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Category Archives: Global Killer Asteroid Questions
Have any of you been affected by the CrowdStrike debacle?
Have any of you been affected by the CrowdStrike debacle? So far, I have not been. I’m glad I’m not travelling today and I really feel for those who are. I read that hospitals have been affected. May God protect … Read More
Ad repellendas tempestates… Prayers for the repelling of storms.
In the 1962 Missale Romanum there are prayers “in order to repel storms”. I am using these prayers now in the face of hurricane Ian. The prayers are ancient, to be found in the 5th c. Gelasian Sacramentary (PL 74) in “XLVII. … Read More
I just saw an interesting movie called “Don’t Look Up”. Metaphor for what’s up in the Church right now?
I just saw an interesting movie called “Don’t Look Up”. The central idea is that there is a massive, planet killing comet on a collision course with Earth and by the time this global extinction fact penetrates the fog of … Read More
Disasters always happen to other people… until it’s your turn.
I’m tellin’ ya’, friends, have plans against the day that bad things happen! Think it through. Game it out. Use your imagination. Here’s what Louisville CO looks like now after the Marshall Fire. Disasters always happen to other people… until … Read More
Look at what is happening in the Church and in these USA. A visual image.
I’ve been on the phone talking and texting for a good portion of the day. A lot of people I know are feeling a bit grim right now, but they know that this world is passing. Tonight I was sent … Read More
ASK FATHER: When the next Carrington Event wipes out the grid, what will happen in our ultramontanist Church of the 21st century?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Our sun is waking up. One sunspot let loose half a dozen flares ranging from C-class to M-class over the weekend. Our magnetic shields are weak and getting weaker. Barring Divine intervention, it’s only a matter … Read More
“Here is a link to a Newsreel from 1949 that seems as if it is from another planet.”
A friend sent this, with the comment, “Here is a link to a Newsreel from 1949 that seems as if it is from another planet.” A world that’s gone? I wonder… what sort of, what magnitude of cataclysm would … Read More
16 Dec – Blood of St Januarius did NOT liquify. What more does this year need?
From what I understand via a phone message (I’m on an airplane) today in Naples the Blood of St Januarius did NOT miraculously liquify today! St Januarius (d c 305), known in Italian as San Gennaro, is the patron saint of … Read More
I have good news and bad news….
GREAT NEWS! I read that the European Space Agency has created a 3D map of the universe that we can see with tracking of some 1.8 billion stars. Very cool right? Surely that’s good news. That’s the good news. Since … Read More
ASK FATHER: “I am struggling with my faith due to intense anxiety about death. What makes you believe in God?”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Simple: What makes you believe in God. As a religious person do you have doubts and how do you conquer them.. If you have other priest’s reasonings please tell me their opinions as well. I am … Read More
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