JOHN Fury, Irish boxing cornerman and former professional boxer who is the father of boxer Tyson Fury, gives his assessment of COVID World. (Credit: @Muhareb1)
[F]OR amongst all my acquaintance, I see no people so soon sick, and so long before they are well, as those who take much physic; their very health is altered and corrupted by their frequent prescriptions. Physicians are not content to deal only with the sick, but they will moreover corrupt health itself, for fear men should at any time escape their authority. Do they not, from a continual and perfect health, draw the argument of some great sickness to ensue? I have been sick often enough, and have always found my sicknesses easy enough to be supported (though I have made trial of almost all sorts), and as short as those of any other, without their help, or without swallowing their ill-tasting doses." [bold added] -- From the essays of Michel de Montaigne, 1533- 1592
HELENA writes from Ontario:
We are in a new lockdown here. Although the mall is closed, the food court has most of its stores open for take out. And so I decided to try the Greek stall.
I went there without my mask, and put it on as I was ready to order.
The young man who was working behind the counter wore a simple gold cross. I ordered a dinner, and as he was preparing the take-out box, I said how nice it was that he was wearing a cross. Then I asked him if he will celebrate Easter next month in May.
Yes, he answered. That cheered him up.
Then I asked him if he was ready to take the vaccine.
“I don’t know about that!” he said. (more…)
MIDWIN CHARLES, a 47-year-old CNN legal analyst, bragged of receiving her first dose of the Pfizer COVID shot on March 1. Charles, who had asthma, would have been due for her second dose around March 22.
She stopped posting to her busy Twitter account on March 24th, and was dead by April 6th. Her family did not reveal cause of death in a public statement. The mainstream media has entirely ignored the possibility that she died from the shots.
If Charles’s death, the announcement of which may have been purposely delayed, was a result of the injections, it did not result from an act of nature, but from willful and reckless human actions. She was not entirely without blame if her own death was caused by her willing participation in a medical experiment. As one doctor has put it, “taking the COVID injection is an act of extreme and reckless self-destruction.”
But this is more than possible self injury. The shots are administered by medical practitioners. Each and every death or injury from the COVID “vaccines” (they are not really vaccines) — and there have been many thousands of deaths around the world — is a crime, not an accident. The vaccinated are not facing imminent death from the disease at the time of injection and in most cases are healthy. The disease itself, if in fact it exists as a distinct disease rather than as a group of conditions, has a very high survival rate.
The first rule of ethical medical practice is Do no harm. (more…)
ALISON Chabloz, a small-time British singer and comedienne, was recently sentenced to jail for criticizing "a vulnerable community." Chabloz has been harassed for years for songs that allegedly "incite hatred." Somehow she keeps going. Here are some of her recent musical productions.
FROM Mike King at The Anti-New York Times:
One of the time-tested favorite tricks of the promoters of Fake News & Fake Science has always been to prop up “religious fundamentalists” as a Straw Man that can be easily knocked down. The bewildered normie witnessing such a “debate” invariably comes away persuaded by the high-sounding jargon of the fake scientists over the dogmatic religious ranting of someone who is able to say no more than: “Because my Bible says so.”
— Think, “Inherit the Wind.“
We can easily spot this clever tactic in this propaganda piece about the “White Evangelical Christians” who are resisting vaccinations — as if there aren’t people of other races, other religions or no religion at all expressing skepticism over Stupid-19 and/or having second thoughts about the vaccines which have already killed or sickened a number of people! (more…)
Part One of this essay can be found here.
ALAN writes:
On many days I worked on upper floors where I would comb through hundreds of boxes of books in perfect disarray, many of which had not been opened in years. I was excavating for books or periodicals or ephemera that I knew would sell or that I would set aside for myself or for customers whom we knew were looking for certain subjects or authors. As a booklover, I enjoyed the work. It was clean work except for the dust. Occasionally I opened a box and found a spider or two dwelling within. But I tried not to disturb them because they didn’t make all that much noise. Some customers were not that courteous. I remember one woman who climbed a ladder to reach books on a high shelf and then purposely dropped them on to the floor. We objected to that. She was one of a kind.
At the end of many workdays I would come downstairs by way of the ancient freight elevator at the back of the building and then walk down a two-tiered carpeted staircase leading to the ground floor. The proprietor and one or two employees (there were never more than two or three) would be standing there, getting ready to close the shop in late afternoon, and I would say to no one in particular, “Is everybody happy?” (more…)
IN 877, Alfred the Great ordered all his subjects in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom to abstain from servile labor during the week after Easter. In the seventh century, Kings Receswind and Wamba in Spain issued similar decrees, but this was not uncommon; for more than a thousand years, church and secular leaders commanded Easter joy and celebration for the entire week after Easter Day, a week which was typically filled with festivities, dramatic reenactments of the Resurrection and solemn liturgies. The faithful were considered newly sanctified and thus in need of strength against new assaults by the devil and his legions, who are steaming mad when people make spiritual progress and hatch new plans to ensnare the unwary. Americans, despite all their material wealth, have never lived the sort of collective festivity, leisure and sacred ritual that was common during those times. Easter week --- well, it's back to normal. A tree expert I had called a couple of weeks ago showed up at our house early yesterday morning to look at a dead limb we needed to be removed. "I'm sorry, I couldn't make it last week," he said. "I was sick from the vaccine." He was ready for a full week of work. Americans used to at least take Monday off and some schools once had even the full week after Easter off. The most important event in human history, honored to this day in every nation of the world,…
ACCORDING to the World Economic Forum, there has been a "regression" in women's progress due to the "pandemic" (i.e., the pandemic of Corona Dictatorship). One of the terrible results, it says, is that women are spending more time with their children and doing more housework. Can you imagine? Women have been disproportionately affected, the report shows, as lockdowns shuttered sectors including hospitality, in which they are more often employed, and they took on more unpaid work, like childcare and homeschooling. This opened up a new frontier for equality that policy-makers can help address as part of the global recovery plan, says Klaus Schwab, the Forum’s Founder and Executive Chairman. “Leaders have a remarkable opportunity to build more resilient and gender-equal economies by creating more equitable care systems, and by encouraging women to transition into new roles based on their potential,” he says. “Gender parity can become embedded into the future of work.” "A frontier for equality..." That's a beautiful euphemism for organized theft. It's amazing that so few women see through this pandering. Aren't they sick of the lies by now? Apparently not. If the WEF has its way, which it will, many women in the long run, as the family wage for men becomes more and more a thing of the past under global "equality," will be spending less time with their children and under more financial pressure. The control freaks in Davos want women as their busy worker bees, paying off…
I HOPE this glorious day fills you with happiness and peace of soul.
"OUR Lord's resurrection is the strongest proof of His being what he declared Himself to be. If Christ is not risen, says St. Paul, our faith is vain and we are still in our sins. Christ's resurrection is also a pledge of our own resurrection from the dead. "The reality of Christ's resurrection is substantiated by the most solid proofs that any historical fact can possess. In the first place Christ foretold His resurrection. It was known and feared by his enemies. See St. Matt. Chapters xii. and xxvii. on these two points. On that account they took every possible means to prevent it, and, if possible, to give the lie to His prediction and so discredit His teaching. That He rose as He foretold is a fact beyond all possible doubt. On the morning of the third day His body had disappeared from the tomb, though guarded by a band of soldiers. "But, it is said, His body was stolen while the soldiers slept. Both were impossible. That they should have slept and not be put to death for it, and that the timid Apostles could have taken it while they were awake, either suggestion is childish. "Modern disbelievers say that He had only swooned on the cross and had revived in the sepulcher. It is hard to imagine how He could revive, whose Heart was pierced with a spear and who was then embalmed, or how, if He…
"SUFFERING spoils many souls. There are many pious souls who turn away from God through suffering. Self and its claims to attention are too strong and --- then love and devotion or fidelity to Our Lord give way to self-pity, murmuring, resistance, bitterness. Punishment and purification too frequently embitter the heart, turn it from its end -- from its Divine Master and Lover -- and harden it in perversity. But if under sufferings, humiliations, trials and repugnances, we have the light, grace and courage to accept them in submission, in resignation and in self-humiliation, and with a closer movement to the bosom of our Heavenly Father, our Loving Lord and Master, then never, never has our love of that Father in heaven, that blessed Master, been more thorough, more effective and more intensely sincere. "The history of the Sacred Passion and Death of Our Lord contains excellences and advantages of its own above all other subjects on which we can exercise ourselves in meditation. Meditation on the Passion of Our Lord is good for all persons and for all conditions of men. It has the power to turn sinners from evil and rouse them to sorrow for their sins and abhorrence of them. It gives strength and a powerful example of virtue to those who are making progress and it is the most forcible incentive to love for the perfect." ---- Meditation on the Passion, Compiled from Various Sources, with an…
“My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch with me.” [St. Matt. 16:38]
FROM “Discourse 16: Mental Sufferings of Our Lord in His Passion” by Cardinal John Henry Newman:
There, then, in that most awful hour, knelt the Saviour of the world, putting off the defences of His divinity, dismissing His reluctant Angels, who in myriads were ready at His call, and opening His arms, baring His breast, sinless as He was, to the assault of His foe,—of a foe whose breath was a pestilence, and whose embrace was an agony. There He knelt, motionless and still, while the vile and horrible fiend clad His spirit in a robe steeped in all that is hateful and heinous in human crime, which clung close round His heart, and filled His conscience, and found its way into every sense and pore of His mind, and spread over Him a moral leprosy, till He almost felt Himself to be that which He never could be, and which His foe would fain have made Him. (more…)
"THE LAST HOURS OF JESUS" (Sheed and Ward, 1960) by the Rev. Ralph Gorman, C.P. provides many interesting historical details connected with Christ's Passion, from his seizure in the Garden of Gethsemane to his trial to his burial in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. "It has been my effort to tell the story of the last hours of Jesus accurately and in a manner that is interesting and intelligible to the ordinary reader," Fr. Gorman wrote. He largely succeeded. The Jewish rejection of Jesus; the dilemma faced by the Roman procurator, who was already in trouble with his superiors for inciting rebellion, and many other events of that fateful week are difficult to fathom without some context. It's easy to get distracted and forget that this is the most sacred and profound week of the year. If you would like to know more about figures such as Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas and Judas, I recommend his book.
AT OffGuardian, a civil rights lawyer explains why "vaccine" mandates are unlikely and unscientific: Government scientists admit that the Covid-19 vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission of the virus they say causes Covid-19, but many of these same scientists also dishonestly claim the vaccines will somehow prevent the spread of the virus, leading to herd immunity. Such an approach is not only unscientific and dishonest. It’s nonsense. What a nightmarish scam by Big Pharma. We are all unpaid actors in a non-stop, twisted pharmaceutical commercial.
EMPLOYEES of the nation’s second largest school district contend they are being forced to participate in a medical experiment. They have filed a lawsuit with help of the Health Freedom Defense Fund:
All Covid-19 vaccines available in the US at present have been issued under Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) – none have been licensed or approved by FDA. In an emergency, federal law allows the issuance of medical products under an EUA but specifically defines any such products as “investigational” and requires that recipients be informed of the benefits, risks, and “the option to accept or refuse administration of the product.” (more…)
FROM the 1977 movie Jesus of Nazareth, which features the excellent portrayal of Jesus by the actor Robert Powell, comes this recreation of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. It's not a perfect movie and takes liberties with the Gospels, but does include realistic scenes.
From Meditations for Lent, a compilation of excerpts from Thomas Aquinas:
The Passion of Christ is by itself sufficient to form us in every virtue. For whoever wishes to live perfectly, need do no more than scorn what Christ scorned on the cross, and desire what He there desired. There is no virtue of which, from the cross, Christ does not give us an example.
If you seek an example of charity, Greater love than this no man hath, than that a man lay down His life for his friends (John xv. 13), and this Christ did on the cross. And since it was for us that He gave his life, it should not be burdensome to bear for Him whatever evils come our way. What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things that He hath rendered to me (Ps. cxv. 12). (more…)