Isaiah 24:7 I see where it says “ the new wine will be bad” I had always thought about new wine as being related to Christianity, born again in Christ, As in do not pour new wine into old wine skins. Well, the new wine of Modernism is bad. That thought struck me. Thanks for posting this Scripture, Blizzard. extremely prophetic.
Terrible... 55 killed by Islamists in Democratic Republic of Congo | Gript According to the UN. DR Congo, I have a book on their war and history...sort of an interest of mine. It's gotten slightly better in recent years, though, this is a terrible calamity.
Memento Mori - Daughters of St. Paul... Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die - The New York Times (nytimes.com) That is because since 2017, she has made it her mission to revive the practice of memento mori, a Latin phrase meaning “Remember your death.” The concept is to intentionally think about your own death every day, as a means of appreciating the present and focusing on the future. It can seem radical in an era in which death — until very recently — has become easy to ignore. Memento Mori Rosary: I started getting these emails I think earlier this year on this, I didn't really delve into it but maybe not is the time..... I've tried to add in their symbol in the attached file... when I first started getting these, I thought, well that's not to cheerful... but I think I will check into it....
Daughters of St. Paul, the same order that sings wonderful music... He is born, the divine Christ Child; play the oboe and bagpipes merrily! He is born, the divine Christ Child; sing we all of the Savior mild. Continued: He Is Born | Hymnary.org Can't say enough for this, wow....so, it is in the English language and French.... That one rocks a bit, beautiful....
You know, Jonathan Roumie who plays Jesus in the Chosen....he wears a Momento Mori ring. It's a skull. At first I was taken aback thinking, is this black magic or something. He has spoken about this devotion of living each day as if it were your last. Boy, can I identify with that this year.....
It’s good to think about and pray for our last end. No one knows the day or the hour. Donna, you are given many graces. On another note, there are so many more accidents and fires around here than I ever remember. Everything is ramping up. God is in control. But an unbeliever would not realize it.
We had a thunder storm two nights ago and lightening hit a transformer in our housing development. We probably have about 800 homes in our neighborhood and a big flash of light and fell to the street spewing 10 ft of electrical fire into the air. Thankfully nobody was hurt. We all lost power and it made a several inch crater in the roadway. It was the evening and very dark. I was by myself as my husband was out helping my son in his apartment. Me and the dog rested and I read my LOTH on my kindle and it was so peaceful. No noise in the house. No electric whirring etc....
I think this article is worth noting: VIDEO: Pat Gray reacts to Valedictorian's pro-life bashing rant - TheBlaze I am certainly glad there was a rebuttal to what she said...
I have been living in recent years with a certain apprehension of losing one of my family members for any reason, even before the pandemic, whenever I talk to my 80-year-old grandmother on the phone, I fear it may be the last time
I know what you mean. Our hope is in the Lord, for a good reunion in Heaven. My pastor speaks of this often. He has lost his father and is having a difficult time of it. But he says that we hope in the Lord for life in the world to come. I lost my grandmother many years ago, but I can feel her presence with me quite often. So there is hope beyond the grave. I tell my family members very often that I love them. When my cousin was dying a few years ago, she saw our grandmother. One of my other cousins heard her call out (before she died), Grandma, Grandma.
This is a real story, if one does not get the whole article, press read preview in the URL box or if one can not do that, I can get the whole article. 78-Year-Old Retiree Fosters Over 80 Infants in 3 Decades: ‘God’s Handed Me a Gift to Do’ (theepochtimes.com) 78-Year-Old Retiree Fosters Over 80 Infants in 3 Decades: ‘God’s Handed Me a Gift to Do’ At 78, a veteran foster carer who has looked after 8o-plus infants in the span of over three decades, as a single foster parent, reflects on her role, calling it “challenging… but very rewarding.” Linda Owens retired from her career as a grocery department manager, but still continues to care for babies, sometimes two at a time, from her home in Hayward, California. “This is what God’s handed me a gift to do,” she explained to KPIX. Many of the babies that Owens cares for as a foster or “resource parent” have been exposed to drugs while in the womb. As a result, some of them suffer from sleep disturbances and developmental setbacks after they are born. Owens has also fostered three sets of twins. Armed with 34 years of experience, she is unfazed by the challenges. “She’s in a category almost all by herself,” said Mia Buckner-Preston, placement division director at Alameda County Department of Children & Family Services. “Her experience, the care, the love she provides to the babies, it’s immeasurable.” The elderly woman is one of the longest serving among Alameda County’s 500 resource parents. She is paid for her work but has nonetheless bought some of the supplies—including bottles, formula, and baby clothes—with her own money. Continued at above link. CBS, Hallmark among TV networks refusing to show pro-life ad | U.S. News | The Christian Post
This is so, so interesting.. My parents have been fostering kids from I was 10 years old. I'm 52 now. They currently have 2 youngsters - both under 9 years old. And they have 19 year old, whom they've had from a baby - she still lives with them. In that time they've had well over 60 youngsters pass through. They are saints. I do not know how they did - and continue to do it. Down the years they've had some troubled kids. And have suffered violence from some of them. Some of their stories / experiences have been horrendous. Whilst others have been uplifting. My father is dying now from cancer. He's lucky. He was diagnosed almost 5 years ago - and given 6 months to live. Yet he's sitting chatting happily in the next room here as I write. He's recently been told not to drive - as the cancer has reached the brain. But he's confounded the medics before. And God is so very good.... We have been very fortunate. The cancer has almost been a blessing. Galvanising us. In addition, I think my dad is in some way getting to do his purgatory here, now. The Lord certainly looks after those that are good and faithful.
So, is this the same "Colm Meaney" who is a famous actor?? I take it that it is... COLM MEANEY: A silent church is of little use | Gript To be prophetic is a gift granted to the few: that rare ability, not to “go with the flow” or just blandly accept the status quo, but to look perspicaciously at the present and to offer one’s careful judgement. However contrarian the prophet may appear to his contemporaries, ultimately he is speaking for their long-term good. When he sees something seriously awry in the society, he points this out, and, most importantly, points to a solution. The classic biblical example is Jeremiah in the 6th century BC, when Israel was attacked by the Babylonians. He counselled that it would be better to negotiate or surrender, but the powers that be decided to fight. The result was the complete destruction of Jerusalem and the deportation of a large percentage of the population to slavery in Babylon. Jeremiah was in a tiny minority; he could see what lay ahead if things didn’t change and he had the courage to speak out; and he was proven right. However, a skill needed, even before any prophecy is done, is that of discernment: the calm taking stock of things, of weighing up various factors, trying to figure out what’s what. This skill is not as rare as prophecy – in fact the ability to discern should surely be second nature to all those who have passed through any decent programme of religious formation, not to mention those who are actively engaged in formation – or indeed anyone gifted with an ability to distinguish accurate reporting and sagacious analysis from panic-inducing propaganda. I had assumed that it was an ingrained habit of those who had undergone a religious formation (as I had), to be questioning, enquiring. But since March 2020, every pronouncement on Covid coming from any official body has been accepted and believed without question or quibble. Only 10 to a funeral; only 15 to a wedding. Don’t leave your home. Don’t travel more than 5 kms. Wear a mask. Close your business indefinitely. Close your church. All accepted without question, without demur, instant capitulation. In other words, no discernment; no questioning of the many panic-predictions which have continued now for almost 16 months; no prophecy, and I would say definitely little or no leadership. A truly dark time for the church and the broader society, not only in Ireland, but in many countries. The church, after all, is not an arm or agency of the government or of civil society, but essentially an alternative society, often living in serene harmony with the wider society but often at severe loggerheads (more of this anon): it exists to offer an alternative and often contrary viewpoint or teaching. Therefore, when panic buttons were being pushed in March 2020, the church leadership, while being admittedly spooked by the apocalyptic images and reporting appearing relentlessly on the mainstream media, ought surely to have exercised the charism of discernment. Hard questions should have been asked of the facts and figures coming forth at the time. But if the leadership was forgivably hesitant back in March 2020 to ask any penetrating questions about the accuracy of the reporting – how figures were being compiled, why almost all deaths were being labelled “Covid-19”, etc., – well that excuse has now worn very thin. It has been almost 16 months, and we’re still being subject to the same weary, dreary diet of panic-mongering, the same relentless harping on about “cases”, etc. I mean, I thought that boredom or ennui would have set in by now among most of the population. Continued at link. More on Meaney: Colm Meaney - Wikipedia
Not the actor. From the link you provided: Colm Meaney was a missionary priest in the Philippines since 1991. He is back in Ireland for the present
Thanks, well I did read the whole article but scanned past that where it was listed and went to the bottom of the page... to other things, High-School Valedictorian Abortion Plea: Cry for Help | National Review ... There is a war on her body. She’s absolutely right. The scandal of women’s health care is that oral contraceptives essentially get prescribed automatically for a whole host of problems — doctors figure that any teenage girl should be on them anyway. That’s supposedly our only way to prevent pregnancy and abortion. Meanwhile, that’s the start of a cruel journey we set women up for: turn their focus to career and sexual autonomy, only for them to realize too late in life that they actually wanted to have children – and actual, fruitful love. Pre-COVID, commuter trains in the New York metropolitan area often told that tale, with ads for fertility treatments. These treatments tend to be costly and heartbreaking, and perversely part of the culture of death, given that they create “excess” or unwanted embryos that are eventually destroyed. “Selective reduction” is the euphemism. “I am terrified, that if my contraceptives fail . . . if I am raped, then my hopes and aspirations and dreams and efforts for my future will no longer matter,” Smith said. “I hope that you can feel how gut-wrenching that is. I hope you can feel how dehumanizing it is, to have the autonomy over your own body taken away from you.” This dear, sweet girl. What’s dehumanizing is a culture telling her that her natural ability to bring life into the world is anything but amazing. How many ways have we as a society failed her? Sex is presented as something so casual, as if it’s akin to watching something on Netflix or TikTok. Starbucks in the morning, sex at night. Contraception next to the water bottle, as if they were the essentials for daily life. And of course, how much of TikTok involves explicit degradations of the human person? It doesn’t have to be this way. I am a male but I've been told my women I respect that abortion hurts them deeply. I men they way they can be made into sex objects, life is disposable. I have always been pro-life; but reading around, Here in the USA, I can't talk for other countries, blacks make up 12-14% of the population but black unborn are aborted at a very high rate (and I mean 40-50% or even higher) . 1/3rd of abortions in total in the USA are African American, Planned Parenthood clinics found in or near "minority" neighborhoods. Are there problems in the inner-city? Is life treated as disposable? Disrespected? So, was pro-life previously and maybe skin color should not affect my judgement but the stats are incredible, shocking. More on this here: BlackGenocide.org | L.E.A.R.N. Northeast So, that's about all for my pro-life rant... the National Review column is correct. More: Dr. Anthony Fauci Tied to Scandal Involving Human-Animal Hybrid Experiments with Aborted Fetal Parts by Rebecca Downs (townhall.com)
Whatever news story one uses, this is reported: Microsoft says error caused 'Tank Man' Bing censorship - BBC News (about Tianammen Square, China) Microsoft blocked Tiananmen Square searches outside China due to 'error' | Engadget I am disappointed, I've used "bing". I've dumped google mostly for reasons but I do admit google has deeper searches, in my opinion, it really does. Duck, Duck Go maybe better? I'll look at it more. Bing was bringing me decent news.
This link to the scandal involving Dr Fauci is a must read. How far down into the pits of hell we have gone in this country!
Stand With Altman Tickets, Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite We are holding a rally/fundraiser for Fr. Altman on Tuesday evening, June 22 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. A limited number of tickets are available for a private dinner with Fr. Altman in advance of the address to the general audience. General admission tickets for Fr. Altman's talk is limited to 175 persons. However, there will also be a free livestream of the event for those who register in advance. Net proceeds from this event will be donated to Fr. Altman's legal defense. Help spread the word by sharing this event on social media by clicking on one of the social media icons below. If you are unable to attend, please consider making a donation in support of Fr. Altman. link: Stand With Altman Tickets, Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite This is interesting, these private dinners are generally $500 or up and are almost always about politicians. Conservative (or maybe better put, "Real" or maybe "voice of reason") news source, "Alpha News MN" sent out an email on this. News - Alpha News (alphanewsmn.com) AlphanewsMN, first on the net from what I know is possibly moving to print media and also they apparently have news trucks to deliver newspapers. Pretty brave little entity. Alpha News - Posts | Facebook
