Cruciata in Retia

Journal

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Dies Sanctae Elisabeth Hungariae Anno Domini MMXXIV
Dear Retia,

I'd like to talk about now why I decided to make my site on Neocities. For me it was like a breath of fresh air to discover this site, with its simple, oldschool and handcrafty html sites. I've grown sick of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (I think I will never get used to call it X), Reddit, and all that. I feel like I'm addicted to some of them and have to take measures to control myself, but at the same time, I do like to have an on-line presence, a place where I can express myself.

Here I can fully personalize my profile and feel like I'm really the owner of what I do, while also find new sites as diverse as there are people on Earth. Its the refreshing freedom of not conforming to the tyranny of search engines and algorythms of the overgrown monopolistic corporations that control 99% percent of the web. When making this, I discovered there is a full site dedicated to reclaim the Internet and I was just mindblown with all the truth behind it. I really recomend checking it and making your own website. I'm totally convinced now that building a personal site in the style of the old web isn't just nostalgia. It's a rebellion. It's a stand for freedom, creativity, and authenticity in an age of conformity. It's a love letter to a time when the internet was an open frontier, and every click brought you somewhere unexpected and wonderful.

That's all for today. Have a nice week and stay rebellious against the modern world.

In Christo salutat,

Arderique de Goycolea y Vázquez.

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Dies Sancti Frumentii Anno Domini MMXXIV
Dear Retia,

for this first entries of the blog on my site, I'd like to state some intentions on the creation of it. To start, I would like to talk about a fundamental thing: I suppose there is little doubt that I am a Catholic and the foundation on which all the content on the site will be based is this: that the Catholic Church is, whether the majority of people agree or not, the one and only true faith. This also comes necessary with the certainty that the Church (facing what it's probably her second biggest crisis in history) is none other that the one that has Pope Francis on the Throne of Peter and is dealing with what the Second Vatican Council meant. I'm totally conscious that official documents and messages from the Church and the popes since the CVII are often confusing and almost non Catholic, and that the liturgy has been painfully downgraded: but this is the face of the Church that has been deformed and bruised by sin, just like his husband's in His passion, being their divinity still fully there. Turning away from the Church because of this is the same as being one of the many who turned away from Christ scandalized when they saw him hanging on the Cross. So, to sum up: I'm a true traditional Catholic, not a so called traditionalist or "rad trad". But also I don't swallow the modern world, which has been increasingly instituted in the own image of the Anti-Christ (praesertim ab factione ethnico-religiosa maxime influenti et Christianae fidei infesta, quam sine censura nominare non possumus.) Maybe on the future there will be more elaboration on that...

Well that will be all for now... on future posts I would like to talk some things about the site, for example why I chose to do it on Neocities, and also some things on the chivalric spirit that will also inspire the whole site, as it inspires my life.

In Christo salutat,

Arderique de Goycolea y Vázquez.