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Sept. 23: The USS Ronald Reagan and ships from its accompanying strike group docked at a naval base in South Korea, making a new push to deter North Korea, which has tested a record number of missiles this year, while refusing diplomacy.
Sept. 25: North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast.
Sept. 26: U.S. and SoKo forces began four days of joint drills aimed at demonstrating the allies’ “powerful resolve to respond to North Korean provocations.”
Sept. 28: NoKo fired off two more ballistic missiles off its east coast.
Sept. 30: The navies of South Korea, the United States and Japan staged trilateral anti-submarine exercises in international waters off the Korean peninsula’s east coast.
I strongly encourage those afflicted by demons to regularly attend Mass. But I know that it is difficult for them, especially for the fully possessed.
When someone is possessed, there is a kind of interpenetration of the bodies of the possessed with demons. Thus, the possessed will often feel some of what the demons feel. So their lives will, at times, be a living hell – literally.
For example, when placed in contact with anything holy, the possessed will typically say they feel excruciating pain. They will say that cold holy water burns. When looking at a crucifix, their eyes will feel like they are on “fire.” When encountering a priest or a Catholic Church, the may feel intense hatred.
I asked “David,” who formerly belonged to a Satanic cult and is now possessed, to do his best to attend Sunday Mass. He valiantly tries, but has only managed to attend once every few months, if that. He said that when he is able to attend, “I can’t say the prayers while I’m there or respond to them like everyone else does.”
David added, “It’s torture to be there, with all of the statues, and pictures that surround me.” He went on, “All of the people and the priest praying is such a loud noise that it makes me so angry.”
And he concluded, “When they say the St. Michael prayer, I can hear the demons screaming. It’s so horrible and frightening and painful.”
I love the Church’s sacramentals. They inspire and strengthen us. But they also serve an important apotropaic* function: they are abhorrent to demons and help to cast them out.
I noted especially David’s comment about the St. Michael prayer: it frightens demons, causes them intense pain, and they scream in agony.I will be more diligent in using this prayer in our future exorcism sessions.
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*apotropaic [ăp″ə-trō-pā′ĭk] adj. – Having the power to prevent evil.
ARKANSAS: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is thankfully cancer free following removal of her thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes. She’ll be back on the campaign trail as soon as possible.
CATHOLIC: [23:51] – The Catechism of the Catholic Church states (2357) “Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.”
CHICOMS: A CCP-linked company is trying to buy farmland near Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. The land is ideally located for this hostile government to monitor a U.S. military installation that is described as having “exceptional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.”
DEMENTIA JOE: On Sept. 28, 2022, during a White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health at the Ronald Reagan Building, FAUXTUS looked around and asked where Jackie Walorski was. He seemed to expect her to be there. But Walorski died in a car crash on August 3, 2022, after which Biden sent condolences. When asked about it, WH spox KJP said she didn’t think it was “unusual” for Biden to be looking for a dead woman. I guess we can file this in the bulging collection of “if Trump had said it” episodes.
ECONOMY: Since Biden took office, U.S. investors have lost an estimated $7.6 Trillion, while American working families have lost $4,200 in real income. Because of steep inflation, the average family will have to spend an additional $11,500 just to maintain their standard of living. Obviously, that isn’t going to be possible for many, especially with what is predicted to be a harsh winter approaching.
ELITISM: CLICK https://rumble.com/v1lrlv9-leftist-nyc-mayor-perfectly-showcases-how-much-liberals-hate-you.html [:28] to hear NYC Mayor Adams say his city “has a brand” over and over, as if it means something. Then he snarks at Kansas, gets a big laugh over disrespecting people who are different from him, then returns to repeating his meaningless statement. This is SO typical of liberals. I grew up across the street from Cornell University and have been listening to this meaningless elitism since I was a little kid.
FACEBOOK: Steve Friend made a whistleblower complaint with the DOJ’s Inspector General about the FBI targeting Democrat political opponents. The FBI suspended him and now Facebook has suspended his wife’s account after she sent a message to someone who had asked if her husband needed support.
FLORIDA: [3:26] – When Hurricane Ian made landfall over the west coast of Floriday on Wednesday afternoon, it was at Category 4 (150 mph winds). More than 680,000 customers lost power, but the storm dropped to Category 1 (90 mph winds) fairly rapidly.
NYC: This is New York City’s “brand” – This woman may lose vision permanently in her right eye after a viciously violent nutcase assaulted her in a subway station. Subway crime is up 42% over pre-pandemic rates. In June, Mayor Adams said he was increasing police presence in the subway, but there was literally nobody patrolling or even monitoring that station when the assault occurred. Even more infuriating, the thug beat his 82-year-old foster grandmother to death in 1995 when he was just 14, and has since stabbed a woman in the face. He has also been arrested for assaulting a woman with a screwdriver, as well as for criminal mischief, robbery and larceny. But yeah … in the Rotten Apple, he’s out on the streets, free to take out his insane rage on a total stranger.
PELOSI DEMS: San Fran Nan has extended her proxy voting rules AGAIN because the “novel coronavirus” supposedly makes it too dangerous for them to show up in person to vote. This is the thing they get paid six figures for, yet butt lazy Dems like AOC keep filing statements stating, “I am unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency.” Funny thing how that leaves them free to campaign (while collecting their fat salaries). Funnier thing how the extension expires two days after the midterms.
TUCKER: [11:27] – If you prefer to read rather than listen, there is a transcript at the first link below.
Non-natural explosions have caused three [update: now four] leaks in theNord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. The explosions were so large that they actually registered on the Richter scale, but they took place in the water, not in the rock under the seabed. IOW, the pipes were not damaged by earthquakes.
As natural gas pours into the Baltic Sea, the largest leak is spreading bubbles more than half a mile in diameter. The smallest is creating a circle as wide as two football fields. The Nord Stream pipes are 230+ feet underwater. Diving to this depth requires special equipment, procedures, and advanced training. In addition, the steel pipes are 1.6 inches thick and coated with steel-reinforced concrete more than 4 inches thick. IOW, these pipes were not sabotaged by amateurs.
A German source is reporting that our CIA warned Berlin over the summer that they were seeing increasing signs of a possible planned attack on the pipeline. Some European leaders are pointing their fingers at Russia, which makes little sense, since the pipes were carrying Russian gas. Others fingers are aimed at the Biden administration, which has more than once threatened to “end” the Nord Stream pipeline. Is it my imagination or would this constitute an act of war?
This is obviously going to exacerbate a rapidly growing energy crisis in Europe, especially with what is predicted to be a bitterly cold winter coming in a matter of weeks. But the up side is that, shazam, another pipeline (the purple line on the map) just opened, bringing non-Russian gas to Europe. Will Russia respond by targeting something near and dear to us?
I have to wonder about the fact that the explosions that started the leaks happened on Rosh Hashanah. I seriously doubt the people who did it were aware of or cared about the date. But God certainly does. And “we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him.” – Romans 8:28
So let’s review the significance of Rosh Hashanah.
First, Rosh Hashanah is the day after the end of the month of Elul, which is known as both the “Month of Mercy.” Could it be that the Nord Stream pipeline explosions mark the end of God’s mercy for the Earth?
Second, the biblical name for Rosh HaShanah is Yom Teruah, which literally means “day of blasting.” Yikes!
Third, it is also known as Yom haDin, or literally, the Day of Judgment. Double yikes!
ANTI-CHRIST: Last week, I wrote about why I think the Anti-Christ is 77 years old and today I got to pondering what it might signify numerologically were he to rise to power this year. I mean, three represents God’s perfection and Jesus started His ministry in his 30th year and died and rose again in his 33d year, right? So … just spitballing here. In the Bible, seven represents completeness, while three sevens represent the Trinity. So, in a way, 77 could represent a fake Son of Man, one who aspires to be God, but isn’t. Like the Anti-Christ.
ARIZONA: On Saturday, more than two dozen pro-life and pro-conservative laws took effect, including a ban on abortion at 15 weeks, with the only exception being to save the mother’s life. I think maybe this one is subsumed by a complete abortion ban from 1901 that SCOTUS allowed the state to enforce once more.
There are also now several bans on allowing government to infringe on individual freedoms with mandates to mask, vaxxx, or shut down, as well as a new requirement to provide proof of citizenship, birthplace, and current residency to vote in federal elections.
CATHOLIC: [7:12] – Catholic YouTuber Amber Rose talks about why and how to veil.
FAUCI: In a new book, two former Trump White House officials wrote, “[I]n January 2020, [Fauci] said the virus was nothing to worry about for the American people. Then in the months that followed, he said that people should not wear masks and that they were ineffective. By June or July, he had changed his tune and said everyone should be very concerned and that they should wear multiple masks and goggles.
“I vividly recall my blood boiling during an infuriating meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, when Fauci laughed about his own goggles comment, making it clear how cynical he was and that he could get people to believe anything. … [he] went on to laugh about how ‘ass-backwards’ it was that people entered a restaurant wearing a mask, then sat down and conversed with people without a mask. Of course, he wasn’t saying things to that effect publicly, just laughing privately at the American rubes he was fooling.”
Evidence has long since shown that masking was largely ineffective at limiting the spread of COVID.
FATHER COLUMBA: [8:08] – I’m busy chopping up a bunch of cabbage for home-fermented sauerkraut, so the salt part of Fr. Columba’s excellent talk stuck out for me. I know fermented veg needs salt, but why, I wondered? And would understanding the why add anything to Jesus’ statement from the Sermon on the Mount? Here’s what I found:
Salt is very important from a safety perspective. You have no control over the mix of good and bad bacteria in your veg and, on their own, the good ones will not always overwhelm the bad ones.
Salt favors the good ones (i.e., lactobacillus), which is adapted to the saline environment in our guts, so adding it to the culture helps them to thrive and overwhelm the nasties, preventing putrefaction.
Salt also draws water out of the cells of the veg and hardens the pectin, which gives the kraut more crunch. And it discourages yeast, which can give a boozy flavor to the veg.
Sooooo … it’s very beneficial to have spiritually salty people in the ferment of our culture. (Ha ha … see what I did there?) The cool thing is that ‘kraut only needs 2% salt. Just think what that means for how vital our role is, if only we will be truly salty?!
IRAN: [2:01] – In the video, two anonymous women in the Iranian underground church warn that the West that the rhetoric in President Joe Biden’s September 1 speech is “almost identical to the things said by the Iranian government” and that “two years ago, the Lord showed us that persecution we live with here in Iran is quickly coming to the United States and to the West. … Dear friends, please hear us: The final period of testing is coming quickly. Now is the hour … to stand firmly for Jesus, no matter what it costs you.”
MICHIGAN: On Tuesday, Sept. 20, an 84-year-old pro-life volunteer was going door to door in her community to talk about Proposal 3. As she was leaving one residence, somebody in the house shot her in the back. She is recovering from her wound and wishes to remain anonymous while the criminal investigation proceeds.
Proposal 3 will appear on the midterm ballot. If it passes, it will amend the state constitution to establish a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, including prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care.
VAXXX: Well, will you look at this? Yet another tin-foil hat conspiracy theory has been proven to be absotively true. They assured us that it was “not biologically possible for the vaccine to shed or affect unvaccinated people.” That was a big fat lie, which Pfizer and the FDA knew. Now, finally, someone has published in JAMA that, for at least the first 48 hours after injection, an unpredictable amount of the mRNA can show up in mother’s milk.
Remember that Pfizer data the FDA tried so hard to hide for 75 years? One of the factoids in there is that that 133 vaxxx test subjects were breastfeeding and that 17 of their infants suffered adverse reactions. Three of these reactions were labeled “serious” and one of the babies died. Clearly, breastfeeding within 48 hours of the jab is not safe for infants. Is anyone telling the moms?
VFAUXTUS: CLICK https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1574767534812938242 [:32] if you can bear it. I had to stop after 15 seconds. She’s in Japan representing the U.S. at the funeral of their assassinated Prime Minister. “We also share a common goal and bond as it relates to our dedication to… the work that we will continue to do to ensure that we are guided by what we are joined in in terms of international rules and norms.” She can use more words to say nothing than anyone I’ve ever known. And since I grew up across the street from Cornell University, that is saying something.
GRAMMY NOTES: I know … it looks like they’re just playing a game. But really, it’s “pattern matching and fine motor strengthening.” I love home school!
COVI-NOIA: Some Tweeter going by the name of “anna phylaxis” explained in a lengthy tweet thread that she hasn’t caught the ‘rona yet, because she doesn’t see friends unless they both test negative and she doesn’t go to movies, concerts, or museums at all. When she’s forced to mingle, she wears a half-face respirator indoors always and puts it on when she’s outdoors in a crowd. And oh, BTW, she is way pissed that everybody else is not doing the same things.
EQUALITY: Apparently the idea that justice is blind has died in our once great nation. J6 protesters were denied bail and kept in solitary for months over misdemeanor charges while BLM/Antifa protesters who caused billions in damage walked free. Now the jackass who deliberately ran down and killed an 18-year-old high school student for having right-wing political views is out of jail. He is not under house arrest; he doesn’t have a curfew; and he only had to post a $50,000 bond.
FASCISTS: [8:53] – Progs have gone from calling us “bitter clingers” to “deplorables” to “insurrectionists” to “fascists.” And it’s not just here in the U.S. of A. Lefties are flipping out that Italians elected one of us to be their new Prime Minister. CLICK https://twitter.com/MRobertsQLD/status/1574263707001008129 [2:14] to hear Giorgia Meloni respond.
Merriam-Webster defines fascism as “a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.”
IOW, it’s not a right- but rather a left-wing political philosophy.
LGBTQ: Some folks have their panties in a bunch over Netflix including their new series about Jeffrey Dahmer in the LGBTQ category. But the fact is that Jeffrey Dahmer was gay. They just don’t want him included in their club, because he was also a child predator who went to gay nightclubs, killed the men and boys he slept with, and then ate them.
LIZ CHENEY: CLICK https://twitter.com/KariLakeWarRoom/status/1574105358615728128 [:42] to hear Kari say that opposition is the “biggest and best gift” Liz could give her. “The voters of Wyoming can’t stand her and I’m pretty much sure the people of Arizona don’t like Liz Cheney.”
MIDTERMS: [8:04] – Yikes! When the top two Dems in the country get treated like this in Deep Blue New Yuck City … you know they’re in trouble!
S&G: A science and history museum not only hosted a late-night, open bar drag show, but invited children to it. [12:25] – This is just sick and you probably will not be uplifted or enlightened at all by actually watching any of the clips. I watched one and would like to have my brain bleached.
VAXXX: [4:13] – Dr. Aseem Malhotra is a British cardiologist who publicly promoted the COVID-19 “vaccines”; he now says we should stop using them, because the risks outweigh the benefits. Some of the data he used to come to this conclusion is linked below.
GRAMMY NOTES: I have a real love for Mary Magdalene and I think The Chosen actress who plays her is GORGEOUS, so I tried to paint her with my new super-granulating paints. Overall, I’m really happy with the painting, except that she came out looking more like The Chosen actress who plays Ramah! LOL
BORDER: Drug cartels are taking full advantage of the Dems’ border crisis. While Border Patrol is fully occupied with the swarms of illegals, the cartels smuggle untold amounts of addictive substances into our country. Their latest plan is to target young Americans with candy-colored and highly lethal Fentanyl pills.
DOJ: Mark Houck is the latest victim in a string of Department of Justice-sponsored SWAT raids and arrests of the Dem’s political enemies. Houck faces felony charges for allegedly violating the FACE Act. If you want to donate to his legal fund, go to https://www.givesendgo.com/prolifefamily.
ELITISM: BHO took a break from haranguing us about climate change to fly to Los Angeles and drive a gas-guzzling SUV to have dinner with his daughters. While they were in the swanky restaurant (where sushi rolls can cost as much as $20 each), the Secret Service agents kept his SUV parked in the handicapped spot out front for two hours.
FBI: Special Agent Kyle Seraphin says he was so disturbed by AG Garland’s order to the FBI to target parents at school board meetings that he went to his congresswoman’s office in New Mexico, and made a “protected disclosure.”
Seraphin, who has since been suspended, told former fibbie, Dan Bongino, that most of his colleagues didn’t appreciate the political nature of these cases, and just did “cursory investigations” before shutting them down. Nonetheless, he said, there are many parents out there who have no idea the Bureau has case files on them.
Seraphin also said there are about 40 whistleblowers who have now spoken to Republican members of Congress and a lot of guys have left the FBI because they refused to be a part of this abusive system. But many others have decided to just hang on for a few more years so they can retire and get the Bureau’s generous pension.
He said the first thing FBI agents do when they sit down together is “bitch about the management, complain about the structure, and complain about how it’s not how it used to be.”
FLORIDA: The Western Journal reports that, between October 2018 and July 2022, more than a million new voters registered in the Sunshine State. Roughly half of them registered as Republican. A measly 17,197 registered as Democrat.
ISRAEL: A leaked analysis of Israeli post-vaxxx data shows that the jab definitely causes a wide range of adverse effects. The Israeli Ministry of Health and our CDC quote Pfizer that all side effects are mild and of limited duration; the Israeli data shows these claims to be false. The Israeli Ministry of Health has no comment and the reporter who blew the whistle on this lost her job.
Meanwhile, back in February 2022, the director of the ‘rona ward in Ichilov Hospital (Tel Aviv) said that about three-quarters of the serious cases had received at least three jabs, while the others were unjabbed. “The vaccine has no significance regarding severe illness.” But it causes side effects, so hmmm let me think why they’re still telling people to get it …
LIZ CHENEY: The soon-to-be former Congresswoman has promised to quit the GOP if Trump is nominated for the 2024 prez ticket. The Wyoming GOP has already booted her out of their corner of the party and I’m thinking a whole lot of us are wishing she’d just ‘fess up and admit she sold her soul to the Dems.
VAXXX: Michel Goldman, 67, a top European immunologist and vaccine expert, believed in the ‘rona vaxxx. After getting his first two ‘rona jabs on his left side, his CT scan showed his lymphoma was asymmetrically distributed, with more on the left side. After getting a booster jab in his right arm, he had another CT scan done; it not only showed the cancer had exploded, but that it was now more prevalent on his right side. He hypothesizes that the booster shot may overcharge helper T Cells so that, rather than fighting cancer, they stimulate its growth.
Mother Mariana of Jesus Torres y Berriochoa (1563-1635) was born to devout Catholic parents of the Spanish nobility. At a young age, she left Spain to help establish a convent of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God in Quito, Ecuador, which was officially founded on January 13, 1577.
In 1582, the Blessed Virgin asked if she would sacrifice herself for the people of the twentieth century. She said yes and, until her death in 1635, she suffered greatly. It is said she also levitated, bilocated to save a soul, multiplied bread, cured the sick, reconciled families, predicted the future, and worked conversions.
The Blessed Mother asked Mother Mariana to arrange to have a statue made showing how she appeared as Our Lady of Good Success. Mother Mariana said she needed measurements, so Our Lady had the nun remove the cord around her waist and use it to measure her height. According to this measurement, the Blessed Virgin is 5’9” tall. This event is pictured in the painting above. The photo below shows the statue, which is still at the convent in Quito.
Mother Mariana also received some of the most important visions in the history of the Catholic Church; these visions were approved in 1611 by the local bishop, when the statue of Our Lady of Good Success was formally blessed. On the February 22, 1991, the statue received a Papal Coronation. Below are some of the warnings she received about our times.
Note: Freemasonry would not be founded until more than a century after this vision.
January 21, 1610: “From the end of the 19th century and from shortly after the middle of the 20th century, … Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic Sects. They will focus principally on the children. … [Among the assaults on the Church will be the degradation of all the Sacraments. Matrimony, for example.] Freemasonry … [will make] it easy for everyone to live in sin and [procreate] illegitimate children. … The vices of impurity, blasphemy, and sacrilege will dominate.”
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February 2, 1634: “At the end of the 19th century and for a large part of the 20th, various heresies will flourish … almost total moral corruption … spirit of impurity. … Secret sects [will] penetrate with great skill into the heart of families and destroy even the children. … Corrupted priests [will] scandalize the church. … Innocence will almost no longer be found in children nor modesty. … Those whom it behooves to speak will fall silent.”
The Pope’s “infallibility will be declared a dogma of Faith by the same Pope chosen to proclaim the dogma of the mystery of my Immaculate Conception. He will be persecuted and imprisoned in the Vatican through the usurpation of the Pontifical States and through the malice, envy, and avarice of an earthly monarch.” Each of these prophecies was fulfilled in the papacy of Blessed Pope Pius IX (1846-1878), pictured in the photo above.
“Unhappy times will come wherein those who should fearlessly defend the rights of the Church will instead, blinded despite the light, give their hand to the Church’s enemies and do their bidding. But when [evil] seems triumphant and when authority abuses its power, committing all manner of injustice and oppressing the weak, their ruin shall be near. They will fall and crash to the ground.”
In 1906, Mother Mariana’s body was exhumed and found to be incorrupt. In 1986, the Archdiocese of Quito opened her cause for canonization.
ARIZONA: A judge has lifted an injunction that was placed on the state’s abortion statute back in 1973. Under the restored statute, abortion is legal only to save the woman’s life.
IVERMECTIN: It’s not about science – Dr. Pierre Kory and a number of other physicians who support ivermectin use in treating COVID-19, especially in early treatment, have all had peer reviewed papers removed by journals without explanation. He says the journals are “beholden to Big Pharma” which opposes the use of this safe, inexpensive, and effective drug.
Kory says he has first hand knowledge of 88 controlled trials, including all of the health ministry programs around the world, that successfully used ivermectin in early COVID-19 treatment. “I know the drug works and I’ve been disseminating that knowledge. Unfortunately, the narrative is that it doesn’t work. … They base that on a couple of trials published in high impact journals, and then they try to dismiss the drug. All of the complaints are from physicians and pharmacists. Not one patient has ever submitted a complaint against the care that I’ve delivered, and that pertains to my entire career.”
MANDATE: A New York Supreme Court judge has ruled that the vaxxx mandate does not apply to NYC cops and that every one of them who got fired must be “reinstated to the status they were as of the date of the wrongful action.” Sadly, the decision was based on a union thing, not on the vileness of the vaxxx, so cannot be cited for many of the other city workers who got forced or canned.
NYC: They give out free needles to drug addicts who use them and toss them on the streets. So now they’re thinking about paying them to return the used needles for proper disposal.
PROJECT VERITAS: In another win for real journalism, this woman is no longer working at the elite NYC school where she was working “undercover” to push her politics. The Epoch Times says, “It is unclear whether her departure was voluntary or if she was fired.”
You can watch the video at the PV link below. One part goes:
Norris: Unfortunately, it’s the white boys who feel very entitled to express their opposite opinions and just push back. There’s a huge contingent of them that are just horrible. And you’re like, “Are you always going to be horrible, or are you just going to be horrible right now?” Don’t know.
Veritas Journalist: Is there any saving these Republican white guys?
Norris: I don’t know. I think they need to go. I think they’re really awful people. That’s kind of what I’m afraid of with my white students that are rich. I’m like — do you ever have to deal with this? They’re so protected by capitalism. It makes me sad. … We need to find some, like, Dexter, sort of like a vigilante, taking people out.
STUDENT LOANS: I think the real problem is that kids get suckered into thinking they will be able to afford it, that college degrees will be their tickets to high paying jobs right after graduation. When my brother was General Manager of a major hotel in Los Angeles, a wet-behind-the-ears graduate of Cornell University’s prestigious Hotel School applied for a job. Bro offered him a starter position on the front desk. The newbie was insulted at the idea. Bro asked, “What position were you thinking of?” He replied, “General Manager.” Bro said, “Sorry, I’m already filling that position.” Newbie sputtered, “But I’m a Cornell graduate!” Bro said, “So am I. And then I spent 20 years learning the hotel business and working my way up the ladder to this position.“
VAXXX: Remember the latest ‘rona booster? That would be the one that was approved after they gave it to 8 mice, all of whom later caught the virus after the jab? It seems only 4.4 million Americans have gotten it, which works out to be only 1.3% of the U.S. population. Sounds good to me.
The CEO of Pfizer apparently thinks that we should all get the jab … DESPITE having now contracted the virus twice in five weeks. Dearest and I still haven’t had either the jab or the virus.
GRAMMY NOTES: When my niece and nephew were little, my brother lamented that they could both tell you what time it is, but neither one had any idea how to tell time. (All their clocks were digital.)
Selicot* is a set of Jewish penitential poems and prayers used especially in the period leading up to the Days of Awe (Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur). The prayers are usually recited between midnight and dawn and the biggest night for them is at the head of the Sabbath (Saturday) before Rosh Hashanah.
[32:39] – On September 23, 2022, thousands of Jews gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to pray the Selichot. Selichot is the Hebrew word for “forgiveness.” A central theme of the Selichot prayers is the Thirteen Attributes of God’s Mercy.
Thus, it is exceptionally striking that this year, the Jewish Selichot prayer service, which is all about being freed from the slavery of sin, inaugurated the Catholic Feast of Our Lady of Mercy (aka, Our Lady of Ransom).
Remember that Jesus’ Blessed Mother was a devout Jewess who certainly prayed Selichot in Jerusalem and that her apparition as Our Lady of Mercy/Ransom led to the creation of the Mercedarians, a religious order dedicated to freeing slaves, particularly those being held by Muslims. Ponder that as you watch the Jews from all over the world gather to pray by the Western Wall, because the Muslims who control the Temple Mount won’t let them pray up there.
*Selicot is pronounced either slee CHOAT or slee CHOAS, because the final Hebrew letter can be pronounced as either a tee or an ess sound. And remember that the Hebrew “ch” is not the English “ch as in church” sound, but the guttural, hawking up a loogie sound that is made at the back of the throat.
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