Adjusting for National and International Roles in Canada

 By Anna Von Reitz

The earliest efforts to organize the land and soil jurisdiction governmental bodies in Canada were made by the members of Terra Canada Assembly.  

Fearing that the limited number of assembly members and the vast geographical scope of the need would lead to loss of land and property assets throughout Canada before a province-by-province effort could be established, the Terra Canada Assembly created its own form of Federation and reorganized to form two giant counties serving East Canada and West Canada in addition to their international State. 

This new government structure was brand new, never done before, and was never set up according to "provinces" and doesn't therefore allow for provincial assemblies. 

Meantime, months and in some cases, years, later, people living in each one of the current provinces woke up, declared, and decided to organize the equivalent of state assemblies in each one of the provinces. 

Question: Which one of these processes and/or organizations are right? 

Answer: They both are.  

It simply remains for the people of Canada to join Terra Canada and declare the form of their state-level assembly and everyone go from there.  

This is important to understand, and I will use our country as an example. 

The United States of America is NOT a sovereign entity -- and it never has been a sovereign entity.  The United States of America is an "instrumentality" of the nation-states, which are the "free, sovereign, and independent states".  The United States of America represents these nation-states in international jurisdiction, where these states operate as the States of the Union. 

Canada was organized using the same templates, only within the British Commonwealth system. 

Provinces were used instead of States of the Union.  "Canada" was used instead of "The United States of America".   

Now, "Terra Canada" is standing in that international slot that was once occupied by "Canada" and this distinction had to be made in order to establish the land jurisdiction instrumentality that never existed under the British Commonwealth system. 

Canada is finally leveling up to be able to fully function as a country in possession of its own land jurisdiction, which then also claims the sea and the air jurisdictions related to it.  

So don't get confused or worry unduly.  The right things are being done, step by step, by loyal Canadians. Those who are organizing Terra Canada are not wrong, and neither are those who are organizing the equivalent "state" assemblies in the old provinces. 

We all have to bear with each other through these confusions and keep faith in the goals underlying everyone's actions.  Terra Canada formed to protect the interests of all Canadians, including people living in those provinces that didn't have any equivalent state assembly. It should be understood and supported in those terms. 

Terra Canada is the Canadian equivalent to The United States of America, our unincorporated Federation of States of the Union.  It's an instrumentality of the nation-states that, prior to this, have been deemed "provinces" in the British Commonwealth system. 

Please keep in mind that Canada, like other former Commonwealth nations, has to add and subtract organizational components, has to find some new names and ways to operate --- and only Canadians can do this.  So the name of the game is to cooperate, form your entire country into a Think Tank under Terra Canada and let Terra Canada function as your umbrella -- keeping the rain off while you continue to organize and discuss and problem-solve --- and keeping your nation-state assemblies going in each one of the (former) provinces, too.  

There is no competition actual or implied between Terra Canada and the nation-state assemblies now operating in the old provinces. Just as Americans conceptually co-exist in both a State and a County, Canadians co-exist in the international structure provided by Terra Canada and the national structure provided by the nation-state assemblies of Alberta, Quebec, British Columbia.... et alia. 

And the glorious thing about this, is that once people get their heads wrapped around it, they can join together and make whatever changes and choices seem best to them and their nation-states.  

If anyone disagrees with what is being done, it's an open forum, and membership is public.  

So, by all means, Canadians join Terra Canada and start the discussions.  Join your nation-state assemblies in each of the provinces, too.   

Live and learn and work together for the safety and benefit of everyone concerned, understanding that Terra Canada is serving a protective function and didn't take anything away from anyone --- quite the contrary.  It added the dimension of land ownership and independent government to the mix, and did so for the true benefit of each of the nation-states that were relegated to the position of being provinces in the old British Commonwealth system. 

Canadians, this is your opportunity to initiate your own independent government, peacefully, legally, and lawfully.  This is your opportunity to own your own land directly and to float your own boats.  And the only wrong answer you can give, is to renounce responsibility for yourselves and fail to work together. 

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International Public Notice: The Gist of the Matter

 By Anna Von Reitz

The Big Lie was the Doctrine of Scarcity -- the artificial deliberate creation of scarcity as a means to employ coercive power and manipulate access to commodities and performances. 

There is actually a great abundance of everything on Earth, more than enough to guarantee everyone food, shelter, water, clothing, education and everything else they might need.  

God is not a Deadbeat Dad. 

Yet those pretending to be God's representatives on Earth conceived and operated this "doctrine" for their own political and economic advantage for centuries, and excused it using the theory that poverty promotes the development of virtue, similar to the idea that suffering is necessary to develop compassion. 

Although both virtue and compassion can result from dire adversity, there is nothing in mankind's experience to suggest that both do not or cannot arise from rational contemplation and attunement of natural conscience. 

Having overcome any excuse to continue the Doctrine of Scarcity, we have arrived at a time on Earth when the shadows of disease, death, and disaster can be removed, too.  

There is no lack of anything.  No lack of water.  No lack of arable land.  No lack of gold, silver or other metal.  No lack of anything at all.  The illusion of scarcity was just that -- an illusion wrought by careful manipulation of information.  

So -- the abundance is here already, no need to seek it, mine it, define it, or package it.  

The hold up revolves instead around who gets to deliver this abundance back to the people to whom it naturally belongs. 

Do we allow the creation of two new monopolies (BRICS and QFS) fronted by the same people who set up the first harmful monopoly? And let them continue to control distribution of both actual assets and credit related to those assets?  

Or do we do something completely different, which is decentralized and direct, so that there are no monopolies and no control by the same old comptrollers, and relatively speaking, no middlemen?

----which is the position taken by the Global Family Bank and our Prosperity Network.  

The militaries which have been the handmaidens of the old system are having a hard time accepting the change, despite their poor performance and the misdirection they have suffered -- they still want to control everything and everyone, because they associate control with "security".  

This implies that mankind needs more and more and more security and at the same time, less and less and less accountability and ownership interest -- a proposition which is in stark contrast with Nature and Universal Law. 

Treating us like babies and appointing themselves our caregivers does nothing to progress the advancement of justice, reason, or evolution.  All it does is set up a situation where one group, the beneficiaries, are preyed upon, and the other group, the trustees, suffer the temptations of ultimate power.  

Ultimate power corrupts groups of men just as surely as it corrupts individuals.  We should flee from the creation of any such singular power, whether a king, a Caesar, an emperor, or an oligarchy.  All these forms of government have failed repeatedly, miserably.  All have fallen into deceit, despotism, and tyranny. 

We need a new system built upon the most successful administrative systems of the past, but lacking the coercive and unnatural powers of monarchies, oligarchies, and yes, democracies which enshrine mob rule and political manipulation. 

Americans need to observe that we have always had a republican form of government, not a democracy; the only democracy in view here is the democracy favored by the British Territorial Government subcontractors operating under a service contract known as The Constitution of the United States of America.  

So all this talk about "our" democracy, and "protecting our democracy" --- is them talking about their democracy, with no mention of the need to protect and serve our homegrown American government. 

There is a profound difference between public administration of services and government -- as the word "government" itself reveals. 

The word "government" openly admits to mind control.  It admits to setting up first mental-emotional and then institutional values that people accept -- "consent to" -- as a basis for organizing service delivery and imposing standards of behavior.  

The American government espoused by our Founders supremely values the individual and individual rights, freedom, and protections.  They deliberately enshrined a value system that says we are all equally important, all equally owed the protections of the law we adopt, and we are all to be cherished and uplifted. All.

So that is the basis of our consent. 

The present hold-up isn't about lack of abundance to meet everyone's needs, it's about who gets to distribute the abundance and why and how.  

Let all people take notice; what is holding back the beginning of universal abundance is men scrabbling over control of the distribution --- one side that has already woefully failed the trust, and one that is brand new, never been done before. 

We, the living people, are not omnipotent.  We don't know "for sure" the outcomes of our aspirations.  Our part is to envision what we want as clearly as possible, and then do our best to cooperate with Universal Law and bring that vision to fruition

The people of this country and the living people all over the world have envisioned a world of peace and respect, abundance and simplicity. 

We tried to achieve that via the Rothschild-Rockefeller banking central banking system and it failed; corruption set in and monopolies were established and used to coercively control those they were meant to serve.   

Under our Law, there can be no coercive monopolies.  Under our Law, each individual living man or woman is guaranteed their individual abundance, their freedom and their joy -- not the burdens and intrusions of a surveillance state guarded by Artificial Intelligence. 

When viewed from this perspective, the viewpoint and value of the individual living being, we all have skin in this game, and we all stand to gain all that we ever hoped for.  There is no "other side" that can argue against our solution, because nobody is being oppressed or treated unfairly.  Everyone --- absolutely everyone --- benefits and not by a small measure. 

So, where, now, is the crying and the injustice?   It is gone as if it never was, and the blessing of peace is begun.  What is the purpose of "politics"?  It has none.  Racism?  Not rational.  Religion? The true God is One, not broken into pieces.  

The truth is true forever. 

We cannot guarantee that there won't be struggles and mistakes; we cannot guarantee flawless performance; we cannot guarantee that corruption will not seek to choke the tender seeds and tendrils of this new beginning.  We still need the guidance and help of Divine Providence, not because there is not abundance enough to go around, but because people are confused and needing insight into their own nature.  That insight will end all fear.  

We call upon the militaries of the world to set fear and anger aside, to stand in honor, and with a true will to establish justice and peace for all people.  Accept the vision of the Global Family Bank and our bilateral banking system that delivers directly to the people, individual by individual, worldwide. 

You, too. 

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

April 28th 2026

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International Public Notice: Change of Trusteeship

 By Anna Von Reitz

The following letter has been sent to the U.S. Secretary of State and the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1789) and lays out the basic claims for non-performance over a period of decades. 

It also mandates liquidation of the trusteeship. 

The bankruptcy of the UNITED STATES corporation is complete and the remaining assets have been distributed and are now under recoupment by the actual owners.

We are collecting our original documents from various places around the world prior to transferring them to our National Archives. 

Prior to this each document has to be scanned into our computer databases as JPEG files, and those files have to be replicated and distributed.  

In a relatively short period of time the Federation will take over the vacated government functions while the states finish their work and debate renegotiation of international treaties and restructuring of the federal government.  

http://annavonreitz.com/changeoftrusteeship.pdf

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

April 27th 2026

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Rest, Restore, Recoup, Recover, Receive

 By Anna Von Reitz

You may not have realized it with so many potent distractions filling up any and every void in your newscape, but we have arrived at a ceasefire in the real war taking place in the air jurisdiction. 

That is giving us all a chance to breathe, to "rest, restore, recoup, recover and receive" our mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical selves. 

We have a lot to be thankful for, and gratitude is one of the most healing emotions we can have.  Just soberly evaluating all the things that we have in our lives to be grateful for, forces a reset of energy. 

It's literally impossible to feel sorry for yourself and grateful at the same time.  It's also hard to be anxious and grateful at the same time.  

As we move closer to a joyous reunion at our National Capitol, Philadelphia, we can be grateful for our forefathers and the enduring legacy they left us.  

In our personal lives, no matter how challenging, there are always many things and people who quietly sustain us and comfort us.  They are just waiting for you to pause a moment and notice. 

Maybe say, "Thank you!"  Maybe take that extra few moments to commune with a pet.  Pause a second and make the kiss on your toddler's forehead meaningful.  

We don't always think of our real resources. 

Our energy is at least half of our total endowment. We need to make wise choices about how we spend it. 

This is the time to take stock of yourselves and ask -- honestly -- am I healthy?  If not, what can I do to improve this situation?  

This precious hard-won time, this little respite, is the moment to assess your heart-space.  Is it cluttered with unresolved relationships? Old grudges?  Fears?  Love left unexpressed? 

This is the "clutter" left over from living, like using your heart as a storage unit piled high with boxes, most of which aren't even labeled. 

This is your time to dig in and decide what to keep and what to throw away.  

Time, even, to review your religious beliefs and practices.  Do you actually believe it?  Do you actually practice it?  

I am drawing your attention to your own selves and your own housekeeping, because this is the exact moment given to us to reflect and detect --- turn our Shinola Sensors on our own lives, and not just the world around us.  

For all of you who are all hep-up and starving for news, there is no news yet, except the news that you are safe and granted some precious time to be at peace and work on your own issues. 

The Vermin make it their very profitable business to keep us anxious, worried, stressed, always on alert, always giving our attention and energy away to them and their schemes and demands.  

For this precious moment, that ends. 

You are about to receive unimaginable gifts and insights, a whole mind-numbing inheritance. This brings its own form of stress into your life, so you have this little space to prepare for it. 

This is your time to get yourself in order. 

Make the most of it.  

Granna

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Sleeping Angels

 By Anna Von Reitz

There are an estimated 200,000 "Earth Angels" presently incarnate in the General Population worldwide. This is a very small percentage of the population overall, yet it is orders of magnitude larger than the population (200) of the remnant of the Fallen Angels that have been hiding out on Earth and causing all this death and criminality.   

Many of the Earth Angels -- what we call angels incarnate in the Third Dimension -- are still asleep; others are only beginning to grasp bits and pieces of awareness. 

Awareness usually begins in Grade School with a baseline understanding that you are "different" and that's a big clue. If you are a member of the Host, you will be a good person, basically friendly and non-violent, adhering to moral codes and conduct. 

What are the signs and symbols that you may be an incarnate member of the Host?  

If you see a large "M" inscribed in the lines criss-crossing either one or both of your palms, or a crescent moon shape that forms in the upper quadrant of your palm when you hold both hands upward and together --- these are spiritual genetic markers associated with angelic DNA. 

If you feel perpetually alone and/or lonely, if you have great empathy for people, if you have faced completely inexplicable, unearned hatred and rejection, if you have odd "gifts" of intuition, sense of direction, ability to locate water (dowsing ability), clairvoyance, etc., ---if you innately recognize and oppose lies, if you have faced intense, systematic "blackballing" for no apparent reason, if you have a mysterious yearning to go home, but have no idea where home is.... chances are you are an Earth Angel. 

As you mature, you will eventually begin to transform. 

You will gain constant incremental insight into your purpose and mission on Earth, gradually coming to understand that there are "forces" opposing you and your goodwill toward mankind. You will be able to recognize those forces. 

Those odd gifts and abilities which you probably noted, but ignored for various reasons, will become stronger and stronger. Your sensitivity and your power on all scores will increase.  For example, you will no longer need a dowsing rod to find water. Clairvoyance, if you have that gift, will increase so that you can see not only the past, but the future, in startling detail. 

You will become immune to energetic and spiritual manipulation. Witches can throw hexes and "evil eyes" and they can fast and draw together their covens and cast spells at you, the Evil Ones can lie and bring false claims against you all day long -- without effect. It just bounces off you and straight back to whoever sent the ill-will.

While you are called to be more active, to form trinities, to anchor the ley lines and do other work, you will also feel drawn inward and naturally seek solitude, or seek peace with other angelics.  Those who have a Twin Flame still on Earth will be drawn to reunite with them. Soulmates will be drawn --even from vast distances-- to assist in the work.  

Money and materials and manpower will start flowing to you.  A sense of ease and flow will come into your mind and your life. 

Finally, an unshakeable peace will come to you, the "peace which passes all understanding" and you will be standing there, a fully transformed Earth Angel.  

Earth Angels are the same powerful beings you hear about in the Bible, servants and messengers and warriors of the True God.  

We are each here to do a job that's long overdue.  Let your hearts be light. Let no fear darken your heart or mind. 

And if you are a Sleeper, time to wake up. 

Granna

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The Mission and the Stopping Point

 By Anna Von Reitz

Again, strange as it may seem, the Mission was first flagged for me by child abuse.  Throughout my early years I encountered people who simply hated me for no apparent reason. It wasn't just my own Mother.  

There was my Fifth Grade teacher and the Captain of the High School football team, and others, too.  They despised me and attacked me and did things like scratching me and lying about me for no apparent reason.  

I never did anything to them.  Nothing at all.  Yet, they attacked. 

Much later, I learned that these people attacked because they were in the religious sense, possessed by demonic energy.  Foreign energies. And often, these foreign energies inhabited members of a subspecies of mankind -- not a nationality, not a religion -- a literal subspecies. 

We don't normally think in terms of there being subspecies of mankind, and it is not a positive conceptualization because it can too easily twisted into prejudice and more divisive alienation; however, the simple truth is that we all exist as spiritual entities inhabiting physical bodies, and some physical bodies are better suited to carrying angelic spirits.

I personally believe that most of the devices that have been used to create prejudice and violence and alienation --- racism, religion, politics --- are, beyond being handy tools to manipulate mankind, a smokescreen to keep us from seeing the covert, unrecognized carrier subspecies that makes it possible for angelic entities to come and go upon the Earth, unidentified by the rest of the population. 

This doesn't mean that the Carriers are bad, simply that they are a host for angelic spirits, and those angels can be fallen angels or angels loyal to God, either one. Carriers have unique genetic make-ups that allow for the higher energy demands and more durable neural components needed to support habitation by angelic beings. 

At the time I first discerned the odd similarity among my attackers, and deduced that they were responding to fear and anger that I mysteriously provoked in them, I couldn't imagine that they were attacking because I carried an angel spirit loyal to the True God, and they were inhabited by Fallen Angelic powers. 

The whole idea would have seemed preposterous to me, just as it probably sounds improbable or "crazy" to you; yet, long years on Earth have proven this to be true.  The Heavenly Host has pursued the Fallen, even into the flesh.  

Our mission is to capture the Fallen and remove them from Earth before they can destroy it.  We have to stabilize the Earth's electromagnetic fields and biosphere, both. Most of all, we must protect mankind from what appears to be self-destruction, but which is actually the work of possessed Carriers being used like sock puppets: "they know not what they do...."  

You are witnessing the end throes of a cosmic battle, not between "good" and "evil", but between opposing spiritual energies -- those aligned with life and love, versus those aligned with death and hatred -- and taxes.   

A couple weeks ago, I announced that it is over.  Decisive victory has been achieved by the Life Forces and their Allies, but not before great damage has been done to millions of innocent people and their natural genome. 

And not before the Fallen initiated vast institutionalized and commercialized child abuse as a means to limit the onboarding of the loyal Host, which outnumbers them two to one.  If they kill the Carriers, they can control and counterbalance the incoming forces. 

So it is not insanity that prompted their bizarre behavior toward babies and children. It was cold, calculated self-preservation; the commercial motivations -- adrenochrome, organ harvesting, DNA replication, etc., -- came as an afterthought.  The cherry on their death sundae. 

Why don't they kill me?  Because I have already transformed. I came to the party early -- 1956.  They know that if they kill my Carrier now, my true form will be inside the terrestrial dome, and I will track down and dispatch every single one of them --- "and your little dogs, too."  

The additional things that they have pursued -- chemtrails, weather warfare, corruption of the courts and lawfare, promotion of drug use and abuse of all kinds, prostitution, counterfeiting, inland piracy, treason against sovereign national governments, legalization of monopolies, an insane debt-based financial system, directed energy weapons, and electromagnetic control grids using transmitters and transceivers injected along with all their "vaccines", etc., etc., etc., --- have to be wound down.  

A lot of false politicized science has to be debunked and people have to be re-educated about math and physics and medicine and a great many other things. 

Members of the loyal Host are now forming trinities, groups of three members that resonate their ancestral spiritual DNA frequency.  The Earth, which is a resonant magnet, begins to "hum" --  and the Earth Energy Corridors -- vast electromagnetic flumes begin to open up.  This brings the Earth back into balance. 

This is the true Great Reset and it is already too far advanced for the remaining opponents to do anything about it. 

So the "mop up" continues and you are seeing it in real time; this means that except for those forces still actively engaged, a blessed stopping point has been achieved for everyone to rest, restore, and receive their blessings which have been long withheld. 

The thieves have been caught along with the murderers and Heaven's judgement rests unerringly upon them.  

After the Stopping Point, which is to deliver basic rest and triage, the second half of the Mission will begin, a period of time when we update the celestial computers and adjust programs and data management to restore water in desert regions and similar beneficial tasks.  Massive projects to clean up pollution and address serious biological and chemical hazards will also lock in.  

This will all happen quickly and you will be amazed how efficiently this is accomplished with the cooperation and help of national military organizations and local communities around the world.  

As the external biosphere is being reclaimed, other necessary actions will come to public attention.  Use of non-consensually implanted nano-transmitters and receivers will be outlawed along with 6G and the massive data centers that have been developed as a means of breaching our privacy and establishing more coercive control and surveillance. 

The men who planned all this and even more disruptive, dangerous, and non-consensual programs like the eugenics projects attached to the Cherubim Horizon umbrella operation --- deserve, at the very least, to go to jail and face up to damage they were prepared to inflict on their unsuspecting countrymen. 

Ditto those who planned and operated the various chemtrail and weather warfare operations, which resulted in vast environmental damage, degradation of the world's food sources, and numerous highly destructive "natural" disasters. 

The drug companies that have developed and marketed dangerous and experimental drugs in preference to known, natural, and safe alternatives simply because those natural alternatives couldn't be patented for profit, and those men and organizations that promoted the weaponization of vaccines, are being dealt with even as we speak. 

A vast revolution of medicine as we have known it is being quietly rolled out as dozens of suppressed beneficial technologies are being made available.  You can expect Cash Cows like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease to completely disappear.  You can also expect your medical costs to plummet.  

For now -- rest, restore, receive.  And as the Bible repeats 365 times, one for every day of the year, "Fear not...." and "Don't be afraid." Don't fear the angels of the Host that walk among you.  They are present for your protection and uplifting. 

Granna

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Third Sunday After Easter

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

The Church continues to rejoice and praise God for the Resurrection of Christ and sings accordingly at the Introit of this day's Mass:

INTROIT Shout with joy to God all the earth, alleluia: Sing ye a psalm to his name, alleluia. Give glory to his praise, alleluia, allel. allel. (Ps. LXV.) Say unto God: How terrible are thy works, O Lord! In the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee. Glory & c.

COLLECT O God, who showest the light of Thy truth to such as go astray, that they may return to the way of righteousness, grant that all, who profess the Christian name, may forsake what­ever is contrary to that profession, and closely pursue what is agreeable to it. Through etc.

EPISTLE (I Peter II. 11-19.) Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims to refrain yourselves from carnal desires, which war against the soul, having your conversation good among the Gen­tiles: that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may, by the good works which they shall, behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation. Be, ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of the good: for so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: as free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God. Honor all men: Love the brotherhood: Fear God: Honor the king. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thanks‑worthy, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

EXPLANATION St. Peter here urges the Christians to regard themselves as strangers and pilgrims upon this earth, looking upon temporal goods only as borrowed things, to which they should not attach their hearts, for death will soon deprive them of all. He then admonishes them as Christians to live in a Christian manner, to edify and lead to truth the Gentiles who hated and calumniated them. This should especially be taken to heart by those Catholics who live among people of a different religion; for they can edify them by the faithful and diligent practice of their holy religion, and by a pure, moral life lead them to the truth; while by lukewarmness and an immoral life, they will only strengthen them in their error, and thus inure the Church. St. Peter also requires the Christians to obey the lawful authority, and therefore, to pay all duties and. taxes faithfully, because it is the will of God who has in: stituted lawful authority. Christ paid the customary tribute for Himself and Peter, (Matt. XVII. 26.) and St. Paul expressly commands that toll and taxes should be paid to whomsoever they are due. (Rom. XIII, 7.) St. Peter finally advises servants to obey their masters whether these are good or bad, and by so doing be agreeable to God who will one day reward them.

ASPIRATION Grant me the grace, O Jesus! to con­sider myself a pilgrim as long as I live and as such to use the temporal goods. Give me patience in adversities, and so strengthen me, that I may willingly obey the lawful authority, though its laws and regulations should come hard and its tribute press upon me.

GOSPEL (John XVI. 16‑22.) At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: A little while, and now you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father. Then some of his disciples said one to another: What is this that he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me, and, because I go to the Father? They said therefore: What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he speaketh. And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him, and he said to them: Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a little while and you shall see me. Amen, amen I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman, when she is in labor, hath sorrow, because her hour is

come: but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. So also you now indeed have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice: and your joy no man shall take from you.

What is the meaning of Christ's words: A little while and you shall not see me; and again a little while and you shall see me?

St. Chrysostom applies these words, which Christ spoke to His apostles a few hours before His passion, to the time between the death of Jesus and His Resurrection; but St. Augustine, to the time between the Resurrection and the Ascension, and then to the Last judgment at the end of the world, and he adds: "This little while seems long to us living, but ended, we feel how short it is." In affliction we should console ourselves by reflecting, how soon it will terminate, and that it cannot be compared with the future glory, that is awaiting eternally in heaven him who patiently endures.

Why did our Saviour tell His disciples of their future joys and sufferings?

That they might the more easily bear the sufferings that were to come, because we can be prepared for suf­ferings which we know are pending; because He knew that their sufferings would be only slight and momentary in comparison with the everlasting joy which awaited them, like the pains of a woman in giving birth to a child which are great indeed, but short, and soon forgotten by the mother in joy at the birth of the child. "Tell me" says St. Chysostom, "if you were elected king but were obliged to spend the night preceding your entrance into your capital city where you were to be crowned, if you were compelled to pass that night in much discomfort in a stable, would you not joyfully endure it in the expectation of your kingdom? And why should not we, in this valley of tears, willingly live through adversities, in expectation of one day obtaining the kingdom of heaven?"

PETITION Enlighten me, O Holy Spirit! that I may realize that this present life and all its hardships are but slight and momentary, and strengthen me that I may endure patiently the adversities of life in the hope of future heavenly joys.

CONSOLATION IN TRIALS AND ADVERSITIES
You shall lament and weep. (John XVI. 20.)

That Christian is, most foolish who fancies that the happiness of this world consists in honors, wealth, and pleasures, while Christ, the eternal Truth, teaches the contrary, promising eternal happiness to the poor and oppressed, and announcing eternal affliction and lamentation to those rich ones who have their comfort in this world. How

much, then, are those to be pitied who as Christians believe, and yet live as if these truths were not for them, and who think only how they can spend their days in luxury, hoping at the same time to go to heaven where all the saints, even Christ the Son of God Himself, has entered only by crosses and sufferings.

 

PRAYER IN TRIBULATION O good Jesus! who hast revealed, that we can enter heaven only by many tribulations, (Acts XIV. 21 .) hast called them blessed who in this world are sad, oppressed, and persecuted, but patiently suffer, and who hast also taught us, that without the will of Thy Heavenly Father, not one hair of our head can perish: (Luke XXI. 18.) I therefore submit entirely to Thy divine will, and beg Thy grace to endure all adversities for Thy sake, that after this life of misery I may enjoy eternal happiness with Thee in heaven.