I wonder how normie Catholics today would react if they witnessed the old Traditional Latin Mass said in ENGLISH, with all the old rubrics and gestures and music and traditions and high altars and statuaries in place -- the language being the only exception. Would they love it? Would they hate it?

I have come to accept that the Blessed Virgin is more my mother than my mom is. No disrespect to anyone's mom (quite the contrary), but she should find Mary as her mother, too -- for Mary is the mother of all who keep the Commandments and hold the testimony of Jesus Christ.

I am not Orthodox, but I was pleased to hear an Orthodox priest speak plainly and truthfully on Tucker Carlson's most recent show. We need more direct, manly, straight-from-the-hip truth telling in a respectful way.

It's a good habit to say "the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" rather than just "Mass." Why? Right now, it is emphasized that Communion is a sharing of the Body of Christ as in a supper with fellow Christians. That is true, of course, but we can never forget that it is in the context of a true, literal Sacrifice. Remember the very first Passover. Yes, of course the Israelites were to eat the lamb in their households as part of their Passover meal. But there was no mistake that it was part of the *sacrifice* of the Passover. Jesus Christ is our Passover, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

During Mass, priests have practically always joined the laity in facing our Eucharistic Lord in prayer throughout the Liturgy. It's crazy how many now flip that on its side by describing it as "turning their backs to the people." Is the Mass Christ-centered or people-centered? The answer to that question reveals who we're actually turning our backs to. Bishops need to reconsider their novel diocesan bans against saying Masses ad orientum.

Drop a pic of your daily or regular prayin" #rosary in the comments. Here's mine.

When Jesus spoke from the Cross, "Behold, your mother," shoulld we believe it was an irresponsibly last-minute arrangement for Mary's fincial security? What about when he said, "Behold, your son"? He didn't call him "protector" or "provider" or "man of the house," but rather "son." Mother. Son. These are relational terms. We all stand at the foot of the Cross with John. Jesus gave Mary to us as our Mother. His Mom is now our Mom. She prays with us, for us, raising us as children of God. Don't neglect her, but honor her. Talk to your heavenly Mother. She loves you and will help you. 📿

It's for sure my main driver, on my desktop. I use MX Linux on my laptop, which runs very slow. MX speeds it up quite a bit. But MX is based on Debian 13, so that's cool. Can you imagine anyone starting a blog post with, "Oh Microsoft Windows, how I enjoy you so"? Haha! The absurdity! But with Linux, it makes perfect sense. I feel you, bro.

Very frustrated with myself. At a men's conference where Gabriel Castillo brought a relic of St. Dominic -- and I forgot to bring my good prayin' rosary! I would have touched the relic with it.

It's many times easier to believe one can randomly guess the seed phrase of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin address in one try than to believe the physical cosmos came into existence from non-existence -- without an Uncaused Cause, an Uncreated Creator, outside of the cosmos.

Singing songs of praise in a "worship service" is not the highest form of worship. It's not even necessarily worship in all cases. Many contemporary love songs are at the same level of "praise," but do not constitute worship. What is real worship? Sacrifice. Hence, in continuity with ancient Israel's religion, we have the Holy *Sacrifice* of the Mass (a.k.a. "Divine Liturgy" in the East) -- forbidden to be offered to anyone other than God himself. It's not a re-sacrificing of Christ, but an unbloody, sacramental re-presentation of his once-for-all sacrifice -- making it present to us and applying its effects. (* Drums and guitars not required.)

It's okay to make artwork out of clay or whittled from wood or fashioned of metal. We see it everywhere. It doesn't somehow become an IDOL if *religious* art is carved or fashioned from these materials. The point of the Commandment is that we should have no other "gods" but the one, true God. Don't worship your Christian artwork, and you will be fine.