Electio Praesidentialis

Amici,

I am thoroughly disgusted with this Presidential election season. The Democratic candidates are utterly evil, one being a murderous pathological liar and the other being a communist radical. Both advocate the infanticide of the pre-born with the sale of their internal organs on the open market and the sanctification of the filth of homosexual sodomy. The Republican candidates are foolish clowns arguing over wives, bodily features, and all manner of nonsensical topics, trading insult and disparagement for insult and disparagement while ignoring the weightier matters of Constitutional compliance and the defense of the Republic. Truthfully I can support no current candidate. I think we have reached the point at which Rome transitioned from Republic to Empire with the assassination of Iulius Caesar. The question is this: will our nation disintegrate into a civil war of battling factions, or will an Augustus rise up to continue unity in an Empire. Both are bad alternatives, but in different ways, and in both scenarios authentic orthodox Christians, whether Catholic, Eastern Orthodox or Protestant, will be persecuted as our spiritual forefathers were under the ancient pagan Roman Emperors. But as St Paul reminds us in Romans 11:16-24, God will prune His tree (the Church) and that pruning has yet to begin.

Quod si primitiae sanctae sunt, et massa; et si radix sancta, et rami. Quod si aliqui ex ramis fracti sunt, tu autem, cum oleaster esses, insertus es in illis et consocius radicis pinguedinis olivae factus es, noli gloriari adversus ramos; quod si gloriaris, non tu radicem portas, sed radix te. Dices ergo: “ Fracti sunt rami, ut ego inserar ”. Bene; incredulitate fracti sunt, tu autem fide stas. Noli altum sapere, sed time: si enim Deus naturalibus ramis non pepercit, ne forte nec tibi parcat. Vide ergo bonitatem et severitatem Dei: in eos quidem, qui ceciderunt, severitatem; in te autem bonitatem Dei, si permanseris in bonitate, alioquin et tu excideris. Sed et illi, si non permanserint in incredulitate, inserentur; potens est enim Deus iterum inserere illos! Nam si tu ex naturali excisus es oleastro et contra naturam insertus es in bonam olivam, quanto magis hi, qui secundum naturam sunt, inserentur suae olivae.

Miracula: Est Adsensio in Supernaturale Inrationabilis?

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

To the reader's attention is directed the following video from the Veritas Forum - Miracles: Is Belief in the Supernatural Irrational? Also to the reader's attention is directed supplementary reading - Fides et Ratio by Pope St John Paul II. The fact of the matter is that there is no one more irrational than the dialectical materialist atheist (except perhaps the demonically possessed Islamic Jihadist), and no one more sane than he who has surrendered his will and his life to the care of God Almighty.

Daemon Karellen et Finis Pueritia ab Arthur C Clarke

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

The SyFy TV channel has converted Arthur C Clarke's 1953 novel Childhood's End into a three part television show. The ideas for Clarke's novel originates with the works of socialist Olaf Stapledon, particularly his novels Last and First Men, Last Men in London, and Star Maker. Communal intelligence, utopian socialism, and trascendent evolution are all extolled while individual freedom, religious principle and morality (particularly Judeo-Christian), and the responsibility of the free market are all denigrated. As a youth in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, I had read most of Arthur C Clarke's works. This TV show does not disappoint to follow the ideas (if not always the exact events) in his novel, and it is everything that socialist Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders supports, extols and advocates:

• There is no money and no need to work
• Food and the necessities of life are magically provided
• Free green energy is instantly available everywhere
• Religious extremism, war and fighting are gone

The alien who comes to bring this peace and prosperity turns out to have the form and physique of a demon: red skinned and yellow eyed with two horns, cloven hoofs and a tail.

Karellen with Children
Childhood's End

Apparently humanity had a racial premonition that its transcendent evolution to a super-mind would require the dissolution of the race and the planet at the help of the alien. But he is portrayed as magnanimous and beneficent in helping humanity achieve world peace and transcendent evolution to the over-mind whereas religion is mocked and derided as having contributed nothing to mankind's progress, and God is accused at least by one protagonist of having caused disease and injury and turmoil and catastrophe. This is all the liberal progressive tripe which started in the late 19th century and early 20th with fantasizers like Olaf Stapledon.

But what really has God contributed? Telling liberal progressives that He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son is like telling them something incomprehensible, for they do not believe in sin or that they sin, so there is no need for God's Son. Theirs is a materialist universe devoid of any spirituality except this fantastic and mythical over-mind. They believe as the alien tells them that man can create a heaven on earth by his own works. There is no recognition of man's inherent concupiscence, that he is born dead in his sins and trespasses.

Even the physical things that God through His Church has done - all the scientists who were Catholic, all the hospitals and schools that the Church built, all the good works that the Church has done for the poor - are cats aside into non-recognition, and this alien whose name is Karellen comes to Earth and brings peace and prosperity that Christ never did. The world is turned upside down in this TV show and in Clarke's novel. The demonic provides the good. And at the end which is tonight Earth will be destroyed as humanity's children psychically joined the over-mind. Nothing is left of those whom God created in His image. yet if one tells these people who believe in nonsense like this that God will at the end of time melt the elements with fire, creating a new heaven and a new earth, they will deride and condemn one as a hater and a religious extremist.

Well as for me, I will proudly remain a Catholic Christian extremist, and will always oppose people like Bernie Sanders who come in human form but are really the spawn of Satan himself. Indeed, if it looks like a demon and acts like a demon, then it is a demon and the Lord Jesus Christ will one day send Satan and all his demonic spawn to burn in hell for all eternity.

Karellen the Demon
Childhood's End

Stultitia et Hysteria Theoriae Commutationis Climaticae

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

Today Yahoo's new board had an interesting simultaneous display of two different news articles which reported mutually exclusive and opposite calamities both being caused by anthropogenic global warming:

Earth May Spin Faster as Glaciers Melt
Rising Sea Levels Will Slow Down Earth's Rotation

One wonders exactly how stupid these climate change alarmists think the rest of us are. One now knows from this display how stupid these climate change alarmists indeed are.

Imperium Romanum Magnum Iterum Faciamus

Amici, Americani, Romani, Compatriotae,

Imperium Romanum Magnum Iterum Faciamus!

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

Nostra Domina de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe):

Encenium - Hanukkah

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

This year the Feast of the Dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem runs from Sunset, 6 December to nightfall, 14 December during the Christian Advent Season. Its Biblical basis may be found at the following:

1st Maccabees 4:36-61
2nd Maccabees 10:1-9
John 10:22

The short story is this. Centuries before Christ's birth the Empire of Alexander the Great had broken apart into four or five separate parts. This can be read in the Old Testament books of Daniel (later half), and 1st and 2nd Maccabees. The greater of these was the Ptolemy Empire in Egypt and the Seleucid Empire in Syria. The Seleucids had conquered much of Israel and Judah. They were forcing their pagan Greek culture on the Jewish people, requiring sacrifice to Zeus Olympus, the eating of pork, the foregoing or reversal of circumcision, and all that the Mosaic Law required. This was not, however, simply a matter of clashing cultures between so-called enlightened Greeks and Jewish religious zealots. The Seleucids were cruel and abusive people. For example, when Jewish mothers had their male babies circumcised, the Seleucids would murder the infant, and with rope tie the dead infant around the mother's neck, strangulating her to death. Additional examples include where 2nd Maccabees records that the Greek pagans beat to death a scribe of old age, Eleazar, for refusing to eat pork, and burned alive a mother and her seven sons also for refusing to eat pork (the Mosaic Law forbade the consumption of pork because swine were regarded as unclean animals).

A man by the name of Matthias and his sons then rose up to challenge the Seleucid overlords. When he died he had placed his son Judas Maccabeus in charge of the freedom fighters. There were many battles where the Jewish contingent was outnumbered, but God always gave them the victory over the pagan Greeks. In the battle of 1st Maccabees chapter 4 Judas and his followers defeated Lysias, one the Generals of evil Seleucid Emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes. After Lysias retreated to Antioch, Judas and his contingent went to restore the violated Temple in Jerusalem where the Seleucid Emperor had sacrificed to Zeus Olympus a swine on the altar in the Holy of Holies. Our Jewish heroes thus found devastation and ruin everywhere. But while they had rent their clothes and pleaded for God's mercy and forgiveness, they persevered in restoring the Temple, and made a rededication. They found according to the Babylonian Talmudic a jar of oil for fueling a lit Menorah that had not been made unclean by the pagans. But the amount of oil was only sufficient for one day. Yet when used the Menorah continued burning for a full eight days. Thus, starting on 25 Chislev (approxinately 25 December, though the Jewish date varies with the Jewish calendar that is based on the lunar vice solar cycle), the Feast of Dedication was instituted for eight days in perpetuity to commemorate the restoration of the Temple from the pagans. This was the same feast for which Jesus in John 10:22 had returned to Jerusalem almost two centuries later.

Now some things are important here. The Temple was restored from pagan uncleanliness to holiness on or about 25 December. In the same way the Christ child came into the world to restore mankind from uncleanliness to holiness on 25 December (at least that's when we celebrate his birth, though the actual birth date is likely in springtime). It was the Temple of the Most High God which was cleaned out and rededicated, and St Paul in the New Testament calls our bodies the Temple of the Holy Spirit which we likewise are to keep clean and un-defiled. The celebration that the Jews made at the rededication of the Temple was much like the celebration that they would make much later when Christ Himself would come riding on an ass into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. And the oil that did not run out for eight days at the first Hanukkah is reminiscent of the Holy Spirit whom we receive at the Sacrament of Confirmation by anointing with oil, and who heals us on the anointing of oil at the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.

There are many allusions to Christ in the Old Testament. This is but one example. Here an ostensible Jewish Holy Day celebrated in parallel with the Christian Christmas point to that very event of the birth of the Christ child. Unfortunately, the Books of the Bible which talk about this particular Holy Day are missing from the Protestant Bible because in their rebellion against the Church in the 16th century AD, Martin Luther and John Calvin removed them on their own recognizance.

Hanukkah Menorah