by | November 16, 2022 · 3:30 am

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CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/478183080927451 to hear about a miracle.

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.

CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1591940282639319040 [1:50] to hear an important and very interesting first person story about the blatant hypocrisy exhibited by medical professions when it comes to the trans religion.

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.

UK: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1204788500462178 to see a quick shot of what a gem the Brits have in their queen-to-be.

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by | November 15, 2022 · 4:55 am

Our Lady of Good Help

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.

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by | November 15, 2022 · 2:01 am

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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.

FTX: The CEO of the now-bankrupt crypto slash Ponzi company has admitted the whole thing was nothing more than a money laundromat for the DemoRATS.

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.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NxRGRFKBVLg for good feelz.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9wyXxvjW9q4 for super cuteness.

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by | November 14, 2022 · 1:00 am

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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.

CLICK https://twitter.com/JG_Nuke/status/1591070331988774913 [1:40] to hear how FTX was actually a Ponzi scheme.

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.”

TRAGEDY: CLICK https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/1591541681798668291 [:25] to see the mid-air collision of two planes during a Dallas air show.

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.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kK6ikIfAa78 to hear about the 5 constipated men in the Bible.

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by | November 13, 2022 · 1:41 am

Pray to the Saints

They are powerful intercessors!

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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by | November 13, 2022 · 12:44 am

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ABORTION: The Biden administration has ordered that illegal minors who arrive without a parent or guardian be ensured access to abortion.

Once upon a long time ago (before I was totally home bound), I was standing in the foyer of our gym, holding a pro-life magazine, while waiting for Dearest to get the car. A fellow came up to me and asked, “You’re pro-life, right?” Yeah. “Can you tell me why?“

I had grown up around and gone to college with lots of liberal NYC Jews and this guy fit the bill. And the thing is … while they tend to be pro-abortion, this guy’s face told me he really Really REALLY wanted a reason to justify the horror he had in his heart about killing innocent unborn babies. I knew my husband was coming any moment, so I prayed FAST and said, “Bottom line?” He nodded.

Then something came out of my mouth that I had never heard, read, or thought of before, yet was so perfect. “Civilized people don’t kill people to solve their problems.” His whole face and demeanor changed immediately. From hunched in and worried, he went to standing straight and, with a clear brow, said, “Yeah!” Then, my husband came. It was such a pure Holy Spirit moment. ❤

AVE MARIA: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=471060454800593 [2:57] to hear a ten-year-old sing one of the most gorgeous (and difficult) prayer-songs ever written.

ELECTION FRAUD: CLICK https://rumble.com/v1t8yiy-ccp-switched-300k-votes-from-oz-to-fetterman-says-general-mcinerney.html [7:07] to hear a report on the cheating cyber cheaters who stole key elections.

EXPECT HOPE: [24:28] – Expect Hope is a home for women in crisis pregnancies that is located in New York City, our nation’s abortion capital. While living there, women receive Biblical counseling, training, mentoring, and loving guidance toward reconciliation with God, themselves, and others. My sweet niece is a personal friend of the Executive Director (see her in the video at 5 minutes) and vouches for the virtue of this charity. The home is currently in need of funds. Please pray about donating. Thank you.

HOCHUL: CLICK https://twitter.com/katie_honan/status/1590795257557487630 [:18] to see my appalling governor dance and sing with a bunch of kids. She and the other adults are barefaced; the kids are all masked.

MIRACLE: [:05] – Last month, Father John Bok was driving his white car to celebrate Sunday Mass when the driver of the dark car had a seizure and passed out. The dark car went off-road and was on course to ram Father Bok’s car when it hit a road sign and some kind of vertical pole, went flying over Father Bok’s car without touching it and landed on all four wheels. Father, who is blind in his left eye, didn’t realize any of this had happened until after Mass when a police officer showed him the security camera video.

NIGERIA: Since the start of 2022, Muslim terrorists have abducted more than 2,300 Christians and killed more than 4,000 Christians, all with the support of the Muslim government.

Photo: Stained glass of the Opening of the Fifth Seal: “When he broke open the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the witness they bore to the word of God. They cried out in a loud voice, ‘How long will it be, holy and true master, before you sit in judgment and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?’ Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to be patient a little while longer until the number was filled of their fellow servants and brothers who were going to be killed as they had been.” – Rev 6:9-11

SCHOOL BOARDS: On Tuesday, conservative parents won hundreds of seats, many flipping school boards to a conservative majority. These included all six of the school board candidates that DeSantis had endorsed.

STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Two days too late, a federal judge issued an order against Biden’s plan to illegally buy the votes of stupid, selfish college graduates. The DOJ immediately appealed.

TOXIC POSITIVITY: [2:44] – There is a type of theology that says people with strong faith will always be blessed with health, wealth, and happiness. The flip side, of course, is that when bad things happen, the person who is suffering gets blamed and dismissed.

In the article linked below, Father Michael Rennier notes that life is harder and more confusing than the so-called prosperity gospel types want to admit. “No one, after sharing about how terrible their day has been, wants to hear just snap out of it and be happy. No one wants the complexities of their situation boiled down to a simple fix.”

Rennier notes that while there is value in keeping a positive outlook, too many fake smiles destroy the kind of genuine relationship God created us for. “Being real is necessary for a true relationship with God. … Even if, in his infinite mystery, he doesn’t fix it, he provides something far better – his love.”

UNTRANS: Click the link to read a mom recount how her 11-year-old was being groomed to be trans by her public elementary school and what she did to put a stop to it.

GRAMMY NOTES: A screenshot from one of Bunny’s home school English lessons.

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by | November 12, 2022 · 2:33 am

Within thy wounds

[1:06:29] – I know this is really long but seriously … find the time. BTW, the words on the wall by the crucifix, “Intra tua vulnera, absconde me”, mean, “Within Thy wounds, hide me.”

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by | November 11, 2022 · 9:11 pm

Veterans Day

CLOWN WORLD: The Halton District School Board (HDSB) has decided that they dare not allow this biologically male shop teacher to teach shop while wearing a blonde wig, tight bicycle shorts, and obscenely large prosthetic breasts with protruding nipples. Why? Because they’re afraid of being sued.

CRIME: This is what happens when the justice system has a revolving door on it.

DEMOCRATS: [5:26] – People who “Vote Blue No Matter Who” just gave AOC another term. ::sigh:: Never mind how much they lie, cheat, or steal. And never mind that they’re unfit to serve! They just elected John Fetterwoman and A DEAD GUY. Years ago in my area, they elected a guy who was in a coma.

END TIMES PROPHECY: In 1914, Pope Pius X had a vision in which he saw “one of my successors, of the same name*, who was fleeing over the bodies of his brethren. He will take refuge in some hiding place; but after a brief respite he will die a cruel death. … This perversity is nothing less than the beginning of the last days of the world.”

In 1917, one of the visions the seers at Fatima saw was, “The Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and, half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way. Having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him.”

* Pope Pius X’s given name, Giuseppe, was the same as Pope Benedict XVI’s (i.e., Joseph). (N.b., Pope Francis’ given name was Jorge, which is George in English.) Pope Benedict XVI, who was born on April 16, 1927, is now 95 years old and frail. He lives in a private residence inside Vatican City.

EVIL: If you use this vile thing, you may “talk” with some entity who goes by the name of “Jesus”, but it won’t be the one who was born on Christmas and rose from the dead on Easter.

FETTERWOMAN: CLICK https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1590517570095882240 [:22] to hear deranged libs on MSNBC are already salivating over Stroke Boy’s political future. I can’t believe that actual Pennsylvanians voted for this clown. However, I can easily believe the Democrat Cheat Machine in Pennsylvania arranged for him to “win.”

FAUXTUS: CLICK https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1590774122417901568 [:13] to hear his latest brain fart.

GEORGIA: In Georgia, the winner must get more than 50% of the vote, so they’re headed to a December runoff.

GREECE: A retired soccer player has been fined €5,000 and sentenced to 10 months in jail by an Athens misdemeanor court last week for criticizing a bill in 2017 that would have lowered the legal age for “sex changes” to 15 years old and ::gasp:: citing the Bible to do it. His prison sentence has been suspended, unless he re-offends. The ruling marks at least the second time a European court has ruled that upholding biblical values is a violation of the human rights of transgender individuals.

MICHIGAN: You can add the mitten state to the list of places that deserve to be nuked first. They just enshrined into the state’s constitution the “rights” to murder unborn babies right up until the moment of natural birth and for minors to undergo sterilization and gender transition without parental knowledge or consent.

OKLAHOMA: [30:40] – A dad asked the principal of his daughter’s school if she thought the content in Blankets was okay for children. She replied, “I’m offended by your questions,” then called the cops. Now this dad can’t pick up his kids without written permission. The girl had checked the graphic novel out of her public school library. It’s an autobiographical story of a young man’s coming of age, discovering sex and abandoning his parents’ faith in Jesus and the Bible. Some of the drawings qualify as soft porn. You can read the whole thing at the link.

TEXAS: [3:13] – Horrifying. Thank God for a good neighbor and for the people who located the rest of the kids and got them to safety.

TRANS: I got no words … apart from “bring on the hellfire and brimstone.”

GRAMMY NOTES: We all know that Jesus commanded us to forgive those who have wronged us. But during the Sermon on the Mount, He also taught us that we must apologize and make restitution when we have wronged another.

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by | November 11, 2022 · 5:27 am

If you are bored, you are not living your Catholic faith

[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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by | November 10, 2022 · 9:29 pm

Bits & Bytes

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.

DETRANS: [5:21] – “I didn’t need hormones or surgery. I needed therapy. … Changing your body doesn’t address the mental distress.”

GEORGIA: Stacey Abrams lost, again. But this time, she actually conceded, which makes for a nice change.

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.”

MICHIGAN: Are voters really this stupid? Or do Democrats just have an excellent election fraud system?

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.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/782185659681161 for important safety tips.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/3291689904407471 for the Sound of Silence LOL.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/540461364484326 and be prepared to watch again and again and again. 🙂

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