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5 February 2024 Saint Agatha, Virgin, Martyr on Monday of week 5 in Ordinary Time Saint Agatha Roman Catholic Church, Saint Louis, MOReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Kings 8:1-7,9-13 ©The Ark of the Covenant is brought into the TempleSolomon called the elders of Israel together in Jerusalem to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord up from the Citadel of David, which is Zion. All the men of Israel assembled round King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, at the time of...

The new director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA), whose tenures at previous institutions were punctuated by controversy, has abruptly canceled a major upcoming exhibition over a lack of diversity among the two dozen represented artists. Director Amada Cruz also eliminated the position of the museum’s longtime chief curator, Eik Kahng. The decisions by Cruz prompted a searing response from the affected artists, who called her actions “outrageous” and “appalling” and said they continued “Cruz’s pattern of controversial leadership.” “We consider these recent developments not only alarming but also insulting — to us, to the Santa Barbara art...

Boeing Co. , said on Sunday it will have to do more work on about 50 undelivered 737 MAX airplanes, potentially delaying some near-term deliveries, after its supplier Spirit AeroSystems , discovered two mis-drilled holes on some fuselages. Boeing confirmed the findings in response to a Reuters query after industry sources said an "edge margin", or spacing problem, had been found in holes drilled on a window frame on some jets. Boeing, which has been under fire from regulators and airlines since the Jan. 5 blowout of a door plug on a 737 MAX 9, said safety was unaffected and...

The Kremlin on Monday declined to say whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin would grant an interview to U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson – or whether he was in Moscow. “We can hardly be expected to provide information on the movement of foreign journalists,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about speculation that Carlson was in Russia to interview Putin. “Many foreign journalists come to Russia every day, many continue to work here, and we welcome this,” Peskov said. “We have nothing to announce in terms of the president’s interviews to foreign media.”

A Palestinian-American teenager, Tawfic Abde Jabbar, was killed in the West Bank on January 19, allegedly after an altercation with armed Israelis. More on his death, and how it was differently reported in its English and Arabic language versions, can be found here: “A Tale of Two Narratives: English-Language & Arabic-Language Reports Differ on Palestinian-American Teen’s Death,” by Chaim Lax, HonestReporting, January 25, 2024:On Friday January 19, 2024, a Palestinian-American teenager, Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, was killed in the West Bank, allegedly following an altercation with armed Israelis.The Israeli inquiry into this matter is still ongoing.However, an investigation by the Jewish...

Things are so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters. What Excites Biden? Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters we now daily witness that are nearly destroying the country. When the ailing and non-compos-mentis president now speaks, he rarely becomes excited about Iranian or terrorist provocations. Biden seems restrained even at Russia’s outlawry in Ukraine....

Across the globe, hostile nations like Russia are using migration as a weapon of war. War is being waged with migrants, instead of tanks, to destabilize and even bankrupt a country and facilitate terrorists attacks from within. Migration is being used to attack Finland, Italy, France, Poland and — no surprise — America. But the Biden administration is asleep at the switch, oblivious to the threat. Though most of the migrants crossing the U.S. southern border are in search of economic opportunity, some are used as tools by our enemies. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is rightly sounding the alarm about...

Widespread areas of Los Angeles experienced flooding and heavy rainfall on Sunday as a winter storm moved through the area, breaking a 97-year-old record for rainfall in one day. Though the day started clear and bright, with a golden sunrise illuminating the skies, raindrops began falling by midday — and by nightfall, the drizzle had become a deluge. The Los Angeles Times reported: Damage reports piled up late Sunday as a slow-moving storm system steadily pummeled Southern California, and downtown L.A. broke a 97-year-old rainfall record. In Studio City, a debris flow sent mud and other objects flowing down the...

While “only” 3,000 Hamas terrorists and Palestinian civilians caused the death of 1,200 Israelis, the injury of another 5,400 and the capture of an additional 246, large swaths of Muslims throughout the world support the 10/7 slaughter and wish for more. There are many fine Muslim citizens in Israel and the West. Some serve in the IDF and others, like Yoseph Haddad, fight tirelessly for the truth, Israel, and the safety of the West. But much of the Muslim world wishes to eradicate Israel, the Jews and Western democracies. For those living in host countries who have oftentimes given them...

VIDEOLiberals in general and at MSNBC in particular are now in the "freak out stage" over what to them is the maddening DELAY of President Trump's J6 trial due to his immunity appeal. If you don't believe me then you can hear them say they are freaking out in this MSNBC show hosted by Jen Psaki in which guests Neal Katyal and Andrew Weissman declare their panic attack freak out status.

Carl Weathers, who died at 76 last week, was an entertainer who moved from drama to action to comedy with ease.In “Rocky III,” Carl Weathers’ Apollo Creed delivers one of the great lines in movie history, telling Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky, “You fight great, but I’m a great fighter.” It was a fitting bit of dialog for Weathers, a man who fought his way up from the “bowels” of New Orleans into a Hollywood career that spanned five decades, particularly given that he got his role in the first “Rocky” film by insulting Stallone’s acting.Though Weathers, who passed away on Feb....

In Nashville this week, six pro-life activists were convicted in federal court of conspiracy to violate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act when they peacefully prayed and sang at the entrance to an abortion clinic in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, in March 2021. Those convicted now face a possible prison sentence of 10 and 1/2 years and up to $250,000 in fines. The Biden administration’s Justice Department, which is remarkably blase about prosecuting those responsible for the 2020 riots or investigating dozens of violent attacks against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, seems to view some Christians — specifically as a...

God has prompted me to take this series, and the Gospel, to a wider audience--indeed, to a global audience. So, I am ending this FreeRepublic series and moving to YouTube, effective immediately. The new series is called BIBLEartSCRIPTUREpicturedI expect this is the final post of The Bible In Paintings series, the 979th. I am indebted to many people. Most fundamentally, of course, none of this would have been possible without our gracious and benevolent host, Mr. Jim Robinson. Thank you, sir!Mary-Lou (Left That Other Site) provided excellent technical help and moral support in the early days. Her example, posting complex...

Why is a Republican-led legislature fast tracking this left-leaning nightmare of a bill package brought by a Republican secretary of state?With the help of Republican lawmakers, South Dakota Secretary of State Monae Johnson has brought a handful of election-related bills to the 2024 legislative session, all to the ire of her campaign supporters. At her request, lawmakers have presented bills to share the statewide voter registration file, establish the crime of threatening a poll worker, and recently SB 17, which modifies the state’s recently-enacted law requiring new South Dakota voters to have resided in the state for at least 30...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is one of the most corrupt, sinister, and dishonest organizations of any kind operating anywhere in the world today, and finally the West appears to be waking to that: it has just lost over eighty percent of the funding it has received for its $1.1 billion budget in the wake of revelations that its employees have been actively aiding Hamas, or are even outright Hamas jihadis. Some short-sighted and vociferously antisemitic leftists, however, are determined to go down with the UNRWA ship: in an insane act of far-left tone-deafness...

The Senate’s emergency appropriations bill released on Sunday won’t address the border crisis, and contrary to the accomplice media’s spin, the spending bill won’t “severely curtail asylum at the US southern border.” The bill could have had the Senate reclaim the reins of lawmaking from the executive and judicial branches and clarify that widespread criminality in another country is not a basis for asylum in America. Instead, the 370-page bill, the “Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024,” includes funding for both Israel and Ukraine, plus decidedly insufficient provisions for addressing aliens and immigration.The backers of the Senate bill seek...

The White House declined to say whether President Joe Biden would drink the water in East Palestine, Ohio, during his visit to the community one year after a train derailment resulted in an environmental disaster that had repercussions for residents’ water sources and air quality

An ex-employee of Fani Willis, who was fired after she blew the whistle on the Fulton County district attorney's office allegedly mishandling federal funds, has leaked an audio recording of an implicating conversation that's now come back to haunt Willis. According to a bombshell report published by The Washington Free Beacon, years before Willis's lover Nathan Wade brought criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, the newly elected Democrat DA privately met with Amanda Timpson, who was previously the office's Juvenile Diversions Programs manager in charge of diverting non-violent juvenile offenders toward "alternatives to the juvenile court system." There, Timpson...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — The man at the center of a state investigation for allegedly mishandling human remains, stealing people’s money, and abandoning his funeral home has turned himself in. According to an Orange County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman, Elliot Maurice Graham turned himself in at the Orange County Jail early Friday morning. The Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) said it will charge him with the following: False and Fraudulent Insurance Claims (Felony) Grand Theft (Felony) Improper Preservation of a Human Body – 5 counts (Misdemeanor)

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