Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, Hosanna in Excelsis, part ten

Donald John Trump is reliable stooge of International Zionism.

Donald John Trump has said repeatedly that “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel” when the truth is Jerusalem belongs to Christ the King and His true Church, she who is New Zion and the Eternal Israel.

Donald John Trump’s “Abraham Accords” could have been negotiated by Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Trump’s accords, which as much an exercise in religious indifferentism about the Incarnation of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as was Jorge’s Abu Dhabi “Document for Human Fraternity and World Peace and Living Together,” February 5, 2019 (see Jorge Signs Off on the One World Ecumenical Religion).

In this regard, it should be remembered that the Abraham Accords, September 15, 2020, were negotiated by President Donald John Trump’s Talmudic son-law-law, Jared Kushner, who was a follower of the late Rabbi Menachem Schneerson and actually prayed at the latter’s tomb with his wife, Ivanka Trump Kushner, prior to the presidential election on November 8, 2016

Another one from the you can’t make this up file. On Saturday night Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka went to the Montefiore Cemetery in Cambria Heights, Queens, New York City and prayed at the graves of Menachem Mendel Schneerson and his father-in-law Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. Some Jews believe that Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the Jewish ‘moshiach’ or ‘messiah’. Women and men visitors are required to wear a head covering, wear modest dress, avoid wearing leather shoes, and when leaving the grave sites they are also required to walk backwards. Visitors to the ohel (grave) write kvitlach on a piece of paper, rip it up, and throw it on the grave. A kvitlach is a petitionary prayer given to a rabbi in the hopes he will bless the prayer and make it come true. Kvitlach are also placed on graves so that the dead rabbis may intercede on the petitioner’s request. This peculiar custom, which is similar to the rabbinic scam of placing your prayer in the Western Wall for money, is a practice developed by the Hasidic rabbis. One Jewish media outlet laughably credited Ivanka’s visit to the ohel for the reason Donald Trump’s life being spared when the Secret Service rushed him off stage in Reno, Nevada at a campaign stop due to a possible perceived threat. The majority of the Jewish media said she was there to write a kvitlach for her father winning the presidency of the United States in the upcoming week. (Call Me Jorge. Sadly, Google arbitrarily took down this valuable website several years ago. I am glad that I still maintain a few posts that had been featured there.)

Kabbalism, which is nothing other than the occult, will play a huge role in guiding President Trump once he is sworn into office. (From Sober Up, part one.)

Even though Jared Kushner and his wife are not formally part of the second Trump White House, the president’s son-in-law is, as was discussed in part nine of this occasional series, salivating at the chance of “cleaning up” Gaza by displacing a people whose ancestors had been displaced in 1948 by the Zionists, who had convinced the United Nations organization to back a homeland for them in fulfillment of the outlines of the 1917 Balfour Declaration and especially in light of World War II and its aftermath, and send the Palestinians packing even though they had lived in Palestine under its various occupations, including that the Ottoman Empire for several centuries and then, after World I, by the British and French.

President Donald John Trump has taken this idea quite to heart and it was to the utter delight of the racialist Zionist (I know, an oxymoron) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he reiterated his support for “cleaning up” Gaza, displacing the Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan, and turning Gaza into a playground for the “people of the world.” Just too bad for the “people” who have lived there and have seen their homes blown to bits ruthlessly by the Israeli Defense Force after the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023:

February 4, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

The following is a transcript of the February 4, 2025 press conference held by US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House.

President Donald Trump: Thank you very much. That’s a lot of press. Congratulations, you bring them out, you really bring them out.

Today I’m delighted to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu back to the White House. It’s a wonderful feeling and a wonderful event. We had fantastic talks, and thank you very much, with your staff.

He’s the first foreign head of state to visit during our administration. And Bibi, I want to say it’s an honor to have you with us. Over the past four years, the US and the Israeli alliance has been tested more than any time in history, but the bonds of friendship and affection between the American and Israeli people have endured for generations, and they are absolutely unbreakable. They are unbreakable.

I’m confident that under our leadership the cherished alliance between our two countries will soon be stronger than ever. We had a great relationship. We had great victories together four years ago. Not so many victories over the past four years, however.

In my first term, [the] prime minister and I forged a tremendously successful partnership that brought peace and stability to the Middle East like it hadn’t seen in decades. Together, we defeated ISIS, we ended the disastrous Iran nuclear deal — one of the worst deals ever made, by the way — and imposed the toughest ever sanctions on the Iranian regime. We starved Hamas and Iran’s other terrorist proxies, and we starved them like they had never seen before; resources and support disappeared for them.

I recognized Israel’s capital, opened the American embassy in Jerusalem and got it built, by the way — built it too — just, not only designated it but got it built, at a price that nobody has seen for 40 years. We got it built. It’s beautiful, all Jerusalem stone, right from nearby. And it was, it’s something that’s very special.

And recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, something that they talked about for 70 years and they weren’t able to get it. And I got it. And with the historic Abraham Accords, something that was really an achievement — that was, I think, and they become more and more important, because we achieved the most significant Middle East peace agreements in half a century. But the Abraham Accords in particular.

And I really believe that many countries will soon be joining this amazing peace and economic development transaction. It really is a big economic development transaction. I think we’re going to have a lot of people signing up very quickly.

Unfortunately for four years, nobody signed up. Nobody did anything for four years except in the negative. Unfortunately, the weakness and incompetence of those years, those past four years, the grave damage around the globe that was done, including in the Middle East. Grave damage all over the globe. The horrors of October 7th would never have happened if I were president, the Ukraine and Russia disaster would never have happened if I were president.

Over the past 16 months, Israel has endured a sustained aggressive and murderous assault on every front, but they fought back bravely. You see that, and you know that. What we have witnessed is an all-out attack on the very existence of a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland.

The Israelis have stood strong and united in the face of an enemy that has kidnapped, tortured, raped and slaughtered innocent men, women, children and even little babies.

I want to salute the Israeli people for meeting this trial with courage and determination and unflinching resolve. They have been strong.

In our meetings today, the prime minister and I focused on the future, discussing how we can work together to ensure Hamas is eliminated and ultimately restore peace to a very troubled region. It’s been troubled, but what has happened in the last four years has not been good.

I want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for working closely with my transition team. Special envoy Steve Witkoff, who is here somewhere: Steve? Stand up, Steve, please. What a job you’ve done. What a good job you’ve done. Proud of you. Done a fantastic job. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Thank you, Mike, for working so well with us. Thank you. We have, in addition, Marco Rubio, who is on the phone right now, listening to every single word that we say. And he’s going to be great. And Pete, congratulations. And Scott, congratulations. I see you’re here. And Karoline’s been doing a great job. She’s really probably talked about more than anybody here. She’s done a fantastic job. And thank you very much, Karoline, we’re proud of you.

But we’ll only be satisfied when all of these problems are solved. And we have the team to solve them. And that’s going to happen and it’s going to happen, I think, very quickly.

I also strongly believe that the Gaza Strip, which has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades and so bad for the people anywhere near it, and especially those who live there, and frankly who’s been really very unlucky. It’s been very unlucky. It’s been an unlucky place for a long time. Being in its presence just has not been good. And it should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there.

Instead, we should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this, and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction and frankly bad luck.

This could be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth. It could be one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, twelve. It could be numerous sites, or it could be one large site. But the people will be able to live in comfort and peace and we’ll get sure, we’ll make sure something really spectacular is done. They’re going to have peace. They’re not going to be shot at and killed and destroyed like this civilization of wonderful people has had to endure.

The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative. It’s right now a demolition site. This is just a demolition site. Virtually every building is down. They’re living under fallen concrete that’s very dangerous and very precarious.

They instead can occupy all of a beautiful area with homes and safety, and they can live out their lives in peace and harmony, instead of having to go back and do it again.

The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job. Do something different. Just can’t go back. If you go back, it’s going to end up the same way it has for a hundred years.

I’m hopeful that this ceasefire could be the beginning of a larger and more enduring peace that will end the bloodshed and killing once and for all. With the same goal in mind, my administration has been moving quickly to restore trust in the alliance and rebuild American strength throughout the region, and we’ve really done that. We’re a respected nation again. A lot’s happened in the last couple of weeks. We are actually a very respected nation again.

I ended the last administration’s de facto arms embargo on over one billion dollars in military assistance for Israel. (Trump, at press conference with Netanyahu, says US 'will take over' Gaza.)

Unlucky?

The civilian population of Gaza have been subjected to endless, indiscriminate bombing by the Israeli Defense Force, many of whose soldiers have treated Palestinian Arabs, Mohammedans and Christians alike, as subhumans. Palestinians have not been “unlucky.” They are the victims of Zionist imperialism that is being aided and abetted by the government of the United States of America.

Consider the reaction of a Palestinian civilian victim to President Trump’s proposal to relocate his people to area not of their choosing as he, the civilian, sat by a pile of rubble that had been his home prior to its being bombed by the Israeli Defense Force:

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Palestine – Leaning on a wooden cane, 72-year-old Fathi Abu al-Saeed navigates the rubble-strewn streets of Khan Younis’s al-Katiba neighbourhood – a daily ritual since he returned from displacement in the coastal region of al-Mawasi following the January 19 Gaza ceasefire. Carefully stepping over debris left by 15 months of relentless Israeli bombardment, he raises his cane, pointing at a demolished house.

“You see that pile of useless rubble?” he says. “That’s more precious than the United States and everything in it.”

His audience – a group of children, including some of his 50 children and grandchildren – listens intently, undeterred by forecasts of heavy rain and strong winds. Others join them – children from displaced families who have also returned, not to intact homes, but to the ruins of what once was. With nowhere else to go, they rebuild their lives among the wreckage.

Every morning, Abu al-Saeed exchanges words of resilience with neighbours. But on this day, US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about Gaza – his fantasy of clearing out its Palestinian population to build a “Riviera in the Middle East” – offer new material for his sarcasm and defiance.

“Trump talks as if he’s a king handing out land,” Abu al-Saeed scoffs. “Maybe he should relocate his Israeli friends somewhere outside of Palestine and leave Gaza alone.”

Trump’s comments, which led to widespread condemnation, outlined a plan to resettle Palestinians in Gaza elsewhere while the US would “take over” and “own” the territory. Standing beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who faces an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for war crimes in Gaza – Trump claimed Palestinians deserved better than their supposed “bad luck”.

On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attempted to walk back Trump’s suggestion that Palestinians would be resettled “permanently”, saying they would need to live somewhere else in the “interim” as the enclave is rebuilt.

‘A prize-winning delusion’

Throughout 15 months of Israeli bombing, more than 60 percent of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed, including hospitals, universities and schools. Washington, under the previous US administration, was Israel’s biggest backer, sending $17.9bn in military aid during the first year of the war – the highest annual total ever.

“This is the talk of a madman,” Abu al-Saeed says. “And as we Arabs say: ‘If the speaker is a madman, let the listener be sane’. This man knows nothing about homeland, struggle, defiance, pride – or Palestine.”

Dismissing Trump’s comments as absurd, Abu al-Saeed shakes his head. “That’s the best fantasy ever dreamt up by a world leader,” he says, shifting between disbelief and laughter. “Any sane person who knows Palestinians understands that leaving our homeland is like death itself. Did Trump really think we’d pack up and go after all this?”

For Abu al-Saeed, the idea of mass displacement is personal. His father was forced out of Jaffa – now part of Israel – by Zionist militias in 1948 when Israel was formed, and his mother’s family was expelled from the nearby village of Sarafand. He grew up on stories of that first catastrophe – the Nakba – and now lives through another.

“We already know what it means to lose everything,” he says, gesturing at the ruins. “But we also know what it means to hold on.”

The war displaced 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people. Many have returned, not to standing homes, but to wreckage – cleaning debris, salvaging what they can, or setting up tents atop the ruins.

“Even under genocide, we didn’t leave,” Abu al-Saeed says, his voice steady. “It’s not about having nowhere else to go – it’s our homeland. Our land. Every brick here is worth more to us than everything the US can offer.”

For a week, Trump has pressured Egypt and Jordan to absorb Gaza’s population, pitching his redevelopment plan as a job-creation project. But even his allies in Cairo, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and beyond have rejected the idea outright.

“Trump must think we’re living in a hotel he can shut down,” Abu al-Saeed laughs. “But Gaza isn’t a real estate project – it’s our land.”

He taps his cane against the rubble. “This earth is mixed with our sweat and blood. No one here will leave – no matter the threats or promises.”

‘Is he crazy or just stupid?’

Sitting on a pile of debris, surrounded by eager children, Abu al-Saeed turns to his 10-year-old grandson, Mohammad, grinning.

“Trump says we should leave Gaza and move to Egypt or Jordan. What do you think?”

The boy bursts into laughter. “Is he crazy or just stupid? Why would we leave? Gaza is part of Palestine!”

The other children chime in, their voices rising: “Who leaves their home? We will stay, rebuild, and fight for it.”

Abu al-Saeed chuckles. “There’s your answer, Trump. Even our children know better than you.”

Throughout the war, Israel’s bombings, starvation tactics, and attacks on hospitals have killed more than 17,400 children, orphaning thousands more.

“What kind of logic is this?” Abu al-Saeed asks. “They starve us, bomb us, and then act surprised when we refuse to leave?”

Citing the unbreakable bond Palestinians feel with their land, he adds, “You know what will never happen again? Us leaving.”

Trump, he believes, does not understand Palestinians or their struggle. “Israel was built on the lie of ‘a land without a people’,” he says. “But we are here, and we are staying.”

His eyes narrow. “For Trump, like for Netanyahu, the only solution is for Palestinians to disappear.”

Straightening his back despite his age, Abu al-Saeed says, “But we will not.” (Palestinian in Gaza mocks US president’s takeover plan.)

This is very well put, especially Abu al-Saeed’s absolutely correct statement that “Israel was but on the lie of a ‘land without a people.’” Abul al-Saeed was also correct that Trump and Netanyahu simply want the Palestinians to disappear, a veritable “final solution” that will only wind up creating more and more terrorists in the future.

While President Donald John Trump is no doubt genuinely concerned about the plight of the Palestinian people, he refuses to acknowledge that their plight is the consequence of the Western desire to accommodate Zionism to situate Talmudists in the land where their Biblical ancestors had driven out by the pagan Romans in 70 A.D. as Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ used the pagans to punish the Jews for not having responded the preaching of the Apostles during the thirty-seven year period of mercy He had extended to them following His Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension prior to the beginning of His Holy Catholic Church’s missionary work on Pentecost Sunday.

The State of Israel was founded in defiance of the will of God and upon their acts of thievery, torture, murder, and displacement of those whose families had lived there for centuries, and its leaders continue to use the same tactics today.

To no one’s surprise, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes there is “merit” to President Donald John Trump’s proposal, which is a mild understatement as he wants the Palestinians confined sent anywhere other the immediate vicinity of Israel:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said it was “worth listening carefully” to US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on critics of the plan to come forward with their own solutions.

In a video filmed at his hotel in Washington, the premier said Trump “raised his idea about Gaza, about the day after Hamas, and I think it is worth listening carefully to this idea, which is the first original idea that has been raised in years.”

After repeatedly floating the idea that Egypt and Jordan take in some Gazan refugees while the Strip was being rebuilt — an idea vociferously rejected by Cairo and Amman, Trump went much further Tuesday during a press conference at the White House alongside Netanyahu, when he suggested that “the US will take over the Gaza Strip,” while the enclave’s residents should be resettled in other countries.

The international community — including allies of Washington and Jerusalem — has largely criticized Trump’s plan. Trump has not backed down however, saying Thursday that Gaza “would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting.” He also claimed no American boots on the ground would be needed for the reconstruction of the enclave, which has been devastated in the war sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Meeting later Thursday with US Senate leaders, Netanyahu was asked whether “US troops are needed in Gaza to make President Trump’s plan feasible?”

“No,” he answered.

Countries concerned for Gazans should ‘find a solution’

Netanyahu’s remarks came as Rubio said that Gaza currently is “not habitable” due to dangers, such as unexploded weapons, and that people will have to live elsewhere while the area is rebuilt.

Rubio, answering a reporter’s question during a visit to the Dominican Republic, encouraged other countries to step up and offer to help rebuild Gaza, but did not say whether Palestinians would be able to return to the area under Trump’s proposal.

“I think that’s just a realistic reality, that in order to fix a place like that, people are going to have to live somewhere else in the interim,” Rubio said.

He said Trump’s controversial remarks were aimed in part to encourage other countries that “have both the economic and technological capacity” to help as well with rebuilding.

“President Trump has offered to go in and be a part of that solution. If some other countries are willing to step forward and do it themselves, that would be great, but no one seems to be rushing forward to do that,” he said.

Rubio added that “countries in the region who express a lot of concern about the Palestinian people” should “find a solution and answer to their problem.”

Senior State Department official later confirmed that Rubio will pay his first visit to the Middle East this month. Rubio will attend the Munich Security Conference and then visit Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia from February 13-18, the official said.

Military intel chief said to warn of potential fallout

According to Channel 13 news, senior military officials are worried about potential fallout from Trump’s proposal and held a series of consultations Thursday on the matter. The network quoted Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder, head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, telling political leaders “to get ready for Ramadan” next month due to concerns “Trump’s plans will set the area ablaze.”

The report, which did not cite any sources, said other senior IDF officers believe the plan can work but at a more limited scale.

Defense Minister Israel Katz meanwhile held an assessment Thursday with defense officials regarding plans to allow Palestinians to “voluntarily” leave Gaza, as per Trump’s recent statements.

“I instructed the IDF to prepare a plan that would allow any resident in Gaza that would be interested, to leave for anywhere in the world that would agree to absorb them,” he said in a video statement.

“The plan will include options to leave through the land crossings and special arrangements for exit through the sea and the air,” Katz added. (Netanyahu says ‘worth listening carefully’ to Trump’s proposal for Gaza.)

A secular writer summarized this plan for a "Greater Israel" very well when he noted that President Donald John Trump wants to create a Gaza without Gazans:

Putting the possible redevelopment of a Gazan free Gaza together with an annexed West Bank means that one will have sooner rather than later a historic Palestine without Palestinians, which is precisely what Netanyahu and his cronies as well as the US Israel Lobby want. And this is a program that is bipartisan, given the fact that Joe Biden and Antony Blinken were both enablers and accomplices in the genocide conducted by Israel directed against the Gazans since October 2023. I believe that the Biden team in the Middle East, headed by an Israeli who had served in the Israeli Army, one Amos Hochstein, has been working methodically with Netanyahu to obtain total dominance over both Palestinians and its other neighbors. The US has, in the United Nations, vetoed 13 security council resolutions that would have imposed a ceasefire or negotiations to stop the carnage in Gaza. And witness what I have referred to as the false ceasefire in Lebanon, which went into effect on November 27^th. The US came up with a “whereas laced” US endorsed temporary peace formula for Lebanon that suited Bibi Netanyahu just fine. In fact, it suited him so well that he could not resist renewing his attacking the Lebanese immediately, even before the ink was dry on the ceasefire documents. Since that time Israel has maintained its troops in a so-called “buffer zone” in South Lebanon and has continued to kill Lebanese seeking to return to their homes. The ceasefire was nevertheless successful in taking the pressure off of Israel coming from Lebanese Hezbollah, and Israel used the opportunity to join in the multiparty invasion of Syria. It occupied more of the Golan Heights as part of the process and also took possession of Mount Hermon, all of which it still holds. It also staged a series of attacks on the Syrian Army, destroying arms stockpiles in the south and east of the country.

This was all accomplished with Biden Administration concurrence. Now, Trump is pretending that he is peacemaking but is handing Palestinian land over to Israel through a contrivance which will change the demographics of the region forever if successful. The Palestinians, thank God, are unwilling to be cooperative even if it means going back to a war footing with an Israel supported by the US. Nor will it be easy to find a nation or nations willing to accept 1.7 million homeless refugees from Gaza who will arrive with little more than the clothes on their backs followed by a million more Palestinians who will be cut loose after the West Bank is annexed.

While all this is playing out, we Americans have little to look forward to but some huge new bills to undo the damage done by Israel if the Gaza resort plan goes forward. And maybe there will be another war, this time with Iran. Trump has signed a presidential memorandum calling for a renewal “maximum pressure” against the Persians. Again, it is just what Benjamin Netanyahu wants, which is probably why he was smiling somewhat sardonically, or so it seemed, at the press conference with Trump following on his [February 4^th] visit to the White House. Why not? He had just proclaimed Trump the “best presidential friend Israel has ever had!” He knows he owns the building and its temporary occupants as well as the bigger building down the street where Congress resides, so why sweat the details? (Imagining the Gaza Riviera and Other Follies ll.)

Additionally, Calvinist Chuck Baldwin, who is one of the few anti-Zionist Protestants who is known enough to have a substantial following among who adhere to the heretical beliefs of John Calvin, wrote a very honest assessment of the situation in Gaza:

By what constitutional, lawful, moral or ethical authority does Trump declare to the world that he is going to take over, subjugate and own the people and land of a foreign territory? You know the answer: There is no such authority.

Trump is as lawless as Biden.

This is raw imperialism and naked Empire. This is the crime of using power for profit. It reeks of rot and corruption.

The only way Trump can accomplish his pernicious plans is to use the brute force of the U.S. military. So, will America’s generals and admirals allow themselves to be used as the slavish instruments of Trump’s and Netanyahu’s power-lust and greed and issue orders to commit such crimes?

I ask that question, because the only way you will displace the Palestinians from their ancestral homeland is with bombs and bullets, which Trump said he is prepared to do.

No! Palestine is NOT the ancestral homeland of Ashkenazi Jews Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, et al. Their ancestral homeland is Eastern Europe—Ukraine to be specific (which is why they are identified as Ashkenazi Jews). The Palestinians can trace their ancestry in Palestine for over one thousand years. Israeli sycophant ex-preacher/politician and now U.S. Ambassador to Israel (actually, he’s Israel’s pitchman in Washington), Mike Huckabee, is dead wrong when he absurdly spouts that Israel’s homeland goes back 3,500 years. No, it doesn’t!

The Assyrians destroyed Israel in 722 BC; the Babylonians destroyed Judah in 587 BC; and the Romans destroyed the Jewish remnant in 70 AD. And God has NOT given the land of Palestine to the Jews in perpetuity. I urge readers to watch my message God’s Chosen People, in which I delve deeply into this subject.

Truly, the emperor Donald Trump has no clothes. Tell me how Trump’s proclamation differs from those of the Caesars.

Trump’s invasion of Gaza would produce revolt, violence, war and bloodshed across Palestine and the Arab world—and perhaps across the whole world.

And while Trump is busy committing ethnic cleansing in Palestine to build his Riviera of the Middle East, he wants to take over Greenland (which is the sovereign territory of Denmark)—by force if necessary; and he wants to annex Canada, making it America’s 51^st state.

It appears that Trump is too stupid to realize that if such a thing happened with Canada, the Republican Party would never again have a majority in either chamber of the U.S. Congress, as Canada’s politics are mostly dominated by socialist liberals. Does anyone inside the GOP have the political acumen and internal courage to tell Trump just how idiotic his notions are? Probably not.

So, the American servicemen who are about to be ordered to fight and die invading Gaza to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people and the opposition forces who will fight and die resisting such tyranny can all chant in unison to Emperor Trump:

“Hail Caesar! We who are about to die salute you.” ('Hail Caesar! We Who Are About To Die Salute You'.)

Lost in all this is the simple fact that innocent Palestinians are not responsible for the terrorist acts of Hamas. As been mentioned so many times before on this website, the hatred that many Mohammedan Arabs have for many Jews have for all non-Jews is caused by the fact that their souls of both Mohammedans and Jews are captive to the devil himself because of Original Sin. While it is true that the devil can work hatred in the souls of the baptized, the souls of the unbaptized are inclined to hatred because they are captive to the prince of darkness and the master of lies who hates God and wants human beings to hate each other by refusing to see in each other the Divine impress on their immortal souls.

Yet it is that the contempt that the Israelis have for the Palestinians is shared by many “Christian Zionists” here in the United States of America, and among their ranks is a convert to the conciliar version of Catholicism, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newton Leroy Gingrich, who called the Palestinians an “invented people” in October of 2011 when he was seeking the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination against the likes of Willard Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Timothy Pawlenty, Richard Santorum, and Herman Cain:

Newt Gingrich declared in an interview that Palestinians are an "invented" people, a statement that drew outrage Saturday from top Palestinian officials.

Gingrich's campaign, while standing by the statement, afterward clarified that the former House speaker still supports the establishment of a Palestinian state.

The front-running Republican presidential candidate made the comments in an interview with The Jewish Channel. The interview marks some of the toughest language to date any candidate has used to describe the Middle East peace process. It also comes after Gingrich pledged at a forum earlier in the week that if elected, he would name John Bolton -- a hawkish, pro-Israel former U.N. ambassador who served in the George W. Bush administration -- as his secretary of state.

In the interview with The Jewish Channel, Gingrich likened himself to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he praised for his "tough-minded realism" about Israel's security.

He said the Jewish people have the right to a state, but stopped short of declaring the same for the Palestinians.

"Remember there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community," Gingrich said. "And they had a chance to go many places. And for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940's, and I think it's tragic."

Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said afterward that the candidate was merely referring to the "decades-long history that has surrounded this issue," and has long supported the concept of Palestinian statehood.

"Gingrich supports a negotiated peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, which will necessarily include agreement between Israel and the Palestinians over the borders of a Palestinian state," Hammond said in a statement. "However, to understand what is being proposed and negotiated you have to understand decades of complex history -- which is exactly what Gingrich was referencing during the recent interview with Jewish TV. "

During the interview, Gingrich also said it's "delusional to call it a peace process," claiming that the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority and Hamas alike "represent an enormous desire to destroy Israel."

The Palestinian Authority generally is viewed in the West as a far more moderate influence in the region than Hamas. While the U.S. considers Hamas a terror group, it has tried to bring Palestinian Authority officials to the table with Israel.

Obama administration officials, notably Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, recently have put added pressure on the Israelis to help restart peace talks. President Obama, like his Republican predecessor, has pushed for a two-state solution -- though the Obama administration has fought efforts at the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state absent an agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians themselves.

Gingrich's comments come as the Republican presidential candidates compete to exhibit their pro-Israel credentials. While Gingrich's campaign later affirmed support for a Palestinian state, his comments on the Palestinian people drew fierce condemnation from abroad.

The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, demanded Gingrich "review history."

"From the beginning, our people have been determined to stay on their land," Fayyad said in comments carried by the Palestinian news agency Wafa. "This, certainly, is denying historical truths."

Palestinian lawmaker Hanan Ashrawi [Droleskey note: Mrs. Ashrawi is a Catholic] said Gingrich had "lost touch with reality."

Palestinians never had their own state -- they were ruled by the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years, like most of the Arab world. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed in the aftermath of World War I, the British, then a global colonial power, took control of the area, then known as British Mandate Palestine.

During that time, Jews, Muslims and Christians living on the land were identified as "Palestinian."

But modern-day Palestinians bristle at the implication that they were generic Arabs. Palestinians are culturally Arabs -- they speak Arabic and their culture is broadly shared by other Arabs who live in the eastern Mediterranean. But they, for the most part, identify themselves as Palestinians, just as the Lebanese, Jordanians and Syrians also identify themselves with a specific national identity. (Gingrich Describes Palestinian People As 'Invented'.)

Au contraire, Mr. Gingrich, the State of Israel was invented out of the diabolical fantasies of Theodore Herzl, who received a stunning rebuke from Pope Saint Pius X about his plans to do so on Monday, January 25, 1904, the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle:

HERZL: Yesterday I was with the Pope [Pius X]. . . . I arrived ten minutes ahead of time, and without having to wait I was conducted through a number of small reception rooms to the Pope. He received me standing and held out his hand, which I did not kiss. Lippay had told me I had to do it, but I didn’t. I believe this spoiled my chances with him, for everyone who visits him kneels and at least kisses his hand. This hand kiss had worried me a great deal and I was glad when it was out of the way.

He seated himself in an armchair, a throne for minor affairs, and invited me to sit by his side. He smiled in kindly anticipation. I began:

HERZL: I thank Your Holiness for the favor of granting me this audience. [I begged him to excuse my miserable Italian, but he said:

POPE: No, Signor Commander, you speak very well.

HERZL: [He is an honest, rough-hewn village priest, to whom Christianity has remained a living thing even in the Vatican. I briefly laid my request before him. But annoyed perhaps by my refusal to kiss his hand, he answered in a stern categorical manner.

POPE: We are unable to favor this movement [of Zionism]. We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem—but we could never sanction it. The ground of Jerusalem, if it were not always sacred, has been sanctified by the life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church I cannot answer you otherwise. The Jews have not recognized our Lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people.

HERZL: [The conflict between Rome and Jerusalem, represented by the one and the other of us, was once again under way. At the outset I tried to be conciliatory. I said my little piece. . . . It didn’t greatly impress him. Jerusalem was not to be placed in Jewish hands.] And its present status, Holy Father?

POPE: I know, it is disagreeable to see the Turks in possession of our Holy Places. We simply have to put up with it. But to sanction the Jewish wish to occupy these sites, that we cannot do.

HERZL: [I said that we based our movement solely on the sufferings of the Jews, and wished to put aside all religious issues].

POPE: Yes, but we, but I as the head of the Catholic Church, cannot do this. One of two things will likely happen. Either the Jews will retain their ancient faith and continue to await the Messiah whom we believe has already appeared—in which case they are denying the divinity of Jesus and we cannot assist them. Or else they will go there with no religion whatever, and then we can have nothing at all to do with them. The Jewish faith was the foundation of our own, but it has been superceded by the teachings of Christ, and we cannot admit that it still enjoys any validity. The Jews who should have been the first to acknowledge Jesus Christ have not done so to this day.

HERZL: [It was on the tip of my tongue to remark, “It happens in every family: no one believes in his own relative.” But, instead, I said:] Terror and persecution were not precisely the best means for converting the Jews. [His reply had an element of grandeur in its simplicity:]

POPE: Our Lord came without power. He came in peace. He persecuted no one. He was abandoned even by his apostles. It was only later that he attained stature. It took three centuries for the Church to evolve. The Jews therefore had plenty of time in which to accept his divinity without duress or pressure. But they chose not to do so, and they have not done it yet.

HERZL: But, Holy Father, the Jews are in a terrible plight. I do not know if Your Holiness is aware of the full extent of their tragedy. We need a land for these harried people.

POPE: Must it be Jerusalem?

HERZL: We are not asking for Jerusalem, but for Palestine—for only the secular land.

POPE: We cannot be in favor of it.

[Editor Lowenthal interjects here] Here unrelenting replacement theology is plainly upheld as the norm of the Roman Catholic Church. Further, this confession, along with the whole tone of the Pope in his meeting with Herzl, indicates the perpetuation of a doctrinal emphasis that has resulted in centuries of degrading behavior toward the Jews. However, this response has the “grandeur” of total avoidance of that which Herzl had intimated, namely that the abusive reputation of Roman Catholicism toward the Jews was unlikely to foster conversion. Further, if, “It took three centuries for the Church to evolve,” it was that very same period of time that it took for the Church to consolidate and launch its thrust of anti-Semitism through the following centuries.

HERZL: Does Your Holiness know the situation of the Jews?

POPE: Yes, from my days in Mantua, where there are Jews. I have always been in friendly relations with Jews. Only the other evening two Jews were here to see me. There are other bonds than those of religion: social intercourse, for example, and philanthropy. Such bonds we do not refuse to maintain with the Jews. Indeed we also pray for them, that their spirit see the light. This very day the Church is celebrating the feast of an unbeliever who became converted in a miraculous manner—on the road to Damascus. And so if you come to Palestine and settle your people there, we will be ready with churches and priests to baptize all of you.

HERZL: [At this point Conte Lippay had himself announced. The Pope bade him be admitted. The Conte kneeled, kissed his hand, and joined in the conversation by telling of our “miraculous” meeting in the Bauer beerhall at Venice. The miracle was that he had originally intended to stay overnight in Padua, and instead, it turned out that he was given to hear me express the wish to kiss the Holy Father’s foot. At this the Pope made no movement, for I hadn’t even kissed his hand. Lippay proceeded to tell how I had expiated on the noble qualities of Jesus Christ. The Pope listened, and now and then took a pinch of snuff and sneezed into a big red cotton handkerchief. It is these peasant touches which I like about him best and which most of all compel my respect. Lippay, it would appear, wanted to account for his introducing me, and perhaps ward off a word of reproach. But the Pope said:

POPE: On the contrary, I am glad you brought me the Signor Commendatore.

HERZL: [As to the real business, he repeated what he had told me, until he dismissed us:]

POPE: Not possible!

HERZL: [Lippay stayed on his knees for an unconscionable time and never seemed to tire of kissing his hand. It was apparent that this was what the Pope liked. But on taking leave, I contented myself with shaking his hand warmly and bowing deeply. The audience lasted about twenty-five minutes. While spending the last hour in the Raphael gallery, I saw a picture of an Emperor kneeling before a seated Pope and receiving the crown from his hands. That’s how Rome wants it.] (Marvin Lowenthal, Diaries of Theodore Herzl, pp. 427- 430.)

The Palestinian have suffered for nearly eight long decades under the violent slavery imposed upon them by the Israelis, who, of course, have been bankrupted at every turn by what Patrick Joseph Buchanan once called Israeli Occupied Territory, the United States Capitol, although that occupation is principally to be found in the organized crime family of the false opposite of the naturalist “right” in recent years:

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday described President Trump’s idea that the U.S. should take over the Gaza Strip as “bold” and “decisive,” even as it draws bipartisan criticism.

Trump — during a press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday — said “the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it,” later adding “the Riviera of the Middle East. … This could be so magnificent.”

Asked Wednesday if those remarks align with “America First” policies, a reference to Trump’s foreign policy mantra, Johnson offered support for the idea.

“There’ll be more details forthcoming on that, of course. The initial announcement yesterday, I think was greeted by surprise by many but cheered by I think people all around the world,” Johnson said. “Why? Because that area is so dangerous. And he’s taking bold, decisive action to try to ensure the peace of that region.”

“It’s a bold move, certainly, far bolder than what’s been done before, but I think we’ve got to stand unequivocally, in an unwavering manner, as the whip said, with Israel, our closest ally and friend in the Middle East,” he added. “And I think if we could bring control to that situation and bring about a lasting peace there, it would do well for everybody, not just in the region but around the world. It’s a volatile place. And I think the strong and decisive move is an important step in that regard.”

Johnson urged individuals to “withhold judgment on all of it; you’ll see more developments as they come.”

Pressed on the matter later in the press availability, with a reporter asking Johnson if the U.S. should take control of Gaza, and if he would raise the matter with Netanyahu when the two meet Thursday, the Speaker again called the proposal “bold” and “decisive,” adding that it “makes sense to make the neighborhood there safer,” referring to the area around Israel.

“I think that’s logical. I think it follows common sense, I think people understand the necessity of it, and we’re going to stand with Israel as they work towards this goal, and we’ll stand with the president on his initiative,” he added.

Trump’s comments about Gaza on Tuesday were among his most extreme regarding the future of the Middle East, which has been the site of war since Hamas launched an attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Gaza is home to nearly 2 million Palestinians, many of whom hope to create a future Palestinian state.

The remarks sent shockwaves throughout the Capitol and garnered bipartisan criticism. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), for example, said he was “speechless” when learning of the proposal, while Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) denounced the idea.

“The pursuit for peace should be that of the Israelis and the Palestinians. I thought we voted for America First. We have no business contemplating yet another occupation to doom our treasure and spill our soldiers blood,” Paul wrote on the social platform X.

Johnson is set to meet with Netanyahu at the Capitol on Thursday.

Asked by CNN on Wednesday about Trump’s proposal, Johnson said: “it was a surprising development, but I think it’s one that we’ll applaud.” (Mike Johnson praises Donald Trump’s Gaza takeover idea.)

I suppose that it is just too bad that innocent civilian Palestinians themselves have no say in the matte as they must be able to decide for themselves where they desire to live and must not be packed up and relocated at the will of American Zionist imperialists or the vengefully destruction Israelis who created the very disaster that President Trump deplores but without laying blame for what it belongs: at the racialism of the Israelis that has been responsible for the mistreatment, displacement, and deaths of Palestinians for the past seventy-six years.

A conciliar auxiliary “bishop” of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem put the matter very bluntly:

The idea of displacing a people against their will and forcing another state to absorb them is unacceptable.

The right and freedom of a people to live on their own land and not be forcibly displaced should not even be questioned.

Egypt and Jordan have strongly rejected the idea of absorbing a massive influx of Palestinians.

Taking in vulnerable families, the elderly and the sick is one thing, but not a population of more than two million.

Any decision should be a free and deliberate choice made by both sides. This is not the case.

Trump’s announcement came as a shock to us because it made clear his intentions regarding the future of Gaza. He did not mention the UN resolutions and the Two Peoples: Two State solution.

In his mind, a Palestinian state is a utopia. Trump cannot replace the United Nations and become the supreme decision-maker.

I hope and pray that the ceasefire will continue and that there will be a solution to this conflict.

The exchange of hostages and prisoners does not solve the underlying problem, which is the whole historical and long-term conflict. It treats part of it, but not its root, which is the question about who owns this land. The issue is not solved through the denial of one people’s rights, but by affirming both rights – otherwise the conflict will not come to an end.

Christian Palestinians as part of the Palestinian people would be affected by such a decision as they were affected by the 1948 war which disseminated thousands of Christians and obliged them to seek other countries for their living. (EXCLUSIVE: Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem condemns Trump's Gaza remarks.)

“Bishop” Shamili is mostly correct, although no Catholic should be in the least concerned about United Nations declarations as Pope Pius XI laid to waste organizations such as the League of Nations a hundred years ago to be instruments of peace as true peace is found in the Kingship of Christ as it persists in the hearts and souls of men by means of Sanctifying Grace:

Since the Church is the safe and sure guide to conscience, for to her safe-keeping alone there has been confided the doctrines and the promise of the assistance of Christ, she is able not only to bring about at the present hour a peace that is truly the peace of Christ, but can, better than any other agency which We know of, contribute greatly to the securing of the same peace for the future, to the making impossible of war in the future. For the Church teaches (she alone has been given by God the mandate and the right to teach with authority) that not only our acts as individuals but also as groups and as nations must conform to the eternal law of God. In fact, it is much more important that the acts of a nation follow God's law, since on the nation rests a much greater responsibility for the consequences of its acts than on the individual.

When, therefore, governments and nations follow in all their activities, whether they be national or international, the dictates of conscience grounded in the teachings, precepts, and example of Jesus Christ, and which are binding on each and every individual, then only can we have faith in one another's word and trust in the peaceful solution of the difficulties and controversies which may grow out of differences in point of view or from clash of interests. An attempt in this direction has already and is now being made; its results, however, are almost negligible and, especially so, as far as they can be said to affect those major questions which divide seriously and serve to arouse nations one against the other. No merely human institution of today can be as successful in devising a set of international laws which will be in harmony with world conditions as the Middle Ages were in the possession of that true League of Nations, Christianity. It cannot be denied that in the Middle Ages this law was often violated; still it always existed as an ideal, according to which one might judge the acts of nations, and a beacon light calling those who had lost their way back to the safe road.

There exists an institution able to safeguard the sanctity of the law of nations. This institution is a part of every nation; at the same time it is above all nations. She enjoys, too, the highest authority, the fullness of the teaching power of the Apostles. Such an institution is the Church of Christ. She alone is adapted to do this great work, for she is not only divinely commissioned to lead mankind, but moreover, because of her very make-up and the constitution which she possesses, by reason of her age-old traditions and her great prestige, which has not been lessened but has been greatly increased since the close of the War, cannot but succeed in such a venture where others assuredly will fail.

It is apparent from these considerations that true peace, the peace of Christ, is impossible unless we are willing and ready to accept the fundamental principles of Christianity, unless we are willing to observe the teachings and obey the law of Christ, both in public and private life. If this were done, then society being placed at last on a sound foundation, the Church would be able, in the exercise of its divinely given ministry and by means of the teaching authority which results therefrom, to protect all the rights of God over men and nations.

It is possible to sum up all We have said in one word, "the Kingdom of Christ." For Jesus Christ reigns over the minds of individuals by His teachings, in their hearts by His love, in each one's life by the living according to His law and the imitating of His example. Jesus reigns over the family when it, modeled after the holy ideals of the sacrament of matrimony instituted by Christ, maintains unspotted its true character of sanctuary. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922; see also Catholicism Is The Only Foundation of Personal and Social Order.)

Although the situation in the Middle East is dangerous for Christians, who are, at best, merely tolerated by many Mohammedans and Israelis, suffice it to say that the conciliar authorities themselves have failed the cause of genuine peace in the Middle East as they refuse to seek with urgency the unconditional conversion of all non-Catholics in the region to the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can never be a just order within nations and an enduring peace among them.

"Bishop" Shamili should insist on incessantly repeating words of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as there no can be peace without Him and His true Church:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Hosanna in Excelsis. Benedict, qui venit in Nomine Domini. Hosanna in Excelsis.”

We need to pray to Fathers Marie-Alfonse and Theodore Ratisbonne for the conversion of the Talmudists of Tel Aviv and to pray also for this intention to Father Vincent Ferrer, O.P., who was responsible for the conversion of thousands of Jews and Mohammedans in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France at the end of the Fourteenth and the beginning of the Fifteenth Centuries. There is no other peace plan for the Middle East than that to be found in a conversion of everyone there to the Catholic Faith as justice is done to the aggrieved Palestinians without vengeance and as the then former Mohammedans and Talmudic Jews forgive each other as they had been forgiven in the Baptismal font.

We must, for our own parts, fulfill Our Lady's Fatima Peace Plan in our own lives, especially as we make reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world by offering one Rosary after another to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. All human "peace plans" to produce "peace" in the Middle East have come to naught. Only Our Lady's Fatima Peace Plan can succeed, which is why we must be earnest about fulfilling it in our own lives on a daily basis so that we will be counted as faithful disciples of Christ the King, praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary turned back the Mohammedan fleet at the Battle of Lepanto and turned back the Mohammedans at the Gates of Vienna and drove the Soviets out of Austria, as well as keeping Dutch Calvinists from invading Lima, Peru, and Manila in The Philippines. Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary can help us be her Divine Son's true "peacemakers" as we pray for the conversion of all non-Catholics, including Talmudists and Mohammedans, while we make reparation for our own sins at the same time that have made us, truth be told, monsters in our own right in our various rebellions against the Most Holy Trinity and His true Church.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saint Romuald, pray for us.

On the Feast of Saint Romuald

Today is the Feast of Saint Romuald, a Benedictine abbot who lived one hundred twenty years and who had learned who early in his life to be detached from the things, people, and places of this passing, mortal vale of tears in which we have not a permanent dwelling nor a lasting city.

Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., wrote the following hagiography of his fellow Benedictine, Saint Romuald, who used his extraordinarily long live to glorify God and to live penitentially to win souls for Him through His true Church:

The Calendar’s list of Martyrs is interrupted for two days; the first of these is the Feast of Romuald, the hero of penance, the Saint of the forests of Camaldoli. He is a son of the great Patriarch St. Benedict, and, like him, is the father of many children. The Benedictine family has a direct line from the commencement, even to this present time; but, from the trunk of this venerable tree there have issued four vigorous branches, to each of which the Holy Spirit has imparted the life and fruitfulness of the parent stem. These collateral branches of the Benedict Order are: Camaldoli, by Romuald; Cluny, by Odo; Yallombrosa, by John Gualbert; and Citeaux, by Robert of Molesmes.

The saint of this seventh day of February is Romuald. The martyrs whom we meet with on our way to Lent give us an important lesson by the contempt they had for this short life. But the teaching offered us by such holy penitents as the great abbot of Camaldoli is even more practical than that of the martyrs. “They that are Christ’s,” says the apostle, “have crucified their flesh, with its vices and concupiscences;” and in these words he tells us what is the distinguishing character of every true Christian. We repeat it: what a powerful encouragement we have in these models of mortification, who have sanctified the deserts by their lives of heroic penance! How they make us ashamed of our own cowardice, which can scarcely bring itself to do the little that must be done to satisfy God’s justice and merit His grace! Let us take the lesson to heart, cheerfully offer our offended Lord the tribute of our repentance, and purify our souls by works of mortification. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Feast of Saint Romuald, February 7.)

The Divine Office contains the following summary of Saint Romuald’s long life and his truly heroic labors in the vineyard of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His true Church:

The holy Abbot Romuald was the son of one Sergius, of a noble family of Ravenna. While he was still very young, he went to a neighbouring monastery at Classis to do penance. While he was there he heard a discourse by a monk, which stirred him up strongly to aim at godliness of living; and he had afterwards in the Church by night two visions in which the blessed servant of God Apollinaris foretold to him that he should become a monk himself. He accordingly did so; and soon afterwards betook himself to one Marinus, whose holy life and strict discipline were then much noised about in all the coasts of the Venetians, that he might by his teaching and guidance attain towards the hard and lofty point of perfection.

The more he was assailed by the wiles of Satan and the unkindness of men, the more did he exercise himself in lowliness, with continual fasting and prayer, and rejoice in thinking of heavenly things, with abundance of tears. And all the while he bore so bright a face as gladdened all who looked on him. He was held in great honour by princes and kings, and his counsel moved many to leave the blandishments of the world and withdraw to the desert. He had such a burning desire to obtain the crown of martyrdom that he set out for Pannonia on purpose to seek it, but, falling into sickness whenever he went forward though growing strong again whenever he drew back, he behoved to return home.

God worked miracles by him both during his life and after his death, and likewise gave him the gift of prophecy. Like the Patriarch Jacob, he saw a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and men in white garments ascending and descending upon it, in whom he marvellously knew were represented the monks of the Camaldolese Institute, of which he was the founder. At the age of 120 years, of which he had spent 100 in serving God in great hardness, he passed into His Presence, in the year of Salvation 1027. Five years after his death his body was found incorrupt, and laid in a magnificent grave in the Church of his order at Fabriano. (Matins, The Divine Office, Feast of Saint Romuald.)

Most of us are not going to have Saint Romuald's length of years, but we can pray to Our Lady to send us the graces to love penance, including those of being brought low in the sight of men by enduring humiliation and calumny with serene acceptance of the path by which God may seek to chastise and purify us, so as to be able desire to die to self for love of her Divine Son and His true Church, yes, up to and including the point of actual martyrdom for the Holy Faith, making the following prayer to Saint Romuald composed by the Abbot of Solesmes, Dom Prosper Gueranger:

Faithful servant and friend of God! how different was thy life from ours! We love the world and its distractions. We think we do wonders if we give, each day, a passing thought to our Creator, and make him, at long intervals, the sole end of some one of our occupations. Yet we know, how each hour is bringing us nearer to that moment, when we must stand before the divine tribunal, with our good and our evil works, to receive the irrevocable sentence we shall have merited. Thou, Romuald, didst not thus waste life away. It seemed to thee as though there were but one thought and one interest worth living for: how best to serve thy God. Lest anything should distract thee from this infinitely dear object, thou didst flee into the desert. There, under the Rule of the great Patriarch, St. Benedict, thou wagedst war against the flesh and the devil; thy tears washed away thy sins, though so light if compared with what we have committed; thy soul, invigorated by penance, was inflamed with the love of Jesus, for whose sake thou wouldst fain have shed thy blood. We love to recount these thy merits, for they belong to us in virtue of that Communion which our Lord has so mercifully established between Saints and Sinners. Assist us, therefore, during the penitential Season, which is soon to be upon us; Divine Justice will not despise our feeble efforts, for he will see them beautified by the union he allows them to have with such glorious works as thine. When thou wast living in the Eden of Camaldoli, thy amiable and sweet charity for men was such, that all who came near thee, were filled with joy and consolation: what may we not expect from thee, now that thou art face to face with the God of Love? Remember, too, the Order thou hast founded; protect it, give it increase, and ever make it, to those who become its children, a Ladder to lead them up to heaven. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Feast of Saint Romuald, February 7.)

Well, we are just seven days away from Ash Wednesday. A Catholic understands that this is the time to begin thinking about the penances he will take upon himself in addition to those mandated by Holy Mother Church, and the example of Saint Romuald provides us with a perfect opportunity today to detach ourselves more and more from the world, especially from the raging conflicts between the opposing organizing crimes of naturalism who are, despite all their differences, are united as one in rejecting the Social Reign of Christ the King and thus of the necessity of men and their nations submitting themselves to Him in all humility and docility in everything that pertains to the good of souls.

May our prayers to Our Lady, especially through her Most Holy Rosary, convert the hearts of men to unite themselves to the sweet yoke of her Divine Son and thus to recognize that the only true standard of human liberty is His Holy Cross, beneath which she stood so valiantly as our sins m having transcended time, cause Our Divine King to suffer in His Sacred Humanity and to pierce her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart through and through with the Fourth through Seventh Swords of Sorrow.

May her Divine Son, Christ the King, have mercy on us all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Romuald, pray for us.

You are here

Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, Hosanna in Excelsis, part ten

Support Christ or Chaos