I'm a 60 something wife, mom and grandmom who is homebound/disabled by severe hypersensitivity to chemicals. I fill my days with learning, loving and art. My favorite values are truth, generosity and gratitude.
My personal favorite: “The assumption that every human is so valuable we need to cancel all society to avoid even a single longcovid sequela. But not valuable enough to be reasoned with, or allowed the dignity of making value judgments for themselves.”
*Aisles of allegedly non-essential goods blocked in stores where people were allowed to shop.
*You could go to a liquor store to buy booze or a weed shop to get marijuana, but you could not pray in an empty church.
*You could go to a casino, but not to school.
*Banning all outdoor activities despite the facts that sunlight and exercise are essential for the healthy functioning of the immune system.
*Padlocking the gates to public parks and locking the swings together.
*In Ohio for sports, you could still wrestle each other but then you couldn’t shake hands after.
*You had to wear a mask to go into a restaurant but as soon as you were seated, you could take it off.
2A: [3:36] – Babylon Bee shows us what it would look like for women to have the exact same rights that guns have. I’m thinking that the “tuck under the coat” isn’t adequate. What is needed for concealed carry is a full burka. You know, the ones with the mesh covering over the eye hole. But if her owner has an open carry license, a hijab might be adequate.
EVs: Consumer Reports 2022 Annual Auto Reliability survey found that electric vehicles and full-size pickup trucks have the most after-purchase problems, while hybrids and mid- and large-sized gas-powered sedans have the least.
The top most reliable automakers in the survey are headquartered in Asia. The highest-ranked domestic brands – Lincoln and Buick – ranked 10 and 11.
FTX: The balance sheet of the now-bankrupt, Democrat-Ponzi, cryptocurrency laundromat includes $7.4 million of a cryptocurrency token called TRUMPLOSE. The disgraced CEO spent roughly $10 million to help get FAUXTUS elected, making him Slow Joe’s second-biggest donor in 2020.
END TIMES PROPHECY: The video above – “Are We Ready for a New World Order?” [27:21] – is from the World Government Summit last March. YouTube posted “context” for the discussion by referring to a Wikipedia article that states, “The New World Order (NWO) is a conspiracy theory which hypothesizes a secretly emerging totalitarian world government.” And yet … when the host asked the question, nobody scoffed. And from the bits I listened to (sorry, but not willing to spend 27 minutes of my life on this garbage), the guests all seem to not only be taking the question, but also thinking a NWO would be really super duper.
HALLMARK: The brand you thought you could trust is releasing “The Holiday Sitter.” Never mind the G-rating; the story is solely focused on an LGBT love story. Hallmark’s move to “woke” inspired Candace Cameron Bure to leave Hallmark for Great American Family.
PORNOGRAPHY: [4:57] – Pornography is a public health catastrophe.
PURGATORY: St. Gertrude the Great was a German mystic, theologian, and nun, who said that Jesus told her that this prayer would release “a vast number of souls from Purgatory” each time it is said. It must be remembered that the efficacy of one’s prayers is directly related to the level of sanctity and virtue possessed by the one doing the praying. So, while “a vast number” may have been freed by St. Gertrude’s prayers, our own recitations of this prayer may be less efficacious. However, any help we give the souls in Purgatory is worthwhile.
I remember reporting on the original incident back in 2020. The Bernardel family includes 11 children, six adopted and one with serious disabilities. Mama Jane has home schooled her brood for more than 20 years. And they routinely attend daily Mass. On Halloween 2020, Jane took the kids to church to pray, as is the family’s custom. They sat in an empty pew, far from anyone else.
After they had prayed the rosary and Divine Mercy chaplet, an unmasked priest came out and ordered them all to mask. Jane said no. “None of us were ill, we were all well, we were all very far from anybody in the church, so it … didn’t make sense to me.” The priest called the cops and had Bernardel arrested for trespassing.
Since then, Jane says other people have told her how they were singled out for refusing to mask. One woman said she was ordered from the pulpit to leave. Another family was told their boys couldn’t serve and the family had to sit in a special, roped off pew.
Bishop James Johnston of the Diocese of Kansas City seems to have taken the whole thing very personally. At first, he offered to drop the charges if she pleaded guilty to trespassing, paid a $300 fine, and attend anger management classes. She said no and eventually the judge dismissed the case.
But Bernardel’s bishop seems to have a big old bug up his butt, cuz he hasn’t been able to let the thing drop. In February, he sent her a formal canonical rebuke and penal precept, in which he accused her of multiple “grave disturbances” and forbade her from setting foot on any diocesan property for at least one year, with the exception of cemeteries.
I’m inclined to believe that the real reason behind this persecution is that the prayers of this devout family threatens Satan’s territory. Jane has chosen to litigate against Bishop Johnston; the Life Funder link below is for donations to her legal costs.
ABORTION: “Catholics for Choice” is definitely not Catholic. [5:43] Also, the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) said pro-lifers like members of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) should not bother showing up to their medical conference.
CATHOLIC: This is fun. [3:50] – Clearly, there’s no such thing as a conflict between science and faith.
FAUCI: Rep. James Comer (R-KY) says his team has evidence that Fauci and his NIH buddy, Francis Collins, used their control over federal science grants to coerce private scientists into letting them control the pandemic.
In late January 2020, Fauci was alerted to the fact that his agency had given federal tax dollars to EcoHealth Alliance, which then passed it on to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, where it was used to do gain-of-function research on novel bat coronaviruses. Gain-of-function research had been banned by the U.S. government.
Rep. Comer says that, during a Feb. 1, 2020, conference call, Fauci and Collins were not only warned that COVID-19 may have been engineered by and leaked from the Wuhan lab, but also discussed how to use their control over federal science grant money to prevent private scientists from revealing their crimes to the public.
PELOSI: Don’t you dare ask questions! [7:17] – Just a reminder from Proverbs 6:16-19. “There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.”
RUBIO: [4:12] – Families are the foundation of our lives, and the very life of our nation. So, what does our government value most? Does family top – or even make – the list? Senator Marco Rubio lays out some critical ways we can reconstruct government policy to build a pro-family culture.
SAN FRANCISCO: Twice in the same day, professional photographers were mugged while shooting at the popular Palace of Fine Arts. A recent poll shows that a third of ‘Frisco residents plan to leave as soon as possible.
TEXAS: On Tuesday, Gov. Abbott (R) announced he has invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. and Texas Constitutions. Texas will take the following steps to address the border crisis.
Deploy the National Guard to safeguard the border, and to repel and turn back immigrants trying to cross the border illegally;
Deploy the Texas Dept. of Public Safety (DPS) to arrest and return immigrants to the border who crossed illegally, and to arrest illegal immigrants for criminal activity;
Build a wall in multiple counties on the border;
Deploy gun boats;
Designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations;
Enter into a compact with other states to secure the border;
Enter into agreements with foreign powers to enhance border security;
Provide resources for border counties to increase their efforts to respond to the “border invasion.”
TRUMP: On November 15, The Donald announced he is running for a second term. “Together we will be taking on the most corrupt forces and entrenched interests imaginable.”
NPR, the tax-funded “public” radio station, announced it like this: “BREAKING: Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024.”
GRAMMY NOTES: I’m very proud of the work Dearest is doing as the architect on this Second Winds project. When it’s done, Dryden House will have four apartments and a fenced yard for homeless moms. Located in the middle of the village, residents will be able to walk to most everything they could need … post office, grocery store, pharmacy, schools, doctors’ offices, and public library. And they’ll be right on the public bus line if they need to get to Ithaca or Cortland.
The 27th United Nations Conference of Parties on climate change (COP-27, November 6-18, 2022) has been happening this week in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The focus this year has been on getting world religions and world religious leaders on board the climate church train. I doubt very much that it’s an accident that the COP-27 logo is derived from the Egyptian symbol for Aten, the sun god, in which the sun’s rays emanate from the sun disk and terminate in human hands.
On Sunday, climate “worshipers” participated in a ceremony on ten “high places” around the world where they confessed humanity’s sins against the environment, smashed tablets shaped like the traditional tablets of Moses and issued ten new commandments. The use of the phrase “ten commandments” got a lot of blowback, so all of it has been scrubbed from their websites in favor of calling the rules “Ten Universal Principals for Climate Justice.” While chanting about the “moral” imperative of “saving the planet”, the measures these cultists demand will result in nothing less than extreme poverty and death for the masses … which just so happens to coincide with both Satan’s and the Global Elites’ agenda.
None of these “zero carbon” people have ever responded to Dr. Patrick Moore’s evidence showing that our use of fossil fuel saved the planet by putting trapped carbon back into circulation where living beings could use it.
Terry Schulze writes, “I was fascinated by Patrick Moore’s comment about CO2 at 150 ppm and how the plants would die. I went and did some research and sure enough he’s right. Here’s a bit from my research –
“Atmospheric CO2 is not alarmingly high, it is too low for optimal plant growth and alarmingly low for the survival of carbon-based terrestrial life. The real danger is not too much CO2 – it is CO2 starvation. Over geologic time, CO2 is permanently sequestered in carbonate rocks.
“Plants evolved at atmospheric CO2 concentrations of 2000 ppm and greater, and many grow best at about 1200 ppm CO2 – about 3 times current levels. That is why greenhouse operators maintain 1000-1200 ppm CO2 in their greenhouses.
“Major food crops (except corn) use the C3 photosynthetic pathway, and die at about 150 ppm from CO2 starvation – that is just 30 ppm below the minimum levels during the last Ice Age, which ended just 10,000 years ago – ‘the blink of an eye’ in geologic time. Earth came that close to a major extinction event.
“During one of the next Ice Ages, unless there is massive human intervention, atmospheric CO2 will decline to below 150 ppm and that will be the next major extinction event – not just for a few species but for all complex terrestrial carbon-based life forms.”
ELECTION FRAUD: If they can’t cheat, they can’t win. In Colorado, pro-Trump Republican Lauren Boebert was ahead of far left Democrat Adam Frisch … until shazam … several thousand previously uncounted votes suddenly appeared. Who woulda thunk?
In Arizona, the cheating is even more blatant, what with Katie Hobbs, the Democrat candidate also being the Sec’y of State overseeing the ballot count. Republican Kari Lake won on election day … but the longer the alleged counting goes on, the more “votes” they manage to find for the execrable Hobbs.
FTX: The World Economic Forum is one of the drivers behind the Great Reset (one world government, 666, etc.). Last May, Bankman-Fried — CEO of the now bankrupt, Ponzi-Democrat money laundromat known as FTX — was a speaker at the WEF’s glitzy annual shindig in Davos, Switzerland. He was on stage with Bill Clinton, another Demo-crook if ever there was one.
HYPOCRISY: New York State forbids anyone younger than 18 from getting tattooed with or without parental consent. One wonders why the tattoo artist did it, since one might suppose s/he would know the law on this.
MIDTERMS: On election day, it looked like Republicans gained control of the House. But with the cheating cheaters creating “votes” on their copy machines, who knows what we’ll end up with. At least congressional district in Oregon has officially flipped from Blue (48.9%) to Red (51.1%), so there’s that!
SCAM: Be on the lookout this holiday season. Reports are being made of scammers sending text messages where they pretend to be the U.S. Postal Service asking for redelivery fees. The USPS does not charge additional fees. If you become a victim of the scam, you can report it on the Better Business Bureau website.
WOMEN’S SPORTS: Ain’t patriarchy awesome? In today’s world, male athletes who can’t win can just put on some earrings and trounce the competition. Austin Killips just won the Verge Northampton International Cyclocross in Northampton, Massachusetts. Before suddenly deciding he’s really a woman “trapped” in a man’s (more heavily muscled) body, he won only 17 of the 57 races he entered. This could explain why he only managed to beat the “second” place REAL woman by one second.
This is the only Marian apparition in the U.S. that has been approved by the Roman Catholic Church.
Adele Brise was born in Belgium in 1831 and emigrated to Wisconsin with her family to join a settlement of Belgian pioneers and settlers. In 1859, Adele saw a lady dressed in dazzling white, standing between two trees. She had a yellow sash around her waist and a crown of stars around her head. Her family suggested she was a soul in Purgatory asking for prayers.
After a second appearance, Adele spoke to her parish priest, who instructed her to ask, “In God’s name, who are you and what do you want of me?” When the lady appeared for a third time, Adele fell to her knees and asked and the lady replied, “I am the Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners, and I wish you to do the same. Gather the children in this wild country and teach them what they should know for salvation. Go and fear nothing, I will help you.”
Adele began teaching children the Catholic faith by traveling on foot from house to house. Eventually, she was able to start a small school and form a chapter of Third Order Franciscans. Her father built a small wooden structure at the site of the apparitions and, later, a bigger wooden church was built and named Our Lady of Good Help.
On October 8, 1871, the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire burned through 1.2 million acres wildfire, killing between 1,200-2,400 people. It is still considered the most devastating fire in U.S. history. The chapel at the site of the apparitions is located about where the “b” in Tobinsville is on the map above.
People from the surrounding countryside fled to the Chapel where Sister Adele and the other Sisters were praying for Mary’s protection. Lifting the statue of Mary, those there that night processed around the sanctuary, praying the rosary and singing hymns to Jesus and the Blessed Mother. In the morning, rain came and extinguished the fire.
A local priest who wrote that the fire charred only the outside of the Shrine’s fence. The area surrounding the grounds was destroyed and the only livestock to survive were the cattle that farmers had brought inside the fence. To this day, many descendants of those who survived visit the Shrine for an all-night prayer vigil to mark the anniversary of the biggest of many miracles that God has granted at the Shrine.
Adele died on July 5, 1896, and is buried in the cemetery located near The Apparition Chapel on the grounds of the National Shrine. In 2010, the Bishop of Green Bay declared the apparitions “Worthy of Belief” and in 2016, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops designated the grounds as a National Shrine.
DEMOCRAT MIRACLES: I’m not going to report much on the cheating. IMO, the nation is lost and we need to double down on prayer, not anger or politics. I mean, they don’t even respect us enough to bother being subtle. A town of 700 in New Hampshire allegedly cast 1,100 votes for the Democratic candidate. And in Maryland, 10,000 votes magically appeared out of nowhere to flip the District-6 seat blue.
LITIGATION: [4:26] – Former transgender teenager Chloe Cole is suing the doctors who conned her parents into believing that puberty blockers and a double mastectomy were the only way to treat her gender dysphoria.
PROJECT VERITAS: Warning – The video contains sexually explicit content. [9:58] – The good news is that, because PV made this pervert’s sexual fantasies public, he has been placed on leave while the school investigates. A retired cop who spent 25 years profiling offenders says this teacher’s obsession is very “predatory. When somebody is this obsessed with a fantasy, it starts to rule their life. They start to move in a direction of losing the concept of reality. The reality is he’s a teacher. He’s in a power position. He should be worried about educating these children. Instead, his focus is more on constantly — it seems, constantly obsessed with sexual aspects of these children.”
S&G: This past Saturday, the city of Venice, Florida, held its 3rd annual Venice Pride Festival in Centennial Park. The “family friendly” event, which was promoted on the city’s official Government website, featured nudity and a super fun “toss the ring on the dildo” game.
“It started out with freedom to love whomever you wanted. ‘Love is love.’ Then it was more ‘representation’ and half naked kink parades. Now, it’s drag queen story hour in elementary schools, kid drag shows, and dildo ring toss. We’re so far down the slippery slope. Are we finally allowed to call this grooming?” – Libs of TikTok
GRAMMY NOTES: “The Homecoming” by N.C. Wyeth – Somebody posted this on my FB timeline with, “As the lone soldier returns home to the family farm, he is met by rural stillness punctuated only by his jubilant dog racing to greet him. The returning infantryman seems almost to hesitate—happy to be home, certainly, but overwhelmed. The faint reluctance of the man’s posture hints at unforgettable experiences. The soldier has dropped his bag, releasing his wartime burden at the threshold of the farm so that he can accept with open arms the life he used to know and the dog running toward him. A man returning to a farmhouse he left as a boy. His burden is at his feet. But it is still with him.”
It really got me looking. There is so much here. Like, how the soldier is not only outside the gate, but also has not yet passed the mailbox, his sole point of contact with his family while he was away. And his weight is on his back foot, like he’s really not ready to move into the next phase of his life. He has also removed his cover even though he’s still outdoors. I don’t know what military etiquette was back then, but now I think they’re supposed to keep it on. It’s also interesting that, while he’s removed his cover, he has not put it down. In other words, he isn’t preparing to greet the exuberant dog. In fact, he’s not even looking at the dog, which would be the natural thing for him to do, since the dog is moving.
Even the landscape speaks to the challenges he faces. The harvest is in and the trees have lost their autumn brightness, so snow and winter cold are imminent. Also, the first enclosure on the left appears to be a pig pen. Pigs really stink and they have to be slaughtered before they are useful. Plus, there’s the whole Holocaust (Jews don’t eat pigs) thing. So the soldier has still got to pass that mailbox and enter the gate and go past the pigs before he gets to the cows and chickens, which provide nourishment without being killed. Only then will he reach the house where his family – who won’t ever understand what he’s been through – are waiting for him.
CATHOLIC: [18:36] – When my kids were little, we had a wonderful teen babysitter with a passion for Christ and the Bible. One day, she approached me, very seriously and with great love, saying she had been told at her church that Catholics are not Christians, yet she had seen that we most certainly were. She asked about the usual things … Purgatory, Mary, etc. … and I explained Catholic doctrine in terms I thought would meet her where she was at that time. She pondered it all and said that, while she didn’t agree, she did see how we could truly be biblical Christians while holding these teachings to be true. ❤
DEM MEGA DONOR: On Friday, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed for bankruptcy. On Monday, he was worth $15.6 billion. By Friday, he was worth $1 billion, with the 94 percent loss representing the biggest one-day collapse by a billionaire ever.
NEW YORK: Lee Zeldin says, “We flipped 4 NY Congressional seats, broke the supermajority in the State Senate, and received the most votes of any GOP candidate since Nelson Rockefeller. Team Zeldin put in max effort every day and has no regrets. It was such an honor to lead this year’s ticket.”
VAXXX: An Israeli study has found that the fourth jab provides protection from the ‘rona for all of 13 weeks. The third jab lasted 15 to 26 weeks. Soooooo … risk disability and death in exchange for maybe not getting as bad of a cold for 3 months? No thanks.
GRAMMY NOTES: [4:34] – Whoa … Father Mark has half an hour of adoration for every youth group meeting and he’s teaching the teens Latin! I would’ve loved this kind of spiritual meat for myself as a teen and for my girls when they were teens.
The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs by Fra Angelica (1420s)
The following was posted yesterday by Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, the exorcist whose on-line sessions I attend.
Our exorcist began to pray over a possessed woman. But at the very beginning of the session, the demons spontaneously shouted, “Charbel, you stay away from me!” The team had not yet been invoking the saints, or St. Charbel by name, so they were surprised he showed up. They were also surprised the demons admitted it. Moments later, as the Litany of the Saints ensued, the demons shouted again and again: “Not that name! Not that name!” This demonic reaction was unusual. Clearly something was up.
An astute exorcist discerns what is working in a session and adjusts the prayers accordingly. The exorcist was initially skeptical, as he should be, and careful not to be deceived by the demons. But as the session continued, it was becoming apparent that these and many other saints were indeed coming to help. Their holiness and intercession were visibly torturing the demons.
Normally, the Litany of the Saints is part of the opening of an exorcism session. Then the exorcist moves quickly into what are thought to be “more important” prayers. However, in this case, the exorcist adjusted his normal routine and stayed with the Litany of the Saints for hours, making it the bulk of the sessions.
Also he had dozens of first class relics of the saints at his fingertips. As the exorcist prayed each name, he laid the corresponding relic of the saint on the afflicted person’s forehead. With each relic and invocation of a saint, the demons howled in agony.
The three consecutive days of intensive exorcism sessions were focused on and filled with hours of invoking the saints. Again and again, the demons shouted, “Not that name! Not that name!” St. Patrick. St. Rose of Lima. St. Maximillian Kolbe, The 12 Apostles. St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. Blessed Michael McGivney. St. Lawrence. Blessed Conchita. St. Teresa and the Carmelite saints. St. Catherine of Alexandria. St. John Eudes. And more.
On day two, the demons began to manifest their leaving. The afflicted woman started coughing up a white frothy foam. The demonic screaming reached a crescendo followed by a kind of demonic “explosion.” Then she came back to herself. Again and again, as each set of demons left, there was coughing up of foam, a crescendo and explosion, followed by a moment of calm with the person returning to her conscious self.
Finally, at the end of day three, the exorcist invoked the special intercession of the Virgin Mary. This time, after the demonic explosion, a peace came over the woman and filled the entire room. She came back to herself and said, “It’s over.” She said that a great weight had been lifted and the demons were gone. Subsequent discernment continues to confirm that the demonic possession had ended.
Each possession and each path to liberation is always somewhat unique. In this case, the exorcist believes that the Lord was teaching him and the team the importance of the communion of the saints and their powerful intercession. Moreover, he said, “It taught me that every part of the Rite is exorcistic, not just the imprecatory prayers that command the demons to leave.”
Now the exorcist does not fail to value the prayers which invoke the powerful intercession of the saints. Nor should we.
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