My Podcast

 By Anna Von Reitz

Let's put this to rest forever and ever. 

The North Carolina Assembly is kindly sponsoring a Podcast for me, Anna Maria Riezinger, pen name, Anna von Reitz, every Tuesday morning (9 AM Alaska Time, 1 PM EST). 

The purpose of this podcast is to open up a direct public forum where people can ask questions that need answers. 

I have recently been informed that numerous Coordinators in this country were not ever informed about the Four Pillars that each State Assembly is responsible for establishing.  

This alarmed me, because our so-called "Super Coordinator" who is overworked and underpaid, was supposed to be training these volunteers and bringing them up to speed and helping to them keep on track.  

And that obviously isn't getting done, not that I have any right to complain.  

So I did the responsible thing and opened up a couple direct sources for Coordinators and others to ask me questions directly and in public.  

At the same time, I also opened up an Introductory Course for people who have volunteered or who are thinking about volunteering as Coordinators to help their State Assemblies get organized. 

The California Assembly agreed to sponsor that effort (Thursday nights, 4 PM Alaska Time, 8 PM EST) and so far, apart from a little difficulty keeping respondents from wandering off into other subjects, the effort is going well.  

I have no reason to suspect anyone of any evil and am not throwing any mud in any direction at anyone at all, however, this afternoon's Sunday Coordinator's Call participants are throwing all sorts of "mud" at Niti Bali and Cynthia Pinkston and The North Carolina Assembly for hosting and sponsoring my podcast. 

Apparently, some Coordinators are under the unfortunate misapprehension that it is their "job" to censor me and my public contacts, and to accuse my helpers of everything up to and including being "infiltrators" when in fact it is not the role or business of any Coordinator to even comment on anything related to my podcast, my introductory Coordinator training, or anything else I do in support of the effort to get everyone up to speed and on the same page. 

I have too much to do and there is too much at stake for too many people on this planet to put up with any power-mongering games from anybody at all, and I will not hesitate to "fire" any Coordinator who thinks that it is their job to censor me, criticize other people who are helping me to get this work done, or in any way interfere with my podcast, my training sessions, or anything else to do with my functions. 

For better or worse, I'm the Grandma of this operation, and if I don't know how it is supposed to go, nobody does.  I am not feeble, not helpless, not uncertain, not being misled or used for any purpose by anyone.  If I have guts enough to stand on my own in front of the Pope and the "King" of England for thirty years, you had all better believe that I am more than competent enough to kick the stuffing out of anyone on Earth.  

You can all profit yourselves, your States of the Union, and your country as a whole, by stopping your habit of listening to your own fears and ignorance ----and start reading what I have already provided for you all.  If you don't have time to read or can't read, find a different job. 

Coordinators need to be able to read and correctly interpret what they are reading. 

I trust that this is in large enough print so that everyone is getting the message and I hope I won't have to revisit it again.  

The North Carolina-sponsored podcast is going forward, Mattermost is being shut down---soon, I hope, as it is a continuing focus for misinformation, gossip and inappropriate intrigues, the Coordinator training series sponsored by The California Assembly is going forward, and a new book, called "How to Build an Assembly" is being edited right now.  

I suggest that everyone who has been making a game out of dissing and dumping on Niti and Cynthia and The North Carolina Assembly needs to find a new occupation.  Those are Corporate Games and have no place in the American Government at all. 

Anna Maria

----------------------------

See this article and over 4600 others on Anna's website here: www.annavonreitz.com

To support this work look for the Donate button on this website. 

How do we use your donations?  Find out here.

International Public Notice: My Sources

 By Anna Von Reitz

I hear this complaint occasionally, from bewildered people who can't fathom the extent of my knowledge, or from those who want to pick away and try to undermine my authority and credibility: why doesn't she publish her sources so that we can follow along and research things for ourselves? But, in fact, I have published my sources every step of the way. 

Indeed, I have been careful to do so.  Pick up our books and you will find dozens and dozens of sources and places for you to look -- and see -- for yourselves.  In over 4,000 articles, I have given sources and court cases and pointed the way out of this morass of Lies. 

Last night, I looked up at the night sky and saw the Great Serpent squirming across the firmament, writhing in its death throes, and all I could think was -- thank the true and ever-lasting God.  

In the end, all you have to do -- is do the same. Look and you will see. Ask and the keys will be given.  Start digging anywhere you want and the evidence will be there.  

Start at your local water plant and ask why you are paying for Fluoride, a known poison and industrial waste product, to be added to your drinking water?  

The great reservoirs of insight are contained in the records and minutes of the Second Session of the First Continental Congress, the Papal Bulls and other published acts of the Roman Catholic Church, and the Acts of Parliament and the Kings of England that set all this up-- most especially those of King Henry the Eighth, who imported the Catholic Hit Men known as the Merry Men (Acting) Company, aka., the Bar Association, a Theater Company, to England; the Act of Union creating Great Britain, the Naval Dispositions Acts occurring in Parliament from 1864 onward, and the Insular Tariff Cases in the U.S. Supreme Court from 1900 to 1904 that set up the century-long criminal rampage that included two World Wars and constant Mercenary Conflicts all over the world. 

To quote Chief Justice Harlan, "mischief" indeed.   

There are also noted researchers who have compiled vast amounts of information about the practical nuts and bolts of the system -- Kurt Kallenbach has provided us with immense amounts of information about the role of the Roman Catholic Church in all of this, Romley Stewart has fully and exhaustively explained the use of DOG LATIN, also known as "American Sign Language" to defraud and impersonate living people, John Anthony Hill ("JAH") has exposed the illegal and unlawful nature of the entire reign of Elizabeth II in the High Court case Regina v JAH, Don Benson has painstakingly documented the fact that our States never ratified any of the post-Civil War "Amendments" --- including the so-called Sixteenth [By-Law] Amendment to the "Constitution" of the Scottish corporation calling itself "The United States of America" --- Incorporated.  

These are some of the landmarks on the long journey home, and there are plenty more --- the work of Mary Croft in Canada, the work of Jean Keating (his Prison Treatise is immense and his discovery, as in legal discovery using Benedict's On Admiralty is amazing), the work of John Paul Anthony aka "The Informer", the landmark defense case of Thomas Cryer against the IRS in Shreveport, Louisiana....

But almost as instructive are the missing parts of the Narrative -- the oaths of office not taken, the oaths of office changed to promote evasion of the Constitutions, the "peace treaties" like the Treaty of Manilla Bay that aren't actually land jurisdiction treaties but are sea "treaties" instead, the missing formal Declarations of War from the correct Congress starting The American Civil War and our entry into the Second World War, the missing peace treaties and processes at the end of the Civil War and the Second World War -- which allows the continued illegal Occupation of this country and all of Western Europe by what has effectively become our respective versions of the "British Raj", the admissions of the 1934 Congress concerning the creation of an "independent" government for the Philippines, the Emergency Banking Act of that same year, the Minutes of the May 1930 Geneva Convention which reveal how the G5 agreed to go "bankrupt" via Treaty Agreements that were never revealed to the Public -- and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's role in all that, three years before he became "President" of the United States of America, Incorporated, and bankrupted it, the Minutes of the March 1933 Conference of Governors where these British Territorial Officers "pledged" their "states" (meaning the States-of-States in the sense of "Confederate States") and citizenry as chattel backing the parent company being bankrupted,   the similar actions undertaken by the "Congress of Vienna" in response to the 1848 Rebellions in Europe, the history of the vanishing Dutch East India Company and its surreptitious merger with the British East India Company which became its storefront, the First Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt where he talked of the "consecration" (a religious act) of the Municipal United States Government and the sale of the Municipal citizenry as slaves via "clearinghouse" certificates (the introduction of the Depository Trust Company/Cede and Company used to seize upon and enact the 60/40 split arrangement of the Popes and the "British Monarch" operating the British Crown Corporation), the entire war reparations debate surrounding the end of the Seven Years War in Europe -- also known as The French and Indian War in The United States, and the disastrous changes to the English Common Law undertaken by Admiralty Lawyer William Murray, aka, Lord Mansfield, allowing the Courts to function as Debt Collectors for the King-- and share in a cut of the profits, a hideous pollution of justice in commercial conflict of interest that continues to this day, the creation under the regime of Franklin Delano Roosevelt of more than 350 new unauthorized Federal "Agencies" to act as unaccountable Subcontractors of our Subcontractors.... the list goes on and on.  

Read G. Edward Griffin's book, The Creature from Jekyll Island.  Realize that in the basement of the house where these international criminals met, a vacation home owned by the Rockefeller participants in these meetings, there is a stone altar for purposes of ritual blood sacrifice.  And if you have guts and brains enough, journey on.  

Realize that Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt are all part of the same Clan.  Realize that King Charles III, looks just like Himmler's Lieutenant, Reinhard Heydrich, for a reason.  And come to that, there's a reason that King George V and Czar Nicholas look as if they were cut with the same cookie cutter.  Now take a photograph of the young George V and the young Adolph Hitler-- and erase Adolph's moustache..... look and you shall see and see and see. 

Listen to what another Royal Bastard, Edward VIII's daughter, Emily Windsor Cragg, had to say and show in photographs.  

Bear in mind that all these supposedly English Kings never sat on the Throne of England; they served as "British Monarchs" instead --- and like "Irish Lords" substituting themselves for the local people, they are all Germans since the days of Queen Anne.  George V changed his actual name, (von) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to "Windsor" in 1917 to make it sound more English. 

But he and all his offspring are still German just the same. 

Also bear in mind that the actual (numerous) Kings of England are all French.  Who knew?  Go study the Last Will and Testament of William the Conqueror, who disinherited all his own children from ever owning anything in England, and the resulting Norman Settlement of England. His loyal French Barons were all apportioned their share and granted their sovereignty in England.

You will quickly begin to grasp the enormity of the ridiculous deceptions that have been promulgated on the Public by these dogs in a manger for the past three centuries. 

These are some "high points" for you and any other eager historian to investigate for yourselves. There's plenty more to feast upon. If you want to gain some scope in the world forum, research the fall of the Ottoman Empire --- which was engineered with malice aforethought by the same British Crown Corporation commercial interests that fomented The American Civil War 57 years earlier --- just in time for them to "get a toe in" on the crude oil bonanza in the Middle East.  

You absolutely never hear a word about the Ottoman Empire in any public school history classes, if and when they offer anything resembling World History at all, yet it is fundamental to understanding Middle Eastern politics and history and what the British Crown Corporation did to position itself as a comptroller of Middle East crude oil reserves while at the same time setting up "American" (located anyway) oil refinery and exploration corporations to capture the "value added" profits of turning Middle Eastern crude oil into refined oil products.  

Marvel at how the politicians in DC carped for decades about "oil shortages" while they were consistently among the top three oil product Exporters in the world at the same time.  And also while refusing to develop our own massive crude oil reserves located less than a hundred miles from our major oil refineries. 

Next, why not review the Natural Resource Conservation policies put in place by Theodore Roosevelt, FDR's Cousin, and note how he set things up to buy everyone else's natural resources at bargain basement prices before developing any of our own.  Note how this benefited Roosevelt and his industrialist cronies by promoting commodity supply control (rigging).  

Also marvel at how these same purported "representatives" of ours created the non-existent "National Debt" and preached that idea ---relentlessly --- for decades, to fool the American people into thinking that they owed this insurmountable debt and then use that misinformation to poor mouth for larger and larger "federal deficits". 

Look at the history of Easy Eddie O'Hare, father of the famous Flying Act that O"Hare National Airport in Chicago is named after and his role as Al Capone's "creative" bookkeeper and the development of "double accrual" accounting -- adopted by the Territorial Congress as the official Government Accounting system in 1946.  

Popularly known as "keeping two sets of books" this system was created to dodge the IRS by separating income streams into "budgeted" and "unbudgeted" income. 

So ever since 1946, the run amok Territorial and Municipal Congresses could keep us entertained with endless moaning about "budget deficits" that didn't exist, and "budget fights" that were totally bogus --- while in the background, hundreds of billions in income were being shunted off and shoveled into commercial Black Ops, Payola payoffs to foreign governments, and "investments" in commodity rigging schemes like the Economic Security Fund and Economic Stabilization Fund -- both conveniently abbreviated as "ESF", so that you can go dizzy trying to figure out which illegal and immoral slush fund the crooked central banks are talking about at any given time. 

Look at the issuance of billions upon billions of 1934 Series A "Bearer Bonds" based on our illegally confiscated American silver, mysteriously issued at the same time the crooked 1934 Territorial Congress was declaring "bankruptcy" ---and used as payola to buy off individuals and government officials from here to Bangkok. 

Look at Congressman Louis T. McFadden's impassioned speeches before the Territorial Congress just before all this crap went down and his complaint accusing the Congress of the crime of "unlawful conversion" which is still lodged and "pending" in the House Judiciary Committee records. Just look.  

Pick a subject, any subject, and begin pulling on the thread.  See where it takes you --- and I can tell you, you will always wind up in Rome.  At the end of the day, the center of the spider web is in Rome.  

It is completely, obviously, irrevocably clear that "our Federal government" has been a sham since at least the late 1850's and that Franklin Pierce was the last "American" President even though he was a Bar Attorney and prohibited from holding the actual office of The President of The United States of America. 

Learn to look closely at what you are reading, as in the example above. 

Abraham Lincoln, another Bar Attorney with a less savory complexion, was "President of the United States of America" (Incorporated, a British Crown Corporation) and was prohibited by the 13th Amendment to the American Federal Republic's Constitution from acting as "the President of the United States" --- meaning that "United States" --- or the Federation's actual presidency, The President of The United States of America. 

Are you beginning to see the size, scope, and deliberate chaos caused by the British Crown Corporation, the Government of Westminster, and their Silent Partners at the Vatican?  The duplicitous use of similar names?  The failure to disclose the nature of the subject, by omitting the word "Incorporated"? 

Look at the history of the so-called "Inner City of London" and the whole "suppressed Templars" myth.  What a bunch of bull---as in Papal Bull. There were some sincere men like the Last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, who resisted the Pope, but the Templars --- after becoming successful and honest bankers, were unlawfully converted to the service of the Roman Pontiff by Clement V.  

The Templars weren't suppressed.  They were forcibly converted by the Roman Pontiff to the same evil pagan religion that has subverted and grown up in tandem with the Roman Catholic Church to this day. 

Their remnants controlled by the Bar (Baal) Association and the Temple of London, are on display, like taxidermy specimens mounted on the wall of a Big Game Hunter and echoed in every Freemason Lodge. 

Just look.  And if you want to know how I know all this --- (1) years and years of dedicated scholarship; and (2) resolving to never lie about anything at all ever again.  

When you ally yourself with devotion to the Truth, whatever the Truth may be, it is absolutely amazing how you begin to see the Lies built up around you like a towering prison that is of made of other people's idiocy and self-interest, cemented in place by intergenerational gangs of thugs --- bought off politicians, ignorant bureaucrats, kings who aren't kings, Popes who aren't Popes, money that isn't money, and every manner of crazy deception and most of all, False Claims in Commerce. 

Ally yourself with Truth, learn to read very closely -- paying attention to every nuance of names and styles of printing -- and just start looking around.  Learn that when something surfaces that you have never heard of (or been allowed to think about) --- like the fall of the Ottoman Empire, or the formation of the "British" National Trust or the actual definition of "money"---  it's probably crucial and being hidden on purpose.  So dig into it. And keep digging. 

Learn to look for what should be present, and isn't.  Like any Congressional Declaration of War related to The American Civil War. Any Declaration of War at all, from any Congress.  

And learn to reason your way forward. Using this example, uh, well, there is no Declaration of War from any Congress seated at the time, so... that means it can only be an illegal Mercenary Conflict. 

And then, learn to confirm your theories with evidence drawn from the public and private records of the time --- such as the Muster Rolls and private paperwork of the Civil War soldiers themselves. You will see that they were "enrolled" as fighting for --- not the actual State of the Union, but for the "Confederate" State-of-State organizations, misleadingly called "Confederate States" when they weren't States at all.  

Stare up General Ulysses S. Grant (US GRANT) aka, Hiram Grant's rump until you can see daylight, follow his pedigree, and that of Abraham Lincoln, too.  Realize that there is a reason that General Grant and his wife took a train to Ohio the same night they were supposed to join Lincoln and Mary Todd at the Ford Theater.  And it wasn't to celebrate Easter with their daughter.  It was to take part in ancient pagan ritual sacrifices of the Spring Equinox, sacrifices that included Abraham Lincoln.  

Know that there are two Spirits still at war here, the Spirit of Truth, and the Spirit of Falsehood.  Their battle in the Heavens is long over, and the Heavenly Host is here to settle things on Earth.  Know that. Believe it. It's coming faster than you think and no amount of duplicity will save the Perpetrators of these evils. 

Watch the metamorphosis of "General Order 100" ---the very first so-called Executive Order--- and otherwise known as The Lieber Code, into the Hague Conventions. And how the Hague Conventions were gradually converted into "UN" Conventions, with everyone assuming that "UN" stood for The United Nations, when it stands for the UN CORPORATION, a Nazi-collaborating Vichy French Commercial Corporation formed in 1943, in the midst of World War II, and causing no end of criminality ever since.  

If you don't feel like a Fool's Fool by the time you are done with your required reading and thinking, you certainly should. I do.  I look at what I was taught --- and pointedly, not taught --- in the schools for the Public meaning all us inferiors and infidels called, appropriately for once, "Public School", and can barely control the impulse to vomit, especially on Jimmy Carter and the "Federal" Department of Education he foisted off on the people of this country.  

Did you know that Jimmy Carter is Rockefeller, too?  Did I mention that? I believe I did.  Certain names come up again and again: Roosevelt, Carter, Bush, Walker, Rockefeller, Kennedy --- but at least all the Kennedys weren't uniformly evil.  

I look at what passes for "journalism" in this country and feel the same rising gorge.  I think of the BBC's motto, "Listen and obey." every single day.  And I don't believe anything I hear and not close to half of what I see. I am dedicatedly aware of what I don't see in the news -- like the gross genocide in Gaze and Yemen and most of Africa that is taking place with hardly a whisper from the Press Corps.  

I observe how Black Magic is used by these Perps -- poppets and transubstantiation, for example, -- for commercial impersonation and substitution frauds in all three jurisdictions -- air, land, and sea.   

We, Americans, are being set up as the Fall Guys for the British Crown Corporation and the Government of Westminster and the "United States Government, Inc." and the WEF ---- everyone on Earth is blaming us for their sins, and there's just a couple things standing in the way of these Perpetrators pulling off their "Great Taking"---- and it isn't Donald Trump. 

It's our widely published (and cured) claims against them, the Public Law of Nations, and the actual American Alliance with Russia standing in their way. 

Send them home to Hell where they truly belong; every single hour of every single day, let the prayer and demand be on our lips: kill the corporations masquerading as our governments.  Lawfully convert them -- nationalize them -- without further delay, and step up to populate our lawful American Government, instead.  Let all the nations rise from their slumbers and do the same.  

We have given you all the information and tools to peaceably, lawfully, and hopefully, with alacrity, do what needs to be done; and as for my sources, definitely include The Bible, which is the ultimate playbook of the Perps and which is driving their narrative full time.  

You will find their instruction for conducting war by polluting the food and water (and even the blood) of their adversaries in the Book of Isaiah.  

You will find their instruction for destroying the world by fire in the Book of Revelation -- hence their many decades of polluting the natural world with incendiary and poisonous industrial by-products.  Look at the 1989 Commemorative Coin issued by the Vatican to celebrate their chem-trails program.  And examine the destruction of Paradise, California, and Lahaina, Hawaii.   All they needed was a laser to touch off "spontaneous" metallic incendiary fires that burn hotter -- much hotter -- than any natural fire. 

These men and women are criminals and psychopaths, who have polluted the Earth, and attempted to blame others for it.  

It's time we all went home, us to Heaven, and them to the Abyss. 

But you, dear children of the Living God, have nothing to fear, only a simple choice to make.  Choose life, and in choosing life, you will choose against evil.  You will see evil for what it is and be done with it forever. 

You can do this for yourselves, and you will be content that I gave you more than enough abundant sources to explore and confirm everything I have said. 

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

January 21st 2024 

----------------------------

See this article and over 4600 others on Anna's website here: www.annavonreitz.com

To support this work look for the Donate button on this website. 

How do we use your donations?  Find out here.

Third Sunday After Epiphany

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

INTROIT Adore God, all ye His angels: Sion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Juda rejoiced. The Lord hath reigned; let the earth rejoice; let the many islands be glad. (Ps. XCVI. 1.) Glory be to the Father, etc.

COLLECT Almighty everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmity, and stretch forth the right hand of Thy majesty for our protection. Through our protection. Through our etc.

EPISTLE (Rom. XII. 16-21.) Brethren, be not wise in your own conceits. To no man rendering evil for evil: providing good things not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as is in you, having peace with all men; not revenging yourselves, my dearly beloved but give place unto wrath; for it is written: Revenge is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink; for doing this, thou shaft heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.

When are we overcome by evil?

When we wish to take revenge. "Revenge is no sign of courage," says St. Ambrose, "but rather of weakness and cowardice. As it is the sign of a very weak stomach to be unable to digest food, so it is the mark of a very weak mind to be unable to bear a harsh word." "Are you impatient," says the same saint, "you are overcome; are you patient, you have overcome."

What should we do if our reputation is injured?

We should leave its revenge, or its defence and protection to God, who has retained that for Himself. "But as a good name," says St. Francis de Sales, "is the main support of human society, and as without it we could not be useful to that society, but even hurtful to it on account of scandal, we should feel bound, for love of our neighbor, to aim after a good reputation, and to preserve it." We should not be too sensitive about this, however, for too great a sensitiveness makes one obstinate, eccentric, and intolerable, and only tends to excite and increase the malice of the detractors. The silence and contempt with which we meet a slander or an injustice, is generally a more efficacious antidote than sensitiveness, anger, or revenge. The contempt of a slander at once disperses it, but anger shows a weakness, and gives the accusation an appearance of probability. If this does not suffice, and the slander continues, let us persevere in humility' and lay our honor and our soul into the hands of God, according to the admonitions of the Apostle.

How do we "heap coals of fire on the head of our enemy?"

When we return him good for evil, for seeing our well meaning towards him, the flush of shame reddens his face for the wrongs he has done us. St. Augustine explains these words thus: "By giving food and drink or doing other kindnesses to your enemy, you will heap coals, not of anger, but of love, upon his head, which will inflame him to return love for love." Learn therefore, from the example of Christ and His saints, not to allow yourself to be overcome by evil, but do good to those that hate and persecute you.

ASPIRATION Ah, that I might, according to the words of St. Paul, so live that I may be a child of the Heavenly Father, who lets His sun shine on the just and the unjust!

GOSPEL (Matt. VIII. 1-13.) At that time, when Jesus was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him; and behold, a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, stretching forth his hand,  touched him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus saith to him, See thou tell no man: but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded for a testimony unto them. And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him, and saying: Lord, my servant Beth at home sick of the palsy, and is grievously tormented. And Jesus saith to him: I will come and heal him. And the centurion making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this man: Go, and he goeth; and to another: Come, and he cometh; and to my servant: Do this, and he doeth it. And Jesus hearing this, marveled; and said to them that followed him: Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel. And I sad to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee; and the servant was healed at the same hour.

Why did the leper say: “Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean"?

He believed Christ to be the promised Messiah, who as true God had the power to heal him. From this we learn to have confidence in the omnipotence of God, who is a helper in all need, (Ps. CVI. 6. 73. 19.) and to leave all to the will of God, saying: Lord, if it be pleasing to Thee, and well for me, grant my petition.

Why did Jesus stretch forth His hand and touch the leper?

To show that He was not subject to the law which forbade the touching of a leper through fear of infection, which could not affect Jesus; to reveal the health-giving, curative power of His flesh, which dispelled leprosy by the simple touch of His hand; to give us an example of humility and of love for the poor sick, that we may learn from Him to have no aversion to the infirm, but lovingly to assist the unfortunate sick for the sake of Jesus who took upon Himself the leprosy of our sins. The saints have faithfully imitated Him in their tender care for those suffering from the most disgusting diseases. Oh, how hard it will be for those to stand before the Tribunal of God at the Last Day, who cannot even bear to look at the poor and sick!

Why did Christ command the leper to tell no man?

To instruct us that we should not make known our good works in order to obtain frivolous praise, (Matt. VI 1.) which deprives us of our heavenly reward.

Why did Christ send the healed leper to the Priest?

That he might observe the law which required all the healed lepers to show themselves to the priests, to offer a sacrifice, to be examined and pronounced clean: that the priest if he beheld the miracle of the sudden cure of the leper, might know Him who had wrought the cure, to be the Messiah; and finally, to teach us that we must honor the priests because of their high position, even when they do not live in a manner worthy of their dignity, as was the case with the Jewish priests.

What it taught by the centurion's solicitude for his servant?

That masters should take care of their sick servants, see that they are attended to in their illness, and above all that they are provided with the Sacraments. It is unchristian, even cruel and barbarous, to drive from the house a poor, sick servant, or to leave him lying in his distress without assistance or care.

Why did Christ say: I wild come and heal him?

Because of His humility, by which He, although God and Lord of lords, did not hesitate to visit a sick servant. Here Christ's humility puts to shame many persons of position who think themselves too exalted to attend the wants of a poor servant.

Why did the centurion say: Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof?

Because he recognized Christ's divinity and his own nothingness, and therefore regarded himself as unworthy to receive Christ into his house.

From this we learn to humble ourselves, especially when we receive Christ into our hearts, hence the priest in giving holy Communion uses the centurion's words, exhorting those to humility who are about to receive.

Why did he add: But only say the word, and my servant shall be healed?

By this he publicly manifested his faith in Christ's divinity and omnipotence, because he believed that Christ, though absent, could heal the servant by a word.

If a Gentile centurion had such faith in Christ, and such confidence in His power, should not we Christians be ashamed that we have so little faith, and confidence in God?

What is meant by: Many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the exterior darkness?

This was said by Christ in reference to the obdurate Jews who would not believe in Him. Many pagans who receive the gospel, and live in accordance with it, will enjoy heavenly bliss with the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who were the most faithful friends of God, while the Jews, God's chosen people, who as such, possessed the first claim to heaven, will, because of their unbelief and other sins, be cast into outer darkness, that is, into the deepest abyss of hell, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Thus it will be with those Christians who do not live in accordance with their faith. Therefore, fear lest you, for want of cooperation with God's grace, be eternally rejected, while others who have faithfully corresponded to the divine inspirations will enter into your place in the kingdom of heaven.

ASPIRATION O Jesus, rich in consolations! grant me the leper's faith and confidence, that in all things I may rely upon Thy omnipotence, and may resign myself to Thy divine will, and may ever honor Thy priests. Grant me, also, O most humble Jesus! the centurion's humility, that for Thy sake, I may compassionately assist my neighbor, and by doing so render myself worthy of Thy grace and mercy.

ON RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF GOD

Lord, if thou wilt. (Matt. VIII. 2.)

Those who in adversity as well as in prosperity, perfectly resign themselves to the will of God, and accept whatever He sends them with joy and thanks, possess heaven, as St. Chrysostom says, while yet upon earth. Those who have attained this resignation, are saddened by no adversity, because they are satisfied with all that God, their best Father, sends them, be it honor or disgrace, wealth or poverty, life or death. All happens as they wish, because they know no will but God's, they desire nothing but that which He does and wills. God does the will of them that fear Him. (Ps. CXLIV. 10.) In the lives of the ancient Fathers we find the following: The fields and vineyards belonging to one farmer were much more fertile and yielding than were his neighbors'. They asked how it happened and he said: they should not wonder at it, because he always had the weather he wished. At this they wondered more than ever: How could that be? "I never desire other weather," he replied, "than God wills; and because my desires are conformable to His, He gives me the fruits I wish." This submission to the divine will is also the cause of that constant peace and undimmed joy of the saints of God, with which their hearts have overflowed here below, even in the midst of the greatest sufferings and afflictions. Who would not aspire to so happy a state? We will attain it if we believe that nothing in this world can happen to us except by the will and through the direction of God, sin and guilt excepted, for God can never be the cause of them. This the Holy Ghost inculcates by the mouth of the wise man: Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God, (Eccles. XI. 14.) that is, are permitted or sent by God; all that which comes from God, is for the best, for God doeth all things well. (Mark VII. 37.) Whoever keeps these two truths always in mind, will certainly be ever contented with the will of God, and always consoled; he will taste while yet on earth the undisturbed peace of mind and foretaste of happiness which the saints had while here, and which they now eternally enjoy in heaven, because of the union of their will with the divine will.

INSTRUCTION FOR MASTERS AND SERVANTS

The master of a house should be careful to have not only obedient, faithful, willing, and industrious servants in his home, as had the centurion in the gospel, but still more, pious and God-fearing ones, for God richly blesses the master because of pious servants. Thus God blessed Laban on account of the pious Jacob, (Gen. XXX. 30.) and the house of Putiphar because of the just Joseph. (Gen. XXXIX. 5.) The master should look to the morals and Christian conduct of his servants, and not suffer irreligious subjects in his house, for he must, after this life, give an account before the tribunal of God, and he makes himself unworthy of the blessing of God, often liable to the most terrible punishment by retaining such. Will not God punish those masters and mistresses who suffer those under them to seek the dangerous occasions of sin, keep sinful company, go about at night, and lead scandalous lives? Will not God, one day, demand the souls of servants from their masters? The same punishment which will befall those who deny their faith, will rest upon careless masters and mistresses, for St. Paul the Apostle writes:

But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. (I. Tim. V. 8.)

Subjects should learn from the centurion's servants who obeyed his only word, that they also should willingly, faithfully, and quickly do every thing ordered by their masters, unless it be something contrary to the law of God. They should recollect that whatever they do in obedience to their superiors, is done for God Himself. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God. Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart as to the Lord, and not to men: knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ. (Col. III. 22-24.)