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by | January 23, 2025 · 12:01 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Today we lift up all of those who brave the elements on our behalf. We ask You to bless them and their loved ones abundantly. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

BEAUTIFUL: Bob shared “A Little Bird” by Sean Dietrich with me. It touched my heart and soul.

BORDER: This week, President Trump ordered 1,500 more U.S. troops to the southern border. Meanwhile, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove reminded all department employees that the U.S. Constitution requires state and local actors to comply with federal immigration enforcement.

The law carries a prison term of up to five years for each count of resisting, obstructing, or otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands from the executive branch. Furthermore, federal law bars individuals from bringing illegal immigrants into the United States, or harboring them in the country. These violators can receive up to 20 years in prison and may even face the death penalty if a violation results in the death of any person. (Who let Laken Riley’s killer in?)

Meanwhile, Mexico is building shelters in anticipation of all the illegals Trump is expected to deport.

CALIFIRES: Just as the blazes are coming under control, a new one has broken out about 45 miles northwest of the city of Los Angeles.

CAN YOU READ CURSIVE? The National Archives is looking for “Citizen Archivists” to help reach and transcribe some of the more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog. Those records range from Revolutionary War pension records to the field notes of Charles Mason of the Mason-Dixon Line to immigration documents from the 1890s to Japanese evacuation records to the 1950 Census. All that is required is to CLICK https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/get-started-transcribing to sign up.

CATHOLIC: A bill proposed by Montana Democrats would jail Catholic priests for upholding the confessional seal, to which they are bound by –

Canon Law 1386 – “A confessor [priest] who directly violates the sacramental seal incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; he who does so only indirectly is to be punished according to the gravity of the offence.”;

Canon Law 983 – “The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore it is absolutely forbidden for a confessor to betray in any way a penitent in words or in any manner and for any reason.” and

Canon Law 984 – “A confessor is prohibited completely from using knowledge acquired from confession to the detriment of the penitent even when any danger of revelation is excluded.”

When questioned about the bill, its chief supporter said she used to be Catholic. Oh. The same is true of any priest who violates the sanctity of the Sacrament of Reconciliation; he would become someone who used to be Catholic.

COVID-19: Rand Paul tweeted, “If there was ever any doubt who bears responsibility for the COVID pandemic, Biden’s pardon of Fauci seals the deal. As Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, I will not rest until the entire truth of the coverup is exposed. Fauci’s pardon will only serve as an accelerant to pierce the veil of deception.”

According to the site linked below, “The legal authority for preemptive pardons in the United States is rooted in the Constitution and clarified through key judicial precedents.” Biden’s pardon may keep Fauci out of jail, but it won’t save his reputation.

DEI: President Donald Trump has signed an executive order cutting off federal funding to any learning institution that mandates DEI or that hire contractors that engage in such practices.

He has also signed an executive order suspending all DEI activities immediately. By the close of business yesterday, they must have notified all staff they are on leave, closed every office, taken down any public-facing trace of those offices, withdraw any related guidance or directives they have pending and cancel all DEIA trainings.  

FCC: [20:30] – Sen. Kennedy is always worth listening to. This one is especially important.

LIFE: Insanity suggests a mental illness that makes someone incapable of making moral judgments. This isn’t insane. It’s EVIL.

NATIONAL CATHEDRAL: The “Service of Prayer for the Nation” is held in this Episcopal church. The membership of this denomination now represents a tiny sliver of (mostly old; modal age = 69) Americans. There are actually six times as many Jews in the U.S. than there are Episcopalians. Maybe they should switch the service to the Nation BASILICA, which is Roman Catholic.

SERVICE OF PRAYER FOR THE NATION: The photo shows their faces as the leftist female “bishop” lectured them at a prayer service for “unity.” Afterwards, the new president issued this statement –

“The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater. She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart. She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our country and killed people. Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not very good at her job! She and her church owe the public an apology!”

VPOTUS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1321904552323328 to hear Senator J.D. talk about inclusive language. The guy’s answer … “I’d have to give that one some more thought” … is so typical of Woke Lefties. The man had a scheduled appearance before the U.S. Senate. He should have had all his thinking done beforehand. But every time you ask them to justify or even to stand up for their idiotic positions, they dodge and weave. Another common one that Kamala used all the time was, “We need to dialogue about that.”

GRAMMY NOTES: I am doing retroactive prayers today for old hurts caused by rude people. Their nastiness always felt so personal, but none of it was about me.

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by | October 30, 2024 · 12:24 pm

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CATHOLIC: This polyglot padre can hear confessions in six different languages!

CHICOMS: When my brother lived in Beijing in 1985-1986, he said the government had menstrual monitors who kept track of every women’s cycle. If a woman who had no permit to conceive was late to menstruate, she got sent off for a suction abortion.

The resulting population decline resulted in the dictatorial government changing its one child per couple rule to two children. Now I think they’re at three. But the citizens who are currently in their childbearing years grew up in a world where no one they knew had a sibling or more than one or two aunts, uncles, or cousins.

In short, they’re finding it distasteful to have more than one child. But you can’t keep halving the population every 20-30 years and expect to maintain the level of development your culture has achieved. So the idiot dictator now has people calling women to find out if they are pregnant yet and, if not, when are they going to get a round tuit.

COVID CRIMES: A newly released book called The Pfizer Papers reveals that Pfizer’s own documents prove the Big Pharma company and the FDA knew by November 2020 that the mRNA ‘rona vaccine was neither safe nor effective.

In other medical crime news, six former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who were fired for refusing the jab have won a group settlement of $7.8 million. The federal jury determined that BART had failed to prove that it suffered an undue hardship by denying accommodations to the ex-employees in the case.

INDULGENCES: [9:49] – I just downloaded an English translation of Martin Luther’s “95 Theses.” At the time he did this, he was a faithful Catholic priest who was merely looking to get certain individuals to stop the sinful practice of selling indulgences.

Caveat: The Catholic Church does not now nor has it ever approved the sale of indulgences. This is to be distinguished from the undeniable fact that individual Catholics (perhaps the best known of them being the German Dominican Johann Tetzel [1465-1519]) did sell indulgences – but in doing so they acted contrary to explicit Church regulations. This practice is utterly opposed to the Catholic Church’s teaching on indulgences, and it cannot be regarded as a teaching or practice of the Church.

All of Luther’s 95 Theses deal with this one issue. A number of them also show great respect for the papacy, making it clear that Luther was not – at that time – splitting from or spitting on the Catholic Church. That only came later, after certain German princes decided he was a useful idiot (sorry, my words) that they could exploit for political gain.

I want to recommend reading them to you. Some of them sound exactly like the Christians who nowadays rightly condemn so-called Christians who “do not distribute them* freely but only gather them.” [Thesis #57]

*Them: Luther was referring to those who sold indulgences. I think we can easily see in that “them” the type of glitzy televangelists and mega church pastors who regularly call out to Christians to “give to Jesus and you will be blessed” … then spend the money on mansions and private jets, etc.

MINIATURE LIFE: Wonderful artist here! If you’re interested in just the art work, the 2024 calendar is on sale at Amazon for $12. Next year’s is $27. There is also a small desktop one for $7. Go to Amazon and put MINIATURE LIFE CALENDAR in the search box.

PSA: On September 2, Not The Bee reported that some banks’ ATMs have developed a “glitch” whereby you can withdraw funds before the bank has had a chance to verify your check deposit is legit. One guy deposited a fraudulent “check” for $335,000, then withdrew $290,940 before … oops … getting caught. Being allowed to withdraw funds immediately isn’t a glitch. It’s a privilege. The banks in question are filing charges and the criminals are being arrested.

SCOTUS: Woohoo!! The Supremes have ruled 6-3 in favor of allowing the State of Virginia to purge resident illegals from their voter rolls ahead of the Nov. 5 election!! The three liberals (you can guess which ones they are) didn’t bother to explain their legal justification for siding with the Biden/Harris administration’s efforts to allow non-citizens to vote.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/um0CLs7ANk8 to hear Nick Freitas explain the correct way to get C-seeds. LOLOLOL

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