Fun, useful craft to do, make some for friends and family for impending holidays. ❤️

https://youtu.be/NhDlF7-qg3E

Happy feast of Our Lady of the Pillar. The apparition is dated to 40 A.D, when Our Lady hadn't yet been assumpted into Heaven.

How were women depicted in the past? How are they depicted now?

The answer is very clear, but us, ladies, what are we doing to restore feminity?

104 years ago the miracle of the sun took place in Fatima.

Hard times are coming. Prepare yourself and your family.

https://youtu.be/BhoWhNMpXW0

“Those women who have no husband nor wish to have one, or who are in a state of life inconsistent with marriage, cannot without sin desire to give lustful pleasure to those men who see them, because this is to incite them to sin. And if indeed they adorn themselves with this intention of provoking others to lust, they sin mortally; whereas if they do so from frivolity, or from vanity for the sake of ostentation, it is not always mortal, but sometimes venial. And the same applies to men in this respect” - Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 169, art. 2

Protect your children. They might not want to openly kill them, but they want to steal their innocence by corrupting them in every way and form.

Photo of Russian Children before the Russian Revolution

Русские дети, которых так ненавидел Ленин, делая их сиротами, растлевая и уродуя их души атеистической пропагандой. Здесь, на старом, дореволюционном фото, в обнимку стоят дети из разных семей. Счастливые дети, не знающие о Ленине.

"Russian children, who were so hated by Lenin, who made them orphans, slaughtering them and degrading their souls with atheist propaganda. Here, in an old, pre-revolutionary photo, there are children from different families in a hug. Happy children who do not know about Lenin."

Credit: D. Kuznetsov

Here a tutorial on how to put together a maxi skirt for every day use. I personally prefer skirts that cover the knee for doing chores because longer ones get dirty easily and might be stepped on, but to each their own.

https://www.itsalwaysautumn.com/everyday-maxi-skirt-easy-sewing-tutorial.html

A recipe for meatless Fridays: Frico

Ingredients
Serves 4-6

-1 small onion, peeled and thinly sliced
-700g potatoes, peeled and diced
-350g Montasio cheese (emmental or any other semi hard cheese can be used), coarsely shredded or cut into small dice
-Salt and pepper
-Olive oil, or lard minced into a paste (if it's done on a Friday, obviously stick to olive oil)


Preparation:

Sauté the onion gently in the olive oil or lard or minced lardo in a skillet (nonstick is best) until soft and translucent.

Add the potatoes and mix together with the onions. Season generously with salt and pepper, then add a glassful of water and cover. Let the potatoes simmer until soft, adding more water if necessary. Uncover and let any remaining liquid evaporate, smashing the potato with a wooden spoon into a very rough purée. (Leave some of the potato dice whole for a more interesting texture.)

Add the cheese and fold it well into the potato and onion. Stir from time to time over gentle heat until the cheese melts completely. Continue simmering for another 5-10 minutes, until the mixture has thickened enough that it forms a solid mass.

Now flatten out the mixture and turn the heat up. Let the mixture form a nice brown crust on the bottom, then flip it over and let it brown on the other side, as if you were making a frittata, about 3-5 minutes per side. Serve right away.

“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”
— St. Teresa of Ávila

Ask yourself, do you have a friendship with God? If you’re reading this, you’ll probably say yes.

However, consider that friendship lies in loving another for the sake of the other. Do you love God for the sake of loving him? Or do you only love him when struck by emotion? If we only pray when we feel like it, if we only pray when we need something or “feel” God in our hearts— we do not have a friendship with God. Instead, we have in a way objectified God in this modern age. We use him for our own joy, our own fulfillment.

I myself would argue, that I don’t have a friendship with God. I pray only when I want, and that’s not friendship. God wants us always— we need to learn to want him always.

On this feast day of St. Teresa of Ávila, we pray for the grace to pray for the sake of God. To truly enter in to friendship with God.

The importance of milk and diary. Never stop eating meat, never stop consuming diary. Milk isn't evil neither is meat.

Think about preparing these things now. You will most likely need them this winter.

Herbal Academy has a lot of great content and advice for natural healing and health.

Recipe for meatless Fridays

Pumpkin Pie Crisp

Pumpkin Filling
1 (15-oz.) canned pumpkin purée
1 cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2/3 cup heavy cream

Cinnamon Streusel
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
12 tablespoons butter, melted

Topping
Vanilla Ice Cream

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375°F. Butter a 12-inch cast iron skillet or a medium casserole dish. Set aside.

In a large bowl, whisk together pumpkin, sugar, eggs, pumpkin pie spice, salt, and vanilla extract. Whisk in heavy cream until smooth. Pour into prepared skillet and set aside.

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Add melted butter and stir with a fork until crumbly. (Can also beat with a hand mixer until crumbly if needed).

Spread streusel topping on top of pumpkin pie mixture in an even layer.

Bake until the filling is set and the top is golden brown, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool and top with ice cream.