Amen!
Glory, Glory Alleluia!
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ and give our thanks to Him our Savior!
Thanks to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost; the Holy Trinity.
Thank you Jesus and Father in heaven for pouring out unto us all your mercy and love to save us giving this hope above all things seen and unseen;
of Salvation!
Amen! Alleluia!
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
EASTER SUNDAY
“The Lord has truly risen, Alleluia!”
“The Lord calls all those He has redeemed to sing a hymn of victory.” (St Athanasius).
“Jesus is the One” whose death and resurrection brings “eternal life to all who believe”
Fear Not For I Am With You.
As back in the time of our Lord today in 2021 the wicked ways of the world and that serpent the Devil have shuttered and put a damper or fear into the people with the global falsehood Covid catastrophe, to turn people away from Jesus Christ and the faith and to bow to the earthly power of the government or the many elite (emperors)and swear allegiance to this earthly system, with even talk of vaccine passports with the wearing of masks to cover the face and thus the visual identity of a person; to make one insignificant and to show trust only in the great world system with its power and supposed experts! Of course as back in the time of Jesus Christ just like those earthly powers then sought to mislead; this is all a lie to deceive and control God’s children with fear.
Secularism or materialism coupled with a culture of death is a dark scourge upon our Nations and we have to pray we can free ourselves and indeed our societies from the powerful grip it has on it; distracting so many people from seeing the plain simple truth right in their faces! Instead many are attracted to corruptions, sin, decadence, falsehoods and outright immorality; an antichrist movement, which is the road to perdition!
God is there to help us with our earthly living and who knows better than God what all of this is about. He directs us to do the best thing if we are truly receptive to Him, and also trying our best to do the right thing.
Look and see plainly where our society is now, a place in which an entitled group of bigoted lying criminals that are untouchables and in return spawned new criminal acts using those previous examples as templates to get away with doing wrong! All those former transgressions should have been nipped in the bud and been prosecuted to the full extent of the law to conviction; Rule of Law must apply for all equally just like Due Process is a given or should be. We want innocent people not being victimized but equally we want the guilty to pay for their crimes. This is what makes a society good and worth its salt.
But now more often than not we’re in a place where the unjust or most crooked among us can be elevated to positions of great earthly authority, even a President; as has happened here in America.
Many people perhaps feeling helpless or confused and scared want to be led to a place of assurance and comfort, and they love to invest themselves into some person who comes across as sure and strong with that article of great need by so many, wisdom; insight and knowledge of the Truth! What is the Truth and can we be sure of it when we think we have found it! In some things we can with practical knowledge and scientific logic break things down into the component parts and get the whole picture of what makes a thing what it is or tick.
Matthew 25:21 NIV says, “His master replied, ‘Well done my good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!”
“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).
Something Billy Graham said once rings with Truth very clearly to me. “Humanity has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam and Eve’s problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear good, there would be no such thing as temptation. It is in their close similarity that the danger lies.
Modern social righteousness often differs from the righteousness of the Bible. Someone has said: “A wrong deed is right if the majority of people declare it not to be wrong.” By this principle we can see our standards shifting from year to year according to the popular vote! Divorce was once frowned upon by society, and laws against fornication and adultery were strictly enforced. But now divorce is accepted by society, and fornication is glorified in our literature and films.” https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/june-2012/confusing-evil-with-good/
I think genuine humility is a great thing; I think of Dismas on the cross next to Jesus and his humility was powerful to the Lord because as we know he told Dismas, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Luke 23:43
Another man considered a Saint now, who has to this day a profound effect on me and so many other’s is former Pope John Paul II who was a very good man with a “humble heart” and disposition, so to me he was offering these same kind of insights and basic truths to anyone; telling us to give our hearts to Jesus Christ.
I don’t think God intended on giving enough morsels of information and truth to leave us still so hampered and blind to what we must understand to some substantial level in order to now in these most troubled times to make the mistake of giving up, or maybe never satisfied. I like you too am observing the near outright chaos happening in our country and around the planet lately seeing the shaky flimsy balance of societies, while there are those agents within that promote the same, making matters exponentially worse; how it seems likely that perhaps anarchy is right around the next corner as we travel down this road of life on earth these days. We as Christians agree that God has it all covered, but, He gives us so many blessings or opportunities to shape up and take the initiative that we should, to be “devoutly faithful” and in prayer often, so that we maintain our own path to salvation, but just as important inspire others to do the same by setting a good example as we do it; especially in this topsy-turvy time of conflict and confusion where it’s so sorely lacking.
Here is an excerpt of something I was saying in one of my recent blogs regarding Big Pharma that I believe says something fitting here.
“An antichrist entity out to subdue, control, ruin and destroy countless lives and ultimately souls.” With this type of culture at work around the planet with absolutely secularism running rampant, promoting and being facilitated by Big Tech now every second of every day on a massive scale not promoting God or anything to do with Him, but rather, “faith in technology” as God, and “Government coupled with High Tech” being our true savior, a narrative that’s saying the ways of the world and man himself are the only thing this side of heaven that can help us and do us any good!” This imposter savior which is like the Totalitarianism we see in China and other countries!
“Humility and Trust” in the Lord, are the essential factors to weather any storm or hardship we as mere children of God may face. As He has told us, we need to keep growing in our faith; and to remember this that our Lord and Savior said.
“Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.” Isaiah 41:10
“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
Yea, He is with us always, as now to support, strengthen and guide us to everlasting victory! We can rest assured of that, and know this world has no claim upon us, his faithful; His victory made certain of it! And all that is unholy and not of the Father He will cast into the lake of fire when the final judgment comes; so there is truly nothing to fear, our victory has been assured and we rise up to the father with Him, our ever-loving glorious Savior Jesus Christ! Amen.
This is what it all comes down to; “Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, {there} you may be also. 4 And you know the way where I am going. 5 Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way? 6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me” (John14:1-6).
The death of our Lord is God’s way to heaven; it’s the only means by which we can live forever with Christ. Death, once our enemy, is defeated. Death cannot keep us from God; Christ’s death draws us to Him! Apostle Paul said, “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which to choose. But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better.” Philippians 1:21-23.
“Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord–for we walk by faith, not by sight–we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:6-8.
Jesus encouraged His disciples and all the faithful as He assured them that His death was going to be the means by which they would be with Him forever in Paradise. His death was not the problem, it was the only solution. So the Truth is our Lord’s death did not create any problem, it actually solved the greatest problem we all face being fallen and having the stain of sin; which can only provide death. If Jesus had not been separated from the Apostles and all of us this way, by His death for all sins, they and we would die in our sins and thusly be separated from Him forever; which is too horrible to contemplate! Jesus’ going, His death, paid the price or ransom for men’s sins, so that we can live forever in His presence. Amen.
The disciples did not understand Jesus at the time just prior to His crucifixion, but they did after His resurrection from the dead. They then went on and preached to all who would listen that “Jesus is the One” whose death and resurrection brings “eternal life to all who believe.” They no longer feared His death, as they had previously; just as we should not fear anything now in our uncertain world; even our own death, if we have faith in Him; we know we will gain life by losing this one. The Apostles then as we now; have received the greatest Truth!
Where, O Death, your sting? Where, O Death [[or Hades]], your victory?” 1 Corinthians 15:55
Thank you very much for this great thought on preparation for those faithful who are so devoted and humble that they do suffer during this period, just before the most beautiful and incomparable joyous gift we can ever be given; that of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday of our Sweet Lord, Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ; who saves us also from the sting of death!
I’m a firm believer in facing reality or the music as the old adage goes! Too many people today are trying to live like the proverbial ostrich with its head stuck in the ground to avoid facing the Truth!
Here are a group of my thoughts and ideas that apply here as they do speak to several of the events and circumstances of Holy Week leading up to Jesus Christ’s crucifixion as I have explained in several writings of mine lately.
For years now I watch the Mel Gibson film “The Passion of The Christ” which even Saint John Paul the II said at the time of its release, “that is how it was,” and I know for a fact it’s true, because God chose Mel to make that film when he did! And every Easter I watch it alone which makes me cry or actually weep like a child throughout the entire film, I just got a woozy stomach and started to tear saying this here to you. “Peter denied Him a first time but did not shed a tear because the Lord’s gaze did not meet his.” I think for me and perhaps all humans that really care they spend their whole life practically doing what Saint Peter did, denying Jesus, even if we think we don’t because don’t forget Peter was right there living with Jesus and was His first or lead disciple; and he did!
Did crowds of people rush the captors of Jesus or riot and demand this “Good Shepherd Jesus” be set free or after his death in revulsion of what was done to Him; no, not even the Apostles sacrificed themselves to stop what had to happen, it was God’s will, because even if they wanted to stop this injustice it wasn’t their place to do so, nor could they have overpowered the legions of soldiers if they tried; so it was futile just like humanity’s ever being freed from death and oblivion; without the death of Jesus Christ! Although some time later some of the Apostles faced a test of their faith and devotion to Jesus as did many saints and martyrs over the ages; and they would not relent, so were tortured and put to death! The whole world and its corrupt ways produced His crucifixion and handed Him over to Pilate, whether as active participants or by default of all humans being fallen, and not being worthy to be in the presence and glory of Almighty God in His absolute perfection!
Romans 3: 10-12, “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
But when I watch that true to life depiction of Christ, I shudder and cry with my quilt, as I’m starting to do already again and just with the memory of the film while knowing and seeing my quilt! Oh my God! I’m sorry! Please forgive me for being so wrong and not appreciating every minute you have given me in this fallen world; to come to terms with my sin knowing I don’t deserve you, but yet you love me this much that you wait as long as it takes to call me home, and I follow your call to your heart of hearts! Thank you Jesus! I cry now again; because I see your endless love!
I see how Barabbas was significantly to be seen as a son of the crooked world system, or “ways of the world” while the “Holy One Jesus” was contrasting or clashing if you will with not only the false Son Barabbas but with the “ways of the world” and the whole world system. But more profound in all of this is not so much the semantics of a few words being totally and perfectly translated, but instead that here as Peter had done, when he denied Christ Jesus; the whole world system and the people of the world denied Him at that moment when Pilate washed his hands of Him as did the world with him; making us all equally guilty and carrying sin to our own graves, while He Jesus Christ had none, not even a curse word; because Jesus was not of this “crooked world” so the only Truth that can be drawn from this confrontation is that Jesus rejects the sinful world in this departure sentencing and the people that live by it instead of by the Father’s will; because even with the smallest of sins we are all contaminated by the ways of the world and doomed as creatures of it! And therefore the world or those people in it then and and now were doomed hands down, even if unconsciously wanting to wash their hands of “Him,” just as Pilate did; so thus they too sealed the deal of the fallen world and all in it being doomed outright; while Jesus the Lamb of God would be raised from it; pure as the driven snow!
Because Jesus was not part of this world; he then sets in stone the direct path to the Father by He being the only being (The Savior) that could create this bridge that will allow us to cross the impossible chasm from oblivion to everlasting life and peace, by His offering to any who will believe in Him; God’s planned gift of Salvation!
This had to be the only way it could be completed, rejection going both ways then the “Resurrection” would be in the offering until the end of the world to any who will turn to Jesus Christ as their personal Savior; as He would be absolutely and purely the only means of forgiveness of sin and the resurrection to eternal life with the Father, our Maker. Like cutting the cord, then the “testing” out of all souls began.
I have always felt that this can be readily seen in the Mel Gibson film “The Passion of The Christ” and the scene where Pilate washes his hands both literally and figuratively of the matter and basically throws Jesus to the lions in a manner of speaking and condemns himself with Barabbas and all humans; at that point dooming all of humanity! But, His death on the cross, would now give us all the gift of resurrection with Him; if we will accept it!
So I have no problem with anything here because I visualize the event quite clearly and see the intent and significance of all actions and behavior being exactly as they “were meant to be” to clearly illustrate why and what it would mean to all humanity moving forward!
Today I see my governments leaders or politicians not any different than those Pharisees, minions and Barabbas, as many are living in a totally narcissistic pagan way while some pretend to worship God through Jesus like a Pelosi, Biden and Harris among countless others, but they really don’t, and are the true hypocrites as they worship this world and power with great wealth; in other words Satan. It really hasn’t changed because as back then so many if not all would deny Jesus at one time or another during their lives; today the same thing is happening in spades with so many living lives of luxury and decadence, usually with ill-gotten moreover gluttonous gains; the crooked ways of the world, many Barabbas’
Turning for a moment our thoughts to the traitor Judas, who desecrated the sign of friendship making it an instrument of death. His kiss of death just like many Mafioso bosses would do when a hit was put out for one of their own!
This idea does strike me as a sharp reminder of the duality of us humans, who often times break promises and vows of all kinds and backstab or betray so easily! Or lie when it’s to our advantage, so we may think at the time even saying, a little white lie won’t hurt anyone! Heinous betrayal such as this act by Judas is most egregious but people do it every day! Of course they don’t sentence Jesus Christ to crucifixion, or do they? Could it be that Judas represented many of us; a piece of every one of us, because we all sold Jesus out being of this fallen nature and subject to the ways of the world and Satan’s influence; so aren’t we all responsible for His unimaginable suffering and pain unto a horrible languishing death?
We all owe everything to God Almighty, and we could never repay Sweet Jesus on that cross at Calvary for what He had to do, in order to follow the Father’s will; who offers each and every one of us the gift to be Redeemed, making us sanctified and pure so that we can be in the presence of our Heavenly Father!
Mark 12:30, Jesus tells us that our first responsibility is to Him, “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” This same theme is reiterated many places in the Bible (Deuteronomy 6:5, 13:3, 30:6; Matthew 22:37; Luke 10:27).
Or are we looking deeper into the heart of our simple existence here on earth to see the “profound reality” that much, much more is going on than meets the eye! The Holy Scriptures say “Seek” and you will find, (7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-12)
It’s getting more obvious to me as I’m sure you as we grow older that we all come up short changed or even broke, if we depend on mere temporary earthly contentment’s or pleasures to fill us; virtually an impossible fool’s errand. But, with a caveat I say we should always try to make the best of what we have and be eternally grateful just for that, indeed our next breath is a miraculous gift; and then seek Him the Divine and Everlasting to satisfy our every dream and need in His kingdom to come! I’m sure I’ll see you there as long as I keep trying my best, that’s all He expects of any of us! Amen.
This is such great hope and encouragement for any of us to remember that the gate into heaven is narrow and the road to hell is wide; but, our heavenly Father who knows all things is “full of mercy and love for us,” so “there is always hope” even for the lowly criminal or worst sinner if he can see the error of his ways and repent turning his heart over to our Father in heaven in the holy name of Jesus Christ! Our Lord Jesus Christ knows us, and “when we stand before Him there will be no fooling Him, but there will also be no denying of His own.” That is a promise He made to us! We should pray we are so worthy when we see Him!
God doesn’t expect us to be rocket scientists but he only expects us to see the “Plain Truth” before our eyes and what is in our hearts; so that even “the simplest of minds can understand” what He is saying to us! I truly hope this helps you and anyone that wants to “open their heart to Christ more fully and love, worship and adore Him with all their strength.” I say cry for him, not only because of all the suffering He took for us, which does cause me to cry when I think of the Passion film or absolutely when I watch it tomorrow; but even more for the “Amazing Grace” and “Beauty” of His “Heart of Hearts” to love us the way He does! This is making me cry now to say all this; it is the Plain Truth when we see the gift and love in our hearts and minds this way; you can’t help but “cry for Him being so beautiful and kind, to we; who are so unworthy!” Amen.
Mark 12:30, “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
“Our thoughts turn to the traitor Judas, who, on this very day, profaned the sign of friendship by making it an instrument of death.”
This line does strike me as a sharp reminder of the duality of us humans who often times break promises and vows of all kinds! Or lie when it’s to our advantage, so we may think at the time even saying, a little white lie won’t hurt anyone! Heinous betrayal such as this act by Judas is most egregious but people do it every day! Of course they don’t sentence Jesus Christ to crucifixion, or do they? Could it mean that Judas represented many of us; a piece of every one of us, because we all sold Jesus out being of this fallen nature and subject to the ways of the world and Satan’s influence; so aren’t we all responsible for His unimaginable suffering and pain unto a horrible languishing death?
If three men go into a bank and rob it while a fourth man is outside watching from the getaway car isn’t he as guilty of bank robbery when they all get caught!
We all owe everything to God Almighty, and we could never repay Sweet Jesus on that cross at Calvary for what He had to do, in order to follow the Father’s will; who offers each and every one of us to be Redeemed, making us sanctified and pure so that we can be in the presence of our Heavenly Father!
“The Church omits, today, the sign of fraternal charity, it would too painfully remind us of sacrilegious hypocrisy.”
As now the world and even our beloved Church is full of Hypocrisy as we have borne witness to politicians and Bergoglio joining hands in this hypocrisy, even with Islam who wants Christendom wiped off the face of the earth with Jews and all other religion too!
Did crowds of people rush the captors of Jesus or riot and demand this Good Shepherd Jesus be set free or after his death; no not even the Apostles sacrificed themselves to stop what had to happen because even if they wanted to stop this injustice it wasn’t their place to do so, nor could they have overpowered the legions of soldiers if they tried; so it was futile just like humanity’s ever being freed from death and oblivion without the death of Jesus Christ! The whole world and its corrupt ways produced His crucifixion and handed Him over to Pilate whether as active participants or by default of all humans being fallen, and not being worthy to be in the presence and glory of Almighty God in His absolute perfection!
Romans 3: 10-12, “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
It’s getting more obvious to me as I’m sure you as we grow older that we all come up short changed or even broke, if we depend on mere temporary earthly contentment’s or pleasures to fill us; virtually an impossible fool’s errand. But, with a caveat I say we should always try to make the best of what we have and be eternally grateful just for that, indeed our next breath is a miraculous gift; and then seek Him the Divine and Everlasting to satisfy our every dream and need in His kingdom to come! I’m sure I’ll see you there as long as I keep trying my best, that’s all He expects of any of us! Amen.
Mark 12:30, Jesus tells us that our first responsibility is to Him, “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” This same theme is reiterated many places in the Bible (Deuteronomy 6:5, 13:3, 30:6; Matthew 22:37; Luke 10:27).
So we must first and foremost ask ourselves are we willingly being deceived and led astray by the many temptations and the glitter of the fool’s gold or snares of this world?
Or are we looking deeper into the heart of our simple existence here on earth to see the profound reality that much, much more is going on than meets the eye! The Holy Scriptures say “Seek” and you will find, (7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-12)
You know the old adage of “get up, brush yourself off and get moving again.” This life is a proving ground, and we all go through trials and tribulations.
Let’s reflect on this great parable Jesus gave to us!
The Prodigal Son Parable in the book of Luke 15:11-32: 11 And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. 13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.”
Basically this younger son was so foolish and threw caution and reason to the wind wasting all that his father had given to him! Of course in time he realized what a fool he had been and that his father’s servants were better off, so thinking he should return to his father and admit his error perhaps his father would allow him to at least be kept as a servant, which would obviously be better than being a vagabond or beggar!
On his journey back to his father, “still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. 22 But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. 23 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.”
Obviously this is to illustrate that our Heavenly Father who knows and understands all things holds out for us if we have run amuck or been led astray to awaken from our doing wrong because learning from a mistake and growing in wisdom is achieved if genuinely felt in the heart which to God is a most pleasing thing for any of us to achieve. as we are all fallen and none are worthy or righteous, and to rise above sin or transgression and be sincerely sorry is an act of courage and shows character!
Remember how Jesus at Calvary told the condemned sinner and criminal on His right side as they were being crucified, “I say to you today, you will be in paradise with me!” A despot heathen criminal who in his final opportunity saw the light and truth and showed genuine sorrow and faith to Jesus our Father and that was something Jesus would not deny being rewarded; just as the prodigal son’s father saw in his son true remorse or repentance, and how it was a blessing that he came back into the light and fold or the family!
But, in all of this the older brother who had followed his father’s ways and fallen into line all of his adult life was shaken by all this praise heaped upon the wayward younger brother! He was asked to join the celebration that ensued.
“But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, 29 but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat that I might celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes; you killed the fattened calf for him!’ 31 And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’’
This is such great hope and encouragement for any of us to remember that the gate into heaven is narrow and the road to hell is wide; but, our heavenly Father who knows all things is full of mercy and love for us, so there is always hope even for the lowly criminal or worst sinner if he can see the error of his ways and repent turning his heart over to his Father in heaven! Our Lord Jesus Christ knows us, and when we stand before Him there will be no fooling Him, but there will also be no denying of His own. That is a promise He made to us! We should pray we are so worthy when we see Him!
But, clearly the takeaway in all that I say here is that we are all lost and yet all found, because our Father in heaven knows us all better than anyone can and is always calling out to us watching from afar!
Most important is that Jesus Christ promised that those who have faith in Him and abide in His living word that He will be with us to the end and forever! He is definitely with us and this is a “short ride;” so I often wonder how I wasted so much time! I really have to kick myself in the behind for that one; so much more I could have done better! But, the good news is there is, no better time than the present, today, right now; to make the biggest impact! It’s a collective building power of faith, which can get over any mountain and make the impossible possible! Amen to that.
The Church intends, on this day, to renew, in a most solemn manner, the mystery of the Last Supper: for our Lord Himself, on this occasion of the institution of the Blessed Sacrament, said to His Apostles: Do this for a Commemoration of Me (St. Luke, xxii. 15). Let us, therefore, resume the Gospel narrative.
Jesus is in the Supper chamber, where the Paschal Lamb is to be eaten. All the Apostles are with Him; Judas is there, also, but His crime is not known to the rest. Jesus approaches the table, on which the Lamb is served. His Disciples stand around him. The ceremonies prescribed by God to Moses are religiously observed. At the beginning of the repast, Jesus speaks these words to His Apostles: With desire I have desired to eat this Pasch with you, before I suffer (St. Luke, xxii. 15). In saying this, He does not imply that the Pasch of this year is intrinsically better than those that have preceded it; but, that it is dearer to Him, inasmuch as it is to give rise to the institution of the new Pasch, which He has prepared for mankind, and which He is now going to give them as his last gift: for as St. John says, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them unto the end (St. John, xiii. 1).
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The Mass of Maundy Thursday is one of the most solemn of the Year; and although the Feast of Corpus Christi is the day for the solemn honouring the mystery of the Holy Eucharist, still, the Church would have the anniversary of the Last Supper to be celebrated with all possible splendour. The colour of the vestments is white, as it is for Chrismas Day and Easter Sunday; the decorations of the Altar and Sanctuary all bespeak joy: and yet, there are several ceremonies during this Mass, which show that the holy Spouse of Christ has not forgotten the Passion of her Jesus, and that this joy is but transient. The Priest entones the Angelic Hymn, Glory be to God in the highest! and the Bells ring forth a joyous peal, which continues during the whole singing of the heavenly Canticle: but, from that moment, they remain silent, and their long silence produces, in every heart, a sentiment of holy mournfulness. But why does the Church deprive us, for so many hours, of the grand melody of these sweet bells, whose voices cheer us during the rest of the year? It is to show us, that this world lost all its melody and joy when its Saviour suffered and was crucified. Moreover, she would hereby remind us, how the Apostles, (who were the heralds of Christ, and are figured by the Bells, whose ringing summons the Faithful to the House of God,) fled from their Divine Master and left him a prey to His enemies.
The Holy Sacrifice continues as usual; but at the solemn moment of the Elevation of the Holy Host and the Chalice of Salvation, the Bell is silent, and, outside the Church, there is not given to the neighbourhood the usual signal of the descent of Jesus upon the Altar. When the time of the Holy Communion is near, the Priest does not give the Kiss of Peace to the Deacon, who, according to the Apostolic tradition, should transmit it, by the Subdeacon, to those that are about to communicate. Our thoughts turn to the traitor Judas, who, on this very day, profaned the sign of friendship by making it an instrument of death. It is out of detestation for this crime, that the Church omits, today, the sign of fraternal charity, it would too painfully remind us of sacrilegious hypocrisy.
Another rite, peculiar to today, is the Priest’s consecrating two Hosts during the Mass. One of these he receives in Communion; the other he reserves, and reverently places it in a Chalice, which he covers with a veil. The reason of this is, that, tomorrow, the Church suspends the daily Sacrifice. Such is the impression produced by the anniversary of our Saviour’s Death, that the Church dares not to renew, upon her Altars, the immolation which was then offered on Calvary: or rather, her renewal of it will be by the fixing all her thoughts on the terrible scene of that Friday Noon. The Host reserved from today’s Mass, will be her morrow’s participation. This rite is called the Mass of the Presanctified, because, in it, the Priest does not consecrate, but only receives the Host consecrated on the previous day. Formerly, as we shall explain more fully further on, the holy Sacrifice was not offered up on Holy Saturday, and yet the Mass of the Presanctified was not celebrated, as it was on the Friday.
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The Stripping of the Altars
As soon as Vespers are over, the Celebrant returns to the Sanctuary, assisted by the Deacon and Subdeacon. He goes to the altar, and takes off the cloths and ornaments. This ceremony signifies the suspension of the Holy Sacrifice. The altar should be left in this denuded state, until the daily offering can again be presented to the Divine Majesty…. He is now in the hands of his enemies.. who are about to strip him of his garments, just as we strip the Altar. He is to be exposed naked to the insults of the rabble…
No it’s not a business it’s CHURCH; where we go to worship God Almighty not some Pagan no morality government which is what this US Government and all World governments are fast becoming!
Mask mandates are an invasion upon humanity in the first place and they do nothing to curtail viral disease or illness. Go into an African village with a mask on where people are dying from Ebola and mingle a while with them, then let me know how your damn mask worked out; only you won’t be spewing to me how it saved you because you’ll be dead! Oh, maybe we all need to be walking around in full biological hazard suits to please the Führer is what’s next! In America we have a foundational precept in the Constitution called Separation of Church and State; the Church doesn’t attempt to run the Government, so Government don’t be trying to run our Church! And don’t be telling us its public health policy to help us; which it is not! It’s unadulterated tyrannical control policy; is all it is! Look at the Nazis we have as President and V.P.! Harris had a great grandfather Hamilton Brown that was a major slave trader and Biden is a 48 year “Crooked Professional Career Politician Politically Organized Crime Syndicate Racketeer,” aka Scranton Joe; so I know the Devil had all to do with those two being in the top slots of our US Government, it wasn’t some anomaly or accident!
The REAL Covid survival rate is 99.97% for any person who is in otherwise good health with no major health impediments. People are not dropping like flies the way the MSM and Government want you to think is the case; from this less dangerous than the annual flu virus! Those that are frail or have severely compromised immune systems or pulmonary disorders need to be more isolated if there is an outbreak that could put them at risk of contracting it; just like is done for the flu each year. But shutting down civilization or mandating masks and quarantines for massive numbers of citizens is absolutely insane and evil; which has been borne out by examples all over the place! The citizens of Sweden as we all know by now didn’t invest in the madness and stupidity of mask mandates or lock-downs; while in reality they didn’t suffer catastrophic loss of life by Covid, which was being told to the world would be the case, by the bought and paid for World Health Organization which is run by a lifelong Marxist evil SOB point man Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who is in the back pocket of Bill Gates along with other evil totalitarian “Sociopaths” like Xi Jinping and Biden!
It’s time for the ICC (International Criminal Court) to start charging and prosecuting the key instigators of all this global criminal activity of “Crimes Against Humanity,” just like they did after WWII at the Nuremberg Trials! Are any of you Washington politicians going to do your job for a change and begin this process? If you don’t you will assure yourselves a deepest pit in Hell!
Dear Lord Jesus Christ, please send your angels to help us now in this battle against the most evil tyrants this planet has ever seen; so that while we await your return we can be spared some of the suffering these monsters want to inflict upon your faithful children and all innocent people! I pray that our Father in heaven will allow this protection. Amen.
Kathleen this is so fabulous and enriching; but yes get ready for an even longer comment! A new fresh look for me at these magnificent faithful visionaries and all you had to say so perfectly all these months ago contained herein including responses to my extra-long comments; but it’s like a flood of inspiration and renewal just opened in my heart and soul today in reading all of this again, as this great article that does tie together as you say the spiritual significance, but also a timeline that should leave no doubt to the faithful and even others that we are heading into End Time. Out of all of this we gain so many gifts as for example “the vision of Pope Leo XIII in 1884 that inspired him to write the prayer for protection to St Michael Archangel”
Dear Lord; it’s as you said Kathleen, this is precisely what has happened and is continuing to possess the Catholic Church and pollute it in order to steal away as many faithful as possible and of course this is exactly what the Master of Deception and all Lies would do, and I quote your fine article; “[Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.”
This is all so true and even shocking to me as laid out here which I’ve now read in this crisp and concise fashion again by your exemplary presentation of these truths! I must quote further to reiterate these great most important warnings and insights to what is now fast approaching!
“The False Church will be worldly, ecumenical, and global. It will be a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some type of global association.
A world parliament of Churches. It will be emptied of all Divine content, it will be the mystical body of the anti-christ. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the false prophet. Satan will recruit him from our Bishops.
The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himself as “I am Who am,” and the Devil as “I am who am not.”
The False church will be worldly which is along the lines of what I was professing just yesterday in your CP&S fine article regarding the “Vatican Now in Crisis Management Mode with German Bishops” Which to me clearly spoke to this very subject in its explaining how people like Bishop Bätzing who I had to say with all of his troubling rhetoric and self-anointed proclamations of his wanting CHANGE in the Church is to me clearly tying into your bringing this fine article to the fore at this precise time! A time which as I pointed out yesterday in the reblog essay how the youth are being molded and manipulated by the “pop culture world” with the likes of minion characters such as Cardi B who is an actual Satanic conjuring twisted person as I even found out darker things yesterday when I did a bit of research on her and the rap music she promotes with these Ways of the World that she is locked into full bore and going for broke!
I need to look a bit more into something I found but if true it is absolute proof that the End Time is now here; a site that I stumbled or was guided to I suspect was indicating how Cardi B herself has said she is demonically possessed, which I suspected already, but then why would she be flaunting such a thing if not to make it appealing to the vulnerable to get them thinking, hey it’s not so bad or even bad at all, to join the powers of darkness because look at me getting around in my chauffeur driven Rolls-Royce and making multi-millions and having an awesome rich material time girls, so go for it and be like me and join the “Real World,” not some silly Church about make believe heroes and a God that doesn’t even talk to you; join the Real World and live “The Life” like me! Totally blurring the line between good and evil and blaspheming God!
“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).
And again I quote “The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the false prophet. Satan will recruit him from our Bishops.”
Dear Lord; Kathleen, look how I was so sure this Bishop Bätzing clearly representing evil at work yesterday in that article and though it’s so clear to me, this might not be important to most, but he being a German Bishop from the Church in Germany the country where in the past Adolph Hitler rose to power; a real human antichrist if we ever saw one in the sense of a predecessor of the actual one; which I just feel it’s all so evidentiary and part and parcel of what the visionaries have been telling us all along, but now unfolding in real time; as the signs are self-evident and totally revealing!
This line I quote says it so splendidly and I’m absolutely convinced this world deceiver will not appear as anything but appropriate and so much having a “worldly appeal” like some “rock star” who many people can’t get enough of, but is exactly the opposite of who and what he portrays himself to be! Truly a wolf in a sheep’s clothing! As a matter of fact not just online but in public I have witnessed this phenomenon already happening when people I meet or even know from my area, if I engage in striking up conversation, which I do quite a lot, if you hadn’t already surmised that point about me; I see how many of these folks are saying things like, eh it’s all good, no worries it gets worked out, and sometimes they say, I don’t believe we go to any bad place because evil has to exist too, just so the whole puzzle fits together each piece belongs with the whole! Dear God this process of minion conversion has begun in earnest already!
Again I quote; “His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself that he would deceive even the elect.” Why of course this is the Devil’s deal and way! Oh isn’t that just fitting and dandy!
And here I must again quote this what I know in my heart and mind is powerful truth, “The pre-Communist Russian belief is that he will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves.”
Then there is this which is so absolutely profound but yet here I am just getting up to speed as it were to this Truth unfolding in real time over the last several months!
Father Michael Scanlan’s 1976 Prophecy and the Events of 2020
And I quote again in amazement and with enthusiasm to share this Truth to anyone who will listen! “When leaders of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal heard Franciscan Father Michael Scanlan, the president of Franciscan University of Steubenville, deliver a prophecy in 1976 about a time of lawlessness and shuttered churches, no one imagined such a scenario occurring soon — or ever.
“We didn’t dismiss it, but we kind of put it to the side,” Ralph Martin said. Now, 44 years later, the message has struck home, as the seemingly extreme events it cited are happening.”
All I can say is come on people let’s get real and stop all this wasting time with foolish social media likes and praise or following the Ways of the World, and start to awaken to all of the multitude of signs and evidence being provided to us to not become lost or run amuck, so that we can remain vigilant and strong in our faith in the Lord God, and through Jesus Christ our Savior; who tells us to pay attention, remain sober and be vigilant in order to not be tricked making certain that we will remain now and forever in God’s good graces; instead of accepting the polished lies of the Devil that will pull so many into the infernal region and pits of hell.
Isn’t this most beautiful and even thrilling to realize this modern fairly new prophecy is so true, but as I quote again we can share in the Truth that is actually providing help, “There’s some real guidance in it and some real hope in it, because, obviously, the Lord knew this was going to happen 44 years ago and he wanted to prepare us.”
And then this is spelling it out, as to what we are about to face even more pronounced than what we have in the last year and how it’s an opportunity to fully awaken to the choice we all must make!
“Although the prophecy speaks forebodingly of lawlessness and churches with bars across the doors, it does so in the context of asking listeners if they are willing to depend on God alone: “Are you willing to see no law, no order, no protection for you except that which I myself will give you? … Are you willing to see no country — no country to call your own except those I give you as my body? … Are you ready to base your life only on me and not on any particular structure?”
Kathleen this world is falling away and what good will it do to cling or put hope in it, and want to grab all we can in it, like so many narcissistic leaders and celebrities are doing right now trying to have more than millions of dollars but to have billions and in the case of Bill Gates Trillions! These people are doomed to eternal damnation for totally turning away from God’s “Glory and Love” that no material world or powers could even scratch the surface of; yet we see time and again how they hoard and grab like it’s nobody’s business! They appear to me like insane frenzied sharks tearing apart the world to claim it for them, trying to fill themselves with a sense of longevity and lasting happiness or security! There is even a stupid TV show Shark Tank that makes me sick to think these billionaires sit on their pedestals making more money being on the show and just cut investment deals with all kinds of wannabes to get a piece of the action; to push some other “better mouse trap” on the public to make millions more! It’s like a glory seeking “free for all” madness has taken over many if not most of humanity and people are screwing themselves straight into the pits of hell!
Oh my God, I must quote all of this here to just start sharing these words of Truth!
“However, Martin said he considers Father Scanlan’s message to be more specific in its references to the crime and chaos that many “Americans are seeing on their streets in the wake of the death of George Floyd and in the mention of churches here and in other countries being closed because of the coronavirus. Martin said the references in the prophecy to dependence on the institutions of schools and parishes also are significant, as dioceses across the country struggle financially.
But he said there are important lessons to be learned as Catholics and others experience the events cited in Father Scanlan’s prophecy. He said during the coronavirus shutdown, when his parish was having online Masses, his pastor pointed out the four ways Christ is present: in the Eucharist, in the person of the priest, in the word of God and in our souls.
When the first two aren’t available, Martin said, Catholics can develop an understanding of and appreciation for the other two. “Those are important things we could learn during this time, but a lot of us haven’t learned it yet. We’re so dependent on the structures of the church building that it will be hard if those are taken away again.”
“This prophecy was given by Our Lady at Garabandal (Spain):
“Many Cardinals, Bishops and Priests are on the road to perdition and taking many souls with them. Less and less importance is being given to the Eucharist.”
“This message was so shocking coming at the time of the Second Vatican Council (i.e., before the destructive changes were made), that there were many in the Church who tried to discredit the apparitions. And yet it was not long afterwards that the sex scandals by homosexual clerical infiltrators started coming to light. Together with the post-V2 liturgical changes, greatly weakened catechesis and abandonment of much of the Church’s prior pious devotions and practices, especially Marian devotion, people started to lose their Faith. This tragedy drove many to leave the Church, thus appearing to fulfill Our Lady’s warnings of the false shepherds leading their flocks astray!
We are still waiting for the promised Warning (worldwide enlightenment of consciences) and the following great Miracle that is to take place at Garabandal.”
Here when we read these words I’m quoting by Conchita González last May 19th when she was asked for any words of advice in these most troubling times, drive to the heart of what I’ve actually been feeling throughout or during this PSYOP Plan-Demic being conducted by the NWO Totalitarian Marxist butchers of the world!
“God is detaching us from the securities of this world. In the silence of the Church or in our house, we are now able to make an examination of conscience so we can clean what prevents us from hearing the Voice of God clearly. With sincerity we can ask God to tell us what He wants of us today, and continue to do that every day. And spend as much time as possible with God at church or somewhere in your home or where you find the silence. He is all we need.”
And of course I end here where your fine article ended with Conchita’s words because her statement is most fitting; being the resounding Truth!
God bless you.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
“they can do anything to this body and even destroy it, but my soul belongs to God!”
Thanks to my Fathers.
Prophecies By Visionaries Who Foresaw Today’s Crisis in the Church
There have been many chosen visionaries who over preceeding centuries have forewarned us of the great turmoil and betrayals we would suffer in the Catholic Church. Are we seeing these terrible prophecies beginning to unravell in our own times today? The purpose of those heavenly warnings given long ago was to prepare us to remain in God’s good grace, steadfast and strong in the face of a diabolical onslaught. The prophecies given by Our Lady of Good Success at Quito from 1594 to 1634 to Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres; those at La Salette in 1846 to Melanie and Maximin; the vision of Pope Leo XIII in 1884 that inspired him to write the prayer for protection to St Michael Archangel; the messages and secrets from Our Lady at Fatima to Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta in 1917; and finally, the prophetical messages in 1973 from Our Lady to Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa at Akita are all well known. They are prophecies recognised as authentic by the Catholic Church, but how few of her children have heeded them!
But there have been other warnings too, other prophecies given to trustworthy members of the Church in recent times that are less well known. Can we not see how they all tie in together? Let us look at just a few of them…
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This is the horrifying prophecy of Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895-1979) about the condition of the Church at the time of the anti-Christ:
“[Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.”
We are living in the days of the Apocalypse, the last days of our era. The two great forces – the Mystical Body of Christ and the Mystical Body of the anti-Christ – are beginning to draw battle lines for the catastrophic contest.
The False prophet will have a religion without a cross. A religion without a world to come. A religion to destroy religions. There will be a counterfeit Church.
Christ’s Church the Catholic Church will be one; and the false Prophet will create the other.
The False Church will be worldly, ecumenical, and global. It will be a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some type of global association.
A world parliament of Churches. It will be emptied of all Divine content, it will be the mystical body of the anti-christ. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the false prophet. Satan will recruit him from our Bishops.
The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himself as “I am Who am,” and the Devil as “I am who am not.”
Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first “red.” Rather is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as “the Prince of this world,” whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself that he would deceive even the elect–and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion?
The pre-Communist Russian belief is that he will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves.
The third temptation in which Satan asked Christ to adore him and all the kingdoms of the world would be His, will become the temptation to have a new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion–one that renders unto Caesar even the things that are God’s.
In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality, he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God. Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ …
But the twentieth century will join the counterchurch because it claims to be infallible when its visible head speaks ex cathedra from Moscow on the subject of economics and politics, and as chief shepherd of world communism.” (Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West)
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Father Michael Scanlan’s 1976 Prophecy and the Events of 2020
Ralph Martin and Renewal Ministries have drawn attention to the 44-year-old prognostication, which now appears especially prophetic.
When leaders of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal heard Franciscan Father Michael Scanlan, the president of Franciscan University of Steubenville, deliver a prophecy in 1976 about a time of lawlessness and shuttered churches, no one imagined such a scenario occurring soon — or ever.
“We didn’t dismiss it, but we kind of put it to the side,” Ralph Martin said. Now, 44 years later, the message has struck home, as the seemingly extreme events it cited are happening.
Since discovering the prophecy while doing research for a new book, Martin, the president of Renewal Ministries, has sought to circulate the message and provide commentary on it — not just because it refers to current developments, but because it offers direction about how to respond to such a time as this.
“There’s some real guidance in it and some real hope in it, because, obviously, the Lord knew this was going to happen 44 years ago and he wanted to prepare us.”
Although the prophecy speaks forebodingly of lawlessness and churches with bars across the doors, it does so in the context of asking listeners if they are willing to depend on God alone: “Are you willing to see no law, no order, no protection for you except that which I myself will give you? … Are you willing to see no country — no country to call your own except those I give you as my body? … Are you ready to base your life only on me and not on any particular structure?”
The Gift of Prophecy
Those who, like Father Scanlan, who died in 2017, speak such messages are believed to have the gift of prophecy, as described in the New Testament Book of Ephesians, Martin said. This gift and others are given for the building up of the Church, he continued, and, although associated with the Charismatic Renewal movement, they are supposed to be part of the normal life of Catholics.
Martin has given prophecies, as well, including one in 1975: “Days of darkness are coming on the world, days of tribulation. … Buildings that are now standing will not be standing. Supports that are there for my people now will not be there.”
However, Martin said he considers Father Scanlan’s message to be more specific in its references to the crime and chaos that many Americans are seeing on their streets in the wake of the death of George Floyd and in the mention of churches here and in other countries being closed because of the coronavirus. Martin said the references in the prophecy to dependence on the institutions of schools and parishes also are significant, as dioceses across the country struggle financially.
But he said there are important lessons to be learned as Catholics and others experience the events cited in Father Scanlan’s prophecy. He said during the coronavirus shutdown, when his parish was having online Masses, his pastor pointed out the four ways Christ is present: in the Eucharist, in the person of the priest, in the word of God and in our souls.
When the first two aren’t available, Martin said, Catholics can develop an understanding of and appreciation for the other two. “Those are important things we could learn during this time, but a lot of us haven’t learned it yet. We’re so dependent on the structures of the church building that it will be hard if those are taken away again.”
This prophecy was given by Our Lady at Garabandal (Spain):
“Many Cardinals, Bishops and Priests are on the road to perdition and taking many souls with them. Less and less importance is being given to the Eucharist.”
This message was so shocking coming at the time of the Second Vatican Council (i.e., before the destructive changes were made), that there were many in the Church who tried to discredit the apparitions. And yet it was not long afterwards that the sex scandals by homosexual clerical infiltrators started coming to light. Together with the post-V2 liturgical changes, greatly weakened catechesis and abandonment of much of the Church’s prior pious devotions and practices, especially Marian devotion, people started to lose their Faith. This tragedy drove many to leave the Church, thus appearing to fulfill Our Lady’s warnings of the false shepherds leading their flocks astray!
We are still waiting for the promised Warning (worldwide enlightment of consciences) and the following great Miracle that is to take place at Garabandal.
Conchita González, the main visionary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Garabandal between 1961-1965, was asked on May 19, 2020, to offer some words of advice to all of us in these troubling times. Here are her words:
“God is detaching us from the securities of this world. In the silence of the Church or in our house, we are now able to make an examination of conscience so we can clean what prevents us from hearing the Voice of God clearly. With sincerity we can ask God to tell us what He wants of us today, and continue to do that every day. And spend as much time as possible with God at church or somewhere in your home or where you find the silence. He is all we need.”
All thanks and glory to God Almighty! The message is made clear for all to share and bring closer to their own hearts and share in the agony and ecstasy of Holy Mary the Mother of God Jesus Christ and the Church!
These words I must quote sharpened my own insight tremendously!
“Some new area of the soul is touched that before was virginal to grief. In each dolor it is the Son Who is the executioner, but He always makes His edge the sharper.”
I see in this how when Jesus said, “Who is my mother?” They are my mother.” (Matthew 12:46-50) Yes, if we are to pick up our own crosses and carry them as we follow Christ we are Joining Mary in carrying the cross of Jesus Christ though metaphorically if it is done with genuine humility and sorrow for having our own stain of sin which caused our all loving God to suffer this way carrying all sin and transgression for our sake’s then we should surely offer up ourselves in like manner with all of our love; being then truly worthy to help carry His cross in carrying our own. And as we do this a new area of our souls is touched as we proceed, bringing a brand new dimension to our grief; but also our love for Him!
“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Luke 9:23,
Apostle Paul reminded us, “Whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.” Philippians 3:7-8
“Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” (Matthew 25:40
“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
I think the mention of the Mel Gibson film “The Passion of the Christ” is perfect as I too have thought over the years how this imagery is very helpful in perceiving the reality of Christ and His suffering with that crucifixion bringing home how much God loves us but also pointing to our responsibility both in causing His need to be crucified and our appropriate and only gesture of love which is to share in carrying His cross as or with our own; as you explained so beautifully is what Mother Mary did, whom we should hope to emulate even a little if we can! Her suffering and grief is unimaginable to me and I do weep and suffer each Easter when I watch this film; but Mary so full of grace and a Mother’s love of our Savior her Son, must have been experiencing something I can only as you mention scratch the surface of with all my earnest effort!
This is what I recently said regarding this precise matter in another of your fine CP&S articles.
“Peter denied Him a first time but did not shed a tear because the Lord’s gaze did not meet his.” I think for me and perhaps all humans that really care they spend their whole life practically doing what Saint Peter did, denying Jesus, even if we think we don’t because don’t forget Peter was right there living with Jesus and was His first or lead disciple; and he did! But when I watch that true to life depiction of Christ, I shudder and cry with my quilt, as I’m starting to do already again and just with the memory of the film while knowing and seeing my quilt! Oh my God! I’m sorry! Please forgive me for being so wrong and not appreciating every minute you have given me in this fallen world; to come to terms with my sin knowing I don’t deserve you, but yet you love me this much that you wait as long as it takes to call me home, and I follow your call to your heart of hearts! Thank you Jesus! I cry now again; because I see your endless love!” https://lawrencemorra.com/2021/03/18/the-power-of-tears/
But now I want to say that everything I’ve written here and this article, I do see serving one paramount purpose which is shining so brightly and that is “to help bring upstanding of how important it is for any of us to gain an increased connection to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” “By appreciating how Mother Mary connected to His suffering and agony for us;” in a way we can never come close to doing as she did, but yet “we can gain a fuller appreciation of that suffering” which is essential to the faithful who genuinely with all humility seek to love and appreciate the gift of Salvation; while getting closer to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
CP&S comment. Yesterday, Friday in Passion Week, we celebrated the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady. Today, Saturday, always traditionally dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, let’s concentrate on the pain and anguish of her Immaculate Heart when she met her beloved Son, savagely scourged and crowned with a crown of vicious thorns, as He struggled under her weight of the Cross on His way to Calvary. Could we even scrape the surface of the agony Mary suffered at that moment?
It is also the Fourth Station of the Way of the Cross.
It is entirely reasonable that if Mary was at the foot of the Cross, then she was also somewhere along the route upon which our bleeding and beaten Savior was flogged and cruelly compelled. It is entirely reasonable that she would have raised her voice and, so, the Lord spotted her…
Republication by Lawrence Morra III
Zero Lift-Off Only The Beginning
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March 25, 2021
I offer this Republication as my best effort to help spread the good gestures and prayers for Officer Eric Talley and all of the shooting victims in Boulder Colorado. After reading what his beloved sister Kirsten said I now know I had at least one thing in common with Eric, I too dreamed since childhood of being a professional pilot but through the military and then on into the industry and if I could be extremely lucky and good enough perhaps win a slot in the astronaut program at NASA! But just like Eric my from birth color blindness kept me out of the running as a military pilot. I tried every branch of the Armed Forces but was unable to get a flight program slot only for because of the color blindness yet in all others capacities I passed with “flying colors!”
There is actually a second thing in common that I have with Eric! I rescued a flock of farm ducks that had wandered for miles and were about to try crossing an interstate highway when I happened to drive toward them very early one morning, and when nobody else seemed to be around or care to help I managed to shoo them back away from the highway and keep them calm talking to them. Then being good with animals I gained their confidence to easily capture each one and get them into my vehicle and secured for the drive to my home! From there I had remembered just a few days before reading about a couple in the country that had kind of animal menagerie going of many rescued or abandoned animals and called them to get some advice; and they told me they would be more than happy to give them a home!
So Eric I never met you but I bet we could have talked up a storm if we had the chance; but all I can say now is you’re doing God’s work direct now from right up there in heaven! Now you do soar like your sister Kirsten said; with the best of the best, all those angels upstairs! Amen.
God bless you and your family!
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley was a father of seven who ran into gunfire while responding to an active shooter call at a Colorado grocery store when he was shot and killed in the nation’s latest mass shooting. He was one of 10 people who were killed at supermarket King Soopers March 22, 2021, authorities said. The shooting suspect was identified as Ahmad Alissa, 21, of Arvada. Talley, 51, was one of the first officers to arrive on the scene, where he was called with fellow officers shortly before 3 p.m. local time at 3600 Table Mesa Drive. The husband and father had been with the police department since 2010, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said during a Wednesday evening press conference. Talley had made headlines during his decade with the department for spearheading a community-based police initiative and for rescuing a family of ducks on the same road where he was fatally shot years later. A survivor of domestic violence wrote a Twitter thread saying Talley saved her life.
Talley joined the Boulder Police Department late in life, his friend and fellow law enforcement officer Jeremy Herko, an Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, told The Washington Post. Talley had worked in information technology, but decided in 2010 to change careers after the death of a friend in a DUI crash and graduated from the police academy at 40, Herko told the newspaper.
“It was remarkable to me that somebody would go to law enforcement from IT,” Herko told The Post. “He lost pay. He lost time away from his family. He joined the police academy without a guaranteed job.”
Here’s what you need to know about the life and death of Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley:
Talley Was a Father of 7 Who Was Training to Get Off the Front Lines So He Would Not Leave His Children Fatherless & He Was Remembered For His Heroic Actions
Talley had seven children, and the youngest was only 7 years old, his dad, Homer Talley, said in a statement published by The Denver Channel. He became a police officer when he was 40 and was training to change roles within the department to not be on the front lines.
“He took his job as a police officer very seriously. He had seven children. The youngest is 7 years old. He loved his kids and his family more than anything,” his dad said. “He joined the police force when he was 40 years old. He was looking for a job to keep himself off of the front lines and was learning to be a drone operator. He didn’t want to put his family through something like this and he believed in Jesus Christ.”
Homer Talley told KDVR, “He was a man of heart who loved his job.” His children range in age from 7 to 20. Homer Talley told the news station the fallen officer’s wife is “a rock.” Donations to help Talley’s family can be made to the Boulder County Injured & Fallen Officers Fund.
Talley was one of the first officers to arrive on the scene at King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado, and encountered the suspect, who was armed with a high-powered rifle, officials said.
GettyPolice officers walk through the parking lot of the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado on March 22, 2021 after reports of an active shooter.
Boulder Police Officers used Talley’s handcuffs when they formally arrested Alissa following his hospital stay.
“This week several Boulder Police officers & others responded to a local hospital to formally place Monday’s shooting suspect into custody. As they did, officers informed him the handcuffs used that day were those of Officer Eric Talley. The suspect was then taken to jail,” the Boulder Police Department wrote on Twitter. “It was our distinct honor to use Officer Talley’s handcuffs to formally process him into the jail. Though this was a small gesture, we hope it is the start of the healing process that so many of us need at this time. Officer Talley’s handcuffs are seen here.”
Our hearts of this community go out to the victims of this horrific incident. We know of 10 fatalities at the scene, including one of our Boulder PD officers by the name of Eric Talley. He’s been on the Boulder Police Department since 2010. He’s served in numerous roles supporting Boulder Police Department and the community of Boulder. And I have to tell you, the heroic action of this officer when he responded to this scene. At 14:30 hours the Boulder Police Department began receiving phone calls of shots fired in the area. And a phone call about a possible person with a patrol rifle. Officer Talley responded to the scene, was the first on the scene and he was fatally shot. I also want to commend the heroic actions of the officers responding, not only from Boulder PD, but from across the county and other parts of this region. Police officers actions fell nothing short of being heroic. I also want to thank the men and women who responded, including state, local and federal authorities.
GettyLaw enforcement personnel salutes as the motorcade carrying fallen Boulder Police officer Eric Talley exits the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado on March 22, 2021 after a mass shooting.
She said it’s a “complex investigation” that will take “no less than five days to complete.” Herold, holding back tears, said, “Again, my heart goes out to the victims of this incident. And I’m grateful for the police officers who responded and I am so sorry about the loss of Officer Talley.”
Joe Gamaldi National Vice President of the Fraternal Order of Police, spoke about Talley’s heroism in a statement.
“Boulder Officer [Eric Talley] has lost his life running towards the gunfire of an active shooter. No words can adequately capture the heroism exhibited. Keep him in your prayers,” he said. “Police Officers don’t ‘deserve’ your respect, because no one ‘deserves’ anything, but we da*n sure earn it everyday!”
Boulder Police Department Commander Kerry Yamaguchi confirmed a Boulder Police Officer was killed during an earlier Monday evening press conference, and requested privacy for the family and fellow officers.
He said there was “loss of life” and added, “I am sorry to have to report that one of them was a Boulder police officer.”
Yamaguchi did not release the officer’s name at the time, or any information about how the officer was killed. He said that officers arrived “within minutes of the initial 911 calls and entered the building very quickly.”
GettyBoulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty takes a moment to himself before addressing the media after a gunman opened fire at a King Sooper’s grocery store on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado.
He added Boulder Police received “tremendous support” from local and federal agencies.
“Without that quick response, we don’t know if there would have been more loss of life,” he said.
A witness described his thoughts to Fox 31, saying he was in shock and called his mom to say he was OK. That’s when the gravity of the situation sunk in, he said.
“The fact that it’s happening all over America, seeing it on the news, [it’s] something I’ve grown up with, people my age, my generation are used to this. And it’s something I never thought would happen in my town,” he said.
Boulder City Council is holding a special meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, 2021 to honor the victims and “acknowledge the need for community healing.” The meeting can also be viewed through livestream and on YouTube.
Talley’s Sister Says He Wanted to Be a Pilot & Wrote in a Tribute, ‘I Cannot Explain How Beautiful He Was & What a Devastating Loss This Is To So Many’
Talley was born in Houston, Texas, graduated from Highland High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1988, according to a post on the school’s alumni Facebook page from a classmate. He had a master’s degree related to IT before becoming an officer.
Homer Talley, the officer’s father, told 9News it, “Didn’t surprise me he was the first one there.” His father told the Colorado news station, “He had a great sense of humor, he was a prankster. He loved his family more than anything.” The slain officer’s sister, Kirstin, paid tribute to him on Twitter, writing, “Officer Eric Talley is my big brother. He died today in the Boulder shooting. My heart is broken. I cannot explain how beautiful he was and what a devastating loss this is to so many. Fly high my sweet brother. You always wanted to be a pilot (damn color blindness). Soar.”
A longtime friend of Talley described him as a husband, father and devout Christian in a post on Facebook. Jeremy Herko wrote he and Talley attended the police academy together. They were talking earlier that day, he wrote.
“I cannot describe the level of devastation I feel right now,” he wrote. “My heart is heavy. So many things I would do differently.”
GettyLaw enforcement personnel salutes as the motorcade carrying fallen Boulder Police officer Eric Talley exits the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado on March 22, 2021 after a mass shooting.
“The person I was calling and messaging earlier, one of my best friends, died today in Boulder,” he continued. “He was the police officer killed. Eric Talley is his name, and he was a devout Christian, he had to buy a 15 passenger van to haul his kids around, and he was the nicest guy in the world. I’ve known him since we went to the academy together, and we talked all the time. Please keep his wife and kids in your thoughts.”
Herko told The Post he met Talley in 2010 at the Community College of Aurora’s Police Training Academy. “He is drawn to people, and people are drawn to him. It’s easy to be drawn to a guy like that. I was fortunate that he liked me as well. He was pretty driven to join law enforcement,” Herko told The Post.
Several Boulder residents who encountered Talley during his 10-year career working in the city shared experiences with him, remembering him as a dedicated and caring officer who went above and beyond everyday. One woman wrote on Twitter, “In 2013 I called 911 when my abusive HS/college ex boyfriend showed up uninvited pounding on my door threatening me outside my apartment in Boulder. One of the officers to respond & help that night was Officer Eric Talley. He stayed with me throughout the entire ordeal, calmed me down & said he was just at the right place at the right time.While the other officers were outside reading my abuser his rights, Officer Talley was kind enough to stay with me until a friend could come get me.”
The woman added, “He gave me his personal card, ‘call me if the coward decides to show his face again.’ To this day I credit Officer Talley for saving my life. I still have his card. Thank you for being my hero that night & thank you for being a hero to everyone in King Soopers today. I am absolutely heartbroken to hear yet another shooting has occurred. RIP Eric Talley & the other victims of today’s shooting. This is becoming far too frequent of a headline America.”
Talley-Man, I’m at a loss of words and don’t quite know how to say goodbye. You were a great officer and such an incredible person! I will cherish our memories and all the great times we had together in District 5. I will miss hearing our locker room banter of the Talley-Man/Sassy-Pants Show. To hear you died a hero is not surprising to me. Knowing you would lay your life down for others is the perfect way to describe your character. Fly high, you Drone Team geek. Eric Talley: A hero remembered, never dies.
Retired Boulder police sergeant Lauri Wegscheider wrote on Facebook, “My heart is more than broken. Officer Eric Talley was one of the smartest people I know. He was caring, compassionate and kooky with a heart of gold. He always had my back and we were more than just coworkers. He was my friend!! He adored his children and family. I am so so sorry to all my Boulder PD brothers and sisters. Mtn Dew my friend, all you can drink!”
Edwin Hurwitz, a Boulder attorney, said he met Talley when he was in law school. Hurwitz wrote on Facebook:
I just found out that the officer who was killed was Officer Eric Talley. When I was in law school, in the criminal law clinic, we had to do a police ride along and I was paired with him and we spent a Saturday night riding around Boulder. I had just transitioned from my music career and was getting used to the idea of my new one as a lawyer and he had just transitioned from his career and had been an officer for less than a year. That ride changed my view of cops. He was outgoing, thoughtful, and interested in the safety of the community. Given that defense attorneys and cops are kind of at odds by the nature of our jobs, I left that night feeling that we had made a connection and bridged the institutional distance between the conflict that comes up on both sides.
Former Boulder Police officer Andreas Reimann wrote on Facebook, “I really don’t know what to say, Eric Talley was the definition of a kind and warm hearted person. He wasn’t a stereotypical cop, he was goofy, nerdy, kind, funny, and always wanting to help whenever he could. He helped and covered me on more calls than I can count. It always made me smile after I left Boulder that he would regularly ask about me and how I was doing, and pass along messages that he missed me at BPD.”
Reimann added, “Like most heroes Eric would probably hate that label, but anyone who runs towards the sound of gunfire when other people run away is the definition of a hero in my book, and someone who I am proud to have worked beside. Rest well friend.”
Talley Presented a Community Policing Initiative to His Department So Officers Would Serve as Familiar Faces in Neighborhoods
Talley brought an initiative to the police department with community-based policing, the Martin Acres Voice wrote in 2015. The initiative was geared toward officers becoming a familiar face in their communities. The newsletter described community policing as a return to traditional policing before the days of police cars, when officers lived among the neighbors they policed and “walked a ‘beat.’”
Talley and two other officers presented the initiative during a conference at the time, which involved dividing the city into 35 districts and assigning an officer to each of those districts. The officer in each district was assigned to monitor the neighborhoods, serve as “a familiar face” and become familiar with the details of their districts. Martin Acres was a part of Talley’s district, the newsletter said.
“If you see him, say hello!” the newsletter said. “Officer Talley is working on getting to know our neighborhood, what’s normal, what is out of place, tracking trends, suspicious activity and, hopefully, enabling a safer environment.”
It went on to say, “Officer Talley says he hopes to empower us to be more vigilant neighbors, with direct access to the police department, and to give the police department a clearer picture of the community and our needs.”
Witnesses told the Denver Post about touching moments amid the tragedy of a mass shooting that left 10 people dead. James Bentz, 57, told the Denver Post he found himself “at the front of a stampede” as people rushed to the back of the grocery store. He jumped off a loading dock to escape, he said. Younger people helped older people down from the platform, he said.
“It seemed like all of us had imagined we’d be in a situation like this at some point in our lives,” he said.
He was in the meat section when he heard a gunshot. He thought it was a misfire until he heard more gunshots. Then, everyone started running, he said.
Neven Sloan and his wife, Quinlyn Sloan, told the newspaper they had split up in the grocery store when shots were fired. She was in the dairy section, and he was in produce. They ran to find each other, then escaped together.
Neven Sloan said the shots “were muffled at first and then I heard it echo in the store and I knew we needed to get out.”
Quinlyn Sloan told the newspaper she didn’t know what she was hearing at the time of the first gunshot, but then “people started running. A few stood still like they didn’t know what was happening. Then [the shooting] went rapidly.”
Neven Sloan said once he knew his wife was safely outside, “I felt an impulse to go back,” and ran back inside to help others.
Talley Was Recognized in 2013 for Rescuing a Family of Ducks From a Drainage Ditch Near the Grocery Store Where He Was Fatally Shot
Talley was among three officers who were recognized by the Boulder Daily Camera for rescuing 11 ducklings and their mother from a drainage ditch in 2013. The drainage ditch was in the area of Table Mesa and Broadway, very close to the location where Talley would be gunned down eight years later.
One of the other responding officers on the duck rescue attempted to coax the ducks and scoop them to safety with a net. When that didn’t work, Talley took the plunge to wade into the water and round up the ducks so he and the other officers could save every member of the duck family, the article said.
“He was drenched after this,” said Jack Walker, who was the Boulder Police Sergeant at the time. “They would go into these little pipes and he would have to try and fish them out.”
GettyShoppers are evacuated from a King Soopers grocery store after a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado.
When the duck family was reunited, “they were thrilled,” Walker said of the ducklings.
A group of about 30 to 35 people gathered to watch the rescue, and recorded it on their phones, he said.
“They were thrilled to see us doing this,” he said.
The entire rescue operation took about an hour.
“This was my first duck rescue,” Walker said. “But I’m an animal lover, so for me it was easy to do.”
Conor McCue, a witness to the grocery store shooting, told CBS4 it took a moment to realize what was happening after he heard gunshots.
“Heard a loud bang… thought someone dropped something. Then by the third bang everyone was running,” he told the news outlet.
When police arrived, he said they were shouting at a suspect either in the car or inside the store. “Surrender now!” he said he heard them saying.
A family was waiting in line for COVID-19 vaccinations when a woman was shot in front of them, the father of one of the family members told CBS4. They family ran away and found a closet upstairs, where they hid for an hour, he told the news station. He was communicating with his daughter while they hid. The father advocated for gun control to the news outlet.
“When it’s your family, you feel it,” he said.
Victims who were still inside the grocery store when police arrived were led outside by officers.
About 100 First Responder Vehicles Escorted Talley’s Body Following the Mass Shooting & Local Lawmakers Expressed Their Sympathy to Law Enforcement & Said Police Officers Were in Their Prayers
GettyA police officer salutes as a procession carrying the body of a fellow officer leaves King Sooper’s grocery store where a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado.
The Boulder Police Department shared a brief and touching tribute to Talley on Twitter as lawmakers and other officials expressed their condolences and pledged to fight for justice.
“Rest In peace Officer Eric Talley. Your service will never be forgotten,” the police department wrote.
About 100 first responder vehicles gathered to escort the body of the fallen Boulder police officer in the hours after the shooting, reporter Kyle Clark of 9News wrote on Twitter.
“Approximately 100 first responders’ vehicles are prepared for a procession to escort the body of the Boulder Police Officer who was among those killed in today’s supermarket shooting,” he wrote.
He shared a video of the procession as a sea of red and blue lights silently escorted the officer.
The City of Boulder shared an image on Twitter which was retweeted by the Boulder Police Department.
“Our hearts are broken. Lives were taken today, including one of our brave @boulderpolice officers,” the tweet said.
The image was a landscape overlaid with text.
“This is a tragic day in Boulder,” it said. “Our hearts are broken from the lives lost. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and all.”
Videos emerged on social media soon after the shooting, which showed a man being led to a stretcher in handcuffs. It was not immediately clear whether the man was the shooting suspect, but it appeared that police were taking the man into custody. He had blood on one of his legs, the video shows.
“It was quite a chaotic situation,” a FOX DC reporter said on the air, referencing reports from witnesses. “There were two medical helicopters on the scene.”
The reporter spoke over live images taken from a helicopter and described what he was seeing: “a man who was escorted by police in handcuffs loaded onto a stretcher and being taken from the scene.”
A graphic and dramatic video captured the active shooter scene at the Colorado grocery store, beginning just seconds after the first shots rang out. The video shows injured and possibly deceased people inside and outside the store.
“Get 911 right here,” says the man filming. “We’ve got injured parties on the ground. We don’t know. There’s a shooter, active shooter somewhere. Could be in the store. He went in the store. Oh my God. Guys we’ve got people down in King Soopers.”
He walks into the entrance of the store from its ramp, and a person in a store uniform says the shooter is still inside. Three people appear to be lifeless in the video. One is on a ramp leading into the store, another is in the parking lot, and a third is inside the store near a checkout counter.
Two gunshots can be heard on the video soon after the man goes inside to film.
Mass Shooter at King Soopers – licensing info below.media organizations can license the video here usetmx.com/details/6667 First at an active shooter scene, as it unfolded at King soopers in boulder. i was loading groceries in my car when i heard loud shots. i immediately fired up the livestream and rounded the corner to a horrific scene. help support my channel and continued time…2021-03-23T00:12:23Z
“Guys this happened… not even 30 seconds ago. I heard gunshots going. Guys there’s an active shooter,” the man says. He later identifies himself as Dean Schiller.
Sirens could be heard in the background, and he said police officers arrived quickly.
He gave information to news stations later in the video, saying he was nearby and heard gunfire.
GettyA Colorado State Police officer salutes as a procession carrying the body of a fellow officer leaves King Sooper’s grocery store where a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado.
He described “loud bangs” and saw a woman on the ground next to a gold Toyota Rav4, followed by another man motionless on the ground.
“We immediately took cover right outside,” he said, and said he went around to the front of the building where he heard more gunshots. He said he hid behind cars and walls.
He saw three victims himself, and watched officers arrive as shots continued to ring out. He estimated that the shooting lasted for 10 minutes before subsiding.
“I wouldn’t have believed it had I not seen it and heard it myself,” he said.
“My heart was pumping so hard,” he said.
He said he had friends “as close as family” inside. He lives across the street from the grocery store, he said.
Slain Boulder Policeman Eric Talley Was A Dad To Seven Kids | The 11th Hour | MSNBCEric Talley, the Boulder police officer killed in this nation’s latest mass shooting, took his job seriously and leaves behind seven children. NBC News Correspondent Gadi Schwartz shares more in a statement from Talley’s father. Aired on 03/23/2021. » Subscribe to MSNBC: on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About The 11th Hour with Brian Williams: Brian Williams delivers the latest…2021-03-23T05:45:59Z
Colorado lawmakers shared sentiments online in the immediate aftermath of the shooting and specifically addressed first responders who were called to the scene. They wrote that they were “monitoring the situation,” expressed sympathy to the families of the victims and to the Boulder community as a whole.
“Like my fellow Coloradans, I am closely watching unfolding events at King Soopers in Boulder. My prayers are with our fellow Coloradans in this time of sadness and grief as we learn more about the extent of the tragedy,” Governor Jared Polis wrote on Twitter.
Representative Joe Neguse wrote on Twitter he was praying for the first responders who rushed to the scene.
“Praying for the entire #Boulder community & all of the first responders and law enforcement responding to this terrible incident,” he wrote.
GettyZachary Smith holds a thin blue line flag in honor of Boulder Police officer Eric Talley who perished in the line of duty during an mass shooting at the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado on March 22, 2021.
“We’re monitoring this tragic situation and our prayers are with the Boulder community,” wrote Senator Michael Bennet.
Congressman Ken Buck also said he was praying for law enforcement.
“Praying for our law enforcement who are responding to the active shooter at the King Soopers in #Boulder,” Buck wrote.
Yes indeed a Pagan Society! Let us just consider immediately that grotesque fact, “Since 1973 in America there have been over sixty-one million abortions.” Just think honestly no matter how desensitized many of us have become to violence after a steady diet of it in our media and entertainment, from movies like Texas Chain Saw Massacre which is actually just mostly hype and then onto the real deal of movies that would have many of you not sleeping well or if you did pass out from lack of sleep your nightmares may give you a cardiac arrest!
Films like A Serbian Film (2010) A Serbian movie that had to be banned in so many European countries that it’s said if you have a copy of the film in your possession and you’re on the European continent you should turn yourself and the DVD over to the police! Some of the subject matter depicted quite graphically in this flick are things like Rape, murder, necrophilia, and child abuse among a myriad of other demented perversions are fused together in this amalgam of depravity as part of the film’s plot! The premise of the story is how a porn star mistakenly ends and quite sadly ends up in a pornographic “snuff” film. Then the plot of outright debauchery just thickens from there, becoming more bloody and gory from scene to scene!
Then there’s Battle Royale (2000) A Japanese film had director Kinji Fukasaku making “The Hunger Games” look like a “Cub Scout’s Kumbaya” big camping outing of childhood naiveté of the Scouts, “gathered around a campfire singing Kumbaya.” This one became a huge cult classic but it also triggered a government debate regarding such media violence!
Ichi The Killer (2001) This absolutely insane violent film have one theme throughout which is how it centers on the Japanese mafia – the “Yakuza” I submit here a still frame from one scene that gives a glimpse into this films bloodlust of debauchery full kickass mode! The film is so horrid it has been banned in many countries even though this Japanese director Takashi Miike says he was taking violence to a new level to make “bloody art out of it!” At a one-time midnight screening of this film madness at the Toronto International Film Festival, vomit bags where distributed to all attendees before they took their seats! Many used them!
Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom (1975) This totally disturbing even sacrilegious film delves into pretty much what the title says by director Pier Paolo Pasolini who based it on “The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade.” Even renowned America Film Director Martin Scorsese no stranger to violent film content with some of his well-known epic Mafia, Gangster genre flicks like his Casino, Goodfellas or Taxi Driver which did contain the elements of the Mob and Prostitution but was the mildest of them; he said this film has artistic merit and has even been staunch defender of it, and the director. Keep in mind what I just said and then process that this film centered on the kidnapping of eighteen children by the “fascist Libertines!” Then these criminal despots subject these children/victims to murder, forced sexual acts and even brutal hate filled sadism. Absorb this fact, that this was Pasolini’s final film, because he was murdered shortly before its release. Could that have been because of the political corruption, abuse of power, and fascism that he depicted in his works; sort of how I Lawrence have spelled out what has happened to me and what I have observed or witnessed in my own realm going on continuously; some of these same things are out of control here and there, while these days just about anywhere; big money is the magnet! I’m literally the nemesis of Martin Scorsese saying the opposite of what he does and what messages these films convey!
I Spit on Your Grave (1978; 2010) Let’s wind this up so I can get onto why I’m specifying these films here in consideration of this article; so with this one in which the title says it all; and make no mistake about it the “dehumanization and lack of respect for human life” in all of these films, and this one in spades is in your face blatant mental and emotional misery to even think about for me, and I would venture to say most if not all of you; I hope! This flick delves deep into totally brutal victimization and rape of a poor woman by many violent evil men; so especially in the late version or remake this victim becomes a powerful protagonist to some viewers, but then to me sadly she is just as violent a creature as those that brought her close to complete destruction or to deaths doorstep! Only to not finish her off and perhaps put her out of her misery like some dying animal; no she must either do that herself or carry on and deal with it all! And deal with it all she does, again “in spades” here too, over the top and nothing is held back, as she gets total revenge! Like I mentioned already some may see her become powerful, as the lingo today goes, a huge dose of “female empowerment;” and this film to some is a critique on feminism, while many do clearly look at it as a feminist critique.
Keep in mind there are black market underground films being made that are beyond imagination too! Imagine what sorts of people have an appetite for such evil, actual, criminal film product and content; actual snuff films. We don’t want people like that as our neighbors or even living in our countries!
As we examine these realities of just what kind of violence and sin is gaining strength and a following in our culture and societies we can begin to hopefully see just how distorted and depraved in many cases human beings have become; I say even much worse than Ancient Pagan Cultures who for the most part where extremely primitive, superstitious and illiterate peoples who didn’t and mostly couldn’t quite reason it out the way we are capable of doing today in our high tech sophisticated modern world! I will say this, we all have heard the expression, “that you knew better,” I know I did as a teen when my father reprimanded me for being a foolish person with my friends and getting hurt or in trouble, he would go on to tell me, “let that be a lesson to you; to not do that again!” And fortunately I was a good kid so I leaned my hard lesson and took my father’s advice to heart! But that mechanism is sorely missing in many families and in society as a whole, where freewheeling decadence and entitlement comes into play so that many young people are not gaining the discipline or becoming attuned to reality and the “Real Consequences” of doing the wrong thing! Look at our major political leaders who are in many cases doing criminal things and going directly against the US Constitution with no accountability and they all get to make millions off their political office being akin to organized crime mobsters or worse too! I think of the Mel Gibson Film “Apocalypto” which was very well made but did delve into violence of that ancient Mayan civilization of like I said before an ignorant, illiterate, very superstitious and a violent people. Which if you look at it as a contrast to we living today in this modern fast paced High Tech Civilization, we have changed so much on the outside but at the core, in the human heart and soul; that same twisted sickness is there, an actual evil!
So ask yourself where is this all coming from and especially now in our age in just the last 60 to 70 years this gradual desensitization and acceptance of violence to where kids have played Grand Theft Auto as a violent rape and kill computer game which now has a leap forward to an even more twisted and violent updated version computer game Fortnite that kids just eat up! So imprinting such violent thoughts and behaviors from an early age should have what effect over time on individuals and society? Many people think it’s OK that their children are playing these crazed fantasy world games, when wouldn’t it make more sense for them to be doing something that doesn’t elevate violence and insanity while filling their heads with twisted thinking or perhaps developing mental triggers that are more reptilian than human?
Let’s consider these facts I quote from the article; “Since 1973 in America there have been over sixty-one million abortions. In the 1950s there were 72 serial killers reported and by the 1980s there were 768.” Keep in mind now in many locales abortions are allowed full term day of delivery which is actually the murder of an innocent human being; a little human baby!!!
Look at that, and can you say to yourself it will work itself out or something? This is absolutely “insane and diabolical evil” where this human race has gone over the centuries and millennia to arrive at this hellish earthly destination! I said those ancient people were mostly, I hate to use the crass term, but stupid and savage for the most part! What the hell is our excuse? Try to imagine my father’s voice when he caught me screwing up as a teen; “You knew better!” And, “Let that be a lesson to you; to not do that again!” So why are all of these top officials and even all of us just going along like it, “is what it is” and just keep doing the same Crapola over and over with some “Devil May Care” attitude? So people don’t give a damn, when you come right down to it, and figure if the world is going to hell in a hand basket, Oh Well! That’s sure what it looks like is happening, and for many it is going to hell with them going with it; to that same destination!
All of this violence and madness is totally out of line and ungodly “in Spades!”
So where is this all coming from; easy answer to that question, the only place it could be coming from; and that is the Prince of this world, the master of all lies and evil, Satan! So we all better wise up, this is crunch time; and though we can’t stop it all we can keep our hearts and minds full of God’s love and His will! Be strong in faith and belief in Him so that we are living in accordance with His will and plan; regardless of how much wrong is going on around us! We must believe and know in our hearts that Good will always overcome evil, and the Light will shine bright into the darkness! Amen.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
Check out the parallels between this writing and what I wrote last March.
Multiple mass murders proclaim that life is not sacred. Multiple opinion polls proclaim that the majority of Americans no longer believe in a Judeo-Christian definition of sexual morality. We are now officially and popularly a pagan nation.
It took a little over sixty years to accomplish, but we have now committed “Cultural Self Genocide”. In 1945 America had achieved the status of the greatest nation on earth. After four years of World War, we were the generally recognized leader of the Free-world. We were the most admired country on earth, the military savior of Old Europe and the establisher of a New World Order. With the help of our allies we had defeated both the Nazi German Empire and the equally brutal Empire of the Rising Sun. We were also the only nation capable of effectively resisting and containing the new enemy of global freedom, Communism, but as great as these achievements were, we were equally admired for what people now call our “Soft Power”; our love of freedom, our insistence on the rule of law and our compassion for the weak and poor. To borrow Winston Churchill’s famous phrase, “This was our finest hour.”
Since 1945, in terms of wealth, power and cultural influence we have ascended to even greater heights, but sadly our culture is no longer known for its moral excellence. If a poll were taken of the world’s people today, we would be known for our Rap-music and our increasingly violent and sexually explicit movies. We would also be known for our hate-filled politics and all the different forms of violence which pervade our society.
The Judeo-Christian cultural foundation which was established by our colonial ancestors and “Founding Fathers” is no longer shared by most of our educational institutions, our cultural elites, and certainly not the Mecca of movie making called “Hollywood”. Of course we still have laws based upon that culture and we still have the Constitution, but they are standing naked against a freezing wind of secular humanism and the gleeful acceptance of neo-pagan values that increasingly fascinate America’s public.
The two main ways our present culture has departed from our past tradition is in its increasing disrespect for human life and its low level of sexual morality. If the history of the world proves anything about the future stability of a civilization, it is the fact that its success must be rooted in highly moral and disciplined family structure. Without these, peace and order soon begin to unravel. History provides many examples of what I call “Cultural Self Genocide”. This process is always the same: honored values and religious beliefs which had defined a civilization for centuries suddenly become the topic of social/cultural ridicule. Other values or beliefs are accepted with little scrutiny and even turned into a culturally fashionable campaign. A wise old Greek said thousands of years ago, “Custom is King”. Morals, norms, traditions, religious beliefs are the true foundation of a civilization, and if that template is broken, violence and chaos will soon follow.
Americans are rightly shocked by the terrible mass murders happening all too often, but we should not be shocked by why they are happening. Beginning in the 1960s we began to give up our parental rights to those who create and control our mass media. What all the statistics show is since the 1960s, there has been an almost constant increase in all types of violence. Mass-murders of course stand-out, but there are many types of violence which taken as an aggregate are exponentially greater. Violent crime nearly quadrupled between 1960 and 1991. Since 1973 in America there have been over sixty-one million abortions. In the 1950s there were 72 serial killers reported and by the 1980s there were 768. The rate of suicide increased 33% between 1999 and 2017 and Human Trafficking is increasing in every state.
In the 1960s Americans in large numbers began to give-up on conventional Judeo-Christian sexual morality and as a result premarital sex increased, out of wedlock births increased, divorce, and single parent families increased. The one thing that didn’t increase was the percentage of Americans who were religiously affiliated and who regularly attended religious services. The high point of religious practice was reached in the 1950s and since then there has been a steady decline, but most alarming is the fact that as a percentage of the national population, young adults now make-up the largest group of the American public which describes themselves as non-religious. To quote the Bible, America’s young have become “Sheep without a Shepherd”. Movies, TV, video games and of course music have become their surrogate parents. This was not an accident. There has been an intentional effort, on the part of a committed community of secular humanists and neo-pagans, to bring America’s Judeo-Christian culture to its knees. No matter how negligent American parents have been they did not create, produce, direct, write, or star in our mass popular culture.
Should we now be surprised that the proportion of young adults who are committing mass murder is increasing and the average age of all shooters is falling? Should we be surprised that the majority of these young murderers come from broken homes and that 85% of all shooters are religiously non-practicing?
Culture matters. Standards matter. America faces many problems, but the greatest problem it faces is the loss of faith in an eternal standard for morality and the cultural decay that causes.
William D. Howard is a freelance writer who has been published in both secular and religious formats. He had a long career as an educator and has traveled in over 40 countries.
God bless the soul of Eric Talley!
I really feel in my heart more that heaven awaits for those that are good and forgiven when I see something so tragic like this happen; just like any innocent life being extinguished in any evil act of random violence! I just know that Heaven waits, because to me that is the only thing that can make any sense of such horrific stupid waste of life and a good beautiful future for this man and all the others who were slain. In other words they are all so much better off than all of us now, because they are with God and Jesus in heaven; I feel it and know we are the one’s hurting and suffering having to carry on in this almost God forsaken horribly sinful evil world we now have! I see not just this tragedy today but the countless one’s happening right now that won’t get a shred of news coverage or any attention! Horrific acts of violence and hate are being carried out by the hour and even the minute in this fallen world that the Prince of Darkness rules for a time! So let’s keep in mind that God’s Mercy is greater than His judgment and that His endless love and Mercy are providing eternal peace and happiness that none of us has experienced yet; but Officer Talley and the other individuals all are, so they are fine!
Yes, you are correct about CNN, they will politicize to no end just like all of the other minions of the left, globalist, NWO, antichrist agenda minions that get so much attention these days! As a matter of fact the wicked fraud Puppet POTUS Joe Biden has already started by jumping on the old Dem strategy and talking point of banning any rifles that look intimidating or have magazines, or even guns period, they try to disarm good law abiding citizens; while playing how they are looking to solve a problem that gets so much press, but in fact they are the ones causing more death and ruin all around like they did with being a huge part of the Plan-Demic along with wasting four years while creating so much divisiveness making up a false Russian Collusion Hit Job to take down Trump a coup d’état of a duly elected President, which Biden and Harris are not; at any cost even committing acts of treason which none of them are being held accountable for any of their major crimes; yet these dirty criminal politicians get on a soap box and preach how they will fix a problem when “they are the problem” and just plain hypocrites! It’s worse than the pot calling the kettle black here folks; it’s like the Devil coming along and saying any one of us is a horrible sinner; so I say what does that make him for all the evil he has done throughout time!
This same evil will again proceed with blaming the weapons when in fact the problem is something entirely different; which is the people are sick, twisted, evil or even programmed that do these things, very nefarious forces at work, I dare say even demonic possession; so no law abiding good citizen should be penalized because of that! It would be nice to see “The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth Prevail” and show the world exactly what is happening, and stop all of this three ring circus propaganda that has been going on 24/7 365 days a year that we decent citizens have to wade through daily to find a bit of the TRUTH! I really do hate the MSM and I worked in it at one time and though it was bad then, I had reason to be disgusted, but now I do loath it; it’s part of the ugly underbelly of evil in this world, and the stars in it make so many millions, which says a lot about what that industry is really about! HIDEOUS! Mostly lies and propaganda! This is a demented ugly world and getting worse all of the time. This could even be an orchestrated act to facilitate the NWO agenda of Totalitarian CONTROL! That will bring on the Antichrist!
God bless you all.
We need Jesus now so badly! Amen.
Lawrence Morra III
God Bless the Souls of All those who lost their lives in this tragic mass shooting. Blessings to all their families, I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord Savior and Redeemer. Amen.
Before CNN starts politicizing the horrific and senseless slaughter of the 10 people gunned down by a mass shooter at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket Monday afternoon, let’s remember to pray for this hero cop, Eric Talley, who was killed doing what good cops do: trying to save the lives of others.
Talley was a veteran cop, a traditional Latin Mass Catholic and father of seven children. By all accounts, he represented the very best of our country and the men and women on the front lines of a chaotic culture war that can only get worse so long as we as a nation refuse to turn back to God.
There are simply not enough good cops like Officer Talley to protect us from ourselves once we decide that God’s law no longer matters.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest…
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