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It’s Overshadowing Shoulders Sunday

Overshadowing Shoulders (The Most Holy Trinity, detail, Guido Reni)

Today is the First Sunday of Lent, and the following verse from Psalm 90 appears three separate times; first in the Tract, then as the Offertory verse, and finally as the Communion verse.

“The Lord will overshadow thee with His shoulders, and under His wings thou shalt trust: His truth shall compass thee with a shield.”  Psalm 90: 4-5

Read the medical description of death by crucifixion below, and then ponder the words, “The Lord will overshadow thee with His shoulders.”

[This is a paraphrase of a summary of an ARSH 1965 article on crucifixion by Dr. C. Truman Davis entitled, “The Anatomical And Physiological Details Of Death By Crucifixion”, originally published in Arizona Medicine.  Since it is widely reproduced on the internet, I have taken the liberty of cleaning up a few things, and correcting scripture citations.  Additions of my prose are in brackets. –AB ’25]

Crucifixion is the most painful death ever invented by man and is where we get our term “excruciating.”  It was reserved primarily for the most vicious of male criminals.  Our Lord refused the anesthetic wine which was offered to Him by the Roman soldiers in keeping with His promise recorded in Matthew 26: 29, “And I say to you, I will not drink from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I shall drink it with you new in the kingdom of My Father.”  Our Lord was stripped naked [This is very important. The depictions of Our Lord with His loincloth intact on the Cross are for the sake of modesty, particularly for women and children.  He was naked.  The humiliation of being hung naked with no way of covering one’s self was in integral part of the humiliation of crucifixion.  Our Blessed Lord spared Himself nothing – the agony of His Passion was maximal.] and His clothing divided by the Roman guards. This was in fulfillment of Psalm 21:19, “They parted My garments amongst them; and upon My vesture they cast lots.”  The Crucifixion of Jesus guaranteed a horrific, slow, painful death.

Having been nailed the Cross, Our Lord now had an impossible anatomical position to maintain.  Jesus’ knees were flexed at about 45 degrees, and He was forced to bear His weight with the muscles of His thigh, which is not an anatomical position which is possible to maintain for more than a few minutes without severe cramp in the muscles of the thigh and calf.  Our Lord’s weight was borne on His feet, with nails driven through them.  As the strength of the muscles of Our Blessed Lord’s lower limbs tired, the weight of His body had to be transferred to His wrists, His arms, and His shoulders.  Within a few minutes of being placed on the Cross, Our Lord’s shoulders were dislocated.  Minutes later His elbows and wrists became dislocated.  The result of these upper limb dislocations was that His arms were 9 inches longer than normal, as clearly shown on the Shroud of Turin.  In addition, prophecy was thus fulfilled in Psalm 21:15, “I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered.”

After Our Lord’s wrists, elbows, and shoulders were dislocated, the weight of His body on his upper limbs caused traction forces on the Pectoralis Major muscles of His chest wall.  These traction forces caused His rib cage to be pulled upwards and outwards, in a most unnatural state. His chest wall was permanently in a position of maximal respiratory inspiration. In order to exhale, Jesus had to push down on the nails in His feet to raise His body, and allow His rib cage to move downwards and inwards to expire air from His lungs.  His lungs were in a resting position of constant maximum inspiration. Crucifixion is a medical catastrophe.  The problem was that Our Blessed Lord could not easily push down on the nails in His feet because the muscles of His legs, bent at 45 degrees, were extremely fatigued, in severe cramp, and in an anatomically compromised position.

Despite what is shown in all Hollywood movies about the Crucifixion, the victim was extremely active.  A crucified victim was physiologically forced to move up and down the cross, a distance of about 12 inches, in order to breathe.  The process of respiration caused excruciating pain, mixed with the absolute terror of asphyxiation.  As the six hours of the Crucifixion wore on, Our Lord was less and less able to bear His weight on His legs, as His thigh and calf muscles became increasingly exhausted. [And bear in mind that He had already been scourged until most of His skin was gone, was thus in deep shock, and was then made to march approximately two kilometers while carrying His own Cross.  While fully human, Our Lord’s strength during His Passion was unfathomable.]  

There was increasing dislocation of His wrists, elbows and shoulders, and further elevation of His chest wall, making His breathing more and more difficult.  Within minutes of crucifixion Our Lord became severely dyspnoeic (short of breath).  His movements up and down the Cross to breathe caused excruciating pain in His wrists, His feet, and His dislocated elbows and shoulders.  The movements became less frequent as Our Blessed Lord became increasingly exhausted, but the terror of imminent death by asphyxiation forced Him to continue in His efforts to breathe [because His suffering had to be maximal – He had to give us absolutely all of His love].

Our Sweet Lord’s lower limb muscles developed excruciating cramping from the effort of pushing down on His legs, to raise His body, so that He could exhale, in their anatomically compromised position.  The pain from His two shattered median nerves in His wrists exploded with every movement.  Our Lord was covered in His Precious Blood and sweat.  The blood was a result of the Scourging that nearly killed Him, and the sweat as a result of His violent efforts to expire air from His lungs.

Throughout all this He was completely naked, and the leaders of the Jews, the Romans, the crowds, and the bad thief crucified beside Him were jeering, swearing and laughing at Him.  In addition, Our Lord’s own Blessed Mother was watching this, united to His suffering.

Physiologically, Our Lord’s body was undergoing a series of catastrophic and terminal events.  Because Jesus could not maintain adequate ventilation of His lungs, He was now in a state of hypoventilation (inadequate ventilation).  His blood oxygen level began to fall, and He developed Hypoxia (low blood oxygen).  In addition, because of His restricted respiratory movements, His blood carbon dioxide (CO2) level began to rise, a condition known as Hypercapnia.  This rising CO2 level stimulated His heart to beat faster in order to increase the delivery of oxygen, and the removal of CO2.  The Respiratory Center in Our Lord’s brain sent urgent messages to his lungs to breathe faster, and Our Lord began to pant.  Jesus’ physiological reflexes demanded that He take deeper breaths, and He involuntarily moved up and down the Cross much faster, despite the excruciating pain.

The agonizing movements spontaneously started several times a minute, to the delight of the crowd who jeered Him, the Roman soldiers, and the Sanhedrin.  However, due to the nailing of Our Precious Lord to the Cross and His increasing exhaustion, He was unable to provide more oxygen to His oxygen-starved body.  The twin forces of Hypoxia (too little oxygen) and Hypercapnia (too much CO2) caused His heart to beat faster and faster, and Our Lord developed Tachycardia.  His Sacred Heart beat faster and faster, and His pulse rate was probably about 220 beats/ minute, the maximum normally sustainable.  Jesus had drunk nothing for 15 hours, since 6 pm the previous evening.

Our Lord had endured a scourging which nearly killed Him.  He was bleeding from all over His body following the Scourging, the crown of thorns, the nails in His wrists and feet, and the lacerations following His beatings and falls.  Jesus was already extremely dehydrated, and His blood pressure fell alarmingly.  His blood pressure was probably about 80/50.  He was in First Degree Shock, with Hypovolaemia (low blood volume), Tachycardia (excessively fast Heart Rate), Tachypnoea (excessively fast Respiratory Rate), and Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating).  Sometime after noon Our Lord’s Sacred Heart probably began to physically fail.  Jesus’ lungs probably began to fill up with Pulmonary Oedema.  This only served to exacerbate His breathing, which was already severely compromised.  Jesus was in Heart Failure and Respiratory Failure.  Jesus said, “I thirst” [partly] because His body was crying out for fluids [but also because He was thirsting for souls – both to love them and to be loved by them].  Our Lord was in desperate need of an intravenous infusion of blood and plasma.  He could not breathe properly and was slowly suffocating to death.  At this stage Our Lord probably developed a Haemopericardium: plasma and blood gathered in the space around His Sacred Heart, called the Pericardium.  This fluid around His Sacred Heart caused Cardiac Tamponade (fluid around His Sacred Heart, which prevented it from beating properly).  Because of the increasing physiological demands on Jesus’ Sacred Heart, and the advanced state of Haemopericardium, He may have eventually sustained Cardiac Rupture. His Sacred Heart may have literally burst [before being pierced by the lance of Longinus]. Heart failure was probably the [ultimate physical] cause of His death, [while our sins are the true cause of His suffering and death].

When the Romans wanted to expedite death they would simply break the legs of the victim, causing the victim to suffocate in a matter of minutes. This was called Crucifragrum.  At three o’clock in the afternoon Our Lord said, “It is consummated.”  At that moment, He gave up His Spirit, and He died.  When the soldiers came to Our Lord to break His legs, He was already dead. Not a bone of His Body was broken, in fulfillment of the prophecy in Exodus 12: 46.  Our Precious Lord thus died on the Cross after six hours of the most excruciating and terrifying torture ever invented, after enduring torture in the twelve hours prior to His crucifixion which, by itself, would have been sufficient to kill any other man.

Happy Feast of the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

The things we love tell us who we are.

In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.

Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one’s life, one’s goods or one’s physical integrity; sometimes, even ’til the aggressor’s death… In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one’s life or one’s goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.

If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.

The Eucharist is the sacrament of love: it signifies love, it produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.

Tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, is a FULL FAST day. The word “fast” means TO NOT EAT; not to eat three meals and come up with some weird explanation of how that constitutes “fasting”. To fast means to eat nothing.

As always, and this preface NEVER works, because every time I write about fasting, no matter how thoroughly I preface it, I get emails from people needing to explain their various and sundry maladies and telling me that my fasting definition is simply beyond the pale… because he or she, personally and individually, cannot fast. But, I’m persistent, so here we go again:

If you have some medical condition that excludes you from the ability to go 24 hours without eating, lest you risk inviting some grave medical condition… then do whatever you can. Our Lord isn’t a jerk who is trying to cull the sick. If you can’t fast, then don’t. Do what you can.

BUT…

Fasting means eating nothing. Holy Mother Church asks that we eat NOTHING on two days of the year, a full fast from food and caloric beverages for 24 hours, from midnight to midnight: Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. This not only isn’t asking much, it’s actually extremely healthy for both BODY and soul.

Hear this now: if you as a healthy adult cannot go without food or caloric beverage for 24 hours without “passing out” or being somehow stricken, unable to work or function, then you are not, by definition, a “healthy adult”, and you should see an endocrinologist immediately.

But Ann! But Ann! The Church says that “fasting” means eating one main meal with two smaller meals that added together are less than the main meal!

To which I say, there is never any prohibition against doing MORE. Beyond that, I would also say that The Church said quite a few things in the 20th century that WILL NOT stand the test of time, to put it mildly. First among them being the de facto abolition of the Eucharistic Fast. How could anyone think that ONE HOUR constitutes a FAST? Or even three hours, for that matter. One could literally roll into a High Mass today with a bag from Mickey D’s, sit in the back of the church and eat a Super Value Meal, and as long as you’re done by the Gradual, depending on how long the homily is – perhaps even later than that – still have “observed the one hour Eucharistic Fast”, which is measured from the reception of Holy Communion, NOT from the beginning of the Mass. This is obviously madness, and it won’t last.

So, yes, I’m saying goodbye to my Lenten penance dietary restriction categories today, and eating absolutely nothing tomorrow. I will drink only lightly salted water, as needed.

I pray that everyone have a very holy and spiritually profitable Lent of ARSH 2025, that temporary abstinence from good things be offered up, and that sins and bad habits be crushed, and that good habits be permanently established!!!

Mailbag: Trying To Scam God

As Antipope Bergoglio’s life is concluding (or has already concluded), the question of final penitence and the Last Rites (Extreme Unction and the Apostolic Pardon) are in the forefront of people’s minds. Specifically, the dynamics of Justice and Mercy need to be addressed. If Antipope Bergoglio dies unrepentant, will he be saved because he had the Apostolic Pardon said over him? Absolutely NOT. The Apostolic Pardon requires that the person be in the State of Grace. Read on:

I’m not going to post the actual email text below because it is very detailed and might betray anonymity, but the gist is this:

A defrocked Catholic priest married and had children.  He sexually molested his children, and children he came in contact with over the course of his career.  On his death bed, he received the Sacrament of Extreme Unction (Last Rites).   Before this, while in palliative care, the man had sexually groped the writer of the email who had gone to help with his care. One of his children claims that they had arranged for a “special version” of the Last Rites that not only absolved all of his sins, but also any temporal punishment or purgation – that he went “straight to heaven”, guaranteed.  This is the Apostolic Pardon. But the Apostolic Pardon only applies to those in the State of Grace. The writer of the email has been very troubled by this, and asked for any words of clarification that I might have.

It is a VERY good and VERY fair question.  I have railed for years about the widespread and COMPLETELY JUST criticism of modern Catholics as people who are all about “gaming the system”, that is, sinning without compunction, and then just sauntering into the confessional, or, as is more common today, just thinking that they can wait until they are old and within sight of death, and THEN “have the priest say a few prayers” and BAM! All is forgiven and straight to heaven.  This premeditated, cold, calculated rationale of sinning and then appealing to nothing more than legalism is what makes people sick, and rightly so.  As I have said many times, my conversion and entry into the Church was delayed for YEARS by the scandal of this dynamic, with the Kennedy family being the exemplars.

The simple, blunt, direct answer to the writer’s question is this:

God is not a “system”.  God is a PERSONAL BEING. And no one, absolutely no one, “plays Him”, “games Him”, or “tricks Him”. Period.

At the Particular Judgment of every human being, the human being says exactly ONE WORD.  That word is, “Yes.”

For a great number of people, the “Yes” will be the acknowledgement that they are damned.

For most of the rest, the “Yes” will be the acknowledgement that they, while Redeemed by Calvary and saved by the Blood of The Lamb, are still attached to sin, and must be purged of those attachments by the purifying fire of God’s Perfect Love, because NOTHING IMPURE CAN ENTER INTO THE BEATIFIC VISION – THE COMPLETELY UNVEILED PRESENCE OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY. How God goes about this process of purification from person to person is unknown to us, but we do know for an absolute certainty that every single person in heaven will be completely and totally free from all attachment to sin. There is no sin in heaven. There is no evil in heaven. None. Zip. The Blood of the Lamb does not merely “cover” sin as the filthy arch-heretic Luther taught, it completely and totally removes it.  What is essential to understand is that almost everyone dies still attached to sin in some way or ways.  If a person dies with ANY attachment to sin, even though those sins are completely forgiven, the attachment to them MUST be purged before the person in question can enter into the full presence of God.

For a minuscule number of people, the “Yes” will be the response to Christ as He calls them to enter immediately into eternal beatitude.

So with regards to the man in the example above, since God’s Mercy is infinite, if the man truly repented, even his spectacularly heinous crimes certainly could and would be completely forgiven.  However, it also bears mentioning that if he were NOT truly sorry, and was simply “gaming the system”, God cannot be fooled, and in His Perfect Justice would, in fact, damn the man to eternal hellfire, or perhaps said more precisely, would honor the man’s own choice to reject God and let him damn himself. This outcome, this state of the man’s deepest interior, is known only to God, and thus judged ONLY by God. Can we judge the man’s actions over the course of his life? ABSOLUTELY YES.  They were sickeningly evil. Can we judge what happened in the man’s deepest interior in the hours, minutes and seconds before his death? No.  It is POSSIBLE that in the man’s last breath, he was given the grace, perhaps through the very Sacramaent of Extreme Unction that he received, of recognizing the full horror of his sins and his soul cried out in contrition to God.  THAT is what no one can know.  But, we can know from the words of Our Lord and Savior in the Gospels that many, if not most people, are, in fact, lost to hell. Knowing this GENERAL condition, we should be filled with fear and urgency not only for ourselves and the eternal fate of our own soul, but also for others. We should think about these things, and we should explain them to others.  Urgently.

I will repeat again, that this “gaming the system” mindset is a function of not having a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ”.  I use this phrase, sadly and ironically co-opted by Protestants, without hesitation, because it cuts to the heart of the matter.  The Law is nothing less than God telling man, “If you do these things, YOU WILL BREAK MY HEART.  Please, please, please, do not do these things, because when you hurt yourself, YOU HURT ME.”

Think of a (morally sane) parent whose child descends into the sins of Sodom.  The child almost certainly commits those sins completely out of sight of the parents.  The parents are not in any way physically harmed by the child engaging in sodomy.  And yet, if the parents are MORALLY SANE, the knowledge that their child is committing sins so vile, so destructive, so evil, should absolutely tear them apart inside.  It should break their heart.

Almost all of us experience a kind of this vicarious pain, this heartbreak, even for strangers.  Imagine witnessing a drunken man walking along a ledge – while he is staggering along, we see what is happening, and the potential catastrophe if he falls. When he does fall, we cry out in horror and heartbreak as we watch a man, a stranger, even a man mired in sin whose death is a direct result of his own sins, plunge to his death.

Imagine how God feels as He watches us, we whom He loves personally, and perfectly, drunk with sin, staggering along the ledge. This is why He gave us the Law.  He gave us His Law, perfect and unchanging, NOT because He is a jerk that likes to thwart our “happiness”, but because He loves us, knows exactly what is best for us, and when we do things that hurt not just others, but ourselves as well, we break His Heart. The Law is the sign (that we ignore), followed by the locked gate (that we climb over), followed by the concertina wire (that we diligently cut with our wire cutters) before we get to the ledge.

The more we think about The Law in terms of God as the PERSONAL DEITY that He is, the more we will understand and be assured that every person in heaven will be there as a perfect manifestation of God’s Infinite Mercy AND Perfect Justice IN COMBINATION.  If WE make it to heaven, when we meet other people there, including perhaps some of our own personal enemies in this life, or people that we knew by their scandal to be horrific sinners, we will not be angry, bitter or resentful to see them there.  We will be OVERJOYED, and we will sing God’s praise with our entire being that these people’s sins were washed away by God’s Infinite Mercy, and their souls purged by the fire of His Love and His Perfect Justice, just as ours will have been.

NOBODY.
SCAMS.
GOD.

I hope this helps.

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I’m considering doing a daily Musical Interlude/Jukebox site. One song drop per day. What say y’all? Interest?

Here’s my daily listen right now:

She played tambourine, with a silver jingle….

Mailbag: A based reader explains why the Freemasonic Infiltrators eliminated the Last Gospel from the Novus Ordo Mass.

Preface: The “Last Gospel” is the Prologue of the Gospel of John, which is read at the end of almost every Mass in the Traditional Roman Rite. It is John 1: 1-14. It is one of the most beautiful passages of prose ever written, and is, I think, the most theologically dense passage in all of Scripture. I STRONGLY recommend memorizing the Last Gospel in Latin and SILENTLY reciting it along with the priest at the end of every Mass – SILENTLY. Here is the text in English. The reader below makes us realize the primary reason why the infiltrators eliminated it from the Novus Ordo Mass. The excuse they give is, “It takes up too much time and is redundant.” NO, they hate it because it explicitly states that the New Covenant is the one and only Covenant now in force. Read on:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him: and without Him was made nothing that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the Light, that all men might believe through him. He was not the Light, but was to give testimony of the Light. That was the True Light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.

He came unto His own, and His own received him not. But as many as received Him, He gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in His Name. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as it were of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Almost EVERY Catholic Mass in the Roman Rite concluded with this Gospel proclamation until Sunday, November 30, ARSH 1969. Sit in stillness with that. Connect the dots. It’s not difficult.

Do we see? We just can’t all be saying that the mostly atheist political race that defines itself by its rejection of Jesus Christ has zero claim to the Holy Land, Jerusalem or ANY claim to chosenness, eliteness, or anything else. That all ended with the New Covenant, made manifest by the Jews’ conscious coercion of Pontius Pilate via their VERY thinly veiled death threat to him, his family and his entire household and staff (And from henceforth Pilate sought to release Him. But the Jews cried out, saying: “If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar’s friend…”) to MURDER their own Messiah – God Himself incarnate. Folks, if ever there were a “deal-breaker”, that’s it. You can’t kill God and then have the unmitigated gall to run around claiming “Divine Right” to ANYTHING. And, again, just a reminder, the VAST, VAST majority of self-identifying “Jews” today are ATHEISTS. Yes, ATHEISTS claiming DIVINE rights. Talk about a violation of the Law of Non-contradiction….

Just keep repeating: THE NEW ISRAEL IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE HOLY LAND BELONGS TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BY DIVINE RIGHT AND CONQUEST OF JESUS CHRIST THE KING.

Ann,

Just wanted to comment on Shmuley Boteach rushing to the Vatican to be at the beside of the “improving/dying/feeling much better/had a restful night/has 72 hours to live” “Bishop of Rome.”

“Here, corpse, sign this paper that you agree the land known now as Israel belongs to the Jews.”  Now, why in the world, we must ask ourselves, would it be SOOOOO important to have the man who is presumed to be the Vicar of Christ make such an announcement? Hmmmm.  I wonder.

And drat, how did we not get this signed and delivered before he got into this state of health?  (Keep praying. This may be something God will never permit.)

What Shmuley and the Modernists and the Evangelicals all seem to ignore are Jesus’ own words at the Last Supper:
“FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD, OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL COVENANT…”  Matt. 26:27

This is explicit in the Bible, which Modernists and Protestants say they believe and follow, so how do they not see that once one covenant ends, and a new one begins, all the terms of the first covenant are over?  John in his prologue, explicitly states:

“He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, He gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in His Name. Who are born, not of blood [not into a chosen race of people], nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”   John 1: 11-13

I think it’s pretty clear the old covenant was ended by the coming of Jesus Christ (because He said so) and so the old terms are over, and the new terms are defined in John 1.

They were the chosen ones, but they aren’t anymore….  Or to put it better, the chosen ones are those who accepted the Messiah when He came, and followed Him, and now the chosen people are Catholics.  (Just say THAT out loud and watch people’s heads explode…  🙂)

But I’ll bet Shmuley’s logic convinces many stupid Christians, and Catholics who’ve swallowed the bilge of the Modernists, to go, yeah. Yeah.  That’s right.  The land belongs to the Jews…  

No, my brothers and sisters in Christ, the land belongs to those who follow the Messiah…..  (And Shmuley knows it!  That’s why he needs a paper…)

God bless, Ann.
Sometimes I just marvel that I am alive during such times…
F

The proclamation of The Last Gospel at the conclusion of Mass, wherein ALL genuflect at the words proclaiming the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, Our Lord Jesus Christ, “Et Verbum caro factum est,” “And The Word was made flesh…”

Freemasonic Clown World in full stinking flower: Talmudic Hebrew rabbi flying to Rome to organize fart-statement by the Luciferian Antipope (or his corpse, whatever) that the Holy Land belongs NOT to the Real Israel, the Holy Catholic Church, but rather to the mostly-atheist race/political group that defines itself as rejecting the Messiah, Our Lord Jesus Christ.

I think this is very close to being peak Clown World. The perfect synthesis of the hatred of God and the embrace of the lie and the inversion of the Truth: begging the Luciferian Antipope, by his non-existent authority, to deny the very existence of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, that is, the New Israel, in se, and cede “ownership” of Holy Land to an atheist racial supremacist political group whose defining principle is the rejection of Christ.

Yup. Sounds about right.

Don’t be surprised if the Freemasons occupying the Vatican actually do this.

And remember every single prelate, cleric and layperson who said, “There’s nothing we can do. We just have to wait for him to die.”

Maybe when they get Antipope Bergoglio to fart out a statement, they can celebrate by going to the west wall of Mark Anthony’s armory and praying to him, as they seem to enjoy doing.

The only Israel that truly exists today is the New Israel, the Catholic Church, and the Holy Land belongs to the Catholic Church by Divine Right and Conquest of Jesus Christ the King.