“The modernists in the Church believe that they can bring man closer to Christ by insisting on Christ’s humanity. They have forgotten that we do not trust in Christ because He is man, but because He is God.”

This is from the Scholia (to an Implicit Text) of Nicolás Gómez Dávila, 1913–1994 quoted by David Warren in El Clero Moderno, a must read.

Mr. Gómez Dávila is the same that once said:

“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”

A short analysis of both phrases will reveal a number of juicy truths hiding under what appears to be obvious, i.e. that only idiots happily and prosperously swim with the current —in more than one sense of the word— while “the current” is nothing but what the many agree to follow… putting it in modern terms: the synodal way, the aggiornamento, or the brutish adjustment to zeitgeist.

God has given me a great lesson in the last few hours. I trust in Him as I swim upstream. The now famous Chesterton quotation is present in my mind:

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

It would be nice to be a fly on the wall hearing a conversation between Gómez Dávila and Chesterton.

Yes. I announced the temporary end of my blog but here I am at almost 3 a.m. local time … “ringed by ants and musing over man.” I need to work on controlling my urges.

The theme of the day is this matter of trusting God when history seems to be shouting that trusting God is a foolish thing. The lion scares the herd with a roar and the herd runs away in a disorderly fashion, showing their collective rear to the king of the beasts. The lion sees before him not the synodal choice of the road to salvation but a smorgasbord of romp steaks. One of them will be lunch: the slowest. Have you ever thought that the same herd could trample the lion under their hooves if only they could run the other way? Synodal inversion, reverse aggiornamento could change the result of many a modern battle.

I find myself in a predicament quite strange. Again, “ringed by ants and musing over man.” Surrounded by the idiotic stampede, exerting myself against the current. That is what my life has been, perhaps you who read these lines share a similar feeling.

I announce one more time my temporary retirement from blogging. “What I have written, I have written!” 668 uneven posts that have earned me almost universal execration among  “liars, the pompous, the smug and groupthinkers.” I ask for the prayers of the ancient Church, the one with one triumphant foot in Heaven and one vanquished, martyred foot on earth. Water rages about us  but remember He is just sleeping, He’s not dead.

Or as Mr. Gómez Dávila succinctly expressed it: “He is God” which is the complete opposite of being dead.