Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Thursday 10 June, 2021. Octave day of Corpus Christi, St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, W

 

 Our Lady of Perpetual Help

 

 

 

 The Greek inscriptions read MP-ΘΥ (Μήτηρ Θεοῦ, Mother of God), ΟΑΜ (Ὁ Ἀρχάγγελος Μιχαήλ, Michael the Archangel), ΟΑΓ (Ὁ Ἀρχάγγελος Γαβριήλ, Gabriel the Archangel) and IC-XC (Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Jesus Christ), respectively.

 

The Blessed Virgin Mary wears a dress of dark red under her blue veil. In Byzantine iconography, red is the color of the empress, the Queen.

 

The subject shows Mary looking towards the faithful, while pointing at her son, Jesus Christ who from legend ran into the arms of His Mother frightened by the the instruments of His Passion presented to him by Angels, losing a shoe in the process.

 

The left side is Saint Michael the Archangel — carrying the lance and the sponge of the Crucifixion

 

 On the right side is Saint Gabriel the Archangel carrying a 3-bar cross and nails.

 

The Virgin Mary has a star on her head signifying her role as Star of the Sea while the cross on the side has been claimed as referring to the Greek monastery which produced the icon.

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The Story Behind The Image

 

The Image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help or Our Lady of Perpetual Succour as she is sometimes called, is an icon.  This icon is the most popular of all Mary's images.  it is the only icon Our Lady has named, and the only one often described as "miraculous."  It has been reproduced more than any other picture in existence.

 

Regarded as a faithful copy of a painting of Our Blessed Lady attributed to St. Luke, it was brought from Crete to Rome in 1499. and since then wonders of grace and nature have accompanied it.  

 

In Rome, Our Lady came to a little child and said,  "Tell your mother that Holy Mary of Perpetual Help requests her icon to be placed in the Church of St. Matthew."

 

When Our Lady's wish was granted, people flocked to her icon, and for 300 years, "Holy Mary of Perpetual Help" was venerated in St. Matthew's, till Napoleon occupied Rome, destroying St. Matthew's in the process. 

The Icon however was not destroyed.  It was rescued by the youthful Brother Augustine Orsetti and brought to a Monastery of Irish Augustinians, St. Mary's in Posterula.   Here, Brother Augustine kept the secret of the Icon to himself, till after fifty years, he alone of all the world remembered the story and power of the miraculous Icon.

 

To St. Mary's Monastery each day, to serve the morning Mass, came a boy of ten, Michael Machi.   One day, Brother Augustine brought Michael to the Icon and confided him a secret, - 

"Michael, Michael, do not forget it, this is the original Icon of Our Mother of Perpetual help.  It is extraordinary, Michael.   It is miraculous.  Everyone has now forgotten.  Do not you forget."

Michael did forget, and Brother Augustine died.

Years later, Pope Pius IX requested the Redemptorists to build a Monastery in Rome, and the site they chose was near the ruin of St. Matthew's Church.   To their surprise, information came to light about the power and prestige of an ancient Icon which Our lady herself had named and requested to be honored on this very site.

"It was possibly destroyed," concluded the Redemptorists, when Napoleon destroyed St. Matthew's."

"It was not destroyed, and I know where it is," said one of them.  He was Father Michael Machi.

The boy of years before had become a Redemptorist, and now it all came back to him; "Michael, Michael, do not forget it. It is extraordinary. It is miraculous".   He went to St. Mary's Monastery, saw the icon again, and sensed the immensity of the secret Brother Augustine had entrusted to him.

 

The story came to the notice of Pope Pius IX.   Realizing that Our Lady was entrusting herself to the care of the Redemptorists, he said, "Place Mary's Icon where she wants it to be, in your new Church of St. Alphonsus near the site of old St. Matthew's.   Moreover I command you, make her known under her chosen title throughout the world."

  

In 1867, when the image was being carried in a solemn procession through the streets, a young child was cured, the first of many recorded miracles attributed to Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

That is why the Redemptorists love her.  That is why they bring her Icon everywhere, and consider it their privilege to make her known as "Mother of Perpetual Help."

The Icon's Meaning

Every picture tells a story.   Every Icon proclaims a message.   This Icon proclaims the message that Mary, able to comfort Christ in His sufferings, is able to comfort us in ours.   Christ is the Redeemer whose sorrow is perpetually present to Him.   Mary is the Mother whose help is perpetually present to us.

The Icon proclaims Mary as Mother of God, - the Greek letters near Mary's crown mean"Mother of God."   The Icon also proclaims the place of Angels in Redemption.   The Greek letters near the Angel with a lance, reed and sponge mean, "Archangel Michael,"   Those near the Angel with a Cross and nails mean, "Archangel Gabriel."  Beside Our Lord are the Greek initials for "Jesus Christ."

Jesus disturbed by a Vision of His future death, runs to His Mother's arms for help.   He is shown in a state of agitation.   Mary is shown in a state of calm.   Jesus is so agitated He turns His Head from side to side, only to realize that on each side is the inescapable Vision of Calvary presented in a dignified frightening way by the Angels of Redemption, Michael and Gabriel.

 

Jesus begins to tremble, and the trembling loosens the strap of His sandal, which remains attached to His foot by a single strand   Placing His hands in Mary's, He clings to her, reminding us that a soul shaken by fear or temptation can be saved from despair by the single strand of confidence in Mary.

Our Lady's eyes look, not at the Cross or nails, but at us.   Her EYES speak and say, "I give my Child for your Redemption.  Do not be afraid.   Place your hands, as Jesus does, in mine.   He and I are with you always.  He has made me His Mother, that I may be your Mother of Perpetual Help.   My Icon is the place on earth where I meet you in every need.  How can you ever fear?"

 

  In 1867, when the image was being carried in a solemn procession through the streets, a young child was cured, the first of many recorded miracles attributed to Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

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A Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

 

Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you!  I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help.

Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you. (mention your petition)

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Our Lady of Perpetual Help - Picture in Glass Frame,

 

This picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Help ( below) was awarded to my  younger brother for 2nd Prize in Standard 1, around 1952, by the Sisters of Mercy at St. Patrick's Primary School, Bryndwr, Christchurch, New Zealand 

The picture was held by my mother after my brother's death in 1974, which she then passed on to me around 2004

The picture was printed in Switzerland

The picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in glass frame (6x4")

Up till recently I hadn't given much significance to this picture of Our Lady, and only had a vague idea of its significance and over time somehow this picture ended up on my mantle piece which serves as our home altar in the lounge, probably as sentimental value in respect to my diseased younger brother, and it wasn't until recently, that by chance, looking through some holy picture cards, I came across a small leaflet, which I have based this blog on, describing the image of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, and the very same picture that had been awarded to my brother some 70 years ago!

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This video is well worth watching even though it is a couple of years old.

Accepting Francis = Apostasy 

 

 A Brief Summary of the Video 

 

On October 13, 2016, antipope Francis spoke to a group comprised of Lutherans and people who claim to be Catholic.   In his speech he uttered another astounding heresy.  Francis condemned proselytism/ trying to convert people again as he so often does, and was reported as saying, "It's not right to convince someone of your faith."  "Proselytism is the strongest venom against the path of ecumenism."

So, according to the notorious heretic antipope Francis, trying to convince someone of your faith is illicit and is venom.  This is simply a condemnation of Jesus Christ and the Catholic faith.

 

In what the Great Commission recorded in Matthew 28 and Mark 16, Jesus tells his Apostles to teach and make disciples of all nations, to convince all people of the gospel and true Christianity, and that those that don't believe will be condemned.

Francis declares the gospel Commission to be illicit and wrong.

We know what the scripture tells us about those who preach a new gospel.   "As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a new gospel contrary to the one you have received, let him be anathema."

Francis's new gospel condemns Jesus Christ, the Apostles, the Saints, the Missionaries, what the Catholic Church has always taught and many dogmas.  It is total apostasy.

In summary, if you are still in the Vatican II sect, get out of it, which is not the Catholic Church but the prophesied end times counter church.   To be saved one must be a Catholic, and that means one must be a traditional Catholic.  This situation was predicted, and as is shown, Francis teaches it is illicit and venomous to convince people of Catholicism.

Anyone who in the face of these facts, still considers him to be a Catholic and a member of the Catholic Church, and therefore that he professes the true faith, is an apostate ... you have apostatized from Jesus Christ, and barring a conversion you will burn forever in the fires of Hell, and those who support the heretics who defend him as a valid pope will lose their souls!

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Latest developments with the virus (COVID) and another variant surfaces only to add more confusion

 

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And the latest on the truth about the COVID vaccine

REPORT: Pfizer Vaccine Confirmed To Cause Neurodegenerative Diseases – Study

 

"In a shocking new report on the COVID-19 vaccines, it has been discovered that the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine may have long term health effects not previously disclosed, including 'ALS, Alzheimer’s, and other neurological degenerative diseases.'

 

'The current RNA based SARSCoV-2 vaccines were approved in the US using an emergency order without extensive long term safety testing,' the report declares. 'In this paper the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was evaluated for the potential to induce prion-based disease in vaccine recipients.' Prion-based diseases are, according to the CDC, a form of neurodegenerative diseases, meaning that the Pfizer vaccine is potentially likely to cause long term damage and negative health effects with regards to the brain.

 

This is especially concerning since the Pfizer vaccine is an mRNA vaccine, an untested type of vaccine which creates new proteins and can actually integrate into the human genome, according to a report from the National Library of Medicine. In other words, degenerative brain conditions may appear at any time in your life after receiving the vaccine.

 

'The RNA sequence of the vaccine as well as the spike protein target interaction were analyzed for the potential to convert intracellular RNA binding proteins TAR DNA binding protein (TDP-43) and Fused in Sarcoma (FUS) into their pathologic prion conformations,' explains the report. TDP-43 is a protein known to cause dementia, ALS and even Alzheimer’s, according to Alzpedia. Similarly, the FUS protein is known to cause ALS and Hereditary Essential Tremors, according to the Human Genome Database.

 

The experiment done for the report was to determine whether or not these two harmful proteins embed themselves into our DNA, as an mRNA vaccine is expected to do. The report determined that 'the vaccine RNA has specific sequences that may induce TDP-43 and FUS to fold into their pathologic prion confirmations,' meaning that both proteins have the potential to embed themselves into our DNA and cause harmful neurological diseases.

 

The report’s abstract summary concludes that 'The enclosed finding as well as additional potential risks leads the author to believe that regulatory approval of the RNA based vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 was premature and that the vaccine may cause much more harm than benefit.' The report itself ends with this warning: 'The vaccine could be a bioweapon and even more dangerous than the original infection.'

 

National File actually reached out to the CDC to inquire as to why the Pfizer vaccine is still being distributed despite these credible allegations. No response was received prior to publication."

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WOW!

HEATHROW PRISON CLIP IS CRAZY!

 June 17, 2021

 

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The Christ hating Jews and the Biden Aministration Friday 4 June, 2021 St Francis Caracciolo, C

The Christ-hating Jews comprise 70% of the Biden Administration - Video

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Watch Video-

The Jews comprise 70% of the Biden administration 

 

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 Fr. Feeney, the Jews and Hate Speech.

 

The Point

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Edited Under Fr. Leonard Feeney M.I.C.M. — Saint Benedict Center

January, 1959

SHOULD HATE BE OUTLAWED?

Most Americans, hearing this question, would answer promptly, “Yes, by all means, hate should be outlawed!” Their eagerness to reply can be accounted for all too easily. During the last decade and a half, they have been pounded with a propaganda barrage calculated to leave them in a state of dazed affability toward the whole world. Those advertising techniques that are normally used to encourage Americans to be choosy in matters of soap and toothpaste are now being enlisted to persuade them that there is no such thing as a superior product in matters of culture and creed. On billboards, on bus and subway posters, in newspapers and magazines, through radio and television broadcasts, Americans are being assured and reassured, both subtly and boldly, that “Bigotry is fascism ... Only Brotherhood can save our nation ... We must be tolerant of all!” 

 

The long-range effects of this campaign are even now evident. It is producing the “spineless citizen”: the man who has no cultural sensibilities; who is incapable of indignation; whose sole mental activity is merely an extension of what he reads in the newspaper or sees on the television screen; who faces moral disaster in his neighborhood, political disaster in his country, and an impending world catastrophe with a blank and smiling countenance. He has only understanding for the enemies of his country. He has nothing but kind sentiments for those who would destroy his home and family. He has an earnest sympathy for anyone who would obliterate his faith. He is universally tolerant. He is totally unprejudiced. If he has any principles, he keeps them well concealed, lest in advocating them he should seem to indicate that contrary principles might be inferior. He is, to the extent of his abilities, exactly like the next citizen, who, he trusts, is trying to be exactly like him: a faceless, characterless putty-man. 

 

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Along with everyone else, American Catholics have been hammered with the slogans of the “anti-hate” campaign. Additionally, they remember the stories of how prejudice against Catholics oftentimes made America a very uncomfortable place for their immigrant Catholic grandparents. And so, they too, if asked, would declare unhesitatingly that hate should be outlawed. 

 

What American Catholics do not stop to reflect on is that the Catholic Faith, by its very nature, fosters indignation, intolerant positions, and strong utterance. The Church is set up to continue the divine ministry of Jesus Christ, Who avowed that He had come on Earth, “Not to send peace, but the sword ... to cast fire on the Earth, and what will I but that it be kindled.” 

 

In accepting their vocation to be “other Christs,” Catholics are faced with the countless examples of Gospel astringency. They are reminded that the same Jesus Who said, “Learn of me, for I am meek and humble of heart,” likewise said, “I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own house-hold.” Nor can they forget that the same Jesus, Who submitted Himself to the Jewish mob in the garden of Gethsemani, had previously overturned the tables of the buyers and sellers and driven them from the temple with a whip. 

 

In accepting their position as contemporary members of the Church, American Catholics must take as their heritage the outlooks, attitudes, and purposes of their older brothers and sisters in the Faith — those Catholics who have gone before them and have preserved the Church to our own day. For the Catholic Church is One. The Church that called on its sons to take up the Cross and the sword and drive the infidel from the Holy Land, the Church that isolated the Jews of Christendom with rigid laws and ghetto walls, the Church that has repeatedly condemned the doctrines of those who disagree with her, is the same Catholic Church that claims the loyalty of 35,000,000 twentieth-century Americans. 

 

Along with the Mass, the Sacraments, and all the spiritual treasures that are a Catholic’s baptismal birthright, these American Catholics must also assume the rest of their legacy. As members of the Church Militant — raised by the Sacrament of Confirmation to be Soldiers of Jesus Christ — they are heirs of a tradition that has been marked through the centuries by sustained and unashamed militancy. 

 

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Examples of the clash between traditional Catholic observance and the current “anti-hate” campaign could be multiplied indefinitely. Every chapter in every age of the Church’s history will provide them, because the ultimate issue involved is an abiding one, a doctrinal one. It is the Catholic Church’s uncompromising claim to be the One True Church established by God. It is this conviction of Catholics throughout the centuries that leaves our greatest heroes and saints and the very constitution of the Church itself open to the charges of bigotry and intolerance. 

 

The Catholic Church does not believe that all religions are on a common plane. It does not subscribe to the popular notion that, “We’re all headed for the same place, you in your way and we in ours.” The Catholic Church believes that Christianity is the world’s only chance for salvation, and it further insists that true Christians are found only within its fold, under the Supreme Shepherd, the Vicar of Christ, Our Holy Father at Rome. 

 

Inevitably, this belief, when translated into practical action, makes for some intolerant arrangements: Catholics are admonished not to marry heretics and Jews; they may not attend a non-Catholic religious service; Catholic children must be sent to the Church’s schools. The motive behind these bigoted practices is the preservation of the Faith — not as an antique curiosity, but as a vital necessity. And not as a necessity for a chosen few, but as a necessity for all men, everywhere. 

 

It is this terrible urgency about the Faith that explains both the Church’s rigidity in matters of doctrine an her encompassing love in matters of apostolate. For the note of absolute necessity that attaches to Catholic Truth, and makes the Church so intolerant and unbending, is, at the same time, the push and the drive behind every apostle. It is precisely because they are intolerant enough to believe that all men need the Catholic Faith in order to be saved, that the Church’s missionaries, from the time of Saint Paul, have given the world its most heroic example of zealous, consuming, constant, sweating, bleeding, dying but undying, love. 

 

It is this love, this apostolic fervor, that the “anti-hate” program means to eliminate. For the ultimate outcome of the propaganda barrage that is now incessantly pounding the nation will be not only a spineless American citizen, but a spineless American Catholicism — a Catholicism that will be afraid to assert its own singularity and importance, a Catholicism that will try to become more like its neighbor religions, doing nothing to annoy, nothing to criticize, nothing that would in any way cause it to be accused of intolerance, bigotry, or hate. 

 

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Certainly no one will suppose that the promoters of the “anti-hate” campaign are just a bunch of well-meaning meddlers who launched the thing in all innocence and who would be dismayed to hear that it might discomfit the Catholic Church. The truth of the matter is much to the contrary. Just as the fast-talking soap commercials play on the gullibility of American housewives to make money for the big soap manufacturers, so the anti-hate slogans are selling Americans a bill of goods that will make rich profits for the Catholic Church’s enterprising enemies. 

 

This deliberate and calculated program is a lineal descendant of that eighteenth-century campaign that clamored for “liberty, equality, and fraternity,” and ended up by wrecking Catholic France. It is akin to all those freethinking, freely-named, anti-Catholic ventures that have been plaguing the Church since the time of the Protestant Revolt — Humanism, Jacobinism, Freemasonry, Liberalism, Secularism, Communism, etc. For however much these movements may differ from one another in the means they advocate, they are all working for the same ultimate end. They are intent on building the City of Man — to the inevitable detriment of the City of God. They are enraged against the Church because of her calm insistence that the one thing that really matters is eternal salvation, and that she is the one divinely-commissioned ark of salvation. They are determined to show that the Church is not that important: if not by destroying her violently, then by reducing her to the level of the sects. 

 

It was this latter expedient that appealed to Jean Jacques Rousseau, herald of the French Revolution and avowed evangelist of the Brotherhood crowd. Rousseau maintained (in The Social Contract, Book IV) that the worship of God should be allowed to continue, provided it did not become an end in itself. Theology must not usurp the superior place of politics; the interests of religion must be subordinate to those of the state. Accordingly, he felt the civil power should decide what articles of belief citizens might hold. And among these articles, Rousseau urged just one prohibition: anyone daring to say, “There is no salvation outside the Church,” should be banished. 

 

All the followers of Rousseau, in their various guises — as well as his like-minded antecedents — are the Courtiers of the Prince of this World. But there is one group among them that is particularly of the household of Satan. They are the children of Satan, as Our Lord Himself calls them, the Jews. They, pre-eminently, are fired by the earthly, anti-Christian animus; and they have taken an active part, during twenty centuries, in all its manifestations. (This alone can explain the Church’s unique attitude toward the Jews: her traditional determination that this one people must be kept in check.) 

 

As surely and securely as the Jews have been behind Freemasonry, or Secularism, or Communism, they are behind the “anti-hate” drive. Not that this movement represents the fruition of Talmudic doctrine. The Jews are advocating tolerance only for its destructive value — destructive, that is, of the Catholic Church. On their part, they still keep alive their racial rancors and antipathies. Their Talmud, for example, still teaches that Christ was a brazen impostor, and gives an unprintably blasphemous account of his parentage and birth. And as the Christmas season just past should have taught us, the Jews, for all their Brotherhood talk, have not in the least abandoned their resolute program to make all acknowledgments of Christmas disappear from the public and social life of the nation. 

 

The secret of the Jews’ success is, of course, that they can practice such private hate while promoting public “love,” and not be accused of inconsistency. For, as always, they are running the show mainly from behind the scenes. They get their message across by means of co-operative Gentiles. And there are probably more such Gentiles now available — both the willing kind and the kind willing to be duped — than ever before in history. As a further good fortune, the Jewish directors of America’s entertainment industry can now guarantee that one Brotherhood spokesman, well-placed (e.g., behind a microphone or before a television camera), is able to influence Americans by the millions. 

 

And the Jews’ campaign is succeeding. We have every reason to be alarmed at its success. American Catholics, even those not actively taking part in the tolerance talk, are now kept in line by the omnipresent threat of being accused of hate, bigotry, and intolerance. 

 

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In the face of a new year that will be the biggest one yet for the Brotherhood promoters, The Point pleads with American Catholics to realign themselves with the militant traditions of their grandfathers. No threat of “bigotry,” no accusation of “intolerance” should temper our zeal or silence our message. We must preserve our commission to “Go forth and teach all nations...;” to “Reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.” 

 

Unworthy as we are, we American Catholics must protect for ourselves the duty of naming God’s enemies and the privilege of carrying God’s revealed Truth to the people of our country, who, we pray, will hear it, with generosity and gratitude, and who will repeat that intolerant Profession of Faith which the Church requires of all new converts: “ ... At the same time, I condemn and reprove all that the Church has condemned and reproved. This same Catholic Faith, outside of which nobody can be saved, which I now freely profess and to which I truly adhere, the same I promise and swear to maintain and profess, with the help of God, entire, inviolate and with firm constancy until the last breath of life; and I shall strive as far as possible that this same Faith shall be held, taught and publicly professed by all those who depend on me, and by those of whom I shall have charge.” 

 

(from the Rituale Romanum, published in 1947 with the Imprimatur of the Cardinal Archbishop of New York.) 

 

A Militant Example

 

A recent Vatican news release has stated that Saint Lawrence of Brindisi may soon be declared a Doctor of the universal Church. Should he receive that title, the Italian Franciscan, who died in 1619, would thus become the thirtieth saint whom the Church has especially singled out as a teacher of the Faith to all Catholics everywhere. 

 

Born at Brindisi in 1559, Saint Lawrence early demonstrated the singular gifts that would make him a brilliant preacher. As a Capuchin friar, with a personal commission from Pope Clement VIII, the saint delivered vigorous sermons in the principal Italian ghettos, thus incurring a bitter resentment among the Jews that has persisted to this day. 

 

For our age of cowering Catholics, Lawrence of Brindisi supplies a reproving example. Not only did he work tirelessly to challenge the perfidy of the Jews, but he brought back to the Faith many who had gone over to the Protestant Revolt, and, most spectacular of all, he led an army against the Turks. It was in Hungary, in the year 1601, that Saint Lawrence, armed with nothing more than his cowl and his Crucifix, led a Christian army, outnumbered four to one, to an astounding victory over the infidels.

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“Essential to the understanding of our chaotic times is the knowledge that the Jewish race constitutes a united anti-Christian bloc within Christian society, and is working for the overthrow of that society by every means at its disposal.” — April 1958.

 

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Must watch video!:

Dr. Reiner Fuellmich on the Global COVID response   _________________

 

Please Note:   

It is not necessary that you need to wear a face mask when reading this blog ...

 

... however if it makes you feel happier and takes your mind of worrying whether you might catch the COVID19 virus, then by all means, why (wine) not?

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