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25 November 2022Friday of week 34 in Ordinary Time St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church Temecula, CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingApocalypse 20:1-4,11-21:2 ©The book of life was opened, and the dead were judgedI, John, saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the Abyss in his hand and an enormous chain. He overpowered the dragon, that primeval serpent which is the devil and Satan, and chained him up for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and shut the entrance and sealed it over him, to make sure he would not...

Even as we give thanks today for the wonderful benefits of a freedom-based political and economic system, the UN’s big annual “climate” conference, this year going by the moniker COP-27, has only recently wound up. As with most everything the UN does, there was nothing in this conference for anyone to be thankful for. This year, with the activists’ beloved wind and solar energy sources manifestly failing to solve Europe’s energy crisis, there was little prospect for any major new agreements to limit CO2 emissions. And thus there was far less media coverage than of past such conferences. But we...

“‘Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here’” (Matthew 12:5–6). Seldom would any Christian today, even the most fastidious and rule-oriented among us, consider preaching, teaching Sunday school, leading youth ministry, or other similar work as profaning the Lord’s Day. Yet these activities require much time and effort—on Sunday. Likewise, the most scrupulous of the Jewish leaders in Jesus’ time viewed the priests as innocent of any Sabbath breaking, even though such...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ JESUS AND THE WOMAN AT THE WELL ֎ Featuring 29 Paintings, 1 Statue and 1 Window ֎ J O H N CHAPTER 4 The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground...

Jumping to conclusions is sometimes a big mistake. I recently became puzzled and mildly infuriated when I read that Stanford University was going to have a conference on freedom of expression and academic freedom—but was admitting only invitees, allowing no press or other interested persons to attend. That sounded like limiting expression and dissent to me. Then I read the news accounts further and realized that Stanford’s graduate business school was making a prudent decision. More specifically, the school’s Classical Liberal Initiative was inviting a blue-chip group of serious scholars, entrepreneurs, and free-speech activists for what looked like a stellar...

Minister of Finance Sergii Marchenko and World Bank Regional Country Director for Eastern Europe (Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine) Arup Banerji have signed an agreement on a $4.5 billion grant to Ukraine, Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance reported on Nov. 24. The grant funds are to be provided by the United States and allocated to the Multi-Donor Trust Fund as the third additional financing under the project "Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance in Ukraine”. Also, World Bank allocates additional $4.5 billion for government wages and welfare payments in Ukraine "We’re grateful to the government of the United States of America and...

ST. LOUIS, Monday, Nov. 24. The Democrat of this city, has information that the rebels are now busily at work fortifying Port Hudson, a hundred and fifty miles from New-Orleans. The same engineer who laid out the rebel works at Vicksburgh, has just completed the plan of the fortications at Port Hudson. Ten or twelve guns are now in position, and in two weeks from the present time Port Hudson will be as strong as Vicksburgh, and will prove a serious bar to the ascent of Rear Admiral FARRAGUT's fleet. The rebels are now running steamboats from Port Hudson to...

“This is going to ruin your life.” “You have to drop out of college.” “This is a mistake.” “Abort the baby .” These words, uttered by people whom I trusted and loved most in this world, struck me like a knife. When I learned I was pregnant , I was 21 years old and still in school. I was engaged to be married, and while those two pink lines came as a complete shock, I wanted to be a mother. My feelings were overlooked by those close to me. Rather than offering support, my family and friends responded with criticism...

The biggest deception China has successfully perpetuated in the West is that it would rise peacefully, gradually liberalize and present enormous business opportunities. The biggest deception China has successfully perpetuated in the West is that it would rise peacefully, gradually liberalize and present enormous business opportunities. Behind that veneer of reform, Beijing has played a masterful influence game, ensnaring governments, academia, think tanks, cultural groups, and businesses in the West to further its goal of global preeminence. Analyst Alex Joske’s revealing book, Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World, explains how China’s intelligence apparatus, the Ministry...

When the singer Rod Stewart was offered more than $1 million to perform in Qatar, he said, he turned it down. “It’s not right to go,” Mr. Stewart told the The Sunday Times of London recently, joining a string of public figures to declare boycotts or express condemnation of Qatar as the Gulf nation hosts the soccer World Cup. In the prelude to the tournament, which started this past weekend, Qatar has faced an increasing barrage of criticism over its human rights record, including the authoritarian monarchy’s criminalization of homosexuality and the well-documented abuse of migrant workers.

The rush to communism and the New World Order must be exposed for what it is. We have no farther to look than the guides from the past. When I was a senior in high school, I was required to take and pass a government class as a condition to graduate. My teacher was a retired Illinois state trooper. Naturally, my teacher had certain opinions about the criminal justice system and the courts. My teacher was not a big fan of the Miranda decision. His issue was not against informing a suspect about his rights; it was more about how...

Kizilelma may lift lesser military powers into the realm of robotized air forces that can project power and stage precision strikes ... Aerotime Hub notes that the Kizilelma was first announced in July 2021 as a stealthy unmanned combat aircraft with characteristics akin to manned fighter jets. It has a maximum takeoff weight of six tons, a 1,500-kilogram payload capacity and can conduct air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. In addition, it is likely to be equipped with various air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions developed by Turkey’s domestic defense industry. Air Recognition mentions that the Kizilelma features a low radar cross-section (RCS) airframe...

Cross England with the USA and the World Cup and you end up with an embarrassing blend of ritual humiliation, comical errors and goalkeeping last rites. Start in 1950, and perhaps the most notorious defeat in Belo Horizonte, when the FA’s approach was so casual they sent Stanley Matthews via a goodwill tour of Canada and allowed Jack Aston and Henry Cockburn to tour the USA with Manchester United on the way.

The latest search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has ended with 32 additional caskets discovered and eight sets of remains exhumed, according to the city.... ...Searchers sought unmarked graves of people who were probably male, in plain caskets with signs of gunshot trauma... Two sets of the 66 remains found in the past two years have been confirmed to have gunshot wounds, according to Stubblefield, though none have been identified or confirmed to be victims...

For the first time in nearly 200 years, a member of an Indigenous tribal nation may have a seat in Congress. The House Rules Committee held a first-of-its-kind hearing last week to discuss potentially adding a non-voting delegate to represent the Cherokee Nation in Congress. The provision was written into the Treaty of New Echota in 1835, which promises the Cherokee Nation a delegate in Congress in exchange for...

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Just two House races remain undeclared as of Thanksgiving Day, with Republicans leading in both races and looking to add to their majority.... ... two House races in California and Colorado are officially still up in the air — though the Democrat has conceded in Colorado. If the current GOP leads hold, Republicans will secure 222 House seats...

Joe DiMaggio's birthday today is a great time for me to think about the love of his life and use that feeling to express respect for other women with different talents that I revere. Marilyn was a free spirit. Freedom is at the heart of living a good life. The worse the police state trends in Australia get, the more I love the freedom fighters and the womanly beauty of some of them is no obstacle to making that love and respect stronger. That is how God made us.

I don't know why this movie wasn't released internationally, but the final scene that I'm posting makes it worth seeing, I think. Basically, it's about an apocalyptic world, from a worldwide zombie epidemic. This man played by Martin Freedman gets infected by his wife, who became a zombie, has to figure how to get a young girl and an aboriginal youth to the youth's tribe, where they can be protected. The scene I am posting I think was fundamentally powerful, from a Christian perspective because while he is dying he is figuring out how to allow his body to be...

Stanford goalie Katie Meyer was facing disciplinary action before she tragically took her own life in February, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by her parents against the university. Meyer was said to be riding her bike in the summer when she apparently spilled coffee on a Stanford football player, who allegedly sexually assaulted a female soccer player — a minor at the time — according to the lawsuit, which was obtained by USA Today Sports. Meyer, who served as the captain of the Stanford women’s soccer team, was sent a notice regarding imminent disciplinary action over the incident,...