What You Get Out of It -- Positive Incentives

 By Anna Von Reitz

We covered the Negative Incentives--- what won't happen to you as a result of taking my advice --- so let's cover what will happen as a result, the positive incentives.

If you follow my advice, you will record who you are and what your political status choice is on the public international record. When you check the box "American" and additionally identify the American State that you were born in or which you adopted as an Immigrant, for example, "South Carolina" ----that makes you an internationally protected Lawful Person.

Because such Lawful Persons have been erased from the Public Record, or never entered onto the Public Record in the first place, Lawful Persons were near extinction. Like the American Bison and the American Chestnut tree, we are making a comeback.

Your action claiming your Lawful Person might not immediately make sense to various people including officials of the Territorial and Municipal Government Corporations, but that is nonetheless what you are doing by recording your political status and reclaiming your identity as an American -- that is, someone who is not a "U.S. Citizen" and not a Municipal citizen of the United States, either.

Reclaiming your Lawful Person and your natural birthright political status has quite a number of immediate positive results, even though you may continue to experience some pushback from your own incredulous public employees.

First, you regain access to all of your Constitutional Guarantees. That means that you regain the Bill of Rights and all the other additional unstated Natural and Unalienable Rights that you are heir to.

Many people think that such rights are not valuable in monetary terms or asset terms, but they are "material interests" and they are, in fact, all important.

For example, U.S. Citizens and Municipal citizens of the United States, have no right to own land in this country. Wouldn't you say that the ability to actually own your own home or business and the ground it sits on is a rather large positive benefit?

Otherwise, all you get is a "title" from the Queen, acting as your presumed Trustee --- a privilege that can be revoked, along with confiscation of the assets that belong to you--- by her black-robed employees operating international courts under color of law.

Either kind of Federal Citizen who was born here and became a U.S. Citizen as a result of employment in the Military or in the Federal Civil Service, or who was left in that status as a result of legal immigration, can correct their status like anyone else by dropping one form of Federal Citizenship and adopting American State National status.

So the benefit of your birthright is still available, your rights and standing and property interests can be reclaimed, but you have to take action. You have to speak up. Otherwise, the rats are free to "presume" that your assets have been "abandoned" and are at the discretion of your foreign employees to dispose of.

I would say that regaining your rights and protections owed under the Constitutions is a huge gain for you.

So is regaining your property assets --- your land, soil, flags, public infrastructure, natural resources, money, homes, businesses, and everything else that belongs to you by rights and by nature.

But first, you have to have the rights and the nature--- that is, you have to be recognizable as a Lawful American Person -- before you can claim back anything. So you have to fill out some paperwork and record it.

It's not actually very hard to do, and yet, it makes all the difference.

Imagine that you are walking into a house wearing a white t-shirt. Upon entering, you are immediately attacked and someone throws a blue t-shirt over your head, and before you have recovered from that, someone else throws a red t-shirt over your head.

By now, you are wondering what's going on, but it didn't really hurt, and you gained two new t-shirts. So, most people just shake their heads and trundle on.

That's what happened to you as a baby and young child, before you were even old enough to defend yourself --- you were papered over, or, in this silly example, dressed in a different colored shirt.

And it may not seem to matter a great deal, if you are left clueless about what it means --- but the fact is that only those wearing a white t-shirt can inherit.

Only Americans can inherit the benefits of the Constitutions, including all the material rights and assets. Only Americans can inherit the land, soil, money, credit, and other actual assets of this country.

So those guys who were throwing red and blue t-shirts over your head were trying to pass you off as someone or something else, trying to keep you from being identified as an American---- so as to deprive you of your inheritance and rights and powers.

If you do as I suggest, you will strip off those foreign colored t-shirts and suddenly appear in your original white t-shirt, as an American and as a Lawful Person, claiming their birthright political status and standing under the Public Law of this country.

If you additionally follow my lead, you will join together with other Americans wearing their white t-shirts, and be part of your lawful State Assembly. Your State Assembly is the "nation" part of your "nation-state". It's where and how the living people of your State exercise their powers and enforce their rights as Americans.

And it's good to be an American, to be free, to own your own land, to do your own thing, to travel where you wish in your own car, to keep the money in your hand, to be safe in your homes, and in control of your own government.

If you take my suggestion, you will join together with other Americans to open your own banks and your own Recording Offices and run your own courts and post offices. You will safely and intelligently manage your own business affairs on the land and soil of this country without any untoward "help" from the Queen or the Pope. You won't be threatened or coerced by your own employees. You won't be misaddressed by their special foreign courts of limited jurisdiction.

Life will go back to something far better than what has been "normal" in this country for the past hundred and almost-sixty years.

And all because you decided to wear your white t-shirt.

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What You Get Out of It -- The Negative Incentives

 By Anna Von Reitz

From time to time, I am asked---- if I do what you suggest, what do I get out of it?

There are both "negative" incentives --- that is, what won't happen to you as a result of reclaiming your political status as an American, and positive incentives --- what will happen as a result. Let's take the Negative Incentives first.

I am very upfront about what my own initial motivation was: I realized that if I didn't act, I would be an accomplice to crime.

Simple as that.

Whether that crime is -- in the particular instance -- willing participation in constructive fraud, impersonation, inland piracy, or even treason or conspiracy against the Constitutions --- it should matter to you that you can be considered a willing accomplice to these crimes, if you do not object.

Objection is essential. Reporting the crime to the responsible authorities is essential. If you are aware of a crime and don't report it, you are considered a willing accomplice to it, and you can be arrested and prosecuted as a result.

So, if you do what I suggest, you cannot be accused as a willing accomplice to the crimes that have been perpetuated in this country. That's a big benefit, considering that many of these crimes are very serious.

Who do you report these crimes to? The Governor of your State of State. The Chief Justices of the "State" Supreme Court, which is a Public Trust Office. The State of State Secretaries of State. The President(s). The Pope. The Archbishops. The United Nations (because of Jimmy Carter). The Joint Chiefs of Staff. The State Troopers. The State Judicial Councils. Members of Congress. Hit 'em all up.

I have.

Everyone from Portland to Poughkeepsie, Dallas to Bismarck, Tallahassee to New York City knows where I stand on these issues and "has cause to know" that I am not a "willing" accomplice.

I have tens of thousands of registered mail receipts logged and filed, together with the correspondence, to prove that I did not sit on my laurels. Once I knew there was a crime afoot, I blew the whistle so loud it could be heard in Boston. I have published books. I have written articles by the thousands. Nobody can accuse me of willingly going along with fraud and enslavement and graft, breach of trust, unlawful conversion, kidnapping, or conspiracy against the Constitutions.

Nearly everyone else in this country who hasn't taken my advice or similar advice from others, is wide open to these sorts of accusations. Think about it.

I am not suggesting that everyone can or should endure the kind of effort that I have gone through, but everyone can and should care enough about their own position to let fly some letters to the responsible authorities and record some paperwork to reclaim their American identity.

You may say, well, what good do you expect that to do? Writing letters to pirates telling them about their own smuggling?

It does two (2) very important things. It establishes that you are NOT a pirate, and it establishes that they ARE, if they continue to sit around and do nothing to stop it.

You not only protect yourself from being accused as an accomplice, you deny those in political power any "plausible deniability".

And while they might ignore one little old lady, heck, a great-grandma from Big Lake, Alaska --- are you joking? (God has a great sense of humor.) They can't ignore hundreds of letters from thousands of people who have caught on to the scam and who are safely and properly organized as State Assemblies in their own jurisdictions.

If you do what I suggest, you won't be identified as a willing accomplice to capital level crimes. You will have done your Public Duty. You will have prodded the various officials to do the same. You will be part of a lawful State Assembly and no longer hiding in your basement, all by yourself, wondering what one man or woman can do against such monstrous evil.

That's quite a lot of relief and benefit and avoidance of nasty consequences, even if it is a negative incentive.

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Notice the Modus

By Anna Von Reitz

I just finished reading an entire screed of weird world "news" --- including a bunch of astrologers suggesting that we need to prepare for the return of Baphomet, who, according to them, is actually Jesus Christ. 

Ignorance not only breeds.  It breeds like bunny rabbits in springtime. 

If you really want to know what is going on, read The Book of Ezekiel. All of it. 

There you will learn the Secret of Solomon, whose Number is 666.  

There also, you will see one of the last to be fulfilled prophecies in the Bible, the reunion of Israel and Judah.  

Add that to what we now know about the razing of Mount Zion by the Romans amid the general destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. --and the use of the debris that was the top of Mount Zion as fill for later projects and road building--- and it becomes clear that the Temple Mount is not the Temple Mount. 

And all that wailing at the Wailing Wall is for naught.  

I shake my head.  I go back to work. Mount Zion is now a steep decapitated slope, and the only way anyone is going to build a Temple where the 2nd Century Temple once stood, is (1) if they are smart and honest enough to find the location---which is unlikely, and (2) they exert an effort that would make building the pyramids look small, because not only do they need to rebuild their temple, they need to rebuild Mount Zion as well.  

Everyone, including the Crazy Persons trying to make the Bible come true via human efforts, would be better off relying on Ezekiel. Soon after beginning to read The Book of Ezekiel, you will begin to notice the way the themes of this book mirror the themes of today, right down to Ezekial's duel with the black-robed priests of Molloch.  

You will also notice that these people, the Enemies of the True God, are liars.

They lied until Ezekiel called them out, and they even believed their own lies. They take his challenge.  And they lose.  Big time. 

This was true then, and it is true now.  

We don't need to fear lies---- or liars.  They have their place in the Lake of Fire. 

All it takes is one honest man to destroy everything they have built. 

Yehushua -- English "Joshua" -- destroyed their temple by rebuilding his own. 

It was their own free will decision to kill him instead of welcoming him, so it was in no way his fault ---- and yet, he knew the ultimate outcome. 

Their temple would be destroyed.  Not one stone left standing upon another. 

For those who have eyes to see, the parallel and the meaning  is obvious.  

When the curtain in the Temple was torn in half, the True God left it.  Even if the Temple were rebuilt, and Mount Zion magically restored to be a mountain instead of a decapitated slope, would the True God enter into it?

No.  And Ezekiel tells us the reason why.  Read it for yourselves. 

The Spirit that is the True God came to live in the temples his Son built for him in our hearts, for we are, literally now, the living temples of the True God.  And just as the child is forever a part of the parent, and the parent part of the child, we are joined together by a bond that cannot be severed. Ever.

The True God will build his own temple and raise his own New Jerusalem in a place of his own choosing, and those who do not know and believe this are not listening to what is plainly told to their own souls. 

Those who have lived through this darkness will see the new day, and a world not made by men, but by the Living God: "for behold, I make all things new...." 

Listen with your soul and let your eyes read the message of Ezekiel. 

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Another Refutation of TROH --- Again

 By Anna Von Reitz

I have had to comment, repeatedly, about "the Reign of the Heavens Society" and the complete bunk it keeps publishing, but this time they went over the top.

Now, they are telling people that all "Yeshuaians" --- followers of Jesus, who adopt a "33 + 3" calendar, are "sealed" by a "Blood Moon" and have to bow knee to their version of "The United States of America".

They are also claiming that this allowed them to ignore the US Postmaster General.

They also claim that The United States of America is a sovereign government.

No sane person could make this stuff up without the assistance of hallucinatory drugs.

Let's take these claims in reverse order:

The United States of America is not a sovereign government. It's an unincorporated Holding Company. It's a business with a "doing business as" Proper Name. This particular business structure was formed by the actual sovereign States of the Union in 1776, so that they would have an agent to act for them "mutually" --that is, as a group-- in international and global affairs.

As a Holding Company, The United States of America "holds" various "powers" that belong to the separate and sovereign States. It exercises those powers for the benefit of the States as a group. The United States of America is the first entity ever in receipt of "delegated powers" donated by the States, and it is the Primary Delegator of those powers from 1776 onward.

That is what The United States of America actually is and always was.

Whatever else TROH thinks it is, only God knows, but the same principle I observed recently with regard to the political Left appears to be at work here, too: these people don't actually know what "The United States of America" is or what it was organized to do, so they just make stuff up and redefine it at will.

Judging from their track record and the wild claims they have already made for it, their version of The United States of America is somewhere between the Big Rock Candy Mountain and the Province of Shangri La.

As for ignoring the US Postmaster General, I am sure that the US Postmaster General is relieved that he can ignore them and their claims, too.

The officers of the USA are not subject to the officers of the US and vice-versa.

The actual Post Master (land jurisdiction) and Postmaster (sea jurisdiction) of The United States of America can "ignore" the Postmaster General of the United States (air jurisdiction) because they work in different jurisdictions and for different employers. Go figure.

More importantly, TROH has no standing or valid claim to have any Post Office function related to the actual government of this country. Our Post Office and seat of government is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; it existed well-before The War of Independence, and it is still there.

Once again, TROH doesn't understand the difference between USA and US and the various jurisdictions and offices and services involved, so, they apparently just made something up.

Finally, this cult-like spiel about "Blood Moons" and a "33 +3" calendar cycle and that people are "sealed" to obey some bunch of knotheads misrepresenting themselves as The Government of The United States of America---- that whole diatribe is so smelly and off the wall that even an old Dumpster Diver like me takes pause.

As we have discussed before, time doesn't exist. As a result, all calendars are fictitious cataloging systems based on various natural phenomena--- the precession of the constellations, the waning and waxing of the moon, or even the frequency of vibration of a hydrogen atom--- and it is all arbitrary and chosen by men who are about as infallible as weather reports.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, sacred about any calendar, unless you want to talk about the "calendar" of festivals.

This same group, TROH, got all excited about the end of the Mayan Calendar, too, and were nonplussed as to why the world didn't end on the day they predicted, and why they were not raptured up to become the 144,000 Elect.

Maybe it's because none of them are virgins, they don't follow Yeshua's example, and the Mayans were pagan blood-sacrificers?

Just prior to the Winter Solstice of 2011 TROH was all over the internet, and the basic line was---- sign on with us now, or you can never be one of the super-elite leaders of the Reign of the Heavens Society. Sign up now, Buddy, or you are going to lose your slot in Heaven and never make the grade.

Oh, and send us money --- something like $1500, if I remember correctly -- a substantial sum, to mark your seat and save your place in this wonderful organization of those very, very special people who are called.

They seem to have forgotten that even Yeshua didn't have control of who is actually called, and that no money was ever involved.

The entire history of TROH is the same way. One preposterous episode after another.

It doesn't seem to matter whether the subject is religion or government with them, they just bounce back and forth, making it up as they go.

Now, I can't tell you why they are doing and saying all these whackjob things, but I can tell you that, yes, they are whackjob--- and to run like an antelope away.

Just like I remind everyone that English, not Dog Latin, is our official language --and to leave PARSE SYNTAX behind.

Things that don't make sense, and people who want to walk a crooked walk ---leave them behind.

If you have never read the Bible for yourself, now would be a good time. See for yourself what it actually says, so that you are not led astray.

If you have never studied American History (as opposed to US History) now is the time to do that, too, so that you are not misled about your government, either.

And always, let your own Shinola Sensor be your guide.

Truth can be stranger than fiction at times, and I can attest to that; but fiction is more usually the strange part of the equation.

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Listening to The Left

 By Anna Von Reitz

The repetitive chant-like sameness of the Leftist diatribe usually puts me to sleep. But, this morning, I heard something odd coming from the Left: a Leftist Gun Club. The leader of this organization was being interviewed and saying---that, well, she wanted to be able to defend herself against thugs.

Imagine that?

This was an early morning radio interview so my imagination was free to envision a human Chihuahua on a polished waxed floor packing a .357.... which was unsettling enough to jolt me fully awake.

And then she said something that answered a question that I have had for many years.

She said that she and her cohorts on the Left see the government as a force to be used to promote the Greater Good.

They see themselves as being anointed to determine what the Greater Good is, and then, they see the government as their means to power to implement it.

This took me back several decades to my time spent in California and the bizarre Bayside dinner parties I attended as one of the Greater Unwashed scarfing up free champagne. And it all made perfect sense.

These people have no idea what the government is, so they are using it for purposes never intended. Like two year-olds with a hammer or a dog with a dildo....they just came up with their own theory and ran with it.

It's a pillow smasher, no, no.... it's.... for denting the car fender! Wait, what else can I do with this?

What, I wondered briefly, would a tribesman living in the Amazon rainforest do with a wingnut?

Or a Californian do with a government?

Now, we know.

Apparently, large numbers of New Yorkers and Californians were never taught the actual functions of government, so they came up with something totally different to do with it----and then spread their new theory of government via morning television, reaching a huge audience as clueless as they were.

Like birds pulling apart a sweater to make a fluffy nest, or Grandma using a cat box for a laundry tub, or kids turning an old packing crate into a castle, the Leftists have repurposed the Federal Government.

There are now so many of them brought up under these false assumptions about the nature and purpose of government, that they are enforcing their own delusions.

"Hey, Joe, isn't the government supposed to take care of us, cradle to grave, no matter what happens?"

"Yeah, that's what I was told."

They actually believe, as in religious belief, that the Federal Government is a charity created to impose social justice (as defined by them, of course).

I used my hand to prop up my jaw.

That's why the Leftists sound like they are preaching a religion.

They are.

That's why they are so Holier-Than-Thou.

That's why they believe that they can buy social justice.

That's why they think that they can (and should) impose their own values on other people, using the government bureaucracy to do it.

For them, politics has replaced religion, complete with doctrines and dogmas and sacred cows.

And they think that the government bureaucracy is their means to convert all the Unbelievers.

Forget about militant Muslims. Forget about the Jesuits. We've got something far more dangerous and unhinged going on.

We need to start teaching Civics again, because millions of clueless people are falling victim to this theory of government, and once they embrace government as a religion, it's hard to tap them on the shoulder and ask, "Why are you wearing a mask and a birdcage on your head?"

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My Thoughts on the ArVee

 By Anna Von Reitz

The theory behind the "RV" is that when the US DOLLAR is trashed and people lose half to 80% of the value of their money in this country, it will be offset by gains in the value of other world currencies. So, you are being told to invest in the currencies of other countries, because once "the RV" occurs, their gains will more than offset your losses.

In theory.

Of course, putting all your money in other currencies weakens the US DOLLAR and so, you are stupidly participating in the demise of the currency you have been using and investing in all these years, albeit under the force of Legal Tender Laws--- which is another story you can chalk up to the U.S. Military.

Some of these foreign currencies, in theory, stand to gain much more value than others, because the countries involved have assets (like minerals or archeological sites) that have been discovered or developed in the years since 1941 --- the last time that an RV-like event and worldwide asset accounting process occurred.

Those responsible for trashing the US DOLLAR --- mainly military officials who are supposed to be guarding our nation's money for us --- have been promoting the RV as an "answer" for their own gross mismanagement ever since 1863 when Lincoln appointed them to be responsible for our money.

Refer to the very first Executive Order ever issued --- General Order 100, also known as the Lieber Code, issued in March of 1863, one day prior to Lincoln declaring the Northern State-of-State organizations bankrupt. The U.S. Army took over as the Territorial Government at that point and has been in control of the money ever since.

It has been under their auspices and on their watch that so much terrible fraud and theft and abuse of the people of this country has occurred, so don't for a moment think that our military can escape this debacle with clean hands. They have had their paws in our cookie jar since 1863 and much of what we and the rest of the world have suffered is directly related to them and what they have done or failed to do.

The proposed ArVee is no different.

It is just another Big Con and Crap Shoot, based on graft and malfeasance, designed to benefit Insiders at the expense of Outsiders.

And it is just as criminal as all that has come before it.

The U.S. Military and their crony pals working the storefront in Washington, DC, have the most powerful commodity rigging scheme in place that anyone has ever attempted: The Exchange Stabilization Fund.

Using this mammoth stockpile of foreign currencies, they can undermine any economy and "blow out" any currency worldwide, at will.

They have been using this tool to conduct Economic Warfare since the inception of this scheme, and the ArVee is just the latest bit of their self-interested criminality on display, despite all the "secrecy" and elbow-jabbing associated with it.

Obviously, with the world currency markets rigged to the teeth, there is no actual value in any of the currencies. They are all arbitrary. Some jackass sitting in a leather club chair in London and his buddies sit down over a glass of Scotch and out of thin air, decide the exchange rates of world currencies, and whether or not people in Nigeria starve this winter.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with value or abundance of commodities or anything else. It's just digits and stockpiles and petty little men playing "god".

If the U.S. Military was worth the powder to blow them to Hell, they'd rebel against these masters and stop their endless bootlicking, but then, they'd have to explain to the American People exactly how and why all our gold and silver was cashiered offshore in foreign countries for "safekeeping".

And they'd have to explain their part in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.

And they'd have to explain what went on in 1941, just prior to the staged attack on Pearl Harbor.

To quote Ricky, Lucy would have a lot of 'splaining to do. A lot.

And most of it wouldn't ring true or be justifiable. It would just appear to be what it is --- criminality in a suit.

You want to know why Biden is "President" of a brand new foreign Municipal Corporation (that doesn't have a contract) and Trump isn't?

Because the Dirty Military outfoxed the Clean Military. Or maybe they just bought off enough traitors to pull the political equivalent of another one of their horrible Great Fiascos ---- the September 11 Holocaust.

Tell me, again, why NORAD was on stand down that day?

No, friends, the ugly truth is that the ArVee is like everything else these jokers have done for the past 150-plus years and they all need to be keel-hauled.

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Instruction on the Sixth Sunday After Easter

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The Church's Year

This Sunday and the whole week should serve as a preparation for the festival of Pentecost, that we may be enabled by good works and pious devotional exercises, to receive the gifts of the Holy Ghost. At the Introit the Church sings:

INTROIT

Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee, alleluia. My heart hath said to thee: I have sought thy face, thy face, O Lord, I will seek: turn not away thy face from me, allel. allel. The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear? (Ps. XXVI. 7-9.) 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  Almighty, everlasting God, grant us ever to have a will devoted to Thee, and to serve Thy majesty with a sincere heart. 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 (1 Peter IV. 7-11.) Dearly beloved, be prudent, and watch in prayers. But before all things, have a constant mutual charity among yourselves; for charity covereth a multitude of sins. Using hospitality one towards another without murmuring: as every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the words of God: if any man minister, let him do it as of the power which God administereth; that in all things God may be honored through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

EXPLANATION The practice of the virtues which St. Peter here prescribes for the faithful, is an excellent preparation for the reception of the Holy Ghost, for nothing renders us more worthy of His visit than true love for our neighbor, the good use of God's gifts; and the faithful discharge of the duties of our state of life. Strive, therefore, to practice these virtues and thus make yourself less unworthy of the gifts of the Holy Ghost. Say daily during the week the following prayer: Come, Holy Spirit, who hast assembled the people of all tongues in unity of faith, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy divine love.

GOSPEL (John XV. 26-27., to XVI. 1-4.) At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: When the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me: and you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning. These things have I spoken to you, that you may not be scandalized. They put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whomsoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God. And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. But these things I have told you, that, when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you.

Why is the Holy Ghost called the Paraclete?

Through the apostles and disciples whom He made so eloquent and so courageous that they intrepidly professed and preached Christ to be the Son of God, and the true Messiah. This doctrine He confirmed by astounding miracles, and sealed it by their blood which they shed in its defense The Holy Ghost still gives testimony of Christ through the Church, that is, the clergy, through whom He speaks, and who must, therefore, be listened to reverently. We must also give testimony of Christ and profess by our lives, by patience in crosses and afflictions that He is our Teacher, our Lord, and our God; for if we do not thus acknowledge' Him in this world He will deny us before His Father in heaven. (Matt X. 33.)

Did the Jews sin in persecuting and putting to death the apostles?

Undoubtedly; for although they erroneously believed they were doing God a service, their ignorance and error were very sinful and deserving of punishment, because they could easily have known and been instructed in the truth.

Those Christians who neglect all religious instruction hardly know what is necessary for salvation, and make light of many things which are grievous sins; as also those who are in doubt whether they justly or unjustly possess certain goods, and yet through fear of being compelled to make restitution, neglect to settle the doubts such are in culpable ignorance.

What must every Christian know and believe in order to be saved?

That there is but one God, who has created and governs all things; that God is a just judge, who rewards the good and punishes the wicked; that there are in the Deity three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; that the Son of God became man for love of us, taught us, and by His death on the cross redeemed us; that the Holy Ghost sanctifies us by His grace, without which we cannot become virtuous or be saved; that man's soul is immortal.

PETITION Send us, O Lord Jesus ! the Paraclete, that He may console and strengthen us in all our afflictions. Enlighten us by Thy Holy Spirit that we may learn and live in accordance with the truths of faith. Amen.

 

INSTRUCTION ON SCANDAL

These things have I spoken to you, that you may not be scandalized. (John XVI. 1.)

How is scandal given?

By speaking, doing or omitting that which will be, to others an occasion, of sin: Scandal is given in different ways, for instance: if you dress improperly, speak improper words, or sing bad songs; by which you can see, that your neighbor will be tempted to think, desire or act wrongly; or what is worse, if you act sinfully, in the presence of, others, or bring bad books., books against good morals, or against the holy faith, among people; if you incite others to anger, cursing, and vengeance, or if you prevent them from attending church, the sermon, or catechetical instruction, etc. In all these things you become guilty of scandal, as well as of all the sins to which it gives rise.

If at the Last judgment we will be unable to, give an account of our own sins, how, then can we answer for the innumerable sins caused by the scandal we have given? Therefore Christ pronounces a terrible, woe upon those who give scandal. Woe to that man, He says, by whom the scandal cometh! It were better for him, that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matt. XVIII.)

How do parents give scandal?

By giving their children bad example; by excessive anger, cursing and swearing; by avarice, injustice and cheating; by discord and quarrels; by gluttony in eating and drinking; by extravagance and vanity in dress; by sneering at religion, good morals, etc.; by not keeping their children from evil company, but sometimes even bringing them into it; by not punishing and endeavoring to eradicate their children's vices. How much parents sin, through such scandals, cannot be expressed; at the Day of judgment their children will be their accusers!

How do masters give scandal to their servants and those under their care?

In the same way as parents do to their children; by keeping them away from, or not urging them by their own example or command to attend church on Sundays and holy-days; by giving them meat on fast-days; by commanding them to do sinful things, such as stealing, injuring others, etc.

 

INSTRUCTION ON PREPARATION FOR PENTECOST

1). We should withdraw, after the example of the Blessed Virgin and the apostles, to some solitary place, or at least avoid, intercourse with others, as much as possible; speak but little, and apply ourselves to earnest and persevering prayer; for in solitude God speaks to man.

2). We should purify our conscience by a contrite confession, become reconciled to our neighbor, if we have lived in enmity; for the Holy Ghost, as a spirit of peace and purity, lives only in pure and peaceful souls. (Ps. IXXV. 3.)

3). We should give alms according to our means, for it is said in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts X.) of the Gentile centurion Cornelius, that by prayer and alms-deeds he made himself worthy of the gifts of the Holy Ghost.

4). We should fervently desire to receive the Holy Ghost, and should give expression to this longing by frequent aspirations to God, making use of the prayer: 

"COME, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy love. 

  V. Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created; 

   R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Let Us Pray 

      O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of thy faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant us by the gift of the same Spirit that we may be always truly wise, and ever rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen."

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