'It's very difficult to do justice to everyone in zealous charity. It's very easy (it happens by itself) to stubbornly do justice only to oneself. If such people were at least tactful! But a tactful fanatic is a contradiction in terms. Charity is tactful' (Fr. M. Horatczuk SJ).

So, I did a thing a couple of weeks ago with Alison Steinberg & I’ve been hesitant about posting it because, really, who am I to doing news shows? But I spoke to a very holy & wise man today, and he encouraged me to share it because you never know who it might affect. So, here goes…

Saint Thomas Aquinas 'reminded his students of an important natural truth: the order of grace does not do away with the order of nature, but builds on it and perfects it' (Fr. Leo Elders SVD, professor at our Major Seminary, to whom we owe so much!).

The bells of the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen): youtube.com/watch?v=BJP8nh… This Cathedral is one of the oldest cathedrals in Europe. Emperor Charlemagne ordered for it to be built in 796. He was buried there when he died. Some images - outside and inside - see below:

A lawyer who disliked priests asked Father Abraham a Sancta Clara: 'Father, who would win if a priest and the devil were to go to court against each other?' The laconic answer: 'Without a doubt the devil, because he has the most lawyers on his side.'

The bells of Stift Melk (Austria). First you hear the individual bells, then all of them together. Baroque bells like these are deliberately “disharmonious”, symbolizing that the sound of the consecrated bells frightens the demons. youtube.com//watch?v=4kce0…

Procession of the clergy at the 36th Pilgrimage Paris-Chartres: youtube.com/watch?v=XmW_wd…

Ordinations for the Institute of the Good Shepherd (France), conferred by His Excellency, Bishop Athanasius Schneider: youtube.com/watch?v=saJt_I…

'Every Mass is like a bomb, like an explosion of love' (Cardinal Charles Journet).

'As God breathes a rational soul into man’s body in order to give him natural life, so He breathes His own Spirit into the soul in order to impart to it His own divine life' (Fr. Matthias Joseph Scheeben).

'How unutterable must be the holiness of this Adorable Sacrifice (of the Mass), since the Author of all holiness, the Spirit of God Himself, descends to bless, sanctify and hallow it' (Fr. Martin von Cochem OMCap).

Mass open air, Pilgrimage Paris-Chartres (TLM, Dominican Rite): youtube.com/watch?v=k-rz8X…

'The Holy Ghost descends through tongues of fire, also as a sign that the Church speaks the truth and that this truth consumes everything that is against her, just as fire consumes everything that can burn' (Quote from a Pentecost Sermon).

Holy Mass Pentecost: youtube.com/watch?v=tmlNLM…

'Anyone who persecutes the Church is persecuting God. The liberals can twist and turn like a worm and come along with a tolerantly disguised guillotine. They want to shackle and beat the Church, but they always come up against God: 'Why are you persecuting me?'' Fr. J. Leppich SJ