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[43:31] – Fr. Jim Blount lifts the heart, tickles the funny bone, challenges the soul, inspires hope, and shares how God truly longs to answer the cries of the heart.
One of my favorite parts is where he says an Aramaic scholar told him the translation of Matthew 7:7 is wrong. We always see it, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.” But the verb tenses should be translated as “keep asking” and “keep seeking” and “keep knocking.” I gotta remember that!
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CATHOLIC: Pope Francis has defended his appointment of a pro-abortion economist to the Pontifical Academy for Life, saying that he put her there to “give a little more humanity to it.” I’m thinking what he really wanted was another proponent of the Great Reset.
MIDTERMS: [4:45] – Before the election, I wondered if the blood moon that peaked at the same minute the polls opened on the East Coast was a good sign or a bad one. Some folks were saying it presaged a red wave. Clearly, that was not the case. I’m going back to October 30, when I noted that the eclipse would happened in front of the constellation Taurus the Bull.
“In Christianity, the Sun, which provides illumination, represents God the Father, while the Moon, which reflects the light of the Sun, represents Jesus who shows the Father to us here on Earthin a way we can clearly see.
“But on Election Day, the Earth will block the light of the Sun, darkening the Moon and making Taurus the Bull stand out. It’s hard not to wonder if this is a sign that the United States of America is finished as a Christian nation.”
GRAMMY NOTES: When you intend to do bad, that is a sin of commission. But when you fail to do good, you aren’t off the hook. Failing to do good is called a sin of omission.
Anna Maria Taigi (pron. tah-EE-jee) was born in 1769 in Siena, Italy. A wife, mother, and mystic, she died in 1837 in Rome and was beatified in 1920. During her lifetime, Jesus told her that, by being a simple wife and mother, she was to be a sign that holiness and union with God is available to everyone.
For forty-seven years, she had a spiritual gift that appears to be unique, the presence of a luminous orb in which she saw things past, present, and to come. Among other things, she foretold the two world wars. She also told us about the coming Three Days of Darkness:
“There shall come over the whole earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. Nothing can be seen, and the air will be laden with pestilence which will claim mainly, but not only, the enemies of religion. It will be impossible to use any man-made lighting during this darkness, except blessed candles. He, who out of curiosity, opens his window to look out, or leaves his home, will fall dead on the spot. During these three days, people should remain in their homes, pray the Rosary and beg God for mercy.
“On this terrible occasion so many of these wicked men, enemies of His Church, and of their God, shall be killed by this divine scourge, that their corpses around Rome will be as numerous as the fishes, which a recent inundation of the Tiber had carried into the city. All the enemies of the Church, secret as well as known, will perish over the whole earth during that universal darkness, with the exception of some few, whom God will soon after convert. The air shall be infested by demons, who will appear under all sorts of hideous forms.
Blessed Anna-Maria’s prophecy continues:
“After the three days of darkness, Saints Peter and Paul, having come down from heaven, will preach throughout the world and designate a new Pope. A great light will flash from their bodies and settle upon the cardinal, the future pontiff. Then Christianity will spread throughout the world. Whole nations will join the Church shortly before the reign of the Antichrist. These conversions will be amazing. Those who survive shall have to conduct themselves well. There shall be innumerable conversions of heretics, who will return to the bosom of the Church; all will note the edifying conduct of their lives, as well as that of other Catholics. Russia, England and China will come into the Church.
“France will fall into frightful anarchy. The French people shall have a desperate civil war, in which old men themselves will take up arms. The political parties having exhausted their blood and their rage, without being able to arrive at any satisfactory understanding, shall at the last extremity agree by common consent to have recourse to the Holy See. Then the Pope shall send France a special legate, in order that he may examine the state of affairs and the dispositions of the people. In consequence of the information received, His Holiness himself shall nominate a most Christian king for the government of France…
“Religion shall be persecuted, and priests massacred. Churches shall be closed, but only for a short time. The Holy Father shall be obliged to leave Rome.”
1A: A court has awarded $180,000 to ex-employees who were fired by a Kroger’s grocery store in Arkansas for refusing to wear aprons that promoted the LGBT agenda. As part of the settlement, Kroger Limited Partnership I has agreed to create a religious accommodation policy and provide enhanced religious discrimination training to store management.
CATHOLIC: Bishop Mutsaerts of The Netherlands has dropped out of the Synod on Synodality, calling it “vile” and saying “the Holy Spirit has absolutely nothing to do with it. … Among the protagonists of this process are to me a few too many defenders of gay marriage, folks who don’t really think abortion is a problem and never really show themselves defenders of the Church’s rich creed, wanting above all to be liked by their secular surroundings.”
He’s not the only one to think so. German Cardinal Gerhard Müller called it a “hostile takeover” of the Church and invited Catholics to resist. Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan agreed that the process is being steered by churchmen “who push their own ideological agenda.”
Two cardinals Pope Francis called to play leading roles are promoters of the LGBT agenda, which aims at overturning 2 millennia of RCC teaching on homosexual acts and the sanctity of one man-one woman marriage.
If this subject interests you, check out the links below.
DETRANS: [12:38] – K.C. Miller talks about her decision to stop testosterone.
FLORIDA: CBS News spent all day trying to find anyone who didn’t want Ron re-elected. They spoke to “dozens of people up and down the coast of Florida, all in precincts, by the way, that voted for President Biden in 2020, but to our surprise, we did not run into a [Charlie Crist] supporter.” DeSantis has won by 20 points.
VAXXX: The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has extended to January 8 the requirement for non-U.S. citizen, non-immigrants to show proof of COVID-19 injection in order to enter the country. IOW, if you “migrate” without permission, you’ll be welcomed at the border, provided with all the social services you could wish for, then released into the interior with a piece of paper saying when to appear in court. They won’t follow up if you fail to appear. No vaxxx required. But don’t you dare try to come visit your relatives for the holidays unless you’re fully jabbed!
In better news, the newly elected conservative government in Italy has ended jab mandates for teachers and health care workers.
CHIEF TWIT: Totally unfunny Kathy Griffin (of bleeding head of Donald Trump fame) tried to tweet as Elon Musk and got her account suspended. It made her so mad, she went on her dead mother’s account so she could call Musk an a**hole. Musk responded that Griffin could have her account back … for $8.
DETRANS: [10:54] – On Oct. 21, 2022, Andy Ngo interviewed Ritchie Herron, a 35-year-old gay man from Newcastle, England, who spent years on testosterone blockers and cross-sex hormones, then was pushed into bottom surgery by “gender-affirming” health professionals. He says “regret” isn’t a strong enough word to describe how he now feels about it all.
DOJ: It’s clear which side Merrick Garland is on. He sends SWAT teams to arrest pro-lifers in their homes, at gun point, in front of their terrified children, while ignoring repeated vandalism and harassment of pro-lifers.
ENERGY: [9:13] – Meanwhile, in Germany, they’re shutting down a windmill farm to make room to expand a coal mine!
EFFING BEE: Last summer Facebook’s market capital was nearly $1 trillion dollars and now it is closer to $245 billion. This coming week, a chunk of the 87,000+ employees will be getting the dreaded pink slip … pink email? … whatever companies do these days to lay off dead weight. When FAUXTUS trashed our energy industries, these snots told the newly unemployed they should “learn to code.” I wonder if these soon-to-join-Twitter-Losers ever learned to fry.
FAUXTUS: CLICK https://rumble.com/v1s85kw-biden-almost-wipes-out-during-speech.html [:10] to see Dementia Joe startle at his shadow. This is genuinely sad. Doesn’t anyone actually care about this man’s well-being? From the comments – “My cousin who was a VA nurse said they often put black rugs in the doorways of dementia patient’s rooms because they would see it as as hole & wouldn’t step in it.” Also, “I’ve seen elderly do this in retirement homes. The change in floor color makes them think it’s a step. That’s why we use solid color floors in retirement facilities.”
FETTERWOMAN: Last week, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled that elections officials should not count misdated ballots. Democrat John Fetterman is suing to overturn that decision.
INDIANA: Hamilton County has had two incidents of election interference reported to authorities. In one, a poll worker told a pair of black voters that the pro-parent candidates were “racists.” In the other, a poll worker chose the “straight Democratic ticket” option while allegedly explaining to a voter how to use the voting machine. Funny coinkidink how both the cheaters were Democrats.
MIDTERMS: The president’s approval rating is one of the best predictors for how a midterm election will go. At this point, Biden’s is at an all time low of 28% with the critically important independent voters.
In addition, two key Democrat demographics – Blacks and Hispanics – have made massive shifts to Republican. In 2020, 8% of Blacks voted for Trump; the latest poll shows 17% of Blacks plan to vote Republican for the midterms. In 2020, Dems had a 28% lead over Republicans; that’s now at 5%.
NEW YORK: CLICK https://twitter.com/ViralNewsNYC/status/1589011987652313090 [:24] to see a group of tolerant, loving Democrat supporters of Gov. Hochul assault a female Zeldin supporter for holding a “Vote them out” sign on which Hochul and her running mate were pictured.
GRAMMY NOTES: I was thinking today how closely the timing of the “Finding in the Temple” event (Luke 2:41-52) matches the timing of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection. Mary and Joseph were traveling home from the Passover celebration in Jerusalem with a caravan. So, both events occurred during Nisan. Each thinking Jesus was with the other, they most likely didn’t figure out he was missing until the caravan stopped for the night. So, as with Good Friday, Jesus was “lost” in the late afternoon on the first day.
They would’ve been a full day’s travel from Jerusalem and very tired from walking all day, so surely slept (probably badly) with the caravan overnight, then spent the next day, walking all the way back to Jerusalem, all the while not knowing where their son was. Likely, they spent as much time as they could that evening searching, but eventually would have had to sleep, despite their sadness and worry. We know now that, on Holy Saturday, Jesus went to the dead to offer them His salvation and escort those who accepted into His Father’s Kingdom. But what a truly dark day the first Holy Saturday must have been for the disciples, who hadn’t really understood what Jesus had told them about His Resurrection!
First thing in the morning, on the third day, Joseph and Mary would have set out once more to search. Perhaps by then, they had heard about the amazing boy who had been teaching in the Temple and went straight there. Easter morning … the women went to the tomb and found Jesus alive again!
ARIZONA: Katie Hobbs is running against Kari Lake for governor. Katie Hobbs is currently the Sec’y of State, which means she oversees the elections. Katie Hobbs does not see any conflict of interest and is calling demands for her to recuse herself for the 2022 midterm elections a distraction. Katie Hobbs is a Democrat.
COVID-19: Across the country, COVID was a negligible cause of child mortality. And an analysis of new federal data reveals that far from saving lives, school closures caused tremendous harm. These facts call into serious question the credibility of pro-Democrat teachers unions that demanded schools stay closed as long as possible.
CYBERSECURITY: Cybersecurity units from the National Guard in 14 states will help counter any threats to election officials’ networks ahead of, during, and following the Nov. 8 elections. The states include Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia. I am really glad to see my sucky state on there, since Lee Zeldin has a real chance if the Dems don’t cheat. Another positive thought is that New York has been Deep Blue for so long, we may not have the well developed fraud machine that states like Pennsylvania have. Plus, Dearest and I are offering our daily rosaries for election integrity.
DEMOCRATS: “We’ve now had three Democratic presidents in a row— stretching back to Clinton in 1992, then Obama in 2008, and Biden in 2020—who all campaigned as moderates, but lurched sharply left once in office. In other words, Democratic presidential candidates lie to us, over and over again, and then voters issue a restraining order at the first opportunity. It’s as though voters need reminding every other decade how bad Democrats in power can be.” – Steven Hayward
DETRANS: [3:43] – Oli London built up millions of followers over the last few years on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, recounting his 32 plastic surgeries totaling more than $300,000, to not only transition from male to female, but also from Caucasian to Korean. In 2019, he went to the Botched team, who told him to knock it off before he ruined his face.
Last week, he announced that since he accepted Jesus, he has decided to embrace his God-given identity as a man. “I actually started going to church three months ago and I go several times a week now. I’ve been reading the Bible, I’ve been learning online, and watching YouTube videos about the teaching of Jesus and that has really helped me in my detransition. It made me realize that God made me the way He did (and) I should just stick with who I am, be who I am, and just find happiness.“
“The trans lobbyist has almost become like a cult. … I left and they attacked me.”
CATHOLIC: The U.S. bishops have publicly condemned President Biden saying, “The president is gravely wrong to continue to seek every possible avenue to facilitate abortion, instead of using his power to increase support and care to mothers in challenging situations. This single-minded extremism must end, and we implore President Biden to recognize the humanity in preborn children and the genuine life-giving care needed by women in this country.”
CHIEF TWIT: On Thursday, Elon Musk canned 3,700 employees by email. To prevent sabotage, he temporarily shut down all Twitter offices, disabled badge access to all physical locations, and had employee computers remotely cleaned. Frankly, I don’t know how the CEO, the Board of Directors, or all these excess employees have not been let go long before this. Twitter has been awash in red ink for more than two years.
OUR LADY of GIETRZWALD: The 1877 apparitions of the Blessed Mother to two young girls in Gietrzwald in northern Poland is the only Polish Marian apparition that has received approval from the Vatican. As she had done during the 1858 apparitions at Lourdes, France, Mary identified herself as the “Immaculate Conception” and stressed the importance of praying the rosary daily and fervently.
For three months, Mary appeared to the two girls about 160 times. Compare this to La Salette, France (one appearance in 1846), to Lourdes, France (18 appearances in 1858), and to Fatima, Portugal (6 appearances in 1917).
The apparitions drew tremendous devotion from the Polish Catholics who were being persecuted by the Prussian Lutheran majority. The Polish language had been banned in schools and public offices and Catholic religious had been removed, leaving the faithful with a great shortage of priests to celebrate the Sacraments.
In most Marian apparitions, the Blessed Mother appears and later statues and images are created from the visionary’s descriptions of her pose and garb. But here, Mary presented herself in the pose the village was familiar with from a beloved 16th century icon in which angels display banners saying, “Ave regina coelorum” (Hail, Queen of Heaven) and “Ave domina angelorum” (Hail, O Lady of the Angels).
On September 8, 1877, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, something like 50,000 faithful gathered for the apparition. On that day, Our Lady blessed a spring from which pilgrims have often drawn water and reported healings.
PENNSYLVANIA: Polls this past week have shown Republicans gaining the edge in the Keystone State. So what a massive coinkydink that the entire Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) has suddenly quit working.
Methinks he underestimates how much trust we’ve already lost in the governments and the health care systems that were responsible for this public health nightmare. They deliberately suppressed safe, well-tested, and inexpensive treatments, ignored the voices calling for herd immunity through natural means, pooh-poohed advice to boost our immune systems with zinc and Vitamins C and D, all so they could ram an expensive, untested, experimental technology into MILLIONS OF ARMS.
And who exactly benefited? Those who believe the human population needs culling and those who made billions selling the poison. In many cases, these seem to be the same people.
DEMOCRATS: Democrat blogger Oliver Willis tweeted, “Even when things get bad, at least Rush Limbaugh is still dead.” It got more than 5K likes. Responses ranged from “Amen” and “Nice just thinking about it” to “I’m stitching this on a pillow.” When they tell you who they are, believe them.
FRAUD: The recently deceased Marie Louise Cruz – aka, “Sacheen Littlefeather” – is best known for having stood in for Marlon Brando when he refused his 1973 Academy Award. As an activist for Native American rights, she had claimed her father was of Apache and Yaqui ancestry. Her sisters have come out recently saying their father was a first generation Spanish-Mexican with no Native American ties and that Marie Louise had changed her life story to gain prestige. I think this last bit is one of the clearest examples of how not racist our culture is.
GEORGIA: On Friday, a prominent Atlanta Democrat endorsed Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and his running mate, snubbing Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
“Over the last four years, I’ve witnessed Governor Kemp make tough decisions—ones that weren’t always popular at the time—in unprecedented circumstances. While we don’t agree on every issue, it’s abundantly clear that Brian Kemp is a man of character, a strong leader, and someone who Georgians can trust to put them and their interests first.”
MICHIGAN: A recent school board meeting in Dearborn, six hundred people (mostly Arab) filled the gym, and hundreds more listened from overflow rooms. There was shouting, booing, and more as people shared their thoughts about sexually explicit books in the school library. [3:22] – Muslims make up roughly 3% of Michigan’s population, where Trump beat Hillary by .23%. But Muslims don’t like homosexuality and they’re really not interested in having trans crap shoved down their kids’ throats, so they’re switching parties.
MIDTERMS: Another effort by the RNC to protect election integrity has won in Wisconsin, where a judge has ruled that poll watchers must be allowed to watch the counting of absentee ballots.
Ryan also believes taxpayers should foot the bill for gender reassignment therapies for felons and illegals. Lifelong hormone replacement costs between $50 and $5,000 per year. Gender reassignment surgeries run between $5,000 and $150,000 each.
PELOSI: [17:20] – These updates on the assault just get weirder and weirder. Also, the midterms. Did you know that “inflation” wasn’t a word that anyone knew before ten minutes ago?
PENNSYLVANIA: Democrat and gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro sent out this extremely offensive campaign mailer. It’s not the first time he’s targeted Catholics. As Pennsylvania’s Attorney General, Shapiro sued the Little Sisters of the Poor, trying to force them to include contraception and abortion in their health insurance plan. His suit kept the sisters tied up in court for six long years before they finally got a ruling from SCOTUS in their favor. The Little Sisters of the Poor are celibate women who commit their lives to providing nursing care to the elderly poor.
TRUMP: On Friday, Tom Barrack, a former fundraiser for The Donald, was found not guilty. He had been charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent during the Trump administration, lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice.
ABORTION: CLICK (or not, it’s hard to listen to) https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1588223254799548416 [1:59] to hear an NPR broadcast of a suction abortion. The ex-mother sighs and thanks the team. The dead baby was not heard from.
AOC: Musk trolled her not only with his “Now pay $8”, but also by highlighting a piece of her overpriced campaign swag … a $58 sweatshirt. Best comment: “She probably tweeted this while sitting in her Tesla.“
BIRDWATCH: Birdwatch is a Twitter feature launched in January 2021 that allows Tweeters to add fact check and additional context notes. These allegedly appeared whenever they were rated “helpful” by other Tweeters … except they didn’t when the misinformation was something that Democrats wanted spread around. One of the first things Elon Musk did was fire the people who were blocking right-wing Birdwatch fact checks, so the White House account is finally getting fact-checked.
BORDER: CBP seized 2.2 tons of illegal drugs valued at more than $24 million in just two busts. Who knows how much they missed? The Biden administration’s lax approach to enforcing our national sovereignty has led to massive increases in drug smuggling. And with more drugs come more drug deaths. In 2021, drug overdose deaths jumped 28.5% over the year before.
CATHOLIC:[3:46] – This is depressing. After an Irish priest gave the homily above, his bishop published an apology and ordered him to stop saying Mass.
“I am aware of the deep upset and hurt caused by the contents of the homilies in question delivered over the weekend. I apologize to all who were offended. The views expressed do not represent the Christian position.” Bishop Ray Browne, 1st November 2022
May God have mercy on that bishop! Jesus didn’t suffer and die because “I’m okay, you’re okay.” Sin is destructive, just like Father Sheehy said.
FIRST FRIDAYS: Watch (or skip) to the very end! [:37] – The First Fridays devotion was given by Jesus during His apparitions to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690).
“I promise you in the excessive mercy of My Heart that My all-powerful love will grant to those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in My disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments. My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment.”
HYPOCRISY: In the wake of the attack on Paul Pelosi, Dems are busy pulling long faces about how “violent” Republicans are. But back in 2017, after Sen. Rand Paul’s next door neighbor broke six of his ribs, Christine Pelosi wasn’t the only Democrat who cheered.
“We are all Rand Paul’s neighbor.” -Keith Olbermann
“We all sort of which we’d been Rand Paul’s neighbor.“ -George Takei
“Imitate Rand Paul’s neighbor.” -Bette Midler
And let’s not forget how left-wing activists attacked Trump supporters as they were leaving a rally in California in June 2016. Or how Dems rioted after Trump won in November 2016. Or how Dems rioted again during Trump’s inauguration. Or how a Democrat shot and wounded Republican members of Congress who were playing baseball. Or how Democrats encouraged and facilitated a full summer of BLM/Antifa rioting. Or how somebody tried to stab New York Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin at a campaign rally. Or how somebody fired a gun into the North Carolina home of a Republican Congressional candidate that passed only a few feet from where his children were sleeping.
LIFE: In the video, the flag moves aside long enough for the security camera to clearly see what happened when a man kicked the “Fight Like Heaven” pro-life sign in front of a statue of the Blessed Mother. And, the incident occurred on November 1, the Feast of All Saints. It’s priceless! [:10] – The latest crime stats show that pro-lifers have been attacked for their beliefs 22 times more often than pro-aborts. The disparity isn’t apparent, because the media doesn’t report on assaults against pro-lifers. Similarly, the DOJ maintains a list of “recent cases on violence against reproductive healthcare providers,” but does not collect similar data for cases against pro-life centers.
MIDTERMS: On Wednesday, Obama warned Democrats not to demonize political opponents, because “people are going to get hurt.” Also on Wednesday, Biden warned Democrats that “extreme MAGA Republicans” are attempting to “suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself.”
NEW YORK: This is why we must vote for Lee Zeldin! [1:13] – The most recent atrocity occurred on Thursday, when a homeless man, 29, choked and raped a jogger, 48, then stole her phone, headphones and wallet before fleeing the scene on a Citi Bike. The man was found when he attempted to use the credit cards and has been arrested … AGAIN. He has 25 prior arrests, including petit larceny, assault, and sexual assault, drug possession and possession of burglary tools. Since New York instituted the no bail law last January, crime in New York City has increased by 29.6%.
UNITY PRAYER: My adorable Jesus, May our feet journey together, May our hands gather in unity, May our hearts beat in unison, May our souls be in harmony, May our thoughts be as one. May our ears listen to the silence together. May our glances profoundly penetrate each other. May our lips pray together to gain mercy from the Eternal Father. Amen.
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