International Public Notice: About QFS and "Reset Warnings"

 By Anna Von Reitz

All of this referenced "narrative" is being brought to you by the renegade mercenary-military and their pals at the CIA.  The QFS was drummed up at Wright-Patterson AFB by CIA Operatives and Programmers and Adjuncts in the "Military". It's Black Ops garbage and narrative, narrative, narrative....  

There are no "quantum computers" yet.  There are experimental models and the rest is just talk to keep the Normies coming.  So there is no "Quantum Financial System".  There is only a relatively advanced multi-bit algorithmic system embedded in a block chain large enough to handle the bandwidth of such a system.  

Like the "atomic bomb" that turned out to be an advanced metallic incendiary bomb instead, the QFS is more quasi-military BS, more false advertising and whipped cream they are loading on as they attempt to set up a new systems monopoly to replace the old Swift System transfer monopoly. 

Everyone, use your heads.  The problem isn't because it was called the "Swift System" and was controlled by the IMF.  The problem is that the Swift System was a transfer monopoly, and so is the QFS.  

But as we have seen, the military in this country isn't military in nature, it's mercenary in nature and has been unlawfully converted in this manner since the 1860's.  Everything that we have seen, everything that we have suffered ever since has been brought to us through and by this same criminally misdirected "military" cabal.  

Yes, we said it -- a military cabal, just as bad or worse than any civilian cabal, and they have been sitting in catbird seats, aiding and abetting and expediting every bit of nastiness and war for profit that has happened in this world since 1860.  

They are not the Nice Guys just because they are "military" or because they are opposed to the other Nice Guys who happen to be "civilian" --- the truth is that they are all Bad Guys, just two different varieties of snake slithering around in their respective snake pits. 

The Surveillance State.  The Funky Money.  The Federal Reserve.  The Bonds.  The bonds on our labor.  Our enslavement.  Our indentured servitude.  The theft of our basic identity as living people in possession of our own country, as Americans owed the guarantees of the Constitutions, all of it ---- took place under "military" supervision, with "military" participation, and "military" betrayal. 

All the "missing" children?  800,000 per year in this country alone? You all think that this happened without the direct participation and knowledge of "the military" and "the police", too?   And the courts and the "justice system"?   

What happened is that they sat up one morning and said, "Oh, no! They are on to us!  We've got to do something or it's our ass for grass!"   So they did rouse themselves and they have been cleaning things up and shutting things down.  They had to, if only to scrub the crime scenes of all evidence connecting their own precious selves to it.  

Some of you are blinking back tears.  Some are saying, "Don't listen to the Federation people. They never believe anything."  

That's right.  We don't.  We let the facts speak for themselves. 

Millions of people go missing from this planet every year, but nobody ever seems to know who they are or where they went.  Those milk cartons with all the photos of missing children?  Those weren't lost dog ads.  Those were advertisements.  

Milk. Pizza. Food items for monsters. 

So when the military is telling you all about their valiant efforts to save the children and blowing up deep underground bases and all the rest --- nod appreciatively and think, you sons of bitches knew all about it all along, and did nothing but profit from blackmailing the blackmailers.  Thank you very much for your service. 

It wasn't until they knew that we were closing in on them that they stirred their stumps at all, and then it hasn't been the big sweeping drama they portray.  More like street vendors rolling up their tents at the end of the day, old Cold War facilities being shut down, and evidence caches being deleted.  

If the "military" and Donald Trump were all that they are supposed to be, why are Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg still in the light of day?  Why is Larry Fink fat and happy?  Jamie Dimon? Warren Buffet?  G.W.?  Benjamin Netanyahu?  Silverstein?  Why is Scott Bessant, a bag man for the so-called investment banks and securities brokers, now Secretary of the Treasury?  And why is Jim Rickards, the architect of much of the financial skullduggery -- including the Petro Dollar -- crowing about breaking into a $150 Trillion Dollar Civil War Era "trust fund" that is never explained to the people of this country --- as the answer to the present problems? 

From Ulysses S Grant to the current day -- all of this fetid history happened on the military's watch, while the "military" was purportedly in control of everything, and they didn't even spare the rank and file of their own officer corps or the enlisted.  

Either they were in control and were abject criminals, treasonous scum, thieves and murderers -- or they weren't in control, and were limp-wristed, incompetent, and acting in gross breach of trust.  

We are tempted to ask, "Which is it?" --- but decorum mitigates against it.  

Look at what these worthless pieces of shit did when push came to shove during the Pandemic?  Nothing.  They aided and abetted.  They let their own ranks be decimated.  And here they still are, pandering and bowing and scraping to the criminals in Congress who are ultimately responsible for all of this.  

And still they are still trying to cheat, defraud, control, and steal from average people who have put their trust in "the military" which hasn't been our military in a very long time.  They still aren't admitting the bankruptcy of the UNITED STATES Corporation. They still aren't being honest with the public about the financial audits that the "Department of Government Efficiency" is conducting. 

The CIA and other Baddies set this whole currency reset speculation up intending to cash in themselves.  All the  "investors" were just pawns in their schemes.  You, the investor footing the bill, get the 10-20% and they and their bosses get all the rest.   

You'd have to be totally bonkers to go along with any of this -- the monetary system they've set up to enrich themselves, the whole "reset" blah, blah, blah.  If they get away with it initially, they won't get away with it for long.  

So the real choice, Number Three, is to hike up your skirts, contact the Treasury of the country of origin and ask for the truth.  Call the office of the Zimbabwean Ambassador.  Call the Zimbabwean Treasury Office.  Write them a letter and get it straight from the horse's mouth.  Stop believing all this crap. 

Most of all, people, stop letting your public employees, military or civilian, rule over you like you were mentally incompetent.  The employers call the shots, not the employees.  

Hello?  Reality check in progress.... 

These people are limited to conducting their business in the District of Columbia for a reason.  There is a reason that there is a "Federal Capitol" and a "National Capitol".  Grow up.  Learn.  Get your poop in a group and get moving. 

If you expect any group of employees to be honest and fair toward their employers with no effort on the part of the employers to enforce their contracts and limitations for them, then you expect something that is not in the basic playbook of human nature.  You, Employers, have to play your part, use your own heads, and stand up for yourselves. 

Trump worship is not the answer.  And neither is any uncritical belief in or faith in "the military".  The military is as full of skunks as a used car lot.  And often as full of baloney. 

They have risked their lives all right, and they have gone through hell all right, and most of them have been too deluded to grasp the fact that they've been lied to, used, and abused as cheap-cheap-cheap Lower Than Bargain Basement Cheap Mercenaries for hire --- but that is no reason to think that they are suddenly all geniuses and that they have your best interests at heart, or even the best interests of humanity at heart.  

These same people have been paid to think up "More Better" ways to kill people and destroy the environment, both purposefully and as collateral damage --- for profit --- for 160 years.  That's been their "Mission". 

Now, do we expect them and the industrialists and bankers who have been using their services for fun and profit to do a 180 degree spontaneous reversal, and self-direct a new mission for themselves?

Of course, they are strategically scheming to take over the world's commercial trade routes, scheming to control critical canals, scheming to build new canals, scheming to control oil, scheming to selectively develop oil, scheming to control, control, control and monopolize, monopolize, monopolize.   

It's all they know.  It's their profession.  It's the only mission they have ever known, now and for six lifetimes prior.   

What they are guaranteed to have at heart is a fine sense of self-preservation, a fondness for drama, and greed --- virtually infinite greed.  

In the QFS they have seen an opportunity to seize control of world commerce via a new transfer monopoly and also a means of controlling people and businesses down to a gnat's eyelash.    And they like control. Control means that they don't have to work much.  Just lounge around, drink beer and watch the screens on computer terminals.  Like cameras monitoring toll roads.  

Here is Donald Trump, busted on his butt, borrowing another $1.32 Trillion that he doesn't have and that we don't authorize, for what? Military spending by a bunch of goons that have failed their last seven audits.  Seven.  

How many audits could any other business on earth fail?  Before their shareholders or owners or at least the company accountants woke up and said --- WTF?  

The same Donald Trump who gave Israel $40 Billion in the first forty days of his Administration, apparently to "rearm" Israel so it could continue carpet bombing Gaza into utter, complete, permanent oblivion.  And continue "incursions" in Lebanon.  THAT Donald Trump, is actively preparing for war in Ukraine, now that he has a stake in Ukrainian natural resources. 

Please note that we have the same Rare Earth Minerals in vast quantities in Alaska, but Trump is choosing not to develop them. That would be too safe, too sane, too practical.  As usual, the "military" eggheads have "overthunk" it and actually think that it is more profitable to develop natural resources thousands of miles away in a foreign and hostile country, than it is to develop the same natural resources in their own backyard. 

Why?  Because "American" investment in Ukraine guarantees a leg up when they want to rape Ukraine for something else in the future. 

We are glad to see that Trump can read the Constitution and that he knows it is a service contract and that keeping our borders defended is part of that contract.  How refreshing.  That also includes the Northern Border yet Trump just let 20,000 Canadians cross over without permission or paperwork. 

Canadians, unlike Mexicans, have the absolute worst reputation for genocides and mass murders of any country or nationality since the United Nations started keeping track.   Yet, it's a-okay to let Canadians into this country without a glance?  And think the worst of Mexicans and Guatamalans?   

Not so far as we are concerned. The contract is to protect and defend our borders.  That means control immigration and access. North or South, East or West. 

We are glad to see Trump taking up the tariff talks and convincing other countries that the Americans can impose tariffs just as well as the next fella, but we haven't gone soft in the head.  We know that tariffs are taxes designed to rig commodity prices and supplies.  We know that consumers pay for them.  

We also know that a 17% sales tax with exemptions will become a 57% sales tax with no exemptions if the U.S. Congress is allowed any power of taxation related to it.  We also know that poor people are better off with no sales taxes of any kind and that sales taxes are inflexible and applied to everyone equally; there is no sliding scale.

The truth is that we don't need resets or foreign Rare Earth Mineral contracts.  We just need free trade and common sense, if there is any left on this planet.  We certainly don't need Mr. Zelensky, nor do we need the Change-of-Regime CIA apparatus that made him a problem in the first place.  

It's all thuggery.  It's all criminal.  It profits us nothing to have the most efficient, skillful, and deadly thugs in the world.  007 be damned and the fifty-two men presently pretending to be Ian Fleming, too.  All they do is come home and terrorize Mom and Pop.  

The Brits over the past three centuries have promoted and nurtured a culture of criminal fraud and misrepresentation, they have corrupted their own court system and as many other courts systems as possible. They have proliferated a vast transnational Bureaucratic State System that would have made Louis the Fourteenth blush and they have illegally imposed it on Americans, Canadians, Aussies, and most of the rest of the world without being detected until now. 

Those they couldn't blackmail, they paid off; those they couldn't blackmail or pay off, they killed.  Like Princess Diana. Like Virginia Guiffre.  Or they used their corrupt and vicious court system to imprison their victims-- like Demetrius Julius Shiva, the Colorado Nine, and countless others who harmed nobody and did nothing unlawful, yet were thrown in "Maximum Security" facilities with ax murderers and armed robbers and serial rapists. 

The same Bum's Rush would have been given to Edward Snowden, if he hadn't had enough sense to flee to Russia. We've all seen what happened to Julian Assange.  

For each name and face we know, there are thousands of others like them, people killed, abused, and oppressed by their own public employees, and, at least seemingly, their own government. 

We now know that it wasn't their own government doing these things. 

We now know that it was all being done to us by lawless privately owned and operated commercial and municipal corporations in the business of providing governmental services under contract ---- contracts that the Perpetrators liberally ignored and violated.  

These atrocities against us and against our government by these traitorous and mismanaged public employees are well-marked in our recent histories.  They have names, places, and dates, like Ruby Ridge and Waco.  These gangs of thieves have even assassinated their own "Presidents" and leaders --- JFK, RFK, MLK.    

Even Ronald Reagan, an actor from Hollywood drafted to play the Presidential role, wasn't safe. 

Like it or not, all this violence, all these lies and omissions, all the trampling of freedom, the domestic internments, the coercive monopolies, have all taken place during the tenure of the quasi-military government.  Things went south in 1863 with the very first "Executive Order" creating the Lieber Code (Hague Conventions) and the existential problem created at that time still remains. 

Even with our American Government returned and in Session, the quasi-military drama has continued on.  

Most  Americans have no idea what the 2020 riots were all about.  

The fact that Donald Trump removed "Equal Rights Privileges" with the stroke of a pen was lost in the smokescreen surrounding George Soros.  The same Americans didn't hear that Trump "suspended" the Constitutions --- for Federal Employees and dependents, including military employees and dependents.  Still other truly clueless wonders are trying to invoke the right of habeas corpus, which has been suspended since the days of Abraham Lincoln.  

In the midst of this clamor and confusion, under the conditions of this "official" martial law, we have "the military" spinning more narratives and imposing more conditions on our people, omitting crucial information, creating undisclosed contracts, continuing the unlawful and illegal practice of registering American babies and coercing more registrations in order for Americans to receive "trust funds" issued to the estates of still more Americans misrepresented as British Territorial U.S. Citizens. 

The whole prospect of their "150 Trillion Dollar giveaway" is illegal, unlawful, undisclosed, evil, and predatory, still seeking to defraud and entrap the American people for the benefit and the unjust enrichment of British and Continental European interests--- which are still seeking a basis for False Claims in Commerce and still seeking to continue an inappropriate colonial relationship with our country and ourselves.   

We repeat --- all three bogus public trusts issued in the names of Americans must be released: the American infant decedent estate trusts, the British Territorial seaman's trusts, and the Municipal Roman Inferior Cestui Que Vie ESTATE trusts. All three must go, so that only the American Lawful Person remains.  

The fraudulent "State" Trusts being operated by the members of the Bar, have to be returned to the ownership of the people without excuses and undisclosed middlemen.   It all has to come home and to the actual people it belongs to. 

We denounce QFS and the so-called Reset for what it is --- another Big Lie and another Big Fraud Scheme, salted down with more False and Undisclosed Registrations, and more entrapment protocols, as if we were so many deer to be lured to salt licks.  The "military" to the extent that it is a military, should be ashamed.  Ashamed of their performance ever since 1863.  Ashamed of what they are still trying to pull off today, against the interests of the people who have filled their ranks and their mess kits for 162 years.  

As for Donald Trump --- honesty is the best policy.  

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

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

May 3rd 2025

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This is How It Ends and Begins....

 By Anna Von Reitz

This is a private message, for those of you who are populating the State Assemblies.  Every ending is but a new beginning.  Keep that Law firmly in view, so that you are not deceived anymore by the Evil Ones. 

Over three hundred years ago, the natural end of a hegemony that dominated the Earth unjustly for millenia came to pass; everything was agreed upon, but at the last minute, a plan was put in place to shift identities and jurisdictions of the law, in a way that allowed criminals to escape justice, and that promoted the unjust enrichment of evil men.  

That sleight of hand transition was from the land to the sea, and therefore, from land law to sea law, and from the standing of lawful persons to that of legal persons, occurred in England.  

Now the inheritors of those responsible are attempting another similar quick-change act, trying to shift from the jurisdiction and law of the sea to the jurisdiction and law of the air--- law of commerce and ecclesiastical law. 

There hasn't been a true King of England in 300 years; the British Isles and Commonwealth have languished and labored under "the British Monarch" instead, and the people of these Unhappy Islands have endured a new and separate Liegelord,  "the King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales".  They have lived in an imaginary kingdom called "Great Britain", which is not a country, but is instead a company.  

This is why the government in England is called "the Firm" and its American franchise is called "the Company".     

Now that arrangement is falling apart, too, and the misdeeds of the charlatans who have promoted all of this deceit, are hot on the heels of the Perpetrators of these fraud schemes, even as they attempt yet another sleight of hand and try to escape the consequences they are owed under the Law of the Sea. 

We have seen them adopt air jurisdiction offices, as the Roman Pontiff's office has been liquidated and the Roman Pope has adopted the title of "Patriarch of the West".  In England, King Charles III received his coronation as an "Imperial Majesty" -- another air jurisdiction office.  

The pattern that led to England being morphed into Great Britain is being repeated and though the end goal is somewhat still obscured, probably the announcement of some kind of "United Kingdom Republic" -- we have been to this picture show before, three hundred years ago, during the reign of Queen Anne. 

The unlawful conversion of England and the English people into Britain and the British people, eventually led to the outrageously immoral "enfranchisement" of the British working class under Queen Victoria. 

In this dehumanizing process, the British government redefined the nature of living people and took away the rights of living people, by creating corporate franchises named after them, and then pretending that the people were the dependents and employees of these imaginary franchise corporations.  

Sounds crazy, and it is, but this is what the process of "registration" accomplished.  The private property of the victims was converted into public trust property instead, and used as collateral backing the parent corporation's debts.  

The new assets acquired by the Firm using this undisclosed fraud scheme were used to finance the British Raj in India.  More than a century and a half of mercenary violence followed, from the so-called American Civil War to Afghanistan and back again. 

From our Great-Grandparents forward to the present day, we have lived and died in the thrall of commercial fraud artists operating at the highest levels of the church and the government.  

The criminals responsible grew increasingly arrogant about their little mind game and the legal system supporting it; one by one, registered baby by registered baby, their asset base increased and their ability to wage war for profit increased, too.  

This is why our country, The United States, has been kept at nearly constant war throughout its history.  This is how and why our military was unlawfully converted into a mercenary service.  This is how your name was used as the name of a foreign corporation. 

And now all this Great Fraud has been exposed. 

Their response?  

The current attempt at "jurisdiction hopping" to escape Justice again, which has now been halted and which stands in disarray.

All this is taking place against a much larger backdrop of change, too. 

In the Age of Taurus, our ancestors worshipped cows and bulls and calves; we have heard the echoes of this Age in the stories of Mithras, the temples of Hathor, the story of the Golden Calf, the Hebrew Red Heifer sacrifices, the Minotaur, and the reverence of Sacred Cows in India to this day.  

In the Age of Aries we saw the rise of the Eagle and the Sun, the rise of the City-States, the defeat of the Titans, the Greek Pantheon, and in Egypt, the worship of Amun-Ra and the Monotheists, while worldwide we witnessed the worship of idols and widespread idolatry, multiple Triune Godheads both benevolent and terrifying, male and female, sacred and profane, and some Triune Godheads that demanded vast sacrificial panoplies and endless war.

The Age of Pisces has been a time of illusion and delusion, dark practices of Magick, grimoires, secrets, hidden knowledge, divination, interest in demons, astrology, mystical thinking, Tarot, superstitions, games, lies, deceptions, false identities, spiritualists, seances, soothsayers, sacred oil, holy water, energetic seals, fortune telling,  sacred symbols, ambiguous emblems and mysterious sacraments. 

Now, we come to the Age of Aquarius and a completely different energetic matrix influences the Earth, a time of logic and inventive inspiration, a falling away from superstition and suspicion, a bright light burning away the shifting shadows of Pisces, new scientific understandings, new mathematics, new physics, new technologies. The Truth, so far as we can discern it with our best efforts, is enshrined, and this brings us into alignment with the rest of the Universe.  

Remnants of all the past Ages remain, and even adherents of the former Age's belief systems and religions, remain.  The slow turning of the Cosmic Wheel is an organic process marked in decades and centuries, thus all the hype about the arrival of the Age of Aquarius and the meaning of the end of the Mayan Calendar has been overblown.  People get all excited and then, well, so what?  

The "so what" comes with time, and the resonances connecting this Age of Aquarius with all former Ages of Aquarius --- and all future Ages of Aquarius, too, develops like a slow symphony fugue. Still,  it's 2025, and we are hurtling along with daily announcements about new scientific and archeological discoveries that open up our view of both the past and the future. 

To paraphrase the Bible, when what is True comes, what is False must pass away.  

We are witnessing that "passing away" of falsehood in all realms of our existence.  False religions and false governments and false systems of organization and law must all succumb. False medicine. False indoctrination.  False timelines.  False narratives. All of this must pass away under the flowing hand of the Water Bearer, and be swept away.  

Water, it turns out, has a memory -- just like a computer chip array.  And our individual DNA carries forward our own individual record of progress and events for the past 13.8 Billion years. 

Perhaps this simple fact more than any other throws the nature and the seriousness of the present crime into stark relief.  Our DNA is sacred and the life it sustains is sacred.  

By arrogantly and secretly aiming to ruin and pollute the DNA of mankind, by proposing that they have created "transhumans" by inserting scraps of genetically engineered mRNA into our cells, these criminals have proposed to own and enslave life itself.  

They have also entertained the ultimate Big Lie.  

Life is a gift to each one of us, but we didn't create it and we don't own it.  Anyone who takes our life from us, anyone who pollutes our DNA, is a criminal of the first order by definition, as they steal what is not theirs to steal and ruin what is not theirs to ruin. 

We must face the fact that criminals have been running our institutions including our governments and our courts, and they have done this under cover and color of law --- until now.  

Together with co-conspirators in the Church, these venal men have aimed to enslave our bodies, our minds, and our souls using a system of deceit that has provided them with coercive powers never granted to them and unjust enrichment beyond their wildest dreams. 

They have lied to us and lied to themselves to do this, building up entire worlds made out of legal fictions -- that is, nothing more than hot air, conventions, terms of art, and rules of a game we never agreed to play.  

We are at the end of their venal Make Believe and are fast leaving behind the Age of Pisces that gave rise to it.  

Their courts are crumbling as people realize that these courts have vastly superseded any authority ever granted to them and have been operating outside any jurisdiction allowed to them for a long time.  Their "States" are revealed to be inequitable and unauthorized trusts.  Their "Public" is revealed to be composed of foreigners, their "public offices" amounting to similarly-named offices maintained by privately owned corporations. 

There is a vast difference between a Sheriff employed by the living people as their Peacekeeper and Lawful Deputy, and a Sheriff-in-Name-Only employed by a foreign corporation as Security Personnel.  

In the same way, our "United States" is a vastly different thing in both nature and function than their "United States", and all across the board, they stand revealed as Con Men, commercial racketeers, Play Actors, and criminals. 

The Age of Illusions and Delusions that made this Great Fraud possible has finally come to an end, and with it, the end of the perversions, lies, blackmail, and deceit that made the Great Fraud possible. 

The people of this planet, including the Perpetrators, are unavoidably waking up, rubbing their eyes, and becoming aware of the new energies flooding the atmosphere.  Those who dwelled in darkness have not only seen a great light, they are beginning to comprehend it. 

Don't be afraid as you go forward and pass through the final days emerging out of the darkness and confusion.  

The debtors are in fact the creditors, the commoners are kings, the actual world is abundant, while the Make Believe realms stand as empty as shadows.  Your friends turn out to be your enemies and your enemies are revealed to be your true and long-suffering friends. The judges are revealed to be the criminals, and the purveyors of Justice, prove to be the worst offenders against it. 

In every realm of mankind's endeavor, the same upside-down-and-backward reality is suddenly self-evident and begging for correction. 

There is plenty to fix, plenty to do, and plenty to embrace.  Trauma to be overcome.  Old nightmares to put away.  Sickness to return to health.  Universal Law to replace self-interested opinions.  Poverty and ignorance to relinquish.  

Never throw away the things that are good for you, the things that support you and affirm you, the beauty and diversity that is the hallmark of your life, the positive aspects of your culture, the honorable history of your nations, the values that have stood the test of time, the sincere and honest love of life. 

At the same time, stand ready to change, ready to recognize those things that are false and those things that have harmed you, those things that have been used to scare you, to denigrate you, to defraud you, to murder you and to steal from you and enslave you.  Those things that have misguided you and betrayed your trust have to go.

All that is false, including the Spirit of Falsehood, must pass away.  See evil for what it is, turn your backs on it, and walk on. 

We are done with evil.  

Everything that harms life is evil.  The ideas and practices that reduce you to the level of an object, a mere "thing" like a bookcase, are evil.  Reducing everyone to the lowest common denominator is evil.  Lying to ourselves or anyone else, is evil.  Group prejudice is evil. Gossip is evil.  Immoral selfishness is evil. 

As you move forward into this new chapter, new realizations will come to you.  The need to discipline yourself and to discover the truth about yourself will become obvious with time; self-governance 

will cease to be a foreign concept, and will be part of your life that you cherish.  As you learn to govern yourselves and know your own nature, you will learn to govern your nations and your world as well. 

As you learn who you are and test yourselves and strive for higher aims, you will also learn to respect and trust yourselves, to value what is true about yourself and about mankind, and you will come to value mankind's honorable place as caretakers of creation. 

In embracing the truth, you will come to know it and love it.  Instead of running away from life and avoiding life and escaping from life and being afraid to live, instead of always being cast into the past or the future, you will find your exquisite peace and joy and abundance in the present moment. 

The days ahead will have their challenges.  You may often be left shaking your heads and wondering --- what next?  What is true? What do I believe?  Who do I trust?   This is natural when a world based on illusions runs headlong into a world based on fact.  

Make the effort to sort things through and be patient with yourselves. 

Being able to reliably discern the truth is a skill that is practiced and learned, one that is augmented by your own effort to always tell the truth.  

Through your efforts to know the truth, discern the truth, and tell the truth, the truth will come to you and live in your hearts, and it will be your blessing and your guide, your shelter and your home. 

Beloved living people, brothers and sisters, be gentle with each other.  Let your judgments tread lightly and your compassion expand to all and to all the Earth, for you have been born and sustained by compassion all your days.  In this simple love devoid of lust or gain, lies the truth of divinity and soul of wisdom. 

Don't let any difference divide you. Differences create the kaleidoscopic beauty of this world, and provide its strength and resilience. Realize this and value this and don't be misled or distracted by it.  There are people of every kind, every color, every size, age and sex, every turn of mind.  Be at peace. This is how it is meant to be. 

Look at the world around you.  We have seas of salt and waters that are fresh, we have millions of species of life all around us, how many trees?  How many flowers?  Are they all the same?  And how boring would that be? 

Is a rose truly any better than a violet?  A birch more to be honored than a spruce tree?  Yes, they are different and so are we.  Be at peace.  This is part of the wonder and dynamic of creation.  It is meant to be.  Let no fear concerning our differences enter in. 

Search the internal realms of the heart and the mind to find your peers instead, and having found them, hold them close.  

When you find men and women of goodwill, people devoted to the truth, people who know what is right, and people who do what is right, then stay with them and share the light.  Build a world of truth, peace, prosperity, fearlessness, and kindness. 

We've cleared the decks and now what happens is up to you, and to each one of us. 

Granna

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Second Sunday After Easter

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

Because of the joyous Resurrection of Christ, and the graces flowing to us on account of it, the Church sings at the Introit of the Mass:

INTROIT The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord, alleluia; by the word of the Lord the heavens were established, alleluia, alleluia. Rejoice in the Lord, ye just: praise becometh the upright. (Ps. XXII.) Glory be to the Father, &c.

COLLECT O God, who in the humility of Thy Son hast raised up a fallen world; grant to Thy faithful a perpetual joyfulness; that whereas Thou hast rescued them from the perils of eternal death, Thou mayest bring them to the fruition of everlasting joy. Through &c.

EPISTLE (I Pet II. 21‑25.) Dearly beloved, Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. Who, when he was reviled, did not revile; when he suffered, he threatened not; but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly; who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed. For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

EXPLANATION St. Peter teaches the Christians patience in misery and afflictions, even in unjust persecution, and for this purpose places before them the example of Christ who, though most innocent, suffered most terribly and most patiently. Are we true sheep of the good Shepherd if at the smallest cross, at every word, we become angry and impatient?

ASPIRATION O Lord Jesus! grant me the grace to follow Thee, my good Shepherd, and not to complain and make threats whenever I am reprimanded, reviled or persecuted for justice sake.

GOSPEL (John X. 11-16.) At that time, Jesus said to the Pharisees: I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth; and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep: and the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling, and he bath no care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and mine know me. As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for my sheep. And other sheep I have, that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

How has Christ proved Himself a good Shepherd?

By sacrificing His life even for His enemies, for those who did not yet love Him, (I John IV. 10; Rom. V. 8.) and could not reward Him. He has besides given Himself to us for our food.

How are we to know if we are among the sheep of Christ, that is, His chosen ones?

If we listen willingly to the voice of the Shepherd in sermons and instructions, in spiritual books and conversations; are obedient to it, and especially give ear and follow the rules of the Church through which the Good Shepherd speaks to us, (Luke X. 16.) "for he," says St. Augustine, “who has not the Church for his mother, will not have God for his father;" if we gladly receive the food of the Good Shepherd, that is, His sacred Body and Blood in holy Communion; if we are patient and meek as a lamb, freely forgiving our enemies; if we love all men from our heart, do good to them, and seek to bring them to Jesus.

Who are the other sheep of Christ?

The Gentiles who were not of the fold of Israel, whom Christ sought to bring by His disciples, and now by their successors; into His fold. To these sheep we also belonged by our ancestors. O how grateful we should be to God, that He has brought us into the fold of His Church, and how diligently should we conduct ourselves as good sheep!

When will there be but one fold and one shepherd?

When, by the prayers of the Church and by her missionaries, all nations shall be converted to the only saving Church, constituting then one Church under one head. Let us pray that this may soon come to pass.

PRAYER O Lord Jesus! Thou Good Shepherd who on the cross didst give Thy life for Thy sheep, grant us, we beseech Thee, by Thy death, the grace to be faithful to Thy voice and teachings like obedient lambs that we may one day be numbered among Thy chosen ones in heaven.

INSTRUCTION ON HOPE
I lay down my life for my sheep. (John X. 15.)

What has Christ obtained for us by His death?

The remission of our sins, the grace to lead a life pleasing to God in this world, and eternal happiness in the next, for which we now firmly hope, with secure confidence may now expect, and most assuredly will obtain, if we do not fail on our part.

In what does eternal happiness consist?

In the beatific vision of God, which includes the most perfect love of Him, by which those who are saved become, as it were, one with Him, possessing in this union everything that they can possibly desire.

What are the necessary means of obtaining eternal happiness?

The grace of God, that is, His continual assistance; the practice of the three divine virtues: Faith, Hope and Charity; the keeping of God's commandments; the frequent use of the holy Sacraments, and constant prayer. These means must be diligently employed, for "God who", as St. Augustine says, created us without us, will not save us without us," that is, without our cooperation.

What may especially enable us to hope for eternal happiness?

The infinite mercy and goodness of God, who from all eternity has loved us more than an earthly mother, and. because of this love did not even spare His only-begotten Son, but gave Him up, for our sake, to the most bitter death. Will He then deny us heaven, He who in giving us His Son, has given us more than heaven itself? The fidelity of God: He has so often promised us eternal happiness, and in so many texts of Scripture so clearly explained that He wishes us to be saved, that He must keep His promise, for He is eternal truth and cannot deceive. (Heb. VI. 18.) He says not yes today, and no tomorrow, there is no change in Him, nor shadow of alteration. (James I, 17.) The omnipotence of God, who can do all that He pleases, whom no one can oppose or prevent from doing what He will; if we have confidence in a rich and honest man who assures us he will assist us in need, how much more should we hope in the goodness, fidelity, and omnipotence of God!

When should we make an act of Hope?

As soon as we come to the use of reason and, are sufficiently instructed concerning this virtue and its motives; in time of trouble or of severe temptation against this virtue; when receiving the holy Sacraments; every morning and evening, and especially at the hour of death.

The same thing is to be observed in regard to acts of Faith and Love.