Calling all people enduring severe suffering, whether due to severe illness, poverty, loneliness, recent death in the family, being chair bound or bed bound, wrongful termination from employment, social ostracization, or the like, let’s unite together our cross with Christ, in prayer, that by some miracle God will give us a traditional, orthodox, and holy pope this week.
The Okie Traditionalist
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
ACTION ALERT: TULSA DIOCESE CANCELLING LATIN MASSES
ACTION ALERT. Please Call respectfully His Excellency Bishop Konderla, the Bishop of the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma, whether you are local or outside the Tulsa Diocese, or outside Oklahoma. Or even the US. This is happening in many dioceses. Help stand up for the Right of every Roman rite Catholic in this diocese (and every diocese) including those not attending or unable to attend the FSSP Latin Mass, for whatever reason, to the ancient and venerable Roman rite.
The Latin Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul parish in Tulsa will now be DISCONTINUED. The Latin Mass at Holy Cross parish in Wagoner is now restricted from having Mass every Sunday, to ONCE a month.
Monday, April 28, 2025
Health Update. Please Pray for Me.
I'm still recovering from my ongoing medical crisis. Had experienced much recovery a year ago for four months, and then last September, but then symptoms returned with a vengeance since October. Very intense right now. Showed some signs of recovering though early last week and in February for 1-2 weeks. Had to switch care which was a transition and hardship. Had the same thing in 2017, it eventually resolved. My spiritual intuition, plus medical science, indicates I will. Offering it up for the conclave. Praying Sarah comes out on that balcony. Please continue to pray for me. Thank you.
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Predictions on Next Pope. Fun Musings from The Heartand.
For fun, my brain tells me the next pope will be Tagle, Francis II. He will continue “Francis-Church” with a softer approach, and ease restrictions on the TLM.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
May Francis Rest in Peace. May God Have Mercy on His Soul. And May We Move Forward.
Dust though art to dust though shall return. This must be said. According to Catholic dogma, he who through full knowledge and consent of the will commits a gravely sinful act, such as for example a pope promoting heresy, for example publicly denying the existence of hell, if he does not repent by the moment of actual death, that man will face a terrible judgment and descend into the eternal fires of hell, even heaven rejoicing at God’s infinite justice.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Open Blog Post to Cardinals. Please Consider Cardinal Sarah for Pope
Dear Cardinals,
In the off chance you might read this, or someone close to you, or someone close to them who might share this down the line with you, or in some way this contributes across the Catholic blogosphere right now to this message, please choose a pope who will restore ecclesiastical tradition, end heresy and heterodoxy widespread in the Church, correct the problems of Vatican II, and restore the ancient Mass. And someone who will end the Reign of Terror of the last 12 years, which would make Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II themselves turn over in their graves.
Monday, April 21, 2025
Pope Francis Passed Away (RIP)
May he rest in peace. I pray he died in God's grace.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Monday, April 14, 2025
Tulsa Catholic Suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa, Bishop Konderla, Etc. Regarding Response to Alleged Clergy Abuse/Alleged Ascension St. John's Patient Abuse (Update: the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and Archbishop Coackley Will Be Added to The Lawsuit)
Re-post.
(Update, 3/19/25: this person's attempt at an intervention and internal resolution ALSO at the level of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has been brought to an end. The result is that the Archdiocese, Archbishop, Etc. will now be added to the Lawsuit. See below for details. See Sections #44 - 53)
Introduction:
This person at this time will go unnamed, but since one aspect of my role as a Catholic blogger is to be an occasional "citizen journalist," including reporting and commenting on our local Catholic Church, corporately called The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma, I am intervening on this person's behalf, considering the nature of their case, and the common good of our local Church.
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Trump’s Tariff War: My Thoughts
So be it. May the USA prevail. Down with globalism. There will be economic fallout in any tariff war, just as in any military war. This could lead to world war, but the goal is to PREVENT world war. That will be on the globalists. Hopefully we still get stimulus checks (taxes backpay thanks to Musk), tax cuts, lowering inflation and interest rates, and economic growth in small and medium size business. In the meantime expect war time suffering with rising costs of living, so that over time Trump/MAGA might bring about some liberty and prosperity before one day the US also gets engulfed in the Great Chastisement. Made in America products, ALDIs, Costco, stock a pantry with bulk items, plant a garden, tighten the belt, have the kids eat more simple meals of beans and potatoes, even if you are (presently) well off, etc. So be it. May the Social Kingship of Christ prevail! Viva Cristo ray! (PS taking a break from blog posts, see last several post until then.)
Friday, April 4, 2025
Rise Above, Part 5. The Usefulness of Court
The crows try to keep the eagle grounded. The eagle’s strength is the ability to fly to higher altitudes, to Rise Above.
You are an eagle. You are meant to soar. But one level of oppression by the crow today, perhaps the main level, is socioeconomic oppression.
What Does it Mean to be a Catholic “Traditionalist”?
You may have noticed from the title of my blog I identify as a “traditionalist.” For some, ironically even within the traditionalist community, that is a politically incorrect, inflammatory ideology. Let me explain then my traditionalist views.
They ARE politically incorrect, but for me they ARE NOT an ideology.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Rise Above, Part 4
See parts 1, 2, and 3 below. This is part 4. I want to talk to people going through extreme hardship, in which desolation outweighs consolation, in which those who are prejudiced or even worse indifferent to helping you through your plight far outnumber those who look at you in a fair and balanced way, and do care. Not merely with a word or two, but with consistent action.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Psychological Meditation for Mental Health. My Thoughts on Buddhism
Buddhism began as a mixed bag. There were bad and false elements, and there were good and true elements. Buddha broke way from the religious paganism and oppressive system of the Hinduism of his childhood to focus instead on inner enlightenment and achieving a perpetual state of peace, separate from any orientation (or lack therefore) to deities or religious devotion to spirits. For him this meant eventually escaping cycles of rebirth and achieving an eternal state of complete happiness. Personally, he being brought up Hindu, and never officially rejecting any form of theism, I suspect he implicitly believed in God on some level, and also did not explicitly embrace total and absolute nihilism of the conscious self or individual person. The old Catholic encyclopedia has an excellent article on him and Buddhism, which discusses the positive and the negative
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Rise Above, Part 3
See parts 1 and 2 below. I have yet to soar with the Eagles, but I keep trying. One. day. at. a. time.
Sometimes Eagles get grounded by the crows, when those crows are so common and pervasive, and if the Eagle is weakened. Even if the Eagle turns to what makes him strong, to Rise Above the crows simply by flying to an altitude at which they can't fly, sometimes the odds are stacked against him, and he is left fatigued and without flight.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Sunday, March 9, 2025
A Moratorium on Trad Inc.
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Rise Above, Part 2
Scroll down and read my post “Rise Above.” This is “Rise Above. Part 2.” I had talked about how the Eagle rises above crows. In this post, I will talk more about the crows of our society, as to why it is so important to take the mindset of rising above them.
This is the second dark age, immeasurably worse than the first, like hell in comparison to heaven. Outside of the minority of still existing traditional societies who still act like human beings, the majority no longer do. We act like zombies, once human, now dead, but still quasi-alive. Most people deep down are willing to murder if their life depends on it, in extreme circumstances. Most people are ok sometimes lying, cheating, stealing, and intentionally harming the innocent.
And therefore very few today, in comparison say to the 1950’s, when having done something objectively wrong, that wrongs others, will ever genuinely apologize, take accountability, or apologize.
So by crows we are also dealing with monsters who behave like zombies. Rising above them, then, goes beyond situations like escaping poverty, healing from serious illness, or moving from a communist country to a democratic country. Rising above now is akin to Christians during the first dark age moving to live near monasteries, to how St. Benedict himself fled decadent Rome to go live in a cave in the wilderness. It is akin to Mel Gibson’s character in Man Without a Face going late at night to a small grocery store run by an old couple to get his groceries just before they closed.
If you are like I am, or likely most readers here, then deep down our current society not only hates you to the core, or wants you dead, or to even stop existing, they wish your existence is absolutely wiped from the history books.
Rise above. Be very, very selective where you attend Mass, where you work, how you interact with people at work, what friends you make or keep, and even what time of day you shop at Walmart, if you want to avoid for your own peace of mind, year after year, decade after decade, the zombies, the crows. Crows are pests and typically congregate in excessively large groups.
Rise above. If you go to confession right down the road at your local Novus Ordo rite parish, as I sometimes do, get there very early to be first in line, to get out of there as quick as possible to avoid those who take 5-10 minutes to confess, girl altar servers setting up the sanctuary, or people hugging and chatting from the pew like the church is their own casual living room rather than a sacred place in which God dwells in as the “House of God.”
There is great peace after confessing, but that environment will suck it back out of you. Instead of procrastinating to get to confession late, rise above the material heretics and those committing sacrilege, and give yourself the serenity and freedom of getting in and out before the crows start coming into church.
Rise above traffic. It will take years off your life. Instead of getting mentally entangled hyper studying what cars are driving too fast or too slow, guys with a death wish on motorcycles zooming past you at a shocking 100 mph, or unbridled idiots tailgating you, which will never end, drive like grandma in the slow lane listening to Mozart thinking about hiking trips and God. Not them.
And rise above your neighbors. Whether you live in a neighborhood or apartment complex, or you are the kind to give a freshly baked apple pie to your neighbor, unless you want to be clinically depressed and in a state of angst about society, don’t. Statistically, the odds are above 90% they’ll think you’re weird. Practically speaking, in terms of neighbors, unless you live somewhere like a rural village in Mexico or Tibet, the phrase “nobody cares” is the truth.
Rise above family as well, that is any family member who lacks empathy for any struggles you go through, who habitually fail to help you out in life or give support, who have seriously harmed you in some way without showing remorse (example: sexual, physical, or grave mental abuse), or who do not follow your Faith and values, or at all respect you for it. With the breakdown of marriage and the domestic family, and therefore by extension the extended family, that means most people in your family, even the ones you enjoy drinking beer with at one of the few annual family gatherings, they are almost certainly a crow, a godless wordling, narcissistic, zombie.
It is, in truth, that bad. The Church has been flooded with heterodox or heretical people, especially the hierarchy. The House of God has been taken over by banality and sacrilege, and mainstream society has been taken over by people with dark triad personality disorders. And their enablers.
So rise above. As I keep endeavoring to do. Don’t isolate or reject society. But retreat, carve out your niche, keep carving out your niche, do whatever it takes to escape the crows, the spiritual and moral darkness, the flock of annoying crows, and flap your wings upward, soar, do everything you can, with God’s grace, to rise above, and find your place of serenity and freedom.
Like the Eagle.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Middle School Basketball. All Saints vs. Marquette. One of the Most Glorious Moments of My Life
I played basketball in middle school grades six through eight for All Saints Catholic school in Broken Arrow. We had no basketball gym which limited our progress.
I was tall and a pretty good player, not great but pretty good. Our team was so bad that every year we were either last in the league or second to last, the other worst team in the league being Marquette.
I did notice a correlation between how nice a school’s gym was, or whether or not they had a gym, and how well they played. The very last game of the eighth grade season came down to us two teams playing yet again competing for who would not place last in the league.
It was the fourth quarter, with less than thirty seconds left on the clock. Marquette was ahead by two points, at our end of the court, me top of the lane guarding their point guard. He was so cocky they would win he was laughing and distracted. He was actually a very rich kid from a very prominent political family in Tulsa. My father was a simple, unknown postman and my mother a stay at home mother.
With probably fifteen seconds left, I stole the ball from him, took it down the court scoring two points getting fouled, seconds left on the clock. I went to the free throw line and noticed a man I didn’t know standing off to the side smiling, shaking his head, giving me a look of admiration.
I looked back at the basketball goal and made a free throw shot winning the game. I looked back at that man and he was ecstatic. Our family end friends went wild. We did not finish last, our own little victory, and my own personal victory.
And a victory over arrogance and unsportsmanlike conduct. A victory over evil. A victory for the good. It was glorious. I remember thinking while guarding that guy, before I took the ball from him, that I wasn’t going to let him disrespect us in the last moment of the game, of the season, and of our middle school basketball career.
And I didn’t.
We actually went on to be friends and teammates for the Catholic high school wrestling team, on occasion my dad and I giving him a ride home to his mansion in my dad’s old used car.
A glorious memory and formative time in my life.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Why I Really Write this Blog
If I’m honest with myself, and you, it isn’t so much out of affection or friendship to my readership on the individual level, around the world, the nation, or locally. That is a two way street.
The fact the donations I received for my health recovery (see upper right hand side of this screen) came from not one reader demonstrates the general lack of gratitude readership has for what I provide for them here, or regard for why I asked for help, which I rarely am want to do. I don’t resent this, but I point it out to make the point that I do this for the salvation of souls, and as a personal outlet, a hobby. To set the record straight and deal with the sting of looking at the fundraiser and realizing (from knowing the other actual donors) not one reader has helped.
So be it. At least I know where we stand.
There are a few exceptions of a few people locally and online who communicated in the past genuine thanks. This modern society is as a rule individualistic, selfish, self-centered, and self-serving, and traditionalists (generally) are unfortunately no exception to this rule.
The ultimate message of this work is that everyone should be a Catholic, and every Catholic should be opposed to conciliar modernism and upholding Tradition, attending the true Mass and refusing to accept a false Mass. That said, this as a labor of love, sustained by the knowledge this has no doubt helped countless people either convert, revert, or come to Tradition. That has been my outlook more than preaching to the choir.
And there is also the knowledge that at least a few of you use the pages for more than your own self gain but have some connection indirectly to me. For example, back before Blogger for some reason disabled my comment section (perhaps a technical problem, but which I couldn’t fix after many attempts) I got a comment from a disabled man in Oklahoma urging me to not stop bogging because the blog helped sustain him, which at the time I shared with readers I was considering stopping. Sir, if you’re reading this, it is readers like you that keep me going.
So I continue. To speak the truth in charity, far and wide, and with ironic humor, for the greater glory of God, and as one activity to keep me sane in this crazy period of the world and Church. If I make a few friends or acquaintances along the way great; if not, so be it. I know there are probably bishops in the Vatican, priests in different parts of the world, housewives, men on their lunch break, whether here or in Europe, Asia, Australia, or you name it, benefiting from these pages. I speak to the world knowing we all are called to Catholic Action, and given my background this makes sense as one means to participate in the work of Christ’s Church.