Here's How It Goes -- American Government 101-1

 By Anna Von Reitz

The States exist as separate nation-states, however, they voluntarily joined together so they could operate as a group of united states when and where it served their best interest to do so.

That's where the name "United States" comes from.

They formed the Union to address their "mutual need" for a common defense and a common monetary system, to establish common weights and measures for use throughout the country and in foreign trade, to choose an official language in which to conduct business and diplomacy, to establish public roads and other public infrastructure promoting development and interstate trade, to promote common trade policies, provide domestic and foreign mail services, etc.---all these and similar mutual concerns were addressed by the Union of States, and all these efforts served to bulwark their well-being as individual States of the Union.

Very early on, within months of issuing The Unanimous Declaration of Independence, these same united states (technically still calling themselves United Colonies) realized that they needed to act as one body in the realm of international diplomacy; otherwise, it would have been too easily to leverage one state against another using economic or military powers. To create this united front, the former colonists created The United States of America, an unincorporated Federation to represent their interests abroad.

From the very beginning, The United States of America has functioned exclusively in the international and global jurisdictions.

The Founders deliberately separated the Union, doing business as the United States, from the Federation doing business as The United States of America, because they wanted to establish a separation of powers, with the United States in control of what happened at home, and The United States of America in control of what happened abroad.

Probably no other single issue has created more confusion than the proliferation of entities doing business variously as "the" United States over the years. It is important for Americans to realize that this appellation has applied to different organizations and business entities at different times in our government's development.

In the early years "the United States" referred to the Union of Colonies and later, the Union of States ---and this is the entity being referred to as "the United States" in all the early treaties and diplomatic documents. After the adoption of the Federal Constitutions, this same name "the United States" was applied to the American Federal Republic, while the original Union of States became known as The United States. Then, after the Civil War, when the American Federal Republic ceased to operate, the Municipal Government began using the name "the United States".

Today, these same three words, "the United States" have to be interpreted from context, both in terms of the subject matter of documents and the time in which the documents were written, and they can mean:

(1) the name of the country as a nation among other nations;

(2) the political union of states being referenced in context;

(3) a federal corporation doing business as the United States.

To the United States, our unincorporated Union of States, properly styled as The United States, belongs the right, title, and interest in the mutually shared powers of the county governments which allow this version of "United States" to do things like establish an interstate highway system.

The name "The United States of America" is far less ambiguous, though it has suffered, too, and has to be interpreted according to time and context.

The United States of America was and still is the Proper Name of our unincorporated Federation of States. To this Federation belongs the right, title, and interest in the mutually shared powers of the State Governments, which allows it to do things like represent the actual States in foreign diplomatic venues and international courts.

Beginning after the adoption of the Federal Constitutions, another entity called "the" United States of America appeared, this and was adopted as the name of the British-affiliated Territorial Government Please note that the definite article, "the" is not and never was part of the official name of this entity.

Later, various corporations infringed upon our Good Name, most notably a Scottish commercial corporation that did business as "The United States of America" -- Incorporated from 1868 to 1907, and the United States of America, Inc., a Delaware Corporation formed by the Roman Catholic Church that operated from 1925 to 1933, and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a Municipal Government corporation and the USA, Inc., a Territorial-owned Municipal Corporation....

Today, the words "United States of America" may mean:

(1) the generalized name of the country in international jurisdiction;(2) the unincorporated Federation of States;

(3) the British-affiliated Territorial Government;

(4) any one of a number of corporations past and present doing business "as" some version of "United States of America" without permission.

These, then, are the principal entities that started the ball rolling and operated the entire government for the first five years, 1776 to 1781:

(1) the Union of states known variously as "the United States" holding mutually shared powers delegated to it by the county governments, operating exclusively in national (soil) jurisdiction;

(2) the Federation of States known as "The United States of America" holding mutually shared powers delegated to it by the State Governments, operating exclusively in international (land and sea) and/or global (air) jurisdictions.

In 1781, the Union and the Federation were joined by the Confederation of States, organized under The Articles of Confederation. This entity doing business as the States of America, was a commercial business enterprise operating exclusively in the global (air) jurisdiction. But that's another story.

For now, concentrate on how this American Government began--- with a Union of counties (national soil jurisdiction) called the United States, and a Federation of States (international land and sea and air jurisdiction) called The United States of America.

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For the Military Geniuses Among Us

 By Anna Von Reitz

Not one dollar of any military payroll, not one dollar spent on any military equipment or supply, not one dollar spent on armaments, rockets, tanks, jet fighters, or any other defense expenditure ever came from the Queen or the Pope or "the" Congress.

All that money came from one source: the American People.

And who are the American People? They are the State Citizens who signed the Federal Contracts known as Constitutions.

All the folks back home. The rank and filers who paid for it all.

Now, what happens to you, when millions of Americans die?

You don't get paid, because there's nobody left to pay you. Your budgets go the way of the Dodo. You are disgraced. Useless. Finished.

And that is what is coming to you if you continue to let these corporate managers lead you around like bulls on a nose ring. That's what happens if you let Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci get away with their Humanoid-GMO-population-reduction crap.

That's what happens when all those body bags that you and FEMA have put in place get used.

You become obsolete.

There will be no need for you, because you failed your duty to protect.

And that is the truth of the matter, boys.

Take a good deep breath and own it.

You've already failed millions of Americans whose lives are now compromised because of you and your lack of intelligence and leadership and guts.

You all stood there like dumb beasts and let all these innocent people be "vaccinated" by these monsters in suits.

You're still standing there mum as tombstones, dumb beefeaters, worthless as tits on a boor, without the sense to save yourselves, much less anyone else.

And you wonder why I am "anti-military"?

I'm not anti-military. I am pro-military, if I could find one worth its salt. I'd pay good money for half a dozen generals who could recognize the actual domestic terrorists in the room.

And let's get a clue, it's not me or any of the other old ladies pointing our knitting needles at you.

It's all the medical officers conscripted under Title 37 who have been misdirected and turned into an army to kill innocent Americans ---and this has been done on your watch; it's still occurring as I write this.

Elders and little kids, teenagers and college students, workers in factories and schools, being silently murdered and sterilized while you Worthlessers do nothing to stop it.

You couldn't recognize a domestic terrorist if one bit you on the nose. Or shoved a needle up your rump.

For all the trillions of dollars spent on you, you can't think your way out of a paper bag. You are all completely boggled by reams of paper issued by experts who aren't experts at all, by people occupying vacant offices on false pretenses, and political party sideshows that shouldn't exist if you were doing your job.

There's just one thing providing you with jobs and it is called The Constitution of the United States of America. If you can't read it and recognize who is owed all those guarantees, then what good are you to anyone?

Read it. See any mention of "public health mandates" anywhere? Masks? Coerced vaccinations? Experimental genetic engineering protocols? Anthony Fauci, President? Bill Gates, Vice President? When in blazes did these maniacs get elected to any public office?

That old musty contract is your contract, and if you dishonor it, guess who is next on the chopping block?

Don't talk about what you are going to do. It's past time for you to be doing it.

Bill Gates was being prosecuted by the Government of India for maiming and murdering 750,000 children in India via his vaccination programs five years ago.

And where have all you military geniuses been? Apparently in a gin bottle with your ear plugs on and a cork up your %^$&##%$.

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Additional Issues for The Court of International Justice -- Blood Money 25 -- Legacy Trusts

 By Anna Von Reitz

Among the more odious excuses that we have heard from the criminally-minded among us is the excuse that people have "died" to their inherent political status and "voluntarily" adopted both political statuses and conditions which were never disclosed to them. Despite this, we are not deceived and do not fail to object.

Let it come to the Notice of all Justices and Magistrates that the creation of GMO Humanoids by the injection of foreign genetically engineered mRNA has already been outlawed in this country as of January 1, 2020 and that this continuing assault against humanity must be brought to an abrupt and permanent halt.

Nobody who has accepted these injections was given full disclosure. In fact, they were deliberately deceived by WHO and other complicit criminal organizations that collaborated to change the meaning of "vaccine" to include an experimental genetic engineering protocol harmful to human life.

Those responsible are below the benchmark of sanity and they must all be rounded up and held accountable without regard for nationality or political status.

Each and every corporation functioning as a national government is responsible for the harm they have caused their employers.

This includes the deliberate spreading of false information and propaganda. The Media franchises of these so-called National Corporations must be prosecuted as accomplices and the Medical Doctors who have allowed and promoted this genocide as defined by Territorial Law -- see 18 USC 1091 -- must be held accountable.

The banks and commercial corporations that have sought to benefit themselves by claiming that people are rendered Genetically Modified Organisms by this heinous injection process, and as such, are patented property, subject to disposal---- must be liquidated. Immediately. Summarily.

This excuse by which they seek to legalize genocide must be recognized for what it is. --- a heinous and unjustifiable excuse, unlawful, immoral, and illegal to the core.

These outrages must be answered decisively and swiftly and without any further misinterpretation of civil law.

Despite any upheaval or confusion caused by The American Civil War, the First World War, or the Second World War or any self-serving legal definitions offered by the Perpetrators of these crimes against humanity --- herein rebutted--- the actual civil law pertaining to the estates of these people and their nature is already spelled out and has been for a thousand years:

Resoluto jure concedentis, resolvitur jus concessum: by the extinction of the right of the grantor, the right granted is extinguished.

Res nullius naturaliter fit primi occupantis: the property of no one naturally becomes that of the first occupant.

As we have observed, all right, title, and interest in our Delegated Powers and all property interests invested by delegation returned to the Delegator, our unincorporated Federation of States, The United States of America, by Operation of Law -- and that includes all custodial interest vested in or presumed to exist or to be exercised by any instrumentality of the Queen or the Pope -- upon their bankruptcy.

As this is true for the nation as a whole, it is also true for the Lawful Persons of our nation.

Thus, for example, the loss of our Title IV Flag by a bankrupt instrumentality of the Pope returns that version of our flag to our custody, and not to the custody of any Third Party.

The bankruptcy of any instrumentality of the Queen has no impact upon the actual ownership of private property including property trusts belonging to Americans.

We call for immediate corrective action and determined disciplinary action against the British Crown Corporation and the Government of Westminster and the Roman Curia and their corporations in sum total for allowing these predatory, inhumane, and war-like practices and False Legal Presumptions to continue against their employers---- and failing that, we call for their immediate and permanent liquidation as corporations, and expulsion from the world community as organizations or governments of any kind.

We hereby provide Notice to The International Court of Justice, the Court of the Lord High Steward, and the Vatican Chancery Court, that all of this wrong-doing has occurred in the realm of commerce and has merely extended its reach into the territorial realm via constructive, so-called discretionary non-enforcement of the actual Public Law via another constructive fraud -- the purported existence of Special Admiralty provisions allowing the usurpation of the jurisdiction of the sea upon the land.

There are no such provisions in our Treaties with these Principals.

The actual Public Law is not subject to discretionary enforcement by any employee, trustee, or representative. The Public Law is a mandatory enforcement obligation of all trustees, employees, administrators, officers, and officials pretending any authority or association with the actual Government of this country and is an obligation of all Principals under both The Constitution of the United States and The Constitution of the United States of America.

The above-described attempt to legalize genocide by these madmen is only the most recent example of their drive to mischaracterize living people and to thereby deprive and defraud them of their natural standing, so as to unlawfully seize upon their property assets and dispossess them as the natural owners of their Proper Names, bodies, businesses, and homes.

It is the responsibility of the Popes to immediately liquidate the offending corporations and return the purloined rights, titles, interests, and assets to the victims of these charlatans. The Roman Curia is in particular the organization responsible for the existence and definition of these corporations and is held to account for them.

As a result of earlier similar attempts to mischaracterize and defraud the living people by corporate entities, more than 5,000 so-called institutional Legacy Trusts holding most of the gold and silver and other assets of the world, have been presumed to exist and to belong to the Perpetrators of these schemes acting as "representatives" and "agents" of the actual owners --- without the knowledge or permission of the actual owners.

These convenient institutional Executors de Son Tort are nonetheless guilty of all the errors, omissions, and unlawful standing of all such Persons, whether individuals or instrumentalities, institutions or Principals.

We call for the immediate return of all such Legacy Trusts to the actual owners and depositors, including the return of all such primary asset deposits -- gold, silver, jewels, etc., owed to The United States of America and to all American depositors, without any pretense that they are or have been missing, whereabouts unknown.

The tax records of the Perpetrators of this scheme more than adequately demonstrate that the whereabouts of the actual owners, like the whereabouts of the actual heirs, have been known throughout this debacle, and have been deliberately obscured in order to promote fraud against the victims of these schemes.

All deposits of our assets on a worldwide basis are subject to our wishes and we wish for a full accounting from all the banks responsible.

With a worldwide corporation-sponsored genocide underway against the living people and with the Priority Creditors being mercilessly targeted by such international criminals as Anthony Fauci, M.D., and William Gates III, there is no time to be lost in lengthy deliberation by the High Courts.

We wish for the issuance of International Arrest Warrants for the immediate arrest of Dr. Anthony Fauci and William Gates, III, their collaborators, and associates, involved in this massive crime spree. We do not recognize any claim of contrary authority or non-participation by the United States or any of its corporations.

Both the Roman Civil Law and the Territorial Code are clearly stated, and there can be no doubt that these above-named Persons and Parties are in criminal violation of both.

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Administrative Leave Imposed Effective Immediately

 

Eric Brian Dingis will no longer be acting as Director of the Peacekeeping Task Force. Effective immediately, Susan Hauck will be Acting Director. Eric will be on Administrative Leave until further notice and completion of a training course.

The simple fact that the Continental Marshals are commissioned directly by The United States of America, our unincorporated Federation of States, has been consistently misinterpreted by various parties.

This is not only a mistake, any such misinterpretation of the Marshal's position and authority results in a dangerous commingling of jurisdictions that would lead to prosecution of the individual Marshals and to the organization as a whole.

The States, acting individually, have no say in the administration or deployment of the Continental Marshals and never have had any such authority.

Any attempt to undermine the authority of The United States of America in this matter is an attempt to undermine the structure of the American Government as a whole and must be recognized as an immediate threat to all concerned.

Please inform all Marshals and Peacekeeping Task Force Members and conduct your operations accordingly. Eric is asked to immediately report himself and his activities to our Federation Liaison Officer and to stand down pending further investigation.

James Clinton Belcher, Head of State

The United States of America

It's Not a Vaccine, People

 By Anna Von Reitz

What have we learned about the Liars Club?

Their entire modus operandi is to deceive, deceive, deceive. First, last, and always, their mouths are twisted. Their thoughts are twisted. Everything about these Devotees to the Father of All Lies ---- is twisted.

They are at fault, so what do they do? They blame the victims of their evil.

They did something awful, so what do they do? They accuse innocent Third Parties or the victims of their evil of doing the same thing.

The Truth and the Law is against them, so what do they do? They rename and relabel things to have different meanings.

And this is a case in point.

They have changed the definition of "vaccine" and presented something that isn't a vaccine as a "vaccine" under this new definition of the word.

Okay?

A lie by any other name is still a lie.

So it is not a vaccine, and it's not even a virus.

The issue is that foreign mRNA is being injected into your body, just like foreign mRNA is injected into a corn plant to create a genetically modified organism (GMO).

And just as genetically modified corn produces its own pesticides, you are being altered to produce foreign proteins that attack the lining of your arteries and veins.

Is this illegal? Yes.

Is this immoral? Yes.

Is this unlawful? Yes.

Should everyone involved be prosecuted? Yes.

Are they being prosecuted? Yes.

And if anyone attempts to coerce you into taking this "vaccine" are you entitled to sue them? Yes.

If anyone offers to vaccinate you by force, are you enabled to respond with deadly force? Yes.

If anyone tells you that you have to be vaccinated as a condition of employment are you enabled to invoked Federal Law, including 18 USC 1091? Yes.

If anyone fires you from a job or discriminates against you in the workplace on the basis of whether or not you have been vaccinated, can you file a complaint against that employer with the State Labor Board? Yes.

If any business refuses to serve you based on whether or not you have been "vaccinated" or not, do you have the right to sue them for violation of Federal Law? Yes.

If anyone tells you that you have to shut down your business now or ever as a result of "public health concerns" to you have the right to tell them to leave your premises and not return? Yes, you have that absolute right.

The only contracts that Americans have with either one of these foreign commercial corporations are very explicit and easy to read.

The Constitution of the United States is your only contract with the US CORP in any form.

The Constitution of the United States of America is your only contract with the USA, INC. in any form.

Neither one say a single word about health concerns. Your health and public health alike are private concerns of the American People, and are not left to the discretion or interference of our employees or their dependents.

Be not like dumb driven cattle.

Look, listen, learn, and defend yourselves from these monsters in suits.

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Incorrigible Corrupt Judges and Other Matters

 By Anna Von Reitz

Today, I was asked --- is Public Law the same as Common Law?

We've gone around and around and around about this and nobody was getting it.

I finally said--- the Public Law is ice cream. The Common Law is the kind of ice cream.

I am not sure if that went over some heads or not, but really, people need to understand that "common law" is a catch-all phrase used to describe many forms of law that use prior cases and their results as the basis for deciding current cases.

In a fundamental way, that's all that the phrase "common law" means, and so you can have civilian common law of various kinds, ecclesiastical common law, even military common law.

The actual magic is the Public Law, which is meant to apply equally to everyone at all times. It is this "commonality" of the Public Law that so many people are searching for, and mistaking for "common law".

Some forms of common law are dreadful. For example the Spanish Law of the Inquisition is perfectly sound Common Law ---- it uses all sorts of former decisions as the basis for decisions today, but that in no way suggests that those decisions were ever wise or humane or just to begin with.

So instead of mucking around trying to herd squirrels, let's just focus on the endgame. What is it that you are actually searching for?

Justice.

And common law is no guarantee that justice will be served, as we just demonstrated --- enshrining and perpetuating bad decisions and prejudices is an inevitable danger of common law of all kinds, so it behooves us to be sure that the kind of "Common Law" that we are searching for and taking refuge in, is our own Public Law.

Public Law in this country assumes the obligation of justice for all. Private law assumes no such thing. Both can be executed in the form of "common law".

As so many people have learned, you can have chocolate flavored ice cream or chocolate flavored pickles, and you should never leave it to a judge in one of these foreign courts to divine which one you are asking for.

In America, you need to stand on your feet as an American and invoke the Public Law. Don't let these crafty judges weasel around and interpret your calls for "common law" to mean, for example, military common law. Or Arabian common law. Or Noahide common law.

Also, remember, particularly in Mortgage cases:

(1) The actual mortgage and paperwork never leaves the hands of the original Lender, so don't let them substitute a Third Party Bill Collector as any real party of interest. You don't have a contract with that Third Party. Say so. Demand to see any contract between the "Servicing Agent" and you. Always drag the original "Lender" into the proceedings by naming them as a the True Party of Interest.

(2) Always go directly to the bank CFO acting as "Lender" and tell that executive in no uncertain terms that his bank has misaddressed you as a Municipal CITIZEN of the United States, and it is his responsibility to make correction. You are in fact exempt from Municipal debts and presumptions and you wish for the entire matter to be corrected and any mortgage debt to be discharged in your favor through the Fed Window. He can lose his licenses and credit ratings if he messes around trying to defraud you.

(3) Tackle the State Judicial Council (Territorial) and, if there is one in your State, the State Banking Commission and Judicial Commission. Tell them all in no uncertain terms that you are an American, not a Municipal CITIZEN and not a Territorial U.S. Citizen, either one, and you are being deliberately misaddressed. Send your complaint with copies to your State Secretary of State, the head Clerk of Court, the Department of Public Safety and the State of State Governor.

And take no Low Ball Offers.

We've seen Sharpies like Black Rock, Inc., come in, buy up bonds that are worth billions of dollars, and come around and offer the people those bonds actually belong to a $10,000.00 "settlement". These are rapacious, ugly, mean-spirited, greedy, power-hungry corporations, and the only thing they deserve is liquidation for criminal activity.

Tell your friends and neighbors the same. Beware of any and all "settlement" offers, and accept any hand-outs as gifts. Keep on your toes.

Some of the rats are saying they are going to give you back "as much as" $70,000.00 out of the billions they owe every average American. Tell them to go pound sand.

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Instruction on the Second Sunday After Pentecost

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

INTROIT The Lord became my protector, and He brought me forth into a large place: He saved me, because he was well pleased with me. (Ps. XVII.) I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength: the Lord is my firmament, and my refuge, and my deliverer. 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 Make us, O Lord, to have a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy name; for Thou never failest to help and govern those whom Thou dost establish in Thy steadfast love. 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 (I ,John III. 13-18.) Dearly beloved, Wonder not if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not, abideth in death; whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself. In this we have known the charity of God, because he bath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. He that hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shut up his bowels from him, how doth the charity of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

EXPLANATION People who are really pious have always something to suffer from the wicked world, as, Jesus foretold, but they do not cease to love their persecutors as their best friends, and are ready, if necessary, to give their life for their enemies, as Christ did. Thus should all Christians act; for the love of our neighbor and even of our enemies is a universal command, a law that binds all; it is the life of the soul. Hatred deprives the soul of this life and makes man a murderer, because hatred is the beginning of murder, and often ends in homicide. By love we know the true Christians. (John. XIII. 35.) St. John even considers love the certain sign of being chosen for eternal life, when he says: We know, we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. Alas! how few will be chosen from among the Christians of to-day, because there is so little love among them! Empty compliments, assurances of friendships &c. love appears only in words, only on the tongue; and such idle, ephemeral, worthless love is found everywhere in this world; but that which is love in truth and reality, which shows charity to the suffering, how rare it is! and yet only to this love is promised eternal life, because it alone rests on the love of God.

GOSPEL (Luke XIV. 16-24.) At that time, Jesus spoke to the Pharisees this parable: A certain man made a great supper, and invited many. And he sent his servant, at the hour of supper, to say to them that were invited, that they should come, for now all things are ready. And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm, and I must needs go out, and see it; I pray thee hold me excused. And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them; I pray thee hold me excused. And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. Then the master of the house being angry, said to his, servant: Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the feeble, and the blind, and the lame. And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house maybe filled. But I say unto you, that none of these men that were invited shall taste of my supper.

What is to be understood by this great supper?

The Church of Christ on earth, in which His doctrine and His most precious Flesh and Blood are given as food to those who belong to her; also the Church triumphant in heaven, in which God Himself, in the beatific vision, is the nourishment. This supper is called great, because God Himself has founded the Church; because the Church embraces heaven and earth, hence many belong and will belong to her; and because having ended the contest on earth, she will last forever in heaven. There the saints of God will enjoy the Highest Good for all eternity, and will have nothing to wish for, since all their desires will there be realized. O, what happiness it is that we are invited to His supper, and as guests are nourished by the teachings of Christ, and by His most sacred Flesh and Blood.

Who is it that prepares the super?

It is Christ, the God Man, who for our benefit has not only instituted His Church to which He has entrusted doctrine and the Sacrament of His Flesh and Blood, but has gained eternal salvation for us by His passion and death, and who has invited us first by the prophets, who foretold Him and His divine kingdom, and afterwards by His apostles, and their successors to His great supper.

Who are they who excuse themselves?

They are principally the Jews who bound by pride and avarice to earthly possessions, and blinded by the pleasures of the world, did not recognize Jesus, and remained outside of His church. By him who said he had bought a farm are understood those who by constant anxieties about the possession of earthly goods, and the riches of this world, become indifferent to eternal salvation. By him who had bought five yoke of oxen, is to be understood that sort of busy men who are so burdened with worldly affairs that they find no time to work for heaven, for they even appropriate Sundays and festivals to their worldly affairs. By him who had. taken a wife, and could not come, are represented the carnal, impure men who have rendered themselves by their lusts incapable of spiritual and heavenly joys. Since these different classes of people do not wish to have part in the heavenly banquet, God has excluded them and called others.

Who are meant by the poor, the feeble, the blind and the lame?

The humble and submissive Jews, the publicans, also the Samaritans and the Gentiles, who did not reject Jesus and His doctrine as did the proud, high-minded, carnal Scribes and Pharisees to whom Jesus spoke this parable. The former faithfully received Him, entered His Church, and became participators in eternal happiness. This is daily repeated, because God excludes from the kingdom of heaven those proud, avaricious, and carnal Christians who are ever invited by His servants, the priests, to the enjoyment of holy Communion, but who reject the invitation. On the contrary God welcomes the poor, despised people, the penitent sinners, by separating them from the love of the world by the inspiration of His grace, and by the adversities which He sends them. Thus, in a measure, He forces them to take part in the spiritual joys of a sincerely pious life in His Church on earth, and in the heavenly bliss of His Church in heaven.

SUPPLICATON I thank Thee, O most merciful Jesus that Thou hast called me into Thy Church, permitting me so often to share in the banquet of Thy love, and that by Thy sufferings and death Thou hast obtained the joys of heaven for me. Urge me as seems pleasing to Thee, compel me by temporal trials that by the use of these graces I may obtain the place which Thou hast prepared for me in heaven.

MORAL LESSON CONCERNING THE VICE OF IMPURITY

I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come. (Luke XIV. 29.)

From this foolish excuse it would seem as if married life were an obstacle to arriving at the heavenly banquet, whereas lawful, chaste, Christian marriage is, on the contrary, a means of eternal salvation for those to whom the gift of continency is not given. The excuse of this married man was not grounded on his station in life, but on his inordinate inclination for carnal pleasures which render the one who gives way to it, unfit for spiritual or heavenly things, for the sensual man perceiveth not the things that are of the Spirit of God. (I Cor. II. 14.)

Unfortunate indeed are they who suffer themselves to be carried away by their sensual lusts, who give away the priceless jewel of chastity and purity of heart which makes man equal to the angels, (Matt. XXII. 30.) who for a momentary enjoyment of sinful pleasure lose that white and precious garment in which chaste souls will shine for ever in heaven before the face of God! What benefit does the impure man derive from the gratification of vile lust? He gains the anger and contempt of God; intolerable disgust when the sin is consummated; the torment of a remorseful conscience, and unless he repent, the eternal torments of hell, for the apostle says: Do not err: neither fornicators, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate shall possess the kingdom of God, (I Cor. VI. 9, 10.) It is seen from the examples of the Old Law, how much God hates and abominates the sins of impurity. Why did God regret having created man? (Gen. VI. 6.) , Why did He destroy all except a very few, by a universal deluge? (Gen. VI. 17.) Why did He lay the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha in ashes by pouring upon them fire and brimstone? (Gen. XIX.) Why did He punish the two brothers Her and Onan, by a sudden death? (Gen. XXXVII. 7. 10.) Why did He permit the whole tribe of Benjamin to be extirpated? (Judges XX.) Because of their detestable sins of impurity. And is not this vice an object of the just wrath of God? By these sins an impure man disgraces his body which should be a member of Christ, a temple of the Holy Ghost; he disgraces his soul the image of God, purified and purchased by the precious blood of Christ, and lowers himself beneath the animal, which, void of intellect, follows its instinct; he weakens the power of his body and soul, and ruins his health; he loses the respect of the good, scandalizes his fellowmen, voluntarily separates himself from the communion of saints, deprives himself of the sanctifying grace of God and participation in the merits of Jesus and His saints, and, if he continues like an animal to wallow in this vice, he finally falls into such blindness and hardness of heart that eternal truths, death, judgment, hell, and eternity no longer make any impression upon him; the most abominable crimes of impurity he considers as trifles, as human weaknesses, no sin at all. He is therefore but seldom, if ever, converted, because the evil habit has become his second nature, which he can no longer overcome without an extraordinary grace from God. This God seldom gives, because the impure man generally despises ordinary means and graces, and therefore despairs and casts himself into the pool of eternal fire, where the worm dies not, and where with Satan and his angels the impure shall be for ever tormented.

Do not suffer yourself to be deceived, Christian soul, by the words "love and friendship", which is sought to cover this vice and make it appear a weakness clinging to man. This impure love is a fire which has its origin in hell, and there it will eternally torment the bodies in which it has prevailed. That which God so much detests and so severely punishes, certainly cannot be a trifle, a human weakness! Impress deeply on your heart that all impure thoughts, desires and looks, to which you consent, all impure words, songs, exposures, touches, jokes, and 'such things, are great sins which exclude you from the kingdom of heaven, into which nothing defiled can enter. Remember that he who looks at a woman with a lustful desire, has already, as Christ says, committed adultery in his heart. (Matt. V. 28.) We must, then, carefully guard against "such trifles", as the wicked world calls them, if we do not wish to expose ourselves to the greatest danger of losing our souls. Although it is difficult for an impure person to be converted, yet he should not despair. God does not cast away even the greatest sinner; Jesus forgave the adulteress in the temple, and forgave and received Mary Magdalen. But he who wishes to repent must make use of the proper means to regain the grace of God, and prevent a relapse. Those who have not defiled themselves by the sin of impurity can make use of the following means:

1. Constant prayer. Hence the admonition of the wise King; As I knew that I could not otherwise be continent, except God gave it, I went to the Lord and besought him. (Wisd. VIII. 21.)
   
   
2. Mortification of the flesh by fasting and abstinence. Jesus says these impure spirits can in no other way be cast out but by prayer and fasting. (Matt. XVII. 20.)
   
   
3. The frequent meditation on the four last things, and on the bitter sufferings of our Lord; for there is, says St. Augustine, no means more powerful and effective against the heat of lust than reflection on the ignominious death of the Redeemer.
   
   
4. The quiet consideration of the temporal and eternal evils which follow from this vice, as already described.
   
   
5. The love and veneration of the Blessed Virgin who is the mother of beautiful love, the refuge of all sinners, of whom St. Bernard says: "No one has ever invoked her in his necessity without being heard."
   
   
6. The careful mortification of the eyes. The pious Job made a covenant with his eyes, that. he would not so much as look upon a virgin. (Job XXXI. 1.)
   
   
7. The avoidance of evil occasions, especially intercourse with persons of the other sex. "Remember," says St. Jerome, "that a woman drove out the inhabitants of paradise, and that you are not holier than David, stronger than Samson, wiser than Solomon, who all fell by evil intercourse."
   
   
8. The avoidance of idleness: for idleness, says the proverb, is the beginning of all evil.
   
   
9. The immediate banishing of all bad thoughts by often pronouncing the names of Jesus and Mary, which, as St. Alphonsus Ligouri says, have the special power of driving away impure thoughts.
   
   
10. The frequent use of the holy Sacraments of Penance and of the Altar. This last remedy in particular is a certain cure if we make known to our confessor our weaknesses, and use the remedies he prescribes. The Scripture says that frequent Communion is the seed from which virgins spring, and the table which God has prepared against all temptations that annoy us.

COLLECT Inflame, O Lord, our loins and hearts with the fire of Thy Holy Spirit, that we may serve Thee with pure bodies, and please Thee with clean hearts. Amen.