Rachel Maddow on Obama’s Gulag plans (What He calls “Prolonged Detention”)

Dr. Laura to Give-Away copies of “Dressing with Dignity” on her Radio Program!

I just received the final confirmation that Dr. Laura will be using DWD as a give-away on her radio program.

I will share more details  as they become availalbe.

Recipe: Baked Praline French Toast

Baked Praline French Toast

1 loaf French bread
8 eggs
2 cups half-and-half
1 cup milk
2 Tablespoons sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
dash salt
Praline Topping, recipe follows

-Slice French bread into 1″ slices (use extra bread for garlic toast, croutons, or bread crumbs)
-Arrange slices into a greased 9×13 baking dish
-Combine eggs, half-and-half, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and beat until blended
-Pour mixture over bread slices evenly
-Cover and refrigerate overnight

-MORNING: Pre-heat oven to 350
-Make Praline Topping and spread over the soaked bread/egg mixture
-Bake at 350 for 40-55 minutes until center is set

Praline Topping

-1 stick butter, melted
-1 cup brown sugar
-1 cup chopped pecans
-2 T corn syrup
-1/2 tsp cinnamon
-1/4 tsp nutmeg
Combine all ingredients and blend well.

Come to a Traditional Catholic Family Weekend!

Traditional Catholic Family Weekend: June 26-29, 2009!

Join us for a weekend filled with fun, friends, & spiritual nourishment!

For more information, contact Vince or Leane VanderPutten at vinceandleane@earthlink.net

Start Time: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 6:30pm
End Time: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 12:00pm

All functions, except for Holy Mass, will be held at the Potawatomie Building, Hwy 24, Rossville, KS

Mass will be held at St.John Vianney FSSP Apostolate in Maple Hill

Friday, June 26th:
6:30-11:00pm:Square Dance
Theme: Black and/or White
(Please add to the festivity by dressing in black &/or white only! No T-shirts, please.)
** Please bring a finger food!

Saturday, June 27th:
9:30AM: Holy Mass at St. John Vianney FSSP in Maple Hill, Kansas
11AM: Light Brunch
1PM: Colleen Hammond: Conference for Everyone
2:30PM: Split Conferences: Colleen Hammond/Fr. James Gordon, FSSP
3:30PM: Afternoon of Indoor/Outdoor Games/Old Dust Band
7PM: Concert by Anthony Delallo

Sunday, June 28th:
7AM: Low Mass
9AM: Low Mass
11AM: High Mass
Coffee & Donuts following Holy Mass
3:30PM: Movie “Men of Boystown” with Mickey Rooney & Spencer Tracey
(popcorn and refreshments)

Dress Code for the Weekend:
Men: No flip-flops, no shorts, no sleeveless shirts
Women: No see-through, low cut, or cropped tops.
Sleeves at least 1/4 length.
Skirts & Dresses below the knees.
No pants.
No tight clothing.

**Note#1: All functions, except for the Masses, will be held at the Potawatomie Building, Hwy. 24, Rossville, KS.
**Note #2: This weekend’s expenses will be around $2500. Donations will be greatly appreciated!

St. Augustine of Hippo on Suffering

“If sorrow makes us shed tears, faith in God’s promises makes us dry them.”

St. Augustine of Hippo

Pravda: World Snickers as America Free-Falls into Marxism

Please widely share this!

Original PRAVDA article found here, entire below:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin

The article has been reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appears on his blog, Mat Rodina

New project, and new to Word Press

Well, I’m really trying to get this Word Press thingy going. I like all the options and layouts, but I’ve been using Blogger for so long, now, that I’m a bit concerned about the transfer to this site!
Since my husband was laid off back in January, we’ve been doing a lot of praying and discerning. Since no job offers are sailing forth, we’ve decided to pursue something we’ve dabbled with for some time…Publishing! Our first offering is in the layout stages and we’re trying to get the pre-publication website up and running for pre-pub orders. It’s a 5-volume set of daily readings that focus on growing in virtue and is a reprint from a Catholic book published in the 1800s. FABULOUS for the entire family, as a gift for newlyweds, confirmation, graduation, etc… Possibilities are endless. Your prayers are gratefully appreciated!

By request, my book review of “The Valiant Woman”

Amazon has this book, but it can be purchased directly from the Publisher here.

Book review of The Valiant Woman

It’s complicated being a woman. Maybe it’s all of our hormones. But the feminist propaganda constantly swarming around us hasn’t helped, either!

Am I the only one that has noticed that some women, in a twisted attempt to show their superiority over men, have adopted offensive characteristics? Cussing, smoking, carousing, and infidelity are not a man’s best qualities — or a woman’s. So why imitate them? If I am going to copy any male characteristic, it will be the ability to make decisions without my emotions getting in the way.

The past couple of generations have lost touch with the beauty, nobility, and privilege of womanhood. Now, instead of learning about womanhood from the women around us, we need a book to help us dig into our soul to develop our God given gifts.

Thankfully, we have The Valiant Woman, by Monseigneur Jean François Landriot. Although not initially written for publication, the book is an extended version of the sixteen conferences he gave to a woman’s organization when he was the Bishop of La Rochelle in the mid 1800s. In them, he challenges each of us to strive to be a valiant woman, just like our Blessed Mother.

While modern culture tells us that it’s demeaning for a woman to stay home and raise children, Msgr. Landriot shows that it is only the woman who is blessed with the courage, flexibility, and energy to handle all the difficulties of her state in life. He encourages woman to be, “queens in your own empire; but if you value your happiness, your tranquility, and the success of your affairs, do not seek to be the queens elsewhere.” (Pages 14-15)

I was raised listening to, among other things, an Enjoli perfume ad on television that said I could bring home the bacon, and fry it up in a pan. Looking back I wonder why I wanted to do both jobs! But somehow, many of us bought into that philosophy and rushed into the workforce to grasp the brass ring and be “queens elsewhere”. Women are now realizing that they’ve been duped. They may have equality in the workplace, but there is no equality at home. Mom is the only queen there.

The influence of a virtuous mother raising her children is undeniable. Women can make or break a culture by how she raises one child. Where would we be today if Moses’ mother had not chosen to be the queen of her home? How about Charlemagne’s mother, Bertha? But the opposite is true as well. It is said that much of Karl Marx’s life of revolt was aimed at revenge towards his manipulative and possessive mother.

Read the entire review here.

Actual Footage from 1917 Miracle at Fatima

Save Money and Stay at a Convent in Italy!

Here’s a list of convents in Italy where you can stay if you’re visiting. Plan ahead! They fill up fast.

Another place to try is Monastery Stays .