Draw your own conclusions…
(1) Viganò on Vatican ‘health’ conference with Fauci (LIFE Site)
(2) ABP. VIGANÒ: DECLARATION ON ‘FIFTH INTERNATIONAL VATICAN CONFERENCE’ (Church Militant)
(3) Fauci Awarded $1 Million Israeli Prize For ‘Speaking Truth To Power’ Amid Pandemic (NPR)
(4) One flew over the cuckoo’s nest (YouTube)
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Divine Office is the official, formal prayer composed by the Church to pray throughout the day¹. Night Prayer is the office² prayed right before going to bed.
The prayers are very accessible and can be said in 10 to 15 minutes. I use Night Prayer from the Catholic Book Publishing Corp. but there are videos on YouTube like this one from Father Andrew Walsh. You can also listen to the monks at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, MA.
“Visit this house, we beseech you,
O Lord, and drive far from it
all snares of the enemy;
Let your holy angels dwell herein,
to keep us in peace:
and let your blessing
be always upon us.”
¹Liturgy of the Hours Glossary
²With a lowercase letter, it refers to a particular part of the entire Office.
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Went to Mass at St. George’s Cathedral in Southwark. It was the first Roman Catholic Cathedral in London since the Reformation. It was also severely damaged in WWII by an incendiary bomb and visited by his Holiness Pope John Paul II in 1982.
The outside of the cathedral is very modest whilst the interior is similar to my own adopted parish of St. Margaret’s of Scotland in terms of its lack of ostentation. It’s accessible and cozy and the latter is not a word typically associated with cathedrals. There is some stained glass but it must be relatively new since the one dedicated to the Order of the Holy Sepulchre is from 1996. The glass is etched with the following:
“Pray for the Deceased Members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem 7th December 1996.”
I also learned more about the persecution and martyrdom of Catholics in the UK (Weekend 482.3). One of the few features in the cathedral to survive damage during the blitz was a memorial to Provost Thomas Doyle. The plaque next to the memorial reads:
“Two and a half centuries of penal laws against Catholics followed the Reformation of Henry VIII. By the 18th century some attitudes towards Catholics had changed but there was still a great deal of hostility.
In 1778 the first Catholic Relief Act allowed priests to minister openly and Catholics to buy or inherit property. This was not popular with everyone and in 1780 Lord George Gordon gathered about 50,000 protesters in St George’s Fields. They were to march to Westminster to present a petition seeking the repeal of the Act. What was initially a peaceful protest turned into a violent rampage, later known as the Gordon Riots. The cathedral stands on land which was once part of the same fields where Gordon gathered his followers.”
Lord George Gordon was an interesting fella and the riots were the subject of the Charles Dickens novel Barnaby Rudge. This quote from History Today about the Gordon Riots is interesting (the ghost of Santayana):
“The Gordon Riots, however, which showed how easily a big political gathering could erupt out of control into terrifying mass violence, sent a chill down the collective spine of the English propertied and ruling classes that lasted for years and helped to inspire repressive legislation and harden resistance to reform.”
Related
In Our Time: S21/33 The Gordon Riots (May 2, 2019)
Unrelated Weekend Historical Note
Visited St. Peter in Petersham and the graveyard is the burial place of Captain George Vancouver.
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(1) Brompton warns of price increases in midst of production scale up (Bike Europe)
(1a) The entire world is ‘awash in a sea of debt’ (YouTube)
(2) The Mendacity of Joe Biden and the Ruling Elites (American Thinker)
“The ruling elites in their headfirst dash to transform the culture have aligned themselves with the radical left whose sole objective is to centralize all governmental and economic power in a hybrid socialist federal government with themselves, and not the current ruling class, in permanent control.”
(3) Stock markets are telling us we’re saved, but history has a warning (Yahoo News)
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(1) Route 65 Running Day ~ Sunday 11th April 2021~ Confirmed! (London Bus Museum)
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(1) The Decades Long Rights Battle Over ‘Macross’ And ‘Robotech’ Has Finally Been Resolved (Forbes)
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(1) Viacom/CBS, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIAC), a publicly traded company, goes full commie. Does anyone remember MomCorp from Futurama?
>>> The Star Trek Communist Hopes Star Trek Can Inspire A Real Revolution
(1a) ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish’s Pay Rises to $39 Million in 2020 (Hollywood Reporter)
(1b) Viacom Stock Is A Bargain Pullback Opportunity (Investing.com)
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(1) Let’s play 2400 A.D., a futuristic Ultima-like!
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“Eyes like starlight through the darkness…”
A couple of days of walking and biking is like this song from Howard Jones beginning at 2:30.
(1) The Four Seasons: Summer by James Thomson
Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around,
Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires,
And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all
The stretching landscape into smoke decays!
(2) Disney’s CANCEL Culture is Coming for YOU (Nerdrotic)
(2a) Keep Your Feet (According to Hoyt)
“When they say “normal” isn’t coming back, they are right. But the future that’s taking shape is not what they think it is. They think the future will be with them in control of our every breath, of everyone’s movements and what everyone is allowed to do.”
Color Commentary: I don’t think the elites will like the “new normal” (a case of be careful what you wish for). The reason the election was stolen via fortification (and the narrative augmented by insurrectionists) is their ability to control the narrative is slipping away and the tighter they squeeze the more authoritarian they will need to get. And they can cancel content creators on YouTube or WordPress (or wherever) but free expression is like the physics of water seeking equilibrium. We don’t need the elites to tell us what to watch or what art to like (it’s what Drucker knew about Time Inc. in the 40s.). Harvard and Yale, the Ford Foundation, Amazon, NETLFIX, Disney Company, Citibank, and the Kennedy Center can **** the **** off.
There’s a kind of arrogance today about HOW the Disney Company treats their customers. They must think vacationers will arrive via some kind of Biden / Harris Strength through Joy program because NO member of the creative class is going to substitute their lust for Europe with a trip around World Showcase at EPCOT. Do the elites even watch their own crap (e.g. Keeping Up with the Joneses)?
I’m starting to dig the strategy of pushing back. You like what you like and don’t apologize because your traditions, interests, etc. don’t fit sanitized artificial norms imposed by a series of gutted institutions (the scourge of purple haired weirdos who are engaged in retcon on an industrial scale). Fact: Tolkien was a devout Catholic and there’s nothing racist about an orc. Amazon’s Middle-earth TV series will be dreck and completely agenda-driven.
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(1) I’m replaying 2400 AD by Chuck “Chuckles” Bueche. I’m using a IIe emulator called AppleWin (1.29.16.0). You can find the ROM Images on sites like ftp.apple.asimov.net.
(1a) Matt Chat 241: Chuck “Chuckles” Bueche on 2400 AD (YouTube)
Archived Content
(569A) Robots, robots, robots… (11.27.07)
(4E6B) That’s not Bender (11.29.07)
(6CA5) Robot Mugshot (12.30.07)
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My morning ride was to central London (the area around Old Street) whilst my afternoon ride included the bucolic streets of Ham and the hills of Richmond Park. There’s a German Delicatessen (Hansel and Pretzel) on my afternoon route that’s excellent. I also had lunch at Stein’s (bratwurst) and was last there with the Orange/Blue Brompton after the Brompton World Championship in 2014.
Update: I walked to King Henry’s Mound in Richmond Park today. It’s the highest point in the park and offers (via telescope) an unobstructed view of St. Paul’s. There’s a survey marker / stone near the telescope indicating that St. Paul’s is about 10 miles to the east. The day before I was close to St. Paul’s and took this photo from Southwark Bridge.
Related
(1) Ham House & Garden
(2) River Thames: from Cotswolds to London
(3) Route Plan Roll Cycle Map (Mapping London)
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I’ve been thinking about Pontius Pilate, the Centurion, and Joseph of Arimathea since Palm Sunday. I’ve written about Pilate before and think he’s one of the most tragic figures in the New Testament. The Centurion, as far as I know, doesn’t have a name but is included in all three Gospels. Joseph of Arimathea was a disciple and responsible for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion. I wonder, as witnesses, how their lives were different after the Son of God was crucified?
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Post WWII Japan was initially a sandbox for progressives but thankfully history intervened. The parallels to the current situation in the US is startling as the excesses of democracy and the children and grandchildren of the New Deal reap the harvest. How soon can Russia roll into the Ukraine or China invade Taiwan?
(1) Reinventing Japan (YouTube)
(1a) Foundation With Biden Campaign Ties Funding Leftist Agitators On U.S. Streets (The Federalist)
“Claiming to be America’s second-largest private foundation, the Ford Foundation has poured almost $2 billion into groups active in ‘disrupting systems to advance social justice,’ according to its grant database.”
Some notes…
(a) Whatever matriculates from Harvard, Yale, etc. is bad for democracy.
(b) Writers, teachers, artists, labor unions, and “women” is code for fellow travelers (i.e. communists). Democratic reform(s) means similar.
(c) The bulwarks against whatever flavor of socialism/fascism/progressivism/communism is manifesting in the US have been gutted (military, education, entertainment, and media, etc.). If you watch the video it shows Newsweek criticizing liberal policy (would NEVER happen today).
Another difference today, having maybe learned from history, is the progressive alignment with corporations. This alliance represents the greatest transfer of wealth in human history and both have used the pandemic to eliminate small business. Woke corporations also deny loans to businesses that challenge the progressive narrative, attack fans for not embracing socially degenerate behavior (wink wink), censor opposition content, and cooperate in spying on civilians.
Related: You’re not the resistance via YoungRippa59
(d) Just substitute Google and Amazon for Mitsubishi and Nissan.
(e) The conceit of the progressive is their insistence on using the power of government to promote social equity (taking from the rich and giving to the poor).
(f) “We moved to keep Japan from turning red.” (44:10)
(g) Happy Moment: The Red Purge at 45:40.
(h) Muh. Patriarchy. (27:50)
(i) “Born to see; meant to look” (Forbes)
“His first book, The End of Economic Man, published in 1939, drew a parallel between Nazism and Communism. Henry Luce, the founder of Time Inc., was so impressed he offered Drucker the job of foreign news editor. Drucker refused, saying he was put off by “group journalism” and the “Hollywood” style of life at Time Inc.”
Smart guy and relevant / prescient since something between Nazism and Communism is metastasizing in the United States.
(j) Why “All Germans Were Nazis” – How Hitler Created the 3rd Reich | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 1 of 4 (YouTube)
The six steps sound a little like the Biden Plan.
(k) The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored (American Thinker)
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(1) A quote from How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of your Life by Pat Williams with Jim Denney:
“Walt Disney was a walking paradox. He was probably the greatest nostalgist who ever lived—a man who treasured and revered the past. He spent millions recreating the Main Street of his boyhood, the frontier era of Davy Crockett, and Mississippi riverfront of Mark Twain’s time. He also went to considerable trouble and expense in resurrecting Abraham Lincoln. Yet, for all his love of yesterday, Walt had an obsession with tomorrow. As Imagineer John Hench put it, ‘Walt has one foot in the past and one foot in the future.'”
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