Tricia Meade

"All human conflict is ultimately theological." - The Most Reverend Dr. Henry Edward Cardinal Manning #tcot #BasedCatholic

Blessed Holy Monday. This is known as Fig Monday. On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus cursed a fig tree for its failure to bear fruit. It withers at his word. Then he goes to the Temple and expels those who also failed to bear fruit. #HolyWeek

Just as Mary was told she would receive a son named Jesus, and said “let it be done unto me,” so should we, as a society, receive our King who comes to us “righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey.” Blessed Palm Sunday.

@TLM_Ryan @andy_ngi3 Same for us back in 2012 ;)

I spent almost 3 decades on this earth before I experienced the Latin Mass. And when I did I realized I had found the thing I’d always been looking for my entire life.

COVID was a live-action replay of the Milgram experiment. No walls. No laboratory. No electrodes. Just a television, a daily briefing, and an authority figure in a suit telling people what to do. And the results were exactly the same. For those unfamiliar, Stanley Milgram’s landmark experiments in the 1960s demonstrated that ordinary people, when placed under institutional authority and given clear instructions, would administer what they believed to be severe electric shocks to innocent strangers simply because someone in a position of authority told them to continue. The conclusion was uncomfortable and definitive. Obedience to authority, in the presence of sufficient social pressure, overrides individual conscience in the vast majority of people. COVID proved it again. At global scale. In real time. But the truly devastating part the part that I find most difficult to reconcile , was the medical profession. Doctors. Physicians. People who spent years “studying” human biology, pharmacology, immunology, and medical ethics. People who took an oath. People who knew or had every professional obligation to know that mandating an experimental intervention, suppressing early treatment, isolating the dying from their families, and dismissing adverse events without investigation was a profound violation of everything their training stood for. And so many of them did it anyway. Not reluctantly. Enthusiastically. Do as you’re told was not a private capitulation for most of them. It was performed publicly, proudly, wrapped in the language of science and responsibility and care by people who had abandoned all three the moment the institutional authority spoke. Follow the science became the most cynical slogan of the era. Deployed not by people following evidence but by people following orders and using the language of reason to avoid the discomfort of exercising it. Milgram’s most haunting finding was not that monsters do terrible things. It was that ordinary people do when the structure around them makes it easy enough. We just watched it happen again. And the lesson, as always, is the same. An obedient population is only as safe as the integrity of whoever is giving the orders. Think for yourself. Question everything. And never under any pressure, from any authority switch off your conscience because someone told you to.

@acrimonyand Did you know they are touring? Kicking off May 17 in Austin ;) blackcrowestour.com/#:~:text=When%….

She talks to angels They call her out by her name

On this day in 1586 St. Margaret Clitherow attained the crown of martyrdom St Margaret was crushed to death on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, even though she was pregnant with her fourth child. St.Margaret Clitherow. Ora pro nobis

March 25 is the Feast of the Annunciation, when the Archangel Gabriel, whose feast was yesterday, went to Our Lady, greeting her with the words that begin the Hail Mary prayer. Visit FishEaters to learn about the day, & find ways to celebrate it with prayer, music, etc. fisheaters.com/customslent6.h…

On this solemnity of the Annunciation in 1593 Bl. James Bird, layman, attained the crown of martyrdom at Winchester. At the age of 19, James was hanged, drawn & quartered for the 'crime' of converting to Catholicism and denying the ecclesial supremacy of the heresiarch Elizabeth I Now the Churzh bends the knee to every secular authority -- UN, EU, WEF, WHO

Fr. Ripperger: “As exorcists, we’ve found that saying the Angelus at 6 am, noon & 6 pm has the effect of keeping most people immune from diabolical influence. Doing it at 6 am, noon & 6 pm develops spiritual discipline—& it has cleared out 90% of our caseload.” Helpful app below:

I'm so in love that I can't deny it My heart lies smothered in my breast But it's not for you to let the world know it A troubled mind can know no rest youtu.be/g43HVlRga7M?si…

On Raglan Road of an autumn day I saw her first and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare That I might one day rue I saw the danger and I passed Along the enchanted way And I said, "Let grief be a fallen leaf At the dawning of the day" youtu.be/T6zqb3gf5aA?si…

“Catholics… must throw themselves fearlessly into the great current of American national life, ready to cooperate with any and every class of their fellow citizens for the true interests and glory of a common country.” — Orestes Brownson, “The Mission of America” (1856)

@SuzieD755164 @TheNotoriousMMA @denkmit

@brumeade @TheNotoriousMMA @denkmit Definitely happening. Definitely bad.

TO THE RACISTS & PIMPS WHO SELL & GIVEAWAY IRELAND AND IRISHNESS Racism is a BIG problem in Ireland. It comes from the likes of @denkmit (see below) and is directed at Irish people. Deep down, people like this do not connect with a strong sense of self or have a strong connection to their ancestral past. They want to yank up those roots embedded in the earth of this powerful spiritual place. They want to weaken the ties that bind. Shamelessly and oh so casually. They insultingly make reductive statements (like the one below) and use sophistry to sum up what it means to be Irish (The Irish: Na Gaeil or Na hÉireannaigh) in the most shallow terms possible. For me, his statement evokes the same logic as "a man can be a woman" simply because they put on a cheap tarty dress and badly applied makeup. Blackface isn't acceptable to the poster, no doubt. But woman-face probably is, and now Irish-face, too. However, his words can not erase the unequivocal truth: we have a deep and complex history, heritage, and culture. We are tied to our motherland as infants are to their mother's bosom. When they need to be close to the safe womb they emerge from. When they need to feel agape love and a soul connection. We do not take kindly to our mother being sold or rented out by oikophobic and globalist or marxist pimps while we, her children, have everything removed from us, including the right to our true and precious identity. Likening Irishness to growing up with RTE characters or liking GAA (as you attempt to do) is something I reject with every fibre of my Irish being. These are entities that are actively participating in the demise of Ireland and her people. In any case, how many IPAS residents grew up with RTE or do even like like GAA? How many Visa applicants? The vast majority of those people treat Ireland as they would a prostitute. They find her attractive but would and could never love her the way we do. She is disposable. The poster also says it isn't about DNA. We are a distinct ethnic group, and it is DNA (and ancient history) that gives us that distinction. It is not even a title that can be awarded [distinct ethnic group]. It is just what we ARE. Therefore, it can not be taken away. But the poster shamelessly tries to steal it regardless, giving it to whoever. We are the sum of our ancestors parts. We hold their battles, trauma, love and laughter, AND DNA within us. THIS is what it means to be Irish. The poster wouldn't go to any African country or India or Pakistan or Afghanistan and say that being African, Indian, Pakistani, or Afghani is not defined by DNA. He wouldn't claim to be able to just BE one of those people. No matter how he integrated among them. He wouldn't dare. That would be "appropriation," he would likely claim. So what gives him or anyone else the temerity and gall to give away our Irishness to anyone who comes along? He has no right. Nor has anyone else. I will die on this hill and stubbornly haunt everyone and anyone who contributes to our demise with this kind of insidious gaslighting.

@SuzieD755164 @TheNotoriousMMA @denkmit I’m happy to be unfamiliar with Boland’s version. • Deracination & replacement aren’t happening • Maybe they’re happening, but they’re not so bad • They’re happening & that’s good where time is time past. A palsy of regrets. No. I won't go back. My roots are brutal:

@brumeade @TheNotoriousMMA @denkmit Yes I was thinking of that poem when writing this. I think the poster would prefer Eavan Boland's retort to Pearse.

Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her chief duties that of preventing people from making those old mistakes; from making them over and over again forever, as people always do if they are left to themselves.

@SuzieD755164 @TheNotoriousMMA @denkmit Text & translation from Grokipedia (grokipedia.com/page/Mise_%C3%…).

@SuzieD755164 @TheNotoriousMMA @denkmit Mise Éire: Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra Mór mo ghlóir: Mé a rug Cú Chulainn cróga. Mór mo náir: Mo chlann féin a dhíol a máthair. Mór mo phian: Bithnaimhde do mo shíorchiapadh. Mór mo bhrón: D'éag an dream inar chuireas dóchas. Mise Éire: Uaigní mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra.

The quintessential state of evil, deranged female jealousy and malice. Did we really forget?