“Since the fall, not merely of the hierarchic nature of society, but of almost all traditional forms, the consciously conservative man stands as it were in a vacuum. He stands alone in a world which, in its all opaque enslavement, boasts of being free, and, in all its crushing uniformity, boasts of being rich. It is screamed in his ears that humanity is continually developing upwards, that human nature, after developing for so and so many millions of years, has now undergone a decisive mutation, which will lead to its final victory over matter. The consciously conservative man stands alone amongst manifest drunks, is alone awake amongst sleep-walkers who take their dream for reality. From understanding and experience he knows that man, with all his passion for novelty, has remained fundamentally the same, for good or ill; the fundamental questions in human life have always remained the same; the answers to them have always been known..."

~Titus Burckhardt

Blessed Feast of St. King Louis IX

In the 13th Century, a converted Jew translated much of the Talmud in order to reveal the Jews' virulent hatred of Christ and Christians. King Louis IX had a trial of the Talmud — the learned rabbis could not defend the blasphemy of their religious dogmas. Therefore, King Louis IX had every known Talmud in France burned. Amen.

St. King Louis IX pray for us that we, too, will defend Christ and Christians from our enemies. Amen.

Consumer culture has too many women reading frivolous mass-market fiction and romance written by feminists and effeminate men.

Insubstantial plots are symptomatic of the loss of traditional values, which leads to plain bad literature, a mimicry of art, and the demise of beauty.

If you are a father, see to it that your household library is stocked with the perennial wisdom of those who built Western civilization and shaped our culture, rather than the hollow ramblings of modern so-called writers.

“Modern mass culture, aimed at the “consumer”, the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people’s souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”

~Andrei Tarkovsky

Painting in the eye: The Wild Hunt 1872. Pieter Nicolaes Arbo

On courage, when he says, who by faith conquered kingdoms, i.e., kings, or even their kingdoms, as David and Joshua. Nevertheless, the saints spiritually overcame kingdoms, namely the kingdom of the devil, of whom Job says: he is king over all the children of pride (Job 41:25), and the kingdom of the flesh: let not sin reign in your mortal body (Rom 6:12); also the kingdom of the world: my kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36). But they conquered by faith: this is the victory which overcomes the world, our faith (1 John 5:4). For no one can despise present things except for the sake of goods to come, because it is mainly by contempt that the world is overcome. Therefore, because faith shows us the invisible things for which the world is despised, our faith overcomes the world.

St. Thomas Aquinas

NEVER RELAX AROUND BLACKS.

Here we see a second sign of God’s pity, which is that he quickly comes to help his elect even though they fall. Indeed, the elect fall at times, just like the reprobate. But there is a difference: the reprobate are crushed, but the Lord quickly puts his hand under the elect so they can rise up: when a just person falls he will not be crushed, for the Lord will put his hand under him (Ps 37:27); when I thought, my foot slips, your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up (Ps 94:18).

Commentary on John
St Thomas Aquinas