Ivor Cummins & Christian White:
Understand in Detail How the World Works
Are we moving toward a “Globalist Utopia?” It’s going to be up to us. This 45-minute video is a must-see!
Thought for the Day
“As the endless late-stage, untethered fiat banking printing spree draws closer to its mathematical date with infinity, the social rungs get clobbered one by one.”
Chris Martenson, Peak Prosperity
Talking to Young People / Being the Tabernacle, the Presence of Christ
I met 2 young men in a cafe yesterday, who I was sitting next to. It was impossible for me not to hear what they were saying. One was giving the other advice about what he might do with his future. His friend was expressing indecision and confusion about how to proceed with his goals. As a mother of a 20-something son, I felt for these young men and wanted to engage them, but did not know how. I prayed to Saint Joseph as I was eating my crepe and suddenly the words just came to me. They were very polite and receptive. I told them the world is changing in radical ways and they need to consider this when planning a future. I acknowledged it is a very hard time now to be a young person. (As we in a great interregnum, a turning, at the end of a very long cycle and the beginning of a new one, late-stage empire.) Not only were they quite interested, they even seemed to agree.
I told the confused young man, an aspiring architect, about earthships. He had never heard of them and said he would investigate. Earthships, there are many different kinds, are sustainable, off-grid homes, often using recycled materials. Many are constructed in pleasing organic shapes and rather spectacular.
This is the way we must talk to our youth. Be honest about the state of the world and don’t allow them to live with the delusions of the culture. It is doing them no service.
The song below came on my Pandora channel this morning and reminded me of those dear young men. It’s a great song, sounds a lot like Simon & Garfunkel. It’s about realizing one’s predicament of living in this inauthentic culture, where your future is planned by “men who move only in dimly-lit halls.” This is an insightful young person who sees the truth. He then dreams of an agrarian life, the “Authentic Life,” which we concern ourselves with here…and which we seek. He intuitively knows this is the better direction, but seems to conclude on a cynical note. Have a listen…
Fleet Foxes ~ “Helplessness Blues”
I was raised up believing
I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
Unique in each way you can see
And now after some thinking
I'd say I'd rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery
Serving something beyond me
But I don't, I don't know what that will be
I'll get back to you someday soon, you will see
What's my name, what's my station?
Oh, just tell me what I should do
I don't need to be kind to the armies of night
That would do such injustice to you
Or bow down and be grateful
And say, "Sure, take all that you see"
To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls
And determine my future for me
And I don't, I don't know who to believe
I'll get back to you someday soon, you will see
If I know only one thing
It's that everything that I see
Of the world outside is so inconceivable
Often I barely can speak
Yeah I'm tongue tied and dizzy
And I can't keep it to myself
What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
Why should I wait for anyone else?
And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf
I'll come back to you someday soon myself
If I had an orchard I'd work 'til I'm raw
If I had an orchard I'd work 'til I'm sore
And you would wait tables and soon run the store
Gold hair in the sunlight, my light in the dawn
If I had an orchard I'd work 'til I'm sore
If I had an orchard I'd work 'til I'm sore
Someday I'll be like the man on the screen
(Robin Pecknold)
I often reflect on the extraordinary implications of Holy Communion. In the cafe, I had literally just come from Holy Mass, just having received Our Blessed Lord. When we receive Him, we become the Tabernacle, the Holy of Holies, meant to go out into the world and bring Christ to others. It was in this disposition, that I was given the inclination to speak to these boys, and the words. In Holy Communion, we merge our hearts with that Heart so burning and overflowing with love! And believe me, others can sense this. Some will react with fear and abuse, while others will react positively, not even knowing Who they are encountering, but knowing, somewhere deep inside themselves, this person is different. As the martyr Father Alred Delp said,
“...the person who has seen God, is so totally different, so totally other-because our God is totally Other, with a fullness and order different from what the world sees at first glance. Further, someone who observes the otherness of the believer will be changed by it...
...he is master of the situation and of all things, because of being truly in contact with the center of reality..."
Thought for the Day
We are now immersed in an omni-front attack vector world. This is war. Just getting through the day is now a military-grade evasion operation. If you don’t understand this, you have not been paying attention and you need to get up to speed really fast.
And if you don’t believe the world is that dark, just take a look at Our Blessed Lord upon the cross once again.
Judge Napolitano with Colonel Macgregor
The current State of the World…
COL. Douglas Macgregor: How Close is World War III?
Video-30:09
“Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat veteran, an author of five books, a PhD, and a defense and foreign policy consultant.” (From his website. He also has a YouTube channel.)
Judge Andrew Napolitano, who should need no introduction, interviews Colonel Douglas Macgregor on geopolitics today. Macgregor has recently caught my attention as a sophisticated, objective and experienced voice on geopolitics. He spells out the predicament that currently faces the USA. Will we change course or face the consequences of stubbornness?
Thought for the Day / Yeats' Famous Poem
“The Democratic Party — like the EU’s warmonger parties — has nothing left but violence against anything that looks like nationalism and traditional values.”
From recent article “The Widening Gyre”
Literate and consummate writer James Howard Kunstler evokes William Butler Yeats great poem “The Second Coming” in his most recent article about the emerging chaos of geopolitics. Here’s the poem…
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely the Second Coming is at hand
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight, somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds
The darkness drops again, but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming
Anniversary of the "X Eclipse"...and the Story I Never Told
Today is the one year anniversary of the “X Eclipse” across the United States. The X was formed actually, by 2 total eclipses of the sun, 7 years apart. It crossed over a 9,000 square mile area, with the epicenter being near Carbondale, Illinois. For our purposes, I will call the combination of the eclipses the “X Eclipse.” Together they form a symbol, a marriage spanning time and space.
Nomen Christi Apostolate pioneered the “Eclipse Pilgrimage of Mercy,” which was promoted largely to traditional parishes, in all 50 states. Bill Kassel, with an EWTN affiliated radio station in Michigan, asked me to speak about the pilgrimage on his show. It was a very exciting opportunity and certainly was instrumental in getting the word out further. The eclipse was the day after Divine Mercy Sunday, which I saw as a sign, and designed the pilgrimage around this feast and for the intention of mercy. The pilgrimage aspect encouraged people to visit a holy site and pray the Rosary, in addition to the Divine Mercy Chaplet the week prior.
My family and I went to San Antonio, Texas, to do our pilgrimage along the San Antonio River, where the old Franciscan Missions (including the Alamo) are located. We went to each of the 5 missions, on 5 separate days, to pray the Rosary and walk to the river, throwing a white rose into it and praying more prayers. Why did we do this ritual with the river? All I can say is, at the time, I was strongly motivated to connect with the river and make it a part of our pilgrimage. It is not an accident that the missions were built along a river, as rivers were the lifeblood of communities in the past. I wanted to connect in a tangible way with God’s beautiful San Antonio River, so the roses were a way to do this. There was a sense of “letting go,” not knowing where the roses would land, an intimation of something not yet fulfilled and not able to be controlled. White represents purity, which tied in well with the appeal to mercy, the conversion of our country and the nature of the Blessed Mother, who was with us the entire way, as we prayed the Rosary and encountered many images of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Tragically, a dear friend and her aunt passed away four months earlier, in a car accident in Mexico. Her name was Virginia and her aunt’s name was Rosa, representing innocence and roses. I had it in mind to honor their memory as well, with the white roses perhaps making their way to the shores of Mexico. So you see, this all came together in some mystical synchronistic way, as many things do in the lives of those who have eyes to see how God works in His Divine Providence.
The white roses could also have represented the trafficked, abused children in the area of San Antonio. Terribly, it’s a well-known problem there, 150 miles from the Mexican border. The Mother of God cries for them. Now, one year later, we are thankfully seeing improvement on these issues.
We viewed the eclipse in the rural hills of Texas, along the western side of the eclipse path. There amazingly, was a huge cross on a hill behind us (they do that in Texas, apparently). I looked up and saw a crescent Sun in a dusky sky. The very next day, at Mission Concepcion, there above the altar, was Our Blessed Lord standing atop a crescent Sun, mostly obscured by the Moon, in fact, an eclipse! It was exactly what I saw the day before in full, shining reality. I couldn’t see anything through the special glasses, so in one stupid moment, I looked up with my naked eyes. Then I looked back down, hoping I didn’t just blind myself. I was stunned when I saw the painting in the chapel and fell to my knees in disbelief, before praying the Rosary.
The missions revealed something to me as we went along…something I was not expecting, but perhaps should have…a real-life example of the very thing I wish to do with this ministry. They were the scattered remains of once-thriving, self-sufficient Catholic communities. Each mission had a water well, farmland, living quarters and a chapel. It was a learning experience for me and one mission was constructed very similarly to my own vision of such a community. I had traveled 2,000 miles to see the future in my mind, as an actual physical place from the past…the past meeting the future, coming full circle. Humanity will be brought back to its origins and the technocracy will fail and will fall.
We were blessed to be able to attend the Tridentine Mass right in San Antonio, at Saint Timothy Church. It was quite well-attended and had the most beautiful artwork of Our Lady of Guadalupe. She is ever-present in that area! Cardinal Burke’s famous Guadalupe prayer was a part of our prayers at the river.
What does the whole thing mean? Well, that is up for interpretation and prayer. The more I look at it, the more I see the “X” as a symbol of the division in our nation, which ultimately is spiritual warfare. Where is this all going? A warning is meant to help mitigate what is coming (and to alleviate what is already here). So let us use the wonderful Catholic treasures at our disposal to accomplish that.
You can find some commentary on the X Eclipse on our Home page and all references to the eclipse and the pilgrimage on “Eclipse POM,” in the topics to the right>>> Included is my writing on the original eclipse of 2017, which itself was quite interesting, along with my phone interview with Bill Kassel.
Somehow, just before this anniversary, the X Eclipse came back into my view, which is what got me thinking about it again. I am now doing “X Eclipse 2.0” research and will do a write-up when I am ready. It is still relevant and there is a lot there. I am exploring questions such as….
Is there any significance to the area of the X? What is this area’s strange esoteric history?
Why were the eclipses 7 years apart?
What about the “Devil Comet” and Chiron (considered a minor planet), which both occurred with the X Eclipse?
What is the truth about this “Nineva” thing?
What about the fault lines which strangely mirror the eclipse paths?
Does the separate “X Eclipse” which took place in Texas have any meaning?
…And the whole thing started when I called my cousin in Texas and asked him, “So what do we so in San Antonio, as long as we’re there to see the Eclipse?” He said, “Well, there are some missions.” As he described the missions along the river, I began to think, “This sounds like a pilgrimage.” I came up the idea to combine the pilgrimage with the eclipse and said to myself, “As long as I’m doing this, why don’t I spread the word?”
Turns out, there IS an official pilgrimage at the missions: El Camino de San Antonio Missions
PS I would love to share pictures with you, but the blog has stopped letting me put up images. I have to update one of these days and hopefully that will fix it. However, I can put pics in my monthly newsletter, so let’s make a deal, you sign up (see Email List above) and I’ll put some pilgrimage pics in the May email! [May email has now gone out, if you missed it, it will be sent at special request.] Speaking of images, here is what I saw at Mission Concepcion, which also happens to be the above-mentioned Pilgrimage Center…
"The Winners of the Future"
“The winners of the future are going to be those who can still concentrate, and have the patience to learn and absorb actual context in depth. The losers are going to be the people blindly reacting, lacking any and all context…the powers that be want us to have no context. That's why when there are revolutions, the first thing the communists, the authoritarians, the socialists do, is they tear down the statues. They don't want you grounded in your past. They ruin the libraries. They get rid of the Christians. They basically upend and tear out all the history books and rewrite them because a people without context are people that are easily manipulated ”
And one of our new taglines here at Nomen Christi is…
the future is catholic!
be on the cutting edge
…and it appears we are in the “quickening,” the phase of exponential acceleration, so don’t think the future is that far away.
Why the Russia/Ukraine Conflict Matters, What You Haven't Been Told
This is just one of many global issues which are cause for concern right now…not fear, concern…up your preps. The following is courtesy of my forum friend (this guy knows his stuff and he’s technically brilliant) over at Peak Prosperity, “PNW Defector,” slightly edited, with my comments in italics…
1 million dead Russians. All I see is grieving mothers.
1-1.2 million dead Ukranians. More grieving mothers. A whole generation of boys gone.
At least 50,000 dead in Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s Kursk region. Many civilians, including children.
Daily kamikazee drone attacks against military and civilian infrastructure deep inside of Russian territory. More dead civilians.
As far north as St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast (which couldn’t have been launched from Ukraine). Who helped them?
Carrying 350 pounds of HE, laden with steel bearings/shrapnel, by Ukraine against targets deep inside of Russia. Brutal.
The first use of an intermediate range ballistic missile in war. By Russia, and it was a game-changer. See article below.
Attacks against Russian soil with US, French and UK supplied cruise missiles. It’s already an international war.
The destruction of 1/3 of Russia’s over-the-horizon early warning radar systems that belong to its core nuclear national defense infrastructure. Russia has been very patient…and no, Russia’s initial attack on Ukraine was not unprovoked. This is all part of the globalists’ attempt to re-create the world so a global government can be installed. Yes, there’s a lot more to this story, I’ve been doing the research for 2 decades. I’m not taking sides, just giving the info.
United States at DEFCON Alert 3 since July 2022, with several instances that led it to 2 (1 being highest alert). Who’s paying attention?
CNN article from November 22nd, 2024:
Putin says Russia launched a new missile in Ukraine. Here’s what we know…
“In response to the use of American and British long-range weapons, on November 21 of this year the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the facilities of the Ukrainian defense industry,” Putin said in a televised statement on Thursday…Putin also said that Moscow considers itself entitled to use weapons against military targets belonging to countries that allow their weapons to be used against Russia. He said that Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked targets in Russia’s Bryansk region with six US-made ATACMS missiles on Tuesday and later fired British/French Storm Shadow systems on the Kursk region…The United Nations Secretary General’s spokesperson warned on Thursday that Russia’s use of a new, medium-range ballistic missile is “yet another concerning and worrying development”…This week, both US and British/French-made missiles have been fired into Russia by Ukraine, after US President Joe Biden gave Ukraine permission to use longer-range American missiles across the border….In turn, Putin updated Russia’s nuclear doctrine, with the Kremlin saying the revised military doctrine would in theory lower the bar for first use of nuclear weapons.
Let us continue to pray for peace. Hopefully, we will see a de-escalation of this war in the coming year.
+++ O Mary Conceived Without Sin, Pray for Us Who Have Recourse to Thee! +++
The World Situation is Volatile Right Now
…For a lot of reasons, and probably will remain so for the foreseeable future. A few more things to keep in mind:
1) Make sure you are able to take people in if necessary. Do you have a location in the event you need to evacuate?
2) Stock up on food and water (hopefully you are already doing this).
3) Take care of your health. Have a back-up supply of needed medication.
4) Have a family meeting of what everyone will do in the event of a crisis. Will you have a meeting place?
5) Print out our “15 Points Preparedness Worksheet” (on the Home page) and fill it out as a family.
6) Pray the Rosary daily, as Our Lady of Fatima requested.