DeSantis: No Faucian Dystopia

[BrAndreyu]

Can't link to articles which point out specifically how covid nazis are nazis.

COVID19 is the litmus test that all of the big tech platforms use to determine who is a "white supremacist insurrectionist" or whatever. If your opinions on COVID19 deviate from what Fauci says at all, then you are labeled as a "January 6th insurrectionist" or whatever and you can expect an FBI filed to be opened on you. Of course, I already likely have an FBI file opened on me because I have said many things in favor of Donald Trump's presidential policies and also doubt the narrative that we're fed about vaccines and COVID19.

It's legitimate fascism that's coming to America. And it's going to be sold with a smile under the name "socialism".

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Flaming/goading. Can't link to articles which point out specifically how covid nazis are nazis.

And yet, if you go to the politics forums here, the liberals have freedom to call anyone a Nazi. It's the same as it's always been. Leadership here are sellouts and I'm sure I'll get a stupid message from them as I always have for saying as much.

 

[BrAndreyu]

if you go to the politics forums here, the liberals have freedom to call anyone a Nazi.

That's generally the way it goes on the internet. Liberals are allowed to do and say whatever they want, they can spend four years claiming that "Russia Hacked The 2016 Election™" and nothing happens to them when it's proven to be a falsehood. Oh and anyone who isn't on board with Neo-marxist organizations like Antifa and Black Live Matter is always the same as a member of a political movement in the 1930s and 40s that sought to exterminate European Jewry. Always.

Matter of fact, if you aren't sufficiently left enough, then that means that you hate black people and seek to oppress them. The same goes for if you don't believe that a man can "become" a woman, you believe that because you're a rich White person who is seeking to oppress others so that you don't have to share your hard-earned money with the kollective.

It's really bad in America these days. We're becoming a fascist society more and more as each day passes, except they won't call it fascism. They call it "socialism" despite it having nothing to do with workers owning the means of production.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Florida now #1 in new deaths and new cases.

United States COVID: 36,509,727 Cases and 632,966 Deaths - Worldometer

 

[Fr. Appletree]

Florida now #1 in new deaths and new cases.

United States COVID: 36,509,727 Cases and 632,966 Deaths - Worldometer

And how many are finding damnation due to giving themselves over to and becoming part of the body of the demon of Covid fascism? In say New York?

Please provide an impact calculus.

 

[BrAndreyu]

And how many are finding damnation due to giving themselves over to and becoming part of the body of the demon of Covid fascism?

You are aware that Obiden is likely going to use the "delta variant" as an excuse to shut churches down again, so there's a chance that the faithful might have to go underground, yea?

"The Pandemic" gives these pigs every excuse they need to completely strip the citizenry of the USA of all of their constitutionally guaranteed rights, rights that come not from the government, but from God himself. They will get around the constitution by claiming that it's "only temporary" because of an "ongoing state of emergency".

I'm not going to stop going to mass and if they take mass away from me yet again, I don't really know how I'm going to react but it's not going to be good. I've thought about what would happen if they shut churches down again and how I'd do my best to copy the celebration of the mass in my own home, but I'm really hoping that it doesn't come to that because going to mass is like the one thing that I have that keeps me sane & happy, even if I feel guilty every time I go to N O mass now.

 

[chevyontheriver]

EDIT: I've wanted to start a loaning library program in my parish that has books on spirituality, the lives of the saints, copies of the catechism and stuff. Not really sure how I'd get that started or if we even have the space for it.

Lots of parishes have a small library. Trick is to feed that library lots of good books so when somebody discovers it, it is a gold mine for them.

I am eternally thankful for the Newman Center library when I was going to college. Great books, mostly older, that set my faith in a good direction.

Then, later on, a different Newman Center decided to modernize and dump hundreds and hundreds of classics of the faith. They sold them for pennies. And I bought boxes of good books. That Newman Center crashed and had to be reformed at another parish and is finally thriving again under better leadership. After that ramble, my point is that a parish library is a great thing. Feed it with good books like are available at Ignatius Press.

 

[BrAndreyu]

Lots of parishes have a small library. Trick is to feed that library lots of good books so when somebody discovers it, it is a gold mine for them.

Our parish got one of those carts with the books, cds, and pamphlets on it that you put a suggested donation into the slot and then take the book, cd, or pamphlet. I'm excited about that because there are a few books on there that I haven't read and I came close to getting one today but I still have books backlogged that I need to read on my own bookshelf.

I'm going to look into whether or not my parish has a library though. If it doesn't, I'm going to try and start one. I figure I could to Salvation Army and Goodwill to look for relevant books.

Not for anything but the church I go to is big but the parish doesn't seem that engaged with their faith outside of mass. I'd like to figure out a catalyst to change that & I think that maybe making spiritual classics and other Catholic books available, that might help somewhat.

 

[chevyontheriver]

... even if I feel guilty every time I go to N O mass now.

Don't do that.

 

[BrAndreyu]

Don't do that.

I know that I shouldn't, but it feels like there is something missing from it. Maybe it's just the parish I go to, I don't really know. I go there because it's the easiest place to go, but I've been kicking around the idea of going back to the parish I used to go to circa 2014 or just going back to the Ukr. Grk Catholic Church and learning the requisite Ukrainian to be able to follow along with the mass if they aren't doing masses in English on Saturday evenings.

I just feel like the one I go to is lacking reverence and warmth. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice church but it's really big and it's the parish I was confirmed at, but there's just something missing from it and I'm trying to figure out what it is so that I can at least try to deliver whatever it is that it's missing.

 

[chevyontheriver]

I know that I shouldn't, but it feels like there is something missing from it. Maybe it's just the parish I go to, I don't really know. I go there because it's the easiest place to go, but I've been kicking around the idea of going back to the parish I used to go to circa 2014 or just going back to the Ukr. Grk Catholic Church and learning the requisite Ukrainian to be able to follow along with the mass if they aren't doing masses in English on Saturday evenings.

I just feel like the one I go to is lacking reverence and warmth. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice church but it's really big and it's the parish I was confirmed at, but there's just something missing from it and I'm trying to figure out what it is so that I can at least try to deliver whatever it is that it's missing.

Eh, maybe you do need a better parish. Hard to know without comparisons. I moved about a year ago and it's only been in the last three months that we figured out the proper parish for us. We checked out several. Actually none of them were awful. I think we pre-screened those out pretty well. But how do you know if your parish is sub-par unless you can compare?

I'm just saying the NO can be good, or it can be really bad. I do think any place that goes through the bother of a Latin mass probably has something going for it. The parish we chose finally also has a lot going for it. It's NO. And what it lacks musically we will catch up on with occasional visits to more musically capable parishes. Did I say I was a liturgical music snob? I am. I was a liturgical music snob back in the days when I went to the St. Louis University underground church, then when I ended up in Minnesota. My musical tastes evolved dramatically but the snobbishness persisted. It just got much more classical. Here is part of my experience that turned me more classical: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUcFFMw0cxUkGfqcjo_7f9Rg

 

[BrAndreyu]

Eh, maybe you do need a better parish. Hard to know without comparisons.

It's a big parish and has gorgeous stained glass and a nice chapel in the rear of the church, but I never see any young people at the mass that I go to (Saturday evening vigil). Also the priest tends to rush through the mass, unlike the masses at the parish I was going to in the next county over (I live on the border of two counties). The thing that got me to stop going to the other parish was the fact that confession usually happened out in the main church, face to face with the priest which is something that I do not like doing because I'm more "traditional" about confession and like to be behind the screen, kneeling instead of face to face, sitting in a chair.

But the parish I am at feels like it lacks a lot of the reverence of the best masses at the other parish and that the priest kind of rushes through it so he can be done in 45 minutes and I feel like if you can't give God a full hour once a week, that speaks volumes. I mean, I get it: He's older and has been the pastor of San Pedro since I was a 10 year old kid, but he'll do stuff like "beholdthelambofgodbeholdhimwhotakesawaythesinsoftheworldblessedarethosecalledtothesupperofthelamb" and be really rushing through the most important parts of the mass. And then at the end of mass, he tells a joke and everyone laughs and applauds. I don't feel like people should be applauding in church unless it's for a communion or confirmation class.

So I'm debating going back to the Ukr. Grk parish (St. Mary's) even though I'd be the youngest person there without a doubt just because they seem to take the mass more seriously. This is the reason why I wish that I could go to the FSSP parish, but it's almost 40 miles north of me so I could never get there in time for daily mass, and since I have no job and nothing to do, going to daily mass is one of the highlights of my day.