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14 December 2023 Saint John of the Cross, Priest, Doctor on Thursday of the 2nd week of Advent St. John of the Cross parish, Manila Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingIsaiah 41:13-20 ©I, the Holy One of Israel, am your redeemerI, the Lord, your God,I am holding you by the right hand;I tell you, ‘Do not be afraid,I will help you.’Do not be afraid, Jacob, poor worm,Israel, puny mite.I will help you – it is the Lord who speaks –the Holy One of Israel is your...

In a historic move, the U.S. House of Representatives has officially opened an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The House voted 221 to 212, escalating a probe that has been underway for months and putting a spotlight on the Biden family’s finances and business dealings. This significant development in 2023 is marked by contentious debates, with Democrats asserting that there is insufficient evidence of Biden’s involvement in corruption to warrant impeachment. However, the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Joe Biden paints a contrasting picture.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Sounding the alarm on an uptick in juvenile crime, some Baltimore City residents are demanding lawmakers take action this upcoming session. Claiming young offenders are putting residents on edge and at risk, in a letter sent to Delegate Luke Clippinger, the association wrote, “We are deeply troubled by the surge in juvenile crime, specifically an increase in homicides, non-fatal shootings, armed carjackings, and car thefts within our district and across Baltimore.” The letter went on to demand tangible changes to the juvenile justice system, including: * The charging process for juveniles * Amendments to probation periods for...

Hard-line conservative Republicans in the House are mounting a last-ditch effort against the annual defense authorization bill that is set for a final vote this week. They object to its exclusion of culture war measures and inclusion of a short-term extension of controversial warrantless surveillance powers in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). “To be very clear, if Republicans vote for this, they’re voting for a bill that will continue abortion tourism, will continue transgender surgery funding, will continue diversity-equity-inclusion funding … and you’re voting to extend FISA,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said. “Good luck going selling that to voters.”Conservatives...

Vladimir Putin was caught off guard today during his marathon end of year press conference when he looked up to the big screen expecting to see a Russian citizen phoning in - and instead came face to face with an AI deepfake of himself. A student from Saint Petersburg State University had constructed the visual and audio likeness of the Russian President, and took the opportunity to ask the real Putin to share his thoughts on the dangers of AI and if he uses body doubles. 'Vladimir Vladimirovich, hello... I would like to ask you, is it true that you...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• MARY’S VISIT TO COUSIN ELIZABETH L U K E CHAPTER 1 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and ELIZABETH WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Dec. 12. A dispatch was to-day received at the headquarters of the army from Maj.-Gen. BANKS, commanding; the Department of the Gulf, inclosing a dispatch which had just been received from Maj.-Gen. WASHBURNE, at Fort Esperanza, Pass Cavallo, Matagorda Bay. The command of the Bay gives us, substantially, the control of Central and Western Texas, and all of the important points on the east coast, except Galveston. FORT ESPERANZA, Wednesday, Dec. 2. At 1 A.M. Nov. 30, the rebels blew up the magazines of this fort, having evacuated two hours before. It is a very large and complete...

The 110 is one of Los Angeles's busiest and most roaringly hellish freeways. Some people consider it the worst, or pretty close. My choice for 'worst' is the 101, but the 110 is right up there. If you have ever been on the 110, you would know that it isn't all that wide, and it's loaded with big rigs roaring down in high-speed convoys, coming and going from the Port of Los Angeles. SNIP So which highway did a band of leftist goofs, this group called "If Not Now LA" who apparently were leftist Jews imagining that appeasing Hamas would...

Canadian National Curlers father & son died from heart attacks on same day!47 yo Jamie Brannen died in his sleep on Sep.23, 2022.Hours later his 73 yo father Robert Brannen collapsed with a heart attack while walking his dog!

Although most in the West consider Hamas, which brutally massacred some 1,400 Israelis on October 7, 2023, to be anything from a terrorist to a nationalist movement, the group sees itself first and foremost as a religious—namely, Islamic—movement, dedicated to enforcing the draconian dictates of Muslim law (sharia), including through jihad.“Hamas” means “zeal” in Arabic and is an Arabic acronym from harakat al-muqawamah al-islamiyyah (the Islamic Resistance Movement). The group is primarily concentrated in the Gaza Strip.Created primarily by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in 1987 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas has the stated goal of replacing the entire...

America First Legal (AFL) says time is running out to ensure that Biden’s Deep State apparatus doesn’t interfere with the elections in 2024. Currently, the team at AFL is in federal court fighting to force the federal government to release the “Strategic Plans” of fourteen different federal agencies that describe their secret efforts to prepare for the elections in 2024 and increase voting access. President Biden’s Executive Order 14019, titled “Promoting Access to Voting,” was put into effect on March 7, 2021. It calls for each agency to submit to a “Strategic Plan” to promote mail-in voting schemes, expand multilingual...

The New York Times is at it again with its dissemination of fake news. This isn’t just another accidentally incorrect story, like so many before, or their “Pulitzer prize-winning” fake Russia hoax stories; this time, they’re actively altering quotes, presumably to shield Joe Biden. This latest fake news scandal comes on the heels of a recent Gallup poll that highlighted a historic low in American trust in the fake news legacy media. Axios: American’s trust in media has fallen to a historic low, according to new polling from Gallup. Why it matters: Trust in media had previously dropped to 32%...

The video, posted by Jill Biden on Wednesday, shows members of a New York City-based dance troupe, Dorrance Dancers, doing a tapdancing 'playful' interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite through the halls of the White House...many who have labeled her celebratory video as 'bizarre' 'freaky' and 'absolute garbage.' .....many on social media questioned what exactly the clip has got to do with Christmas..... Conservative activist Brigitte Gabriel said: 'Children should not be watching this smut.' 'Desperately pandering. SO.MUCH.CRINGE,' wrote another user. 'The only thing missing was Dylan Mulvaney!!!,' said another person

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Journalist who advocated that the unvaccinated be put in concentration camps dies suddenly at the young age of 33:“Ian Vandaelle has died after being hospitalized and “declared neurologically dead,” his family revealed.Vandaelle was a business journalist who worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Post.He was also previously a producer at BNN Bloomberg for over a decade.Vandaelle advocated for vaccine passports and mandates and called for the firing of anyone who refused the injections.He also suggested that unvaccinated people should be arrested and taken away to concentration camps.”

First Lady Jill Biden's efforts at spreading some Christmas joy have been met with derision and astonishment from many who have labeled her celebratory video as 'bizarre' 'freaky' and 'absolute garbage.' The video, posted by Dr. Biden on Wednesday, shows members of a New York City-based dance troupe, Dorrance Dancers, doing a tapdancing 'playful' interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite through the halls of the White House. The group are in a candy-themed hall leading into the main Christmas tree in the Blue Room, since 1961 the main tree has usually been housed there. The dancers show off how each room...

Seventy Hamas terrorists emerged from the Kamal Adwan Hospital on Thursday, weapons in hand, after an intense firefight with Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops in the Beit Lahiya area of northern Gaza. Pro-Palestinian media sources, such as Al Jazeera — a virtual Hamas propaganda outlet throughout the war — had suggested that Israel had attacked the hospital without provocation, and cited Palestinian government sources who claimed that Israel was “rounding up men and boys” there. The reality emerged on Wednesday, when armed terrorists emerged from the hospital, having used it as a base for military attacks, in stark violation of...

Citizens threatened into compliance are no match for citizens inspired to reach for higher ideals. There are two great battles dominating Western nations today. The first is political and involves a contest between freedom-minded citizens and an ever-expanding State. The second is cultural (or perhaps, more accurately, spiritual) and involves a contest between fear-driven dogma and inspiration-driven ideals. Globalization, or the secular religion dedicated to the concentration of power into the hands of an elite few, runs on the energy of fear. Liberty movements that abhor the current trend toward a new-world-order framework intent on micromanaging human activity run instead...

Rudy Giuliani with Oleksandr Dubinsky.jpg Guest post by EU Insiders for The Gateway Pundit With the intensification of actions around the possible impeachment of Joe Biden, the dependent Ukrainian government continued to persecute those who conducted their own investigations into his corruption cases and were not afraid to tell the world about them. Another target was Oleksandr Dubinsky, a well-known journalist and an MP, who revealed and substantiated two crucial and sensational facts for the investigations against Biden: audio recordings of phone conversations in 2015-2016 between Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (known as “Derkach tapes”) are authentic, and...

IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. - Authorities in North Carolina said a traffic stop yielded so much fentanyl it was enough to kill nearly 27 million people, more than twice the state's population. The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said its Interstate Criminal Enforcement Team (ICE) conducted a traffic stop Sunday when they pulled over a 2014 Freightliner tractor-trailer on Interstate 77. Authorities said, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration website, "One kilogram of Fentanyl has the potential to kill 500,000 people." "This math shows that 53.6 kilos could potentially kill 26,800,000 people," authorities posted on its Facebook page. "North Carolina has a...