Tranquility must derive from ORDER~~ first and foremost.
The peace that Christ gives is not a human fabrication (John 14:27).
But as the Creator has entrusted the care of His creation to humans as His most complex creatures, we are responsible for promoting what Saint Augustine called the tranquilitas ordinis—the tranquility of order.
St. Augustine and his mother, St. Monica, are depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Augustine Church in Washington. (CNS/Bob Roller)
Feast Day, November 4 Saint Monica
No mother, other than the Virgin Mary Herself, is considered to have had so much influence on the early Catholic Christian Church, as Monica of Tagaste, Africa?
Why so? Because Saint Monica spent most of her lifetime praying for the Christian conversion of a wayward and wordly son, who eventually became one of the Church’s greatest theologians, Saint Augustine.
Some observers considered her an interfering, in-your-face kind of mom. Others saw her as a shrewd woman of faith and spiritual anchor for a son whose talents she felt belonged to the Church.
A crowning moment for Saint Monica was when she saw Augustine finally baptized in the Church.
Saint Augustine and His Mother, Saint Monica, depicted.
Saint Monica died in the year 387 AD
The well-known expression “When in Rome…” derives from a conversion between St Augustine and His Mother, Saint Monica
As the story goes, Saint Monica came to Rome to visit Her son and was much distressed that the people were not fasting, all night, Saturday, in preparation for receiving Holy Communion at Holy Mass Sunday.
Saint Augustine told His Mother, very gently:
“When you are at The Holy City of Roma, do as they do at The Holy City of Roma; when you are elsewhere, do as they do elsewhere.”
At that point, Saint Augustine became the teacher and the mother, Saint Monica, who had prayed so long and so hard for his conversion to The Faith, became Her son’s pupil.
How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?
IL MIGLIOR FABBRO
At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.
In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.
At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.
In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.
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Finis Origine Pendet…
The escape commences…
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September, 1957
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Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”
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My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~
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Non Sibi
The declaration that:
“I am here to save mankind,” means that:
“I am here to rule mankind.”
The escape continues…
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September, 1966
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The Cathedral Latin School
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Finis Origine Pendet
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Κύριε ἐλέησον
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Rejoice and Glad!!
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Amen~~
~The Original Angry Bird~~The Catholic University of America Screaming Red Cardinal Mascot~~
~~EX LIBRIS~~
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THEOS EK MĒCHANĒS
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10th Juin, Wedensday, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi, the 2020th
“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~
Alain Delon~~Actor
John Daniel Begg raises cotton.
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In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:
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“Oh, he raises cotton.”
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Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.
CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Seal of The Catholic University of America
Motto:
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Deus Lux Mea Est
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Acta Est Fabula
The escape concludes…
The Catholic University Of America, Washington, The Federal District of Columbia.
1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.
“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of All Mankind"
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Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind
How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?
Acta Est Fabula.
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Deus Vult.
Ne plus ultra
Our Ubiquitous Presence
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Our Queen
Our Queen now 68 years on
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Simply the best President we could ever hope to have.
Regina ~ Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
Jean Bugatti with his car, Bugatti Royale ‘Esders’ Roadster, 1932.