Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

(August 15.)

Why is this feast so called?

Because on this day the Blessed Virgin was taken up into heaven.

Why are plants and fruits blessed on this day?

The Church does this to manifest her joy at the glorious victory which Mary achieved over death, the world and the devil, and at her splendid triumph when she, adorned with virtues as with so many flowers, entered heaven; and that God may so sanctify and bless the plants and fruits, that their use may serve to our welfare.

At the Introit of the Mass, the Church invites us to universal joy by singing: Let us all rejoice in the Lord, celebrating a festal day in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for whose Assumption the angels rejoice, and give praise to the Son of God. My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the King. (Ps. XLIV.) Glory &c.

COLLECT Pardon, Lord, we beseech Thee, the transgressions of Thy servants: that we, who by our own deeds are unable to please Thee, may be saved by the intercession of the Mother of Thy Son our Lord. Through the same &c.

EPISTLE (Ecclus. XXIV. 11 — 20.) In all things I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord. Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me; and he that made me rested in my tabernacle, and said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect. And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. And I took root in an honorable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints. I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress-tree on Mount Sion. I was exalted like a palm-tree in Cades, and as a rose-plant in Jericho. As a fair olive-tree in the plains, and as a plane-tree by the water in the streets was I exalted. I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aromatic balm: I yielded a sweet odor like the best myrrh.

EXPLANATION The Holy Ghost uses these words in praise of eternal wisdom, but the Church applies them to Mary also, to describe the glory and splendor of her assumption. Mary found her rest only in God, the Creator of all things, who created her, and preserved her from, original sin, and lived in her womb as in a tabernacle. On this day God seems to say to her: "Possess the abode destined for thee from all eternity, and the inheritance designed for thee as the first of the elect." Thus Mary is exalted as Queen of the saints and angels in the heavenly Sion; and now in this holy city, she enjoys an undisturbed peace with God, shares His happiness with Him, and is second only to Him in power and glory; there she shines in the most radiant garments, like the ever-blooming rose of Jericho, from there she lets flow upon the wretched children of Adam the oil of her mercy as from a fair olive-tree, shades them with her protection like a plane-tree, and refreshes them with the sweet fragrance of her virtue and grace.

GOSPEL (Luke x. 38—42.) AT THAT TIME, Jesus entered into a certain town: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house: and she had a sister called Mary, who sitting also at the Lord's feet heard his word. But Martha was busy about much serving: who stood and said: Lord, hast thou no care that my sister hath left me alone to serve? Speak to her, therefore, that she help me. And the Lord answering, said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art careful, and art troubled about many things. But, one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Why does the Church cause this gospel to be read today?

Because it can be well applied to Mary, who more worthily and tenderly even than Martha, received, nourished and served the Son of God, and more fervently and attentively than even Martha's sister, listened to His words, preserved them in her heart and sought to fulfil them. In both ways has she chosen the best of all parts, because in both she walked in perfection, and so gained the greatest of rewards which can never be taken from her.

What may we learn from these two sisters?

That like Martha, who is a type of active, stirring life, we should be energetic in performing the duties of our vocation, but not on that account forget to practice good works, to do all for the love of God, seeking in all things His pleasure, and, since we can no longer administer to Christ in a material way, we should serve the poor, of whom He says that whatever we do to the least of them, He will consider and reward as if done to Himself. We are also like Mary who represents the contemplative life, to be fervent in prayer, in listening and meditating upon the word of God, upon the divine Majesty, its perfections and our frailty, thus to sanctify ourselves and to become more worthy of eternal happiness. This contemplative life Christ calls the better part, but does not, therefore, set aside the active life. We can easily unite both, but must never lose sight of the better part.

Why does Jesus reproach Martha?

Because she was uneasy and distracted by her over-carefulness and anxiety, and forgot to hear the divine word. — Thus do many Christians who find no time to work for the salvation of their soul, and even during divine service and the sermon are thinking of their domestic affairs, and so leave the church without having gained anything for their soul.

What is the one thing necessary?

To seek the glory of God and the salvation of our soul. He who attends to this; attends to all his duties, he is busy and active, but not uneasy and disturbed, and calmly directs his mind to God in all his labors, offers his every step to Him, and draws His grace upon himself.

PETITION. Would that I had better attended to the one thing necessary! Unhappy hours which I have squandered for the world, its vanities and pleasures! Where are you now? What shall I have from you in eternity but sorrow and desolation? Could I but call back my wasted life? But since that cannot be, give me Thy grace, I beseech Thee, O most beneficent God, to pass the remaining years of my life wholly in Thy service, and work above all and only for the affairs of my soul.

THOUGHTS OF ST. BERNARD ON THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY

ON this day the glorified Virgin entered heaven and crowned by her presence the holy pleasures of its inhabitants. But what mind can conceive the glory with which the arrival of the Queen of the world was celebrated by the brilliant heavenly hosts, their advance to greet her, their chanting as they led her to the magnificent throne? Who can fancy the tender gaze, the loving countenance, the divine caresses with which she was received by her Son and placed over all created beings, honored as became such a mother, with the glory that became such a Son? What lips can describe the assumption of Mary? As upon earth she, before all others, received special grace, so in heaven she, before all others, receives special glory. If eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to know the delights that God has prepared for those that love Him, who shall say what is prepared for her who bore Him and loved Him more than all! O blessed art thou, Mary! Most blessed wert thou, when thou didst receive the Saviour; most blessed art thou, when the Saviour receives thee!

ST. BERNARD'S PRAYER TO MARY

We accompany thee, on this day, with our most ardent wishes to thy Son, O glorious Virgin, Queen of heaven! and follow thee from afar, O happy Virgin! Give thy mildness to the world, give of the grace thou hast found with God. Obtain by thy blessed intercession, grace for the guilty, recovery for the sick, strength for the faint-hearted, aid for those in peril! Dispense to us thy servants, who on this glorious festival-day invoke thy sweetest name, O gentlest Queen, the grace of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord and God, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

Tenth Sunday After Pentecost

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

At the Introit of the Mass pray with the Church for God's help to guard us against our enemies:

INTROIT When I cried to the Lord, he heard my voice, from them that draw near to me, and he humbled them, who is before all ages, and remains forever. Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. (Ps. LIV.) Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication; be attentive to me, and hear me. Glory etc.

COLLECT O God, who dost manifest Thine almighty. power above all in showing pardon and pity: multiply upon us Thy mercy, that we running forward to the attainment of Thy promises, may be made partakers of Thy heavenly treasures. Through etc.

EPISTLE (I Cor. XII. 2-11 .) Brethren, You know that when you were heathens; you went to dumb idols according as, you were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith. Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say: the Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit; and there are diversities of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all. And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit. To one, indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: to another, faith in one Spirit: to another, the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to another, the discerning, of spirits: to another, divers kinds of tongues: to another, of speeches. But all these things one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

EXPLANATION The apostle here reminds the Corinthians of the great grace they received from God in their conversion, and urges them to be grateful for it; for while heathens, they cursed Jesus, but being now brought to the knowledge of the Spirit of God, they possess Christ as their Lord and Redeemer who can be known and professed only by the enlightenment of the Holy , Ghost. The holy Spirit works in different ways, conferring His graces on whom He wills; to one He gives wisdom to understand the great truths of Christianity; to another the gift of healing the sick; to another the gift of miracles and of prophecy; to another the gift of discerning spirits, to know if one is governed by the Spirit of God, or of the world, Satan and the flesh; to another the gift of tongues. The extraordinary gifts, namely, those of working miracles, and of prophesying &c. became rarer as the faith spread, whereas the gifts which sanctify man will always remain the same.,

[See Instruction on the gifts of the Holy Ghosts Pentecost.]

GOSPEL (Luke XDII. 9-14.) At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others. Two men went up into the Temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican. The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this Publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess. And the Publican standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven, but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner. I say to you: this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Why did Christ make use of' this parable of the Pharisee and the Publican?

To teach us never proudly to condemn or despise a man, even though he should appear impious, for we may be deceived like the Pharisee who despised the Publican, whom he considered a great sinner, while, in reality, the man was justified before God on account of his repentant spirit.

What should we do before entering a Church?

We should reflect that we are going into the house of God, should therefore think what we are about to say to Him, and what we wish to ask of Him. That we may make ourselves less unworthy to be heard, we should humble ourselves as did Abraham, (Gen. XVIII. 27.) remembering that we are dust and ashes, and on account of our sins unworthy o appear before the eyes of God, much less to address Him , for He listens to the prayers of the humble only, (Ps. CI, 18.) and gives them His grace, while He resists the proud. (James IV. 6.)

Was the Pharisee's prayer acceptable to God?

No, for it was no prayer, but boasting and ostentation; he praised himself, and enumerated his apparent good works. But in despising others and judging them rashly he sinned grievously instead of meriting God's grace.

Was the Publican's prayer acceptable to God?

Yes, for though short, it was humble and contrite. He stood afar off, as if to acknowledge himself unworthy of the presence of God and intercourse with men. He stood with downcast eyes, thus showing that he considered himself because of his sins unworthy to look towards heaven, even confessed himself a sinner, and struck his breast to punish, as St. Augustine says, the sins which he had committed in his heart: This is why we strike our breast at certain times during Mass, for by this we acknowledge ourselves miserable sinners, and that we are sorry for our sins.

ON PRIDE AND VAIN GLORY

We should learn from this gospel that God looks upon the humble and exalts them, but is far from the proud. (Ps. CXXXVII. 6.) The Pharisee went to the temple entirely wrapt up in himself, and the good works which he thought he had performed, but returned empty and hated by God; the Publican, on the contrary, appearing before God as a public but penitent sinner, returned justified. Truly,. an humble sinner is better in the sight of God than a proud just man!

He who glories in his own good works, or performs them to please men, or to win their praise, loses his merit in the eyes of the most High, for Christ says: Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven. (Matt. VI. 1.)

In order that we may learn to despise vain glory, these doctrines should be well borne in mind. We should consider that it will happen to those who seek after vain glory, as to the man who, made many toilsome journeys on land and sea in order to accumulate wealth, and had no sooner acquired it than he was shipwrecked, and lost all. Thus the ambitious man avariciously seeking glory and honor will find, when dying, that the merit which he might have had for his good works, is now lost to him, because he did not labor for the honor of God. To prevent such an evil, strive at the commencement of every good work which you undertake, to turn your heart to God by a good intention.

But that you may plainly recognize this vice, which generally keeps itself concealed, and that you may avoid it, know that pride is an inordinate love of ostentation, and an immoderate desire to surpass others in honor and praise. The proud man goes beyond himself, so to speak, makes far more of himself than he really is, and, like the Pharisee, despises others; the humble man, on the contrary, has a low estimate of himself, looks upon himself as nothing and, like the Publican, despises no one but himself, and thus is pleasing in the sight of God.

ASPIRATION O God, who hearest the prayers of the humble, but dost resist the proud, I earnestly beseech Thee to give me an humble heart, that I may imitate, the humility of Thy only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and thereby merit to be exalted with Him in heaven.

INSTRUCTION ON GRACE

In the epistle of this day the Apostle St. Paul speaks of the different gifts of the Holy Ghost which He distributes as He pleases. These extraordinary graces which the apostle mentions, are not necessary for salvation. But the Church teaches, that the grace of the Holy Ghost is
necessary for salvation, because without it we could neither properly believe, nor faithfully observe the commandments of God. For the holy religion of Jesus teaches, and experience confirms, that since the fall of our first parents we are weak and miserable, and of ourselves, and by our own strength, we cannot know or perform the good necessary for our salvation. We need a higher aid, a higher, assistance, and this assistance is called grace.

What, then, is grace?

Grace is an inward, supernatural gift which God through finite goodness, and in consideration of Christ's merits, ants us to enable us to work out our salvation.

Grace is a gift, that is, a present, a favor, a benefit. t is an inward and supernatural gift; an inward gift, Because it is bestowed upon man's soul to distinguish it tom external gifts and benefits of God, such as: food, clothing, health; grace is a supernatural gift, because it is above nature. In creating our souls God gives us a certain degree of light which enables us to think, reflect, judge, to acquire more or less knowledge: this is called natural light. In the same way He gives our souls the power in some measure to overcome sensual, vicious inclinations; this power is called natural power (virtue). To this natural light and power must be added a higher light and a higher power, if 'man would be sanctified and saved. This higher light and higher power is grace. It is, therefore, called a supernatural gift, because it surpasses the natural power of man, and produces in his understanding and in his will wholesome effects, which he could not produce without it. For example, divine faith, divine love is a supernatural gift or grace of God, because man of his own power could never receive as certain God's revelations and His incomprehensible mysteries with so great a joy and so firm a conviction, and could never love God above all things and for His own sake, unless God assisted him by His grace.

God grants us grace also through pure benevolence without our assistance, without our having any right to it; He grants it without cost, and to whom He pleases; but He gives it in consideration of the infinite merits of Christ Jesus, in consideration of Christ's death on the cross, and of the infinite price of our redemption. Finally, grace is a gift of God, by which to work out our salvation, ,that is, it is only by the grace of God that we can perform meritorious works which aid us in reaching heaven. Without grace it is impossible for us to perform any good action, even to have a good thought by which to gain heaven.

From this it follows that with the grace of God we can accomplish all things necessary for our salvation, fulfil all the commandments of God, but without it we can do nothing meritorious. God gives His grace to all, and if the wicked perish, it is because they do not cooperate with its divine promptings.

How is grace divided?

Into two kinds, actual and sanctifying grace.

Actual grace is God's assistance which we always need to accomplish a good work, to avoid sin which we are in danger of committing, or that grace which urges us on to good, and assists us in accomplishing it; for it is God, says the Apostle Paul, (Phil. II. 13.) who worketh in you both to will and to accomplish. If a good work is to be performed by us, God must enlighten our mind that we may properly know the good and distinguish it from evil; He must rouse our will and urge it on to do the known good and to avoid the evil; He must also uphold our will and increase our strength that what we wish to do, we may really accomplish.

This actual grace is, therefore, necessary for the just, that they may always remain in sanctifying grace, and accomplish good works; it is necessary for the shiner that he may reach the state of sanctifying grace.

What is sanctifying grace?

It is the great benefit which God bestows upon us, when He sanctifies and justifies us; in other words: sanctifying grace is the love of God, given to us by the Holy Ghost, which love dwells in us and whose temple we become, or it is the advent and abiding of God in our hearts, as promised in the words of Jesus: If any one love me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our abode with him. (John XVI. 23.)

He who possesses sanctifying grace, possesses the greatest treasure that a man can have on earth. For what can be more precious than to be beautiful in the sight of God, acceptable to Him, and united with Him! He who possesses this grace, carries within himself the supernatural image of God, he is a child of God, and has a right to the inheritance of heaven.

How is this sanctifying grace lost?

It is lost by every mortal sin, and can only be regained by a complete return to God, by true repentance and amendment. The loss of sanctifying grace is a far greater injury than the loss of all earthly possessions. How, terrible, then, is mortal sin which deprives us of this treasure!

The Manifestation Effect

 By Anna Von Reitz

It is no news to most people in the modern world that everything we see and sense around us is mostly empty air,  and that what we are seeing and sensing and experiencing as solid and actual—- is in fact more accurately described as ordered vibrational energy. 

The ordering of that energy takes place in magnetic fields and currents that swath the Earth and move throughout the Universe in unimaginably huge rivers of charged particles which serve as the substance of creation— what the Vedic Sages call “Prana” and what physicists call “Plasma”. 

Plasma is the fourth state of matter — the actual sequence as we know it now is: solid, liquid, gas, plasma. 

Prana, aka, plasma, can be undifferentiated and formless, and can flow freely, or, given the correct signals and stimulus, it can take on form and solidify— a process known as “manifestation”. 

The spiritual battle we have all be suffering through is now manifesting on the physical plane, as well as many other things of which you should be aware.

When we focused our attention and used our intention to release the Great Seals off the West Coast of Britain and destroyed the Great Palatine Seal in Rome, we set a new energetic pattern in motion, one that revitalizes and empowers Africa. 

Our intention in removing the Seals was simply to return the Earth to its natural, unencumbered state and to allow energy to flow freely to and from Africa.  We did so knowing that Nature will rebalance everything on Earth in accord with the Divine template always intended for Africa.

Africa and its people were never meant to be kept in bondage century after century.  The only thing keeping Africa from assuming it’s natural role and place upon the Earth were these energetic Seals acting like dams collecting and diverting plasma away from the entire continent. 

So we opened the floodgates and we are seeing, in part, the results of that action now.

Africa —-and all its sons and daughters of all colors and religions all over the world—-are receiving new life, new power, and new vision.  

They are naturally rising upward, finding and assuming their intended place in Creation. 

And that is a wonderful, natural, joyous thing. 

It is what they deserve, and what was always intended to be their portion.

Don’t be afraid that you are empowering enemies; realize that we are all meant to live as brothers and sisters, and with the right focus and intent, this can be achieved.

Look around at the vast diversity of Creation? 

Were even the grains of sand left untouched by beauty and design?  

If you have any question about the answer, just place a little sand under a microscope and gaze in wonder. 

So you are seeing Africa reimagining itself and a similar thing is beginning in Australia as we tug at and loosen the Great Seal of Angkor Wat.  Age after age this seal has served as the navel of the world, silently ruling over the Pacific Nations. 

Soon you will see this energetic blockage swept away, and the continent of Australia and all the countries affected by Angkor Wat will similarly rise up and thrive, no longer hobbled by an energetic blockage that has distorted the Pacific Rim for untold centuries. 

As for the Great Seal of the United States it is located in the Great Lakes, off the North Shore of Lake Superior.  As we raise it and remove this prehistoric energy blockage, our lakes and rivers will be full again and the seasons will return.  We, too, shall breathe a sigh of relief and prosper. 

Along with these massive energetic changes will come new appreciation for our natural resources.  People will begin to focus on the loss of atmospheric oxygen and finding better answers to waste management. 

There will be plenty of other signs and symbols of the times.  

Pillars of various kinds have started appearing all over the world.  These may be made of stone, or a vitreous material like glass, or they may appear as pillars of fire or clouds, as described in the Bible. 

Don’t be afraid. 

The pillars are markers like boundary stones and won’t harm anyone. 

The time between committing a sin and karmic payback is shortening. 

And so is the time between creating a thought-form and encountering it. 

People born in the 1980’s and 1990’s will be most affected by this phenomenon.  It begins when they think of a song and then it plays on the radio.  They think of a Dodge Charger and one appears on TV or in their driveway. 

This can be unsettling and unnerving as they begin to grasp their own ability to change everything for the better, so long as they focus their attention on good ends and happy things. 

Again, don’t be afraid or overly surprised by these things happening all around you.  Just stay in your Happy Place and think good thoughts and enjoy the results!  

Anna Maria

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Who Really Owes Who in America?

 By Anna Von Reitz

Our Federal Subcontractors are required by their constitutions to operate exclusively on credit, and we, the people and States of the Union, are required to pay our debts in gold and silver.

It was set up that way to ensure that we are the Preferential Creditors of our Employees.

And so we are.

However, the British Monarch, the various Popes since 1860, and the Lord Mayor of the Inner City of London could not resist the temptation offered by the so-called Civil War, to defraud and misrepresent the Americans and the actual American Government.

They set up a system by which --- according to them --- all our physical assets are held in trust by them "for" us, and also in which they, acting as the Presumed Trustees, have the right to distribute our assets and the obligation to invest them.

All without our knowledge or agreement.

So the Americans owe the British and HRE Municipal Federal Subcontractors for the governmental services we contracted to receive from them under our Constitutional Agreements, but we are prevented from paying them and from having access to our own assets by the same self-interested and self-appointed foreign Trustees.

This makes it appear that we are in debt to them, when in fact they are in debt to us for purloining our assets and using our assets as collateral backing their debts.

It's like standing on your own Big Toe and complaining that you can't move.

They have not only commandeered our physical assets and improperly assumed a custodial interest in them, they have stolen our credit and improperly exercised it for their own benefit, using the lame excuse that they don't know who we are or where our American Government went.

According to them, we all just sailed over the horizon, never to be seen again. The self-interested foreign commercial corporations operated by the Queen, the Pope, and the Lord Mayor have promoted a scheme to have each one of us declared legally dead, and have plundered and pilfered our estate assets ever since.

Instead of acting in good faith as required by our international treaties with these foreign Principals, and also by the Federal Constitutions that created these Service Providers, the perpetrators have left the General Public of America uninformed, which is the same as Failure to Notify their Employers ---and then used that same failure to justify defrauding their Employers in Breach of Trust, hypothecate debt against their Employers, steal their Employer's credit, and control their Employer's physical assets.

We have arrived back from whatever mental vacation we went on to find our country hijacked into a completely foreign jurisdiction and ourselves being human trafficked by the Pope and the Queen and the Lord Mayor. They have acted in Gross Breach of Trust and violation of their commercial service agreements, their treaties, and our constitutions----and via abuse of our credit and the banking system, they have amassed the most stupendous mountain of Odious Debt in history while operating "in our names" and impersonating us.

When faced with this fact, their proposed answer is to: (1) issue an imaginary digital currency based on nothing but recordkeeping of non-existent "virtual dollars", (2) turn their private debt collection agency, the "IRS", into an illegal mercenary force ready to rampage around and terrorize our peaceful civilian population, and (3) engage in surreptitiously buying and destroying the Central Banks of entire countries, using our purloined credit to do it.

This craziness and criminality has to end.

The entire world community is called upon to recognize how this evil has insinuated itself and eaten away at our lawful governments and institutions until a lawless surveillance state has come into being on a worldwide basis and has proposed to oppress and enslave us in the name of protecting us.

The actual American Government has issued an International Notice of Distraint, putting these foreign "service" corporations and their officers, employees, dependents, and FRANCHISES on Notice that their own assets and persons are seized under the Public Law of this country and they will be held individually liable for their actions.

If that isn't enough to put the fear of God in them, it should be.

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International Notice of Distraint Issued to the District Government(s)

 By Anna Von Reitz

Insomuch as the Internal Revenue Service (Territorial) and IRS (Municipal) are both private debt collection agencies employed by commercial corporations in the business of providing governmental services, they have no public function or special authority whatsoever and are subject to the same laws and limitations as any other private debt collector.  These  Agencies are subject to both the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Truth in Lending Act and the General Public is owed the remedies provided by Regulation Z and Federal Code Exemptions in all cases.  Improper collection practices and failure to honor the remedies provided under Public Law will result in the seizure of corporate properties and personal estates of the offenders. 

This International Notice of Distraint places all Officers of the District Corporations and Municipal Corporations, both, under prohibition and 100% personal and commercial liability for promotion of any racketeering, extortion, or misrepresentation schemes being addressed to members of the General Public within the physical borders of these United States, and serves Notice of Distraint that their personal assets and property are subject to seizure and their persons are subject to arrest if they do not immediately cease and desist activities designed to impersonate members of the General Public of this country as Federal employees or dependents or otherwise as public PERSONS belonging as property to their foreign governments.  

It has come to our attention that the word "Taxpayer" has been converted into a legal term by these same commercial corporations operating as the District Governments, and that in both cases, a "Taxpayer" has been defined as a "Tax Collector" working for either the British Crown, or the Pope, respectively. 

Specifically, a "Taxpayer" with respect to the District of Columbia is a Warrant Officer in the British Merchant Marine Service, charged with collecting taxes owed to the British Monarch, and a "Taxpayer" with respect to the Municipal Government is an Officer of the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church, responsible for collecting a "voluntary" tax owed to the Pope, which is an income tax used to pay for the Church's secular crusades. 

It is self-evident that the millions of Americans who have been coerced to file income tax returns and to sign those returns under penalty of perjury as "Taxpayers" have not been given full disclosure of the meaning of "Taxpayer" in either case, and that millions of members of the General Public have been suborned to pay these foreign taxes under color of law and conditions of unwilling perjury because they have not been given full disclosure. 

It is extremely unlikely that any American would purposefully and voluntarily misrepresent himself or herself as a Warrant Officer in the British Merchant Marine Service, nor as an Officer of the Inquisition, if they were simply told what the word "Taxpayer" means in the context of these forms that they are routinely coerced to complete under color of law. 

We also serve Notice of Distraint against  the actions that "President" of the White House Office, Inc., Joseph Biden, has taken in hiring 87,000 additional Agents of the IRS to enforce IRS Code, and training those 87,000 mercenaries on our shores as armed combatants, up to and including sending them to Sniper Schools in anticipation of tax collections under armed force on our shores.  This amounts to a private, foreign, mercenary army on the land and soil of our Several States, proposing to attack American civilians under False Pretenses and acting  in insurrection against our lawful American Government.  

Adhesion contracts created under color of law using purposeful non-disclosure and semantic deceit to obtain compliance are owed no enforcement.  Anyone enforcing such contracts is engaged in criminal activity.  

This Notice of Distraint provides Public and Private Notice that these aforementioned activities of the Biden Administration are criminal activities.  Each and every American who responds to any such trespass proposing to use deadly force against them in connection with collecting tax debts that are merely presumed to exist,  is exercising their natural and unalienable right to self-defense against armed pirates, and is in fact doing their Public Duty to oppose crime. 

We therefore additionally serve Notice of Distraint regarding the fact  that neither the Internal Revenue Service nor the IRS have any authority to carry guns.  The only related service that does have the authority to carry guns is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) and their armed enforcement activities are strictly limited to tax collections based on the interstate manufacture, sale, or transportation of three specific commodities --- alcohol, tobacco, and firearms.  

Any other armed Federal enforcement of taxation unrelated to the interstate manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms is illegal and will result in the seizure of the personal assets of the officers and employees responsible.  

Additionally, all Territorial and Municipal Officers are hereby served Notice of Distraint regarding the limitations of Administrative Courts and Administrative Code, including the Internal Revenue Code/IRC, first elucidated by the Tennessee Supreme Court in Norton v. Shelby County and very recently upheld by the United States Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA: Congress does not have the ability to further delegate its legislative powers to unelected Agency Subcontractors, with the result that no Federal or Municipal Code promulgated by Agencies or Administrative Appointees may be applied to any member of the General Public.  

Millions of Americans who are not Federal Employees, Dependents, or Officers have been misidentified as such and subjected to foreign forms of law that have never legitimately applied to them.  If you are a Federal Government official, officer of a Federal Corporation, Territorial Corporation, or Municipal Corporation, this International Notice of Distraint requires you to cease and desist from any further promulgation of these errors. 

This International Notice of Distraint is hereby served and published by our unincorporated Federation of States doing business as The United States of America since 1776.  All legitimate powers vested in, exercised by, and delegated to any portion of the Federal Government,  including the District Governments, derives from and is owed to our Federation of States. We are your Employers and our Government is now in Session.  

Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals.  Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents. 

In view of the potentially catastrophic consequences of Mr. Biden's improper acts and the Public Danger that he has willfully created, we are asking all members of the law enforcement communities and military be fully informed and that all Americans and U.S. Citizens make the effort to serve this International Notice of Distraint and provide it to the members of the various Congresses and delegations thereof, the members of the Roman Catholic Church administration, and members of the Federal Civil Service and members of the Public who may be illegally and unlawfully endangered.  

Issued by:  James Clinton Belcher, Head of State

                   The United States of America

                   In care of: Box 520994

                   Big Lake, Alaska 99652

A Quick and Very Dirty Explanation

 By Anna Von Reitz

The most succinct description of the Eternal Flaw of the Bretton Woods Plan I have ever seen comes from Peter B. Meyer at The Final Wake-Up Call: 

"Money creation through debt issuance must remain in balance with economic growth. As debt increases, more growth is needed, and if this growth falters, so does the entire money system unless the excess debt is removed."

Okay, Campers, he has just told you something that generations of people never realized and were never taught in school.  

In order to work, the Bretton Woods System established after the Second World War, required eternal economic growth and/or commensurate debt reduction, to work.  

Let's ask ourselves: Does anything grow eternally?  And how fond are politicians of paying debts? 

We are fast approaching the anniversary of the failure of this system: August 15, 1971, the date that Richard M. Nixon admitted the failure by refusing to settle international debts in gold.  

As we discussed yesterday,  Americans are required to pay for governmental services in silver or gold, while our U.S. employees are required to function on credit.  This is a requirement/limitation of our constitutional agreements.  

It is designed this way to ensure that we always remain the Preferential Creditors of our Subcontractors --- and so we are, but, ever since the so-called Civil War, our access to our own resources has been blocked, and those resources have been cashiered away "for us" by the British Monarch acting under the direction of the various Popes.

This has resulted in a situation where the British Territorial Government has acted as a Public Trustee without any granted authority, and the Presumed Donors of these bogus Public Trusts, the American People, haven't been able to actually pay a debt in over a hundred and sixty years. 

Literally. 

Instead, absolutely all of our assets -- down to our bodies and souls --- have been "securitized" and "monetized" --- given a value, and issued as credit, which is --- not coincidentally, the form of "money" that our British Territorial and HRE Municipal Federal Subcontractors can spend.  

This has led in turn to a situation in which they, our Federal Subcontractors, can only accrue debt, debt, and more debt.  They have no ability to actually pay a debt themselves (it takes actual asset-backed money to pay a debt) because they function entirely on credit,  while we, the Americans, have been prevented from paying any debts because all our gold and silver and land and other assets have been cashiered away by these same Federal Subcontractors and used as collateral backing their debts. 

Enter Bretton Woods.  Remember that in order to succeed, the Bretton Woods Plan requires at least one of two things --- (1) growth of the economy, or (2) removal of excess debt.  

And, remember, there is no way for the Federal Subcontractors to pay a debt. 

They don't  own our assets and they have no authority to encumber our assets, because contrary to their claims, our American Government never disappeared and the collapse of the so-called Federal Republic after the Civil War required no salvage operation. 

The Federal Republic was an American-owned and operated Federal Subcontractor entrusted to exercise delegated powers by the Confederation of States, which was itself in receipt of delegated powers from the Federation of States.  

Notice the source of authority and how that authority flows from Federation to Confederation to Federal Republic?  

When both the Federal Republic and the Confederation were destroyed in the wake of the Civil War, the Federation of States remained.  All powers delegated by the Federation rolled back to it by Operation of Law.  All that needed to happen was for the American Government to be called back into Session. 

So, now it has been, and from our perspective,  the mountain of debt accumulated by our British Territorial and HRE Municipal Federal Subcontractors needs to be removed as Odious Debt and our assets need to be returned free and clear to our control.

This includes our physical assets which have been held "in trust" and our credit assets, which others have been spending "for" us, without our consent.  

Robinson Crusoe has returned. He didn't die intestate.  His estate must be made whole by the court that distributed it "prematurely" to his presumed heirs.  This is the immutable and centuries-old law of public Cestui Que Vie Trusts. 

I, acting as Fiduciary of The United States of America, our unincorporated Federation of States, claimed all American Public Trusts/Cestui Que Vie Estates beginning in 1998 and rolled them over into my own private non-statutory trust estate as property belonging to The United States of America.  

Next, I published my Irrevocable Will granting back all private property owed to individual Americans and all public property owed to the individual States. 

The Vatican Chancery Court, the Queen's Court, and the International Court of Justice are all responsible for their "mistakes" and misadministration of the American estate assets that our Federal Subcontractors commandeered under conditions of self-interested non-disclosure and deceit. 

Bretton Woods couldn't work and didn't work because the debt repayment side of the equation was rendered impossible and the presumption of eternal sustained economic growth was illogical. 

Read that:  everyone concerned knew it couldn't work, and did it anyway.  

They created public trusts with no plausible reason to do so, commandeered the assets in these trusts to use as collateral backing their debts, and created the largest pile of Odious Debt in human history.   

Odious Debt is by definition debt established by false pretenses, semantic deceit or other means of fraud, of which the victims are unaware, and from which they do not profit. 

There are over 320 million Americans and you can ask any one of them, "Did you know that you were declared legally dead?"  --- and the answer will be the same:  "No!  What are you talking about?" 

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