For All The Jural Assemblies -7 Discipline

By Anna Von Reitz

If you have been doing your homework and following along, you now know how much is riding on the success of the State Jural Assemblies and the willingness and ability of the American People to learn their true and proper role and do the work associated with it. 

You are now aware of the gross profit motives of those who have betrayed your National Trust and used and abused the American States and People ever since the Civil War. 

You know that the British Monarchs and the Popes have acted in Gross Breach of Trust to allow this abuse.

You know that members of Congress --- both Republican and Democrat alike --- have deliberately and deceitfully abused your trust, too, and have operated in a criminal conspiracy designed to usurp your power and impoverish you for their own benefit and the benefit of foreign interests.

You know that all these Parties to Fraud and many other crimes have grown rich and powerful at your expense, even the expense of your lives.

And you have reason to know that this has been orchestrated in the same way that any crime syndicate is operated via "patsies" --- those who unknowingly contribute their services to evil and via "made men" who know the score and keep the scam running.

Most of us have served as patsies in this scheme at some time or another, simply out of ignorance.

In your fledgling State Jural Assemblies you will find good solid people who have their heads screwed on tight, who follow the logic and the history, and who study (hard) to get things right. You will also find four other kinds of people: (1) the sincerely confused; (2) disruptors; and (3) disinformation agents; and (4) spies.

Be patient with those who are truly confused and do your best to explain things, even multiple times. Those who have been indoctrinated in the Public Schools run by these monsters have learned and believed lies all their lives and it is difficult for them to "un-learn" all this, all at once. Then, too, much of the fraud involved hinges on words and the use and misuse of words. Not everyone is an English Major, okay? So, it will take time for everyone to completely understand the verbiage and how it was pulled on us. 

The Disruptors are all the nasty, pushy, I-am-important-my-issues-count-and -yours-don't, and the "I-have-a-problem-with-that (whatever it is) on a constant basis folks. You all know who I am talking about. They always want to argue and split-hairs and find fault and gripe and blame and do very little to nothing themselves that is constructive, helpful, or correct. They are like little cyclones causing chaos and impeding progress wherever they go, usually babbling about arcane, obscure points of law or grammar or similar ontological, semantic, or religious concerns. They are attention seekers who just won't take no for an answer or allow anyone else a fair shot at addressing other concerns.

Sometimes these characters, especially the paid provocateurs, get together in pairs or small groups, and work together to keep everyone stymied.

Take them aside and explain that people who disrupt the functioning of the Assembly or impede the conduct of business in State Jural Assembly meetings can and will be removed by the Marshal-at-Arms.

Some people are just naturally like this and go from one thing to another seeking attention with no very clear purpose at all, but a substantial percentage of the Disruptors are paid provocateurs engaged for the purpose of causing this kind of interruption and obstruction.

The adoption of some rules of order to conduct meetings can help keep them under control, but occasionally it is necessary to throw them out of a meeting because they persist in disorderly, rude, obstructive behavior. Showing them the door at one meeting does not prevent them from attending again (hopefully in a more thoughtful frame of mind) and it may discourage them from participation at all --- but, realistically, their help is that of a flat tire anyway.

Disinformation Agents and Spies are both almost always federal employees or people in trouble with federal authorities who are more or less coerced into infiltrating groups and spreading hokum. This can be any variety of lies or scam operations, but typically involves incitement to violence, baiting to trespass, introduction of illegal goods or contraband, fraudulent fundraising schemes, immoral temptation leading to blackmail, and similar activities.

One good way to provide your State Jural Assembly with a degree of defense from these provocateurs is to "excuse" them before every meeting begins. This is a simple announcement saying, "Anyone who is here under false pretenses, anyone who is working for any foreign government including the Territorial United States or Municipal United States, anyone who is being paid or coerced to be here, must fully disclose their presence and purpose now, or leave the premises."

If they subsequently show up as Federal Witnesses they are discredited for failure to disclose.

Surprisingly, many G-men and women will disclose at this point. They will simply present their badges and tell why they are present and that's that. Most times they will then leave and not come back. If they stay, its up to you to either ask them to leave or proceed as normal, according to your own best judgment.

I have always practiced a no-holds-barred-look-all-you-like transparency, which discourages these characters from getting all excited and bringing more resources and tricks to bear trying to discover activities that are perfectly lawful anyhow. That said, a State Jural Assembly is by definition a Closed Assembly, meant to be attended only by Qualified Members and known Guests. 

Please take a look at the list of typical tricks of the Disinformation Agents and Spies:

1. Incitement to violence. They will come in all red hot and spewing rhetoric and stomping mad or they will wheedle away at your outrage over the theft and injustice aspects of what has been done here. If they can't get people all riled up and "violent" and "insurrectionist" either of those two methods, they will try the "Safety Angle" --- and try to make everyone fearful and paranoid, and encourage them to do things like make "contingency plans" as a group, stockpile arms, and take similar actions. They will talk about "getting even" with attorneys and judges and politicians and similar ploys to draw people into compromising conversations in order to accuse them of threatening Territorial or Municipal government officials. 

If you simply step back from their sideshow, and observe where their diatribes and insinuations and topics all lead, it's transparent enough. They are trying to gather evidence that our State Jural Assemblies are: (1) not operating properly, and (2) are "fronts" for "rebels" and "insurrectionists" plotting violent overthrow of the government (such as it is) and/or (3) trying to get people to do or say incriminating things that can be used to accuse them of some form of "terrorism".

Though Americans may justly be outraged, the proper and profitable attitude is to "Keep calm and get even." Or as my Mother described it --- "Make like a duck, all calm and unflappable on the outside, paddling like hell underneath."

We all have lawful recourse in answer to their fraud schemes and abuses and have no reason to be afraid or to allow anger to overtake our better sense.

They are the criminals engaged in conspiracy against the Constitutions and against the lawful government of this country --- not us. They are the employees caught in gross breach of trust and fraud against their employers --- not us. Let them be looking over their shoulders and making contingency plans --- not us. 

 And as for our hurts and grudges -- criminals seldom have much that can be attached to pay restitution or damages, but in this case, they have amassed vast quantities of credit and goods, homes and lands and pension funds ---- all under conditions of fraud and unjust enrichment.

We don't have to resort to violence or worry too much about our recompense. All the Notices have been published worldwide. The Bad Guys in this case have no place to escape and the greatest danger we face is our own ignorance. 

So when you hear some firebrand ranting and raving and inciting violence and talking "more patriot than patriot" -- think twice and think: ah, a possible government agent in our chicken coop -- and play your own game instead of his.

Likewise when you encounter a wheedler, constantly moaning and aggrieved about losses and blaming others and whining in an outraged fashion and encouraging in vague terms "doing something about it" --- think, ah, a possible government agent trying to drum up business ---and again, play your own game. 

Ditto the fear-mongers trying to make people afraid of exercising their lawful and natural rights, until they are scared and looking over their shoulders like they are guilty of something for reclaiming their own Good Names and joining their State Jural Assembly. 

2. Baiting to Trespass. This is one of the likely results of the "incitement to violence" ploys discussed above, and it is what took down Bruce Doucette and the Colorado Nine. 

A Disinformation Agent named Michael R. Hamilton, an insurance adjuster by trade (which should have raised red flags aplenty) insinuated himself and encouraged the people in Colorado to make a tragic mistake. 

They mistook the Territorial and Municipal Courts and their Officers for their own "missing" courts and Public Officials. 

As a result, they addressed these foreigners as if they were actual County and State employees guilty of malfeasance and dereliction of duty ---and they transgressed into the foreign international jurisdiction of the sea and threatened these Officers of the Queen and of the Pope with the punishments that would be owed to actual State (instead of State of State) Officials.

And that is what got them arrested and thrown into jail. Michael R. Hamilton of course, was nowhere to be seen. He entrapped them using their own ignorance against them and baiting them to trespass. 

As a State Jural Assembly member, you have cut your ties to all "federal" entities now in operation and have no cause whatsoever to make threats or transgress into their watery jurisdiction at all. 

As irritating as it may be to have their continued operations in your face and to have them operating their private corporations out of your public buildings ---don't take the bait.

Realize that you have the means in your hands to correct this situation peaceably ---by operating your land and soil jurisdiction States and Counties, by educating the populace, by building up your own Courts to serve the People of your State----and by exposing their lawless and predatory criminal activities to the proper authorities who are running these corporations on our shores-- the President, the Queen, the Pope, the Lord Mayor of London, the United Nations Secretary General, the various State of State and STATE OF STATE Territorial and Municipal Congressional Delegations, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, etc.

Likewise, don't take the bait when they try to scare you. Make no "contingency plans" and store up no stockpiles of arms, etc., beyond what you may need for your family in some kind of emergency---earthquake, fire, flood, etc. 

This is the ploy they used on Schaeffer Cox and his friends in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Federales introduced moles --- Disinformation Agents --- who were in trouble already on Federal charges, and those men created a climate of fear so that Schaeffer and others were afraid for their lives and "drawn out" to make "contingency plans" and acquire dubious amounts of firearms, etc. under the guidance and entrapment of the same men who were scaring them into these actions and secretly taping the conversations.

Later, of course, this was used to make it look like Schaeffer and the others accused were "dangerous threats" and "terrorists bent on violence" and "unstable" nutcases. They were, in fact, just innocent men being "played" by experts to their own downfall.

Don't take the bait when they try to make you mad, either. When they try to "draw you out" to express anger against judges and attorneys --- you can be as enraged as you please --- but sit there quiet as a mouse and say nothing. Nothing at all. Let them do all the raging and shouting. Enjoy the show.

3. Introduction of illegal goods and contraband. When the Federales get really desperate, they will get their Agents to bring in contraband -- drugs, alcohol, and firearms, but most likely firearms --- and attempt to blame you and your State Jural Assembly for "possession" of these items. They will try hard to get you to participate and agree to having these "controlled substances" in your possession or on the premises during your Assembly Meeting. 

The original Constitution gives the Federal Government control over Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. This is how and why George Washington got involved in The Whiskey Rebellion. The Federal Government was given control over the sale and transport of these items as a source of income to fund the government. 

Since things went astray, they have also helped themselves to "control" over habit-forming drugs, though they have no specific authority to do so, and strictly speaking have no authority over possession or use ---- only over "sale and transport" across state lines.

So, look sharp and warn all your members. This was their excuse for Ruby Ridge (rumors of a single sawed off shotgun) and Waco (rumors of illegal drugs being stored and sold at the Branch Davidian Compound). The shotgun was a "gift" and the drugs were stored by the CIA without the knowledge or help of any Branch Davidian. Go figure. Before Janet Reno unleashed the fire bombs and flame throwers on the helpless women and little children you can still view the FBI footage of the helicopters safely transporting all the drugs out in white plastic bales.

4. Fraudulent Fundraising. The Federales also have control of the US MAIL and United States Postal Service. They love to get organizations involved in illicit fundraising activities by having their agents promote hare-brained Ponzi schemes and membership fraud schemes and unfulfilled product schemes, all of which can land people in jail for a long time and cause a lot of havoc. Just say no. Any fundraising you do for your State Jural Assembly should be by free donation only, or, if you are prepared to offer a product in exchange for a standard "donation" let it be something like a Veg-O-Matic, not anything produced by the members of your Assembly --- no templates for sale, no "Freedom Packages" and so on.

5. Immoral temptation/blackmail. The Federales are famous for using sex and drugs to draw people into compromising situations, filming it all, and using this against the "target" to coerce "cooperation" in any number of situations. Just remember: there are no secrets. Warn your membership that State Jural Assembly members need to conduct their personal lives as if their Mother and the entire Church Choir (or Synagogue School or Mosque Fellowship) were behind one of those two-way mirror windows, watching. Because they are.

That may be an unnerving thought at first, especially if your life up to this point has been "untidy"---but if you want to save your country and your inheritance and live at peace, then keeping your own act clean is really the least of the sacrifices to be made.

Steel yourselves to tell no lies, make no excuses, and to live your lives so that as the saying goes, when your feet hit the floor in the morning, the Devil says, "Oh, no! He's up!" ---- or "She's up!" --- whichever. Or both, for couples. And practice saying no, politely, and often.

When you are over one of their targets they will start plying you. Gee, you are such a good fellow! Not like the rest of those, well, unsavory patriots. You understand. You are sophisticated! You enjoy the finer things.... you've gone places (or you want to go places, wherever they might be---actually, the Federal Pen is what they have in mind) and so, yeah, come on, there's going to be this party at the Stag's Leap Inn on Friday, why not come?

At first the entertainment may be polite and nice. A great dinner party and intelligent conversation, interesting people.

Among those interesting people will be a "Flagger" whose only job there is very closely but unobtrusively observe everything you say and do. In a group of maybe two dozen people, this one will be the one that is always in view, but never actually coming very close to you. Only close enough to hear your conversation using a tiny listening device in their ear. Usually the Flagger won't be anyone that appears very interesting --- probably dumpy and at least middle aged. 

Unknown to you, this is an information gathering event. People will be very interested in you and your ideas and your group --- your State Jural Assembly--- and since most of them will be beautiful and younger than you, you may be tempted to expound as an elder or merely puff up with pride and brag.

Don't do that. Be modest and keep your opinions very mild. Cream cheese would not melt in your mouth. Play them like they are playing you.

Depending on the issues and their group "take" on you, this business of nice society events may go on for quite a while as they grapple with how to land the fish. 

Eat hearty. Enjoy the champagne --- but not too much, and don't drink anything that is poured from a fresh bottle. Just absent-mindedly set your glass down somewhere and forget about it as necessary, as many times as necessary.

Eventually, they will figure out what kind of person interests you and try to put you in closer and closer contact with one or more of them. If you are a married man the day will certainly come when someone, perhaps your oldest friend, a mild-mannered bachelor who as already succumbed-- suggests, "Why don't you make an excuse? Tell Jill (your wife) that you're going to go to the game with me on Friday?"

And yeah, it will "kinda sorta" be true. It will be a "game" all right, and you will lose---because in most cases the victims don't even know its a game until its over and there's a big "L" painted on their forehead.

These people are experts at this kind of seduction and most likely, you and the members of your fledgling State Jural Assembly, are not. 

The best way to go is to warn everyone up front about this kind of slow, attentive, painstaking evaluation and seduction process that the Federales use to entrap good people and turn them upside down, ruin their lives, ruin their marriages, get them fired, steal their patents, nail them on phony tax charges, etc., etc., etc.

Just say no. Practice saying no. Say it politely, but firmly. 

And if for some reason you feel that you have to accept an invitation, don't ever let yourself get in a situation where you are dependent and as much as possible, don't go alone. Bring your wife or your husband, your best friend, a couple other Assembly Members. Keep your cell phone. Have a duty driver who is loyal to you. Make sure all sorts of people know where you are going and who will be there. Let nothing at all be secret. Ever.

I regret having to talk about this kind of thing and warn grown people like Mom giving you the business before you go out on a date, but most of the people I know who are members of State Jural Assemblies are good, honest ---and unsuspecting--- people with no real exposure to the Swamp or Swamp Creatures.

Warn your members and support each other, and remind everyone to keep everything including their own private lives on the up and up. 

Be forewarned that you will be getting Swamp Dwellers coming through your doors, because losing their federal contracts is too important an issue for it to be otherwise. They will come and you all will have to be ready for them. Not afraid, not angry --- just ready.

People convicted of any serious crime are prohibited from serving as a State Citizen and from holding any Public Office in the actual American Government. They can reclaim their status as State Nationals and live their lives and enjoy their property assets. They can stand on the sidelines and support those who have to carry the torch and operate the States and reconstruct the Federal States of States, but our Forefathers did not intend to have any weak links in our leadership.

Think about that when -- as they will -- the temptations come to your State Jural Assembly.

You may even be plied with more abstract organization-oriented temptation and attempts to play upon common ignorance. The Federal Agents, however disguised, may attempt to seduce your State Jural Assembly as a whole. 

They will tell you ---hey, if you want to be eligible for "Federal Block Grants" or "HUD and Urban Development Grants" or "Agricultural Loans" or, or, or, then you "have to" incorporate and "update" and "get modern".

That is exactly what they told all the Counties back in 1965. They didn't explain that all those "Block Grants" would be pittance kickbacks from all the racketeering money the Federales intended to make from taking title to all the land assets of those counties.

They didn't explain that the strength, power, assets, and sovereignty belong only to unincorporated people and unincorporated States and unincorporated Counties, did they? 

No, they came in like the Pied Pipers they are, sang a little song and dance, waved piles of cash and tales of more in front of the hungry "locals", told a half-truth or two or three, deflowered some girls, beat up some boys, and poured a lot of drinks ---- and before you know it, Joe and Bob and Hank and Rita had signed over everything (even though it wasn't really theirs to sign over) and the Boys from DC were in the Driver's Seat.

If you all fall for that stupidity again, that's where they will stay --- and they won't stop until this country and our Ship of State is sunk, because the Swamp Creatures are what they are and have always been. 

It's up to you to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves, to politely and with absolute determination cling to your moral principles, to your unincorporated status, to your humble but actual powers, and to your good common sense.

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For All The Jural Assemblies - 6 Pointers and Questions

By Anna Von Reitz

There are some issues being brought forward by various parties, some of whom are confused and others who just want me to address specific issues, so this is a nuts and bolts presentation of information that isn't coordinated around any specific theme beyond answering questions people have.

1. What is Mr. Trump's Republic about?  The reforms they are making sound great and in line with what you are doing.  Should we just wait and see what happens before we make all this effort to form Jural Assemblies?

Answer: Remember there are two (2) gangs, one Territorial and one Municipal, and neither one is supposed to be running this country.

It is the right, duty and responsibility of the actual people in each State to operate their Federation of States to run this country, and in order to do that, they must take up the work of forming their State Jural Assemblies.  Forming and operating our State Jural Assemblies  is the only way to fully restore the government we are supposed to have --- i.e., finish the Reconstruction-- and then determine where we want to go from there.

Mr. Trump is fully honoring his duty as Commander in Chief and protecting America and Americans.  For that, he is to be lauded and loved. A great many other Presidents have grossly abused their position of trust and have allowed personal cowardice and/or self-interest to enter into their decision-making processes.  I respect Donald Trump and so should everyone else. He does not act as a lobbyist for the Republican Party and he does not back down for the Democrat lobbyists, either.  He charts a course that is best for America as a whole and keeps steady on. 

We should all be grateful to and for Donald Trump--- including the millions of rank-and-file Democrats who have listened to their party leadership and the so-called "mainstream media" instead of using their own eyes and noses. 

Whatever Donald Trump's piccadillo roster may include, he is: (1) devoted to America; (2) an excellent businessman; (3) a generous heart.  He has, without undue pressure on the Public Purse, vastly increased employment opportunities --- especially for women, blacks, and Hispanics, expanded our economy, regained control of destructive trade agreements, and is working to secure our border --- without which, we don't have a country anymore. 

The gross self-interest and if I may say so, stupidity, of the Municipal Government leadership has led to unnecessary suffering that is entirely the fault of the members of the Congress and the bought-and-paid-for Press Corps, a social class of dishonest, arrogant pretenders who all pull their stories off the same wire services instead of doing anything resembling actual investigative journalism, yet want us to respect and trust their opinions as "law".  They are parroting whatever comes in via the Associated Press (and who are they?) and Reuters (and who are they?) and that has been the degraded and deplorable condition of American Journalism for decades.

Mr. Trump is exactly right when he calls them "Fakes" --- they are pretending to be journalists and not doing the job.  They are in fact functioning as well-paid lobbyists and propagandists with no great respect for facts or law, and are the ones pushing former CIA Chief Hayden's vision of a "Post Truth Society" --- i.e., a world run on the basis of lies, lies, and more lies.

A virtual war has been and is being fought in Hollywood, California, among those who espouse this criminal insanity and those who do not. 

So --- no, we can't afford to sit on our rumps at the stadium and watch the show and do nothing but "hope" that the Territorial Team wins.  We do have to get motivated and set up our State (and County) Jural Assemblies and do the work. Now.

2.  Shouldn't all State Assembly Members cancel their Voter Registrations?

Yes, they have to.  This goes back to the requirement that all the actual land and soil jurisdiction State governments have forbidding Dual Citizenship. You are either in or out, so far as the States are concerned.  The Territorial and Municipal Governments both allow Dual Citizenship, but in establishing and operating the State Jural Assemblies we have to work for our State and conduct its business. 

This goes back to the principle of "Checks and Balances" --- you can't allow your employees to write their own job descriptions, set their own pay and benefits, and supervise all their own activities --- which is precisely what has been going on in this country for far too long.  The Territorial and Municipal Governments are both supposed to be dependent on the States to ride herd on their spending and activities.  We are supposed to be holding them to their obligations under the terms of the Constitutions that apply to them.

In 1868, approximately nine (9) million Americans were "disenfranchised" as the original Federal States of States were moth-balled and the Territorial States of States were substituted.  Virtually nobody understood what was actually going on, because of the deceitfully similar names employed: "The State of Maine" versus "the State of Maine", for example.

However and in fact, this change meant that people were forced to give up their "voting rights" as shareholders in one set of corporations and to either accept or forego "voting rights" in a new set of corporations.  When people transferred their "voting rights" to the interlopers, they unwittingly entered a new jurisdiction--- that of the British Territorial United States --- and lost their birthright position on the land and soil jurisdiction of the States by unconsciously accepting Dual Citizenship. 

They lost their ability to function as State Electors as a direct result and became British "subjects".  This is precisely what the King wanted and what he achieved via fraud and unconscionable contracts and gross Breach of Trust.  Millions of Americans were thus "converted" from their natural birthright political status and subjected to the whims of the British King, without their knowledge or consent----simply by "doing their duty" and continuing to "vote" in what appeared to be normal public elections.  

That was the First Great Fraud against the American States and People, carried out by our own paid military and federal municipal employees and our International Trustees --- the British Monarch and the Pope, both of whom were, and are, completely culpable. 

So yes, all State Assembly Members must cancel and expunge all Voter Registrations and cannot continue to vote in these foreign corporation elections without accepting Dual Citizenship and thereby making themselves ineligible to function as State Citizens.

You may think --- but that's crazy!  I won't be able to control who is in the White House or in the Territorial Congress!  I will be giving up whatever little bit of influence I have on the direction this country is heading! 

Remember that their system is all rigged and set up as two gangs--- your vote determines very little in their matrix, and since the advent of hackable Diebold voting machines, your vote arguably determines nothing at all.  Also remember that whether the issue at hand is "Territorial" or "Municipal" both are employees of the States.  Once you take up your position as the Employer, you actually have far more power than any mere "voter" in their system. It is as a State Citizen and Elector that you have the contractual ability to control them.

You will also be doing your part to restore the rightful American Government this country is owed. Operating as a State Citizen and/or State Elector allows you to finish the restoration -- also known as "reconstruction"--- of the Federal States of States, which are supposed to be owned and controlled and operated for the benefit of your State, not the UK and certainly not the Holy Roman Empire.   

3. We are confused about which State or States we are supposed to be restoring?  You talk about setting up the State Jural Assemblies and then talk about reconstructing the Federal States of States --- ?

Ah.  It's important to realize that the actual States have never been involved in any of the chaos and chicanery affecting the States of States. 

We are so used to seeing "State of Missouri" and "State of Alabama" and so on, that we started thinking of these organizations as "the" States, but in fact they are not. 

The States are operated by the people living in the State.

The States of States are operated by employees of the people living in the States.

The States have been "missing in action" because the people have not known that it is their right and responsibility and duty to assemble their State Jural Assemblies.  They've been "letting George do it" --- literally, and for far too long.

Because the people are sovereign and unincorporated and running the actual State is their business, it has been nobody's right or responsibility to tell them that they have to assemble and conduct business---- except that the Hereditary Head of State operating The United States of America (the unincorporated version) can call upon them to assemble as the leader of their Federation of States. 

So, that is what has happened. 

You have all been summoned to assemble your State Jural Assemblies, to operate your States, elect your Officers, set up your land and soil jurisdiction courts, re-construct your Federal States of State, exercise your position as an Employer, and reclaim your birthright.

Doing so is absolutely necessary at this time, because the National Trust endures for only three (3) generations and the tail end of those three (3) generations has come.  We have taken the proper steps to re-issue our Sovereign Letters Patent to update and renew the National Trust, and now you all need to get off your duffs and pull together your State Jural Assemblies.

It is true that we need to "re-construct" the Federal States of States to act in behalf of the States, but only the People of the States can do any of this---the State Citizens of each State must act to restore the Federal State of State they are owed.  Thus it becomes necessary for us to step forward, identify ourselves as one of the "People" instead of acting in the capacity of a foreign "Person" --- and assemble the State first. Then we can reconstruct the Federal State of State.

You can't have any form of "State of Florida" without a Florida, can you? 

The very existence of a "State of Florida" depends on the existence of "Florida" and the existence of "Florida" depends on the existence of the "People" of Florida ---- which means the State Citizens making up the State Jural Assembly.

So, it's showtime, folks.

Will the actual People please stand up?

4.  Can you please explain how all this sleight of hand works?  The substitution of one thing for another?

There are two classic and fundamental such sleights of hand that have led to all the others.

The First Great Fraud, as I have described elsewhere, came just after Civil War when a Scottish Commercial Corporation secretively infringed upon the name of our unincorporated Federation of States and called itself "The United States of America" [Incorporated].

This then was further exacerbated by the same scoundrels deceitfully naming corporate franchises of their new corporation after our Federal States of States.  In this scam "The State of Virginia" (Federal) was replaced by "the State of Virginia" (Territorial).  And except for some attorneys, Territorial Congress members, and guilty Generals, the populace was kept in the dark and fed horse hunks.

The result was that instead of the States being properly represented and benefiting from their own Federal States of States, all the Federal States of States were moth-balled as assets belonging to the land jurisdiction States, and the Territorial States of States were set up to operate for the benefit of the British Monarch and the UK.

We were diddled, left in the dark, and over time, those who knew the whole story were picked off, forced to flee under threat of death (like my husband's family), or died of natural causes ---- until now, three generations later, people are in a daze without any idea of what went on here, much less how to fix it and address the problem.

So I am telling you right here and now --- the way to address it is to reclaim your birthright trust interest, operate in your unincorporated capacity as a State Citizen, and join and operate your State Jural Assembly.  Your State organization -- your State Jural Assembly --  can then reconstruct your Federal State of State to your heart's delight and operate it, too--- for your benefit and the benefit of your State, instead of for the benefit of the UK or the Holy Roman Empire---both of which merely have a service contract that they have abused beyond any rational standard.  

The Second Great Fraud happened in 1933 under the aegis of the great King Rat himself, FDR.

This was also a sleight of hand substitution fraud favoring England and the "Holy Roman Empire"/ Office of the Roman Pontiff / Romanus Pontifex Trust.

In the First Great Fraud they substituted "The United States of America" Incorporated for "The United States of America" Unincorporated, and the Federal States of States, for example, "The State of Georgia" and "The State of Maine" for Territorial States of States operating under very similar names: "the State of Georgia" and "the State of Maine" ---- only the beneficiaries had changed -- from the American States and People to the British Monarch and the UK.

In the Second Great Fraud under FDR, they substituted all our "People" for their "Persons". 

It is much the same schtick, only instead of undermining our Federation of States via identity theft and usurping upon our Federal States of States by substituting their own Territorial States of States --- under FDR, they stole your identity, too.  

Here is how they did it, and it is a very similar fraud:

Under the Constitutions and Treaties associated with them, the British Monarch is named as our Trustee "on the High Seas and Inland Waterways". Thus it is, that when we venture out on "the High Seas" and "Inland Waterways" we have unknowingly been wards of the King.  He is obligated to protect us and see to our welfare.  The Government of Westminster is similarly obligated to aid and protect us.

So, to get around this and have an excuse to plunder and pillage us, they pretended that we "set sail" and were "lost at sea".  That provided the excuse to set up Cestui Que Vie ESTATE trusts in Puerto Rico named after each and every one of us. 

The British Monarch and the Pope acting as Pontiff then eagerly charged off all the "services" they were providing via the Territorial United States corporations and the Municipal United States corporations against these phony Territorial Trusts ("John Philip Miller" a Territorial Foreign Situs Trust) and equally phony Municipal ESTATES ("JOHN PHILIP MILLER") and phony Municipal PUBLIC UTILITIES ("JOHN P. MILLER") and phony Municipal CHARITABLE TRUSTS (JOHN MILLER).

They then also unleashed the members of the Bar Associations on us (Territorial Government) to act as Licensed Privateers, and unleashed the "Internal Revenue Service" to act as Bill Collectors.  Our Public Courts were converted to run as private corporate bill collection agencies, the Middlemen in this scheme -- our Employees -- were mistaken for the actual Employers.

In this secretive way, our country and its lawful government was completely usurped by banal traitors and our States were purportedly "de-populated" and we ourselves were falsely subjected to foreign powers and treated as slaves in our own country.  

The Lynch Pin in this scam was our innocent unincorporated Trade Name given to us by our parents.  This Trade Name, also known as a Given Name, allows us to conduct both local in-state and international trade within the land and soil jurisdiction of our country.

Remember that America is a little bit odd, in that every State is a Nation. This results in a situation where "interstate" trade is the same as "international" trade.

Also remember the definition of "trade" involves business between unincorporated businesses and unincorporated businesses and corporations, while "commerce" involves business between two incorporated entities.

Trade:  John Philip Miller operating in unincorporated natural capacity buys widgets from 3M Corporation and a glass of lemonade from Sally Lou Jenkins. 

Commerce: John Philip Miller (Inc.) operating in the capacity of a franchise corporation of "The United State, Inc." buys widgets from 3M Corporation.

See the difference?

Acting in his unincorporated capacity, John Philip Miller, is engaged in peaceful private international trade.

Acting in any incorporated capacity, John Philip Miller is engaged in public commerce, and is doing so as a franchisee of a parent corporation. 

This is the kind of "enfranchisement" the rats were talking about vis-a-vis voting --- to take in all your assets, commandeer them as chattel backing their filthy commercial corporations, and subject you to both the British Territorial Government and the Pope's Municipal Government.

Looking at the name, "John Philip Miller", it is impossible to tell which capacity the man is operating in, so FDR just arbitrarily "decided" for his own self-interest, to change the legal presumptions of the day, and falsely claim that all the people in America were voluntarily acting as franchises of his favorite bankrupted Roman Catholic non-profit corporation doing business as "the United States of America" Incorporated----which is just a later version of the original Scottish fraud and national identity theft scheme promoted by the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire instead.

This allowed the Plotters to commandeer our assets, our Good Names, our private property, even our bodies--- so that they could "legally" impose the draft in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

FDR unlawfully converted the identity of all the people in America to that of "presumed" Territorial and/or Municipal "persons" ---- that is, incorporated franchises --- and he bilked the National Trust, with the full knowledge and participation of both the British Monarch and the Pope.

After that, "John Philip Miller" was no longer automatically identified as a man and one of the people, but instead was "interpreted" and "redefined" as an incorporated "franchise entity" engaged in international commerce, and therefore subject to the delegated powers of the so-called Federal Government ---- that is, the Territorial and Municipal Interlopers.

In order to pull this off and make excuse for their behavior and suppositions, the plotters had to steal our Trade Names and make this appear to be voluntary on our parts.

They started the planning for this in the 1920's with various "Maternity Acts" that we supposed to apply only to Federal employees and dependents, but which morphed into a census-like recording process of "live births" in each county.  It was harmless enough and unsuspecting people accepted that it was good to have a record of who was born where.

In 1933-34, the innocuous recording of live births was weaponized by the commercial fraud artists as a means of identity theft and unlawful conversion of assets on a national scale.  Instead of recording live births, they began registering them--- enfranchising each little American baby as an "abandoned" property, "voluntarily" donated to the Territorial State of State as a "ward of the State" by an unwed Mother.

Lately, that wasn't good enough, so the lying bastards reduced the role of the Mother to that of a mere "Informant" --- as if our Mothers found us in a garbage can and just brought us into the hospital by chance.

These are our employees, people on our payroll, doing this to us. 

They have been doing this since the 1930's and it is with some justification that they look at us like Talking Horses when we object, and they say, "But, this is the way we do it. This is the way we have always done it...." which from their perspective is true. None of the Territorial or Municipal Employees we currently deal with can remember any other system or any other set of "legal presumptions". 

So, FDR and Corp just "presumed" that we were all bastard children, abandoned by our Mothers, left as wards of the Territorial State of State, and the Vermin got away with it because people trusted FDR, thought he was acting as their President and in their best interest, and couldn't imagine the evil being plotted against the American States and People by members of the Congress and our sanctimonious International Trustees --- the British Monarchs and the Popes, who have always pretended to be our Friends and Allies.

The British Territorial United States thus "seized upon" our Trade Names and hijacked them into their own Territorial jurisdiction in international commerce. This resulted in the creation of a British Territorial Foreign Situs Trust doing business as, for example, "John Philip Miller" and also resulted in the Territorial "State of Ohio" being named as the Beneficiary of his Estate, when he, poor bastard pauper orphan, was "lost at sea" ---- which also then resulted in the Municipal United States Government setting up a Cestui Que Vie Trust "in his NAME".  

Via this series of mis-characterizations and misrepresentations, our identities and our assets were stolen from us by these organized commercial crime syndicates posing as our own dear government.

As they siphoned away our wealth, the value of our labor, our natural resources, and money, they naturally became more and more powerful, more sanctimonious, and more conceited.  Like their Running Dog, Colonel Mandell-House, they thought they were so very clever that the "livestock" would never catch on. 

As Colonel Mandell-House bragged, "not one in a million" would ever know and see through this old, complex, nasty set of lies.  And if they did, it would hardly matter, because the "System" would take care of itself.

What we have done thus far is to put a very substantial piece of iron rod in their little red wagon wheels and a boot up their butts.  Every American, both Democrat and Republican, should now fully realize that they have been betrayed by members of the Territorial and Municipal Congresses beginning in 1868. 

They have been acting in treason since 1868, chiseling and plundering and pillaging the American States and People for a hundred and fifty years, and now, like Prince Philip, they have "retired" to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to "gush and lush" over their bankruptcy protection from the Pope, and what they intend to do to us to reduce our population of "Useless Eaters" and increase their own profits going forward.

I have a different future in view.

We reclaim our "reversionary trust interest", act in our declared unincorporated capacity, assemble our State Jural Assemblies, restore our Federal States of States, call a Continental Congress, and seize back all our purloined public and private assets, including our Good Names and Estates.

We keep our heads together and prosecute them as criminals, because that is what they are.  We give Notice to all the hired "law enforcement officers" and "agency personnel" that this is what is going on, and we remind them of their duty to uphold the Public Law and respect the rights of their actual Employers. 

Meanwhile, we get our own records corrected, join our State Jural Assemblies, hold our elections for our land and soil jurisdiction County Sheriffs, our Justices of the Peace, our Court Recorders, our Coroners, our Public Notaries --- and if our Public Servants including the members of the Bar Associations don't come to heel, we have the option of confiscating their property and deporting them, or exercising extradition and hanging them as traitors and international criminals.

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Uh-Duh....

By Anna Von Reitz

I have from time to time shared things like the attempt to assassinate me and my son.... like the attack on just me by "Lucifer" and five IRA thugs.... like the 7.0 Earthquake epicenter a block and a half from my house in Big Lake, Alaska ----

Why on Earth does everyone assume that I know "nothing about" EMF and EM and Scalar and all the other electronic weapons these goons are deploying?

Do you all seriously think that these Vermin have somehow failed to hit me and mine with everything they had in their arsenals short of a nuclear bomb???

But the fact is that kind of torture began for us in 2007 and by 2011 we had learned enough about our own energy resources and the internal operations of the aura system we were born with ---- that not only can't they touch us individually, they can't mess with our animals, our cars, our homes ---- nothing.

We just deflect or reflect it all, all the time.

So if we can do it, and have been doing it for what?  Eight years now?  Please tell me the reason that all of you are running around bleating like sheep and so "terrified" and not doing what I suggest?  It's free.  It's available on the internet. 

It took about four years for me to become  adept, but it took less than two weeks to learn enough to be able to block the rats.  Make the effort.

Wouldn't it feel good to be able to (1) block their transmissions and (2) reflect the attack back to the senders? 

So get going.  I learned. You can learn.  And stop being deaf, dumb, and blind to your own power and potential. 

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To All The Jural Assemblies 5 - Mission Statement and Membership Agreement

By Anna Von Reitz

The Mission Statement for any organization worth its salt should be short and sweet and exact and as explicit as humanly possible, so as to conclusively answer the questions--- "What are we doing and why?"  In the case of the State Jural Assemblies the answer to these questions is exactly the same all across the board---- for example:

Mission Statement for the Wisconsin Jural Assembly

Our Wisconsin Jural Assembly is dedicated to the restoration of a complete and fully operational land and soil jurisdiction State and County court system serving the people of Wisconsin, the preservation of the National Trust, the enforcement of the Public Law, the upholding of the Federal Constitution owed to our State and People, the re-population of our land and soil jurisdiction, the filling of vacated Public Offices, and the reclamation of our material and intellectual public and private assets.

To these ends we, the living people of Wisconsin,  have called the eligible Wisconsin nationals and electors to assemble and to serve as Jurors and Officers, and we have established the process and procedure to qualify Jurors and others competent to hold State Citizenship and Public Office.  We do this peacefully and without rancor in the exercise of our unincorporated powers and capacities.

The above Mission Statement pretty much nails down who is doing what and in what capacity and why.  That's all a Mission Statement needs. 

Now for the Membership Agreement portion --- again, using Wisconsin as an example:

Wisconsin Jural Assembly Membership Agreement

In acknowledging and accepting the duties of a Wisconsin Jural Assembly Member, I act without any deceit or profit motive or obligation. I affirm that I am one of the people of Wisconsin and that I am acting exclusively in my natural and unincorporated capacity.  I affirm that I have expatriated from any presumed citizenship obligation owed to the Territorial United States and/or to the Municipal United States and I make no claim of Dual Citizenship and hold no allegiance to any foreign power at all. I affirm by this testament that I am qualified and able and willing to act as a Wisconsin Citizen, as a Wisconsin Juror, and as a Wisconsin Elector and do so of my own free will and I also say that there is to my best knowledge and belief no circumstance or obligation barring me from occupying any vacated Wisconsin Public Office or preventing me from providing Good Faith Service in such Office if I am elected. In accepting the duties of a Wisconsin Jural Assembly Member I also accept the rights and responsibilities thereof.  I understand that I may be called upon to serve as a member of a Grand Jury, or a Trial Jury, or to act as a Sheriff's Deputy, or to act as a Witness to Public or Private Records, and that I may be asked to serve in similar capacities with or without pay. I accept my duty to serve Wisconsin and my fellow Wisconsinites without reservation, coercion, or issue of conscience.  I understand that I am, as a Wisconsin Citizen, responsible for upholding the Public and Organic Law of Wisconsin and that if I should be elected or appointed or otherwise entrusted with assets belonging to Wisconsin or any County thereof, I am obligated to act as a deputy and as a fiduciary under the Prudent Man Standard until relieved of such duty.  As a member of the Wisconsin Jural Assembly I shall faithfully promote and help secure Justice for all people, through the right use of Due Process and Jury Nullification. I shall at all times endeavor to keep the peace and to know and uphold the best standards and traditions of the American Common Law. So say I and witness my autograph and thumbprint seal as I commit myself to serve as a member of the Wisconsin Jural Assembly this ____ day of _________ in the year _________ before these Witnesses:

by: ___________________________(___Seal____)  living at 1101 Bollingbrook Street in Racine, Wisconsin.

Witnessed by: __________________________ living at _______________________________________________________.

Witnessed by: __________________________ living at _______________________________________________________.

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Ideally, the Witnesses will also be Jural Assembly Members and the records will be kept in original triplicate, one copy to the new Juror, one to the Juror's home County, one to be kept by the State Jural Assembly.

It is advisable to design and secure the unique use of a distinctive Jural Assembly stamp and/or Logo to be used as a Letterhead on these records.

Although there may be some additional or different issues each Jural Assembly may wish to address, the verbiage given here is precise and correct for the jurisdiction invoked: we do not, for example, use "affidavits" and we do not "swear" any oaths or make reference to "God" in the land and soil jurisdiction courts.

The confirmations of Public Offices are simple affirmations of duties and obligations undertaken due to the Separation of Church and State in the actual American government.

Though familiar to us, swearing oaths is a pagan practice of commercial courts, the phrase "so help me God" we grew up hearing from Perry Mason and on other court dramas, is also.  It was not used in American Courts until the Unlawful Conversion of our Court System by FDR.   

The actual land and soil jurisdiction courts operate on the principle of "Let your yes be yes and your no be no."  Instead of affidavits we use testamentary evidence and instead of swearing to anything under penalty of perjury, we use affirmations "to the best of our knowledge and belief from without the United States". 

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Second Sunday After Epiphany

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

In the Introit of this day's Mass the Church calls upon all creatures to thank God for the Incarnation of His only-begotten Son.

INTROIT Let all the earth adore Thee, O God and sing to Thee: let it sing a psalm to Thy name (Ps. 65:4). Shout with joy to God all the earth, sing ye a psalm to His name: give glory to His praise (Ps. 65:1-2). 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 eternal God, Who disposest all things in heaven and on earth: mercifully hear the supplications of Thy people, and give Thy peace to our times. 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 (Rom.12:6-16). Brethren: We have different gifts, according to the grace that is given us: either prophecy, to be used according to the rule of faith, or ministry in ministering, or he that teacheth in doctrine, he that exhorteth in exhorting, he that giveth with simplicity, he that ruleth with carefulness, he that sheweth mercy with cheerfulness. Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good: loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honor preventing one another: in carefulness not slothful: in spirit fervent: serving the Lord: rejoicing in hope: patient in tribulation: instant in prayer: communicating to the necessities of the saints: pursuing hospitality: bless them that persecute you: bless and curse not. Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep: being of one mind, one towards another: not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

EXPLANATION. St. Paul in this epistle exhorts every Christian to make good use of the gifts of God; if one receives an office, he must see well to it, so that he can give an account to God of the faithful performance of his duties. He exhorts especially to brotherly love which we should practice by charitable works; such as, receiving strangers hospitably, giving alms to those who are in need, and to those who by misfortune or injustice have lost their property; he commands us, at the same time, to rejoice in the welfare of our neighbor, as we rejoice at our own good fortune, and to grieve at his misfortunes as we would over those which befall us.

How is brotherly love best preserved?

By the virtue of humility which makes us esteem our neighbor above ourselves, consider his good qualities only, bear patiently his defects, and always meet him in a friendly, respectful, and indulgent manner. Humility causes us to live always in peace with our fellowmen, while among the proud, where each wishes to be the first, there is continual strife and dissatisfaction (Prov. 13:10).

INSTRUCTION FOR SUPERIORS

Those have to expect a severe sentence from God, who merely for temporal gain, seek profitable offices, and thrust themselves therein whether capable or not, and if capable care very little whether they fulfill the duties required, or perhaps make the fulfillment of them depend upon bribes. Of such God makes terrible complaint: Thy princes (judges) are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless; and the widow's cause comes not into them (Is. 1:23). A most severe judgment shall be for them that bear rule (Wisd. 6:6).

ASPIRATION Grant us, O Lord, Thy grace, that according to Thy will, we may follow the instructions of St. Paul in regard to humility and love, have compassion upon all suffering and needy, think little of ourselves, and descend to the lowest, that we may, one day, be elevated with them in heaven.

GOSPEL (Jn. 2:1-11). At that time there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage. And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine. And Jesus with to her: Woman, what is it to me and to thee? my hour is not yet come. His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye. Now there were set there six water-pots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece. Jesus saith to them: Fill the water-pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now, and carry to the chief steward of the feast. And they carried it. And when the chief steward had tasted the water made wine, and knew not whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the water; the chief steward calleth the bridegroom, and saith to him: Every man at first setteth forth good wine; and when men have well drank, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee: and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

Why was Christ and His mother present at this marriage?

In order to honor this humble and God-fearing couple who, with faithful hearts, had invited Him and His mother to their wedding; to give us an example of humility; to assist them in their poverty, and save their good name by changing water into wine; to reveal His dignity as the Messiah to His disciples by this miracle; and to sanctify by His presence the marriages that are contracted in the spirit of the Church.

Alas! how few marriages of our time could Jesus honor with His presence, because He is invited neither by fervent prayer, nor by the chaste life of the couple: He is excluded rather, by the frequent immorality of the married couple and their guests.

Why was Mary interested in this married couple?

Because she is merciful, and the Mother of Mercy, and willingly assists all the poor and afflicted who fear God. From this incident, St. Bonaventure judges of the many graces which we can hope for through Mary, now that she reigns in heaven; "For," says he, "if Mary while yet on earth was so compassionate, how much more so is she now, reigning in heaven!" He gives the reason by adding: "Mary now that she sees the face of God, knows our necessities far better than when she was on earth, and in proportion to the increase of her compassion, her power to aid us has been augmented." Ah! why do we not take refuge in all our necessities to this merciful mother, who although unasked assists the needy?

Why did Christ say to Mary: Woman, what is it to me and to thee?

This seemingly harsh reply of Christ was no reproach, for Mary had made her request only through love and mercy, and Christ calls those blessed who are merciful, but he wished to show that in the performance of divine work, the will of His heavenly Father alone should be consulted. He meant to remind her that He had not received the gift of miracles from her as the son of woman, but from His eternal Father, in accordance with whose will He would do that which she asked when the hour designed by God would come. Though the hour had not come, yet He granted the wish of His mother, who knew that her divine Son refused none of her requests, and so she said to the servants: "Whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye." Behold the great power of Mary's intercession! Neglect not, therefore, to take refuge in this most powerful mother!

What are we taught by the words: My hour is not yet come?

These words teach us that we should in all things await God's appointed time, and in things belonging to God and His honor, act only by divine direction, without any human motives.

What does the scarcity of wine signify?

In a spiritual sense the want of wine may be understood to signify the lack of love between married people, which is principally the case with those who enter this state through worldly motives, for the sake of riches, beauty of person, or who have before marriage kept up sinful intercourse. These should ask God for the forgiveness of their sins, bear the hardships of married life in the spirit of penance, and change the wrong motives they had before marriage; by doing so God will supply the scarcity of wine, that is the lack of true love, and change the waters of misery into the wine of patient affection.

Why did Christ command them to take the wine to the steward?

That the steward, whose office required him to be attentive to the conduct of the guests, and to know the quality of the wine, should give his judgment in regard to the excellence of this, and be able to testify to the miracle before all the guests.

ASPIRATION O my most merciful Jesus! I would rather drink in this world the sour wine of misery than the sweet wine of pleasure, that in heaven I may taste the perfect wine of eternal joy.

INSTRUCTION ON THE HOLY SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY

What is Matrimony?

Matrimony is the perfect, indissoluble union of two free persons of different sex, for the purpose of propagating the human race, mutually to bear the burdens of life and to prevent sin (I Cor. 7:2).

Who instituted Matrimony?

God Himself, the Creator of all things (Gen. 1:27-28). He brought to man the helpmate, whom He formed from one of the ribs of Adam, that she who came from his heart, might never depart therefrom, but cling to him in the indissoluble bond of love (Gen. 2:18, 24). To this original, divine institution Christ refers (Mt. 19:4-6), and the Church declares the bond of marriage perpetual and indissoluble.

Is Matrimony a Sacrament?

Yes; according to the testimony of the Fathers, the Church has held it such from the times of the apostles, which she could not do, had Christ not raised it to the dignity of a Sacrament. St. Paul even calls it a great Sacrament, because it is symbolical of the perpetual union of Christ with His Church; and the Council of Trent declares: "If any one says that Matrimony is not really and truly one of the seven Sacraments of the Church instituted by Christ, but an invention of men that imparts no grace, let him be anathema" (Conc. Trid., Sess. XXIV, can. 1).

What graces does this Sacrament impart?

The grace of preserving matrimonial fidelity inviolate: the grace of educating children as Christians; of patiently enduring the unavoidable difficulties of married life, and of living peaceably with each other. Married people are indeed greatly in need of these graces, in order to fulfill their mutual obligations.

What is the external sign in the Sacrament of Matrimony?

The union of two single persons in Matrimony, which according to the regulations of the Council of Trent (Conc. Trid., Sess. XXIV, can. 1), must be formed publicly in the presence of the pastor, or with his permission before another priest, and two witnesses.

What preparations are to be made to receive the grace of this Sacrament?

1. The first and best preparation is a pure and pious life. 2. The light of the Holy Ghost should be invoked to know whether one is called to this state of life. 3. The parents and the father-confessor should be asked for advice. 4. The choice should be made in regard to a Christian heart, and a gentle disposition rather than to beauty and wealth. 5. The immediate preparation is, to purify the conscience, if it has not already been done, by a good general confession, and by the reception of the most holy Sacrament of the Altar. Before their marriage the young couple should ask their parents' blessing, should hear the nuptial Mass with devotion, with the intention of obtaining God's grace to begin their new state of life well, and finally they should commend themselves with confidence to the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary and her spouse St. Joseph.

Why are there so many unhappy marriages?

Because so many people prepare the way by sins and vices, and continue to sin without interruption, and without true amendment until marriage, therefore always make sacrilegious confessions, even perhaps immediately before marriage. Besides this many enter the married life on account of carnal intentions, or other earthly motives; in many cases they do not even ask God for His grace; without any proper preparation for such an important, sacred act, on their marriage day they go to church with levity and afterwards celebrate their wedding with but little modesty. Is it any wonder that such married people receive no blessing, no grace, when they render themselves so unworthy?

Why did God institute married life?

That children might be brought up honestly and as Christians, and that they should be instructed especially in matters of faith; that married people should sustain each other in the difficulties of life, and mutually exhort one another to a pious life; and lastly, that the sin of impurity might be avoided. For they who in such manner receive matrimony as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power (Too. 6:17).

'With what intentions should the married state be entered?

With such intentions as the young Tobias and his bride had, who before the marriage ceremony, ardently prayed God for His grace, and took their wedding breakfast in the fear of the Lord (Too. 14:15). Hence God's blessing was with them until death. If all young people would enter the married state thus, it would certainly be holy, God-pleasing and blessed, and the words of St. Paul, spoken to wives, would come true unto them: Yet she shall be saved by bearing children, if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification with sobriety (I Tim. 2:15).

Why are the bans of marriage published three times in Church?

That all impediments which would render the marriage unlawful may be made known. Such impediments are: consanguinity, clandestine marriages, etc. Therefore, any one who is aware of such impediments, is bound to make them known to the pastor.

Why is the marriage performed in the presence of the parish priest?

Because the Catholic Church expressly declares that those marriages which are not performed in presence of the pastor, or with his permission before another priest, and two witnesses, are null and void (Conc. Trid., Sess. XXIV can. 1)¹; and because the blessing of the priest, which he imparts in the name of the Church, gives the couple, if they are in a state of grace, strength, fortitude and grace to be faithful to each other, to endure all trials patiently, and to be safe from all the influences of the evil enemy."

Why do they join hands before the priest, and two witnesses?

By this they bind themselves before God and His Church to remain true to each other, and to be ready to assist each other in all adversities. The bridegroom puts a ring on the bride's finger which should remind her of her duty of inviolable fidelity; to this end the priest signs and seals this holy union with the unbloody Sacrifice of the New Law.

Can the bond of marriage be dissolved in the Catholic Church?

A valid marriage, contracted with the free consent of each of the parties, can according to the plain doctrine of the Scriptures, the constant teaching and practice of the Church, be dissolved only by the death of one of the parties. If the pope or a bishop, for important reasons, gives a divorce, this is only partial, and neither can marry again while the other lives. Such a marriage would not be valid. How pure and holy are the doctrine and practice of the Catholic Church in this the most important and sacred of all human relations, preserving its inviolability and sanctity; while, on the contrary, by means of the wanton doctrine of the heretics, which for trivial reasons entirely dissolves the marriage contract, this sacred union is made the deepest ignominy of mankind, and the play-ball of human passions and caprice!

What is thought of mixed marriages, or marriages between Catholics and Protestants?

The Catholic Church has always condemned such marriages, because of the great dangers to which the Catholic party is unavoidably exposed as well as the offspring. Such marriages promote indifference in matters of religion, by which the spiritual life of the soul is destroyed; they are a hindrance to domestic peace, cause mutual aversion, quarrels, and confusion; they give scandal to servants; they interfere with the Christian education of the children, even render it impossible, and they frequently lead to apostasy and despair. But the Catholic Church condemns especially those mixed marriages, in which either all or a number of the children are brought up in heresy, and she can never bless and look upon those as her children who do not fear to withdraw themselves and their own children from the only saving faith, and expose them to the danger of eternal ruin. Therefore, those Catholics who enter the matrimonial union with Protestants, although the marriage if lawfully contracted is valid, commit a mortal sin if they permit their children to be brought up in heresy, and should it not be their full intention to bring up their children in the Catholic faith at the time of their marriage, they would commit a sacrilege.

What should the newly married couple do immediately after the ceremony is performed?

They should kneel and thank God for the graces received in this holy Sacrament, in such or similar words: "Ratify, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that which by Thy grace Thou hast wrought in us, that we may keep that which in Thy presence we have promised unto the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." That they may keep their promise made at the altar, they should always remember the duties laid down to them by the priest at the time of their marriage, and the exhortations which are taken from the epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians (Eph. 5:29, 31), wherein he instructs married people how they should comport themselves towards each other, and recalls to them as an example the union of Christ with His Church, and His love for her. To the husbands he says, they should love their wives as Christ loved His Church, for which He even gave Himself up to death; from this is seen, that men should assist their wives even unto death, in all need, and not treat them as servants. To the wives St. Paul says, that they as the weaker should be in all reasonable things obedient to their husbands, as the Church is obedient to Christ; for as Christ is the head of the Church, so is the husband the head of the wife. Experience proves there is no better way for women to win the hearts of their husbands than by amiable obedience and ready love, while, on the contrary, a querulous, imperative deportment robs them of their husbands' affections, and even causes them to be regarded with aversion. St. Paul says further; that husbands should love their wives (and consequently wives their husbands) as their own bodies, because married people are, as it were, one. They shall be two in one flesh; no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the Church (Eph. 5:29, 31). How unjustly and barbarously do those act, who, instead of loving one another, rather hate and outrage each other, and cause the loss of their property, and by detraction steal their honor! These do not consider that he who hates and disgraces his partner in life, hates and disgraces himself; while according to the words of St. Paul he who loves her, loves himself. If married people would remain in constant love and unity, it is most necessary that they should patiently bear with each other's infirmities, wrongs, and defects, exhort one another with mildness and affection, keep their adversities, trials, and sufferings as much as possible to themselves, and complain in prayer only to God, who alone can aid them. By impatience, quarrels, and complaints the cross becomes only heavier and the evil worse. Finally, not only on their wedding day, but often through life, they should earnestly consider that they have not entered the married state that they may inordinately serve the pleasures of the body, but to have children who will one day inhabit heaven according to the will of God; as the angel said to Tobias: "For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power" (Tob. 6:17).

PRAYER Most merciful Jesus! who didst work Thy first miracle at the wedding in Cana by changing water into wine, thereby revealing Thy divine power and majesty, and honoring matrimony: grant we beseech Thee, that Thy faithful may ever keep sacred and inviolate the holy sacrament of Matrimony, and that they may so live in it truthfully, in the fear of the Lord, that they may not put an obstacle in the way of obtaining heaven for themselves, and their children.

1. In all such dioceses of the United States, where the Council of Trent has not been published, civil marriages are considered valid. The Catholic, however, who becomes married by civil authority commits a mortal sin, except in case of extreme necessity. To be married by a sectarian preacher is looked upon as a denial of faith, and incurs excommunication.