Dear friends,

Did you know that Malechi 4 is fullfilled? He would send healing under His wings and restore the heart of the children (present day Christians) to the hearts of the fathers (Christians in the Book of Acts). We witnessed millions of healings through the ministry of Oral Roberts and William Branham.

I got healed myself too from psychosises. I read about the healings and prayed to the Lord Jesus and am healed. Even my wife and son who got kidnapped in Peru by the corrupt government and churches will reunite with me soon, by prayer and believing the Word of this hour!

Kind regards.

Dominique

So often the major media portrays these people as "protestors" or the clashes as "mostly peaceful protests." Judge for yourself.

A Catholic flight attendant who says United Airlines fired him after he endorsed Catholic teachings on marriage and gender identity while talking with a co-worker can proceed with his lawsuit against his union for not standing up for him, a federal judge has ruled.

The flight attendant, Ruben Sanchez, of Anchorage, Alaska, claims the airline investigated his extensive social media posts only after receiving what he describes as “baseless accusations” arising from a red-eye flight conversation in May of 2023 — and that when the company came up with nothing that violated its social media policy, it terminated him anyway.

Sanchez filed the lawsuit in January of 2025 against United Airlines and the union he belonged to while working for the airline, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

In court papers, he claims the airline violated his right to express his religious beliefs and discriminated against him because of his age, which was 52 at the time of the firing two years ago. He said had served as “a loyal United flight attendant” for almost 28 years.

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While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
J 9:4-5

When Jesus left, He sent the Holy Spirit. And there is church and a lot of people are doing good works. What does it mean that "night is coming, when no one can work"?

O gracious and holy God,
Give us wisdom to know you, Intelligence to understand you, Diligence to seek you,
Patience to wait for you,
Eyes to behold you,
A heart to meditate upon you,
A life to proclaim you.
To the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Amen.

“O glorious St. Benedict, sublime model of all virtues, pure vessel of God's grace! Behold me, humbly kneeling at thy feet. I implore thy loving heart to pray for me before the throne of God. To thee I have recourse in all the dangers which daily surround me. Shield me against my enemies, inspire me to imitate thee in all things. May thy blessing be with me always, so that I may shun whatever God forbids and avoid the occasions of sin.

Graciously obtain for me from God those favors and graces of which I stand so much in need, in the trials, miseries and afflictions of life. Thy heart was always so full of love, compassion, and mercy towards those who were afflicted or troubled in any way. Thou didst never dismiss without consolation and assistance anyone who had recourse to thee. I therefore invoke thy powerful intercession, in the confident hope that thou wilt hear my prayers and obtain for me the special grace and favor I so earnestly implore (mention it), if it be for the greater glory of God and the welfare of my soul.

Help me, O great St. Benedict, to live and die as a faithful child of God, to be ever submissive to His holy will, and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven.

Amen.”

Self-explanatory

Looking for new and exciting ways to pray!

Your comments are all welcome!

God bless you all abundantly!

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When Protestants say Peter can't be 'the rock,' they have it exactly backwards​

I grew up in the American South, and I was raised in a Protestant family. But when I was six or seven years old, my parents had some kind of disagreement with the elders of our church, and they stopped going. So after that, I was raised nominally Protestant, and we’d go to church only once or twice a year when we visited my grandparents.

When I was a teenager, I was involved in the New Age Movement, but I broke with that when I turned 18.

At age 20, I had a conversion to Christ, and I became a serious Christian—something I’ve been ever since. Following this conversion, I wanted to devote my life to teaching God’s word, and I planned to become a seminary professor and maybe a pastor.

But I still needed to figure out what church I should be part of.

In my hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas, we have dozens of churches—all different kinds. But I realized that what church has services at a time I like is not a good test of whether that church’s doctrine is true. Neither is what church is in convenient driving distance. Or what church has a pastor I like, music I like, or a social group I like. So I shouldn’t let my decision of what church to join be influenced by any of those things, because figuring out what is true is the most important thing.

I thus worshiped in local Protestant churches—since that is how I’d grown up—but I made a point of studying the theology of all the different branches of Christianity.

I studied the different Protestant groups, like Anglicans, Lutherans, Calvinists, Methodists, Baptists, and Pentecostals. But I also studied the theologies of Eastern Orthodox Christians and even Catholics.

That was saying something, because the church I had my conversion in was very anti-Catholic, so I heard lots of anti-Catholic preaching and read lots of anti-Catholic material. But I still studied what they had to say—even if it was just so I could talk Catholics out of the Church better.

And then, one day, it happened.
I was reading a Catholic book—specifically, Evangelical Catholics by Deacon Keith Fournier. And it had a long quotation from Matthew 16 in it—you know, the “You are Peter” passage:

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N.B.: the term "Christian" in this story actually means "Catholic,"--whether Roman or an Orthodox sister-church. That translation applies to almost all news reports from the Middle East.

Priests of the churches in Tabyeh, the last fully Christian town left in the West Bank, have implored help from “international actors” amid a destructive siege by Israeli settlers.
“Israeli settlers are torching holy sites, destroying farmland, and terrorizing families. The priests of Taybeh are crying out for help. The world must hear them — and act,” human rights activist Jason Jones urged on Tuesday....

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Netanyahu's war on Catholics is not a new thing for Israel; it is merely a continuation of a decades-old policy whereby long-settled Catholic communities are systematically eradicated by Jewish "settlers" who lay claim to land--and then find ways to 'remove' the original inhabitants. (Yes, it is a replication of the wars on Indians in the USA.)

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Democrats clash with ICE over characterization of marijuana farm raid

I guess this is an admission he was born on Krypton and is not a natural born American. Too late to do anything now.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

I would like to humbly ask for your prayers regarding a long-standing and painful situation I’m facing at work. For the past five years, I have been dealing with a colleague who consistently bullies me, pushes responsibilities onto me, and creates a very difficult working environment.

This colleague often acts kind and helpful when our bosses are around, but behaves very differently when they are not. I've observed her being rude to customers, including once shouting at an elderly man who didn’t understand her instructions. When I try to engage kindly with customers, she shuts me down or finds ways to blame me for minor things. As a result, I end up doing the majority of the work while she remains free from accountability.

I’ve brought this up to my supervisors, but unfortunately, they seem to trust her more and see her as incapable of such behavior. I fear that my attempts to speak up have caused them to misunderstand me as someone stirring trouble, which is deeply hurtful because I truly just want a healthy, respectful, and fair working environment.

I’m tired, emotionally worn out, and feel invisible. Please pray that:

God would bring justice and truth to light in this situation.

My bosses’ eyes and hearts would be opened to see what is really going on.

I would not grow bitter or vengeful, but remain faithful, kind, and strong.

God would give me peace and strength as I continue working in this environment.

If it is His will, that He would either change the situation—or lead me to a healthier workplace where I am valued and treated with fairness.


Thank you for reading this and for standing with me in prayer. I know that God sees what people may not, and that He is the God who defends the oppressed. Please keep me in your prayers.

In Christ,
Jane Chai

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"We are living in a time when false mysticism is a much greater danger than rationalism.
It has now become much easier to play on men’s emotions with a political terminology that sounds religious than with one that sounds scientific.
This is all the more true in an age in which the religious instincts of millions of men have never received their proper fulfillment.
A nation that is starved with the need to worship something will turn to the first false god that is presented to it."

"False mysticism is often viciously anti-intellectual. It promises man a fierce joy in the immolation of his intelligence.
It calls him to throw his spirit into the hands of some blind life-force, considered sometimes as beyond man, sometimes as within himself.
Sometimes this mysticism is political, sometimes religious. It almost always exalts emotion above thought, and its reply to intellectual argument is sometimes a program of systematic violence— the suppression of schools, the destruction of books, and the imprisonment of learned men. Why all this? Because the intelligence itself is regarded with suspicion." p 59-60

https://stmaryscathedral.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/11288825.pdf

This resonated with me in different ways. On has to do with the literal biblical innerrentist who sometime snot only believe in 6 day creation a few thousand years ago but also flat Earth. regardless of what seem more rational, regardless of what our intelligence might indicate, they cling to a personal mysticism that rejects science. Perhaps we all do it to some degree.. believing that our personal insight is special and true no matter what.

Then again there is the political manifestation. We are seeing higher education undermined and science thrown into doubt if it does not support a larger agenda.

Merton wort this in 1951, not long after WWII. Unfortunately I think it is more relevant today than ever with the rise of interest in Christian Nationalism.


"When the truth is not what we want it to be, we twist its image out of shape in our own mind to fit the pattern of our desires. In so doing, we do not hurt the truth itself: we ruin our own spirit." p 56

I also wonder what these meant in my dreams. Surprisingly accurate rendition of Sora of my dreams.

Deport Him!! Came to earth and the USA illegally, blatant criminal!!

Why Kerr County balked on a new flood warning system​

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The hatred for anything brought to you by Dems is intolerable, and well, what's that quote from Forrest Gump's Mom?

Have you ever actually read the entire terms of use for a new app on your phone? If so, did you understand everything in it? Even if you didn't, you probably still checked that you would “read and agree” to everything in the document. This kind of half-hearted consent is similar to what happens for a lot of Catholics every Sunday. When we get to the creed, many Catholics aren’t really paying attention to what their words mean, but are merely going through the motions. We all know it happens, but the real question is - if we aren’t giving our consent, can we have real conversion?

The answer is no. This is because conversion requires our consent.
Unlike a legal contract, conversion requires more than an outward act.

WHAT IS CONVERSION?
The root of the word “convert” means to “turn around”, “change”, or “transform”. Think of turning from sin, death, evil, and hell to now orient yourself toward God, grace, goodness, virtue, heaven, and everlasting life. It is the transformation of the human heart, by an act of God's grace.

Thus, we sometimes call one who becomes Catholic a “convert” which means they have turned from their previous beliefs and now are Catholic. We all know that many of the most vibrant Catholics have come from other faith traditions or no faith at all, to become Catholics. Why are they so vibrant? It is because they had to consent to becoming Catholics and their consent made all the difference. Consent is found in responding with a “yes” to an invitation by Jesus.

Notice the dynamic of conversion in the Bible:

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Canada is my home
And I am proud to live in Canada
I have been living living in Canada
For 45 years
Also I have friends
That are also Canadian
And Canada is a country that is not in war
We have peace keepers
That are fighting over seas
To work towards peace

The Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA failed to include multiple buildings on its flood risk map for Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, according to an analysis by NPR, PBS's FRONTLINE and data scientists.

At least 27 camp attendees died and five others remain unaccounted for after massive flash flooding swept the private Christian summer camp for girls along the Guadalupe River on July 4.

These findings come from a new analysis by NPR, PBS's FRONTLINE and data scientists, which show that at least eight buildings, including four cabins housing younger campers at Camp Mystic, are located within FEMA’s designated floodway, which is a dangerous area expected to see high-velocity water.

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I’ve recently started thinking the media’s role as the “Fourth Estate” was more than just a journalistic slogan — it feels like a vocation. But the deeper I’ve gone into Catholic dogmatic theology, the more I’ve realised that this isn’t just about civic duty or democratic checks and balances. It’s about truth. And truth isn’t just a concept — it’s Jesus Christ, the Logos, the Word made flesh.

Dogmatic theology teaches that divine revelation — handed down through Scripture and Tradition — is safeguarded by the Church’s judicial role in deciding hotly contested theological and moral issues. Truth isn’t “crowd-sourced”. It comes from God. So when I look at the media today, I ask: is it still serving truth, or has it become a mirror for society’s fragmented desires? Are Christians' desires dragged along with the crowd too.

[Current usage for the estates, is executive, legislature, judiciary, and media]

The old idea of “estates” — clergy, nobility, commoners, with the fourth estate, the Press, (added around 1771 AD in a speech to the British Parliament*) — might have made sense in those times, but in the affluent West, it’s more like a historical metaphor than a living reality. The clergy no longer holds sway over public life, nobility’s mostly ceremonial or non-existent, and the commoners? We’ve morphed into consumers, “influencers”, and shareholders. The estate model assumes a kind of moral hierarchy, but modernity’s flattened that into a marketplace of competing narratives.

Still, I cling to the idea of the Fourth Estate — because it could be prophetic. In Catholic theology, the prophetic office isn’t just about foretelling the future; it’s about confessing truth under oppression. That’s what the media ought to do when it is honest and courageous. But when it compromises truth to gain clicks, or objectivity for ideology, it’s failing its vocation.

Catholics (ideally) believe that every institution — media included — is called to serve the common good. That means having firm foundations planted deeply in truth, being oriented toward justice, and open to grace. And grace is sorely needed in a world where trust in institutions is tanking faster than a dodgy crypto coin.

And if the media wants to reclaim its “soul”, it’ll need more than reform — it’ll need conversion.

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* it is said in Wikipedia that: Oxford English Dictionary attributes, ("without confirmation") the origin of the term to Edmund Burke, who may have used it in a British parliamentary debate of 19–20 February 1771, on the opening up of press reporting of the House of Commons of Great Britain. Historian Thomas Carlyle reported the phrase in his account of the night's proceedings, published in 1840, attributing it to Burke.[5][6][7]

This is from the Old Testament, but I believe that we can see some parallels here from what was going on then to what is happening in our day and time. And I am going to speak of what I have witnessed in my own nation, the USA. For I have watched, from childhood to adulthood, the slow and gradual spiritual and moral decline of the church. And I have lived in 10 different cities in 5 different US states over the course of my 75 years of life, and I have been involved in Christian ministry most of my life in the church.

I grew up under the Christian & Missionary Alliance church denomination, but where the C&MA (now just called The Alliance) was not available, we also participated with other church denominations such as Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist, and/or non-denominational. Now, church denominations are not the church, but that is where we gathered with the church, the body of Christ, for the teaching of the Word, for Christian fellowship, for communion, for prayer, and for Christian ministry.

These gatherings of the church, some or most of them, anyway, used to be very spiritually focused on teaching the Scriptures, in emphasizing holy living and walks of faith in obedience to the Lord Jesus. Sharing the truth of the gospel with the people of the world was of upmost importance, as was being biblically literate. We used to gather twice on Sundays and every Wednesday evening, and throughout the week we had small group Bible studies in people’s homes. Following Jesus in obedience was being taught.

But in the 1950’s “the church” (overall) was talked into incorporating (merging, uniting, combining) with the state (the ungodly) and turning their gatherings into businesses to be marketed to the people of the world, just like any other business, both of which God forbids in the Scriptures. And so many of them began attending marketing seminars and reading marketing literature on how to grow their churches and on how to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings. And things went downhill.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2-3; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

Then, in order to attract people from the world to their gatherings they became more worldly, and marketing tricks and schemes began to take precedence over truth and righteousness. Compromises to the truth of the gospel, in order to appease human flesh and to not offend the ungodly, began to become common place. Pastors were turning into entertainers, and a small group of musicians were now “the worship team” leading the people to all sing in unison (no more hymn books) to often spiritually weak songs.

And I am giving an overall picture here, so not all of this will apply to every church congregation or gathering, but this is the big picture. The church in the USA, overall, has gone the way of the world to attract the world, and the truth of the gospel has taken a huge hit, and the purpose of the church has also taken a huge hit in a downward spiral. And so many people now who call themselves Christians are not living much differently from the people who make no professions of faith in the Lord Jesus. And God is grieved!

Now the Scriptures (Old Testament and New Testament) warn us of a day when God will judge his people (see Revelation 2-3) for their rebellion against him and his word, for diluting his gospel, and for living worldly and ungodly lives focused on self and on self-pleasure, and not on walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands in surrender to his will, in self-denial and in dying to sin. And I personally believe that we are now beginning to see some of those judgments on my nation, the USA.


For Our Nation

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An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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They Have Turned Their Back to God
An Original Work / July 11, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I hope Congress considers some legislation for mandatory fines for interfering in a law enforcement operation.