Since I was a teenager I've had sleep issues and getting old certainly doesn't help that problem, but I have a different outlook now. These early morning wakeful times ( I admit I'd rather be asleep) offer an opportunity for quiet prayer, often beginning with a trip outside to look at the stars and praise God in the glory of the heavens.
Last night I posted a video about the pandemic of "sudden death" of mostly young people in the prime of life, Steve Kirsch has an interesting follow up discussion. It's entertaining to see a know-nothing get hoisted by his own petard. Read the whole exchange at Steve Kirsch's substack. Here's the beginning:
I’ve never heard of Chris Thompson before today.
He apparently has few followers judging by this post where he proclaims with great certainty that “there is no reason to believe that the vaccine contributed to” the death of Shane Warne.
So I guess Chris must be an expert on the topic, but you wouldn’t know that by the number of likes (only 5).
Heartbreaking.
— Brook Jackson 💜 (@IamBrookJackson) November 4, 2022
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And they expect to keep on keepin' on. See Alex Berenson's Report. The funeral business used to be "slow growth." Not anymore. People are dropping dead right and left. And all-cause deaths are way up! Here's a bit from the article:
With NATO trannies gathering in the Balkans and Baltic states salivating to annihilate Russia, I'm placing my bet on manly Russian soldiers to win WWIII. Who but leftist deranged Democrats would depend on the US trannie pictured below to defend them?
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| These images are praised by the Synod organizers. Note the woman priest's vestments and the pride shirt on the person (man? woman?) in yellow. The "listening Church" is promoting things that would destroy her as Cardinal Mueller warns, calling the Synod a "hostile takeover of the Church!" |
October 31, 2022
Above: the Latin rite Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow, which was restored and rebuilt after the fall of Soviet Communism.
Since the invasion of Ukraine by Putin in February this year, the Russian Catholic bishops have shown the courage incumbent upon successors of the Apostles. We must remember that our brethren in Russia, of the Latin and Greco-Slavonic rites, are a tiny minority who were viciously persecuted under the Soviets, and have slowly built back their churches and numbers over the past few generations.
As war propaganda has escalated in Russia, this has only increased the tension upon Catholics as direct criticism of the war is an illegal and chargeable offence. Faced with the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian bishops fearlessly called Russian politicians to their responsibility for aggression before God.
With the March 25 consecration of Russian and Ukraine to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart, it is clear that the Blessed Virgin has galvanised the Russian and Ukrainian Catholic bishops to lay down their life for their sheep. Tirelessly His Beatitude, Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, who proclaimed that the Consecration would be “victory over evil,” continues daily to shepherd his flock, our Ukrainian Catholic brethren, in the face of invasion and the horrors of war. Meanwhile, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Bishop Ihor Isichenko has led his entire diocese into the Catholic Church. [Read more at OnePeter5...]
I couldn't do better today than to share a wonderful post from The Musings of an Old Curmudgeon blog, a sharing so beautiful it moved my heart closer to the heart of Jesus. I send you now there with the prayers of my guardian angel in company with yours that you might bask in the glory and warmth of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A big thank you to Jovan-Marya Weismiller for his beautiful reflection.
Monsignor Lefebvre, the SSPX, and I
O Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto thine.
