Remember Maldon, Thermopylae, Vienna, Lepanto

Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre,
Mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað.

Two lines from the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon, uttered when the English realise that the Danes will win. Translates as:

Courage must be firmer, heart the keener,
Mind the greater, as our strength grows less.

We must remember the courage and resolve of our spiritual ancestors who spilled their blood defending their country from the heathen Danes. We must remember the Greeks who died at Thermopylae, preserving civilisation from Persian barbarity. We must emuate the Austrians and Poles at Vienna, the Christian forces at Lepanto, but with the voice and pen, not with the sword.

We are not asked to shed our blood, but only our tact and sensitivity. Our weapons are voice, pen, and pixel. Our enemy is not a race of heroic barbarians, but coteries of slimy equivocating wordsmiths who seek to destroy Christian values by manipulating and corrupting belief through their manipulation and corruption of language.

We must speak, write, and go down fighting.

Glad you are a Catholic...

and not a Muslim? Then this piece at New Liturgical Movement, dealing with the restoration of the Virgin of Lepanto, should interest you.

In Praise of Nasty Catholics

As I see it, we are faced by three enemies: the first a recrudescence of Mohamedanism, aggressive, virile, and often undeniably courageous. I have to agree with them about the decadence of the West, but I greatly dread Islam's solution to our ills.

The second enemy is an effete post-Christian West, dedicated to the vain belief that liberalism will prevail and everything will be all right if we are nice enough.

The third enemy is a Catholic hierarchy which has largely forgotten the battles of Lepanto (1571), Vienna (1683), and Warsaw (1920), and, under the cloak of ecumenism, has adopted the second, liberal position, as above.

Remember the Canadian Catholic teacher corrected by a pupil when he said that Jesus was crucified so we could be nice to each other?

It was time for us, years ago, to stop being nice. We should thank God for all the "nasty" Catholics who fought for the survival of our Catholic Faith.

Our betrayal of them over the last 50 years has been shameful.

WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF........YOUR SUGGESTIONS PLEASE

WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT IF……..PLEASE ADD YOUR OWN

Dissident Catholics cleared off and joined the Unitarians, or whatever

Richard Dawkins just shut up

Pope Benedict XVI had not backed down over his quotation from Paleologus about the irreconcilability of Islam with Catholicism

Catholic clergy stopped being so bloody polite and called a spade a spade

The Tablet either became Catholic or went bankrupt

The Church officially recognized the Catholic victories at Lepanto, Vienna, and the Vistula, and stopped playing down the triumph of good over evil, especially as such triumph is so rare