6/9/24: "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel."

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (sign/voice)

Memorial of the Immaculate Heart 

of the Blessed Virgin Mary (6/8) 

Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (6/7)

The Courage to Stand for Truth

Roe v Wade Overturned on the 

2022 Solemnity of the Sacred Heart

• As Our Culture Celebrates ‘Gay Pride’, Parents Must Be Counter-Cultural (Catholic Stand, 5/30/24)
• An Authentic Role Model of "Pride": St Charles Lwanga (Catholic365, 5/24/24)
• New Jersey Parish To Hold 'Pride' Mass June 23 (CatholicVote org, 5/23/24)

• The States & Free Exercise of Religion (John Grondelski, PhD, 5/27/24)

• Great Tool for Eucharistic Renewal! [UPDATED on Catholic365, 5/12/24]
• As per Part Two of then Cardinal Ratzinger's The Spirit of the Liturgy:

"The Altar and the Direction of Liturgical Prayer: 

'even in architecture, there is both continuity and newness in the relationship of the Old Testament to the New....

'praying toward the east is a tradition that goes back to the beginning....what about the altar? In what direction should we pray during the Eucharistic liturgy?....[In recent times, there was] a misunderstanding of the significance of the Roman basilica and of the positioning of the altar....

[Previously] 'the priest himself was not regarded as so important [For this reason alone, isn't a celebrant's chair obscuring the tabernacle bizarre?].  For just as the congregation in the synagogue looked toward Jerusalem, so in the Christian liturgy the congregation looked together "toward the Lord"....

'It would surely be a mistake to reject all the reforms of our century wholesale....a common turning to the east during the Eucharistic Prayer remains essential....What matters is looking together at the Lord....Where a direct common turning toward the east is not possible, the cross can serve as the interior 'east' of faith. It should stand in the middle of the altar and be the common point of focus for both priest and praying community" (pp. 74 - 83).

As per Part Four's Rite, "the liturgy becomes personal, true, and new, not through tomfoolery and banal experiments with the words, but through a courageous entry into the great reality that through the rite is always ahead of us and can never quite be overtaken" (p. 169). 

 As per Part Four's The Body and the Liturgy, "one must be lead toward the essential action that makes the liturgy what it is, toward the transforming power of God, who wants, through what happens in the liturgy, to transform us and the world. In this respect, liturgical education today, of both priests and laity, is deficient to a deplorable extent. Much remains to be done here" (p. 175). (cf, Customer review of The Spirit of the Liturgy)

• "The Constitution...very clearly grants only to Congress the awesome power to declare war. And Congress has exercised that power 11 times throughout five wars since 1789. The last time was on June 5, 1942, when the U.S. declared war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
  
  "World War II officially ended for the U.S. in 1945, which means we should have been at peace for the last 79 years....
  
  "Professor Anton notes that America has not engaged in a war that was constitutionally 'legitimate' since World War II....
  
  “'The people who really rule you . . . are faceless bureaucrats you’ve never heard of. . . . And their view is, you either agree with them or you stay out of their lane. . . .
  
  "Whether or not the American people want war, the faceless bureaucrats want it. Why? War allows them to profit and further extend their power to every part of the world. And they never have to face an election or be held accountable to the people in any way" (hillsdale.edu, 5/23/24)

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