A Letter to Trump Haters

 Posted September 9th, 2020 at 9:25 AM (CST) by Bill Holter & filed under Jim's Mailbox.

  “Someone had to say it”, a letter from two conservatives to Trump haters. Whether you like Trump or not, he stands for the rule of law. It’s pretty simple, he is the alternative to anarchists who are attempting a coup aimed at suspending The Constitution and forcing socialism on our nation. I would bet the average democrat who still feels as if they are an American will agree with much of this. I would also bet the authors feel much better now that this is off their chests…as will the many who read it who are tired of hearing nothing but lies that don’t pass a 6 year old’s sniff test! 

Bill       https://www.jsmineset.com/2020/09/09/jims-mailbox-2582/

A letter to Trump haters.

Dear Trump haters:

If you can’t stand Trump, and cannot possibly fathom why conservatives would ever vote for him, let me fill you in:

We are going to vote for Trump, not so much because we love him… It’s more because we can’t stand YOUR behavior the last 4 years!

We are sick of your self-absorbed, infantile, tantrum behavior which includes hateful, despicable lying and viciously attacking those who disagree with you.

We have never heard SO much non-stop lying, EVER! It has gone way past mere political bickering.

You have been SLANDEROUS, character assassinating, and venomous,

with lies so ridiculous and absurd, they are often amusing,

yet you further condescend by fully expecting us to believe your putrid bullshit.

You have gone WAY WAY past whatever generous tolerance we once had.

You have done everything in your power to destroy our country.

From tearing down the police, to tearing down our history, to tearing down our borders.

From systematically destroying our schools and brainwashing our kids

into believing socialism is the answer to anything (despite being an unmitigated failure everywhere),

while demonizing religion and faith, and glorifying abortion, violence, and thug culture.

Some of the most racist people we have ever known call US racists,

every time we expect someone of any skin color to follow our laws equally.

You tell us that our “tolerance” of lifestyles we don’t choose for ourselves, isn’t nearly enough

— no we must “celebrate” any lifestyle choice or gender option (forget science)

you throw our direction or you think it’s fine to calls us homophobic or some other degrading slur.

— ironically all while lecturing us on hate speech.

While you gaslight us about 52 genders, polyamory, grown men in dresses sharing public locker rooms with little girls, and normalize the sexualization of young children,

you simultaneously ridicule us for having the audacity to wish someone a “Merry Christmas”

or hang a flag on the 4th of July, stand for the national anthem,

or (horror of horrors) don a MAGA hat in public.

So much for your “tolerance.” (See why we think you are such hypocrites??)

We’re also not interested in your imbecilic notion that 250 years of the right-to-bear-arms

against a tyrannical or ineffective government

should be abolished because you can’t get the violence in the cities you manage under control.

We don’t think free-speech should be tossed out the window, or that those who disagree with your opinions are fair game for public harassment or doxing.

WE don’t think Spoiled children with nose-rings and tats who still live off their parent’s dime should be allowed to destroy cities and people’s livelihoods without repercussions.

WE don’t think chaos, and lawlessness, and disrespect for authority should be the norm.

This is your agenda? And you wonder why the GREAT and heretofore Silent Majority of America wants nothing to do with you?

Your narrative is a constant drone of oppressor/oppressed race-baiting

intended to divide the country in as many ways as you possibly can.

You love to sell “victim-hood” to people of color every chance you get

because it’s such an easy sell,

compared to actually teaching people to stand on their own two feet

and take personal responsibility for their own lives

and their own communities and their own futures.

But you won’t do that. You will never do that, because then you will lose control over people of color.

They might actually start thinking for themselves! (Which they are! In droves! Woo-hoo!)

This is why we will vote for Donald Trump.

Not because he is the most charming character on the block.

Not because he is a polite or smooth-talking politician.

Not because he is without flaw or fault…

but because we are sick to death of all of the destructive crap you are doing to this beautiful and relatively safe country.

Your ineffective and completely dysfunctional liberal “leadership”(?) has literally destroyed many of our most beautiful cities,

our public education system, tried to rip faith out of people’s lives, and set up the most pervasive money-laundering squander that has almost sucked this country dry over the last few decades.

No matter how bad Donald Trump’s manners or personal past might be,

and he is far from perfect,

every day we look at what you are doing

and feel that he is the only one standing between us and your bullshit

spread all over our nation.

He is the only one preventing you and the psychos behind your insanity, (the ones who use the disgustingly dishonest media to further brainwash you every day) from taking over this great country.

We are sick to death of your stupid, ignorant, intolerant and destructive behavior and beliefs

— parading as “wokeness.”

We are beyond sick of your hypocrisy and bottomless dishonesty.

We are fed up with your disrespectful divisiveness and constant, unrelenting harping, whining and complaining

(while you live in the most privileged nation in the world)-

all the while making zero contributions of anything positive to our society.

Your focus is on ripping things down, hating and criticizing, instead of building anything up.

Think about that. There is something fundamentally very wrong

in the psychology of people who choose destruction as their primary modus operandi.

When Donald J Trump is re-elected, don’t you dare try to blame anyone but yourself!

Look in the mirror!

Do you even have a sliver of recognition of how special and unique

our nation and its Constitution and Bill Of Rights are?

You make fun of the “fly-over states,” the people who “cling to their guns and religion,”

the middle class factory workers and coal miners and underprivileged rural populations

who you dismissively call “deplorables.”

You have mocked our faith and our religion.

You have mocked our values and our patriotism.

You have trampled and burned our flag

and insulted our veterans

and treated our first responders with contempt and hatred.

You say environmentalism is your priority, while trashing every city you have taken responsibility for.

You scream from the rooftops about “global warming” and a “green new deal”

while allowing a socialist doctrine which produces tens of thousands of homeless people

who cover our streets in a literal shit show of garbage, needles and plastic waste.

But we’re supposed to put YOU in charge when you can’t even clean up a single city??

We’ve had enough. We are tired of quietly sitting by and being the “silent” majority.

So don’t be surprised when we finally stand up.

And trust me it’s coming, sooner than you might think.

Get ready.

Let this sink in.

This election isn’t about Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden.

This is about Donald Trump and us taking our home ground

back from the people who are spurring you on to destroy.

Trump is going to win. You can take that to the bank.

When he does, what are you going to do?

Do you think more of your same behavior, only louder, more obnoxious and destructive, is going to fly?

Is that your plan? You best think about this very seriously.

Or will you find a way to make a positive contribution to your world?

Help people, lift people up, create something useful and productive?

We sure hope you finally decide to join the rest of the family here in the USA,

land of the free, home of the brave.

We will welcome you back like the prodigal son.

But our tolerance for “Death to America, Kill the Cops, and Burn it down”…. that’s over.

Written by Blaine and his friend Stephen Summers. WWG1WGA

President Trump promises to put down election day rioting using “insurrection” powers

 Will he invoke Fourteenth Amendment powers and remove all the TRAITORS, too?

Read the entire article here:  

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-09-12-president-trump-put-down-election-day-rioting-insurrection.html

I have asked Anna to comment.

The Lincoln Turn Around Two Step

 

By Anna Von Reitz

My readers are very familiar with the fact that one man or woman may wear multiple "hats" and that some offices in our Federal Government have involved as many as seven or eight different offices, like the US POSTMASTER GENERAL, who also serves as the United States Postmaster, the US Postmaster, the Postmaster General of the United States.... and so on. 

It should, therefore, come as no surprise to learn that the office of "President" is similarly constructed with multiple offices which are all assumed to be exercised or potentially exercised by one man.  

Those who are awake and thinking often ask me ---- well, if Lincoln was a Bar Attorney and Esquire (joined the Illinois Bar in 1835) and the Titles of Nobility Amendment (ratified and added to The Constitution for the united States of America in 1819) prohibits Bar Attorneys from serving in our government, how in blazes did Lincoln get elected and serve as President in 1860? 

Great and timely question, because they are trying the same "Lincoln Turn Around Two Step" with Kamela Harris today. 

The short answer is that Lincoln was never our President and held no office in our government.  

This is one of the Big Beefs that led to the Secession of the Southern States.

Lincoln wasn't eligible to serve as President of the Federal Republic, but he was eligible to serve as President of the Territorial United States and also as President of the Municipal United States.  

So he simply didn't enter our office --- didn't wear our "hat" --- and represented the two foreign Federal Subcontractors, instead.  If you look at the records, you will see that Lincoln consistently signed all his paperwork in one of three offices: 

1. President of the United States of America (Territorial Government)

2. President of the United States (Municipal Government) 

3. Commander-in-Chief (Territorial Government) 

There is no record of him ever acting as The President of The United States of America (our Federation of States) nor as the President of the States of America (our Confederation of States) nor as the President of the united States of America (the Federal Republic).  

Our last elected President was Franklin Pierce, in 1856. 

Now there is a court case filed in US District Court against Kamela Harris, challenging her eligibility for office of the Vice President of the United States, and perforce, President of the United States, if the President should die or be disabled in office. 

I can already tell you the outcome.  

Kamela Harris is eligible to serve as "President of the United States" -- because the Municipal Government has no law or rule regarding eligibility for that office that she doesn't meet.  

She isn't eligible to serve as "President of the United States of America" -- the Territorial Government Office, but that doesn't matter, because she can simply do the Lincoln Turn Around Two Step, and never enter that office. 

And in the meanwhile, we have millions upon millions of innocent, defrauded, deluded, confused Americans who earnestly believe that these shysters are acting in Good Faith as their "President" ---- when it is completely obvious that none of them are acting in the proper office or in Good Faith, either.  

Thus it becomes necessary for the actual People of this country to get on their High Horse and put on their own dancing shoes, and elect an actual President of The United States of America.  And make it stick. 

Our run amok Federal Employees all need a sit-down Come to Jesus Meeting and all the fraud committed against all of us, needs to come to halt.  

It needs to be recognized that everything done here since Lincoln was elected has been accomplished in fraud.  Every single law, code, rule, codecile, regulation, statute, and business deal concocted by these yahoos since 1860 has been done under conditions of non-disclosure, constructive fraud, and color of law.  

And the worst part of the news that I bring you, is that you have all been misidentified as part of the problem --- and are presumed to be either Territorial or Municipal Employees and/or Dependents, voluntarily participating in this fraud and insurrection against the lawful Government.  

Now, perhaps this will jolt a few more of you off your couches.... go to: www.TheAmericanStatesAssembly.net  and put on your dancing shoes. 

I am told that there are still men in this country who can waltz in waffler stompers.  

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Real reason they hate Trump

Found Here:  https://www.bitchute.com/video/jGcFODWoOlER/

Newsflash: Your Government is Not Bankrupt

 

By Anna Von Reitz

We have spoke about various incorporated entities being bankrupted.  These include both Federal Service Providers responsible for Territorial and Municipal Government Services.  These functions are now in the hands of bankruptcy trustees appointed by treaty, and both corporations are in receivership.  

This causes considerable disruption as the Bankruptcy Trustees and the Secondaries eke out a "basic services interim policy".  

The Municipal Congress was looking forward to this being a time when they could access more and more and more of our credit, using the "Covid 19" False Flag as an excuse.  

That hasn't turned out the way they planned, because we charged it back to the other Principals who are responsible for this mess as a gift.  Not being able to access our credit --- without having it charged back to their own dear Principals --- has considerably dampened their zeal for more appropriations. 

The plain fact is that access to our credit and to our underlying assets, and decisions regarding expenditures, actually remain with us.  And when we pull a Jethro Beaudine and innocently accept their gifts, they have to pay for them, not us.  

Both the Territorial and Municipal Governments are well and truly bankrupt. The Municipal Government is soon to be defunct, and the Territorial Government will be reorganized. 

Your Government, standing in the jurisdiction of the land and soil, is the only government left standing.  It's the only one that is not bankrupt.  It is the only organization with the provenance, standing, and jurisdiction competent to act for this country.  

So you need to wake up and get moving --- ASAP.   Declare your birthright political status and record your 1779 Declarations and join your State Assemblies.  Fill the jury pools.  Fill the militias.  

It's time to move, move, move. 

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Coordinator's Handbook -- Chapter One

 

By Anna Von Reitz

1. Call to Session.  There are three (3) ways that the State Assemblies may be called into Session: (1) they may be summoned by The United States of America, our unincorporated Federation; (2) they may be summoned by the President of The United States of America (the same Federation of States); (3) a committee of nine State Assemblies may call the General Assembly.   

In the present instance, in the year 2020, we are now called to assemble and fifty State Assemblies have answered. 

This has been made possible by our State Coordinators, who are State National volunteers employed by The United States of America to organize and expedite the State Assembly process. 

2. There may be more than one State Coordinator, and in the larger States especially, it is highly recommended that more State Coordinator volunteers be brought on board.  When more than one State Coordinator is present, the Coordinators work together as a team and elect one from the group to function as Lead Coordinator.  The Lead Coordinator from each State will be responsible for corresponding directly with the National Coordinator and The United States of America. 

3. New Coordinators are to receive instruction, including this Handbook, upon completion of the necessary paperwork and vetting process.  

4. New Coordinators need to learn the "Bottom Up" structure and spirit of our actual government of, for, and by the people of this country.  It is exactly opposite to the "Top Down" structure and spirit of both the Federal Government and the corporations that many of us have worked for. 

In the Assembly Process we are engaged in community building.  We are not building a corporation. Corporate business structures do not apply.  Let us all keep that firmly in view.  There are jobs to do, and functions to perform, but the principles of hierarchy and compartmentalization are largely absent. Ideally, everyone in every assembly will know all the jobs and functions, and numerous people will be ready to fill vacancies and bulwark efforts as needed. 

Your State Assembly should resemble a family gathering, because in essence, that is what it is and what it is intended to be: an extended family of friends, relatives, and neighbors working together for their mutual long term security and benefit. 

5. Definitions:  Each State Assembly consists of one (1) Body Politic composed of all declared State Nationals and State Citizens living within the boundaries of each State. 

(A) Anyone who qualifies by birthright or by legal Naturalization processes and who (1) lives in a State on a permanent basis and (2) who declares and records their political status as a State National or State Citizen must be included in the State Assembly.  

(B) Each State Assembly is organized to perform four functions: (1) the General Assembly provides a discussion and decision forum for intrastate business and acts as a Committee-of-the-Whole to decide issues of general interest, conducts elections, and provides oversight for all Assembly functions; (2) the International Business Assembly which is composed entirely of State Citizens, conducts the international and interstate business of the Assembly; (3) the Jural Assembly provides the Court Services and oversees the Grand Jury, Trial Juries, Officers, and functions of the courts; (4) the Assembly Militia is focused on promoting public safety within the boundaries of their State and is the "well-regulated" militia guaranteed to each State for its internal security.  

(C) General Assembly meetings are, generally speaking, public meetings.  If the General Assembly wishes to conduct any private or sensitive intrastate business, they simply divide the agenda and close that portion of the meeting, so that only State Nationals and State Citizens participate.  

All State Nationals and State Citizens must be allowed to attend all General Assembly Meetings.  

Regular Assembly Meetings are scheduled and posted in advance.  Adoption of Rules of Order for the conduct of meetings is highly encouraged.  Publication of an Agenda at least a week prior to all regularly scheduled meetings is also highly recommended.  

(D) Business Assembly meetings are relatively rare events at first, but become increasingly important going forward.  These meetings are open to State Citizens, who are the only ones with standing to vote on the international and interstate business under consideration. 

(E) Jural Assembly meetings are Special Meetings organized by the active members of the Jural Assembly, all of whom are qualified Jurors, able to serve on both the Grand Jury and Trial Juries, or officers of the courts. 

(F) Assembly Militias often meet before or after General Assembly meetings, but many also maintain a weekend schedule for training and to conduct exercises and conduct business unique to the militia.  All able-bodied members of the Assembly between the ages of 21 and 65 are expected to actively support their militia in one way or another, either as active militia or acting in support, supply, communications, and administrative positions.  

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Round Three With Neil Keenan

 

By Anna Von Reitz

Almost a decade ago, I came forward in support of a lawsuit that Neil Keenan brought against the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  Although there is a lot of underlying detail and skulduggery involved, the essence of the case is simple. 

The Chinese Nationalist Government that was eventually overcome by Mao and the Communists deposited a very large amount of gold with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for "safekeeping".  The bank was supposed to pay interest on this Special Deposit, but the Nationalist Government fell, and nobody came to collect for many years. 

The Fed basically just kept the gold, claiming that the original depositor, the Nationalist Government of China, wasn't present to reclaim it, and therefore the bank would just keep the Special Deposit and not pay interest on it to the current Chinese Government, either.  

I have since become aware of many, many other instances where banks around the world availed themselves of Special Deposits that were left with them in good faith, and which they basically commandeered, used for their own benefit, and stole from the original depositors and their heirs.  

It's not just a Chinese problem.  It's a problem of gross dishonesty and greed and malfeasance by banks worldwide. 

These Special Deposits, often referred to as "Legacy Accounts", and often claimed improperly by the banks as "Abandoned Funds", were kept on special separate ledgers by the banks and only appeared on certain computer screens that were accessible only by those who had "keys" and codes to access these screens. I have worked with a wide variety of Trusts and Heirs to these kinds of deposits and the story is the same: the banks seized the depositor's assets, used those assets to profit the bank, and denied the depositors access to their own assets. 

So far as I can see, it's Chinese gold and it clearly belongs to the Chinese People.  So long as they know that it is their gold, and know that their current government is in receipt, that should be their business.  Not ours. Any excuses by the New York Fed, the IMF, or Bank of International Settlements notwithstanding, we know that it is Chinese gold. So give it back to the Chinese, right?  

It's not a political question.  It's a question of very basic property rights and the trustworthiness of banks.  

This problem is so widespread and so pernicious that it has spread worldwide. 

We have bank deposits of assets in the pentillions of dollars that have been cashiered away in this manner, leaving the actual Heirs and Depositors, and even the Bank Trustees at a loss.  Most of the victims haven't even had access to the agreed-upon interest that was supposed to be paid on these deposits. 

This has gone on and only gotten worse since the Second World War, until it has become an issue threatening world peace and economic stability.  

We, Americans, are similarly owed a very substantial part of the gold horde cashiered in the Philippines and Indonesia.  We know where it went, how much was transported, who transported it, who was responsible for it going forward. 

And still, like the Chinese, the actual Depositors to whom this other cache of gold belongs, the American States and People, are being denied access to their own assets and not even being paid interest by the banks.  

Here's the update on Neil's latest efforts: 

https://www.ellaster.nl/2016/04/15/the-trillion-dollar-lawsuit/?fbclid=IwAR0tvn0ggAIwGN49IVIH4Vv51xFqicKPS5w1MaUS0X14RovxEQ-6JlyGyvY

Please be aware and please be supportive going forward.  You, just like the Chinese People, are owed a great deal of gold, silver, and other assets that are yours by right.  A great many other people all around the world have similarly been cheated, and suffered the same kind of theft by other banks and institutions around the world. 

One of the key American Trusts that has been defrauded in this manner is the V.K. Durham Trust, which actually owns and should control a substantial percentage of the world's silver assets.  

It appears that this process of cashiering actual assets and refusing service to actual Depositors is part and parcel of the Roman Pontificate's Doctrine of Scarcity discussed elsewhere, and that it has served to artificially cripple and obstruct the world economy for the benefit of the banks and various other parties and Principals acting in gross Breach of Trust. 

We have been working behind the scenes in tandem to the work that Neil Keenan has thus far successfully prosecuted to bring justice in these matters to the entire world---including the Chinese.

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Minnesota Lament

 

By Anna Von Reitz

It was many years ago.  I was speaking to a group of Minnesotans about the Mess and what needed to be done about it. 

These were good people, a mix of farmers and small businessmen, school teachers, and local clergy.  They all cared a great deal about this country and their communities, but I could tell that they just were not "getting it".  So I stopped and stood still in the middle of my presentation, and paused a long moment. 

"There's a whole layer of the government that's missing," I finally said, "and it's your layer."  

I didn't know any other way to put it across. I repeated these same words, more softly, and around the room I could see the light bulbs coming on.  

This is what it all comes down to.  Your government has been "Missing in Action".  

Parts of it were destroyed in the Civil War and are still waiting to be Reconstructed.  Parts of it lay intact, but dormant-- "in interregnum", "in abeyance".  

When you say that yours is a self-governing nation, doesn't that imply some action on your part?  

Today, we have two foreign "State" Assemblies active on our soil --- we have District Assemblies serving U.S. Citizens, and we have Municipal Assemblies serving "citizens of the United States", but until quite recently, there were no actual State Assemblies of, for, and by the people of this country.  

All the Assemblies in evidence were pulled together by our foreign federal subcontractors, their citizenry, and their dependents.  They've been offering to run our country for us, as our "representatives", and you can see the results. 

So get up off your couches and present yourselves.  Be present.  Come home and take care of business.  Yours is the actual State Assembly, vested with all the actual power.  And you are the people responsible for self-governing. 

When you do wake up and declare and record your birthright political status as an American, join your State Assembly.  Do your part.  Don't talk about self-governing.  Do it. 

And as you build your State Assembly, remember that you are building a community---not another corporation.  In a sense, your Assembly is your State's family, sitting down around the dinner table. 

Our government, our actual government, works on exactly opposite principles to what you are familiar with in your experience of the corporate government or corporations in general. 

In our Assemblies, the power flows from the bottom up, not the top down. 

So there is no "executive power" to argue over or commandeer, no hierarchy to stumble over or fight with.   

It's just you and your neighbors engaged in self-governance at the national (County) level and at the international (State) level.  We have tools to do this established by our Forefathers.  We just need to dust them off and use them. 

If you are wondering where "America" went, she's still here.  And she's getting organized for the push back that is long overdue. 

Go to: www.TheAmericanStateAssembly.net website and get connected to your government today.  

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About "the" Flag, War-Castles, Russell Gould, Etc.

 

By Anna Von Reitz

Title IV Flag is just a particular dimension of our Flag, as specified in the Federal Code, that the British Territorial Government was allowed to use while exercising delegated powers for us. 

The flag in all dimensions, however, ultimately belongs to us, the American States and People doing business as The United States of America --- an unincorporated Federation of States since 1776. 

Russell acted as a pirate, not a savior.  

And the actual Law is that "Possession by pirates does not change ownership."

He has also tried to lead everyone astray with his claims about PARSE.  PARSE is just another round of the old Justinian Deception.  See Romley Stewart's work on this subject. 

English is still our Official Language, and it had better stay that way, unless people want to be left struggling to use PARSE to express even simple concepts. 

PARSE can't distinguish between a pickle and a cucumber.  It is not mathematically "correct" and any school child can prove that. 

So, what else do you need to know?  

How about the fact that Russell doesn't have a contract with us, the American States and People?   

It's his own fault and arrogance and duplicity that has resulted in this outcome.  

We helped him for months, and tried to show him the errors in what he was proposing, gave him several thousand dollars to allow him to travel, and in the end, found him describing me as a "jackal".  That was his thank you.   When confronted about this, he lied.  

We played the tape back for him. 

Crickets. 

This is not a man that anyone should trust and we have the proof of that in our own experience with him and his false claims.  

Run like antelopes away.  

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Instruction on the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

The Introit of the Mass is a fervent prayer; which may be said in every necessity and adversity:

INTROIT Bow down thine ear, O Lord; to me, and hear me: save thy servant, O my God, that hopeth in thee: have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day. Give joy to the soul of thy servant: for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul. (Ps. IXXXV.) Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

COLLECT Let Thy continued pity, O Lord, cleanse and defend Thy Church: and because without Thee it cannot abide in safety, govern it ever by Thy gift. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.

EPISTLE (Gal. V. 25, 26.; vi. I-Io.) Brethren, If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be made desirous of vain-glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so you shall fulfill the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be something, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one prove his own work, and so he shall have glory in himself only, and not in another. For every one shall bear his own burden. And let him that is instructed in the word, communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption: but he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in doing good, let us not fail: for in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

EXPLANATION This epistle is taken, like that of the Sunday before last, from the epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians, in which St. Paul shows them the insufficiency of the Jewish law, and that they can only be saved by a lively faith in Christ, but now he admonishes them to the performance of good works. You now live, he tells them, in the Spirit, that is, the Holy Ghost animates your heart by His grace, enlightens, confirms, and inflames you, admonishes and teaches you, impels your heart to do good; you must, therefore, also regulate your external conduct accordingly, and in particular devote yourself to the practice of humility and charity, as the foundations of a truly spiritual life. Humility must teach and move you to think little of yourself, to avoid vain glory, and not to confide in your own strength. But charity should impel you to be meek and compassionate to all, even sinners, to correct them charitably, and lead them back to the path of virtue; since he who is harsh to the erring, despises and treats them roughly, is often permitted by God to fall into the same, nay, even into greater sins.

Particularly you must show your charity one for another, that one bears the burdens of the other: that you bear the faults and imperfections of others just as patiently as you wish others to bear with your own imperfections; thus you will fulfill the law of Christ, which commands us to love our neighbor; you will prevent many sins which are occasioned by considering yourself perfect, raising yourself above others, criticizing their failings, and causing disturbance. True glory consists in knowing ourselves, our faults and evil inclinations, and in eradicating them. Be grateful to those who instruct you in the word of God, and give to them willingly of your earthly possessions. What you sow, you shall reap; if you only follow the dictates of the flesh, do not mortify yourself, do not correct your failings, and indulge your sinful appetites, you will one day reap death, destruction and damnation, whereas, on the contrary, if you follow the dictates of the Holy Ghost, you will reap of the Spirit of life.

Let us obey this doctrine, for it is of interest to us, and impress deeply on our heart that without mortification of body and soul we cannot be saved.

ASPIRATION. O. St. Paul! beg of God the grace for me, that I may always walk in humility, and the love of my neighbor, particularly in bearing with his imperfections and failings, and thus fulfill the law of Christ in this as in all things.

GOSPEL (Luke VII. 11-16.) At that time, Jesus went into a city called Naim: and there went with him his disciples, and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only, son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a great, multitude of the city was with her. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, said to her: Weep not. And he came near, and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up,. and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. And there came a fear on them all; and they glorified God, saying: A great prophet is risen up amongst us, and God hath visited his people.

Why did Christ show compassion to this widow?

To convince us that God takes sorrowful and destitute widows under His protection; and is to them a consoler and helper; and to teach us to do the same. Woe, therefore, to those who oppress them and cause them to weep. The tears and cries of widows will ascend to God, who will terribly punish the injuries inflicted upon them. (Exod xxii. 22. 23.)

Christ had still other reasons for compassion, for He saw in this deceased youth the death of sinners, and in the afflicted mother the pain which the Church experiences at the spiritual loss of so many of her children. Should this not also awaken our sympathy since it wad the principal cause which moved our Saviour to compassion. I£ we are faithful children of our mother, the Church, it is impossible for us not to share her sorrow, and we would surely not be her children, if we could contemplate without sorrow the multitude who daily die the death of sin, and thus separated from the living body of Christ, hasten to eternal destruction. O let us with the Church unceasingly, ask Jesus, that He raise sinners from their spiritual death, enlighten those in error so that all recognize the truth, find, and walk the path Which leads to life !

Why did Christ say to the widow: Weep not?

He wished to moderate her excessive sorrow, and to teach us that we should not mourn for the loss of our relatives, like the heathens who have no hope of resurrection to eternal life. (Thess. iv. I a.) Resignation to the will of God, with prayer and good works, will be of more use to the dead than many tears.

What else do we learn from this gospel?

That no one, however young and healthy, will escape death, wherefore we should always be prepared to die.

INSTRUCTION CONCERNING DEATH

IF there were locked up in prison several hundred persons, on whom sentence of death had irrevocably been pronounced, yet who knew not the day or hour of their execution; if one after the other, and often he who least expected it, were taken out to be executed; would not each one's heart tremble, whenever the prison door opened? Now the irrevocable sentence of death is pronounced on us all; we are all locked up in our bodies, as in a prison; (Ps. cxiv. 8.) one after the other is called hence, yet we do not regard it. We live as though we could live forever; we think only of the body, but for the soul nothing is done, except that we load it with sins and vices.

Is this rational? The body will be food for worms, but the soul (without knowing when) will travel into the house of eternity, to which place she must bring treasures of good works, in order to live happy for ever. Who would, therefore, be so foolish as to care only for the body during life, and neglect the salvation of the soul?

O man, says St. Francis of Sales, (Phil. part. i. chap. 13.) represent to yourself in lively colors, that at your death the world will cease to exist with respect to you. In that last hour the pleasures, the vanities, the riches, the honors, the friendships, and all that was dear to you, will disappear before your eyes as so many shadows. O fool that I am! you will then say, for what trifles and fooleries have I lost all! On the contrary, piety, good works, penance, etc., will appear pleasant to you, and you will exclaim: O, why did I not travel on this blessed road? Then the sins which you now consider as mere trifles, will seem to you like mountains, and all that you thought you had accomplished as, great things, with regard to piety, will seem to you very little.

What terrible fear will then seize your soul, when she must travel alone into the bottomless abyss of eternity which, as St. Bernard says, devours all possible, imaginable ages, and of which St. Gregory says, that we can easier say what it is not than what it is. What terrors will befall her, when she must appear before the tribunal of that God whom she never really loved and honored in her life-time and before whom she must now give the strictest account, and hear an irrevocable and just sentence!

Should not these thoughts make an impression upon you? How can you escape this terrible future? By living now, as you would wish to have lived at the hour of death. Die daily with St. Paul by crucifying the flesh and its lusts and by voluntarily withdrawing your heart from the world, its pomps and vanities, before death will do this by violence.

RESOLUTION O world! because I cannot know the hour, in which I must leave you, I will not be attached to you. O you dear friends and relatives, you, too, I will in future love only with a holy inclination, directed to God, which will not cease with death, but remain forever. O Lord! help me, that I may die totally to myself and the world, and live only for Thee, and partake of eternal happiness.

INSTRUCTION ON THE CEREMONIES USED AT FUNERALS
Behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and a great multitude of the city was with her. (Luke vii. 12.)

OF these people who accompanied the funeral of the youth, we should learn to pay the last honors to the dead, and follow their bodies to the grave. This is a meritorious work, one pleasing to God, if it be not performed from vanity and self-interest, but for love of God and the deceased, with the charitable intention of assisting him by prayers. Therefore those do very wrong, who from worldly motives either omit this good work entirely, or during the funeral procession indulge in idle talk and deny the deceased even a short prayer.

Why is a cross carried before the corpse?

By this is indicated that the deceased during life professed Christ, died believing in Him, and hoping for resurrection through Him.

Why are lighted candles carried before the bier?

To represent the desire of the Church that the deceased through the grace of God may be received into eternal light.This custom is very ancient; wax-candles and torches, together with prayer and great solemnity were made use of at the burial of St. Cyprian who was beheaded for Christ's sake, in the year 258 after Christ. (Ruinart.)

Why are the coffin and the grave sprinkled with holy water?

In order, as St. Thomas of Aquin (Lib. iii. art. 21.) remarks, to implore God, on account of the prayers which the Church says when she blesses the water, that the souls of the faithful may be cleansed from all stains, and may receive consolation and refreshment in the tortures which they may still have to suffer.

Why are the body and the grave incensed?

By this the Church indicates that the deceased by his Christian vocation was a good odor of Christ, (ii Cor. ii. 14, 15.) and admonishes the faithful that their prayers should ascend like incense to heaven for the deceased.

Why are Psalms and other sacred canticles sung?

This is done to remind us of the teaching of St. Paul, (i Thess iv. 12.) not to be excessively sorrowful for the loss of the deceased, like the heathens who have no hope of eternal life. We also signify, thereby, that we congratulate the dead for the peace which they now enjoy. (Apoc. xiv. 13.) This custom, as St. Jerome shows, (Ep. 53.) is derived from the apostles, who interred St. Stephen, singing Psalms and hymns of praise.

Why are the bells rung?

To invite the faithful to the funeral and to pray for the dead who, during lifetime, was called very often by the same bells, prayed with and for us during religious worship, and who is not separated from us by death.

Why art the bodies of the faithful buried with the head towards the East, and those of the priests towards the West?

The faithful are buried towards the East, whence the sun rises, to indicate, that they are waiting for Christ who is called the Orient from on High, (Luke i. 78.) and whose voice they will hear at the end of the world, when He calls them to the resurrection; the priests towards the West, as a sign that on the day of judgment they will be placed opposite to the souls confided to them, to give an account of their charge and to bear judgment for or against them.

Why is a cross or monument erected aver the grave?

To show that the deceased was a follower of Christ, the Crucified, to admonish the passers-by to pray for him, and to remind us of the solemn moment of death.

Why is the body laid in consecrated ground?

This is done through reverence for the bodies of the dead which are, by baptism, temples of the Holy Ghost; to show that, even in death, they still belong to the communion of that holy Church, in which they were embodied during life by baptism, and to which they clung in faith even until death; to inspire the surviving with a holy fear lest they profane graves.

Why is the solemn funeral service of the Church denied to heretics?

Because they would not belong to the Church during life, and despised the holy customs and prayers of the Church for the dead. How should the blessing and prayer of the Church be useful in death to one who despised them during life.

Why does not the Church permit criminals and suicides to be buried on consecrated ground?

In order to express her horror for the crimes perpetrated by them, and to deter the faithful from committing similar actions.