Live Not By Lies Part 5: The New Normal
A Cuban grandmother recently wrote: "Communism thrives on chaos, that’s why it’s always referred to as a 'revolution.' And that is what’s happening right now. It takes advantage of any situation to promote chaos. We have a saying in Spanish 'tira la piedra y esconde la mano' translates 'throw stones but hide your hand' they organize the riot but do not show up for it, they convince people to destroy and loot but you will not find them in the video or the photos and if you ask the participants in the riot what is it all about they will not have an answer. Their goal is to create chaos always blaming it on any cause that suits their need. Sounds familiar? It hates the police, it comes with its own always with different names. In Cuba it was the [...]
Live Not By Lies Part 4
Consider this statistic: That is a a secular government statistic. Do the math on it: 4,151 divided by 29,000,000 (the population of Texas) comes to 0.000143. That means that 0.0014% of the population of Texas has died of coronavirus. And that is probably the number that comes to us after over-reporting of non-covid fatalities as coronavirus. But assuming it is true, this means that the chance of any American dying of coronavirus is now 0.0014%. There is no reason to believe the statistics in the rest of the USA are any different. Even the mainstream media has admitted the "curve has been flattened." This proves that not only is this not a pandemic. It never was. Or, if coronavirus is a real pandemic worthy of our panic, ask your friends who wear masks one simple question: Did you wear [...]
CPX 13: Why Did Our Redeemer Have To Be Both God and Man?
We begin the second article of the Apostles Creed: I believe in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord. This is the newest (and best so far) of my online doctrinal audio series of the Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX.)
VLX 13: The Temptation of Jesus Part 1
Meditating on Jesus overcoming the devil in the desert with special emphasis on doctrine today.
Live Not By Lies Part 3: False Science
As I mentioned in my last blog post, on 12 Feb 1974, the Russian Alexander Solzhenitsyn both penned his famous short essay against communism’s oppression, Live Not By Lies and was arrested (and then exiled to West Germany) for his lack of subservience to the communist government of the USSR. His courage and his intellectual work in writing Live Not By Lies was the crack in the dyke that eventually broke down the communist structure of the USSR and brought so many Russians to desire—and later fight for—freedom. The above link from a Russian Orthodox website lists the resolutions Alexander Solzhenitsyn took in order never to capitulate to the lies of the state: Will not henceforth write, sign, or print in any way a single phrase which in his opinion distorts the truth. Will utter such a phrase neither in private conversation [...]
CPX 12: Original Sin
How is original sin transmitted? What is the remedy?
VLX 12: Mt 3:13-17
Apophatic and Cataphatic meditation upon the baptism of Jesus.
CPX 11: The Fall
CPX Q/A 35-39 on the Creation and Fall of Mankind.
VLX 11: Mt 3:7-12 (Part 2) Heaven
We meditate upon surrendering to Jesus and baptism as the beginning of the life of grace in the soul.
Live Not By Lies Part 2
Archbishop Fulton Sheen was thought crazy for constantly warning Americans that communism posed a real threat to the United States. People wondered why a bishop should be so involved in politics. But Archbishop Fulton Sheen knew that communism threatened the Christian fabric of America precisely because the official religion of Marxism was violent atheism. The reason is simple: No authority (including God) can compete with the tyranny that Marxism demands. On 13 July 1917, Our Lady of Fatima said "I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart," and if this were not done, "Russia will spread her errors throughout the world." What are the errors of Russia? It's not bad vodka or rotten potatoes. The errors of Russia is Marxism, and this includes everything from anti-Christian teaching in public schools to women forced into [...]