This is very good interview with Bishop Williamson 12/2020

https://anchor.fm/tradpatric/episodes/Bp-Williamson-and-the-Issues-in-the-Church-today-eo4jm8

Maybe you know this but there’s a YouTube channel with Bishop Williamson offering Mass. His sermons are so good also. https://youtu.be/_IbS8Gjo50c

My brother sent this to me. It is most beautiful and also pertains to the poor state of our poor country.

http://www.catholictradition.org/litany-america2.htm

Prayer of Louis de Blois



Welcome me, sweet Jesus, I beseech thee; press me in the delightful embrace of thy love, and in its warmth let my numbed spirit be thawed to new life. Open, Lord, open at my knock, and admit my orphan soul into the soft recesses of thy divine Heart. Though I am the vilest and most unworthy of sinners, deign, Lord, to open for me the secret chambers of thy love, the inmost shrine of thy Heart. For my soul yearns to be united with thee in active love. But never… Continue

This is a very moving talk Malachi Martin gave in 1991 on the abomination of abortion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmGDlU0dQEA&sns=em

(I still do not know how to embed you tube videos- my apologies)

Veni, redemptor gentium O Come, Redeemer of the Earth…

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My sister has been reading a book on how to feel good about yourself and how one talks about or to oneself affects a person's self esteem.  She told me a person should say "I love myself therefore..... "  and you fill in the blank.

I pondered on this and thought that what most people are missing are true Catholic teaching and prayers.   The one and only thing to fill in the blank to this statement is this:

I love myself therefore every morning when I wake up I will…

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Click here to listen to a most beautiful hymn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhrcBNC6we8

I feel very deeply in these troubled times that I am an orphan and Mary has adopted me out of the chaos.   I feel like all of us here are orphans because of what has happened to our poor Church! 

One of my favorite verses from the Little Crown is this:

"Glory be to thee, oh Mother of orphans; render the Almighty favorable to us!"

I say this little verse often and I am, for me, adding the Little Crown Prayer as an additional prayer for the talks in Rome.  It is a…

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