A Netherlander in the Alps

David, 34. Catholic with a traditionalist sensibility. Belgian but living in Switzerland. Married to a charming Catholic young lady and father of a cute little boy.

[descampsdavid]

Heaven for cheese lovers Cheese Museum in Gruyère, Switzerland 2017.11.22 with iPhone 6S

[wynfrith]

Calligraphy/Handwriting/Penmanship Practice Ballpoint Pen Calligraphy/Fountain Pen

Pentel Microball MR205 0.5mm ballpoint pen Pilot Parallel 2.4mm Pen Rhodia Notebook

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

I know this isn’t the central tenet of Catholicism/Christianity in general, but I am really happy that a grand tradition of the Church is to absolutely rip marxism to shreds

[experimentalsquid-deactivated20]

what? can you explain this?

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

I am very tired and frazzled from a long day so I’m gonna leave a list of names of people who support this history:

Our Lady of Fatima

Pope John Paul II

there are more but i’m tired sorryyyyy

[fathernochill]

Y'all do know this applies to capitalism as well right???

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

i understand and agree that corporatism and monopolies are terrible things that can hurt people, and we should very much eye it carefully and not place it on a pedestal, but the Mother of God never appeared before three peasant children and the pope and warned them of the evil plan of Satan called “capitalism”.

[fathernochill]

Your remarks are correct; and though it may not be from an apparition, capitalism is still condemned in multiple encyclicals by many popes(JP2 included). Btw this isn’t meant to be a call-out post, I just see, far too often, people condemning Marxism in the name of Catholic teaching but at the same time praising capitalism.

[thathopeyetlives]

Yeah – if you go by the “definition” of capitalism that leftists use, then capitalism is outright forbidden by the Church. 

However, as a positive ideology Communism has been far more salient – and more timely. 

[fathernochill]

I would 100% say that capitalism is the more dangerous force rn but okay…

[descampsdavid]

Ah? How many Catholic priests were sent to gulag or political police prisons in capitalist economy?

[philosophicalconservatism]

.A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its [rational] function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud…Totalitarianism demands…the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.

George Orwell  (1903-1950) English writer.  (via philosophicalconservatism)

[laurentbelkacem-deactivated2018]

Tolochénaz

[vikingmanx]

[texas-conservative]

Dianne Feinstein renews her decades-long crusade against Catholic judges

The bigger question isn't whether this distinguished professor doesn't understand what her judicial oath requires, but rather whether Feinst...

Democrats scream that religious litmus tests are illegal (which they are) unless they do it against Catholics.

[centuriespast]

The Gamekeeper’s Daughter

Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904)

Museum of Croydon

[wrathofgnon]

“A society that can no longer determine for itself its membership rules is an invaded society, and a society that can no longer convey the rules, customs, and laws that are hers, is dead.” — Hervé Juvin, The Great Separation, 2013

[descampsdavid]

hummingbird hawk-moth 2017.09.07 in Bulle, Switzerland

[wynfrith]

Toad Fungi Graphite Pencil Sketch

Prismacolor Premier Turquoise Art Pencils Canson Sketch Sketchbook

A tanned or grey paper support to allow the use of a white pencil would be a good idea.

[artofmanliness]

The Feminization of Christianity

Welcome back to our series on the relationship between Christianity and masculinity, which aims to explore the historical and cultural factors that have made women statistically more likely to be committed to the religion than men. In our last post, we weighed one of the more popular explanations for this gender gap: that the theology, …

[artofmanliness]

Manvotional: A Letter from General George S. Patton to His Son

On June 6, 1944, General George S. Patton wrote this letter to his twenty-year-old son, George Jr., who was enrolled at West Point.

Manvotional: A Letter from General George S. Patton to His Son

[descampsdavid]

Neo romanticismo, Amico magazine, 2010. Model : Magdalena Jasek. Photograph : Gregory Derkenne

[vikingmanx]

“We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.”

— St. John Chrysostom

[vikingmanx]

“As Roman Catholics, we inherit the Roman rite. This rite is the most ancient of all, going back to a period so early that there was not yet any dispute among Christians about the divinity of the Holy Spirit, which explains the lack of an epiclesis in the Roman Canon. It was simply not needed; the entire theology of consecration is different. For the early Christians in Rome, it was enough to ask the Father to do something (in this case, convert the bread and wine into the Body and Blood) because He is pleased with the Son. If the Father grants His paternal blessing, the effect follows irresistibly. It was only later, in response to the Eastern heresy of Macedonianism, that Byzantine Christians thought it desirable to invoke the divine Spirit to bring about the conversion of the gifts. The mid-twentieth century fad of introducing epicletic prayers into Western liturgies—and even worse, of creating new anaphoras where they had never existed before—reflects not only recklessly irresponsible scholarship but a profound betrayal of the apostolic tradition of these liturgies. We are dealing, once again, with an anti-Marian stance: rather than keeping all these particular things that the Lord has entrusted to us, we pick and choose, mix and match, invent and discard.

If, therefore, we wish to be like Mary, Catholics of the Roman rite should receive, keep, and ponder the Roman rite as it has developed organically over time, since it is the embodiment for us of the deeds of God and the mysteries of Christ. It is our liturgical “scandal of the particular.” Just as Jesus was not everyman or no man but this male Israelite, born of the house of David in Bethlehem, reared in the village of Nazareth, a mendicant preacher who was put to death as a malefactor by Roman authorities, so too, the Roman rite is not an open-ended, infinitely malleable structure for liturgical experimentation, but a rite of truly noble simplicity that originated in a tiny area of Italy and grew, slowly but surely, into a magnificent tree bedecked with Gallican ornaments. It is, in other words, perfectly and absolutely itself and nothing else. Its unique Canon, its ancient lectionary, its cycle of propers and orations, its calendar, all these things make it to be itself and nothing else.”

— Peter A. Kwasniewski

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-spirit-of-liturgy-in-words-and.html?m=1

[vikingmanx]

Catholicism teaches what man would like to believe yet does not dare to.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila