Man Down

When a priest dies you hold a Requiem Mass, Pontifical if possible, but there's a "pre-funeral" rite before that. A group of clergy meets at the funeral home where the body is laid out. They recite various prayers, including the Litany of the Dead and the Absolution of the Dead. The body is then washed, after which a priest recites psalms, beginning at the 1st, while his colleagues clothe the body in Mass vestments. When this is done, all recite Psalms 147-150 and conclude the ritual. Preferably this should end with the coffin being sealed and brought to the church for a Vigil service. The Requiem follows on the next day.

I did that on Friday, along with two others and in case any of you are planning on doing this any time soon, I'd recommend four persons; three to vest the body and one to act as Officiant.

Intense. 

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Fr. J.R. Baker SSC and, of course, the victims of the shooting in Connecticut.

Requiescant.

LSP  

The Russian Bear

Make of this picture what you will. It's from Russia, obviously.

LSP

Climate Change

well are you going to ride or not?!

Today, in Texas, the climate changed. There was a frost! Remarkable. Perhaps it was due to global warming, caused by the warmist establishment's furiously overheating computers. 

air pollution

Possibly it was down to the friction of hot money passing through corrupt hands. Who knows, it could be brought on by Solar Flares and "bush fires" in Washington State, or Planet X and the improbably named Anunnaki. Maybe all of those things.

anunnaki demon creature fighting off a couple of sumerians

But one thing's for sure, we need rain here, and I look at the dust being driven by the wind and think apocalypse. What if the dust just caught fire? 

woe to the inhabitants of Jerusalem

That would be the Second Advent.

Cheers,

LSP

Grow the Mission

I baptized a baby today at one of the Missions, the baby daughter of Miguel and Theresa Solis, and the church was awash with children. I love that. Miguel had asked me earlier if it was alright for his family to bring enchiladas for everyone to eat after Mass. I told him it was strictly forbidden, as a rule, but we'd "make an exception this one time..." So a good feast was had by all.

Now, normally I'd go for a ride or a shoot to celebrate the Baptismal mystery but have to drive to Dallas, annoyingly.

God bless,

LSP

Remember Pearl Harbour

Perhaps we don't make much of the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, when the Japanese gambled on going to war with America.

Bad mistake. Several years later the "rising sun didn't look too bright." 

May all who died in that attack rest in peace and let's pray it doesn't happen again.

LSP

Piers Morgan. Loser. Fact.

thoroughly unpleasant

Sensible people are in favor of 2nd Amendment rights. Piers Morgan, the hated Illuminati CNN host, isn't. Here's his Twitter exchange with Carol Roth, via ATS:

PM:

The 2nd amendment was devised with muskets in mind, not high-powered handguns & assault rifles. Fact.

CR:

It was devised 4 people 2b able 2 protect themselves w same type of weaponry used by those from whom they might need protection

PM:

Where exactly does it say that in the Constitution - must have missed it?

CR:

Right next to the word "muskets"

nasty

Well said Carol. Put that NWO shill back in his box and on the way home to England, where guns are banned and there isn't any violence. In other news, a range somewhere is offering targets of Simon Cowell for shooters to practice on.

That range is flourishing.

LSP

Act of Valor

I'd hoped to write a book review this evening but ended up watching Act of Valor.

Now I want to get hyper-fit and become a SEAL Team padre. And jump out of planes and get an Eotech for the carbine.

gratuitous saddle shot

Too old though, fortunately enough for the spec ops community...

Ride tomorrow, looking forward to that.

LSP

End the Tyranny!

Go on. Go right ahead. Vote for someone to rule you who will, bizarrely enough, "vote" himself a paycheck far larger than you could ever even imagine.

Power has its benefits, you see.

And, the best thing about our politicians is that they want power. Over you. Vote for that.

Carry on. Everything's just fine.

LSP

Monday Shoot

truck full of guns

Unlike the Devil I try to take a "day off", which usually means shooting or riding. This Monday it was shooting. Just a plink about with carbines, .22s, pistol and shotguns.

Great fun pitting your wits against the paper adversary and some hand thrown clays.

Ammo's expensive though, so maybe I should get a .22 pistol in order to afford handgun practice. A Glock conversion sounds interesting.You buy the "Nine" you want anyway and simply swap out relevant parts to accept the cheap ammo and there it is -- shoot that pistol all day long.

I love shooting.

LSP

Advent

Advent's here, when we look to the past for the first coming of Christ, when the Word was made Flesh, and to the future, when He will come to judge the quick and the dead and the world by fire. Also to the present, as Our Lord arrives daily to His faithful people.

So let's get serious by way of this quote from FJH:

"The old world is destroyed and a soulless world takes its place. Art is subsumed within the abstract because there is nothing concrete worth portraying. Music becomes discordant or banal for lack of spiritual harmony. Theatre devotes itself to the absurd and television to a perpetual portrayal of sexual relationships that produce neither children nor lasting friendship. No longer believing he is made in the image of God, Western man is suffering from an identity crisis he is unable to resolve. He is being persecuted by an uncontrollable ideology of his own making."

I'll leave you to draw the correlation with John the Baptist's call.

God bless,

LSP

No Bishop No King

No, No, No

People wonder about the politics of this "site". Some think that LSP's Putinist. Others think it's Falangist and others again Stalinist Liberal, or even GOP.

Yes, Yes, Yes

No. I'm tempted towards Lockean Liberalism, but with the caveat that the "the Devil was the first Whig" I have to say I'm interested in Monarchy.

Result

It's Biblical and it's awesome. "Awesome!?" you say. I'd have thought that was obvious.

Vivat.

LSP

Russians Force Madonna to Cover Face!

Bear Cav

Aging pop icon, Madonna, has been given the thumbs down by outraged citizens of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Illuminati Witch?

Provoked by the threat of the once youthful singer revealing her time ravaged body, angry Russians took the Material Girl to court in an attempt to prevent her from appearing on stage. 

"I heard at the concerts on this tour she pulled off her tights, and we will not have that here. We warn the organizers of the concert so that everything goes well. Otherwise they will face the harsh laws of St. Petersburg," said a concerned member of the public, Vitaly Milonov.

Forced to hide her face

Described by some plaintiffs as a "degenerate Illuminati witch", Madonna failed to appear in the closet sized St. Petersburg Court and was acquitted by Judge Vitaly Barkovsky after a 5 hour hearing.

Mistress Chronos frowns upon Madonna

However, the pint-sized former beauty was forced to wear a balaclava to cover her face during her performance. 

It is unclear whether further charges will be brought against the Michigan born singer.

Kick out the jams.

LSP