An Oration in the House of Delegates by Fr. Charles Constantine Pise, D.D., when Chaplain of the United States Senate, delivered at Annapolis, Maryland, July 4th, 1833.
Thanks for the history. Interesting look at how leaders of Catholic Maryland defended their Catholicism in balance with their patriotism in the shadow of a distinctly anti-Papist Protestant and Deist national culture. Still it gave me pause when I got to the part about the speaker having comfortably rubbed elbows with the allegedly Freemason founders.
The living links with our nation’s Founders has been severed in my lifetime, but was quite vivid up in the populace until my middle years. The last surge of it came with the nationwide interest in the ‘Civil War’, as many learned the essential link between the defeat of the original Republic and the creation & erection of a centralized monolithic obligatory Union enforced by Federal troops. Sadly, since then, people have reared an entirely false method of historiography which is simply the negative image of the old national hagiography. True filial piety is replaced with a Manichean fever dream, in which the actual enemies in play are projected backward, as if they were somehow above human life & history & unsusceptible to the tides of events.
Both the “Boston tea party” and the “Boston massacre” were Masonic-orchestrated false flags designed solely to push the emotional buttons of gullible colonists so that they would react irrationally and violently, ultimately to bring about the establishment of the satanic New World Order that the American Experiment exemplifies.
Today is The Feast of Our Lady of Refuge in my old diocese of L. A., in San Diego, and California at large. Apropos of the majority of posts of late at Hiraeth, it is also the commemoration of all Holy Popes in my current diocese of Brooklyn.
Here’s a brief history of the feast, originating in Alta California in 1843 A. D. —
Commemoration of OUR LADY OF REFUGE
“The Franciscan missionary Francisco Diego Garcia y Moreno was the first Bishop of the Californias--Baja California (Lower California in what is now Mexico) and Alta California (Higher Calfornia in the present U.S.A.). It was he who proclaimed Nuestra Señora del Refugio, Patrona de las Ambas Californias. The official proclamation was made by Bishop Garcia Diego on January 4, 1843, at Mission Santa Clara in Alta California.
“In 1981 the California Catholic Conference of Bishops petitioned the Vatican Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship for authorization to observe the feast of Our Lady of Refuge on July 5 as an obligatory memorial. This was approved by official document dated January 15, 1982, and signed by Archbishop Giuseppe Casoria.
“The dioceses of Baja California celebrate this patronal feast on July 4. Because of Independence Day, the dioceses of Alta California chose July 5, and the memorial is listed for that day in their Ordo. The feast of Our Lady of Refuge (sometimes called Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners) has its own proper prayers for the Eucharistic Liturgy and the Liturgy of the Hours.
“Over the last century and a half the original Diocese of Las Ambas Californias has been divided many times on both sides of the border as the local Church has grown. Until the end of the nineteenth century the priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco prayed a special liturgical office for the feast of Our Lady of Refuge. In the Diocese of San Diego the feast has always been observed.
“The renewal of interest in this Marian feast honoring the patroness of the Golden State was stimulated by the 1987-1988 Marian Year observance and Pope John Paul II's encouragement to revitalize interest in special, local feasts of the Virgin Mother Mary.”
Collect: “Almighty and merciful God, who hast made the blessed Mary ever Virgin the refuge and the help of sinners, grant unto us that by her protection, all our sins having been forgiven, we may obtain the happy fulfillment of the purposes of Thy mercy. Through our Lord . . . .”
I’m a native Baltimorean, long in exile in other states, but my patriotism is the local patriotism of the people of Maryland in my generation, before the collapse of the state into the black hole of Washington DC. My family was still very much alive, through my mother’s line, of how brutal the Crown had become in imposing the avaricious tyranny of those who through finance controlled Parliament. We were very much alive to the attempt to destroy the Republic , the Battle of Fr McHenry being especially recalled by descendants of its participants. I know all the complaints about the Masons, etc, but
Taking their cue from that First Rebel Lucifer, the purpose of ALL revolutions (Copernican, Protestant,American, French, Industrial, Russian, Sexual, et al) is to dethrone Christianity (The Catholic Faith) as the guiding principal in the works.
The Colonies united in a war against the Revolution from above, which was the Luciferian Revolution, and remains the true implementer of the revolt against God. The American colonialists knew nothing of the secular anti-God mindset & would have fought it. I am sorry that people seem to despise the liberty granted by God because the libertines & godless used all their power & influence to seduce people into absence of vigilance and acceptance of totalitarian power.
I might be misreading your last sentence, but I don't see that "people seem to despise the liberty granted by God"; rather, perhaps more so they despise the lax, consumerist, secular mindset that allowed "the libertines & godless to use all their power & influence to seduce people into absence of vigilance and acceptance of totalitarian power".
Is America better off spiritually post-revolution? Or could we have done as well in God's eyes, or even better, without a bloody revolution. Same goes for the civil war.
People are conflicting the problems of liberty with the problems of a cancerous libertinism. They despise the origins & institutions established by the Founders because they have had only the foretastes of real tyranny, so they fantasize about Christian kings, when it was the monarchs who undid themselves by going far beyond the limits of the era of Christendom & sought to occupy the vacuum of balanced powers in the varied nations of that Christendom. We have lived through 25 years of a nascent absolutist power raised against the old Republic following 9/11 and then the Covidian/Wokian tyranny of the last decade. There WAS no America, but only colonies, before the War for Independence, and it was Lincoln and his absolutist cronies who created a State from which one could not secede. Europe is descending into complete totalitarian rule, making opposition in speech a punishable offense, and if it were not for Americans, and Elon Musk buying a social media company and exposing it, we would now be further under the boot of the globalists. Instead of giving thanks, a particular coterie call it controlled opposition, Masonic this and that. It results in actual quietism parading itself as spiritual awareness of the divine plan. I know it is all very absorbing, but all these scenarios are part of “Earth’s absorbing vanities” , and not doctrinal or historical clarity, but ultimately, sloth.
"Mr Pinay" is actually a pseudonym for 12 conservative members of the college of cardinals who were opposed to the foreseen planned hijacking of Vatican II. And they start not in the Middle Ages but before Christ (Part 3). It's a very imoprtant & little known book.
Thanks for the history. Interesting look at how leaders of Catholic Maryland defended their Catholicism in balance with their patriotism in the shadow of a distinctly anti-Papist Protestant and Deist national culture. Still it gave me pause when I got to the part about the speaker having comfortably rubbed elbows with the allegedly Freemason founders.
The living links with our nation’s Founders has been severed in my lifetime, but was quite vivid up in the populace until my middle years. The last surge of it came with the nationwide interest in the ‘Civil War’, as many learned the essential link between the defeat of the original Republic and the creation & erection of a centralized monolithic obligatory Union enforced by Federal troops. Sadly, since then, people have reared an entirely false method of historiography which is simply the negative image of the old national hagiography. True filial piety is replaced with a Manichean fever dream, in which the actual enemies in play are projected backward, as if they were somehow above human life & history & unsusceptible to the tides of events.
Both the “Boston tea party” and the “Boston massacre” were Masonic-orchestrated false flags designed solely to push the emotional buttons of gullible colonists so that they would react irrationally and violently, ultimately to bring about the establishment of the satanic New World Order that the American Experiment exemplifies.
Today is The Feast of Our Lady of Refuge in my old diocese of L. A., in San Diego, and California at large. Apropos of the majority of posts of late at Hiraeth, it is also the commemoration of all Holy Popes in my current diocese of Brooklyn.
Here’s a brief history of the feast, originating in Alta California in 1843 A. D. —
Commemoration of OUR LADY OF REFUGE
“The Franciscan missionary Francisco Diego Garcia y Moreno was the first Bishop of the Californias--Baja California (Lower California in what is now Mexico) and Alta California (Higher Calfornia in the present U.S.A.). It was he who proclaimed Nuestra Señora del Refugio, Patrona de las Ambas Californias. The official proclamation was made by Bishop Garcia Diego on January 4, 1843, at Mission Santa Clara in Alta California.
“In 1981 the California Catholic Conference of Bishops petitioned the Vatican Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship for authorization to observe the feast of Our Lady of Refuge on July 5 as an obligatory memorial. This was approved by official document dated January 15, 1982, and signed by Archbishop Giuseppe Casoria.
“The dioceses of Baja California celebrate this patronal feast on July 4. Because of Independence Day, the dioceses of Alta California chose July 5, and the memorial is listed for that day in their Ordo. The feast of Our Lady of Refuge (sometimes called Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners) has its own proper prayers for the Eucharistic Liturgy and the Liturgy of the Hours.
“Over the last century and a half the original Diocese of Las Ambas Californias has been divided many times on both sides of the border as the local Church has grown. Until the end of the nineteenth century the priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco prayed a special liturgical office for the feast of Our Lady of Refuge. In the Diocese of San Diego the feast has always been observed.
“The renewal of interest in this Marian feast honoring the patroness of the Golden State was stimulated by the 1987-1988 Marian Year observance and Pope John Paul II's encouragement to revitalize interest in special, local feasts of the Virgin Mother Mary.”
Collect: “Almighty and merciful God, who hast made the blessed Mary ever Virgin the refuge and the help of sinners, grant unto us that by her protection, all our sins having been forgiven, we may obtain the happy fulfillment of the purposes of Thy mercy. Through our Lord . . . .”
https://tridentine-mass.blogspot.com/2025/07/commemoration-of-all-holy-popes-our.html?m=1
I’m a native Baltimorean, long in exile in other states, but my patriotism is the local patriotism of the people of Maryland in my generation, before the collapse of the state into the black hole of Washington DC. My family was still very much alive, through my mother’s line, of how brutal the Crown had become in imposing the avaricious tyranny of those who through finance controlled Parliament. We were very much alive to the attempt to destroy the Republic , the Battle of Fr McHenry being especially recalled by descendants of its participants. I know all the complaints about the Masons, etc, but
https://www.poetryverse.com/sir-walter-scott-poems/my-native-land
It was never complete because all 'The Crown' families were not killed.
There is time still to finish.
I suggest including The Private City of London's owner families.
Americanist fever-dream.
Taking their cue from that First Rebel Lucifer, the purpose of ALL revolutions (Copernican, Protestant,American, French, Industrial, Russian, Sexual, et al) is to dethrone Christianity (The Catholic Faith) as the guiding principal in the works.
The Colonies united in a war against the Revolution from above, which was the Luciferian Revolution, and remains the true implementer of the revolt against God. The American colonialists knew nothing of the secular anti-God mindset & would have fought it. I am sorry that people seem to despise the liberty granted by God because the libertines & godless used all their power & influence to seduce people into absence of vigilance and acceptance of totalitarian power.
I might be misreading your last sentence, but I don't see that "people seem to despise the liberty granted by God"; rather, perhaps more so they despise the lax, consumerist, secular mindset that allowed "the libertines & godless to use all their power & influence to seduce people into absence of vigilance and acceptance of totalitarian power".
Is America better off spiritually post-revolution? Or could we have done as well in God's eyes, or even better, without a bloody revolution. Same goes for the civil war.
People are conflicting the problems of liberty with the problems of a cancerous libertinism. They despise the origins & institutions established by the Founders because they have had only the foretastes of real tyranny, so they fantasize about Christian kings, when it was the monarchs who undid themselves by going far beyond the limits of the era of Christendom & sought to occupy the vacuum of balanced powers in the varied nations of that Christendom. We have lived through 25 years of a nascent absolutist power raised against the old Republic following 9/11 and then the Covidian/Wokian tyranny of the last decade. There WAS no America, but only colonies, before the War for Independence, and it was Lincoln and his absolutist cronies who created a State from which one could not secede. Europe is descending into complete totalitarian rule, making opposition in speech a punishable offense, and if it were not for Americans, and Elon Musk buying a social media company and exposing it, we would now be further under the boot of the globalists. Instead of giving thanks, a particular coterie call it controlled opposition, Masonic this and that. It results in actual quietism parading itself as spiritual awareness of the divine plan. I know it is all very absorbing, but all these scenarios are part of “Earth’s absorbing vanities” , and not doctrinal or historical clarity, but ultimately, sloth.
The principal "target" for the evils in this world is here:
gtvfflyers.com
And over 2000 years of it in this scholarly ebook: http://holywar.org/txt/pinay/default.htm
"Mr Pinay" is actually a pseudonym for 12 conservative members of the college of cardinals who were opposed to the foreseen planned hijacking of Vatican II. And they start not in the Middle Ages but before Christ (Part 3). It's a very imoprtant & little known book.
Glory to Jesus Christ, Timber!
Is there anyplace that I could find or purchase the actual secret of La Salette?