Sign after sign after sign...

now Blessed salt

 

is that you Mac Basto and Padraig out sailing? casting your nets...sea weed anyone? remember the 3 blind mice tune ,,or was it 4 blind mice

youtube of mac brian and Padraig boating...good chuckle



All in good chuckles

 

My Nissan is hiding under 18" of snow right in front of my house this afternoon. View attachment 4150

 

Looks a little cold Brian.
Know that I am thinking of you while I have a swim today, as I enjoy another hot 80F.

 

I like your house. What year was it built?

 

Things are certainly 'heating up' and aggressively getting worse in the global sphere. Banks, stock markets and retirement funds are taking a beating. The weather has become more aggressive (volcanoes', floods, heavy winter storms, droughts, apostasy and confusion in the Church, scientific reports of a 10th planet in our solar system, ten times larger than the sun, wars and rumors of wars all over the globe, world leaders at odds with one another to new highs, societal uprisings and lawlessness etc....

All this was foretold to come, both throughout scripture and prophecy. We know the antidote. Are we taking it serious yet? Have we and are we preparing our souls and physical being for the coming tribulations? Are we praying the rosary daily, going to frequent confession, at least weekly reception of Eucharist, making visits to the Blessed Sacrament throughout the week? Are we studying and trying to live in the Divine Will? Are we a beacon of hope to our family and friends? All things to ponder as the world around us continues to grow darker. We have been warned, we have been given the recipe through it all.

 

Thanks, it was built about 100 years ago, between 1910-1920, but not certain, it's not documented well. Parts of it still have the original knob and tube wiring and when the wind blows, the curtains wave in here. But I installed a great wood stove and can heat the place even if the utilities go down, so that's a plus.
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thats a nice stove! My house was built in 1900, but was remodeled in the 90s, so it has no charm left. I love old houses.

 

Nice stove Brian. Does it heat just one room or have you a way of circulating the heat through the house?

 

It will heat the entire first floor and heat will rise to heat the second floor and the attic. The basement gets cold though because when it's running, the natural gas furnace turns off. Thermostat is in the same room as the stove. I'm going to build a small wood fired rocket stove to heat the basement for backup basement heat and cooking.

My sons and I built the hearth and put the airstone on the walls behind it. This stove has custom steel cut designs and paint colors from the manufacturer, Woodstock stoves in NH. We chose the fleur de lis design as they are a symbol of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

So you could say we have a "Catholic" wood stove. (It also has a cook top for slow cooking.)
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Nice job Brian. The slow cooking facility is a bonus. I had heard that those wood burning stoves give out great heat and are very fuel efficient. They are very popular here, especially in rural areas where storms often take down power lines and people have independent electricity generators for back-up. We have an old fashioned back boiler in our fire grate that we haven't used in years. If we were really pushed, we could use it for hot water, but it uses an electric pump to circulate the water, so not much use in a power cut without a separate generator.

 

Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, Archbishop of Valencia, Spain, has blessed the new ecumenical “cathedral” dedicated to the “Mother Nature”.

 

Only a few years ago this would have horrified most.
Not anymore.
SURPRISE!

 

It horrifies and amazes me . A Cardinal..and in Catholic Spain..a 'Cathedral'. I feel like I 'm going to choke.

Thank God I can still be shocked

 

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Or do they?

 

It's all been foretold.
Blessed Catherine Emmerich

June 1, 1821: "Among the strangest things that I saw, were long processions of bishops. Their thoughts and utterances were made known to me through images issuing from their mouths. Their faults towards religion were shown by external deformities. A few had only a body, with a dark cloud of fog instead of a head. Others had only a head, their bodies and hearts were like thick vapors. Some were lame; others were paralytics; others were asleep or staggering."

"I saw what I believe to be nearly all the bishops of the world, but only a small number were perfectly sound. I also saw the Holy Father-- God-fearing and prayerful. Nothing left to be desired in his appearance, but he was weakened by old age and by much suffering. His head was lolling from side to side, and it dropped onto his chest as if he were falling asleep. He often fainted and seemed to be dying. But when he was praying, he was often comforted by apparitions from Heaven. Then, his head was erect, but as soon as it dropped again onto his chest, I saw a number of people looking quickly right and left, that is, in the direction of the world."

"Then I saw that everything that pertained to Protestantism was gradually gaining the upper hand, and the Catholic religion fell into complete decadence. Most priests were lured by the glittering but false knowledge of young school-teachers, and they all contributed to the work of destruction."

"In those days, Faith will fall very low, and it will be preserved in some places only, in a few cottages and in a few families which God has protected from disasters and wars."

April 12, 1820: "I had another vision of the great tribulation. It seems to me that a concession was demanded from the clergy which could not be granted. I saw many older priests, especially one, who wept bitterly. A few younger ones were also weeping. But others, and the lukewarm among them, readily did what was demanded. It was as if people were splitting into two camps."

 

I think all those boxes can be ticked.

 

The official webpage of the Holy See says this:
The Pope decrees that not only men may be chosen for the washing of the feet in the Liturgy of Holy Thursday

What better photograph could illustrate these news? Specifically that one when is being washed the transgender’s feet. What a funny and sad coincidence.



Some of you will accuse me of bad intentions, or paranoia, hallucinations or whatever. I don’t know if this is intentional or not and, if so, who is behind all of this. I can only say that is wrong, but very wrong.

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I’ve had enough of all of this.

I read news every day in three different languages and I’m astonished with everything that’s happening in the world, but especially inside the Church. I can’t just shut up and I won’t, so I have to leave this place, as I told to some of you already.

My presence here is contributing for this forum to be some kind of battlefield, but this has to be a place of prayers. I am really sorry if I ever have offended anyone, I’m sure you will forgive me. What I really need now is silence.



Pray for the Pope, so he can be a good one, like the others before him, and always defend the Truth.