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There are so many wonderful details in the Epiphany story: the call of the Gentiles, their enthusiastic response, the significance of the star they seek, the gifts they bring, the dramatic interaction with Herod, and their ultimate rejection of Herod in favor of Christ.In this meditation, I would like to follow these Magi in their journey of faith to become “Wise Men.” As magi, they followed the faint stars, distant points of light; as wise men, they follow Jesus, who is the ever-glorious Light from Light, true God from true God.We can observe how they journey in stages from the...

January 3rd, 2021 The Most Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral of the Most Holy Name, Mumbai, India Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White The readings shown here are for places where the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 2 January.First reading1 John 3:22-4:6 ©The Son of God has come and given us the power to know the true GodWhatever we ask God,we shall receive,because we keep his commandmentsand live the kind of life that he wants.His commandments are these:that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christand that we love one anotheras he told us to.Whoever keeps his commandmentslives in...

The organization which manages the Western Wall Plaza condemned an egalitarian prayer group for disrupting traditional prayer services at the holy site Monday morning. The Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which administers the plaza, castigated the Women of the Wall, a small group of activists who hold egalitarian prayer services at the Western Wall once a month. “During this past hour, hundreds of Orthodox men and women, and about forty women from Women of the Wall, have come to the Western Wall Plaza for Rosh Chodesh Shevat prayers,” the foundation said in a statement Monday morning. “The Women of the Wall...

The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor has warned, urging his country to protect itself against the “collapse of American democracy”. “We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine,” Thomas Homer-Dixon, founding director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail. “In 2014, the suggestion that Donald Trump would become president would also have struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace.”...

"For the first time in U.S. history, more fentanyl than heroin has been intercepted by federal law enforcement at the country’s borders. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, 11,201 pounds of fentanyl was seized in fiscal year 2021, compared to 5,400 pounds of heroin. Other drugs seized include 319,447 pounds of marijuana, 190,861 pounds of methamphetamine, 97,638 pounds of cocaine, and 10,848 pounds of ketamine. 2,158 pounds of fentanyl has been seized in fiscal year 2022 to date, compared to 277 pounds of heroin. The amount of heroin seized at the border decreased from 5,763 pounds in...

"President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday and recommended that fully vaccinated Americans avoid dining indoors amid the surge of Omicron variant cases of COVID-19. CNN host Dana Bash asked, “How should vaccinated and boosted people behave? Can they go into a restaurant, eat safely indoors right now?” “You know, when you’re having such a — I call it a tsunami of infections, Dana, we are seeing people who are vaccinated and boosted who are getting breakthrough infections,” Fauci explained. “So when you’re in a situation where you have so...

[2:00 video clip] "Foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reports on the rising tensions between Israel and Gaza on ‘Fox Report.’"

Video of the destruction vehicle of the occupation forces of Russia from the Ukrainian missile complex Stugna-P was published. Militarnyi reported. Ukrainian volunteer Oleksandr Karpyuk demonstrated video of the moment of the hitting target. “Javelins are not the only ones. Meet Stugna-P. In the video, two objects are worth noting, Stugna-P and the Ural truck” – says Oleksandr Karpyuk to the video. According to the volunteer, the distance between the anti-tank complex and the URAL truck of the militants was 5600 meters. “When the Russian Federation still decides to roll out its iron on the horizon, its meeting will be...

[1:21 video clip] ""#3D Printed Electric Motorcycle. I'll take one! (Mashable) #EV #Transportation" All 15 parts of this e-bike are 3D printed..."

“My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments” (Proverbs 3:1).

On Jan. 6 last year, Rep. Dan Kildee was asked to defend the 2020 presidential election results from his home state of Michigan. Although there had been recounts, investigations and court cases, several Republican members of Congress were planning to object and refuse to certify results from key states that showed Joe Biden had overwhelmingly won.Over the last several months, Kildee has been outspoken about the experience he had during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and what he has had to deal with since.“This was one of the most traumatic things I’ve been through,” he told ABC News.

ATLANTA - Keisha Lance Bottoms released a farewell video on her last full day as Atlanta mayor. The video was posted to her social media accounts and it in part outlined some achievements she had during her four-year term. Bottoms released an open letter to the city in May 2021, announcing that she would not seek a second term as mayor.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Dr. Robert Malone says he was kicked off twitter for this 40-minute video presentation https://rumble.com/vqx3kb-the-pfizer-inoculations-do-more-harm-than-good.html and PDF created by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance, which consists of over 500 independent doctors, scientists, and health care practitioners. The video and PDF are a deep-dive into Pfizer’s own vaccine trial data which conclusively shows an INCREASED risk of illness and death for the vaccinated group compared to the placebo group. For example, there were 20 total deaths in the vaccinated group versus 14 total deaths in the placebo group with nearly double the amount of cardiovascular deaths among the vaccinated....

President Joe Biden faces an avalanche of problems when he returns to the White House in the new year.For starters, Covid - the virus he vowed to 'shut down' the moment he entered office - is out of control. Just weeks ago, he warned the unvaccinated that they face a "winter of severe illness and death."Yet the most vaccinated major US cities are setting new records for Covid infections, vaccinated athletes are collapsing across the world, and 2/3 of the Belgian staff at a fully-vaccinated antarctic base have Covid.Now, the CDC has pivoted to a 'pox party' strategy by essentially...

Since the first vaccine was released, Fauci has touted the vaccine as our way out of the Covid-19 pandemic. Media pundits and politicians alike sold many skeptical people on the vaccine by saying it would represent a return to normalcy. Now, after supporting a vaccine mandate for things as essential as air travel and for your children, Fauci is admitting that vaccines are not working as intended. Fauci went on CNN this morning and admitted that he does not think that even vaccinated and boosted people should be out in public.CNN host Dana Bash: How should vaccinated and boosted people...

A left-wing activist with ties to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) nominated by President Joe Biden to be a federal judge has argued photo ID and proof of citizenship constitute “voter suppression.” Nancy Gbana Abudu, the deputy legal director at SPLC, was picked by Biden in December to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The 11th Circuit covers parts of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. The vacancy came about upon the retirement of Judge Beverly B. Martin — a President Barack Obama appointee. Abudu worked for the ACLU...

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S. Capitol Thursday to mark the anniversary of last year's riot. The president and vice president will deliver remarks during their appearance at the Capitol for the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol protests, which saw thousands of former President Donald Trump's supporters breach the entrance and flood into the building while Congress was certifying the 2020 presidential election results.

Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday amid skyrocketing city COVID cases that his “next move” will be to decide whether to mandate booster shots for municipal workers. “We’re going to examine the numbers. If we feel we have to get to a place of making that mandatory, we want to do that,” he said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” “That’s our next move, a decision,” he said.

Males under 40 years old are more likely to experience heart inflammation after getting a booster shot of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine than COVID-19 itself, according to a recently published study.Males in the age group had a myocarditis incidence rate ratio of 7.6 in the 28 days following receipt of a Pfizer booster, researchers with the University of Oxford and other UK institutions found.That was higher than the ratio of 2 in the four weeks following a positive COVID-19 test result.“For the first time, we observe an increase in myocarditis events following a third dose of BNT162b vaccine,” researchers wrote in...

Generations of women last night demanded an urgent inquiry into a drug they call the 'silent Thalidomide'. A synthetic oestrogen known as Diethylstilbestrol (DES) was given to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage – and to dry up breast milk. But it has since been linked to a raft of health conditions including cancer, infertility and early menopause. A Daily Mail investigation today lays bare the devastating impact of this little-known drug which has ravaged the bodies of three generations of British women since 1940. Marion McMillan, 73, was given DES 50 years ago to dry up her breast milk after...