Lectio Divina and Spiritual reading for Thursday of week 2 in ordinary time

The Catholic community has a superabundance of useless nerds talking. What it lacks are real men.

Physical courage is not a guarantee of moral courage but physical cowardice is a guarantee of moral cowardice.

If you are the sort of man who is afraid to fight then you harbor within a thousand weaknesses which will make themselves evident when push comes to shove.

Every week I train and get punched and slammed and choked. I get blood in my nose, swollen lips from time to time some leather burn on my face or bruises. I will train hard enough that my legs are so sore that I hobble around after leg day. And these little sacrifices are nothing compared to what people face in persecution. How can the men who forsake these practices hold up when real pain, real suffering, and real hardship is thrust upon them?

If you follow weak men or fat blowhards you deserve what you get. If you can look into the face of these weak faggots and feel anything but contempt I feel sorry for you. Stop treating weak men as equals

Weak Men: the Vice of sloth in leaving the defense of your family and community in other men’s hands

"Notice how each revolutionary attemps to establish his own substitute for Catholic order, but once the Catholic Church is left behind, one 'bomb leads to the next, because each new order is, as departing from Catholicism, more or less a disorder. Thus each revolutionary is a mixture: he is both liberal, as breaking with the old order, and conservative, as establishing a new order, and he has both conservative and liberal successors, of whom the latter will war with and undemine the former. So men may long for the restoration of past established orders, e.g. the British Monarchy or the American Constitution (because each has in it more of what is Catholic than those following), but unless men return to Catholic order, society is bound to arrive at the supreme disorder, the reign of the Antichrist."

- Bishop Richard Williamson

I’m going through the most difficult moment of my life. My two year old daughter has kidney failure as a result of what seems to be e coli which has turned into HUS.

If you could remember her in your rosary intentions and prayers I would be grateful. We don’t know what’s going to happen.

Hooked up to a bunch of different fluids and undergoing dialysis. It is just the beginning of what is often a grueling process and praying feverishly that her condition doesn’t degrade.

Thank you for your prayers, I invite you to do penance, to fast, to offer whatever you can. To those who have prayed rosaries and novenas you have my deepest gratitude.

I feel more at peace now than I did the last 48 hours. I am still nervous and restless but I am not the frantic mess I was yesterday.

Praying for good news in the morning, or the strength to bear bad news.

St Jerome Mentions In the life of St Hilarion that when tempted by impure thoughts he thus addressed his body “I will tame you by HUNGER and thirst, I will load you with HEAVY WEIGHTS and accustom you to heat and COLD so that you shall think more of food than of pleasure”

How far we have strayed as Christians from the masculine rigidity that not only preserves the health of the body but more importantly subjugates the flesh and makes master the spirit so that a man may remain busy pursuing God and not falling prey to concupiscence.

For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other- Galatians 5:17

Attempts to decouple the Catholic faith from legitimate defenses of people's heritage and patrimony is a satanic dialectic

A feeble dislike or antipathy makes us feel repugnant to its object and glad to shun it but a strong moral HATRED causes us not only to abhor and fly from its object but fills us for disgust for it so we cannot endure to approach any person or thing in the remotest degree connected to it or reminding us of it.

When the penitent HATES his sin with but a feeble contrition he resolves to sin no more but when he hates it with a hearty vigorous contrition he detests not only the sin in itself but every affection , circumstance, or inducement which tends towards it. -Saint Frances De Sales “Introduction to the Devout Life”

My daughter is showing some signs of progress, she will be taken off dialysis tomorrow so the doctors can see how her body is doing on its own and she is urinating which is proof of the Kidneys functioning.

On the other hand my son and I have been showing signs of sickness, though I hope we will not get as sick as Isabella.

I am extremely proud that my son, who is only four, has been praying the rosary with me and doing the responsory. He sits still and shows a level of maturity and patience that I did not have until I was much much older. Everything the Lord allows to pass is a blessing and most of all the painful hardships which cultivate inner strength, faith and humility.

I thank you all again for your prayers for my family and I thank God for the strength, the patience, the forgiveness and even the trials without which the pride of life and the lust of the flesh might still rule over me entirely.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. Proverbs 23:24

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

I’m a fan of the metal head battle vest aesthetic of the 80-90s. We decided to make Leo one for his Catholic faith with patches representing aspects of the faith as well as Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu. Hoping we can add some in recognition of wins in competition as well. He loves his vest and it’s a great way to proclaim the faith.

A woman by her very nature is maternal — for every woman, whether married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological or spiritual mother — she knows intuitively that to give, to nurture, to care for others, to suffer with and for them — for maternity implies suffering — is infinitely more valuable in God’s sight than to conquer nations and fly to the moon.
-Alice von Hildebrand

"Enlightened One, Christianity and the Crusades. How explain?"

To understand the Crusades, one has to understand the rigorous Germanisation Christianity underwent when it came into contact with the ascendant Germanic tribes in Europe in the early Middle Ages (sometimes erroneously called the Dark Ages).

Christianity was first reformed when it came into contact with the Graeco-Roman world, so it was an already Indo-Europeanised Christianity that met the Germanic tribes.

Daniel S. Forrest states it beautifully in Suprahumanism:

"It was through its exposure to the vigorous peoples of Germania that Christianity was additionally transformed into a heroic faith: a faith which upheld pagan martial virtues in the spiritualised form of chivalry, and that was capable of launching crusades against Islam.

It was this Germanised Christianity that gave birth to such figures as St. George, and whose spirit was captured so beautifully by Albrecth Dürer in his masterly artworks."

Another profound insight by Forrest is the following:

"Thus, Catholic Christianity, in both Northern and Southern Europe, turned during the medieval times into a different, syncretic religion as a result of encountering Greco-Roman and Celto-Germanic culture.

The pagan component of this religion, though usually unacknowledged, remained strong for a long time, and it is this syncretic religion that people think of when they speak of 'traditional Christianity.'"

Understanding the Military Orders – the Templars, Hospitallers, Teutonic Knights – can also be done when viewing them as a spiritual heir to the Indo-European Männerbund. Initiatic orders embarking upon a temporal and spiritual war is, to quote a wise man, very Indo-European (whether it is a Kóryos wolf-cult dedicated to Odin or a Crusader Order).

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux said the following:

‘Whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. What a glory it is for you to emerge from the battle crowned with victory! But what a greater glory it is to win on the battlefield an immortal crown… What a truly blessed condition, when one can wait for death without any fear, yearning for it and welcoming it with a strong spirit!’

This passage can only be understood in the context of Indo-European spirituality.

Thus, to conclude, the Crusades were an enterprise fully imbued with the Indo-European spirit. That they wore crosses does not, in our humble opinion, make it into a Christian endeavour.

Is profiting from lying to your impressionable fan base of LARPing adolescents also part of the indo-European spirit?

I feel bad for the disenfranchised white youth who are being mislead and dragged to hell by the venomous and false words of snake oil salesmen like the golden one.

There are those who scandalize others by telling lies that they themselves believe and then there are the damned who mislead others with lies that they know to be lies.

Pray that him and his fan base repent before it is too late for them.

Also to be clear, pagan societies did not conquer to spread the gospel of Odin. Vikings took slaves and pillaged for material reasons.

The crusades, despite being maligned for many years by antiwhite historians as material endeavors, were not profitable for the men who engaged in them and the people who contributed financially to their success generally did so for purely pious reasons.

The men who joined those orders also took on vows of poverty and chastity. Those who wore white robes could hold no property and receive no private letters. They could not be married or betrothed and could not have any vow in any other Order. They could not have debt more than they could pay.

These were men fully divested from worldly living and there is no pagan parallel. This manner of spiritual life was completely foreign to pagans.

As Europeans we have the great honor to call these great men of the past our ancestors but if you asked any one of them if they did what they did because they were Christian or because they were European there is no doubt about what any of them would say.

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you

If Europeans wish to be great again then they should remember the priorities of the men who made Europe great. It was always the glory of God above all things, and for this reason we were blessed