22 - Holidays

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June 23, 2024

American "holidays" are a bastardization of the term.

It was always humourous in the past when the atheists would say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas", as a precursor to the woke movement, in theory to try to include the Jews and the bullshit holiday Kwanzaa, but in reality everyone knew it was to take the religion out of Christmas - to secularize it, to remove even the title of Christ on that holy day, and to revert to the same kind of festival that the germanic and romans of old had in that season (see Yule, Elagabalus, Sol Invictus, Saturnalia). And it was funny because in spite of their best efforts to dishonor the solemnity, they were literally saying "Happy Holy Days". You can't ignore that etymology.

But I've realized Americans, including American Catholics, don't believe in Holy Days.

They buy, sell, and work on Sundays/Holy Days as if the thought of keeping the day holy never crosses their minds.

Half the time they don't attend mass, especially on the obligatory days that don't fall on Sunday, and if they make the half-assed effort to attend, they do so just to immediately go back to work because they're too scared they'll starve if they don't, and don't have the balls to tell their employer no. No one thinks twice about calling in sick because they stayed up too late but keeping God's commandments is too much to ask. Dude it's like 6 days a year.

They do no preparation for the holy days, like the whole purpose of advent and lent is for, except in the most materialistic ways - buying candy and gifts. No penance, no catechizing the children. No nativity scene. They do Christmas trees but that's a Lutheran thing. And the best we got for All Saints Day is to run around the night before worshipping La Santa Muerte. January 1st is about staying up all night and getting high, at least, I don't see anything concerning Our Lady in our manner of celebrating.

And they celebrate bad people and bad things with greater solemnity. The polls now say Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday displacing Christmas to second place. Thanksgiving! The festival dedicated to the god Gluttony. It's got some weird folk story about puritans and indians sharing back in the 1620's because of the prostestant reformation in England and stuff but whatever, and that's what people get behind. That's what closes down schools and businesses and people drive home to see their families to remember.

Or Martin Luther King Jr Day. The guy is literally named Martin Luther and proud of it, and Catholics have the gall to honor him! Not to mention his alleged affairs. Which it's fitting he was inspired by Gandhi who is also known for sexual "indiscretions". Why do americans always find really flawed individuals to rally behind - like George Floyd, Travon Martin, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln etc.? Because the devil wants to sow maximum division, and the aforementioned people have qualities that can be deceptively appealling to ones emotions while unappealing to logical reason. For example with Floyd, who had 8x the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system and no injury to his neck, one side will say it's a tragic overdose, and the other in the emotions of the circumstances and bad experiences with unrelated police actions will call for police reform when that particular case never warranted it. This causes that division. If they found a true victim of police brutality, everyone would agree. Reminds me a little of Garcia Lorca, a gay communist poet killed in the Spanish Civil War now celebrated as a hero by the gay communist spanish government.

And you have labor day, started by a guy running for vice president on the Socialist party's ticket. And if you think about it it could have no other origin but Marxism.

Then Veteran's Day and Memorial Day to celebrate those hard working guys and gals (the US Military is full of them now too and xe's and xem's) who got shot forcing democracy upon random people who didn't want it, overthrowing governments to get us "Dat cheap oil", protecting money laundering interests and helping project the empires power to other hemispheres. Yeah, that's a good cause. There is definitely such a thing as a just war, but both sides cannot be fighting it. Yet, both sides can fight each other unjustly. This is exactly why the average veteran post 9/11 has a 4x greater chance of dying from suicide than from combat. They weren't fighting for America and they weren't fighting for good. And it's not just conflicts post 9/11. Look up Michael Aquino, a renown satanist who was a high ranking officer of psychological warfare during the Vietnam War.

Countries the USA has sent troops to for military action since 1980 : Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Cameroon, Uganda, Mali, Chad, Turkey, Jordan, Pakistan, South Korea, Lebanon, Columbia, Georgia, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Haiti, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Philippines, East Timor, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Serbia, Sudan, Cambodia, Congo, Gabon, Albania, Bosnia, Kuwait, Central African Rep., Macedonia, Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, Grenada, and El Salvador

I heard a story of a man captured in the war in afghanistan and the US troops asked him why he was fighting. He told them, "because you are here." It sounds funny until you think about what reacton Americans would have if Venezuela could put troops on US soil to "keep the peace".

While we're on the topic of holidays, in England "Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when people were required to attend church and forego work." That means 36% of the time the Church forbid masters from working the peasants... and you think America doesn't have a peasant class.

Moving on to other holidays we got Mother's Day and Father's Day. Ask yourself, do you celebrate these with greater solemnity than you do the Feasts of Mary, mother of the faithful?

And then there's Transgender Day of Visibility, same day as Easter, a smack on the face to all Christians everywhere.

A brief word on sin.

If sin does not anger you, or at the very least distress and sadden you, then you are by definition lukewarm. You do not love God because you can ignore what greviously offends him.

I don't know about you guys but the prayers of the faithful I've been hearing lately are either written by that retarded magisterium.ai bot, women (probably secretaries), or homosexuals idk.

Here's some random examples taken from legitimate parishes

"For the Church that we might always trust that the Lord's work will be accomplished, even in the midst of difficulties and obstacles, let us pray to the Lord"

Umm... So, like but free will means the Lord's work won't be accomplished in some people so why are we praying to always trust that?!!

Even

"For a return to civility within our political discussions"

Imagine this hypothetical, a political system where one side wants to kill innocent people and the other side is trying to have civil political discussions because maybe if I tell them that's wrong harder again it'll work this time.

"That our country may countinue to enjoy Religious Freedom"

Freedom to practice Satanism or Islam or even Protestantism is not true Religion, so why be ambiguous.

We need the intercessions to be concise because people think adding extra words somehow makes them more poetic. Especially when they start talking about the Holy Spirit, it seems we start traveling down the road to new theology in the intercessions themselves. Examples "give us the faith ... to always believe that you will bring calm and peace"

They need to be praying for something concrete and not politically ambiguous. Not just "For an end to antisemitism". Or "For an end to gun violence". Because being against non-Christian religions is part of being Christian. And you can't salute the veterans on memorial day and pray for an end to gun violence. The two ideas are mutually exclusive. Say "For an end to murder". It covers both ideas better.

P.S. Your T.V./Computer/Phone is the devil's tabernacle in your home.