DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY: Fr. Chris Alar explains, “Never will your soul be cleaner other than the moment of your original baptism than it is on that day–Divine Mercy Sunday.” [9:53] – According to St. Faustina’s diary, Jesus told her that “The soul that will go to confession and receive Holy Communion [on Divine Mercy Sunday] shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. On that day, all the Divine floodgates through which graces flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though his sins be as scarlet….Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the fount of My Mercy.” (Diary, 699)
EV: Ford Motor Co. is delaying production of two new electric vehicles until 2027. The official reasons are to “allow for the consumer market for three-row EVs to further develop” (i.e., people don’t want the stupid things) and to “enable Ford to take advantage of emerging battery technology” (i.e., we need to save face).
GREEN: It’s got nothing to do with the climate and everything to do with impoverishing the middle class and forcing us into smaller, more easily controlled environments.
VAPING: A new study reports that people who use e-cigarettes are 19% more likely to suffer heart failure than people who do not.
GRAMMY NOTES: Twenty-five or so years ago, Dearest attached his “propeller on a stick” to his power drill, stuck it into 5 gallons of primer, and turned it on. Just at that moment, his occasional “trigger finger” thing happened, but rather than yell to me to unplug the drill, he yelled, “My finger is stuck!!” and lifted the propeller thing out of the paint. We still have white primer splattered around the work room.
CALIFORNICATION: On Monday, the California’s minimum wage for fast food workers whose company’s owners are not bffs with the governor were forced to increase minimum wage to $20 an hour. Also on Monday, fast food joints increased prices and reduced staff. At least one, Foster’s Freeze in Lemoore, decided it just wasn’t going to work and closed permanently.
Last month, Donald Trump said in reference to the auto industry and the Democrats’ demand for all-EVs: “If I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath. That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.” Democrats and their lapdogs in the media insisted he was calling his followers to riot if he doesn’t win.
Yet, the dictionary definition of the word “bloodbath” includes “a major economic disaster.” And the term is common in both economics and in campaigning. In March of 2020, Joe Biden warned a group of high-dollar donors that rabid online Bernie Sanders fans would try to make the 2020 Democratic primary nasty saying, “What we can’t let happen is let this primary become a negative bloodbath.” Nobody accused him of inciting violence.
PLANET FITNESS: More from the Satyricon of Gyms. ::smh:: – This sick piece of meat has posted numerous pictures of his own penis in various stages of erection and ejaculation.
Many were taken in the PF locker room with other men in various states of undress in the background. His comments often reference the other men. E.g., “Trying to get Dads attention in the #lockerroom.” “Locker room full of guys with my dick out as usual.”
BTW, the graphic above is his real profile. Everything else is thankfully hidden behind a “graphic content” warning. It took me four times longer than it should have to write this one paragraph, because I kept getting so grossed out, I’d close X and then have to go back in again. 😛
TAIWAN: [1:49] – On Wednesday, the strongest earthquake hit the eastern side of the island during the morning rush hour. This morning, the count is nine dead, more than 1,000 injured, and 100+ buildings damaged. If the epicenter had not been in the less populated area of Taiwan, it would’ve been a LOT worse.
VISIBILITY: Archbishop Viganò published the following in response to “the unprecedented and scandalous proclamation of March 31 as ‘Transgender Visibility Day’ by self-styled U.S. President Joe Biden – who dares to declare himself a Catholic.”
He wrote that this act “constitutes a most serious offense to God and to millions of Catholics and Christians in America and around the world, before which it is impossible not to react with due firmness. … I ask my brethren in the episcopate and priests to recognize that Joe Biden has incurred ‘latæ sententiæ’ excommunication, and as such must be expelled from the churches and not admitted to Communion.”
N.b., “latae sententiae” is also known as “automatic excommunication.” A Catholic who has incurred this penalty, yet still goes to Mass and receives Holy Communion with an unrepentant heart heaps condemnation upon himself. Satan rejoices over this, as it will mean the flames of Hell will burn even hotter for that person’s eternal soul.
2024: I think Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed his reason for running on “Fox & Friends” when he said that President Biden is the biggest threat to democracy. “President Biden has done something that no other president in history has done, which is to order media, particularly social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Google to censor his political opponents.” Of course, being the biggest threat to democracy is one of the Democrats’ big memes about Trump, cuz … you know … whatever they’re shrieking we will do is what they actually are doing.
DENVER: CLICK https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1774510815325917456 [1:27] to hear a Denver official beg illegal migrants to accept the city’s free bus ticket to anywhere else, because the illegals who arrived ahead of them used up all their money. “If you stay here you are going to suffer even more and I don’t want to see this.“
FLAUXTUS: CLICK https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1775512983734509900 [:20] to hear Jill Biden, Ed.D., object to the statement that Joe is “losing in all the battleground states.” “No, he’s not!” Uhhhhhh … Real Clear Politics says he is.
JESUS LOVES ME: [1:41] – CLICK https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/blog/jesus-loves-me/ to read the amazing and beautiful story of the women who wrote this beloved song and the unique military honor they received for their lifelong dedication to nurturing the spiritual lives of the cadets at West Point.
PLANET FITNESS: CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1774979600184926242?s=20 [:58] to see how they allowed a pair of sickos to act out their sexual fetish during a workout. Libs of TikTok also reported a porn actor was permitted to film himself masturbating inside one of the PF gyms. The USA is reminding me more and more of Rome during its most corrupt period.
GRAMMY NOTES: Bootz shows off his first rosary. The Mascots are stringing them for various missions around the world where they reportedly can’t give them away fast enough.
AMA: The world has gone bonkers. The American Medical Association intends to “advocate for the removal of sex as a legal designation on the public portion of the birth certificate, recognizing that information on an individual’s sex designation at birth will still be submitted through the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth for medical, public health, and statistical use only.”
CATHOLIC: [14:40] – We do not know exactly when the use of incense was introduced into Catholic rituals, but the Jews used incense in their Temple rituals, so it would be safe to conclude that early Christians adapted it early on. The smoke is intended to symbolize the prayers of the faithful drifting up to heaven.
“Let my prayer come like incense before you; the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.” – Psalm 141
Incense also creates the ambiance of heaven.
“Another angel came in holding a censer of gold. He took his place at the altar of incense and was given large amounts of incense to deposit on the altar of gold in front of the throne, together with the prayers of all God’s holy ones. From the angel’s hand, the smoke of the incense went up before God, and with it the prayers of God’s people.” – Revelation 8:3
INDIANA: Yet another flag kerfuffle over a patriotic high school boy flying the American flag on his truck, this time with the authorities threatening to make it impossible for senior Cameron Blasek to graduate and receive the diploma he had earned. Cameron talked to his parents, who agreed he was in accordance with both the school’s rules and the Flag Code. They fully supported his choice to fly the flag to school the next day. When the call to the principal’s office came, Cameron read him the code book and he backed off. “They didn’t really have anything to hold against me,” he said.
TRANS: The surgeons making big bucks hacking up healthy genitalia often tell parents that their offspring will commit suicide if they don’t sign off on the procedures. I looked at the single study they use to justify this and found it to be totally bogus. The rate of suicidal ideation is higher among teens with gender issues than among teens who are comfortable in their bodies. However, the rate of actual suicide attempts jumps dramatically following gender reassignment surgery.
One study found the after rate to be 18 times higher than among similar aged peers who had no gender issues. The results of a new study are shown in the graphic above. This one did not compare post-surgical suicides with the general population, but with the patients’ own pre-surgery behaviors. As you can see in the box I outlined in red, the 357 females showed a 0% change, while the 869 males showed a 38% increase.
GRAMMY NOTES: I am just busting my buttons over hearing that our very own Bunny was chosen to carry the thurible for the 2+ hour Easter Vigil service this year! It’s an incredible responsibility and honor. The photo is from the Service of Light which begins at sundown when, according to Jewish custom, is the beginning of the next day – i.e., Easter.
Outside the entrance to the church, a fire is lit and blessed, the new Paschal Candle is lit, and the priests and altar servers enter the darkened church. The people in the pews have all been given unlit candles. As the procession moves down the aisle, the blessed flame from the Paschal Candle is transferred to the person on the end of the aisle, who then shares it with the person next to them, and so on. As the procession moves forward, so does the Light of Christ illuminate the church. When I was a teen-ager, the rising of the light was accompanied by a stirring trumpet fanfare; it still gives me goosebumps to remember it.
The Easter Vigil is the longest and most moving of all Catholic liturgies. During the Liturgy of the Word, there are seven readings from the Old Testament, one reading from Saint Paul, and then the Easter Gospel. In between each reading, the congregation recites a Responsorial Psalm. Via these Scripture passages, the story of salvation unfolds God’s faithfulness regarding his people, which the priest will elaborate on during his homily.
Following the homily, adults entering the Catholic Church will be baptized as all present are asked to renew their own baptismal promises. Then, all adults entering the church will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. Later, all these individuals will receive their First Holy Communion as well. They will have all made their First Penance at some point not long before. For most, preparation will have taken as long as two years, depending on how much catechesis they have had in the past.
Finally, the faithful will celebrate the Liturgy of the Eucharist, through which, with the celebration of the Sacrament, we are made contemporaries of Jesus through His command, “Do this is memory of me”, and our response, “We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again.”
FAUXTUS: Today, the White House published A Proclamation on World Autism Awareness Day. You can click https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/ to verify that there were no proclamations over the weekend, while on March 29, 2024, there were similar proclamations on National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, National Donate Life Month, Cesar Chavez Day, National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month, Arab American Heritage Month, National Public Health Week, National Child Abuse Prevention Month, Care Workers Recognition Month, Month of the Military Child, Second Chance Month, and Transgender Day of Visibility.
NOTICE ANYTHING MISSING?!
The Trump campaign said, “It is appalling and insulting that Joe Biden’s White House prohibited children from submitting religious egg designs for their Easter Art Event, and formally proclaimed Easter Sunday as ‘Trans Day of Visibility.’ Sadly, these are just two more examples of the Biden Administration’s years-long assault on the Christian faith. We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only — the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
HATE: On Easter morning, someone parked a trailer full of Bibles in the middle of the intersection near Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, and then intentionally set them on fire. Mt. Juliet Fire Department crews quickly contained and extinguished the fire. The police are asking for help identifying the perp(s).
JORDAN PETERSON: Tammy Peterson, wife of conservative commentator and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, entered into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church during the Easter Vigil service. When asked if he could see himself taking the same step, Jordan said, “Well, I’m married to her, so whatever happens to her happens to me. It’s not like it’s separable.” Prayers for them both!
PENNSYLVANIA: Republicans won an important court battle when a federal appeals court rules that mail-in ballots without dates or with incorrect dates shall not be counted.
PROTESTING FOR CLICKS: CLICK https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1774435274979987794 [2:09] to see pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Easter Vigil Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. As some chanted “Free, free Palestine”, others rushed to the front and held up a banner that read, “SILENCE = DEATH.” The protesters were quickly tossed out and the service continued.
Matthew Menzies (31), John Rozendaal (63), and Gregory Schwedock (35) were taken into custody and charged with disruption of religious service, but at least two of them seem to be more about attention-seeking for social media fame than serious agents of social change.
Rozendaal was previously arrested in April after spray-painting “Climate criminal and no new oil” on a window at a Citibank. His Facebook feed includes glowing praise for Aaron Bushnell’s appalling decision to set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy to protest the war in Gaza, which he called “an occasion for solemn celebration” because he had “the smarts to put his sacrifice in the view of the world to teach us, to inspire us, and to rightly shame us.”
Schwedock was arrested last September after disrupting the US Open women’s semifinal for 50 minutes by gluing his feet to protest our use of fossil fuels. His Facebook feed features numerous videos of disruptive protests filmed in NYC and beyond, many involving vandalism and blocking public roadways. On his Instagram, he posted videos of himself living it up at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (aka, COP27).
SALON: [ 9:42] – On March 25, this leftie rag published an “analysis” of “Donald Trump’s obvious public challenges with speech, language, and thinking” which, according to their “experts” are “continuing to get worse.“
SICK: [1:54] – Adam Stafford King, a veterinary ophthalmologist and national dog show judge, was arrested in Chicago and is being held without bond on charges of knowingly distributing child pornography, drugging and sexually abusing his nieces and nephews.
The documents state that the material was distributed via the messaging app, Telegram, using the handle “@pervchidude.” In late-2023, the FBI took over the account he used to send his filth to collect evidence on him. In addition to images and videos depicting illicit material involving children, King messaged that he was planning to abuse the yet-unborn baby he and his husband hired a surrogate to provide for them.
TEXAS: Gov. Abbott says Operation Lone Star has decreased illegal immigrant influx into Texas by 28 percent. Meanwhile, illegal crossings are way up in neighboring California and Arizona, which have not taken aggressive action to protect U.S. citizens.
TRANS: CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1774532960164933720?s=20 [:18] to see how Cameron “Nicolette Fay” Storer marked Trans Day. He has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree arson, one count of second-degree arson, and two counts of second-degree burglary.
THE CHOSEN: [3:34] – The Chosen team writes, “Martha never doubted Jesus could work a miracle—even if that meant raising the dead. But she never expected Him to BE the miracle itself. Instead of saying, “Yes, I’ll bring your brother back to life,” He said, “I AM the resurrection and the life.” We’d call that a mic drop, but it’s more like dropping an entire mic factory.
“Adapted from John chapter 11, this incredible moment from Season 4, Episode 7 sets the stage for not only the raising of Lazarus, but for Jesus coming out of His own grave…and on that note, happy Easter!
VENERATION OF THE CROSS: “It seems strange that in the Good Friday liturgy Catholics choose to venerate, or show reverence to, the very instrument that was used to crucify Jesus. The Veneration of the Cross reminds us that through this Cross, the Glory of the resurrection emerges. So, on Good Friday, we come forward to show our great reverence and respect for the Cross. People have various traditions when they approach the Cross. Sometimes they kiss the Cross, kneel before the Cross, or even just touch it in some fashion. As you participate in this ritual, venerate the Cross in whatever way feels most normal. And most of all, just take in the experience of the gathered community coming so close to such a tragic, but integral, event in our faith.”
GRAMMY NOTES: Mama Buzz reports that, for the Good Friday service, “We had 11 altar servers and 4 priests!” Bunny was assigned to wipe the cross after people had touched or kissed it. ❤
BALTIMORE: The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge will cost us all some big bucks. At least 40 ships are now more or less trapped inside the port and the American Trucking Association estimates 4,900 trucks per day carrying an annual average of $28 billion worth of goods will have to travel by other, more expensive routes. Add in the loss in revenue from the port, which brings in $400 million taxes for Maryland annually, and you’ve got a massive economic problem.
In his announcement about the collapse, Dementia Joe said he had been over the bridge “many, many times commuting from the state of Delaware either by train or by car.” The bridge had only four lanes of traffic and no rail lines.
CLIMATE: On Wednesday, March 20, 2024, the Senate Committee on the Budget held a hearing entitled, “Recreation at Risk: The Nature of Climate Costs.” One of the “expert” witnesses was Gus Schumacher, “a world champion nordic skier” who testified that “climate change has dramatically altered the conditions for winter sports” which “not only affects recreational opportunities but also jeopardizes the economic viability of communities reliant on winter tourism.”
FLAUXTUS: CLICK https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1772909507280003345 [:41] to hear Jill Biden give us stupid voters a history lesson. Harris Rigby at Not The Bee asks, “So let’s get this straight: If you support Florida’s ban on teaching 6-year-olds about sex, or oppose porn in schools, or support a SCOTUS decision upholding the Second Amendment or overturning Roe v Wade, then you too are a Nazi helping to overthrow America. Did I get that right?
PERVERT: Yet another prominent LGBTQ activist has been arrested on child p*rn charges. Roy “Trey” Farmer (53) was arrested at the condo he owns next to Princeton’s main entrance.
TRANS: Natalie Pershall (46), a man pretending to be a woman, has pleaded guilty to photographing females in the women’s bathroom at the JB Hunt Corporate Office. He has been sentenced to 87 days in jail, plus six years of state-supervised probation. In addition, he will have to register as a sex offender.
GRAMMY NOTES: I don’t recall ever chucking a toy out the door, but I did threaten to return “The Titanic” to Blockbusters if the girls didn’t stop kicking each other. They didn’t stop, no doubt thinking I wanted to see the end as well. Turns out, I didn’t care about seeing the end as much as I did about being an Awesome Parent Who Was Willing To Make Any Sacrifice For Their Future Good. Also, I already knew how the movie ended. The boat sank.
FINGER LAKES REUSE: Finger Lakes ReUse combines the mission of a Salvation Army Thrift Store to collect and sell household items and clothing at low cost with the mission of a Habitats for Housing center to collect and resell building materials at low cost.
ReUse also offers an electronics department that takes in and refurbishes older equipment for resale and will also do repairs on existing equipment. In addition to job training and actual jobs, they have even found a use for appliances and gadgets that can’t be repaired; mechanically adept adults have workshops where kids get to take such things apart and learn how they work!
Their recent newsletter announced that Geneva, NY, is working toward establishing their own ReUse program. The newsletter also announced recent grants from various agencies and organizations totaling nearly a million dollars to continue and expand their work.
JESUS’ FACE CLOTH: [12:28] – Once again, “The Folded Napkin” is circulating the Internet. It’s a sweet idea, that the face cloth was found folded in the empty tomb means Jesus will return. But it doesn’t stand up to scripture scholarship.
The Greek word for the face cloth – soudarion – means a sweat-cloth or towel used to wipe perspiration off the face or to bind the face of a corpse. Jesus’ face cloth – aka, the Sudarium of Oviedo – is stored at the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain, which BTW is just 119 miles west of Garabandal, Spain, where the Blessed Mother appeared in the 1960s.
PSA: In case you need to evade the authorities, here are two tricks from the 20th century. During prohibition in the U.S., moonshiners wore “heifer-heels” to make it difficult for cops to track their foot prints through fields. And in WW2, infiltrators and smugglers wore clog shoes with the soles on backwards to fool the Germans into tracking them the wrong way.
One of the main things I remember from when my kids were toddlers was the “Why?” “How?” “When?” “Why?” “Where?” “Why?” fifty million times a day. Exhausting for sure.
That being said, I absolutely loved those parenting years…the vocabulary explosion, watching them figure out the world around them, the sheer cuteness of their speech.
My reply: “YES!! One evil parenting thing I did was to set a hard limit of three whys in a row. Besides saving my sanity and preserving the health and safety of my endlessly chatty daughter, I thought it would force her to think more about my answers before she asked a new question. Dunno if it worked, or not. But she’s 42 now and frequently tells me stuff that has me wondering when she got so wise. So maybe!”
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