Disturbance in the Wah

 By Anna Von Reitz

When I first heard about the Wah -- yet another name for the universal morphogenic information field -- I pictured a warm lake or inland sea, something gently flowing but almost still, and a "disturbance in the Wah" was envisioned like a landslide or rock falling into the depths, causing waves and ripples and more or less erosion of the shoreline.  

Today we are facing a vast disturbance in the Wah and people everywhere are seeking safe places to invest Federal Reserve Notes in something worthwhile and actual and under their own control. 

You have heard that at sea and in the jurisdiction of the sea, possession is nine-tenths of the law, and that is true.  That "possession" is called self-custody.  You are not trusting anyone else to hold your asset for you; you are holding onto it yourself. 

Many Americans are unaware that bank depository agreements have changed in recent years and as a result, the bank styles itself as the owner of your deposits --- not you.  You are (mis) represented as voluntarily accepting the role of being the Creditor of the bank in the event of a collapse and agreeing to the "bail in" of your deposits for the bank's benefit ---- all without actually being a bank shareholder. 

This is a little bit like being the Maid of Honor at a wedding and winding up in bed with the Groom.  You start out as a Depositor, bypass being a Shareholder, and wind up as a Creditor among an unknown number of other Creditors.  Scary. 

Self-custody of your assets, like keeping your money in a sock under your mattress, precludes this danger because you never become a depositor and therefore never get caught in the bank's web of counterparty interests. 

Here is a good example of it --- "mortgage backed securities" -- in which individual mortgage obligations are all bundled together and used as separate collateral assets that investors buy up like cotton candy because they are betting that even if a few mortgages fail, the rest of the mortgages will continue to yield.  

Ask what happens if a large percentage of the bundled mortgages do fail?  Then you become a "non-possessory counterparty Creditor" of the foreclosed homeowners and nobody knows who anyone is or even which mortgages are in which bundle.  Whatever value you hold is in the abandoned homes and land, but nobody knows exactly which home(s) your counterparty interest is vested in.  And you have no way to identify all the other bilked investors who are in the same boat you are. 

You can't go claim one of the now-millions of foreclosed and vacant homes because there is nothing specific tying your investment to any particular house.  This is because you agreed to be a non-possessory asset holder and didn't count on becoming a non-specific counterparty Creditor. 

Old Timers called this "buying a pig in a poke" --- a gunny sack, in other words --- and the most likely result then and now, is you get home and find a badger or other critter in the bag, not a pig at all. 

Now consider that mortgage backed securities were once touted as among the most secure investments you could make?  

Same thing with stocks and bonds; in our Grandfather's day, investors owned stock certificates that guaranteed them a percentage interest in the assets of an actual company, but today your name isn't on any stock certificate and when you "buy" stocks, you are not recognizable as a shareholder thanks to the brokerage system --- a system that has been described as one designed to make sure you go broke.  

The broker needs a license to buy the stock and hold it, which he does, but in his name or the name of his business, not yours. You only own a "creditor interest" in the stock your money purchased, not the stock itself.  You can cry all you want, but the only people with a chance to get anything out of a failed corporation are the actual shareholders and if you invested in a company through a brokerage firm, that isn't you.  

Again, you lack self-custody.  The stock certificates aren't in your name and they aren't held in your hands, so.... 

Government Treasury bonds, like Federal Reserve Notes, are always I.O.U.s.  The only difference is that Treasury bonds are performance bonds, while Federal Reserve Notes are the resulting consumer debt

associated with those bonds. 

Whenever you deal in performance bonds you are dealing with labor contracts of one kind or another, an unsavory business that leads to peonage (indentured servitude) or enslavement via a process described at some length in "Blood Money" which is available through Amazon or the TASA website. 

Your labor has value, but it is an ephemeral and ever changing value that depends on the job market and prevailing demand for your skills; and, while you are always theoretically in possession of your ability to produce labor, it has no value until the labor is performed.  As a result, the value of your labor has to be captured in some viable form of money or credit after-the-fact and despite being your own Creditor, you are always running a deficit.  

Someone did a study of the math involved and determined that since the early 1970's the Minimum Wage should have been raised to  around $66 per hour, and this failure to raise worker's wages in tandem with inflation is the single biggest deflationary factor in the financial system. 

Put another way, the fiat dollar has been held together for fifty plus years on the backs of working people. 

The take home point (besides the gross injustice of this) is that you have no viable form of self-custody pertaining to your labor assets. 

As you can now appreciate, self-custody is a big deal, but it is not something that bankers,  brokers, or financial advisers talk about.  It's something you need to talk about, if only to yourself. 

Real financial safety and security demands taking responsibility for your own investments and finding ways to possess your own assets. 

Gold and silver are traditional self-custody forms of money that are additionally fungible --- meaning one gold or silver coin is basically the same as and has the same value as another coin of the same kind.  Fine art and jewelry, though not convenient to sell, and not fungible, are nonetheless other forms of traditional self-custody assets.

During wartime or during any supply chain collapse, normal perishable commodities take on some of the character of self-custody assets.  A man who has a pound of coffee or bag of salt to sell in a market deprived of these actual commodities can easily use them as a self-custody asset. 

Please take time to listen to this little video dissertation on the subject: https://www.brighteon.com/2dba3842-b9c8-4bde-9e55-81f492eace6e. 

Granna 

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International Public Notice: Regarding Instructions to End FEMA

 By Anna Von Reitz

FEMA regularly, typically, shows up to disaster sites three weeks after whatever fire, flood, or other disaster has occurred.  They carry clipboards.  They look at damage.  They make estimates about the extent of the damage.  They issue authorization to issue checks for "Federal disaster assistance" usually amounting to a few thousand dollars per household, or famously, to the victims of the Hurricane Helene disaster, a whole $750 each.  

Joe Biden's generosity runneth over. 

They then claim -- with no disclosure to the victims -- that this "offer of assistance" once accepted disqualifies the victims from alleging additional damages or bringing forward additional federal claims. 

So they offer you $750 and escape any and all liability for what happened to you and your family and your property forever afterward, and don't bother to tell you that that is what an offer of "Federal disaster assistance" means. 

Most of the time the checks from Uncle Sam show up in the mailboxes of desperate people unannounced and unexplained and people cash them under severe physical duress. 

Other than this, and pilfering private aid and blocking private assistance efforts, FEMA doesn't do anything.

No soup kitchens.  No public latrines.  No temporary shelter.  No permanent shelter, either.  No communications systems the victims can use.  No field hospitals.  No actual mortuary services.  No heavy equipment to clean up debris.  No public health labs to test water supplies.  And few boots on the ground at all --- none of them dedicated to doing anything constructive. 

During Hurricane Helene, FEMA "service providers" set up "aid centers" behind barbed wire fences and stole everything in sight.  They commandeered private aid donations of all kinds and locked them up in FEMA warehouses.  They got in the way of local people operating their own heavy equipment to remove downed trees and re-establish road access to entire communities.  They brandished guns at volunteer pilots flying their own helicopters on search and rescue missions.  And they didn't stop until the North Carolina State Constitution was invoked and early laws allowing private assistance efforts to proceed unhindered were brought forward.  

FEMA is now and for several decades has been --- worse than nothing at all.  

Other than promoting undisclosed insurance liability buyout scams and getting in the way and threatening people, we have no evidence of anything else that FEMA does.  We have tracked this for over thirty years and the answer is still the same.  Far from "managing" any "emergencies", FEMA takes whatever disaster there is and makes it worse.  

So there is no reason for FEMA to exist. It needs to be scrapped along with hundreds of other gone-astray Federal Agencies that got started during the Great Depression and no longer resemble their first generation antecedents.  The FBI was supposed to fight crime in the international land jurisdiction -- counterfeiting, smuggling of controlled substances, interstate bank fraud, human trafficking, etc., --- and now spends its time chasing their own internal traitors and running political psyops and black ops.  The CIA was supposed to be a strictly offshore spy network to keep our leaders informed about foreign aggression; now it engineers foreign aggression and operates with impunity within The United States.  Social Security was supposed to be a pension program for Federal employees and their dependents operated under a Trust Fund; today funds "donated" to Social Security go straight into the General Fund to be squandered on anything or anyone else but the donors -- including aliens who enter the country illegally. 

In Maui, FEMA arrived three days early for the "disaster" and brought along lots of extra firearms and security personnel to back them up against the local inhabitants -- the actual victims they were supposed to be "helping".  Their halcyon activities included barricading otherwise unobstructed public roadways so that people couldn't leave the disaster area and burned to death in their cars, setting "preemptive" fires using local fuel dumps to cause spectacular bomb-like explosions, and covering up evidence of the Directed Energy Weapons used to attack the peaceful island communities that were destroyed.  They beat up local people and shot pets wandering around trying to find their families.  

This isn't any "service" any of us need. 

But not a single soup kitchen, shelter, first aid station, search and rescue effort, or public latrine or potable water delivery system. No crack electrical hazard teams.  No heavy equipment to clear debris. 

"Worthless, cynical parasites." as one Hawaiian summed it up, and we agree.  These people are worse than no "help" at all and need to be fired based on their disservice in response to hundreds of serious disasters in the past fifty years.  

Acting as clandestine pro-federal insurance adjusters is not what we expect or need from a disaster management vendor.  That may count as "managing the disaster" for their corporate bosses, but it doesn't amount to jack in terms of the Public Interest or any Public Service.  

We can form our own community, county, and State disaster relationships and plans and contracts and do a better job with less friction and more positive local service on the ground.  

We've had to provide all these services to ourselves on the fly since World War II, and at least knowing that we have to do it ourselves is a better position to be in, than sitting around as most people do, waiting for "the government" to help. 

Kill FEMA.  God knows, that misbegotten agency has caused more than enough death via interference with real rescue efforts, theft and misdirection of assistance intended for victims, phony offers of "Federal disaster assistance" and so much more.  

FEMA is the kind of joke nobody can afford to laugh at. 

Their present efforts to justify their existence range from pathetic to non-existent, and that doesn't begin to score the corrupt contracts and the other waste and fraud and crony capitalism that DOGE will inevitably uncover in FEMA's vendor contracts and other business affairs. 

Kill FEMA before it kills again --- and charges the victims for their own complete utter worse-than-nothing corruption and incompetence.  And while you are at it, shut down NIH and the CDC and the FDA and the Federal Reserve.  

Put a cold bucket of water right between their eyes.  They had a job to do, and didn't do it.  So now they can go home and eat crap like the rest of us.  

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

August 25th 2025

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International Public Notice: To Those Trying to Form a "New" Republic

 By Anna Von Reitz

Before you know where you are going, you have to know where you have been. 

And how things work.  

Unfortunately, those who are trying to make a blanket claim of fraud and create a "new" Federal Republic and who assume that they can just switch gears and operate under The Constitution for the united States of America ---- have no standing to do so, because their own political status has been altered. 

It's true that Abraham Lincoln committed fraud, usurpation, and treason against his employers.  

It's true that the entities masquerading as our government since Lincoln's administration have been operating under conditions of deceit, treason, and commercial filth. 

But that has nothing to do with the price of beans in China, nor does it make it possible for British Territorial U.S. Citizens to occupy our defunct American Federal Republic and pretend that they have "restored" it. 

There are two (2) issues here and both have to be addressed. 

The first issue is -- who or what was the first "Federal Republic" -- which nobody knows, or at least, the other side of this discussion isn't admitting; and the second issue is -- who has the lawful and legal standing to correct the situation.  

A third issue arises because of the other two -- and that is, who presently has the authority that was delegated to the first Federal Republic?  Since it is not in operation? 

Begin with this: the American Government employs the United States Government.  

The American Government has national, international, and global powers, because it is the government of the sovereign nation-states. 

The United States Government has only international and global powers that have been delegated to it under service contracts known as Constitutions.  

The American Confederation known as the States of America was awarded the first such service contract, The Constitution for the united States of America in 1787 -- along with delegations of power related to our States and their International Land jurisdiction. 

This organization doing business as "the United States" was run by the States of America and it was the first and thus far only Federal Republic. 

If a second Federal Republic should arise to replace this first Federal Republic and thereby "restore" it, doing so requires restoring the American Confederation doing business as the States of America first.  

This "reconstruction" has never been done.  

Now, this is just common sense.  

The States of America won the service contract, The Constitution for the united States of America, and that gave rise to the first Federal Republic operating as "the United States" --- unincorporated, of course.  

Americans operating as United States Citizens as defined under the very first Naturalization and Immigration Act ran all the functions of this Federal Republic operated by the States of America.  

Today, there are no such United States Citizens who completed the required process to become United States Citizens and there is no States of America Confederation related to our States of the Union, either.  And therefore, no Federal Republic in evidence.

There is no way for anyone in the modern day to just pop their head up and wave a flag and repair all this by making declarations and holding meetings and pretending that the last 160 years of history didn't happen.  

So we have to look at what happened-- and deal with it. 

In March of 1861, the States of America ceased to function for lack of a quorum.  That meant that the Federal Republic was left without a contract and operating in limbo.  Lincoln stepped in and named his cronies to replace the missing Southern Delegates and began operating outside the law and provisions of The Constitution for the united States of America. 

That is what happened. Verifiably, with no doubt about it. 

Lincoln claimed 'emergency powers' never granted to him and did various other unlawful and illegal things to promote a foreign commercial mercenary conflict on our shores.  That, too, is what happened.  Verifiably, with no doubt about it. 

Our States of the Union never reconstructed the States of America, and as a result, "the United States" -- our American Federal Republic --  was illegally seized upon and unlawfully converted into a Municipal Corporation that has been operated under conditions of fraud and deceit ever since.  

Restoring the American Federal Republic requires that Americans undertake a Reconstruction process to bring the Several States into Session, and initiate action by the States to recreate the States of America Confederation.  And then, people need to step forward and complete the process to become United States Citizens as required under the first Naturalization and Immigration Act.  And then the States of America has to take action to seize back the name and trademarks of the United States and reboot the original American Federal Republic.  

That is the only way that the American Federal Republic can be "restored", and that is why it has not been restored for 160 years.  

The skeletal outlines of this process are expressed by the Reconstruction Acts from the standpoint of the remaining Federal Subcontractors operating under The Constitution of the United States of America.  With a couple small deletions, the Reconstruction Acts remain on the public record and still in effect.  

Read these Acts, knowing that they are written from the perspective of the British Territorial Federal subcontractors, and their opinion is not necessarily controlling---but does give a flavor of what actual Reconstruction entails. 

Compare any of the above to what people are trying to pass off as "restoration" of "the" Federal Republic, and you will see how far off the mark they really are.  They don't know what the Federal Republic was, so they don't have any concept of how to restore it, and are being misled by British Territorial Officers intent on substituting their administration for ours, again. 

With the help of ignorant but patriotic Americans. 

The hard work must be done for the result to be achieved. 

There is no "restoration" possible otherwise. 

With both the States of America and the United States Republic both out of commission, what happens to the powers delegated under The Constitution for the united States of America? 

It's supposed to revert to the Delegators of the delegated powers, the People and States of the Union operating as a Federation of Several States in International Jurisdiction --- but it didn't because the self-interested remaining foreign Federal Subcontractors never let the American Public know what was going on, and our loyal American Subcontractors together with a portion of our General Population, were deliberately misidentified as "rebels" and suppressed. 

So the two remaining foreign Federal Subcontractors snuck in the backdoor and usurped powers entrusted to the American Subcontractor -- the States of America. 

The chaos and lawlessness and idiocy you now witness is the result of this fraud and breach of trust and lack of "good faith service" for the past 160 years. 

Mr. Trump, acting as a loyal British Territorial Officer, and his misled groups of MAGA supporters, are trying to add another chapter to this Great Fraud, and we are trying to stop it --- not because we don't want America to be "great again", but because we realize the folly of letting ourselves be deceived by British flim-flam again. 

It's appealing to think we can just wave our flags and claim fraud and restore the American Federal Republic, but that isn't really what Mr. Trump is talking about.  He is talking about creating a British Territorial Republic that has never existed before, and pretending that its a restoration.  

We are here to tell him and you that it's not. 

This answers issues one and two and three -- what the Federal Republic was and who has the lawful and legal right to restore it, and what body now has the right to exercise the powers once delegated to the Federal Republic.  

The answer is the Several States and People thereof.  

Earlier we said, "Restoring the American Federal Republic requires that Americans undertake a Reconstruction process...." with the word "Americans" in boldface print and underlined.  There is a reason for this, which brings us to another part of the Great Fraud. 

Generations of Americans have been "redefined" as British Territorial U.S. Citizens via a process of birth registration as such, and as a result they have been misidentified and defrauded and denigrated from their birthright political status as Americans. 

This is "legal" if you assume that full disclosure has been granted to the victims --- new mothers; but, no, again, our Federal Subcontractors failed their Public Trust.  It is a legal choice for Americans to adopt British Territorial U.S. Citizenship or even Municipal status as a "citizen of the United States" --- but only if they know what they are doing and what obligations and costs they are undertaking. 

The same is true for members of the Armed Forces and Federal Civil Service throughout.  It is completely legal for them to adopt foreign citizenship status while employed by the Armed Forces or the Federal Civil Service either one --- so long as they are fully informed and are adopting these foreign citizenships knowingly and consensually.  This hasn't been happening, either.  

These registrations and purported adoptions of foreign citizenship statuses have been taking place without full disclosure and for the main part, are contractually defaulted as a result, null and void --- however, some of these registrations are accurate, true, and allowable, which results in the next conundrum on the way to restoring our government.  

There is no "blanket cure" available.  Each one of these citizenship contracts have been established on a one-by-one individual basis and they have to be dissolved one-by-one on an individual basis. 

The foreign Federal Subcontractors have employees who function as part of a foreign citizenry.  As employers, they can make many demands as a condition of employment -- including the surrender of Constitutional guarantees that would otherwise protect Americans, payment of payroll kickback "taxes" from the earnings of Federal employees, compulsory enrollment in "Social Security" and "Selective Service" and --- birth registration of newborns born to such citizens, is just another such imposition.  

People undertaking these employments are not given any full disclosure about what they are losing by accepting the job and adopting the political status that goes with it, nor are they registering, enrolling, applying, or volunteering consensually as a result of lacking full disclosure. 

Average Americans who are not Federal or Federal franchise employees have less than no reason to accept any of these provisions and most likely would not knowingly accept any of this, but they are not given disclosure and are instead told that they have to comply by what appears to be their government. 

As a result, millions upon millions of Americans have been coerced under color of law to do things and accept contracts and obligations that were never disclosed.  This circumstance only adds to the conclusion that these people have been defrauded under duress and that all such citizenship contracts and obligations need to be examined with a jaundiced eye --- but we cannot simply ignore these contracts, because some people do accept them knowingly and willingly. 

This, and the individual nature of the contracting process, is what makes it impossible to just waive our hands and declare all birth registrations, all Social Security enrollments, and all similar adhesion contracts to be null and void. 

Each and every American caught up in this swindle DOES have to make a political status choice, and DOES need to declare, record, and publish it for public cognizance.  Otherwise, Americans get caught in the cross-hairs between the two foreign Federal Subcontractors --- and liberally "mistaken" for rebels, foreign agitators, subversives, and even runaway slaves, railroaded through foreign courts, subjected to foreign law, and fleeced blind by the Perpetrators of the Great Fraud. 

All the people who are running around trying to "restore" the Federal Republic have gone through this undisclosed foreign birth registration process and are not considered Americans as a result. 

This means that even if they wanted to restore the American Federal Republic, they couldn't do so.  

See above.  It's Americans who have to undertake the Reconstruction process and do the restoration work; nobody else can do it for them. 

You have to be recognizable as an American with birthright standing if you are to undertake the reconstruction of the American Federal Republic -- the only Republic that has ever existed on these shores, and therefore the only Federal Republic that can be restored. 

And that birthright standing has to be claimed and declared and provenanced and recorded and published.  

Again, the MAGA people and the "National Assembly" people may be well-intentioned, but they don't realize that they have been misidentified as foreign citizens in their own country, so they have not even considered taking action to correct their political status records and can't act as Americans as a result.  

Not being identified as Americans leads to many other abuses and losses for each and every victim of this fraud, but the fact remains that it is up to them individually to take action against it. 

At this point, the States of America has been out of operation and The Constitution for the united States of America has been vacated for over 160 years; the Municipal Subcontractor operating under The Constitution of the United States has been bankrupted under Chapter Seven Involuntary Bankruptcy rules and is no longer operating.  

The only Federal Subcontractor still in operation is the United States of America, Incorporated, acting under The Constitution of the United States of America.  

But even though the United States Government is on its last legs and we may be in danger of losing all our foreign Federal Subcontractors, the American Government which employed all these yahoos is still here and still doing its job.  

Many thousands of Americans from many walks of life have heard the call and read the sources and taken the necessary action to declare their birthright political status over the past five years.  They have reclaimed their lawful and legal standing as Americans.  They have populated their Union States and States of the Union.  They have empowered themselves to exercise the full range of the State's powers, both delegated and non-delegated.  They have recouped their standing and are all inheritors of this great country.  

What remains is for all the less educated and less informed Americans including those presently engaged in the phony "restore the Republic" movement to catch on and do the same.  

Whatever these people do -- absent correcting their political status -- has nothing to do with us and does nothing to restore the American Federal Republic.  

Meantime, the only government having the established standing and authority to govern this country is the American Government provided by the States of the Union and the People thereof.  Our States have been in General Session for five years and have served complete and cured Due Process on the Principals and Agents responsible for these Breaches of Trust and violation of Service Contracts. 

We have not only corrected our political status individually, we have brought our States into Session, issued private Indemnity Bonds to secure our States and People and guarantee their exemptions, and we have accordingly placed valid Uniform Commercial Code liens against the offending parent corporations and corporation franchises. We have issued our own gold-backed currency, the American Federation Dollar, and ordered the resumption of issuance of American United States Silver Dollars.  We have also demanded a complete accounting and balancing of accounts.  

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. 

Our advice to MAGA and the "National Assembly" promoters -- declare your birthright political status and join your lawful State Assembly. 

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

August 25th 2025

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Silver's Supply Crisis is Accelerating

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For the past five to seven years, the silver market has been running on empty. Global consumption consistently exceeds production, creating a persistent deficit that’s draining above-ground supplies. Unlike paper assets created with keystrokes, silver is finite — and we’re using more than we’re mining. 

In their latest Gold Silver Show, Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard reveal just how severe this imbalance has become. This isn’t a temporary glitch; it’s a structural problem compounding year after year. When demand outstrips supply for this long, a reckoning is inevitable. 

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By Paul Stramer

In 2024 we started using the new mint in Indiana to stamp and ship our silver rounds, after over 18 years with the previous mint in Utah. 

After receiving the first three orders and finding the quality to be even better than the product from the old mint we started taking orders for these new Divisible one ounce silver .999 fine rounds.

The new and much larger minting company has multiple facilities around the country including in Indiana, California and Nevada.

I now have a good working relationship with the new company and am making even more announcements about the improved way we are doing this business. Here are some of the things that are changing for the better for you, our customers.

1. The old 500 ounce minimum order is gone. The new minimum order is now 60 ounces. 

2. They will be very competitive in their price structure, and right now we are offering a price plan based on the volume of metal in each order. See below.

3. The shipping will be faster, and the wait time will be less than it was. Each order will be shipped with full insurance. I made my first 3 orders and all those orders arrived here for local customers and our stock. The total time from order to arrival was just 12 days for those orders. Since then we have had several large orders go out and be delivered within 2 weeks.

These will be shipped from Indiana or Nevada depending on where the order is going, by UPS Ground, fully insured.

 We will still be accepting wire transfers, or cashiers checks like always. 

We can only lock an order after we have received the funds. Here is the formula we use to figure your price.

Go to this link on Kitco.com and look up the ask price of silver. https://www.kitco.com/price/precious-metals

It's in the first table on that page. 

For a 60 oz. to 99 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.95

For a 100 oz. to 199 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.75. 

For a 200 oz. to 299 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.50. 

For a 300 oz. to 999 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.25. 

All orders over 1000 ounces will be $3.00 over spot ask price.

Take that number times the number of ounces (60 or over) and then add $25.00 for each 60 to 100 ounce box for shipping, or for large orders add $40 per 500 ounce box for shipping.

Once we have your funds we will run this same formula to finalize the price with shipping.

Be sure to call us when you are ready to order so we can answer your questions.

When you call I will get your email address and send you the bank info for wire transfers or the mailing info for your payment. You can then reply with your shipping address for UPS.

If you have any questions here is my contact info.

Office phone  406 889 3183  8 AM to 2 PM and 4PM to 6 PM weekdays.

Cell  406 253 4257  when I am not in the office. Try the Office line first.

pstramer@gmail.com   or  pstramer@eurekadsl.net

Thanks for your support over the years.  We are now open and taking orders.

Paul Stramer   S.A.G.

Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost and Feast of St. Bartholomew

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

At the Introit pray with the priest for brotherly love and for protection against our enemies within and without:

INTROIT God in his holy place; God, who maketh men of one mind to dwell in a house: he shall give power and strength to his people. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; and let them that hate him flee from before His face. (Ps. LXVII.) 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, who, in the abundance of Thy loving kindness, dost exceed both the merits and desires of Thy suppliants; pour down upon us Thy mercy, that thou mayest forgive those things of which our conscience is afraid, and grant us those things which our prayer ventures not to ask. 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 Cor. XV. 1-10.) Brethren, I make known unto you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand: by which also you are saved: if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures: and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: and that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven. Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen by James, then by all the apostles. And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God; but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace in me hath not been void.

INSTRUCTION I. St. Paul warns the Corinthians against those who denied the Resurrection of Christ and exhorts them to persevere in the faith which they have received, and to live in accordance with the same. Learn from this to persevere firmly in the one, only saving Catholic faith, which is the same that Paul preached.

II. In this epistle to the Corinthians St. Paul gives us a beautiful example of humility. Because of the sins he had committed before his conversion, he calls himself one born out of due time, the least of the apostles, and not worthy of being called an apostle, although he had labored much in the service of Christ. He ascribes it to God's grace that he was what he was. Thus speaks the truly humble man: he sees in himself nothing but weakness, sin, and evil, and therefore despises himself and is therefore willing to be despised by others. The good which he professes or practices, he ascribes to God, to whom he refers all the honor. Endeavor, too, O Christian soul, to attain such humility. You have far more reason to do so than had St. Paul, because of the sins which you have committed since your baptism, the graces which you have abused, and the inactive, useless life you have led.

ASPIRATION Banish from me, O most loving Saviour, the spirit of pride, and grant me the necessary grace of humility. Let me realize that of myself I can do nothing, and that all my power to effect any good, comes from Thee alone who alone workest in us to will and to accomplish.

GOSPEL (Mark vii. 3I-37.) At that time, Jesus going out of the coast of Tyre, came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coast of Decapolis. And they bring to him one deaf and dumb, and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him. And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears, and spitting, he touched his tongue: and looking up to heaven, he groaned, and said to him, Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened: and immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke right. And he charged them that they should tell no man; but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it, and so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well: he hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

Whom may we understand by the deaf and dumb man?

Those who desire neither to hear nor to speak of things concerning salvation.

Why did Christ take the deaf and dumb man aside?

To teach us that he who wishes to live piously and be comforted, must avoid the noisy world and dangerous society, and love solitude, for there God speaks to the heart. (Osee ii. i4.)

Why did Christ forbid them to mention this miracle?

That we might learn to fly from the praise of vain and fickle men.

What do we learn from those who brought the deaf and dumb man to Jesus, and notwithstanding the prohibition, made known the miracle?

That in want and sickness we should kindly assist our neighbor, and not neglect to announce and praise the works of God, for God works His miracles that His goodness and omnipotence may be known and honored.

SUPPLICATION O Lord Jesus, who during Thy life on earth, didst cure the sick and the infirm, open my ears that they may listen to Thy will, and loosen my tongue that I may honor and announce Thy works. Take away from me, O most bountiful Jesus, the desire for human praise, that I may not be led to reveal my good works, and thus lose the reward of my Heavenly Father. (Matt. vi. I.) .

ON RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES

What are ceremonies?

Religious ceremonies are certain forms and usages, prescribed for divine service, for the increase of devotion, and the edification of our fellow-men; they represent externally and visibly the interior feelings of man.

Why do we make use of ceremonies in our service?

That we may serve God not only inwardly with the soul, but outwardly with the body by external devotion; that we may keep our attention fixed, increase our devotion, and edify others; that by these external things we may be raised to the contemplation of divine, inward things. (Trid. .Sess. 22.)

Are ceremonies founded on Scripture?

They are; for besides those which Christ used, as related in this day's gospel, in regard to the deaf and dumb man, He has also made use of other and different ceremonies: as, when He blessed bread and fishes; (Matt. xv. 36.) when He spread clay upon the eyes of a blind man; (John ix. 6.) when He prayed on bended knees; (Luke xxii. q.i.) when He fell upon His face to pray; (Matt. xxvi, 39.) when He breathed upon His disciples, imparting to them the Holy Ghost; (John xx. 22.) and finally, when He blessed them with uplifted hands before ascending into heaven. (Luke xxiv. 30.) Likewise in the Old Law various ceremonies were prescribed for the Jews, of which indeed in the New Law the greater number have been abolished; others, however, have been retained, and new ones added. If, therefore, the enemies of the Church contend that ceremonies are superfluous, since Christ Himself reproached the Jews for their ceremonial observances, and said: God must be adored in spirit and in truth, we may, without mentioning that Christ Himself made use of certain ceremonies, answer, that He did not find fault with their use, but only with the intention of the Jews. They observed every ceremony most scrupulously, without at the same time entertaining pious sentiments in the heart, and whilst they dared not under any circumstances omit even the least ceremony, they scrupled not to oppress and defraud their neighbor. Therefore Christ says: God must be adored in spirit and in truth, that is, in the innermost heart, and not in external appearances only. -Do not, therefore, let the objections, nor the scoffs and sneers of the enemies of our Church confound you, but seek to know the spirit and meaning of each ceremony, and impress them on your heart, and then make use of them to inflame your piety, to glorify God, and to edify your neighbor.

INSTRUCTION CONCERNING THE ABUSE OF THE TONGUE

There is no member of the body more dangerous and pernicious than the tongue. The tongue, says the Apostle St. James, is indeed a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell. (James iii. 5. 6.) The tongue no man can tame: an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison. By it we bless God and the Father; and by it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. (ibid. iii. 8-10.) There is no country, no city, scarcely a house, in which evil tongues do not cause quarrel and strife, discord and enmity, jealousy and slander, seduction and debauchery. An impious tongue reviles God and His saints, corrupts the divine word, causes heresy and schism, makes one intemperate, unchaste, envious, and malevolent; in a word, it is according to the apostle a fire, a world of  iniquity. The tongue of the serpent seduced our first parents, and brought misery and death into the world. (Gen. iii.) The tongue of Judas betrayed Jesus. (Matt. xxvi. 49.) And what is the chief cause of war among princes, revolts among nations, if it is not the tongue of ambitious, restless men, who seek their fortune in war and revolution? How many, in fine, have plunged themselves into the greatest misery by means of their unguarded tongue? How can we secure ourselves against this dangerous, domestic enemy? Only by being slow to speak according to the advice of St. James, (i. 19.) to speak very few, sensible, and well-considered words. In this way we will not offend, but will become perfect. (James iii. 2.:) As this cannot happen without a special grace of God, we must according to the advice of St. Augustine beg divine assistance, in the following or similar words:

ASPIRATION O Lord, set a watch before my mouth, and a door round about my lips, that I may not fall and my tongue destroy me. (Ps. cxl. 3.)