“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount…The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” – Five-Star General Omar Bradley (d. April, 8, 1981)
“The core of a free society is free choice at the individual level, and the core of free choice at the individual level is right and wrong. If there is no right and wrong, what does it matter what individuals choose? … It’s no accident that socialist societies are godless societies. They think they can make everything up.” – Star Parker
“It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.” – James Madison (1833)
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths -Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would at the same time be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 10
“All I ask of myself is to live a good Christian life, and toward that objective I bend every effort in shaping my personal, domestic and professional activities and growth. I have watched constantly that in my work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld.” – Walt Disney
The Bright of This Holy Week
by Michael Doyle
Holy Week, the holiest week
On the calendar of the liturgical year
With reverence, we quietly speak
Of the events that we humbly revere
Palm Sunday is observed in commemoration
Of Jesus's arrival and triumphal entry
From betrayal for 30 pieces of silver paid
To the last supper held as quietly made
One by one, we await the arrival of Good Friday
With the Great Sabbath held on this Saturday
Egeria's pilgrimage is one of discovery and identity
As each of these days are sacred in theology
Palm Sunday, the sixth Sunday of Lent
Passiontide's hosanna is given as if Heaven sent
Salvation's arrival given as a paschal mystery
Signified and made present in holy history
Quietly wept as victory's Davidic procession
We, the believers, submit in sacred confession
A reading of the passion takes away our breath
As we listen about Jesus's capture, suffering and death
Although there is no agreement that rings clear
Holy Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are held dear
A fig tree's curse, and cleansing of temple for dignity
All performed in response to questioning His authority
In the Tridentine Mass, death is spoken as foreseen
Though partly man and partly divine, Jesus's being
Was tempted with questions of why God would forsake
Though He experienced every ounce of life's heartbreak
At Simon the Leper's house, Jesus by Mary was annointed
And by Judas, Jesus was betrayed and he was duly appointed
The Tenebrae candles extinguish one by one into shadow
Leading into Maundy Thursday that the Lord's Supper would know
A meal led in example that all should hold holy communion
Death, denial, and resurrection brings about our union
Easter Triduum facilitates the body's deep participation
As through the coming crucifixion brings man's emancipation
Rites decreed by church and altar are the priestly institution
In a commandment of brotherly love given in contribution
Of washing the feet of His disciples, Jesus provided example
Of the servant leader much needed time and again as was ample
Gloria in excelsis Deo the bells ring out the greater doxology
Private psalms rung for the bells rang out in Rome's theology
The blessed sacrament carries it own statement of invitation
As it travels to the altar of repose in habit of visitation
All is veiled within but the stations of the humbled cross
Where victory was attained by the paschal lamb's seeming loss
The crucifixion of Christ brings a solemn sense of Good Friday
The church mourns Christ's death yet marvels in all His ways
Black Saturday brings Holy Vigil with sundown's commemoration
Abstaining in favor of the sacrifice of man's transformation
Bridging our sins to reach toward God's grace and salvation
A paschal candle is lit in man's feeble attempt at communication
The light of Christ spreads on all with chanted proclamation
All of this offered in alleluia to recognize His resurrection
Easter comes as the first day of what is known as a new season
All that has been done for mankind is done for salvation's reason
Now then the Octave of Easter comes to finally arrive
With hope, love, and memories of the savior kept alive
These are the things then that whisper of divine mercy
Held sacred to all who know the truth of this holy homily
(c) April 5, 2023 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“One of the undeniable objectives of wokeism is to disrupt current systems, crippling society by eliminating the common ground of facts and replacing it with ideas that can and will cause constant conflict. This is no longer a battle between the sane and the insane, where the vast majority of people used to agree that the greatest prosperity for human beings was to be grounded on a foundation of realism. The woke have created an alternate universe in which what each individual person thinks and feels takes precedence over facts. … If we cannot count on facts as the basis for our human rights and the laws by which society is governed, then there are no limits or boundaries within which those that create laws are required to operate.” – Samantha Koch
“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.” – Benjamin Franklin (1774)
“Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound.” – Ronald Reagan
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