Action Item! Capirotes for Traddies!

By now most of you know about the Douillettes for Doucheciples Project.

Thank you for keeping small people warm.

In light of recent events, and in consultation with the Imperial Warlock, here is a new project for your consideration.

CAPIROTES FOR TRADDIES PROJECT

The Project will work along the same lines as the Greca Project.

Laypeople and clerics (priests and deacons – bishops buy your own!), contact the Grand Klaxon with your information – check your hat size before you call.

Here is a handy chart about how to measure for your NECK SIZE: HERE.  It is important to double-check especially if you have gained or lost a lot of weight or hair.

“Capirote” is, of course, a Spanish nickname for the long conical penitent hat. It was worn as a sign of penitence. Today it is mainly seen during Easter season processions. Spaniards also call the hat a “Nazareno – Nazarene hood.” Otherwise it is a “coroza.” “Capirote” is fun and pretty much everyone knows it.

Some people in the high realms of power are really triggered by the Capirote.  It’s a curious phenomenon.

The Grand Klaxon informs me that there are a couple options for your capirote.  There are different kinds of Nazarene hoods: they come in silk, (rather shiny as in the photo, below) and ordinary poly-blend medium threadcount pillowcase.

“Meno chiacchiere – più processioni!. … Less chattering – more processions!” Perhaps we can carry lit torches.

We need a hard identity as Catholic traditionalists. People should know who we are and what we stand for by our mode of dress.

Importing antiquated styles of historic headgear from Europe is a clear and convincing way to show our penitential sorrow in these lax modern times.

We should not be afraid to help our neighbors in these United States understand exactly who we are as RadTrads.

¡Hagan lío!  Let the New Evangelization Thrive!

Costume Jewellery

Does € 880.00 seem a bit pricey for 3-D printed plastic hats to you? It does to Deaconette. Could the cost be run up, not so much by the plastic, as by the genuine Elmo Muppet hide that is affixed as a plume?

Perhaps we should rally round and pass the, ahem, hat. In such a way, those fine Helvetian gentlemen who keep safe the Holy See from terrorists bearing halberds and bardiches can attend to their duties without pecuniary anxieties. It is the example of almsgiving so often set for us by the 4P.

“Guard spokesman Sgt. Urs Breitenmoser says the new helmets won’t be used Sunday. The army is looking for sponsors for the 880-euro ($1,050) helmets, which cost about half as much as the old metal ones.” One has to wonder where the Sergeant got the idea that great swathes of the public-at-large stand ready to donate to so literally quixotic a cause. Read the rest, gentle readers, at http://time.com/5266741/popes-guards-3d-printed-helmets and contribute.

Or not. Deaconette is sure you can find less silly uses and more worthy needs for the earnings you spread in charity.

Meet the Blogger Priest Firing Red Pills at the Vatican

Said Faggioli, “Fr. Z is much more convinced about the Christian character of Donald Trump than of Pope Francis. That’s remarkable.”

Deaconette thinks Dr. Massimo Faggioli has an enviable gift of concision which has ever eluded her. Perfection being attained not by addition but by subtraction, Deaconette will not embellish on the good professor’s elegant and astute observation.

If you have not yet read the profile of Father Zuhlsdorf that ran in yesterday’s BuzzFeed, go do. Share it far and wide.

“Meet the Blogger Priest Firing Red Pills at the Vatican”
Joseph Bernstein, BuzzFeed, February 1, 2018

ACTION ITEM! Deaconette C calls for help for a justly imprisoned priest

Deaconette firmly believes Father Gordon MacRae is where he belongs, much as did his jury. It also appears to her that the State of New Hampshire and the Diocese of Manchester, inter alia, concur. If your views are colored only by “These Stone Walls” and an over-zealous Catholic conservative press, she invites you to take a closer look into Father MacRae’s disturbing history.

That stipulated, Deaconette reminds us all that it is a corporal work of mercy to bring comfort to the imprisoned. If in your charity, to turn a phrase from a Pelagianistic Proto-Post-Pharisee, you are inclined to add funds to Father MacRae’s telephone account, do so.

Source: ACTION ITEM! Fr. Z calls for help for a wrongly imprisoned priest

ACTION ITEM! Redecorate the Retiring Rooms

Deaconette has in the past introduced you gentle readers to some of her sorority sisters. But you have been hanging around the sorority house for some time now, and it’s probably time that you meet the whole family. Yes? Well come in, wait, wipe your feet on the mat please. Now then, may I present Deaconette’s

• identical-but-ontologically-inferior twin blue sister Smurfette (Ma always liked me best);
• arty sister Palette;
• sister with the drinking problem Bachelorette;
• Texan food-service worker sister Charcoal Briquette;
• sisters Diskette and Cassette, together affectionately “the Obsolettes”;
• prissy sister Lorgnette;
• nutty sister Noisette;
• showoff sister Majorette;
• pregnant sister Layette;
• overweight sister Raclette;
• bitchy sister Martinet;
• sexy sister Coquette and slutty sister Nymphette (who are not to be confused with the sister who merely enjoys having her salad tossed occasionally, Vinaigrette);
• elusive sister Silhouette and black-sheep sister Oubliette;
• and Holy Mother (née holy sister) Popette, with whom you’re well acquainted already;

ACTION ITEM! Keep a Seminarian Warm This Winter

It recently came to the attention of Pope Francis that young seminarians in Rome are often admitted to studies by old men who like the young men that have a lot in common with their old man outlook, and not much in common with their peers. Benedict XVI appointed a lot of conservative bishops, and three of the four ornery Cardinals. But who am I to judge?