Instruction on the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost

Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's
The Church's Year

The Introit of the Mass is the prayer of a troubled soul, entreating God for assistance against its enemies:

INTROIT Incline unto my aid, O God: O Lord, make haste to help me: let my enemies be confounded and ashamed, who seek my soul. Let them be turned backward and blush for shame, who desire evils to me. (Ps. LXIX) 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 and merciful God, of whose gift it cometh that the faithful do Thee homage with due and laudable service: grant, we beseech Thee, that we may run without stumbling to the attainment of Thy promises. 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 (II Cor. III. 4-9.) Brethren, such confidence we have through Christ towards God: not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God, who also hath made us fit ministers of the New Testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit: for the letter killeth: but the spirit quickeneth. Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is made void: how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather in glory? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.

EXPLANATION St. Paul speaks in the epistle, from which this extract is taken, of the conversion of the Corinthians, which he accomplished not by his own ability, but with the help of God, who made him a minister of the New Testament, a teacher of the true religion of Christ. The New Testament by the grace of the Holy Ghost recalls the sinner from the death of sin, reconciles him to God, and thus enlivens and makes him pleasing to God; whereas the letter of the Old Law, which contains more eternal ceremonies and fewer commandments, changes not the man, but rather destroys him, that is, threatens with death the transgressor of the law instead of freeing him from sin and reconciling him to God, thus permitting him to die the eternal death. St. Paul preached the true religion of Christ, which vivifies, justifies, and sanctifies man. If the ministry of Moses was so glorified by God, that his countenance shone, when he returned from Mount Sinai, where God gave him the law, how much more dignified and glorious must be the ministry of the New Law. Learn from this to esteem the office of preaching, and be humble like St. Paul, who trusted not in himself but in God, to whom he ascribed all honor.

GOSPEL (Luke X. 23-37.) At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them. And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him, and saying: Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? But he said to him: What is written in the law? how readest thou? He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. And he said to him: Thou hast answered rightly: this do, and thou shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbor? And Jesus answering, said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who also stripped him, and having wounded him, went away; leaving him half dead. And it chanced that a certain priest went down the same way, and seeing him, passed by. In like manner also a Levite, when he was near the place and saw him, passed by. But a certain Samaritan, being on his journey, came near him: and seeing him, was moved with compassion. And going up to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and setting him upon his own beast, brought him to an inn, and took care of him: and the next day he took out two pence, and gave to the host, and said: Take care of him, and whatsoever, thou shalt spend over and above, I, at my return, will repay thee. Which of these three, in thy opinion, was neighbor to him that fell among robbers? But he said: He that showed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and do thou in like manner.

Why does Christ call His disciples blessed?

Because they had the happiness which so many patriarchs and prophets had desired in vain, namely: of seeing Him and hearing His teaching. Though we have not the happiness to see Jesus and hear Him, nevertheless we are not less blessed than the apostles, since Christ pronounces those blessed who do not see and yet believe. (John XX. 29.)

What, besides faith, is necessary for salvation?

That we love God and our neighbor, for in these two commandments consists the whole law. (Matt. XXII. 40.)

Who is our neighbor?¹

Every man, be he an acquaintance or a stranger, poor or rich, of our faith or of another; for the Samaritan did not ask the one who had fallen among robbers: Who and whence are you? but considered him his neighbor, and proved himself as such by his prompt assistance.

How should we love our neighbor?

As we love ourselves, that is, we should wish him everything good, and when in necessity do to him as we would wish others to do to us, and, on the contrary, not wish nor do to him anything that we do not wish to be done to ourselves. In this way the Samaritan loved his neighbor, and in this he was far superior to the priest and the Levite.

How can we especially practice love for our neighbor?

By the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. [See instruction for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost.] Besides which we must rejoice at the spiritual and corporal graces of our neighbor, which God communicates to him; we must grieve for his misfortunes, and, according to the example of St. Paul, (I Cor. I. 4.) have compassion for him; we must bear with the faults of our neighbor, as St. Paul again admonishes us: Bear ye one another's burdens, and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. (Gal. VI. 2.)

Why should we love our neighbor?

We should love him because God commands it; but there are also other reasons which should induce us to do so. We are not only according to nature brothers and sisters in Adam, but also according to grace, in Christ, and we would have to be ashamed before animals, if we would allow ourselves to be surpassed in the love which they bear one to another; (Ecclus, XIII. 19.) all our neighbors are the image and likeness of God, bought by the blood of Jesus, and are adopted children, called to heaven, as we are; the example of Christ, who loved us, when we were yet His enemies, (Rom. V. 10.) and gave Himself for us unto death, ought to incite us to love them. But can we be His disciples, if we do not follow Him, and if we do not bear in us the mark of His disciples, i. e. the love of our neighbor? (John XIII. 35.). Finally, the necessity of the love for our neighbor ought to compel us, as it were, to it; for without it, we cannot be saved. He that loveth not, says St. John, abideth in death, (I John III. 14.) and he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not? (I John IV. 20.) because he transgresses one of the greatest commandments of God, and does not fulfil the law. (Rom. XIII, 10.)

What is necessary to make the love of our neighbor meritorious?

It must tend to God, that is, we must love our neighbor only in and for God, because God commands it, and it is pleasing to Him. For to love our neighbor on account of a natural inclination, or self-interest, or some other still less honorable reason, is only a natural, animal love, in no wise different from the love of the heathens; for the heathens also love and salute those who love and salute them in turn. (Matt. V. 46.)

PETITION. O my God, Father of mercy! give me a loving and compassionate heart, which will continually impel me to do good to my neighbor for Thy sake, so that I may merit the same from Thy mercy.

What is understood from this day's gospel in a higher and more spiritual sense?

According to the interpretation of the Fathers, our father Adam, and hence the whole human race is to be understood by the one who had fallen among robbers. The human race, which through the disobedience of Adam fell into the power of Satan and his angels, was robbed of original justice and the grace of God, and moreover, was wounded and weakened in all the powers of the soul by evil concupiscence. The priest and The Levite who represent the Old Law, would not and could not repair this misfortune; but Christ, the true Samaritan, embraced the interests of the wounded man, inasmuch as He poured the oil of His grace, and the wine of His blood into the wounds of man's soul, and thus healed him, and inasmuch as He led him by baptism into the inn of His Church, and there entrusted him to His priests for further care and nursing. Thank Christ, the good Samaritan, for this great love and care for you, and endeavor to make good use of His blessings by your cooperation.

INSTRUCTION ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF
EXTREME UNCTIONHe bound up his wounds pouring in oil and wine. (Luke X. 34.)

The conduct of the Samaritan in regard to the wounded man may be viewed as a figure of the holy Sacrament of Extreme Unction, in which Christ, the true Samaritan, by means of the holy oil and the prayer of the priest, His representative, dispenses His grace to the sick for the welfare of the soul and often of the body, provided the sick place no obstacle in His way.

Is Extreme Unction a Sacrament?

Yes; because it was instituted by Christ, and by it grace is conveyed to the sick through an outward sign.

Did Christ institute this Sacrament?

He did, for He sent His disciples to anoint the sick with oil and heal them, as the Evangelist writes: Going forth they preached that men should do penance: and they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them. (Mark VI. 12,13.) We must believe that this unction was not invented by the apostles, but ordained by the Lord. This is confirmed by the Council of Trent, which says: (Sess. XIV. C. I.) "This sacred Unction of the sick was instituted by Christ our Lord, as indicated by St. Mark, but recommended to the faithful and promulgated by the Apostle St. James, a relative of our Lord." "Is any man," he says, "sick among you? let him bring in the priests of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven. (James V. 14,15.) St. James could not have said this, if he had not known the institution and command of Christ: to it apostolic and uninterrupted tradition also gives testimony.

What is the external sign of this Sacrament?

The anointing with holy oil, which is blessed by the bishop on Holy Thursday, and the prayer of the priest.

What graces does this Sacrament produce in the sick man?

The Catechism of the Council of Trent enumerates the following: first, it remits sins, especially venial sins. Its primary object is not to remit mortal sin. For this the Sacrament of penance was instituted, as was that of baptism for the remission of original sin; secondly, it removes the languor and infirmity entailed by sin, with all other inconveniences. The time most seasonable for the application of this cure is, when we are visited by some severe malady, which threatens to prove fatal; for nature dreads no earthly visitation so much as death; and this dread is considerably augmented by the recollection of our past sins, particularly if the mind is harrowed by the poignant reproaches of conscience; for it is written: "They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them." A source of alarm still more distressing is the awful reflection, that, in a few moments, we shall stand before the judgment-seat of God, whose justice will award that sentence, which our lives have deserved. The terror inspired by these considerations frequently agitates the soul with the most awful apprehensions; and to calm this terror nothing can be so efficacious as the Sacrament of Extreme Unction. It quiets our fear, illumines the gloom in which the soul is enveloped, fills it with pious and holy joy, and enables us to await with cheerfulness the coming of the Lord; thirdly, it fortifies us against the violent assaults of Satan. The enemy of mankind never ceases to seek our ruin: and if it be possible to deprive us of all hope of mercy, he more than ever increases his efforts, when he sees us approach our last end. This Sacrament, therefore, enables the recipient to fight resolutely and successfully against him; fourthly, it effects the recovery of health, if advantageous to the sick person.

What intentions must the sick man have, in order to gain these graces?

Since the Sacraments work the more powerfully the better the preparation made by those who receive them, and since by this Sacrament those sins are remitted which we have forgotten, or have not sufficiently known, the sick man should, therefore, receive beforehand, if it be possible, the holy Sacrament of Penance and the blessed Eucharist; or if this cannot be done, he should make an act of perfect contrition, and have the wish to confess if possible. He should, therefore, not defer the reception of this Sacrament to the last moment, when the violence of sickness has already taken away the use of his reason and senses, but he should ask for this Sacrament whilst yet enjoying the use of reason, so that he may receive it with devotion and salutary result.

Is this Sacrament necessary for salvation?

No; yet we should not neglect in case of sickness to partake of the excellent fruits of this Sacrament since the Council of Trent teaches: "To despise so great a Sacrament would indeed be a great sin, an insult to the Holy Ghost." (Sess. XIV. C. 3.)

Can we receive this Sacrament more than once?

We can receive it as often as we are in danger of death by sickness; but we must bear in mind that we can be anointed only once in the same sickness.

Why is this Sacrament called Extreme Unction?

Because among all the Sacraments which our Lord and Saviour ordained in His Church, this one is the last we are to receive. But from this it does not follow, as so many believe that one who receives this Sacrament must die soon, but it will rather become a means of salvation for their souls, and if it be for their eternal welfare, will also restore their bodily health.

What does the priest do when he enters the house of the sick person?

He wishes peace to the house, and prays that God may send His angels to protect its inmates, that He may drive away the enemy, console the sick, strengthen and give him health.

Why does the priest sprinkle the sick person with holy water?

To remind him that he should implore of God the forgiveness of his sins, with tears of contrition, in order to dispel the influence of the evil spirit.

Why does the priest exhort those present to pray while he administers the Sacrament?

That God may grant through their prayers whatever may contribute to the welfare of the sick man's body and soul.

For what does the priest pray when he imposes his hands on the head of the sick person?

He begs that God, through the imposition of hands and by the intercession of all the saints, may take the sick person under His protection, and destroy the power of the devil, who attacks one particularly in the hour of death.

What does the priest say at the anointing with oil?

He begs that God, through this unction and through His gracious mercy, may forgive the sick person all the sins which he has committed with his five senses. At the same time the sick person should, in a spirit of humility and with a repentant and contrite heart, implore of God the forgiveness of all his sins.

Why does the priest present the sick person a crucifix to kiss?

To remind him that, like Jesus, he should suffer with patience, and place his whole confidence in the infinite merits of the Crucified, and be willing to suffer and die for love of Him. For this reason the crucifix ought to be presented often to the dying person.

What should the sick person do after he has received the Sacrament of Extreme Unction?

He should use all his remaining strength to thank God sincerely for the benefit he has received, commend himself to the wounds and the blood of Jesus, and meditate with quiet recollection on death and eternity.

How consoling does our holy Catholic Church appear in the continual use of this Sacrament! Having, like a tender mother, received man by holy Baptism under her maternal care; by holy Confirmation given him the necessary weapons against sin, heresy, and infidelity; by the holy Sacrament of Penance purified him from stains and sins; and by the blessed Eucharist nourished him with the bread of life, enriched him with virtues, and secured him against falling, she does not desert him even in the last, all-important moment of death. In that dangerous hour when the dying person, forsaken by all, often by his most intimate friends, or looked upon with fear, lies on his bed of pain, when behind him time ceases and before him a certain, though unknown eternity opens itself, when Satan brings all his resources into play, in order to ruin his soul, and the thought of the coming judgment makes the heart tremble, - in this terrible hour the faithful mother, the Catholic Church, does not abandon him; she sends the priest, her servant, like a consoling angel to his couch, to encourage the sufferer and strengthen the fearful with the divine word, to cleanse the sinner and reconcile him with God by the Sacrament of Penance, to fortify the weak and nourish him with the bread of life, to strengthen the combatant with the holy oil, thus providing him with all the means of grace which Jesus obtained for His Church, to conduct his soul before the face of the eternal Judge, there to find grace and mercy.

Considering this, dear Christian, should you not feel happy to be a member of this Church, should you not thank God continually, and adhere faithfully to a Church, in which it is indeed not so pleasant to live, as in the bosom of irreligion, but in which it is good to die!

Communist Goals in the U.S. Are we running out of road?

I worked with Bill Baker in the 1968 political campaign in North Dakota for a couple of years, and I can tell you he has always paid attention to the freedom movement in America.
Paul Stramer

This is a long article, but the information it contains is extremely important information that every American should know. Please take the time to read it and pass it on to others.

Bill Baker has a B.S. degree in Police Administration from Michigan State University and at one time was a security investigator for a U.S. defense contractor.  He has been a student of international communism and those forces working to destroy our national sovereignty and make the U.S. part of a one world government for over 50 years. His article was published in the Elkhart Truth newspaper in 1992.

Below his article is a list of communist goals that were published in W. Cleon Skousen's book The Naked Communist. W. Cleon Skousen has a law degree, was an FBI special agent and chief of police of Salt Lake City.

NATION SHOWS COMMUNISM'S OBJECTIVES BEING MET

Bill Baker

After somebody recently said to me that communism is dead, I began to wonder how many other people had bought into this latest big lie being promoted by our leftist (communist?) controlled press.

First, I would like to point out something from "Witness" by Whittaker Chambers, who was a former communist and government witness against Alger Hiss in 1949. In the book, Henry Luce of Time Publications was baffled by why so many of the most enlightened people were against Whittaker Chambers and pressing Luce to fire Chambers from Time.

Henry Luce said, "By any Marxian pattern of how classes behave, the upper class should be for you and the lower classes should be against you. How do you explain that?" In answering Luce's question, a European guest at the meeting who Chambers calls Smetana said to Luce: "You don’t understand the class structure of American society or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats, the middle class are Republicans and the upper class are Communists." This very revealing answer to Luce many years ago explains why so many wealthy and successful people in our business, entertainment industry and government are liberal leftist (communists?).

Secondly, I would like to point out a few goals and objectives of the international communist conspiracy when overthrowing an enemy nation. As you read these goals and objectives consider how many of these have been accomplished in our nation today. A few goals are:

A. Corrupt the morals of the young and get them away from religion by eliminating their belief in God. Make them superficial and destroy their ruggedness.

B. Get control of all means of publicity such as radio, TV and all print publications and use them to:

1. Get peoples mind off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays, and other trivialities. This fits today s TV programming to a "T".

2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no great importance. Current civil rights and environmental problems are examples.

3. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the matter up to contempt and ridicule; i.e., Vice President Dan Quayle.

4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible. Our nation was set up as a constitutional republic, not a democracy. There is a big difference between the two.

5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent. How about the ever increasing national debt?

6. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders, and foster lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders. Have you seen any riots on TV lately?

7. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness. Many years ago a man's word was worth something. Today lying is commonplace in government and in the private sector.

C. Enforce the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the population helpless. There is a never-ending drive by many for more gun control laws. Washington D.C. has the most strict gun laws in the nation and the highest murder rate. Gun laws don't keep criminals from getting and using guns.

We may be a lot closer to losing our freedoms than we realize.

Below is the list of communist goals listed by W. Cleon Skousen in his book that was published 50 years ago in 1958.  When you read them consider how many goals have been met. 

1.   U. S acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2.   U. S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3.   Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be demonstration of moral        strength.

4.   Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliatilon and regardless of                  whether or  not items could be used for war.

5.   Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet Satellites.

6.   Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7.   Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the UN.

8.   Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in  1955 to              settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the UN.

9.   Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend test as long as        negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the UN.

11. Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up          as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (some communist leaders              believe the world can be taken over as easily by the UN as bu Moscow. Sometimes these two              centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) 

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U. S. Patent office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use the technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic american institutions by claiming their          activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist          propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in                textbooks. 

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protest against programs or organizations which are under                Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, polic-making                  positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An                       American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and building,              substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." 

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums.

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free                  speech and free press.

25. Break ddown cultural standards of morality by  promoting pornography and obscenity in books,          magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

26. Present homo-sexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and        emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates        the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with                modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a world-wide basis.

30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern          for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the              ground that it was only a minor part of"the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history            since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture---                      education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics,etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedudres which interfere with the operation of the Communist                        apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-Americn Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of ore unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral                problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrist can understand or treat.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive            control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute                  prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American                  tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve          economic, political ore social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from sizing                      jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World court jurisdiction over nations and                        individuals alike.

I remind you again that the above Communist Goals were published in Skousen's book 50 years ago. Most of these goals have already been met. Communism is alive an well here in the U. S.

If you vote in U.S. elections you should vote for people who take their oath to support the U. S. Constitution seriously and do not violate it once elected. Unfortunately there are almost none currently in office that do this.

There are currently candidates running for office who call themselves  socialist or democratic socialist. Socialism is only a short step from communism. Remember that the USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.  We should also get out of the UN and get the UN out of the United States. Communist Alger Hiss wrote the charter to the UN.

Editors note:  Remember these goals were written in the late 50s and the 60s.

For All Those Who are Scared

By Anna Von Reitz

I am re-publishing this comment, because throughout America, there are wives and husbands and friends trying to come to grips with the actual situation our government is in and all the history that brought us here.  I know -- first hand -- how traumatic coming to grips with this information can be.  So I am going to share something from my own life and my hope that your families and loved ones, your best friends, will listen to you and stand by you --- even if they don't totally "get it" all and even if they are scared: 

One of my best friends attacked me early on and I mean, she flew at me like a Mama Bird protecting her nest and she practically screamed, "That can't be true!" and she was really, really mad. She didn't want to believe that "her" beloved country was in such a deep quagmire, that her government could be so messed up. 

But the rest of the story is that she was really very scared. 

Anger and fear are two emotions that go together like carrots and peas. 

She took the copy of my book that I offered and she stomped away. I honestly didn't know if I would ever see her or be able to talk to her again. 

It was months before I heard from her. 

Thankfully, she may not have understood it all or believed it all, but she caught enough of it to know that "something was wrong" and she had enough faith in me to come back and say that she loved me and believed me even if she didn't get it all. 

There are moments in life when someone just knocks you flat. You just shake your head and feel so humbled. 

My friend is a Great-Grandma like I am. She is not the same kind of person I am. Not intellectual. Not academic. She's "just" a really good woman--- better than I am. Devoted to her family and her country and as kind and compassionate as anyone could ever be, always thinking about and helping others---- not in the airy-fairy realms of international intrigues and politics and commercial law --- but day by day and close to home. 

Somehow, through the years of our friendship, I passed the test. 

And I am grateful. And I am aware that not everyone gets this happy ending. Many relationships have been destroyed and never mended because of this information. Families have been destroyed. Marriages and friendships ended. I was just lucky and blessed that somehow, enough water had passed over our bridges so that my best friend no longer had to "understand" it all. She could just hold my hand.

I hope tonight that you are not feeling alone and not facing a crossroads in one of your relationships because you now know the truth.  I hope that your friends and family, your wives and husbands, will catch fire and grasp the importance of what you are doing and why ---- and even if they don't and can't quite get it, I hope and pray that they will stand by you anyway, just because you are you, and they know you are a good person. 

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About Hartford Van Dyke

By Anna Von Reitz

Hartford Van Dyke  is well-intentioned and very, very knowledgeable about the Federal System.  

However, he is ignorant about the actual American System.  

We are not Federales.  We are not naturally subject to Federal Code.  We are not subject to State Statutes.  

So 90% of what he teaches, or more, is only applicable to them, not to us.  

And while it is certainly handy to know and be able to remind them what their own Codes and Statutes say, the whole point is that we are not part of their system and not subject to any of it, so why belabor the point and waste a lot of time learning about how they are supposed to act and how they are supposed to conduct their business? 

We need to take care of our own business and obey the Public Law without worrying about the rules of defunct and bankrupt Federal corporations. 

I know Hartford.  He's a good man.  But he has suffered under the delusion that he can, as a Federal Citizen, access our credit and issue "Notes" and "Bonds".  This is not true and never has been.  

If he keeps going with this, he will get in trouble again --- and not for the first time, and those following after him will get in trouble, too. 

You are very wise to step back and not believe the promises of ready money and not just go charging after whatever sounds good and easy.  

Good things in life are seldom easy. 

I don't know why a guy as bright as Hartford would keep stepping in the same cow pie, but cow pie it is, and anyone who tells you that you don't need to correct your political status records is not up to speed. 

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How to Deal with a Dysfunctional Media and Press Corps

By Anna Von Reitz

Recent attempts to let corporations --- Facebook, Twitter, etc. -- censor free speech have sparked much controversy.  

As corporations they can set their company policies and ban things like "hate speech" --- however, as corporations receiving the benefits of bankruptcy protection and the "corporate veil" under our delegated authority (now returned to us) and as businesses making use of our public airwaves to deliver and sell their products --- not so much. 

In fact, all segments and franchises of the Federal Government including Territorial and Municipal franchises --- are required to obey our Public Law -- which guarantees the right of Free Speech to all Americans. 

Now all you have to do is stand up and reclaim your political status as an American and not a "US Citizen" ---- and tell President Trump that these yahoos are attempting to censor your Free Speech.  

That's offense enough to justify liquidation of any corporation.  Plus fines. 

Remember that corporations can be organized and incorporated for any "lawful" purpose --- "lawful" not merely "legal".  They have to honor our Public Law or get smashed flat as pancakes.  

All President Trump has to do, is do it.  In our behalf.  Thank you, very much. 

This comes on the heels of general discontent and disbelief with regard to the Mainstream Media.  Everyone above the age of 14 knows that it is for-entertainment-purposes-only and that it is mostly anti-American screed, but few people know why.  

(1) The Press has been under gag orders since WWII so they can't print any news that might in some way affect "national security".  

That accounts for why all we hear about are car wrecks in Duluth and Kim Kardashian's latest nail polish. 

The US Army in its utter brilliance has been defining us, their employers, as "the Enemy" and protecting us from ourselves by censoring everything down to cotton candy on one hand and running unlawful surveillance schemes against us through their agency contracts on the other.  

If it weren't so stupid and at such cross-purposes, it would be funny, but as it is, we prefer to regard it as a stellar example of grotesque mis-management of manpower and resources. 

(2) The Press organs are largely owned by six multi-national conglomerates that have no loyalty to this country and are run by foreigners. 

We are about to start charging them for the use of our air waves and mandating standards that respect our right to free speech and open communications.  And if they don't like it, they can sell out their interests in our communications industry to an American Company that will respect our rights and pay what they should for jamming our ears 24/7. 

We could also bring anti-monopoly charges against the Six Little Piggies and bust them up like Ma Bell, forcing them to sell out and sell down so as to promote (and allow) competition and varied market sources. 

The Army can establish its own standards for its own employees and keep their pert noses focused on their actual business, which is not promoting domestic political agendas here in this country or anywhere else.  Our Constitution provides for them to "defend" us --- not dabble in big business, censorship, and fake Radio Free America crappola. 

Please share this information with President Trump.  He seems to be having difficulty with "The Press" --- without realizing that the American Press got sick in the 1930's, was finally murdered during World War II, and is still awaiting resurrection.  

Most likely he doesn't realize that the U.S. Army has such a strangle-hold on the Press --- and that it is not entirely the fault of the Press that things are the way they are. 

After all, it doesn't make much sense for us to blame the Press for failure to do its job, when it is being prevented from doing its job by an Army that isn't doing its job. 

We give President Trump our free and full permission to begin anti-monopoly action against the Six Little Piggies --- the foreign multi-national media conglomerates clogging our airwaves with vacuous nonsense and sales ads and inappropriately slanted political screeds. 

We give him our free and full permission to get the U.S. Army out of the censorship business and stop pretending that James Comey's personal welfare is a National Security issue.  Instead, they can start protecting our right to Free Speech and clearing our airwaves.  That is, after all, part of why we pay them. 

We give him our free and full permission to lock down foreign media outlets and/or charge them high tariffs to operate in this country and to use our Executive Power to do so, without need for any reference to the Washington DC Municipal Charter and no permission from the Territorial "Congress" is required. 

If the FCC doesn't like it, fire the whole lot of them.  If the Territorial "Congress" complains, who cares? 

If they want to sit around and be snarky and make fun of everyone but the in-crowd they need to pay through the nose until they bleed. If they want to push anti-American crap on our airwaves they need to be charged so much it puts them out of business.  Period. 

These are our airwaves.  We can determine who gets the use of them or not and at what price.  With or without the blessings of the Territorial Congress, and without the need for any special agency Nabobs.  Again, thank you, very much. 

And as for the National Press Club, the Journalism Schools at all the Public Universities, and the "American Press Corps" --- we encourage them to remember what their job is supposed to be, that editorials belong on the editorial page, not commingled with the news, that journalism is supposed to be a "noble calling"  and not an excuse for political grandstanding, pandering, and payola-mongering. 

If you are an American Journalist you owe it to yourself to resurrect The Fourth Estate in this country and reclaim your self-respect.  And if you are not an American Journalist, what are you doing on our airwaves? 

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By Operation of Law

By Anna Von Reitz

I highly recommend that those who are just encountering this information read our book, "You Know Something Is Wrong When.....An American Affidavit of Probable Cause" as a starting place.  It gives the overall basics in an easy-to-read illustrated format and provides very handy information in the Appendix.  This book gives references and citations as it goes through its narrative.  It is available on Amazon.com as are all the other books. 

If you are a more hard-charging "Just the Facts Ma'am" executive type, the same basic information is covered in a sound-bite format in our book "America: Some Assembly Required". If you need to get up to speed fast and can take in information in 30-second or less increments and build the picture as you go, this book will summarize the situation and the history for you in about an hour and a half.  This book doesn't give a references and citations that have been provided elsewhere so includes only one or two new citations covering additional topics. 

Behind, before, and underlying these two books is the first book, "Disclosure 101", which is the history of how I got involved, how I addressed the problem, and ultimately where it all led.  This book includes publication of basic documents I or others issued in pursuit of remedy and gives eleven pages of underlying citations and references. 

President Trump has, since the publication of these books, sicced teams of lawyers on the information and combed the National Archives. As a result, it has all been newly confirmed. At the highest levels of international government there has never been any disagreement about the facts, there has only been a divide between those who knew and those who didn't know.  President Trump now knows and has the proof of the facts we have brought forward. 

Despite what is apparent in the external world, many people think that our country functions under one government.  It doesn't and except for five years early on, it never has. 

Examine what happened between 1776 to 1781.  During those years The United States of America [Unincorporated] was the sole face of our country to the external world.  It was and is an unincorporated Federation of States, which are also unincorporated entities.  The members of The United States of America Federation are known simply as: Wisconsin, Illinois, Massachusetts, Virginia, and so on. 

Five years after the States and the original Federation were formed, a

Confederation of States of States was formed under The Articles of Confederation.  

The members of the Confederation were all doing-business-as entities belonging to the Federation States.  These "States of States" did business as "The State of Florida", "The State of Wisconsin" and so on.  They were all members of the "States of America" and were called "Confederate States" long before the Civil War. 

It was these original States of States that were party to The Constitution for the united States of America and they, together, were intended to exercise the nineteen Powers delegated to them by the sovereign States and The United States of America. 

And then came the Civil War.  The Confederation of States of America was torn apart.  After the mercenary conflict (never a true war) ended, the original States of States needed to be "Reconstructed" --- hence the "Reconstruction Era". 

Britain saw its chance to usurp --- again --- against our lawful government, and  via fraudulent means substituted Territorial "States of States" to replace the actual Federal States of States, and used that as a means to commandeer our Federal Government and exercise our Delegated Powers for its own benefit.  The Territorial "States of States" have operated under names styled like this: "the State of Vermont", "the State of Florida" and so on ever since.

Millions of innocent Americans assumed that the "State of Florida" was the same as "The State of Florida" but in fact a terrible change had taken place. 

The actual Federal States of States were moth-balled and converted into State Land Trusts doing business as, for example, the Florida State, the Ohio States, and the Michigan State. 

And every year the renegade Territorial United States Congress votes to "set aside" the actual Constitution owed to our General Government and pretends that our Federal Government  --- which never exercised anything but Delegated Powers in the first place --- is "in abeyance" and that their Territorial Government therefore takes its place. 

Nothing could be further from the truth.  

In fact, by Operation of Law, when an agent exercising delegated authority becomes incompetent to exercise that authority, it does not evaporate or bump down the railroad tracks to the next lower level of government.  It reverts to the government that delegated the power in the first place ---- The United States of America and its member States.  

The problem is that we were never notified of all these changes purportedly being made "for" us and were in fact purposefully deceived by international Trustees acting in Gross Breach of Trust against us and against our interests.  

As a result, the "Reconstruction" of our Federal States of States has remained incomplete since 1868.  We were purposefully misled into thinking that the Reconstruction was over and done, but in fact, nothing but a fraudulent substitution had taken place. 

In the last two years both the Territorial United States and the Municipal United States have been bankrupted and also become incompetent to function under their own power, albeit for different reasons. 

So all three levels of the Federal Government created to exercise the Delegated Powers and manage the Territorial Possessions and provide a government for Washington, DC, have been rendered incompetent. 

By Operation of Law, the Delegated Powers have reverted to The United States of America, it's member States, and their People.  To us, in other words.  We have stepped forward in a timely fashion and acknowledged and accepted the return of our Delegated Powers.  We have arranged for President Trump to enter the legitimate though long-vacant Office of the President of The United States of America and extended a month-by-month service contract in support of the American military and basic services as outlined by our original Constitution.  

Everything else that you are seeing go on -- all the fire and nonsense of the political parties, all the investigations into this and that, all the fear-mongering and posturing and arguments ongoing in Washington, DC --- are the stuff that dreams and illusions are made of --- the corporate politics of legal fiction entities. 

And all of it is completely foreign to us.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with our actual government.  It's the Kitchen Staff amusing itself and beginning to sober up after a long debauch and improper occupation of the actual Landlord's estate. 

Our Government is not and has never been a "democracy".  Our people don't "vote" --- they elect.   We don't convene Congresses of "States of States".  We convene Congresses of States.  Likewise, our Congressional Delegates are "Deputies" of our State Legislatures --- that is, Fiduciary Officers owing their allegiance to us and our States, not "Representatives" owing allegiance to political parties and corporate bottom lines. 

It is this last point that deserves special Notice and mention.  A Fiduciary Deputy 

working for our actual State of the Union is accountable for the way they spend your money and can be "recalled" by the State Legislature if they fail to meet the Prudent Man Standard.  

A mere "Representative" claiming to "represent" your State of the Union in an agency capacity has no such accountability or office, and as a result these Territorial Congressional Delegations have been spending like drunken sailors and racking up Odious Debt against you and your State --- and getting away with it for 150 years --- simply because you didn't wake up and object.  Instead, you were misled and duped into participating in their fraud and thereby seeming to support their insubordination. 

And now we come to a New Day, not a New Deal. 

The Delegated Powers have returned to us and to our States by Operation of Law. 

You have been informed of the situation and are called upon to correct your political status records which have been conveniently falsified "for" you, and to return to reclaim your birthright and operate your actual State. 

The means to convey your Trade Name back to the land and soil of your birth state and to seize control of your affairs and to assert your "reversionary trust interest" has been provided for you.  Go to Article 928 on my website: www.annavonreitz.com and record your claim to your Good Name and Estate. 

Recording your claim to your own Name and re-conveying it back to the land and soil jurisdiction of your state is Step One.  Seizing control of all the Derivative NAMES and expatriating them back to the land and soil jurisdiction is Step Two. 

Denying all Powers of Attorney and assigning your Trade Name as the only Attorney in Fact is Step Three.  Rebooting your lawful County Jural Assembly is Step Four.  And Reconstituting your State Jural Assembly is Step Five. 

This is a lot to take in and a lot of work to do.  

But Americans have done more with less. 

All of you who have ancestors who were living in this country prior to the Civil War are automatically "grandfathered in" to the guarantees of the original Constitutions and the National Trust --- you merely have to accept and claim your birthright and heritage and record a "Claim for the Life - Lineage Treaty". 

We took the pre-caution of locating a cadre of men qualified to claim each and every State over two years ago, so that under the Last Man Standing Rule, we have effectively claimed back the entire country from the verge of loss to foreign bank creditors.  That does not relieve anyone of their responsibility as Americans to assemble and operate their lawful government. 

That this situation even exists should be eloquent enough warning to all of you to (1) take action to preserve your own protections and exemptions and property rights and (2) pay attention and get involved in assembling your local county and state units of government.   

Those things operating "as" counties and "as" States of States aren't your government.  You are your government.  That is what "self-governance" means. 

So get your records straight and get busy, or a bunch of European sharpies will be more than willing to claim everything you think of as yours as payment for debts you don't owe. 

And now one final plug.  The research that led to these conclusions and actions and which have served to protect you and your family and bring forward the actions that have been taken to preserve your country and your property rights and your State of the Union --- has all been done by people like me, working away for free for years at a time, not all those people on your payroll.  

We get nothing ---- no pay from the renegade "government" and in fact, many of us have suffered and died and been attacked by these criminals and prosecuted under deliberately constructed false legal presumptions.  Many of us have spent time in jail --- not for our "political beliefs" --- but because we had the temerity to assert our birthright and claim our property and our exemptions.  

In doing this, we protected all of you and even protected those persecuting us, because without this, all our land, all our rights, all our freedoms would have been lost. 

The international bankers actually thought they were going to pull it off, and claim that our entire continent was "abandoned" assets, up for grabs. 

If you have any sense of just how close this entire country and the rest of the world has come to disaster --- get going.  Reclaim your Good Name and your rightful political status and then, boot up your local assemblies.

And if you can, send a donation our way.  Because our accounts were commandeered along with everything else and bungled up and commingled as part of these infernal bankruptcies --- we still have no money to operate on. 

Everything is being boot-strapped. Everything is being done by volunteers.  Our researchers and our lawyers are making huge sacrifices.  The least we can do as a nation is to pay their out of pocket costs --- materials, court fees, postage, travel, electricity. 

Our PayPal is the same as my email address:  avannavon@gmail.com.  Snail mail for donations is: Anna Maria Riezinger, c/o Box 520994, Big Lake, Alaska 99652. 

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STEPHEN WILLEFORD'S STORY about First Baptist Church Shooting

Stephen Willeford -- a good guy with a gun -- describes what happened on November 5th, 2017 in Sutherland Springs, Texas at the First Baptist Church when a madman with a gun killed 26 churchgoers. Willeford, a trained, long-time NRA Member, engaged the active shooter thus saving many lives and setting a heroic example. Help us complete GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS featuring not only Stephen Willeford as a good guy, but Stewart Rhodes of OATH KEEPERS, Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, Sheriff Mack and others. See http://www.good-guys.us/donate/ for more information and how you can donate to help complete this important film.

Native Leaders -- Use Your Heads

By Anna Von Reitz

If I had gone along with the "deal" Chief Fasthorse was promoting, I would have been signing your death warrants instead of welcoming you to the table.  Most likely, I would have been signing my own death warrant, too. 

You have to think things through and not just from your own perspective. 

There is no way for 15 million Native Americans from at least 100 different tribes to come in and establish a superior claim and take away the land rights of 350 million other Americans without a bloodbath.

Such a thing would create a reason--- that otherwise doesn't exist--- for the final decimation and destruction of the Native Nations. 

About the time you swaggered up some guy's driveway and told him that you were the new "owners" of his property, the same old war would begin, and there is no reason to think that the results would be any better or different. 

Instead, you get to come home to the land and soil jurisdiction and get out of the "Second Class Citizen" status you were all stuck in, and are now able to live and stand on the land again as free men and women.  

There are other reasons, too.  

The United States of America is the established lawful government of this country. We have contracts and agreements with these "High Contracting Powers" that we can exercise ---- and not only treaties, but commercial contracts and trusts that we are heir to already.   We don't have to recreate any wheels, fight any wars, or cause any problems.  All we have to do is invoke what already exists and operate the General Government already owed to this country. 

Any sort of new Native Super State would have none of that in place and would be prey to any number of foreign alliances coming against it and all sorts of  traditional tribal squabbles and internal power struggles, on top of having 95% of your neighbors mad at you.

What chance would such a new "Indigenous Nation" have?  

Not much.  

You cannot hope to address injustices that occurred in the past by creating new injustices against other people in the present.  Number One --- that doesn't work.  Number Two -- all it does is create more injustice. 

Injustice against anyone is a form of violence and violence just begets more violence.  So if you want peace and plenty in your lifetimes, give justice to others who have paid their dues to be here, too, whose bodies have come from this land, and whose bodies will return to it when they die, just the same as yours. And stop fighting a war that ended 150 years ago. 

You have a rich heritage and thanks to the work of The Living Law Firm, it can finally be a happy and abundant heritage, too.  

As for me, I have always valued the great compliment that the local Winnebago Tribe, the Ho-Chunka Nation, gave to me as a youngster.  It's an honor to be considered a member of the tribe, but we all know that I will never be a Winnebago by blood and so, we would be building a new nation on another "fib" of sorts, an honorary title "as" a Winnebago.  That's not good enough to form the foundations for a new start for a whole country. 

Finally, I want to point out that I have retrieved the "Natural and Unalienable Rights" our forefathers fought for from the dust bin of history, and if I were to turn my back on The United States of America [Unincorporated] I really would be committing treason against this country and its people----all of them, of every color and creed --- who have fought and died and suffered for it. 

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Ready to Tear Hair

By Anna Von Reitz

Even people who SHOULD know better get confused.

But, really, folks, it's time to use your own heads.

Would you go to the library, take out a book called "All About Cows", go home, read it, and then call me up and ask why you can't find any information about horses in a book called "All About Cows"???

WHY would you do such a thing?

Demand and Decree of the Sovereign Government

By Anna Von Reitz

To boil it down pure and simple --- the Federal Government was created to exercise certain "Delegated Powers".  

Three different levels of Federal Government were created --- the actual Federal Government operated by the States of America formed in 1781, which was moth-balled under conditions of deceit and fraud in 1868, the Territorial Government designed to administer new territorial acquisitions under the Northwest Ordinance and such Insular States and possessions (like Puerto Rico and Guam) and the Municipal Government to administer Washington, DC. 

Over the last three years, all three levels of this "Federal Government" have been rendered incompetent.  The actual Federal Government is still dormant pending completion of its "reconstruction".  Both the Territorial and Municipal Government have gone bankrupt. 

By Operation of Law, the Delegated Powers have returned to the source Delegating those Powers in the first place ---- The United States of America, its member States, and its People. 

And here, attached, is The Demand and Decree accepting and acknowledging the return of these Powers and demand for the return of our assets.   

http://annavonreitz.com/demand/Demand%20and%20Decree%20page%201.pdf

http://annavonreitz.com/demand/Demand%20and%20Decree%20Mail%20Receipt%20.pdf

http://annavonreitz.com/demand/Demand%20and%20Decree%20Proof%20of%20Mailing.pdf

Email and Letter to Pope Francis, August 9, 2018

By Anna Von Reitz

I have just been informed by Chief Fasthorse that he has willfully misrepresented and misinterpreted certain facts that impact any proposed settlement with the Holy See and The United States of America --- the actual Federation of States. 

1. Please note that we, The United States of America, re-issued our Sovereign Letters Patent two days prior to the Sovereign Letters Patent signed by us and Chief Fasthorse.  The intent was and for our part, is, to share the land and soil of this country on a fair, full, and equal basis with the Native tribes.  

We do not propose to give them claim to our shared land under the same bogus principles of the Doctrine of Discovery that they themselves have suffered under.  It doesn't matter whether our ancestors "discovered" America in 15,000 B.C. or 1602 A.D.  

The Civil War Fraud

By Anna Von Reitz

-- This is a reprint of an article that explains a small but important part of what went on after the Civil War and it places a glaring spotlight on the mis-administration of our country that went on then and which has continued under the auspices of the Territorial and Municipal United States Governments ever since.  ENJOY ---- and thanks to Bill Ward: 

The Civil War Fraud 

By Bill Ward

When the War Between the States ended, the victorious Northerners viewed Jefferson Davis, as the former President of the Confederate States of America, much differently than others who had served the Confederacy.

Pernicious Confusion About Milligan Ex Parte

By Anna Von reitz

Pernicious Confusion About Milligan Ex Parte

The Supreme Court decided Milligan Ex Parte in 1866, a year after the creation of quasi-military courts in ten military districts covering eleven Southern States in May of 1865.

These courts were formed by the Rump Congress immediately following Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, in April of 1865.

Basically, a General "of at least the rank of a Brigadier" was put in charge of appointing civilians loyal to the North to act as Judges in Southern Courts: carpetbaggers.

These people were all either transported to serve as judges in these new quasi-military courts or they were hated members of their own communities --- Yankee Sympathizers --- who were given plenary power over their defeated neighbors, to rape, pillage, and plunder whatever property was left in the South.

Passports

By Anna Von Reitz

I have lately been assailed by people concerned because they could not get a passport, were issued an incorrect passport, or were being penalized for things like child support debts or IRS liens with not being able to use a passport issued by "the US".

Passports are issued by the Post Office, not the "government".

You, as a Post Master (Think about it, you handle the mail --- buy, sell, trade, carry, and deliver mail all the time) have the right and ability to send "yourself" anywhere the mail goes.

Technically, your Birth Certificate is sufficient to cross most international borders, so long as you provide reasonable proof of the other elements of a Passport --- current picture, nationality (Ohioan, Californian, Wisconsinite, etc.), a current postal address, two Witnesses (or their signed and notarized testimony identifying a photo of you as "the" man or woman whose birth event was registered on the BC and certifying your good character.

There you go. Make your own. The "authorities" will scream, but it is their own darn fault for messing around and not doing their job---and they really have no authority to restrict your travel.

You put all this information on a 5" X 8.5" postcard and send it to yourself at your normal address with your normal postal address as the Return Address, too, using a $1.00 "Global" Stamp, which will of course be cancelled to pay the postage.

When this document returns to you, it has been stamped and sealed and is in fact a "Passport" proving your current address and presenting your identity.

Public Notary or Notary Public?

By Anna Von Reitz

Had a couple worthy questions today about notary services....

Notaries have been around since the Roman Empire.

A Public Notary acting in the land jurisdiction has more power than a State of State Supreme Court Judge.

A Notary Public is a different private office that the same people can occupy in the international jurisdiction of the sea.

And which office it is depends on your status, your purposes, the capacity in which you are acting and the nature of your paperwork, so you need to be able to figure it out and invoke the proper office of the Notary accordingly.

The people now serving as Notaries are all commissioned by "State of State" franchises and so, they normally function as Notary Publics in the international jurisdiction of the sea.

The jurisdiction invoked is indicated by the "Notary Block" the separate portion of the document reserved for them.