International Public Notice: Hate Speech 101

 By Anna Von Reitz

Please especially note the yellow highlighted sections.  

This is our reply to certain disgruntled Americans who have been thoroughly duped by the British Flim-Flam: 

No, we are all exempt from paying taxes.  Naturally.  Everyone. 

There is no reason to pay taxes in this country; they don't pay for schools or fire alarms, public roads, sewer service, water utilities, electrical plants, none of it.  

People have only assumed that, based on practices of the past -- in your great-grandparents era.  And everyone kept paying taxes based on information that is 160 years old.  

You don't owe taxes, neither did your parents or grandparents.  

You also assumed that you are a US Citizen of some kind.  You don't really know what the label "US Citizen" means, because nobody taught you and you didn't stir your stumps to find out, but it means you are a servant of the government.  

Well, are you?   

Do you owe the government service, or does the government owe you service?  

It's that simple. 

Chances are really, really good that you aren't a "US Citizen" or a "U.S. Citizen" or a "citizen of the United States", either.  Only about 10-12% of Americans actually are. 

So why are you paying payroll taxes and "gift and estate taxes" owed by "US Citizens"? 

If Uncle Sam doesn't have you on the payroll as a worker, why are you doing this?  

If you don't get a paycheck -- not a "benefits" check, a paycheck -- from Uncle Sam, you have no Federal Income to tax.  By definition.

This is why Tax Commissioners claim that their tax system is all "voluntary". 

The Federal Workers accept the payroll tax as a condition of employment, and the rest of us are all considered "volunteers" freely offering to pay the "Victory Tax" that should have disappeared in 1945.  

So now there are all these silly people who call themselves Americans who don't actually owe any of these foreign taxes at all, who are paying all these taxes under duress, and they are fuming and upset that we don't have to pay them, too.  

They think that we don't love our country.  

They think that paying the foreign mercenaries more of our credit and assets-- is the way to go?  

We disagree. 

We think that carpet bombing Gaza and sending nukes to Ukraine has nothing to do with defending this country.  We think that the mercs we hired to defend us have gone waaay off the ranch and are openly disrespecting their service contract -- The Constitution of the United States of America.  

We know that two sets of federal bureaucrats have been conducting war games on our soil.  Under the guise of "testing" new weapons of mass destruction on what they falsely claim is their own domestic population, they have caused fire and flood and death and disaster in this country.  

They've also caused the Covid 19 disaster. 

We think it's time to sack them.  We are certainly not going to "voluntarily" pay them for this "service".  And we are giving Mr. Trump and the Principals who own the USA, INC., new feedback on their operations. 

We do love our country and our countrymen.  That's why we have drawn the line.  

That's why we have gone to the trouble of declaring, recording, and publishing our actual political status as American Nationals who are NOT any variety of "US Citizen" -- we are the actual people of this country who are owed trillions upon trillions of dollars in actual assets and credit.  

And that, friends, is why we don't owe any taxes or service fees.  

The amount that they owe us far, far exceeds any purported "debt" that we may owe them, and their failure to balance the books for 160 plus years doesn't change that fact.  

Hello, US Trustees?   Bring the ledgers together.  Balance the books.  CUSIP ACCOUNTS v AUTROTRIS ACCOUNTS.  Let's see where that lands us.  Oh, my.... 

Does it make sense to hate your Creditors, or does it make sense to wake up and realize that you are a Creditor, too?  

Does it make sense to keep on paying foreign mercenaries to occupy your country "for" you, or does it make sense to run your own affairs? 

Especially when you can see how you've been bilked, denigrated, threatened, demeaned, defrauded, and lied to by these public employees?  

You all just keep on hoping and praying that one man, Donald J. Trump, is going to do the right thing, that he is going to keep his word, that he is going to lead you into a new world of health, and wealth, and all good things.  

Or, alternatively, you can believe that Trump is the Devil himself. 

We don't really care anymore what you believe.  We care about the facts.  The facts say that this country has been illegally, unlawfully, and immorally occupied by foreign mercenary forces for over 160 years.  

Right under the noses of all these super-snooper "intelligence" organizations.  

The facts say that this country has been embezzled and its people have been enslaved and press-ganged by these public employees,  and our natural resources have been plundered for sixteen decades, too.  

We say that a form of "lawfare" has been used to coercively collect "war reparations" from us that we don't owe. 

We say that the Great Britain Company and the UNITED KINGDOM, INC., are at the bottom of all this clandestine crime against Americans, aided and abetted by the City of Rome and various corporations that it has been running in tandem with the British criminals. 

So, great.  We've got two (2) sets of criminals here preying upon us, and pretending to be our loyal public employees, pretending to "represent" us.   

And we've had enough of it, so we are presenting ourselves and have exercised our non-delegated "Powers" and our contractual guarantees, to peacefully and lawfully conduct our own business.  

We've reached out to the banks and the international commercial courts and the rest of the people of the world to observe the bad news. 

Approximately half the national governments owed to the people on this planet have been secretly replaced by "governmental services corporations" that are in the business of making money from providing government services.  

So these commercial and municipal corporations in the business of  providing governmental services constantly gin up excuses to give us -- and charge us for -- more and more and more government "services". 

They gin up wars so they can charge us for that.  They gin up medical emergencies so they can charge us for that.  They gin up court cases so they can charge us for that.  They kidnap our children so they can charge us $9000 a day to keep them in foster care and indoctrinate them against their own heritage.  They sentence us to prison to make profit, too.  

And now they are treating us to DEW fires and Scalar Tech floods and pandemics, too.  

We've seen the "show" and we have left the "theater".  

This is no service to us and no entertainment, either.   

Everything these public employees do is self-service, and it's been that way a long time.  

It's time to end the gravy train and bring forward the actual accounting. 

And then, you'll all see why we don't owe them a brass farthing. 

Every United States Trustee and Public Employee reading this and failing to take action on our behalf and in our best interests is 100% commercially and personally liable. 

Despite all that they have purloined and stolen from us, these same corporations are poor-mouthing and claiming bankruptcy protection from us -- to which we say, they don't deserve any protection of the corporate veil and they certainly don't deserve any bankruptcy protection from our "public".  

It's time for them to run home to King Charles III and sue for bankruptcy protection from their actual Principal, not from the American people who have been the goats in all of this.  

Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals; Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents. 

Issued by:

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

July 14th 2025

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International Public Notice: Stupid is as Stupid Does

 By Anna Von Reitz

Can't arrest Hunter Biden?  Or Joe Biden?  We can.   

Who are they?  The former "President" of a British Crown Corporation?  And his schmarmy son?  

No problem. 

Need to arrest any "Generals" or "Admirals" who aren't actually acting in a military capacity?  Guys running a phony mercenary front and impersonating our officers instead? 

Our hands aren't tied.  We can arrest and prosecute anyone under our Public Law.  Even foreign nationals and "residents" engaged in unlawful activities.   

They have been sound asleep on the job for decades and busy siphoning off $21T the rest of the time. Hello?  Do the words "dereliction of duty" echo in your minds?  

So here is Trump's connect-the-dots and the reason that the mint has stopped producing pennies.  

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ad7FaPL4BHU&feature=shared

The old saying, "Save your pennies and your pennies will save you." is more sensible than ever.  

And all we can say is, "Stupid is as Stupid Does".  

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

July 13th 2025

International Public Notice: Vital Explanation

 By Anna Von Reitz

The DOJ -- that is, "Department of Justice" -- is a private organization, a subcontractor hired by the British Territorial U.S. Government during the Belle Epoch Era, under the auspices of the Scottish Interloper merely calling itself "The United States of America" -- Incorporated. 

It is a nest of British Bar Association Members employed to protect and defend the illegal confiscations and other illegal, unlawful, and immoral activities of the foreign Federal "service providers".  

In other words, our British Territorial Subcontractors, acting in Breach of Trust and Conflict of Interest, accessed our credit by using similar names and their own position as Subcontractors, to impersonate us. 

Then, they used our own money to hire a group of Bar Attorneys to protect them from us.  

They called this in-house attorney firm the "Department of Justice", and later, its Municipal Government "side" was called the DOJ.  

Most people assume that "DOJ" is an abbreviation for Department of Justice, but it's not.  It's code for "Municipal" versus "Territorial" personnel and functions. 

But whether it's DOJ or Department of Justice, their fundamental role and job is the same: Flak Jacket for the Incorporated Federal Government Operations in this country.  

These are still private attorney firms to this day and deserve no public respect, and certainly, only by rare accident or commonality of a goal, do they render anything like public service. 

With this information firmly in mind concerning the nature and role of the "DOJ" and "Department of Justice", both and either, consider all the reasons why Pam Bondi might be at odds with Dan Bongino, Deputy Director of the FBI?

The FBI is a hired Law Enforcement Agency.  Traditionally, it covered International Law Enforcements within The United States -- things like counterfeiting, smuggling, interstate kidnapping, interstate bank fraud, alcohol bootleggers, interstate racketeering and extortion, money laundering, etc.  

Everyone remembers Elliot Ness v Al Capone. 

Still, it is an open question who ultimately captured whom. 

They got Capone, and when they did, they also got his bookkeeper, Fast Eddie O'Hare, who created the funky "double entry bookkeeping system" that the Federal Government uses today.  

The rest of us just call it dishonest bookkeeping, or keeping two sets of books. 

So the criminals won in the end, by corrupting the heroes -- and nothing has changed since then.  The same phenomenon plays out. 

Why wouldn't Bondi release the Epstein files and continue prosecution?  Obviously, two reasons: she has an obligation to protect the President and all his entourage--- high ranking political allies and donors could be exposed; and second, she sees an opportunity to blackmail the blackmailers -- which equals political black gold. 

Why would Dan Bongino resist this with his soul and blood?  Because he sees her cupidity concerning the blackmail material as a gross betrayal of the promises made to the American people, and to the cause of justice itself. 

We're with Dan Bongino.  

If someone, anyone, was on Epstein Island molesting children, they need to be exposed and arrested and brought to justice.  And the blackmail material needs to be debased and released, not hoarded up and used to blackmail other unsavory kingpins. 

All that Pam Bondi could do with this material is become a blackmailer herself -- which would not further the cause of justice in America or anywhere else.   

It's like that moment when Frodo seizes the Ring of Power in the Lord of the Rings series.  

Pam Bondi sees her moment to seize upon fifty years' worth of yummy (on one side) and damning (on the other side) blackmail goodies, and she can't let go. 

Any clients of hers that have bared their butts on Epstein Island deserve what they get in court and her obligation as their attorney begins and ends when they break the law. 

That's the truth.  

The truth in this world often needs a spokesman, like Dan Bongino, who hasn't devoted his life to law enforcement only to see an Attorney General break the law and engage in obstruction of justice. 

The tie-breaker has to be Donald Trump.  He's the customer, after all, the head of the Corporation that employs the Department of Justice, Inc., using our credit to fund their activities, even when those activities run counter to the Public Interest.  

It's his morality or lack of it being put to the test, and that will ultimately cast the die for the entire MAGA Movement in this country. 

Our view of it all, and the politics involved, remains the same: in terms of economics and business and overall administration, Donald Trump's Administration is the Lesser of Two Evils.  They at least --more or less --  understand what their contract says. 

In terms of fascist surveillance state spending, gross pro-Israel bias and spending, lack of moral fortitude and decency to end the carpet bombing and genocide in Gaza, failure to quickly recognize and counter DARPA's treasonous activities and those of the Frankfurt (Mossad influenced) CIA -- and now this "failure to prosecute" the Epstein issues, means that the Trump Administration can be severely criticized and the entire MAGA Movement stands betrayed and discredited. 

No doubt this is why Elon Musk withdrew his support.  From inside the Swamp, all the quid pro quos being made among the Swamp Creatures (officially known as "denizens") become apparent. The actual collusion between the supposed enemies surfaces, and at some point, the uneasy sense of unreality provokes the impulse to run, quickly, away.  

This Notice is issued for public education purposes, so that people are not confused when they see "their" Justice Department morph into something foreign and unsavory.  

Simply realize that it was never "your" Justice Department, and was always an instrument -- not of justice, but of injustice -- deliberately engaged to defend indefensible "government" prosecutions and protect the interests of the foreign corporations engaged in commandeering our actual government. 

As such, none of these "Attorney Generals" have any lawful or authorized power.  There is no war, only endless mercenary conflicts, engendered by crooks to benefit themselves.  No lawful Martial Law can be applied by these "Generals", so they are reduced to following the "Orders" of a "President" of a commercial corporation. 

And it is all, 100%, based on deceit, fraud, and deception under color of law.  

Wake up, America.  See what you'll see.  You can't ever be Great, much less Great Again, by licking the feet of criminals, stealing their blackmail stashes, and adopting their accounting systems. 

Expecting the DOJ to "do the right thing" is considerably more naïve than expecting Al Capone to do the right thing, a fact that Dan Bongino just discovered and has brought forward for the awareness of everyone else.  

The only difference is that now you know why Bongino's expectations of Pam Bondi and perhaps of Donald Trump were naïve. Even after all his years in Law Enforcement and as a vocal critic of governmental services operations in the past.  

Watch the water, indeed.  

And see which side of the argument Donald J. Trump comes out on --- the Pam Bondi side, which is the side of his British Handlers, or Dan Bongino's side, which is the side of his American MAGA supporters. 

Donald Trump is fond of using us, "the public", as his excuse for doing unsavory and unpopular things, like giving Israel billions of dollars in public funding that is needed in this country first (did we hear something about "America first" somewhere?) and telling Vladimir Putin that "the public" demanded Trump's action, giving Ukraine more weapons through NATO.  

No actual "public" here demanded that, so we are as amazed and disgusted as everyone else.  

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

July 13th 2025

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International Public Notice: Environmental Tampering Ban

 By Anna Von Reitz

Here are just two good reasons why we have Cause to know that "Global Warming" is a fraud: 

https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1944018175017795891

As part of the "97%" of natural causes mentioned in the video above, we might explain that one volcano in a single day has been known to spew out more carbon dioxide than humans have contributed in 10,000 years.  One volcano.  One day.  

Our suspicions about this particular myth of "human caused global warming" began long before the Paris Summit on the subject.  

We knew that the old taxation system was about to split open like a rotten watermelon, so we had cause to wonder -- what next?  What will they try to replace it with?  

And like magic, the whole theory of "global warming" appeared, along with all the clap-trap in the media designed to cause hysteria and willingness to be taxed.  

It's that key element of "willingness" you need to pay attention to -- there has to be a plausible reason for the tax, and that has to be something people are willing to voluntarily buy into, otherwise the activities of the Roman Church and government corporations are purely criminal.  

That's why you have two former Commissioners of the Internal Revenue Service bragging about their voluntary tax system.  

Once the "Federal Income Tax" was revealed as a Roman Church misapplication of a Peter's Pence (Income Tax) tithe to the general population-- in effect, a private tax imposed on the general public without their knowledge or knowing consent --- they'd have to find a new dodge, and global warming is it.  

There is a reason why Pope Francis figured so prominently in the whole promotion of global warming as a Cause; there is a reason why virtually all the politicians pushing it were either Roman Catholic or Anglican.  

They needed a new narrative, an excuse for a new system of Draconian taxation.  Global warming was going to be the prod to make us accept -- voluntarily -- a whole new roster of taxes.  

The fact that the Earth has been overall cooling for decades despite hot spots around the globe -- which, coincidentally, don't correspond to human activities at all, must have been discouraging.

Our resistance to the whole series of self-evident lies and logical disconnects surrounding the theory of global warming is having its due effect.  We have, for example, tanked the market for cow diapers.

Besides, other geological phenomena resulting from their tampering with nature are taking center stage: the whole Chemtrails program which was initially fostered by the Roman Catholic Church is one example (and we have the 1989 Commemorative Coin from the Vatican to prove it).  

The Vatican hasn't been content to promote themselves as the representatives of God on Earth; it appears that they are trying on God's shoes outright. 

Disasters like the "Flash Flooding" and absurd backward-spinning hurricanes that have devastated parts of The United States and which have caused innocent death, pollution, and aberrations of Nature in the name of "testing" new technology can be traced back to Municipal Government DOD (and DARPA) weather modification programs that kicked into gear (with Roman Church support) right after World War II.  The same can be said of the unnatural wildfires that have harmed California and Hawaii, parts of Canada, and the Southwestern United States. 

Don't believe us?  Check out the United Nations ENMOD Treaty (1974) which was fashioned and passed because of deliberate modification of the Monsoon rains by US CORP during the Vietnam War.  

Check out all the amendments and additions to ENMOD since then. 

Still want to say that we are Tin Hats and that these technologies don't exist and aren't having an impact on our physical lives, our planet, and our politics? 

Wake up, Buttercups.  The rest of us have simply kept up with the actual news for the past fifty years, instead of watching Oprah. 

Over a hundred mostly Texans died this past week, including dozens of little girls at a Summer Bible Camp, because these cretins decided to test their latest weather manipulation -- the ability to capture the air-borne river of water vapor we call the Jet Stream, block it, and dump it as rain on a targeted area. 

This has been going on to a gentler and lesser extent since the 1960's.  

President Trump was given no warning, because this was done under the auspices of the Municipal Government and DOD/DARPA programs that were forward-funded long before the most recent bankruptcy.  

You can't really call it "continuity of government".  

It's more like Night of the Living Dead bureaucracy, caused because of the British Territorial U.S. Congress and its zeal for funding defense initiatives for decades in advance and encumbering money for these activities long in advance 

And, of course, it is linked to DARPA, again.  The key player in benefiting from and acting as the principal Patent Holder in the Covid 19 debacle is here again, front and center, just like the Brits and the Frankfurt Office of the CIA.  

Once again, our country and our countrymen have been attacked by bureaucrats that are supposed to be working under contract to serve us "in good faith" ---and their bankruptcy Trustees who are also claiming to be asleep at the wheel.

"We didn't know." is as weary and inadequate as an excuse as "We were just following orders." 

The actual government of this country permanently refuses to accept any weather modification technology tests on its shores or in any part of the ocean which it controls.  This ban also applies to testing or application of scalar weaponry anywhere in The United States, and includes but is not limited to testing and application of geomagnetic 

terra-forming and gravitational cascade and atmospheric amendment technologies.  

Mr. Trump: this is government corporation funded terrorism, even if it is being done as a second-step operation by franchise corporations and subcontractors. Shut them down. 

Mr. Trump: we are calling for a broad-scale, immediate, and thorough fiscal audit of both the Municipal DOD and DARPA, and please notify the US Trustees that these above-referenced activities are banned together with any similar activities and technologies that may have been "forward funded" with DOD and DARPA subcontractors prior to the UNITED STATES bankruptcy.  

This current situation is just more evidence of intentional bankruptcy fraud. 

Track down these Zombie Programs and shut them down permanently.  We will not tolerate being experimented upon nor having our environment experimented upon. 

Thank you very much for your immediate attention to these concerns and respect for our action taken to ban all such activities and operations.   

Mr. Trump: you have our support in arresting all DARPA scientists and personnel who have known about and participated in the Covid 19 debacle and these ongoing Zombie Programs that have been forward funded through Municipal defense and civil contractors and which have caused damage, death, harm, and destruction to our land and our people. 

You may consider this ban on these activities to be permanent, with any exceptions requiring public approval by the States of the Union. 

Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents; Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals; notice to principals is notice to agents; notice to agents is notice to principals; NOTICE TO PRINCIPALS IS NOTICE TO AGENTS; NOTICE TO AGENTS IS NOTICE TO PRINCIPALS. 

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger - Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

July 13th 2025

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Fifth Sunday After Pentecost

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

At the Introit implore God's assistance and say, with the priest:

INTROIT Hear, O Lord, my voice with which I have cried to thee: be thou my helper, forsake me not, nor do Thou despise me, O god, my Savior. (Ps. XXVI.) The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? 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 host prepared invisible good things for those that love Thee: pour into our hearts such a sense of Thy love, that we, loving Thee in all, and above all, may obtain Thy promises, which exceed all our desire: Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.

EPISTLE (I Peter III. 8-15.) Dearly beloved, Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble: not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this you are called; that you may inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. Let him decline from evil, and do good: let him seek after peace, and, pursue it: because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their. prayers: but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil, things. And, who is he that can, hurt you, if you: be zealous of good? But if also you suffer any thing for, justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear, and be not troubled: but sanctify the Lord Christ, in your hearts.

How can and how should we sanctify the Lord in our hearts?

By practicing those virtues which Peter here recommends, and which he so exactly describes; for thereby we become true disciples of Christ, honor Him and edify others, who by our good example are led to admire Christianity, and to become His followers. Moreover, we thus render ourselves more worthy of God's grace and protection, so that if for justice' sake we are persecuted by, wicked men, we need not fear, because God is for us and will reward us with eternal happiness.

ASPIRATION O good Saviour, Jesus Christ, grant that I may make Thy virtues my own; especially Thy humility, patience, mercy, and love; grant that I may practice them diligently, that I may glorify Thee, sanctify myself, and thus become worthy of Thy protection.

GOSPEL (Matt. V. 20-24.) At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: Except your justice abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill: and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. If therefore, thou bring thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother bath anything against thee, leave there thy offering befog a the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother: and then coming, thou shaft offer thy gift.

In what did the justice of the Pharisees consist?

In external works of piety, in the avoidance of such gross vices as could not be concealed, and would have brought them to shame and disgrace. But in their hearts these Pharisees cherished evil, corrupt inclinations and desires, pride, envy, avarice, and studied malice and vengeance. Jesus, therefore, called them hypocrites, whitened sepulchers, and St. John calls them a brood of vipers. True Justice consists not only in external works of piety, that is, devotional works, but especially in a pure, sincere, self-sacrificing feeling towards God and man; without this all works, however good, are only a shell without a kernel.

How are we to understand that which Christ here says of anger and abusive words?

The meaning of Christ's words are:. You have heard that murder was forbidden to your fathers in the desert, and that the murderer had to be given up to justice: but I say to you, whoever becomes angry with his neighbor, shall be in danger of divine judgment, and he who with abusive words, such as Raca, Villain, gives vent to his anger, using expressions of contempt and insult, as fool, scoundrel, profligate, wretch, is more liable to punishment. These degrees of anger are punished in different ways by God.

Is anger always sinful?

No, anger is sinful only when we wish or actually inflict some evil to the body, property, or honor of our neighbor; when we make use of such insulting and abusive words as injure his character, provoke and irritate him. If we become angry at the vices and crimes of others, when our office or the duties of our station demand that we watch over the conduct of those under our care, to punish and correct them, (as in the case of parents, teachers, and superiors) then anger is no sin. When one through pure love of God, becomes irritated at the sins and vices of his fellowmen, like King David, or if one urged to wrong, repels the tempter with indignation, this is even a holy anger. Thus St. Gregory Says; "It is to be understood that anger created by impatience is a very different thing from anger produced by a zeal for justice. The one is caused by vice, the other by virtue." He, then, who becomes angry for justice' sake, commits no sin, but his conduct is holy and praiseworthy, for even our Lord was angry at those who bought and sold in the temple, (John II. 15.) Paul at the magician Elymas, (Acts XIII. 8.) and Peter at the deceit of Ananias and Saphira. (Acts V. 3.) Anger, then, to be without sin, must proceed from true zeal for God's honor and the salvation of souls, by which we seek to prevent others from sin, and to make them better. Even in this respect, we must be careful to allow our anger no control over our reason, but to use it merely as a means of doing good, for we are often apt to take the sting of anger for holy zeal, when it is really nothing but egotism and ambition.

Why must we first be reconciled with our neighbor before bringing an offering to God, or undertaking any good work?

Because no offering or other good work can be pleasing to God, while we live in enmity, hatred, and strife with our neighbor; for by living thus we act altogether contrary to God's will. This should be remembered by all Christians, who go to confession and holy Communion, without forgiving those who have offended them, and asking pardon of those whom they have injured. These must know that instead of receiving absolution for their sins, they by an invalid confession are guilty of another sin, and eat their own judgment in holy Communion.

How should reconciliation be made with our neighbor?

With promptness, because the apostle says: Let not the sun go down upon your anger. (Eph. IV. 26.) But if the person you have offended is absent, says St. Augustine, and you cannot easily meet him, you are bound to be reconciled to him interiorly, that is, to humble yourself before God, and ask His forgiveness, making the firm resolution to be reconciled to your enemy as soon as possible. If he is accessible, go to him, and ask his forgiveness; if he has offended you, forgive him from your heart. The reconciliation should be sincere, for God sees into the heart; it should also be permanent, for if it is not lasting, it may be questioned if it was ever sincere. On account of this command of Christ to be reconciled to our enemies before bringing sacrifice, it was the custom in ancient times that the faithful gave. the kiss of peace to one another at the sacrifice of Mass, before Communion, as even to this day do the priests and deacons, by which those who are present, are admonished to love one another with holy love, and to be perfectly reconciled with their enemies, before Communion.

ASPIRATION O God, strike me not with the blindness of the Pharisees that, like them, I may seek to please man by my works, and thus be deprived of eternal reward. Banish from my heart all sinful anger, and give me a holy zeal in charity that I may be anxious only for Thy honor and for the salvation of my neighbor. Grant me also that I may offend no one, and willingly forgive those who have offended me, thus practicing true Christian justice, and become agreeable to Thee.

MEANS OF PREVENTING ANGER

The first and most effectual preventive is humility; for as among the proud there are always quarrels and contentions, (Prov. XIII. 10.) so among the humble reign peace, meekness and patience. To be humble, meek, and patient, we must frequently bring before our minds the example of Christ who did not sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, (I Peter II. 22.) yet suffered great contradictions, many persecutions, scoffs and sneers from sinners, without threatening vengeance to any one for all He suffered; He say's to us in truth: Learn of me, because I am meek and humble of heart. (Matt. XI. Z9.) A very good preventive of anger is to think over in the morning what causes will be likely to draw us into anger at any time during the day, and to arm ourselves against it by a firm resolution to bear all with patience and silence; and when afterwards anything unpleasant occurs, let us think, "What will I effect by my anger? Can I thereby make things better? Will I not even make myself ridiculous and injure my health?" (for experience as well as holy Scripture teaches, that anger shortens life.) (Eccles. XXX. 26.) Finally, the most necessary preventive of anger is fervent prayer to God for the grace of meekness and patience, for although it seems difficult and almost impossible to our nature to be patient, by the grace of God it becomes not only possible, but even easy.

INSTRUCTION ON SACRIFICE
Offer thy gift. (Matt. V. 24.)

In its wider and more universal sense sacrifice comprehends all religious actions by which a rational being; presents himself to God, to be united with Him; and in this sense prayer, praising God, a contrite heart, charity to others, every good work, and observance of God's commandments is a sacrifice. Thus the Holy Scriptures say: Offer up the sacrifice of justice and trust in the Lord. (Fs. IV. 6.) Offer to God the sacrifice of praise. (Ps. XLIX. iq..) Sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit; a contrite and humble heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Ps. 1. 19.) It is a wholesome sacrifice to take heed to the commandments, and to depart from, all iniquity. (Ecclus. XXXV. 2.) "Therefore," says St. Augustine, "every good work which is united in sanctity with God, is a true sacrifice, because it refers to the end of all good, to God, by whom we can be truly happy." As often, then, as you humble yourself in prayer before the majesty of God, when you give yourself up to God, and when you make your will subject to His divine will, you bring a sacrifice to God; as often as you punish your body by continency, and your senses by mortification, you bring a sacrifice to God, because you offer them as instruments of justice; (Rom. VI. 13.) as often as you subdue the evil concupiscence of the flesh, the perverted inclinations of your soul, deny yourself any worldly pleasure for the love of God, you bring a sacrifice to God. Such sacrifices you should daily offer to God; without which all others have no value and do not please God, such as these you can make every moment, when you think, speak, and act all for the love, of God.

Strive then, Christian soul, to offer these pleasing sacrifices to God, the supreme Lord, and as you thus glorify Him, so will He one day reward you with unutterable glory.