in the decline of everyone’s living standards. Look for war with Russia to divert attention away from economic collapse in the homeland.
(Chart from Zerohedge)
The Fools Run the Show in America
Their names are writ in water
The last several presidents are but placeholders, whose names are writ in water, forever to be forgotten. Like Augustus Claudius the 3rd, they never did anything for the people. They never did anything worthwhile, merely carrying on the same imbecilities of the past. History will forget them.
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