Praise God for the overturning of Roe v Wade.

I thank God in heaven for the overturning of Roe v Wade. It is time to praise Him with all of our hearts and also I can not stress enough to pray for the women screaming in the streets, that they would turn and come to Christ in the Holy Catholic Church.  These women have been so deceived.

Let us also pray that the women screaming in the streets will open up the eyes of the world to what exactly the feminist movement is about.

Don't be fooled by what feminists are saying and what the press is saying. Abortion is not women's health care. Abortion is the killing of an innocent life. It  is also the very top priority of the feminist movement. Feminism is an evil agenda. It has evil beginnings and it leads women to abortion.

Feminism has absolutely nothing to do with women working, which is what many have come to believe. When you ask many women what feminism is about, those who do not know the foundation of the movement or it's priority, will tell you it is about women working. Not true, in a way.  

Women have held jobs and worked long before the 1960's. Women had jobs and worked as far back as Old Testament book of Judges.  Thing is most women of the past would stop working when marriage and children came along, unless the job was a necessity for the survival of the family.

But for feminists they can't be putting children or family first ahead of being the "working woman" so very sadly a child gets in the way of the career, in the way of power and money, and in turn that puts abortion as their number one priority. Of course, the sexual revolution plays a huge role in unwanted pregnancies but that is another post.

Feminism is about breaking up and tearing down of families. It is anti-family. It is about the "me" in the woman. It is about herself and her wants. It is "herstory".  It is the opposite of Christianity. It is the opposite of the Blessed Mother. It can't be Christian because you can't fight for your wants and desires ahead of your husband, children and home and still serve in a Christian way, loving others as Christ commanded us.  

Multitudes of women, myself included in years past, have been deceived by the feminist movement. It is in knowing and studying their agenda that a woman truly knows what they are about and can with the grace of God free herself from it.

A woman free of the feminist movement does not let her outside job come before her family but it is rather something she does for her family, if it is needed.

Working either in the home or out of the home is no longer about herself but rather about loving and serving God, her family and others. She is free to imitate the Blessed Mother, who should be every woman's role model.

A woman free of feminism is also not afraid to let that career go, walk away and detach from it when God calls her to come back and care for her home and family and yes submit to and love her husband in a godly way, a biblical womanhood way.  She then is free to love her work in the home and sees it as a pleasure and enjoyable.

Titus 2: 4-5 Teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands and to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, obedient to their husband, that the Word of God be not blasphemed.

I can't suggest again highly enough the book, The Anti-Mary Exposed by Carrie Gress. Also, the book, Who Killed the American Family by Phyllis Schlafly.

I also suggest if you want to see them expose themselves, see Gloria Steinem's latest tweet. It is from the mini series, Mrs. America, where they are very dishonest about Phyllis Schlafly but very open about their agenda - abortion.

There is so much more I could say about the feminist movement but I will save those for another day but I highly encourage women to look to the Blessed Mother and let us return to putting our homes, our husbands and our families first after God. 

I also want to include here that God is merciful and it is my understanding that many women who have had abortions in the past, though reconciled themselves to God may be troubled by the agenda being brought up again, please find solace and comfort in the love of God and His most Sacred Heart. Keep moving forward in faith and love, knowing that as far as the east is from the west God does remove our sins from us.  

If you need help seek out, Rachel's Vineyard 

 https://www.rachelsvineyard.org/

God bless and may the abortion industry continue to fall just as slavery in the United States did and many lives be saved.

Praise the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Merry Christmas!! 

Don't let the world take away your Christmas, enjoy the full 12 days of Christmastide!! The season has just begun.

 

The Anti-Mary Exposed book recommendation

At first, I didn't want to read this book because of the title. Not The Anti-Mary Exposed, but what comes after that; Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity. 

 

So for me there is a difference between femininity and feminism. 

Online Merriam Webster definition of feminine is: characteristics that are appropriate or unique to women. Whereas the definition of feminism is: belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests. (My definition of feminism is a lot worse.)

My question is, are we really seeing toxic femininity in our culture, or toxic feminism. I would have titled the book a little different, completely agreeing we are seeing anti-Mary in our culture.

Also, it seems too close in familiarity to "toxic masculinity", which I question as to whether that is a legitimate issue in males but maybe that is why the author chose to title the book with "toxic femininity", to show that there can be toxic issues or problems on both sides. I am not a fan of the word "toxic".

All that said, and just in case everyone is thinking I did not like this book, they would be totally wrong. I thought the book was great and a definite eye opener.

Opening our eyes to the evils of feminism and yes, feminism is evil. Carrie Gress clearly shows in her book how feminism is an evil and since the 1960's it has attacked and harmed women, children and men and destroyed families ever since. Feminism is connected to the errors of Russia (heard this before from a good traditional Catholic priest), associated with demons falsely called goddesses, the occult and abortion.

Women are so much more unhappy today. More than they have ever been. They have freedoms, or so they think, more like slavery. The worst thing that could have ever happened to women is feminism. Women have lost so very, very much due to believing the lies of such an evil.

In the book, Carrie Gress clearly reveals the evil beginnings of the feminist movement and the results after and I highly, highly recommend it to every woman and suggest they flee from feminism with everything they have, pray to God, pray the rosary asking for help to free ourselves from the lies we, as women, have heard from feminists and have been implanted in our brains, hearts, families and culture, such as men are chauvinists, women need careers, children are a burden or that there is such a thing as Catholic or Christian feminism. There is no such thing as Catholic feminism because you can't have your feet in the evils of feminism and follow Christ or imitate the Blessed Mother at the same time.

The anti-Mary or the feminist movement is a following of Eve, saying "no" to God rather than "yes" to God as Mary did. 

As Carrie Gress says, the solution for women is Mary our Blessed Mother. She is to be women's model, who is the best example of true womanhood.

After having grown up in this feminist culture we are living in, I frequently need to pray and ask God to help me to choose Him and reject all feminist thoughts or ideas.

Ask our Blessed Mother for help and guidance, pray the rosary and women flee as fast as you can from feminism and choose God, choose family, choose sacramental marriage and a family or if you are called choose the religious life as a traditional Catholic sister. Say yes to God. It is good for the soul.

God bless.

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Maria, My Own Story. Book recommendation.

Last year after watching The Sound of Music, I decided to investigate the real life of Maria Von Trapp. Of course, I started out looking things up on the internet discovering that there were some discrepancies between her life and the movie.

In looking at her life, I found that she wrote several books. One that I purchased and read was Maria, My Own Story. This is her own autobiography. She says she wrote the book because those who bought her story, twisted it and she wanted people to know the truth. One main truth she wanted people to know was that her husband was not the person the movie industry portrayed him out to be but instead he was a loving and kind father and husband. The whistles were only used because the house was so large, they were needed to call the children, not march them around. 

My own father was a very good whistler and when he wanted us home, he would whistle, no big deal.

Some interesting things I discovered were, that she was raised by her aunt and her angry socialist uncle after her parents passed away when she was a child, she was a rebellious teen who, when she was finally of age, left home, got a job, made money and went on to college.  Her mother, father and aunt were Catholic, so she did learn some Catholicism but not much. When she went on to college she became, as would be expected even then, a liberal atheist.

Fortunately because of her father's love of music when she was a child, she also had a love of music. In order to hear the beautiful music of her day she would go to Mass on Sundays, sit in the back and listen to the music, though ignoring everything else.

Once at Mass when there wasn't any music, she was forced to hear the Mass and the homily. Afterward she spoke with the priest and challenged him on what she heard during his homily, asking him if he truly believed all that he had said about Christ, forgiveness of sin, heaven and hell. He could not speak with her at that moment but encouraged her to come back the next day. She did and for three hours he answered all her questions. 

She became a devoted Catholic, and joined an extremely strict convent, where, yes, she still had some mischievousness' in her. She would slide down banisters, jump over bushes and accidentally break many dishes.

Different than what the movie showed was that she was only asked to tutor one child, she did not love the Captain when they married, though grew to love him more than she could ever imagine and they did not go over the mountains but just got on the train and left Austria. 

The family traveled through Europe singing but could not stay in many countries long because people feared they were spies. Eventually of course they ended up in America.

She was a very devout Catholic and did her best to teach all the children in the family the faith.

 Her true story is so very interesting, I highly recommend the book.

Mary, My Own Story

This is war, friends. Total, unrestricted, asymmetrical war. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

This is war, friends.  Total, unrestricted, asymmetrical war.  Wherein Fr. Z rants.: UPDATE: Read what I wrote about totalitarians back in Jan 2020 before the Wuhan Devil COVID-1984 madness took full control HERE And check out Jennifer’s book… The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along US HERE – UK HERE Origi

Be Very, Very Cautious Who You Listen to and Who You Follow. Only Follow Christ and His Holy Catholic Church.

 
This post is not going to be a popular one but since I don't get many viewers, I do not think there should be too much slack. 

I am a traditional Catholic. I was raised a traditional Catholic. I do my best to live a traditional Catholic life (except for the short time in my youth when I left the Church and dwelled in the protestant world) and I very strongly reject the modernism found today in the Church. 

Traditional Catholicism has been here since Christ founded His Church. We have saints of the past and good traditional priests and bishops (sadly not a lot) today fighting for the Church as those who have gone before them did. There are societies, fraternities, traditional sisters also. There will be good, faithful, traditional Catholics continuing into the future until Christ's return also.

Today, in our internet driven world, there are a lot of traditional Catholics out there who have good websites, good new sites, good blogs, good Youtube channels, and work hard to teach and follow the true faith. I would definitely suggest checking them out because it seems to me, and maybe it is not really traditional Catholics supporting this, but we seem to be canonizing a particular person who says he is a traditional Catholic and making him the leader of the Church and putting him in the papal seat where he should not be. At least this is what I see happening here in the United States with this person.

Out of Christian charity, I am not going say any names but many will suspect who I am talking about and even if you do not  this post could apply to any very popular, celebrity type Catholic speaker.

The person I particularly have in mind has an online bible study type website, which I have been a member of in the past. He has a great thing going at that website, but now over recent years has developed a Youtube channel with a great following. Many of this man's videos are very good but...

Something has gone wrong at this channel recently and I can't exactly point to what it is but it seems to be drifting away from true traditional Catholicism. Don't get me wrong, he has some great videos and good interviews but just like all of us he is still just a man. Some of his videos seem, to me, anyway, more of a revenge attack on the Church than anything uplifting and encouraging to traditional Catholicism. 

Plus when I look at the comments on his videos, calling him a holy man, the one called to save the Church, the one who should start the New Catholic Church, the one crying out in the dessert, telling him how much they love him, he's great, he's awesome, he's the greatest, he will always stand by us no matter what, well it is just getting  a little "creepy" to me, more protestant than Catholic. I saw this a lot in the protestant churches. 

I, have taken a step away, unsubscribed from his Youtube channel and I would suggest others do the same or at least listen with cautionary ears. It is rather better to study the faith from the Roman Catechism, read scripture, study the saints, listen to some other very good traditional Catholics out there, some of which are also warning us to be cautious in following one person too far and expecting him to be the end all, be all answer for the Church.

We should ask ourselves, is this fair to this man for Catholics to be lauding him as the answer to the Church's problems. What kind of weight does this put on him? How can such praise and adulation affect his thinking? his salvation? How many misunderstand what he is saying and yes, leave the Church because of what he is saying?

Unfortunately Catholics today are hungry for leadership, hungry for good pastoring but I just want to warn Catholics beware of who you follow. As one traditional Catholic said at Restoring The Faith, "don't trust anyone". If they are still alive, they can take a wrong turn.

We should all be working out our salvation with fear and trembling, while also fighting the good fight but we can not fight the good fight if we follow someone who possibly could lead us down the wrong path out of a lack of humility.

There is a saying, "don't shoot the messenger"  but as Catholics we need to remember also, "don't canonize the messenger" at least not until they have passed from this Earth and have been canonized a saint by the Holy Catholic Church.

God bless, pray the rosary, pray for Holy Mother Church. 

Celebrating Advent

I recently came across the book,  Around the Year with the Von Trapp Family and love it, so if you are trying to make the most of the liturgical season in a traditional Catholic way in your home, this is a great read with many suggestions.

Maria Von Trapp, yes, is the young woman who started out trying to become a nun, then became a governess to Captain von Trapp's children and then the stepmother to all the children after marrying the Captain. The family was a singing family who later came to America to escape the Nazi's in Austria.

She wrote several books, which I hope to read but right now I have just started Around the Year.

In this book many Advent traditions are discussed such as the Advent wreath, Christmas wheat, Advent hymns, St. Barbara's Day, The Christmas Crib, recipes and more. 

She also talks about remembering St. Nicholas Day and one comment she says which is very interesting is, "Something happened to him on his way from Europe to America". Isn't that so true. So many countries with a good Catholic history still maintain this feast day, that unfortunately somehow never made it to America.

So far, all that I have read in this book, copyrighted 1955, comes from a traditional Catholic view, mostly because she didn't know any thing else probably. So, perhaps if you are like me this is just that what you are looking for. 

Maria von Trapp's view of Advent also is one of penance, which is what this time is about. Not as much as Lent, but there is to be an attitude of penance and spiritual growth.

No matter the size of your family, make Advent a time to draw closer to Christ while waiting for His coming.

Below is a link to the book at Amazon.

Around the year

God bless and pray the rosary.