A BLESSED AND JOYOUS EASTER TO YE ALL! And an update...

 

I do wish all my readers a great Easter in every sense of the word, may ye all get every blessing, grace and also much love and happiness. 

Apologies that this is coming some days into Easter, I had such a hectic Lent that I was so tired during Holy Week. All is going well, but rather run off my feet, or my fingers really. We got the book jacket designed totally for Padre Pio and You. I coerced, I mean cajoled 4 writer friends who are much more successful than I'll ever be into writing nice things for the back. Then a best-selling author wrote a forewarning, I mean foreword which is beautifully written. 

Presently, my desk is a mass of wires, equipment and a microphone. Yes, I'm trying to do the audiobook, and need to sync up everything. I've turned a corner of my home into a mini recording studio. Please, of your immense charity pray for me, that I get this right, or that I get it done at all. No fake humility, it is very outside my limited areas of expertise. 

A year ago, I made some good friends in my own neighborhood, a married couple who converted to Catholicism and when we got talking they said to me, "Have you ever been to a Traditional Latin Mass?! You gotta check it out!"  They'll be helping me with the audiobook. Perhaps pray for them more than me...

I may be writing for more online portals, if they accept my pieces. In the event they do, I'll pop a link on here. 

And Pope Francis, R.I.P.  The reaction has been polarizing; hagiography or hate. When I first learned of him I wrote like I had rose tinted glasses surgically attached. But I went from being a fan to being a critic. I have not openly made known my biggest personal reason which is I think there are grounds to suggest that he told untruths about the sexual abuse of minors in his home country of Argentina. I am not saying he lied, rather what he said was untrue. Lying is the intention to deceive, maybe Pope Francis believed the untruths that he may have said.

I have some very third-rail questions to ask, and I am not saying I have answers, and I have yet to discern if I'll write a probing article. Regrettably, and I this with Rosary in hand for the late Francis, his legacy may be more hate than hagiography because if my theses are proved correct and those of his critics even his fondest admirers in the woke media may have to shy away from defending him, and there'll be louder voices making cases against him. This may even include his successor on the Throne of Peter. 

I must retire, a breakfast with an audio interface and a microphone beckons...

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The classic painting, Resurrection was executed by Luca Giordano. It is in the public domain.