The Crown "Offer" Rejected

 By Anna Von Reitz

It's said that the Companie of Merrie Men -- the progenitor of today's Bar Association  -- arrived in Britain as a troupe of actors and "mummers" -- pantomimes, during Shakespeare's last days at the Globe Theater.  He commented on their arrival and deemed it an "ill wind".  We are left to assume that he was already aware of their activity on the Continent.  

This past weekend, the British people witnessed a pantomime in which the former Prince Charles was ostensibly being crowned -- at least verbally,  as the Protestant King of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, but was actually crowned as His Imperial Majesty and a pagan Roman Emperor, instead. 

That's what the Imperial Crown used in the ceremony means, and it is a public admission -- entirely silent, but obvious -- of what is actually going on.  It doesn't matter what they say, it only matters what they do.  

Imperial crowns belong to Emperors, not Kings.  The same kind of crown landed on the heads of Napoleon Bonaparte and Kaiser Wilhelm II just prior to the demise of their respective empires.  

So, after all these years, Charles III isn't King of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.  He couldn't be, thanks to The Norman Settlement.  Like his ancestors, he is limited to working as the Pope's Overseer of the Commonwealth, so not only is he not a King, he's a Protestant obligated to serve the Pope, plus, he's a German who has just been crowned as a Roman Emperor. 

We couldn't possibly make this up.  

This situation and the failure of the British CROWN to act upon BREXIT and the failure of the former Queen's Government to effectively monetize the British Pound Sterling (not that they could do that on their own) has led a group of British Landlords who have reclaimed their natural political birthright to join our Claim and act on behalf of their lawful Government. 

They claim the land and soil of Great Britain, including but not limited to England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, the Orkney Islands and other outlying British Possessions worldwide. They claim the British Pound Sterling and the Gold Sovereign as their lawful money, and they stand with the Lord High Steward, Ivan Talbot, as the actual Throne is unoccupied. 

They reject Charles III's offer to reign over them as an Emperor sitting on The Chair of the Estates --- estates formed as a result of the original Dead Baby Scam we have described earlier --- instead of the Throne owed to England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.  

They decry the attempted substitution of an Emperor for a King which they witnessed on Saturday.  They refuse the offered contract on behalf of themselves and their lawful government.  They cite the High Court case of YAH v Regina as historic precedent, revealing purposeful fraud and substitution of Offices, which is happening again.  

As a result no contract exists and none is agreed upon with regard to the Kingdom and Countries of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and the British Possessions worldwide. In the interim and until the actual Throne is occupied, the land and soil jurisdictions will be administered by the traditional lawful government under the guidance of the Lord High Steward; whatever administration is provided by Charles III acting as the comptroller of Municipal Corporations, must be regarded as a private Subcontractor arrangement with the Pope and the City of Rome.   

Further confirmation of this deliberate action will be forthcoming. They simply asked that Cardinal Mamberti and the Vatican Chancery Court and the Archbishop of Canterbury be fully informed that the Imperial Crown offer has been rejected, and so, Notice is hereby served to the Principals and the Agents.  

We regret that it has come to this, but the defense of the British Homeland against legalized usurpation against the Constitutional Monarchy by foreign Municipal Corporations must be objected to, both privately and in public. 

Issued by: Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary

                  The United States of America

                   In care of: Box 520994

                   Big Lake, Alaska 99652

May 8th 2023

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The Federal Reserve Fraud

 By Anna Von Reitz

Information provided to H.E. Cardinal Mamberti and the Vatican Chancery Court regarding our Claim March 6 2005, January 19 2023 in seq: 

The Federal Reserve is a private contractor. 

It is not associated directly with our government at all. 

It is a subcontractor of one of our Federal Subcontractors.  You have heard this before: like the FBI and DOJ and BATF, the Federal Reserve is a subcontractor of a subcontractor.  

The Federal Reserve is a consortium of private banks that our British Territorial Subcontractor hired to create and print debt notes for them. 

The Federal Reserve works for them— our British Territorial Subcontractor— not for us. 

This was done so that these bankrupt foreign corporations could continue to do business here. 

They passed  off Federal Reserve Notes, which are I.O.U.’s issued by the Federal Reserve Banks, as if these notes were money, and they forced people to accept these privately issued bank I.O.U’s “as if” they were money.  

This was done under force and color of law using “Legal Tender Laws” that technically applied ONLY to the employees and dependents of our British Territorial Subcontractor.  Not to us. 

However, in order to do business with them, we had to convert some of our money into their debt notes. 

They set an arbitrary exchange rate for this using the Emergency Banking Act of 1934 at one Federal Reserve debt note per one United States Silver Dollar. 

In this way, they gained something of substance and value in inequitable exchange for a paper I.O.U. — creating a debt that these banks have never paid off and which they have misrepresented as the “National Debt” of our British Territorial Subcontractor.  

Of course, this has confused people and caused them to think that we are the “nation” that owes this debt, when it is instead only a fictional debt owed by one of our Federal Subcontractors. 

It’s fictional debt because the debt notes are fictional and because the debt notes are paid off every time they are exchanged for something — a dress, a watermelon or a visit to the veterinarian.  

That is, the debt these bank notes represent is actually cancelled out the first time they are exchanged, but because they are not removed from the system, these debt notes continue to circulate and are paid for again and again in the form of actual goods and services. 

The goods and services are never credited and so the appearance of debt owed by the British Territorial Subcontractor to the Federal Reserve Banks increases exponentially — and this phantom debt accumulates because the debt notes continue in circulation even after they have been paid off by actual goods and services a thousand times over. 

In order to make this Ponzi Scheme work, more and more British Territorial U.S. Citizens had to be created out of thin air, so the Sheppard-Townsend Act was enacted by the Territorial Subcontractor, and they began “registering” American babies as British Territorial “persons” —all Wards of the British King. 

This is highly illegal and unlawful and it took place without disclosure to the victims.  

As the number of British Territorial persons increased the Federal Reserve Banks were assured that all the new “persons” coming into the system and their estates would stand good as collateral backing the Federal Reserve Bank’s extension of credit to our British Territorial Subcontractor—- not to us. 

In this way, our British Territorial Subcontractor —a Municipal Corporation housed in the District of Columbia— and the Federal Reserve Banks working in tandem, purloined the value of American labor and American physical assets to back their debts and justify the issuance of their debt notes. 

As time went on, of course, the combined effect of never cancelling the debt notes already in the system and constantly adding new debt notes to the system, plus the practice of charging interest on the phantom debt, meant that all the value possessed by the Americans had been spent and new victims had to be registered to keep the wheels turning. 

The entire world has suffered through two World Wars and now all these horrible forced migrations of refugees to provide new chattel to feed this fraud.  Most recently, the Schemers set their focus on adding the labor and physical assets of China to their collateral pile. 

We wish for everyone to recognize the nature of all the foregoing as various species of crime indulged in by the banks, and our British Territorial Subcontractors , acting in Breach of Trust, violation of their service contracts, and international law. 

We observe that the tragedy happening at our Southern Border is driven by the same undisclosed profit motives and that the venal Municipal Corporations responsible must be held to account for all damages and injuries caused to the living people and their Lawful Persons.

We call for the immediate forfeit of both Municipal Corporations housed in the District of Columbia and all affiliated corporations which have engaged in these unlawful activities on our shores and throughout the world. 

It is apparent that neither the British King nor the Lord Mayor of the Inner City of London nor the City of Rome nor any of the political leaders since The American Civil War have acted honorably or even within the Public Law.  They have all attempted to mistake illegal and unlawful Mercenary Conflict as a justification for violence and crimes inflicted by commercial corporations on innocent civilians. 

As the lawful Government of this country is still standing we recommend that all presumptions of power assumed by Joseph R Biden Cease and Desist and that our Southern Border be sealed—- both for the sake of our country and for the sake of the immigrants who would be seized upon as chattel the moment they crossed the border. 

We already have evidence and expert witnesses testifying that the misdirected Municipal Corporation employees are trafficking babies and other young people and are literally selling them as slaves when they get off the bus in the Land of the Free. 

This cannot be tolerated in the modern age. 

Fraud vitiates everything under the Roman Civil Law that the City Government is bound to observe and the Ecclesiastical Law is clear regarding corporations engaged in unlawful activities.  

We wish for immediate international action to stop the flow of illegal immigration worldwide which has been promoted for undisclosed and heinous profit motives. 

We wish for the end of these venal abuses worldwide.  

We have seen all these evils before; we do not wish to see them again. 

Issued by: Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary

                   The United States of America 

                    In care of: Box 520994

                    Big Lake, Alaska 99652

May 8th 2023 

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For Those Who Remember....

 By Anna Von Reitz

For those who remember the bizarre opening and closing ceremonial pageants at the London Olympics and at the World Commonwealth Games this latest one won't come as much of a surprise --- the Grim Reaper posting guard outside one of the doors of Westminster Cathedral.

https://rumble.com/embed/v2jt87e/?pub=4

Please notice the similarity of the implements King Charles holds in his right and left hands to the implements held in ancient pictures of the Pharaohs and Sumerians.  These are the goads, right and left, which he employs to direct the affairs of the Imperial government --- which has nothing to do with Great Britain as we think of it, at all. 

The newspaper writers try to tell us that the Coronation is merely symbolic and a private religious rite performed to meet one qualification of the Public Law enabling Charles to serve as King-- which as it stands, is a promise to be a Protestant and remain a Protestant lineage as a condition of wearing the crown --- but he's wearing a foreign crown. 

Did anyone notice that?  If he were serving as a Christian Monarch, he'd be wearing the Crown of Saint Edward, not the Imperial Crown.

The Imperial Crown is an Office bestowed by the Pope. This is the crown of a secular office, the British version of the Papal Tiara.  

Some Catholics are dinging Charles III for violating United Nations agreements forbidding religious preference and assuming that he is anti-Catholic. 

Even they don't know that he may say he's a Protestant, but he is serving the Pope just the same. They should be snickering, like the fellows in the black robes and hoods. 

So here's Charles, avowing with his mouth that he is and will remain a Protestant while wearing a Catholic Crown and serving as the Pope's Overseer of the Commonwealth and sitting on The Chair of the Estates, instead of the Throne. Just like his Mother. 

Just as his Mother trashed her own Oath and the appearance of being a Christian Monarch within three days of her own Coronation, King Charles III is doing the same.  

Watch closely these first few days to see what else he does.  And, of course, stay on the watch for Large Rats wearing black, hooded robes, with or without carrying pikes, candles, or scythes. Rumor has it that one of King Charles' first acts involves firing a hundred of his faithful palace retainers. 

Although this being pitched as a good faith effort to reduce the costs and complexities of palace life, not caring about your employees, many of whom have devoted their lives to the care of the late Queen, is not a good sign. 

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The Counterfeiting Fraud

 By Anna Von Reitz

Information provided to H.E. Cardinal Mamberti and the Vatican Chancery Court regarding our Claims March 6th 2005, January 19th 2023 in Seq:

When something is passed off as something else, we call it a counterfeit whatever-it-is, or a "knock off",  meaning that someone has created a copy of something and abused trademarks and copyrights to make it look like the genuine item produced by another manufacturer.  

There are other forms of counterfeiting, that include most of the Substitution Schemes we have generally discussed.  The incorporated foreign businesses substituted for our American States of States are a good example.  They are counterfeiting and substituting their States of States for ours.  

This is apparent in the fact that the only discernible difference between "the State of Wisconsin' and "The State of Wisconsin" is the capitalization --- or not --- of the Definite Article. 

The same thing applies to the counterfeiting of currency issued against our credit and assets by the Perpetrators of these incorporation and substitution schemes.  

There are numerous issues of extremely similar paper bills, all green, all very similarly engraved, all seemingly representing "United States" currency of some form or other, all seemingly issued by some form of "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" Incorporated.  These bills vary considerably in their actual nature and value and issuance, but they are all assumed to be of equal value and identical in the marketplace, even though some are objectively counterfeit. 

A twenty dollar Silver Certificate worth over $400 in silver redeemable from the actual Treasury Window still trades as the equivalent of a twenty dollar UNITED STATES DOLLAR worth less than one cent, unless we add the cost of printing it.  

One of the reasons that the Perpetrators want to stop printing cash money is that it costs more to print it than it's actually worth, so they are losing money on the printing costs, even if they are allowed to increase the purported "National Debt" with it.  

These are all forms of counterfeiting and more generally, substitution schemes, that are ubiquitous throughout the activities promoted by the two Municipal Corporations housed in the District of Columbia. 

These schemes, however corrosive they are in the longer term, are not usually what the word "counterfeiting" brings to mind, which definitely involves skilled engravers working long hours to produce exact copies and obtain specialized papers and inks to duplicate genuine bills issued by legitimate governments -- not foreign, for-profit corporations. 

Regrettably, thanks to the Great Fraud indulged in by our Federal Employees and the non-disclosure and breach of trust exercised against their unwitting Employers, no such genuine bills issued by the American Government exist.  Our currency remains the United States Silver Dollar

and now, the gold-backed American Federation Dollar. 

Thus, all the paper dollar bills that have been populating everyone's wallets since Lincoln's Greenbacks, are counterfeit.  They are private bank scrips produced by foreign for-profit commercial corporations and have nothing whatsoever to do with the actual American Government or any authority delegated to the Territorial or Municipal United States Subcontractors, yet everyone in the world presumes that all these Federal Reserve Notes of various kinds and generations are "our" currency. 

All of this is bad enough, but when Barack Obama entered office, we witnessed a crime of classic counterfeiting on an unimaginable scale: he ordered that engraving plates, papers, and inks, direct from the United States Mint, be shipped offshore to various foreign locations and authorized the foreign governments to print Federal Reserve Notes at will.  

The result has been the production of trillions of dollars-worth of Federal Reserve Notes printed offshore in China and other locations around the world and all foisted off as "our" domestic currency by the same incorporated Municipal Corporations that have either created or allowed all the rest of the criminality.  

There are a few uncirculated paper bills in existence that are, at least arguably, valid for use as an American currency, including the Kennedy Dollars backed by American Silver Assets and approved by both Marcos and JFK days before the Kennedy Assassination.  Similarly, there are "The Uncut" gold-backed American dollars funded by gold investment receipts, that are sitting in warehouses all over the world, ready to be released. 

The Perpetrators know that only our American Government can issue those bills against our physical assets, and they struggle mightily to make sure that the General Public remains unaware and unable to participate in the world economy. 

Like the evil Company Stores of the Railroad and Coal Mine Barons, the American people, who actually own everything in sight, have been entrapped by their own employees acting as Undeclared Foreign Agents and forced to buy everything in-house and limited by their undisclosed illegal foreign occupation to buying and using their products at their prices in collusive and corrupt restraint of trade ---and so, Americans have been forced to use the Perpetrator's private bank scrip under the force of Legal Tender Laws and effectively prevented from running their own Mint and Treasury functions by our own employees.  

We wish for the immediate release of the uncut Kennedy Dollars and the Uncut Gold Dollars to help ease the transition to a new and we hope, far better, economy in this country and the world.

We wish for the release via our Federation Treasury of the United States Gold Eagle coins we ordered from the United States Mint in October of last year. 

We wish for an immediate understanding that the American Federation Government, is the direct Delegator of the constitutionally delegated powers, and the Receiver of all powers and duties returned from the Federal Republic Government, including but not limited to the right and duty to run the United States Mint and to direct the production of credit-based notes and gold and silver coinage in behalf of the Several States. 

 Issued by: Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary

                  The United States of America

                  In care of: Box 520994

                  Big Lake, Alaska 99652

May 7th 2023

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The RV Fraud and Chinese Elders Fraud

 By Anna Von Reitz

Information provided to H.E. Cardinal Mamberti and the Vatican Chancery Court regarding our Claims March 6th 2005, January 19th 2023 in Seq:

The RV is a fraud at best, because even the members of the RV Committee admit that "nobody knows the price of anything anymore, because the markets have been rigged (via the Central Banks and Commodity Exchanges) for so long."  

That is, nobody knows what the free market price of beans or rice or anything else is, as a result, any starting point agreed upon by a committee is an arbitrary value assignment, based on the personal best-guess, prejudice, or opinion of committee members.

So, somebody I don't know values my carrots or doesn't value them, and my business thrives or dies by the hand of unelected forces taking a stab in the dark at a "price parameter" target they can't even see. 

We don't believe that this is any sane way to establish the value of carrots or currencies or anything else.   

One of the most troubling elements that the RV Committee has had to face throughout its efforts is the influence-buying and peddling of the various middlemen trying to establish new commodity rigging efforts and an immense amount of speculation.  

One of the most glaring and horrifying examples of this is the "deal you can't refuse" related to the Zimbabwean currency known as "ZIM".  There are two forms of ZIM, a standard currency, and bonds issued as currency since @ 2008.  

The issuance of bonds means that the Zimbabwean government is borrowing money against resources that are actually owned by the people of the country.  

Because of the discovery of mineral wealth, especially rare earth minerals that are needed for the Med Beds and other advanced technologies,  the government of Zimbabwe has been under constant stress ever since this discovery, courted by a variety of friendly suitors, and attacked by its own people and by CIA - type puppet government substitution attempts. 

Also as a result, the value of ZIM bonds and ZIM currency has vastly increased --- at least, speculatively; thanks to the RV process nobody actually knows what the market value of any of these financial commodities might be.  

People are holding these ZIM financial products interminably waiting for a final exchange rate they can trade upon. 

Most recently, the Chinese Government has apparently established a contract with the current Zimbabwean Government (these are all Municipal Corporations, not actual governments) to broker the exchange rate on ZIM currency and bonds.  

They are offering $11 million USD in exchange for $100,000,000,000 in ZIM.  

That infers that (a)  the Zimbabwean currency is being devalued for no apparent reason, or (b) investors are being defrauded out of the value of their investments via coercive monopoly inducement and the Chinese brokers and their U.S. Citizen Middlemen are siphoning off the rest of the value in the exchange process. 

These generous gentlemen are offering to give the actual investors in the resources a hundredth of one percent of the value of their investments as "equitable consideration" and then forcing the recipients of this deal to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement so they can't tell anyone about the fraud implemented against them. 

We have seen it before, we have no need to go through it again.  

The so-called Controls, Restrictions, and Restraints serve the good purpose of preventing devaluation of currency worldwide and save us from the spectacle of thousands of instant trillionaires sauntering around among us; however, this system is being unequally applied, so that investors in other parts of the world are not being swindled and forced into Non-Disclosure Agreements.  They are enabled to cash in the full value of their ZIM holdings, albeit payable in the form of so-called "Central Bank Digital Currency" with withdrawal limits. 

In this way, the Perpetrators Force-Promote their Central Bank Digital Currency, and bulwark their Federal Reserve Note and Euro products at the expense of the American and European ZIM Investors.  

This is just a modern day replay of the swindle worked by Salmon P. Chase and General William Tecumseh Sherman.  You have to exchange one corporate currency, Federal Reserve Notes or Euros, to buy another currency or bonds, in this case, ZIM, as an investment. When it's time to redeem the investment, they tell you that you have to accept FRNs or Euros or whatever currency you used to buy the ZIM, and of course, that currency is by then grossly devalued.  Having no other choice, the investors take what they can get.  

So the Perpetrators prop up the value of the Federal Reserve Note or Euro on the backs of the investors, and siphon off the rest, and nobody is the wiser thanks to the Non-Disclosure Agreement, which guarantees that none of the victims of this Swindle-in-the Making -- those who have standing to prosecute the injury, can do so. 

It's almost as "good" as stealing the life estate of a baby in their cradle.  

We are moving on to the Chinese Elders fraud.  The only real Chinese involved are the Chinese Banking Families who were all ex-patriots during the ravages of Mao-Zedong and the CCP, including Ferdinand Marcos. 

Marcos was hired as the private attorney for a professional Metals Depositor hired by the Vatican to move gold and other precious metals from the Avila Family Trust all over the world.  This umbrella trust contains and controls gold that actually belongs to numerous other private family trusts and none of them are Chinese.  

We have absolute proof of the actual ownership and deposit records and international agreements and Powers of Attorney, so there is no way to promote a narrative that "Chinese Elders" donated this gold to anyone, anywhere in the history of the world.  

There is another source of gold, and that was us, our gold, belonging to The United States of America, Unincorporated, which was transported to the Philippines by the U.S. Navy for "safekeeping".  We have that nailed down, too.  

There is no way for the Government of the Philippines to avoid its obligations as Trustee for our gold and the fact that their land is in our lawful possession; the Treaty of Manila Bay is a sea-treaty between the British Territorial United States Government and the Philippines.  We are the ones who paid for the land and soil of the Philippines with gold and with blood.  

And now we are treated to the spectacle of more Navy ships and submarines making bee-lines transporting gold from all over the world to Hong Kong.  Thanks to LIDAR and physical tomography, we can sit and watch the ships plying to and fro, we can determine, generally, the source of the gold, and track both the departure and arrival of these shipments. 

Anyone who thinks that this is happening "under a cloak of secrecy" had better think again.  Modern surveillance technology cuts both ways.  It's not going to be possible to say that the gold is lost, nor will anyone be able to pass off some cock and bull story about the Silk Road in the days of Marco Polo.  

The people playing the part of the Chinese Elders may be good people, may be wise people, etc., but then, so are the Saints of the Roman Catholic Church, and most of our Founding Fathers.  Besides being wise and good, they have the further similarity of being used as storefronts for criminal organizations engaged in every kind of vice and violence. 

We have seen it before, we have no need to see it again. 

We wish for the RV Committee to be disbanded and for its members to admit the truth: they have been handed an impossible task and only free market forces can determine the actual value of anything. 

We wish for the grossly mis-administered American Exchanges, that is, the ersatz currency exchanges being set up to enable private investors to exchange international currencies such as the ZIM and the Iraqi Dinar, to be completely reformed, and for the offers being made to be reasonably equitable and exchange-able in a variety of currencies and without any Non-Disclosure Agreement that serves to prevent prosecution of wrong-doing.   

We wish for whatever common sense Controls, Restrictions, and Restraints that are employed to prevent unbridled spending and consumerism, to be equally applied, worldwide.  

We wish for the Zimbabwean people to be held harmless and internationally protected from any interference in their government and internal affairs.  

We wish for everyone to remember that the resources of a country belong to its people --- all resources.  As a result, the Zimbabwean people are the actual owners of the rare earth minerals, not their government, which is merely charged with representing their best interests in good faith.  

We wish for our own gold to be returned to our control with no further pretensions of public or private trust interests, foreign citizenship obligations, or other fraudulent malpractice. 

We wish for the gold deployed worldwide from the Avila Family Trust to be returned to the control of the actual owners, their heirs, and assigns. 

Issued by: Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary

                 The United States of America

                  In the care of: Box 520994

                  Big Lake, Alaska 99652

May 7th 2023

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Fourth Sunday After Easter

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

The Introit of this days Mass is a canticle of praise and thanks:

INTROIT Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle alleluia; because the Lord hath done wonderful things, alleluia; he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the Gentiles. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. His right hand hath wrought for him salvation; and his arm is holy. (Ps. XCII.) 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 O God, who makest the minds of the faithful to be of one will: grant unto Thy people to love what Thou commandest, and to desire what thou dost promise; that amidst the various changes of the world our hearts may there be fixed where true joys abide. 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 (James I. 17‑21.) Dearly beloved, Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration. For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures. You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger: for the anger of man worketh not the justice of God. Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

INSTRUCTION Of all the gifts that come from God, the most excellent is the gospel and regeneration in baptism, by which He has made us His children and heirs of heaven. How great is this honor, and how earnestly we should endeavor to preserve it! To hear the word of God, when preached to us in sermons, will aid our endeavors. The admonition of the apostle to be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, contains true wisdom, for: In the multitude of words there shall not want sin; but he that refraineth his lips is most wise. (Prov. X. 19.)

ASPIRATION Aid me, O Lord, to preserve the dignity received in baptism, grant me a great love for Thy divine word, and strengthen me to subdue my tongue and to use it only for Thy glory.

GOSPEL (John XVI. 5‑14.) At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: I go to him that sent me: and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go; for if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment. Of sin, because they believed not in me: and of justice, because I go to the Father, and you shall see me no longer: and of judgment, because the prince of this world is already judged. I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when he, the, Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth; for he shall not speak of himself; but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak, and the things that are to come he shall show you. He shall glorify me, because he shall receive of mine, and shall show it to you.

INSTRUCTION As the disciples, in their grief at Christ's going to His passion and death, after the accomplishment of which He was to return to His Father, never once asked Him: "Whither goest Thou?" many Christians, because of their attachment to this world and its pleasures, never ask themselves: Whither am I going, whither leads my way? By my sinful life I am perhaps going towards hell, or will my little fervor for the right, my lukewarm prayers take me to heaven? Ark yourself in all earnestness, dear Christian, whither leads the way you are going? Is it the right path? if not, retrace your steps, and follow Jesus who by suffering and death entered heaven.

Why could the Paraclete not come before the Ascension of Christ?

Because the work of Redemption had first to be completed, Christ had to die, reconcile man to God, and enter into His glory, before the Spirit of truth and filial adoption could abide in man in the fulness of grace. From this we may learn that we must purify our hearts, and be reconciled to God, if we wish to receive the gifts of the Holy Ghost.

How will the Holy Ghost convince the world of sin, of justice and of judgment?

He will convince the world, that is, the Jews and Gentiles, of sin, by showing them through the preaching, the sanctity and the miracles of the apostles, as well as by gradual inward enlightenment, the grievous sins which they have committed by their infidelity and their vices; of justice, by unveiling their error, and showing them that Christ whom they unjustly rejected, is the fountain of justice; of judgment, by showing them their condemnation in their prince and head, the devil, whom they served. This prince is now driven from idols and from the bodies of men, and his kingdom is destroyed in the name of Jesus by the apostles.

Why did not Christ tell His apostles all He had to tell them?

Because they could not yet comprehend, and keep it in their memory; because they were still too weak, and too much attached to Jewish customs, and also because they were depressed; He. therefore promised them the Holy Ghost, who would fit them for it by His enlightenment, and would teach them all truth.

How does the Holy Ghost teach all truth?

By guiding the Church, that is, its infallible administration, by His light to the knowledge of the truth necessary for the salvation of souls, preserving it from error; and by advancing those members of the Church who seek His light and place no obstacle in its way, in the necessary knowledge of truth.

What is meant by: He shall not speak of himself, but what things soevey he shall hear, he shall speak?

That the Holy Ghost will teach us only that which He has heard from all eternity from the Father and Son; His teaching will, therefore, perfectly agree with Christ's teachings, for the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and Son and is equal God to them, and that which He teaches is also their doctrine, which is expressed in the words: He shall receive of mine.

ASPIRATION Ah, my Lord and my God! direct my feet in the way of Thy commandments and preserve my heart pure from sin, that The Holy Spirit may find nothing in me deserving of reproach, that He . may teach me all truth, and lead me to Thee, the eternal Truth, in heaven. Amen.