ARe We There Yet?

By Charlie Johnston

The older I get, the more I come to appreciate the wisdom of Jesus including Judas in His initial crew of Apostles.

I am certain that Judas fully believed Jesus to be the Messiah. It is the only way the whole story makes sense. He was tired of traipsing around the desert for three years and wanted to get the show on the road to restore Israel to its former glory. So, he thought to force Jesus’ hand, to make Him fully reveal His mighty power. This, too, is consistent with the character of a self-serving double-dealer who is too clever by half, always playing the angles for his own benefit. As with most manipulators things ultimately did not turn out as he expected. In Judas’ case, he committed suicide in despair at his error (an error which he still did not understand).

Jesus accomplished a multitude of things while He walked the earth, but His primary mission was to conquer death after having taken on our humanity. That made Him part of our family and us, if we will, part of His family. In order to conquer death for all of us, He first had to die. That was baked into the cake of His Incarnation. He did not have to die because of Judas’ betrayal, though. The Sanhedrin had long been looking for the means to put the Lord to death. How sorrowful it must have been for Jesus to gaze upon Judas, who He loved and to whom He had entrusted much, knowing against hope that the man would betray Him.

Why would Jesus do this? Judas was authentically an Apostle – until he betrayed his call. It was for us. Jesus showed us that, from the start, there would be those who betrayed Him, their calling and those entrusted to them. That invalidates nothing. Betrayal does not last forever. While it is happening and when it is ultimately repudiated, we are called to live simple fidelity and trust.

As I neared the end of my pilgrimage 11 years ago, I found myself wondering, “What next?” I knew no one in Colorado, I didn’t have family within more than a thousand miles. What next? While in Loveland, Colorado, I felt the presence of the Lord, who seemed to say to me (with a maddening smirk), “I have a plan.” And then He was gone. A few days later it happened again, with me muttering irritably that it would be nice to clue me in a little.  The third time I sensed His presence I just looked and said, “I know. You have a plan.” We both started laughing and then He was gone. Whether this was just my fertile imagination or actual encounters with the Divine, it underscored a great truth: Jesus does not need us to understand His plan while He is unfolding it. He wants us to trust that He has a plan and to obey what He has taught us as it unfolds.

Now we have come to a great divide. Few of even the most pious trust that God has a plan that He is unveiling. Some are panicked that the Church will be destroyed if we don’t act decisively to adopt their plan to save it – as if that were possible. Others are grabbing onto every prophetic word they can find to convince themselves they have the inside scoop – even if those prophetic words contradict Scripture and the Magisterium. Still others are touting things such as magic herbs and various concoctions as what you must have to survive God’s wrath. It brings to mind Christ’s word in Matthew 24:23 that at a time of great confusion many will say Christ is here or Christ is there – but not to believe them. What so many are saying does not direct people to Christ’s plan, which is so often mysterious and inscrutable, but to their own plan. Do as they direct, they insist, and you will be saved. What room does this leave for Christ?

God’s plan is NEVER thwarted. At the time of Christ’s Passion, few men acquitted themselves well. Other than the women around Jesus, John the Beloved, and Joseph of Arimathea, none did. The Sanhedrin railroaded Christ into a judicial murder; The Roman Procurator knew it was pure malice, but was not willing to take the risk to his career to stop it; Judas betrayed Christ; Peter denied him; and the other Apostles fled in terror. The human failure was near universal. Yet Christ’s plan was accomplished to perfection. He even used the failures of those involved to further that plan. Despite their malice, hubris and cowardice, the will of the Lord was accomplished perfectly. God’s plan is NEVER thwarted.

We live in an age of serial and vicious ugliness, with much of it coming from inside the hierarchy. To navigate these difficult times well, we need to keep in mind two things. First, Jesus did NOT tell us never to criticize a Priest or Bishop. This is a rule made up by people who thought it made them seem more pious, oblivious to the abuse and offenses it enabled. Frankly, I think most of the sexual scandals were enabled by this silly man-made rule. St. Paul boasts of correcting the first Pope, St. Peter, to his face (Galations 2:12-21). And Peter took the correction. I have been corrected more than a few times by Bishops I have known. In all but one case, I have taken the correction and been glad of it. In two cases, I have privately corrected Bishops – and, perhaps surprisingly, saw them accept the correction and give me thanks. If we are committed to following Christ, a correction is a blessing between brother Christians. God save us from this modern need to prove ourselves right at all costs and despite all evidence! It is one of the devil’s most effective tools against us. We are brothers trying to find what is most right together. Give thanks for all who have helped you along your way.

The second thing is that Jesus, Himself, set up the hierarchy that was to govern His Church. He did it in full knowledge that one of those He initially chose was a traitor. Even in the face of Bishops who err, sin grievously, or are actually antagonistic to the faith, none of us is authorized to replace the hierarchy He established with one of our own devising. We are to work through the structure He set up trusting that He is neither dead nor does He sleep.

Thus, we are confronted today with both a great test of our faith and of our trust. I have made it no secret that I think Pope Francis is one of the worst Popes in Church history. But I no more say he is not Pope than I would say that Judas was not an Apostle. If he is guilty of formal heresy, he is automatically excommunicate and, thus, no longer Pope. BUT…that is not mine to judge. A council of Bishops could make such a determination – but I am not a Bishop. If I try to make that judgment unilaterally I both usurp a role that is not mine and defy Christ. Not gonna happen.

I am aware and speak plainly about the multitude of offenses coming from the Vatican. Those who want to eliminate Jesus’ rules on marriage, to share communion with those who openly deny the faith, to regularize active homosexuality, to endorse transsexuality, to treat abortion as a peccadillo…in short, to regularize all the things that Christ and the Apostles forbade, are promoted and celebrated while those who hold to Christ’s teaching; Scripture and the Magisterium, are harassed, stifled and, in egregious cases, removed from their sees.

How many times in the Old Testament did God use people who made themselves His enemy to chastise His Chosen People? A lot. Many people clearly see that the Bishops of the world are on the hot seat, being forced to choose where they will stand. Will they stand with this politicized Pope, determined to remake the Church into the world’s image – or will they stand with Scripture and the Magisterium, equally determined to remake the world in God’s image. Few see, though, that each of us are equally in the hot seat – demonstrating to God whether or not we will follow His precepts fully. Will we speak candidly about abuses while holding fast to the Barque of Peter – or will we choose one as more important than the other and so only follow Christ’s commands partially? Our dilemma is not as high profile in the world but it is equally consequential. Frankly, few of us are acquitting ourselves well.

Again, the abuses are abundant. The incoming Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Abp. Victor Manuel Fernandez, says that Bishops, Priests and laity are on a road to heresy when they question or contradict Pope Francis’ Magisterium. The problem is that the Pope does not have a Magisterium; only the Church does. The Pope’s job is to safeguard and defend that Magisterium. It is even more absurd and ignorant than suggesting that Joe Biden’s Constitution is different than Donald Trump’s. Either man may live greater or lesser fidelity to the one Constitution we all have – and they will be judged by their peers and history for their fidelity for what they are supposed to safeguard. So it is with the Pope. He may guard the Magisterium with greater or lesser fidelity – and he will be accountable to God for his fidelity or lack thereof. St. Paul gave a chilling warning to all who might try to bowdlerize apostolic teaching under color of authority: “If anyone is preaching a Gospel contrary to that which you have received (from us), let him be accursed.” (Galations 1:9). He even pronounced the anathema if an angel from heaven should pervert apostolic teaching. This was a warning both to members of the hierarchy who might think to set their own rules and to the laity to live fidelity even in such a circumstance.

What, then, is happening right now? God is separating the sheep from the goats. A very effective way to get the goats to reveal themselves is to give them the illusion they have sovereign power for a time – to convince them that God is, indeed, asleep and will not notice infidelity. It is, simultaneously, a convenient way to reveal which of those under the transient thumb of the goats truly trust God to preserve His Church and which think it can’t survive unless they try to pull the wheel away from God.

Cardinal Gerhard Muller has warned that the Synod on Synodality is an effort to make the Church into a Social Justice NGO while denying its supernatural mission – which is to bring man to God, who is the origin and end of humankind and is the Savior of the world. In 2 Timothy 3 St. Paul warns of a time of depraved men who will have a form of religion but deny its supernatural power, adding that they will hold sway for a time but not get far, for their folly will become plain to all.

It is widely rumored that Pope Francis is going to remove Bp. Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas. Strickland’s reported offenses are that he has publicly criticized the Pope and that he resisted the Covid shots. Bp. Strickland has said that he will not voluntarily resign if asked, though the Pope can forcibly remove him. I spend some time in Tyler. I know of no Diocese where the Bishop is so universally revered. He has done nothing canonically to justify removal – he just refuses to toss Scripture and the Magisterium overboard to get with the modernist program.  What is happening here, I am convinced, is that God is marking Bp. Strickland out for a major role in the renewal of the Church. Those who plot against him had best take care: they are likely to sit in the docket of his judgment just a few years down the line. Fortunately for them, he is a better and more honorable man than they.

Pope Francis has been quietly putting more and more restrictions on Opus Dei. I am a Cooperator, but not a Member, of Opus Dei. Several years before I got involved with it, I came to believe it will be a primary tool God will use to renew the Church. Perhaps Pope Francis has the same insight, though fearfully. Opus Dei focuses on the apostolate of the laity. At the heart of its charism is sanctifying your ordinary work. Two of its pillars are fidelity to the Magisterium and loyalty to the Holy Father. At the turn of the millennium, I warned my Priests that the time would likely come when those two fundamental pillars would be incredibly difficult to reconcile. I believe Opus Dei has collectively decided to weather the storm in silent prayer, while focusing on the good work they do with fidelity to the Gospels and Magisterium. In their case, because of their station, calling, and primary charisms, I think it a noble, if difficult, decision. May we all live our calling with such consistent resolve.

We are become like children in the backseat of the car on a long trip. Frustrated that it is not playing out in the way and as rapidly as we want, we keep asking, “Are we there yet?” All our protests and squirming will not change the navigational route our Father has decided on.

That is not to say we are to be passive spectators of the work God is unveiling. He wants us to be participants in our reclamation – but in a lot more humble way than most of us are willing to accept. He has given us each a little plot of land that we are responsible for tilling and making fruitful. It is our fidelity to that which is our calling. Then the same Christ who, with a couple of fish and loaves, fed a multitude, will multiply our small efforts extravagantly.

I publicly speak of the abuses and offenses that beset us. But I will not run about with my hair on fire, wailing that all is lost or coming up with legalistic formulas by which all will be set right. I will simply do the little I can that is right in front of me. That is because I know that God is not dead nor does He sleep. We are not there yet, but if we truly trust, our Father will get us there – bringing some that we thought were lost along the way.

God has a plan. Believe it. Then live your little part in it as He unveils the fullness of it.

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54 thoughts on “ARe We There Yet?

  1. Nice picture! Should caption it,”Would someone PLEASE get to the front of the boat and wake up Jesus!” Kinda feels like that these days. Challenging, and likely to get more so. I am glad to see your thoughts on all this. Steady on. Life is very good, even when it doesn’t feel like it. Listened to several chapters of Revelations today. Saves time from reading the news…

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  2. Thank-you, Charlie! I enjoyed the smiles and the insights very much.
    Looking forward to meeting up with you next month.
    God bless ~ prayers for all here ~ katey in OR✝️🙏🏽💙
    Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

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  3. An excellent article that explained concisely what in the world is going on in our church. I stood right in the spot where Christ proclaimed that hell will not prevail. It left a powerful impact on me. But those doubts get in the way and this article will strengthen and sustain me . As always Charlie, thank you!
    Church Saturday morning at 9 am. I believe it’s coming. The next right step forward to be at peace and do our part.

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  4. This pope apparently has no fear of God and consequently no wisdom. Pope Francis is not worthy to loosen the thongs of bishop Strickland’s sandals. Santo subito he will be not.

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      1. Nice, so we had pope John Paul II meeting with Reagan to combat communism and now we have pope Francis co-operatinging with Clinton and other globalists to spread neocommunism… This is like spitting in the face of God and hoping it’s ok because God is infinitely merciful.

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  5. Reminds me of the one and only time I heard Jesus sing to me…”Those who Love me, Love me. Those who Trust me, Trust me. Forever and always”.

    I’ll keep doing my best to do both. May God give me the grace to stay in His will. May I be open to receiving this grace even when I’m not living and trusting as I should. God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

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  6. Wow, Charlie! This is the perfect answer to questions my friends were asking at a recent get-together — “What are we supposed to DO with all we’re hearing?!”

    God is so good! I appreciate Him answering that through you! 🥰

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        1. I have recommended CORAC to several people. The protestants believe that they are going to be beamed up via the Rapture and believe that CORAC is not necessary. Others do not see what is happening. Only God can open eyes and ears, Jewel. I do the best I can and that is just bare bones because most of time I am struggling due to my illness. Oh, yes, I still work….and I have somewhat modified assignments so I am able to do it so far. I have to work for various reasons but most especially for the health benefits that I require to treat my very expensive illness.

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          1. Stjudithwanttobe sounds to me like your little part in Gods plan is suffering 😬. And that may be worth more weight in heavenly gold that you currently realize 🥰🙏✝️⛪️👼. God bless you And protect you always 🥰👼

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  7. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂

    https://onepeterfive.com/fernandez-respondes-to-critics-immediately/

    Spanky @ MILINET wrote the below comment on:
    Pope Francis kowtows to godless Chinese–R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/sep/12/pope-francis-kowtows-to-godless-chinese/

    Spanky is a USMC Aviator (Ret) and quite active in Catholic Circles and, I have no doubt, knows of what he writes. Considering the never ending Church Scandals of past 30 years, I also have NO doubt that blackmail of and conlusion by the Rainbow & Vatican II HiJacking Marxists within The Church (Smoke of Satan) are the cause for much of The Scandal!

    “In 2018 the Vatican reached an agreement with the Chinese that legitimized the state-run Catholic Church and effectively allowed the Chinese authority over the appointment of bishops. This alienated the underground Church that was loyal to the Vatican leading to the arrest of Cardinal Zen who denounced the agreement as a sellout move. The 2018 agreement was the culmination of 20+ years of work by the highly compromised Theodore McCarrick (defrocked and laicized Cardinal), a self-promoting, pathological liar and homosexual. During that time, he led numerous delegations to China. His delegations were predictably filled with guys just like him and many made heavy use of homosexual hookup apps like Grindr and Jackd. These apps were owned outright by the Chinese who had access to the app data. Subsequently, Pres. Trump stated Chinese ownership represented a national security threat and forced them to sell but no doubt they are still controlled by the Chinese.
    It is relatively well known that the Chinese leveraged this data to essentially blackmail members of the delegation to reach the agreement, allowing the Chinese government a controlling role in the Catholic Church on mainland China. This happened on the watch of Francis and something he agreed to.”

    https://www.catholicleague.org/was-the-church-silent-during-the-holocaust/

    https://theacru.org/2023/09/14/constitution-absolute/

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/14/hunter-biden-indicted-on-federal-firearms-charges-but-dont-expect-fara-charges/

    https://www.newsweek.com/covid-booster-tested-mice-what-we-know-1826701

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19962/climate-emergency-hoax

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bibbidi-bobbidi-boo-disney-through-destroy-kids

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4205715-california-school-districts-ban-lgbtq-pride-flags/

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/indecent_exposure.html

    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258jhc2s.1rfs/5047757d
    https://www.thedailybs.com/news
    https://www.zerohedge.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  8. One bit that helps me remember to trust God is what had to happen in order for just one scene of the Passion to happen as it did.

    Three items had to be ready to hand to the Roman soldiers in order for the humiliation part to occur.

    The earliest item that had to be in train was the thorn bush or tree. A bird or a high wind had to happen by and drop a thorn bush seed in the corner of the nearby courtyard or wherever it took root, and it had to happen, what, a couple decades before the Passion? And if they had gardeners back then, they had to ignore that bush as it grew from the seed to the bush that provided the branch that the soldiers used to create the Crown of Thorns.

    Someone had to cut a reed to the appropriate length and bring it to the building and leave it in the right corner of the right room so that excited soldiers could find it right away and say, “Hey, look what I found” and put it in Jesus’s hand.

    Finally, someone had to bring a fairly valuable robe, dyed the correct royal color, and leave it on a nearby shelf so that the soldiers could grab it and put it on Jesus.

    All three of these items had to be in place, sometimes years in advance, sometimes just the previous week, be ignored by everyone for a week or a decade, and be so properly placed that the soldiers would find them once they got the idea in their head to proclaim Him King of the Jews.

    And you can take all three items back in time. The robe had to be woven and dyed the previous year, the dye brought in from far away and applied, sold to a corrupt official who was imprisoned a week before the Passion and had his expensive robe removed and tossed in a cubbyhole somewhere and forgotten. The bird that dropped the thorn seed had to find the seed outside the city and fly with it for a mile, maybe?, and drop it right in the proper corner a decade or two earlier. The tree that seed grew on may have grown up outside of the City next to a farmer’s field and been left to grow, perhaps as protection against animals to protect his crop for a decade or two, and that bush in turn got its seed from an animal who ate a shriveled fruit in the adjoining field and brought it a few hundred feet to its burrow in that farmer’s field, and so on. And the reed grew in a stream a hundred miles away, was seen by an old man needing a little bit of help on a trip, who upon arrival in the City gave it to the young son of the jailer nephew he was visiting as a toy the year before, and the child left it by mistake in the building, leaning in a somewhat out of the way corner of the adjoining room and forgot about it.

    God needed His props for that scene and spent millions of years creating those props from the supernovas that created the elements they were made of through the intelligent design of the animals and people who moved them into position, until they existed where they would be needed on that specific morning.

    Each of these three items have their stories, their lineage of events, that brought them to the precise place and precise time when they could enter history and play their sudden short roles in a scene with many levels of meaning for billions of people down through the centuries since.

    How could there not be a God?

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    1. Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
      Romans 11:33

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  9. Many have commented here about a number of your posts being “your best ever.
    For me, this has been your best (as of late). I’ve read too many of them over the years to claim one was better than another but this one melded together many thoughts and concerns I have about our Church and the times we are living in.
    I particularly appreciate the spiritual view of this post over the more political ones because “we wrestle not against flesh and blood” so it’s more prescient to make these spiritual truths known to us since this is the main reason we have collected here at this blog. And as God’s “body”, we are the spiritual warriors against the fleshless enemies that others are confounded by.
    I also loved your use of Scripture passages in conjunction with current issues. It is like reading the Acts of the Apostles when they use old Testament verse to explain Jesus’ actions and it’s ramifications for the faithful. Scripture speaks to every age and if any age needed scripture badly, today is in most need especially when give in context to what we are living through right now!
    Thank you Charlie.

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  10. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂

    Yep! manifest Evil & Useful Idiots! ;-(
    https://www.markmallett.com/blog/hidden-in-plain-sight/

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-other-letter-to-the-ephesians

    https://www.catholicleague.org/new-info-shows-rome-saved-jews-from-nazis/

    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/awakening-churchin-souls/

    https://irishrover.net/2023/09/drag-show-planned-at-notre-dame

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/solum-magisterium

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255367/pope-francis-and-former-president-clinton-to-have-special-conversation-at-foundation-meeting

    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/is-anyone-listening/

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255391/chinese-priest-convicted-of-fraud-for-refusal-to-recognize-state-sanctioned-church

    https://onepeterfive.com/judge-doctrine-holy-father/

    https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2023/09/15/abp-vigano-any-ruler-who-wants-to-oppose-the-new-world-order-must-work-to-end-abortion/

    https://catholicvote.org/cardinal-false-prophers-will-use-synod-pro-abortion-un-agenda/

    https://stream.org/new-documentary-exposes-the-shady-origins-of-the-persecution-of-christians-in-syria/

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/sep/15/catholic-and-parochial-schools-must-hold-line-on-w/

    https://reclaimthenet.org/dc-appeals-court-facebook-subpoena-covid-19-misinformation

    https://newsbusters.org/
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
    https://thefederalist.com/

    Homepage

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    https://www.americanthinker.com/
    https://www.newsmax.com/
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
    https://www.frontpagemag.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  11. PS: JESUS = GOOD NEWS! 😉

    The Burning Platform has a bunch of interesting Covid articles exposing The Agenda:

    Baby Who Died 34 Hours After Vaccines Had Toxic Level of Aluminum in His Blood, Report Confirms

    Pharmakeia Shrinks in ‘Healing for the AGES’

    All Eyes Are on the WHO as They try to Take Over the World

    Global Takeover Advances to Final Stages

    Unnatural origins of Covid and its Variants

    REMEMBER…..YOU COMPLIED

    The godless Global Re-Set THEY are at a point of No Return. THEY must force the majority of BoobLand USA/EU to comply/believe in the societal standards of China/North Korea or face harsh & swift Justice from a populace gone from Cold Anger to HOT!

    If Covid, COVID!, Climate, CLIMATE! & Trump, TRUMP! Hysteria-n-Hoaxes-n-Persecutions-n-Intimidation don’t work, I’m guessing THEY will Poke the Bear or Red Dragon into serious Global Unpleasantness that will result in Emergency DC Executive Orders, suspension of Constitution/Bill of Rights and the unleashing of ALL those Politicized/Weaponized Feral Gubermint Agencies that have been Arming THEMselves to the Teeth since the, so called, Patriot Act, by Bush II, was passed and misused by the three Obama Administrations to create Obama’s “Civilian National Security Force” …. ;-(

    ELECTORATE, BEWARE ! ! !

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!

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    1. CD, I don’t know if you realize how valuable your link is: Pharmakeia in “Healing for the Ages”! I watched the free intro they had online the evening before, but almost their whole conference can be downloaded in pdfs from the article you link. It is life saving information!!! I have watched these doctors for many months; they are saving lives and are brilliant!! Please get the word to many people.
      God bless you!

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    1. Oh gosh, Judith…there is a way, legally, which is the way Florida has taken: banning the use of federal digital currency in their state. Will other states do that? I don’t have high hopes. If they did, that would give rise to state currencies (which would be called scrip to avoid the federal ban on anyone but the gov’t issuing currency). The truth is that if the feds had any success making digital currency the mandatory currency, a HUGE black market would rise to avoid it. The bottom line is that it will only truly be overturned when all is overturned. And I think that is coming a lot sooner than anyone realizes.

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      1. Thanks for your thoughts, Charlie. It surely does seem that the world is being pushed more and more into something hideous and tyrannical. May Christ have mercy on us all.

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    1. Pawel, thanks for the link to youtube video of Col McGregor’s comments. As I listened, I kept thinking: God has a plan, God has a plan. And so He does, and we are all part of it when we are one in Him.

      God bless us and save us. To him be the glory

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  12. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂

    https://catholicexchange.com/a-forgiving-heart-does-not-keep-score/

    https://www.newoxfordreview.org/where-is-fraternal-correction-in-fratelli-tutti/

    https://24101925.hs-sites.com/why-is-st.-peter-wearing-a-sling-in-his-statue-at-the-vatican

    https://catholicexchange.com/how-marys-heart-was-pierced-by-a-sword/

    Statue of Korea’s first Catholic priest officially unveiled in Vatican
    https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230916001500315?section=national/national

    https://catholicvote.org/teachers-union-boss-weingarten-compares-parents-segregationists/

    I have NO doubt that any number of Evil-n-Powerful Humanoids profited BIG from ChinaPlague Hoax, VAXXs, Lockdowns, and Global Re-Set CRIMINAL Conspiracy … and why, sans Divine Itervention, we will never see JUSTICE!
    https://www.infowars.com/posts/bill-gates-massive-covid-profiteering-exposed-in-viral-social-media-post/

    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-uns-new-political-declaration-on-pandemics/
    …. THEY are obsessesd with injecting mRNA in YOUR Body!
    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-fda-has-gone-rogue/

    http://www.cov19longhaulfoundation.org/index.php/vaccine-news/statistically-significant-increase-in-myopericarditis-and-single-organ-cutaneous-vasculitis-found-after-covid-19-vaccination/
    …… THEY ….rumors, distractions, False Flags, .. CONTROL … Global Tyranny ;-(
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/09/16/the-next-current-thing-virus-with-a-purported-40-75-kill-rate-breaks-out-in-india-n1727679

    Corrupt beyond repair!?? ………
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/17/a-dc-cornerstone-issue-that-must-be-understood-this-isnt-what-you-learned-on-schoolhouse-rock/

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12524463/ANDREW-NEIL-China-not-invincible-unstoppable-stand-Beijing-right-paper-tiger.html

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/17/biden-allies-merrick-garland-hunter-joe-doj/

    https://www.floppingaces.net/2023/09/15/the-week-in-radical-leftism-09-15-2023/
    https://www.floppingaces.net/2023/09/17/sunday-funnies-760/

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/
    https://www.thedailybs.com/news
    https://www.zerohedge.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  13. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂

    https://catholicexchange.com/st-hildegards-encounter-with-angels-their-music/

    https://catholicexchange.com/3-small-miracles-no-2-pencils-and-my-number-1-saint/

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255180/new-discoveries-may-change-what-we-know-about-jerusalem-s-basilica-of-the-holy-sepulchre

    Kansas bishop calls for sacred music revival in liturgy

    Did Pope Francis Activate End-Times Prophecy? | Taylor Marshall-Glenn Beck

    https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/10/we-are-repaganizing

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/living-in-a-messy-church

    https://www.catholicleague.org/teachers-union-head-smears-christians/
    https://www.catholicleague.org/catholic-baiting-in-ohio/

    https://stream.org/liberal-christians-see-us-as-pets-who-need-to-be-declawed/

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/a-muslim-sheikhs-unfortunate-first-communion

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/a_catholic_diocese_throws_down_the_gauntlet_on_all_things_lgbtq.html

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/auburn-students-rush-lake-impromptu-baptisms-football-coach-lends-hand

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/video_21stcentury_neopaganism_is_worse_than_the_original.html

    https://allenwest.substack.com/p/allen-west-on-the-stephen-gardner

    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/15/msnbcs-wallace-sh-t-is-about-to-hit-the-fan-in-this-country-trump-is-inciting-his-cesspool-maga-base/

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4209280-nancy-pelosi-trump-blaming-her-jan-6-attack/

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/17/evidence-joe-biden-hunter-business-dealings/

    https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/fda-refuses-to-change-anti-ivermectin-statements-after-court-ruling/

    https://townhall.com/
    https://www.zerohedge.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  14. Charlie what a great great piece per usual!!!! I read it back when you posted it but I’ve been so darn busy with my little plot of land and little souls God has put in my path I didn’t have time yet until today to respond!!! I’m absolutely sure everyone here has been waiting with bated breath for MY response!!! Hahahaha (that was a joke if some of you didn’t get it!😂)

    I really like this paragraph-

    “That is not to say we are to be passive spectators of the work God is unveiling. He wants us to be participants in our reclamation – but in a lot more humble way than most of us are willing to accept. He has given us each a little plot of land that we are responsible for tilling and making fruitful. It is our fidelity to that which is our calling. Then the same Christ who, with a couple of fish and loaves, fed a multitude, will multiply our small efforts extravagantly.”

    That really spoke to me because it’s really all I can handle right now! I’m so busy babysitting 👩🏻‍🍼 and working and trying to run the female side of the home, I just can’t imagine doing anything more!!! I figure God is putting the people in front of me he wants me to serve!!! It’s a small part…my plot of land, so I totally get what you’re saying in that paragraph and I relish in the truth of it all!!!

    As far as pope Francis and all the other crazy stuff going on, I figure God will take care of it all! The gates of hell stall not prevail! He promised us that! I believe Him.

    God bless you Charlie and thank you once again for showing us how to acknowledge God, take the next right step and be a sign of hope to those whom God puts in our path!!! It’s really the only way to navigate these crazy and busy times!!! I’ll do it daily until the end of my life!!!

    Ps I bet you and Jesus DID have a good laugh that one fine day you were trying to figure out His plan😂😂😂. I can sort of envision it in my pee little brain😂🙏🥰✝️⛪️ 🐿️ 🐶

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  15. Oh btw…Charlie remember when you talked about that young father of 4 that was seemingly “gentle,” but then gave a chilling opinion of what he thinks of our generation and how we messed things up??? I ran into one of those young fathers at the grocery store last week!!! We were talking about the times and believe you me…he was beyond “ticked off,” about what our generation has done and he expressed a chilling readiness to right the wrongs. It sort of took my breath away in a righteous sort of way! Whoa! I wonder how many of these young men exist. Very interesting 🧐

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  16. Linda,
    He is feeling that “rightous anger” we should all be feeling!
    All Christians, in virtue of our baptism, are called to be God’s “co-workers” (1 Cor. 3:9) or in the language of Pope John Paul II, “co-redeemers” with Jesus the Redeemer.
    This embodies the sublime call of St. Paul to “make up what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the Church” (Col. 1:24). As members of Christ’s Mystical Body, we are all called to offer spiritual sacrifices (1 Pet. 2:5), to be instruments of intercession for each other through our prayers, penance, ministries, and the patient (and sometimes impatient) endurance of the crosses of our daily life. The more we understand our universal Christian call and duty to be “co-redeemers” in effecting the release of grace merited by our Lord and Redeemer at Calvary, the more we will understand and appreciate the unique and unparalleled participation of our Mother in the work of Redemption as our perfect model of co-redemption.
    https://mmp-usa.net/our-mother-co-redemptrix-mediatrix-advocate/

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  17. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂

    https://catholicexchange.com/10-tools-to-help-you-offer-your-praise-to-god/

    https://onepeterfive.com/bishop-ignore-unjust-deposition-by-pope/

    https://onepeterfive.com/forgotten-customs-ember-days/

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-moral-message-of-la-salette

    https://respectliferadio.podbean.com/e/father-brian-mullady-law-and-morality/

    https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/catholicism-in-america-whither-the-bloom

    https://afn.net/church/2023/09/18/jonathan-cahn-welcome-to-biblical-times-america/

    https://catholicvote.org/

    https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-759026

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/mark_levins_emthe_democrat_party_hates_americaem.html

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/18/mark-robinson-if-i-were-the-governor-of-texas/

    https://www.floppingaces.net/2023/09/18/special-needs-us-senator-allowed-to-dress-like-a-slob/
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/pennsylvania-high-school-students-organize-walkout-protest-trans-bathroom-rule-compromised-rights
    https://afn.net/church/2023/09/18/jonathan-cahn-welcome-to-biblical-times-america/

    https://www.steynonline.com/13776/spirits-of-the-age

    Matt 24:12 -“and with the increase of lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/laughing-woman-viciously-beaten-seattle-area-gas-station-cash-cigs-candy
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12526679/Las-Vegas-hit-run-death-cyclist-Andreas-Probst.html
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1703883409741808046.html
    https://allenwest.substack.com/p/the-hypocrisy-of-the-hunter-biden

    https://www.zerohedge.com/page/3
    https://www.newsmax.com/
    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258ji4dt.1wu9/14d3c55e
    https://www.frontpagemag.com
    https://www.thedailybs.com/news
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  18. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂

    Take the Red Pill

    https://onepeterfive.com/bishop-athanasius-schneider-on-the-validity-of-pope-francis/

    https://catholicexchange.com/cultivate-the-mind-and-heart-of-a-prophet-today/

    https://catholicvote.org/trump-promises-to-pardon-lauren-handy-co-defendants/

    https://catholicvote.org/census-poverty-up-first-time-13-years

    https://catholicvote.org/national-debt-reaches-historic-high-shutdown-looms/

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/20/doj-gives-ray-epps-the-james-wolfe-treatment-charged-with-one-misdemeanor-count-with-background-plea-deal-in-place-and-james-boasberg-as-the-pre-selected-judge/

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/the_evolution_of_the_american_police_state.html

    https://bongino.com/legendary-economist-thomas-sowell-issues-major-warning-for-america

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/19/dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-appoints-primary-trump-russia-conspiracy-agents-as-expert-group-to-identify-domestic-terrorism-and-disinformation/

    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/09/19/well-well-well-look-at-the-conspiracy-theory-the-j6-cat-finally-dragged-in-why-now-n1728211

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/breaking-big-house-judiciary-committee-republicans-fbi-lost/

    Get Vaxed-Get Waxed! ;-(
    https://www.planet-today.com/2023/09/evidence-shows-hpv-vaccines-like.html
    https://newstarget.com/2023-09-19-90-percent-covid-deaths-fully-triple-vaccinated.html

    FAKE CLIMATE NARRATIVE IS EASILY DEBUNKED

    The Hidden Agenda Behind Lockdowns

    https://newsbusters.org/
    https://thefederalist.com/
    https://justthenews.com/
    https://stream.org/category/us/
    https://www.thedailybs.com/news

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  19. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … 😉 PM

    https://www.churchpop.com/high-school-football-team-sings-the-ave-maria-after-every-game-honoring-our-lady-in-viral-video/

    https://onepeterfive.com/1978-investigation-vatican-freemasonry/

    https://www.wnd.com/2023/09/federal-judge-sets-trial-religious-discrimination-case/

    https://onepeterfive.com/strickland-i-cannot-resign-but/

    THEY despise Our Faith and THEY only want godless Gubermint to be the font of “Charity” …. and Control & Power!
    https://adflegal.org/article/washington-law-threatens-mission-homeless-ministry

    https://www.catholicleague.org/new-york-times-now-likes-the-nuclear-family/

    Some Worthy once quipped: “Only Government can take a useful commodity, like paper, slap ink on it and make it totally worthless.”
    Our US Currency is “backed-up” by Hot Air emitted by Politicians with NO knowledge of Economics, History or Civics ;-(
    When I was young I could take a Dollar Bill to any bank and get a Silver Dollar and coins were made of Silver, Nickel & Copper. I remember when two Nickels in your pocket would buy a Coke and a candy bar. ….. a Dollar Bill would buy five gallons of gas ….. it ain’t gonna end well.
    Stock up on anything useful/of barter value every time Ya go to WallyWorld!!
    https://www.nxtmine.com/economics/the-hard-asset-inflation-paper-asset-deflation-theory/

    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/debt-limit-as-moral-test/

    Judge & Macgregor

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/21/tucker-carlson-interviews-texas-ag-ken-paxton/

    https://allenwest.substack.com/p/determined-purposeful-intentional-policies

    DC Swamp CORRUPTION On-Parade & In Your Face!
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/21/peter-schweizer-the-clintons-are-masters-of-disaster-capitalism-and-ukraine-is-their-next-big-project/

    Signers of Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Land Government Jobs


    https://pjmedia.com/columns/paula-bolyard/2023/09/21/the-most-dangerous-man-in-america-n1728578

    https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/09/21/america-is-becoming-a-joke-n2628665

    Harvard’s Jacinda Ardean Calls on the United Nations to Crack Down on Free Speech as a Weapon of War

    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258jioue.1s7l/a2739368

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  20. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day! 😉

    https://catholicexchange.com/suffering-the-path-of-love/

    https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2023/09/21/weekly-news-roundup-bishop-schneider-on-validity-of-pope-francis-abp-vigano-and-trump-on-abortion-francis-with-the-clintons/

    https://www.catholicleague.org/garland-goes-mute-about-fbi-catholic-probe/

    https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/review-revitalizing-catholicism-in-america-nine-tasks-for-every-catholic/

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255446/destruction-of-ethnic-armenians-is-imminent-warn-experts

    https://onepeterfive.com/synod-on-synodality-doomed/

    https://spiritdailyblog.com/news/land-of-the-dragon

    Pope Francis and Bill Clinton Meet Up – Taylor Marshall

    Team Obama & Team Billary making moves. None of it/THEM bodes well for The Republic!
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/21/nunes-gets-it/
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/21/peter-schweizer-the-clintons-are-masters-of-disaster-capitalism-and-ukraine-is-their-next-big-project/

    FREE Covid Tests? …. All part of ChinaPlague 2.0 Hysteria & Vote Steal 24 ;-(

    Morning Greatness: Free COVID Tests Will Again Be Available Starting Next Week

    THEY are STILL pushing mRNA ClotShots & Covering Up Truth … Manifest EVIL .. On Parade!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/comprehensive-timeline-covid-19-vaccines-and-myocarditis
    https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot/
    https://www.wnd.com/2023/09/cancers-erupting-ways-never-seen-following-covid-shots/
    https://player.fm/series/american-conservative-university/victor-davis-hanson-yale-professor-on-covid-vaccines-and-turbo-cancers-robert-kennedy-jr

    https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/20/americas-rainbow-military-is-on-track-to-lose-another-major-war/

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/is_the_pope_catholic_.html

    https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258jiz12.1z5l/d0be919c
    https://www.theburningplatform.com/
    https://townhall.com/
    https://www.thedailybs.com/news
    https://patriotpost.us/digests/100664-mid-day-digest-2023-09-21

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  21. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day! 😉

    https://onepeterfive.com/17th-sunday-after-pentecost-this-is-where-the-real-darkness-happens/

    https://www.ncregister.com/blog/saints-have-died-to-defend-christs-teaching-on-marriage

    https://www.ncregister.com/audio/register-radio-sept-23-2023

    https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/bishops-from-mainland-china-to-attend

    Trump is why Roe v Wade was CNX …. He is now playing Political DoubleSpeak Games for Election 24.
    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/heartbeat-laws-are-not-a-terrible-mistake-president-trump
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/education-secretary-cardona-rips-misbehaving-parents-acting-know-right-kids
    https://thehill.com/policy/international/4219557-erdogan-unhappy-with-lgbt-colors-at-un-general-assembly/
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/first-trans-nfl-cheerleader-compares-role-becoming-doctor-says-will-stop-show
    NOTHING has changed for Election 24! THEY will use the SAME Dirty Tricks and Swing State Vote Steal Tactics as 2020 ’cause THEY can without fear of retribution! ;-(
    https://reclaimthenet.org/bidens-2024-campaign-flagging-misinformation-big-tech
    …. & Corrupt -n- Weaponized DOJ, Media & Swamp DC Judiciary will Be There!
    https://www.declassified.live/p/fact-checking-merrick-garlands-fair

    https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/ignorant-pathetic-merrick-garland-wilts-on-the-hot-seat/

    https://summit.news/2023/09/21/ag-garland-invokes-holocaust-to-defend-his-policies-of-persecuting-indicting-and-imprisoning-his-political-opponents/

    https://revolver.news/2023/09/merrick-garland-sloppy-ray-epps-plea-deal-its-worse-than-you-think/

    HullyGee! I wonder how many of these Illegal Aliens will Vote Democrat Early-n-Often in 24?
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/22/friday-afternoon-statistic-dump-border-patrol-reports-over-7-5-million-illegal-aliens-released-into-u-s-during-biden-term-5-18-million-are-single-adult-males/

    Ya consider the WEF, Cloward-Piven, Alinsky-Rules for Radicals, Wide-Open Borders -n-Drug Trafficking, Democrat, Radical Left, Party and Public “Education” …. Not much time!
    “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”
    ― Aldous Huxley

    https://stream.org/category/us/
    https://www.thedailybs.com/news

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  22. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day! 😉

    https://catholicvote.org/texas-diocese-holds-eucharistic-flotilla-procession/

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255450/bishop-strickland-no-communication-from-rome-following-apostolic-visitation

    https://catholicherald.co.uk/police-apologise-for-catholic-woman-six-months-after-arresting-her-for-silent-prayer/

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/23/losing-faith-religious-identification-among-democrats-crashes-20-points-in-20-years/

    I’ll say again! The USA has NO business &/or Strategic Interest in Ukraine!!
    They have been cutting each others throats Over-There for millennia. The International THEY, who appear to be ignorant of history, economics and military affairs, have decided to wage a Proxy War with Russia using USA Treasure and Ukrainian Blood. Russia is stronger than ever and US/EU Borders are overrun and Treasuries/Military War Reserve Stockpiles are depleted! Why?… Exactly?? Cover-Up of … Political Corruption? Chemical Weapons Labs? Satanic Plot? ….. All of the Above? ….. and China/Iran laughing all the way to the Bank ;-(
    https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/09/20/borys-gudziak-interview-war-ukraine-russia-246122

    PF In-Action! Sounding more like a Democrat ….as Usual ;-(
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/pope-francis-says-europe-is-not-facing-a-migrant-emergency-says-countries-should-open-ports

    https://www.catholicleague.org/garland-goes-mute-about-fbi-catholic-probe/

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/now_theyre_just_poking_their_fingers_in_our_eyes.html

    https://cis.org/Bensman/New-Records-Biden-DHS-Has-Approved-Hundreds-Thousands-Migrants-Secretive-Foreign-Flights

    https://www.floppingaces.net/2023/09/23/the-plan-to-give-all-illegal-aliens-the-right-to-vote-here-it-is/

    https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4218489-robert-menendez-broke-the-goldilocks-rule-of-corruption/

    We Know Exactly What ‘De-Development’ Means

    YEP! ….. Hold Your Ground! Fix Bayonets!!
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/23/leadership-staying-in-the-eye-of-the-storm/

    https://www.thedailybs.com/news

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  23. 9/23/06 – Vol. 7 How operating for Christ destroys the human work,
    which Jesus makes rise again into a divine work.
    “As I was in my usual state, blessed Jesus came for a little while, and embracing
    me wholly, He told me: “My beloved daughter, operating for Christ and in Christ
    makes the human work disappear completely, because by operating in Christ,
    since Christ is fire, He consumes the human work, and after He has consumed the
    human work, His fire makes it rise again into a divine work. Therefore, operate
    always together with Me, as if we were both doing the same thing together; if
    you suffer, suffer as if you were suffering together with Me; if you pray, if you
    work, do everything in Me and with Me. In this way you will lose the human works
    completely and will find them again as divine. Oh, how many immense riches
    creatures could acquire, but they do not avail themselves of them.”

    Click to access September-Calendar-For-Web.pdf

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