A Knight's Blog

   The Vatican is poised to open five sacred portals at ancient basilicas ahead of Christmas Eve for the upcoming 2025 Jubilee. This ritual has not happened in twenty five years and carries with it much mysterion as many odd rites in the Roman Church do. I personally find this alarming because The Roman Church as I have painstakingly pointed out in many posts, especially my lengthy one of The Council of Trent that is still in effect for Catholics, that the Roman Church is not Biblical. It preaches another gospel (Galatians 1:8-9) than the one the apostles and our Lord Jesus Christ teaches in Scripture. They claim you must do sacraments including penance and confession to be saved, Jesus says you are saved by believing in Him (John 3:16) and the apostles agree that its by Christ's grace (what he did on the cross) and our faith in Him and what he did that saves (Acts 15:1-11, John 6:40, Ephesians 2:8-9, Philippians 3:9). It is on this soteriology that the Roman Church falls shor...

  There is no way we are going to banish the folklore of Christmas. Santa Claus is here to stay, and the true St. Nicholas was an exemplary saint who has gotten lost in the Celtic and Nordic folk version. While I have advocated that it is unwise to do the tradition of Santa because it establishes with children that you will lie or tell them white lie about a mystical being which then cause them to question what you say about God later, I realize many parents are going to do the tradition of Santa. I grew up with, being honest, and I am here preaching from this blog pulpit. I think since people are going to do the tradition of Sinter Claus, we have to then submit that to the more important aspect of Christmas, Christ Jesus our Lord. It is crucial that children know the True God is Jesus, and the account of Him coming as a child at Christmastime. If you are going to do the pretend Santa stuff on Christmas Eve, you better take your kids to Church for carols or read the Luke Chapter On...

The   The AMC (American Movie Channel) does Holiday Movieathons. They often have some of the most beloved classics like Elf and even A Christmas Story. Well this year they are advertising during the commercials their Mayflair Witches series that is suppose to come out Jan 5th. So while US households put on the channel, their kids watching holiday classics they are exposed to scenes of Satanic witchcraft, with one scene of a gal saying she has "summoned Him," I can imagine who that him is, and then Pentagram of the Satanic design appears. I remember when Oswald Chambers, a Pastor Time's Square Church, New York was laughed off the stage many decades ago when he said a day will come when you will see pornographic scenes on your televisions. At the time people did not believe such a thing would happen and now look at raunchy fair of films and shows? Worse there is Satanic shows inundating young minds with positive associations with magic, witches, and the demonic. We wonder w...

  Netflix released on December 6th a featured length film on Mary from before her birth to the Birth of Christ. The subject has been done, over and over again, though I decided to watch it and what I saw horrified me. I am going to due start with the positives, the cinematography is top knotch, I thought Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of Herod The Great was great, and there were moments I really enjoyed like showing Mary was an ordinary child playing with her friends in the fields, and the giving The Prophetess Ana who was there in the Gospel of Luke at Jesus' Dedication, a larger role was nice.  Now for the bad and ugly. Firstly, the film opens with Mary's parents cannot have a child, Joachim, her father goes to wilderness to plead with God and Gabriel in a blue scarf appears and tell him he will have a Daughter, who will matter. I know Roman Catholic have deuter canonical beliefs about Mary coming from a Virgin Mother, and some strange things, though I cannot claim if anythin...

   Martin Scorsee Presents The Saints on Fox Nation has had third installment that has been released about the Roman Matyr Sebastian. Honestly, the story of the Sebastian is not too fanciful, despite his ressurection. As Christians we know resurrection is possible, our Lord Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, and many were raised at His Death on the Cross (Matthew 27:50-56) and there was Lazarus (). The problem I have with saints like Sebastian is that its steeped in Popish folklore, even saying he had a pope.. there was no popes back then. What is most troubling is falsehood of the Catholic Church that saints need to canonized, all who put their faith in Jesus are saints, "To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified (set apart, made holy) in Christ Jesus, who are selected and called as saints (God’s people), together with all those who in every place call on and honor the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours" (1 Corinthians 1:2), and we are even ...

  Thanksgiving has passed and many people probably found it to be contentious. There was even politics pervading over it. However, I would argue the original Thanksgiving was all about having people who probably did not get along come together to give thanks. The Native Americans had different gods than the Pilgrims and the One True God. Sqauinto who was crucial to being a bridge between the peoples and helping them survive was raised by Catholic Monks, and so he would have little in common with Pilgrim's Protestantism. The point of Thanksgiving was not a gathering of people who would get along, but rather people who had plenty to make feel petulance. Instead however, they saw Providence at work, that The Lord Trinity had used pagans to save Pilgrims with their corn, and sent a Native who knew English as well as local dialect to translate. All of this was a case of having to bury differences to benefit each other. It did not mean to hide the True God Jesus, no that is not the point...

  When Cobra Kai was started on YouTube and transitioned to Netflix, I found myself enraptured. It was a delight to see the old vanguard of LaRusso and Johnny become senseis, and to see the future of Miyagi-Do and Cobrai Kai Karate. I became invested in Sam, Tory, Miguel, Hawk, Dementri, and the rest of the cast who navigated their High School years through Hi-yahs in Karate. I found Kreese to be a more menacing villain and his backstory in Vietnam and origins of Cobra Kai really added to the mythos of the Karate Kid franchise. However, by Seasons 4 and 5 my interest began to wain a bit.. the perpetual switching sides between Cobra Kai, Miyagi-Do, and Eagle Fang made it feel soap operatic. Season 6 though has re-engaged my interest, as our heroes and heroines, our sensies and dojos head to the Olympics of martial arts, The Sekai Taikai, which in this case takes place in Barcelona, Spain.  I had my reservations, another great tournament to watch Dan San and his Miyagi Do studen...

   Tis the Season for Christmas Trees. Every year people adorn their homes with the fir tree and decorate it. The tradition is a hallmark of the holiday, and in recent times there have been many attacks on it claiming it is a carry over from the Druids, and must be boycotted. This is completely false. The trees Druids brought in were oaks and birches with holes to conjure the sprites through. The tradition of the evergreen tree comes from St. Columba, who when he chopped down an oak tree to Oiden, a miracle happened that from the stump grew a fir tree, which he said was symbol of eternal life in Jesus Christ. That is the earliest symbolism. In Germany, Martin Luther had the evergreen tree brought in and said as Columba had, that it was symbol of eternal life and pointed to heaven. For Americans, the Christmas Tree was on flags and banners of white that read "Appeal to Heaven," being a universal symbol of faith in the LORD to help them in the Revolution. Now the tree has folkl...

   Byzantine and Gregorian Chant are ancient church forms of worshiping, cantoring, and singing the Scriptures. For most people their encounter this kind of music is video games as in The Temple of Time in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and the Halo Video Games Theme and The Maw opening. That was were I first heard Gregorian Chant, and I found it made my soul soar. Only later in Music Composition and Appreciation did I know it had a name, and did I begin my journey to discovering a music steeped in tradition of the Church. Byzantine Chant is older, in fact, some traditions go back close to the time of the Apostles! The Jerusalem Cantors in particular have an ancient style. Byzantine tends to differ in its monophonic sound, in that one of cantors is constant, like the Bass in a band, continuing to sing a key, while the other cantors join in singing the chorus. Gregorian tends to differ in that it has multiple cantors singing the chorus, and there is a instrument in backgr...

Joan of Arc has long been a fascinating of mine. If you check, my first blog post was about the Saint who saved France. What is it about the Holy Maid that captivates us? She captures the imagination of Catholics, Protestants, and even Atheists like George Bernard Shaw who wrote a play about her and Mark Twain who wrote a book about her. How does this Dame (female Knight) from Domrémy deeply connect with so many people of varying backgrounds and even faiths? I believe the answer is suffering. Joan of Arc shares a tragic fate that The Knights Templar did, that Martin Luther did, and that even Jesus Christ did. All of them have in common mock trials, where they were imprisoned, and those trying them had the intent to destroy them. What makes Joan stand out is she was a woman. And not just any woman, a woman that had lead forces of Dauphin to victory and even gotten him crowned, who had saved France from becoming New Burgundy and New England. And most of all, she did this dressed as a man...

  Leonard Ravenhill once said, "the tragedy of today is that the Church is pursing happiness not holiness." We are seeing a pandemic of unholiness in the Church, as more sexual scandals break out and leadership covering it up. We keep asking why? Why are innocents being preyed upon. All the usual tropes are brought up, "wolves in sheeps clothing," (Matthew 7:15) and that Jesus said, "everything that is hidden will be exposed." (Luke 8:17). Those are true, but we are reaching a point in the Church were all credibility is getting lost and it maybe beyond saving. The Gospel and Jesus Christ our Lord will not pass away, but the church may and one of the cornerstone problems with the church in the West is an obsession with Happiness. In the Age of Reason, an ungodly fusion was made between Christianity and Humanism, an idea that one could satisfy both the Kingdom of Heaven and yourself, even though Jesus said, "deny yourself and pick up your cross." (...

   I mentioned in my review of Season 1 of the Fraiser Revival, that I loved it and have been a long time fan. I have been keeping up with Dr. Crane since Cheers, and I must say this new series where Fraiser and Freddy bond has made me laugh more than the classic Fraiser series! Season Two has caught me by suprise with the antics and the moments. In the Murder Mystery episode, when Fraiser says in character of the party, "I am an expert in diseases, all of which I have contracted," the look on Kelsey Grammer's face, so deadpan and the tone he uses made me laugh so hard, I almost broke some ribs. The Season Finale did not disappoint and for us Christians had some epic stuff! In the Christmas Finale, Fraiser is going to host one of his infamous Xmas parties, perhaps you remember the one when Cam Winston outshines him by having his Christmas be 2000, that being his apartment number and millennium they were about to enter. Well I say this Xmas episode bests it and some of my ...