Originally posted on Looking for the Blessed Hope: Ready for a “feel good” story from the Olympics? Two years ago, Saeid Mollaei, a world class Iranian judo athlete, defected from Iran. Along the way, he not only competed at events in Israel, but he befriended Israeli judoka, Sagi Muki, a world class athlete in his…
“Praise the Lord Jesus Christ”
This is a sign from above as we all have heard and know that God does work in mysterious ways! I didn’t expect to see this today and I was just listening to the “Battle Hymn of The Republic” that I recently posted in my article reblog:
Every time I watch this military orchestra/choir performing this Hymn I cry seeing all those fine American Patriots who first put God above all else, then family and country; living as individual beacons of light and hope being children of God; putting their all into serving our Father in heaven while doing His will here!
So too this Iranian Olympian fleeing tyranny like America’s founders did in many instances for a better life that would be according to God’s Holy Principles that did indeed form the basis of the “One Nation under God America” with an enlightened Constitution stating that “all men are created equal” with certain inalienable rights granted to all human beings from birth by God, but sadly too many places in the world there are people that do not see things the way God wants them to!
Saeid Mollaei this defector from Iran who has love for Israel and Jews comes from that Middle East Nation that has leaders and Jihadists who have advocated for the complete destruction of Israel and death to all Jews; and this one man brought tears to my eyes just like when listening to my Republic’s Battle Hymn, because God is at work in the music
when I hear it and when I see someone like this Olympian show the love in his heart for his brothers and sisters!
We are all in a battle; a never ending war while here on earth, but, God will never leave us high and dry and that is what’s being revealed or happening here, I do believe; in this event! God is telling us to not lose hope or be discouraged because He is our God; the God of all of us our heavenly Father, and is going to bring perfect justice and closure to this open wound that was inflicted by hate and evil upon humanity. This is meant to afford an opportunity for all to see Truth at work in our lives, “the Truth of God and to know that no matter what difficulties or hardship lies ahead, the end result will only be what God knows it should be;” it will be a perfect and glorious completion of His loving plan! Amen.
God bless all of you.
Two years ago, Saeid Mollaei, a world class Iranian judo athlete, defected from Iran. Along the way, he not only competed at events in Israel, but he befriended Israeli judoka, Sagi Muki, a world class athlete in his own right.
During the 2019 World Championships, Iranian national team coaches ordered Mollaei to lose a semifinal match in order to avoid a championship match with Muki. Following the event, Mollaei took refuge in Germany, before becoming a Mongolian citizen.
On Tuesday, he won the silver medal in the 81-kilo division and expressed thanks to Israel for the support he received following his defection.
Sagi Muki responded: “I’m super happy for Saeid. I know what he’s gone through, and how much he wanted it. He’s a very close friend of mine, and I’m so happy that he succeeded in achieving his dream. He…
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + : The active Covid-19 infection rate at ICE facilities is 5%, based on their statistics. Much of this is currently concentrated in Texas facilities. Based on the information available from the CDC and US Census, we estimate the active Covid-19 infection rate nationwide as 0.17%. So, the illegal aliens within the…
This is an excellent timely report and I appreciate it!
“Who is behind the diabolical monsters in power?” Here the article asks the very or even most pertinent question and I’ll tell you that I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that it is Satan behind this debauchery and the man in the White House with a team of devils behind him are tools of the Evil One meaning the Puppet POTUS is flat-out a satanic cohort of hell; absolutely no doubt about that so of course these actions by his administration are meant to inflict harm and stir the pot as they say!
Look I hate having to talk this way having always been practically all of my life the eternal optimist on steroids but the only thing I can tell any of you that is positive in all of this and truly optimistic is that Jesus Christ is coming and all the warning shots across the bow that could have been fired have been so its time to batten down the hatches because the world as you knew it just a couple of years ago is gone and this world we are now in is changing exponentially for the worse heading toward perdition.
I’ve noticed even out and about while in the community at large in my own locale that many of Satan’s minions are being purposefully embedded throughout in strategic locations to prepare for more implementation of suffering. Even in health related program facilities a strategy has been initiated to bring battle and war upon the citizenry; the monsters that brought us this whole Covid fiasco and rampage are going to play all their cards to deliver the Devil’s due upon humanity and suffering is a foregone conclusion.
Our government’s Federal, State and otherwise don’t care one iota about any of us; we are the expendable in the NWO equation or game plan. So this means you need to prepare by praying fervently and remain vigilant each day seeking God’s will for you through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit will guide you. Don’t be afraid of any of the evil ones who works against our best efforts they are weak and spineless minions of the fallen angels and therefore they have no power over your souls and Jesus will save yours if you truly give your heart to Him!
John 14:26 “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”
John 14:26 26 “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
Romans 8:31 says, “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Romans 8 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” Romans 8:28: “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
Philippians 4:11 “I am not telling you this because I need anything. I have learned to be satisfied with the things I have and with everything that happens.”
Psalm 27:1: “The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?”
Be strong through faith in Him who overcomes all and is the only path to eternal life with the Father in heaven; nothing else matters, He loves you!
God bless you. Amen.
The active Covid-19 infection rate at ICE facilities is 5%, based on their statistics. Much of this is currently concentrated in Texas facilities.
Based on the information available from the CDC and US Census, we estimate the active Covid-19 infection rate nationwide as 0.17%.
So, the illegal aliens within the ICE facilities have approximately 29 times the rate as the country as a whole.
This provides support to the probability that illegal migrants are seeding Covid-19 throughout the country, which is common sense. ICE facility workers could spread it from the facilities back to the general population, and the majority of illegal migrants are not even within facilities, but are at large, seeded amongst the general population.
The rise in Covid-19 throughout the United States followed Biden’s border surge. While this could still be a spurious correlation, that is impossible to believe. Covid-19 was dying down within the United States…
“A friend exorcist says that this idol (Pachamama) is actually the figure of the antichrist. It is a blasphemy and parody of Mary. Pachamama is pregnant but carries the antichrist to give birth to him in the Masonic church, to destroy the sacraments, which is to return to idolatry and superstition”
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Very thought provoking article and it does point out how the Catholic Church has been slipping in a quagmire of misdirected even foolish intentions for decades but Saint John Paul II who I greatly admired and still do as a Saint was so spot-on in his clear perceptions and determination to be a genuine Vicar of Christ here on earth for the Church that Jesus Himself founded and handed off to Saint Apostle Peter.
What we have right now in this man Bergoglio is the exact opposite as he runs Pell-mell toward the precipice of destruction and evil. I wrote to him several years ago regarding a very serious problem I encountered due to corrupted politics and equally corrupted church officials along the lines of Freemasonry! I was targeted and nearly killed; but if that was God’s will then so be it. I’ve learned so much about this spiritual reality we exist in by this battle I was tossed into when in this process my even having to defend myself with a complex medical case pro se in a rigged court system that’s set up more for the political power structure of society and the power mongers than helping a seriously injured human being from a work related injury even after I was set up for a serious injury by this same evil. When the current pope ignored my sincere and quite forthright letter with factual information I knew that alone was telling me a lot about what I needed to know about that man. Then I began to research and find that many of my concerns and disappointments with both the governmental system and he current corrupted Church was not just alarming but truly heartbreaking to me. I finally woke up after getting kicked to the curb and then in the head!
I’d like to quote here what I found the crux of the matter here in this article and it came from my beloved Saint John Paul II.
“Pope John Paul II addressed the problem of Catholic universities abandoning their Catholic roots in his 1990 document on Catholic education.”
“He reminds the heads of Catholic universities that “a specific part of a Catholic University’s task is to promote dialogue between faith and reason, so that it can be seen more profoundly how faith and reason bear harmonious witness to the unity of all truth. “The large Catholic universities have been slipping further away from the Catholic ideal of the salvation of souls as their first principle.”
“A Catholic University, as Catholic, informs and carries out its research, teaching, and all other activities with Catholic ideals, principles and attitudes,” the pontiff notes.” “He concludes with the reason for preserving a Catholic focus in education: “Every Catholic University is to maintain communion with the universal Church and the Holy See,” he asserts, to “contribute to the Church’s work of evangelization.”
Bergoglio actually stated the exact opposite, “never try to convert unbelievers!”
Yes the deterioration of the Church to me is not unlike what is happening to the United States of America the One Republic under God, vis-a-vis more work of he Devil; founded by all very good God fearing quality men and women back when things were simpler but much harder to deal with in order just to survive day to day. Therein is the problem in my humble opinion in that most if not all people today are quite spoiled and way too self-serving or arrogant in comparison; thus the wacky lifestyles and lack of respect, decency, ethics, morals and virtue which a human society cannot survive without!
Bergoglio even ascribed this kind of backward thinking in his official Church correspondences which I mentioned in a previous article I would like to mention again here.
He is obviously Anti-Christ and serves Satan. This man puts himself above God on many occasions and has gotten bolder in his assaults on Jesus and His Church; with each passing year.
Let’s not forget this is the same man who thoroughly promoted the most corrupted and diabolical career politician here in America, the now Fraud Puppet POTUS “Scranton Joe” Biden who himself is an absolute “Judas character in America!” Bergoglio is saying straight out that evil and transgression against the Most High, God Almighty; is not a bad thing!
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).
Biden has been and is so obviously an evil fraud of a man, but so too is this man Bergoglio who walks around as a “Puppet Pope” serving dark purposes only, as he links himself directly with “global politics” or in essence the crooked “Ways of the World” and we can be sure who the puppeteer is in his case!
And I must quote here from the article this line that cuts to the chase, “To many faithful Catholics, it seems like Francis is betraying the Mystical Body of Christ in much the same way that Judas betrayed Our Lord.”CP&S
Of course he has and is, without a doubt; so the verdict is in as far as I’m concerned, that we have here in this personage named Bergoglio; the “False Prophet” prophesied in Holy Scriptures; who perhaps even wants to call himself God! But, we can be certain he is in lockstep with the Antichrist and Satan!
When we speak to this issue of Judas we must remember these great words from our Lord Jesus Christ!
James 4:4 ESV “You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
1 John 2:15-17 ESV “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.”
And this last verse we can clearly apply in this matter of Bergoglio as well as Biden, and of course Judas; who was afflicted with the same sin in his heart!
Matthew 6:24 ESV “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
I repeat this portion of what the book of John states precisely, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
Judas who was right in the presence of God in the personage of Jesus Christ, was showing by his own clear choice that he didn’t want to serve Jesus or God; but instead clearly proved that he wanted to serve this world and those that ran it at that time; so he “Sold Out” and lost his own soul to Satan. That is exactly what Biden did a long time ago putting a price on himself in the Billions of dollars, much greater than the “coins that Judas accepted to betray the Savior!” Bergoglio “Sold Out” for “worldly power” and puts himself above God as he is a so called “Holy Man” who is now betraying the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, claiming “earthly moral authority” and fusing that with “Global earthly political power!” He is clearly blaspheming God! He can only be serving Satan!
He even went in my opinion all out evil when he brought sacrilegious pagan idolatry artifacts and false God worship into the Vatican!
October 28, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – “A Brazilian bishop said that Pope Francis’ Oct. 4 ceremony in the Vatican gardens prior to the opening of the Amazon Synod, where people prostrated themselves before a wooden statue of a naked pregnant woman (Pachamama), constituted a “scandalous, demonic sacrilege.”
“Mother Earth should not be worshiped because everything, even the earth, is under the dominion of Jesus Christ. It is not possible that there are spirits with power equal or superior to Our Lord or of the Virgin Mary,” said Bishop Emeritus José Luis Azcona Hermoso of the Brazilian city of Marajó said in an Oct. 20 homily at the cathedral in the state of Pará. To the applause of the congregation, the bishop added, nearly shouting: “Pachamama is not and never will be the Virgin Mary. To say that this statue represents the Virgin is a lie. She is not Our Lady of the Amazon because the only Lady of the Amazon is Mary of Nazareth. Let’s not create syncretistic mixtures. All of that is impossible: the Mother of God is the Queen of Heaven and earth.”
“The invocation of the statues before which even some religious bowed at the Vatican (and I won’t mention which congregation they belong) is an invocation of a mythical power, of Mother Earth, from which they ask blessings or make gestures of gratitude. These are scandalous demonic sacrileges, especially for the little ones who are not able to discern,” he added later in the homily.”
“The Spanish-born bishop said that a genuine illumination from the Holy Spirit, which “our dear Pope Francis has mentioned so often,” is required to understand the much-debated synod. “We should distinguish between what comes from Satan or from the human mind, from what is of the Holy Spirit. This discernment is fundamental in order to belong to the Church and even more so to evangelize.”
Bowl on right was actually used for human sacrifices during pagan idolatry worship with blood placed in the bowl. Some say demons were brought to the alter of Jesus Christ.
“A friend exorcist says that this idol (Pachamama) is actually the figure of the antichrist. It is a blasphemy and parody of Mary. Pachamama is pregnant but carries the antichrist to give birth to him in the Masonic church, to destroy the sacraments, which is to return to idolatry and superstition. So, this antichrist who is to give birth to a church with an ‘Amazonian face’ is an abomination, it is a contradiction to Church doctrine, which is the dynamic into which these idolaters want to enter into now.”∎ by Paul Simeon
1 John 5:19 ESV “We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”
John 15:18-19 ESV “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
Matthew 16:26 ESV “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?”
What really shocked me was how he said the opposite of what Saint John Paul II had said about the mission of the church being to evangelize others to seek Jesus Christ to save souls!
What follows is my response to a blog today regarding another apparent misdirection of the faithful by the active Pope Francis. I had to get into a more comprehensive explanation and chronicling of my own experiences that have led me to have my current perspective and belief that comprehensive efforts on many fronts including the Vatican are actively working to discredit the faith and renounce God’s word that Jesus Christ is “the Way, the Truth and the Life.”
It appears from Holy Scripture what Francis is saying flies in the face of what the Lord Himself has commanded us to do.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.” He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
Matthew 28:19-20 “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
I have a few things to add here! First I apologize for this extremely long comment but so many people around the globe need to get real. We are living in a most unprecedented time like no other in history when the digital age and information overload is non-stop, which is good and bad! The good side is that spreading the word of God and the Good news of the Salvation through Jesus Christ has never been so facilitated! But, the double-edged sword is at work in this, because Satan is using many of the advantages of high speed digital communication to confuse, misinform and outright deceive in earnest as the father of lies having these modern tools at his disposal! We now see a Pope that is false and I dear say he appears to be supporting the beast which I’ve become aware of over the last several years like many of you! My mother based on her long life experience and being a parishioner of the RCC had been saying for the last dozen years that Jesus is in a sense being crucified figuratively again by an out of control secular world and culture of death. Obviously materialism and vain exploits riddle the earthly societies tremendously while so many turn away from seeking God and prefer pleasure, lust and all manner of instant gratification. This leads to all manner of perversions and abuse which we read about or see on TV or the net news daily. Is it any wonder hatreds and violence plague our man-made system. This is to me a spiritual warfare like no other that has increased exponentially over the last 30 to 40 years and especially since 9/11/2001 which to me was a definite demarcation line or event to clearly show that two opposing ideologies or beliefs that have been colliding for well over several hundreds of years are now being set-up for a major showdown which is of course The Battle between Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior and the antichrist.
On Christmas 2018 I was interacting that whole week with connections of mine on a social media platform sharing happiness and prayers for peace and salvation when a rabble-rouse agent or troll kept appearing on this one particular post and he increased his insults at our belief in Jesus and indeed upon Jesus with many carefully orchestrated rants that seemed to both promote atheism and then Nation of Islam which ultimately appeared to be the mindset of this derelict hateful minion! I am a passionate person and yes I can become a bit angry when wicked people offend or attack those I love! I tried for the days leading up to Christmas to be intellectual each time this individual kept appearing not letting well enough alone and allowing those of us of faith to have a peaceful joyous Christmas to share and celebrate the birth of our Savior! I will not just pass it off I thought; so I took it as a “direct attack” by evil, which I never experienced on Christmas by anyone my entire life until then! I know from this event and so many others that were painful challenges in my personal life over the last several years or more that this is pure evil at work in the world and it seeks out anyone of faith to attack viciously with its sole purpose to dishearten or trouble the faithful while completely confusing the weak and lost; it is pure hatred I witnessed not only of Jesus but of all His faithful.
This Pope speaks in contradictions and I never thought that I would say such a thing having been brought up a Catholic and knowing in my heart I truly love Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! But, I won’t go into all of my reasons except one is that I reached out to this Pope at the Vatican during one of my more if not most troubled periods in my entire life where I was up against powers and principalities; or very corrupted political slaves of the Devil in my locale and I got “Zero Response” back from the Pope when at least some acknowledgement regarding the matter which I explained in great detail in a letter of several pages; would have been appropriate. Now I realize I should have sent it to Benedict XVI instead, but I was duped like so many to believe we had a new Pope Francis. Now in light of the most recent betrayals of the Church and its faithful this Pope has sealed his fate in my view as being derelict in the least or possibly diabolical at worst.
Before I show you what I said to that attacker of our Lord on Christmas Day 2018 I ask that you focus on this Scripture which says it all in my heart and mind as to why I felt it important to share this long explanation.
“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.” Isaiah 45:22-23
“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:9-11
Victoria, for a couple of days leading up to Christmas and right on Christmas this phony and deceptive guy who was commenting on a post about the two Scandinavian young ladies beheaded kept twisting truth like the Devil to make Jesus nothing more than some guy like Muhammad. His denouncing Jesus and Christianity therefore on Christmas set me off onto my mission, as he would not stop it no matter how many important things I tried to explain to him. He was a clever deceiver. He did however stop after this piece I wrote to him on the post!
Aツaz Your own words; “live the way you want and not dictate as you are just a human and not a messenger of GOD, like Jesus and Muhammad were.” “Muslim hoax I am wondering how you equate a “hoax” with facts of an Islamic Empire.” Wonder NO MORE, Pay Attention and learn of your blaspheming error! You have a huge inaccuracy that needs to be corrected! Saying that Jesus is another prophet like Muhammad is blasphemous. First Jesus was not a mere prophet but was God Himself and therefore the Redeemer and Savior of Mankind as he said. Muhammad was only a supposed prophet and there is irrefutable evidence in the historical text of the time he lived that points to his being an outright liar and heretic as well as a criminal and child molester along with his being a polygamist! The following statements are highly accurate and actually proven.
“In 632, only months before he died, Muhammad apparently met for the first time with a Christian community as such. An official delegation of Christians, probably led by a bishop, came to Mecca from Najran in Yemen. After engaging the Christians in discussion, the Prophet is said to have realized that Christian teachings are indeed incompatible with Islam, after which the revelation followed that only Islam is acceptable to God as a religion. The Quran also says very specifically that those who refer to Jesus as God are blasphemers, and that Christians saying that Christ is the son of God is an imitation of Jews, who earlier had said that Ezra is the son of God. According to the Quran Jesus was only a servant; Jesus the son of Mary was no more than an apostle of God. Quranic verses dealing with Jesus’ death have been interpreted differently by commentators, but generally they have been taken to mean that Jesus did not die by crucifixion. For Christians the Quran has thus served as a denial of Jesus’ incarnation and death on the cross and of the reality of the Trinity.” (Oxford University Press)
These two points alone put Islam and the Muslims completely at odds with Jesus Christ and all Christians and are the enemies of such! Muhammad himself began this conflict and was the spoiler and Heretic directly attacking God’s plan as foretold by all the previous prophets going all the way back to Abraham. Things have been in conflict because of Muhammad ever since and are getting worse, this will not resolve until Islam is Chastised or obliterated as a fake religion started by a false prophet and therefore heretic! In Summary Muslims are in complete denial of what Jesus Christ said and who He was which makes them Anti-Christ and supportive of the Devil and all that is unholy. Basically Muhammad started this Blasphemy back in 632 AD and outright declared War on Christendom! Islam you yourself stated is an EMPIRE which puts it in the category of being a Nation not a Religion! It is not a religion that is backed up with solid historical evidence and prophecy over time by many prophets other than what Muhammad said; he made it all up, the heretic! Islam seeks to conquer and must be stopped! And it will be! God’s avenging angels are going to obliterate Islam and any of its followers, they are minions of Satan!
After this experience on Christmas day 2018 the likes of which I had never experienced any such blatant antichrist in your face attack, during a most important religious observance activity for Christians, tells me that we are in the end times, as Satan is working through all means available at a fever pitch to attack Christianity and it’s faithful; because the time is drawing near for God to return!
Of course I could be off by many years but this is my hunch as there are so many signs and I was attacked by evil several years ago to stop me from being a witness and faithful one for Jesus. A woman of a consecrated Catholic order told me back then that there was a reason I was suffering for Jesus and it would become apparent at some point in the future why I was being prepared! Now I see in retrospect that God did want me to do something for Him and it could be just to be doing as I am or maybe something more; like a priest told me recently, “wait and see!”
“He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him” (John 5:23, 24)
Because we who accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior believe in the blessed trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and that the Father and Son are one; when we glorify Jesus we are glorifying the Father. Therefore, the eternal glorification of the Father is through the Son Jesus Christ. If any people will not willingly give praise and glory to God in this life, they will do it against their own will throughout eternity. It’s made clear through God’s word to all who seek Truth, Hope and Salvation from a sinful world that in many instances is barely even a distorted reflection of God’s Glory, we must do our best to not be deceived making sure to discern God’s will from that of the worldly beast or even ourselves.
All I can say to conclude for now is these are absolutely big signs of the times and should be helpful to anyone in helping them to discern how out of control the human race is; proving that we need the Lord Jesus Christ obviously, because nothing else is going to make any difference in improving or ultimately saving humanity and countless souls! God bless you and yours. Amen.
Brother in Christ Jesus, Lawrence Morra III
by Rodney Pelletier • ChurchMilitant.com • July 22, 2021
The destruction of US Catholic education
Catholic theologians and educators gathered in a Wisconsin resort town during the week of July 23, 1967, to discuss how they could modernize Catholic universities.
Notre Dame University president Fr. Theodore Hesburgh
Their final document was informally named the Land O’ Lakes Statement after the town where these influential priests and laymen held the meeting. It was signed by 26 heads of U.S. Catholic colleges and universities, one of whom was Notre Dame University president Fr. Theodore Hesburgh.
The document ultimately called for Catholic universities to “have a true autonomy and academic freedom in the face of authority of whatever kind, lay or clerical, external to the academic community itself.”
It would be the first effort whereby Catholic institutes of higher learning would trade in their Catholic identity to better compete with secular universities.
Looking at what has happened to Notre Dame and the Jesuit schools, it’s easy to see they’re straying further away from Catholicism more and more each year.
Discussing the study of theology, the 1967 document declared: “The theological faculty must engage directly in exploring the depths of Christian tradition and the total religious heritage of the world in order to come to the best possible intellectual understanding of religion and revelation, of man in all his varied relationships to God.”
The document makes another troubling statement about how the “university should carry on a continual examination of all aspects and all activities of the Church and should objectively evaluate them.”
Since then, it’s not uncommon that people who have 12 years of primary education in Catholic schools go on to get a four-year degree in a prestigious Catholic university and come out less Catholic than when they went in.
Pope John Paul II addressed the problem of Catholic universities abandoning their Catholic roots in his 1990 document on Catholic education.
He reminds the heads of Catholic universities that “a specific part of a Catholic University’s task is to promote dialogue between faith and reason, so that it can be seen more profoundly how faith and reason bear harmonious witness to the unity of all truth. “The large Catholic universities have been slipping further away from the Catholic ideal of the salvation of souls as their first principle.
“A Catholic University, as Catholic, informs and carries out its research, teaching, and all other activities with Catholic ideals, principles and attitudes,” the pontiff notes.
He concludes with the reason for preserving a Catholic focus in education: “Every Catholic University is to maintain communion with the universal Church and the Holy See,” he asserts, to “contribute to the Church’s work of evangelization.”
Despite John Paul II’s admonitions, the large Catholic universities have been slipping further away from the Catholic ideal of the salvation of souls as their first principle. Some schools even promote concepts that directly oppose Church teaching.
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Thanks to the Biden Commie Wacko Administration the steady flow of illegals from 3rd world countries into our country’s interior being purposely dispersed often times carry this drug resistant fungus along with resistant strains of TB; will be another catastrophe, when they are already talking about new mask wearing guidelines from the CDC along with fall lock-downs! All this while federal agents may soon be knocking on American Citizens doors to push vaccines that are deadly and useless!
This is a totally out of control insane asylum administration; Jen the dimwit press secretary talks about suppressing conservative fake news when she works for the fake news party; go figure, totally out to lunch!
Outbreaks of a drug-resistant “superbug” fungus spread among patients in hospitals and long-term care facilities in Texas and Washington, D.C., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. The fungus, Candida auris, preys on people with weakened immune systems. The CDC said evidence suggests these cases involved person-to-person transmission, which would be a first for the U.S.
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When America was a beacon of Hope, Truth and Justice!
“Battle Hymn of The Republic”
Mine eyes have seen the glory
Of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage
Where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning
Of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Chorus
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watchfires
Of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar
In the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence
By the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Chorus
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet
That shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men
Before His judgement seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him;
Be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.
Chorus
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom
That transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy,
Let us die to make men free;
While God is marching on.
Chorus
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
Now of course the Leftist’s, American Commies, CRT provocateurs, Antifa, BLM, Biden and all of his Dem/socialist Cronies hate this as it depicts hate, injustice and evil; right! Liars they are all!
“An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts.”
“Provocateur is a shortened form of “agent provocateur,” used since the late 1800s to mean “person hired to make trouble.” When police officers pretend to join protests — such as those at political conventions — with the goal of inciting people to violence and then arresting them, they act as provocateurs.” https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/provocateur
Don’t be fooled, January 6th 2021 was a deliberate act by the Left, Deep Swamp, Establishment, orchestrated by Pelosi, Biden and all the Democrat anti-American Traitors! The same people who allowed Blue Democrat states to riot and burn cities down, but, would not afford ample hospitality and an audience to Conservative Patriotic Americans for a just and legal opportunity to speak peacefully to their government officials about a truly corrupted scam election!
No it is they; all of them who hate and despise good and holiness that infest and infect or Nation’s Capital with blatant corruption; because they are all so far removed from such ideals and virtues having fallen to the lower depths of the slimiest baseline of human existence, ruining anything they touch and poisoning any minds they can; especially the young and innocent! They will get their just reward; God in Heaven knows all and “His Truth is and will March On” and right over them!
God bless America and all of her faithful God fearing Patriots! Amen.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
And let us not forget that those ever so critical, Critical Race Theory Democrats, who are as self-righteous as they come; advocate and promote this fine activity, which God must say is perfect according to their progressive mantra!
US Congresswoman “Stefanik: Biden is now Complicit in Gov. Cuomo’s Nursing Home Coverup July 23, 2021 Today, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik released the following statement regarding President Biden’s Department of Justice’s decision to reject the New York delegation’s request that they investigate Governor Cuomo for his COVID-19 nursing home coverup.
“This decision from President Biden’s Department of Justice makes President Biden complicit in the criminal corruption scandal and coverup of deaths of thousands of vulnerable seniors,” said Congresswoman Stefanik. “New Yorkers deserve answers and accountability. I was the first member of Congress to call for an investigation into Governor Cuomo’s corrupt criminal coverup and I will continue to fight for the families who lost loved ones because of the cruelty and corruption of our Governor.
“I call on the DOJ Inspector General to look into this matter. What did Governor Cuomo promise President Joe Biden in his White House meeting?…
Originally posted on 'This Side of Life': The ANTIVAXXER moniker is propounded on by industry to keep you from even thinking about the VACCINE-INJURED There are, however, plenty of these: The “Controlled Opposition” category is extremely complex. It involves word-use and propaganda and brainwashing, too. If you do study it, it will take a while…
Hello Joyce…What a tremendous effort and comprehensive report here; I’m flabbergasted by what I can learn from this one piece of work and realizing now how much I didn’t know or understand well enough! You are a true “Truth Seeker and Warrior for God” in my humble opinion.
I was just talking with a sister earlier today about how much foolishness and waste of time is occurring on the internet on the many social media platforms or how people have issues that they are feeding or spreading in this cyber spider’s web I hate to say. I see things way more critically now than I used to just several to a dozen years ago and how I even used to slip into the traps that are readily available for people to become entwined in. I see how light and darkness are battling at a fever pitch everywhere now, and, I do know from even my own life experience that God is there, but the Devil is doing all he can to trip up those who are drawn to the light and truth of God Almighty; call it temptations, diversion, distraction or battle plans.
I responded to one of my postings from yesterday to a comment made on it, which you may have seen but even so I would like to leave it here as I hope my POV is relative to this so insightful dissertation and presentation you have provided graciously for anyone who is seeking understanding.
“Yes Mary Anne, that has become the new Mantra for many leaders and maybe most people in this God forsaken world of Fake Phony Lifestyle’s and People; “I Don’ Care Anymore!” A world of humanity running Pell-mell to the Precipice; not toward any Virtue or Glory, as for example the way our American Forebears saw life and lived it!
This is a world of delusion and “scam upon scam;” sorry to say, heading to “hell in a hand basket!” Now that is all so negative; and I admit even I don’t like to realize and see it so much as to how locked into this doom mankind actually is, but, the good news in what I just said recently in other writings and again now, is though this human race and civilization will implode due to all the evil straight from the “pits of hell” which permeates civilization, we know that it’s a “foregone conclusion” that “Victory” is on the way in short order, relatively speaking; because God in the “words” and reality of “Jesus Christ,” told us He would return to put an end to all this strife/turmoil, and that sin would be no more! I’m happy about that more than anything else!
This to me is what trusting in the Lord is all about! Amen.
God bless you and yours.”
Joyce, I’m very moved by your work and I’m happy to say you are not anywhere near the sort I was referring to when speaking with my sister! You are “exemplary” in all you are doing here and I pray God continues to guide you to do His will here or anywhere you “apply your expertise” because the world is in sorry shape like never before, and humanity needs the “special souls” out there “like you with the wisdom, courage and power of faith in God” to carry on making a difference.
I think I may have mentioned before and if not I am now how I will hope at the right moment that I will be inspired and directed to add something of substantive value to your efforts here if I can; because I would be honored!
Side note; for some reason I thought about you today wondering what you are doing on this site and how I would have to check today to catch up and then, lo and behold, I got online and saw your notice in my Word Press cue, and, I swear to God the very first new notification! And if you get a chance to ever review some of my older posting you can get to see how these little “dots being connected” or events mean so much to me and I know where they are coming from; with no doubt in my mind or heart! We are truly all in the hands of God!
The ANTIVAXXER moniker is propounded on by industry to keep you from even thinking about the
VACCINE-INJURED
There are, however, plenty of these:
The “Controlled Opposition” category is extremely complex. It involves word-use and propaganda and brainwashing, too. If you do study it, it will take a while to gain a good feel for the nuances. In the meantime…
Let’s look at what has happened since 1986 and the passage of
Well—lookie there—since those smiling people have been helping us, the pharmaceutical industry has gotten rich, rich, rich… I’d like to see the financials of those calling themselves “Anti-Vaxxers…” It would be nice to see how closely their financials track.
“In His Presence”
“we want to awaken to the mystical power of the Holy Spirit the focusing of our inner souls to the mystical presence of God”
Catholicism Pure & Simple Catholicism without compromise
Cardinal Burke’s Statement on «Traditionis Custodes»
Posted on July 23, 2021 by Catholicism Pure & Simple
Now an upright and devout Cardinal and Theologian stands in accordance with the “Teachings of Jesus Christ” carried forward by Apostle Peter in precise accordance with the direct instruction that was given to him by Jesus Christ Himself before and after our Lord’s crucifixion.
Bergoglio is a heretic and false prophet doing the bidding of Satan directly at the apex position in the Church Hierarchy who I now compare to the equally wicked Biden at the top seat of power and authority, in the US Government. There I’ve said it; what I see and I’m nobody, just a simple man who hates Deception with a Passion as I always have and will not cease in calling out the liars and deceivers in our midst who attempt to lead all of us to Perdition, down a false road and construct of the; Evil One!
I see it clear as day and Bergoglio thinks he can fool me? Is it that he sees the world mostly full of idiots and devils that will go along to get along?
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” (Sir Walter Scott, 1808).
He not only has buried himself as far as God Almighty will be concerned in my humble opinion, but, he has no retreat now as I see it, and will march straight into hell with his evil selfish pride along with all of his cohorts, and many are bishops and other men of the cloth, who are willfully partnering with evil earthly powers and principalities, that reach into hell.
Our fine Cardinal Burke states; “devout faithful who have a deep appreciation and attachment to the encounter with Christ through the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.” CP&S
Cardinal Burke in this quote I make here points to the eye of the storm as I understand this, and for me the Truth falls into place!
“Yes, there are individuals and even certain groups which espouse radical positions, even as is the case in other sectors of Church life, but they are, in no way, characteristic of the greater and ever increasing number of faithful who desire to worship God according to the UA. The Sacred Liturgy is not a matter of so-called “Church politics” but the fullest and most perfect encounter with Christ for us in this world. The faithful, in question, among whom are numerous young adults and young married couples with children; encounter Christ, through the UA, Who draws them ever closer to Himself through the reform of their lives and cooperation with the divine grace which flows from His glorious pierced Heart into their hearts. They have no need to make a judgment regarding those who worship God according to the Usus Recentior (the More Recent Usage, what Pope Benedict XVI called the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite) [UR], first promulgated by Pope Saint Paul VI.”
And again I quote; “A schismatic spirit or actual schism are always gravely evil, but there is nothing about the UA which fosters schism. For those of us who knew the UA in the past, like myself, it is a question of an act of worship marked by a centuries-old goodness, truth and beauty. I knew its attraction from my childhood and indeed became very attached to it.”
“For those who have come to the UA for the first time, its rich beauty, especially as it manifests the action of Christ renewing sacramentally His Sacrifice on Calvary through the priest who acts in His person, has drawn them closer to Christ. I know many faithful for whom the experience of Divine “Worship according to the UA has strongly inspired their conversion to the Faith or their seeking Full Communion with the Catholic Church. Also, numerous priests who have returned to the celebration of the UA or who have learned it for the first time have told me how deeply it has enriched their priestly spirituality. This is not to mention the saints all along the Christian centuries for whom the UA nourished an heroic practice of the virtues. Some have given their lives to defend the offering of this very form of divine worship.”
Cardinal Burke’s Statement on «Traditionis Custodes»
Posted on July 23, 2021 by Catholicism Pure & Simple
Precisely in my opinion as I’ve previously stated from actual personal experience and the communion with the Holy Spirit of God Almighty during mass.
Many people are too proud and arrogant; so they just go their own way down and down to a dead end! Just some stuff to think about! But important I say; maybe the most important of all!
Some of my previous thoughts on this subject.
“Reverence, humility and awe.” This one line pinpoints the massive loss within the Church that’s taken place; in this very well written explanation of what has happened to the Holy Catholic Mass since the Second Vatican Council concluded setting in motion the ever so methodical decline of the Catholic Church. It’s taken roughly a half century to hollow out this body leaving a dry husk or nearly empty shell of what once was the true sanctuary and a Holy Place for the faithful to be in the presence of the mystical and Godliness of the Almighty through Jesus Christ. I think of it as a kind of experience that nothing compares to and one which gives those who believe a true sense of being visited and in the Holy Spiritual presence of God; perhaps a sense of what it was like for Moses and other Holy men of God, what the prophets must have felt when God spoke to them directly. But this mystical aspect of the Church is the religious experience we strive for when we attend Mass if genuinely sincere in our humility and love of God.
When you dilute or water down anything you continue to move away from the original; be it a substance, object or a Church; and this dilution process further separates you from the genuine or the original article which in this case is God the Father through Jesus Christ. To me it’s simple as to what is happening and why. Who or what would benefit the most from this distortion and separation of the Truth; but obviously the Devil.
I just read today that the entire Georgetown University basketball team took a knee before their game against Colorado in the 2021 NCAA Tournament Saturday playoff. This frenzied March madness or rebellion is in all walks of life now, disturbing and even attacking all that is “tried and tested” out of sheer defiance in many cases, just to rebel for the sake of saying “it’s my right!” Such an arrogant people this modern in your face generation has become with so little to no respect for the great things and unsung heroes of the past or all those that made possible what freedoms and good we take for granted! The Hoyas or Georgetown team went on to lose the playoff game and won’t be advancing! I think of this as an example of defiance that throws all caution and sensibility or even common respect for those who suffered and died so we might live, is morphing into this prideful disobedience toward all that is good about America or even life itself, but, more importantly toward God Almighty!
What these people need is a major taste of reality, a mountainous dose to shock them into wiping that arrogant self-serving rotten attitude out of their minds and hearts; all of which is part of a game they play, let alone basketball. They don’t realize they are playing with fire metaphorically speaking; but nonetheless it will consume them!
This causes me to recall what I said in response to another fine article in which Kathleen (CP&S) made some very heartfelt comments about this very subject which I should share again here, that inspired this long commentary of mine. “I’m so thankful you came along with this article and presented it as you have because in your closing statement in the article as you state clearly, “It is so sad the post Vatican Two destroyers did away with it… although apparently it was never formally abrogated.” CP&S
This is so true how much has been altered in the Church to divert and gradually lead astray the faithful incrementally over time; this is the great apostasy and falling away from the faith that was prophesied would happen before the End Time.
And indeed with so many of the still devout outstanding members of the clergy like Archbishop Vigano, Bishop Schneider and Father Z being a few of these truly devoted to the mission of the Church in following and adhering to all of the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ, we see how it is sad how Vatican Two did set in motion the plan of destruction that has taken root thoroughly throughout the Church and society; twisting and perverting many of the original teachings that Jesus left us with to the point where we now have a deceptive man and heretic Bergoglio, promoting falsehoods and even blaspheming God Almighty with his allowing sacrilegious infiltration’s into the very heart and sanctity of Church at the Vatican as he is leading so many of the clergy down a path of destruction!
I recently wrote these following statements about the Latin Mass which again this is worthy of considering here.
“In His Presence”
Yes this does indeed encapsulate the fact of the true Catholic faith still alive and well with the ever present heartbeat that grows stronger each passing day, and I quote; “The new pulse beating within the Church: the strong and joyful beat of traditional Catholicism. Instead of considering it his enemy, he should recognize it as the fulfillment of what he’s been striving for all along.” CP&S
Something I wrote recently in response to your article here on CP&S regarding what Archbishop Arthur Roche had to say about his matter in his “the world has changed,” so it’s time to move-on attitude, which was another putdown, or more like saying “out with the old and in with the new” mantra; I see how what I said dovetails perfectly here today!
I know that my soul has been very moved and inspired when I partake in the Full Latin Mass; as I know from experience Jesus is there and I feel His Holy Spirit coming down from heaven with the Father to join us in the Mass, blessing those who are participating in this most Divine inspired true way of expressing our devotional love for our Lord Savior Jesus and the Father in heaven! I’ve had many tears in this Traditional Mass at times and they are always tears of sweet joy that are coming to me from the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, because the Lord is really touching my soul at that time most intimately and acknowledging His presence and love for me, as in no other setting can this occur to this degree; which nothing on earth can compare to this realization that my God is with me and will not abandon those who believe/worship Him in this way! Amen.
Those are my absolutely certain truthful observations and deepest feelings in this regard! And I should share what else I had to say just prior to what you read here to make it clear how certain I am about this. And so far as his argument that the world had changed I totally disagree because it’s the people that have changed, and, God and Jesus are the same always so our communing with them in Holy Mass remains static, or plainly our souls are just that which we truly are; not our exteriors of body/flesh or daily life on earth; and therefore that is what we want to awaken to the “mystical power of the Holy Spirit” the focusing of our inner souls to the “mystical presence of God” and be totally receptive to Jesus Christ and through Him the Father to grow our deep heart felt faith not alter appearances or procedures as this New Age approach is planning to do! In this case especially in life, less is more; that which is not contrived or noisy but simple and peaceful coming from our core is all we need to bring to the ceremonial alter of the Mass!
It is very sad to me how all of these big time sports heroes or government leaders and other highly visible public figures don’t see or feel any of this I speak about here today; if they did they surely wouldn’t have the crass and aloof attitudes they do and would quickly have a change of heart.
Look folks, I know I sort of go off my rocker in this to me quite dire situation in the Church and in our everyday lives with how basically all tradition along with “tried and tested Truths” have been decimated by radical and totally destructive thinking or the wishes of the wicked who are real and now in our governments and Churches attempting to overthrow and destroy it all in the same way of thinking that Karl Marx employed who was an admitted cohort of Satan without any doubt, and I just wrote about him again regarding this current topsy-turvy, insane world we are now part of!
Sure the Cardinal speaks with a tempered and refined tongue as he must but to me the reason we are in this fix as a human race is because as the adage goes “Talk is Cheap;” but I speak with a temper or strong passion without the sugar coating at times because, I’m a simple passionate and God fearing man, who is “sick and tired” of all the lies or failure of those we appoint to govern and guide the people, even a Pope; but instead they sell-out and fill up their banks with all the cash they can grab, people just passing the buck! “Know them by their fruits” and look what Biden produced for a son, and that tells you where my head is at! His son is a vile, corrupted, no good lowlife and these are the people the Media and even Bergoglio props up? Can you believe the audacity of this creature so called Pope, who gave countless accolades to Biden and his family while ignoring the good in Donald J. Trump and his beautiful family of offspring; not crooks and bums like the Biden family tree; as if they had the bubonic plague and were the most vile creatures on the planet!
Tell me I’m wrong that a so called Pope ignored my letter to him directly about a Church and Political matter in my community that almost killed me, and likewise he ignored a President of the US like he wasn’t even in existence as he went along with the MSM, false, total lying narrative; this political fraud Pope that the Church Hierarchy should have booted out way back during his first signs of transgression from the Holy Sanctity of the Church order; with his bringing ancient sacrificial pagan idolatry artifacts still dripping with human blood of the sacrificed onto the Holy Alter of Jesus Christ in the Vatican! Do they think he is God and infallible so they must keep him around, and put up with his disruptive edicts and actions! SACRILEGIOUS AND A HERETICAL ABOMINATION!
God bless all of you! And may you be quite certain too what the Traditional Catholicism with its Latin Mass can provide for you in your faith; if you too haven’t already discovered this truth! Amen.
I agree Sister Marcia on both points that you make in your statement, and I’m equally sickened by the lackluster performance of Mitch and so many of the leadership officials in a position to do something, but do not; because they are bought and paid for; totally owned!
And the father of all lies will have his way with them for doing so! Fauci to me is nothing less than a man in the past that also had dark ulterior motivation, taking his marching orders unhesitatingly; which came to him from that one darkest source and infernal pit.
Thank you for the notification.
God bless.
Lawrence
Dear sister and friend in Christ Ali…so wonderful and perfect a message of hope and encouragement which to me obviously speaks to the truth of what we ultimately see going on in all of this at times chaotic or tumultuous world gone awry, with so much bad trying to overwhelm the good! But we know the light always overcomes the darkness and that is from the beginning, when God Himself said; “let there be light!”
Genesis 1
“1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
3And God said, “Let there be light,”a and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.”
And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.”
With that I can see the light, and know this “Truth by His omnipotence!”
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31
The author of the universe speaks directly to us in all things; and what he commands is; as “He is the great “I Am!”
Indeed Ali who do we and should we have confidence in; even in our darkest hour no matter what the “Ways of the World” are predicating or even forcing upon us! With genuine faith in God Almighty we could be as destitute as Dismas was on his cross next to Jesus Christ; when Jesus told him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise” (Luke 23:32-43).
Yes we all carry our own cross if we follow Him, as children of the Light and Faith in Him our beloved Savior Jesus Christ! And for doing this our reward and favor by His shed blood will be the greatest of all possible gifts, to be with Him eternally in the presence and peace of our heavenly Father and Maker, God Almighty!
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6
A well-deserved note here of congratulations to you Ali, for completing your work in Bible studies for our Lord! I know He is so pleased and happy for you as His child Ali; who sees and follows the Light! Amen.
Originally posted on NarrowPathMinistries: By?Jessica Lea?-May 10, 2021 Acclaimed actor, director and producer Denzel Washington recently appeared on Instagram Live for a conversation with his friend, A.R. Bernard, the lead pastor of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, New York. During the discussion, Washington shared examples of the grace God has shown him over the…
I like this blog posting a whole lot! I have many of Denzel’s films and always enjoyed watching him work in them not only because I met him on a film set, a great job experience, but even aside from his smooth skill and capability to act on cue so authentically which I admire, for me it is moreover; for his real genuine Christian faith!
He did grow up on some mean streets and as he put it many guys he was around during that period of his life went down the tubes with drug addiction and crime many did hard time! He was blessed to have two wonderful parents and got grounded in life early with a great foundation his Dad being a Minister and his Mom being a great Mother and having her own salon being a very ambitious person herself, I can see gave him much to appreciate and be proud of but it was Jesus that gave him his greatest strength of moral integrity and purpose. I can personally identify with him saying how God protected him or how prayers made the difference; because that has been my experience for sure, knowing I was going to die at least a few times if not for some act of God or Divine Intervention! And not just my prayers helped, I know the prayers of others especially, in my case my Mother, Father and Grandmother made a world of difference in my being given graces when really needed! My Dad too was always a devout man of God, bringing Him into conversations we had when I was growing up; that helped me immensely!
I actually wrote what you just read to this point before I finished reading this article completely, because I got inspired and busy writing quickly what I was thinking and feeling so spontaneously; and then I just came upon what Denzel said here, about what his Mom told him, “Boy, you don’t know how many people have been praying for you.” There you go; this is witness of God speaking to us right now! He is saying right now, “you sure can believe in the power of prayer,” as my Mother always said, “it’s the most powerful weapon there is to guide and protect us!”
It all came together for Denzel going to a private military academy that his Mom placed him in after his parents split up, but, Denzel said that joining the Boys Club in Mount Vernon is where the biggest change or epiphany occurred in his life; when a coach there told him and the other boys “you can be something, it’s really up to you!” Denzel got a confidence from that one comment and started believing, “hey yea I can be something or someone, I can be what I want to be.” He is a shining example of how the youth in America and beyond don’t have to be wasted or lost to the inner city ruckus or turmoil; if they get some insight and good input from Christian minded adults, who project that good to them in those formative years, just the way that coach did! Denzel was given a strong message of Hope, all of it from God, but, coming through some really good people, I believe it ignited in him so positively, that he made up his mind to “work hard and make himself something that Jesus would be proud of,” and; I’m sure He is.
God bless y’all.
Acclaimed actor, director and producer Denzel Washington recently appeared on Instagram Live for a conversation with his friend, A.R. Bernard, the lead pastor of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, New York. During the discussion, Washington shared examples of the grace God has shown him over the years, especially through his family andthe Holy Spirit.
“It was a supernatural, if not once in a lifetime experience…that I couldn’t completely understand at the time,” said Washington, describing a moment in the early 80s when he was filled with the Holy Ghost. The actor, who is known for movies such asMalcolm X,Glory, andTraining Day, had decided to visit the West Angeles Church of God in Christ (COGIC) in Los Angeles. When the church gave an altar call, he thought, “This time, I’m just going to go…
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