Truth is hard, harsh, unforgiving. Our duty is a heavy burden. The end of this life will bring reward, and though we do not seek death, we know that beyond this life there are greater things. Death is not the end.

And the glory of this world always ends in ruin.

In this time of crisis and destruction there is many who are seeking virtue and glory in this world. Our Papist brother knows better.

And His Mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.

These words, from the Magnificat, never fail to fill me with a great sense of consolation and hope.

Wretched sinner as I am, I too can hope to be, one day, not left out, but unworthily – and after a, no doubt, long purgatory – admitted to eternal joy beyond human comprehension.

There is something in Catholicism that atheists and assorted anticlericals are utterly unable to get. What they see as uncompromising harshness hides, in fact, infinite sweetness. They cannot see the sweetness, because the acceptance of the harshness is necessary to appreciate it in the first place. They are like a son rebelling against his rigid mother, who will never know how tenderly she loves him.

Fear of the Lord truly is the beginning of wisdom. Its absence is a major indication of foolishness on a vast scale.

I will keep my fear of the Lord and my very harsh religion; and will thoroughly enjoy the tears of consolation and hope that it gives me. May I – and you, my dear readers – never lose it, drowning in the stupidity of the Age of Francis.

What those who enter to subvert forget is that the role of a leader in Christ is but to serve. Our model is Christ, who walked into Jerusalem knowing his fate. Unlike his forefather David, who fled from his rebellious son Absalom, Christ walked towards a Roman execution.

For our sake. If that does not drive you to your knees in adoration, nothing will. For we are not worthy of his actions, of his sacrifice.

Mark 10:32-45

³²They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was to happen to him, ³³saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles; ³⁴they will mock him, and spit upon him, and flog him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise again.”

³⁵James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” ³⁶And he said to them, “What is it you want me to do for you?” ³⁷And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.” ³⁸But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” ³⁹They replied, “We are able.” Then Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; ⁴⁰but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

⁴¹When the ten heard this, they began to be angry with James and John. ⁴²So Jesus called them and said to them, “You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. ⁴³But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, ⁴⁴and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. ⁴⁵For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

But we do not have tyranny, and we do not have kings who Lord over us: we have no cities builded on the bones of peasants. We have something worse. We have people who believe they can make us better.

Tech creates inequality. A Harvard student programs the prototype of Facebook and hits the sweet spot in the network effect and becomes a centibillionaire while a hundred thousand working journalists lose their jobs. A few programmers create Uber, and a million part-time drivers clear $12.00 an hour after costs. The tech billionaires are abashed at their own outsized success, and back diversity programs, income redistribution, and other means of assuaging their consciences. The quest for “diversity” and “equality” that dominates Google’s thinking runs headlong into intractable problems.

This will not hold. Christ came and saved us despite our perfection, for he loved us while we were and are sinners. This bunch want to make us into something less than human. They want to expunge history. They will virtue spiral.

And they are doomed to destruction, unless they repent. Do not be them. Do not be like them.