Every Boy Has a Daddy
Today is the Feast of Saint Peter.
The most timely quote I know of for today's religious observances is from Oh What a Web They Weave, by F. John Loughnan:
This was written as part of an attack on the father of a Latin-Mass Catholic who authored the website Ecclesia Militans, which has the logo
Note the resemblance to the Iron Cross.
Soldier of Fortune magazine, April 2002, contains a brief discussion of the German motto "Gott mit uns" that is relevant to the concept of The Church Militant.
Soldier of Fortune,
April 2002
The actor on the cover, Mel Gibson, also serves to illustrate our meditation for today, "Every boy has a daddy." See Christopher Noxon's article in the New York Times Magazine of March 9, 2003:
Is the Pope Catholic... Enough?
Noxon attacks Gibson's father Hutton -- like his son Mel, a Latin-Mass Catholic, and author of
A related "Every boy has a daddy" attack appears in the June 2003 issue of Playboy magazine. An entertaining excerpt from this attack on Joseph P. Kennedy, father of JFK, may be found at Orwell Today.
Finally, let us meditate on the ultimate "Every boy has a daddy" attack -- by novelist Robert Stone on the alleged father of Jesus of Nazareth:
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Excerpt from From the mosques, from the alleys, from the road: "Allahu Akbar!" .... Then a voice shouted: "Itbah al-Yahud!" .... Kill the Jew! .... "Itbah al-Yahud!" the crowd screamed.... Then Lucas saw the things they had taken up: trowels and
mallets and scythes, some dripping blood. Everyone was screaming,
calling on God. On God, Lucas thought. He was terrified of
falling, of being crushed by the angry swarm that was whirling around
him. He wanted to pray. "O Lord," he heard himself say.
The utterance filled him with loathing, that he was calling on God, on
that Great
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The New York Times Magazine article mentioned above was prompted, in part, by
Mel Gibson's current movie production, "The Passion," about the final 12 hours in the (first, or
possibly second) life of Jesus. If I were producing a Passion play, as
Peter I would certainly cast Stone.
Katharine Hepburn died at 2:50 PM EDT on the Feast of St. Peter.
"The Consecration and Sacrifice effected by the priest (standing in
the place of Christ) is, then, the visible manifestation of an eternal and
timeless act. After the Consecration, as Gueranger says in The Liturgical
Year, 'the divine Lamb is lying on our altar!' Thus we see that the Mass is
the visible reality, here and now, of the timeless eternal Mass of Heaven,
described in the Apocalypse. Through it we participate in the Celestial
Liturgy; through it the gates of Heaven are opened to us and the possibility of
eternal life is made available to us."
The Source:
The Church Militant recommends
Defense of the Inquisitions.
For a different viewpoint,
see my May 12 entries.