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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Pennsylvania House Leaders File Brief to Support Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pennsylvania-house-leaders-file-brief-to-support-texas-in-supreme-court-lawsuit-against-pennsylvania_3613557.html 

Sidney Powell to appeal Wis., Ariz. lawsuits; Senate plans 1st federal hearing on election issues


17 States support Texas, Trump joining.


Is The Globalist “Reset” Failing?

 The Elites May Have Overplayed Their Hand

https://alt-market.us/is-the-globalist-reset-failing-the-elites-may-have-overplayed-their-hand/

6 States Ask Supreme Court to Join Texas Election Lawsuit

 https://www.theepochtimes.com/6-states-ask-supreme-court-to-join-texas-election-lawsuit_3613182.html

Infographic: What Happened in Atlanta on Election Night


LIVE: Georgia State House Election Hearing (Dec. 10) | NTD


This is live. The recording will follow when it's done.

Is this Obama and Mike?

No comment is necessary.


Why I post all this election and intelligence information.

 Anna said in an email that I got this exactly right.

So here is what I said.

Some of you might wonder why I have been following all the voter fraud and crimes that occurred during the 2020 corporate elections, considering the fact that all the state assemblies are in place.
Well until the assemblies can get to the point of electing a president don't kid yourself into thinking these corporate elections don't effect us.
If what happened is allowed to stand our security will deteriorate rapidly, to the point that we won't be able to finish the work of the assemblies.
I don't know about you but I don't want to stand in the gap against these evil crimes alone. I will expose all the evil as I find it, and I will protect my family and my county against the tyranny as I am able.
I hope you do the same.  Spread these videos and my blog as far and wide as you can and as fast as you can.
Paul Stramer
Eureka Montana
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I am still publishing every article Anna writes so stay tuned for information and a perspective only available here and on Anna's website at  www.annavonreitz.com
Please tell everyone you know about these websites.
We are at war with the enemies of freedom. The war was just an information war but we are seeing it going hot day by day. People are dying now. See Jeffrey Prather's video below to understand this. Get ready to defend yourself and your loved ones. We are in the end game, and the more we win the information war, the less severe the kinetic war will be.

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Bombshell analysis of voting anomalies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia proves election was STOLEN from Trump

 https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-09-analysis-voting-anomalies-prove-stolen-from-trump.html

Electspionage! by Jeffrey Prather

 GA Gov Conspired with China, Bio-targeting US Troops, 12/8 Unsafe Harbor, China Vaccine Vacuum, & 5 KIA SPECOPs Museum Mystery.


Situation Update, Dec. 9th - Humanity's breakthrough moment: We REFUSE to be enslaved!


Texas sues Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for election fraud; EIGHT states join the lawsuit

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-08-texas-sues-georgia-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin-election.html

Inauguration Committee Fails to Pass Resolution Acknowledging Biden as President-Elect



Vote Fraud: Here’s the Proof

 https://thenewamerican.com/widespread-voter-fraud-myth-or-reality/

Number of Congress Members Planning to Challenge Election Results Expected to Grow

https://www.theepochtimes.com/number-of-congress-members-planning-to-challenge-election-results-expected-to-grow_3610050.html

The Restore Your Back Program

 By Anna Von Reitz

So many of you have called and emailed asking for more information about the natural program my friend Wilfred pioneered to restore his own injuries and correct his osteoporosis that I bit the bullet and have written it all out for you:
Wilfred's Restore Your Back Program
The logic is simple and undeniable and so is Wilfred's personal success. Although this protocol was developed to restore his own injured back and correct his age-related osteoporosis, it applies to any joint-spine-cartilage problem and has effect on all skeletal and joint components throughout your body.
First, you have to suppress your body's inflammatory response, so that the joints have a chance to heal. You do this by changing your diet. Second, you have to provide your body with the building blocks of bone and cartilage.
There are several supplements that provide the minerals and antioxidants needed:
(1) Vitamin Code "Grow Bone System" by Garden of Life. This over-the-counter system just happens to contain the nine ingredients Wilfred researched, so he used this instead of trying to source and compound his own at home.
(2) Masaji, an antioxidant drink by Be Young. This company is also the source of "Spice of Life" essential oil.
(3) Pink mineral salt, like Real Salt or Himalayan salt instead of white table salt
(4) Lots and Lots of homemade Bone Broth -- can use store-bought powdered organic Bone Broth in a pinch.
Crockpot Homemade Bone Broth Recipe:
3-5 lbs organic beef or organic chicken bones
Pure water to cover (avoid fluoridated or chlorinated water)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme to taste
Pink salt to taste
1-2 Bay Leaves
1 Tbs. of Apple Cider Vinegar
Place all ingredients in a 4-6 quart crockpot and set it on Low heat and let it cook for at least 6 to 8 hours, adding water as necessary to maintain original water level. Foam will form as the bones cook. Just skim it off. After the broth has cooked, strain it through cheesecloth or other fine strainer to get bits of herbs and vegetables out of it. Bone broth is naturally cloudy, so don't worry about that.
The Apple Cider Vinegar acts as a catalyst to "tell the bones" to release calcium--- which is part of what your body wants and needs.
If you don't have one or two of the herbs, don't worry about it. It turns out that "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" are all strongly anti-inflammatory. Looks like our great-grandmas already knew a thing or two!
The Anti-Inflammatory Diet:
The Anti-Inflammatory Diet can be summed up as: no dairy, no wheat, no booze, limited caffeine (a cup of coffee per day or equivalent), and pink mineral salt instead of regular table salt. And lots of Bone Broth.
So you can enjoy meat, fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, spices, decaffeinated coffee and tea, herbal teas, juices, oatmeal, rice, and many other good things that replace/substitute for the things we are giving up.
Recent dietary reform movements, like Veganism, and a more widespread understanding of common food allergies, have led to the development and availability of health-centered convenience foods: non-dairy butter replacements like "Earth Balance" spread, Vegan Mayonnaise, and many other Vegan non-dairy recipes make it much, much easier to cut dairy out of our diets, while the advent of store-bought gluten-free bread has made it much easier to cut the inflammatory component of wheat out of our diets without too much inconvenience.
Making use of Vegan Know-How certainly makes a non-dairy diet more palatable, as they have developed many great (and surprising) substitutes that are both tasty and satisfying, so that yes, you can have "creamed" soups and puddings and pie-fillings and nacho "cheese" and even substitutes for Parmesan that fill the gap.
I personally recommend "The Barefoot Gardener in the Kitchen Cookbook" by Delisa Renideo. I am fortunate to know her and met her and her husband, Charlie, back in the day when she was giving free cooking classes. So I already knew that there were healthy and tasty substitutes for dairy recipes and was able to adapt to the Anti-Inflammatory diet with no trouble at all.
You can buy her cookbook at: www.YestoLifeSolution.com and even sign up for her 8-week cooking course.
The Vegan Diet doesn't allow meat, but does allow wheat -- so is somewhat different from the Anti-Inflammatory Diet, which is being used for the specific purpose of rebuilding bone and cartilage--- but non-dairy and plant-based recipes are a godsend just the same.
Why Pink Salt?
Pink salt comes from land-based mineral deposits that were formed millions of years ago, and it contains additional minerals that are not found in normal table salt or sea salt. Those minerals are needed for building bone and cartilage.
Why Masaji?
There are a lot of antioxidant drinks on the market, but this is the one Wilfred used, so why argue with success?
This is the same company that produces "Spice of Life" essential oil, which is what Wilfred used to cure me of pernicious pneumonia.
If you or a family member are suffering from pneumonia, order Spice of Life and distribute it into the air with an ultrasonic diffuser.
My family hasn't had a cold or even the sniffles in ten (10) years.
Not only does Wilfred have a track record curing his own back, he has a track record of saving me from pneumonia.
My Personal Experience?
It has only been four days, but.... the first two days saw a diminishing of the throbbing and aching in my arm, the third day found the pain focusing down and centered on my elbow, and today, I woke up stiff, but in no pain at all.
Go figure. After more than a month of chronic pain, I am pain-free.
Now, there are no guarantees in life. What works for one may not work for another, but it worked for Wilfred and it is doing its magic for me, so.... I feel pretty confident that it can work for anyone else who has similar biology.
If you or someone you love is suffering from old injuries or arthritis or osteoporosis, you know how chronic pain wears even the best of us down. You know how pain limits us and restricts our abilities and our movements and our joy. And you probably also know how much money and effort you have put out on drugs, including pain-killers, and dangerous steroids.
This program costs about $200 per month you stay on it, plus the cost of a new blender, maybe.
Wilfred got pain relief (like I just did in only four days) in three weeks, and full range of motion/restoration in six months.
I think you will all agree that whatever it costs in terms of learning new tricks, buying some supplements, and adjusting one's diet, being pain-free alone is worth the effort, to say nothing of the possibility that your injured and arthritic joints can be restored to full function.

I and my young veteran friend, Shannon, (who already has a hip replacement as a result of his service duties) who fell off a roof this summer in a job related accident-- breaking his back in three places-- are both doing the Full Monty. We'll keep you posted.

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Bombing of Trump Supporter's House

 Situation update from Mike Adams December 8th, 2020


War on American Soil. Listen to this audio here:

Republican Leaders Block Congressional Recognition Of Biden's Inauguration

 https://trendingpolitics.com/republican-leaders-block-congressional-recognition-of-biden-s-inauguration/

Trump Says He Will Intervene in Texas’ SCOTUS Election Case

 President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he and/or members of his legal team would join, as intervenors, the lawsuit brought by Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton to the U.S. Supreme Court against four battleground states.

“We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!” Trump said in a tweet.

Read this important article here:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-says-he-will-intervene-in-texas-scotus-election-case_3611062.html

More comments from President Trump

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-on-election-battles-legislators-judges-need-courage-to-do-whats-right_3610998.html

How Communists Get you to Comply with their Evil

 This applies 100% to the COVID-19 Tyranny!


Seven States to join Texas in Equal Protection Clause lawsuit in SCOTUS

 Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota.

Watch the first video on this page of Col. Allen West on Steve Bannon's show.

https://americasvoice.news/video/7eRmNCTPRWbrrxv/

Sidney Powell: CIA, mainstream media, globalists all part of a grand conspiracy to rig elections and defraud We the People

 https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-08-sidney-powell-cia-mainstream-media-conspiracy-rig-elections.html

NEVADA JUDGE JAMES T. RUSSELL TRUMPS ELECTION FRAUD CASE FINANCED BY LAS VEGAS MASSACRE MOB

 https://judicialcorruptionnews.com/nevada-judge-james-t-russell-trumps-election-fraud-case/

THE BEST LAWSUIT YET ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION


Texas vs. MI, PA, GA and WI.


Monday, December 7, 2020

Hot and Smoking

Dr. James Lyon-Weiler on fire --- gives the most extensive and scientifically correct critique of the upcoming vaccine and the process that led to it, that I have heard yet.
A few highlights to whet your stone:
HSS is the Defendant in the Vaccine Court. And they determine which vaccine injuries are "real".
Here is the link to Dr. Lyon-Weiler's comments at the Pennsylvania Medical Freedom Press Conference, though I don't expect it to survive for long---copy, promulgate, and share, share, share:
As Dr. Lyon-Weiler notes, 21% of those who participated in the first vaccine test study suffered serious adverse events.
As he also notes, clear, simple, inexpensive, and readily available treatment for Covid-19 has now been developed.
See the fact that China isn't on lockdown and isn't suffering any pandemic. Neither is Italy.
Why? Because they started using effective treatment.
This is good news, so why aren't you hearing it?

As he also notes, no Terrorist could be as effective in harming this country with a bomb as our Press Corps. The constant, inaccurate reporting of deaths and fear-mongering has already cost us far more.

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The Progression of Lies -- Why There Has to Be War in This System

 By Anna Von Reitz

Please note that since the nineteenth century there has been talk about evolution and evolution has been the rallying cry of Progressives. The existence of Progressives implies the existence of a Progression--- evolution, in some sense. Progression implies movement, from one place or status or circumstance or condition to another.
According to the Progressives, Cro-Magnon becomes Homo Sapien becomes Homo sapien sapien....
So who are these "Progressives" and what are they trying to "Progress" to?
Thus far, "man" has been converted to a "male" and then, to a "Corporation".
That is, the man becomes defined as a human and then becomes a thing, in a progression leading to his ultimate destruction. "People" have been converted to "Persons" and then, to THINGS-- Corporations.
"Man" has become "Human" and, if we don't wake up, will soon be an "Artificial Intelligence" next, via conversion of our natural DNA to something altered and patented by the Vermin.
What this amounts to is a deliberate and evil process of "dehumanization" and unlawful conversion being pursued by criminals. Why?
To avoid accountability under the Public Law.
Each "person" operates in a different jurisdiction and venue of law, so by "progressively" converting a man to a male to a corporate THING, they avoid the penalties that accrue for their activities.
They deliberately and with malice traffick you out of the realm of the Public Law into the venal snake-pits of their private corporate "laws", "codes", and "statutes".
There is no law against raping, pillaging, enslaving or murdering a corporation.
And if you allow yourselves to be "interpreted" as a corporation, guess what?
This Unlawful Conversion, which is progressive and sequential and which leads inexorably to the worst kind of disrespect for life and Nature, is what these vermin have been up to for six generations.
A man naturally operates as a Lawful Person on the land.
A male (animal) naturally operates as a Legal Person on the sea.
A corporation (thing) operates as a LEGAL PERSON, in the airy fairy jurisdiction of the air ---- most of it, hot air.
And at each step, unalienable and inalienable rights are stripped away by changing labels and definitions. When we resist this process, the "Progressives" claim that we are at "war" with them, when in fact, we were never operating in their jurisdiction at all.
Lies and Legal Fictions are always "at war" with the Truth.
And that, in a nutshell, is why we live in a world full of constant "war". It's why our country has been at war for 90% of its existence.
In order to expedite their Grand Plan, the Masters of Deceit latched onto us via a secretive, non-consensual, unconscionable contract when they "registered" our birth and claimed that we were British Territorial U.S. Citizens.
Then, to further expedite their evil intent and enhance their ability to plunder under color of law, they also "registered" our NAMES as Municipal Corporation franchises of various kinds, which allowed them to abuse us as much as they liked under more False Legal Presumptions.
This is called a "double-ended impersonation scheme" by which you are deliberately misidentified twice, first as a Territorial Person and second as a Municipal PERSON.
There is no "Red" and "Blue", no "North" and "South", no "Black" and "White".
Those are just labels designed to give you the idea that there are two sides and something to fight against, when in fact, there are only two huge commercial corporations, the US, INC. and the USA, Inc., and both of them are ultimately owned and operated by the Pope.
So there aren't really two sides. There's just one predator with two arms and hands ready to grab anything of value that you possess, including your lives. Those are insured for over a million dollars each, so it is easy to see why these criminals have a motive to instigate a shooting war on our streets.
Please take this information in and internalize it fully.
What we are dealing with are two groups of the Pope's flunkies ---one operating the Government of Westminster, trying to move everything to "safe harbor" in China (Joe Biden), and then, more of the Pope's flunkies trying to set up a basis to claim that you are a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) by vaccinating you like cattle with their patented mRNA---(Bill Gates et alia) and using this as a rationale to claim that they literally own you as a GMO Product.
Answer their "offer" of sterility and abject servitude by going to www.TheAmericanStatesAssembly.net, and by declaring your correct political status as a birthright American, and by joining your lawful State Assembly.
Get ready to shove it all the way to China.

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Pam Bondi tells the truth about the election

 http://annavonreitz.com/bondi.pdf

Sunday, December 6, 2020

My Bad -- A Grandma Moment

What I remembered as being part of the Nuremberg Code (which is the codification of the international treaty pacts involved) is actually part of the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. The Nuremberg Code that subsequently results is Step Two and applies to the military, which is of prime importance to us now, because the President of the USA, Inc., has a Declaration of War (Commercial War, that is) in motion.
The Corollary coming out of the actual Nuremberg Tribunal reads:
"1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion, and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved, as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision...."
As you can see, the meaning is even more explicit than the UNESCO Declaration.
Both apply and both can be used to defend your decision not to vaccinate yourself or your family members.
A brief note about UNESCO --- it was created and staffed by prominent Eugenists including Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. Bill Gates' Father, Bill Gates, Sr., is also a UNESCO veteran and apparently, following in the footsteps of the Eugenics Movement and encouraging his son to do the same.
The problem with the Eugenists is their proclivity toward violent elitism and willingness to play God for what they call "the Greater Good" ---- which, of course, they don't know, but they are willing to impose their vision of it on everyone else, nonetheless.

So you can take your stand with the True God, or you can let the Eugenists and the deplorable, morally depraved Eugenics Movement, kill off and/or sterilize and definitively abuse the majority of people on Earth---- and all in their mad quest for domination and expression of their elitist view of "human evolution" and what that "should" be.

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Parents and Grandparents -- Pop Quiz

 By Anna Von Reitz

Read the background information, then answer the questions:


We are under attack.  Our families are under attack. Our country is under attack. So, let me give you the 25 words or less explanation: 

After the Civil War, traitors in the Rump Congress and the U.S. Military betrayed us and went into business for themselves. 

Everything that we are experiencing now and all the bad things we have experienced prior to this are a direct result of this fact, but, it's a fact, that, of course, nobody ever taught you in Public School. 

That is, School for the Public.   The Public -- that's us, according to them.  

We are a separate population, and our education is being hand-crafted by those who are preying upon us in the same way a cattle rancher preys upon his cattle. There is a certain element of "care" involved, to the extent that he protects you from the wolves until you wind up on his own table. 

These generational criminals who have benefited from the crimes begun in the wake of the Civil War, have a vested interest in educating "the Public" to believe anything that they tell us to believe.  

Telling the truth -- that they got into power by committing treason and stealing everyone blind 150 years ago and ever since--- is not something they will teach you.  

You will have to learn and observe that for yourselves. 

It's not in their best interest to teach you the truth, so, they "educate the Public" to believe anything and everything else.  It's the Russians fault.  It's the Chinese.  It's the Iranians.  No, no, it's the Vietnamese!   It's the Germans.  It's a suspicious pink unicorn with a silver horn.... 

It's never the responsibility of the people actually responsible for it. 

It is no wonder that the British Broadcasting Corporation motto is: "Listen and Obey".  They are offering programming -- as in computer programming and brain-washing and B.F. Skinner's Behavioral Modification.  

They do this by a system of carrots and sticks.  

If you can repeat--- reliably and verbatim--- whatever it is they want you to "learn", you get rewarded.  If you can't or won't, well.... not so good.  And if, Their Goddess Forbid --- you learn to think for yourself, you will be branded "unadaptable" and placed in another "program".  

Get it?  It's all a bad joke.  We're not educated.  We're programmed. 

They have contrived to make this programming as efficient (in the factory model sense) as possible, with the goal of turning out sixty million widgets that walk alike, talk alike, think alike, and will try their best to buy everything in sight. 

The standard programming includes whatever beliefs, fears, and services that the governmental services corporations wish to sell---including belief in things that don't exist and things which you, conveniently, can't see, competitions that don't matter, debts that aren't owed, enemies that are actually friends, and a total failure of math skills and logic. 

Observe: 

At the same time that you are locked up in your homes with your disoriented children---- purportedly to "protect" you from a more infectious version of the Common Cold---- the Post Office is doing a booming business like never before. 

All those billions of packages, letters, catalogs and pieces of junk mail are being processed by however many hundreds of thousands of postal workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and clerks, and all their germs, plus the germs of the senders, are being delivered to you.  

Oh, dear.  And this is just one (1) example. 

So why aren't your kids in school?  Why are you on "lockdown"?  Why is your business closed?  Why are you wearing a mask?  

It's obviously all for naught. 

And anyway, are you really afraid of the Common Cold, after surviving it repeatedly, probably every year of your life?    Well, if so, by all means, stay home.  Let everyone else cough and sneeze their way through it. At least we will cut down our own risk of bacterial pneumonia by not wearing a mask. 

Do you really think that there will ever be a vaccine that can single-handedly destroy the over 230 strains of the Common Cold virus?  Given the fact that more varieties are mutating all the time, and even being deliberately PRODUCED as PRODUCTS by crazy men and criminals in charge of CORPORATIONS in the business of selling VACCINES?  

Do we all need a more obvious demonstration of the Hegelian Dialectic?

These same criminals CREATED the "super infectious" version of coronavirus, and now, they are being REWARDED for doing so, with vaccine sales. 

My question to you, as parents and grandparents is ---- why are you putting up with this?  Why aren't you forcing the schools to open via political action, and once they open, why aren't you directing the curriculum and monitoring the teacher classroom performance?  

THEY may have a quid pro quo with the Teacher's Union, but we don't.  And as it happens, all those school buildings belong to us, the long-suffering Public.  We can hire and fire any public employee we want to hire or fire.  So let's get busy and do our job, so that our children can do theirs. 

Now--- this is a Test Question:  why aren't the criminals who developed this new, MORE infectious Common Cold virus--- being held accountable instead of being rewarded?  

If someone developed a virus to kill the Common Cold virus or adapt it to make it harmless, that would make sense and they should be rewarded, but someone who hypes up and makes the Common Cold more infectious? 

Should they be rewarded for this or stomped on?  

Logic tells us that they should be stomped on, their corporations liquidated and their assets sold to benefit the victims. The scientists responsible including the Virus Czar should all be in jail, recognized as common criminals, not reliable authorities.  

And the rest of us including our children should be living normal lives and going to competent and honest schools.  Imagine that? 

Achieving these simple common sense goals requires all of us to get off our duffs, dust off our logic sensors, and get organized.  

Go to: www.TheAmericanStatesAssembly.net and turn on and tune in.  

P.S. Even though reopening the schools with their same-old directives and  curriculum in place is not recommended, I think Tucker did a bang-em-up job of revealing why it's good for kids to be in school and wrong to pen them up and delay their progress:


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Trump's full speech at the Georgia Rally


Trump Holds Rally In Georgia Ahead Of Senate Runoff Election

Justice Alito Moves up Supreme Court Deadline in Key Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballot Case

https://www.theepochtimes.com/justice-alito-moves-up-supreme-court-deadline-in-key-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballot-case_3606769.html

Trump Team Begins Forensic Examination of Dominion Machines in Michigan


Second Sunday in Advent

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

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

INTROIT People of Sion, behold the Lord shall come to save the nations; and the Lord shall make the glory of his voice to be heard in the joy of your heart (Is. 30:30). Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep (Ps. 79). Glory be to the Father 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 Stir up our hearts, O Lord, to prepare the ways of Thine only-begotten Son: that through His advent we may be worthy to serve Thee with purified minds; who livest and reignest with God the Father, in union with the Holy Ghost, God for ever and ever. Amen.

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

What does St. Paul teach in this epistle?

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

Why should we read the Scriptures?

That we may know what we are to believe, and do in order to be saved, as all Scripture inspired by God is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice (11 Tim. 3:16); that we may learn from what Christ has done for us, and the saints for Christ, to be patient in our sufferings, and to be consoled and encouraged by their example. To derive this benefit from the Scriptures, the Catholic must read them by the light of that Spirit through whose assistance they came into existence, who lives and remains for ever with the Church: that is, the light of the Holy Ghost must be sought, that their meaning may be read according to the sense of the Church and not be explained according to the reader's judgment. For he who reads the holy Scriptures by the light of his own private judgment, must, as experience shows, of necessity diverge from the right path, become entangled in manifold doubts, and at last, lose the faith entirely. For this reason the Catholic Church has very properly limited the reading of the Bible, not as has been falsely asserted, unconditionally forbidden it, but she allows the reading of those editions only, which are accompanied by notes and explanations that the unity of faith may not be disturbed, and that among Catholics there may not be the terrible bewilderment of the human intellect which has taken place among the different heretical sects who have even declared murder, bigamy and impurity to be permissible on the authority of the Bible. We are to consider also, that Christ never commanded the Bible to be written or read, and that not the readers but the hearers and the followers of the word of God by which is meant those who hear the word of God in sermons, and keep it, will be saved!

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

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

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

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

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

Why was John in prison?

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

Why did St. John send his disciples to Christ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONSOLATION IN SUFFERING

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

What gives us the greatest consolation in adversities?

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

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

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