Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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go, how ’bout them blue eyes, huh?
thx, Leon, always enjoy your pretties
Thanks Leon for the cat therapy. Sometimes I just need some kitty cat pictures.
The Villa Lobos Preludes are a staple of the classical guitar repertoire. All are wonderfully engaging pieces both to play and listen to. My favorite is #4. Svetoslav Costoff does a great job of capturing the enigmatic mystery of this elegant piece.
Just a reminder to anyone needing help with covid mandates contact Mat Stavers Organization Liberty Counsel at LC.org . I’ve been following this organizations progress for years and Mat has always been passionate about fighting to maintain our constitutional rights. He has a freedom first mentality and has been very successful. I watched a live podcast with him tonight. It starts out slow for a few minutes til it gets to his interview but once it gets started it’s riveting and worth watching the entire podcast for great info about the real danger of these covid shots and how to fight mandates. If you need help, don’t panic, his organization doesn’t charge you and Mat Sraver wants to help you. Heres the link for the podcast
Solutions
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
If you don’t know Catherine Austin Fitts you need to get to know her. I don’t know how to que up videos, but around the 1 hour 17-18 mark Del does a video that is actually pretty good sedge way and then Catherine comes on. I think she is just the greatest in terms of explaining things of what is going on, and what we can do, if only we would do it, but I won’t hold my breath. She has a website Solaris.com. She is one smart woman.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/episode-228-a-sea-of-lies/
Oh how I agree with this! She is a no nonsense woman with a keen eye for what’s really going on vis a vis the covid head fake. Her website Solari is definitely one to look into. Any interview with her is a good investment.
Tuesday of the Ninth Week after Pentecost
Fast preceding the Dormition of the Theotokos (August 15th/28th)
August 4th on the Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
August 17th on the civil or commercial calendar
First Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Corinthians 12: 12- 26
Holy Gospel according to the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew 18: 18 – 22; 19: 1 – 2, 13 – 15
Among the many Saints and Holy Martyrs who are commemorated today are these:
The Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus (+ 250 and circa 446)
Holy Martyr Eleutherios of Byzantium (beginning of 4th century)
Holy New Hieromartyr Cosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (+ 1779) – also on August 24th
Great Paraklesis or Canon of Supplication to the Theotokos
On August 17th, in 1788, the town of Losantville is founded in the Ohio Territory. The following year it is renamed Cincinnati.
Eventually the city of Cincinnati became known as one point on America’s German Triangle that included the cities of Milwaukee and Saint Louis.
An interesting map from about 1890 (on Pinterest) shows the settlement of Germanic peoples in the counties and states of America.
Ah, love that British rhyming slang
Watching A Clockwork Orange and our Narrator, Alex, is reciting a voiceover as the camera pans around a prison church service
Several times he refers to the “Prison Charlie”
Prison Charlie, that is
Took me a minute
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Charlie
Charlie Chaplain
The chaplain
(insert lightbulb emoji here)
I’m easily amused, I often crack my own damn self up
Well.
Just an FYI: You just made me crack up reading your last sentence.
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ARE YOU DISCOURAGED IN DEVOTION?
“Yet lackest thou one thing; sell all that thou hast…and come, follow Me.” Luke xviii. 22
“And when he heard this…” Have you ever heard the Master say a hard word? If you have not, I question whether you have heard Him say anything. Jesus Christ says a great deal that we listen to, but do not hear; when we do hear, His words are amazingly hard.
Jesus did not seem in the least solicitous that this man should do what He told him, He made no attempt to keep him with Him. He simply said – Sell all you have, and come, follow Me. Our Lord never pleaded, He never cajoled, He never entrapped; He simply spoke the sternest words mortal ears ever listened to , and then left it alone.
Have I ever heard Jesus say a hard word? Has He said something personally to me to which I have deliberately listened? Not something I can expound or say this and that about, but something I have heard Him say to me? This man did understand what Jesus said, he heard it and he sized up what it meant, and it broke his heart. He did not go away defiant; he went away sorrowful, thoroughly discouraged. He had come to Jesus full of the fire of earnest desire, and the word of Jesus simply froze him; instead of producing an enthusiastic devotion, it produced a heart-breaking discouragement. And Jesus did not go after him, He let him go. Our Lord knows perfectly that when once His word is heard, it will bear fruit sooner or later. The terrible thing is that some of us prevent it bearing fruit in actual life. I wonder what we will say when we do make up our minds to be devoted to Him on that particular point? One thing is certain, He will never cast anything up at us.
Oswald Chambers
August 17th Devotional
That was quick https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/china-holds-assault-drills-near-taiwan-after-provocations-2117846
They surely saw this opportunity coming.
I awoke this morning with the vision of that plane with 640 afghan refugees; so few women and children and so many young, fighting age men. I’ve been reading the Daily Fail and Europe, even Germany, do not want them, bc they are so violent and don’t fit into Western culture. One guess where that will put them? More enclaves for idiots like Talib and Omar to represent with Obama redistricting?
I realize I sound like a nutter. But. I keep remembering Ed Calderon talking about the paramilitary being trained in Mexico by China/drug cartels. Add to that border officials saying that the biggest concern is dangerous, non-Hispanic illegals coming over the border and now we will be the landing for angry Afghani men?
I think we are stealthily being invaded. The threat of terrorism is real; but it won’t be from Patriots.
I’ve been seeing more and more Hispanic men in our white collar area.
Usually on Sundays, at grocery stores. (That’s my weekly trip to town) I usually run into Hispanics when I’m in charity shops. (Still boycotting china by buying used goods) There, I meet young men with their wives and kids. Nice, a little shy, working class families.
These young men that I’m running into, in towns where our children can’t afford housing, look very similar to the young military men I used to run into in San Diego. The posture, the tilt of the head, the overall confidence and swagger can’t be hidden by civvies. Men about Town.
We have fewer people on the streets of our towns in suburban Eastern Pennsylvania bc of ccp virus. It is thought provoking to suddenly see so many obviously not home grown young men with money out and about here. (Yes. They have money to spare, my kid belongs to a pricey self defense gym and guess who was his sparring partner last week? Unrelated of course, owner and my son now both have covid ).
I know I sound like my husband’s crazy aunt Madge, but I lived in California and worked with all economic levels of Hispanic people. Been close friends and invited to family functions. These young men aren’t casual labor. They are confident and with purpose.
We are becoming a threat with our Audit the Vote groups forming. Pennsylvania and Michigan etc. Are on Telegram and are using the Cyber Symposium speakers/AZ for advice. We have Mastriano and McMasters in Gettysburg this month. Gathering volunteers, forming the audit.
I don’t know what’s happening, but I fear my lessons in history point to something.
Thank you Sundance, for not disabling my comments. Maybe I’ll change my name to Aunt Madge….
Wendy Rogers, not McMasters…I would post the graphic but couldn’t figure it out…and cat wants breakfast… Stay safe.
Your concerns are mine. And I suspect of more than we can imagine. Your radar is accurate. Deliberate on their part, I fear. My entreaties to our Almighty God are ongoing and continuous?
Or not so stealthily invaded!
Mornin’ infidels.
God our Father
Have mercy on your people and Heal our Land.
Forgive us our Sins.
We turn to Thee in our time of need.
Thru your Son Jesus we Pray
Amen
August 17, 1968
The Rascals’ “People Got to Be Free” reaches number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It will be awarded a Gold record a week later, eventually selling over 4 million copies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2D6sLoA-tA
August 17, 1974
Nottingham England’s Paper Lace had Billboard’s top tune with a song about a gangster shootout called “The Night Chicago Died”. After the song became a hit, the band’s manager contacted Chicago’s mayor Richard Daley, hoping for a civic reception. What they got instead was ‘a rather rude letter’ ending in …are you nuts?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryVh9BuwOs4
Great article over at american thinker
“… now the progressives want to change America by opening borders, defunding police, emptying jails, increasing debt, suppressing speech, and revising history. Already, too many potential Democrats are crossing the border, ”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/the_dystopia_of_progressivism.html
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, August 17, 2021
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“His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”
Mathew 25:23 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.
Anarcho-tyranny stage
We are living in a recently failed state that is in its anarcho-tyranny phase. Much violent crime goes unpunished as long as it is perpetrated against the powerless, where as threats to the ruling establishment are met with swift brutality and draconian punishment.
We need to wake up. We are living through a worldwide marxist revolution initiated by globalist elites as a means for them to gain total, authoritarian control over every aspect of society. This is being done so people in the first world will be willing to sacrifice individual rights and liberty for more safety and control administered from the top down.
This is the largest psychological operation ever undertaken, on a global scale, and it is working. Covid is way overblown unless you’re already very old or very sick. Consider the restrictive mechanisms used to control people during covid. At the same time, the US government just literally labeled anyone who opposes them domestic terrorists. The governments of the west have taken similar steps to criminalize dissent. After enough people are begging the government to reestablish order at any cost, the trap will slam shut. You will not be able to criticize the regime then without severe consequences.
Consider the last 1.5 years during which antifa, blm, and criminal elements the world over have been burning, looting, and murdering with impunity. Violence in America is up everywhere and criminal prosecutions are way down. Meanwhile, world governments are actively trying to collapse national economies while opening every border in the first world. At the same exact time:
1. Patriotic Trump supporters were labeled white nationalists and a “threat to democracy.”
2. Patriots assembling on 1/6 to address grievances with the government for the stolen election were labeled insurrectionists. Many are political prisoners to this day.
3. Government labels all who oppose it either violent extremists or domestic terrorists.
4. Govt. moves to sensor political speech online.
5. Govt. continues to print money driving inflation and devaluing currencies.
6. Govt and media label anti-vaxxers danger to humanity.
7. Govt. and Tech collude to marginalize and report all dissent.
8. Govt introduce vax passports and different tiered societies.
9. Govt. acclimates citizens to govt. agents knocking door to door for vax checks.
10. Govt. reinstitute failed covid procedures and lockdowns.
Right now, Americans (and the world, really) are being conditioned to think people who stand up for their rights and liberties are selfish, extreme, irresponsible, hateful, irrational, racist, lawless, and dangerous. Half the population is ok with the government stripping our rights already.
After this stage is complete comes the successor ideology where the elites increase their control and decrease tolerance of dissent. The government is doing all this so it can imprison or kill you with impunity. Wake up.
Well summed, though I doubt few Treepers are sleeping.
Beautifully written.
Every one should copy and share. WAKE UP
The late Sam Francis used the term “anarcho-tyranny” in his series of articles on “Abolishing America” that Peter Brimelow published on VDare.
Afghanistan What’s True?
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By Dianne Marshall
Post date
August 17, 2021
https://diannemarshallreport.com/afghanistan-whats-true/
So you really believe this is what happened in Afghanistan without being staged? Remember fake news is pushing this fiasco. Ask questions and look at all things.
[Excerpt] Read more at the link above…
I wanted a little more info and found this.
mujahideen | History, Meaning, Significance, & Facts | Britannica
It includes this line.
“The Soviets initially left the suppression of the rebellion to the Afghan army, but the latter was beset by mass desertions and remained largely ineffective throughout the war.”
Nothing has changed.
BTW, the term basically means jihadist. But that is a separate definition which is linked in this definition.
In Ascensione Domin In Apparitione B.M.V. Immaculatæ
August Lady and Queen of Heaven, turn your gaze upon us Your children in this hour of darkness and affliction. Do not disdain to hear and answer our humble and confident prayer, at a moment when the forces of the Enemy are multiplying their infernal assault against God, His Church, and the human family.
You who are the model and example of humility and obedience to the will of God, enlighten our rulers, so that they may remember that the authority they exercise comes from the Lord, and that they will have to answer to Him, the Just Judge, for both the good they have not done as well as the evil they have committed. You who are the Virgin Most Faithful, teach those who administer public affairs to honor the moral obligations of their office, refusing any connivance with vice and error.
You who by your intercession before the Throne of God heal the evils of soul and body and are rightly invoked as Health of the Sick, guide doctors and health care workers in their profession. Help them to care for the sick and to give assistance to the weakest among us. Give them the courage to oppose those who would force them to cause death or illness with inappropriate treatments or harmful drugs. Invoke the Divine Physician of our souls, Our Lord Jesus Christ, asking Him to awaken in their conscience an awareness of their role and their duty to promote the life and health of the body.
You who during the Flight into Egypt saved Your Divine Son from the massacre of Herod, deliver our children from the moral and spiritual threats that loom over them. Protect our little ones from the true pestilence of sin and vice, and from the criminal plans of the ideological dictatorship that wants to strike them in body and spirit. Strengthen parents and educators to oppose the experimental use of a dangerous and morally illicit drugs on our children. Thwart the attacks of those who assault their innocence, trying to pervert them from an early age by corrupting their morals and warping their intellect.
You who were consoled by the presence of Your Son in your passage to eternal life, be close to the sick, the elderly, and the dying, especially those who, due to inhuman regulations, face death alone in a hospital bed, deprived of the Sacraments. Bring them comfort. Inspire in them repentance for the sins they have committed and the desire to offer their sufferings in reparation for these sins, so that they may close their eyes with the consolation of the friendship of God.
You who are called Mother of the Priesthood, enlighten our Shepherds. Open their eyes to see the present threat. Make them consistent witnesses to Christ Your Son, courageous defenders of the flock that the Lord has entrusted to them, and valiant opponents of error and vice. Shake off from them, Virgin Most Holy, all human respect and all connivance with sin. Inflame them with love for God and their neighbor, enlighten their minds, and strengthen their will.
You before whom all the demons of Hell take flight, defeat the diabolical plans of this hateful tyranny, the deception of the pandemic, the lie of the workers of iniquity. Make the light of Truth shine upon the lie, just as the true light of Christ shines upon the darkness of error and sin. Confuse Your enemies and humiliate under Your Foot the proud head of those who dare to challenge Heaven and want to establish the Reign of Antichrist.
You who by divine decree are Mediatrix of All Graces and Our Co-Redemptrix, obtain for us the grace of seeing the triumph of Your Immaculate Heart, to which we consecrate ourselves, our families, our communities, the Holy Church, our Homeland, and the whole world.
So may it be.
What a great idea. Think it will catch on?
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1427454969268121604
read bare naked islam to see their long term goal of conquest and they will not assimilate
https://www.thedad.com/olympic-medalist-good-samaritan/
Here’s a sweet feel good story for a change. Hope you enjoy!
I thought I would have a little fun by fact checking the fact checkers. I just looked into the fact check of the claim that viruses always mutate into more transmissible but less lethal strains. These two fact checkers say that is false, and cite ebola as their example:
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-011488089270
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/14/fact-check-viruses-can-mutate-become-more-deadly/7839167002/
Here is one of the supporting articles discussing the ebola mutation:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/has-new-mutation-ebola-virus-made-it-deadlier
Ok, those are the facts – but read this stuff closely. After all the big words that explain what we already know, the USA Today article said the mutation made it more transmissible and “likely” more infective. We are not arguing transmissibility; we are arguing lethality – and the article does not prove that. Also, does “infective” equal “lethal”? Now the AP fact check: it simply says that the virus can cause more severe symptoms which make it be more transmissible. Again, it simply focuses on transmissibility and beyond that doesn’t explain whether it was the original or the mutated virus that caused the severe symptoms, much less explain whether the symptoms got *more* severe due to a mutation. It also doesn’t say whether it was worsening symptoms or just higher transmissibility that caused more deaths.
OK, given all that, look at the sciencemag article discussing it. It explains that the virus was originally one that infected fruit bats and then after mutating became more deadly to humans. The lethality increased for a secondary species after the virus mutated in the *original* species. Applying this to Covid and Delta would be a straw man argument. It could only argue that because one virus became deadlier to humans after mutating in bats, that a Covid variant could become more dangerous to humans after mutating in…humans. Not the same. The only way the argument would be logical would be by looking at how the Covid variant could later affect fruit bats, not people.
So, do you see how a fact check can be fact based and accurate, but still be misleading?
99% of any thing calling itself a fact-check is guaranteed to be a lie.
Citizen817, if you’re still out there, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
cat is sleeping, boys putting a gate at the bottom of the lane. no one to talk to, all by myself so CTH friends I burden you. so many peaches this year I have a peach pie in top oven and roasted beast in bottom oven. also have peaches in jars with sugar so we have brandied peaches for Thanksgiving.
every day I take multiple shots for covid resistance. shots of single malt scotch whiskey, of course. glenmorangie by choice.
jasmine heavy blooming as is the gardenia. bay tree flourishes and tiny figs on Brown Turkey fig tree.
sorry for the interruption I had to take the pie out. it really smells good. a doe is taking her cud break on the front porch. probably burping up peaches. we had so many deer around until my husband began calling the venison. they are back now as they realize he is just kidding .
One of our mowers is a BCS made in Italy. It is on the fritz and at the shop. shop owner can’t get parts from Italy. can’t get help to work. He, too, is a BIG TRUMP SUPPORTER MAGA.
sorry to bore you. take care everybody
Who’s bored? Can I have some pie?
… smirking birds of a feather …
ALL LIARS. Their final destination is the pit, eternally.
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen
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Praise be to God. I thank my Heavenly Lord for His blessings.
Many of us are experiencing trials which test our faith. Jesus has shown me the way. I will always be his servant.
I am so lucky today, for this one day in particular.
Lord, I submit to you and ask that you will allow me to always see your light and your way.
When Ma Merkel calls you out over migrant plans, you have problems. https://rmx.news/afghanistan/merkel-mistakes-that-led-to-2015-migrant-crisis-shouldnt-be-repeated-with-afghanistan/
https://abc7chicago.com/10957531/
just in: chicago reinstates indoor mask mandate.