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Sunday, December 10, 2023

Public Declaration Concerning Additional Unlawful Conversions

 By Anna Von Reitz

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

Having learned all about "platform trading" in our earlier post, you now understand numerous things about the present financial and economic miasma. 

For one thing, you understand how the "one percent" have so effortlessly made such mammoth gains against all the rest of us: it's all on paper, and it's all the result of platform trading and receiving unjust enrichment beyond any Usurer's wildest dreams --- for doing nothing. Literally. 

Of course, when such a situation occurs, there is great motivation for the banks to cut out the middlemen and the actual owners of the "blocked" deposits, and that is what they have been doing for the last several years, albeit, using illegal and unlawful means to do it.  

Look at the Holding Company Scam: 

None of these incorporated Maritime Commercial Banks can act as actual "Holding Companies".  Holding Companies have to engage with full liability and must be unincorporated, so the Maritime Commercial Banks pretend to have a separate Holding Company handling the deposits. 

Instead, they have bought a Holding Company's trademarks and name, similar to the way the Wells Fargo Bank still appears to exist long after it became a Securities Brokerage with banking services. 

An unincorporated entity can own an incorporated entity, and an incorporated entity can own another incorporated entity, but a Maritime Corporation by definition cannot own anything that is unincorporated without immediately incorporating it within itself.  

Similar to the taint of fraud which impacts everything it touches, incorporation extends to acquisitions. 

So even if an incorporated Maritime Commercial Bank acquired an unincorporated Holding Company, that Holding Company would be an "incorporated holding" and could no longer function as an actual Holding Company. 

That is Farce One, and the first fraudulent deceit that these banks employ against depositors: they pretend to be an unincorporated Holding Company and to have the appropriate liabilities and structure to maintain the depositor's interest in physical assets, but they really don't and really never did.  

To be a true Holding Company, a business has to be unincorporated and independent and fully liable for its performance.  None of these banks and none of the "holding companies" they pretend to run meet this definition.  

So the depositors are hoodwinked into depositing their gold, silver, etc., into these bogus holding companies owned and operated by Maritime Commercial Banks, and they think that they are protected the same way as if they had their deposits with an actual holding company -- but this is not true. 

Next, the Maritime Commercial Bank sets up an accommodating sale with another bank, which may be an investment bank, and it transfers their in-house Holding Company to the new owners, who have no direct contract with the depositor.

The Maritime Commercial Bank has wiggled off the hook of its direct contract with the depositor by interposing this other Bank as the new owner of the purported Holding Company which holds the depositor's assets.  

This is Farce Two.  Not only have they pretended to have a legitimate Holding Company when they don't, they follow up with a Substitution Fraud -- deftly substituting another separately incorporated bank for themselves.  This second bank now owns the phony Holding Company that has the depositor's assets. 

The Maritime Commercial Bank passes this off to the depositor as "Ho, hum, business as usual.... pay no attention to the business name change; "Crazy Consumer Bank LLC", is the new owner of "Bet Your Life Holdings Company". We are sure they can meet your needs.  Blah-blah, have a nice day!"

The problem is that the depositor has no contract with Crazy Consumer Bank, LLC, and Crazy Consumer Bank, LLC, now has control of the phony baloney Bet Your Life Holding Company that has physical control of the depositor's assets.  

Neither one of these operations has a contract with the depositor, and the original Maritime Commercial Bank is nowhere to be seen.  They have already collected their share via the sale of the "Holding Company" --- which included the value of the Holding Company assets. 

If the depositor doesn't wake up and assign his assets to a legitimate Holding Company or undertake to provide security for them himself, he will become an "Unknown Depositor" even though his name and address are plainly stated on the records related to the deposit. 

It's the Maritime Commercial Bank that has a contract with the depositor, and they have breached their contract by selling off the Holding Company that has control of the depositor's assets.     

Jim gives Joe a bag of gold coins, Joe gives the bag to his employee, Fred, to hold. Fred goes to work for Todd.  Neither Fred nor Todd know Jim.  

Crazy Consumer Bank, LLC, didn't inherit the depositor contract from the original Maritime Commercial Bank, they only acquired the Bet Your Life Holding Company, and the phony Holding Company never had a direct contract with the depositor, so after a year or two of trading on the clueless victim's assets, they claim the assets were abandoned by Unknown Persons.  

Of course, this is all Bunko, but aside from bringing a Breach of Trust / Breach of Contract suit against the original Maritime Commercial Bank, the only real defense the depositor has is to reassign their assets to a different Holding Company.

This and similar Holding Company Scams have been allowed to go on for decades now, with the depositors taking it in the shorts every step of the way.  

Of course, once they have been defrauded out of their assets, the depositors don't have the wherewithal to bring a successful suit against the Maritime Commercial Bank for Bad Faith, Fraud, and Breach of Contract. 

it wouldn't help them even if they did bring suit, because the courts and the attorneys all work for the same British Crown Corporation parent corporation as the offending Maritime Commercial Banks. 

It's all one big British Territorial polyglot crime syndicate and most of what it does, can all be characterized as unlawful conversion. 

In this instance, they have used a slightly different scheme to unlawfully convert the assets of a depositor into the assets of a bank that doesn't have a contract with the depositor. 

All these Maritime Commercial Banks have either done this or been complicit via Unjust Enrichment because of it.  They all need to be hauled up as members of an organized crime cartel engaged in conspiracy against their depositors.   

You may be wondering--- but, if these are British Territorial Banks, what about their obligation to protect American "persons" under Article IV of The Constitution of the United States of America? 

This Unlawful Conversion Scheme depends on the earlier Unlawful Conversion of political identity that occurred when American babies were incorrectly registered as British Territorial U.S. Citizens. 

This False Registration allows the Liars to assume -- and present to the rest of the world -- that they are simply seizing upon assets belonging to one of their own corporation's franchises or a debtor corporation's franchises.   

This initial Unlawful Conversion is how they have evaded their contractual obligations under The Constitution of the United States of America since the 1920's. 

It's all based on Impersonation leading to False Claims in Commerce, Unlawful Conversion, Substitution Schemes, and other garden variety bunko that has conveniently gone unchecked, because their version of "Congress" --- that is, the British Territorial Congress operating under The Constitution of the United States of America --- has conveniently defunded and misdirected the officers that would normally protect us. 

As a British Crown Corporation, they make a lot more money defrauding American depositors in their banks and American Suitors in their courts than they can make by honestly fulfilling their contractual obligations to those same Americans. 

Inevitably, this involves Bad Faith and Breach of Trust and Breach of Contract similar to the Holding Company Scam described above, but the fundamental failure of the British Crown Corporation and its Principals is even worse --- they are so greedy that they want to take their paychecks from our pockets at the same time they are impersonating and defrauding us.  

They want us to pay them for defrauding us. 

They collect their pay and bennies while acting in Breach of Trust against their employer's interests and in violation of their own service contract -- The Constitution of the United States of America. 

Their receipt of consideration for service under their contract at the same time that they are evading their contractual obligations and busily impersonating and defrauding us, their employers and customers, nails this circumstance to the floor. 

All our purloined assets are owed back to us, including our physical asset deposits. The most efficient and painless way to correct is to lawfully convert all the British Crown District and Municipal Corporations to Land Jurisdiction Corporations worldwide. 

This brings these lawless entities and their personnel back under the International Law of the Land and the National Public Law of each country. 

As they have committed abundant global, international, and national-level crimes during their 160-year crime spree, we feel that the forfeiture of these commercial and municipal corporations for the benefit of their victims and claimants (and depositors) is preferable to the prospect of hanging 3 million Federal Employees and 19 million State-of-State franchise employees and however many millions of complicit franchise corporation officers for Crimes of State. 

We can cite Conspiracy Against the Constitution(s), Inland Piracy, Strong-Arm Fraud and Racketeering, War Profiteering, Press-Ganging, Illegal Conscription, Grand Theft, Embezzlement, Unlawful Conversion, Breach of Trust, Breach of Contract, Impersonation, Barratry, and other crimes too numerous to mention, all accomplished under color of law and pretense of "war".  

In the event that any country needs more time to re-establish their lawful government, they can stand under our actual unincorporated and fully liable Holding Company and our Commercial Claims, until such time as they are returned to fully independent and sovereign capacity. 

In view of the harm inflicted on the Earth and the living people of this planet by corporations, we call for the end of them and any similar business models or legal fiction entities that have been insured and allowed the protection of public bankruptcy.  

The only business entities that might arguably need such protection are those engaged in industries promoting armaments, vicious chemicals, bioweapons, and risky medical technologies--- most of which should be outlawed or strictly regulated, not solicited and promoted at public expense as well as public endangerment. 

We note that the guilty corporations and their Masters have been promoting "the rule of law" when what is needed is the spirit of the law and the substance of the law.  

Our State Courts hold General Jurisdiction, and in the aftermath of this present purposefully created "crisis" we have the right and responsibility to judge both the facts and the law presented to us. We insist that the Admiralty and Maritime Courts return to their strictly limited functions and subject matter, and respect their contractual obligations to all declared  American State Nationals.  

Along with the conversion of the corporations, including the banks, courts, and government-services-for-hire apparatus, we recommend that the Law and Medical Schools, Universities, and Professional Associations like the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association be placed under our management, re-educated, and quite possibly shut down; if they can't offer competence and professional functions benefiting the public interest, there is no reason for these organizations and institutions to exist. 

Likewise we object to substituting foreign Corporation Elections sponsored by Political Lobbies as our Public Elections.  

This is just another Unlawful Conversion and Substitution Scheme, putting these private shareholder events in the place of our lawful Public Elections, and thereby seeking to entrap Americans into the service of the District Municipal Corporations and also promoting their presumed acceptance of the debts of these corporations absent full disclosure. 

It doesn't matter a fig whether it is Donald Trump or Joe Biden in terms of all these political "campaigns" and elections being foreign, deceitful, and undisclosed. 

Political Parties and their constituents represent undeclared Foreign Agents and Public Employees intent on accessing our National Credit without the nicety of full disclosure; as such, Political Parties are foreign corporations engaged in self-interested fraud and entrapment on our shores and need to be removed from our public venue so as to prevent any further confusion of their elections with our elections. 

The unlawful conversion of our Public Elections into private corporation elections and their substitution one for the other, has been part of the overall Unlawful Conversion Scheme used by the offending corporations to subourne us and usurp against our lawful government, and ultimately, to substitute their corporations for the lawful government of this country and many other countries, too. 

This Unlawful Conversion has in turn been used to excuse the operations of the CIA and other so-called "intelligence" organizations in routinely undermining elected governments, and then installing puppet governments favorable to their parent corporation's agenda. 

They are getting away with this outrageous and often murderous behavior using the excuse that these are not actual Heads of State and not actual Presidents and so, people like John Kennedy do not come under Diplomatic Protection -- neither in this country nor anywhere else that British Territorial Corporate Feudalism exists. 

The CIA, Inc. is a Municipal Corporation owned and operated by an Umbrella Corporation calling itself the United States Government, Incorporated, and both need to be dissolved for innumerable crimes against this country and many other countries. 

The further point is that British Territorial Corporate Feudalism has no right to exist and operate as it has been. 

The British South Africa Company hegemony that left a monopolistic commercial corporation "acting as" the government of South Africa was unlawful, Illegal, and immoral.  

The Raj in India was unlawful, illegal, and immoral, and it is the same way everywhere else we see this same pattern of British deceit, mercenary adventurism, commercial monopoly and coercive foreign bureaucracy. 

The same kind of "Raj" in America, Germany, or Australia is no less offensive, unlawful, illegal, and immoral.  

The conversion of all the District of Columbia Municipal Corporations to the control of the Land Jurisdiction Government of this country, our unincorporated Federation of States, would be a first step toward putting an end to these loathsome, predatory impositions and would result in the lawful conversion of the Armed Forces as well. 

We would no longer have our men charging around the world thinking that they were defending this country, while in fact acting as pathetically cheap mercenaries for hire. 

It is to our advantage as fifty sovereign nations and also to the advantage of all our neighbors, as well as our sons and daughters, that this misuse and abuse of our military by foreign commercial interests comes to a halt.  Lawful conversion of all the District and Municipal Corporations ensures that result. 

This is what the British Gulag, Inc. has planned for China, too -- to send their sons and daughters to war at the behest of these monsters in nice suits, while enduring a British-backed and controlled Chinese Raj at home.  

They will eat China alive from within, just as they have tried to do to us.  They will saddle China with phony debts and crooked bookkeeping and dishonest dealings of all kinds, and destroy China's reputation, and drain away China's resources, just as they have done here and in South Africa and India and everywhere else they've been. 

The British Crown is not just a predator, it is a parasite and a Master of Deceit.  

It uses the Monarchy as a storefront and substitutes itself and its Offices for the Government owed to the people of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, just as surely as it does the same here in America, throughout the former Commonwealth, Japan, and the seventeen indecently "occupied" countries of Western Europe. 

It has followed the same recipe throughout: unlawful conversion, substitution, secrecy, double-dealing, double-speaking, and deceit, deceit, deceit. 

Their affiliates and whore-masters in Rome use the British Crown to do their dirty work, but they are just as bad or worse, and are the ultimate creators and purveyors and beneficiaries of the deceits employed.

What is a corporation but a Lie?  

They try to disguise this with fancy verbiage, by rebranding it as a "Legal Fiction" or a "Legal Personality" and a so on, but in the end, incorporated entities are faceless, nameless, heartless, unaccountable inventions of the imagination, devoid of consciousness, morality, or true character.  

When the men running a corporation are similarly impaired, disaster is the only possible outcome, and that is why Ecclesiastical Law requires that incorporated entities must function "lawfully" and fulfill a higher standard than mere "legality". 

This is the Evil has insinuated itself into the public arena and pretended to be our government, and claimed to represent us -- while not even standing on the land and soil of this country and not being subject to our Law, as required by their own service contracts. 

For the banks, for the courts, and for the government corporations and their commercial franchises, this is a Come to Jesus moment.  The criminality and gross magnitude of it, is staring us all in the face. 

We cannot allow this British-Roman Axis to continue hypocritically and sanctimoniously 
prattle on about democracy and freedom and constitutions and constitutional monarchy and the end of colonialism and "good government" and "the greater good" and all this "Christian"--- obviously to them, clap-trap---- while all the time in the background, they've been practicing every kind of deceit and oppression against the people they are supposed to be serving in good faith. 

They have all been playing a game of "Pretend".

Pretend that they are nice men, not vicious, venal predators.  Pretend that they are Christians, when they are Satanists, instead.  Pretend that they are Americans, when they are British Territorials, instead.

Pretend that their Employers are "Enemy Combatants".  Pretend that they are at "War" while playing out endless Mercenary Conflicts instead. Pretend that their victims are corporations, not living men.  

Pretend that their paper I.O.U.s are the same as gold and silver. Pretend that they don't know who their depositors are. Pretend that all the credit arising from platform trading on their depositor's assets belongs to them. 

Pretend that Americans en masse volunteered to be British Subjects.  Pretend that American en masse volunteered to be slaves belonging to the Holy See.  

Pretend that humans caused the build up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. 

It's one lie and supposition and flight of fancy after another, all designed to make them look good, but in the end, they are what they are: Liars. Thieves. And Murderers. 

And we, the victims of this criminality, are owed lawful conversion of all complicit corporations, return of all our purloined assets, and peace. 

Issued by: Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
                  The United States of America
                   In care of: Box 520994
                   Big Lake, Alaska 99652

December 10th 2023

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Second Sunday In Advent

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

On this day the Church not only makes mention in the office of the priest, but also in the Mass, of the two different Advents of Christ, that by His first gracious advent may be gladdened, and by His last terrible coming at the day of judgment we may be impressed with salutary fear. With this intention she cries out at the Introit:

INTROIT People of Sion, behold the Lord shall come to save the nations; and the Lord shall make the glory of his voice to be heard in the joy of your heart (Is. 30:30). Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep (Ps. 79). Glory be to the Father.

COLLECT Stir up our hearts, O Lord, to prepare the ways of Thine only-begotten Son: that through His advent we may be worthy to serve Thee with purified minds; who livest and reignest with God the Father, in union with the Holy Ghost, God for ever and ever. Amen.

EPISTLE (Rom. 15:4‑13). Brethren, what things soever were written, were written for our learning, that through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope. Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of one mind one towards another, according to Jesus Christ: that with one mind, and with one mouth, you may glorify God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore receive one another, as Christ also hath received you unto the honor of God. For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers. But that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and will sing to thy name. And again he saith: Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. And again: Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and magnify him, all ye people. And again, Isaias saith: There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

What does St. Paul teach in this epistle?

The Jews and Gentiles who had been converted to the Christian faith were disputing among themselves at Rome, in regard to abstinence and the use of certain kinds of food, reproaching each other severely; the Jews boasted that the Savior, according to promise, was born of their nation, thus claiming Him from the Gentiles, who, in their turn, reproached the Jews for their ingratitude in having crucified Him. To restore harmony St. Paul shows that each had reason, the Jews and Gentiles alike, to praise God, to whose grace and goodness they owed all; that each had in Him a Redeemer in whom they could hope for salvation; and he warns them not to deprive themselves of that hope by contentions. By these words the Apostle also teaches that we too, have great reason to praise God, and to thank Him for calling us, whose forefathers were heathens, to the Christian faith, and to guard against losing our salvation by pride, envy, impurity, etc.

Why should we read the Scriptures?

That we may know what we are to believe, and do in order to be saved, as all Scripture inspired by God is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice (11 Tim. 3:16); that we may learn from what Christ has done for us, and the saints for Christ, to be patient in our sufferings, and to be consoled and encouraged by their example. To derive this benefit from the Scriptures, the Catholic must read them by the light of that Spirit through whose assistance they came into existence, who lives and remains for ever with the Church: that is, the light of the Holy Ghost must be sought, that their meaning may be

read according to the sense of the Church and not be explained according to the reader's judgment. For he who reads the holy Scriptures by the light of his own private judgment, must, as experience shows, of necessity diverge from the right path, become entangled in manifold doubts, and at last, lose the faith entirely. For this reason the Catholic Church has very properly limited the reading of the Bible, not as has been falsely asserted, unconditionally forbidden it, but she allows the reading of those editions only, which are accompanied by notes and explanations that the unity of faith may not be disturbed, and that among Catholics there may not be the terrible bewilderment of the human intellect which has taken place among the different heretical sects who have even declared murder, bigamy and impurity to be permissible on the authority of the Bible. We are to consider also, that Christ never commanded the Bible to be written or read, and that not the readers but the hearers and the followers of the word of God by which is meant those who hear the word of God in sermons, and keep it, will be saved!

Further instruction in regard to the doctrine of faith on this subject will be found in the "Instruction for Easter Tuesday."

Why is God called a God of patience, of consolation, and of hope?

He is called a God of patience because He awaits our repentance, of consolation, because He gives us grace to be patient in crosses and afflictions, and so consoles us inwardly, that we become not faint‑hearted; of hope, because He gives us the virtue of hope, and because He desires to be Himself the reward we are to expect after this life.

ASPIRATION O God of patience, of consolation and of hope, fill Our hearts with peace and joy, and grant that we may become perfect in all good, and by faith, hope and charity, attain the promised salvation.

GOSPEL  (Mt. 11:2‑10). At that time, when John had heard in prison the works of Christ, sending two of his disciples, he said to him: Art thou he that art to come, or do we look for another? And Jesus making answer, said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them: and blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me. And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What went you out into the desert to see? a reed shaken with the wind? But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments? Behold, they that are clothed in soft garments are in the houses of kings. But what went you out to see? a prophet? yea I tell you, and more than a prophet. For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my Angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Why was John in prison?

He was in prison, and lost his life, because he had rebuked king Herod for his adulterous marriage with his brother's wife (Mt. 14:310). Truth, as the proverb says, is certainly a very beautiful mother, but she usually bears a very ugly daughter: Hatred. St. John experienced that speaking the truth very often arouses hatred and enmity against the speaker. Let us learn from him to speak the truth always, when duty requires it, even if it brings upon us the greatest misfortunes, for, if with St. John we patiently bear persecution, with St. John we shall become martyrs for truth.

Why did St. John send his disciples to Christ?

That they should learn from Christ, who had become illustrious by His teachings and miracles, that He was really the promised Messiah, the Savior of the world, whom they should follow.

Why did Christ say to the disciples of St. John: "Go and say to John, the blind see, the lame walk, etc."?

That they should, by His miracles, judge Him to be the Messiah because the prophets had predicted that He would work such miracles (Is. 35:5‑6). "Christ," says St. Cyril, "proved that He was the Messiah by the grandeur as well as by the number of His miracles."

Why does Christ add: "And blessed is he who shall not be scandalized in me"?

Christ used these words in reference to those who would be scandalized by His poverty, humility and ignominious death on the cross, and who for these reasons would doubt and despise Him, and cast Him away; though "man," as St. Gregory says, "owes all the more love to the Lord, his God, the more humiliations He has borne for him."

What was our Lord's object in the questions He asked concerning St. John?

His object was to remove from St. John all suspicion of failing in faith in Him; and to praise the perseverance with which, although imprisoned and threatened with death, he continued to fill his office of preacher, thus constituting him an example to all preachers, confessors and superiors, that they may never be deterred by human respect, or fear of man, or other temporal considerations, from courageously fulfilling their duties. Our Lord commended also rigorous penance, exhibited by St. John's coarse garments and simple food, that we may learn, from his example, penance and mortification.

Why does Christ say that John was "more than a prophet"?

Because St. John was foretold by the prophet Malachias as was no other prophet; because of all the prophets he was the only one who with his own eyes saw Christ and could point Him out, and was the one to baptize Him: and because like an angel, a messenger of God, he announced the coming of the Savior, and prepared the way for the Lord.

How did St. John prepare the way for the Savior?

By his sermons on penance, and by his own penitential life He endeavored to move the hearts of the Jews, that by amending their lives, they might prepare to receive the grace of the Messiah, for God will not come with His grace into our hearts if we do not prepare His way by true repentance.

ASPIRATION O Lord Jesus, by the praise Thou didst accord to Thy forerunner St. John, for his firmness and austerities, inflame our hearts with love to imitate his steadfastness and penance, that we may never do anything to please man which may be displeasing to Thee; grant us also Thy grace that we too, like St. John, may have those who are confided to our care, instructed in the Christian doctrine.

CONSOLATION IN SUFFERING

"The God of patience and of comfort, the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing" (Rom. 15:5,13).

What gives us the greatest consolation in adversities?

The strong and fervent belief that each and every thing that happens to us, comes to us for our own good from God, and that whatever evil befalls us, is by the will or permission of God. Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God (Ecclus. 11:14). If we have received good things at the hand of God (Job 2:10), saith the pious job in his affliction, "why should we not receive evil?"

We should be fully convinced that without the permission of God not a single hair of our head shall perish (Lk. 21:18), much less can any other evil be done to us by man or devil (Job 1); we should have a steadfast confidence that if we ask Him, God can and will assist us in our sufferings, if it be for our salvation. Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? And if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee in my hands (Is. 49:15‑16); we should hope for abundant reward in the future life, which we will merit by patience in our sufferings, for that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation, worketh for us above measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory (II Cor. 4:17); we should remember that all complaints and murmurs against the dispensation of God are useless, and lead only to harm and shame; Who hath resisted Him, and hath had peace? (Job 9:4) we should have a vivid remembrance of our sins, for which we have long since deserved the eternal punishments of hell - hence the well-known saying of St. Augustine: O Lord, here cut, here burn, but spare me in eternity. No other way leads to the kingdom of heaven than the way of the cross, which Christ Himself, His sorrowing mother, and all the saints had to tread. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so to enter into His glory? (Lk. 24:26) Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God (Acts 14:21). And we should not forget that sorrows and adversities are signs of God's love, and manifest proofs of being His chosen ones. Whom the Lord loveth He chastiseth, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth (Heb. 12:6. compare 7-11).

PRAYER IN SORROW O almighty, kind and merciful God! who hast said: "Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me" (Ps. 49:15), behold relying upon Thy word, I take refuge in Thee in my trouble. Give honor to Thy name, therefore, and deliver me, if it be pleasing to Thee and beneficial for me, that all may know, Thou art our only help. Amen.