..."Tell it slant'... ~Emily Dickinson
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."~Anais Nin
Now you know. The next time you go into the basement wear a helmet. ~Eve
"In extremity, states of mind become objective, metaphors tend to actualize, the word becomes flesh.(1977,205) -Terence Des Pres, 'The Survivor'
“I decided to go in search of the shaking woman.” Siri Hustvedt
A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. ~Albert Einstein
As Christians and Jews, following the example of the faith of Abraham, we are called to be a blessing to the world. (cf. Gen. 12:2ff). This is the common task awaiting us. It is therefore necessary for us Christians and Jews, to be first a blessing to one another. (L'Osservatore Romano, Aug. 17, 1993) ~John Paul II
"...there is need for acknowledgment of the common roots linking Christianity and the Jewish people, who are called by God to a covenant which remains irrevocable (cf. Rom.11:29) and has attained definitive fullness in Jesus Christ." ~John Paul II
...a consistent contempt for Nazism(condemning it as early as 1930...as 'demonic' and 'wedded to Satan') and Communism as virulent atheism...he referred to them as "Gog and Magog"... ~on Claudel

Today, it seems, most were born ‘left-handed.’ Every one I see walking is ‘hinged at the hips’, in-sync’ and glued to metallic boxes. ~Chelé
"A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge[illusory] solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged." - Czeslaw Milosz
*A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul*. Tolstoy
I will not let thee go except thou be blessed. Now wouldn’t it be a magnificent world if we all lived that way with each other or even with ourselves?
"I, Sister Faustina, by the order of God, have visited the abysses of hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence...But I noticed one thing: that most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell." -Saint Faustina
Do you hear what I hear? A child, a child crying in the night.

"Every time you dance, what you do must be sprayed with your blood. ~Rudolf Nureyev
Why would someone who looked God in the face ever suppose that there could be something better? ~Matthew Likona

We cannot know what we would do in order to survive unless we are tested. For those of us tested to the extremes the answer is succinct: anything

…”The Stoics throned Fate, the Epicureans Chance, while the Skeptics left a vacant space where the gods had been –[nihilism]—but all agreed in the confession of despair;...and...Oriental schemes of thought contributed a share to the deepening gloom..." ~Gwatkin

"...notes to the committee...why do you invite cows to analyze the milk?" -Peter de Vries

"I run because it gives Him pleasure." ~Eric, Chariots of Fire

“God’s truth is life,” as Patrick Kavanagh says, “even the grotesque shapes of its foulest fire.” What is the difference between a cry of pain that is also a cry of praise and a cry of pain that is merely an articulation of despair? Faith? The cry of a believer, even if it is a cry against God, moves toward God, has its meaning in God, as in the cries of Job. ~Christian Wiman

"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." - Ray Bradbury

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is an end in itself, because God is Love. ~Edith Stein, St. Benedicta of the Cross.

“Lastly, and most of all. Who turns his back upon the fallen and disfigured of his kind; abandons them as vile…; does wrong to Heaven and man, to time and to eternity. And you have done that wrong!” ~Dickens, The Chimes, 1844

Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son métier . ~Heinrich Heine.

Remember the 'toe-pick' and you won't get swallowed by the whale or eaten by the polar bear.

Someone else needs to become the bad example in our group
But you wear shame so well ~James Goldman, Eve [Or, tired of being the scapegoat yet? ~Sue]

There is a point where the unfortunate and the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, miserable; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? -[Jesus Christ said so.] -- Br. Humbert Kilanowski, O.P.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. -Sir Edward Grey

We are still fighting to use the tools we have to grapple with the unknown.

“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” ~Joan Didion"

When I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful. And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky

" ...wie geht es zu, daß ich alles so anders sehe ...?"

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”― Maya Angelou

'Have you ever noticed that the meanest, most misogynist, and dangerous people tend to be activists who claim to be for freedom and love?'

"For others of us, the most loving thing we can do for our abusers is to keep them from having opportunity to abuse ever again." (Dawn Eden) My Peace I Give You, Ch. 1)

No child is ever responsible for abuse perpetrated on them by ANYONE. I understand that others may not "get it" and that's fine. Blaming the victim is never right or just under any circumstances.

Stay In Touch -Have I not proven to you that I Am in the saving sinners business? -Jesus


HOPE: Hold on to the great truths of the Faith...Own your challenging affliction...Persevere...Expect God's providence and intervention... ~Johnette Benkovich, Woman of Grace
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, help those especially in need of thy mercy. - OL of Fatima
Prescription #1: Give God the greatest possible glory and honor Him with your whole soul. If you have a sin on your conscience, remove it as soon as possible by means of a good Confession. ~St. John Bosco
Prescription #2: In thankful tenderness offer Reparation for the horrible mockery and blasphemies constantly uttered against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; against the Blessed Virgin Mary; the saints and angels; His Church; His priests and religious; His children; and His loving Heart by reciting the Golden Arrow which delightfully wounds Him:
'May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, and honored by all the creatures of God in heaven, on earth and in the hells through the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament of the altar. Amen.
Prescription #3: So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach. ~Heb.13:13
Prescription #4: "Do whatever He tells you." ~John 2:5
Prescription #5: Sometimes when I am in such a state of spiritual dryness that not a single good thought occurs to me, I say very slowly the "Our Father" or the "Hail Mary"and these prayers suffice to take me out of myself. ~St. Therese of Lisieux
Prescription #6: Have confidence in God's Love, Justice, and Mercy: ...as for me, O my God, in my very confidence lies all my HOPE. For Thou, O Lord, singularly has settled me in hope." -St. Claude de la Colombiere SJ

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Last Crusade: Spain 1936


Warren H. Carroll
Why be satisfied with leftist propaganda on the Spanish Civil War? Carroll's treatment of the events of 1936 is singular in Anglo-American scholarship for seeing the conflict for what is truly was: a death struggle against the Christian faith and a war against Christian civilization in Europe. This outstanding work of scholarship illustrates the phenomenon of the traditionalist as revisionist: the distortions of decades of Marxist historiography are overturned in Carroll's narration of the bloody struggle to preserve Western civilization in the heart of 20th century Europe.    [Amazon, Book Description]
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Reviews:
The Christian victims of the Spanish Socialist Revolution, April 2, 2007
By  Quilmiense (USA/Spain)
This review is from: Last Crusade: Spain 1936 (Paperback)
What legitimacy does a government have when it does not protect its citizens? The Spanish governments looked the other way while the socialist hordes destroyed churches and killed members of the clergy freely since 1931.

"July 24 1936, three Discalced Carmelite sisters (the order founded by St. Teresa of Ávila) were recognized by militia in a Madrid street ... 'Nuns! Shoot them!' one of the militiamen cried. They opened fire at once on the helpless women, killing one instantly and severely wounding another." Then an Assault Guard appeared and stopped a bus to take the wounded nun to the hospital... "Give her here and I'll finish her off!" cried the bus driver. "The third nun escaped for the moment ... and was eventually accosted by a man who pretended to want to help her, but turned her over to another group of militia who shot her also before the day was done."

The book is filled with well documented and horrifying stories like this one. These are common street people, not SS nazi officers. It leaves one speechless wondering what kind of evil must have possessed these people to hate innocent nuns and priests (Christ) so much.

This book is very important because these facts are not as well known as they should. Here the crimes committed against Christians by the hound dogs of the Left since 1931 are condensed and made self-evident. There are no excuses, no attempts to underscore the barbarity committed by the hordes of the self-righteous Left. A must read, specially for those who say they like to read both sides of the story. Well, here's the side you couldn't find (or could you?).

Mr. Carroll does well in finding the first symptoms of the Spanish malady in the 20th century in the effects of '98: the ignominious way we lost the remnants of the Spanish empire. After 1898 "large segments of Spanish society were alienated from the national heritage." `98 was not the cause of our (still present) malady, this must be clear, it was the signal to start shooting, that things couldn't go any worse, and that it was time for the wackiest Spaniards to take control. Exacerbated local nationalisms, loss of prestige of a national identity, political extremism (influence of foreign fascism & communism), all colluded to get us into the Civil War and beyond.

This is a succinct study, from a Catholic (or religious if you may) perspective, focusing on the victims of anti-religious hatred, martyrs of the Cross, people who still in 2007 haven't been honored or recognized, but are kept aside of most leftist history books.

Facts and figures. Nobody can deny them. Here they are exposed in a clear and succinct way for everyone to check out, if they want to look into it. There are two points that need updating on this book, though. One is that the death of anarchist Durruti is mostly agreed today to have been ordered by Stalin and committed by one his loyal henchman. The second is that Negrín was indeed a undercover Stalinist agent, a fact that nobody can deny today. His theft of the Spanish gold reserves, and their subsequent delivery to Moscow, plus his replacement of Largo Caballero as Prime Minister, ordered by Stalin as well had, indeed, no other explanation. Largo, fanatic as he was, would not murder his anarchist allies, but Negrín would prove a more obedient employee.

"Socialists and anarchists never tired of painting the clergy as hirelings of the rich "upper classes", though in fact most priests received little more money than their parishioners and most religious lived in near poverty ... many people still believed the socialist and anarchist charges." It's sad that one has to try to convince people that the accusations of the Left were not true. If they were, would the burning of churches and the killing of priests and nuns be more tolerable? The official break of the Civil War was in July 1936, but for the victims of the Left it had started in May 1931: "About a hundred churches and other religious buildings were destroyed or damaged throughout Spain." The president of the government was opposed to stop these actions: "all the conventos in Spain are not worth the life of a single republican", he said. The socialists, anarchists and communists did not hide their totalitarian aspirations of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat. They publicly vowed they would do it. They had already started in 31. The government never impeded their revolutionary actions. The strategy was to create chaos, destroy, and use the democratic system to gain control and destroy Spain from within. Today it's the same. We have illegal political parties: A republican and pro-independence Catalan party allied with the socialist government -in a constitutionally Monarchical nation; again, the socialist government negotiating with another illegal (& pro-terrorist Basque) party. Why? To hurt the Right's chances to ever win any more elections (like the PRI did in Mexico for 75 years). Spain's allies in foreign policy are, oh my!, countries well known for their love of democracy and freedom, and incorruptibility: Cuba, Venezuela, Morocco... 
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And Mexico...
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