here in Brazil the death toll has more than doubled in a week https://g1.globo.com/bemestar/coron...mados-de-coronavirus-diz-ministerio.ghtml?utm
Fatima’s shepherd children versus the coronavirus These two little saints also died in a pandemic. They are showing us the way to live through this one. Jacinta Marto died alone. Her family and well-wishers couldn’t be with her because a pandemic was imposing restrictions worldwide. The one thing she wanted before she died was the Eucharist, but even that was denied her. If that sounds familiar, it should. In February of 2020, exactly 100 years after Jacinta’s death in February of 1920 in the Spanish Flu pandemic, the coronavirus pandemic started to hit the news in the West with a vengeance, and would soon be too big to ignore. Sts. Jacinta and Francisco Marto, patrons of the sick, helped prepare the world for both pandemics. From 1916-1917, three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, began to see visitors from heaven, first an angel and then Our Lady of Fatima. The visions culminated in a Miracle of the Sun when Francisco was 9 and Jacinta was 7, which was witnessed by thousands and attested to by believers and nonbelievers alike. Our Lady asked the children to tell the world: “They must not offend the Lord any more, for he is already too much offended!” and she predicted a terrible war would follow if people did not repent. World War I was still raging, and World War II followed, but also the Spanish Flu pandemic that would take the lives of Francisco and Jacinta Marto. Pope Francis canonized the two siblings in 2017 on the 100th anniversary of that message — after the Year of Mercy, and before the pandemic locked the world out of the sacraments on the 100th anniversary of their death — proposing them as “models of Christian life” for our own time. “With the canonization of Francisco and Jacinta, I wanted to propose to the entire Church their example,” said Pope Francis in 2017. “After the encounter with the ‘Beautiful Lady,’ as they called her, they frequently recited the Rosary, they did penance and offered sacrifices to bring about the end of the War, and for the souls most in need of divine mercy.” As we long for the Eucharist, we can look to Francisco and Jacinta as models. In 2017, I wrote a Fatima Family Handbook that, providentially, is being reprinted right now. It gives practical ways to follow the two children in consoling Jesus, converting sinners and committing to Jesus through Mary. One was visiting the Blessed Sacrament. In the year and a half he lived after the visions, Francisco’s life was marked by longing for the Eucharist. He liked to squirrel himself away in the church, praying very close to the “hidden Jesus” in the tabernacle. He died on April 4, 1919, at age 10. Jacinta would linger on, as Our Lady warned her she would do. She suffered greatly in her sickness, becoming separated from her family to go to a hospital in a Lisbon orphanage. She had one enormous consolation: She could see the tabernacle from a chair in a passageway outside her room, gazing as long as she was able. This is what we do, exiled by pandemic from Communion, and only able to perhaps visit the tabernacle or see it through the “window” of our screens. We can also follow their example by offering our sufferings for the conversion of sinners. In canonizing the two children, Pope Francis said, “Our Lady foretold, and warned us about, a way of life that is godless and indeed profanes God in his creatures. Such a life — frequently proposed and imposed — risks leading to hell.” Francisco and Jacinta were models of doing penance so that sinners could be saved from that fate worse than death. When his father asked him one night why he was crying, Francisco said: “I was thinking of Jesus who is so sad because of the sins that are committed against him.” The sins the children were worried about seem to fit our time even better than their own. Jacinta, warned her mother after Our Lady showed the children a vision of hell: “Mother, fly from riches and luxury.” She also said, “To be pure in body means to be chaste, and to be pure in mind means not to commit sins; not to look at what one should not see, not to steal or lie, and always to speak the truth, even if it is hard.” Commenting on Jacinta’s concern for sin, “today too, there is much need of prayer and penitence to implore the grace of conversion,” Pope Francis said. In his Urbi et Orbi prayer for the pandemic, Pope Francis listed the ways we have fooled ourselves in following false promises. “This Lent your call reverberates urgently: ‘Be converted!,’ ‘Return to me with all your heart.’ You are calling on us to seize this time of trial as a time of choosing,” he prayed, and told us all: “Faith begins when we realize we are in need of salvation.” If he is right and sickness and suffering is a call to repent and return to God, then God is calling to repentance as never before. Francisco and Jacinta show the way. https://aleteia.org/2020/04/13/fatimas-shepherd-children-versus-the-coronavirus/
Includes videos and several opposing tweets 'You'll See Bodies In The Streets Of Africa' Warns Melinda Gates; Says Vaccine Is 'Ultimate Solution' To COVID-19 Melinda Gates says that COVID-19 is going to "be horrible in the developing world," and that we're going to see 'bodies in the streets of Africa' like what's happening in Ecuador. "Look at Ecuador," said Gates, adding "They're putting bodies out on the street. You're going to see that in countries in Africa." During a Friday interview with CNN's Poppy Harlow, Gates said that when she saw how China had to enact mass quarantines in order to combat the virus, "my first thought was Africa," adding "how in the world are they going to deal with this?" Earlier in the interview, Gates said that vaccines will be the 'ultimate solution' to solving coronavirus - which she and her husband Bill have been heavily invested in for some time. Of course, not everyone is excited about the Gates' endeavors. Wambo @wamboi09 · Apr 10, 2020 Replying to @CNN and 3 others @Melindagates why do you say the numbers are going to be horrible in Africa. It’s day 30th since the 1st case was diagnosed in my country Kenya. Do we have to be tested to get sick, or shouldn’t we already be lining bodies on roads as you put it? It won’t happen. Focus elsewhere These people wanted Corona to spread like crazy in Africa and then offer their 'help' via vaccine. There's a growing resentment against them, a lot of Africans don't want them there. https://www.zerohedge.com/health/yo...gates-says-vaccine-ultimate-solution-covid-19
There's a really interesting interview Taylor Marshall did with Dan Burke (formerly of EWTN). Dan, who is recovering from the virus after having been close to death, believes that there is a spiritual element to the virus and that it's a kind of chastisement. Among the topics they touch on are the situation regarding the Sacraments during the pandemic, the TLM and liturgical abuses in the Novus Ordu, the likelihood of persecution of faithful Catholics, and the quality of catechesis available to potential converts to the Church. Dan Burke said that he had been involved in a difficult exorcism where a demon said that children are easy. That sent a shiver down my spine. Both he and Taylor Marshall are getting their blessed candles ready for the three days of darkness - just in case. Here's the interview:
Devastating if this is true..... APRIL 09, 2020 Gates’ Globalist Vaccine Agenda: A Win-Win for Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination .............. In 2010, Gates committed $10 billion to the WHO saying, “We must make this the decade of vaccines.” A month later, Gates said in a Ted Talk that new vaccines “could reduce population”. In 2014, Kenya’s Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a “tetanus” vaccine campaign. Independent labs found a sterility formula in every vaccine tested. After denying the charges, WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade. Similar accusations came from Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/...win-win-for-pharma-and-mandatory-vaccination/
In the light of Robert Kennedy Jnr's recent report, I'd say that the jig is up for these ghouls. The evidence from Kennedy indicates that any bodies are more likely to be a consequence of the opportunism of the Gates.
Some good news. One of our daughters had the virus, suffered very mild symptoms, is quickly getting better and has now been tested positive. Please God, she will now be immune. Another member of our family had mild symptoms of something about two weeks ago and has now tested positive for COVID-19, indicating that the 'something' was it. She is now completely better. She is 100! Thanks be to God.
Just saw a news clip this morning of Govenor Cuomo saying NY has come through the worst of it. He proudly announced, "We did this, NOT God". I nearly fell off my chair! I knew he was bad, but this was shocking to hear. No shame any more, these evil people are right out in the open.
Rainbow Over New York April 14, 2020 by sd It isn’t over. No. Of course not. It could be with us for months, maybe even years: that insidious, invidious virtually diabolic pathogen imprinted pyrotechnically into our collective consciousness (and nightmares) as “coronavirus,” causing what they have called COVID-19. But was there a sign the worst, in that epicenter called New York, is over? On Monday — the day after Easter, and following a pounding, wind-driven tempest — a rainbow is photographed in Greenwich Village (by our son, Joseph) in Manhattan. It was a rainbow that Noah witnessed, of course, after floodwaters receded — a chastisement was over. “And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth” (Genesis 9:13-13). Is this a portent that the particular trial of coronavirus recedes now also — at least in New York, where officials have likewise announced that it appears to have gone over its peak? As long as there is a chance for infection, as long as it is not eradicated, as long as a person can still contract it, the crisis, at one level or another, will be with us into the foreseeable future, for this virus has a different quality than flu viruses and other contagions such as those caused by ebola and SARS and MERS, or for that matter bubonic: This one seems to fly at lightning speed under the radar. At times, warp speed. It will sprout here and there now across the U.S. Don’t put your guard down. And it causes effects that have confounded researchers, government agencies, and the nurses and doctors who have seen it first hand. Therefore, it is unpredictable. If it lingers, it will continue to cripple economies worldwide — break down our artifice. Already it is stunning for its global reach. It has caused remarkable spectacles — from face masks in the supermarket to a mass grave on Hart Island in New York. And that it raged during Lent, and began to lift with Easter, has to jar even the honest atheist who realizes it. To think that we can fight it with money is to think we can buy the Lord. The ironies have been astounding — not just what it has closed and how swiftly — the seemingly invincible constructs of humankind such as Manhattan and Disney World and the Olympics and movies and restaurants and paper economics and plastic politics and transportation and sports and concerts (and — thanks be to God — the annual pagan ritual called the “Burning Man”) — but also, with some of the photographs we have been left with. How about the photograph of a cruise ship stranded offshore because it harbors the coronavirus with a graveyard in the foreground? Or Pope Francis celebrating Easter Mass in front of a couple dozen aides in St. Peter’s? Or your own parish, your own health club, your own theater, still uncertain when it will reopen? Few could have imagined such a scenario, and by a virus that thus far has slain not nearly as many as some past pandemics. Consider that the Black Death killed one of every four and possibly as many as one of every three in Europe during medieval times, and that the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 slew 750,000 Americans (the toll of coronavirus in the United States thus far is approaching 25,000 and may reach fifty thousand — just 1/15th the 1918 pandemic). But one can also compare this to other disasters in recent time — the 1,200 who died in Hurricane Katrina (2005), the 2,996 who succumbed on September 11 (2001), the three thousand people who died in the 1906 San Fran quake, the six to twelve thousand who passed away at Galveston (1900) — and when one does, one notes that this disaster is different; this is not only a higher death toll but one that has caused psychological effects that cannot be quantified and puts it a magnitude higher. It is branded into our brains: COVID-19. In that way, it will always be with us. Is there a synthetic quality to the microbe? Does it not seemed concocted? We’ll have a special report on that possibility. One New York doctor says the end-stage effects that have been called pneumonia whereby those dying in ICU units feel as if they are drowning and are placed on ventilators is not actually pneumonia but more like hypoxia — what you might call altitude sickness. He says the virus interferes with the hemoglobin components that carry oxygen in our cells, creating an effect similar to a person being dropped onto the peak of Mount Everest with no oxygen tank and no training or warning, left gasping for breath. Many mysteries. Did it simply come from a bat? That certainly can occur. We’ll let scientists ferret that out, if ferret it out they can. If so, bats certainly are ironic, a symbol in horror movies of evil. We are all in the dark. But perhaps one can say this: a period whereby we have seen “Signs of the Times” — from Hurricane Andrew (1992) to Hurricane Katrina (2005), from the Northridge quake (1994) to the Asian one that caused a tsunami (2004), from melting ice caps to flyby asteroids, from extraordinary lightning in tornadic systems to northern lights, from the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 to the attacks on 9/11, from the recession of 2008 to the as-yet-unnamed economic debacle of 2020 — has transitioned into a Period of Formal Warnings. How long this new period will last and how large the events it includes will be for the future to tell, to be followed by societal shifts and chastisements which will cleanse the earth and lead one day to the ultimate rainbow and the drawing back to God. –MHB
Rare Procession Of Sword Of St. Michael April 13, 2020 by sd From il timone: On Palm Sunday , in the small Apulian town of Monte Sant’Angelo, which houses the sanctuary of San Michele Arcangelo, a pilgrimage destination for centuries, an event of great impact took place both in terms of faith and history: the blessing of the city, of Italy and of the world against the Coronavirus with the sword of the one who is called the “supreme head of the celestial army” , together with the Blessed Sacrament and a relic of the Holy Cross, a gift from Frederick II returning from Crusade of 1228. Historically, to find a similar event it is necessary to go back almost 400 years, to 1656 , when the plea with the sword of San Michele had arisen against the spread of the plague on the occasion of the fourth appearance of the Archangel on Monte Gargano, by then bishop Giovanni Alfonso Puccinelli. Usually, in fact, the sword is extracted from the display case and carried in procession only on September 29, the day on which the Feast of San Michele and the Archangels Gabriele and Raffaele occurs. [ For Full Story ] +++ Read More
A COVID-19 Survivor Reveals How Steroids Saved His Life A man suffering from COVID-19 was fighting for his life in intensive care as his health rapidly deteriorated, but a treatment using steroids saved him and could offer a path to recovery for others suffering from the disease. When 44-year-old banker Alex Fernandes arrived in Brazil on March 11, he got off the plane feeling ill. "I didn't have a fever or anything, I just felt slightly off," he tells Newsmax. But as the day wore on, he began to feel worse and developed a high fever. Because Fernandes travels frequently from his home in Dallas to Brazil, he contacted his doctor, Dr. Roberto Zeballos in Sao Paulo who said he might be suffering from the flu, but to exercise caution in case it was the coronavirus, which was just taking hold in that country. "He told me to buy a mask and self-isolate," Fernandes recalls, adding he had to buy a pack of 50 masks, as that was the way they were sold. The next day he was feeling so weak he was out of breath just going to the bathroom. "I've never had any breathing problem like asthma or bronchitis in my life, so this was very upsetting," he says. Fernandes called his doctor again and they met at the hospital where his oxygen levels were tested and a CT scan performed on his lungs. He was also tested for COVID-19. The results showed Fernandes had the disease and his lungs were severely inflamed with viral pneumonia. He was given antibiotics to prevent a secondary infection and oxygen to boost the saturation level of his lungs. But as the days went by, his numbers deteriorated, including his c-reactive protein or CRP levels which mark the level of inflammation in the bloodstream. A week after his first symptoms, Fernandes was so weak he could barely move. "I couldn't lift my blanket," he says. "It took two nurses to get me into a wheelchair to go to the bathroom." By now, he was put into ICU where doctors discussed what options they had to save his life. Zeballos consulted with Dr. Marcelo Amato, a pulmonary expert, and they decided to try steroids to stop the cytokine storm caused by inflammation that was threatening to shut down Fernandes' lungs. A cytokine storm occurs when the immune system overreacts and attacks parts of the body it should be protecting, including the lungs. According to NPR, a strange and tragic pattern happens in some cases of COVID-19: The patient struggles through the first week of illness and then suddenly crashes. "They initially were just requiring a little bit of oxygen. In 24 hours, they're on a ventilator," says Dr. Pavan Bhatraju, an assistant professor at the University of Washington who works at the intensive care unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The crash typically happens seven days into the disease and can occur in young, otherwise healthy victims of COVID-19. Researchers speculate the cause is a cytokine storm – the body's own immune system overreacting to the virus, releasing a storm of small molecules called cytokines that help coordinate the battle against infection. When the release goes into overdrive, according to NPR, they cause more damage to the body's own cells than to the invader. Some doctors here in the United States have used powerful anti-inflammatory drugs to try and slow or stop the process. "The impact was dramatic," says Dr. Daniel Griffin, chief of infectious disease for ProHEALTH Care Associates, a group of physicians that serves the New York City area. The first six patients to be treated appear to be improving, he says. Fernandes' physicians decided to use corticosteroids, following a protocol developed by Chinese researchers for patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome or ARDS due to the coronavirus. The doctors told Fernandes about an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that treatment with methylprednisolone, a powerful steroid and anti-inflammatory drug, seemed to be beneficial for patients in his condition. In the meantime, the ICU doctors had planned to put him on a ventilator the next day. "I was very concerned that putting me on a ventilator would increase my risk of infection and even death," Fernandes said. He and the doctors discussed the experimental protocol with Fernandes' wife, Dr. Becca Marcus Fernandes, who is a dermatologist in Dallas: "She said, 'go for it.'" The next day, after being given methylprednisolone, his numbers improved. They postponed putting him on a ventilator until that evening, and his condition became more stable from the steroid treatment; he improved so much, he was able to talk and move. Within a week, Fernandes was almost back to normal and he tested negative for the virus. He stayed in the hospital until his round of antibiotics was over and then tests were re-run. "My lungs were crystal clear," he said. Fernandes said he was the first patient in Brazil to be treated with steroids, but since his success there have been dozens more. The treatment that saved him could help others too. Dr. Donald Marks, an infectious disease expert from Wharton, N.J., tells Newsmax: "In cases where there is potentially deadly inflammation of the lungs due to a viral infection, steroids such as methylprednisolone can be lifesaving." As for Fernandez, he returned home the day before Easter and spent the holiday with his wife and four children. "It was the most meaningful Easter ever," he said. "I feel like I have been reborn myself." https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/steroid-inflammation-immune-system-covid-19/2020/04/13/id/962667/
We tend to always look at Russia when we consider Fatima and Garabandal about the rise of communism coming again in the world but what if it isn't Russia? What if it is China!!
