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Sunday, May 21, 2023

The Salt 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: 

Much of what we have been considering has focused on garden variety forms of fraud carried out on a massive scale. 

We've seen the bait and switch of one Presidential Office for another, the bait and switch of one State-of-State business organization for another, and even the bait and switch of Constitutional and limited governments replaced by rapacious territorial governments run by foreign, for-profit Municipal corporations in the business of providing government services.  

We've seen these substitution schemes carried on in endless variety, even down to the level of personal identity.  The living people have been impersonated by infant decedent estates and subjected to non-consensual trustee relationships with members of a foreign professional association whose members operate as Executors de Son Tort -- pillaging the estates of the living victims however they see fit. 

The members of the Bar Associations have acted as tax collectors for Rome since the Second Century BC, and came to Britain as the Companie of Merrie Men in the waning days of Elizabeth I.  Since then they have spread throughout the world, bringing the same legalistic and linguistic fraud schemes and constructive artifices with them. 

They take their portion off the top, and remit the rest to the British Monarch, who takes their cut, and who then forwards the rest to the Holy See, which distributes the majority of the loot from this system however it pleases--- typically assigning a portion to reinvestment, a portion to humanitarian works, and a portion for administration.  

We have established this from the bank transfer records. 

All of this mimics a much older system of governance, that of Imperial Rome.  No Classics scholar can miss this point.  

The Empire Charles III inherited is an Empire of the dead, an empire of corporations spreading around the globe, including England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, like a vast spiderweb, all controlled by The Chair of the Estates. 

We can now clearly see which "estates" are being referenced: all the infant decedent estates and the estates of the vacated governments of the living people being run as trusts by incorporated commercial corporations --- all aping and claiming to represent the long-dormant land jurisdiction governments they usurped by fraud and guile under color of law. 

We have mentioned the "glories of Rome" --- its far-flung trading empires, its armies, its discipline, its architectural and engineering feats, its efficient if severe justice system, its philosophers, its logical language, its reliable monetary system --- but we must also note the ugliness of Rome and the way that its system of governance predictably ends in corruption and moral degradation and alienation.  

Rome was (and is) a slave empire.  

There were two kinds of slaves in the Roman Empire -- its own citizens and everyone else.  

The Roman citizens served the Empire as indentured servants, enabled to vote in various elections, and obliged to serve in various administrative and military capacities, while enjoying certain social advantages. 

The vast armies of Rome also functioned as indentured servants of a different, lower rank, although one might be a citizen of Rome and a member of the military at the same time; these Dual citizens were subject to military law while in the service, and civilian law during retirement. 

This is the same exact structure we see being run by the Municipal Corporations housed in the District of Columbia today

The British Territorial U.S. Citizens are roughly divided into two classes -- a political class and a professional military class and as in Ancient Rome, they function as indentured servants, have Dual citizenship working under contracts known as Constitutions.

The rest of the population is stuck in the political status of pre-judged criminals and slaves, arbitrarily presumed to be "citizens of the United States" Municipal Corporation. 

The Ancient Romans considered their vast population of slaves in the same way a farmer regards a herd of cows or flock of sheep -- a resource to be husbanded and controlled and milked and bilked as efficiently as possible.  

We see the same attitude being expressed by the management of the Municipal Corporations today: they refer to the American General Public as "livestock" and to work accomplished in the nation states of the Union as being "down on the farm".  

Slaves occupied the same, if only slightly higher, position as animals in the Roman scheme of things, and, then as now, the Romans discussed administration of the slave nations in the same way a farmer discusses the management of livestock, right down to breeding and sterilization programs. 

We don't have to look far or long to determine the source of the problems that have been visited upon us by the planners of the pandemic. This, like Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood,  is part of the Eugenics Scheme introduced by the British Lord Pirbright and Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, and it is the same exact scheme embraced by the Nazis in the name of Racial Purity. And all this evil, all this wrong-thinking, comes to us directly from Imperial Rome. 

We have seen it before and have no need to see it again.   

Their attempts to justify their own criminality by asserting the inferiority of others, led the Ancient Romans and their Followers of the present day, to make the same mistakes. 

As the Romans demean other men and women, the unavoidable logic of Nature dictates that they demean themselves, too, so that they rapidly become corrupt and alienated and cruel. 

This is because they can no longer see themselves mirrored in their fellowman.  As they objectify others, they become objects. 

A dog-eat-dog mentality takes over and the criminals willing to lie, cheat, steal, murder, and abuse others, take refuge in theories about "survival of the fittest" and "natural selection" --- never noticing how inbred, sickly, and unfit in all respects they have become. 

This is a direct result of Rome's dependence on slavery.  One cannot enslave another, without becoming enslaved to something worse oneself.

Each time Rome trespasses on the Law of Freewill, the Law self-enforces the complete mental, emotional, and physical debasement of the trespassers. 

Rome never had an economy apart from war for profit and enslavement of conquered nations. Even its vaunted trade networks were driven by slaves and slaves were a major part of Rome's commodity output and net worth. They made their money by waging war for profit and by selling slaves.  They still do.  They refuse to learn anything better or different and keep butting their heads against Nature herself, with predictable results. 

Nature wins.  The Romans and their followers self-destruct, hopelessly debased and wallowing in the mental and emotional corruption that results from the practice of slavery.  Soon no drug is strong enough, no sexual perversion titillating enough, no cruelty vile enough, there is no low thing below them as they plummet head first into the pit of their own making. 
 
It is no mistake that the Federal Civil Service under the administration of the City Government fought on the side of the Southern State-of-State organizations in the so-called American Civil War.  

Rome could not be funded in its traditional way without institutionalized slavery.  

Knowing this, the leadership clawed its way out of the rubble they created with the so-called Fourteenth Amendment to the Corporate Constitution adopted by the British Territorial Municipal Corporation in 1868.  


While abolishing private slave ownership with the Thirteenth Amendment, the Perpetrators turned around and re-established institutionalized enslavement by creating public slave ownership via their unilaterally imposed and self-adopted Fourteenth Amendment.  

They further defined all criminals as slaves and left themselves the privilege of defining crime via legislative acts instead of Public Law.  

They were, themselves, already criminals under our Public Law, having committed treason and armed insurrection and conspiracy against the very service contracts that define them and allow them to exist and to have residence in this country. 

Because they supported the losing side ("the South") in the war, the City-operated Municipal Government owed war reparations to the British Territorial-operated Municipal Corporation -- the District Government, a circumstance that led to defining all Municipal "citizens of the United States" as criminals --- and slaves, under the Fourteenth Amendment scheme.  

The private estate trusts established by the Holy See owed money-- "war reparations" to the public estate trusts established by the British Crown. 

None of this had anything to do with rank-and-file Americans. 

The British Territorial U.S. Citizens were collecting debts from "citizens of the United States" --- the Federal Civil Service employees and their dependents. 

It was convenient for both sides to mistake average Americans as participants in this arrangement.  The more Municipal citizens of the United States, the more targets to collect from-- in the view of the British Territorial Subcontractors, and the more Municipal citizens of the United States, the more the debt was spread out -- in the view of the City-operated Subcontractors. 

Both sides of this situation were highly motivated to mistake average Americans as citizens of the United States, and so they did, via all the various private contracts the Perpetrators offered and enforced under color of law and conditions of non-disclosure. 

This includes but is not limited to the registration of births, the undisclosed copyrighting of Given Names, the creation of public and private infant decedent trusts and associated accounts, the conferring of foreign citizenship obligations, the coerced enrollment in such programs as Social Security and Selective Service (the military draft), licensing of common professions and occupations, taxation of private earnings, and subjection of the victims to foreign laws that were otherwise never applicable to them. 

Using these constructive trusts-- that is, theoretical public and private trusts, established in the name of every living American -- the pillaging of these trusts began in May of 1865, with the establishment of Military Districts and military District Courts.  

The original slave population of Federal Civil Service employees and their dependents was promptly augmented by all the former plantation slaves who unwittingly had "citizenship of the United States" conferred on them by members of the Territorial Congress, and so their earthly estates were seized upon and pillaged and used as collateral backing the debts of these monsters.  

The original Forty Acres and a Mule resettlement offer extended to former plantation slaves was promptly amended to the much less expensive expediency of unlawful conversion of the former slaves' natural political status. The vast majority didn't begin to grasp the impact of having "Federal citizenship" conferred on them and so, didn't resist.  

The few who did object and did resist the assumption of Federal citizenship, including savvy Native American leaders, were silenced by murder, by unlawful incarceration, and by internment on so-called Indian Reservations. 

The lack of full disclosure voids any contract, but people have to know about the existence of a contract before they can object to it. We have seen this non-disclosure fraud throughout --- non-disclosure to the Mothers signing paperwork at the hospitals, non-disclosure to the people "volunteering" to enroll in Social Security, non-disclosure regarding the offices being occupied, non-disclosure about the private elections substituting for public elections, non-disclosure regarding the mercenary nature of the Armed Services, and on and on and on.  

Even though it is completely illegal and unlawful to "securitize" living flesh, the Perpetrators of this fraud scheme endeavored to excuse their actions 
as being technically allowable, because they were addressing their actions and claims to incorporated franchises belonging to the other Municipal Corporation involved in orchestrating this fraud -- not the living people that all these corporations were named after. 

In the theoretical realm, these legal fictions could pound away at each other all day long without doing any harm to the people they were named after, and the people would be none the wiser.  

In real life, the living people were consistently misaddressed by the  Military District Courts and foreign franchises "State of State Courts" and abused as slaves even though the vast majority of these Americans didn't participate in The American Civil War and didn't owe war reparations and were not citizens of the United States, and never worked for any Federal Employers.

By keeping this impersonation and "mistaken identity" fraud going, the offending Municipal Corporations housed in the District of Columbia have continued to collect war reparations resulting from their own activities for 160 years.  All the expenses of these wars for profit were borne by the victims and all the profits were hauled home to London and Rome. 

When it came time to pay the soldiers, the Perpetrators pretended they didn't know where they were. 

Beginning with the Second World War, the men drafted and enlisted and otherwise enrolled to serve in "the US" Armed Forces, suffered from further legal presumptions.  

If they didn't write a letter to their Branch Commander saying otherwise, it was presumed that they stayed forever in Federal jurisdiction and chose never to go home to the nation states of the Union when their tour of duty ended.  As a result, these veterans couldn't access their Constitutional Guarantees or collect the stock portfolios and other perks they were owed. As a result, they remained subject to the foreign private law of the Municipal Corporations, and were forever deprived of the freedom they fought for. 

What began with the U.S. Citizens in the U.S. Military claiming war reparations from the Federal Civil Service citizens of the United States, has been turned around so that as veterans, they are viewed as citizens of the United States themselves.  All of this chicanery is taking place between two Municipal Corporations, both of which are ultimately owned by the Pope, and millions of Americans have been caught in the middle of it, misidentified, targeted, and defrauded. 

As both of these corporations are ultimately owned and operated by the Pope it is indeed ridiculous to pretend that they are at war, or that taking from the left pocket to pay the right pocket is significantly different in its net result to taking from the right pocket to pay the left.  

As the lawful government of this country, we wish for this criminal activity on the part of our Federal Subcontractors and the promotion of phony wars to stop.  

The de facto enslavement of the Municipal citizens of the United States and the undisclosed unlawful conversion of millions of Americans into this foreign political status continues to this day; when cornered, the Holy See has claimed that all this is "voluntary" and that the victims of this scheme are receiving "benefits" from it. 

The IRS Commissioner and numerous employees of that private extortion ring have also claimed that payment of Federal Income Taxes by the majority of Americans is 100% voluntary.  

What they are failing to address is the lack of disclosure and force under color of law that attended the creation of all the purported "voluntary" private contracts supporting these claims of "voluntary compliance"----and all the vicious enforcement actions that result when the volunteers no longer comply.  

It's impossible for a contract to be voluntary if its not 100% disclosed, and it's also impossible for it to be voluntary when it is established under coercion --- for example, being told that you can't have a job in America without a Social Security account, being told that you can't pay a debt except with more debt, being told that you "have to" sign up for Selective Service, and all the other directives and self-interested mandates which apply only to the Federal citizenry being foisted on average Americans, instead.  

A closer examination of the circumstance shows that the victims aren't even aware of what they are supposedly volunteering to do, and the purported benefits are all paid for by the victims themselves. 

The citizens of Ancient Rome received "benefits", too --- in the form of salt allotments.  Roman foot soldiers received salt as wages.  This is the origin of the saying, "You are worth your salt."   

The Roman Government outlawed the ancient practice of harvesting salt from the sea, and arranged to use salt mined from its own salt mines instead.  Thus, it created an arbitrary value and market for salt, one of the most common minerals on Earth, and paid itself for paying its own soldiers and citizens a salt allotment that the victims ultimately paid for via taxation. 

Remember Gandhi's March to the Sea, and the British Raj standing in the way of people seeking to harvest salt from the sea?  There they stood in their uniforms with their billy clubs and rifles, beating down and firing upon the crowds of unarmed people peacefully asserting their traditional right to harvest salt from the sea.  

It's the same exact thing, another rerun. The British, like the Romans before them, outlawed harvesting salt from the sea--- and for the same reasons.

The people of our country and all the other countries impacted by this criminality have been told that they have to sign up for a Social Security Number and have a Social Security Account in order to have a job. 

This is a half-truth at best, as it only applies to Federal employment.  

The rest of the populace, who have all been deliberately misinformed and who were never seeking Federal employment in the first place, are coerced under color of law to enroll in Social Security, a Federal pension program for Federal employees and their dependents. 

Even the fact that this program is designed for Federal employees and their dependents is never disclosed in any of the enrollment literature. There is no discussion of who a "dependent" might be, and whether or not you are one. 

Yet, the Holy See and its British Territorial Subcontractors describe this action as "voluntary", and claim that it creates a lifetime private agreement to accept servitude and taxation as a Municipal citizen of the United States in exchange for these benefits that the victims pay for.   

The Perpetrators use this as an excuse to collect 7.5% of the victim's total lifetime earnings as a Social Security Tax and charge their employers a matching 7.5% tax.  They also use this purported private contract as an excuse to collect Federal Income Tax and take another 30% to 40% on average of the victim's lifetime earnings.   

Like the Salt Tax, there is no actual benefit involved; quite the opposite. 

If the victims were allowed to simply keep their earnings they would enjoy a substantially better standard of living throughout their lives, and if they invested just half of it, in a low interest bearing account, they would be able to continue to enjoy that elevated standard of living and pay for their medical insurance and their own end of life expenses.  

Instead, they pay not only for themselves, but for all the other slaves who didn't work and earn and contribute to this system.  This is not a chosen and willful act of charity on the part of those deprived; it's a political and administrative choice made "for" them by the Executors de Son Tort operating the public and private trusts that have been named after them.

If the unproductive or injured or unemployed slaves don't receive basic support, they get restive and turn ugly. so they must be provided for, but obviously, the Roman slave masters don't want to give up an extra dime, and it is overall more convenient for the other slaves to pick up the dead weight and carry the burden of their fellow slaves' support.  

The Perpetrators have used the City-operated Municipal Corporation and its millions of franchises as a Universal Debtor and oppressed its ill-gotten population of slaves accordingly.  Millions of Americans have been imposed upon by these criminals acting under color of law and in the guise of their own Federal employees.

The money and later, the credit, collected for the Social Security Administration (another public-private subcontractor of the Federal Subcontractors) was promised to be set aside in a separate trust fund for the benefit of those contributing to it, but the rapacious Territorial Congress reinterpreted the agreement after the fact, and put all the Social Security money into the General Fund to be spent by their own precious selves on whatever pleased them. 

Now these same guilty and profligate Municipal Corporation(s) masquerading as and claiming to represent our government are going bankrupt and telling millions of American Seniors that their Social Security account payments may be interrupted or not paid out at all, depending on the actions of the United States Trustees, who were never appointed by us and who have no business even being here. 

There is no contract or treaty allowing a probate court to exist in this country, so the institution of "the United States Trustees" and their disposition of our property is another self-interested swindle.

Please note that there is a fundamental difference between a benefit acquired as a result of hard work and contribution, especially hard work and contribution to a trust, and a benefit received free gratis as a gift.  While both may be beneficial, one is owed as an obligation both in business and in moral conscience --- and the other is not.  

Those who worked and contributed their "forty quarters" worth of taxation, a period of ten years labor, minimum, are owed the full benefit of their contribution, whereas all the freeloaders being benefited from Social Security without paying into it, are in a completely different status. 

Further self-interest on the part of the Municipal Corporations has allowed the prejudicial and arbitrary practice of disinheriting a surviving spouse, denying them services and benefits that they and their spouse are both literally owed by these corporations. 

Seniors throughout the western world should be comfortable in their old age, having earned support for everything they need. Instead, they are eking along with substandard services and penurious payments, because the Corporate Administrators have spent their pension and medical insurance money giving benefits away to, and buying votes from, people who didn't contribute a dime. 

Now, even the substandard services are in jeopardy. 

Thanks to this modern day Salt Fraud, calling goods and services we pay for "benefits" and converting our rights into privileges based on the false claim that we are all voluntarily adopting Federal citizenship, millions of seniors are going hungry and losing their homes and this is directly attributable to the Municipal Corporations paying themselves and their cronies out of these same pension and medical insurance funds. 

We wish for all funds collected by the Social Security Tax from 1933 to date to be audited.  

We wish for the contributions of Americans who were never Federal Employees or were Federal Employees for short periods of time during their working career, but not eligible for Federal Retirement, to be set aside as the first priority obligation of the Municipal Corporations and Principals responsible for this debacle. 

We wish for an immediate and permanent stop to the disbursement of Social Security funds for the purposes of vote buying and refugee resettlement.   

We wish for both an end to the current genocide efforts aimed against the Priority Creditors of these Municipal Corporations, and the illegal and unlawful importation of foreign workers to replace those same Priority Creditors. 

We wish for top-rated health and rehabilitative care for our Seniors.

More than enough money could have been and would have been generated by the Social Security Fund itself, if the Perpetrators had simply left the program alone and let it function as advertised.

Instead, we have another example of non-consensual "redefinition, rebranding, and relabeling"  resulting in fraudulent and non-consensual substitution of an inferior product under color of law, and the continued misrepresentation and malfeasance of proxy-holders acting in an undisclosed capacity in conflict of interest. 

We have, again, the theft of funds belonging to one population, going to benefit another population, and while this is cloaked as philanthropy, it is better known as vote-buying on someone else's nickel. 

This all by itself should be sufficient to justify the immediate and permanent liquidation of these offending Municipal Corporations and the return of their assets and all associated public and private trust interests  to the people who have been injured.  

It should also be sufficient motivation to strip all Congressional retirement benefits from those members of Congress who have promoted and allowed these conditions to impact the General Public while keeping very nice pensions and perks for themselves.  

They should also be punished for exempting themselves and their families, and their staff members and their families, from participating in the forced vaccination program they foisted on nearly everyone else. Nothing speaks their guilt and bad faith more plainly than their avoidance of the evil they pushed on everyone else. 

We wish for all those who participated in re-instituting slavery after the Civil War and during the Wilson Administration and also during the arbitrarily created Great Depression, to be exhumed, cast out. and buried at sea.  These white-collar traitors to this country and to humanity, deserve no peaceful resting place on our land and soil. 

To recap:  

Slavery was outlawed in this country by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 and then, reinstituted by the Fourteenth Amendment to the so-called Corporate Constitution in 1868.  

Slavery was outlawed worldwide by the League of Nations in 1926, and then, resuscitated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933.

Thanks to Rome, slavery has been suffered by the living population of this planet more or less continuously since ancient times, each time with the same result: the utter debasement and corruption of those who enslave others, and theft from and abuse of those enslaved. 

Slavery is a practice that ruins the slave owner through debasement of  moral conscience, and which ruins the slave through abuse.  It has absolutely no redeeming value and has been repeatedly outlawed as a result. 

The one force that continues to advocate in slavery's favor is the same stubborn and unrepentant government that has refused to give up its addiction to slavery as a means to promote its own unjust enrichment--- the City of Rome and, in the present time, its Municipal Corporations. 

If the Romans love slavery so much, let them contemplate their own enslavement to ---and dependence upon--- evil. 

Having resolved to end slavery as an institution, we did not agree to the abolishment of private slave ownership merely in order to make way for public slave ownership. We have learned the lessons of slavery and learned them well.  We have seen them before and have no need to see them again. 

We wish for the total, complete, and permanent end of slavery in any form in any venue whatsoever.  

Rome's excuses for practicing slavery and its penchant for mercenary wars for profit, have never been sufficient at any time in Rome's history, and they are still lacking now.  

We maintain that a man having basic and unalienable natural rights may not be deprived of any of those rights as a condition of employment or by virtue of some legal contrivance seeking to redefine the nature and status of mankind, including but not limited to impersonation of living people as corporations nor secret alteration of mankind's genome by criminals without conscience. 

We wish for immediate and drastic correction of the present body representing the Holy Roman Empire Successor interest and the owner-operators of both these Municipal Corporations housed in the District of Columbia.   

Members of the Bar are Prime Movers in setting up the confidence rackets and name games we have described throughout. 

They, members of the Bar, have willingly set up and have run the unauthorized military district courts and probate courts as for-profit enterprises disinterested in justice. They have harvested the profits from their neighbors, friend and foe alike, and have benefited themselves from this legalized racketeering against the same people who are their ultimate employers and to whom they owe good faith under contract. 

None of these frauds upon the Public would be possible without the willing participation of the members of the Bar Associations and their abject refusal to prosecute crimes that bolster their own economic interests. Indeed, these men who hide behind the sanctity of their assumed offices, do not blush to commit crimes every single day that they operate as bank officers pretending to be ministers of justice. 

All that we have discussed here and throughout our presentation amounts to commercial crime; there are no politics of black or white, republican or democrat, no Catholic or Protestant --- all have suffered equally from the criminal Breach of Trust and dishonored Service Contracts. 

As in Ancient Rome, a military putsch led to the Empire of the Cities, and now leads to destruction as a result of criminality and resulting immorality.  

We wish for this sickening cycle of stupidity to stop and call upon those responsible for it to stop it.  

All of this has come about as a result of: (1) idolatry of money; (2) the Doctrine of Scarcity; (3) Roman refusal to find another way to make a living; (4) Bad faith and legal chicanery; (5) Breach of Trust and Commercial Service Contracts; (5) institutionalized crime enabled by members of the Bar Associations. 

We wish for an end to the human-centered cosmos theory and all the nasty small-minded grasping and dishonest activities associated with it. 

We are all beings of light living in a body made of dust. We have better things to do with what time we have than to fight and cheat and lie and steal and murder 

We must be set free from the repetition of all these fraud schemes and  atoned--  no longer subject to Satan and his nonsense, fully apprised of the banal and duplicitous nature of evil, whether such evil is found within or outside of any given institution, personified as an idol, named or unnamed. 

We have passed the tests and must be released. 

Issued by:  Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
                  The United States of America
                  In care of: Box 520994
                  Big Lake, Alaska 99652

May 21st 2023

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Sixth Sunday After Pentecost - Within the Octave of the Ascension

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

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

INTROIT

Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee, allel. My heart bath said to thee: I have sought thy face, thy face, O Lord, I will seek: turn not away thy face from me, allel. allel. The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear? (Ps. XXVI. 7-9.) Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

COLLECT  Almighty, everlasting God, grant us ever to have a will devoted to Thee, and to serve Thy majesty with a sincere heart. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.

EPISTLE (1 Peter IV. 7-11.) Dearly beloved, be prudent, and watch in prayers. But before all things, have a constant mutual charity among yourselves; for charity covereth a multitude of sins. Using hospitality one towards another without murmuring: as every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the words of God: if any man minister, let him do it as of the power which God administereth; that in all things God may be honored through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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

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

Why is the Holy Ghost called the Paraclete?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

INSTRUCTION ON SCANDAL

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

How is scandal given?

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

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

How do parents give scandal?

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

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

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

 

INSTRUCTION ON PREPARATION FOR PENTECOST

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

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

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

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

Catastrophic Borrowing Kills Global Financial System – John Rubino

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Saturday, May 20, 2023

CYANIDE Found in Remdesivir: FLUORINE & CYANIDE In Remdesivir Cause DEADLY Organ FAILURE

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Friday, May 19, 2023

The feds are RUNNING the insurrection to overthrow America

 https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-18-feds-are-running-the-insurrection-to-overthrow-america.html


Thursday, May 18, 2023 by: 

The real insurrection against America is being run by a rogue, unelected federal government that considers We the People to be its enemies. The “Patriot Front” group that marches around with white masks and American flags is obviously (almost comically) just a bunch of FBI agents and recruits dressed up as patriots, thereby projecting the appearances of a militant patriot group so that the FBI can continue to justify its own pathetic (corrupt) existence.

Note that Patriot Front group members are never arrested or charged with carrying out an insurrection. They are never even unmasked.

But when true patriots tried to peacefully stand against a rigged election on January 6th, they were arrested and charged with a litany of felony crimes in one of the most outrageous abuses of prosecutorial discretion this nation has ever witnessed. That’s why I have interviewed J6 victim John Strand in today’s Brighteon Broadcast News (see below), and his story of being politically persecuted is an emergency wake up call for how far America has fallen from true freedom and justice.

Your government is RUNNING the domestic terrorism

It’s now clear that the energy infrastructure explosions, power grid attacks and food infrastructure sabotage are all carried out by government-run black ops groups. The domestic terrorism taking place across America right now is being inflicted upon the American people by the government itself, and they are doing it to maintain power while declaring endless emergencies to grant themselves even more dictatorial control over our lives.

The next step is going to be the engineered currency collapse, likely followed by a financial catastrophe involving banks, businesses, real estate, pensions and more.

Read the entire article here:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-18-feds-are-running-the-insurrection-to-overthrow-america.html

Thursday, May 18, 2023

The Samaritan Connection 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: 

Charles the Fifth, aka, Charles V, was born in Ghent, Flanders.  This is why there is an entire International Treaties Series called The Treaties of Ghent, and part of the reason that Belgium and the Netherlands continue to play a disproportionate role on the world stage. 

Charles the Fifth became Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire. 

And Charles I, King of Spain.  

Charles the Fifth straddled both jurisdictions of land and of sea, standing as the Bible foretold, with one foot in the sea and one foot upon the land.   
In the same way, Charles III, Imperial Emperor of the UK -- head of a Roman Municipal Government in England organized using Municipal Corporations, is wearing multiple hats and crossing over multiple jurisdictional barriers that exist to prevent this kind of thing. 

Remember what we told you about Camelot being in France, not England? 

Excalibur is a word in Old French; but no such word is found in Old English.  

In Medieval Latin it was Caliburnue.

In Welsh, Caledvwlch.

And Celtic, Caladbolg. 

This is all part of the same phenomenon, where the identities and place names and even the public offices have been obscured and changed, nicknames and euphemisms have been used, one country's history has been exchanged for another country's history, the actual origins have been obliterated for political reasons, and the world left in the dark. 

What happened in the five hundred years between the Battle of Camlann which took place in France, and William of Normandy's return to England to claim his inheritance in 1066? 

It was during this time period that we saw the explosive growth of the Roman Catholic Church, a religious institution bearing little resemblance to the Ekklesia established by the Apostles. 

Since its founding by Simon Magus in Samaria during the time of the Apostles, the Samaritan Church has mixed and matched its iconography and elements of its beliefs to promote One World Religion.  

The founder, Simon Magus, was a magician and illusionist. His Samaritan "synagogues" could claim to be Jewish synagogues or Christian churches as politics might dictate, and at the time, they were adorned with paintings and mosaics depicting Yeshuah as Zeus, with the Apostles taking on the visages of the lesser gods of the Greek pantheon, inhabiting the Houses of the Zodiac.   

Helen, Simon Magus's consort, appeared in paintings and statues and mosaics with rays of light around her head, holding what we today would recognize as a Jewish Menorah--- an eight-branched candlestick. And all of this oddly mimics the representation and worship of Ashtoreth, (aka, Semiramis, Cybele, Isis, Astarte, Columia), the Babylonian goddess who is always pictured in a similar way: a beautiful woman carrying a torch, or candlestick or lantern.  

Is it any great leap from this image of a woman carrying a literal light,  to the image of the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus on her lap, a halo of light surrounding him -- "the light of the world"? 

This iconography more than anything else identifies the Samaritan churches and synagogues found throughout the Mediterranean world, and these same images -- the same idols -- appear in Christian churches worldwide today.  

Apparently, Simon Magus won. 

His Samaritan Churches and Synagogues gradually replaced the existing Ekklesia the same way that British Territorial State of State organizations substituted themselves for the American versions, and just as Mr. Lincoln substituted his office as "President" of a Corporation for the President owed to this country, and Semiramis, that old Babylonian goddess, crept in the back door, misrepresented as The Statue of Liberty---- we have been duped from the beginning.  And nobody has been the wiser. 

Why is it called the District of Columbia?  Columbia is another name for Semiramis, Isis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Cybele.... the District of Columbia the American HQ for Mystery Babylon. 

Why the big push to include Satanism in the fold and normalize it?  

Simon Magus's religion always aimed at having One World Religion -- theirs -- and it didn't matter how they got to that goal. For them, the ends have always justified the means.  A monopoly on belief, just like a monopoly in any business, has been the goal, and for the same reasons.

Religion is big business. It's big business on its own, and it's got its cut from most of the governments on Earth, one way or another, plus all the tithes and offerings and volunteer work it can command.  

If including Satanism as part of their stock-in-trade is the price of achieving One World Religion, the Samaritan Church will adopt Satanism the same way they adopted Jesus appearing to be Zeus, or the Menorah, or the Cross, or the teachings of Yeshuah, or the haloes surrounding the head of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus.  

Their actual Creed is: "Whatever it takes, to make it work."

The followers of Simon Magus are still illusionists, still deft at the sleight of hand, still consolidating other religions into one monolithic whole, still calling themselves Magistrates whether or not they remember the true Magi.  

All these substitutions and obfuscations of our history, our government, and even our religions ---   like the murder of Queen Margaret, the last Plantagenet, by Henry the Eighth, have set off a series of events that have plagued the western world ever since.  

It is well-beyond the scope of a brief article to unravel the tangled history of the western world and its institutions, but the general shape and mammoth scope of the deceit is now exposed. Those who have never considered the iconographic evidence and who have remained unaware of the archeological findings, now have cause to think.  

The sword, Excalibur, is no earthly trifle. It is the Sword of Truth, which exonerates and executes with an even hand.

Likewise, we have no ax to grind, no judgement to offer but the truth. 

We wish for an examination of the current direction taken by the Roman Catholic Church and its attempts to normalize the practices of radical Satanism --- cannibalism, pedophilia, sodomy, bestiality, temple prostitution, sacrifice of babies, drinking of blood, use of adrenochrome and other drugs, and many other outlawed practices --- and bring these practices into our schools and our discussion groups and our city council meetings. 

We wish particular attention to be given to the impact that this "liberalism" is having on the governmental services corporations housed in the District of Columbia and their administration in violation of our Public Laws and our limited contractual agreements set forth in The Constitution of the United States, which has not been consensually altered since 1860. 

If the Roman Catholic Church wants to redefine what "Christian" means and remake itself into a truly Samaritan Church standing for everything and for nothing at the same time, that's its business. 

If the Roman Catholic Church wishes to embrace all this ancient evil, and repeat the lessons of Elijah, and try to plead that there is anything normal or acceptable about this situation, that's the Church's business, too. We will deal with it accordingly. 

However, when the Church's tolerance of these Satanic religious beliefs and practices bleeds over into the administration of the services we are owed, and leaves us dealing with the consequences of the internal mandates and policies of the run amok Municipal Corporations impacting our General Population and opposing the Laws of our Government, and endangering the safety and welfare of our people,  that's another matter entirely.  

It is our job to protect the people and the property of this country and we will not have the children in our keeping assaulted with every sin known to man just because some Municipal Corporation Subcontractors have lost their minds as well as their moral compass. 

So that we are entirely clear about this: 

We do not condone murder --- including but not limited to the medical murder of the unborn, of babies, of the aged, or any form of medical murder at all.

We do not condone lying, cheating, stealing, racketeering, or extortion of any kind, much less doing any of these things under color of law. 

We do not condone false witness of any kind. 

We do not condone idolatry, and wish for money tokens to be without elements of idolatry; we wish such tokens to have intrinsic value and to be widely and abundantly available as cash resources in the hands of the living people.  

We do not condone monopolies, commodity rigging, securitization of living flesh, bankruptcy fraud, abuse of trusts, interlocking trust directorates, monopolies, and similar unlawful business practices. 

We do not condone planned obsolescence, irresponsible manufacturing practices, and ineffective, damaging waste management.  

We do not condone war for profit. 

We do not condone marketing of recreational drugs or pornography or other products that denigrate life or devalue our bodies. 

We do not condone the sale of nutritionally deficient or chemically polluted food, or of water that has been denatured by additives, including but not limited to Fluoride.

We do not condone immorality nor do we disrespect the natural responsibilities and rights of parents. Even those born without a natural conscience can be taught to observe ethical guidelines.

We do not condone the use of propaganda to drive political agendas, or any similar psychological operations used to disinform, defraud, or deny people their rights, including but not limited to their freedom of unimpaired choice.

We do not condone snooping and surveillance and invasion of privacy, nor the keeping of false dossiers on Americans as a convenient means of criminalizing their fictional activities without fear of disclosure.

We do not condone any Bills of Attainder, indefinite detainment power asserted by any Federal or Franchise employee, or any other violation of Article IV of the Federal Constitutions as issued.

We wish for our guidelines established above to be followed by our employees and for our values to be respected in the accomplishment of all duties and functions related to our American Government, our States, and our people.

We wish for clear lines to be drawn between our administration of the Public Government owed to the people of this country and the District Government and its administration of its delegated functions and its own employees.  

We wish for people to be fully and freely informed about the issues caused by their political status and the impact that political status has on their lives. 

We are ready to negotiate any and all aspects of the contracts and arrangements that have hitherto established rapport between ourselves and our Federal Employees, for the best interests of all concerned. 

Issued by: Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
                  The United States of America
                  In care of: Box 520994
                  Big Lake, Alaska 99652

May 18th 2023

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Instruction on the Festival of the Ascension of Our Lord

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

At the Introit the Church sings the words which were spoken by the angels to the apostles and disciples, after the Ascension of our Lord:

INTROIT Ye men of Galilee, why wonder you, looking up to heaven? allel.: He shall so come as you have seen him going up into heaven. Allel., allel., allel. (Acts I. 11.), Oh, clap your hands, all ye nations; shout unto God with the voice of joy. (Ps. XLVI. 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 Grant, we beseech Thee, O Almighty God, that we who believe Thy only‑begotten Son, our Redeemer, to have this day ascended into the heavens, may ourselves also in, mind dwell amid heavenly things. Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.

LESSON (Acts I. 1-11.) The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach , until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles ,whom he had chosen, he was taken up: to whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God. And eating together with them, he commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the prom­ise of the Father, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth: for John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence. They, therefore, who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? But he said to diem: It is not for you to know the times or moments which the Father hath put in his own power; but you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold, two men stood by them in white garments, who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand yon looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven.

EXPLANATION This gospel of St. Luke addressed to Theophilus, a Christian of note in Antioch, contains an account of the life, sufferings, and death of Jesus up to the time of His ascension into heaven. The Evangelist con­tinues his account in the Acts of the apostles, in which he describes in simple words that which Jesus did during the forty days following His Resurrection, and the manner in which He ascended into heaven in the presence of His apostles. Rejoice that Christ today has entered into the glory gained by His sufferings and death, and pray: I rejoice, O King of heaven and earth, in the glory Thou bast this day attained in heaven. Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: sing ye to God, who mounteth above the heaven of heavens to the east. Give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence and his power is in the clouds. God is wonderful in his saints, the God of Israel is he who will give power and strength to his people, blessed be God. (Ps.LXVII. 33‑36.)

GOSPEL (Mark. XVI. 14-20.) At that time, Jesus appeared to the eleven as they were at table: and he upbraided them with their incredulity and hardness of heart, because they did not believe them who had seen him after he was risen again. (And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned: And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name they shall cast out devils: they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents: and if they shall drink any deadly thing,  it shall not hurt them: they shall lay their hands upon the sick; and they shall recover.) And the Lord Jesus after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God. But they going forth preached everywhere, the Lord work­ing withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.

The part of this gospel which is within the marks of parenthesis, is the gospel for the feast of St: Francis Xavier.

Why did Christ say to His apostles: Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to all creatures?

To show that no one is to assume the office of preach­ing, but must look for his mission from the lawful pastors of the Church. And when Christ sends His apostles into the whole worlds to all nations without exception, He shows His willingness to save all men. If the designs of God are not fulfilled, the blame is not to be attributed to God, but to man, who either does not accept the doctrine of the gospel, or accepting, does not live in accordance with it, or else renders himself by his obduracy in vice, unworthy of the gospel.

Is faith without good works sufficient for salvation?

No, faith that is not active in love, not fruitful in good works, and therefore not meritorious, (Gal. V. 6.) is not suf­ficient for salvation. "Such faith," says St. Anselm, "is not the faith of a Christian, but the faith of the devil." Only he who truly believes in Christ and His doctrine, and lives in accordance with it, will be saved.

Is ours then the true faith since all the faithful do not work miracles; as Christ has predicted?

St. Gregory very beautifully replies to this question: "Because the Redeemer said that true faith would be ac­companied by miracles, you must not think that you have not the faith, because these signs do not follow; these miracles had to be wrought in the beginning of the Church, because faith in her had to be increased by these visible signs of divine power." And even now when such signs are necessary for the propagation of the faith, and victory over unbelief, God gives His faithful power to work them.

Are miracles wrought now in the Catholic Church?

Yes, for there have been at all times saints in the Church, who, as seen from their lives, have wrought miracles, on account of their faith, which even the heretics cannot deny; for instance St. Francis Xavier, who in the sight of the heathens, raised several dead persons to life. In a spiritual manner all pious Catholics still work such miracles; for, as St. Chrysostom says, "they expel devils when they banish sin, which is worse than the devil; they speak new tongues when they converse no longer on vain and sinful things, but on those which are spiritual and heavenly." "They take up serpents," says St. Gregory, "when by zealous exhortations they lift others from the shame of vice, without being themselves poisoned; they drink deadly things without being hurt by them, when they hear improper conversation without being corrupted or led to evil; they lay their hands upon the sick and heal them, when they teach the ignorant, strengthen by their good example those who are wavering in virtue, keep the sinner from evil, and similar things." Strive to do this upon all occasions, O Christian, for God willingly gives you His grace and you will thus be of more use to yourself and others, and honor God more than by working the greatest miracles.

Where and how did Christ ascend into heaven?

From Mount Olivet where His sufferings began, by which we learn, that where our crosses and afflictions begin which we endure with patience and resignation, there begins our reward. Christ ascended into heaven by His own power, because He is God, and now in His glorified humanity He sits at the right hand of His Father, as our continual Mediator.

In whose presence did Christ ascend into heaven?

In the presence of His apostles, and many of His dis­ciples, whom He had previously blessed, (Luke XXIV. 51.) and who, as St. Leo says, derived consoling joy from His ascension. Rejoice, also, O Christian foul, for Christ has today opened heaven for you, and you may enter it, if you believe in Christ, and live in accordance with that faith. St. Augustine says: "Let us ascend in spirit with Christ, that when His day comes, we may follow with our body.

Yet you must know, beloved brethren, that not pride, nor avarice, nor impurity, nor any other vice ascends with Christ; for with the teacher of humility pride ascends not, nor with the author of goodness, malice, nor with the Son of the Virgin, impurity. Let us then ascend with Him by trampling upon our vices and evil inclinations, thus build­ing a ladder by which we can ascend; for we make a ladder of our sins to heaven when we tread them down in combating them:"

ASPIRATION O King of glory! O powerful Lord! who hast this day ascended victoriously, above all heaven, leave us not as poor orphans; but send us, from the Father, the Spirit of truth whom Thou hast promised. Alleluia.

Why is the paschal candle extinguished after the gospel on this day?

To signify that Christ, of whom the candle is a figure, has gone from His disciples.

 

INSTRUCTION ON MIRACLES

And these signs shall follow them that believe.(Mark XVI. 17.)

What is a miracle?

A miracle, as defined by St. Thomas of Aquin, is any­thing beyond the ordinary, fixed state of things that is done through God. Thus when the sun stands still in his course, when thousands are fed with five loaves and two small fishes, when by a word or simple touch the dead are raised to life, the blind see, and the deaf hear, these are things contrary to nature, and are miracles which can only be performed by God or those persons to whom God has given the power.

That God can work miracles, cannot be denied. God has made the laws of nature, and at any time it pleases Him, He can suddenly suspend them, and that God has at times done so, we have more solid and undeniable proofs, than we have for the most renowned and best authenticated facts of history, far more witnesses testify to miracles, the whole world has believed them, and been converted by them; more than eleven millions of martyrs have died to confirm and maintain their truth; no one gives up his life for lies and deceptions; the Jews and pagans have admitted them, but ascribed them to witchcraft and the power of demons rather than to God; by this they proved and acknowledged the truth of miracles, because in order to deny them, they were driven to false and absurd explanation of them.

Can men work miracles?

No; only God works miracles through man to whom He gives the power. The history of the Christian Church in all ages bears testimony, that men have wrought miracles in the name of Jesus, as, for example, the apostles and the saints.

Can miracles be worked by the relics of saints, pictures, &e.?

The Church, in the Council of Trent, solemnly declares, that we are never to believe that there is in any picture or relic any hidden power by which a miracle can, be worked, and that we are not to honor or ask any such thing of them. Therefore no miracle can ever be worked by them, but God can perform miracles through them, and He has done so, as the holy Scriptures and the history of the Church of Christ both prove. But when through certain pictures (usually called miraculous pictures) miracles do take place, that no deception may occur, the Church commands that such a picture shall not be exposed for the veneration of the faithful, until the truth of the miracles performed is by a rigorous examination established beyond doubt; she then causes such pictures to be respectfully preserved as monu­ments of the goodness and omnipotence of God.

Why are there not so many miracles in our ties as there were in the first days of the Church?

Because the Church is no longer in need of such extra­ordinary testimony to the truth of her teachings. Thus St. Augustine writes: "He who in the face of the conversion of the world to Christianity demands miracles, and strives to doubt those which have been wrought in favor of this most wonderful change, is himself an astonishing miracle of irrationality and stupidity;" and St. Chrysostom says: "The question is sometimes asked: How happens it there are not so many miracles now‑a‑days? The answer is, because the knowledge of Christ is propagated all over the earth, and the Church is like a tree which, having once taken deep root and grown to a certain height, no longer needs to be carefully watered and supported."