We have been subjected to a lot of Biden commercials declaring that 'Government has no business in healthcare decisions'--meaning abortion.
Even BrylcreemBoy has picked up that theme.
We'll agree that Government has no business in healthcare decisions when the Biden Regime and BrylcreemBoy agree that Government has no business in commanding "vaccinations," masks, and "distancing."
Meantime, it's all just doubletalk--a specialty of Government.
Forget The pinheads in Govt
ReplyDeleteIt is time to give to Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost
SATURDAY brings the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, when the sun is at its highest point directly above the equator, and the fall season, with its smoldering beauty, begins.
The liturgical calendar also assigns seasonal significance to this week. Today, Friday and Saturday are “Ember Days” on the traditional Catholic calendar, days of fast, prayer and almsgiving.
In the 13th century, Blessed Jacopo de Voragine gave eight reasons to fast on an Ember Day:
....For the first time, which is in March, is hot and moist. The second, in summer, is hot and dry. The third, in harvest, is cold and dry. The fourth in winter is cold and moist. Then let us fast in March which is printemps for to repress the heat of the flesh boiling, and to quench luxury or to temper it.
In summer we ought to fast to the end that we chastise the burning and ardour of avarice. In harvest for to repress the drought of pride, and in winter for to chastise the coldness of untruth and of malice.
The second reason why we fast four times; for these fastings here begin in March in the first week of the Lent, to the end that vices wax dry in us, for they may not all be quenched; or because that we cast them away, and the boughs and herbs of virtues may grow in us.
And in summer also, in the Whitsun week, for then cometh the Holy Ghost, and therefore we ought to be fervent and esprised in the love of the Holy Ghost.
They be fasted also in September tofore Michaelmas, and these be the third fastings, because that in this time the fruits be gathered and we should render to God the fruits of good works.
In December they be also, and they be the fourth fastings, and in this time the herbs die, and we ought to be mortified to the world............
Another purpose of these days is to express gratitude for the gifts of nature. Scientists observe the regularity of the seasons and say it is a purely physical process, arising from chance. Modern scientists are obsessed with the details and fail to see … the trees. Every season has its own spiritual undertones and expresses the will of its Maker.
HT https://www.thinkinghousewife.com/2023/09/ember-days-2/
No Feasting Without Fasting
https://padreperegrino.org/2021/11/no-feasting-without-fasting/
“I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.” Luke 13:3
ReplyDeleteThe novel idea which claimed, and still claims, that modern man is exempt from the precepts of the Gospel, ‘because times have changed,’ entered into, and firmly established itself in the Catholic ethos during the post conciliar period of the Church. We were, it was proclaimed, to enter into a new Springtime, throwing off the dark and dowdy ways of thinking and being, and by so inaugurating a new human fraternity which would bring about a heaven right here on earth. It followed as a natural consequence of this happy hypothesis, that many traditions which were in fact handed down from the early Church, were abruptly tossed out and suddenly deemed as dangerous to the health and spiritual life of priests, religious and the faithful.
Most traditional Catholics are quite zealous when it comes to regaining lost ground in the sacramental, liturgical and juridical domains of Holy Mother Church. We busily employ ourselves with restoring her treasures as we sift through the ruins of the reckovation. We love with great love, the beauty of her sacred liturgy. We gobble up books from her vast treasury. We glory when our priests boldly proclaim those saving truths we thirst to hear. This is all well and right.
However, there is one domain that very few traditional Catholic’s have any such zeal for restoring. In fact, when it is brought up, I will often hear aped, the very premise which is at the heart of the destruction – “times have changed.” Yes, when it comes to penance and fasting, traditional Catholic’s fall flat.
It is 2021 now, and look around. I don’t need to enumerate the signs of the societal collapse, as we are all experiencing them in real time. We have lost the culture war, on every front. And saving divine intervention, its total destruction is now a foregone conclusion. We should all be spiritually prepared for persecution.
So how did we get here? It has always been known and taught by the Church, that whatever God has imposed upon man is only ever done for his good. To reject then, what God commands, teaches or imposes has only ever had one outcome – that is, to suffer the consequences. Those consequences are experienced at the level of an individual, a family, or an entire society – depending on how widely the precepts have been abandoned, respectively. We can chop it up a thousand ways to doom asking how Christendom was so easily ceded back to a minority of heretics. But, when we ask what we, so little and powerless as we are now, can do, the answer is singular. Penance.
Which brings me to the Feast Day of St. Martin of Tours (316-397 AD), also known as Martinmas. A ton of ink has already been spilled articulating the history and importance of his feast day. Its former prominence in the liturgical cycle was primarily due to the fact that it marked the beginning of what came to be known as St. Martin’s Lent (Quadragesima Sancti Martini). It served as a sort of pre-Christmas Mardi Gras. St. Martin’s Lent was a 40-day period of weekday fasting (MWF) which lasted to the Vigil of Christmas (inclusive). In fact, having clearly been in practice before 480 AD, when St. Gregory of Tours wrote about it, St. Martin’s Lent gave birth so to speak, to the liturgical season we know as Advent. Sadly, all that is left of this once penitential period of preparation, is the penitential color we see on our priest and upon our altars. I highly recommend reading more about this great Feast of the Church and will leave some links below.
But, let not this treasure stay in the realm of intellectual reading. No. If we wish to have what our father’s had, we must live the way our father’s lived.