The Knights of Columbus is a good Catholic organization for men, and I do recommend it. However, there is a catch. The council you join must be directly connected to a parish, and devoted to helping that parish succeed. I am a member of just such a council. We don't have our own clubhouse. We meet in the parish itself. Our council efforts are directed primarily at helping our parish, which is a faithful and traditional parish of the Ordinariate, and we focus on building our knights up in Christian education and Catholic formation. If you're a Catholic man, go find a similar type of council and get involved. When directed the RIGHT WAY, the Knights our powerful.

https://youtu.be/ss0i4xuSffQ

Once again, JUSTICE. The jury was right about the Rittenhouse case, and the jury was right about these three men. The circumstances were very different in each case, and anyone surprised by the verdict in either case, needs to get new news sources. The verdicts send a very clear message. You can used your guns to defend yourself all you want, but you can't use them to hunt down wrongdoers and exact vigilante justice. In the Kyle Rittenhouse case, the men who got shot were pursuing/attacking an armed man. In the Ahmaud Arbery case, armed men were pursuing/attacking the the man who got shot. It's a very big difference, in which the situation was almost exactly reversed.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/all-3-men-found-guilty-of-murder-in-death-of-ahmaud-arbery_4122552.html

🍁 Happy Thanksgiving 🍁
… and let us all remember what we have to be thankful for.

This is REAL persecution of Christians — in Finland — and it’s going on right now. The LGBT Left Is now using its pull in Finland to literally put Christians behind bars. This is coming to a country and state near you! Are you ready to go to prison for Christ? Because it’s beginning to start.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/23/in-case-with-global-implications-finland-puts-christians-on-trial-for-their-faith/

There is no need for conspiracy theories and rabbit holes. Forget about Q-Anon, and all the so-called “secret knowledge” the Internet supposedly has to offer. It’s all very simple, and it’s nothing new. Everything that’s been happening in regards to our government and the media is all very explainable, predicable and old hat. We’ve seen this before, in the East. Now it’s happening in the West. Communists always use a crisis to further their agenda. The COVID-19 crisis is real, but it is also a crisis of convenience. Communists are just doing what they always do. They never let a good crisis go to waste. The crisis is real, but the commies are using it to their advantage. The sooner we understand that, the sooner we can effectively counter them.

https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/communist-ideology-roars-back/

I don't believe in the Rapture, and here's why...

https://completechristianity.blog/2021/11/26/why-i-dont-believe-in-the-rapture/

The French are wrong. American Wokeism is not an attack on the French Republic, it is rather an attack on French identity, religion and culture, and it’s not just limited to France. It’s America against the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/world/europe/france-nonbinary-pronoun.html

ADVENT REFLECTIONS: In Advent, we prepare ourselves not only for the Christmas Season (which does not end, but rather BEGINS on December 25), but also we prepare for the Second Advent (or Second Coming) of Jesus Christ at the end of the world. Therefore, liturgical churches (Catholic, Anglican, Methodist and Lutheran) will often include Sunday readings that reflect on the end of the world. It seems strange reading this at this time of year, but that’s the purpose. We need to prepare for Christ’s Second Advent just as much as we contemplate and remember his First Advent 2,000 years ago.

The following is an essay I wrote for Advent 2021. It explores a topic common to many American Christians today, particularly Evangelicals. Having once been an Evangelical myself, the transition to Anglican, and then Catholic, was a rather radical one for me. One of those adjustments I had to make was on the teaching of the Rapture, which is extremely popular in Evangelical circles. Not all Evangelicals subscribe to it, but the vast majority do, and I was one of them. I no longer believe in the Rapture, and this essay explains why.

https://completechristianity.blog/2021/11/26/why-i-dont-believe-in-the-rapture/

Full Daily Office, in one volume, according to the English Patrimony of Divine Worship. This office uses reverent language in traditional English and is fully approved by Rome…

https://acsociety.org/news/new-print-run-of-cts-ordinariate-daily-office-set-for-february

Vaccine developers have “a pretty good degree in confidence” that fully vaccinated people who’ve gotten a COVID-19 booster are protected against the omicron variant, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/scottgottlieb-omicron-boosters/2021/11/28/id/1046445/

Let me make this crystal clear, so there can be no misunderstanding. Any church, that complies with government lockdown orders, will eventually die out. There are no exceptions to this. We saw what the first lockdown did to most churches. Many of them are deep in the financial hole now, and they’re lucky if more than half of their former congregation ever returned. Another church lockdown this winter will finish them off.

Churches must do everything within their power to prevent this from happening. First and foremost, they need to file lawsuits against all governments trying to lock them down. Second, they need to organize peaceful protests and vigils against governments trying to lock them down. Such vigils can even be done on the street, outside of churches, to make a point. “We’re coming here every week whether they let us in or not.” They can be held outside of city hall, state capitol buildings and governor’s mansions. This should be accompanied by copious letters to the editors of newspapers and as much media coverage as possible. Third and finally, churches should make it clear that they’re more than willing to comply with mask mandates within reason, and try to socially distance inside their buildings whenever possible, and provide plenty of hand sanitation dispensaries. OpenIng doors, and windows, and providing better ventilation inside the building are also possibilities worth considering. However, lockdown, or even limiting people from attendance (which is the equivalent of turning people away) is unacceptable and goes against our religious beliefs. Don’t be afraid to use the words “religious persecution” as needed. Yes, the survival of our churches is at stake. Start acting like it.

This is an old photograph of the Protestant “Crystal Cathedral,” which is flanked by a newer photograph of the same building, now purchased and renovated by the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Orange, renamed “Christ Cathedral.”

What this represents, in actuality, is a trend in the US Catholic Church. The bishops are moving toward the mega-church model. Why? It’s simple really, and the artificial (intentionally man-made) priest shortage plays a huge role. To keep the American priesthood as gay as possible, or at least as milquetoast as possible, straight men (who are fervent Catholics) must be purged from the seminaries, and this has been going on since at least the 1970s.

However, as the US priesthood ages, many of these men are no longer able to carry the load of two or three parishes. So rather than open the seminaries to devout and straight men, so as to fill the pastoral seats in parishes, they have instead decided to reduce the number of parishes by merging them into mega-parishes, so they can return to a 1:1 ratio of one priest for every one parish. It’s just that each parish will now be a mega-church where the number of Catholic laypeople are still plentiful.

The former Crystal Cathedral, now Christ Cathedral, is the future model for all dioceses in the mainstream Roman Rite. If you don’t like it, you’ll need to move to either a Latin Mass, and Ordinariate parish, or else Eastern Catholicism.

TRANSLATION: “No lockdowns while I’m in charge. We only do that while a Republican is president, so as to destabilize the country during an election year, cheat like crazy and reinstall a Democrat into the Whitehouse.”

Make no mistake about it, a clear message was sent to his Democrat associates in the governors’ mansions and mayors’ houses. If you lockdown your state, or city, while Biden’s in charge, you’ll do so without his approval and you cannot expect his support. Biden wants to be re-elected, and even he understands that can’t happen if the economy is decimated and the people are near a revolutionary state. The real question is this. Will his handlers allow him to do this? I have a feeling he’s bucking their advice right now.

https://theepochtimes.com/biden-no-new-lockdowns-anticipated-over-omicron-covid-19-variant_4128873.html