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February 8, 2024
(1Ti 2:1-4) I
desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers,
intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men: For kings and for
all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable
life in all piety and chastity. For this is good and acceptable in the
sight of God our Saviour, Who will have all men to be saved and to come
to the knowledge of the truth.
TUCKER CARLSON VIDEO: Interview of Vladimir Putin
THE CATHOLIC ESQUIRE: Liberalism Is Still a Sin
FIRST THINGS ARCHIVES: Alexander Dugin Explained
ALEXANDER DUGIN (Via X): Tucker, Putin, and the Apocalypse
Why is Tucker Carlson’s interview considered pivotal for both the West and Russia?
Let us start with the simpler part: Russia. Here, Tucker Carlson has
become a focal point for two polar opposites within Russian society:
ideological patriots and elite Westernisers who nonetheless remain
loyal to Putin and the Special Military Operation. For patriots, Tucker
Carlson is simply ‘one of us’. He is a traditionalist, a right-wing
conservative, and a staunch opponent of liberalism. This is what
twenty-first-century emissaries to the Russian tsar look like.
Putin does not often interact with prominent representatives of the
fundamentally conservative camp. The attention the Kremlin pays him
ignites the patriot’s heart, inspiring the continuation of a
conservative-traditionalist course in Russia itself. Now it is possible
and necessary: Russian power has defined its ideology. We have embarked
on this path and will not deviate from it. Yet, patriots are always
afraid we will. No.
On the other hand, the Westernisers sighed with relief: see, not
everything in the West is bad, and there are good and objective people,
we told you! Let us be friends with such a West, think the
Westernisers, even if the rest of the globalist liberal West does not
want to be friends but only bombards us with sanctions, and with
missiles and cluster bombs, killing our women, children, and the
elderly. We are at war with the liberal West, so let there at least be
friendship with the conservative West. Thus, Russian patriots and
Russian Westernisers (increasingly more Russian and less Western) come
to a consensus in the figure of Tucker Carlson.
In the West, everything is even more fundamental. Tucker Carlson is a
symbolic figure. He is now the main symbol of the America that hates
Biden, liberals, and globalists and is preparing to vote for Trump.
Trump, Carlson, and Musk, plus Texas Governor Abbott, are the faces of
the looming American Revolution, this time a Conservative Revolution.
To this already powerful resource, Russia connects. No, it is not about
Putin supporting Trump, which could easily be dismissed in the context
of war with the United States. Carlson’s visit is about something else.
Biden and his maniacs have effectively attacked a great nuclear power
through the hands of Kiev’s unleashed terrorists, and humanity is on
the verge of destruction. Nothing more, nothing less.
The globalist media continue to spin a Marvel series for infants, where
Spider-Man Zelensky magically wins with superpowers and magical pigs
against the Kremlin’s ‘Dr. Evil’. However, this is just a cheap, silly
series. In reality, everything is heading towards the use of nuclear
weapons and possibly the destruction of humanity. Tucker Carlson
conducts a reality check: does the West understand what it is doing,
pushing the world towards the apocalypse? There is a real Putin and a
real Russia, not these staged characters and settings from Marvel. Look
what the globalists have done and how close we are to it!
It is not about the content of the interview with Putin. It is the fact
that a person like Tucker Carlson is visiting a country like Russia to
meet a political figure like Putin at such a critical time. Tucker
Carlson’s trip to Moscow might be the last chance to stop the
disappearance of humanity. The gigantic billion-strong attention to
this pivotal interview from humanity itself, as well as the frenzied,
inhuman rage of Biden, the globalists, and the world’s citizens
intoxicated with decay, testify to humanity’s awareness of the
seriousness of the situation.
The world can only be saved by stopping now. For that, America must
choose Trump. And Tucker Carlson. And Elon Musk. And Abbott. Then we
get a chance to pause on the brink of the abyss. Compared to this,
everything else is secondary. Liberalism and its agenda have led
humanity to a dead end. Now the choice is this: either liberals or
humanity. Tucker Carlson chooses humanity, which is why he came to
Moscow to meet Putin. The whole world understood why he came and how
important it is.
The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Discretion
90. A hermit said, 'Do not give to or receive anything from worldly
people. Take no notice of women. Do not remain long in the company of a
boy.'
February 6, 2024
(Joh
14:27) Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you: not as the
world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled: nor
let it be afraid.
FATHER CELCUS HOMILY: Everyone Is Looking For You #TGBTG
ANTONIO CARDINAL BACCI: True Peace
1. Everybody desires peace, but very few people possess it. A good many
profound and beautiful definitions have been attempted. Cicero called
it "tranquilla libertas," which one might translate as "undisturbed
freedom." His general idea was that there can be no peace without
liberty. St. Augustine defined it as "hominum ordinata concordia" (De.
Civ. Dei, XIX, 13) or "ordered agreement among men." St. Thomas
followed on the same lines when he said that peace was "tranquillitas
ordinis" (Summa, II-II, q. 29, a. 1 ad. 1) or "tranquillity of order."
There are three necessary elements in peace. They are order, harmony,
and liberty. Right order is the most important. Everything in us must
be in its proper place. As we have shown in the preceding meditation,
our lower faculties must be entirely subordinate to right reason, and
this must be completely subject to the law of God.
Every act of rebellion against this proper order creates confusion in
our nature and makes peace impossible. Furthermore, there must be
harmony and agreement. This means that our minds must voluntarily
accept and embrace this just order, and not merely endure it with
reluctance. As St. Thomas says, peace is an act of charity; it comes
indirectly from justice and directly from charity. (Summa, II-II, q.
29; a. 1, ad. 3) We have perfect peace when this just order holds sway
within us, provided that we are not enduring it as if it were a yoke,
but lovingly accepting it under the inspiration of divine charity. This
is that genuine peace which gives us the liberty of the sons of God,
that freedom from evil with which Christ has set us free. (Cf. Gal.
4:31; 2 Cor. 3:17) True peace flourishes in an atmosphere of goodness
and perishes when it encounters evil. Whether it is in the field of
social relations or in the spiritual life, peace without liberty is not
peace at all, but slavery and death.
2. When He came into the world, Jesus proclaimed peace. The Angels
hovering over His humble manger sang songs of glory to God on high and
of peace to men of good will on earth. During His earthly pilgrimage He
often spoke of peace. When He forgave sinners their faults, He said to
each of them: “Go in peace,” and “sin no more.” (Luke 7:50; 8:48; John
8:11) When He was leaving this earth He bequeathed His peace to His
Apostles as if it were a sacred heirloom: “Peace I leave with you, my
peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. (John
14:27) We can see from these words that the peace of Jesus is not the
same as worldly peace. The Church in its liturgy implores from God that
peace which the world cannot give. When the world speaks of peace, it
means normally the external, public peace which flows from respect for
the law and for the established regime. This is peace; there is no
doubt about that. It is necessary and is a gift from God. But it is not
enough. We need the inner peace of soul of which we have already
spoken, for it is the only true and solid foundation for external
peace. Without this peace of soul, external peace is uncertain and
fleeting. We have said that true peace is based on three things: Right
order, harmony, and liberty. But in order to obtain full and perfect
peace still one more thing is necessary; complete and loving
abandonment to the will of God. The beginning of real peace and
holiness lies in doing the will of God in every detail. The perfection
of peace and holiness is to do the will of God in everything purely
from love for Him. Dante expresses this profound idea when he describes
the peace of the blessed in Heaven, now unshakable in their joyful
compliance with the divine will.
"E la sua volontate é nostra pace:
Ella é quel mare, al qual tutto si move ciò ch' ella crea e che natura face."
(Paradiso, III, 85-87)
"His will is our repose:
He is the ocean into which everything flows Which He has created in the universe."
3. This absolute and loving abandonment to the will of God in all
things brings complete inner peace, but it does not exclude conflict.
Interior peace is the result of the practice of virtue and therefore of
the struggle against evil. When Our Lord had repeated several times
that He had given us His peace, He said also: “Do not think that I have
come to send peace upon the earth; I have come to bring a sword, not
peace.” (Mt. 10:34) These apparently contradictory words of Our Lord
are explained by the fact that the peace of Jesus does not consist in
inactivity, but demands action and strife and the conquest of evil. It
is a militant peace which Our Lord desires us to possess. Only when we
have controlled our passions, when we have made our wills entirely
subject to the will of God and have renounced ourselves so that the
justice and charity of Jesus Christ can triumph in us, only then shall
we reach those serene heights where storms from below cannot come near
us and the peace of God reigns supreme.
We find examples of this true and perfect peace among the Saints,
Martyrs and Apostles. We read of the Apostles that “they departed...
rejoicing that they had been counted worthy to suffer disgrace for the
name of Jesus.” (Acts 5:41) This is an example of that genuine peace
which is the result of victory in the combat against evil and of
complete and loving submission to the will of God.
DYNAMIC CATHOLIC: God is inviting you to trust him today! No matter what you're facing, bring it to him, and experience peace.
The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Discretion
89. A hermit said, 'We are not condemned if bad thoughts enter our
minds, but only if we use them badly. Because of our thoughts we may
suffer shipwreck, but because of our thoughts we may also earn a crown.'
February 2, 2024
(Luk 2:22-24) And
after the days of her purification, according to the law of Moses, were
accomplished, they carried him to Jerusalem, to present him to the
Lord: As it is written in the law of the Lord: Every male opening the
womb shall be called holy to the Lord: And to offer a sacrifice,
according as it is written in the law of the Lord, a pair of
turtledoves or two young pigeons:
CATHOLIC HERALD: Celebrating the Presentation of the Lord
SIMPLY CATHOLIC: The Feast of the Presentation
According to the Church’s liturgical calendar, the feast held on Feb. 2
each year is in honor of the Presentation of the Lord. Some Catholics
recall this day as the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin
Mary because such was the feast day named until the 1969 changes in the
Church’s calendar.
In fact, according to Luke’s Gospel, the presentation of Jesus and the
purification of the Blessed Mother took place in the Temple on the same
day, and both are remembered during Mass on Feb. 2. Also, in several
countries, Candlemas is simultaneously celebrated on this day and
involves a candlelight procession that was popularized in the Middle
Ages. Until the Second Vatican Council the feasts on Feb. 2 ended the
Christmas season. Today, the season ends in January on the feast of the
Baptism of our Lord.
As early as the fourth century Christians commemorated the presentation
of Jesus in the Temple, but, at the time, there was no feast name
attached. In seventh-century Rome, the Church named the celebration the
feast of the Purification of the Blessed Mother Mary, and it remained
that way for nearly 1,300 years. In the reforms after Vatican II, the
feast was given a stronger focus on Jesus (by stressing the
Presentation of Jesus), but clearly the events of purification and
presentation that took place when Jesus was 40 days old (see Lk
2:22-39) are tied together and thus commemorated together.
EWTN: What Is Candlemas? The Beautiful Biblical Celebration Explained
CATHOLIC ANSWERS: The Tradition of Candlemas
UNIVERSALIS: From a sermon by Saint Sophronius, bishop
Let us receive the light whose brilliance is eternal
In honour of the divine mystery that we celebrate today, let us all
hasten to meet Christ. Everyone should be eager to join the procession
and to carry a light.
Our lighted candles are a sign of the divine splendour of the one who
comes to expel the dark shadows of evil and to make the whole universe
radiant with the brilliance of his eternal light. Our candles also show
how bright our souls should be when we go to meet Christ.
The Mother of God, the most pure Virgin, carried the true light in her
arms and brought him to those who lay in darkness. We too should carry
a light for all to see and reflect the radiance of the true light as we
hasten to meet him.
The light has come and has shone upon a world enveloped in shadows; the
Dayspring from on high has visited us and given light to those who
lived in darkness. This, then, is our feast, and we join in procession
with lighted candles to reveal the light that has shone upon us and the
glory that is yet to come to us through him. So let us hasten all
together to meet our God.
The true light has come, the light that enlightens every man who is
born into this world. Let all of us, my brethren, be enlightened and
made radiant by this light. Let all of us share in its splendour, and
be so filled with it that no one remains in the darkness. Let us be
shining ourselves as we go together to meet and to receive with the
aged Simeon the light whose brilliance is eternal. Rejoicing with
Simeon, let us sing a hymn of thanksgiving to God, the Father of the
light, who sent the true light to dispel the darkness and to give us
all a share in his splendour.
Through Simeon’s eyes we too have seen the salvation of God which he
prepared for all the nations and revealed as the glory of the new
Israel, which is ourselves. As Simeon was released from the bonds of
this life when he had seen Christ, so we too were at once freed from
our old state of sinfulness.
By faith we too embraced Christ, the salvation of God the Father, as he
came to us from Bethlehem. Gentiles before, we have now become the
people of God. Our eyes have seen God incarnate, and because we have
seen him present among us and have mentally received him into our arms,
we are called the new Israel. Never shall we forget this presence;
every year we keep a feast in his honour.
The
Desert Fathers: sayings of the Early Christian Monks: Discretion
87. A hermit said, "If a man has words but no works, he is like a tree
with leaves but no fruit. Just as a tree laden with fruit is also
leafy, the man of good works will also have good words.'
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