Blessed Holy Week, from Rome. Hard decisions will be forthcoming.
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Breaking: Vatican fires chaplains at Fairfield and Valparaiso, orders Carmelites to abandon Rule of St. Teresa
Month: April 2022
Video: It takes five minutes of research to understand Zelensky’s Azov Nazis are behind the slaughter in Ukraine
These are Ukrainian Nazis killing innocent Ukrainian citizens. There is video testimony from the Ukrainian citizens, exonerating the Russians. The blind stupidity of “Russian atrocities” is so obvious. In the video below, start at about the four minute mark. There are additional videos at the link. -NVP
Independent Journalist Exposes Zelensky’s Murderous ‘Nazi’ Soldiers Hunting Civilians
By Amy Mek April 9, 2022
“Ukrainian Nazis shoot people and kill people. They kill civilians. Women, men, everybody.”
US Navy veteran and independent crowd-funded journalist Patrick Lancaster is in the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, where the Russian army is gaining ground. Ukrainian Nazi group Azov Battalion has longed occupied Maripol. Azov is a significant part of the Ukrainian army. Lancaster interviewed residents near Azovstal, a large steel factory where the Ukrainian military is entrenched.
A man told Lancaster that a sniper nearly hit him twice. Lancaster heard the bullets flying around his ears. He explained that it was not the Russians who almost killed him but a sniper from the Azov Battalion. “They are shooting at civilians,” stressed the man. “They don’t shoot soldiers, only civilians. They kill civilians and destroy buildings. These Banderites, or fascists, or Nazis or SS men, I don’t know what to call them.”
Ukrainian Nazis Killing People
Another man told the reporter that the snipers were ‘Nazis.’ “Ukrainian Nazis shoot people and kill people. They kill civilians. Women, men, everybody.”
The Maripol resident said that they are releasing men from prison. They get a lot of money to kill people for no reason. Lancaster told the man that American and European media are claiming that Russia is destroying cities and killing people. “Russia doesn’t shoot people at all,” the man explained.
Ukrainian Tanks Destroy Homes
A crying woman told the journalist that she would have to go hungry and thirsty without the Russian aid. The woman, who thanked the Russians, said Ukrainian tanks had destroyed her flat, and they live in constant fear.
Lancaster interviewed many people who have fled Mariupol. In a village hosting refugees from the city, the war journalist spoke with Lena, who had left Mariupol in a hurry.
She told Lancaster that she lived in a small bomb shelter with 160 others for a month. “Without light, without water, and without food. We drank snow and rainwater.”
“Members of the Azov battalion constantly fired upon us,” Lena said. “They stood in our yards, shooting their guns and attracting attention.”
“They knew that Russian soldiers would not shoot civilians. For that reason, they entered houses, kicked the people out, and started firing from the houses. They used us as shields,” said Lena.
“Every day, they destroyed blocks of houses. She told Lancaster they set fire to houses, shot at people, and killed people.” The Azov battalion shot at people going outside to make lifesaving fires. “When you go out to make a fire, someone shoots at your legs with a machine gun. And you run in. To warm up the water, you go out 50 times, hear the shooting, and run in again.”
Azov Battalion are Villains
People also died in the bomb shelters, Lena said. For example, an older woman who died in her shelter couldn’t be buried for two days because of the bombing. So the woman’s corpse lay dead among all the people living with her.
“They are villains, zombies. Their goal was to destroy the city. They destroyed the city,” she said of the Azov battalion…
“Jesus wept, as did the Apostles also… He looked upon the city, and wept over its approaching destruction.”
THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST and BIBLICAL REVELATIONS
Volume IV– Anne Catherine Emmerich
THE DOLOROUS PASSION AND DEATH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
And now Jesus arranged His procession. The Apostles He ordered to proceed, two and two, before Him, saying that from this moment and after His death, they should everywhere head the Community (the Church). Peter went first, followed by those that were to bear the Gospel to the most distant regions, while John and James the Less immediately preceded Jesus. All carried palm branches. As soon as the two disciples that were waiting near Bethphage spied the procession coming, they hurried forward to meet it, taking with them the two animals. The she-ass was covered with trappings that hung to its feet, the head and tail alone being visible.
Jesus now put on the beautiful festal robe of fine white wool which one of the disciples had brought with him for that purpose. It was long and flowing with a train. The broad girdle that confined it at the waist bore an inscription in letters. He then put around His neck a wide stole that reached to the knees, on the two ends of which something like shields was embroidered in brown. The two disciples assisted Jesus to mount the cross-seat on the ass. The animal had no bridle, but around its neck was a narrow strip of stuff that hung down loose. I know not whether Jesus rode on the she-ass or on its foal, for they were of the same size. The riderless animal ran by the other’s side. Eliud and Silas walked on either side of the Lord, and Eremenzear behind Him; then followed the disciples most recently received, some of whom He had brought back with Him from His last great journey, and others that had been received still later.
When the procession was ranged in order, the holy women, two and two, brought up the rear. The Blessed Virgin, who up to this time had always stayed in the background, now went at their head. As the procession moved forward, all began to sing, and the people of Bethphage, who had gathered around the two disciples while they were awaiting Jesus’ coming, followed after like a swarm. Jesus reminded the disciples of what He had previously told them to notice, namely, those that would spread their garments in His path, those that would break off branches from the trees, and those that would render Him the double honor, for these last would devote themselves and their worldly goods to His service.
From Bethania to Jerusalem, the traveler in those days met Bethphage to the right and rather more in the direction of Bethlehem. The Mount of Olives separated the two roads. It lay on low, swampy ground, and was a poor little place consisting of only a row of houses on either side of the road. The house near which the asses were grazing stood some distance from the road in a beautiful meadow between Bethphage and Jerusalem. On this side the road ascended, but on the other, it sank into the valley between Mount Olivet and the hills of Jerusalem. Jesus had tarried awhile between Bethania and Bethphage, and it was on the road beyond the latter place that the two disciples were waiting for Him with the ass.
In Jerusalem, the vendors and people whom Eremenzear and Silas had that morning told to clear the Temple because the Lord was coming, began straightaway and most joyfully to adorn the road. They tore up the pavement and planted trees, the top branches of which they bound together to form an arch, and then hung them with all kinds of yellow fruit like very large apples. The disciples that Jesus had sent on to Jerusalem, innumerable friends who had gone up to the city for the approaching feast (the roads were swarming with travelers), and many of the Jews that had been present at Jesus’ last discourse crowded to that side of the city by which He was expected to enter. There were also many strangers in Jerusalem. They had heard of the raising of Lazarus, and they wished to see Jesus. Then when the news spread that He was approaching, they too went out to meet Him.
“The Stones Would Cry Out”
The road from Bethphage to Jerusalem ran through the lower part of the valley of Mount Olivet, which was not so elevated as the plateau upon which the Temple stood. Going up from Bethphage to the Mount of Olives, one could see, through the high hills that bordered the route on either side, the Temple standing opposite. From this point to Jerusalem the road was delightful, full of little gardens and trees.
Crowds came pouring out of the city to meet the Apostles and disciples, who were approaching with songs and canticles. At this juncture, several aged priests in the insignia of their office stepped out into the road and brought the procession to a standstill. The unexpected movement silenced the singing. The priests called upon Jesus to say what He meant by such proceedings on the part of His followers, and why He did not prohibit this noise and excitement. Jesus answered that if His followers were silent, the stones on the road would cry out. At these words, the priests retired.
Then the High Priests took counsel together and ordered to be called before them all the husbands and relatives of the women that had gone out of Jerusalem with the children to meet Jesus. When they made their appearance in answer to the summons, they were all shut up in the great court, and emissaries were sent out to spy what was going on.
Many among the crowd that followed Jesus to the Temple not only broke off branches from the trees and strewed them in the way, but snatched off their mantles and spread them down, singing and shouting all the while. I saw many that had quite despoiled themselves of their upper garments for that purpose. The children had rushed from the schools, and now ran rejoicing with the crowd. Veronica, who had two children by her, threw her own veil in the way and, snatching another from one of the children, spread that down also. She and the other women joined the holy women, who were in the rear of the procession. There were about seventeen of them. The road was so thickly covered with branches, garments, and carpets that the procession moved on quite softly through the numerous triumphal arches that spanned the space between the walls on either side.
Jesus wept, as did the Apostles also, when He told them that many who were now shouting acclamations of joy would soon deride Him, and that a certain one would even betray Him. He looked upon the city, and wept over its approaching destruction. When He entered the gate, the cries of joy became still greater. Many sick of all kinds had been led or carried thither, consequently Jesus frequently halted, dismounted, and cured all without distinction. Many of His enemies had mingled with the crowd, and they now uttered cries with a view to raise an insurrection.
The nearer to the Temple, the more magnificent was the ornamentation of the road. On either side hedges had been put up to form enclosures, in which little animals with long necks, kids, and sheep, all adorned with garlands and wreaths around their neck, were skipping about as if in little gardens. The background of these enclosures was formed of bushes. In this part of the city there were always, and especially toward the Paschal feast, chosen animals for sale, pure and spotless, destined for sacrifice. To move from the city gate to the Temple, although a distance of about half an hour only, the procession took three hours.
Judas’ Dissatisfaction
By this time the Jews had ordered all the houses, as well as the city gate, to be closed, so that when Jesus dismounted before the Temple, and the disciples wanted to take the ass back to where they had found it, they were obliged to wait inside the gate till evening. In the Temple were the holy women and crowds of people. All had to remain the whole day without food, for this part of the city had been barricaded. Magdalen was especially troubled by the thought that Jesus had taken no nourishment.
When toward evening the gate was again opened, the holy women went back to Bethania, and Jesus followed later with the Apostles…
[resources: The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ]
h/t: https://spiritdailyblog.com/mystics/did-emmerich-see-palm-sunday
“No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord.”
Christ: The Desert Rose
By Father David Nix
In EMS, we had a shorthand communication term called auto-ped which simply meant “pedestrian hit by a car.” In four years on the ambulance, every auto-ped I saw was a hit-and-run. In other words, every time I showed up after someone ran over another person with their car, the perpetrators all fled the scene without helping the victim. 100% of them. Now, granted, if you talked to paramedics who were in the field for 20 years, they would probably say 95% of their auto-peds were hit-and-runs. (Their numbers would be different because medics in the field for more than just four years would have seen a few people stop for their victims, I suspect.) But in my four years of pre-hospital medicine, I never saw any driver stop for their victims. The reason for this is clearly self-preservation.
Recently, I went hiking through the desert. As I looked around, I noticed how everything in the desert sends a warning signal as if to say: Stay away. The law of the desert is apparently one of competition. There is little food and little water. So, if you contain water, you are an easy prey. This means most things that live in the desert need thorns, claws, horns, bills or spikes to preserve its own life. There’s only so many pieces of the pie in the desert, so if you aren’t going to have your own share taken away, you need to look like the plant above. Hiking, I wondered if such violent self-preservation was an effect of the Fall of Adam and Eve. Perhaps nothing in the original Garden of Eden had any spikes or thorns.
But even if I’m wrong about the postlapsarian plant world, we know that all of human history since the Fall of Adam and Eve has been summarized in the bleak words of St. Ignatius of Loyola: “They strike; they kill; they go down to hell.” That was the saint’s meditation on the Trinity looking down on every continent of pagans in deciding upon the Incarnation. Human history (before Christ) turned out to be mostly fighting to the death for another piece of the pie, another land-mass to obtain. But then, by turning everything upside down, eternal life would be given to the world through the Son of God not choosing selfish self-preservation, but in God-the-Son taking all the thorns of competitive-life-forms into His own Sacred head to the point of death.
It would seem that on this violent planet yoked to the competition of spiky cacti and selfish auto-ped drivers, biological life would not permit a self-sacrificing organism to thrive. But that is the great twist of the God-man dying as man: The New Life of the Resurrection now buds from the One who said: For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of my own accord. (Jn 10:17-18.) It is now our crucified and Risen Savior, Jesus Christ, who promises this supernatural life to His friends who would spurn the selfish competitions of self-preservation found in plants and animals.
While we Christians are called to preserve our lives and stay relatively healthy to the best of our ability as long as Divine Providence permits, we are never called to live selfish lives of self-preservation. Each Christian now has the choice: self-preservation or the cross. Those choosing the latter are Christ’s disciples who, by God’s grace and their free-will, give their lives for others knowing that whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it (Lk 9:24) and Greater love than this no man hath: that a man lay down his life for his friends. (Jn 15:13.)
It’s too bad the Oscars are over, because the cinematography in this one is top notch
Truly amazing! Gag.
Never forget that the battle with Satan comes down to battling unreality… the battle over creation itself.
I’m told the overwhelming percentage of mental “trans” illness is in females. God save us.
Pfizer had to hire 600 full time employees to handle all of the adverse event reports linked to their mRNA Covid-19 vaccine
Pfizer had to hire 600 full time employees to handle all of the adverse event reports linked to their mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.
That’s according to Pfizer documents recently uncovered by the vaccine choice advocacy group Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN).
The revelations were contained in an unredacted copy of a previously-produced document.
The lifted redactions reveal that within weeks of Pfizer’s vaccine being administered pursuant to Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), Pfizer, apparently unexpectedly, had to hire 600 full time employees “to help alleviate the large increase of adverse event reports” being received by the company.
The report also noted “more are joining each month with an expected total of more than 1800 additional resources” to be onboarded by the end of June 2021…
(She’s got the receipts)
“America is nowhere near grasping the enormity of what has occurred.”
Tell me again about, “Born this way.”
Taylor Marshall is on the case… BiP Overton Window seismic shifting
Mentions of Non Veni, Miss B, and the Mazzaratti all in the first six minutes!
Dr. Marshall, please invite Dr. Mazza on the show!
BREAKING: Archbishop Viganò calls for “official investigation” to “shed light on the abdication of Benedict XVI” and the Fraud Conclave of 2013
From the blog of Aldo Maria Valli, via Google Translate:
Recently a memorandum was shot among the members of the Sacred College, signed with the pseudonym Demos, which lists the disasters caused at every level (doctrinal, pastoral, managerial, economic, legislative) by the pontificate of Bergoglio. “Better late than never”, commented some, while others said: “It is useless to close the barn when the oxen have already escaped”. What do you think of that memorandum? Do you think it was the work of a cardinal? Is it the symptom of a belated awareness?
The memorandum lists the horrors of the Bergoglian “pontificate”, and this certainly is already progress compared to magnifying it. But the horrors and errors of the Argentine and his court did not appear out of nowhere, as if in the previous pontificates everything was perfect and wonderful. The crisis begins with Vatican II: deploring the symptoms of an illness without understanding its causes is a useless and harmful operation. If the College of Cardinals is not persuaded that it is necessary to return to what the Church believed, taught and celebrated until Pius XII, any opposition to the current regime will be doomed to certain failure.
Within the College of Cardinals, in your opinion, is there a credible, authentically Catholic figure on which the cardinals, in the event of a conclave, could make the votes converge for a total change of register compared to the current pontificate?
Certain Popes, let us not forget, are granted ; others are inflicted . But before discussing the next conclave, it is necessary to shed light on the abdication of Benedict XVI and on the question of the frauds of the 2013 Conclave, which sooner or later will have to give rise to an official investigation. If there were to be proofs of irregularity, the conclave would be null, the election of Bergoglio null, just as all his appointments, acts of government and magisterium would be null. A reset that would providentially bring us back to the status quo ante, with a College of Cardinals composed only of cardinals appointed up to Benedict XVI, ousting all those created since 2013, notoriously ultra-progressive. Certainly the current situation, with all the rumors about Ratzinger’s resignation and Bergoglio’s election, does not help the ecclesial body and creates confusion and disorientation in the faithful.
Here too, Catholics can implore the divine Majesty to spare further humiliations to His Church, by granting her a good Pope. If there is a cardinal who really wants “a change of register”, that he comes forward, and that – for the sake of love of God – stop referring to Vatican II and think about the sanctification of the clergy and the faithful.