Through a Glass Darkly

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By Charlie Johnston

(I have been very enthusiastic about my visits and talks this year. People are focused, serious, and ready to get active. Some have wondered why I seem so generally enthusiastic about the way the country is going. Quite bluntly, I am astonished at how rapidly and determinedly the pagan left is destroying itself. Yes, it seems like it it is seizing and manifesting power. Actually, it is like PeeWee Herman showing out in a bar room, trying to goad Arnold Schwarzenegger into a fight. It’s all fun and games for him while Schwarzenegger sits there wondering when this clown is going to sit down. But the more Herman agitates, the sooner the strong man will enter the fight – and when he does, the fight will be over quicker than PeeWee can imagine. Right now, he’s showing he will not sit down until he is made to. So most see PeeWee’s provocations coming at an amazingly accelerated pace while I see that it is almost over for delusional PeeWee.

All sorts of fantastical theories abound (even as some fantastical theories are being played out), a cacophony of prophetic voices rise, giving ever more specific detail and timelines, everything is politicized and everyone seeks some sort of inside knowledge to give them an edge in the plan they want to form. At best, either prophecy or analysis gives only a part of the picture – and you have to fill in the blanks with speculation. Sometimes the part you can see clearly can be deeply deceptive in figuring out what the rest of the picture is. I have always maintained that once the battle begins, the time for prophecy is over and the time for doing is arrived; the time for relentlessly taking the next right step with lithe and agile spiritual muscles; the time for standing up, declaring ourselves boldly and acting well in the moment as it unfolds. The battlefield is not the place for developing new plans, but acting with fidelity before God in the moment and trusting Him to flourish our actions. 

That is why we formed CORAC, to unite an ever growing group of people across the country to work together to help each other and those upended by the Storm, sharing the basic skills and forming communities to weather the Storm and endure until God fully reveals His mighty hand in all this. We are called to act as a remnant, to treat it as a vocation to bring more joyfully back to God, that we may have an abundant harvest of renewed souls to offer with ourselves at the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. CORAC is an organization for collective action in the religious, social, cultural and political spheres. Its focus is to discern calmly the import of what is happening around us in all these spheres and act effectively in the moment, always emphasizing how to bring more people back to the source of living water that brings life as old structures tumble around us. 

I constantly emphasize that what we need as the battle has been revealed is less speculation and more doing. Back in the days when I was doing a lot of speculation, I said this would be the case when the battle began. Back in the day when I was doing a lot of politics, I often ran circles around opponents because, while they fearfully kept trying to figure out the absolutely perfect plan, my team was already on the move, doing things, making some mistakes, gaining some ground and adapting on the move. It was how we were able on several occasions to score big upsets. Perpetual planning is a formula for perpetual paralysis. Trust God in the moment as you act.

Seven years ago I wrote the piece below, “Through a Glass Darkly,” to explain why even in times of calm, speculative prophecy is not a certain thing – but how when the battle begins, it can quickly become a deadly distraction. This version is very heavily edited, taking out any personal mystical experiences. This version is a meditation on prophecy, itself – its uses and its dangers. I think it is a useful meditation now, a cautionary injunction on what is prudent and may flourish as the battle is joined and what is futile, what will build up and what will tear down. -CJ)

Authentic prophecy is always an invitation from God. It is an invitation to remember His goodness in times past, to see His mercies in times present, to come back to Him with our whole heart, and to call others to do the same. It is guidance on how to act in particular times and circumstances to accomplish this. It is assurance that He is there, that He loves us, that He wants us back, and that He will walk with us if we heed Him. It is an invitation first to the one called to prophesy, and then to all who will hear. It is an invitation to come to God and participate with Him in His gathering of His children. The most important part of prophecy is its call for what we should do.

It is a great achievement of the devil that he has seduced so many into reducing prophecy to fortune-telling, a sort of mystical mystery theatre in which most act as passive spectators, choosing the character on-stage who best appeals to their interests, beliefs and vanity – then sitting back and enjoying the show. God calls you to act, to act with Him, to act selflessly to rescue His children from despair and disorder. If the emphasis of any mystic is on what will happen rather than what you are called to, it is a diversion, not prophecy. Authentic prophecy is active, requiring you to stretch out your heart and your mind to God and to stretch out your hand in solidarity with your fellows. It is not passive.

Many seem to think interpretation of prophecy is simply getting the narrative right, then charting it two-dimensionally. The foolishness of this reminds me of the ancient fable of the six blind men and the elephant. The Book of Revelation is fascinating for many reasons, not least of which that it presents the closest thing to a raw telling of what the mystic actually is shown than anything I have ever seen. Oh, there is plenty of interpretation in it to make it somewhat comprehensible to us, but St. John gives us a good look at much of the raw material he was working with. Revelation has been seriously studied by thousands of great saints and theologians – and there are almost as many variations in interpretation as there are people who have studied it seriously. There is a general consensus on some larger themes in it (though even here some things are hotly disputed) but there are huge disputes on the meaning of many of the details.

Now, as then, a glimpse into eternity does not produce a neat, little, linear narrative.

I gave you a hint of how it often works in my piece, “Into the Whirlwind.” I described the cosmos, in part, in these words:

“Imagine that God showed Job our world, sparkling blue and green like some impossibly rare and precious gem, glittering with life and light. Then God shows Job the entire universe. Think of Job’s wonder at the billions of stars, comets, quarks and planets all pulsing and whirring, a symphony of light and rhythm…”

When you are shown, when you get a glimpse into eternity, it is like that. Trillions of parts all pulsing and whirling, traveling at different speeds and directions, often changing speeds and directions. It is like a three-year-old trying to make sense of the working of a nuclear reactor. At the most elementary level, you try to discern the convergence point of several different elements. It is a game that appeals to your vanity – kind of like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube writ large. Except it is impossible. Things change speeds and direction regularly. After a while, if you are wise, you largely drop that effort and focus on patterns that emerge. While you can’t discern all – or even many – of the details, you can see the larger trends they form.

There are several complications even in this. First, some things are symbolic and some are literal – and it can be difficult to recognize the difference. Some things can’t be changed; others are changed dramatically by our response. It is similar to a cruise liner sinking in the open ocean. Once it reaches a certain point in its distress it is certain to sink. It is almost certain that some people will die. How many will die, though, depends on the behavior of those caught in the catastrophe.  If everyone is in panic and acting in an “every man for himself” way, many will die. If many are steady and resolute, they can help others do the same and many lives will be saved.

Meantime, there is a huge disconnect between how things appear here and how they appear there. We come up with clever schemes we think will solve problems – and most don’t even make a dent in the heavens. The sincere and humble prayer of a single person can change multitudes. When you get a cohort of people praying – and living the prayer of doing, of denying their own appetites and caring for those around them tenderly, it can change the trajectories of entire realms of those moving parts. If you knew the power of sincere, humble prayer and doing the little right in front of you, you would eagerly live it well. The machinations of those in power are mere sparklers in comparison to the majestic, tidal power of a single sincere and humble prayer.

Obviously, I explain this allegorically to you. I do it to give you some sense of what it is like, not what it is. Applied to current times, the Storm is something that is set, it must be fulfilled. But the intensity and duration of it can change based on our response. Some things about it have already changed. The intensity was increased by our determination to persist in rebellion; the duration of its fullness has been decreased because of the rise, often quietly, of renewed faith and fidelity among many who have already despaired of hope in human devices. There are far more troops out there ready to answer the call. Even in the midst of the Storm, we have entered into a great Christian revival. What God intends is that you live it and bring the hope that is in Him to those around you. If you do that well, it will spread like wildfire. It is not sufficient that you be right, but that you be effective, which means you must bury your ego. If you simply browbeat those around you, so they run away from the faith, you have utterly failed. If you never defend the faith when it is assaulted, you have utterly failed.

I am very careful in dealing with my critics. If they seem animated by a restless malice – or a vanity to prove themselves right – I largely ignore them. If they are serious, perhaps pointed, but showing no signs of malice or vanity, I try to answer them well – sometimes provocatively, sometimes gently. Many of my honorable critics have helped refine my thinking. But the key reason is that I am not sent primarily to say, but to do: to give heart to people, assurance that God is right at hand to them, in the midst of a great crisis in world and salvation history that they may endure until rescue. I am responsible for doing that for my critics, as well, insofar as it can be done, as for everyone else. So I largely refrain that their malice or vanity does not fossilize around them – and when they see God act, they may take firm hold of Him, whatever they think of me.

When I hear purported private revelations, there are certain things I watch for. Does it sound primarily like a running commentary on current events? While authentic prophecy does touch on some current events, its focus is always on the eternal and what our response to it should be. So if it sounds like a radio talk show, it may have value, but it is not prophecy. Does it have heavenly beings profusely condemning various people or peoples? In my entire life, I have never heard Our Lord or Our Lady speak in bitter condemnatory tones about anyone. I have only heard the angels speak with contempt for one person, one time. Often, they condemn sin, but there is a yearning sorrow, almost a lament at times, for their poor lost children The focus is always calling the children of the Kingdom back, not casting them into outer darkness.

I often hear people explain to me the meaning of various Biblical prophecy and private revelations. They give me their complex explanations for the two-dimensional linear narrative they have come up with. I usually listen politely but know that, like early Job, they have not entered into the whirlwind and have no clue that the things they speak of are too big for us – and not subject to linear narratives.

The key to everything in these times, after five decades of work, is not in the grandiose, but the simple. Acknowledge God, take the next right step, and be a sign of hope to those around you. That is wisdom that will last and will not fail. Live this well and you are already part of the Rescue.

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260 thoughts on “Through a Glass Darkly”

  1. I have always appreciated Through a Glass Darkly, Charlie. Beautiful, elegant rewrite this is. Since first being drawn to TNRS, I have seen how the drive to know what would happen could well lead to giving into some temptations, such as errantly thinking we’ve got the script of what is to come and drawing up “definitive” timelines which are actually an illusion, for who can know the Mind of God? This can lead to a further temptation to help God out. Our dear ancestor in faith, Sara, fell in this way and oh! What heartache and division befell her household! Perhaps the worst of it is how this behavior draws us a.w.a.y. from trusting God while relying completely on Him is one major purpose of this Storm.

    On this Solemnity of St. Joseph, may he intercede for us to follow in his style of remaining faithfully obedient. He was faced with incredible trials and in the midst of those many storms, he ever acknowledged God and, in doing so, was prepared to take his next right steps based on judging with righteous judgement. Whenever needed, Abba intervened to smooth the difficulties even as Joseph and Mary lived their share of Colossians 1:24: “I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for His body’s sake, which is the church,”

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  2. Great preamble there Charlie to that wonderful piece of yours, “Through a glass darkly!”

    “That is why we formed CORAC, to unite an ever growing group of people across the country to work together to help each other and those upended by the Storm, sharing the basic skills and forming communities to weather the Storm and endure until God fully reveals His mighty hand in all this. We are called to act as a remnant, to treat it as a vocation to bring more joyfully back to God, that we may have an abundant harvest of renewed souls to offer with ourselves at the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.” CJ

    Yes…an abundant harvest of renewed souls is EXACTLY what I feel Our Lord is searching for!!! He thirsts!!!🥰.

    On this GREAT solemnity of St Joseph, the terror of demons, I pray, with what’s coming we can all continue to Acknowledge God, take the next right step and try to be a sign of hope to those whom God puts in our path!

    Ha! I worked with my sister the other day on a little job and we were talking about how we both feel it’s soooo quiet right now and how things may get a little tricky in the near future! I told her about how you said your walkabout was darn scary until about after a month and a half and then how everything turned to utter joy for you!!! Ya know….she got joyful just listening about your experience!🥳 my big sis!!! I call her Saint Cindy!🥰

    God speed Charlie and God speed to all the little squirrels 🐿 who are helping you today!

    Happy St Joseph’s Day!

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    1. Wow, I would never have guessed seven years have passed! Or maybe more that I have been following you. Time passes when you are having fun!

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      1. In “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” they were roughneck bikers in a bar. In this case, I see them as all the ordinary men/women who live the Gospel and oppose the anti-gospel to their last breath.

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          1. Metaphors are an interesting thing, eh?!. So handy, yet so potentially multi-layered like everything else. I get the pop culture reference that Charlie used with Pee Wee and it made me chuckle in that context. I used the same reference from a different angle. In that movie, Pee Wee was the hero, yet how often things are not as they appear. I see many a seemingly apparent Christians melting like butter and going down the drain. I see some with rough facades who folks find contemptuous becoming heroes of the Faith with real hearts of gold. Such are the times.

            “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

            Only thing I have to add to that as commentary is that it takes a simple and mature soul to live it first, so recognizing it is not a problem.

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            1. Oh, meant to say “contemptible” not “contemptuous.” My Ma was an English teacher and would get annoyed by such sloppiness.

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              1. Ha, MP! My dad was an English teacher, and my mom might as well have been (she had an English minor). Between the two of them, we kids never caught a break. 🙂

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        4. Had to add this one too. More dancing, the best edited collection of 30’s, 40’s, 50’s star dancers you could ever imagine. It’ll put a thrill in your heart and feet! Fred, Ginger, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, and even Groucho gets his foot into the picture. Runs for 4 thrilling minutes;

          What about those Nicholas Brothers towards the end? …. Dave

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  8. Oh, thanks for the reminder, Charlie, to step back and take in the Big Picture.
    Mass today was so incredibly beautiful. St. Joseph! So just, so faithful, so obedient – a man who didn’t talk about it, but simply did his job. And I see, Charlie, that same call coming from you – just do what we are called to do according to God’s Plan. No, God did not tell me his plans he just told me one thing: be faithful.
    Blessed feast of St. Joseph!
    Ongoing prayers. Please pray for us here in the wilds of Oregon. Thank-you
    God bless us, everyone, katey🙏🏽💙🤎

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  9. Happy St. Joseph Day!!!
    After, and during, me completing the 33 day book, 2 small reads in it each day:
    Consecration to St. Joseph, by Fr. Don Calloway,
    I 1000% agree with the concept that Joseph was a younger man, not old an decrepit like so many old time artists have depicted him to be so many years ago.
    I now visualize him to be roughly late 20s or at most early 30s… most certainly still in the start of the prime if his life. Blessings, -kevin-
    By the way, I HIGHLY recommend the book. Fr Calloway did an AWESOME job in it!!!!!!!!
    Day 31
    https://www.fultonsheen.institute/so/1cNXA9T5C?languageTag=en&cid=74c51493-5dc6-415a-aa83-fc98eb505e6b&region=ac461dce-5356-4b9d-842e-5a1e2c10460f#/main

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    1. You are probably right. At that time, it was very common for women to marry as young as 12, but for men they would almost always be in their late 20’s at least. The primary reason was that women should be entering their prime child-bearing years – and men should have established their profession or vocation so they could support the family.

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      1. Thanks!!! Exactly!!! and with her being possibly as young as 12, or even if 14, Joseph might have literally been “twice her age”, and “comparatively speaking” that would make him “old” but only in comparison to her current age.
        Maybe (hopefully) that’s why the tradition got started of Joseph being “old”… Who knows.
        Blessings to you, yours, and your Works! -kevin-

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        1. I read Fr. Calloway’s book also. So very enlightening as to how important St. Joseph’s role was in the holy family. He truly was obedient, courageous, Loving, faithful and definitely always took the next right step. We need to go to St. Joseph for guidance. He exemplifies that actions speak louder than words!

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          1. Veritas, I’m glad you liked it. Yes, In going through the book, for me, made me realize or at least think, that There might be a reason that St. Joseph has been in the background for all this time, and possibly God, so recently, “Inspired” people to contemplate on him and bring him to light… Start realizing his great power over the evil one… especially like Fr. Calloway and others to write a book about him… It is becoming more and more obvious that the evil one is attacking “families”… in many many many different ways…
            Maybe St. Joseph is God’s “secret weapon” to defend all our families today that are under such fierce attack, especially now days. I don’t know, but it sure feels like that to me. Just my thoughts in this glorious Sunday morning!!! Blessings, -kevin-

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            1. On several levels St. Joseph is needed, for the protection of families, for happy deaths with the pandemic and terror of demons with so much evil happening.

              A wonderful miracle occurred, my husband participated in the 33 day preparation for the consecration and consecrated himself to St. Joseph. Thank you St. Joseph. Blessed be God forever.

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            2. Like you, Kevin, I completed the consecration on Friday using Fr. Calloway’s book, which I thought was superb. In fact, I was making the actual final consecration prayer during the (online) Benediction after the 6 p.m. Mass, which I hadn’t actually intended initially but it just sort of “worked out” that way!!

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              1. Jaykay, HTTP, I can see how God has woven Our Lady and St Joseph in my family’s lives—before we ever even had an inkling about all that Fr. Calloway’s wonderful book on St. Joseph reveals. During that silent time.

                Anyways, my husband got confirmed when our oldest child was an infant, just toddling. He picked “Joseph” for his confirmation saint. My confirmation saint is Our Lady. Now, at the time, I wouldn’t say either of us had a great awareness of our faith but were just beginning and trying.

                When each of our kids was born, I read the St. Joseph prayer over them, the one that is “over 1900 years old” and also consecrated them to Our Lady.

                In winter of 2017, The Marians at Stockbridge published a wonderful article, iirc it was in conjunction with Fr. Calloway’s book? What struck me in the whole article was the chill-inducing epitath: “St. Joseph Savior of Our Savior, Terror of Demons, build doorways for us” The idea of St. Joseph as Jesus’ Savior was such a profound meditation and it hit home with me in a deep and powerful way. I memorized this and said this as often as I could.

                Fast-forward to Nov 2017, the night our LiamXOXO died, I had gone shopping and had the groceries to put away and dinner to make. Tired, as usual and not wanting to do these things, as usual. So, having developed the habit, I turned to Joseph. I said that prayer, thinking of my husband and each of my kids, and wanting to have a nice meal for LiamXOXO when he came home, thinking of LiamXOXO. I made his famous pizza recipe, and fish (it was Friday) hoping it would be as good as when he made it. Looking forward to having time to sit with him on Saturday to ask how his life was going, how he liked his new job and new school, etc.

                Hah.

                For a long time after he died I was Mad at God and St. Joseph. I told them both so. I think it’s okay–God knows and wouldn’t expect any other very human reaction in such a tragic and terrifying situation.

                The first time we read Fr.’s book, a year or so ago, what struck me, was the story on the priests in German concentration camps. St. Joseph saved some of their lives—but not all. Some of them did indeed die. Fr. addressed this. Iirc, he said that St. Joseph, of course, can never go against The Lord’s will.

                Despite our best intentions, we didn’t finish the book that time. So this year, instead of e-books, I took advantage of the print copy and we tried again and finished it, TY God!

                Slowly, with extreme patience and love, as is one of His signature styles, The Lord has been gently showing me and my husband how He has not forgotten us or LiamXOXO or any of our children, He is watching and loving and present in a powerful way, as He was the night our son died. Even though things turned out quite looking like a tragic disaster.

                I can see how He prompted me to ask for St. Joseph’s intercession (in complete darkness-no matter), then The Lord sent St. Joseph. The car also had a miraculous medal of Our Lady I tied around the rear view mirror, asking her to watch over my kids. They were both there—God honoring His promises. As I said, The Holy Family was/is woven into our lives. God extended the original invitation many years ago and we accepted, bumbled along, trying, failing, bumbling again. He answers.

                How good our God is! TY, God.

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                2. Thank you for sharing your story, Littlelight. God does work mysteriously throughout our lives. So many times as I look back on my life I see a two year old stomping her foot and throwing a tantrum. Almost always it was the best path for me. Slowly, slowly I am learning to release the reins sooner and trusting more. Thanks be to God.

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            3. St. Joseph = “Secret Weapon” I love this and concur. How Awesome.

              Also what gives me chills of encouragement is how Pope Francis has this the Year of St. Joseph! How amazing is that, especially in light of the very troubling pachmama stuff.

              God sends St. Joseph—“The Big Gun,” Haha.

              I have the picture Fr. Calloway commissioned of St. Joseph standing on the dragon and driving a spear through the dragon. This painting depicts a young, handsome, St. Joseph with a merry twinkle in his eye. His spear has lilies, naturally. It is my hands-down, absolute favorite. I gave one to my eldest. Her fiancee looks like this St. Joseph, beard and all, I told them so. Last I knew they were both reading this book.

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              1. Littlelight: yes, I think loved that picture the most also, of all the many fine ones in the book, with its youthful, commanding St. Joseph and also those who especially honoured him gathered around! And thank you for sharing about the strength and help you have received after the tragic loss of your son (on whose soul sweet Jesus have mercy), through St. Joseph’s intercession. God bless and strengthen you and family. J.

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        2. Thank you, Charlie for this writing! Things have been a little overwhelming for me and in reading your “Through A Glass Darkly”, it brought me calm! Being reminded of your advice and your way of living, TNRS, truly helped! We are like little children sometimes, that need to be constantly reminded of important things, before it is ingrained into our hearts and minds and souls!
          Kevin, my husband and I too just completed our 33 Day Consecration to St. Joseph on the 19th with Fr. Calloway using his Book and the You Tube Videos of his from last year’s Consecration! It was indeed wonderful!! We learned so much!

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    3. Absolutely feel St Joseph was a virile younger man….as Mother Angelica put it and Fr Calloway wrote about…”old men don’t walk to Egypt “. ,,,And Charlie you are a young man and ten years ago even younger ! From one who hit the 6-0 last year 😅

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    4. I finished it, too, and made my consecration. Started before, but this tome I persevered. I also read, and recommend, Calloway’s book on Mary: Ten Wonders of the Rosary.

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  10. So appropriate and appreciated at this time. Thank you.

    My grandmother got the vax at the insistence of other family members, and ended up in the ICU later that night. We know she won’t be coming home again, but might have to be placed in long term care due to her rapidly declining health, now. Hospice for sure.

    Honestly, I feel like they kicked her into the grave.

    I’m getting disgusted at this charade.

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    2. I can understand your disgust, Briana. So sorry about what happened to your grandmother. Prayers for her, for you, and for your family.

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    4. {{{{{Briana}}}}} virtual hug.

      I pray for her comfort.

      May we be surrounded by the love and support of the people of the kingdom and the people of Heaven as we rise together and face and triumph over these dark days! ❤

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    12. My friend char mom in hospital now too after vaccine 💉 and my next door neighbor ended up in wheelchair right after and going to nursing home now!😫

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      4. Linda, I know you and I share the love of ARK’s daily readings. Today our Lord tells us our days are numbered and He knows the time. I am ever grateful trusting that God is with us and calls us home at our appointed hour. May we strive always to live our moments well and charitably so we may act as the Mystical Body on earth assisting our beloved in that transition from time to eternity, no matter the cause with love and prayers. ❤

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        1. Oh yes I so agree with you and listened to that this morning too…I’m just sort of ticked off cuz no one is listening to my warnings 😫 all our 4 kids including!!!😫 and they’re actually saying they might not let Mike and I hold grandies (well on of our kids says that) if we’re not vaccinated! It truly is a strange time! They’d have to hold me down to jab my arm! 🐿 Lol. But like Charlie says… nothing is lost in God’s economy 🥰

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          2. Linda.
            We are returning to the mindset of the pagans.
            The parallels are stark.
            Think how they believed they had to “sacrifice” to the gods in order to protect themselves from misfortune. Some among them even had to be sacrificed (side-effects are common with medications) for the “common good” being told this by their deities (heads of state) through their shamans (scientists) and priests (politicians).
            For a modern educated culture to return to pagan ideals just goes to show us how true God’s word is and how far man can descend into chaos when we reject God.
            Lord, deliver us.

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          3. Linda, “might not let,,,,hold grandies”….my husband and I have a 2 y/o granddaughter in another state with baby brother due in July…we’ve already been told “get your shots so you can come visit”. Sigh. This is going to be q painful divide in many families.

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          4. I hear stuff like that, too. GRRR. Nor can I get any of my family to accept the many stories of the dangers of this un-vaccine. Not one. Keep on keeping on is all we can do, I guess. That and pray on.

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            1. Nance Shaw I ended up telling our one son this yesterday and I think it was inspired by how I hear Charlie put things:

              “Thanks Son, 🥰 I guess we all love each other and want the best for each other from different viewpoints 🥰 I’m sure God is pleased with both of us regardless of who is correctly informed or incorrectly informed 🥰🙏✝️”

              That seemed to help put love in the forefront and not about who’s right and who’s wrong.

              Although one of us is right…. and one of us is wrong!😫

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                1. Thanks Beckita and actually I am strangely 🥰 I feel like Gods been preening us all for soooo long now things barely hurt anymore🥰✝️🐿

                  These really help me a lot! I pray we all listen to them daily and maybe more than once per day🥰

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          5. Are there any links, you could give your kids, that would present a rational argument, on why they should not take the vaccinations? I can’t find the sources (which are clearly in Charlie’s head) that could be used for a rational argument. I understand if they were based on prophetic experience which Charlie could not share. And I saw references by Charlie in the videos but no details on his conclusion. I also don’t remember any blog posts, (which I read mostly over the years but not all) which address the details of this conclusion. We can’t expect every CORAC member, especially if new, to understand this conclusion, and especially the non-CORAC member, by just saying, because Charlie said so!

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            1. bgawk, there have never been public prophecies given through Charlie about Covid19 in advance of its arrival. On the development of the various vaccines. He DID write the following recently:

              I know a lot of people are very fearful about their loved ones who are getting the gene therapy vaccine. Don’t be. Remember that nothing is lost in God’s economy. Let me tell you what I think is going on here.

              God intends to bring all back to Him who are willing. Last year, in a Tower of Babel moment, we were hit with a serious virus that, even so, was within the normal range of such things. It had some unusual characteristics that made it deadly to a small but identifiable portion of the population. We went into a frenzied mass of raw panic, characterized by ever-changing advice (Don’t wear masks! Wear masks! Wear two masks!) – and this contradictory kaleidoscope of misinformation was from public health authorities. Ambitious little tyrants started issuing broad commands to shut down the economy, destroy people’s lives and livelihoods, leave old folks to die alone and uncared for while their loved ones were begging to see them. This was all for “our own good.” We quarantined the healthy while confining the sick to absolute viral incubators. Here in the City of Man, we relied on everything but ordinary prudence and God. God is not mocked by our officious little power games and ego trips.

              Yes, I do think this experimental gene therapy being called the Covid vaccine will be the greatest medical disaster in history. Yet God is always responsive to the call of those who truly wish to come back to Him. He does not will the destruction of even the rebellious and is ever glad to take them back. When the Israelites in the desert began to grumble and speak vile things about Moses and God, God sent them a plague of poisonous snakes to punish them. Yet when the people cried out and repented, God told Moses to make a fiery snake and mount it on a pole – and when the repentant people bitten looked upon it, they would not die from their snakebites (Numbers 21). That serpent on a pole became the symbol, even in these times, of true medicine. So, yes, I think a lot of people are going to be bitten badly by this gene therapy “vaccine,” but I also think that all who took it in good faith and suffered serious adverse reactions before we knew how bad it would be will become martyrs to the Lord and will intercede for us both here and in heaven. Once it is clear how bad it is, everyone who repents and calls on the name of the Lord will be healed. And then we will know once again where our only true source of security lies and will once more turn to true medicine rather than the shifting kaleidoscope of politicized medicine that stalks the land, changing only to augment the power and influence of the few rather than the good of all. Some will NEVER call on God and, so, be lost.

              Once we respond by tossing all the hucksters who have profited off of, lied to oppress, and even killed the vulnerable for political gain out of any position of public trust, treating them like the venomous serpents they have made of themselves, we will be back on our way to God’s friendship. So those of you who have loved ones who have or will take the gene therapy, have no fear. Unless they are beyond any repentance of the belief that man is god, all that will happen is that God will manifest a little of His glory in them when they call upon His name in repentance. And rejoice for all those who rejected God who will embrace Him anew when He is clearly the sole remedy for our self-imposed disasters.

              Nothing is lost in God’s economy – and much is gained.

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              1. The above is from: An Expensive but Fruitful Breakdown

                This, too, applies from the piece Random Musings at the Start of Lent:
                I have said a couple of times that the mRNA technology used in the gene therapy known as Covid vaccines changes our DNA. That is incorrect. It does not change the physical structure of the DNA, but reformats how it responds to certain challenges – changes its behavior. To put it in simple form, it does not change the hardware, but alters the software.

                It is NOT a vaccine, it is gene therapy. It creates what are called “spike proteins” that are always on the lookout for the Covid virus and then mount a furious attack on it. It is experimental and has had no long-term human studies. There have been studies in some animals going back years. They weren’t promising, for the most part. In one involving cats, all the cats ultimately died when confronted with the actual virus the “spike protein” was supposed to protect against, because the protein went hyper-aggressive and killed the cat, itself. Hopefully, that was a distinct outlier which modified behavior too heavily. But the studies I have seen from the animal trials suggest that getting this vaccine might be akin to injecting yourself with time bombs set to explode when you are confronted with the actual virus you are supposed to be fighting. Thankfully, a lot of those time bombs are apparently duds.

                Even so, early reports from the United Kingdom show that there are an extensive variety of adverse reactions that have shown up to the gene therapy (vaccine) even before the time bombs have had the opportunity to go off. Frankly, I have read some material that makes my hair curl and that I don’t share because I don’t want to be overly alarmist.

                Yet we have an experimental therapy that was rushed through development that the pharmaceutical companies refused to make unless they were exempted from any liability for any adverse reactions. What could go wrong? Maybe the companies have solved all the problems and maybe it will work out just fine. But given the dicey nature of almost all aspects of this, to require people to take the gene therapy or be fired – as the Vatican has done and some companies and countries are threatening – is not just hubris. It is a sin.

                But as persecution and coercion widens, that is the acid test of both our faith and our commitment to liberty. Others can consign themselves to the tender mercies of people like Andrew Cuomo and Bill Gates – but I am taking a hard pass. And anyone who tries to force me convicts himself. I am convinced that this is going to prove to be the greatest unforced medical disaster in history. And I do pray that I am completely wrong on this.

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              1. Linda, perhaps then a reading of Jesus’ fearless love for the afflicted, or a story or two of the great saints such as St. Damien of Molokai or Mother Teresa. Then of course, let us not fret and trust God in all things.
                Oh dear, set aside the pot of non-sense that has been stirred in the hoaxes de jour, and add gestational hormones. I remember asking adults that raised numerous children to ‘be careful’ with my babies. Good grief, the silly things we say and do in the spur of a moment. Love them through it. This too shall pass. ❤

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              3. For all of us trying to warn family members here is a link with several additional links embedded to pass on. Although sadly, i’ve found that once someone has decided to get the vaccine, nothing will change their mind. Praying for everyone here and their families.

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                2. Thanks so much dyheriot2015!!!! I don’t see the link. Can you resend it to me? But what you say is true I’m afraid! Their minds are made up and so are ours!😫🐿

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          6. I have been pondering how when Jesus was being crucified everyone left him and He was mostly alone as He died. We seem to be partaking in His loneliness. May we carry our share of the cross with Your help Lord. Lord have mercy on us. Thank you, Lord for allowing us to share in your suffering.

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            1. Amen http!!! I think He and we are in the garden of Gethsemony! How painful these times are and yet how wonderful for we know the resurrection and Triumph are on the way 🥰✝️🐿🙏🥳.

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    13. Briana, I am sorry to hear about your grandmother. Praying for her. We are going through a similar situation with my father-in-law. The brothers are pitted against their sisters who want their 91-year-old father to be vaccinated and put into the nursing home. He’s had covid and did just fine at home. He is failing, but the brother promised his father he wouldn’t put him in a home and would allow him to die at his own home. They are pushing the vaccine and telling us we are misinformed and following conspiracy theories concerning the vaccine. My husband and I are getting bombarded by our own clinic (Mayo) every day now via emails, texts, and phone calls to make an appt to be vaccinated. At this point, we do not want to take the vaccine. We are thinking we will soon be ostracized at the least fairly soon. God bless all here.

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      1. Isn’t that the truth…..our healthcare group is nipping at our heals to take the vaccine. No way! They are not happy with me anyway bc I don’t want my enlarged aorta measured every few months to see when its going to blow! LOL At my age, I have decided what diagnostics I will and won’t have. If I get something that “kills” me so be it. I wish they would leave me alone. There are plenty of people who live in fear of the common cold–go “help” them.

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        2. Your words on both subjects made me grin widely!!! (I strongly share your opinion on them)
          i.e:
          They can vaccinate my Dead Body! Lol
          And:
          I’m not the slightest bit worried about dying for any reason!

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        3. Years ago my network physician kept pushing a flu shot on me while I was on the exam table. Depsite my saying no, several times, I walked out with a printed Dr.’s order for one, should I change my mind. I declined expressing how I suffered the most intense upper respiratory and G.I. tract infections that last time I was ‘jabbed’ and no thank you.
          After watching an informant, advocate for *good* health turned legislator in the 2020 Freedom Healthcare Summit, her research (backed by my own first hand experience in the field of medicine) proved the kickbacks that doctors get from insurance and insurance from big pharma drive the narrative.
          My DH was a mechanic by trade and was ordered by management to ‘upsell’ service and maintenance. In the first and last doctor’s appointment with this pushy doctor, I walked away thinking – WOW – I feel like my health and wellness is being ‘upsold’ despite my non-consent and at the risk of my decline.
          Greed has distorted the minds and sadly the motives of people we’ve been entrusted too. It is up to us to be our own best advocates now, while we pray for others (outside of our control) to do the same. Let’s pray too for those afflicted with ignominy.
          ❤

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          1. Now that I have a moment, I have combed through my 2020 Health Freedom Summit notes and will share some related information and links:

            Health For $ale By Brandy Vaughan, Former Merck Pharmaceutical insider and Founder of Learn The Risk
            Is our “health”care system really interested in your health…or is your health for sale to the highest bidder: the pharmaceutical industry? Brandy Vaughan is a former Merck sales rep turned health rights activist & executive director/founder of Learn The Risk. She speaks internationally about the broken healthcare system in the US, particularly the vaccine program. She left the industry disturbed by what she saw, particularly with the drug VIOXX that she sold, and now has made it her life mission to help others see that most pharmaceutical products cause more health issues than health benefits.
            To further connect with this presenter’s work, please connect to their website here: www.LearnTheRisk.org

            Highlights of Health Summit Session (Day APRIL 27, 2020):

            Merck culture – “You don’t sell a drug, you sell a disease.”

            High Risk/lethal side effects, not disclosed – compartmentalizing with employees and outright deceiving consumers doctors/patients without consequence

            Diseases are hyped up and even created

            Profits before patients – patients are collateral damage

            Employees are threatened to stay silent

            Physician power differential abuses overriding parental rights/consent with vaccines

            Kickbacks and bonuses and threats of losing contracts (provider status) for non-compliance or falling short of quotas from Big Pharma and Insurances

            Taxpayer funded and stockholders benefits from both health and pharma boards and making and keeping us sick aka “Cycle of Sickness” chronic illness

            Autoimmune diseases and cancers are skyrocketing / vaccines

            Older people were already so sick, they needed a new market = children / vaccines – Foster children have a 10 times higher rate of being prescribed drugs by state controlled providers

            1986 (National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act) law gave blanket immunity for vaccine injury, damage, death

            Chemical and Pharm industries are merging/intertwined (Bayer and Monsanto) – chemicals are put in natural products which cannot be patented as a loophole to patent natural product like turmeric

            Chemicals will not help our health

            Cancer is now the second cause is death in children; the leading cause is taking prescription pills as directed

            Anti-virals like Tamiflu are being heavily prescribed and warnings for deadly contraindications

            America has been duped, pharma is not beneficial – holistic is proven more effective – fox guarding the hen house

            Leading lobbyist in Capitol Hill, Medical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries

            CDC corrupt – revolving door with CDC leaders and Big Pharma see CDC Foundation .gov company advertising using celebrities to build a false sense of security https://www.cdcfoundation.org

            Little government oversight and regulation

            Most funding for Ivy League medical research comes from Big Pharm – We have a “Pharm-ocracy”

            Media conglomerate driven and collaboration

            Our life expectancy age is declining for four years and *they* use the #’s to encourage pushing more meds on the population, when they are a factor in the causes of deaths

            https://www.brandyvaughan.com/
            Conspiracy Theories Suddenly Real: Power, Control, and The Quest of The Technocrats By Jon Rappoport
            Jon Rappoport has worked as a free-lance investigative reporter for over 30 years. He is the author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX. He is the author of AIDS INC., the book that exposed a conspiracy of scientific fraud deep within the medical research establishment. The book contains material about viruses, medical testing, and the invention of disease that is, now and in the future, vital to our understanding of phony epidemics arising in our midst. He has written articles on politics, health, media, culture and art for LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, Village Voice, Nexus, CBS Healthwatch, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. In 1982, the LA Weekly nominated him for a Pulitzer prize. In 1996, Jon started The Great Boycott, against eight corporate chemical giants: Monsanto, Dow, Du Pont, Bayer, Hoechst, Rhone-Poulenc, Imperial Chemical Industries, and Ciba-Geigy.  The Boycott continues to operate today.
            To further connect with this presenter’s work, please connect to their website here: www.NoMoreFakeNews.com

            Highlights of Health Summit Session:

            No reason that he sees for the CDC / WHO (branch of the United Nations) teaming together in a bloodless coup to quarantine lockdown the U.S.

            This plays into plans for a global governance entity

            The medical edict is the strongest used by corrupt powers that be

            Crimes against humanity blamed on diseases

            Manipulate the vulnerable populations with false positive results to inflate numbers

            30 years of study of epidemics – he goes back to the beginning – where did it start to uncover environmental and corporate influences

            Science = medical propaganda globalist

            Social distancing – turn us into mask and glove wearing robots – isolate and divide us – turn us into a hostile snitch culture and ultimately to shepherd people into a borderless world were *they* control everyone and everything

            Digital check on surveilled people weekly – be sure we are behaving as expected in order to exist – Using China as the model – Social Credit Scores – Universal guaranteed income

            Technocracy – Engineered Society – Ability to measure in real time to measure energy consumption and production – We can allocate energy to nations and individual energy quotas (Smart meters are a step in that direction)

            Every device in your home is a miniature computer – recording and spying on you and your activity in order to control it

            AI/5G – Internet of things – Wall to wall surveillance

            Immunity Certificates in order to live day to day -> Must have vaccine first

            Modern Epidemic Cycle – cause of virus (germ) found in 2 days (short time) with a case study of a few patients – NO ADEQUATE STUDY

            False positive diagnostic test results – test is qualitative and does not measure the amount of the virus in the body to gauge how the virus will affect the body – Test the Test – Who approved it?

            Financial incentive to hospitals to code COVID-19 medically on patient charts – so a patient comes into hospital with simple pneumonia with Medicare who authorizes a lump sum of $4600.00 paid benefit for this patient – the length of inpatient stay does not matter for insurance reimbursement – add COVID19 to the pneumonia diagnosis the reimbursement is now $13,000.00 – add a ventilator and they will pay you $39,000.00. Get them out of a bed as soon as possible as this is a lump sum all-inclusive benefit – as per Scott Jensen – whistleblower. Commercial Insurances offers are *golden* in comparison.

            Social Isolation – from the Socialist Communist Playbook – East Germany – snitches are encouraged – neighbor against neighbor (hostility and power trip seduction) community meddlers and gossips are easy prey – under the guise that you are helping the government

            Freedom/Liberty – Lansing Michigan – protesting the *Narrative* is a small scale model of what we need on a grand scale

            If you want to help, get out the truth – like a news stand or wire service. Put it outthere digitally wherever you can – despite inevitable backlash – Moral Courage

            Media Monopoly – Mockingbird Media – Fake News – There are six corps that own the lion’s share of the media. The reporters are ‘trained animals’ *If it is medical go to CDC & WHO or use their press releases* March of the robots. Sometimes they get orders from the top to squash a story or are told do not investigate this…

            CDC has a branch called the Epidemic Intelligence Service – EIS (most people have never hear of it) they have trained medical professional since the Korean War to go out and investigate *so called* outbreaks several hundreds of times a year around the world. The graduates of EIS training is an insiders club/brotherhood – they become Deans of Medical Schools, Surgeons Generals, Executives of the CDC, Medical Reporters, Medical School and Journal Editors, State Public Health Agency Reps., etc. Therefore when CDC reaches a consensus on say COVID-19 – the grid is set and the narrative is hammered down.

            Will not highlight human suffering in COVID-19 illness and lockdown effects – conscience across the board decision – push the narrative and take down Trump… If they led with the human suffering – the public would be alerted to the fraud of the narrative – keen to petty bureaucracy – Gate Foundation is corrupt multi leveled

            The Solari Report – three part interview with Catherine Austin Fitts – https://home.solari.com/the-creation-of-a-false-epidemic-with-jon-rappoport/

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            1. AND:

              A Little Here, A Little There: Improving Immunization Laws in Louisiana By Representative Beryl Amedee
              Louisiana State Representative Beryl Amedee (R – Gray) says, “We only get one body and we have to live in it our entire life, so our health is our responsibility.” She believes we, as patients, have a right to be fully informed about procedures, treatments and medications before we make medical decisions for ourselves and our children.   
              Beryl is beginning her second term in the House but she has been involved in the legislative process for over 25 years, having started out as a homeschool mom advocating for parental rights, religious freedom, and choice in education. 
              In this talk, Beryl introduces a package of four stand-alone immunization bills she has filed for this 2020 legislative session. They are designed to inform consumers, protect employees’ rights, provide more needed data through Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, and expand access to care. She also discusses ways everyday citizens can help Louisiana become a leader in good health policy.
              To further connect with this presenter’s work, please connect to their website here: LouisianaStateLegislature

              Highlights of Health Summit Session:

              Homeschooled three sons and because of the negative backlash and shaming and wanting to make homeschooling illegal she fought for parental rights and became a state legislator
              Reps were told the orders stay-home order was to prevent hospitals from being run over all at once, not to prevent the spread of the disease
              Hospitals are laying off employees because the beds are empty
              Masks are not proven helpful and no one should be forced to wear one – ideally we should have the freedom to decide
              Advises people to read the Preamble to the State Child Code – Parents have the responsibility, right, and duty to make all of their decisions for their children
              House Bill # 467 Facts First Bill – 2nd attempt. First time it required docs to inform patients with a fact sheet of vaccines – did not pass – the argument was lay folks would not comprehend the medical lingo, who will pay for it, who will draft it… – So it was dumbed down for the medical professional six details in any form of communication to the patient prior to vaccinating 1. The disease or condition that the vaccine will be given to prevent 2. The effectiveness 3. Contraindications 4. Possible side effects 5. List of ingredients 6. Instructions for submitting a V.A.E.R.s (Vaccine Adverse Effects Report)
               House Bill # 468 – Would require coroners to file a V.A.E.R.s report after they have done an autopsy on a baby who died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome/ SIDS or Sudden Unexplained Infant Death Syndrome/SUIDS if the deceased baby had a vaccine within 30 days of the Date of Death/D.O.D. for all infant deaths no matter what the cause of death was and a V.A.E.R.s report should be filed
              House Bill #642 – Provide immunization waiver options for employees so should the employer requires a vaccine they can dissent and not be refused employment. Nursing students when getting to their final year of school and while in clinical, they are required to vaccinate, as are many healthcare workers, routinely.
              Bill #667 – Prohibit insurance companies from offering incentives or penalties to healthcare providers related to their patients immunizations. Family pediatricians were refusing children who were not current on ALL vaccines – this is an access to care issue – discriminating – after researching she found that insurance companies give incentives of $25.00 per patient for get a patient to take up a smoking cessation course, for all heart patient who take a daily baby aspirin, 25.00, yearly mammography – $100.00…No patient is denied care if they are overweight and no not go to the gym. Found out if more than 63% of their child patients are fully vaccinated they get $400.00 per patient. On average a pediatrician keeps 65 patients – the bonus could reach $26,000 a year
              The information about the incentives/bonus is no longer available to the public – She has not been able to find one after the year 2016
              What can we do 1. Pray 2. Vote if you are qualified and able 3. Find out who represents you at local, state and federal levels and go and meet them. Make an appointment to visit with them and build a relationship with them let them know what matters to you/find common ground – they have families too. Be vocal – Go to be vocal at the capitol. Real life testimony is crucial. When absent the only testimony is from the corrupt *experts*. Show up and go on record verbally or in writing. It does make a difference. If you cannot be there physically emails and phone calls do matter. Our communication can be the one that makes a difference.
              Bills can be searched and tracked online with advanced search capabilities

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              2. Wow, Jen, that’s a great summary you gave. Recognized name, Brandy Vaughn. She was very brave. I always feel sad when we lose a good one, but she could be interceding for her son and all of us fun heaven. Thanks for the two great posts.

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    15. I agree and am disgusted at it all, too, Briana. Prayers for you and your grandma. I’m so sad for you and for her. I pray a change of heart for your family members and hope this opens their eyes.

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    16. Spoke with my best church buddy Char today, her mom had a close call with the jab got put in hospital too! Char said all the nurses said they keep seeing this happen to the elderly after the jab but the doctors are staying strangely silent!!! The nurses are getting it though! 🤔

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  11. Brianna so sorry. Praying for you grandma. We just had this battle for my Mom. Rest of the family got her signed up, i abstained from being involved. Just finished 2nd Pfizer. She’s relatively healthy 87 yo but when any new virus out there to be exposed to….I think many will be their victims😞
    May the Divine Mercy surround your grandma.

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  12. In the mood for some poetry this morning…

    Ain’t no trust in the vaccine,
    In Big Pharma ain’t no trust,
    Money first, why so picky?
    House of cards falling apart.

    Ain’t no trust in the justice,
    Even man made supreme one,
    There is one Supreme Being,
    House of cards is falling down.

    Ain’t no trust in the healthcare,
    Slicing babies just on call,
    Trumpling God’s Fifth Commandment,
    Golden calf is tumbling down.

    Ain’t no trust in the news box,
    Even facebook can’t we trust,
    Watch out for media outlets,
    False prophets harvesting souls.

    Ain’t no trust in man’s wisdom,
    That is calling darkness light,
    Money, power, lust, tv,
    Souls from cliff are falling down.

    God of Mercy, God of Peace,
    Our trust we put just in Thee,
    We beg You and be so kind,
    And new Earth create for us.

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  13. “At best, either prophecy or analysis gives only a part of the picture – and you have to fill in the blanks with speculation. Sometimes the part you can see clearly can be deeply deceptive in figuring out what the rest of the picture is.” (Charlie Johnson).
    The Church has given us a means and light into interpreting prophecy:

    “…the images (given to the visionary) are, in a manner of speaking, a synthesis of the impulse coming from on high and the capacity to receive this impulse in the visionaries…. Not every element of the vision has to have a specific historical sense. It is the vision *as a whole* that matters, and the details must be understood on the basis of the images taken in their entirety. The central element of the image is revealed where it coincides with what is the focal point of Christian “prophecy” itself: the centre is found where the vision becomes a summons and a guide to the will of God.” —Cardinal Ratzinger (POPE BENEDICT XVI).
    Further, we must recognise that the human error prevalent in us- both by the prophet and those reading the prophecy will allow for some errors.
    “Conforming to prudence and sacred accuracy, people cannot deal with private revelations as if they were canonical books or decrees of the Holy See… For example, who could ratify in full all the visions of Catherine Emmerich and St. Brigitte, which show evident discrepancies?” (St. Hannibal).
    It must be remembered that God wants our salvation, so any valid prophecy’s main thrust is but His desire to warn us to act NOW towards that goal…
    “On this point, it should be kept in mind that prophecy in the biblical sense does not mean to predict the future but to explain the will of God for the present, and therefore show the right path to take for the future.”
    -Cardinal Ratzinger (POPE BENEDICT XVI),

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    1. Love these quotes, Phil. I’m on break from a conference which is teaching about our baptismal anointing as priest, prophet and king. There are many dimensions of prophecy to plumb. Unfortunately, most think telling the future is the one and only definition of this gift.

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  14. JESUS = GOOD NEWS .. 😉

    https://www.ncregister.com/blog/growing-in-devotion-to-saint-joseph

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-prays-st-joseph-will-help-young-adults-find-their-vocations

    https://www.catholicleague.org/left-wing-catholics-rip-the-pope/

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/not-charge-steve-hilton-fox-observes-biden-known-months/

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/19/as-holy-week-arrives-president-biden-serves-as-mod/

    https://townhall.com/columnists/mattvespa/2021/03/19/we-need-to-defeat-the-left-at-all-costs-n2586529

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/federal-judge-laurence-silberman

    https://www.wnd.com/2021/03/killer-franklin-graham-urges-biden-look-mirror/

    BIG BROTHER is Watching YOU! ;-(
    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/new-document-exposes-how-company-can-track-your-car-real-time

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stephen-miller-biden-frailty-national-security-crisis

    https://www.judicialwatch.org/tom-fittons-weekly-update/lawsuit-for-info-on-capitol-police-officer-death/

    http://www.floppingaces.net/2021/03/19/the-week-in-radical-leftism-3-19-2021/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  16. JESUS = GOOD NEWS .. 😉 PM

    https://josephsciambra.com/three-forgotten-miraculous-apparitions-of-saint-joseph/

    https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/exorcist-focus-on-power-of-god

    https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/federal-trifecta-spells-doom

    You can bet your bottom $ that USA Enemies are well aware of the instability that our nation is undergoing now. ….. with FarLeft Agents, elected/unelected, in control of WH, Congress & ALL Alphabet Agencies! ;-(
    Our Allies are well aware also and, no doubt, making “adjustments”.
    Former Christendom is all but in the same sad mode as US!
    Don’t count on Our Military as they are being “attacked & dismantled” ..NOW!
    https://www.newsweek.com/soft-liberalism-iron-fisted-leftism-todays-us-military-opinion-1576950

    …. plus Radical Reds have infested “Academia” for near 100 years and, as throughout ALL of our once Great USA, THEY have this 2021 opportunity to impose their godless Agenda……. PC, BigBro, Cancel Culture, Just-Us Judiciary, ChinaPlague LockDowns and Subjection of ANYONE who dares object!
    Phase IV is next ….. Extermination.
    https://justthenews.com/nation/american-campuses-increasingly-ruthless-racial-climate-has-professors-losing-their-jobs

    https://americanmind.org/salvo/making-americans-your-enemies/

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/socialism-taking-root-fort-pelosi-representative-mo-brooks/

    A disarmed Citizenry is easily Exterminated as proven by the last 100 years of Socialist Tyranny wherever implemented.
    https://uncoverdc.com/2021/03/16/new-gun-control-laws-on-the-way/

    ??????
    https://catholicvote.org/gov-noem-caves-vetoes-bill-protecting-girls-sports/

    https://stream.org/category/us/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  17. I may be wrong but I read somewhere that Israel is the ‘lab’ for these new vaccines.

    The Jewish people are still God’s chosen. I wonder if God rose any prophets from among them to address this current age. I’m listening to “ the Bible in a year” by father Mike Shmitts. Just got through Deuteronomy chapter 28:53-58 which sounds ultra scary for those who do not follow God’s Commandments.

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    1. Wow, thank you Itaca. How beautiful, the painting and the music work together! I have a new appreciation for those who can create art such as this, after seeing it appear step by step. Thank you.

      This was uplifting and made me feel better after reading all the comments about your loved ones being subjected to vaccines and suffering negative consequences. God bless all of those affected.
      Thank God hubby and I have not been forced to take vaccines before our surgeries. It was offered and we both said no. But I fear the battle is not over yet when some leftists want a vaccine “passport”. I’m trying to stay wrapped in the arms of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, but it’s hard to shake this feeling I have.

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  21. JESUS = GOOD NEWS .. 😉

    https://blog.adw.org/2021/03/the-cross-wins-it-always-wins-a-meditation-on-the-gospel-of-the-fifth-sunday-of-lent-2/

    https://www.setonmagazine.com/latest-articles/the-creative-courage-of-fatherhood-as-taught-by-saint-joseph

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/21/the-fifth-sunday-of-lent-2/

    https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/awakening-consciences-about-abortion-tainted-vaccines

    https://denvercatholic.org/woke-rights-the-equality-act-and-speaker-pelosi/

    WHAT!!??
    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-catholic-university-offers-students-lgbtq-stations-of-the-cross-for-lent

    Yep!! All part of The Agenda! Catch, Release & Vote Democrat!!
    https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/03/21/exclusive-biden-begins-immediate-catch-and-release-of-migrant-families-without-court-dates/

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-border-crisis-response-not-incompetence-tom-homan
    Yeah … Right.
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/03/21/biden-dhs-chief-claims-border-is-closed-blames-trump-for-surge-n1433939

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/former-president-trump-reportedly-going-return-social-media-his

    Iran “Dialing for $$$$”:
    https://apnews.com/article/national-security-iran-only-on-ap-army-1285df40348182e1b74dc403607c5928

    https://www.dailypreppernews.com/these-are-the-only-10-foods-that-i-would-stockpile/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  22. JESUS = GOOD NEWS .. 😉

    http://udallasnews.com/2021/02/10/ud-alumni-tell-stories-of-virtue-in-thats-the-word-podcast/

    https://parishableitems.wordpress.com/2021/03/20/the-spirits-blessings-through-gods-church/

    https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/lost-biblical-scroll-may-have-been-2700-years-old-israeli-scholar-says-662720

    Perhaps it’s Time for the Big Split!?? It has been foretold that it would occur!
    Likewise in Our USA? …. JESUS I TRUST IN YOU!

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/pope-struggles-to-contain-conservative-liberal-tensions-in-catholic-church-11616245220

    https://spectator.org/gay-union-blessings-catholic-left-cdf/
    I would ask the question: Your Fellow Democrats and the Media claim that you are a Devout Catholic. How can they say that when your beliefs/actions conflict absolutely with Catholic Doctrine on Abortion and Gay “Marriage”?
    https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/20/prepping-for-bidens-first-press-conference/

    PushBack!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/defiant-us-soldiers-openly-questioning-why-blm-riots-werent-treated-capitol-insurrection

    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/03/21/trump-slams-biden-turned-national-triumph-national-disaster/

    https://nypost.com/2021/03/20/us-goes-wobbly-under-biden-goodwin/

    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lawrencesummers-stimulus-policy-worst/2021/03/21/id/1014570/

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/photojournalist-biden-media-access-border-patrol-operations

    http://www.floppingaces.net/2021/03/22/alejandro-mayorkas-is-a-raving-lunatic/

    https://townhall.com

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  23. I want to share a few words from a blog by Father Dana Christensen today.

    “They therefore took up stones to cast at Him; but Jesus hid Himself, and went out from the temple.” St. John 8:59

    “These words end the gospel reading from yesterday’s Traditional Latin Mass. Yesterday was also the day that the draconian rules that private masses are outlawed in St. Peter’s Basilica. A centuries old tradition of priests being able to offer their daily masses on the many beautiful altars, many housing the bodies of great saints, today sat empty with neither priest nor faithful. Surely the Lord, and His sacrifice, has been driven from the temple. Throughout this post are photos taken this morning. These altars, were it not for these unjust rules, would have been, many times over, surrounded by the faithful, reverently assisting at the Masses of many priests. But that is no more. Christ has been driven from the temple.

    I have to wonder if this is not somehow the beginning of the passion of the Church in earnest. Many prophets, seers, and even popes have foretold a time when the Church, the Body of Christ upon earth, would suffer her own passion. We have seen glimpses of this passion in the homosexual predation in the Church, the doctrinal confusion, the liturgical disaster which we have been subjected to, and the financial scandals we know so well, but it seems to me, that we are entering a new phase in the Passion of the Church. I am no prophet, but I am, in virtue of my priesthood, a watchman spoken of by the Prophet Ezekiel. The Lord God says through the prophet,

    “But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes, and takes any one of them; that man is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.” Ezekiel 33:6

    I see the sword coming. Therefore, I must sound the alarm!

    At Fatima, part of the third secret is the vision of an angel with a flaming sword that was flashing. The angel was about to strike the earth, but was stopped temporarily from doing so by our Lady. The angel then cried out, “Penance! Penance! Penance!” Maybe the time for the angel to strike the earth with its flaming sword is quickly coming upon us. Again, we who seek to be watchmen must sound the alarm when we see the sword approaching.

    Of course, we do not know the future, but as our Lord warned, we must be able to read the signs of the times. What are the signs of the times? War, rumors of war, murders in the streets and more in abortion clinics. The false god of Pachamama was worshiped in the Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica. Gay, drug filled orgies were held just feet away from St. Peter’s Basilica. A sharp rise in communism and socialism is evident. Political tensions are heating up around the world. Sex trafficking is at an all-time high, especially of children. Pornography is readily available on cell phones, and is enslaving many of teens and adults. I think it is safe to say that we, as a world, are far worse than the days of Noah and Sodom and Gomorrah.

    To my eyes, the signs of the times are clear. The passion and purification of the Church is well deserved, and frankly, we need it. The time is ripe. When and how, we do not know, but I think, given the situation, the “if” is a foregone conclusion. How could anyone look at the world, and believe that God will sit by much longer.”

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    1. Diane, thank you for this excerpt of Fr. Christensen’s blog post. Could you please send a link for the post? I’ve searched high and low on the internet, but I can’t find it.

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  24. Certainly events are not destiny, but the results of choices & actions. This process we’re going through is a journey not a stationary unchangable fixture.

    Thought & planning are definately of little value in this time of doing. Mistakes will be made, we simply just pick ourselves back up after stumbling, take courage, and correct our course towards Jesus.

    Offerring up all the persecutions, the sacrifices, the sufferring, and the losses to God as offerrings should help.

    I’m not sure what else to say…

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  25. Charlie,

    What a great piece of both timely and timeless meditation and advice. It is so much more exciting to read the exciting parts of a prophecy where the bad guys get their comeuppance and the good guys get their victory as if watching a movie in our living room. As you said this type of single focus just takes us away from our own growth in God which is really the one thing that will sustain us during these trials and tribulations. It is indeed a great diversion from Satan, even though He is the target of destruction of our trying to decipher prophesy.

    I have read my share of Prophecy over the years, and except for some of the big ticket items, cannot really recall most of them ever coming true. I am sure other prophecy has come true, but but not in the timeframe, manner or process that I would expect. Other I believe we did not even know prophesy because we really did not understand the intent of what the message was to begin with.

    Your info on how to view prophecy certainly provides a good framework that should solicit questions on its authenticity of any potential events and the exact time, date, description etc. I certainly intend to put it to use and to pass on others the guidelines you noted.

    In your post regarding Job complaining to God and how in the end Job where he fit among God’s creation and his place is one of my favorite books for meditations. I have always loved to mediate on the earth’s nature, a gift from God, and its size, complexity, integration, beauty, uniqueness, it just humbles me to think God could even give all of it to us. Carrying that forward to the macro level, the universe and more, and the exponentially greater canvas of life and beauty God has created for us in more ways than one, just elicits a pray to God ” How great thou art” Stunned into a simple but humble response.

    I do not know if any of you have similar types of thoughts when meditation On God and Nature or meditation, Frequently when I do find myself meditating on a topic, I view myself as a lightbulb trying to light up with an more deeper understanding of a phrase or even a word of God. Then my mind seems to burn out due to the immensity of God meaning of things as compared to my simple grasp. I see my lightbulb cracking to pieces way before it even reaches the the wire connected to the filament of the bulb. My mind is just not capable of handling the amount of understanding God wants to give me at that. Since I know no one will ever know the full meaning of God’s Word, I acquiesce to His judgement regarding my further meditative efforts.

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  26. JESUS = GOOD NEWS .. 😉

    https://www.catholicleague.org/ruling-class-is-race-obsessed/

    https://www.wnd.com/2021/03/new-york-times-fails-dismiss-defamation-claim-project-veritas/

    https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/jews-prod-pope-to-oppose-medical-dictatorship

    https://onenewsnow.com/perspectives/alex-mcfarland/2021/03/19/how-bad-is-the-moral-state-of-the-us

    https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/21/follow-the-science-they-said/

    https://stream.org/twitters-five-strike-threat-to-america/

    2021 Democrats and their Global/Media Puppet Master DO NOT want people with personal/moral/Biblical beliefs in the Military, Law Enforcement or anywhere else ….. except Re-Education Camps…… It’s Coming and has been planned since before BO’s first inauguration in 09 and to be completed by Billary …. Along came Trump & Deplorables …. I Hope/Pray that all here used those four years of Trump wisely!?
    https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2021/03/21/troops-with-personal-religious-or-moral-beliefs-about-homosexuality-deserve-respect-says-retired-army-general-who-led-dont-ask-dont-tell-report-in-2010/

    https://freebeacon.com/democrats/anti-filibuster-coalition-leader-is-part-of-progressive-dark-money-group/

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/21/president-trump-releases-new-statement-on-border-crisis-following-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-pathetic-justifications-on-sunday-talk-shows/#more-210145

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/top-prosecutor-investigators-trump-charges-capitol-riot

    https://patriotpost.us/articles/78566-surveillance-state-schoolrooms-2021-03-22

    https://patriotpost.us/articles/78588-a-diplomatic-debacle-in-anchorage-2021-03-22

    https://www.crisismagazine.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  27. ONEILLJPO,
    I have come to the realization that to know just a speck of God’s mind is to be confounded. Seems you have entered it a little or at least straiffed it.
    Your in good company.
    Every saint that has entered it has been confounded.
    Aquinas did. He shut up afterwards in sheer awe.
    Job did. He placed his hand over his mouth recognising things to wonderful for him.
    When St Fancis would come out of an ecstasy and asked what he saw, he had no words to describe it.
    And the list goes on…

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  28. The predictive nature of the Book of Revelations is comparable to “cause & effect, keep hands away from cage if you don’t want to get bitten by the animal, slow down sharp curve up ahead, etc…” as you would expect from a warning, I don’t see how it can be effectively used in any other way…

    There has been confusion in which events can be changed, which can be eliminated or reduced, and which cannot be avoided, even I struggle with these. It is human nature to want to escape from danger and go into denial for the things they cannot change…

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    1. You’re right, Al. In fact, the Word of God informs us: “Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil walketh about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” It’s the enemy of our souls who tempts us to think it possible to escape danger, for God’s purifying Love reaches all people. While He’s not bringing one iota of the evil that abounds, He’s allowing us to feel the consequences of our sins. Going into denial mode will actually bring us more angst. We can recall that JOY will emerge amidst the suffering.

      Spontaneous prayers are short, effective, “easy to remember” vehicles for grace in daily life. As immediate conduits of grace, they help us manage fear and anxiety more quickly and successfully by inviting the lord into our suffering.

      Fr. Robert Spitzer teaches what the Church teaches when we respond to Christ’s call to pick up our cross and follow after Him. Over at the MAgis Center which he founded, there’s this counsel:

      Below are some of Fr. Spitzer’s favorite spontaneous prayers for times of trial, suffering, and anxiety. Also, as a handy reference, download our free prayer sheet of spontaneous prayers below.

      HELP
      The first and most important prayer in times of suffering is “Help.” We oftentimes forget it because we think it is too easy, or that God would not respond to something that simple. However, if God really is Unconditional Love—and wants to help us in our time of need—then the prayer “Help” is more than sufficient to engender the heart of God toward a myriad of unexpected graces.

      The Hail Mary

      This prayer is not only been a foundational contemplative prayer, but also one of galvanizing grace in times of trouble. Our Blessed Mother’s consoling presence should be evoked (along with her help) during the most desperate of times.

      This prayer, when repeated, opens upon a consolation filled at once with familial strength, a mother’s understanding, and the assistance for a “child not fully in control.” It seems to activate a providence (a conspiracy of grace) which betokens a mother’s request of her son—much like the Wedding Feast at Cana (John 2:1).

      Countless have been the times when it has come naturally to my mind, inviting me to repeat it. Countless too, have been the times when that repetition has led to increasing peace of mind and clarity of thought. I do not know why, but it always seems to give me courage—the courage to do what is right, to face adversaries, to move ahead with unpopular plans, and to bear the possibility of defeat bravely.

      Jesus intended that his family be our family, and that his Mother, be our Mother (John 19: 27). So we can believe that she would do for us everything she would do for Her Son—particularly comforting us, interceding for us, and being protectively present to us. Speaking from experience, in my times of need, I have never been disappointed by her.

      Lord, Make Good Come Out of This Suffering

      Sometimes trials turn into times of suffering, and sometimes suffering has neither speedy relief nor obvious meaning. At these times, it is essential to ask for the Lord’s help to optimize the good in suffering (good for oneself, good for others, good for the community, and even good for the mystical body of Christ).

      Suffering can be debilitating and depressing if we do not see any good coming from it. However, if we recognize a good in suffering for ourselves, others, the culture, the community, and even the mystical body of Christ, suffering can become not only meaningful, but an invaluable companion in the life of grace, virtue, and salvation.

      The above prayer has helped me to invoke the Lord’s blessings upon my suffering (and to recognize that blessing) in the deepest ways.

      When I first became aware of the onset of a serious eye problem six months before my ordination to the priesthood, I was completely baffled. Fortunately, I knew that God’s providential love would be operative through this challenge throughout the rest of my life. In that faith, I began to pray,

      “Lord, do not waste one scintilla of this suffering. Make some good come out of it for me (a change in life direction, a deepening of faith and love, a protection from other adversity), for others (a zeal for Your kingdom, a desire to help others, an empathy with those in need, and an eagerness to serve the kingdom), for the culture, and for the community. Lord, please optimize the good that can come from this suffering.”

      The Lord has certainly answered this prayer, for he has deepened my sense of gratitude for what I do have. He has helped me to see that every day and every moment counts in manifesting his love and presence. He has made me far more circumspect about what matters and doesn’t matter; and He has deepened my appreciation for the Beatitudes and the love intrinsic to them. I frankly cannot imagine what my priesthood or apostolic zeal would be like without my challenge. But I do know this, it would be less, much less.

      Offer It Up
      One of the great mysteries of Christian life is that our suffering can, with Christ’s, help in the redemption of others. This is best explained in Jesus’ final words on the cross, reciting Psalm 22: “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” Jesus, here, was not referring only to the first line of that Psalm, but rather to the Psalm in its entirety. When one reads the Psalm one notices a man who is going through a set of trials uncannily similar to Jesus’ own sufferings on the cross. More importantly, one notices that the psalmist is not discouraged by the trials being suffered.

      He has a deep trust and confidence that God will use his sufferings not only for the good of the community around him, but also to bring all the nations to himself in the future. Thus, when Jesus recited the words, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me,” he moved beyond the note of lamentation (in the first line) to a sublime confidence that the Father would effect universal salvation through His suffering.

      Jesus’ passion is his free gift of self, that is, his unconditional love. When Jesus was dying on the cross he created a “gift of self,” that is, an unconditional love (as scapegoat, as paschal lamb, and as blood of the covenant) which he intended to give to the Father to shower down upon humanity so that all the nations might come into his kingdom of unconditional love.

      We can imitate Christ in our own limited ways by presenting our sufferings to the Father as a “gift of self” (love) for the Father to shower down upon humanity as a grace to strengthen and unify the mystical body of Christ. Every moment of suffering is a potential for a gift of love (grace) to be showered upon humanity in its need. All we need do to convert suffering into gracefor the world is to offer it up to the Father as our gift of self.

      When I was a child, I would complain to my mother about various things that had gone wrong at school, and she would say, very matter-of-factly, “Offer it up.” My general reaction was, “I’m always offering it up, and no good seems to come from it.” It only occurred to me years later that the offering was not intended to be a direct benefit to me, but rather a benefit for the world and the kingdom—which would eventually become my life’s purpose and passion.

      By offering up my sufferings to God, I turn it into self-sacrifice—into gift of self—which Jesus taught is “love for the life of the world.” When I offer my suffering as a self-offering (act of love) to the Father, and ask him to make it a source of grace for those who need it, I know that he will do this—just as He did it for his Son.

      In this way the negativity of suffering turns into the positivity of self-offering, love, and grace. My mother used to say, “Mothers know everything.” In this particular case, that would be true.

      I Give Up, Lord. You Take Care of It.

      Sometimes life gets out of control. No matter how hard we try to obviate free fall or to figure ourselves out, life’s circumstances seem to get the better of us. It is at these moments that I recommend the above prayer, which I have put to great use throughout my life.

      I recall my discovery of this prayer in Rome back in 1980.

      I had been sent to the Gregorian University to take all of my theology classes in Italian. I went to Italy two months early without any background in Italian to attain “fluency.” I was reasonably confident after studying the language in Perugia for two months that I would be able to understand my classes.

      My first class on the first day was an exegesis class on the Gospel of Matthew taught by a Spanish professor who spoke Italian faster than the Italians (with a Spanish accent). I was not able to understand twenty-five percent of what he was saying, and I began to panic. I kept thinking to myself (in my unqualified ignorance) that I was going to “go down.” What would I say to my Provincial? To my classmates? “Here I am, back in the United States. I couldn’t understand anything and I flunked out.”

      Needless to say, I began to feel considerable discomfort. Realizing that circumstances were quite out of my control, I muttered, “I give up, Lord. You take care of it!” When I said this it seemed like steam came out of my ears. A pressure was relieved by simply giving it over to the Lord who could providentially bring some good out of my predicament. As a matter of fact, He did. The moment this prayer enabled me to calm down, I became content with understanding partial sentences and concepts. I could then begin to make sense out of the general line of thought, which, in turn, built my confidence, and, in turn, enabled me to understand more.

      As the semester progressed, I began to understand far more of what the professor was saying. I eventually made it to the final exam where the professor gave two or three choices of questions for various passages of Scripture. I was able to choose questions that pertained to the last parts of the course, thereby hiding my inadequate understanding of the first part. In the end, I did quite well. (Thank You, Lord!)

      Evidently, much of that success is attributable to my natural gradual appropriation of the Italian language and exegetical method. But much of it, in my opinion, was due to the composure and openness to the content induced by my trust in the Lord of love. That trust was galvanized through the above simple prayer, “I give up, Lord. You take care of it.”

      Lord, Push Back the Foreboding and Darkness

      Foreboding is a complex phenomenon.

      Some of it can come from feelings of anxiety and depression which our conscious or unconscious psyche projects into the future—so it is internally, psychologically induced. To those, who like myself, are not materialists, there is another side to foreboding—a genuine premonition about darkness or evil in the future. I am uncertain about the cause of such premonitions—whether they are a warning from God, harassment from an evil spirit, or a kind of psychic protention—intrusion—into an impending future.

      They could be the result of two or three of these causes. Whatever the cause, I believe that foreboding is not completely psychological—and that it does portend some kind of future darkness. I believe this for the simple reason that most of the time I experience it, something dark does in fact happen a few days later. It contains not only a sense of darkness, but powerlessness toward the darkness, and resembles the descriptions of it by prophets (like Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah)—mythologists (like Thomas Malory and J.R.R. Tolkien) and litterateurs (like Sophocles and Shakespeare).

      When these premonitions are accompanied by the feelings of powerlessness and anxiety—I refuse to entertain them. I give them over to the Lord immediately by saying the simple prayer, “Lord, push back this darkness and foreboding.” I even use my hands to gesture pushing back against something tangible and palpable—while I repeat the prayer, “Lord, push it back.”

      I frequently repeat that prayer until the foreboding begins to subside. Most of the time, the foreboding does subside. It does so in stages—first, it loses its bite and intensity, then it gradually weakens, and finally after some time, a sense of normalcy or even consolation occurs.

      Conclusion
      I recommend that readers use these short and incisive prayers to get started or continue on the life and adventure of transcendent grace, purpose, and happiness. If we are to avail ourselves of the grace which God wants to give us, we should have a variety of these at hand for use in times of trial, suffering, and anxiety.

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      1. That’s some good thoughts & strategy Beckita.

        Our times are best characterized as a pasture with a fence and beyond that fence is sin, evil, death, and destruction. Generations leading leading up to our generation have been straddling, sitting on, and even occasionally crossing that fence. God wants us to stay far away from that fence as possible, but like stubborn children playing with fire, they wont learn their lessons until they get burnt, so the world finds itself on the other side of that fence unable to return to the safe dide until it learns it’s lesson and stays far away from the fence.

        “A just man has fallen at least 10 times.” Likewise we wont/can’t see/obtain a just generation & just society until we’ve tasted the corruption, destruction, and despair of these evil times. As human ignorance & arrogance refuses to aknowlege the wisdom that humilty that has been taught to humanity time and time again…

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      3. TY for posting all that here. What’s very consoling to me is not knowing/understanding all the nuances that Fr. Spitzer explained, I have prayed like Fr. suggests in the life situations he described. I can only say it must have been The Holy Spirit directing me, because I’m not that smart. TYG.

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      4. Thank you Beckita!!!! !!!!!

        Each morning I wake up with premonition on my heart a foreboding future. I am going to use this prayer: Lord, Push Back the Foreboding and Darkness

        Also, I have to say the Hail Mary has been instrumental in helping me in harmful and difficult trials and situations. Thank you God!

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      5. Thank you for posting these prayers, Beckita. I know he also has ones for forgiveness. My favorite is, “Lord, make good come out of whatever harm I might have caused.”
        I have to pray that one quite often.

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        1. He’s another priest for our times who rocks, Joyful. The materials he has put together with his Magis Center team – which started as a safety net to capture the hearts and minds of thousands of teens who have been leaving the Church – are good materials for a person of any age interested in a living faith which integrates faith AND reason.

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      6. “Lord, Push Back the Foreboding and Darkness” – Spitzer

        “we wont/can’t see/obtain a just generation & just society until we’ve tasted the corruption, destruction, and despair of these evil times.” Al2

        “It’s the enemy of our souls who tempts us to think it possible to escape danger, for God’s purifying Love reaches all people.” Bekita

        “Offer It Up” – Spitzer

        “Lord, Make Good Come Out of This Suffering” – Spitzer

        “He’s allowing us to feel the consequences of our sins.” – Bekita

        “We can recall that JOY will emerge amidst the suffering.” – Bekita

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      1. And southern states also! But alas, no, CA will just be doing what it usually does – cave in to liberal thought and plans. In San Diego, planes are landing, buses are coming; no covid tests, no questions as to the legality of dealing with children who have no adult with them!! Some are bought and sold by the “coyotes”. Insanity is on parade! And I remember when CA was such a wonderful conservative state!! God help us all, and please, Lord, send your Holy Spirit to illuminate the whole world now!!

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      1. Absolutely, Timothy… and not just in governmental systems… on every level, we’ll be faced with options we would never even consider in ordinary times. On this theme, too, Charlie has written and invited us to contemplation. Shortly after one snafu in which a higher level cleric claimed that David Daleiden was dishonest in his work, a Biblical passage sprung from the pages of the Liturgy of the Hours and struck me with light, for it illustrates that oppressive laws in times of extremis, require careful, deliberate consideration and action:

        “Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

        The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.” But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live. So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?” The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live.” (Exodus 1: 8-22)

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        1. Hey Timothy, I just returned from Mass where I was lector and look what dovetails into this discussion:

          Reading 1, Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95

          14 Nebuchadnezzar addressed them, ‘Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego, is it true that you do not serve my gods, and that you refuse to worship the golden statue I have set up?

          15 When you hear the sound of horn, pipe, lyre, zither, harp, bagpipe and every other kind of instrument, are you prepared to prostrate yourselves and worship the statue I have made? If you refuse to worship it, you will be thrown forthwith into the burning fiery furnace; then which of the gods could save you from my power?’

          16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego replied to King Nebuchadnezzar, ‘Your question needs no answer from us:

          17 if our God, the one we serve, is able to save us from the burning fiery furnace and from your power, Your Majesty, he will save us;

          18 and even if he does not, then you must know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your god or worship the statue you have set up.’

          19 This infuriated King Nebuchadnezzar; his expression was changed now as he looked at Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego. He gave orders for the furnace to be made seven times hotter than usual

          20 and commanded certain stalwarts from his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego and throw them into the burning fiery furnace.

          91 King Nebuchadnezzar sprang to his feet in amazement. He said to his advisers, ‘Did we not have these three men thrown bound into the fire?’ They answered the king, ‘Certainly, Your Majesty’.

          92 ‘But’, he went on, ‘I can see four men walking free in the heart of the fire and quite unharmed! And the fourth looks like a child of the gods!’

          95 ‘Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego: he has sent his angel to rescue his servants who, putting their trust in him, defied the order of the king, and preferred to forfeit their bodies rather than serve or worship any god but their God.

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          1. Hi Beck’s

            Good stuff.

            Let me throw this out there…

            Some premises..

            1. What is common to both stories is subjugation, the God-fearing in both stories are “not powerful in earthly terms” before their adversaries; their only salvation is Divine intervention and passive resistance

            2. God increased His people’s holiness in those circumstances.

            3. The gates of hell shall not prevail…

            4.. It seems logical to me that God may be training us to make the other side flee and that this growth, of which there are examples in Scripture…Phineas, for example, is what He is training His people for. That this is part of the maturity of the Church Militant.
            .
            5. I believe we are in another of those times, that we will, and God is waiting, training us to, make the damned devils run.

            So, Pharo says do evil, news at six, Pharo dead ,swinging from a rope. Shadrack threatened with burning alive, King Marsgmallow is no more on this Earth, Shadrack back hone raising his kids.

            To summarize, the subjugation of God’s oeople will end, we will be instruments in it and it is logical that the defensive crouch of the midwives and shadrack are not the norm God expects of us.

            God bless

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            1. Yes, Timothy. The gates of hell will not prevail because we HAVE been in training and we must continue to move on the offense to defend the faith, defend the faithful and hearten the faithful. We also wait to welcome those former enemies who repent back to the Lord. We partner with God just as the midwives did and just as Shadrack and His confreres did.

              I think the idea that we are subjugated to the enemies of freedom is, in large part, an illusion. They did steal the election, yet, they cannot steal our freedom unless we are silent and lazy, so we rise in CORAC to resist. They can never control our souls, minds, and hearts. So it was with the midwives and the three men in the furnace. They relied completely on God.

              I agree with Charlie’s assessment that fear reigns in the ranks of the imposters who claim they are healing our country. As they target certain individuals so that we fear and obey them, they actually strengthen the resolve of more folks who become the wiser to their tactics. In similar times, such as the dictatorial reign of Stalin and Mao, those who feared most were the close allies of these wicked men, for the allies were ready targets, scapegoats of their rage.

              The people of Heaven stand listening for our beck and call to assist at any moment as we navigate these rough waters. I pray for interior freedom for each of us, for in that we find that Christ is our steadfast strength. 🙏♥️🔥

              We remain with

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  30. Just sort of curious??? Is anyone else out there noticing people are unusually grumpy these days??? Or it could be just me needing to go to confession again!!! Hahahahaha 😂🤣🥳✝️🐿

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    1. Linda,

      The stress of a year long lock down, etc. It seems everyone I know is dealing with something big. Failed marriage/marriage in the rocks, death of a family member unexpectedly, etc.

      My Godfather says go to confession every other week. You’ll know when you need to do it.

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      1. Ha! I need it daily but have long given up on perfection 😂😂😂. Just trying to acknowledge God take The next right step and try to be a sign of hope to those whom God puts in our path!

        Speaking of path… spoke with young faithful catholic mom this morning. She’s having a hard time because she’s homeschooling her kids and her oldest son is 13 and wants to go back to school. She knows we are in the storm and is afraid of letting go for fear of what the schools and even some Catholic schools might get him into. She said she’s at the end of her rope‘s. I told her about CharlieAnd the next right step. She liked that idea a lot. But as I said she has four kids. She’s really under a lot of pressure. Maybe you can all see a little Hail Mary for her. Her name is Katie. God bless Linda

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          1. Thanks Beckita!!! I’ll drop off some of Charlie’s pieces next week especially the “w hat the next right step really means.” Can you think of anything to give a young homeschooling mom??? She does follow countdown to the kingdom but I was thinking there must be something else????

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        2. Prayers on the way for Katie. You are being such a good sign of hope for her, Linda. I homeschooled my three sons for a couple of years. Getting to talk to another adult was a needed break.

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        4. Linda, I’ll pray for Katie. It’s great that you told her about Charlie. If you see her again, what about inviting her to one of our local or regional Zoom meetings? Then she could talk to other people who are in the same boat that she’s in, and maybe she won’t feel so alone and end-of-the-rope-ish.

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          1. That’s a great idea Mick! I see her every Wednesday (or potentially could) at the house I clean on Wednesdays. She’s awful busy though…kids range from 2 to 13 so she’s super busy. Her oldest keeps telling her, “you’re ruining my life!” He wants to play sports etc and be around neighborhood kids. It’s a tough situation. She’s just a heroic Catholic mom… sort of like you🥰 but I’ll ask her mick🐿 🏎

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            1. Thanks for your kind words, Linda. Honestly, I believe that all moms and dads who do their best for their kids are heroes (that would include you and Mike, by the way!). If Katie would like to chat/vent/cry/commiserate with someone who has “been there, done that,” I’d be glad to talk with her when she has a free minute. Drop me an email if Katie’d like to chat, and I’ll send you my phone number. 🙂

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              1. Awww Mick you are simply the best!!! I will ask Katie as soon as I see her next. She may start coming to the little church me n Mike took Charlie to with Fr Francis! She’s an anti Vaxer and anti masker and Fr Francis is letting us go without makes lately! He says he wants to have a mask burning party!!! Lol🎉 🎈 🎊 😷

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    2. Just you! Hahahaha. I’m sorry I couldn’t help it. 🤣😘 I’m teasing!
      _______
      Since the consecration to St. Joseph joy seems to be bubbling over in me.
      Can you imagine walking to Egypt to escape, without a cell phone or the maps apps?
      St. Joseph please rush to Linda’s side and give her courage and joy.

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      1. Http!!!😂😂😂 I dunno 🤷🏻‍♀️ whole lotta road rage out there currently 🏎 but everything’s really peachy at our house our hood n our churches…. just don’t leave those places 😂😂😂😘😘😘

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        1. I hear ya’ sister. As I pull out of the parking lot after confession for being impatient etc. I am immediately tested!!! Arghhh.
          In Anne’s books Jesus tells her to stop swearing. I am really working on that one. Barnyard language is my native tongue.

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  31. Hello, dear Friends!

    I’m asking for prayers for my daughter Grace. She will be receiving the Covid vaccine tomorrow morning (against my recommendation). She has several health concerns. Please pray for Grace, that she will not suffer harm from the vaccine (especially anaphylaxis).
    Thank you for your prayers.
    Jesus, I Trust in You! (even when it’s really hard). 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
    – Mary H.

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      1. Many, many thanks to all for their prayers for my daughter Grace. I humbly ask that you continue to keep her in your prayers!

        Thank you & God Bless!

        Mary

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  32. JESUS = GOOD NEWS .. 😉

    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ten-commandments-and-systemic-clericalism/

    Unfortunately! The State named after Our Lady should be renamed Marxland ;-(
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9389177/Marylands-earliest-colonial-settlement-built-1634-discovered-90-years-searching.html

    https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/st-nicholas-owen-a-carpenter-saint-for-the-year-of-st-joseph

    Yup!
    https://www.markmallett.com/blog/not-a-moral-obligation/

    https://afa.net/the-stand/culture/2021/03/what-flattening-the-curve-really-means/

    https://www.lifenews.com/2021/03/23/usa-today-says-christian-values-are-archaic-wants-christian-school-oral-roberts-banned/

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/whos_really_committing_this_sudden_spate_of_antiasian_hate_crimes.html

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/23/cambridge-mass-passes-measure-to-recognize-domestic-partnerships-of-more-than-2-people/

    Soooo …. We gotta Syrian born Islamic Terrorist, Murderer/NutJob Shooting-Up DeepBlue Boulder, CO ….. Red State America must disarm!?
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9393669/Gunman-21-charged-murder-shooting-killing-10-people.html
    Methinks …. Not! … RIP Victims.
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrats-boulder-massacre-gun-control-agenda

    Biden can’t find the bathroom but we all must pretend he can … or be called names.
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/03/23/biden-admits-he-doesnt-know-the-facts-about-the-colorado-shooting-calls-for-gun-control-anyway-n2586745?

    Danang Dick chimes in ;-( … &, No Doubt, responsible for all the Blantifa Riots, Destruction & Mayhem …. Oh! & Border Invasion Chaos too!
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/03/23/blumenthal-republicans-are-complicit-in-all-these-shootings/

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/the-equality-act-is-a-push-for-ideological-submission-not-civil-rights/

    Yes! …. and just a contiuation of BO’s “Policies” that never really went away.
    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/is-us-military-being-purged-of-rightists-conservatives-wokeness/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  33. Thank you, Beckita, for Fr Spitzer,s prayers for life’s crises. As we here in the US are led byTPTB to focus [fearfully] on the virus, vaccines, lock downs, looming shortages, shootings, gungrabs and then to watch our totally inept leadership broadcast how good things are going, we are being”sheltered’ from the news of the war drums beating loudly in eastern Europe [Ukraine – who would have thought]. We will not find any of this reported in MSM. It seems the o’bamaplans have resurfaced.

    Hey, CrewDog you might know some reliable intelsites for accurate reports. Fogofwar.
    A cross to bear, but God wins!

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    1. Yes, Judith. All over the world this current stage of the Storm continues to intensify. Hmmm… I seem to recall a gentleman who, a number of years ago, spoke about a worldwide civil war being fought on cultural lines. 😉

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      2. I cannot believe that the drug companies and the government now want to give younger and younger kids (with a target toward babies) this vaccine. They claim we cannot have
        “immunity” if all people are not vaccinated. I find that the claims of safety are absurd. If safety were assured, they would not have been given blanket immunity ( which was probably the result of a lobbying effort and maybe even some pressure by Fauci ) The whole thing, boggles the mind…..At first they said, the vaccinated people still had to wear masks. Now I hear that they have changed that assertion. The statements keep changing all the time. We all know that the safety claims they make are nothing but conjecture since there were no long term studies for a vaccine they have been trying to develop successfully for about 10 or more years. ….Now the virus is mutating. How many more shots do you think they will come up with? ….. I hear that many clinics which have been locally funded to vaccinate have also been billing insurance companies for the same vaccination. Then the clinics send the vaccinated person a bill for about $400. …..Imagine the greed!

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  34. A good source for vaccine info is the companies’ own FDA Briefing documents. You can Google ‘Pfizer FDA briefing document’, as well as all the rest. Any terms I haven’t understood, I just google as well. I keep a word document with quotes from the documents and the related information from my research. They are definitely gene therapy, based on their own info. I encourage people to at least wait a year or two based on the fact that the companies’ own studies will be going on that long. They only have an emergency use authorization.

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    1. Exactly, emergency use authorization is not FDA approval! I save all kinds of quotes and links also, N.Lily! It’s my ammunition to send our kids and any others who will pay attention. Seems to me there is more info on the negative side than real documentation on the positive side! All this vaccinating is just a study replacing all the testing that was never done in labs!!

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  35. So true:
    Jesse Romero’s Blog
    DAILY REFLECTIONS WITH
    ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN
    The judgment of the thieves

    Note that all are sinners, as the two revolutionaries, or thieves, were both sinners. They both blasphemed when they began. There was no difference between them. Then one of them responded to grace, and the other interpreted the power of God as doing something good for himself, and so he said, ‘If you’re the Son of God, save yourself and save us.’ That’s all God is for. What would he have done with his life had it been given to him? He would have gone on with the dirty business of thieving. So, on the last day there will be the good and the bad. This is judgment in its prologue.

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  37. JESUS = GOOD NEWS .. 😉 .. PM

    Push-Back from Alumni …. will ND pay attention? …. or LeftWing PC as usual?
    https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/pack-dont-invite-joe

    Perverts & their Lawfare Lawyers will “Press to Test” the system to intimidate &/or destroy businesses, churches, schools and individuals.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/masterpiece-cakeshop-baker-sued-once-again-over-refusal-to-make-gender-transition-cake/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&

    Time for Red States to form a Coalition to oppose ALL the Democrat Radical Socialist Agenda!
    Without the Second Amendment we DO NOT have any Bill of Rights. That’s WHY Our Founders placed it #2 after Free Speech/Assembly/Religion!

    PS: Despite what Know-Nothings in Democrat Party & their Media Masters believe, the AR in AR-7/10/15 does NOT mean Auto/Assault Rifle!
    It stands for ArmaLite; the name of the company that designed the above 60+ years ago.
    https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/san-antonio/news/2021/03/19/gov–abbott-touts–second-amendment-sanctuary-state–bill-

    https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/24/morning-greatness-media-disappointed-to-learn-boulder-shooter-not-a-white-guy/

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/rep_ilhan_omar_and_meena_harris_emerge_with_egg_all_over_their_faces_after_jump_to_judgment_in_colorado_shooting.html

    https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/boulder-shooting-victims/

    The above Red State Coalition must address/INVESTIGATE this ENTIRE ChinaPlague Conspiracy too!
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/little-noticed-panel-fauci-and-chinese-communist-politico-envision

    https://spectator.org/systemic-injustice-covid-kids/

    Not to Worry! Give up your guns and violence disappears …Right!??
    https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/23/safe-spaces-of-violence/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  38. I just discovered comedian Jeanne Robertson on youtube. While we ponder the madness and darkness swirling faster and faster around us, she has some good clean humor to share. This one involves Baptists, Episcopalians, Catholics, etc. Maybe Charlie will allow for the laughter, We all need it. (She has more great stuff on youtube)

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    1. That’s Hysterical!!! My husband and I were belly-laughing. TY! She is wonderful. Can’t wait to check out her other postings. 🙂

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      1. Check out the one where she says She should not waste her southern accent, and the one that says Don’t send your husband to the grocer store. They are also hysterical…..I even laugh when I replay it! Just like the old Lucy shows.

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  39. In the headlines of one of the three of my main go-to online news aggregrates(Breitbart, citizenfreepress or libertydaily) was the information from abc news about more migrants will come in than the last 20 years combined. Another headline read 42 million Central Americans want to migrate. That’s a lot of people! The info has been running around in my head since reading it.
    This morning’s scripture reading is so comforting:
    Psalm 37

    Of David.

    1 Do not fret because of those who are evil
    or be envious of those who do wrong;
    2 for like the grass they will soon wither,
    like green plants they will soon die away.

    3 Trust in the Lord and do good;
    dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
    4 Take delight in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

    5 Commit your way to the Lord;
    trust in him and he will do this:
    6 He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
    your vindication like the noonday sun.

    7 Be still before the Lord
    and wait patiently for him;
    do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
    when they carry out their wicked schemes.

    8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
    do not fret —it leads only to evil.
    9 For those who are evil will be destroyed,
    but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.
    _____________
    Thank you, Lord for your word. Help me with verse 7.

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  40. JESUS = GOOD NEWS .. 😉

    I guess I could research where the BVM as Co-Redeemer Movement came from but it never “rang true” to me. It has become an, understandable, point of contention with other Christians.
    Perhaps someone here could enlighten me/us?
    https://www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-francis-jesus-entrusted-mary-to-us-as-a-mother-not-as-co-redeemer

    https://spiritdailyblog.com/inspiration/how-many-love

    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/meet-sr-magdalene-teresa-a-woman-who-makes-the-world-better/

    https://www.catholicleague.org/leno-apologizes-to-asians-but-not-catholics/

    Go West Virginny!! PushBack! 😉 I’ll Say-Again! Teachers Unions are nothing but a self serving $$$ Laundering scheme of the democrat Party! ;-(
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/25/once-held-hostage-by-teachers-unions-west-virginia-just-passed-sweeping-school-choice-legislation/

    The Left, be they Twitter, FB, Democrat Party, Media or radical embeds within all branches of the Feral Gubermint, feel they have the Power to do as THEY please These-Days ;-( I’m hoping it’s ’cause they know Time is short!?

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/24/federal-judge-scolds-politically-activist-doj-for-media-statements-interviews-and-leaks/

    https://www.mrctv.org/blog/twitter-calling-boulder-shooter-white-christian-terrorist-does-not-violate-their

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/24/house-intelligence-committee-republicans-deeply-concerned-about-politically-weaponized-intelligence-community/

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/caught-video-fbi-dhs-attempt-recruit-former-green-beret-infiltrate-spy-oath-keepers-proud-boys-recorded-conversation/

    http://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/the-u-s-intelligence-community-flouting-laws-is-increasingly-involving-itself-in-domestic-politics/

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/the_unfit_president_.html

    https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/03/24/biden-turns-kamala-border-crisis-meeting-over-to-ron-klain-and-things-do-not-appear-to-be-well-watch-n349640

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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    1. We’re all co-redeemers with Christ, Crew Dog. “Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.” (Colossians 1:24) We could say that Our Lady, as Co-Redemptrix, is the preeminent co-redeemer. We follow in her footsteps.

      This title “Co-Redemptrix” needs to be understood for what it means: the prefix “co-” comes from the Latin word, “cum,” which means, “with.” It takes nothing from the reality that her Son is the one and only Redeemer. Catholic theological teachings and reflections are replete with the concept that, as Jesus’ Mother, she participated in a unique way in His Passion and Death. Their Hearts are inseparable. It was Jesus’ Redemptive grace which was proclaimed – as we celebrate today – at the Annunciation when St. Gabriel said: “Hail Mary, full of grace.” Jesus’ Redemptive grace was operable when the Father formed Mary in her Immaculate Conception. How often it has been written and spoken that the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary are inseparable. They did, do and continue to remain united in calling God’s children back to Him.

      Also noteworthy, I believe, is that the Blessed Mother does not seek the title for herself. Yet, what God ordains in heaven is done when it is spoken. Sometimes, it just takes a while for mere humans to fully explicate that it is real. I believe when we are rescued by Our Lady, we will delight in discovering that all of heaven has been celebrating this jewel of our Mother’s maternity. Widespread knowledge of this on earth will only cause us to love Jesus the more for what He did for each of us and our Mother’s constant modus operandi is spotlight on Jesus!

      Here’s a great piece on how Pope St. John Paul II, a great prophet in his own right, wrote and spoke of Our Lady’s cooperation in the Lord’s redemption of His people. http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/calkins/jp2marcor.htm I especially appreciate this article because its author pulls out references from Patristic writing. You see, when the receiver of The Lady of All Nations’ words bemoaned to Our Lady concerning the rejection of her words by some theologians, our Mother would encourage Ida to tell the theologians to look more deeply. “It’s all there,” Blessed Mother would say.

      Some may wonder: “Why should I care?” I would say, “Care deeply,” if indeed these messages are authentic, for it would be pleasing to God that we honor our Mother for all He created her to be. Time will tell. I will note that the messages were studied for years and they were fully approved. That the CDF changed their status, and restricted them from being publicly promoted, is an unique intervention. Those who had been promoting OLAN have obeyed the directives from the CDF, trusting that God will set all things right as this Storm concludes.

      In a final note, I wonder how many people have read the messages of Our Lady of America in their entirety. These apparitions are a continuation of our Mother’s work and words given in Amsterdam. Our Lady revealed to Sr. Mildred ( or as our friend BD – miss you BD – calls her, “Sr. Millie”) that she, Mary, is the Co-Redemptrix. Further, when St. Joseph appeared to Sr. Mildred, he explained that at his birth, Christ’s grace removed the stain of original sin from him AND St. Joseph said he is the Co-Redeemer. How fitting and appropriate, in my mind. Some have written, and Jesus’ has revealed in private to some, that His Redemption began not at Calvary but at His Conception. His circumcision was the first shedding of His Precious Blood for us. Well, of course! Jesus, in Sublime Humility, was redeeming every iota of what it means to be human, beginning with developing as a person in the womb. Holy Wonder! Wood of the Cradle become Wood of the Cross become Wood of the Altar.

      OK one other final note… as Charlie has written and spoken to God wanting the uniqueness of each nation to be honored, each with its own character and charisms to flourish, we can ponder the prayer and promises Our Lady gave in Amsterdam. The prayer is for the preservation of each nation: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now Your Spirit over the earth. Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war. May the Lady of All Nations, the Blessed Virgin Mary, be our Advocate. Amen.” After leaving us with that prayer in the 1940’s, Blessed Mother went to Sr. Mildred, beginning in the 1950’s, to speak of what God wills to do with our nation. Holy awesomeness.

      All that said, I hold every prophecy in open hands lifted to the Father. All will come to pass in His Perfect Plan for these times and surprises aplenty are in store. And the people of the Kingdom and the people of Heaven shall rise together…

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      3. “Redemptive suffering is the personal sacrifices that Christians unite with Christ’s sacrifice He made of Himself to the Father. Crosses carried by members of Christ’s mystical body have *redemptive value* to atone for sin and to call down God’s blessings on humanity. Christ views crosses borne with Him as an extension of His cross .”(churchmilitant.com).
        Mary carried Jesus’s cross beside him in her heart which was united to his heart in a truly unique way truly “picking up her cross” by which a sword pierced her heart “so the thoughts of many would be revealed to her”. Also, by her yes to the Fathers plan, she became the “fiat” which brought Him into the world and she confirms this in the Magnificat when she claims her soul “magnifies the Lord”. She therefore made up which is lacking in creation by uniting God with her children by this magnification, she becomes a type of intersessor herself, but on the created side by her body creating the body of the Man-God thus uniting heaven and earth with her cooperation. Every mother does something like this when she conceives and a soul is united to her baby but Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit to unite the Divine Redemer to a body. So here too, she helps in the creation of the flesh and blood, through her own flesh and blood, that will save us from our sins thus “cooperating” with our Redemer in our redemption becoming the Co-Redemptrix by both her yes and her suffering.
        At Fatima, she is still called on by God to help save us:
        “…to save them, God wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart”.

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  41. Here are some neat “offensive” things we can do..

    1. Per Anne B. at https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021/03/25/q-ann-is-the-arsh-prefix-you-use-ridiculous-did-you-just-make-it-up/

    Start adding A.D. to checks and correspindence; bear in mind this will soon be illegal andis by now an affront to modern sebsibilities abd Bill Barr ‘s criminals at doj and fbi will raid you like tgey did Roger Stone and the vet who participated in the rally.

    2. The latest capitulation regards the wicked, warped perverted men who insist we deny God and refer to them as women and worse. Refuse , rudely, to participate in their spiritual demise and call them what they are; perverted men.

    Both are modest examples of “going on offence”

    My morning prayful rant with Gid involved the absolute silence of Bishops and priests and protestants to fight for reality.

    Sadly, I fulky expect to be berated by “sensible authority” that this is not in accordance with the roll on yer back and subjugate yourself for Jesus that is current dogma.

    At this piint, I no longer xare what those men and women think. I will act.

    God bless

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    1. From the above link:
      This event is so massively incomprehensible in its infinite love for mankind that we bend the knee TWICE at Mass when it is mentioned: the first instance is when the Creed is recited. All should kneel at the words, “Et incarnátus est de Spíritu Sancto ex María Vírgine: Et homo factus est,” that is in English, “And became incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary: and was made man.”
      The second instance is at the Last Gospel, recited at the end of almost every Mass, all genuflect at the words, “Et Verbum caro factum est,” which is, “And the Word was made flesh”
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      (from Wikipedia)
      “Last Gospel read at the conclusion of Tridentine Mass. The Last Gospel is the name given to the Prologue of St. John’s Gospel (John 1:1-14) when read as part of the concluding rites in the Tridentine Mass. The Prologue speaks on Jesus Christ as the Logos and on the Incarnation. The Last Gospel was not included in the New Rite of Mass”

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    2. How about this: T-shirts with printed on them ” Jesus Christ – the only Way, Truth and Life”. A lot of people around would be hissing I guess…

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  44. From today’s Medugorje message: “…I have come here with the name ‘Queen of Peace’ because the devil wants peacelessness and war, he wants to fill your heart with fear of the future – but the future is God’s. “. Hahaha the future is God’s!!!

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  46. PrayMoreNovenas.com Great site, will email novena prayers each day.
    Hubby’s cancer surgery is tomorrow. Thank you St. Joseph and St. Angela Merici for whatever you have done.

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  47. JESUS = GOOD NEWS .. 😉 ..

    https://denvercatholic.org/good-news-after-a-very-bad-year/

    https://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-chickens-of-choice

    https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/cognitive-dissonance-in-the-great-reset

    Yep! Nobody will ever convince me that ChinaPlague is NOT a satan and his useful idiots Operation!
    https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/uk-uses-psycho-warfare-to-whip-up-covid-terror

    Pastor Coverstone on a topic I’d agree with … especially …These-Days!:

    https://www.catholicleague.org/mass-killers-have-much-in-common/

    If The Left cared a whit about crime or the children, they would reverse Roe vs. Wade and clean up the corrupt & dangerous Urban Cesspools that they have controlled and milked for votes these past 70 years! THEY want a disarmed & submissive Citizenry … Period!
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/amid-calls-universal-background-checks-little-evidence-they-would-stop-major-mass

    Not to Worry!
    In four years, despite valiant opposition from The Usual Suspects, Trump made the USA Energy Independant. … & made strides in Making Stuff in America Again ;-(
    In just 60 days, ChinaJoe and BO in Drag have reversed it all.
    Ain’t it Grand!?? 😉 ….. Hello!? …. Anybody there???
    http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20210325-suez-canal-container-ship-accident-is-a-worstcase-scenario-for-global-trade

    https://freebeacon.com/national-security/lawmakers-investigate-state-department-over-1-billion-ransom-payment-to-iran/

    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/a-biden-appointees-troubling-views

    https://newsbusters.org/
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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    1. CrewDog, thank you for your daily (or twice-daily) news round-up.

      This article that you posted is the latest from Archbishop Viganò:
      https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/cognitive-dissonance-in-the-great-reset

      The section I find most compelling is this:

      “Ordinary people, unable to comprehend or even recognize any rationality in what the media obsessively says about COVID, accept the absurdity of an influenzal virus presented as being more devastating than Ebola, because they do not want to accept that their political leaders are lying shamelessly, with the goal of obtaining the social, economic, moral and religious destruction of a world that someone has decided to cancel. They do not know how to accept that the lie can be passed off as truth, that doctors are not curing . . . and indeed are killing their patients . . . , that civil authorities are not intervening to stop crimes and blatant violations, that politicians are all obeying a faceless lobby . . . . Thus, out of this desire to not accept the deception and thus to not want to take a position against it and against those who promote it, they take refuge in the convenient mainstream narrative, suspending judgment and letting others tell them what to think, even if it is irrational and contradictory.”

      The media, of course, are also essential, pushing the 24/7 fear narrative and the vaccine solution while deplatforming and otherwise censoring solid medical opinions and experience to the contrary.

      In response to the fear narrative, people then actively seek out any of the relatively untested so-called vaccines that work differently from conventional vaccines.

      Here is an article from a secular source that complements Archbishop Viganò’s:

      https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/12/on-the-psychology-of-the-conspiracy-denier/

      Honestly, these are difficult days, and my heart is heavy in an “offer it up” way. Many if not most of the people I care about and even love are all-in on the vaccine. I often pray, “May all be well” ~ because these are people of good will and I do not wish them harm. ❤

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  48. Why are the media pushing this “take the vaccine to survive” narrative? These are EXPERIMENTAL vaccines and compared to the plagues of the past centuries this virus is rather closer to diarrhea than to any serious plague. 4000 deaths just in Europe as a side effect of taking a Covid “vaccine”. I just heard, my sister in Poland after second shot had a severe reaction and was barely able to walk, at the age of 50, thankfully she made it, but who knows what impact mRNA vaccines will have in the years to come? I am wondering, perhaps they are pushing this experimental vaccination because once everybody is vaccinated there will be no comparison between those who took it and those who did not.

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    1. Pawel,

      I pray God intervenes.

      Many around me are taking the vaccine as if it’s nothing.

      My cousin had a severe reaction to it also. I am putting together a list of family and friends who took a vaccine so I can check up on them in the future to make sure they’re ok.

      I pray Bobg is doing better with his eyesight!

      God help us Please!🙏🏻

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  49. Something just occured to me today.

    Remember 4 to 5 years when Charlie said Obama was going to be the last elected President of America? Anyone who seems to have a scoop on future events will attract the unwanted attention of evil to use that information to their advantage. Imagine how God played the devil and his servants fools and the fury that followed for letting Charlie’s assumption stand as is and installing Trump as President…

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    1. Actually, Charlie never said that Obama was going to be the last elected President of the US, Al. He did say that, eventually, Obama would leave the scene in shame. (Obama continue to be very active.) Charlie also conveyed that the US governmental system could collapse and that, if it did, God would have something new for us and, in the interim, a Regent may well emerge. Thus, Charlie wrote the three part series: Rules of Regency. But this is not a time for prophecy. We’re in the rapids now with focus on what we can do to defend the faith, defend the faithful and hearten the faithful.

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      1. Still, it’s what many people understood Beckita.

        The irony isn’t without a little humour, and the potential for more future surprises, or as Charlie says “Nothing goes to waste in God’s economy.”

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          1. I wish I could Beckita, there’s too much volumes of infornation out there…

            Anyways, the point I was trying to make, is from “Chess Game” point of view, the chess pieces don’t know the game plan, strategies, and alternate plans/strategies as the game develops. Chess is a game of perceptions, decoys, gambits, and trying to predict your opponent’s moves. Our world is just a lot bigger chess board with more complicated strategies. Joan of Arc didn’t know her freedom would come in the form of execution & death.

            When done with a humble heart & mind, even what seems to be a mistake can help divert the evil from God’s true game plan.

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  50. JESUS = GOOD NEWS .. 😉 PM

    Yep!! Rich PC Geek, Dr Fauci/CDC, Media & Democrats will ALL be touting Back to Normal in LATE 22 … Ah!? … Why LATE 22? … Well …. Like Ol’ Bill Gates, Ya don’t have to have more than a HS Diploma to figure this out! …. Right!?
    LATE 22 means after Election 22.
    That means continued Lockdowns on the very same “Swing” Blue States/Cities where all the MASSIVE voter fraud occurred last year with all the SAME ChinaPlague reasons/excuses for ALL the Ballot Shenanigans to occur again.
    That means even more destroyed Middle Class Small Business and more citizens dependent on Democrat Gubermint Hand-Outs.
    That means ever richer Big Tech, Amazon & Big Box Retail and more Democrat Campaign $$$……. and MORE Cancel Culture to crush resistance.
    That means another Lost Year for millions of school kids and thousands more lost to drugs, alcohol and despair .
    Oh!! … Don’t be forgetting ALL those Undocumented Democrats pouring across the Border to be strategically positioned in Swing States/Cities.
    Yes! It’s satanic inspired …. and happening now ;-(
    https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/544900-bill-gates-predicts-world-will-be-back-to-normal-by-end-of-2022

    https://stream.org/social-media-doesnt-allow-posts-that-counter-cdc-and-who-even-though-both-keep-backtracking-previous-findings/

    https://www.aim.org/aim-column/msnbc-staff-uses-pre-covid-photo-to-covid-shame-miami-spring-breakers/

    http://www.floppingaces.net/2021/03/26/the-week-in-radical-leftism-3-26-2021/

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/03/25/Arkansas-bans-transgender-women-female-sports-teams/4531616717434/

    https://www.dickmorris.com/boulder-the-first-jihadi-attack-in-us-after-none-under-trump/?utm_source=dmreports&utm_medium=dmreports&utm_campaign=dmreports

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/26/nolte-whites-excluded-illegal-aliens-qualify-for-oaklands-500-month-payout-program/

    Weekend OVERLOAD:
    https://www.crisismagazine.com/
    https://amgreatness.com/
    https://spectator.org/
    https://www.americanthinker.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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Charlie Johnston is a former newspaper editor, radio talk show host and political consultant. From Feb. 11, 2011 to Aug. 21, 2012, he walked 3,200 miles across the country, sleeping in the woods, meeting people and praying as he went. He writes on cultural, global and political issues from an orthodox Catholic perspective. He emphasizes that we find God most surely through the ordinary, doing the little things we should with faith and fidelity. His constant refrain is that, to live real joy, we must acknowledge God, take the next right step, and be a sign of hope to those around us. He lives in the Archdiocese of Denver in the United States.