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In the world, you find depression, sorrow, despondency, sadness, discouragement, misery, and woe. However, none of those have any place in a child of God. In His presence there is not just joy, but abundant joy! Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11 KJV One might object by saying that Psalm 16 is not about Believers, but Jesus. Believers are made alive in Christ, and seated together in Heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Believers are blessed with all spiritual Blessings in...

Disbarred attorney and felon Michael Cohen took to Twitter Monday to share his glee that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided former President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. “The look on your face when you learn that the @FBI just raided Mar-a-Lardo and #TFG is shitting a brick!!!#KarmaBoomerang,” wrote the former personal attorney to Trump.

LONDON (Reuters) -Russian officials lined up to celebrate the downfall of Boris Johnson on Thursday, with a leading tycoon casting the British leader as a "stupid clown" who had finally got his just reward for arming Ukraine against Russia.Johnson was expected to announce his resignation after he was abandoned by ministers and his Conservative Party's lawmakers who said he was no longer fit to govern. The Kremlin said it too was no fan of the British leader, whose parents named him Boris after a White Russian emigre."He doesn't like us, we don't like him either," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Archdiocese of Washington Five Steps to Better Mental Health – A Homily for the Third Sunday of Advent Msgr. Charles Pope • December 12, 2015 • In modern times, we tend to link our notions of happiness and inner well-being to external circumstances and happenstance. And so we think that happiness will be found when the things of this world are arranged in the way we like. If we can just get enough money and creature comforts, we think we'll be happy and have a better sense of mental well-being.Yet many people can endure difficult external circumstances while remaining inwardly...

Sweet, Beautiful, Soul-Saving Joy – A Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent By: Msgr. Charles PopeThis Sunday is traditionally called Gaudete Sunday based on the Introit for the day: Gaudete in Domino semper, iterum dico, Gaudete (from Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say, Rejoice). This theme is developed most fully in today’s readings in 1 Thessalonians 5:16ff. It, too, begins with the salutation and imperative, “rejoice always!”Let’s take a closer look at that reading and what is meant by the admonition to “rejoice.”The text begins, Rejoice always. The Greek word properly translated here as “rejoice”...

Code: ZE04121203Date: 2004-12-12Pope Defends Nativity Scene as a Sign of Faith and CultureIn Angelus Address on Gaudete SundayVATICAN CITY, DEC. 12, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Christmas crib is a sign of faith and culture, says John Paul II. "Small or large, simple or elaborate, the crib constitutes a familiar and particularly expressive representation of Christmas," the Pope said. "It is an element of our culture and art, but above all a sign of faith in God, who came to Bethlehem 'to dwell among us.'" The Holy Father made his comment today from the window of study, as he greeted the crowds...

What is the perfect gift? We tend to answer this question more in terms of what we want. But today’s Gospel teaches us that the perfect gift is what God is offering, more that what we specifically want. One of the goals of the spiritual is to come to value, above all else, what God offers more than our latest interest of perceived need.In reviewing today’s Gospel I am going to take a stance regarding St. John the Baptist that I realize is not without controversy. As the Gospel opens John, who is in prison, sends disciples with a strange...

I was explaining to a new Catholic recently that the color purple (violet) used in advent is akin to its use in Lent, in that both are considered penitential seasons. Hence we are to give special attention to our sins and our need for salvation. Traditionally Advent was a time we would, like Lent take part in penitential practices such as fasting and abstinence.Of course, in recent decades Advent has almost wholly lost any real penitential practices. There is no fasting or abstinence required, they are not really even mentioned. Confession is encouraged and the readings still retain a kind...

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An alleged Georgia militiaman arrested on federal charges in what authorities describe as a scheme to seize the Monroe County courthouse and make a series of citizen's arrests for treason has been freed pending trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Guyton on Friday ruled that Darren Wesley Huff, 40, of Dallas, Ga., can remain free but under a number of restrictions. Huff must possess no firearms, wear an electronic monitoring device, have no contact with any potential witnesses or co-defendants, and adhere to several other conditions. The judge set trial for Aug. 2 and scheduled a pre-trial conference for July 27...

Just a post to uplift you on what otherwise might be a gloomy Sunday. Post as you see fit.

Rejoice, for the will of God has been done. We have a President that will stand for life and freedom and do the right thing! Truth and righteousness have won over falsehood and lies. This Orthodox song from South Africa is simply inspiring: http://www.orthodoxnet.com/audio/On_earth_an_army_is_marching_Alleluia_south_africa.mp3

Nader Tells Democrats to Relax, Rejoice 8 minutes ago By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader, facing the wrath of Democrats who blame him for Al Gore's loss in 2000, on Monday offered words of advice to party members who fear his candidacy will help re-elect President Bush. "I urge the liberal establishment to relax and rejoice," Nader told reporters at a news conference. "This is a campaign that strives to displace the present corporate regime of the Bush administration." Nader faces a daunting task in simply getting his name on the ballot in all 50 states....

(The following excerpts are from Better Homes & Gardens 1993 "Holiday Celebrations"; information & Christmas Cards furnished by Hallmark Cards, Inc.) Although the Christmas season has been celebrated for centuries, it wasn't until the last half of the 19th century that printed cards were widely exchanged. Until that time, only a few people sent hand-written Christmas messages - those who could read and write, and afford to pay a messenger. This changed in the mid-1800s, when many people were learning to read and write through free public schools. The passage of the Penny Postage Act in England in 1840...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 12/16/03 - Baghdad, Basra, Sadr City, Iraqis -liberated by the USA- celebrate Saddam's capture, World reaction BREAKING: Baghdad - Iraqis -liberated by the USA- celebrate Saddam's capture BREAKING: Basra - Iraqis -liberated by the USA- celebrate Saddam's capture BREAKING: Sadr City - - Iraqis -liberated by the USA- celebrate Saddam's capture BREAKING: Fallujah, Gaza, Khan Younis - Terrorists in the Palestinian-Occupied Terror-tories mourn Saddam's capture QFN ==== QUAGMIRE-FREE NEWS Exclusive to FReerepublic SOME PICTURES YOU MAY NEVER SEE IN THE GENERAL MEDIA Want to take a ride? World reaction on the capture...

<p>They thought that we would rue it. They doubted we'd do it. But now they must admit it, that succeed we did.</p> <p>First, let's just be happy. Let's feel a burst of joy.</p> <p>Let's not be boring people who Consider the Implications. Let's not talk about the domestic political impact. For just a day let's feel the pleasure history just handed us.</p>

Saddam's plight has released a torrent of conflicting emotions among Arabs, writes Ed O'Loughlin in Jerusalem. News of Saddam Hussein's capture was greeted by a chorus of cautious welcome from governments across the Middle East - but behind the official utterances many governments have decidedly more mixed feelings. Having hitched their wagon to Saddam's horse unwisely in the past, when they backed Iraq in the first Gulf War, Palestinian leaders for the most part remained quiet on the occasion of his final downfall. There was nothing from Yasser Arafat. But a leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas reflected the...

had just returned to my motel room in Port Augusta at 8.30pm on Sunday after a long working day in the power station. My wife rang me from Sydney: "Hadi," she said, "today is the day, they captured Saddam. May my father and young brother be comforted in their graves now." And she began to weep, remembering her father and brother, both assassinated by Hussein's regime. I wept, too. The joy was overwhelming. I danced and danced by myself. I wanted to share this moment with someone so I rang my colleague Tony Hodge in his room and told him...

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in a six-hour gunbattle with U.S. troops at a villa in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday after a tip-off from an Iraqi, the U.S. military said. "We're certain that Uday and Qusay were killed," Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told a hasty news conference in Baghdad after four charred bodies taken from the Mosul villa were flown to the capital. "They died in a fierce gunbattle," he said, adding they had barricaded themselves inside the house and fired small arms at...