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 + JMJ Nota Bene: This will be a somewhat rambling article as I only heard today about it being the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. So these are some impressions that occurred to me as I drove home from work. So, across the world there are a variety of opinions about what Germany did in the concentration camps.  The same holds true within Traditional Catholicism.  There is a spectrum of beliefs, opinions and theories about the Holocaust and the factory efficient murder of Jewish people deported from occupied countries. It is not unique to Traditional Catholicism, but it is the stick that people like to use to 'beat' down the Trads. Well ... that would be a mistake. My father was a teenager during the Second World War and hated the comedy "Hogan's Heroes" because it portrayed the German soldiers as buffoons. When describing his impressions of the Germans he would say, they were "very, very effective." He experienced this first hand as he was w...

 + JMJ  Illness enables me to take a break from some other important issues and opine on some current events. Wars  While I've seen Trads and others vocally defend both sides involved in the Ukranian War, I withhold judgement of who is right or wrong because of the Fog of War (link) . Simply put, I acknowledge the fact that I am human and not omniscient. I have no way of confirming who is to blame for the hundreds if not thousands of people dying in War and Winter. I just know that people are dying in a War and at some point in the past leaders on both sides made decisions that led us to this point in time.  Hopefully, they will make better decisions in the future. Rumours of Wars  (Son of Traditiones Custodes)  There has been rumours of the next assault in the war against not just the Tridentine Mass by the entire missal and ritual ( Gloria link ). Well this is of no surprise as it was the de-facto situation for decades from 1969 to 2007. Whatever his moti...

   + JMJ For reference I have created a summary Map for the First Friday (Sacred Heart) and Saturday Devotions (Immaculate Heart) devotion.  P^3 First Friday Overview In 1688, during an apparition to Saint Margaret Mary, Our Lord Jesus Christ promised the grace of the Holy Death to those who would receive Holy Communion on the first Friday of the month, nine months in a row. This was called The Great Promise. Reparatory Communions on the First Fridays of the month: The Twelfth Promise was inserted in full in the Bull of Canonization of St. Margaret Mary on May 13, 1920, by Pope Benedict XV. He thus wanted to encourage the practice of reparatory communions on the nine first Fridays of the month, in honour of the Sacred Heart. Promises I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life. I will establish peace in their homes. I will comfort them in all their afflictions. I will be their secure refuge during life, and above all, in death. I will bestow abundan...