This sort of art, called by some, over-idealized, is very realistic painting, showing a triumphant Christ, is very much disparaged by the Art cognoscenti, but it is very popular, and in fact Simon Dewey is one of the most visible religious artists of the late 20th century.
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The painting’s message is strong and direct: Christ is risen, he is our Saviour.
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The stone is rolled away, and darkness and death are behind him.
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We show today, Easter Sunday, Mr. Simon Dewey’s painting to demonstrate just this:
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Jesus is our IDEAL.
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Jesus cannot be over-idealized.
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Jesus is perfection.
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Jesus is:
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The IDEAL.
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A perfection this morning, now returned to us, who have missed Him so.
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Yes, my dear, HE LIVES.
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HE LIVES.
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The Holy Week through which we have now just come, demonstrates to man all his desperate conceits and frailties.
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Last Sunday, Palm Sunday, Jesus came into Jerusalem a HERO.
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Within 5 days, the HERO was vilified, condemned, beaten, executed and buried.
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Demonstrating these things to us all of us:
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His Children.
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He asks:
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How much is man as a city that is crumbled, broken down and without walls, as:
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Man controls not his own spirit?
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For:
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How weak is Man?
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How often does he stumble and stray from the straight and narrow path?
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How little does he control his appetites?
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How much does he resemble the analogy of the Scriptures that Man is as:
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“A city that is crumbled and without walls, as man controls not his own spirit?”
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These are the many and myriad lessons of this breathless last week.
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And now, in the new week, The Easter Sunday and the Easter Week:
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We watch our exemplar, our Blessed Perfection, come back once again into our midst, bringing with him:
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The absolutely remarkable message that He has shown the Way, shown to all of us the potentiality to secure for ourselves:
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Everlasting Life.
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Life Eternal.
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Of all the silly, hapless, vanities of man throughout the Ages, taken collectively together, we now see them as nothing.
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Trivia.
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Idle vanity, when compared to The Holy Week and now, The Easter Sunday:
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The Perfection.
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Man makes silly noises about seeking the perfectibility and historical progress of man here on this, transitory, earth:
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All the while overlooking the Holy week of Jesus which shows the way to Everlasting perfectibility and progress for man.
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The toils and strife of this earth do not matter at all.
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What matters is the message of Holy Week and now of Easter Herself.
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That message alone endures.
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That message alone matters.
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That message is:
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Our Ideal ONE is now Risen and has shown us the way to be PERFECT.
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If only we, come, follow HIM home.
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This is why the Holy Week and now, today, Easter Sunday morning, is a collective recounting of the only week in the history of man that:
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Matters at all.
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At all.
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We have now seen Perfection and we have seen how we can share in that perfection.
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Let us ask ourselves, this Easter Sunday Morning:
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Having seen the searing Light of His Perfection and having been offered it ourselves, how could we possibly be satisfied with anything else at all?
The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~Instead, the rich man ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally~~man to man~~
~~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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Non Sibi~~
Finis Origine Pendet~
~~Κύριε ἐλέησον~~
Rejoice and Glad!!
Amen~~
~The Original Angry Bird~~The Catholic University of America Screaming Red Cardinal Mascot~~
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Pope Francis, background center, walks in procession as he celebrates a Palm Sunday mass in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS).
Pope Francis greets the faithful at the end of the Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 13, 2014. Tens of thousands of Romans, tourists and pilgrims joined Pope Francis in the solemn Palm Sunday service. The Pontiff used a pastoral staff made of wood carved by Italian prison inmates, who donated it to him.
(Associated Press photo/Riccardo De Luca) )
The Catholic faithful wave their palm branches while participating in a Palm Sunday procession in Manila April 1, 2012. (Reuters).
A priest, wheeled on a makeshift cart, sprinkles holy water as the Catholic faithful wave their palm branches while participating in a Palm Sunday procession in Manila April 1, 2012. (Reuters).
Churchgoers wave their woven palms in front of a crucifix during Palm Sunday mass in Manila April 1,2012. Palm Sunday is the start of Holy Week which is marked throughout the Philippines, a predominantly Catholic country. (Reuters.)
Churchgoers, with their woven palms, touch the glass where a baby Jesus doll, called Sto. Nino, is encased during a Palm Sunday mass in Manila April 1, 2012. Palm Sunday is the start of Holy Week which is marked throughout the Philippines, a predominantly Catholic country. (Reuters),
Pope Benedict XVI arrives to lead the Palm Sunday mass in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Reuters).
Cardinals arrive to attend the Palm Sunday mass in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican (Reuters).
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Pope Francis Ignores Prepared Homily In Palm Sunday Speech
| by FRANCES D’EMILIO
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, marking Palm Sunday in a packed St. Peter’s Square, ignored his prepared homily and spoke entirely off-the-cuff in a remarkable departure from practice. Later, he continued to stray from the script by hopping off his popemobile to pose for “selfies” with young people and also sipping tea passed to him from the crowd.
In his homily, Francis called on people, himself included, to look into their own hearts to see how they are living their lives.
“Has my life fallen asleep?” Francis asked after listening to a Gospel account of how Jesus’ disciples fell asleep shortly before he was betrayed by Judas before his crucifixion.
“Am I like Pontius Pilate, who, when he sees the situation is difficult, washes my hands?”
He sounded tired, frequently pausing to catch his breath, as he spoke for about 15 minutes in his homily during Palm Sunday Mass, which solemnly opens Holy Week for the Roman Catholic Church.
“Where is my heart?” the pope asked, pinpointing that as the “question which accompanies us” throughout Holy Week.
Francis seemed to regain his wind after the 2 ½ hour ceremony. He shed his red vestments atop his plain white cassock, chatted amiably with cardinals dressed more formally than he at that point. Then he posed for “selfies” with young people from Rio de Janeiro who had carried a large cross in the square.
He had barely climbed aboard his open-topped popemobile when he spotted Polish youths. They, too, were clamoring for a “selfie” with a pope, and he hopped off, not even waiting for the vehicle to fully stop, to oblige them. In another moment in the pope’s long tour of the square, the Vatican’s security chief poured herbal mate tea from a thermos, thrust toward the pontiff by someone in the crowd, into a mate cup, also held out by an admirer, and passed the cup to Francis for a sip.
In a crowd of around 100,000 Romans, tourists and pilgrims, people clutched olive tree branches, tall palm fronds or tiny braided palm leaves shaped like crosses that were blessed by Francis at the start of the ceremony.
Francis used a wooden pastoral staff carved by Italian prison inmates, who donated it to him. The pope wants to put people on the margins of life at the center of the church’s attention.
Francis wore red vestments, symbolizing blood shed by the crucified Jesus.
Holy Week culminates next Sunday with Easter Mass, also in St. Peter’s Square. Many faithful will remain in Rome, while others will pour into the city for the April 27 canonization of two popes, John Paul II and John XXIII. Francis noted that John Paul’s long-time aide, now Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland, had come to Rome.
Francis noted he’ll be making a pilgrimage to South Korea this summer, with the key event being an Asian youth gathering on Aug. 15 in Daejeon.
The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~Instead, the rich man ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally~~man to man~~
~~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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Non Sibi~~
Finis Origine Pendet~
~~Κύριε ἐλέησον~~
Rejoice and Glad!!
Amen~~
~The Original Angry Bird~~The Catholic University of America Screaming Red Cardinal Mascot~~
~~EX LIBRIS~~
~~THEOS EK MĒCHANĒS~~
Palm Sunday 13th Day Of April, Now In Our Quadragesima,~Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi, 2014
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French actor~~Alain Delon
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“It is indeed interesting that our Lord never praised those who sought freedom apart from justice. Never did He say: “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after freedom,” but “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after justices,” and “Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’s sake, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.” Let us, then in the name of God, stop talking about freedom until we decide why we want to be free; let us, when the world has gone mad with freedom alienated from the law of God, unfurl the flag of justice – then we shall be free: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His justice and all these things shall be added unto you.”
~ Fulton J. Sheen, A Declaration of Dependence, 1941, page 52.~~
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Bishop Sheen is most kind to remind the Americans this Church Sunday morning, at our Lenten time, ours and His Quadragesima, that a thirst for justice, must appropriately, precede, guide and define our concentration on securing freedom~
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The Americans say they want the kingdom of liberty but they don’t want God in it~which is unjust~~
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Johnny Cash sang a wonderful song~The Wanderer~part of which goes~”I stopped outside a church house where the citizens like to sit~they say they want the Kingdom~but they don’t want God in it.”~~
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America today suffers a dreadful catharsis~The Americans are terribly sad, lonely, skittish and afraid~everyone knows it~we try to ignore~but it follows us everywhere~
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We too want the Kingdom but we don’t want God in it~
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Today a friend sent a note from Bishop Sheen which, as Bishop’s works ever do~remains very poignant this very morning~despite having been penned now 80 years on~~
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Bishop asks~~and adroitly answers this question~
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Is There Hope in A Perilous World?”
“We are living in perilous times when the hearts and souls of men are sorely tried. Never before has the future been so utterly unpredictable; we are not so much in a period of transition with belief in progress to push us on, rather we seem to be entering the realm of the unknown, joylessly, disillusioned, and without hope. The whole world seems to be in a state of spiritual widowhood, possessed of the harrowing devastation of one who set out on life’s course joyously in intimate comradeship with another, and then is bereft of that companion forever. … God came. And He came to set men and their world right with God – not only their hearts and their souls, but their businesses, their secular affairs, their governments, and their all. How did He do it? God solved the social, political, and economic problems of the world not by enunciating a new economic system; nor by instructing man in the ways of supply and demand; nor by a great piece of research which revealed the many aspects of their problem; nor even by giving to the world a formula for finances, trade agreements, armaments, slavery, imperialism, or war. He saved it from its ills by being born as a Babe in the insignificant village of Bethlehem.”~~
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Citation~~FULTON J. SHEEN, THE PRODIGAL WORLD, THE REBIRTH OF A WORLD, 1935. [THE FULTON SHEEN GUY]~~
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~~Our reflection for today, brethren is just this and no more~~
The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~
~~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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Non Sibi~~
Finis Origine Pendet~
~~Κύριε ἐλέησον~~
Rejoice and Glad!!
Amen~~
~The Original Angry Bird~~The Catholic University of America Screaming Red Cardinal Mascot~~
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French actor~~Alain Delon
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Today, you see, the sole purpose of marrying for humans~~is to make babies~~there simply isn’t any other reason to take such a plunge~~you see that, now don’t you?
John Begg ~~Well, now~~Danny boy–How can we tell if or no animals derive pleasure from sex–after all the girl animal is only receptive when she is in season so that suggests sex for at least the girl animal has only one purpose–to make babies–boy animals are always at the ready–but again that maybe down to instinct so that they are in the mood as the girl comes into season to accommodate her–and all her girlfriends–lucky bastards–mais, que sais-je?~~
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With humans it’s funny because I am old enough to remember when young kids were in a rush to marry to get regular sex and the Church taught that sex in marriage was solely to make babies–in the modern times–one certainly doesn’t have to marry to have sex, Jesus knows, so the only legitimate reason to get married in the modern-day is to make babies~~
~~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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Non Sibi~~
Finis Origine Pendet~
~~Κύριε ἐλέησον~~
Rejoice and Glad!!
Amen~~
~The Original Angry Bird~~The Catholic University of America Screaming Red Cardinal Mascot~~
~~EX LIBRIS~~
~~THEOS EK MĒCHANĒS~~
Saturday, 25th January,~~Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi, 2014
"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."~~
French actor~~Alain Delon
CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)
Big Bang Theory revisited~~Democrats~~brooding, sulky, pouting, dreary things~~say that~~this came from amoeba in a swamp~~this~~from amoeba? Republicans~~God-fearing, bouncy, giggly, happy things~~hold tight to the notion that only Divine Providence could have molded~~this~~here is our evidence to the Court~~My Lords~~
I’m told that Democrats are atheist evolutionists~~by which is meant~~I think~~that they think~~that they came to be Democrats in the first place by crawling as mutant amoeba out of some primordial swamp~~Charles Darwin and all~~I gotta ask~~can you envision these~~as amoeba~~and can even Democrats~~viewing this evidence~~seriously assert there is no God~~no Baby Jesus~~no Christmas toys~~My Lords?
God~~was not involved here?
Nor~~Baby Jesus?
Nor~~even Father Christmas?
Nor Mummy~~
Nor Daddy~~
Nor best friends?~~
Sic erat scriptum~~The Case for The Creation now Ends~~My Lords~~I thank The Court~~
~~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~~
–
Non Sibi~~
Finis Origine Pendet~
~~Κύριε ἐλέησον~~
Rejoice and Glad!!
Amen~~
~~The Original Angry Bird~~The Catholic University of America Screaming Red Cardinal Mascot~~
~~EX LIBRIS~~
~~THEOS EK MĒCHANĒS~~
Monday, 23rd Decembre, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi, 2013
"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."~~
French actor~~Alain Delon
CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)