1. HARK! a gladsome voice is thrilling,
Earth’s dim pathways wildly shaking:
Lo! the ancient fane is filling
With the glow, for day is breaking;
Day is breaking, night-dreams vanish;
Christ is coming, gloom to banish.
2. Christ is coming! from thy prison,
Earth-bound spirit, spring with gladness!
Rising with the Star, new risen,
Health to shed on human sadness:
Lo! the Lamb descends from heaven:
Sinners, haste to be forgiven.
3. Yea! to grant a gracious guerdon,
Once again he comes in glory:
Mourners, freighted with your pardon,
His right hand he lifteth o’er ye:
Lord, when doom and death confound us,
Be thine arm of mercy round us.
[“Fane” means ‘temple.’]
“VOX CLARA ECCE INTONAT” is an Advent hymn from the Liturgy of the Hours for the hour of Lauds during Advent believed to date from the sixth century. This is a translation from the Latin by Cardinal John Henry Newman.
I have loved the carol Gabriel’s Message, which you recently posted, since one of my singing groups began performing it about ten years ago. This was the final group out of four which I belonged to and had hoped would continue unmasked. Two were large choruses with orchestras which had classical repertoires (‘unjabbed’ may not even attend the performance); another was very small and visited nursing homes and such to provide a little cheer.
This final one was informal and went out into the community mainly during the Christmas season, but also occasionally in the Spring. It has started up again but masks are “strongly encouraged” for the first rehearsal so the writing is clear. The other three already put their mandates in place long before any directive from the powers-that-be.
THIS NEW VIDEO attacking “anti-Semitism” spreads dangerous falsehoods and incites hatred.
Produced by the well-funded organization Shine a Light, the video states that criticizing Jews is tantamount to hatred. The female announcer suggests that criticism or verbal attack are the same thing as violence. She calls verbal or graphic attacks online “small crumbs of darkness.”
“Yet, it is still Jew hate,” she states.
Well, no it isn’t necessarily.
Millions of people have criticized Jews in power and have not engaged in any violence against Jews, have even lived amicably with them, and do not support violence. Hatred of Jews is wrong and I don’t support it. Crude caricatures are crude and rude, but they are not violence, do not depict all Jews and are sometimes justified, possibly even preventing violence and hatred.
A recent report by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which is under the Department of Commerce, showed no link between the growth of such criticism on the Internet and “hate crimes.”
“The evidence does not show that during the last decade, a time of expansive growth of electronic communications, particularly on the Internet and mobile devices as well as social media, there has been a rise in hate crime incidents,” the report states.
The report alleges that research into extremism fails to present data showing “any causal relationship between increased social media use and increased violence.”
The report also cautions against efforts to crackdown on online speech over the baseless concerns about hate crimes. “We caution that efforts to control or monitor online speech, even for the worthy goal of reducing crime, present serious First Amendment concerns and run counter to our nation’s dedication to free expression. To quote President Barack Obama, “The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression; it is more speech.”” (Source)
In fact, there is reason to believe that suppression of criticism leads to anger and resentment. This video alone has created tremendous resentment, with more than 5,000 negative comments on Youtube, suggesting there is quite a grassroots movement afoot of people who have had it up to “here” with being told they are evil for noticing certain undeniable facts.
This video reminds me of the day recently when a Jewish friend of mine was driving through a parking lot and saw a sign saying “Wrong Way.” He said, “That’s anti-Semitic! It won’t let me do what I want so it’s anti-Semitic!” He was joking, of course, but it’s basically come to this.
The statistical charts he has put together compare the relative frequency percentages of different adverse events found in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and data from its European counterpart, EudraVigilance, with control groups (either influenza vaccine data or past data).
The reader writes:
“Most of the adverse event dashboards that I know, such as Open VAERS, only give raw numbers and are kind of misleading and sensationalist. I wanted to try to see if there really is a higher percentage in relative frequency of adverse events being reported for Covid vaccines when compared to a control group, and if so, for which types of symptoms. Also, I allow the user to compare the symptoms at different levels of generality by using the MedDRA symptom classes and subclasses. If you use the symptom comparison tool, I would recommend comparing VAERS data to VAERS data and EudraVigilance to EudraVigilance and not mixing them. Also, I would suggest keeping the MedDRA symptom layer at 2 or below.
“I found, as probably would be expected, a much higher percentage (several thousand percent increase) of occurrence of cardiac conditions (especially myocarditis and pericarditis), similarly large increases in clotting, and thousands of percent increases in menstrual disorders.”
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“ST. Nicholas was very generous to the poor, but endeavored to hide his good deeds as much as possible, from men. Hence, in the darkness of night, he threw money into the house of the poor father of three daughters who stood so greatly in need of being protected. By thus acting, he obeyed the words of Christ, who said: “Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward from your Father who is in heaven.” {Source}
LOCK STEP – A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.
In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1, this new influenza strain—originating from wild geese—was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults. The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers. Read More »
“IT IS a device of tyranny to make the subjects poor, so that the people being busy with their daily affairs may not have leisure to plot against their ruler … Tyranny is a friend of the base; the base are useful for base business, for nail is driven out by nail, as the proverb goes … And it is a mark of a tyrant to dislike anyone that is proud or free-spirited; for the man who shows a free spirit robs tyranny of its superiority and position of mastery.”
“THE fine is now less than € 2,000 (instead of € 7,200), but the amendment to the law against vaccination opponents is explosive in terms of democratic politics: Vaccination critics in Austria face a year of custody in the future. The amendment already passed the parliamentary committee. There should be their own detention rooms for the vaccination critics, the costs for food will be charged to ‘the obligated.'”
“‘NAZISM’ is a typical Talmudic ideological product at its root. It is a blow to Christian (Catholic) values in society; It shifts the focus of attention from spirit to flesh; thus placing body above the soul.”
If I were given to conspiratorial theories, I might speculate that Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, is a secret agent of Jacques Derrida, the high priest of postmodernism. For the new technology is the perfect medium for the new ideology….
— Gertrude Himmelfarb, “Revolution in the Library,” The American Scholar, Spring 1997, pp. 197-204; p. 202
Dr. Himmelfarb was writing about the revolutionary effects that computers and the Internet would have in libraries, most notably the destructive effects on traditional, linear thought, and the promotion of relativism and hatred of thought in the name of “postmodernism.”
Maybe it was the other way around; maybe Derrida was an agent for Gates.
At this point whether it was conspiracy or convergence hardly matters. I think it more likely that they were working in parallel to weaken Americans’ confidence in the philosophical-intellectual-political tenets of Western Civilization as a prelude to establishing a Totalitarian World Government with Gates and his Communist cronies at the top.
This lady (Melissa Keenan Ciummei) gives an excellent summation of what the Powers That Be are trying to bring about through the Covid hoax. (And I personally enjoy hearing Ulster English being spoken, so there’s that).
Anyway, thanks for all your hard work. May the Lord Jesus bless you in all that you do. Read More »
“Consider first, my soul, that not very long ago thou hadst no being at all, nor any share in the transactions of the world; thou was not even so much as thought of by any creature upon earth. In this low abyss of nothing thou hadst been ingulphed from all eternity; and there of thyself thou must have remained to all eternity, infinitely beneath the condition even of the meanest insect, or the most inconsiderable of all God’s creatures; so that whatsoever thou hast at present above this mere nothing is no acquisition of thy own, nor any property of thine, but the pure gift of thy Maker. Down, then, with all self-conceit and presumption; down with all vain-glory; acknowledge thy true original, thy original nothing; sit always down in the lowest place; ascribe nothing to thyself as of thy own growth, but thy manifold sins; give the whole glory of all the rest to thy Maker.”
It’s time to review Dr. Thomas Cowan’s explanation of how virologists identify “variants.” This is superstition, not science. Please don’t be deceived by the advanced technology and jargon. We are living in the Dark Ages.
JUDITH SHARPE, of In the Spirit of Chartres,examines the similarities between 9/11 and Covid in an hour-long presentation which I highly recommend. Several commentators join in, including Daniel McAdams, Suzanne Pearson, a New York City policeman and yours truly (my comments begin at about 15:00). I’m a big fan of Mrs. Sharpe and applaud her for tackling these subjects as the 20th anniversary year of 9/11 draws to a close.
Both 9/11 and the manufactured pandemic were terrorist attacks against humanity. Both shredded the rule of law and constitutional protections. Both brought us totalitarian world government, police-state controls and an exalted image of government. Both weaponized fear and fostered a war-time mentality. Both were acts of mass murder. Both left untold psychological pain and damage. Both involve ongoing extensive, multi-layered lies and well-planned cover-ups. Both showed us that the media is practicing systematic mass manipulation with the aid of enemies at the highest levels of our government.
The success of the 9/11 absolutely enabled the plandemic. If Americans knew how greatly they were deceived with the first, they would have been less susceptible to the second. If Americans were better schooled in their history and knew of the workings of secret societies, with their zealous belief in bizarre, gnostic mysteries that go back thousands of years, in our government from its very inception, they would be less tragically taken off guard and blinded by deep deceptions and less likely to be suffering from a collective case of Stockholm Syndrome. Read More »
GABRIEL’S MESSAGE, a Basque carol about the Annunciation, is performed here by Voces8.
The angel Gabriel from heaven came
His wings as drifted snow his eyes as flame
“All hail” said he “thou lowly maiden Mary,
Most highly favored lady,” Gloria!
“For known a blessed mother thou shalt be,
All generations laud and honor thee,
Thy Son shall be Emanuel, by seers foretold
Most highly favored lady,” Gloria!
Then gentle Mary meekly bowed her head
“To me be as it pleaseth God,” she said,
“My soul shall laud and magnify his holy name.”
Most highly favored lady. Gloria! Read More »
