Monty Python's "Military Fairy"

Semper Fi? Not Any More

Boycott Pepsi Redux

A kind commenter has provided this link to the offensive Pepsi SuperBowl commercial, which I blogged about on December 6:



UPDATE: January 8, 2011
Once again, this video is no longer available. News reports say it has been removed from consideration for the Super Bowl. Thanks be to God!
Feed Your Flock Doritos and Pepsi Max from Feed Your Flock on Vimeo.

A Catechism in Song: 12 Days of Christmas

Here is an explanation of the song we all love at this time of year. No matter what challenges the "world" gives Catholics, we find a way to remember the -REASON FOR THE SEASON
The Twelve Days of Christmas - December 25 until January 6th Epiphany.

Catholics in England during the period 1558 to 1829 were prohibited by law to practice their faith either in public or private. It was illegal to be Catholic until Parliament finally emancipated Catholics in England in 1829.

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" was written in England as one of the "catechism songs" to help young Catholics learn the basics of their faith. In short, it was a coded-message, a memory aid. Since the song sounded like rhyming nonsense, young Catholics could sing the song without fear of imprisonment. The authorities would not know that it was a religious song.

"The 12 Days of Christmas" is in a sense an allegory. Each of the items in the song represents something significant to the"The 12 Days of Christmas" is in a sense an allegory. Each of the items in the song represents something significant to the teachings of the Catholic faith. The hidden meaning of each gift was designed to help Catholic children learn their faith. The better acquainted one is with the Bible, the more these interpretations have significance.

The song goes, "On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me…"
The "true love" mentioned in the song doesn’t refer to an earthly suitor, but it refers to God Himself. The "me" who receives the presents refers to every baptized person. i.e. the Church.

1st Day: The partridge in a pear tree is Christ Jesus upon the Cross. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge because she would feign injury to decoy a predator away from her nestlings. She was even willing to die for them.

The tree is the symbol of the fall of the human race through the sin of Adam and Eve. It is also the symbol of its redemption by Jesus Christ on the tree of the Cross.

2nd Day: The "two turtle doves" refers to the Old and New Testaments.

3rd Day: The "three French hens" stand for faith, hope and love—the three gifts of the Spirit that abide (1 Corinthians 13).

4th Day: The "four calling birds" refers to the four evangelists who wrote the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John—which sing the song of salvation through Jesus Christ.

5th Day: The "five golden rings" represents the first five books of the Bible, also called the Jewish Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

6th Day: The "six geese a-laying" is the six days of creation.

7th Day: The "seven swans a-swimming" refers to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord.

8th Day: The "eight maids a milking " reminded children of the eight beatitudes listed in the Sermon on the Mount.

9th Day: The "nine ladies dancing" were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit found in Galatians 5:22-23: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.

10th Day: The "ten lords a-leaping" represents the Ten Commandments

11th Day: The "eleven pipers piping" refers to the eleven faithful apostles

12th Day: The "twelve drummers drumming" were the twelve points of belief expressed in the Apostles’ Creed: belief in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, that Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, made man, crucified, died and arose on the third day, that he sits at the right hand of the father and will come again, the resurrection of the dead and life everlasting.

This is the time of martyrs too, St. Stephen and the Holy Innocents. May 2011 be a year when we remember those who have suffered real losses for Christ. Let us continue to bring real peace and justice to earth by valuing the sanctity of life.

The 12 Days of PC

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What Will They Think of Next?

Great concept, funny and pertinent. h/t The Last Papist Standing

Remember Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941...a day that will live in infamy.Or will it? Patriotism is no longer fashionable. We no longer have enemies, just misguided individuals acting out their rage at being oppressed by the Great Satan, America. Us. You and me.

The incomparable Don Feder muses on what might have happened if Pearl Harbor had been attacked today.

Some tidbits from his article:

•  He (FDR) would have referred to December 7, 1941 as “a day pretty much like any other and let’s not make a big deal of it” and cautioned that, “I think that at a time when the country is anxious generally and going through a tough time, then fears can surface, suspicions can surface. We have to make sure that we don’t start turning on each other.” To put the emphasis where it properly belonged, the president would have said that anniversaries of Pearl Harbor would be officially designated National Days of Service.

• The minister of the church FDR attended in Hyde Park would have said the Day of Infamy was “America’s chickens coming home to roost” and “G-d damn America!”

•  The President would have proclaimed Shintoism “a religion of peace” which had nothing to do with the “man-caused disaster” of Dec. 7th, and explained that “Banzai” pertains to a spiritual struggle.

•  America’s slogan would have become “Remember, Pearl Harbor was no one’s fault.”

•  Actor Errol Flynn might have speculated that Pearl Harbor was “an inside job,” and suggested a Zionist conspiracy to push the U.S. into a war with the Axis powers.

But, hey, Feder is only writing satire. Pearl Harbor isn't the World Trade Center. Ya think?

Make This Video Viral

Pray for the USA to get some politicians with backbone like this guy.

Boycott Pepsi and Frito Lay

UPDATE: I had no sooner posted this video when they pulled it from YouTube. For those who didn't see it: It featured a cleric in Roman collar praying for guidance on how to get more people into the church. The solution: free Pepsi and Doritos. You know, just like Communion, only it has more taste appeal. It showed the Pepsi in a tray of little shot glasses like protestants use. People in what appeared to be a legitimate Communion line asked for the Pepsi and were told,  "It's over there"......you know, in the snack line.

Lemme see....do I want the Body and Blood of Christ.....or soda and chips?

Utterly, utterly blasphemous.

They wouldn't try this with any other religion. Write to them.
Business Addresses:
PepsiCo, Inc.
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
(914) 253-2000

Frito-Lay North America
7701 Legacy Drive
Plano, TX 75024
(972) 334-7000

Shareholder and Investor Contacts
Jamie Caulfield
Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
PepsiCo, Inc.
investor@pepsico.com

Planned Parenthood's Founding Harridan

An amazing TV program from 1957, with Mike Wallace interviewing Margaret Sanger, has made its way to the internet. Start here at LifeSite news, and click on the link near the bottom of the article to view the video.

This is a digitized version belonging to the University of Texas, so it can't be embedded here.

But do go check it out. Watch Sanger itching and twitching and scratching herself as Mike Wallace asks the kind of questions he would never ask today.

It's also a hoot to see Wallace with his shiny Brylcream hair hawking Phillip Morris cigarettes, with their "man's kind of mildness."