Exorciso Te

 

Satan Really Hates This

You may have noticed that the Latin Mass community filled St. Peter's in Rome on Saturday for a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Burke. Excellent, but you may have overlooked a most serious aspect of this festum. It's this, during the resplendent liturgy, Cardinal Simoni prayed Leo XIII's exorcism in the magnificent marble basilica. Here's a short concluding excerpt:

“Beseech the God of Peace to crush Satan under our feet, that he may no more be able to hold men captive and to harm the Church. Offer our prayers in the sight of the Most High, so that the mercies of the Lord may quickly come to our aid, that thou mayest seize the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan. . . We cast you out, every unclean spirit, every satanic power, every onslaught of the infernal adversary, every legion, every diabolical group and sect, in the name and by the power of our Lord Jesus + Christ.”

Cardinal Delivers Exorcism Prayer in St. Peter’s Basilica:
Something else happened yesterday at the Summorum Pontificum Traditional Latin Mass in the Basilica of St Peter (October 25, 2025) that strikes me as significant. Among the well-known prelates in attendance at the Latin… pic.twitter.com/CmGpgHQOvX

— Michael J. Matt (@Michael_J_Matt) October 26, 2025

 

Like... what? You may know the context, Latin Masses and exorcism are scorned by today's Vatican, don't say Grindr Vatican Gardens, but yes, right there in the heart of the Western Church, a prayer of exorcism, Old Rite, in the language the Devil hates. Imagine the darkness and venal insanity driven before it. We are, dear friends, engaged in a deadly war of dark v. light, lies v. truth, God versus Satan. So choose your side wisely. Per Matt M: 

Cardinal Simoni is an Albanian cardinal, born October 18, 1928, who according to his entry in the College of Cardinals Report, spent “eighteen years in jail at the hands of Albanian communists.” After having completed his seminary study clandestinely, he was ordained a priest on April 7, 1956. But on Christmas Eve 1963, after celebrating an “illegal” public Mass, Simoni was arrested and imprisoned.

Initially, he was sentenced to death for offering the Mass (the TLM at that time), but the sentence was later commuted to twenty-five years of hard labor. During his years of imprisonment, Simoni endured “torture and harsh conditions, including work in mines and sewage canals.” Far from being intimidated by the threat of torture, he secretly celebrated the Latin Mass from memory and heard the confessions of his fellow prisoners.

After his release in 1981, according to the College of Cardinals Report, Cardinal Simoni was still considered an “enemy of the people” and was thus forced to work in the Shkodrë sewers. Nevertheless, he continued to exercise his priestly ministry clandestinely until the fall of the communist regime in 1990.

Fast-forward to present day.

This heroic priest – once sentenced to death for celebrating the Mass – took part in yesterday’s Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage. From the sanctuary of the Altar of the Chair, His Eminence delivered an exorcism prayer composed by Pope Leo XIII on May 18, 1890. The prayer was composed after Pope Leo had overheard a conversation between God and the Devil, just after offering Mass, in which the Devil bragged that he could destroy the Church in one hundred years. Fearful for souls and for the life of the Church of which Leo was visible head, the Holy Father composed the Exorcism prayer, which was recommended by the Church whenever any acts of the Devil are suspected.

This man drives out demons by the power of Christ, take note

 

Friends, I entreat you to join the right side of this literally existential fight. And what can we say? 

Vade Retro Satana,

LSP

The Golden Fleet

 

47's planning a new era Navy, a Golden Fleet featuring far larger, deadlier warships with a displacement of up to 20,000 tons, dwarfing today's destroyers.

These battleships will operate within a constellation of smaller ships, fast and agile, incorporating advanced new drone technology and weaponry.

Yes, America and the world awaits the maritime triumph of the Golden Fleet, but who will build it? According to Global Defense News:

"The U.S. shipbuilding industrial base, already stretched thin by the Columbia-class submarine program and Ford-class carriers, would need a major investment surge to support the Golden Fleet vision. Labor shortages, supply chain fragility, and capacity bottlenecks across key yards such as Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipbuilding may threaten schedule and budget discipline. According to a Navy shipbuilding cost model reviewed by Army Recognition, the Golden Fleet’s large surface combatant could cost between $4 billion and $6 billion per hull, depending on weapons loadout and radar suite."

US shipyards had better get busy, eh?

Semper Fortis,

LSP

So What Went Wrong?

 

beautiful

Have you been to a modern church or "worship space", and have you found it at best anodyne, two dimensional and somehow cheap, like a small but Ikea clean shopping mall? Perhaps you have, even worse, have you been to a modern church and found it offensively, actively ugly?

Sure you have, we all have, though I tend to avoid those places like the plague, which is hard in this part of the world. By way of aside, if you live in N Central Texas, everything's pretty much new, and that includes churches, which are built new style, and new style's not attractive, at best it's an ersatz simulacrum of the higher aesthetic of yesteryear. 

oops

"So what went wrong," I exclaim in disgusted wonder at varnished blonde pine, faux stained glass, shiny faked up wood plastic floors, water feature font and all the rest, "Two thousand years of Christian art and architecture reduced to this." At that point, I usually walk out of the grossly ugly HVAC temple and enjoy a cigarette, only to return again in repentant humility.

Please don't laugh, it's true, I do. Still, what went wrong, and it's a serious question, because something did go wrong, got broken, and within living memory for the most part. Why, dear friends, did this happen? Big question, with more than a few answers, but let's try and narrow it down.

fraud

Why? Because society went godless, rejecting in its promethean pride the classical forms of beauty, truth and goodness, such utter  bourgeois oppression, and the Church, in a fit of apostasy, followed suit. Then, after the initial revolt, ugly became the new normal and there you have it. 

To put it another way, Satan hates beauty which elevates the soul to God and salvation, and encouraged trite at best, bestial at worst ugliness in our architectural norms, which the Church embraced, being foolishly married to the disbelieving spirit of the age.

how very beautiful, you satanists

Net result? Ugly churches which no one wants to go to. And guess what, they aren't, attendance's in free fall. The same rule, not that we believe in "rule" here at the Compound, applies to liturgy, the public work of the worship of God. 

Make that as banal, polyester and ugly as the building you're attempting to worship in and wonder, aghast, at your lack of converts to a Faith you don't believe in anyway. I say again, what went wrong? Apostasy on a grand scale.

This is discouraging to faithful Christians and others, no one wants to live in an ugly world, life's too short for such a thing. But perhaps people are starting to wake up, to reclaim their heritage and their faith, the Faith on which the West is founded. Stats, notoriously deceptive but there nonetheless, suggest younger people are doing just that. 

beautiful

And well done them, they're perhaps beginning to see through the miasma of the last fifty years or more. Part of this realization will involve a thoroughgoing rejection of atheistical Socliaism, to say nothing of the Liberal project of, ahem, radical personal autonomy, and an embrace of the Faith, without which Europe and by extension us, are nothing.

That's my call and I'm sticking to it, my monkey's in the ring. Do feel free to pit your ape against mine. Guinea take it, what?

Your Best Pal,

LSP

Mass Blackout

 

But Rosie, surely you're not agitating for restaurants to close down x2? Apparently she is, no work, no projects, no spending, no events, no restaurants, NO RESTAURANTS from Nov 25 to Dec 2. Wow, Rosie's going on a diet, and not before time. No backing out, Rosie, prepare for impact.

What serious business. A mass blackout in which even the richest of Rainbow Body Libs will deny themselves food from the finest restaurants in the world, and all in a selfless drive against the despotic tyranny of cisgender kings. Here's a tune to make the point:

No Kings? Ask Boye. And devil take the hindmost.

That in mind, will you be shutting it down on November 25?

Best,

LSP

Maybe Ireland's Had Enough Of Leftist Fraud & Malfeasance

 

Imagine living in the Emerald Isle, a tiny shoebox sized island which is home to a mere 5.38 million people, according to the internet. Beautiful, if rainy, but there's a problem. Thanks to an unholy alliance between Big Money and Leftist import-the-vote identipol, the teeny little island's now flooded with third world savages living in taxpayer funded hotels.

How beautiful, diversity's our strength, until it isn't. As in, African hotel savage r#pes a 10 year old Irish girl. When does enough become enough? Here's a video: 

🚨🇮🇪DUBLIN RIOTS LATEST:
Chaos unfolding tonight as thousands gather outside the migrant accommodation centre in Dublin Citywest.
Reports of young Rioters riding horses to chase Riot police (Only in Ireland) !🔥
Thousands of Irish Patriots on the streets as African illegal… pic.twitter.com/ONxBIX0bHs

— Knights Templar International (@KnightsTempOrg) October 21, 2025

 

And another:

 

🚨🇮🇪DUBLIN RIOTS LATEST:
Chaos unfolding tonight as thousands gather outside the migrant accommodation centre in Dublin Citywest.
Reports of young Rioters riding horses to chase Riot police (Only in Ireland) !🔥
Thousands of Irish Patriots on the streets as African illegal… pic.twitter.com/ONxBIX0bHs

— Knights Templar International (@KnightsTempOrg) October 21, 2025

Gentlemen and women, let's not forget that everything the Left enacts produces the exact opposite of its intended result. See taxes, wherein the more our beloved rulers take from our tragic little pay checks the richer we'll be.

Cheers,

LSP

Gunnery

 

"Congo Compton," he fought in Angola, tipped up at the Compound in a huge new 4x4 F One Fiddy. "That's a good looking truck you got there, brother. Did you bring the Gatling?" Yes, he had, and after some strong covfefe we headed out to the range in a two truck convoy. Mission? To celebrate Trafalgar Day with a shoot. And that's exactly what we did.

Congo got right down to it, setting up his beautifully machined Tippman Ordnance Gatling on a sturdy oak tripod. And before you could say Impi we were cranking the handle like fury, unleashing a stream of hot 9 mm lead at a group of foolishly ill-prepared pumpkins. They didn't stand a chance. 

They also failed to defeat a PPS 43 semi, chambered for 7.62×25mm Tokarev, a Mini 14, several .38 Special Snubbies and a Glock 21. Bad luck, pumpkins, you lost this round, But how would Tannerite stand up to the 7.62 NATO of an old Aero Precision AR 10? 

Explosively and then some. What a lot of fun. Mission accomplished, we drove back to the Compound through the bucolic pastures of Hill County Texas, a good time had by all. Moral of the story? Get out in the countryside and shoot.

2A,

LSP

So It's Come To This

 

Yep, we're at that point at the Compound, we've become TRAPPERS. No small thing, and it involves heavy duty Victors and a 5 gallon bucket, call it a stairway to heaven if you like. Right on, but logistics are key. That in mind, a trip to the best hardware store in this part of Texas was in order, TrueValue in West.

I love West, no wymxn priestesses there

TrueValue is awesome, you get a warm greeting at the door, all kinds of handy hardware and that includes rifles, pistols and ammo. I picked up some .38 Special, .308, .5.56, 45 ACP and counted myself a lucky man, albeit bankrupt. Some people, dear readers, in the Anglosphere aren't allowed to buy ammo, much less guns. Why? Because Commie full state tyranny.

You see, free men can defend themselves, rainbow slaves cannot. 2A enthusiasm notwithstanding, we drove back down I35 to this small, beat up farming community we call home. It was prosperous once, before the asset-strippers got to the place and shut it down. Who knows, maybe we'll onshore all our jobs and become prosperous again.

Peanut butter incoming

In the meanwhile, we're busy catching rats. Tally so far? A sturdy six. Not shabby, but let's see what another night of Victors and a bucket trap produces. My feeling, and I'm not a betting man, is this: We've broken, literally, the neck of the rat insurrection. Let's see what tomorrow brings. 

Make of this short parable what you will.

Your Pal,

LSP

Family Treez

Where do we come from, who are our people? Good question, and my Mother's side of things is pretty well recorded. Off they went to set up Denton, Texas. My dad's side? More mysterious, but thanks to a keen Sergeant who's reenlisted we have some clarity. My Great Great Grandfather was a gunfighter, obviously, see the photo. He came out of Georgia. As a friend reminds me, these roots run deep.

go to Mass you heathen

In other news, we have to feel sorry for Charles III. There he is with so many problems on his monarchical plate, see Epstein Andrew, Net-Zero Milliband, Two-Tier Kier, unbridled immigration and now this, the aging white middle class of America have risen up on their walkers to denounce him.

Grantifa 🤣 pic.twitter.com/lgQZ8UVa3J

— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) October 7, 2025

 

Please don't say deranged imbeciles.

NO KINGS,

LSP

A King?!?

 

It appears we have a King

HAPPY KING TRUMP DAY! 👑🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/bcM1tbilns

— Ramble_Rants (@ramble_rants) October 18, 2025

All hail the KING, just in case you missed it.

VIVAT,

LSP 

NO KINGS!

 

What a beautiful infographic!

There was a parade of elderly people outside the courthouse this morning, cheek by jowl to the farmers market. They asthmatically chanted, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go." Inventive, what? Don't say aging dorks.

Later this evening we had a BBQ church social. All the boys wished they'd driven their rigs at volume around the, ahem, protest, but guess what? They didn't even know it took place. That's the beauty of a color revolution.

Cheers,

LSP

Ad Dei Gloriam

 

Leo allows Moslems who hate the Faith and conquered its Eastern shrines and holy places, who enslaved tens of thousand of Christians and slaughtered many more, who do so today, to have a special "prayer space" in the Vatican library. But Urban II was of a different mind, he preached a crusade at Clermont and the nobility of the West, and their people, rose to the defense of the Holy Land. More than that, they won; Jerusalem, the Holy City, was within Christendom again.

Here's Urban:

"Although, O sons of God, you have promised more firmly than ever to keep the peace among yourselves and to preserve the rights of the church, there remains still an important work for you to do. Freshly quickened by the divine correction, you must apply the strength of your righteousness to another matter which concerns you as well as God. For your brethren who live in the east are in urgent need of your help, and you must hasten to give them the aid which has often been promised them. For, as the most of you have heard, the Turks and Arabs have attacked them and have conquered the territory of Romania [the Greek empire] as far west as the shore of the Mediterranean and the Hellespont, which is called the Arm of St. George. They have occupied more and more of the lands of those Christians, and have overcome them in seven battles.

"They have killed and captured many, and have destroyed the churches and devastated the empire. If you permit them to continue thus for awhile with impurity, the faithful of God will be much more widely attacked by them. On this account I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to persuade all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends. I say this to those who are present, it meant also for those who are absent. Moreover, Christ commands it. "All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins.

"This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested. O what a disgrace if such a despised and base race, which worships demons, should conquer a people which has the faith of omnipotent God and is made glorious with the name of Christ! With what reproaches will the Lord overwhelm us if you do not aid those who, with us, profess the Christian religion! Let those who have been accustomed unjustly to wage private warfare against the faithful now go against the infidels and end with victory this war which should have been begun long ago. Let those who for a long time, have been robbers, now become knights.

"Let those who have been fighting against their brothers and relatives now fight in a proper way against the barbarians. Let those who have been serving as mercenaries for small pay now obtain the eternal reward. Let those who have been wearing themselves out in both body and soul now work for a double honor. Behold! on this side will be the sorrowful and poor, on that, the rich; on this side, the enemies of the Lord, on that, his friends. Let those who go not put off the journey, but rent their lands and collect money for their expenses; and as soon as winter is over and spring comes, let hem eagerly set out on the way with God as their guide."

That, remarkably, ignited the West, as opposed to Moslem "prayer spaces;" in the dam Vatican, for goodness sake. Point of this shallow post? Stand firm for the faith.

Your Buddy,

LSP

What Pathetic Dhimmitude

 

NovusOrdoWatch

Guess what, the rainbow dhimmi powers that be behind the Vatican have greenlighted a special prayer space for Moslem scholars in the Vatican Library. Yes, complete with rugs, apparently. Via the Catholic Herald:

Muslim scholars visiting the Vatican Apostolic Library are being accommodated with prayer spaces, its Vice Prefect has confirmed.

Fr Giacomo Cardinali, Vice Prefect, said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that Muslim academics had requested a small area in which to pray, and the library had agreed. “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them,” he said.

 

How many Christians, do you think, are allowed into Mecca, much less have their own dedicated chapel, their own "prayer space"? I'll tell you, none. In related news, the Vatican's clamping down on the Latin Mass, as in, we can't have all these young, fervent, traditional Catholics worshipping according to the ancient rite of the Western Church in our churches.

You never know, those young people who actually believe might not be in favor of turning St. Peter's into a mosque.

El Cid Forever,

LSP