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Catholic Conscience and the COVID-19 Vaccine

“the world going to hell in a hand basket”

By:Lawrence Morra III

Catholic Conscience and the COVID-19 Vaccine

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

By Annamaria Cardinalli at Crisis Magazine:

You speak about conscience here and let me tell you this from my clear perspective mostly derived from my first hand horrific experience with other human beings over the last 15 years. People are for the most part divorced from such great humanity of true genuine conscience in today’s world and most are on the diabolical ride of self-aggrandizement and stupidity or even worse than that true hate of others and even self! This world is so ugly and corrupted with sin now that you can’t tell me that any rational and sane person shouldn’t watch his or her back continually even when turned to coworkers, neighbors and sadly in many cases even family or kin folk! Like you now, are a stranger to me and even these Pope’s are strangers to me, so I don’t care one bit or Iota what they are purported to have done or not! Maybe they were tricked to take the vaccine but because the diabolical is at work now at a fever pitch, as we now; I’m quite sure are in the End Time, we have clearly seen how Bergoglio is a wolf in a sheep’s clothing and a real monster, who even made a big push for Biden a truly evil man, a man to me whose soul is as corruptible as Adolph Hitler’s was! And during a major life threatening crisis and a scandalous local tribulation that took place here a several years back; when I wrote to Bergoglio a very genuine from my heart plea letter with specifics, which he didn’t even acknowledge, and do you know why; because I was dealing with the same Freemason devils of which he is a partner with, so they turned up the heat on me instead; go figure!

Do I care one Iota what he thinks does or says; absolutely not, he is a devil to me and so this illustration you present means nothing but more smoke and mirrors! The whole reason for vaccines now was concocted by an evil diabolical alliance between the CCP and various nefarious agents here in the US along with others in the WHO with the roll out of the Pandemic Hoax to start a manipulation of the world’s peoples to submit to the NWO Global Reset. This Wuhan Corona Virus or COVID-19 is less virulent a strain of virus than the annual flu and the survival rate is near or approaching 99.97%! Why in the world would I take a vaccine for such a thing when common sense dictates to me that I catch a cold nearly every year, which I just did and within a few days using my home remedies and rest was over it no more sneezing and feeling ill? God gave me the immune system and raw botanicals along with foods to keep the immune system functioning well enough; so to me this vaccine is totally unnecessary and a trick by the most nefarious humans on the planet to make people sheeple, and prepare them for the antichrist’s arrival on the world stage which I think is coming quite soon, a matter of a few years or less.

Take what I say in conjunction with what just happened here in the One Nation under God the United States of America with all of the evil trickery and lies going on in Washington D.C. the hub of its governmental or earthly power, where now we see the betrayal of the Good President Trump not just by so many dirty crooked even criminal politicians during his whole term in office but even the so called Christian V.P. Pence who started in life as a Catholic and went onto be a born again Christian or whatever, so he says; but in the hour of reckoning to deal with the obvious fraudulent laden rigged or fixed election to “install” a false POTUS Puppet, the sinister most despicable candidate in history Biden, as the President Elect!

But Pence didn’t do his sworn duty and carry out his oath of office to protect the US Constitution and the Republic by asking for a fully certified audit of all legal votes which is in the laws and he being the President of the Senate could have requested that, to make sure all is in order, and that would be a normal thing to do but instead he stabbed the President and Nation in the heart like some monster who was lying in wait for his big chance to do evil which he did in spades; a Judas Priest if you will! All of which is in alignment with the “diabolical global plan to usher in the antichrist;” and to anyone with a real conscience which obviously hundreds of millions of people lack just by the sheer fact that they don’t see anything wrong with this fiasco and don’t really care! So cliché as it is; the expression of, “the world going to hell in a hand basket,” yet now it fits perfectly never having been more fitting than now! We are all sitting and staring into the precipice and hell is beckoning to pull in as many as will be willing or can be “tricked” into its eternal damnation!
So, no I will not accept any vaccine as a matter of fact I never take any annual flu shots so why would I suddenly jump on board with this big lie? With all I have gone through personally with local politicians, doctors, lawyers and chiefs when I was the only person to speak up and write about corruption by many of them regarding their nefarious dealings and plans, because the news people which I used to be a part of once upon a time were not saying a word about the corruption by the powerful and corrupt minions; I became a target for them all, and they worked in earnest to destroy me but they only failed because God Almighty wouldn’t allow it and brought a couple of the right people to my aid in order to help save my life when I needed them; in the nick of time. So there is where my trust has been and will remain; in God through Jesus Christ; not science or any fake Pope or totally lying Media! I turn my back on this world of evil rampant corruption and decadent sin of what you even mention here about using fetal cells harvested, which to me is more for commercial purposes that’s what it’s really about, coupled with other ulterior motives; let alone the full term day of delivery abortions along with now all the industrial scale abortions taking place on a massive global scale; so I turn my back now on a fully perverse world; just like they did to Jesus long ago and they now repeat human history with that same evil hate and pretend to care or believe, when in their hearts they are lying fakes like Bergoglio or Pelosi, Pence and the rest on down the line!

I see no reason to trust any vaccine or the rhetoric which accompanies it so I will never take them and won’t trust the crooked ways of this world ever again; this world is dying fast and “Armageddon” is fast approaching believe you me; I know it in my bones! We have one choice and decision to make; heaven or hell; which of these do we choose; because we must, should even be willing to die for it? I know all of this doesn’t sound uplifting or is rather very negative in tone but I’m not here to give lip service or be a cheerleader giving some pep talk. Coming from a fairly large family I was the constant eternal optimist and the one watching after all the others even my mother at times trying to always mend fences and help others to understand things whether science or personal problems, especially of the mind and heart; and of course to know Jesus and His words as to what they teach us. So one must ask why this man would talk this way coming from that background, is he angry at the world or hates too. No not at all, it all just bothers me too much as I see how limited the time is to prepare for the inevitable and people are not diligent enough or multitudes either don’t care to see the light and truth or they are so messed up they don’t have a clue. I should be frightened by all this mayhem but that is not my overwhelming emotion, but rather I feel compelled to try harder to speak truth where and when I can to help anyone who will listen and wants to find God’s will in their own life; before it’s too late! I’m more of an announcer I guess we can say, maybe ringing a bell and sounding an alarm; but it’s all I’ve got. I wrote a couple of paragraphs to another theological site last night speaking candidly about the coming tribulation and this person thought I was saying something amiss regarding the time table to End Time, so I did a bit of clarifying which I want to share here as well. I didn’t plan any of this it was just all spontaneous as I feel deeply in my heart; so just discern all I say and pray to God through Jesus Christ to guide you to the absolute Truth; God’s truth, and you will be fine, please do that.
Hi and you’re welcome! Believe me I’m no expert about anything to do with End Time but I see many component parts that will be necessary to bring on the events spoken of in the Holy Scriptures! I think President Trump was put in place by God to bring into alignment certain pieces of the puzzle if you will, mainly the recent “Middle East Peace Accords” between Israel and neighboring Arab Nations; something Obama and Biden didn’t scratch the surface on for those eight dark years of the Obama administration; the time period when I had my worst personal trials in my life brought on by very evil, nefarious politically corrupted minions who were huge supporters of him; in my locale. Obama, Trump’s nemesis was doing all the opposite things Trump has done and was hiding the fact that he wanted to crush Israel while ruining America, and who knows he might be the Anti-Christ or at least a huge facilitator with Biden; but I’m positive Obama is at least a very diabolical man having much to do with End Time along with Biden. This to me is a clear sign that the clock is counting down when taken into account with the strong buildup of anti-Israel forces namely Turkey and Iran with even Russia “the Bear” from the North cooperating while Iran this week just announced they have nuclear warheads or at least plenty of enriched uranium to place in missiles; and with Erdogan who has a very bellicose nature on the world stage and his wanting to hurry and bring Turkey back to past Ottoman Empire Stature throughout the Middle East; as well on into Europe, ushering in a giant Islamist Caliphate, and he along with the Ayatollah in Iran want the destruction of Israel, both having even recently said as much!

Tying into this is the fact that a wicked highly corrupted man Biden, a puppet for China, who I believe is demonically influenced or even possessed has been illegally installed as President to help facilitate this climate of hate toward Israel, which of course is the key here; to attack God and his chosen children via the birthplace of the Messiah, in these next few years during Biden’s term in office. This may very well match up with the coming “abomination of desolation” when antichrist enters the temple in Jerusalem and declares that he is God. Being that, to me, potentially the man of perdition Biden; has a four year term in this elected office, the commencement of the tribulation could have started with the recent Peace Accords, and this false Presidency in the Nation under God; America. I tend to think this means that Jesus will be coming soon in the next several years but those spared the horrific time of tribulation which will be the 2nd half of this current seven year period under way means the spared faithful will be taken away in the rapture just before the horrors brought by the horses of the apocalypse, which I believe in Scriptures is pointed out when “the abomination of desolation will stand in the holy place of the temple;” the antichrist. Matthew 24:15 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
Daniel 9:27 indicates that the seven year tribulation period starts with a peace treaty. In conjunction with this now, is that the false Pope Bergoglio has strayed from his real church duties and inserted himself into powers and principalities or corrupted ways of the world, namely the UN and China’s CCP; further throwing the Geo-political stage into further disarray while he encourages these already mentioned events; I see the evil working in him as in these other key world figures as the definite beginning of the end, as they are all diabolically influenced leaders and circumstances! Armies of the nations of the world will be defeated at the Battle of Armageddon. This period of time which we know is called the Great Tribulation by Christ (Matthew 24:21). The Second Coming of Jesus Christ occurs in verses 29-30

I’ll just say I know from my own personal trials and the ugliness I’ve witnessed or had to suffer due to evil people around me over the last 15 years, the lack of real genuine humanity, while seeing these frenzied evils growing around the world; I can tell without a doubt that we are all on the precipice of hell! We know from WWII history how ugly a turn the world took back then, but they didn’t have anywhere near the technologies and totalitarian capabilities that we have now along with nuclear and biological weapons that will destroy the entire planet and all life on it! We are close to the end believe me! Humans are way too flawed and diseased to fix this nightmare they are building; which is spawned from Satan. This is a frightful time and so many people are wicked; just look at those politicians in Washington, so vile and serpentine in their self-righteous ways! Forked tongue devils on steroids! No, I don’t know enough to be any expert, but, I know hell is close now! Those who want to be saved had better get their affairs in order fast! Turning to the Lord and washing their robes daily in order to not be left out of the wedding banquet.
…11″But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes. 12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless. 13Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”…Matthew 22:11-13
I hope my point of view will help you & others who are so tired of all the terribly rotten things that have been going on & still are in our Great Republic under God and around he globe! God is watching & His plan is perfect even though the best of men’s plans must eventually fail. Our hope is in Him!

I want to leave something I find very insightful by a man we all know was a remarkably brilliant person who I think even though his head was immersed in the world of science and theories he had a keen insight into God’s presence and reality like few people can achieve with our limiting cognitive faculties.; and his respect and love of God was present and genuine; therefore we can say God will judge accordingly, I know for myself Einstein was a good and respectful soul in this world, so I do wish him well. What follows I was writing about back at this mentioned date.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Einstein on Self and the Mystical
“A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.”
-Albert Einstein, 1954

“The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling is at the centre of true religiousness.”
-Albert Einstein – “The Merging of Spirit and Science”

This man the father of physics had said a few great one liners but two that stand out are these. He referred to God as the “Old One.” He speaking to other physicists was known to have said during a discussion about the Big Bang Theory in which one scientist said that with enough random events occurring in this pre-millisecond before it happened eureka the right combination occurred; Einstein just plainly said; “God doesn’t roll dice.”

God bless you all.
Lawrence Morra III

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Prayer For Enemies – Part III

Thank you for this very fine article which points out clearly the requirement of forgiveness of others for trespassing against us, in order that our Lord and Savior can be forgiving to us upon our own judgment before Him for our own trespasses against others; of which we are all guilty. I immediately saw a connection with a long comment I had just written to a reader on my last reblog; another fine and pertinent article published by CPS. I think to me this narrative ties-in here because in order to forgive those who trespass against us we must have a strong faith based on understanding of God’s word but also of the world circumstances we are now living in, our battle against all evil and sin; which we must face bravely armed with our devout faith! So a clear and true perspective based on understanding of the truth that God provides to us who seek it is necessary, along with remaining ever vigilant in our battle with this world of sin and ruin. I hope this perspective I share here with you, will help you in understanding the gravity of the circumstances we are now caught up in; along with inspiring you to increase your faith and provide more inspiration which will in turn bring more hope to all from our Lord Jesus Christ; who wants nothing more than for we God’s children, to succeed in our mission here.
Yes Mary Anne there is a scourge upon societies around the globe simultaneously effectuating drastic change in people; much of it not good! I agree with you that this sickness, fear and death is so rampant while being so devastating that it literally has turned our daily lives upside down and is causing many people to be in a sort of panic mode; like frightened animals being corralled or captured and in essence subjugating us to being nothing more than herds of wild beasts being gathered in preparation for slaughter. Yes, one of the Horses of the Apocalypse has arrived spreading its many evils through lies and deception to poison minds but more importantly hearts in order to do what we should ask? First to turn away from each other as a community of social beings made in the likeness of God in order to weaken our Humanity but then in addition to causing this modification to our behavior and practices its primary goal is to turn us away from God! Because then the dirty lie and deception will be complete and we’ll have been subdued, captured and taken control of; then to be used as minions of evil causing us to lose our immortal souls to Satan. What you say here and I quote, “Social distancing is a wonderful way to begin to dismantle our liberty of freedom of assembly and limit conversations at the same time,” This is very insightful and is clearly fact to truth in that a very concise plan of mass deception by means of targeted lies and a biological fraud as a weapon to propel this pack of lies was designed and implemented by the enemies of humanity and God to bring ruin via that Trojan Horse as you say! And those enemies are both overseas primarily China’s CCP and also right here in our Homeland many minions of evil within our government seat of power in Washington along with smaller groups of individuals in local governments and some industries such as media; throughout the Nation working for the same cause which is to thoroughly disenfranchise the citizens from their US Constitutional Rights, and even more important to those enemies who take their marching direct from hell; to strip us of all hope and belief in our Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer, in order to leave us in a state of desperation or hopelessness! This will prime a lost humanity for the antichrist who will offer so much to appease in order that he will be worshiped in place of God making him our master. At this point many will be willing to take the mark of allegiance to him in order to survive in a world turned upside down where everything will be micromanaged making it a totalitarian hell on earth; much like George Orwell’s visionary science fiction world depicted in his novel “1984!” Months ago when this Plan-Demic began I wrote a blog which touched on this and many related points which I felt or was inspired to say at that time; as to how I saw the orchestrating controlling effect which was being deployed upon societies around the globe! I readily saw this as like another science fiction story Planet of the Apes in which humans become the dominated species of animal on earth as you may recall from the old film which starred Charlton Heston; whereby in the future Apes take us over and control humans as herd animals! So the way things are going with the “communist plan” they are the Apes as I see them, but, in reality they are a subspecies of humans who are diabolically possessed by supernatural forces from hell.
As I see it we are all in for the fight of our lives and literally for our lives; but more importantly our “immortal souls.” Our faith is of course the key to dealing with the tough road ahead and we must remain vigilant to the Word of God and practice our faithful worship of God as best we can under these very difficult circumstances! As it is said; “where there is a will there is a way,” and I must add to that, “Where there is faith there is hope!” We will overcome, by means of our love for God in the precious name of Jesus Christ! Amen.
God bless you.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
If you have the time and interest here is he link to that blog posting that I mention above.
https://lawrencemorra.com/2020/04/28/satans-venom-from-the-evil-snake-and-serpent-from-hell-that-even-tempted-jesus-in-the-garden-of-gethsemane/

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Father Z has been under a vicious attack recently from some pretty nasty people who resent his traditional Catholicism: his love of the Traditional Latin Mass, his defence of the unborn, the family, true marriage between one man and one woman etcetera, and therefore his rejection of the U.S. Democrat Party. Without giving any details to his blog followers about the ongoing verbal persecution of which he has been a helpless victim, he admits to having suffered greatly from it. The only, yet admirable, solution he has found to deal with the suffering is to turn it into an opportunity for grace. How? Our Lord tells us to love our enemies and do good to those who wish us harm, and therefore by praying for the endangered immortal souls of those who hate him and who live by spreading hatred.The article below is PART 3 of his “Prayer for…

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The Dictatorship of Fear and the Coming Persecution

The End Time is undoubtedly close at hand and the signs are quite evident! One would have to be in a trance or completely out of his or her mind to not see how much the human condition has degenerated spiritually and morally in spite of all the creature comforts and scientific advancements that should have brought more enlightenment and exuberance to take hold of the supernatural Gifts from God; and take to heart His word, worshiping Him and giving all the thanks we can with every ounce of our strength and devotion for His loving us so much to have created us as part of His eternal kingdom! But contrary to what I just said it appears that in spite of the good reasons we should love and adore our God, too many people are not interested, or so taken up in their materialistic desires they became twisted and perverted, seeking the glory and powers of this temporal world; that leads to destruction and oblivion! It’s a very sad place now, more than ever; so I see its time to resist temptation in earnest while offering all of our life here to God and His plan for us! That is the best thing we have to offer or actually can; we should ask ourselves each day; am I giving all I have to you dear Lord, please help me to do more for you! On bent knee I give to you all my love and respect. Amen.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

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A sermon by an unnamed traditional priest that was first posted by Peter Kwasniewski:

My brethren, the world in which we live is falling apart. When we look at the political situation that we have in this country right now, or when we look at any other country in the globe, we cannot help but be scared, worried about is coming next.

Things have changed quite a bit in the past year. Well, things have changed a lot. Things you took for granted, like going shopping, or visiting a friend, or even going to church, in some places are now forbidden. Forbidden. You cannot go anymore where you want. Cameras observe people, to see if they comply or not with the “sacred” measures of safety, if they follow or not the ritual of the tribe. And if someone disagrees in any way, suddenly he becomes the enemy of humanity.

So…

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IMPEACHING TRUMP: Pelosi’s Game, America’s Shame

Michael J. Matt…You’re a man after my own heart and a man for all Season’s and Reason’s! Being a Proud American Patriot and total believer in the genius as well as bravery of the American forefathers my appreciation and steadfast loyalty to the US Constitution is absolute and I would die to uphold it! It wasn’t just Great Men and all the Great people who participated in starting and building America but it was “God’s Divine Providence” to those faithful pioneers that initiated it while providing for its success and continuance! That was until now when we have these parasitic insidious horrible excuses for human beings running slipshod and rampant over not only the “Constitution of these United States of America,” but also upon the “God in Heaven” who made it all possible! They are the generation of the many Doomed; as you well depicted by one of them you focus on here, the “cadaver Pelosi” who truly is one of the “walking dead” that brags on a world broadcast that she enjoys her $13US apiece pints of gourmet ice-cream that she keeps in its special $24,000US refrigerator; and they act like they are the best thing that ever happened to America since sliced bread! If the forefathers of America were here now and in charge these most depraved and despicable criminals would not get ice-cream; but a tight rope! These are the ones that the Bible refers to that won’t be invited into the Great Wedding Banquet, but will instead be the ones outside in the Darkness where there will be so much gnashing of teeth! Keep this truth and Great writing coming because there will be an awakening the likes of which this earth has never seen; before the final battle comes! That battle called “Armageddon” is fast approaching!
Lawrence Morra III

The Parable of the Banquet
…11″But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes. 12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless. 13Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”…Matthew 22:11-13

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Lessons from the Holy Family for us today

Catholic Perspective of Jesus and His earthly Family a Birth
Lawrence Morra III
Zero Lift-Off
Only The Beginning
Republication for sharing purposes on nonprofit Christian basis social media site
Thanks to: ncronline.org

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
Dec 26, 2020
by Mary M. McGlone
Spirituality

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Detail of painting “The Presentation of Christ in the Temple” by Giovanni di Paolo, circa 1435 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
It takes a village to raise a child. That’s a subtle, unspoken assumption in Luke’s account of the first time Jesus entered the temple. As Luke tells his story, he depicts Joseph, Mary and all of Israel as part of the scene when Jesus first entered what he would call his father’s house.
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
December 27, 2020
Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14
Psalm 128:1-5
Colosssians 3:12-21
Luke 2:22-40
Although Luke is careful to insist that the family went to fulfill the law, as soon as they arrived, their ritual reasons for being there were sidelined as the chosen people came to the fore in the guise of two elders. Just as Elizabeth and Zechariah, the Baptist’s parents, had symbolized Sarah and Abraham, Anna and Simeon recall the story of Hannah who brought her son Samuel to Eli in the temple where holy women watched the scene.
These details situate the infant Jesus in the center of the history of his own people. The village that produced and raised him stretches back 2,000 years to God’s covenant with Abraham. Jesus belongs to the chosen people by law, by heritage and by recapitulating their history in himself.
There’s a unique beauty and important Gospel theme depicted by the fact that while Jesus’ entry into the temple symbolized his membership in the people of God, the individuals who recognized and welcomed him were simple elders. The temple would have been swarming with ordinary folk like Anna and Simeon, along with authorities like scribes, Pharisees, priests and other officials. In the midst of all of them, it was Simeon, a man with no titles but a sterling reputation, who, as he held the child, somehow beheld everything he had ever hoped for.
With his predictions about Jesus, Luke allowed Simeon to foreshadow the rest of the Gospel story. Then, came Anna, the ancient widow who spent her life in prayer. While Simeon prayed in thanksgiving and spoke to Mary and Joseph, Anna took on the role of being the first evangelist, announcing Jesus’ presence to all who were awaiting redemption.
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When we envision all that happens in this story, we begin to realize that the Feast of the Holy Family is really not about a nuclear family of two parents and an only child, but a celebration of human community. This story and its symbolism introduce us to a web of relationships that grows exponentially as each of the original characters comes in touch with others who spread the word to their relations, and on and on, from age to age.
Our communities are particularly important as we celebrate the family on this Sunday after Christmas. Many families will be basking in Christmas memories and enjoying the gifts they received just two days ago. At the same time, a great number of our people did not celebrate the season with an intact nuclear or extended family. For many, the holidays highlight the hurts of broken marriages, family feuds, or the loss of loved ones. If Christmas was hard for them, the Feast of the Holy Family can feel like a day of unnecessarily rubbing salt in their wounds.
In order to make this feast more accessible to all, we might take our cue from Luke and celebrate it as a feast of our ever-expanding community of loving relationships. With that perspective, we can enjoy Sirach’s wisdom about respecting parents as a reminder to be grateful for all we have received from our elders: parents and extended family, the pillars of the parish, retired religious women, and our ancestors in faith.
Today’s optional reading from Genesis invites us to remember our roots in the Jewish tradition and to stand with Abraham as he wondered if God’s promises could ever come true. God’s covenant with Abraham started the storyline in which God fulfills promises to accomplish the impossible with people who strive to be faithful.
The Letter to the Colossians offers a meditation about how to build up our communities. The key idea is to allow love to be “the bond of perfection” among us. That does not mean that we will be perfect, but that our bonds of love will outweigh the imperfections that tear a community apart when we give them too much importance.
The Feast of the Holy Family certainly celebrates families. On a larger scale, it invites us to cherish and develop our ability to participate in communities of love. We are created for God, in the image of the Triune God whom we know as a constantly expanding, all-encompassing community of love. Like Jesus, we all have the ability to enter into and form the communities that make us more human and more godlike.
The family we really celebrate today is the whole, holy family of humankind, bound together across the ages by the God who loves us into life — now and forever, amen.
This story appeared in the Dec. 11-24, 2020 print issue under the headline: The whole family of God .

Mary M. McGlone
St. Joseph Sr. Mary M. McGlone serves on the congregational leadership team of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.

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from Saint Andrew Daily Missal:

“Is it not fitting,” says Leo XIII, “to celebrate the royal birth of the Son of the supreme Father, of the house of David and the glorious names of that ancient line? Yet it is more consoling for us to call to memory the little house at Nazareth and the humble life lived there; thus celebrating the hidden life of our Lord. For there the divine Child received his training in Joseph’s humble trade; there hidden and sheltered, He grew up and showed Himself ready to share the toil of a carpenter’s life. Let the moisture,” he seemed to say, “trickle over my limbs before they are drenched with the torrent of my blood, and the pain of this labour shall go to atone for the sins of men.” Close to the divine Child is His tender Mother; close to Joseph stands his devoted wife…

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Media Accuse Cardinal of NOT Preaching Fear, Fire and Brimstone About Coronavirus

Originally posted on Catholicism Pure & Simple:
from en.news “If you get sick with Covid, you can cure it well with a guava tea or with chlorine dioxide,” Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, the former Guadalajara Archbishop, Mexico, said during a homily which appeared on the Internet (video below original post). Guava is a tropical fruit…

Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez deserves great thanks and praise for being and doing what a good Cardinal of the church should, when so many are not! I’ve found that so few officials of the government or Church have the intestinal fortitude to step outside of the fray and establishment rhetoric this way and serve the people as they should, “doing God’s will to bring light and guidance” to a global deception of darkness that’s growing by the hour!

I’ve found through my own searching and asking the Holy Spirit to guide me, much information like Cardinal Iniguez provides here in this fine article and how some of the professors, scientists or doctors I’ve located worldwide are telling us so much truth like this information provided here that is being suppressed by the NWO machine and most nefarious persons on earth! The enemies are closing in being inspired by the master of all lies the Devil who is their General and gives them their marching orders, along with the earthly power or riches they seek; but all for naught, as nothing here is lasting or will give eternal life in Paradise with our heavenly Father. What these cohorts and minions do is cancel themselves out from God’s perfect and most precious beautiful plan for we his children created in His likeness; and they will get exactly what they deserve! We His faithful children of the light store up our treasures there in heaven where we will be with our Lord, Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ forever! Amen!

Matthew 6:19-21 ¹⁹“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ”

Matthew 19:21 “Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Matthew 25:35-40 “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

Revelation 22:12 “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.”

God bless you and His peace be with you always.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

Catholicism Pure & Simple

from en.news

“If you get sick with Covid, you can cure it well with a guava tea or with chlorine dioxide,” Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, the former Guadalajara Archbishop, Mexico, said during a homily which appeared on the Internet (video below original post).

Guava is a tropical fruit common in Mexico whose leaves are considered medicinal. It’s unclear where and when Sandoval pronounced the homily.

He delivered a message of hope, “Don’t be afraid,” thus angering the oligarch media which insist on scaring people into Covid-19 angst.

For Sandoval, “it is clear that those who have created this pandemic, which is a blunderbuss for the domination of the people, oblige the governments to scare us.”

He criticises them for relentlessly saying “put on your mask”, “don’t leave your house,” “keep your distance,” and adds that “it’s eight or nine months that I don’t wear a mask and I greet…

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Trump Rally Supporters Storm U.S. Capitol Building. Infiltrated Antifa Supporters Among Violent Protesters.

“A Heroine Proud American Patriot and Martyr of God’s”
First I felt rage at first seeing the video of this brave young Patriot USAF veteran and mother being blown away like garbage by a Nazi Security Thug as I see him! Then I had to cry for Ashli Babbitt followed by my solemn prayer for her immortal soul which in my own fallen human state know she deserves and is in heaven now, as we all grapple with the aftermath of this hideous event that was not at all necessary even with a breach of the Capitol building; where are contingencies and protocols that they surely must have in the Center of US Government Power in Washington DC! Evil from hell was at work as it has been throughout the last few years being usurped by many renegade deeply corrupt politicians like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters, Jerry Nadler and of course the infamous wicked Joe Biden known in some parts as a mob archetype “Scranton Joe” who is being installed by a fraud and manipulated election which involved foreign adversaries to America namely The Chinese government CCP who have Biden on a leash to be used as their useful idiot to do more of God only knows what to gain more power and influence over the United States, and even take possession of it like many souls already have been by diabolical evil! I place the blame squarely for this and all the previous violence throughout this past year on the backs and heads of the entire Democrat Communist/Nazi Party that has done nothing but fabricate and concoct any falsehood they could to not only ruin Trump’s Presidency but anyone who would be in the way of their seizing absolute complete control of the government; from going after the character and integrity of fine judges like Kavanaugh to Barrett or General Flynn a decorated outstanding Christian Patriot American, to basically anyone that was supporting Trump and Making America Great Again! These Archbishops Gomez and Cordileone are despicable coming out like this in attack mode of Trump and the protestors when they were totally silent during all of the ensuing riots and mayhem throughout the summer by Antifa and Blm, who were given praises for peaceful protest by MSM and all establishment quarters including these same crony bigoted archbishops who obviously are in league with the False Pope Bergoglio Freemason devils of the Church who are promoting the NWO and communist totalitarian agenda of the far left elitists moving ever closer to the staging of the antichrist on earth!

All I can say to that is I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes when they have to explain to God Almighty why they did these things and where were they when so much evil was being promoted, say for example in San Francisco Cordileone’s and Nancy Pelosi’s area of influence, while the city has decayed into utter violent, degenerate sinful havens perhaps worse in some ways than Sodom and Gomorrah was in its time because these fraudulent despots, they have not influenced good there but quite the opposite as these two minions of darkness bring ruin or encourage it by not standing up against that which is evil or in the least criminal, but can be finding all of this fault now in this incident which in my mind was a justified protest rally, as their intent as “True Patriots” was to be heard loud and clear by the law makers who are not doing their job; that this recent election can’t be accepted being so corrupted! So as good citizens they wanted it to be thoroughly gone over with the fine tooth comb and examined for any and all breaches of Constitutional Law and even State Laws governing the election process in order to make certain the end result is the rightful candidates are elected and installed into the offices of president and vice president! It’s obvious that was what these Patriots where there for, they weren’t gang members or thugs like Antifa (classified as a domestic terror group) and others who riot in the streets recently! They actually could have been approached these Patriots, and asked if they could hold back while officials are asked if they could be given an audience to be heard briefly and hear their heart felt sincere feelings and thoughts but Ashli gets shot in the heart; this being the action of a Nazi Gestapo not the seat of Great America’s government of the people! George Floyd was mentioned here in the commentary and he was one case that came to my mind immediately as to how two-faced the entire MSM, establishment and even many members of the clergy who had been so supportive of a street career criminal thug, causing his own demise with a lifelong behavior of repeated criminal activity and arrests and in the end he wouldn’t cooperate with authorities escalating the dangerous situation causing more violence than was necessary to deescalate his lack of cooperation of what should have been a simple arrest. Here we had a very unusual set of circumstances with these Patriot Protesters concerns about a major election riddled with FRAUD and much of which the DC Capitol Police and other authorities were aware was a building situation of possible emotional potentiality days if not weeks prior to the Rally and “March for Election Integrity,” but, they have a NAZI style cop that shoots point blank at a little woman climbing over a partition/door and that requires a lethal shot to her chest? In street vernacular of days gone by and even now he is a PIG! He is also a condemned man for what he did because with approaching security coming up from behind the Protestors with Ashli; who were armed and fully capable of containing any violence, but instead this despot of law enforcement blew away a young mother and Veteran for no good cause at all, and in my opinion he should get life in prison for cold blooded murder! His badge doesn’t give him authority to assassinate anyone! These sick and twisted archbishops jumping in as they have condescending like wolves in sheep’s clothing and with the twisting or concocting of the narrative they promote, they are stained with the blood of this victim on their hands as well! They are wicked men who should be excommunicated from the church immediately but that won’t happen because they are establishment crony devils and in union with the evermore wicked and evil Bergoglio with his internal corrupted church hierarchy! I’m sorry if this all sounds so accusatory or harsh to any one of you but this is how I truly see it and I know I’m at least in large part correct and won’t change my mind one bit! Why? Because this incident and circumstance could have been handled completely different as I’m sure it was something that was anticipated in light of the fact of how much corruption the Democrat Party is guilty of with all of their many treasonous acts since 2016 alone and Biden being a career politician organized crime racketeer and traitor for 47 years!

But where have you crooked church officials been during this time not pointing out the severe injustices and crime being committed even in your communities by so called members of the flock like Biden, who is always declaring he is a Catholic but living in total opposition to the tenets of the faith and an outright lying blasphemer of God Almighty! You foolish men who now give a bit of your lip service to his incident to obviously promote the same evil MSM and Establishment NWO narrative you’ve all been silent about all these years, you carry guilt that will sink you to the pits of hell when your judgment day comes! The world should wake up NOW and honor this young women Ashli Babbitt far exceedingly over all that unjustified hoopla and nonsense, then destruction, over that criminal Floyd who did nothing for anyone but himself and even there he failed miserably having no moral compass or the slightest bit of integrity; while this woman cared for and served her country and fellow Americans! She is a hero; to me a saintly wonderful lady and mother! But you depots out there you know who you are and more importantly God’s know who all of you are; you should be ashamed and cower in fear of the Almighty because His final judgment of all souls will come. Bergoglio encouraged and supported the blaspheming Biden and Democrat Party Agenda who have pushed full term day of delivery abortion, the murder of so much innocence, along with so many other atrocities by just giving a green light to Biden’s run for president; so he takes on all of his evil baggage, sharing in the guilt or lack of moral responsibility and conscience; even some culpability in this tragic event that he the fake Pope enticed by taking part in the evil global politics agenda and he is damned to God’s harshest judgment imaginable for it we can be certain; that is what Holy Scriptures say about anyone who so unrepentantly blasphemes God Almighty. Amen.
Ashli Babbitt; an Honorable American Heroine, Proud Patriot, USAF Veteran, cherished Mom and a Martyr in order to bring light to all of this evil in America’s government that has culminated with a grave falsehood of a criminal evil man being elevated through a fraudulent election to become the president. Her life has served a greater purpose than we can imagine or know right now! Amen.
Lawrence Morra III

Catholicism Pure & Simple

Catholic bishops strongly condemned pro-Donald Trump protesters’ incursion that penetrated the Capitol Building Wednesday as Congress debated the certification of the 2020 presidential election results, leading to the evacuation of lawmakers and the deadly shooting of one protester by law enforcement.

“I join people of good will in condemning the violence today at the United States Capitol,” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Jan. 6. “This is not who we are as Americans. I am praying for members of Congress and Capitol staff and for the police and all those working to restore order and public safety.”

“The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of this great nation,” he added. “In this troubling moment, we must recommit ourselves to the values and principles of our democracy and come together as one nation under God.”

In his own statement, Archbishop…

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Steve Bannon’s ‘War Room’ interview with Abp. Viganò

Global Reset Staging of Anti-Christ
I don’t see this as coincidental how my response to a few blogs yesterday including yours here were all relatively speaking to the same exact situation and global agenda which is designed to usher in the antichrist! My response therefore I feel is applicable to all of these blogs making the central message quite clear that the faithful must resist as this is a test of faith and delineation between the sheep and goats; or true believers and unbelievers like no time in history has there been unprecedented circumstances of such diametrically opposed belief and forces on a global scale. The instruments of such a scenario have only been partially available to the tyrants of the world in pockets until now when these separate but completely like-minded adversaries of all that is good can unite and put in place a system that will enslave the entire planet and human race!

“This is How it Starts”
Call it fascism, communism, totalitarianism or just your basic garden variety of evil tyrannical oppression it comes down to one thing; wicked minds and cold sinister hearts are at work among us at a fever pitch to crush all freedom throughout the planet! This is completely unprecedented because although horrible oppression and vicious evil has been around since the dawn of civilization, at times being horrific beyond description whether we talk of the ancient pharaohs of Egypt using massive numbers of slave laborers to construct their pyramids or temples to their many gods working these slaves to death or killing them for lack of useful work capacity! Then the ancient Mayan civilization doing the same thing and taking many captured people to use for this slavery, and even human sacrifice on a daily basis, yet with all of this hideous human behavior back then; as even now turning our focus to find examples of such atrocity in the modern age, we can still easily observe and produce stark examples, as we can speak about the diabolical Adolph Hitler putting to death millions of Jews to Pol Pot in Cambodia or Josef Stalin in Russia both butchering millions of their own people who would not cooperate or submit to these leaders and their tyranny of complete control. Make no mistake about it this is the same evil which in this current case is global and though starting with smaller reprimands and punishments such as this gathering restriction the ultimate intent is the same and no doubt if left unchecked convert to a raging inferno of hate and utter barbaric treatment of the common people! All I can say is that the majority of everyday people better make up their minds in a hurry that they won’t accept any government’s edicts or mandates as if coming from dictatorial regimes that take away freedoms or human rights; as they must be willing to rise up against these tyrannical devils by the millions and fight to the death if necessary or if they aren’t willing to fight for themselves nobody else will and with today’s massively powerful high technology tools these wicked minded tyrants have at their disposal; it will soon become a world resembling George Orwell’s novel 1984!
Here is a Scripture I quoted in an article I wrote just back in September which is good food for thought and the link to the article is provided as well.
Lawrence Morra III

Jeremiah 17:5-13 English Standard Version (ESV)
5 Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength,[a]
whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6 He is like a shrub in the desert,
and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in an uninhabited salt land.
7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
whose trust is the Lord.
8 He is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
10 “I the Lord search the heart
and test the mind,[b]
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”

https://lawrencemorra.com/2021/01/04/a-current-news-headline-canadian-covid-compliance-police-raid-home-for-unauthorized-six-person-gathering-non-compliant-citizens-arrested/

https://lawrencemorra.com/2020/09/05/the-marxist-propaganda-in-a-world-going-bonkers/

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January 4, 2021, LifeSiteNews:

Editor’s note: The following is a transcript of an interview Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò gave on the “War Room” with Steve Bannon.

1.Now that the Vatican has renewed its insidious secret agreement with China, a deal which you have repeatedly condemned as promoted by Bergoglio with the assistance of McCarrick, what can the “children of light” of the Great Awakening concretely do to undermine this unholy alliance with this brutal Communist regime?

The dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party is allied to theglobal deep state, on the one hand so that together they can attain the goals that they have in common, on the other hand because the plans for theGreat Resetare an opportunity to increase the economic power of China in the world, beginning with the invasion of national markets. At the same time that it pursues this project…

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A current news headline; “Canadian COVID Compliance Police Raid Home For Unauthorized Six Person Gathering, Non-Compliant Citizens Arrested”

“This is How it Starts”

“This is How it Starts”

COVID Mandates or Government Edicts Going Wild

Call it fascism, communism, totalitarianism or just your basic garden variety of evil tyrannical oppression it comes down to one thing; wicked minds and cold sinister hearts are at work among us at a fever pitch to crush all freedom throughout the planet! This is completely unprecedented because although horrible oppression and vicious evil has been around since the dawn of

civilization, at times being horrific beyond description whether we talk of the ancient pharaohs of Egypt using massive numbers of slave laborers to construct their pyramids or temples to their many gods working these slaves to death or

killing them for lack of useful work capacity! Then the ancient Mayan civilization doing the same thing and taking many captured people to use for this slavery, and even human sacrifice on a daily basis, yet with all of this hideous human behavior back then; as even now turning our focus to find examples of such atrocity in the modern age,

Auschwitz, Poland – May 25, 2016: Barbed wire fence at the Auschwitz concentration camp, the biggest extermination camp in Europe built by Nazi.

1949: A Nazi officer raises his riding crop as a group of women carry a fellow prisoner away in a scene from Wanda Jakubowska’s ‘Ostatni Etap’ (also known as The Last Stages or The Last Stop) which was based on her own experiences as a survivor of Auschwitz. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Murdered prisoners at the concentration camp Auschwitz. Poland. Photograph. Ca. 1943. (Photo by Votava/Imagno/Getty Images) .

we can still easily observe and produce stark examples, as we can speak about the diabolical Adolph Hitler putting to death millions of Jews to Pol Pot in Cambodia or Josef Stalin in Russia both butchering millions of their own people who would not cooperate or submit to these leaders and their tyranny of complete control. Make no mistake about it this is the same evil which in this current case is global and though starting with smaller reprimands and punishments such as this gathering restriction the ultimate intent is the same and no doubt if left unchecked convert to a raging inferno of hate and utter barbaric treatment of the common people! All I can say is that the majority of everyday people better make up their minds in a hurry that they won’t accept any government’s edicts or mandates as if coming from dictatorial regimes that take away freedoms or human rights; as they must be willing to rise up against

these tyrannical devils by the millions and fight to the death if necessary or if they aren’t willing to fight for themselves nobody else will and with today’s massively powerful high technology tools these wicked minded tyrants have at their disposal; it will soon become a world resembling George Orwell’s novel 1984!

Here is a Scripture I quoted in an article I wrote just back in September which is good food for thought and the link to the article is provided as well.

Lawrence Morra III

Jeremiah 17:5-13 English Standard Version (ESV)

5 Thus says the Lord:

“Cursed is the man who trusts in man

and makes flesh his strength,[a]

whose heart turns away from the Lord.

6 He is like a shrub in the desert,

and shall not see any good come.

He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,

in an uninhabited salt land.

7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,

whose trust is the Lord.

8 He is like a tree planted by water,

that sends out its roots by the stream,

and does not fear when heat comes,

for its leaves remain green,

and is not anxious in the year of drought,

for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

9 The heart is deceitful above all things,

and desperately sick;

who can understand it?

10 “I the Lord search the heart

and test the mind,[b]

to give every man according to his ways,

according to the fruit of his deeds.”

https://lawrencemorra.com/2020/09/05/the-marxist-propaganda-in-a-world-going-bonkers/

Change Resolutions; Like Fish in the Sea

“we are like the fish of the sea moving in massive schools”

Can people really change you may ask? I pose another question to answer that!

Can people really try and do they try, genuinely try, to alter their ways or thinking comprehensively and permanently? If they won’t actually try then talking to them about change is like speaking to a blank wall or as if they are giving lip service to be in the groove with the status-quo and say my New Year’s resolution is to do such and such then why bother saying anything if it’s not a true commitment, and therein lies a massive problem in today’s modern society of instant gratification and too much to be had, which easily transports us to this sad destination, lack of commitment, by many people in many walks of life; in general I think fewer people make lasting commitments that mean anything in today’s fast past dynamic flowing digital age where things are not only here today and gone tomorrow but with the blink of an eye a person can be on to bigger and better things or so they may think, when in actuality are deluded and living in a trance induced by multiple delusions coming at all of us from all directions at once in the cyber-istic high-tech world we are all now caught up in where MSM plays with our minds and manipulates to keep the truth from us and to cause us to believe falsehood as truth! Master plans of deception abound and we are like the fish of the sea moving in massive schools with the tide, currents, food supply and other stimuli like predator avoidance. They tend to be doing what they must habitually to carry on and live or survive just for the sake of surviving; an instinctual thing. People of course are much more complex than fish but my thought is that they aren’t much different when it comes down to the prime ingredients or reason to survive and carry on. People are creatures of habit and tend to follow patterns just like the fish in the sea and stay or go where the action is where they get what they need generally making a buck or pound; to live another day! People being more complex make many conscious decisions to do one thing or another every moment of every day, much of it out of necessity in order to survive and carry on doing what it is they do as individuals and as a member of a society or school of people in a sense. I think really changing has to come from a very needed necessity to change or it will fall by the wayside and be just another empty promise or dream and many human habits especially in the substance abuse realm are imprinted in behavior patterns and indeed brain synapses many times being almost impossible to change like say a heroin addict who wants to go cold turkey and kick the habit, stands about a snowball’s chance in hell of making it happen; unless some very powerful counter force or measure is put into play.

Sir Issace Newton’s theories of motion are brilliant and science at its best which though they are talking about heavenly bodies in space and their perpetual motions these concepts I find can be applied to human beings on various levels! “Newton developed his laws of motion in 1666, when he was only 23 years old. In 1687, he presented the laws in his seminal work “Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis,” in which he explained how outside forces affect the movement of objects.”

“In classical mechanics, Newton’s laws of motion are three laws that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it. The first law states that an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless it is acted upon by an external force.”

I say we move along in our lives in one path or direction or another until something causes us to alter or CHANGE that path we are traveling on for some very substantial REASON. We must have a powerful reason and one which can overpower the wrong path or motion of our lives in order to put it on an improved or whole new trajectory! Yes, I say actually by these principles being taken into account; I’m thinking a person can change dramatically, but it takes a whole lot to make that happen or they will stay in the same old orbit to the end of the line! What is that reason or force? It can vary depending on the individual and what needs to be changed in order to effectuate a new direction or path. Underlying this I see the inherent weakness in mankind being subject to failure as a given that is built in, just by the sheer fact we live in a finite decaying world where eventually everything changes even if it doesn’t want to or seems to not change much by human time scale standards! This is a place of dynamic total change, because of conflicting forces along with built in synergistic balance that must eventually fail, which is all inevitable; so what the heck can this add up to and more importantly is it worth trying to change once a given person is in a groove or even rut? My friends I address this whole exercise on a different level be it wanting change on a simplistic level such as cutting down ones calories and dropping some unneeded weight to the broader and more to me fundamental question, which should be paramount on all of our minds each and every day! What does my life mean or add up to and where will I end up when I die; which could be in a moment or many years to decades from now; nonetheless what do I ponder about; that bigger question which depending on the answer could mean I’ll go far beyond this short temporary life or I might just be maggot food after all is said and done and nothing more. My honest belief and conviction that I know from life experience, some knowledge through study and deep thought or debate, but, along with my now ever present faith, is that I’m much more important than “here today and gone tomorrow,” in celestial terms, and I will be in a better place with the Master or Architect and Maker of this existence. Because I see all of this as a truth and reality that I can wrap my head and heart around to a great degree; I see this short life here as more inconvenience and a transitional period; so it’s not something to be picky about small stuff and silly contrivances, but as being more important to make sure I at least address this large scale question daily as to am I preparing as best I can for that infinite journey beyond so that I am allowed to be part of all that is good, or am I arrogant enough to think I can be my own boss and design my own destiny by dropping a few pounds or not drinking too many ales while doing my own thing because I falsely think those sort of things will bring me some great satisfaction and a greatly improved enhanced version of my life; perhaps if I go to say the gym daily and play around with diet to be a totally fit guy?

Some say this is all an illusion, and, logically one could surmise that is true to the extent that we don’t have all the answers to the endless questions or especially some of the much bigger questions such as to the Why and What is the Meaning to all of this.

Of course I believe there is a purpose to everything that is going on especially in light of the fact that we fallible or imperfect limited beings have a glimpse or view through the crack in the door of what is out there in the vastness of existence; and then there is prophesy to add to this equation that was and is long term insightful bench marks of truth if you will, that have been provided from God to give us His children the guidance we so sorely need.

This is something that I recently wrote into one of my blog essays.

“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, Vanity of vanities! All is vanity” (Ecclesiastes 1:2,

Romans 8:20 says that all creation was subjected to vanity because of God’s curse. When Adam sinned, God cursed all that He had made (Genesis 3:17–19). In other words, perfection was lost. All of creation is now falling short of its original purpose; rather than working in harmony with God and creation, inhabitants of the earth have turned on each other and against God. We still reel from the effects of that curse. Everything meant to be right side up is upside down. The chaos and insanity of the world as we know it are due to the fact that God has subjected creation to vanity until the time when it will be set free (Romans 8:21).

My friends, this is where my head is and how I perceive my orbit and path through this trial of earthly life. I hope sincerely that some words I said here will be helpful to you or anyone reading them to perhaps alter some negative thought patterns and synapse that cause one to stumble more than they should, and to find a better balance and equilibrium they and all of us need; to live with confidence that the higher power God has provided all the answers which come to us in time and when it is our time! God bless.

Lawrence Morra III