The Problem With Hate and the Justice Paradigm

 By Anna Von Reitz

When we experience hate and contempt directed toward us, we naturally curl up in self-defense.  

Science tells us that even our DNA curls up in exactly this manner, like a cat curling up in a tight little ball with tail tucked in.  

We try to survive in this defensive mode, until we are convinced that we have to go on the offense to survive.  

We do whatever seems to offer the best chance of survival in either case. 

The problem is that whether we react defensively or offensively, we are still reacting instead of acting.

We are still coiled up, still restricted, still fearful. And this is a negative state of being in either case. 

As we know from studying negative numbers, a negative plus a negative just results in a larger negative. 

So it is with our natural instinctive response to hate and contempt. No matter what we do, the end result is negative -- whether we flee or we fight.  

You may ask, what other choice do we have? 

We can decide. 

The enemies of mankind, selfish, sick, small-minded individuals who fear punishment for their crimes, wish to destroy the Earth.  They wish to provoke the rest of us into helping them do this. 

So they run "False Flags" and they hire mercenaries to do evil, and they manipulate stock markets and currency markets and they promote race baiting and victimhood and religious strife. 

They promote conflict and poverty and ignorance as a means to empowering themselves. 

They do anything and everything to keep our attention centered on their narratives and their agenda as in "Agenda 2030" instead of focusing our attention on them and the corporations they are using to do all this destruction. 

We, however, are not so limited.  We can see through the smokescreen of all their staged events and all their rhetoric.  We can perceive them and the corporations that they use like sock puppets to do their dirty work. 

When we do this, we realize that these are all "legal fictions" with no natural right to exist, and that the evil men behind these corporations are, for the most part, using our own money and our own resources to harm us.  

They are our employees. Most of them are on our payroll.  

Technically, we even own their corporations. 

I have said since the beginning of this effort that despite all appearances otherwise, this current struggle is a spiritual war.  It is decided by discernment and determination and nothing else. 

It is not a matter of race or politics, poverty or wealth, religion or anything else of the kind. 

What we are facing on a planetary basis is crime, and despite the complexity of the mechanisms used, it is plain old garden-variety crime.   

It's impersonation and enslavement, false claims in commerce, fraud, illegal securitization, inland piracy, embezzlement, racketeering, extortion, and a myriad of other crimes including genocide -- but still, only crime. 

We have plenty of laws on the books already, in all jurisdictions, to deal with these crimes and these criminals.  We don't have to re-invent any wheels, we just have to apply and enforce the laws we already have. 

The real problem arises, when those entrusted to enforce the laws have become criminals themselves. 

And then, we decide.  We start firing employees. We start using Citizen's Arrest procedures. We start shutting down entire corporations.  Entire "government" programs.   

In a sense, we have created this problem, by giving too much power to men who are not worthy to wield it.  

So, we don't need any extraordinary actions.  No wars to end all wars.  No blowing up the planet. 

We need to keep our attention focused on who, exactly, is causing the problems, and the instruments (the corporations) and the means (finances) they are using to carry out these crimes. 

And then, we shut down their corporations and bring the boards of trustees and the rogue managers to justice.  

It's not that hard, people.  Man up.  Join your State Assemblies. Set up your courts of general jurisdiction. And clean your house. 

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And clean your hearts.  No need to be afraid. In the end, love is the answer.  It is the great positive that overcomes all the negatives.  Let your love shine like a beacon in the night. 

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The "State of Israel" Fraud

 By Anna Von Reitz

We are not going to second-guess Jacob Rothschild. Maybe he was just intent on securing a homeland for the Jewish people, an idealistic return to their documented historical homeland. 

It's a beautiful dream.  Who wouldn't be charmed by it?  And yet, in actual practice, it has been a nightmare from Day One, which occurred many years prior to the declaration of the "State of Israel". 

All the backdoor banker discussions that led to the State of Israel, as in one of the United States (ahem), were promoted by and inspired by and pushed by Jacob Rothschild and his cousins at the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve. 

They were supported in this by the Government of Westminster and the Vatican, albeit, for different and more political and commercial reasons. 

In any event, the 99-year lease on the land and soil known as "Israel" and purportedly secured by David ben Gurion in 1948, and agreed to by the British Territorial Corporation Government operating the British Middle East Protectorate -- is due for renegotiation. 

So, the rest of the Party Hearties, the true Principals of the Middle East, are backing a highly publicized incursion by "Hamas" forces into Gaza and rattling all the chains and sabers.  

You have to realize that Hamas is just a group of mostly-Muslim mercenaries and would not exist without healthy dollops of cash from both sides, keeping them in existence, and paying for their ammo. 

So, also, you might wonder -- why all this drama and nastiness, from beginning to end?  

There was never anything called "Palestine" in modern times, until the British created it.  This was the Roman name for the geography in question, but so what? 

Two thousand years after-the-fact, the Balfour Declaration resounds and ta-ta-ta-tah!, we have an ersatz thing called "Palestine" back on the map, and the happy and peaceful inhabitants, a mixture of Christians, Muslims, and Jews from throughout the Levant and North Africa, are now arbitrarily labelled, "Palestinians" --- a label they never sought and did not apply to themselves. 

Okay, call that "Team One". 

Next, enter Jacob Rothschild, the Bank of England, all the financing that went into the First World War and the Second World War, and what have you got? 

Oh, another group of emigres pouring into "Palestine" and displacing the "Palestinians".  Call that "Team Two".  

Team Two is infinitely better financed and politically connected than Team One, but also has far less legitimate claim to the land and soil in question. So there has to be a war with real bloodshed in order to claim the existence --by conquest-- of the State of Israel. 

What nobody knows and what is never explained to the public worldwide is that the State of Israel is literally a British Territorial "State" (actually, State of State) equivalent to the British Territorial State of Tennessee or State of California.  

This is why the "State of Israel" receives billions and billions and billions of dollars of money and credit from the United States of America, Incorporated, every year.  

It's only since that British Crown Corporation fell on hard times that there has been the least little bit of economic hardship in Israel, and curiously, the butt of that hardship has fallen on Concentration Camp survivors and kibbutzim, the quintessential Poster Boys for the whole Israel-creation-and-conquest narrative. 

Did the people of America understand any of this? Did they know that they were financing the Israeli Government and the whole State of Israel?  Did they know that the State of Israel was equivalent to the State of Tennessee in the foreign British Territorial system of things?  

No.  Quite simply, no, the American People didn't know this.  They weren't told.  They were being "represented" by foreign subcontractors operating out of the District of Columbia, who for their own reasons, didn't see fit to divulge this pregnant fact.

Those Americans who were paying attention to what was happening in Washington, DC, simply attributed all the payola going to Israel to a super-effective and well-financed pro-Israel Jewish Lobby.

But it wasn't just that. 

Israel was an investment opportunity in the Middle East for the USA, Inc., one that allowed the British Territorial Government of Westminster to keep its sticky fingers on the empire that Larry of Arabia finagled for them, and all at American expense.  

So the American people have been paying through the nuggies all these decades and the Brits have been using Israel as a base of operations in the Middle East to influence and control Middle Eastern economic and social politics, and most important--- Middle Eastern crude oil. 

With typical British Raj disdain for the local people and communities who are the end-line recipients of all their "policies" and "prerogatives", they have made themselves hated on all sides, but they don't care, because they misrepresent themselves as "Americans" ---without actually being Americans. 

All the blame for this accrues to us as long as they get away with pretending to be us and for as long as they control our military forces as our presumed-to-be proxies. 

Yes, proxies, as in shareholder proxies. 

And, absent an Act of God, they will try to continue this situation as long as Americans are dumb enough to register as Voters in their private municipal corporation elections. 

Meanwhile, real people are really dying, both members of Team One and members of Team Two.

The "war" between Israel and Hamas is as phony and mercenary in nature as the funky "war" these same perpetrators have been staging here in the actual States of the Union. And just as illegal. 

Yesterday, the Pope, owner of all these corporations, called Joe Biden, the local municipal corporation CEO functioning as the UNITED STATES Successor, inquiring about the safety of his investments in the State of Israel, Inc. 

And Car Jack Joe assured him that he was on top of it and in communication with the commanding generals, blah, blah, blah. 

We hope that everyone concerned now realizes that the rest of us are also up to speed now and not at all happy with the performance of our Territorial and Municipal employees. 

Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

October 23rd 2023

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The Motive Exposed

 By Anna Von Reitz

Here it is, again, the United States Supreme Court Case: Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, argued in 2013. 

Everyone realizes that the virus invoked as the culprit for the entire shutdown and fiasco is the Common Cold Virus, right?  

And we all also know that the Common Cold Virus has far too many variants and is too given to mutation to tame, right? 

We also know that left to itself, the Common Cold Virus is irritating, but survivable.  Our bodies have adapted over millions of years to thrive in spite of the Common Cold, which has little chance of killing anyone over the age of early infancy or past the age of 80.  

We have all lived all our lives with the Common Cold at our elbows, runny nose, watery eyes, moderate fevers, headaches, sinus congestion, body aches, and all.  

And so what?  Why the sudden hysteria?  Why the Fake Out, giving the Common Cold Virus this sudden new persona veiled by scientific and brand names?  

Why shut down the world economy and vaccinate billions of people and expose them to worse threats via an experimental vaccine?

Ah, in the name of "science" --- to experiment with the human genome on a vast scale and see the results.  

That's part of the motivation for men like Fauci, who are cut out of the old Nazi cloth, and have no morality at all. 

Billions of dollars in profits from patents and programs and grants doesn't hurt, either.  

Have you seen how many billions of doses of this  purported vaccine the For-Hire Municipal Corporations based in the District of Columbia bought? 

And how much money people like Anthony Fauci made off that?  

Cui bono?  Just ask yourselves, who benefits? 

It's easy enough to see the direct beneficiaries like Fauci and Pfizer, those that filled their pockets directly from the public trough, but what about the Municipal Government corporations paying out all this money for this dubious product?  

What did they get out of it?  

Slaves.  Millions upon millions of slaves.  The most valuable commodity on Earth. 

How is that possible? 

By unlawfully and deceitfully using the Pathology v. Myriad Genetics case results noted above, to claim that billions of people voluntarily accepted conversion and willingly made themselves into mere Genetically Modified Organisms, owned under patent. 

GMO Transhumans, that is, who are owed no Human Rights, much less any natural and unalienable rights. 

Transhumans, according to the claims and theories of the monsters responsible, are slaves of their owners, literally owned by the patent holders that engineered the tiny snippets of mRNA and DNA inserted into their genome without their informed consent. 

We have the idiot Supreme Court Justices acting in 2013 to thank for this.

Oh, and Bill Gates. DARPA. DOD. The Chinese Development Fund (aka, CIA Pension Fund). USA, Inc. Etc. Et Alia. Just include all those individuals and entities that hope to grossly benefit themselves and increase their coercive power by promoting the theoretical "legal" existence of a vast worldwide slave population deprived of all rights and prerogatives. 

And then look at the Public Law passed by our State Assemblies holding all General Jurisdiction in this country, outlawing all of this, absolutely. 

We weren't disorganized or asleep this time. 

So no matter what the US Patent Office says, these entities have no claim on us, and no claim on anyone else in this country, whether or not they "accepted" the offending vaccine. 

We would argue and do argue, that they have no valid claim on anyone, period, at all, because all these mechanizations have been undertaken under conditions of deliberate self-interested deceit and non-disclosure -- fraud, in other words. 

This circumstance voids any and all commercial claims and patents associated with this incipient enslavement racket and the associated "domestic" bioweapons test program foisted off on the living people by the DOD, DARPA, WHO, CIA,  INC. --- etc., which are all legal fictions with no natural right to exist. 

We call for the immediate arrest and prosecution of all individuals and organizations complicit in this genocide and the liquidation of all corporations having their dirty paws all over this incredibly evil scheme, including the "World Economic Forum" and all its "Future Leaders" that have been insinuated into positions of power in the Territorial and Municipal Corporations headquartered in the District of Columbia and their franchises worldwide. 

We also call for the arrest of all the corporation Boards of Governors and Trustees responsible for this mess, along with the remaining members of the United States Supreme Court responsible for the 2013 decision cited above, Pathology v Myriad Genetics, who subsequently financially benefited themselves from this disaster which they created.  

We wish for all of them to be rounded up and held to account-- that is, held one hundred percent individually, personally, and commercially liable, as officers elected and/or appointed, of municipal and international corporations and transnational global corporations, and all subject to Ecclesiastical,  Admiralty and Maritime Law. 

We recognize and grant no state immunity to any individuals or corporate entities involved in this plot to undermine the protections and rights and immunities of mankind.  

We invoke Natural Law, Ecclesiastical Law, International Law, and our own Public Laws, treaties and contracts, to protect our persons and all similar persons from attacks from all municipal, admiralty, and maritime legal fictions and persons involved in their administration.

Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

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How (Mostly) Dead American Veterans Own the Fortune 500

 By Anna Von Reitz

What happened is that as part of their reward for their service, the WWII Vets were given stock portfolios, mostly in the Fortune 500 companies, which allowed the government to buy controlling interest in those companies ---using the excuse that this investment in US stock companies was a gift from the grateful nation for the veterans coming home.  

But, "legally" all these vets never returned home. 

When they joined the service, their natural political status was changed to that of Federal U.S. Citizens, and when they were discharged and physically returned home, they remained in that foreign political status as U.S. Citizens and were presumed to be voluntarily remaining in that status even after they were discharged.  

The bureaucrats simply took no follow-up action to return them to their original birthright political status, so they remained "at sea". 

Of course, nobody told the vets about the change in their political service in the first place when they joined the service, and nobody instructed them about how to change back when they got out. The veterans just assumed that "Honorable Discharge" meant they were out of any Federal service obligation-- and accordingly, they never did anything to reclaim their birthright political status. 

That circumstance left the WWII vets in Federal jurisdiction and presumed to be voluntarily accepting the political status of Federal civilians even after the war, and of course, the stock portfolios were only for Americans returning home from the war.  

The WWII vets never, technically, returned home to their birthright jurisdiction on the land and soil, so that allowed the foreign British Territorial Corporation acting as a Subcontractor of our "government" to keep and manage the stock portfolios "for" them, until one by one they have died from various causes.

As they die off,  the British Territorial government claims a public interest in the estates of British Territorial U.S. Citizens-- that don't actually exist-- and so, the government corporation steals the benefit that was purportedly for the American veterans and retains the control of the Fortune 500 and many other investments made since then, in the memory of our World War II Veterans who were mischaracterized as foreigners in their own country, taxed to death as such, and never allowed to enjoy the freedom they fought for. 

All this was engineered using the excuse that it was a reward for our veterans, who never knew about it, and never saw a dime from it -- but when the time came to pay the taxes on all the post-war profits these corporations made, the vets who were actually the owners of all these stocks and bonds were made to pay the cost.   

It's more than past time that the Generals got their flat asses kicked, and the politicians, too, and the military bankers and portfolio managers in their little Federal Reserve enclave in Switzerland need a share of the felicitations, also. 

It's time that the British Territorial government and its agents, the British Crown, got liquidated, and all their assets claimed as the result of this and other abundant evidence of criminal activity harming our country and our people---and, most importantly, it's time that The Great Fraud was recognized for the worldwide scam that it is. 

American veterans weren't the only victims. This same web of deceit and malicious intent to defraud has impacted the entire western world -- the former British Commonwealth, Western Europe, Japan....  

The purloined assets need to be recouped and returned to the victims and if not the victims themselves, to the families of the victims of this unlawful conversion and all the false claims resulting from it.  

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Why No RV?

 By Anna Von Reitz

There is no RV and there can be no RV because there are presently 22 wars taking place in the world. 

The bankers have agreements called "bank treaties" in place, agreeing that no RV can happen while there are active wars taking place. 

So, if any two banks want to stop an RV for any reason, all they have to do is hire some mercenaries or stage a putsch of some kind, and voila -- no RV. 

If logic prevails, there are somewhere between two and forty-four banks, or bank associations, keeping the madness going and preventing an RV.  

All they need is a lot of money and a handful of thugs on each side to stop any Revaluation of Currency.  

As the banks can make "money of account" out of thin air, money is no problem. Finding thugs is never a problem, either. 

So long as these banks are allowed to operate and continue in this fashion, there is no hope of peace breaking out and an RV actually happening. 

To all of you faithful followers of Judy Byington and everyone invested in Zim and Dinar and other foreign currency speculations, those who haunt the air waves waiting for the magic 800 numbers and the opening of the Redemption Centers --- wait no more. 

The mystery of literally years of waiting and being told, "It will be on Friday", and "It will be on the Fourth of July", and "It will be...." and "We are really really close now...." is now solved.

There will be no RV until there are no wars going on worldwide. 

So, unless we all collectively throttle the offending banks and keep them from funding wars for profit, there will never be an RV -- not in our lifetimes, and probably not ever. 

With 22 wars going on right now, though only two of them, the wars in Ukraine and Israel, are being reported in the mainstream news, you can judge for yourselves what the likelihood of an RV is.

We have done our best to sound the alarm and bring world attention to the atrocities and loss of life in Africa as old European colonial powers seek to continue their control over the resources of Africa and to force able-bodied men from Africa to serve as "volunteers" in the Ukrainian War fiasco.  

More than 600,000 people have been reported dead in Ethiopia alone. 

Let that fact sink in, and as you do, remember this --- wars beget wars like bunnies beget bunnies. 

The trauma and the atrocities of every war breed vengeance, and while everyone dreams of "their side" winning a crushing and all inclusive victory over everyone else on Earth, we all lose.  

Even the winners in wars actually lose.  

The only ones who win anything in a war are those who stage and promote and fund it --- the banks, the politicians, the mercenaries,  and the "defense" subcontractors.

The average living people always lose and pay the war debts, one hundred percent of the time, and that's if they are lucky enough to escape with their lives.  

These facts are never taught in public school, because our public schools have been run by the U.S. Military, which was unlawfully converted into a mercenary organization by Abraham Lincoln. 

Read that -- our beloved military makes money being hired by banks to fight in mercenary wars for profit.  No matter how they try to avoid that fact and drape their actions in patriotism, glory, and derring-do --- guarding a poppy field in Afghanistan is guarding a poppy field in Afghanistan.  

Murdering civilians because those civilians have built homes on a piece of ground desired by wealthy developers, is still murdering civilians for profit.  

The men doing this are still criminals and outlaws, pirates and brigands, and the days when we could claim ignorance and avoid the stench of this are gone.  

You have to observe these things for yourselves, but once you do, you can't forget. And you probably can't forgive, either, which is the whole problem with wars and all wars to end wars.  

The 600,000 Ethiopians killed all had friends and families, just as the people murdered in Lahaina and Gaza have friends and families.  The survivors will hate the attackers with all their hearts and for all their days and teach their children the same, so that these wars, once begun, self-perpetuate. 

The victims of these crimes will excuse it as "war" and not see it as profiteering. They will focus their hatred on the uniforms of the men in the field, and attribute these disasters to racism, or religion, or politics, or struggles over natural resources, but the actual blame should come home to roost where it belongs, with the bankers of Wall Street and Fleet Street and Shanghai and Jakarta and Abu Dhabi, Geneva, Brussels, Frankfurt, and Edinburgh. 

If they didn't fund wars and ever-more deadly high-tech weapons, wars would stop.  

If everyone gave pink slips to those public officials and military officers responsible for promoting wars and for war profiteering, wars would stop.  

If we stripped the miserable renegades of their profits, wars would stop.  

If we simply wised up our sons and daughters, wars would stop. 

Most of all, if we just woke up en masse and said, "What the....?" one morning, and actually thought about wars and who profits from them, wars would stop. 

Ask the famous, "Who benefits?" question. 

The U.S. Military has been unlawfully converted into a Mercenary Force since the 1860s, and it has been directed ever since by a foreign, for-profit Municipal Corporation in the business of providing government services. 

Put two plus two together and see if you come out with four? 

Then take the over 950 military installations that Americans are paying for worldwide to the bank--- and know for certain that there will be no peace and no RV, either, until this situation is fully rectified.    

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Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

At the Introit of the Mass is said a prayer of Mardochai, which may be used in all necessities:

INTROIT All things are in thy will, O Lord: and there is none that can resist thy will: for thou hast made all things, heaven and earth, and all things that are under the cope of heaven: thou art Lord of all. (Esth. xiii. 9, 10.) Blessed are the undefiled in the way: who walk in the law of the Lord. (Ps. cxviii.) 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 Keep, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy family by Thy continued goodness: that, through Thy protection, it may be free from all adversities, and devoted in good works to the glory of Thy name. 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 (Ephes. vi. 10-17.) Brethern, Be strengthened in the Lord, and in the might of his power. Put you on the armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil: for our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in high places. Therefore take unto you the armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breast-plate of justice, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace: in all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of, the most wicked one: and take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.

EXPLANATION The apostle teaches the Ephesians how hard and dangerous a struggle every Christian has to make, not against human enemies of flesh and blood, but against spiritual, invisible enemies, who were at one time powerful princes in heaven, but through sin became princes of the darkness of this world, who govern the adherents of the world, and exercise their evil influence in the air as well as on the earth, as far as God permits them, for our chastisement or trial.

He shows us also the manner in which we can gain the victory in the evil day, that is, the time of temptation, and particularly at the hour of death, when he admonishes us to have confidence in God and gives us the weapons for the contest. We should, therefore, gird ourselves with the girdle of truth, which shows us that honor, concupiscence and riches are vain and useless; we should put on the breast-plate of justice which is made of good works: the shoes, by regulating our lives according to the precepts of the gospel, which alone can give us true peace; the shield of faith, which teaches us how richly God rewards virtue and how terribly He punishes those who succumb to temptation and sin; the helmet of salvation, namely, confidence in God and the hope of heaven; the sword of the word of God, by making use, when violently tempted, of consoling and strengthening expressions of Holy Scripture, by which we can put the devil to flight, according to the example of Christ (Matt. iv.) and the saints. - Let us diligently use these weapons, and we shall be victorious in this spiritual combat, and be crowned with eternal glory in heaven.

GOSPEL (Hall. XVill. 23-35.) At that time, Jesus spoke to his disciples this parable: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants. And when he had begun to take the account one was brought to him that owed him ten thousand talents. And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that he should be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. But that servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and forgave him the debt. But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow-servants that owed him a hundred pence: and laying hold of him, he throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest. And his fellow-servant falling down besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he would not; but went and cast him into prison till he paid the debt. Now his fellow-servants, seeing what was done, were very much grieved: and they came and told their lord all that was done. Then his lord called him, and said to him: Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me: shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee? And his lord being angry, delivered him to the torturers until he paid all the debt. So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.

Who are understood by the king, and the servants?

The King is God, and the servants are all mankind.

What is meant by the ten thousand talents?

The ten thousand talents, according to our money more than ten million dollars, signify mortal sin, the guilt of which is so great that no creature can pay it; even all the works of the saints cannot make atonement, because by every mortal sin the infinitely great, good, and holy God is offended, which offence it is as impossible for any creature to cancel as it is for a poor servant to pay a debt of ten million dollars. Nevertheless God is so merciful that He remits the whole immeasurable debt of sin, on account of the infinite merits of Christ, if the sinner contritely begs forgiveness and amends his life.

Why did the master order, not only the debtor, but also his wife and children to be sold?

Probably because they assisted in contracting the debt, or gave occasion for its increase. This is a warning to those who in any way make themselves partakers of others' sins, either by counsel, command, consent, provocation, praise or flattery, concealment, partaking, silence and by defending ill-done things.

What is understood by the hundred pence?

By the hundred pence are understood the offences committed against us, and which, in comparison with our debt against God, are very insignificant.

What does Jesus intend to show by this parable?

That if God is so merciful and forgives us our immense debts, we should be merciful and willingly forgive our fellow-men the slight faults and offences, which they commit against us; he who does not this, will not receive pardon from God, in him will be verified the words of the apostle St. James: Judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. (James ii. 13.)

Who are those who throttle their debtors?

These are, in general, the unmerciful, but particularly those who have no compassion for their debtors; those who immediately go to law and rest not until the debtor is left without house or home; those who oppress widows and orphans, if they owe them anything, thus committing one of the sins which cry to heaven for vengeance; (Ecclus. xxxv. 18. 19.) those who even in just lawsuits act harshly and severely with their opponent, without the slightest inclination to come to an agreement with him; finally, rulers and landlords who overburden their subjects with excessive tithes and taxes, and exact their share with the greatest rigor.

Who are those who accuse these hardened men before God?

They are the guardian angels and their own conscience; the merciless act itself cries to God for vengeance.

What is at to forgive from the heart?

It is to banish from the heart all hatred, ill-will and revengeful desires, to treasure a true and sincere love towards our offenders and enemies not only in our hearts, but also manifest it externally by deeds of charity. Therefore those have not forgiven from their hearts, who, indeed, say and believe, that they have no ill-will against their enemy, but everywhere avoid him, refuse to salute him, to thank him, to pray for him, to speak to him, and to help him in necessity, even when they might do so, but who rather rejoice at his need.

INSTRUCTION ON THE VIRTUE OF PATIENCE

Have patience with me. (Matt. xviii. z6.)

Since God has such great patience with us, ought not this to move us to have patience likewise with the faults and weaknesses of our fellow-men, and to resign ourselves patiently in all the sufferings and tribulations sent us from God? What will your impatience avail you? Will you thereby change or ease your sufferings? Do you thereby correct the faults of your neighbor? No; on the contrary, it makes suffering more oppressive, misfortune greater, and the erring neighbor more obstinate, so that he will ultimately refuse even mild and patient corrections. Besides impatience leads to many sins, to cursing, raillery, quarrelling,. contention, and murder. The pious Job gives us a good example of true patience and resignation to the will of God. He was a wealthy, respected, God-fearing man in the land of Hus, the father of seven sons and three daughters, and lived peacefully and happy. God wished to try him and permitted the devil to vent his entire rage upon him. Job was deprived of his children and all his property, and, finally, he was himself afflicted with the most painful disease of leprosy. But in the midst of all these dreadful misfortunes he remained calm. Naked, covered only with a few patches, he sits on a dunghill, a picture of misery, and yet no sound of murmuring comes from his lips, he does not curse, does not blaspheme God, but says resignedly: The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. To all this misery was added the baseness of his own wife, who came and mocked him, and of three intimate friends, who instead of consoling him, judged him falsely and said, that his misery was a just punishment from heaven. Still Job did not murmur against God's wise dispensations; with unshaken patience he faithfully confided in God, and he was not forsaken. God rewarded him well for his fidelity and patience; for He restored him to health, and gave him greater wealth than he had previously. See what patience can do, what reward is in store for it! And thou a Christian, a follower of Christ, the patient, crucified Lamb, art immediately irritated, become angry and morose at every little cross which you meet! Be ashamed of your weakness, and learn from the pious Job, to practice the virtue of patience, for patience proves hope, and hope permits us not to be put to shame. Patience always gains the victory, and will be rewarded in heaven.

If you find yourself inclined to impatience, make every morning a firm resolution to battle bravely against this vice and often ask God for the virtue of patience in the following prayer:

O God who by the patience of Thy only-begotten Son hast humbled the pride of the old enemy, vouchsafe that devoutly considering what He has suffered for us we may cheerfully bear our adversities, through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, etc.