Today is the last day of the year, the liturgical year, that is. It is also a very short day, liturgically speaking, as is the case with almost every Saturday of the liturgical year. Our current liturgical year ends with First Vespers for the First Sunday of Advent this evening. A new liturgical year is ushered in with the penitential Season of Advent in which we call to mind our daily preparation for Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Coming for us at the moment of our Particular Judgments--and His Second and Last Coming at the end of time--as we prepare for our annual commemoration of His First Coming as a helpless babe in the cradle in the stable in the cave in Bethlehem. Far from being a time of immersion into the commercialism of the world in what has become the pagan "Holiday" season, this time of moderate penance is a time of withdrawal from the world as we prepare ourselves each day for our own deaths and as we prepare to celebrate worthily and with great festivity the Christmas season of joy that runs through the Epiphany and concludes with the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Candlemas, Saturday, February 2, 2019.
The best way, of course, that we can prepare for Our Lord's Coming us at the end of our lives as we prepare for our annual Christmas celebration that begins with First Vespers on Monday, December 24, 2018, is to assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass if this is possible, which, of course, it is not for many Catholics around the world in this time of apostasy and betrayal. Those who do have access to the true Mass should make every sacrifice imaginable to so arrange our lives that we have access to the ineffable Sacrifice of the Cross, at which Our Blessed Lord and Saviour comes to us by means of His Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament by means of Holy Communion. There is nothing more important, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal, than having access to daily Mass so that we can be purged of all worldliness as we keep Our Lady--and all of the angels and saints--company at the unbloody re-presentation of her Divine Son's Sacrifice to His Co-Equal Father in Spirit and in Truth in atonement for our sins.
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass places us at the sorrows of Calvary and at the same time is a foretaste of Heavenly glories. No human attachment in this passing world matters more than the Mass. It is at Holy Mass where we can fulfill our obligations of Charity for the Living and Dead as we pray for each in the respective Mementos in the Canon of the Mass, as well as in our Thanksgiving after Holy Mass and the time that we spend each day before Our Lord's Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament in prayer. A love of and devotion to daily assistance at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will increase our ardor for the Most Blessed Trinity as our immortal souls are filled with the graces won for us by the shedding of the Most Precious Blood of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity made Incarnate in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb. This ardor for God will detach us more and more from the things, people and places of this mortal vale of tears, inclining us more and more to have zeal for His greater honor and glory and for the salvation of the souls of all men.
A love of Holy Mass will inspire us to pray more for the Poor Souls in Purgatory, especially those anonymous souls who have been forgotten even by their own relatives, in no large measure because so many "priests" in the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism have assured the relatives of these poor souls at their "Masses of Christian Burial" that they are in Heaven and have no need of our prayers here in the Church Militant on earth. We must take up the slack and pray fervently for these Poor Souls every day of our lives.
A love of Holy Mass will help us to see the world more clearly through the eyes of the true Faith. A life that is lived well in conjunction with the glories of the liturgical year will not be anxious about the events of the present time, coming to understand through the lives of the saints, especially those who have been martyred for the Faith, that we have nothing at all to fear from the forces of the world, the flesh and the devil. The saints sought to flee from the false attractions of the world as they immersed themselves in First and Last Things. We must do no less. And the saints sought to fly to the heights of sanctity by flying unto the patronage of the Mother of God, whose glories and sorrows are commemorated during the liturgical year and reflected in the lives of those saints. We must do no less, especially by means of Total Consecration to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary as we pray as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.
A love of Holy Mass will help us to be "immunized," so to speak, from peer pressure and from human respect. We will come to consider it to be a great privilege to be humiliated and misunderstood and rejected and ostracized, if not hated, by our relatives and friends and former associates. Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was treated in like manner, was He not? He offered Himself up to the Father on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us, suffering all manner of humiliation and opprobrium as a result of the effects of our own sins. Holy Mass will help us to want to be treated as our sins caused Our Lord to be treated during His Passion Death and as our sins caused His Most Blessed Mother's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart to be pierced through and through with those Seven Swords of Sorrow.
Sadly, however, most Catholics today are not breaking down the doors of those Catholic churches where they could find true offerings of the Holy Mass.
No, so many Catholics, steeped in a worldliness whose spirit has taken greater hold on their immortal souls because there are indeed so few true offerings of Holy Mass in this time of apostasy and betrayal, are willing to wait hours upon hours overnight for the opening of retail outlet, such as WaMart, whose shelves are stocked with goods made for American-based multinational corporations by the sweat of virtual slave labor in Red China at the beginning of the second week of the "holiday" season. It is quite a telling sign of our barbarous times, when most people, including most Catholics, are quite sanguine about the daily slaughter of the preborn by means of surgical abortions, will inconvenience themselves by waiting in cold weather overnight for a retail store to open but they would consider it as "abnormal," if not just a little "crazy," to get up during the middle of the night and adore their Creator as He is Exposed in His Real Presence).
With so few people having access to the graces that flow forth from a true Mass--and thus immersed in one worldly pleasure and material desire after another, it is no wonder at all that a mob of two thousand people on heavily Catholic Long Island (fifty-two percent of the population of both Nassau and Suffolk Counties is Catholic, well, at least by virtue of Baptism; thirty-seven percent of the population in the Borough of Brooklyn of the City of New York, which is located at the southwestern end of Long Island, is Catholic; twenty-nine percent of the population of the Borough Queens of the City of New York, which constitutes the better part of northwest and west central parts of Long Island, is Catholic) five years ago now broke down the doors to a Wal-Mart at the Green Acres shopping mall in Valley Stream, New York (located in southwestern Nassau County right over from the Nassau County-Borough of Queens border) at 5:00 a.m. on Friday, November 29, 2008, to hunt for "bargains," oblivious to the fact that a thirty-four year night watchman was being trampled to death in the process.
Some of the shoppers were indignant when police officers of the County of Nassau Police Department informed them that the Walmart was being closed as a result of the killing of the employee, Jdimytai Damour. These shoppers, many of whom had participated in the stampede, wanted their "bargains." Jdimytai Damour? Just too bad. The "bargains" came first. (See the coverage on the Newsday site, Wal-Mart stampede death: Full coverage; The New York Times buried this story in its online edition.) And it was thirty-nine years ago now that eleven people were stampeded to death in Cincinnati, Ohio, in a quest for general admission tickets at a "concert" given by the "rock music" performers known as "The Who" at the Riverfront Coliseum (known now as the U.S. Bank Arena). Thus it must be in a land of naturalism where religious indifferentism reigns supreme as thousands of babies are killed each day by surgical and chemical means and as people waste their lives on collegiate and professional sports, "music," television, motion pictures, shopping, "cruising" and anything else that is considered to be "fun."
The prophetic voice of the Catholic Church has been muted in the midst of this naturalism as the men who are considered to be, albeit falsely, its "shepherds" have made their "reconciliation" with the anti-Incarnational spirit of Modernity. Only a handful of "priests" in the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism ever preach against the ways of the modern world, and many of those who do suffer for doing so at the hands of their conciliar "bishops."
Insist on Our Lady's Fatima dress code?
Explain that it is a Mortal Sin to watch almost anything on television, including "news" programs that feature the advertising of products that should never be mentioned publicly and/or featuring gross immodesty and "rock "music"?
Tell people not to shop until they drop?
Tell people not to worship at the altar of collegiate and professional sports?
Make advertence to the encyclical letters of the true popes who warned us about the abyss into which we are plunged at the present time?
It is rare, if not altogether forbidden in most venues of the counterfeit church and even, so very sadly, in many fully traditional venues where some priests believe that would "lose" their people if they were "harsh" on these issue, to find a conciliar "priest" who understands that he has a responsibility before God to draw His people out of the popular culture.
Pope Leo XIII explained is not a "counsel but a duty" to walk in the footsteps of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and conform our minds to His as seek to live in a penitential manner and refuse to be drawn into a spirit of worldliness, especially during the season of Advent into which we enter in but a few hours. We are not to have the false spirit of the world within our hearts, which must beat in unison with the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
As can be seen from final few sentences of the paragraph quoted above from Exeunte Iam Anno, Pope Leo XIII explained the we need the Catholic Faith to overcome the concupiscence of our fallen human nature. He emphasized that very point again and again in his writings, especially in Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae, January 22, 1899, and Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus, November 1, 1900, teaching us that we need the Catholic Faith to fight against sin and as we seek to keep the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law. Catholicism is indeed the one and only foundation of personal and social order.
I repeat: I did make this up. This was a real story from the Reuters news service from six years ago. Please tell me that Pope Saint Pius X would be "thanking" Mohammedans for returning "God" to Europe. The Mohammedans have been able to proliferate in large numbers in Europe precisely because the counterfeit church of conciliarism has abandoned the the Faith and driven millions upon millions of Catholics out of the Church altogether by means of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service and its embrace of one false religion after another. Why should one practice the Catholic Faith when one can believe in anything else and still get to Heaven? Why should one not use contraception, live immorally and believe in the legal right to kill preborn babies by surgical means when what is seen to be the Catholic Church is so "open" to the falsehoods of false religions that are hated by God, Who wants these false religions wiped off the face of this earth and their mosques an synagogues transformed into Catholic churches as their adherents are converted unconditionally to the true Faith?
Jean-Louis "Cardinal" Tauran's speech in support of "inter-religious dialogue" came about a week after a letter had been written by the now retired false "pontiff," Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, when he was the Prefect of the conciliar Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to Marcello Pera, President of the Italian Senate, surfaced in a book, Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam, that was somewhat critical of such "dialogue." Tauran was thus dispatched on a mission by the false "pontiff" to make sure that the leaders of false religions understood that the Vatican in conciliar captivity is fully committed to this exercise in syncretism, which is what it is despite all conciliar protests to the contrary, as part of its effort to combat "secularism" and "relativism" in Europe and other parts of the world. This is madness. It is insanity. The Catholic Church has never taught that false religions have any role to play in combating secularism and relativism.
This conciliar insanity was reflected by the absolutely absurd, delusional comments of Jorge Mario Bergoglio yesterday in Ankara, Turkey (see accompanying article, "In the Shoes of Antichrist"), about the necessity of "interreligious dialogue" to foster "understanding" as a means of combatting "fundamentalism," thus showing himself yet again to utterly unwilling to face the reality that the false, blasphemous religion called Mohammedanism is violent of its very perverse nature. Adherents of religions that deny the Sacred Divinity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ are steeped in Original Sin, meaning that they are more inclined to hate others and to engage in acts of violence against those they hate. It is really this simple. The solution: renew the spirit of Saint Thomas the Apostle (whose feast day this year is commemorated on Sunday, December 21, 2014, the Fourth Sunday of Advent) and Saint Francis Xavier (whose feast day is this Wednesday, December 3, 2014) to convert adherents of Mohammedanism in Pakistan and Hinduism in India to the true Faith.
"Thanking" the Mohammedans for bringing God, Who is blasphemed by the Koran and offended by the false worship of the Mohammedans, "back" into Europe? Claiming that a "lack of courage" to engage in "inter-religious dialogue" is responsible for the terrorism in Mumbai, India? It is no wonder that Catholics can participate in a stampede on Long Island when the leaders of the counterfeit church of conciliarism trample on God Himself every day by means of the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service and by means of their assault upon doctrinal truth that has helped to paganize the world and to plunge ordinary people, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, into the abyss of naturalism and all of its attendant evils.
We must work to restore Catholicism as the one and only foundation of personal and social order in the world An impossible task? No more impossible now than it was on the first Pentecost Sunday as the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, descended in tongues of fire upon the Apostles and our dear Blessed Mother, thereby starting the missionary work of the Church that would result in the conversion of men and kingdoms to the true Faith. Are thee graces won for us by the shedding of every single drop of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Most Precious Blood and that flow into our hearts and souls any the less powerful or efficacious now than they were then?
The insane dreamers, rebels and miscreants are to be found today in the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Their apostasies from the Catholic Faith have done incredible damage to the souls of Catholics and non-Catholics alike, thus furthering, whether wittingly or unwittingly, the anti-Catholic agenda of the Judeo-Masonic lords of naturalism who profit handsomely from the immersion of Catholics into the worldliness of the moment. We cannot be part of this stampede against the Holy Faith.
As we start this Advent, therefore, let us withdraw more and more from the world and its false attractions as we attach ourselves more and more to First and Last Things, starting with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Eucharistic piety and a deep and tender devotion to the Mother of God, especially by means of her Most Holy Rosary. We do not need to see tangible results of our efforts to give all to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is enough that we plant the seeds and water it as best we can by our prayers and sacrifices and mortifications and humiliations and penances as the consecrated slaves of Our Lord through Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, conscious of our need at all times to make reparation for our sins and those of the whole world.
The last day of the liturgical year ends in a few hours. The dawning of a new day and a new liturgical year is upon us. Let us use this Advent well as the servants of Our Lady to keep vigil with her for the many "comings" of her Divine Son into our hearts and souls by means of Sanctifying Grace, preparing us to celebrate Christmas with true joy and with true gratitude for the blessings of the true Faith that have been poured into our hearts and souls.


Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (The Complete Fourth Season) - BUY THIS DVD!
Set in the 19th century, DR. QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN involves the turbulent life of a doctor who makes a new life for herself in the wilds of the Colorado Springs. Michela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour) is the doctor in question, who leaves the safe surroundings of Boston in order to bring more advanced medical practices to a brand new frontier. The action centers around her life, her family, and the people she treats in the local town. She chooses to raise three children after their mother passes away from a fatal rattlesnake bite, which perfectly illustrates her kind nature and willingness to help others. This release presents season 4 of the show in its entirety, with 27 episodes included. Having won 5 Emmy awards, the show has firmly established a place for itself in the televisual history books, and devoted fans of the series are sure to be delighted at this chance to own further installments of this gripping period drama.
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This is the first scientific and accessible book on endometriosis, this specifically female disease, which is still too little known to patients, but also to the medical profession.
- What are the signs that should alert?
- How to obtain a reliable diagnosis?
- When should I have surgery?
- What are the best conditions for having a baby?
- How to effectively relieve pain?
- Why do you need to be physically active on a regular basis?
- Do we need to change the power supply?
- How to get back to a good night's sleep?
Carried by three experts who have chosen to combine their skills and explain everything in this book, the essential guide that will usefully accompany you in your daily life with the disease.
Dr Delphine Lhuillery is a pain doctor specialising in the management of endometriosis at the Oudinot clinic, the Vauban group and the Paris-Saint-Joseph hospital group. She is a co-founder of RESENDO.
Dr. Erick Petit is a radiologist at the Paris-Saint-Joseph hospital group, in charge of the women's imaging unit, and at the Italian Medical Imaging Centre (CIMI). He is the founder and head of the Endometriosis Centre in Saint-Joseph, and president of RESENDO.
Dr. Eric Sauvanet is a gynaecology-obstetrician surgeon, in charge of the gynaecological surgery department at Saint-Joseph Hospital. He is a co-founder of RESENDO.


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In the late 1880s, something scandalous occurred in the village of Tuxedo Park, New York- some young hooligans started wearing tailcoats without the tails! This was to get around the strict dress codes at the swanky country clubs while still looking formal. The fashion caught on quickly, and within years, much of the American elite began wearing tuxedos. All this was despite a strict conservative backlash by people who feared the decline of tailed coats. Fascinating stuff. Anyway, onward! The tuxedo part of Tuxedo Park is definitely native American in origin, from the Algonquian family. However, different theories have been proposed. Some believe it to be from Munsee p'tuksepo, meaning "crooked river", others espouse the Lenape word tucseto, meaning "place of the bear", and still more draw connections to "wolves" and "flowing water". To this day, the tuxedo is controversial, it appears!


die away diminish in intensity The applause died away after 5 minutes.
die down diminish in intensity The controversy about the president's affair finally died down.
die off/out become extinct Whales are in danger of dying off.
disagree with + cause to feel sick due to food or drink Spicy food disagrees with me.
do away with + abolish Some Americans want to do away with the death penalty.
do * over + repeat You made many mistakes, so I want you to do the report over.
do without + manage without something one wants or needs I couldn't do without a car in California.
draw * up + create ( a contract) Let's draw an agreement up before we go any further with this project.
dress * down reprimand severely The mother dressed her son down for skipping school.
dress down dress casually I am dressing down because we're going to a barbecue by the beach.
dress up wear elegant clothes She always dresses up at work.
drive * back + repulse The invaders were driven back by the army.
drop in visit someone unexpectedly Meg dropped in yesterday after dinner.
drop in on + visit someone unexpectedly Let's drop in on Julie since we're driving by her house.
drop out quit an organized activity Yuri isn't on the team any more. He dropped out.
drop out of + quit an organized activity (school) It's difficult to get a good job if you drop out of high school.
drop over visit someone casually Drop over any time you feel like talking.


You no longer have to play Mario Kart because with the launch of its VR version, you can actually ride it.
Japan, known for its cool toys and games, is all set to get the coolest of all. Last year, when Nintendo fused the classic anime Pokemon with the modem technology AR to create Pokémon Go, it took the whole world by storm. Something more exciting is set to happen for the game enthusiasts- with much higher dosage of adrenaline and technology on the menu.
Announced yesterday by VR Zone Shinjuku, a Japanese VR arcade, the globally recognized and beloved game Mario Kart Arcade GP will be resurrected with a Virtual Reality version. Instead of pushing buttons on controllers and exasperating at flat screen, you can now actually sit in a pod via a business edition HTC Vive VR headset on your head and motion sensor bands on your wrist.
You will enter into the world of Mario, racing in your go-kart, hurling Koopa shells on your opponents. While the pods will be equipped with steering wheels and motion sensors, the VR headset will give a life-like feel of the first-person view.
Adding on to the excitement, all the original features of the game like power-ups, weapons, and more will be present to give players a larger-than-life feel.
However, the game for now is available only at the mentioned Tokyo arcade. If you are really craving for the experience, there is no option but to get on a flight to Tokyo. But if you enjoy playing where you are, consider waiting for some time because as soon as it becomes a hit after launch, it can be expected to make its way to cities across the globe.
For now, just enjoy the first look.


Australia's superannuation changes: how will you be hit?
DODGY investment schemes intended to take advantage of complex superannuation loopholes are being spruiked to unsuspecting retirees, putting them at risk of significant penalties, the Australian Taxation Office has warned.
The ATO says it has identified three specific "retirement planning schemes" being shopped around at various forums such as superannuation conferences, all of which relate to channelling income through self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) to avoid paying tax.
The first scheme involves artificial arrangements involving SMSFs and "related-party" property development ventures.
The second relates to an individual or related entity granting "legal life interest" over a commercial property to an SMSF, resulting in the rental income being diverted to the SMSF and taxed at lower rates while the individual retains legal ownership of the property.
The third relates to individuals deliberately exceeding their non-concessional superannuation contributions cap in order to manipulate the taxable component and non-taxable component of their fund balance upon refund of the excess.
He said dodgy arrangements may be cleverly disguised to look legitimate, involve "a lot of paper shuffling" and are framed as being designed to give the taxpayer a minimal or zero amount of tax or even a tax refund or concession.
But just because an arrangement is "structured in a way which appears to satisfy certain regulatory rules does not mean it is legal". "Such arrangements can put SMSFs at significant risk of breaching the superannuation regulatory rules as well as the taxation law," he said.
The ATO has released detailed information on these illegal arrangements through its Super Scheme Smart program, breaking down how they work, warning signs to look for and where to go for help.
Mr O'Halloran said no penalties had yet been handed down for these particular schemes. "We're actually trying to prevent these three in particular getting a groundswell, so we're quite intentionally going out early," he said.
Possible penalties range from unpaid tax bills to the SMSF itself being deemed non-compliant in the most extreme cases, in which case the ATO confiscates 50 per cent of the fund's assets. Fewer than 50 funds are deemed non-compliant by the ATO each year.
"There is a real impact on individuals moving into retirement who may even accidentally find themselves entering into these schemes," Mr O'Halloran said.