Pelosi Cites Epiphany, St. Francis as House Confirms Biden Win

Catholic San Francisco ^ | 1/7/21 | Mark Pattison

[marshmallow]

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referenced the Epiphany, St. Francis of Assisi, and also uttered a prayer as the House of Representatives reconvened the night of Jan. 6 to confirm the Electoral College win of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the November presidential election.

The count had been interrupted by hundreds of marauders who breached the Capitol that afternoon, bringing the count to a halt.

"Today, Jan. 6, is the feast of the Epiphany," when the Christ Child was first revealed as a human beyond Mary and St. Joseph, Pelosi, D-California, said. "On this day of revelation, let us pray that this instigation to violence will provide an epiphany for our country to heal."

"In that spirit of healing, I evoke the song of Saint Francis. I usually do. St. Francis is the patron saint of my city of San Francisco, and song of St. Francis is our anthem: 'Lord, make me a channel of thy peace. Where there is darkness, may you bring light. Where there is hatred, let us bring love. Where there is despair, let us bring hope.'"

Later, near the end of her remarks, Pelosi, who is Catholic, said: "So on this holy day of Epiphany, let us pray. I'm a big believer in prayer. Let us pray that there will be peace on earth and that it will begin with us. Let us pray that God will continue to bless America with that."

Reaction by Catholic leaders to the Capitol breach -- the most serious since the British burned down the building in 1814 during the War of 1812 -- was swift.

"I join my brother U.S. bishops in condemning the violence we witnessed today in our nation's capital and condemning the events and rhetoric leading to the mob violence," said a......

[Biggirl]

The Old Christmas or the Biblical Christmas.

[piasa]

Speaking of Asissi, Nancy Pelosi and a delegation visited the city in Italy in August 2016 and met with catholic officials there on climate change, etc... at that time they had already begun the war on then-candidate Trump.

[nhbob1]

Satan always has to copy and pervert God’s work. This witch will be burning in Hell for eternity...and given her advanced age that day is fast approaching. I pray every day for the Lord to hasten it’s arrival.

[Jane Long]

What did Mike Pence have to say?

[mosesdapoet]

I keep my illuminated Nativity display replete with star and the 3 Wise men facing the highway up until it ends for those who follow the Julian calendar. Here is past history

On This “Little Christmas” THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY
January 6th from my The First Book Of Moses poetry page

On This “Little Christmas”
January 6th

Once Upon a Time and not too long ago
The Twelfth Night Of Christmas
was celebrated with a ball
From the Day of Babes Birth
and the 11 thereafter
kith and kin were paid a visit
and friends from far and near
once were paid a call
So on this day I pray in the spirit that this date recalls
Let the gift of homage of kings gain
in the spirit of the days this season yet remain
ere it wane
Be thine Blessings Great
and misfortunes thee none befall

This poem is an abbreviated version from my websites poetry page which shows how the Christmas season was observed by Catholics in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood during depression times and WWII.The page also lists the differences from traditional Roman Catholic Christmas observance and the present after Vatican 2.Which eliminated a period of mortification during the advent period of fast and abstinence or reducing emphasis on observing feast days such as Immaculate Conception December 8th and the 12th day of Christmas known as the Epiphany January 6th.Resulting in listing Epiphany no longer on most calendars because of the decision to observe Epiphany to a Sunday following Christmas the 25th and New Years which was then known as the feast of Circumcision later named The Presentation when Jesus was presented in the Temple .
http://www.theusmat.com/natdesk.htm

[StAnDeliver]

Desecration begets desecration

[ebb tide]

Ping

[eeriegeno]

It surprises me that lightening doesn’t strike that miserable witch!

[jmacusa]

Pelosi is 80. The old hag will 81 in March.

[Slyfox]

Pelosi”s daughter said of her own mother that she would “cut your head off and not think a thing about it.”

[af_vet_1981]

Her profession is cognitive dissonance and spiritual confusion unless and until she and Joe Biden renounce their support for abortion.

Contemporary Christians neglect the teachings of the Church Fathers on key moral and theological issues to their own peril. The earliest specific written references to abortion in Christian literature are those in the Didache and the Epistle ofBarnabas. The Didache combines a code of Christian morality with a manual of church life and order, while the Epistle of Barnabas is a more theological tract on Christian life and thought. While both ofthese probably date from the early second century, they most likely drew on Christian sources that had their origins in the late first century.

Both these writings also contain a section based on a Jewish oral and written tradition known as the "Two Ways." This tradition contrasts the two ways of Life or Light and Death or Darkness. Athanasius notes that it was used extensively in the early church, either as a separate document or as part of the Didache, especially for the training of catechumens and new converts. The Didache maintains that there is a great difference between these two ways. In an exposition ofthe second great commandment ("Love your neighbor as yourself") as part of the Way of Life, the author makes a list of"thou shalt not" statements obviously modeled on, and in part quoting, the Decalogue of the Septuagint. The list of prohibitions includes murder, adultery, sodomy, fornication, theft, the use of magic and aphrodisiacs, infanticide, and abortion. Literally, it declares: "Thou shalt not murder a child by abortion." Similarly, the Epistle of Barnabas, in its practical section on the Way of Light, repeats the same words in a list of "thou shalt (not)" statements including, just before the abortion prohibition, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor more than thy own life." The fetus is seen, not as a part of its mother, but as a neighbor. Abortion is rejected as contrary to other-centered neighbor love.

On the other hand, the Way of Death, according to the Didache, is full of cursing, murders, adulteries, idolatries, robberies, and hypocrisies. It is also filled with people who are "murderers of children," an echo of the prohibition against abortion (though it may also refer to infanticide), and "corrupters of God's creatures," rendered as "abortuantes" in a third century Latin version, reflecting knowledge of the use of the Greek term "phthoreus" for abortionists. The Epistle of Barnabas uses the same two phrases in its description of the way of "death eternal with punishment." In both writings, the immediate context includes both personal vices and more socially oriented evils such as turning away the needy and oppressing the afflicted.

Both texts regard abortion as murder and provide an ethical context within which abortion should be viewed. "Thou shalt not abort" becomes a sub-commandment of the commandment not to murder. It has a status almost on a par with the Decalogue itself. Use of the commandment form provides a succinct continuation of the Jewish condemnation of deliberate abortion. There is no formed/unformed distinction, no elaboration. Abortion is presented also as an offense against humanity, a defiance of the second great commandment-"Love thy neighbor"-which the Epistle of Barnabas has expanded to say "more than thyself." Furthermore, abortion is depicted not only as a sin like sexual immorality, but as an evil no less severe and social in scope than oppression of the poor and needy and no less dishonorable than the use of poisons.

The Didache and the Epistle of Barnabas were: extremely important in two other respects. First, the widespread use of their "Two Ways" teachings among early Christians assured the disseminating of their position on abortion. Second, later writings appropriated the murder definition, the commandment form, the elevation o he status of the fetus, and the context of personal and social evils found in these two early works.

[patriot torch]

“Where there is hatred, let us bring love. Where there is despair, let us bring hope.’”

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Followed by........”off with his head. Off with his head. I demand his head on a silver platter.”

Such irony. But I digress.

[piasa]

In 1928 Benito Mussolini established the Epifania celebrations as a nationalist holiday. In an attempt to ban all foreign-sounding and English-related words, traditions and customs, he substituted Santa Claus with la Befana - a scary old witch with torn shoes, crooked legs, a long nose dotted with warts and a hairy upper lip who flies on a broomstick to carry gifts to kids...../snip from another thread