International Public Notice: Self Memory

 By Anna Von Reitz

We have a choice to make and we aren't ready to make it.  

We aren't even ready to consider the questions, yet, here we are.  

The new-old science of Energetics has always been here; many prior civilizations have been fully conscious users of Energetic Science, and except for the avarice and will to control exhibited by a few supremely ego-centered individuals, we would be aware of and using Energetic Sciences, too.  

We'd have free energy.  We'd have med bed technology.  We'd have levitation.  We'd have telepathic communication. And so much more. 

The scientists and members of the military and even the church officials who owe us the knowledge, have instead been corrupted by it, and science itself has been politicized.  

Still, the existence of such phenomena as Twin Flame resonance, cell memory, and quantum memory -- like the electromagnetic character of the Earth itself -- remain so blatant, so easily demonstrated, that eventually the curtain has to be pulled back. 

We see the con artists who have been making up these outrageous stories and narratives for what they are. We find the Garden of Eden story encoded in our own experiential biology.  We find the Myth of Osiris encoded in our own expression of masculine and feminine empowerments. 

The truth rises up to confront us.  Even as we learn about this "new" science of our ancestors, we also learn how the same Controllers and Narrators have conspired to pollute, adulterate, and weaponize everything. 

Imagine that you have spent your whole life and have never known that you were a white person? 

There's a whole process of identifying facts about you and imposing definitions upon you, until finally someone tells you that you are a "Caucasian".  

The situation with Energetics Science is much the same.  We never knew about it, though it was always there.  Waiting. 

We have had to observe the facts and endure the process of developing a whole vocabulary to describe the phenomena involved --- and while this has all been studiously kept from the public, the public is now called upon to consciously oppose the weaponization of powers and potentials nobody was aware of. 

Operation Cherubim Horizon is a joint intelligence service operation on a global scale.  It was and is a project aimed at "hacking the human computer" and turning individual living people into living electronic devices -- "things" --receivers, transmitters, and amplifiers.

The means to do this was developed as self-assembling nanotech that was injected via Covid-19 adjuvants directly into the cellular matrix of living people, who were given no disclosure about the nature of the injected technology or its uses.  

We are not saying this for spite, but consider just one (1) possible abuse of this technology -- a weaponization called False Congruence Signaling. 

Knowing what we now know about Twinned Energy and the Twin Flame phenomenon --- what if, an individual, say--- a future King of England, is targeted?  

A snarky, nasty, self-important woman, a spy, code named "Ultimate Honeypot" is purposefully implanted with subcutaneous nanotech and she begins transmitting his exact energy signature: she acts as a False Twin Flame, and he, of course, is totally unaware that: (1) the Twinned Energy phenomenon exists and (2) he's being attracted to her based on a False Congruence Signal.  

He's hopeless, he's helpless, he's in "love" down to the cellular level; his body quakes, his soul aches, he can't get enough of her -- and meanwhile, the rest of us are shaking our heads and going WT....? 

The most beautiful, kindest, most intelligent woman in the world couldn't compete against a woman he perceives as his Twin, and all based on an artificially induced electromagnetic signal. 

The scientists creating this situation couldn't care less that they are destroying a marriage and deeply harming a family and hurting a whole country: their spy has the king's ear and access to his bed. They just turn up the volume and laugh.  

This is a good example of ruthless weaponization of human electromagnetic resonance fields, but as a weapon, False Congruence Signaling can do a lot more than messing with the heads and hearts of kings and potentates.   

One of those possible abuses is what we are moving to derail right now in real time.  This Notice is part of the dismantling and exposure.

Roughly two-thirds of the world's population has been impregnated with the requisite self-assembling nanotech, and more people are being surreptitiously converted every day via polluted blood transfusions, other kinds of vaccines, etc. 

Say that you are a madman obsessed with a eugenics program and you want to induce voluntary cooperation throughout the world population?  You target the couples you want to mate with a False Congruence Signal, and there you are.  

Instant, vast genetic preselection, millions of superior babies produced under undisclosed duress.  

The undisclosed duress is the False Congruence Signal process pairing millions of unsuspecting human beings  -- regardless of pre-existing relationships and commitments. 

Most of us can recognize the evil of this for what it is; the end doesn't justify the means. 

Along with millions of unnaturally conceived babies, we have a harvest of millions of marriages destroyed, erosion of cultural and religious standards and institutions, huge social costs by any standard.

The lab rats in this ghastly experiment have no way of knowing that they have been subjects in a vast eugenics program, which also yields behavioral science research benefits.  

The Hive Minds behind this will collect data streams such as, how many people killed themselves afterward? 

We have to educate ourselves and educate each other.  These and other "science-based" initiatives facing humanity exist because of the erosion of individual privacy and property rights, and so this is ultimately a consequence of unbridled governmental powers being exercised by commercial corporations.  

These issues make restoration of law and actual government even more urgent, but right here and now, we are facing another unprecedented trespass against humanity.  

First, we have to know that human electromagnetic field resonance exists, and second, we have to know that it has been weaponized.

Then, when we get hit with a sledgehammer of undiagnosed and inexplicable passion, we will be in a position to evaluate the situation and discern whether it is a natural or induced phenomenon --- and in any case, be enabled to react rationally. 

Real, natural Twin resonance is relatively rare, maybe one in 500,000 people ever experience it.  

So if everyone is talking about Twins Flames and it's common as dog chow, chances are good that the Venus Rising Project, a subprogram of Cherubim Horizon, has been unleashed or is being prepped for release.  

Check out the YouTube publications on this subject of Twin Flames and the Tarot Card postings related to this subject over the past year.... there's a mysterious hyper-escalation of talk about Twin Flames.... so go figure. 

The Vermin are still on the move.  

Real, natural Twin resonance never ends and it is completely immune to time or distance.  Natural Twins can locate the other Twin, even when the other Twin has been dead and buried in a Vietnamese jungle for fifty years. 

The natural Twin bond is scary deep.  It's permanent.  And it's steady as granite cliffs once it settles in.  

Induced resonance rises and falls, quits abruptly, resumes, zigs and zags and one day when the experiment is over, it disappears; while the real deal may vary in intensity, it's always there, running like a background melody, under, around, and through the foundations of your emotional life.  You don't have to think about it, or about them.  It just is.  Constant as the flow of a river.

Real, natural Twin resonance is thrilling in an "OMG, I'm electrocuted!" way, but induced resonance feels magnetic in a broad brush way. It lacks the extreme flashpoint energy that makes you wince and flinch and twist.  Yes. Just standing there in your bunny slippers, deep tremors up your spine, whole body spasms of ecstasy.  Natural Twin energy is unimaginably intense.  

Induced resonance is intense, but steady in a traditional magnetic sense. It doesn't play your whole neural net like a violin, including the high notes. 

Real, natural Twin resonance can scare you no matter how strong you are; it's exactly the extremity of the bond that is terrifying in an existential sense.  You sense that this bond is irrevocable and non-negotiable, and it's not even a trap or a contract or anything that simple.  It's a soul memory.  An unavoidable recognition.  

Your Twin is you in a different body, expressing you in a different way.  You can communicate telepathically and "talk" to them and be answered -- in detail -- without saying a word.  You can shut your eyes and see through their eyes.  When this starts happening, most sane people are deeply frightened.  Many break away in hopes that they can escape, but if it is a natural resonance, it's a vain hope. 

Induced resonance can echo a degree of telepathy and even some trans-body experiences, but not nearly the depth and extent of natural resonance.  They haven't been able to fine tune it enough to generate true unhindered telepathy or the complete merger of individuated sensory perception.  

Induced resonance also doesn't exhibit memory transduction -- being able to "remember" your Twin's memories as they experienced them.  Natural resonance does allow that, and it operates outside the body ---meaning that you will be able to remember trauma, even the death of your Twin, from their perspective. 

One more marker if you have to face the challenge of the Venus Rising Project--- natural Twin resonance, no matter what else you do with it, results in lasting and unconditional love.  

Induced resonance or strongly resisted natural resonance almost always ends badly, with jagged edges and hurtful words and actions.  People tear apart and report feeling "jangled" and disoriented, unable to cope, fearful, angry, betrayed -- even though they often can't point to any action that betrayed them. 

This information is offered to the world as instruction and warning; we have reason to believe that Venus Rising or a similar project under the Cherubim Horizon umbrella is being readied for deployment. If so, millions of innocent people are in the headlights. 

That also means that millions of families, millions of marriages, could be torn apart, simply because average people targeted by these experiments would have no idea what is happening to them, no way to gauge the natural phenomenon against a set up.   

Twin resonance is one of the most intense experiences any human being can have. 

The fact that these "scientists" would trespass upon and manipulate something this powerful and sacred is their own condemnation.  

Personal testimony:

Thirty years after impact, and thousands of miles apart, I can still  feel the exact texture of my words and tone of voice sinking into my Twin like rain upon the Earth, and we both know that the words themselves don't matter at all.  

It's the quality of my voice that matters. It's the exact tone and quality of my voice that is the message. It's the deep immutable love embedded as unseen sensory code in every breath and nuance.

Within seconds, his physical and emotional pain starts flowing into me; the uplink is so intense. He doesn't want to give his pain to me. He wants to shield me from it. 

 

Valiant Soul, God only knows, he is too tired to resist relief.

I open myself up to his pain.  Deliberately. Consciously. 

He senses me stiffen as the first wave hits and he feels me relax again as the next wave crashes, even though we are thousands of miles apart. 

He knows his pain is mine; I claim it gently, respectfully. 

Reverently. Breath by breath. Breath in, pain out. Breath in, pain out.  I choke back and steady him. 

My life is his. I give it to him willingly. There is no question at all. 

For long moments that make no sense and are no part of any mortal conversation, our communication is only breath, only silence. The words of Yeshuah echo, "if you remain in me".... 

This is what he was talking about. This kind of communion. 

The Vermin in lab coats are being used to tamper with what is eternally sacred.  Better that they toss the Communion wine in the dirt and trample upon the Host, than that they be allowed to create False Congruence Signaling on the Earth.  

Let all people know that this deliberate "confusion" has been long planned by those who have no respect for anything at all.  

Hold tight to those you love.  Hold tight to your moral training.  Hold tight to your families, your wives, your husbands, your children.  Use your discernment well. 

And if your natural Twin Flame comes to you, know that it is a relationship you must honor with deep respect and reverence; they don't come to destroy your marriages and families. They come in search of themselves. Let them find you standing in your own light, wise and steady and true.

Welcome your Twin. You will suffer greatly.  You will be humbled.  You will weep. You will stand alone.  Yet, this is how you learn the deepest mysteries of love. 

We, as a species, cannot let Evil Men weaponize and manipulate the signals that trigger soul recognition and which form resonance bonds. God will not be mocked. 

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

April 17th 2026

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Watch This, Not Price: Silver’s Real Signal

 https://youtu.be/919MF_XMkJk

In this video, GoldSilver breaks down why silver inventory may matter more than price alone. From rare bull-market chart behavior to a surprisingly bullish Bank of America forecast, the deeper story may be happening beneath the surface.

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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.

The mint is now experiencing a larger volume of orders and has extended their production schedule up to six to eight weeks for new orders.

 We expect our volume to rise also, and that run has already started.

 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 50 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.

These will be shipped 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. 

The mint is closed Friday, through Sunday, so we can't lock an order on those days.

For a 50 oz. to 99 oz. order, take the ask price and add $5.00

For a 100 oz. to 199 oz. order, take the ask price and add $4.50. 

For a 200 oz. to 299 oz. order, take the ask price and add $4.25. 

For a 300 oz. to 999 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.75. 

All orders over 1000 ounces will be $3.50 over spot ask price.

Take that number times the number of ounces (50 or over) and then add $30.00 for each 50 to 99 ounce box for shipping, or for large orders add $50 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.

International Public Notice: The New Old Science

 By Anna Von Reitz

Now that the gags are off we can speak clearly.  Physics, as you have known it, is not complete and therefore, not correct.  

The Earth is a giant magnet, with two poles; as a result, it generates a perpendicular electrical field which is ten billion times weaker than the magnetic field, but still unimaginably vast.  

This is the reality that we live with every day, largely without realizing it, because we are grounded to the Earth.  

When two people each carrying the exact same energy signature and frequency come together a circuit is formed within the Earth's much larger energy field and they establish resonance with the Earth.  

They are separate and together at the same time. This is the secret of the Divine Dialectic, the energetic foundation of the Self within the Divine. 

The two resonate as one field, and their field then becomes part of the greater resonance field held by the Earth.

Of course, we experience this as being "at one" with each other and with all of creation.  The Ancients called it "atonement", though we might call it "attunement".  

Quite apart from the notion of sin, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, bears witness to the earlier understanding -- which was to bring ourselves back into tune with God, with Creation.  

This unfathomable resonance between two people is what opens an Earth Energy Conduit and creates that sensation of a million volts of electricity under their feet and the sense of weightlessness and "falling into" the other person.

It's not magick. It's physics. 

This same dialectic is the reason that free energy exists.  There is nothing unknown, controversial, or questionable about this.  We have always had inexhaustible free energy at our fingertips.  

Dependence on oil is a mirage promoted by those who benefit from that dependence, and they can't even be honest enough to admit that oil is constantly renewed within the Earth's crust and is not the condensate of dead dinosaurs.   

The Vatican, which has promoted the Doctrine of Scarcity for generations, should be ashamed. 

Of all the lies they've told about God, this idea that we have been left without all the resources we need to thrive, is most insulting and pernicious.  

It's like calling God a Deadbeat Dad and leaving his children to suffer, when his children have been royally provided for.  

We have been living in fear and want for centuries, awaiting the return of Wisdom -- but this is not the wisdom of the world created by men.  It is the wisdom of Creation, instead.

The womanly form of this embodied wisdom is easy to predict and vastly predates the wisdom of things created, or named, by men. 

This feminine wisdom does not need words -- spoken or written.  

The divine feminine is complete in silence and takes action independently. 

This motive force without words scares the Roman Patriarchy silly, because it is absolute.  

Things simply happen.  There's no debate, no public process, no map. 

The buds break forth.  The grass turns green.  The Lovers experience oneness with each other and with all of creation. 

The hierarchy that serves feminine Wisdom is neither abstract nor compartmentalized; it maintains its grip on reality with infinite grace and does not struggle over authority.  

The authority of the divine feminine wisdom simply is. 

Like the Earth, it is steady and present and lacks nothing.  

If we are going to live and attain our greatest empowerment, we have to observe Nature in terms of energy exchanges and live our lives with conscious acceptance. 

We have to come back into tune with the Universe and play our part in the symphony. 

What we speak here today is nothing new.  It has always been known.  Rather, it must be remembered. 

People talk about Soulmates, and understand that a Soulmate can complete a person.  Like a key for a lock, soulmates can facilitate the expression of divine gifts, bringing comfort, care, and peace, as well as opening gateways for individual consciousness. 

Beyond this energetic pairing of Soulmates, people must become aware of the Divine Twins, which do not complete or compliment, but simply recognize their one embodiment --- and by that recognition, create the possibility of planetary energetic alignment. 

The great stumbling block to this planetary alignment and all the health, benefit, and joy it can bring, is the struggle of the divine masculine to surrender itself. 

Think about the act of making love in terms of the Earth.  

For the man, it feels like returning home --- but it also foreshadows death, and the final return home to the familiar embrace of the Earth.  

As he gives his seed, he also feels bereft -- there is a loss, a giving up of himself that he can't quite consciously express. 

And afterward, he feels lonely and a bit confused and touched by death again.  He may even vaguely resent the woman he loves.

Perhaps worst of all, he is made to feel that he is the one responsible for this, that he lost the battle somehow, and now must provide for and protect the life of the woman and their babies at all cost.  

Can you associate this now with the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?  

This is our life cycle and psychological rupture since the fall from grace. 

And what is the "fall from grace"?  The loss of planetary energetic alignment.  The loss of attunement.  The loss of one-ness consciousness. 

We are not condemned to this hard lesson forever; always, there was the possibility that we would grow and our consciousness would grow, until we could overcome the illusions of separation, of time, and of money.  

Central to this in esoteric philosophy and all religions is the Grey-Eyed Psychic Queen --- a woman who carries the masculine energy of her Twin Flame, and who comes to destroy what is destroying mankind and the Earth.  

She is the Divine Feminine with a Voice.  She is fully armed with her masculine counterpart's strength and his power over words. 

The divine feminine is no longer silent, because her Twin Flame made the ultimate sacrifice.

Consider the Myth of Osiris in light of what we are telling you. 

Her figure has been indelibly impressed upon the records and musings of the greatest sages and scriptures of mankind for thousands of years. 

The Church has always known she would come. The Sanhedrin has known.  The Mullahs have known.  The Hindu Brahmins have known.  Everyone has known.  And yet, they have all tried to deny it. 

Though she speaks the truths that nobody can know and though her energy signature is divine and though her blood contains all the lineages of all lineages, and even her name is exactly what was foretold to them, still they struggle against what is true. 

Why should this be of concern to all of you, all peoples, all governments worldwide? 

Because she holds the keys to your happiness.  Because she will unlock the secrets of longevity and meaning in your lives.  Because she will set you free. And make you whole.  And she will cause Eden to reappear upon the Earth. 

You will know love again.  You will have life again.  

The Americans, who represent all peoples because they come from all corners of the world and have, together, re-established themselves as one people, have invoked her incarnation.  

By her own choices, she has suffered to bring you a New Earth. With the love of a Mother, she has labored to bring it forth.  

All that remains is the downfall of pride --- masculine surrender to that which gives him love and meaning and eternal life, and his conscious realization that he is not subject to death.

Death is the final illusion. 

When the divine masculine is set free of fear and misgiving, when he is no longer confused, when the ultimate value of life and love is accepted with absolute clarity -- miracles happen without effort.  

She finds her Voice, and he finds his Heart. 

Considering this truth, it should be so easy.  Should be. 

To mankind, she says, "I choose wholeness now."  To men she says, "You are safe with me."  To women she says, "Bear with me."  To all of creation, she says, "Peace be unto you."  

And even as she is speaking, it is so. 

Her Twin rouses himself from sleep and in the quiet of the morning, they face each other anew -- no longer halves of one, but two whole beings, alive and renewed. In the sacred silence between them, his heart dominates and he holds her creative force, even as she holds his Voice.  

They meet in an eternal kiss, and can never be separated again; lacking nothing, being whole, though they are separate. His compassion washes over her intellect, and her intellect rises to meet him, seeing him, fully conscious of him, loving him with infinite depth.  

We chose this knowledge and it is ours by right, for we have earned it, and done the work throughout these bitter ages; we bear Witness to the True God, who not only created us, but who also saves and renews us, and who with infinite compassion, guides us and gives us back the glory he always intended for us. We are whole. We are separate. We are one. 

There is no death, no dearth, no time, no money, no separation. 

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

April 15th 2026

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Granna Note:

 By Anna Von Reitz

Granna has one love in her life now --- herself.  No need to get all the Maytag Men of a "certain age" terribly excited. No, they are not the American substitutes for Yummy Plumbers. 

Also note that Granna stayed with her husband, Jim, loyally to the end of his life, and that was made possible because he was able to explain how twinned soul energy works ---- and even the details of how females can carry the masculine energy within that relationship. 

He was even able to explain the existence of unique electrical field signatures generated by living people, and how, in nature, only two people in the world share the same energetic signature. 

Surprise, surprise, surprise.  

Just because the Earth Energy Conduit opens up beneath your feet doesn't mean you have to fall into bed with a stranger --- or be ignorantly unprepared, either.  

You can maintain your dignity and honor even if your mind and heart, your marriage and your religious beliefs, get blown apart. 

That's what the Gubmint had slated for millions of you in 2026.  

Jim clocked Operation Cherubim Horizon during the Dubya Administration. We just now pulled all the patents and ended the ability of the Vermin to profit themselves while playing mayhem. 

Also pulled their ridiculous 1917 media gag orders. 

Granna

International Public Notice: Confirmed

 By Anna Von Reitz

We are now able to verify: 

(1) Russian technology captured and weaponized; 

(2) Basic individuated consciousness breached; 

(3) Telepathic communication achieved; 

(4) Operation Cherubim Horizon initiated 2001;

(5) Project Venus Rising slated for 2026;

(6) Goal 1: collapse of all organized religions; 

(7) Goal 2: "voluntary" eugenics. 

The Tin Hats passed through this fire twenty-five years ago. The rest of you --- millions worldwide --- are about to be Test Subjects in 2026. 

This is our official objection to this profound violation of individual human rights and our public protest against external interference with: (1) the natural electromagnetic field of the Earth and individual living men and women, including interference technologies promoted using nanotechnology implanted in Covid 19 "vaccines"; (2) use of False Congruence Signaling; (3) use of Hormonal and Metabolic Interference Signaling; (4) use of Signal Transfer technologies including 6G; (5) use of Non-Beneficial Epigenetic Enforcement Technology (NEET) and all other non-consensual manipulations of human bioelectric fields, DNA, consciousness gateway mechanisms, and natural metabolic functions.  

No government on Earth has authorization to test or employ any of these invasive technologies and no maritime or commercial contracting process can be used to alienate the basic natural rights of living people -- which includes their biological and electrical integrity, privacy, and freewill. 

Take notice that these trespasses against Mankind and against Nature have been ongoing since 2000, the patents have been pulled, and all program deployment is now being countermanded. 

Nobody needs DARPA anymore -- not for any reason. 

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

April 13th 2026

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First Sunday After Easter - Dominica in Albis

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

Why is this Sunday called Dominica in Albis or White Sunday?

Because on this day the neophytes laid aside the white dress which, as emblem of their innocence, they received on Holy Saturday, and put on their necks an Agnus Dei, made of white wax, and blessed by the pope, to remind them always of the innocence for which they were given, and of the meekness of the Lamb Jesus. For which reason the Church sings at the Introit:

INTROIT As newborn babes, alleluia: desire the rational milk without guile. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. (I Pet II. 2.) Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob. (Ps. LXXX.) Glory, &c.

COLLECT Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we, who have completed the paschal solemnities may, through Thy merciful bounty, ever retain them in our life and conversation. Through.

EPISTLE (I John V. 4-100.) Dearly Beloved, Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the spirit which testifieth that Christ is the truth. And there are three who give testimony in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that give testi­mony on earth: the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three are one. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater: for this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth in the Son of God, hath the testimony of God in himself.

INSTRUCTION As in his gospel, so in his epistles, and especially in this, St. John proves the divinity of Christ which had been denied by some heretics. He says that Christ had come to purify all men from sin by water and blood, that is, by. His blood shed on the cross for our rec­onciliation, and by the water of baptism to which He has given the power, the divine effect of His blood, and has thus proved Himself the divine Redeemer. This His divine dignity is attested by the Holy Ghost who lived in Christ and worked through Him with His fulness, and when sent by Him after our Lord's Ascension, produced most won­derful effect in the apostles and the faithful. As now on earth three, the Spirit, water, and blood, give testimony of Christ's divinity and agree in it, so also in heaven three, the Father, who calls Him His beloved Son, (Matt, III. 17.) the Word, or the Son Himself, who wrought so many miracles, the Holy Ghost, when He descended upon Him at the baptism in the Jordan, (Luke III. 22.) give testimony of His divinity, and these also agree with one another in their testimony. If Christ is truly God, then we must believe in Him, and this faith must be a living one, that is, it must prove fertile in good works, and this faith conquers the world by teaching us to love God above all, to despise the world with its pleasures, and to overcome it by indif­ference. Let us strive to have such faith, and we shall overcome all temptations and gain the eternal crown.

ASPIRATION O Lord Jesus! strengthen me by a lively faith in Thy divinity, so that I may not suc­cumb in the spiritual combat against the world, the flesh, and the devil, and be eternally lost.

GOSPEL (John XX. 1931.) At that time, When it was late that same day, the first of the week and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and stood in the midst, and said to them: Peace be to you. And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when, they saw the Lord. He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said: Peace be to you. Then he said to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither, and see my hands, and bring hither thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas answered and said to him: My Lord and my God. Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed.* Many other signs also did Jesus in the sight of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, you may have life in his name.

* What follows is omitted on the Feast of St. Thomas, 21^st of December.

Why does Christ so often wish peace to the apostles?

To show that He only, by His death and resurrection, has made peace between God and man, and that His fol­lowers should be known by their harmony. (John XIII. 35.) There is a threefold peace: peace with God, by avoid­ing sin; peace with ourselves, that is, a good conscience; peace with our neighbor, by the exercise of charity. This threefold peace is necessary for our salvation.

Why did Jesus breathe upon the apostles when giving them the power to forgive sin?

To show that as bodily life was once given to Adam by the breath of God, so should the spiritual life be given henceforth by the apostles and their successors, through the Holy Ghost in the Sacrament of Penance, to the children of Adam who were spiritually dead.

Why did God permit Thomas to doubt the Resurrection of Christ?

That Thomas, as well as we, says St. Gregory, should be strengthened in humble belief in the Resurrection of Christ, and that all doubts should be removed.

Had Thomas true faith when with his own eyes he saw Christ?

Yes, for he saw Christ only in His humanity, and yet testified to His divinity by exclaiming: My Lord and my God!

Is it true, meritorious faith not to be ready to believe before seeing that which is to be believed?

By no means; for faith consists precisely in firmly hold­ing as true that which is not seen. Therefore Christ calls him blessed who has not seen and yet believes.

When is faith true and meritorious?

That is true faith which firmly believe all that God has revealed, whether written or unwritten, and when one lives in accordance with that faith; for faith in Jesus simply does not save us, when that which He has commanded is not performed. (Matt VII, 21.; James II. 20.) That faith is meritorious which without doubting and without hesitation willingly submits the understanding to revealed truths which it cannot comprehend, and this for the love of Gods who is eternal truth and cannot deceive.

Whence do we know for certain that God has revealed certain things?

From the Church of Christ which alone preserves the revealed word of God faithfully and uncorrupted, as it is contained in the Bible and in tradition; by the Holy Ghost all truth is given to the Church, and Christ remains with her until the end of the world. (Matt. XXVIII. 20.)

Has the Church of Christ any marks by which it may be known?

Christ's Church has these four marks: it is One, it is Holy, it is Catholic, and it is Apostolic.

How is the, Church one?

The Church is one, because all its members agree in one faith, are all in one communion, and are all under one head. (Matt. XVI, 18.; Eph. IV. 37.)

How is the Church Holy?

The Church is Holy, in her Founder, Jesus Christ, and by teaching a holy doctrine, by inviting all to a holy life, and by the eminent holiness of so many thousands of her children.

How is the Church Catholic?

The Church is Catholic or Universal, because she subsists in all ages, teaches all nations, (Matt. XXVII. 19, 20.) and maintains all truth.

How is the Church Apostolic?

The Church is Apostolic, because she comes down by a perpetual succession from the apostles of Christ, and has her doctrines her orders, and her mission from them.

Which is this true Church?

The Roman Catholic Church, for she alone has these marks. She is One in her head, the Pope of Rome, in her doctrine, and in her Sacraments, which is evident since she excludes all those who do not accept all her dogmas. She is. Holy, for Christ her Founder is holy; and her doctrine and Sacraments lead to holiness, as shown by the multitude of her saints whose sanctity God arms by great miracles. No sect has saints. She is Catholic or Universal, for she has been in existence always from the times of the apostles, as is clearly shown by the fact that from the times of the apostles there have always been some who separated from her and founded sects. The Catholic Church has always existed, and cannot perish or be­come corrupt, since Christ has promised to remain with her to the end of the world; she is also spread over the whole world, is always being announced to all nations, and is fitted for all generations and for all people. She is Apostolic, for she accepts no doctrine which does not come from the apostles, and she can prove that the ministers of the Church, the bishops, have come down in unbroken succession from the apostles.

Can those who remain outside the Catholic Church be, saved?

The Council of Trent (Sess. V. in the Introduction) assigns the Catholic faith as the one without which it is impossible to please God, and the Roman Catechism teaches: (I part. art. 9.) "The Church is also called Catholic or Universal, because all who desire eternal salvation must cling to, and embrace her, like those who entered the ark to escape perishing in the flood." According to this doctrine of the Church, which the holy Fathers affirm, only those idolaters and obstinate heretics are excluded from salvation who knowingly deny the truth, and will not enter the Church. The Catholic Church does not condemn the unbelievers, she prays for them, leaves judgment to the Lord, who alone knows the heart, and knows whether the error is culpable or not, and she calls on all her, members to pray for their enlightenment.

Are we then already saved, if we belong to the true Church?

No, we must also live up to the faith which she teaches make good use of all means of salvation, regard and honor all her regulations and commands, for otherwise the words of Christ will be verified in us: And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: but the children of the kingdom (the true Church) shall be cast out into exterior darkness. (Matt. VIII. 11.)