Serious crime in Canada today. Muslim family members targeted in fatal hit and run, police say, driver charged with murder | CBC News Canada: Family targeted in fatal anti-Muslim attack, police say | Islamophobia News | Al Jazeera A 20-year-old suspect identified as Nathaniel Veltman has been arrested, local police said in a statement earlier on Monday. He has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder, Global News reported. “There is no known previous connection between the suspect and the victims,” Waight said.
"Memento Mori" just published about in Forbes magazine: Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble’s Modern Memento Mori (forbes.com) Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble’s Modern Memento Mori At Portugal’s Capela dos Ossos, Franciscan monks decorated the chapel walls with intricate patterns of 5,000 human bones and skulls. An inscription over the entrance reminds the living on behalf of the dead that ‘our bones await your bones.’ The chapel’s mirror effect is a core compositional principle in memento mori art. Artistically, death is always a mode of self-portraiture, but memento mori seeks to catalyze the shock of recognition as a means of contemplating a more virtuous life. The form’s secular origins date to the Stoics, but focusing on the ‘Last Things’ has also been a longstanding part of Catholic ascetic practice and devotion. In recent years, the rediscovery of Catholicism’s traditional forms of art, liturgy, and culture – often in surprising new iterations – has brought about renewed interest in the practice. The New York Times, for example, recently profiled author and modern-day maker of memento mori, Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble, as ‘the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die.’ It’s true, she does. But her second name, Aletheia, means ‘disclosure’ as well as ‘fact’ in Greek. It points toward memento mori’s relationship between recognizing the fact of mortality and inviting us into the process of self-examined living that death discloses. I recently spoke with Sister Theresa Aletheia about the form’s contemporary resonance. Salyer: Social media offers so many composed images of lifestyles as real life. Simulacra. There’s something refreshing about seeing one of your posts that simply says: ‘you are going to die.’ How does a devotion like memento mori – one that’s very focused on the physical – translate into online culture? Sr. Theresa: Death is taboo in our modern world. Even when we talk about it, we try hard not to, using euphemisms and saccharine platitudes. Perhaps because online activity is so mediated, it contributes to the scandalizing factor for people. For centuries, memento mori reminders were communicated in person, often with the very bones of the dead just feet away. Online reminders of death, on the other hand, suddenly show up in our social media feed and ruin our efforts at escapism. Memento mori returns us to our bodies, to our mortality, and to our real lives, and a lot of us go online to escape just that. So maybe online memento mori reminders are quite fitting in that way. Memento mori is supposed to return us to reality, to our bodies, to the linear nature of our lives, and to what is real and most important. Salyer: Is there a way in which the process of making memento mori books and art, as the Daughters of Saint Paul do, helps ‘return us to reality’ like you’re saying? Crafting something’s a physical process. On the other side of that, does contemplating something with the senses – seeing or touching death’s reminders, for example – help us understand beauty differently? Sr. Theresa: The Daughters of St. Paul (informally known as “media nuns”) get really excited about books because our missionary work for many decades has been centered in publishing. So after I started tweeting about my practice of daily meditation on death and people began to ask for resources to take up the practice, we were prepared to respond. I then worked with my sisters to create a memento mori journal, a Lenten devotional, a prayer book, and an upcoming Advent companion. Article excerpted, if one wants to see the rest, follow link. Daughters of St. Paul sent me this in email. Memento Mori Free Resource (fliphtml5.com) I want to check all of this out.
Judge Orders Virginia School to Reinstate Teacher Who Refused to Use Transgender Pronouns (theepochtimes.com) Judge Orders Virginia School to Reinstate Teacher Who Refused to Use Transgender Pronouns A Virginia state court judge on Tuesday directed Loudoun County School System officials to withdraw their suspension and other disciplinary measures against a teacher who declined to use students’ preferred pronouns. Elementary school teacher Byron Tanner Cross was suspended May 27 after briefly speaking against a proposal to require teachers in the Northern Virginia public school system to address students by their preferred pronouns, rather than only by those indicating male and female gender. Cross was also barred from being on the grounds of any of the school system’s facilities without prior permission and to be available on request to discuss the official investigation of whether his comments were disruptive. Represented by attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an Arizona-based public interest law firm that specializes in civil and religious liberties litigation, Cross asked the Virginia Circuit Court for the County of Loudoun on June 1 to force the school system to withdraw its disciplinary actions via a Temporary Restraining Order while the case proceeds.
My daughter is a very strong Catholic. She is also a public middle school teacher. She had a girl who wanted to be called a boy...Wanted male pronouns by the end of the school year. My daughter struggled with this because she really cares about her students. She had to balance trying not to alianate the confused teenager with not encouraging the confusion...She wanted to help her and if the teen saw her as judgmental, she would not trust my daughter, and possibly see all Catholics as Pharisetical. My daughter avoided using male and female pronouns. She tried to give the girl a living example if Christian love...Not condoning the gender dysphoria, at the same time not coming off as uncaring and judgmental. These situations are difficult. We have to dine with sinners as Jesus did without condoning the sin.
What a difficult situation she was put in, just horrible. The devil is succeeding in cowing us from speaking Truth by accusing us of being “judgmental”. He is of course the greatest liar. It’s what cancel culture is all about. To intimidate us into backing down from Truth. prayers for all to stand strong and not be afraid to speak Truth. We don’t have to defend it, Truth defends itself, all we have to do is proclaim it.
Many of us have been put in this same position. It takes tremendous help from the Holy Spirit to navigate these troubled waters. I just finished a well written novel about Germany from 1918-1934. When the Nazis came in many good people had to tread very very carefully or risk being "canceled" permanently.
God bless your daughter, and all teachers who must tread carefully under very challenging situations. May Our Lord accompany all teachers in their classrooms, and bless them with the graces that they need to persevere.
yep. Read this article by Dennis Prager, he describes very well what occurred then and is happening now in our country: https://townhall.com/columnists/den...ow-better-understand-the-good-german-n2582563
I worked in a school, for that one school, I think all of the teachers earnestly cared about the children, there was no Marxist agenda, no poppycock. It was all pretty straightforward. To other news, I will be watching this "Kamloops School Story", Discovery of child graves in Canadian residential school demands further questions as many hastily attack the Church | News | LifeSite (lifesitenews.com) Well written story, gets a bit lengthy but key matters are stated early in the article. And how about this story, I remember reading about something like this happening in New Jersey a few years ago: Cuyahoga is near Cleveland I believe. 6 pro-lifers arrested inside Ohio abortion centers as they begged moms to choose life | News | LifeSite (lifesitenews.com) 6 pro-lifers arrested inside Ohio abortion centers as they begged moms to choose life Father Fidelis Moschinki, CFR, was among the activists arrested. Tue Jun 8, 2021 - 6:19 pm EST Police arrest Father Fidelis Moschinki, CFR, for trying to save babies inside an Ohio abortion center on June 4, 2021Lauren Handy / Facebook Another well written story, this happened at two different facilities. Too much detail to relay, see story. I pray for and commend these activists...they are standing up for their beliefs. It seems they say they believe they could have swayed some to not go in. Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society and organizer of Red Rose Rescue missions, and 27-year-old Lauren Handy were arrested at a Planned Parenthood in Bedford Heights, Ohio on Saturday. After pro-life volunteers briefly spoke with two couples there, Miller said they “never got out of their vehicles” and exited the parking lot. The organization they were there for, all or in part, is this one: Citizens for a Pro Life Society where a book called "Abandoned" is discussed as well, sounds interesting: Abandoned called “…the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the abortion issue.” --- Jack Ames And Doctor Monica Migliorino Miller listed above, interesting, she is some sort of Doctor. These folks are really committed.
I also found these 2 videos interesting today. This first one reminded me of a recent video from Michael Matt in which he mentions the Enlightenment. ***
I love a Marian peacefulness, a sense of not letting it all go. Padre Pio was a good example. I get this feeling From Cardinal Burke. I get this from Bishop Athanasius Schnieder... Who I consider to be living saints But not from the Father or Archbishop Vigano too high a tone, too. too, high a tone... .. too much the shout, too much the rage..
Pretty much a famine breaking out in the Horn of Africa, calling it a man-made famine after the war there of a few months ago. Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Tragedy of the man-made famine (yahoo.com) In a report, it estimated that 353,000 people in Tigray were in phase 5 (catastrophe) and a further 1.769 million are in phase 4 (emergency). Article on COVID in India: Covid in India: The mother and son feeding Mumbai's poor - BBC News
Live Action (pro-life organization started by Lila Rose, totally or co-founded) has started sending out a daily newsletter....it's very good. Anyway, here is one story they featured: Teen with Down syndrome cries with joy for making high school dance team (liveaction.org) I like this second video, really abortion exploits women, even oppresses and attacks them. It is a difficult issue. Lila started her organization when she was like still a teenager...it's another "charity" I got on their mailing list... so many organizations....requesting sometimes donations, I have not given to them but I think they are getting a lot better. This daily news digest, if one gets on the mailing list is very good. Lila Rose is Catholic I'm pretty sure, she might be a convert...they are out in very liberal California but she's pretty smart. Still a lot of good people if I may say. New York, California but also a number of smaller states, New Mexico, New England states have very liberal abortion laws, terrible. Lila is on national news programs from time to time. If one is interested, I'd visit Live Action's website and surely, one can get on their mailing list, they seemed to have really stepped up on their news coverage just in the past few weeks. Every day it seems like they have a good news story or more.
