"AND now he began to make it known to them that the Son of Man must be much ill-used, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and rise again after three days. This he told them openly; whereupon Peter, drawing him to his side, fell to reproaching him. But he turned about, and, seeing his disciples there, rebuked Peter; Back, Satan, he said, these thoughts of thine are man’s, not God’s. And he called his disciples to him, and the multitude with them, and said to them, If any man has a mind to come my way, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me." --- St. Mark, 8:31-34 (Knox)  

FROM The Holocaust Encyclopedia (Academic Research Media Group, 2025):

The Auschwitz Death Books (German: Sterbebücher) are death registers prepared under the responsibility of the Political Department of the Auschwitz Camp (comprising the Main Camp, Birkenau, and all the subcamps). These books contained the death certificates of the inmates who had been admitted and registered at the camp, and who subsequently died for whatever reasons, executions included. When a maximum of 1,500 of these single-sheet certificates had been issued, they were bound as hard-cover volumes. Three copies of each death certificate existed. One remained in the camp, while two others were sent to superior departments.

When the Auschwitz Camp was evacuated in mid-January 1945, these Death Books were taken to the Gross-Rosen Camp, where they were abandoned when the Germans retreated from that town. Soviet authorities found them there eventually. From a series of communications between Soviet agencies, we know that they found 80 volumes, which were sent to Moscow with all the other archival material captured. When the Soviet Union/Russia released the German wartime documents it still had in its archives during the early 1990s, only 46 of the original 80 volumes were left, covering the time from mid-1941 to the end of 1943 with some gaps. Considering the rampant corruption in post-collapse Russia, the remaining volumes might have been sold on the black market. One more volume was recovered elsewhere. The rest have not been recovered to this day. (more…)

"GOD, who gives abundantly to all, does not refuse grace to him who does what is in his power." --- St. Thomas Aquinas  

FROM Blood on the Altar: The Secret History of the World’s Most Dangerous Secret Society, by Craig Heimbichner (2005):

Today increasing attention is being given to the role of secret societies in world affairs, due in part to the “coincidence” of the United States presidential race of 2004, in which both candidates, Republican George W. Bush and Democrat John F. Kerry, publicly admitted membership in the same secret society, known as the Order of Skull and Bones. This necromantic Order received temporary prominence in 2004 as part of the ongoing orchestration of covert control of the masses. As journalists David Wise and Thomas B. Ross wrote in their landmark exposé of U.S. intelligence, The Invisible Government:

“There are two governments in the United States today. One is visible. The other is invisible. The first is the government that citizens read about in their newspapers and children study about in their civics books. The second is the interlocking, hidden machinery….The Invisible Government is not a formal body. It is a loose, amorphous grouping of individuals and agencies…”

The control of the masses indeed possesses an exoteric level, the illusion of which is taught in civics classes and played out before us in the media in the form of elections, campaigns and public laws. The far more important side of government, however, is the esoteric, which at the highest level involves a manipulation of the mass consciousness with a watchful eye, by a network of psychological power brokers, the “Invisible Government of Wise and Ross,” later described by Walter Bowart in his 1978 classic, Operation Mind Control, as the “Cryptocracy.” The Cryptocracy is not a myth, it seeks to transform humanity through an alchemical processing of the mass consciousness or Group Mind which involves various tests and corresponding responses through channels linked to secret societies. The result is both psychological and cultural control; but more importantly, transformation. The Cryptocracy has essentially kept the mind of the masses cooking in a cauldron like a Renaissance alchemist, and occasionally tastes, adds ingredients, and stirs. (more…)

"IF we have found that any passions are profaning the sanctuary of our souls, let us dismiss them; let us beseech our Lord to drive them out by the scourge of his justice, for we, perhaps, might be too lenient with these sacrilegious intruders." - Dom Prosper Guéranger (Source)  

THE sins classified as sins against the Holy Ghost are those of pure malice. They are directly opposed to the love and mercy of God, and on that account, render conversion very difficult. (Source)

1.Presumption of God’s mercy

We continue to sin with the intention of repenting before death comes; or if we make our salvation depend upon our own strength alone and not upon God: or if we rashly expose ourselves to the proximate occasions of sin in the expectation that God will come to our rescue.

There are two kinds of presumption. Either man presumes upon his own capacities, (hoping to be able to save himself without help from on high), or he presumes upon God’s almighty power or his mercy (hoping to obtain his forgiveness without conversion and glory without merit.)

2.Despair

Despair is the willful rejection of hope in that one judges the duties necessary to obtain eternal life impossible to fulfill. Despair is a mortal sin when it arises from distrust of God’s goodness and fidelity.

“By despair, man ceases to hope for his personal salvation from God, for help in attaining it or for the forgiveness of his sins. Despair is contrary to God’s goodness, to his justice – for the Lord is faithful to his promises – and to his mercy.” (more…)

These are four very dreadful crimes, against which God expresses his anger in the most strongest terms. These four sins are said "to cry to heaven for vengeance," because we find them so represented in Holy Writ. Willful murder (including abortion) Gen. iv. 10. The sin of Sodom. Gen. xviii. 20. Oppression of the poor. Exod. xxii. 22-24. Eccl. xxv. 16-19. Defrauding laborers of their wages. James v. 4. Source  

Nine Ways of Being an Accessory to Sins of Another Person There are some persons, who concern themselves but very little about the sins which they cause their neighbor to commit; although they are as guilty before God, as if they had committed the sinful acts themselves; and even more so. 1. By counsel. 2. By command. 3. By consent. 4. By provocation. 5. By praise or flattery. 6. By concealment. 7. By partaking. 8. By silence. 9. By defense of the ill done. Source  

IF YOU want to understand a bit more about Freemasonry and the role of this secret society in the history of America, you might appreciate this video tour of the  palatial Masonic Temple of Philadelphia. Freemasonry existed since the 1700s in Pennsylvania, where Benjamin Franklin was a prominent member of the lodge. The ornate temple built in the 1800s, in the medieval Norman style, stands across from Philadelphia City Hall The massive granite cornerstone, weighing ten tons, was leveled on St. John the Baptist's Day, June 24, 1868. The ceremonial gavel used on that day by Grand Master Richard Vaux was the same gavel used by President George Washington in leveling the cornerstone of the nation's Capitol building in 1793. The construction was completed five years later, in 1873, and dedicated on September 29th of that year. This is an amateur tour from a visitor five years ago, but it's a fascinating glimpse inside this historic home of Masonry.  

'WISDOM preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets. At the head of multitudes she crieth out; in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying: O children, how long will you love childishness, and how long will fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? Turn ye at my reproof. Behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will show you my words.' --- (Proverbs i. 20-23)  

"THE spirit of Christ is a spirit of martyrdom, at least of mortification and penance. It is always the spirit of the cross. The remains of the old man, of sin and of death, must be extinguished, before one can be made heavenly by putting on affections which are divine. What mortifies the senses and the flesh gives life to the spirit, and what weakens and subdues the body strengthens the soul. Hence the divine love infuses a spirit of mortification, patience, obedience, humility, and meekness, with a love of sufferings and contempt, in which consists the sweetness of the cross. The more we share in the suffering life of Christ, the greater share we inherit in his spirit, and in the fruit of his death. To souls mortified to their senses and disengaged from earthly things, God gives frequent foretastes of the sweetness of eternal life, and the most ardent desires of possessing him in his glory. This is the spirit of martyrdom, which entitles a Christian to a happy resurrection and to the bliss of the life to come." --- Rev. Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints (1866 Edition)  

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