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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Islamic-Charity.com

Link is in Title. Go to link to read more and to donate from there.

Emergency appeal for Gaza

far more than 1300 people have been killed and over 5500 wounded in the Gaza Strip. Thousands of people have been left homeless by the Israeli aggression. In 3 weeks, $1.5 billion worth of damage has been caused. The Gazan people have little or no access to food, water, fuel or medicine. They are in urgent need of your donations.


Urgent Appeal: Iraqi Children in Crisis

Millions of civilians in Iraq, including women and children, are starving for food, medicine and even water. You can help in changing the tragic situation by donating whatever you can, and our teams will continue to make sure your donations reach the suffering Iraqis.


Help Provide Shelter

There are many shelterless poor families in Afghanistan. We have already bought the land and constructed 25 homes - another 75 are needed. The cost of each house is about $5000 (£3000).


Sisters in need

A special summer school for sisters, providing not only their education, but also the basic necessities for life. This school gives a wonderful start in life for our sisters who are from very poor backgrounds.


Sponsor a Child

A big difference to a little life. There are so many orphans throughout the world that are not only deprived of the love of their parents, but are also of basic human necessities.


Make a difference

Many elderly people from Iraq and Afghanistan have been forced to flee their homes. They are alone with no family support, often in need of medical assistance.


Bore Wells for Drinking Water

We are making bore wells in areas where they don't have drinking water. The cost of a well starts at $1000-2000 and depends on the depth of the water.

Extraordinary Women from the Muslim World - Charity Sponsored by Islamic Relief

Extraordinary Women

from the

MUSLIM WORLD

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Charity Sponsored

by Islamic Relief

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Myanmar

Darfur

Congo

Palestine

And more

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Tiananmen Square Massacre



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inWKFKv9UA

History - "The War on Lebanon and the Conspiracy to create Greater Israel"


A better title might be "The War on History - Lebanon and the Conspiracy to create Greater Israel" in view of the fact of the errors below.

The below author is about 60% right and 40% very wrong. Where he strays is accepting the idea that Iran is somehow threatened by Israel/America or is on the side of the Arabs and especially Muslims and Christians. The false Christians that he mentions, I will leave to Steve and others to expose for the lying in wait serpents they are. Iran is a CIA and Shiite and Zionist entity which pretends to be an Islamic state. It is not, it is a pagan Hitlerian/Persian Police State puppet to inflict horrible damage on Iraq and all that stand in the way of the evil filth of Israel's agenda to conquer all of the Middle East by their bought and sold chief foot licking dog, the genocidist United States of America. The author is also wrong in identifying the Jews as having any claim biblically or otherwise to Palestine. Also, concerning the cows (see below in the article) that "Israel" "avenged," I have a suggestion what they can do with their sacred cows....




From: Bhatkallys

The War on Lebanon and the Conspiracy to create Greater Israel
Posted By:patelraheem On 9/10/2006

The War on Lebanon and the Conspiracy to create Greater Israel
By A. Faizur Rahman


It is time the international community realised that Israel’s expansionist ideology, tacitly supported by U.S. imperialism, is the root cause of the Middle East crisis,


Its been more than two weeks now since the month-long misanthropic Israeli campaign of massacring innocent civilians and destroying Lebanese infrastructure in the name of freeing two soldiers and eliminating “a state within a state” was brought to a halt by the United Nation Security Council Resolution 1701. But unfortunately thousands of Lebanese are still left homeless either because of flattened homes or due to scores unexploded Israeli missiles and bombs lying around everywhere. According to the U.N humanitarian chief Jan Egeland, “90 % of the cluster bomb strikes [by Israel] occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict when we knew there would be a resolution.” (Gulf Times, Sep 1, 2006). This, coupled with the desperate attempt by the 30,000 strong Zionist army to capture as much Lebanese territory as possible before the ceasefire came into effect on 14 August 2006, conclusively proves that the terror unleashed by Israel was neither about neutralizing the Hezbollah nor about the rescue of the two captured soldiers. The truth is that, the warmongers in Tel Aviv conveniently ignored the two soldiers forcing their families to seek the help of the French government to secure their release. In any case, given the enormous number of casualties suffered by Israel, it would naïve to believe that the Jewish state sacrificed more than a hundred soldiers for the sake of two.


Regarding Hezbollah, the charge against them was that of launching Katyusha rockets on Israeli civilians. But interestingly, a list of all Hezbollah attacks since May 2000(that is, after the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Lebanon), compiled recently by the Jewish Virtual Library, a division of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, shows that a majority of those attacks were against legitimate military targets and not civilians. According to the statistics provided by the Library, the only major non-military “collateral damage” to have been caused by the Hezbollah rockets was the killing of 50 cows in Kiryat Shmona on August 11, 2006! This means that there was no provocation from Hezbollah in terms of attacks on Israeli civilians for the Zionists to launch a full scale war. This leads to the logical question; what then were the real reasons behind the systematic destruction of Lebanon?


According to Uri Avneri, Israeli peace activist and former member of the Knesset, the real aim of this war is to “change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government” (see alternativenews.org). The same apprehensions are echoed by Thierry Meyssan, the author of the best-selling book 9/11: The Big Lie. In a recent article, “The Neo Conservatives and the Policies of Constructive Chaos”, posted on his website voltairenet.org, he writes that the war on Lebanon was part of a Zionist- Neocon plan conceived a year ago - as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle on July21,2006 - and finalized at a meeting organized by the American Enterprise Institute at Beaver Creek, Colorado in June this year, to convert Lebanon into a mini-Christian state and annex part of its territory with the ultimate aim to attack Syria and Iran. The meeting, he says, was attended by Dick Cheney, Benjamin Netanyahu, Richard Perle and Nathan Sharansky.


The assessments by Uri Avneri and Thierry Meyssan perfectly accord with the long-cherished Zionist dream of expanding the present boundaries of Israel to create, what has come to be known as, “Greater Israel”. This diabolical irredentism is the result of a deliberate misrepresentation of a biblical verse in which God addresses Prophet Abraham saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the Euphrates” (Genesis 15:18). In fact, even the present state of Israel was forcibly established by displacing the Palestinians on the basis of another “divine” promise in which God is supposed to have covenanted with Abraham to give him and his “seed” after him the entire land of Canaan, that is Palestine, “for an everlasting possession”(Genesis 17:8 ).


Laying exclusive claim to Abrahamic ancestry, and treating these “divine promises” as their “Holy Title Deed”, extremist Jews entertain the idea of occupying Arab lands by asserting that they are entitled to the entire region between the Nile and the Euphrates, comprising present day Israel (including the occupied territories), Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, and a major part of Saudi Arabia up to Medina! ( source: “Complete Dairies” Vol II, p.711 by Theodore Herzl). Not surprisingly, the Zionists ignore the fact that Arabs too are the descendants of Abraham through his son Ishmael, and that they are in possession of the aforementioned lands by virtue of the same divine promise.


Nevertheless, the obduracy of Zionist dogmatism saw the Israelis taking a major step towards implementing their pre-planned expansionist agenda when they occupied Lebanon in 1982 hoping to use it as a launching pad to usurp more Arab territory. Their hopes were dashed when they were driven out by the Hezbollah in May 2000. But the idea of Greater Israel was never given up, and it can be safely assumed that the Israelis were regrouping all these years. The capture of two soldiers by Hezbollah was just the pretext they were waiting for to occupy Lebanon again.


It is indeed unfortunate that the world community helplessly watched for more than a month the horrendous events unfolding in the Middle East before a ceasefire could be enforced. In this context, the conniving role played by George W. Bush makes it imperative to know why the U.S., instead of making Israel see reason, continues to offer billions of dollars in military and economic aid to that country to suppress the legitimate aspirations of the Arabs. A deeper analysis of the U.S. political scene will reveal that it is the Evangelical Right, also known as the Christian Zionists, led by extremist Televangelists such as John Hagee, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, who, along with the Jewish lobby, call the shots, in so far as the U.S. Middle East policy is concerned. In his famous book “They Dare to Speak Out”, Paul Findley, former Republican Congressman, quotes Jerry Falwell as saying, “I don’t think America could turn its back on the people of Israel and survive. God deals with nations in relation to how those nations deal with the Jews.”


This blind support to Israel is based on the Evangelical belief that the occupation of all Arab lands by the Jews (in fulfillment of the prophesy in Genesis 15:18) is a prelude to the Second Coming of Christ and Armageddon, the biblical concept of the last battle between the Good and the Evil before the day of Judgment. But what many are unaware is that the Zionist Christians are not exactly honest in their support for Israel. They have their own hidden religious agenda according to which, Jesus in his second mission will convert all the Jews to Christianity, and therefore, to hasten this process all must be done to help the Jews take over the Arab lands between Nile and Euphrates. The extremist mindset of the Christian Right can be gauged from the comments made by John Hagee in his book, Jerusalem Countdown. Advocating a war on Iran he writes, “This is a religious war that Islam cannot – and must not - win.” “The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching…..Rejoice and be exceeding glad - the best is yet to be.”


It is a strange paradox that, on the one hand we have the Christian Zionists supporting Israel with financial, moral and military aid in the dogmatic hope of one day converting all the Jews to Christianity, and on the other we see the cunning Zionists - who never accepted Jesus as their Messiah - successfully manipulating the Christian Right using their own Bible to achieve the goal of Greater Israel. The ultimate victims of this unholy scheming between two Machiavellian religious groups are the innocent Arabs, particularly the Palestinians, who have been rendered refugees in their own homeland.


The best way to stop the evil designs of the Zionists is to counter their disinformation campaign and neutralize their lobby in the U.S. This can be done by alerting the people of America about the dangers of the present policy of their Government towards the Jewish state. Interestingly, this is exactly what Paul Findley, meant when he warned, more than two decades ago, about the risks of supporting Israel. In an interview to the Journal of Palestine studies in 1985, he says, “If we continue our present course, allowing a small state in the region to control public discourse in this country, in effect decide what the U.S. policy will be, we’re putting ourselves in the hands of foreigners who could easily lead us into a terrible war.”


Today we see the Findley prophesy being fulfilled in Iraq (a part of the proposed Greater Israel), to say nothing about the nefarious neo-con plot to attack Syria and Iran. It is time the international community realised that Israel’s expansionist ideology, tacitly supported by U.S. imperialism, is the root cause of the Middle East crisis, and the only solution to this decades old imbroglio is the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from all occupied territories, and the establishment of an independent, sovereign and a viable Palestinian state.


(The writer is a Peace activist and Executive Committee Member, Harmony India, – a Chennai based organization dedicated to communal amity and secularism. He can be reached at a.faizur.rahman@gmail.com)

Culture: March 18, 2008 Tribute to Slain Chaldean Archbishop

Culture: March 18, 2008 Tribute to Slain Chaldean Archbishop

Please see the link to Culture for the video tribute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_aJV7YMl8A&feature=player_embedded

French chaldeans pay tribute to slain archbishop

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France 24 report death Christian leader Iraq has sent shockwaves through Chaldean community homage Paulos Faraj


1 comments:

Steve in Vista said...

Thank you Maritza for posting this tribute to a brave Christian and a brave Chaldean, that is, a brave Iraqi. He was brave in the face of the Antichrist persecution against Christians and Muslims. Antichrist (the Dajjal) is specifically a collective term which is the "Beast" and also a singular term which is the individual Antichrist at the end of the eschaton. The Beast has many heads down through the centuries until the Second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Parousia.That Antichrist is of course the Zionists and the American neo-Fascists and Iranian Shiite Militias (and the Iranian anti-Muslim attempt to revive the pagan Persian religions and "culture" - Pagan Persian religions and "culture" are specifically a head of the "Beast" which is the empire of the Antichrist).

April 29, 2009 9:54 PM

Slightly edited excerpt from a letter.

Saddam Hussein, with his last words praising Allah and standing by Iraq and declaring the rights of the Palestinians, died as a martyr to God. The reasons here for his being a martyr to God are, number one, his steadfast adherence to belief in God and number two his steadfast care for Iraq, the country God gave him to care for as its ruler, and number three, his solidarity with the Palestinians in that specific sense.

The Nakba is the beginning of the Antichrist or Dajjal (Zionists and their lackeys, the U.S. and Iran etc.) persecution against all of mankind from their stolen base of empire building, namely Occupied Palestine. Iraq (especially Saddam and the Resistance) is the first among countries that bravely withstands the persecution of the Antichrist. The media blackout in the west and especially America is total. Without satellite feeds ... to television here and radio ... including especially shortwave, and currently in the 21st century the Internet (Uruk and some others), and especially wonderful, gentle, caring, beautiful, elegant people who tell the truth, ...there would be no telling of the truth. That is what Palestine Cry is all about. By the way, I know Chaldeans here and these words resonate with theirs.

When I bring up the Antichrist, I do so, NOT in a defeatist manner, but meaning we know who we fight against - we fight against the Zionists and their puppets etc.. My view is basically typological. The difference between right and wrong. I fight to help those who are being hurt and to win.

God bless you all who fight this fight in everything in every way,

Steve

The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church Of Egypt



The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church Of


Egypt



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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

March 18, 2008 Tribute to Slain Chaldean Archbishop




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_aJV7YMl8A&feature=player_embedded




French chaldeans pay tribute to slain archbishop


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O Sole Mio



‘O SOLE MIO

Che bella cosa na jurnata ‘e sole,
n’aria serena doppo na tempesta!
Pe’ll’aria fresca pare gia’ na festa...
Che bella cosa na jurnata ‘e sole.

Ma n'atu sole
cchiù bello, oje ne'.
O sole mio
sta 'nfronte a te!
O sole
O sole mio
sta 'nfronte a te!
sta 'nfronte a te!

Lùcene ‘e llastre d’’a fenesta toia;
’na lavannara canta e se ne vanta
e pe’tramente torce, spanne e canta
lùcene ‘e llastre d’a fenesta toia.

Ma n'atu sole
cchiù bello, oje ne'.
O sole mio
sta 'nfronte a te!
O sole
O sole mio
sta 'nfronte a te!
sta 'nfronte a te!

Quanno fa notte e ‘o sole se ne scenne,
me vene quase ‘na malincunia;
sotto ‘a festa toia restarria
quanno fa notte e ‘o sole se ne scenne.

Ma n'atu sole
cchiù bello, oje ne'.
O sole mio
sta 'nfronte a te!
O sole
O sole mio
sta 'nfronte a te!
sta 'nfronte a te!



O Sole Mio

What a wonderful thing a sunny day
The serene air after a thunderstorm
The fresh air, and a party is already going on…
What a wonderful thing a sunny day.

But another sun,
that’s brighter still
It’s my own sun
that’s in your face!
The sun, my own sun
It’s in your face!
It’s in your face!

Shining is the glass from your window;
A washwoman is singing and bragging
Wringing and hanging laundry and singing
Shining is the glass from your window.

But another sun,
that’s brighter still
It’s my own sun
that’s in your face!
The sun, my own sun
It’s in your face!
It’s in your face!

When night comes and the sun has gone down,
I start feeling blue;
I’d stay below your window
When night comes and the sun has gone down.

But another sun,
that’s brighter still
It’s my own sun
that’s in your face!
The sun, my own sun
It’s in your face!
It’s in your face!

Monday, April 27, 2009

Ősi zene - Életöröm / Ancient Music - Joy of Life



Ősi zene - Életöröm / Ancient Music - Joy of Life

I really like this!

Falun Gong suppressed in China



April 27, 2009

Falungong Silent in China, Thriving AbroadAsia Times Online, April 25, 2009




Related NewsFalun Gong to Hold Rallies Across WorldSouth China Morning Post, April 25, 2009


Tiananmen Square





Fill the Square: Online Petition



Principle demands of Tiananmen Mothers
July 29, 2001


PETITION
DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY
SUPPORT THE TIANANMEN MOTHERS



Support the Tiananmen Mothers in their struggle for a better future for China in which violators of human rights may be held accountable for their acts, and endorse their demands outlined below.

I support the Tiananmen Mothers in their demands for:

The right to mourn peacefully and in public;

The right to accept humanitarian aid from organizations and individuals inside and outside China;

No more persecution of June Fourth victims, including those injured in the massacre and the families of the dead;

The release of all people still suffering in prison for their role in the 1989 protests; and

A full, public accounting for the June Fourth Massacre, ending the impunity for the perpetrators of this crime.

---> Place a memorial bouquet for the massacre victims on the virtual Tiananmen Square Sign the petition on line at: http://www.fillthesquare.org/

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Friday, April 24, 2009

Charity

SURA XCII. THE NIGHT [XVI.]

MECCA.

In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.

By the night when it veils!

And the day when it is displayed!

And by what created male and female!

Verily, your efforts are diverse!

But as for him who gives alms and fears God,

And believes in the best,

We will send him easily to ease!

But as for him who is greedy,

And longs for wealth,

And calls the good a lie,

We will send him easily to difficulty!

And his wealth shall not avail him

When he falls down (into hell)!

Verily, it is for us to guide;

And, verily, ours are the hereafter and the former life!

And I have warned you of a fire that flames!

None shall broil thereon, but the most wretched, who says it
is a lie and turns his back.

But the pious shall be kept away from it, he who gives his
wealth in alms, and who gives no favour to any one for the sake
of reward, but only craving the face of his Lord most High; in
the end he shall be well pleased!






Mt:25:
1 ¶ Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.
2 And five of them were foolish and five wise.
3 But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them.
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps.
5 And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh. Go ye forth to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out.
9 The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.
10 Now whilst they went to buy the bridegroom came: and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut.
11 But at last came also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not.
13 Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.
14 ¶ For even as a man going into a far country called his servants and delivered to them his goods;
15 And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey.
16 And he that had received the five talents went his way and traded with the same and gained other five.
17 And in like manner he that had received the two gained other two.
18 But he that had received the one, going his way, digged into the earth and hid his lord's money.
19 But after a long time the lord of those servants came and reckoned with them.
20 And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents. Behold I have gained other five over and above.
21 His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
22 And he also that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me. Behold I have gained other two.
23 His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
24 But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I know that thou art a hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown and gatherest where thou hast not strewed.
25 And being afraid, I went and hid thy talent in the earth. Behold here thou hast that which is thine.
26 And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not and gather where I have not strewed.
27 Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers: and at my coming I should have received my own with usury.
28 Take ye away therefore the talent from him and give it him that hath ten talents.
29 For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: but from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be taken away.
30 And the unprofitable servant, cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
31 ¶ And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty.
32 And all nations shall be gathered together before him: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left.
34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:
36 Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.
37 Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry and fed thee: thirsty and gave thee drink?
38 Or when did we see thee a stranger and took thee in? Or naked and covered thee?
39 Or when did we see thee sick or in prison and came to thee?
40 And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.
42 For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty and you gave me not to drink.
43 I was a stranger and you took me not in: naked and you covered me not: sick and in prison and you did not visit me.
44 Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to thee?
45 Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen: I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.
46 And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

موسيقى مصرية

Thursday, April 23, 2009

From Ronnie and Fernando

Am posting this for them. Safiya

From Ronnie -

"Rio!"

Rio de Janeiro - "cidade maravilhosa" Viva! the folks of Rio, the Cariocas, DO NOT sleep. I am serious. This is the Rio National Anthem, or whatever. Love - Ronnie and Nando

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Dalit






But this is the truth.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Adagio in G Minor (Albinoni)

Стивен, мы управляли анализом. Половина Россиян - фальшивка. Она - нью-йоркский Еврей, который является amatuer, но с Черными связями Операций. Все это должным образом отмечено.

Другой, Мария Виктория - псевдоним. 

Франц Кафка - очень интересный автор, Еврей коммунист.



Saturday, April 18, 2009

From Safiya

For all the gentlemen here, for being truly gentlemen.


Hello from Me and Nando and Sugarloaf





Day and Night, Night and Day



I love you all!~Rhonda






I am posting this for Rhonda

Friday, April 17, 2009

Fear of Islam akin to racism: Yvonne Ridley

Fear of Islam akin to racism: journalist


Staff Reporter


Says it is hard and challenging times for Muslims in the West



— Photo: S. Mahinsha

Narrating her experiences: Yvonne Ridley, British journalist, in the city on Sunday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Muslims are persecuted today in the same way as the Jews were in the 1930s, Yvonne Ridley, British journalist and anti-war activist, said here on Sunday.

Ms. Ridley, known for her outspoken views and defence of Islam, shot to fame in 2001 following her capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan while working as a journalist with the Sunday Express. Following her release from captivity, Ms. Ridley converted to Islam.

“It is hard and challenging times for the Muslims in the West. The British media has an Islamophobic agenda,” she said. Islamophobia which the Muslims experience in the West is racism in reality.

Addressing presspersons at a function organised by the Jama’at-e-Islami in the city on Sunday, Ms. Ridley said the British and American forces were fighting a losing battle in Afghanistan. “I don’t know why the western leaders do not read their history books,” she said referring to the futile attempts made by the Russians, the Mongols and the Greek emperor Alexander to conquer the country in the past.

“The situation in Afghanistan is complex. The West should bombard the country not with bombs and bullets but with aids.”

Recalling her experience as a hostage in the hands of the Taliban, she said the members of the outfit treated her with utmost dignity and respect. “They kept on addressing me as sister and told me that I am their guest,” said Ms. Ridley, who prefixes her name with the title “sister” following conversion to Islam.

“After being captured by the Taliban for crossing the border in burqa without passport or visa, I never really thought that I would see the sunset that night,” she said. On the sixth day of her captivity, a Muslim cleric approached her with a demand for conversion to Islam. “But I protested and went on a hunger strike.” However, following her return to England, as the Taliban decided to set her free after 11 days of captivity, she read the Koran and embraced Islam. “My friends and family members were shocked by my decision,” she said.

“What impressed me about Islam was its sense of social justice, the concept of dispensing justice in equal measure to your friends and enemies,” she said. “Today, I am not afraid to talk about sharia and jihad.”

According to her, following her conversion, certain sections of the British media now refer to her as a former journalist. “It is as though they (media) cannot accept a Muslim woman as a journalist,” said Ms. Ridley, who has delivered lectures on issues relating to Kashmir, Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya and Uzbekistan at Ivy League universities across the U.S., Australia, South Africa and West Asia.

Ms. Ridley, founder member of the Friends of Islam, an all-party parliamentary group, is the author of In the Hands of the Taliban and Ticket to Paradise, a novel based on the backdrop of 9/11 which she wrote before getting converted to Islam.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Rhonda, Adieu mon ami, mon soeur amour ! Deus abencoa Rhonda e Fernando!

Rhonda, dear sister friend, have a wonderful flight tonight and my love goes with you always. Say hello to Sugar Loaf and especially cette fortunée votre fiancée, Fernando. Deus abencoa Rhonda e Fernando!

Post once in a while when you get a chance. Adieu

Hope you enjoy this!

"Adagio" - Secret Garden

Both are

Simply Beautiful...

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Para tu Rhonda

Dance














Grazas, Steve, meu querido. Esta é unha versión requintada!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

אני לא לא לשנוא אותם כי הו לורד שנאה אותך

אני לא לא לשנוא אותם כי הו לורד שנאה אותך
אני שונא אותם שנאה מושלמת
אני שונא מושלמת עם שנאה


"Αγίος "Αγίος "Αγίος Κυρίος ὁ ΘΕΟΣ ὁ Παντοκράτωρ
ὁ ἦν καὶ ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἐρχόμενος
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Kύριε ελέησον
Baruch Adonai Yahweh Eloheuinu Yahweh echad Elohiko Hashamaim Shamaim Hashamaim Eloueth Ahiyah asher Ahiyah
El Olam Yahweh El Elyown Yahweh Elohim eth Yaoth Elohim Qadosh
Eloah Israel El Shaddai
Moshawah
Adonai Eloah Melek Eloah miqqadash
El Israel Anawim
El Elohim Yahweh El Olam eth Abba Our Father of Lights Holy with
Whom there is no variation or shadow of turning
ben Yahweh bar Elohim
Yahweh Shamah Emmanuel Yeshua ha Maschiach Jesus Christ Our only Lord and Saviour
Ruach Yahweh Chokmah Abiyr Gebuwrah Neshamah Yahweh
Holy Spirit Life Quickening Breath of Life Energy our
Paraclete
Ruach Elohim Olam Yahweh Borea Emeth Huy Eloah Chay Melek Olam Eloah Sabaoth Holy Trinity Adorable Unity
Eloah Anawim with and
by the prayer and company of all Your
Elect Doxas and Anawim for and with us unceasingly kanawn Anawim

Our Only

KANNAW
Our Only
Holy Lord God Who Created and Redeemed us
TSIDKENOU
Our Only Righteousness
YIREH
Our Only Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world
NISSI
Our Only Sacrifice
MELCHISEDECH
Our Only Priest King
MELEK
Our Only Sovereign King of kings and Lord of lords
SHALOM
Our Only Peace from above
KOHANE
Our Only High Priest
ROHI
Our Only Good Shepherd and Overseer of our souls
ROPHE
Our Only Healer and Miracle Worker
MIQQADOSH
Our Only Sanctifier
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HOLY HOLY HOLY LORD GOD PANTOCRATOR
Who is and was and is to come

Unceasingly
to Whom be all the

LOVE
ADORATION
AUTHORITY
GLORY
HONOR
OBEDIENCE
THANKSGIVING
POWER
DIVINITY
RICHES
WISDOM
STRENGTH
BLESSING
DOMINION
SALVATION
PRAISE
WORSHIP
SERVICE
DEEDS
INNOCENCE
FAITH
PREACHINGS
PROPHECIES
PRAYERS
EXALTATION
THANKSGIVING
WE LOVE YOU FOR YOU FIRST LOVED US
WITH ALL THANKSGIVING

With and by the prayer and company of all Your elect angels and saints, for and with us unceasingly,
especially Your holy

SERAFIM
CHERUBIM
KURIOTETES
ARCHES
especially
St. Michael
St. Gabriel holy Archangelos
EXOUSIAS
DUNAMEIS
ANGELOS

Grant us Your gifts and mercies, especially Your Holy

CHOKMAH WISDOM FIRE OF LOVE OF WISDOM YOURSELF HOLY LIFE

BIYNAH UNDERSTANDING WISDOM OF SUPERNATURAL KNOWLEDGE PROPHECY AND MIRACLES

ETSAH COUNSEL MIGHT OF SANCTIFYING LOVE IN FAITH

GEBUWRAH POWER STRENGTH HEALINGS MIRACLES

DAATH KNOWLEDGE TO KNOW ONLY THE GOOD DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS AUTHORITY AND STRENGTH REPELLING ALL EVIL SPIRITS INVISIBLE AND VISIBLE FROM US UNCEASINGLY

YIRAH GODLINESS ENERGY OF MIRACLES IN THE UNITY OF GOD TONGUES AND TRANSLATION

AHABAH AGAPE PHILADELPHIA LOVE SPIRIT OF THE GOSPEL THE LOVE OF GOD JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR

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Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour by Your Most Holy Cross and Holy Blood and Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour covering the whole world and cleansing the whole universe the only first born from the dead in the flesh the only one Resurrected Ascended Assumed Bodily in the flesh and sitteth on the right hand of God Our Father in the third heaven in the unity and power and bond of love of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete Holy Holy Holy Lord God Pantocrator


With and by prayer and company of all Your elect angels and saints, for and with us unceasingly, all Your saints from the first Adam to the Last Saint, the Alpha and Omega, the Saint of saints, Jesus Christ Our only Lord and Saviour, Blessed and Only Sovereign King of kings and Lord of lords Most Holy Angel of Almighty counsel Captain of the hosts of the Lord especially saints

Adam Abel Seth Enosh Kainan Mahaliel Jared Enoch in the flesh Mathusalach Lamech Noah Heber who corrupted not his tongue at the tower of Babel Job Terah Abraham Sarah Isaac Rebekah Jacob Rachel Leah Amram Jochabed Moses Joshua Caleb Gideon Barak Samson Miriam Rahab Naomi Ruth Jael Deborah Jepthe's daughter Hanah Samuel David Nathan Ahijah Elijah in the flesh Elisha Hosea Amos Jonah Micah Isaiah Ezechias Judith Nahum Joel Zephaniah Habakkuk Ezekiel Jeremiah Obadiah Daniel Esther Haggai Zechariah Malachi Zachary Simeon John the Baptist Joseph Mary Anna Elizabeth Joseph and Mary's sons James Joseph Jude Simon and their daughters Your half brothers and sisters in the flesh Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour Incarnate Son of God + Mary of Magdalene Mary, Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour Your mother's sister, Mary wife of Cleophas James and Joseph their sons Salome Zebedee and his wife parents of John and James Boanerges Lazarus Mary and Martha Mary mother of John Mark Peter Paul Andrew James John Thomas James Philip Bartholomew Matthew Simon Thaddeus Matthias Barnabas Silas Luke Mark Epaphras Timothy Onesimas Archippus Philemon Ceasar Hermas Aristobulus Apollos Cephas Epaphroditus Sosthenes Agabus Asyncritus Hermes Herodian Phlegon Rufus Aristarchus Pudens Trophimus Jason Mark the Evangelist Simeon son of Cleophas Sosipater Andronicus Agabus Carpus Hermes Barnabas Achaicus Fortunatus Archippus Philemon Aquila Nicanor Parmenas Prochorus Timon Andronicus Crescens Epaenetus Silvanus Thaddeus Titus Euodia Onesiphoras Apelles Clement Lucius Quadratus Aristarchus Mark Zenas Ananias Crispus Phillip the Deacon and Evangelist Artemas Cleophas Justus Mark Amplias Apelles Aristobulus Narcissus Stachys Urbanus Philemon Gaius Hermas Linus Patrobus Philogus Erastas Herodian Olympas Sosipater Quartus Tertius James the Righteous the brother of the Lord in the flesh Apollos Ceasar Cephas Epaphroditus Onesiphoras Sosthenes Tychicus Stephen Timon Lucius Manahen All Your Holy Innocents for all the innocent Stephen Nazarius Celsus Antipas Papias Ignatius Zosimus Rufus Polycarp Justin Pothinus Clement Sanctus Attalus Lawrence Clement Vincent Fabian and Sebastian John and Paul Cosmas and Damian Pantaleon Hermolaus Hermippus Hermocrates Gervase and Protase Ponticus Athenogenes Vettius Apagatus Irenaeus Cyril Hippolytus Cyprian Donatian and Rogatian Processus and Martinian Mark and Marcellianus Crispin and Crispinian Severianus and his companions Nestorius Anastasius Joanna Susanna Mary at Rome Phoebe Julia Agatha Lucy Perpetua Felicitas Agnes Blandina Cecilia Catherine Anastasia Scholastica Monica Bibiana Demetria Ursula Barbara Persis Syntyche Chloe Tryphena and Tryphosa Petronilla Peter's wife seventy thousands of Japan millions under Tamerlane all Your martyrs from Abel on who did not bow the knee to baal neither do we Papias Clement Ignatius Polycarp Pothinus Irenaeus Justin Hegesippus Hippolytus Clement of Alexandria Origen Paul the Hermit Antony of the desert Eusebius Athanasius of Egypt contra-mundum Gregory Nazianzen Marcellinus Epiphanius Jacob of Nisibis Aphrahat of Persia Ephrem of Syria Cyril of Jerusalem Basil Hilary Ambrose Serapion of Thmuis Asterius Synesius Jerome Pelagius Augustin of Hippo Julian of Eclanum Paulinus Prudentius Patrick Remigius Andrew of Ceasarea Brendan Benedict of Nursia Columbkille Columban Pelagius Gregory I Augustine of Canterbury Isadore of Seville John Damascene Venantius Fortunatus Maximus Bede Cosmas of Maiuma Gregory of Narek Anselm Theophylact Francis Richard Francis Xavier Huchede Pius X Adrian Fortescue Thomas David Williams Christian martyrs under 11th century Egypt-Syria 12th century Almohad 13th century Persia 14th century Tamerlane 15th century Turks 16th 17th century Japan 18th 19th century France 20th 21th century Armenia Russia Palestine Poland Germany China Cuba Sudan India Iraq Greece Mt. Athos throughout the earth St. Enoch in the flesh and St. Elijah in the flesh, Your holy prophets yet to return

Save and deliver us bless us grant us long life and good health protect us lead us into the path of sanctification by Your Holy Spirit our Paraclete indwelling us bringing with you God Our Father and the Son Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour Threefold Light of One Undivided Glory in our spirit soul flesh in Your joy to do Your will in all things at all times all the innocent all men at the moment of conception Your faithful apostles prophets shepherds elders teachers evangelists overseers serving faithful whole priesthood of the faithful those having works of miracles gifts of healing services of help for the poor and needy teaching Your true Gospel administrations tongues and translation martyrs and saints all who truly write us in Your most Holy Name all men who have ears to hear Your voice for Your sheep hear Your voice and do Your will unto all salvation eternal and temporal

Holy God of Covenant + have mercy on in spirit soul flesh and have us do the same for the sake of Your most Holy Name, God of Covenant of no bribe or secret gift have I taken from any man, in our word and deed without fee or reward for ourselves - on
All the innocent children elderly infirm orphan widow needy poor hungry thirsty stranger naked sick imprisoned Your persecuted church captive in tribulation and all Your lost sheep unceasingly

Immortal Son of God Most Holy Angel of Almighty Counsel O Lord Christ Jesus our only Saviour in the Unity and Power and Bond of Love of Your Holy Spirit our Paraclete with us a help when we go forward

Christ Jesus uncreated Light before us a comfort by the way our spirits poor of Your kingdom with no strange gods in longsuffering

Christ Jesus Shekinah glory behind us a shadow from the heat mourning comforting whom you will blessing Your Holy Name in faith

Christ Jesus Pillar of cloud Pillar of fire within us guided supernaturally by Your star as the wise men meekly throughout the earth the day holy to the Lord in virtue and strength
Christ Jesus firmness the Rock beneath us grant us goodspeed and quietness in hungering and thirsting for righteousness to fill the empty honoring our fathers and mothers in self control
Christ Jesus the Lion of Juda above us a covering from the rain and cold spreading abroad Your mercy with no killing or hatred except of evil in endurance

Christ Jesus the root and offspring of David to the right of us a chariot in weariness in pure heart seeing God with no adultery with honesty in brotherly love

Christ Jesus the bright and the Morning star to the left of us a refuge in trouble a safe path always Your peacemakers sons of God persecuted for Your sake bearing no false witness with no covetousness in Your joy all true Christian totally pro-life rulers doing Your will aided and guided by You at all times in everything

Christ Jesus in phronimos mild as doves in our lying down shield Almighty always without peer about us

Christ Jesus in goodness in our sitting up with Michael and Gabriel lead in Salvation always
Christ Jesus in Your supernatural knowledge in our rising up a staff in slippery paths a haven in shipwreck

Christ Jesus in kindness in the heart of all who think of us

Christ Jesus in godliness on the tongue of all who think of us and speak of us and to us
Christ Jesus in love on the brow of all who think of us and see us

Christ Jesus in the eye and ear of all who perceive us who see us who hear us who hate us who love us who reject us who welcome us - may all Your sheep welcome us in peace.



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Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour by Your Most Holy Cross and Holy Blood and Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour covering the whole world and cleansing the whole universe the only first born from the dead in the flesh the only one Resurrected Ascended Assumed Bodily in the flesh and sitteth on the right hand of God Our Father in the third heaven in the unity and power and bond of love of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete Holy Holy Holy Lord God Pantocrator with and by the prayer and company of the same all Your elect angels and saints for and with us unceasingly


HOLY HOLY HOLY LORD GOD PANTOCRATOR
FATHER SON JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR THE ONLY MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN IN THE FLESH
HOLY SPIRIT HOLY DUNAMIS HOLY ENERGY
Indwelling the
Blessed Virgin Mary, BLESSED SPIKENARD, by which You were conceived and truly born on earth 70 generations from Adam and Your creation of all creation thus subsuming flesh of Adam and all men, HOLY CROCUS, Immortal Son of God Immortal Soul descended from the third heaven from the Father’s right hand for our salvation

JESUS CHRIST INCARNATE WORD OF GOD LIGHT OF THE WORLD EMPOWER US FORESEEING CLOTHED IN WHITE IN LOVE IN THE EVERGREEN LAUREL OF ETERNAL LIFE

Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy + by the Most Holy Cross and Holy Blood of
Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ covering the whole world and cleansing the whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our total deliverance and we be totally protected and delivered in everything in every way unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come.



JESUS CHRIST EPIPHANY OF RADIANT FIRE IN SPIRITUAL WONDROUS KNOWLEDGE SHIELD US INSTANTANEOUSLY CLEANSING SUPERNATURAL RED VINE

Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy + by the Most Holy Cross and Holy Blood of
Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ covering the whole world and cleansing the whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our total deliverance and we be totally protected and delivered in everything in every way unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come.

JESUS CHRIST TRANSFIGURED SHEKINAH GLORY IN IMMACULATE PURITY SPIRIT OF THE SON FILL US WITH THE AURA OF YOUR MIGHT DESCENDING THROUGH DEEP BLUE OF YOUR DAWN

Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy + by the Most Holy Cross and Holy Blood of
Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ covering the whole world and cleansing the whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our total deliverance and we be totally protected and delivered in everything in every way unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come.

JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED FOR US YOUR BLOOD AND WATER ENLIGHTENED QUICKENING FORCE NOURISH US IN YOUR ALMIGHTY GLORY BY THE HOLY GOLDEN BROWN WOOD OF YOUR CROSS

Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy + by the Most Holy Cross and Holy Blood of
Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ covering the whole world and cleansing the whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our total deliverance and we be totally protected and delivered in everything in every way unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come.

JESUS CHRIST RESURRECTED FIRST BORN BY YOUR EXOUSIAS BREATH OF GOD IN REPULSE OF ALL EVIL INCREASE IN US THE REFULGENCE OF YOUR ETERNAL LIGHT HOLY IMMORTAL IMMACULATE GOLDEN ARK OF THE COVENANT

Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy + by the Most Holy Cross and Holy Blood of
Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ covering the whole world and cleansing the whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our total deliverance and we be totally protected and delivered in everything in every way unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come.

JESUS CHRIST ASCENDED TO THE FATHER'S RIGHT HAND IN YOUR MIRACULOUS POWER YOUR TAATSUMAH WATER OF LIFE STRENGHTEN US SPOTLESS MIRROR OF GOD CLEAR SILVER SEVEN TIMES PURE

Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy + by the Most Holy Cross and Holy Blood of
Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ covering the whole world and cleansing the whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our total deliverance and we be totally protected and delivered in everything in every way unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come.

JESUS CHRIST PENTECOST COME HAVING POURED FORTH THE PROMISE OF GOD OUR FATHER THE HOLY SPIRIT CHOKMAH YOU THE LAST ADAM YOUR REAL PRESENCE TRULY MADE MANIFEST AGAIN IN YOUR EUCHARIST WHOM ALONE YOU GIVE TO US HOLY LORD GOD ENLIVEN PROTECT US IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF YOUR GOODNESS ROSEATE BEAUTY IMMACULATE WHITE LIFE

Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy + by the Most Holy Cross and Holy Blood of
Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ covering the whole world and cleansing the whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our total deliverance and we be totally protected and delivered in everything in every way unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come.

MOST HOLY LORD GOD ALMIGHTY Abba Our Father through You alone, Immortal Son - Soul in the Form of God in the Bosom of the Father Only-begotten Incarnate Word Wisdom Power of the Father, Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour, send forth Your Holy Spirit, Life Quickening Breath of Life Energy, our Paraclete, with and by the prayer and company of all the elect angels and saints, enkindle in our hearts the fire of Your love and we shall be created and you shall renew the face of the earth.
Through our only Lord God Saviour King in the flesh the Divine Warrior, Jesus Christ, alone, with and by the prayer and company of all the elect angels and saints, Glory be to God Our Father in the third heaven and to the Son Jesus Christ Who shall return therefrom with all Your elect angels and to the Holy Spirit our Paraclete as it was before all time and creation, Creator and Ruler over all and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come.




BLESSED AND ONLY HOLY GOD GRANT US TO DO YOUR WILL IN ALL THINGS THAT WE WILL BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY OF THE EIGHTH DAY WITH YOU

THE DAWN WILL COME ON THE EIGHTH DAY, AT CHRIST’S PAROUSIA IN THE SAME FLESH IN WHICH HE SUFFERED AND IS RISEN AND GLORIFIED, WHEN HE WILL RECREATE HIS CREATION, ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST- SHOWN FORTH IN THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW AND THE GOSPEL OF MARK AND THE GOSPEL OF LUKE AND THE GOSPEL OF JOHN; THE LORD GOD YAHWEH YESHUA RUACH YAHWEH INDWELLING FULLY ALL IN THE ETERNAL LIFE REALM, SENTIENT LIFE REALM, SIMPLE LIFE REALM, INANIMATE LIFE REALM, WITH HIS ATTENDANT MINISTERING SPIRITS OF FIRE, HIS ELECT ANGELS, IN COMMUNION WITH ALL MEN WHO ARE SAVED, RESURRECTED BY HIM THEN HERE ON EARTH, THRICE HOLY LORD GOD YAHWEH INDWELLING ALL OF YOUR SAINTS IN THE KINGDOM IN OUR SPIRITS SOULS BODIES FOREVERMORE UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME. AMEN.

Panagia Portaitissa παναγια πορταιτισσα

"Zoksapatri ke lyou-ke agi-you epnevmaty" (Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. [translated from the Copt])


Panagia Portaitissa (παναγια πορταιτισσα)




The Akathist Hymn to Our Lady, the Theotokos and All Pure Virgin Mary

Preamble

As soon as the Angel had received his command, he hastened to Joseph’s house and said to the ever-Virgin: "Behold, heaven was brought down to earth when the Word Himself was fully contained in you! Now that I see Him in your womb, taking a servant’s form, I cry out to you in wonder: Hail, 0 Bride and Maiden ever-pure!"



First Chant

An Archangel was sent from heaven to greet the Mother of God, and as he saw You assuming a body at the sound of his bodiless voice, 0 Lord, he stood rapt in amazement and cned to her in these words: Hail, 0 you through whom joy will shine forth; hail, 0 you through whom the curse will disappear! Hail, 0 Restoration of the Fallen Adam; hail, 0 Redemption of the Tears of Eve! Hail, 0 Peak above the reach of human thought; hail, 0 Depth even beyond the sight of angels! Hail, 0 you who have become a kingly Throne; hail, 0 you who carries Him Who carries all! Hail, 0 Star who manifests the Sun; hail, 0 Womb of the Divine Incarnation! Hail, 0 you through whom creation is renewed; hail, 0 you through whom the Creator becomes a Babe! Hail, 0 Bride and Maiden ever-pure!



Kontakion

Knowing that she was a virgin, the Blessed One courageously answered the Angel: "Your surprising words seem hard for my mind to accept; how can you speak of a birth that is to come from a conception without seed? And why do you cry: Alleluia!"



Second Chant

Trying to grasp the meaning of this mystery, the Virgin asked the holy messenger: "How is it possible that a Son be born from a virginal womb? Tell me." And he answered her with awe, crying out in these words: Hail, 0 Hidden Sense of the Ineffable Plan; hail, 0 Belief in Silence That Must Be! Hail, 0 Forecast of the Marvels of Christ; hail, 0 Fountainhead of Truths Concerning Him! Hail, Celestial Ladder by whom God came down; hail, 0 Bridge leading earthly ones to heaven! Hail, 0 Wonder, everthrilling to the angels; hail, 0 Wound, ever-hurting to the demons! Hail, 0 you who gave birth to Light ineffably; hail, 0 you who told no one how it was done! Hail, 0 you who surpasses the wisdom of the wise; hail, 0 you who enlightens faithful minds! Hail, 0 Bride and Maiden ever-pure!



Kontakion

When the power of the Most High overshadowed the one who had never known the nuptial bed, her fruitful womb conceived, and she became for all a delicious field for those who wished to reap salvation by singing: Alleluia!

Gustav Mahler - 9th and 2nd Symphonies, death and resurrection

Death









Resurrection




The Twelve Prophecies

From the:

CATHOLIC DICTIONARY
The Catholic Press, Inc.
CHICAGO: ILLINOIS

Imprimatur
+ Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Archbishop of Chicago


Chicago, August 5, 1950

Prophecies, The. The 12 lessons taken from the Old Testament which are chanted before the blessing of the Baptismal Font on Holy Saturday morning. The Prophecies treat of Old Testament history and the prophecies. They were read in the early Church to instruct those about to be baptized.
Catholic Dictionary 1950

They are the following:
The First Prophesy: Genesis 1: 1-31; 2: 1-2
The Second Prophesy: Genesis 5: 32; 6; 7: 6: 11-14, 18-21, 23-24; 8: 1-3, 6-12, 15-21
The Third Prophesy: Genesis 22: 1-19
The Fourth Prophesy: Exodus 14: 24-31; 15: 1
The Fifth Prophesy: Isaias 54: 17; 55: 1-11
The Sixth Prophesy: Baruch 3: 9-38
The Seventh Prophesy: Ezechiel 37: 1-14
The Eighth Prophesy: Isaias 4: 1-6
The Ninth Prophesy: Exodus 1-11
The Tenth Prophesy: Jonas 3: 1-10
The Eleventh Prophesy: Deuteronomy 31: 22-30
The Twelfth Prophesy: Daniel 3: 1-24


Both Catholics and our Muslim brothers and sisters in God profess the resurrection of Christ and our future resurrection at his return from heaven. No other religions confess this.
(Judaism is dead and Talmudic and Antichrist and damned)

From the: CATHOLIC DICTIONARY The Catholic Press, Inc. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Imprimatur + Samuel Cardinal Stritch Archbishop of Chicago - Chicago, August 5, 1950
Resurrection of Christ. The greatest of all Christ's miracles and the proof of His divine mission. For although He worked many other wonders, yet without His Resurrection, as Saint Paul states (1 Cor. 15:17), our faith would be vain and we would still be in our sins. The reason for this is that resurrection from the dead was the sign which Christ Himself promised as the proof of His divine mission (Matt. 12:38 - 41; John 2:19), and had He failed to return to life on the third day He would have been convicted of being an imposter. His enemies, the priests and Pharisees, understood full well the importance of this sign, and therefore took precautions to seal the tomb and post guards (Matt. 27:62 - 66). Since these arrangements excluded the possibility of fraud, they thereby increased for posterity the certainty of the miracle. The Resurrection was not an apparent return or a mere hallucination of the Apostles, but resumption by Christ of His human body. It is a historical fact attested by witnesses who could neither deceive, wish to deceive, nor be deceived. Those whom the Bible mentions as having seen the Risen Christ include: Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome; the Apostles; Cleophas and another disciple at Emmaus; Saint Paul; more than 500 disciples. Of the fact of Christ's Resurrec¬tion, therefore, there can be no doubt (Matt. 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20). The Apostles bore witness to it constantly; in fact, it formed the basis of their entire preaching (e.g., Acts 2:24-32; 2 Cor. 5:15; 2 Tim. 2:8). Not only is it the foundation of our faith; it is also the pledge and example of our own resurrection. Easter Sunday is the Feast of the Resurrection. Resurrection of the Body. The doctrine that the souls of all men, both good and bad, will be reunited to their bodies at the second coming of Christ. Just as the body shares in the good acts or in the sins of the soul in this life, so it will share in its reward or in its punishment in eternity. Each soul will be reunited, by the power of God, to identically the same body which it inhabited in this life. The risen body, will be without any defect of human nature and will be invested with the special qualities of the glorified body. This doctrine is the 11th article of the Creed, and one of the principal doctrines of our Faith. This consoling truth was known to the orthodox Jews of the Old Testament (2 Mach. 7:9-11) and was more clearly and emphatically taught by Our Lord on various occasions (Matt. 22:23-32; John 5: 28-29). Indeed, by Himself rising from the dead, Christ gave us a pattern and a pledge of our own resurrection (1 Cor. 15:20-23; 1 Thess. 4:13); for at His command on the last day our bodies will be restored to us in a condition like to His own glorified body: subject to our souls, and immune from decay, suffering, and death (1 Cor. 15:42-44).

Monday, April 13, 2009

Ave Maria

Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Ave, ave dominus
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus ventris
Tuae, Jesus.
Ave Maria

Ave Maria
Mater Dei
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Ora, ora pro nobis
Ora, ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Nunc et in hora mortis
In hora mortis nostrae
In hora mortis, mortis nostrae
In hora mortis nostrae
Ave Maria

Amen
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Hail Mary,
full of grace,
the Lord is with thee;
blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.

Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.


Judeo Mason assault on Catholicism and Society at large

This is from a half century ago.

Portion from -
THE KINGSHIP OF CHRIST....


By

REV. DENIS FAHEY, C.S.Sp., D.D., D.Ph., B.A.,


CHAPTER III
AN OUTLINE OF THE THEOLOGY OF HISTORY

ACCEPTANCE OF CHRIST THE KING AND SUBSEQUENT REJECTION

… The crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ was the rejection by the Jewish nation of God’s programme for order. They refused to accept that there was any life higher than their national life and they would not hear of the non-Jewish nations coming in as members of the messianic kingdom, on the same level as themselves. …

The so-called Reformation did not attempt to set up a supranational organisation in the place of the Catholic Church. That was reserved for the French Revolution, in which was witnessed the first appearance in public of the new ideal of a purely naturalistic society striving for the universality that belongs only to the Catholic Church. Modern history since 1879 has been, to a large extent, the account of the domination of state after state by the naturalistic supranationalism of Freemasonry, behind which has been steadily looming up the still more strongly organised naturalistic supranationalism of the Jewish nation. That is why the post-revolutionary epoch has witnessed, in country after country, persistent attacks on the programme of Christ the King in regard to the Church, the state, the family, education, the religious Orders, the press and private property. Soon after every successful Judaeo-Masonic revolution, since the first in 1789 down to and including the Spanish Revolution of 1931, the world has begun to hear of the country’s entering upon the path of “progress” by the introduction of “enlightened” reforms, such as, the separation of Church and state, the legalisation of divorce, the suppression and banishment of religious orders and congregations, the glorification of Freemasonry, the secularisation of the schools, the nationalisation of property and the unrestrained licence of the press. This is Satan’s programme for the elimination of the supernatural influence of Christ the King and all consideration of membership of Christ. Satan himself knows well that the carrying out of his programme can only lead to savagery and chaos, through the ruthless enslavement of the many by the few. As time goes on and the attack on God’s rights develops, human beings are treated less and less as persons, more and more as individuals. This is the morally inevitable consequence of the domination of the Citizen over the Christian and a sure sign of Satan’s increasing influence over society. “Russia” or “Moscow” is but the prolongation of the principles of the French Revolution and the culmination of a long series of efforts. If Marx’s efforts had succeeded in the Paris Commune of 1871, France would have been exploited instead of Russia.


Thus, in practically every country in Europe, in which the whole people once worshipped the Blessed Trinity in union with Christ as priest in Holy Mass and strove to organise their social life under Christ the King in accordance with that protestation of homage, Satan has succeeded at one time or another in setting up a native government hostile to the Mass and to the rule of Christ the King. There are still two exceptions — Poland and Ireland. In these two countries Satan cannot yet boast that he has succeeded in getting a native government to insult the Mass and attack the formation of children as members of Christ. But those two countries, so remarkable for their traditional loyalty to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, whom He has sent, are weakening in their grasp of order. While some of the other countries that had succumbed to the wiles of Satan and his emissaries in the past, have begun to react and are returning to our Lord and His Church, these two countries have declared themselves indifferent to Him. Article 114 of the Polish Constitutional Law of March 17th, 1921, re-enacted by the Constitutional Law of April 23, 1935, states: “The Roman Catholic faith, being the religion of the great majority of the nation, occupies a leading position in the State among other religions, which, however, enjoy equal rights.” In Ireland, by Article 44 of the Constitution in operation from December 29th, 1937, “The State recognises the special position of the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church as the guardian of the faith professed by the great majority of the citizens” and recognises equally … the Jewish congregations as the Churches of the minorities. Thus the Polish state and the Irish state, to put the matter succinctly, declare themselves, as such, indifferent to the struggle between the true Supernatural Messias and the natural messias.1



SOME NATIONAL REACTIONS
We have seen that modem history since 1789 has been to a large extent the account of the domination of state after state by the naturalistic supranationalism of Freemasonry, behind which has been gradually and steadily emerging the still more strongly organised naturalistic supranationalism of the Jewish nation. Now, since human society, just like individual men, cannot avoid essential deviations from order unless it submits to God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the anti-supernatural revolt has brought about inevitable disorder and decay, even in the natural life of nations. The imposition of an anti-supernatural form has inevitably resulted in natural decline. This has shown itself especially in the Catholic countries, because the naturalistic forces have devoted particular energy to the attack on the elements of supernatural organisation still to be found in these countries, with disastrous consequences for the national life. But the Protestant countries have not been spared. In them, however, by the fact of the accepted separation of the Christian and the Citizen the de-supernaturalising process was already well on its way. It has been continued by the widespread legalisation of divorce, the elimination of true Christian education, and especially by the developing domination of money with its complete reversal of order. This reversal of order involves the subordination of members of Christ, actual or potential to the production of material goods and of production to finance. The results are to be seen, in the treatment of human beings as mere individuals not as persons, in the decay of family-life, in the increasing socialisation of property, and in the subjection of nations to those who control money.



SPAIN’S REACTION
Spain’s reaction against the principles of the French Revolution has been the most poignant and the most thorough, for, after Russia, it was in Spain that the “rights of man” came nearest to the complete overthrow of the rights of God. The history of Spain and Portugal since the beginning of the nineteenth century may be well summed up in these words of Père Deschamps: “The revolutions which have succeeded one another in these countries [Spain and Portugal] have been caused for the most part by the rivalry between different sections of Freemasonry. These work together harmoniously in the struggle against Christian social order but tear one another to pieces when they have attained power. The same holds true for Mexico . . . ”2

The Spanish Revolution of 1931 was a Masonic revolution. A Masonic bulletin published by M. Léon de Poncins proclaims it to the world: “The new Republic,” we read therein, “is the perfect embodiment of our doctrines and our principles. It would be impossible to bring about a political revolution more completely Masonic than the Spanish Revolution.”3. The Masonic revolution was intended to be only the forerunner of the Communist revolution, but General Franco rose to do battle for the rights of God and saved Spain for Christ the King.



PORTUGAL’S REACTION
Portugal’s reaction against Judaeo-Masonic disorder has been on the whole peaceful, but it is well to have it known that if General Carmona and Dr. Salazar have been able to continue their work of orderly reorganisation, Freemasonry has not been idle. In 1931 and again in 1935 the Grand Orient attempted to get rid of them but failed. Everybody knows that the revolution of 1910, which put an end to the monarchy was the work of Freemasonry.4

In regard to the points of the divine plan for order concerning the relation of the state to the Catholic Church, the family, and the education of members of Christ, the Portuguese Constitution favours the return to order, while considering it prudent to take account of the results of decay and to await the development of the right mentality towards the divine plan through education. Thus “the State shall maintain the régime of separation in relation to the Catholic Church and any other religion or cult practised within the Portuguese territory,”5 but will keep up diplomatic relations with the Holy See with reciprocity of representation. Civil marriage and civil divorce are allowed, but the state will not permit Catholics married by the Church to apply for civil divorce. The state will not, therefore, aid the revolt of Catholic members of Christ against Christ.

The Portuguese corporative state fully recognises the fact that man is not only an individual subordinate to the state but also a person for whose well being and development the state itself exists.



IRELAND’S REACTION
The struggle against England on the national level has so absorbed the attention of Irishmen that relatively few of them ever envisage that struggle in its full relation to the vaster and more intensely realconflict waged between our Lord Jesus Christ and Satan. They know that when England embraced the heretical doctrines of the so-called Reformers in the sixteenth century, Ireland remained steadfast in its hold on order, but they do not accurately know what has been the effect of the French Revolution on Ireland considered from the point of view of the vital struggle between Christ and Satan which is being waged in the world. We have seen that the progress of the French Revolution has meant the successive renunciation by states of all acknowledgment of the Mystical Body of Christ and the supernatural order, under the influence of the naturalistic supranationalism of Freemasonry and the Jewish nation. As a consequence all religions are placed on the same footing, that is, the Catholic Church is placed “on the same level as heretical sects and even as Jewish perfidy,” to use the expression of Pope Pius VII.6 The State thus declares itself indifferent in the struggle between our Lord Jesus Christ and the New Messias and we know that “he who is not with me is against me” (St. Matt. XII, 30).


The widespread ignorance in Ireland of the meaning of naturalism and of the significance of the principles of 1789 is shown by the repeated exhortations to Irish men to accept without discrimination all the principles of Wolfe Tone and James Connolly. One of the great tragedies of these men’s lives was that they were caught up in movements whose inner significance and ultimate orientation they were far from realising. This tragedy is even more poignant in the case of James Connolly than in that of Wolfe Tone, for James Connolly’s devout reception of the Sacraments and recital of the Rosary before death showed that he believed firmly in the divinity of our Divine Lord and honoured His blessed Mother.7



GERMANY’S REACTION
In order to understand the different currents in the German reaction against Judaeo-Masonic influences, we must bear well in mind that the Jewish nation and Freemasonry are working in the camp of Satan for the reign of naturalism, that is, for the disruption of the divine plan for order and the elimination of supernatural life and love from the world. They will hotly deny this or scoff at it, but the objective order of the world is a fact. Further, the leaders of the Jewish nation aim at the inauguration of the reign of the natural messias and the rejection of our divine Lord, in view of their own domination, and they use their undeniable influence in Freemasonry for that purpose. Accordingly, we must be prepared to see these naturalistic forces favour Protestant powers like England and Prussia, in so faras they may be useful instruments in propagating naturalism, and at the same time seek to use them for the ulterior schemes of Judaeo-Masonry. We must be prepared too for reactions when these Protestant countries perceive that what they consider their national interests have been sacrificed on various occasions to Jewish interests and that their national life is in danger of corruption and decay.

We need not be astonished, then, to find, on the one hand, in books like Les Sociétés Secrètes et la Société, by Père Deschamps, S.J., and LesPourquoi de la Guerre Mondiale, by Mgr. Delassus, lengthy accounts of the different ways in which Jewry and Freemasonry favoured the hegemony of Prussia over the German countries, and the substitution of Berlin for Vienna as the cultural centre of the German-speaking peoples. On the other hand, we find in books like that of Dr. Friedrich Wichtl, Weltfreimaurerei Weltrevolutioin, Weltrepublik8 the accusation levelled at Jewry and Freemasonry of having continually worked against the interests of Germany. For example, Wichtl shows that Freemasonry throughout the world turned against Germany during the Great War (1914-1918). In particular he proves that it was through Masonic pressure that Italy entered the war against Austria and Germany. He shows also that the Communist Republic in Munich and the whole Communist movement in Germany and Russia after the Great War was the work of Judaeo-Masonry and Brothers Toller, Levien, Axelrod, Wadler, Ewinger, Lenin and Trotsky, etc., etc.9 On page 286, he gives as his conclusion that “neither we, Germans, nor the visible governments of our enemies are responsible for the terrible slaughter of the great war, but that dark, secret power which we have called World-Masonry, behind which is hidden the invisible ruler of the destinies of all states and peoples, world-Jewry.”

In their books, Père Deschamps, S.J., and Mgr. Delassus stress the fact that the organised naturalistic forces favoured Prussia, in view of utilising that power’s anti-Catholic attitude for the elimination of the spirit of the Mystical Body of Christ from Germany. Wichtl insists upon the fact that in the end, Prussia began to see that she was being sacrificed in her turn for “higher interests.” One is strongly reminded of a remark made to the distinguished historian, Cardinal Pitra, at Vienna in 1889. A highly placed personage, whose name he does not give, said to him: “The Catholic nations must be crushed by the Protestant nations. When this result has been attained, a breath will be sufficient to bring about the disappearance of Protestantism. Thus we shall arrive at state atheism.”10 Hence the points of view defended by these two groups of writers are complementary.11

The German reaction against the corrupting naturalistic influence of Jewry and Freemasonry, instead of inaugurating the return of the whole German nation to the divine plan for order, from which north Germany turned aside in the sixteenth century, has intensified the disorder. The reaction is a purely naturalistic one by which the German race is put in the place of the Mystical Body of Christ, German Blood is substituted for Sanctifying Grace, the life-blood of the Mystical Body, and the instinctive aspirations of the German racebound national soul, as interpreted by the leader of the race, replace the moral law. In the place of the supernatural, supranational Mystical Body of Christ, the Jews also put their race and their nation, thus declaring that order is to come to the world through all nations being moulded by the Jewish nation. Instead of drawing the obvious lesson from the Jewish rejection of Christ and striving to bring Germany to accept His divine plan, the National-Socialist movement has denounced the whole Christian revelation as a superimposed deformation of the German national soul and set up the German race and its national aspirations in the place both of the Mystical Body of Christ and a fortiori of the Jewish race and nation.

Accordingly, National-Socialism substitutes the German race and its exigencies of social organisation for the supernatural, supranational Mystical Body of Christ and its exigencies of social organisation, expressed by the indirect power of the Church, Christian marriage as the union of members of Christ, and Christian education as the formation of members of Christ. One can readily conclude that the National-Socialist reaction against the corroding influence of Jewish naturalism on German national life leads, not only to measures of repression against the Jews but to a dire persecution of the Catholic Church.12

The deified German race has attacked the rival natural deity, the Jewish race, directly, and has proceeded systematically to get rid of it as corrupting the very fount of deity, German blood. It also systematically undermines and seeks to eliminate the supernatural, supranational Catholic Church. Catholics are still allowed to profess at Mass that they will endeavour to live their lives as members of Christ and that they will strive to organise society so as to be aided in so doing. But, from the moment Catholics in Germany and Austria leave the church after Mass, they find society organised on the principle that the highest form of life is German national life and that German blood is higher and nobler than sanctifying grace, the lifeblood of the Mystical Body. National Socialism demands an education which forms the young to regard membership of the German race, not membership of Christ’s Mystical Body, as the highest good. The moral law, of which the sole divinely appointed guardian is the Catholic Church, is replaced by the exigencies of German blood as declared by the leaders of the people. Thus the whole social organisation of German life and the ideals animating it are completely anti-Catholic.

The radical opposition of German racial theories to Catholic teaching is made clear in the instruction to combat them, issued by the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities to rectors of seminaries and Catholic universities. The document, which was sent on April 13th 1938, runs as follows: “Last year, on Christmas Eve, our august Pontiff and gloriously reigning Pope, in his allocution to the Cardinals and Prelates of the Roman Curia, referred in grave and sorrowful terms to the grievous persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany. It was a cause of the greatest pain to the heart of the Holy Father that, in order to excuse such flagrant injustice, bare-faced calumnies were invented, and most pernicious doctrines, falsely alleged to be scientific, were spread far and wide, with the intention of creating dire confusion in minds and uprooting the true religion. In view of this state of things, the Sacred Congregation of Studies urges Catholic universities and faculties to direct all their resources and efforts to the defence of truth against the inroads of these errors. Accordingly, those who are teaching in these centres of higher studies must mobilise all the means at their command in biology, history, philosophy, apologetics, legal and moral science, and thus forge the weapons with which to refute decisively and expertly the following absolutely untenable and erroneous doctrines:

“1. The human races by their natural and immutable characters are so different, one from another, that the lowest of them is further removed from the highest than it is from the highest species of animal.

“2. The vigour of the race and blood-purity must be preserved and cultivated by every means. Anything that conduces to this end is by the very fact honourable and permissible.

“3. The intellectual and moral qualities of man come mainly from his blood, the source of racial characteristics.

“4. The essential aim of education is to develop the characters of the race and to inflame men’s minds with a burning love of their own race as of the supreme good.

“5. Religionis subject to the law of race and must be adapted to it.

“6. The primary source and supreme rule of the whole juridical order is the racial instinct.

“7. Only the Cosmos or Universe exists, a living being; all things, man included, are only diverse forms, increasing through the ages, of the Universal Living Being.

“8. Individual men exist by the State and for the State: whatever rights they possess come to them exclusively through a concession from the State . . . ”

The following phrases of the Encyclical of Pope Pius XI On the Persecution of the Church in Germany must be read in conjunction with the above propositions, especially with Nos. 5 and 6: “He who takes the race, or the people, or the state, or the form of government, the bearers of the power of the state or other fundamental elements of human society—which in the temporal order of things have an essential and honourable place—out of the system of their earthly valuation, and makes them the ultimate norm of all, even of religious values, and deifies them with an idolatrous worship, perverts and falsifies the order of things created and commanded by God. Such a one is far from true belief in God and a conception of life corresponding to true belief . . . We have done everything to defend the sanctity of a word solemnly pledged, to protect the inviolability of obligations freely undertaken, against theories and practices which, if officially approved, must destroy all confidence and render valueless any word that might also be pledged in the future.”

In The Rulers of Russia, I quoted an author to the effect that the German monetary system was a reaction against the fallacy of making the volume of a country’s money or exchange-medium depend on the amount of gold the government of the country could control.13 It is quite true that the volume of money or exchange-medium ought to be proportioned to the development of a country’s capacity for production, not to the amount of gold that may happen to be in its central bank. But the German financial system, as a whole, is far from being in harmony with the principles of St. Thomas; in conjunction with the racial theory it will tend to the treatment of the human person as a mere individual. The German government controls the creation of bank credit by the Reichsbank, and allows this new bank credit to reach the channels of trade by granting loans of it to whatever businesses it favours. Now, when the government takes over exclusive control and management of the lending business, we have, in practice, socialism or Communism. For a government to create bank credit and lend it to whom it chooses is even more vicious than for private banks to create money as loans. In the case of private banks, arbitrary discrimination is not the primary motive in denying loans. The German government determines what businesses may or may not borrow and thus exercises the power of life and death over them. This power tends to reinforce the treatment of subjects as mere individuals not as persons.

1 Cf. quotations from Pope Leo XIII concerning the obligation of States, pp. 7-12. (back)
2 Les Sociétés Secrètes et la Société, Vol. II, p. 668. On pages 668-680 the author quotes a number of Masonic documents concerning the secret history of Spanish and Portuguese revolutions.

The remark made about Mexico receives ample confirmation in Mexico, the Land of Blood-drenched Altars, by Francis C. Kelly, and in No God next Door, by Rev. M. Kenny, S.J. Father Kenny gives an excellent summary of the responsibility of the United States and of American Freemasonry for the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico.(back)

3 Histoire Secrète de la Révolution Espagnole, by M. Léon de Poncins, p. 24. This work and that of M. Jean Marquès-Rivière, Comment la Franc-Maçonnerie fait une Révolution contain details and documents. (back)

4 Cf. Le Portugal Renait, by L. de Poncins. (back)

5 Political Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (Editions SPN Lisbon p. 17). Article I of the Concordat of 1940 runs as follows: “The Portuguese Republic recognises the personality in law of the Catholic Church. Friendly relations with the Holy See shall be maintained in the traditional manner by the appointment of an Apostolic Nuncio to the Portuguese Republic and of a Portuguese Ambassador to the Holy See.”

Some slight modifications were made by the Law of the 11th June, 1951. (back)

6 Letter, Post tam diuturnas. (back)

7 Ireland’s attitude towards the Kingship of Christ is dealt with in The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganisation of Society pp. 342-362. (back)

8 World-Masonry, World-Revolution, World-Republic. (back)

9 Op. cit., pp. 211-231, 278-281. (back)

10 Quoted by Mgr. Delassus, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 48. (back)

11 Wichtl exaggerates when he asserts (op. cit., p. 186) that, though Frederick the Great was a Freemason, he was never admitted to the real secrets of the Lodges. As the founder of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (to which, however, additions were made at the end of the 18th century) Frederick was well aware of the inner meaning of Masonic naturalism. In fact the Mason, Bluntschli, claims for him the honour of being the initiator of the revolutionary era, which, he says, should date from the year of Frederick’s accession, namely, 1740, rather than from 1789. The modern state “independent of all theocracy,” that is, owing no submission to the divine law, began with Frederick, he maintains. Cf. Deschamps op. cit., Vol. II, p. 19. (back)

12 In The Rulers of Russia (pp. 74-77), two quotations are given from distinguished German Catholic writers to show the enormous extent of Jewish influence in Germany. Dr. Kurt Ziesché, Professor in the University of Breslau, insists upon the prevalence of Jewish Naturalism in the political and economic life of the country, in his book Das Königtum Christi in Europa, published in 1926. Dr. Eberle, the Editor of Schönore Zukunft, sets out in 1927 the actual power and might of Jewish influence in banking, in publishing and commercial life, etc., Cf The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, p. 310. (back)

13 3rd Edition Revised and Enlarged, November 1939, p. 74. (back)