tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70886053984836040772024-03-13T10:33:43.593+00:00whitesmokeahoyumblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-65300792764362228322023-10-28T23:51:00.001+01:002023-10-30T01:50:32.673+00:00'The Tears of Repentance' - by Francesca Alexander (late 19th c.)<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The Tears of Repentance’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Part First<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The Mountain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A wild, sad story I tell today,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And I pray you to listen all!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You cannot think how my heart is moved,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As the legend I recall, ---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The legend that made me weep so oft,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When I was a child like you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I tell it now, in my life’s decline,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And it brings the tears anew.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It came to us down through ages long;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For this story had its scene<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the far-away, gorgeous, stormy days<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of the empire Byzantine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And it tells of a famous mountain chief,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A terrible, fierce brigand,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who ravaged the country, far and wide,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">At the head of an armed band.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So hard of heart was this evil man<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That he spared not young nor old;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He killed and plundered, and burned and spoiled,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In his maddening thirst for gold;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Would come with a swoop on a merchant troop,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That peacefully went its way,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the counted gains of a journey long<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Were scattered in one short day!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He knew no pity, he owned no law,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nor human, nor yet divine;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Would take the gold from a Prince’s chest,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Or the lamp from a wayside shrine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In hidden valley, in wild ravine,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On desolate, heath-grown hill,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He buried his treasure away from sight,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And most of it lies there still.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And none were free in that land to dwell,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Except they a tribute paid;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the robber chief, who was more than king,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Had this burden on them laid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If any dared to resist the claim,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He was met with vengeance dire;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His lands were wasted before the dawn,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And his harvest burned with fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And some day maybe himself was slain,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And left in the road to lie;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To fill with terror the quaking heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of the next who journeyed by.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And many fled to the towns afar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And their fields were left untilled,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While want and trouble and trembling fear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Had the stricken country filled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">High up on a mountain’s pathless side<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Had the robber made his den,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In a rocky cave, where he reigned supreme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Over twenty lawless men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A price had long on his head been set,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But for that he little cared;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For few were they who could climb the way,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And fewer were those who dared.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For those who hunted him long before<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Had a fearful story brought:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They were not men on the mountain side,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But demons who with them fought!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For horrible forms arose, they said,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As if from the earth they grew;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And rolled down rocks from the cliffs above<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On any who might pursue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From town to town and from land to land,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Had his evil fame been spread;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And voices lowered and lips grew grave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When the hated name they said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The people’s heart had grown faint with fear,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And they thought no hope remained;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But hope again on their vision dawned,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When the Emperor’s ear they gained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mauritius reigned o’er the nations then;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He was great in warlike fame,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he was not one to shrink or quake<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">At a mountain bandit’s name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He sent a band of a hundred strong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the troubled land’s release,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To kill the man and his bloody crew,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And to give the country peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For what was a robber chief to him?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He had conquered mighty kings;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He gave the order, and then ‘t was done,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he thought of other things.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But few, alas, of that troop returned,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And they told a ghostly tale;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And women wept, and the strongest men,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As they heard, grew mute and pale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Those soldiers oft in the war had been,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And they counted danger light;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From mortal foe had they never turned,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But with demons who could fight?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Emperor silent was and grave,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For his thoughts were deep and wise;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw that the robber chief was one<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Whom he could not well despise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There might be reason in what they said,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That the demons gave him aid,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And earthly weapon would ne’er be found<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That could make such foes afraid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But yet, they will flee from sacred things,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the martyred saints, he knew,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Have holy virtue, that to them clings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That can all their spells undo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But how could such weapon reach the soul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That for years had owned their sway?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A question grave that he pondered long;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But at length he found a way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A reliquary he made prepare;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was all of finest gold:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For as monarch might with monarch treat,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He would serve this bandit bold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The gold was his, but the work he gave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To the skilled and patient hand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of an artist monk, who counted then<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the first in all the land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Now see him close to his labour bent,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In a cell remote and high,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where all he saw of the world without<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Was a square of roof and sky.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A holy man was this artist monk,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And for gain he did not ask,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If only the Lord his work would bless,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For his heart was in the task.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And day by day from his touch came forth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The image of holy things;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The cross was there, and the clustered vine,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the dove with outspread wings, ---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The dove that bore in her golden beak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The olive in sign of peace,---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And still, as he wrought, his hand kept time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To the prayer that would not cease!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For pity stirred in him when he thought<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of that dark and stormy breast,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So hard, so hopeless, from God so far,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where the little sign would rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And perhaps if angels were looking on,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(And I doubt not some were there!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They saw that the work was sewn with pearls,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And each pearl a burning prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So weeks went on, and the shrine was done,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And within it, sealed and closed,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Were holy relics of martyred saints<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who near in the church reposed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And trusted messengers bore it forth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To the distant mountain land;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With such a weapon they need not fear;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They could meet the famed brigand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was winter now on the mountain side,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the way was long and hard,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As the faithful envoys upward toiled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In their bandit escort’s guard,---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Toiled up to a grove of ancient firs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For that was the place designed,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where, after parley and long delay,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Had the meeting been combined.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No sound but their feet that crushed the snow,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the world looked sad and dead;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They thought of lives on the mountain lost,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And it was not much they said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The sun, as it shone with slanting ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Through the stripped and silent trees,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Could melt but little the clinging ice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Which tonight again would freeze.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They reached the grove, and the chief was there,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Like a king in savage state;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Erect and fearless, above them all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While his men around him wait.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He stood before them like what he was,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A terrible beast of prey;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But even tigers have something grand,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he looked as grand as they.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But, oh, the look that he on them turned!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was fearful to behold;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It chilled their hearts, but they did not shrink,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For their faith had made them bold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And looking straight in those gloomy eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With their hard and cruel glare,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“We come,” said one, “in the Emperor’s name,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And from him a token bear.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then said the chief, with a mocking smile,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“And what may my Lord command?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And made a sign with his evil eye,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the men on guard to stand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No faith had he in a tale so wild,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he somewhat feared a snare;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There might be others in hiding near,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But he did not greatly care.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then forth came he who the relics bore,---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was a prudent man and brave,---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And into the hand that all men feared,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He the holy token gave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“This gift to you has the Emperor sent,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In token of his good will,”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He said;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and at
first the fierce brigand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Stood in wonder, hushed and still.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What felt he then as that holy thing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In his guilty hand he took?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What changed his face for a moment’s time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To an almost human look?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There lay the shrine in his open palm,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Yet he thought it could not be:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“For me?” he asked, but his voice was strange,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And again he said, “for me?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Three times the messenger told his tale,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he said ’t was all he knew;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The bandit looked at the wondrous work,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he could not doubt ‘t was true.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So over his neck the chain he hung,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The shrine on his bosom lay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With all its wealth of a thousand prayers;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And they were not cast away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Day followed day in the bandit’s cave,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And a restless man was he;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A heart so hard and so proud as his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With the saints could ill agree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The holy relics that on it lay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Did a strange confusion make;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In all that most he had loved before,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He could no more pleasure take.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A charm there was in the golden shrine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That had all his soul possessed;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He sat and looked at each sacred sign<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With a dreamy sense of rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was not the gold that could soothe him thus,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And ‘t was not the work so fine:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was the holy soul of the artist monk,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For it lived in every line.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Like one who sleeps when the day begins,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And, before his slumbers end,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The morning light and the morning sounds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With his dreaming fancies blend;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So now and then would his heart be stirred<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By a feeling strange and new,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And thoughts he never had known before<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In his mind unconscious grew.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Till on a sudden his blinding pride,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Like a bubble, failed and broke;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With eyes wide open, the guilty man<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From his life-long dream awoke.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From graves forgotten his crimes came forth,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In his face they seemed to stare:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To all one day will such waking come;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">God grant it be here, not there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then wild remorse on his heart took hold,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And beneath its burning sting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He shrank from himself as one might shrink<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From a venomous, hateful thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For scenes of blood from the years gone by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Forever before him came;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He closed his eyes, and his face he hid,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But he saw them just the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And in the horror he dared not pray,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For he felt his soul accurst,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he feared to live, and he feared to die,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he knew not which was worst.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Yet far on high, and beyond his reach,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He could see a vision dim,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A far-off glory of peace and love;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But he felt ‘t was not for him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Awhile his trouble he hid from all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For his will was iron strong,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But never was man, since man was made,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who could bear such torment long.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A strange, sick longing was growing up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In his spirit, day by day,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A longing for what he most had feared, ---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To let justice have her way;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Until the will to a purpose grew,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To the Emperor’s fee to fly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To own his sin without prayer or plea,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And then give up all and die.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And so one night, without sound or word,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Away in the dark he stole,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And all that he took for his journey long<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Was the weight of a burdened soul.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They waited long in that den of crime,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But they saw their chief no more;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Or dead, or living, they found him not,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Though they searched the mountain o’er.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And in the country, so long oppressed,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When his sudden flight was known,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They spoke of a wild and fearful night,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When the fiends had claimed their own.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And soon the tale to a legend turned,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And men trembling used to tell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of how they carried him, body and soul,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To the place where demons dwell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His men, so bold, were in mortal fear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of what might themselves befall;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So some in a convent refuge sought,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the rest were scattered all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And no one climbed to their empty cave,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For ‘t was called a haunted place,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Though soon the summer had swept away<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of its horror every trace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And mountain strawberries nestled low,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And delicate harebells hung,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In beauty meek, from its broken arch,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where the swallows reared their young.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But where had he gone, that man of woe?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Had he found the rest he sought?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In haste he went, but with noiseless tread,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As his bandit life had taught.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And going downward he met the spring,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With its mingled sun and showers;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But storms of winter he bore within,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he did not see the flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And how did he live from day to day,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the ceaseless strain endure?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kind hearts there are that can feel for all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the poor will help the poor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In frightened pity, a shepherd girl,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As she fled o’er the daisied grass,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Would let the bread from her apron fall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On the turf where he should pass;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Or workmen, eating their noonday meal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On a bank beside the way,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Would give him food, but with outstretched arm,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And they asked him not to stay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He went like a shadow taken shape<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From some vague and awful dream,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And word of comfort for him was none,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In his misery so extreme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alas, from himself he could not flee,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Though he tried, poor haunted man;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he reached the city beside the sea,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As the Holy Week began.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Part Second.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was Sunday morn, and a hundred bells<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With their sweet and saintly sound<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Were calling the people into prayer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the pleasant hills around,---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The morn when strivings should end in peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And each wrong forgotten be,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That Holy Week may its blessing shed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Upon souls from discord free.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The streets were bright with a moving throng,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And before the palace gate,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With eager eyes and in garments gay,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Did a crowd expectant wait.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the Emperor goes in solemn state,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With his court, like all the rest,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To the church with many lamps ablaze,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where today the palms are blest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And stately ladies and timid girls,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In their modest plain attire,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From curtained windows are looking down,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the shifting scene admire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They come, they come, from the cool deep shade<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of the courtyard’s marble arch,---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The nobles all in their rich array,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the guards with sounding march.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And stay, the square is as still as death,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the Emperor passes now;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The girls at the window hold their breath,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the people bend and bow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But who is this that among them moves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With that quick and stately pace?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What see they all in his rigid look,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That they shrink and give him place?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Too late the guards would have barred the way,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For he darted swiftly by,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As hunted creatures, when hard beset,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To man in their terror fly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And sinking low at the feet of him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He had come so far to see,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He waited silent with folded hands,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nor asked what his fate should be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Who are you, come in such deep distress,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And what is the grace you seek?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Emperor’s voice was grave and kind,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the stranger tried to speak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The golden casket he raised in sight,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While he bent his eyes for shame;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then said he, “I am that wicked man,”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he told the dreaded name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A shudder fell upon all who heard,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But the people nearer drew;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From mouth to mouth, in a whisper low,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The name of the bandit flew.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While he, uplifting those woeful eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the boldness of despair,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With ne’er a thought of the crowd who heard,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His errand did thus declare:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“I come not here to confess my sins,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For you know them all too well;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><a name="_Hlk149089064"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">My crimes are many and
black and great,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They are more
than tongue can tell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“But here at
your feet my life I lay,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have
nothing else to give;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So now, if it
please you, speak the word,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For I am not
fit to live.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The words
came straight from his broken heart<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In such sad
and simple style,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That the
Emperor’s firm, proud lips were moved<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To a somewhat
softened smile.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For his
warlike spirit felt the charm<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of that
savage strength and grace,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the
strange fierce beauty that lingered still<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the dark
and troubled face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So grand of
form and so lithe of limb,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And still in
his manhood’s prime,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T would be a
pity for one like him<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To perish
before his time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And ‘t was
well to see him kneeling there,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Whose terror
had filled the land,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Like a
captive tiger, caught and tamed<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By his own
imperial hand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Arise” he
said, “you have nought to fear,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Take comfort
and go your way,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And may God
in heaven my sins forgive,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As I pardon
yours today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A murmur rose
from the crowded square,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">At the sound
of words like these;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For some
rejoiced in the mercy shown,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And others it
did not please.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some thanked
the Lord for the pardoned man,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And some were
to scorn inclined;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And motherly
women wiped their eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the
women’s hearts are kind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“God bless
our Emperor,” many said;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But others
began to frown,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And asked,
“Will he turn this wild brigand<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Adrift in our
peaceful town?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No word of
thanks did the bandit say,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But he raised
one shining fold<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of the robe
imperial, trailing low<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With its
weight of gems and gold.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The border
first to his lips he pressed,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And then to
his heavy heart;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then rose and
waited with bended head,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Till he saw
them all depart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No eye had he
for the gorgeous train,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As along the
square it passed;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One stately
presence was all he knew,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he
watched it till the last.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A heavy sigh,
and he turned away,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But with slow
and weary tread;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No rest as
yet on the earth for him,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Not even
among the dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He lived, and
he bore his burden still,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But the dumb despair
had ceased:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That word of
mercy had brought a change,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he now
had tears, at least;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He now could
pray, though it brought not light,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he seemed
to ask in vain,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And his
prayer had more of tears than words,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But it helped
him bear the pain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And oft in
church did they see him kneel<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In some
corner all alone,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And weep till
the great hot drops would fall<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On the floor
of varied stone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And children
clung to their mothers’ hand,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When they saw
that vision wild,---<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That haggard
face, and that wasting form,.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And those
lips that never smiled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But grief was
wearing his life away,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And for him
perhaps ‘t was well;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was not
long on the city street<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That his
saddening shadow fell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A fever
slowly within him burned,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Till the
springs of life were dry,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And glad he
was when they laid him down<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On a hospital
bed to die.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His heart was
broken, his strength was gone,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He had no
more wish to live;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He almost
hoped that the Lord on high,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Like the Emperor,
might forgive;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That
somewhere down in the peaceful earth<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He should
find a refuge yet,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A place to
rest and his eyes to close,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the
woeful past forget.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He could not lie
where the others lay,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For such
gloom around him spread,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That soon in
a chamber far away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Had they set
his friendless bed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T’ was there
he suffered and wept and prayed,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the eyes
of all concealed:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alas! But it
takes a weary time<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For a life
like his to yield.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The grand old
hospital where he died<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Was beneath
the watchful care<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of a certain
doctor, famed afar<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For his skill
and learning rare.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But more than
learning and more than skill<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Was his
heart, so large and kind,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That knew the
trouble and felt the needs<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of the sick
who near him pined.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With
conscience pure had he served the Lord<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From youth
till his hair was grey,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Yet only pity
he felt, not scorn,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the many
feet that stray.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In troubled
scenes had his life been passed;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He was used
to woe and sin,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And when men
suffered he did not ask<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If their
lives had blameless been.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His part was
but to relieve their pain,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he helped
and soothed and cheered;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But most he
cared for the stricken man<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Whom the
others shunned and feared.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each art to
save him he tried in vain,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And it could
but useless prove,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the
poisoned thorn that pierced his heart<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Could no
earthly hand remove.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When hope had
failed, he would kneel and pray,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And his heart
with tears outpour,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That God in
mercy would comfort send<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To that soul
in torment sore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And though
the burden he might not lift,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He could help
its weight to bear;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He talked of
mercy, of peace to come,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he bade
him not despair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And so, on
the last sad night of all,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was the
brave, good doctor came<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To watch
alone by the bandit’s side,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When he died
of grief and shame.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The spring to
summer was wearing on,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was the
fairest night in May,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When sleep to
those eyes in mercy came,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the
deadly strain gave way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No candle
burned, for the moon was full,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the
peaceful splendour fell<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Through the
open window, lighting all:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was like a
kind farewell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And scents
from the garden floated in,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the
silent fireflies came,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And breathed
and vanished, and breathed again,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With their
soft mysterious flame.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The doctor
watched with a heavy heart,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His head on
his hand was bowed;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He thought
how many his prayers had been,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But they
could not lift the cloud.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was over
now, there was nothing left<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For his
pitying love to do;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The worn-out
body would rest at last,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But the
guilty soul, -- who knew?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No more to do
but to watch and wait<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Till the
failing breath should cease;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He longed, as
the counted minutes flew,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For one
parting smile of peace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He looked: a
handkerchief veiled the eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For they wept
until the end,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And sadly
still on the wasted cheek<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Did a few
slow drops descend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The peace
that oft to the dying comes<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Was to him as
yet denied, ---<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No sunset
clear after stormy day,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And no
brightening ere he died.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Alas! He
will go away tonight,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And without
one hopeful sign,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Away from
pity, away from care,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And from such
poor help as mine!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The doctor
sighed, but he hoped as well,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For he said,
“It cannot be<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That the Lord,
who died for all, will have<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No mercy for
such as he.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was then
that sleep on the doctor fell,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And before
him stood revealed,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In dreaming
vision, a wondrous sight,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From his
waking eyes concealed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For other
watchers were in the room,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he knew
the ghastly throng<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of demon
spirits, the very same<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Whom the man
had served so long.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And two were
leaning across the bed,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And another
pressed behind,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And some in
the shadow waiting stood,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With a chain
his soul to bind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But angels
watched by the bedside too;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was a
strange and solemn scene,---<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The angels
here and the demons there,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the dying
man between.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The angels
looked with a troubled gaze<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On the face
consumed with grief,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And over the
pillow bent and swayed,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As in haste
to bring relief.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And one on
the bowed and burdened head<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Did a hand in
blessing lay,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he said, “Poor
soul, come home with us,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where the
tears are wiped away.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Not so,”
cried one of the demon troop,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“he is black
with every sin;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And you may
not touch our lawful prey<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That we
laboured years to win.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“We bought
his soul, and the price we paid,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And our part
has well been done;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We helped him
ever from crime to crime,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Till his
buried wealth was won;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“And we
almost thought him one of us,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He had so
well learned our ways;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So go, for we
do but seek our own,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And be done
with these delays.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The angel
said, “He has wept his sin,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As none ever
wept before,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Has mourned
till his very life gave way,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And what
could a man do more?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“And our Blessed
Lord, who pities all,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the sins
of all has borne,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Will never
His mercy turn away<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From a heart
so bruised and torn.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“But how? And
shall mercy be for him<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who has mercy
never shown?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Can his
sorrow bring the dead to life,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Or can tears
for blood atone?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Is he to
rest with the angels now,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Has he done
with tears and pain?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tomorrow morn
he will wish he lay<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On the
hospital bed again;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“There is
somewhat more to weep for down<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the place
where he must stay!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The demon
looked at his fiendish mates;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he
laughed, and so did they.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And they
gathered close, like hungry wolves,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In their
haste to rend and tear;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But they
could not touch the helpless head<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While that
strong white hand was there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then out of
the shadow one came forth,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was a
demon great and tall;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">An iron
balance he held on high,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As he stood
before them all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And fiercely
he to the angels called,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Do you dare
to claim him still?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then come,
for the scales are in my hand,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We will weigh
the good and ill.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And into the nearest
scale he threw,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As he spoke,
a parchment roll,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With on it a
note of every sin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That had
stained the parting soul.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">‘T was
closely written, without, within,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the
balance downward flew<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And struck
the ground with a blow, as though<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It would
break the pavement through.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“He is ours
for ever,” the demons said,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“If justice
the world controls;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For sins so
heavy do on him lie,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They would
sink a hundred souls!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Come,
hasten, angels, the time is short,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And words are
of no avail;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Come, bring
the note of your friend’s good deeds,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To lay in the
empty scale.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The angels
searched, but they searched in vain,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There was no
good deed to bring;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In all that
ever that hand had done,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They could
find no worthy thing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A taunting shout
from the demons broke,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And each hard
malignant face<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With joy and
triumph was all aflame;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But the
angels held their place,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Though
dimness fell like a passing cloud<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On their pure
and holy light;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And if ever
angel eyes have tears,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There were
some in theirs that night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But he who
had been the first to speak,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With a
glimmering hope possessed,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Still sought
some good that would turn the scale,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Though it
seemed a useless quest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the
handkerchief where it lay,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he raised
it off the bed,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All wet and
clinging, and steeped in tears<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That the
dying eyes had shed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He turned
around, but his face was pale,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As the last
poor chance he tried;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He laid it
down in the empty scale,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he said,
“Let God decide!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When, lo!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It fell till it touched the earth,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the
demons stood dismayed;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It seemed so
little and light a thing,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But it all
his sins outweighed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But who shall
ever the anger tell<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of that black
and hateful band,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When most in
triumph they felt secure,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The prey had
escaped their hand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They stood
one moment in speechless rage,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And then,
with a fearful sound<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of shrieks
and curses and rattling chains,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They vanished
beneath the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then holy
peace on the chamber fell,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Till it
flooded all the air;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The angels
praised and they thanked the Lord,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who so late
had heard their prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And their
clouded glory shone again,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With a clear
celestial ray,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As the
trembling soul, which that moment passed,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They bore in
their arms away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then through
the room, as they took their flight,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Did a flood
of music stream,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So loud, so
sweet, and so close at hand,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That it waked
him from his dream.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He looked
around; there was nothing stirred<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the empty,
moonlit room,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where a faint,
sweet odour filled the air<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the
orange-trees in bloom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the notes
divine he had thought to hear<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Were only the
liquid flow<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of a
nightingale’s song, that came up clear<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the
garden just below.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then up from
his seat the doctor rose,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he stood
beside the bed;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He knew, when
he touched the quiet hand,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That the poor
brigand was dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The
handkerchief on the pillow lay,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But its weary
use was o’er,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And he raised
it, heavy and wet with tears,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the eyes
that could weep no more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ack. Taken from
‘The Hidden Servants’, and other very old stories’ told over again by Francesca
Alexander.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Published by David Nutt, at
the Sign of the Phoenix, Long Acre, London 1911.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">*****</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Francesca
Alexander was the daughter of an American artist and lived most of her life in
Italy. A deeply religious woman, Protestant by upbringing, she had this to say
about her work, “With regard to this present collection of ballads, I can tell
its history in a few words. When I was a young girl many old and curious books
fell into my hands and became my favourite reading (next to the Bible, and
perhaps, the <i>Divina Commedia</i>), as I found in them the strong faith and
simple modes of thought which were what I liked and wanted. Afterwards in my
constant intercourse with the country people, and especially with old people,
whom I always loved, I heard a great many legends and traditions, often
beautiful, often instructive, and which, as far as I knew, had never been
written down.” As she grew older Francesca gradually lost her sight, limiting
her writing opportunities, but persuading her to adopt poetry in translating these
many works, which she believed made the stories ‘vivid and comprehensible’
particularly for children, but also for older people. In her letter Francesca,
who for most of her life worked as an artist, commented that “when the Lord
took from me one faculty, He gave me another, which in no way is impossible.
And I think of the beautiful Italian proverb: ‘When God shuts a door He opens a
window.’ “<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cardinal
Manning, when writing to Mr Ruskin in 1883 to thank him for a copy of Francesca’s
‘Story of Ida’, writes :---“It is simply beautiful, like the <i>Floretti di San
Francesco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Such flowers can grow in one
soil alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can be found only in
the Garden of Faith, over which the world of light hangs visibly, and is more
intensely seen by the poor and the pure in heart than by the rich, or the
learned, or the men of culture.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p>***** </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><i>'The Tears of Repentance' I found in a book called 'Maraviglie di Dio Suoi Santi' by the Jesuit Father, Padre Carlo Gregorio Rosignoli, printed at Bologna in 1696. He says it was written originally by Theophilus Raynaudus.</i></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><i>'Foreword to poem- by Francesca Alexander.'</i></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><i>**** </i></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149089064;"></span>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-17423230672533861512023-08-17T00:15:00.001+01:002023-08-17T00:15:45.041+01:00Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The following sermon relates to the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew Ch.17
v. 1-9), which this year was celebrated on the 6<sup>th</sup> August.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bbPuI09r6zD08BSOBKVRKDClZ5PKc3IBxfTLYJ2TmUh8zrGVfqpFFzQYTHj5GOVmgLaqNzNclgNv7aIWVIzyN80U8T156uggI58Hq3GpDQH_MGz63GuYkK2YOEGKWN51yO0QJ7H61MZao2ikOVm-_6-WOnNDBb2Zxp2SGCLqxbUyBQuLsiTLpER4_6Hy/s800/The-Transfiguration-1480-xx-Giovanni-Bellini.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="800" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bbPuI09r6zD08BSOBKVRKDClZ5PKc3IBxfTLYJ2TmUh8zrGVfqpFFzQYTHj5GOVmgLaqNzNclgNv7aIWVIzyN80U8T156uggI58Hq3GpDQH_MGz63GuYkK2YOEGKWN51yO0QJ7H61MZao2ikOVm-_6-WOnNDBb2Zxp2SGCLqxbUyBQuLsiTLpER4_6Hy/w400-h303/The-Transfiguration-1480-xx-Giovanni-Bellini.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 16pt;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 16pt;"><i> 'The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ'</i></b></div></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><b><i> - Giovanni Bellini c1490.</i></b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“Today we celebrate the
Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">on Mount Tabor, which is
near the town of Nazareth, between the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Mediterranean Sea and the
Lake of Gennesaret.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">It is interesting to see
that Our Lord transfigured on a mountain</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">and in a solitary place,
and in the presence of His three Apostles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">In a spiritual way, we can
understand from this that divine favours</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">are especially for those
who, by their virtues, raise themselves above<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">all earthly things; who
retire into solitude, and flee from the distractions and </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">from the cares of the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Now St. Peter represents
those who are steadfast in their faith;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">St. James those who control
their passions;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">and St. John the chaste and
pure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">So one could imagine that
Jesus selected these three apostles to enjoy so great a privilege in order that
we might hope to receive His special favours if we are firm in our faith like
St. Peter; if we overcome our passions like St. James; and if we are pure in
mind and body like St. John.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Jesus showed Himself in
His glory which was of course normal for Him, but which during the rest of His
Life, was hidden by His Humanity; and in this way He proved His Divinity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">He did so to strengthen
these Apostles and to sustain their faith when they would later</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">see Him in humiliation and in suffering.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Also, He wanted by His
Transfiguration, to encourage them and all future Christians, to suffer
voluntarily the trials of the apostleship </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">and of observing the law,
by letting them see a glimpse of that consolation which they would enjoy in the
vision of God in Heaven.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">But why did He cause
‘Moses and Elias’ to appear?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Moses was the promulgator
of the Law which God gave him on Mount Sinai; and Elias was considered by all
as the Prince of the Prophets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The Mosaic law prepared
the way for the promised Messiah, and all the sacrifices prescribed by the Old
Law were only figures of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">All the predictions of the
prophets pointed to Jesus Christ, and so we see why Our Lord caused Moses and
Elias, and not others, to appear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Then we see that St. Peter
was so affected by the magnificence of the vision, and the joy of soul, that he
desired nothing more, and thought it good to remain there forever.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And that was the effect of
only a single ray of the glory of Christ on earth!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">If that already could
cause such profound emotions in St. Peter, what will our joy be when at the
resurrection we shall arise immortal and see God in the fulness of His Majesty,
sitting at the right hand of His Father amid the splendour of the saints?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The bright cloud during
the Transfiguration, manifested the most Blessed Trinity, just as in the
Baptism of Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The Eternal Father spoke
there; the Divine Word was present in the person of Christ; and the Holy Ghost
appeared in the semblance of a ‘bright cloud’, as He appeared in the form of a ‘dove’
at the baptism of Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">While Jesus was
transfigured, a voice came from a bright cloud which was the voice of the Eternal
Father; for He alone could say, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well
pleased, hear ye Him.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>St. Leo the Great</b> says
that by these words, the Eternal Father wished to proclaim to the whole world:-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b><i>‘This is My beloved Son,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>not adopted, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">but My own,</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>not created, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">but generated;</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>this is My Son, by Whom all things were made,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>in Him, I am well pleased.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Whose words, bear witness of Me,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Whose humility, glorifies Me.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Hear ye Him, because He is the Truth, and the Way.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>He is my wisdom, He, Who was foretold by the
prophets,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>And Who redeemed the world by His blood.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He opens the way to heaven<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>And by His Cross gives us the means<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>To enter the kingdom of heaven.’<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><b><i> </i></b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One can wonder why Our Redeemer forbade the apostles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>to speak of what they had seen until after His resurrection?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>St Jerome</b> says that this
event was ‘<b><i>so great and wonderful</i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That nobody would have believed it, and one<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Would have been scandalised at seeing<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Our Lord so utterly humiliated in the time<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> o</span>f His Passion after having manifested such<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>great power and glory'.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The proper time then to
publish such a wonderful event<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">was after the
Resurrection, for then those who saw Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">raised from the dead could
have no difficulty in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">acknowledging Him to be the
true God, and able to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>transfigure Himself as He did, on Mount Tabor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Then, to witness that
glorious vision was a special privilege</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>granted to the three apostles alone, and Our Lord<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>forbade them to speak of it, probably that they might<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>learn to hide from others the special favours they had <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>received, in order not to expose themselves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>to vainglory, and perhaps to the envy of others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: 36pt;">From
this we can learn not to noise abroad the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">special
graces we receive, to avoid that we become vain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">When God grants us favours let us be thankful for them,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And correspond with them as well as we can,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>so that we save our soul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>and the souls of others. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> (Ack. Anonymous).</o:p></span></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-42389500609145482062023-06-18T00:31:00.000+01:002023-06-18T00:31:35.068+01:00Pentecost - the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In or about
1953 I acquired a new copy of the ‘Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for
Sundays and Feasts’, by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre O.S.B. of the Abbey of St Andre,
near Bruges, Belgium, and published in 1952. I still have this Missal, re-covered
a few years ago, and in good, readable condition. I must admit that there are
parts of the Missal which I have rarely if ever read, although as the years go by I
use the Missal more than in earlier years, and I discover information and gems
of spiritual wisdom of which I was previously unaware. Such was the case during
the octave of Pentecost this year, when I learnt of the dedication of each day to
a specific Gift of the Holy Ghost, of which there are seven in number. In my Saint
Andrew Missal, there is an introduction to the specific Gift allocated to each
day, which by the end of the week has the effect of cementing and unifying the
essence and spirituality of the great Feast of Pentecost. I reproduce these
short introductory articles, which I hope you find as interesting as I do.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9PHRqtM8rSWjDcJPawI_3_UOKiQ9V6Oou6Awbs5kTcsIGOBzEKZLVyoRpMDNEFyVfSlkNMaxF_Tz73f8wl8_dnuz5ckaygRbqieYHOsGCghKGPvEyuZYhESqePYrJIbJV9f3D1HqRVbUBiZF_-0u2D75OXfBwy0Fp25KitNuJciIW606KBKlrurxwA/s396/Folio_79r_-_Pentecostes.jpg%2015th%20C%20Musee%20Conde,%20Chantilly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="270" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9PHRqtM8rSWjDcJPawI_3_UOKiQ9V6Oou6Awbs5kTcsIGOBzEKZLVyoRpMDNEFyVfSlkNMaxF_Tz73f8wl8_dnuz5ckaygRbqieYHOsGCghKGPvEyuZYhESqePYrJIbJV9f3D1HqRVbUBiZF_-0u2D75OXfBwy0Fp25KitNuJciIW606KBKlrurxwA/w273-h400/Folio_79r_-_Pentecostes.jpg%2015th%20C%20Musee%20Conde,%20Chantilly.jpg" width="273" /></a></b></div><p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> Pentecost - French 15th century. Condee Museum. Chantilly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Vigil of
Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Station
at St John Lateran<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The First Mass for Pentecost, formerly celebrated
during the night, has, like that of Easter, since been anticipated. This great
and solemn festival, therefore, begins with the vigil. In early days the
catechumens whom it had not been possible to baptise at Easter received this
Sacrament at Pentecost, which exclaims the similarities between the Mass for the
Vigil and that for Holy Saturday. It is preceded by the readings of six
Prophecies and the blessing of the water in the Baptismal Font, and it is also
celebrated at St John Lateran.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>THE
PROPHECIES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The celebrant and assistant
ministers are robed in violet vestments, and the candles on the altar are not
lighted until the beginning of Mass, as on Holy Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of the Prophecies the Collect is
read, but ‘flectamus genua’ is omitted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">PENTECOST</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The <span style="color: #cc0000;">"Gift
of Wisdom"</span> is an illumination of the Holy Ghost, thanks to which our intellect
is able to look at revealed truths in their more sublime light, to the greater
joy of our souls</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">.’</span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our Lord laid the foundations of His
Church during His public life, and after His resurrection He gave it the powers
necessary for its mission. It was by the Holy Ghost that the apostles were to
be trained and endued with strength from on High<b><i>. “At Pentecost we
celebrate the first manifestation of the Holy Ghost among Our Lord’s disciples
and the foundation of the Church itself.”</i></b> Hence the choice of the Basilica
dedicated to St. Peter for today’s Station.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We read in the Gospel that our Lord
foretold the coming of the Paraclete to His disciples, and the Epistle shows us
the realization of that promise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was at the third hour of the day
(Terce, nine o’clock a.m.) that the Spirit of God descended upon the Cenacle
and a mighty wind which blew suddenly upon the house, together with the
appearance of tongues of fire within, were the wonderful tokens of His coming.
Taught by the “light of Thy Holy Spirit” (Collect) and filled by the gifts of
the same Spirit poured out upon them (Sequence), the apostles became new men to
go forth and renew the whole world (Introit). It is at High Mass, at the third
hour, that we also receive the Holy Spirit, whom our Lord “going up above all
the heavens, on this day sent down …. on the children of adoption” (Preface);
for each of the mysteries of the cycle brings forth its fruits of grace in our
souls on the day which the Church keeps as its anniversary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>During Advent we raised to the Incarnate
Word the cry: “Come Lord and purge the sins of Thy people”; at this season let
us, with the Church, say to the Holy Ghost, “Come, O Holy Spirit, and fill the
hearts of Thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy love” (Alleluia).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Of all ejaculatory prayers this is
the most beautiful and necessary, for from the Holy Ghost, that “sweet Guest of
our soul”, flows all our supernatural life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Every parish priest celebrates Mass
for the people of his parish.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Monday
after Pentecost</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The <span style="color: #cc0000;">“Gift
of Understanding”</span> enlightens us by shedding a clear, searching and
extraordinary light on the meaning of revealed truth, and by giving us a
certitude that what God has revealed bears such and such a sense and no other.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Church extends the Feast of the
Descent of the Holy Ghost on the Apostles over eight days. In the Epistle we
see the Head of the Church (in whose church the Station is held), giving
testimony to Jesus Christ before the Jews and the Gentiles. <b><i>“Whosoever
believeth in Me shall not perish,”</i></b> said Our Lord, <b><i>“for God sent
His Son that the world may be saved by Him</i></b>” (Gospel).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as St Peter says, <b><i>“Whosoever believeth
in Him shall receive remission of</i></b> <b><i>sins through His name</i></b>.”
All men without exception, are called to believe in Jesus Christ, to be
baptised in His Name, to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation in which the
Holy Ghost is given, and the Eucharist where our Divine Redeemer feeds souls
with the finest of heavenly wheat. May Jesus and the Holy Ghost, of whom we
have received testimony from the lips of Peter, head of the Church, defend us
against our enemies and give us peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Tuesday
after Pentecost.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The <span style="color: #cc0000;">“Gift
of Counsel”</span> is a light given by the Holy Ghost, by means of which our practical
intellect sees and judges rightly both what should be done in individual cases
and the best means to do it.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Church continues to address herself
to the new-born children she has acquired through Baptism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In former times she brought them together on
this day in the Church of St Anastasia, where also was celebrated the Mass at
dawn on Christmas Day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Introit reminded them of the
great blessing of their Christian calling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Through the <b><i>Sacrament of
Baptism</i></b>, the power of the Holy Ghost had come down upon them and had
purified their hearts (Collect), for <b><i>“the Holy Ghost is Himself the
remission of sins”.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the <b><i>Sacrament of
Confirmation</i></b>, they had, like the Disciples of Samaria of old, been
filled with the power of the Spirit (Epistle).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the <b><i>Sacrament of the Most
Holy Eucharist</i></b>, they had eaten the Bread of Angels (Offertory).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So, like faithful sheep of the divine
Shepherd (Gospel), they entered the fold, that is the Church, by Him who is
“the door” of the fold and hearkened always to the teaching of the Holy Ghost
(Alleluia) imparted to them by the ministers of the Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us pray to God that our souls may be
renewed in the Holy Ghost (Post communion).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Ember
Wednesday after Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Station
at S. Mary Major<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The <span style="color: #cc0000;">“Gift
of Fortitude” </span>is a permanent power which the Holy Ghost communicates to our
will to assist us in overcoming the difficulties which might deter us in the
practice of what is right.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Ember Days always fall during
the octave of Pentecost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Church then
offers up to God the first fruits of the new season, and prays for the priests
who, on the coming Saturday, are about to receive the Holy Ghost in the
Sacrament of Holy Orders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Station on Ember Wednesday was
always held at St Mary Major. It was at the feet of the Blessed Virgin, whom
the Holy Ghost filled with His grace in the Cenacle, that the newly baptized gathered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Liturgy reminded them of the miracle of
Pentecost (Lesson) and the marvels wrought by the Apostles, by which the number
of those who believed in the Lord was greatly increased (Epistle).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Moved by the Holy Ghost, the
Catechumens also believed in Jesus: they turned to Him, and Jesus gave them to eat
of the bread that would make them live for ever (Gospel). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let us implore the divine Consoler
to enlighten us always more and more, and to place us in full possession of the
truth (Collect).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Thursday
after Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Station
at St Laurence-without- the -Walls.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The <span style="color: #cc0000;">“Gift
of Knowledge”</span> is a supernatural light of the Holy Ghost which shows us the
credibility and acceptability of revealed truths, even for reasons which are
based only on the order of creation.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Station on this day takes place
in the church dedicated to St Laurence the deacon, whose soul was so consumed
with the fire of the Spirit of love that he scarcely felt the flames torturing
his body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b><i>“When you shall receive the
power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you,”</i></b> Jesus said to His apostles, “<b><i>you
shall be witnesses unto Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even
to the uttermost part of the earth.”</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Mass of today tells us how Philip
the deacon, filled with the Holy Ghost, preached the Gospel in Samaria, where
he worked many miracles (Epistle).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
the Gospel reminds us of Christ, Who in conferring on His apostles the power of
healing the sick, commanded them to preach everywhere the Kingdom of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“<b><i>Filled with the Holy Ghost,
the Apostles spoke the wonderful works of</i></b> <b><i>God”</i></b> (Communion)
and filled the whole earth with the marvellous operations of the Divine Spirit
(Introit, Alleluia).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And what the Church did in her
earliest days she continues to do through the centuries during the festivities
of Pentecost, when the light of the Holy Ghost illumines in a very special
manner the souls of the faithful (Collect).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let us beseech God to grant us the
gift of the Holy Ghost, that we may relish what is right and ever rejoice in
His holy consolations (Collect).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Ember
Friday after Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Station
at the Church of the Twelve Apostles<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The <span style="color: #cc0000;">“Gift
of Piety”</span> awakens in our souls an inclination and readiness to glorify God as
our Father and to have a filial confidence in Him.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Station takes place in the
Church of the Twelve Apostles, who were the embodiment of the early Church, of
which the Holy Ghost was the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The bountiful harvest of the fruits
of the earth which the Church now asks of God at the beginning of summer is
emblematic of the wealth of spiritual blessings which the Holy Ghost lavishes
on our souls in these days (Epistle). And it was for this reason that the
Liturgy filled the mouths of the children newly born into the Church by Baptism
with hymns in praise of God (Introit, Offertory) and of the Spirit of the Lord
“<b><i>so good and sweet within us”</i></b> (Alleluia).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Gospel recounts the wonders that
Jesus worked by the power of the Holy Ghost in healing the sick, and more
particularly the man with the palsy, whose sins He remitted, at the same time
that He restored him to health.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Church, built up by the Holy
Ghost (Collect), follows in a very special way the example of the divine Master
at this season, for at Pentecost she receives in abundance Him, who is the
remission of all sins (Post communion for Tuesday), and she exercises the power
given her by our Lord when He said to her in the person of the apostles<b><i>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Receive ye the Holy Ghost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whose sins you shall forgive they are
forgiven them.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let us beseech the Holy Ghost to
help us in our weakness (Post communion) by protecting us against the attacks
of our enemies (Collect).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Ember
Saturday after Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Station
at St Peter’s<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The<span style="color: #cc0000;"> “Gift
of Holy Fear”</span> or the <span style="color: #cc0000;">“Fear of God”,</span> is actually the foundation of all other
gifts. It drives sin from the heart, because it fills us with reverence either
for the Justice of God or for the divine Majesty.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After swelling the ranks of her
children during the night of Pentecost, the Holy Ghost today is about to supply
the Church with the priests who are to be her ministers of grace all over the
world, for He will pour out His Spirit upon her servants, as Joel prophesied He
would upon the apostles (First Lesson). Very appropriately therefore, the
church appointed for the Station this day is the basilica of St Peter, the
pastor of the fold, and the Gospel tells of a cure worked by Jesus in the house
of Simon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The priest, as the minister of
Christ, devotes himself to the healing of souls consumed by the fever of sinful
passions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As it has already been pointed out,
the Mass on the Saturday in Ember Weeks has five Lessons with Collect and Tract
between the Introit and the Epistle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
fifth Lesson never varies:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it is the
record of the miraculous preservation of the three young Hebrew men in the
furnace, followed by an extract from their canticle of praise and
thanksgiving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Collect of the Mass is
based upon this Lesson and beseeches the divine goodness that we may not be
consumed by the flame of vice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the <b>Sacrament of Holy Orders</b>,
the priest receives a large outpouring of the divine Spirit (Epistle) that will
enable him to preach the kingdom of God (Gospel).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Second, Third and Fourth Lessons
refer to the harvest, and to the offerings of the first fruits of the earth,
for Ember Weeks were instituted with the object of obtaining the divine
blessing on each of the several seasons as they came in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Having entered the promised land,
the Israelites offered its first fruits to God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let us, having entered the Church by
baptism, offer to almighty God the first fruits of all that we do, through the
supernatural influx of the Holy Ghost into our souls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us pray to God that He may increase our
faith in Christ (Epistle and Gospel) and fill our hearts with His holy love (Epistle).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> ************</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As a matter of interest,
my Missal has the following introduction by Arthur</span><i style="font-size: 14pt;"> Cardinal</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hinsley, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">signed ‘Arthur +, Archbishop of Westminster’
and dated January 25</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> 1937. Feast of the Conversion of St Paul:-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“A
re-issue of the Daily Missal is a welcome sign of the renewal of liturgical
piety among Catholics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Church is calling all her children to a deeper understanding of her sacred
liturgy. It is her wish that all the
Catholic people should take an active part in the sublime sacrifice of the Mass,
joining together with heart, mind, and voice in the corporate prayer of the
Church.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> May the unity of Catholics in offering the Mass, the
central act of our religion, inspire us to a holier life, and to a restoration in
human affairs of the rule of Christian charity and social justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> The Daily Missal, which besides the Ordinary and the
Proper of the Mass throughout the year, includes the liturgical offices of
Prime, Vespers and Compline, should be of assistance to those who wish to pray
with the Church.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> It is my earnest desire that those who use this Missal
may find in the liturgy the road to sanctification and the love of Christ."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPkxUKrldxAFkSiFk_OTpJrAT8Bq6PSQsUJ2Ky5fHwNeq3BiCdw61WX8CPbxubFTV17MGz3wkp6z2G5WMvAIIEi8H0uOT6RBtf-hsuMZ9lDPTZE5yr45QsvoWYjdVk35a2u_EPi3T2xXeeOwdZ4ZfWYX0AM3dKEF60EhS5u4oFlxeiIdRt_jktTR-Rw/s518/Cardinal%20Arthur%20Hinsley,%20Archbishop%20of%20Westminster.%20(Book%20cover%20author%20James%20Hagerty).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="370" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPkxUKrldxAFkSiFk_OTpJrAT8Bq6PSQsUJ2Ky5fHwNeq3BiCdw61WX8CPbxubFTV17MGz3wkp6z2G5WMvAIIEi8H0uOT6RBtf-hsuMZ9lDPTZE5yr45QsvoWYjdVk35a2u_EPi3T2xXeeOwdZ4ZfWYX0AM3dKEF60EhS5u4oFlxeiIdRt_jktTR-Rw/s320/Cardinal%20Arthur%20Hinsley,%20Archbishop%20of%20Westminster.%20(Book%20cover%20author%20James%20Hagerty).png" width="229" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> Cardinal Arthur Hinsley (1865-1943) (portrait from biography cover)<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-81815538067678692462023-05-04T01:21:00.004+01:002023-05-04T01:36:14.580+01:00'The Litany of Intercession for England' - Bishop Challoner<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg491MsyLrivRYd1uO69Lg9w0BrZMeOWERdCwZ3tVIT2nijmeHNeeF5tKwdCocnSavAAIUHQSIqx6C22QC40ouPluY6dEK59WslGZeNPUEIFbEAtakUtDLUvnyQ-Ouass6e2vC4JeW2JGzkOi_ofVGbbw6hatVsSX3-Q4RTuwvza_u8AuTyMUna0oIwVA/s283/Our%20Lady%20of%20Walsingham%20Statue,%20Quidenham%20Carmelite%20Monastery,UK.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg491MsyLrivRYd1uO69Lg9w0BrZMeOWERdCwZ3tVIT2nijmeHNeeF5tKwdCocnSavAAIUHQSIqx6C22QC40ouPluY6dEK59WslGZeNPUEIFbEAtakUtDLUvnyQ-Ouass6e2vC4JeW2JGzkOi_ofVGbbw6hatVsSX3-Q4RTuwvza_u8AuTyMUna0oIwVA/w283-h400/Our%20Lady%20of%20Walsingham%20Statue,%20Quidenham%20Carmelite%20Monastery,UK.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> Our Lady of Walsingham </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>Quidenham Carmelite Monastery, UK.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">We are now
in the month of May, traditionally regarded in the Catholic Church as the month
especially devoted to the honour of Mary, Our Lady, the Blessed Mother of Our
Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true Man.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Prior to the
Reformation, England was known as the Dowry of Mary, with many shrines,
monasteries and convents, spread throughout the land, many of which were
dedicated to Our Lady and many of which were subject to pilgrimages from far
and wide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Sadly in
England today the scene has changed, with relatively few active monasteries and convents, and just a
few centres of Catholic pilgrimage, among which Walsingham, Launceston, and Aylesford,
come immediately to mind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless,
there is still great devotion to Our Lady, evidenced by the widespread devotion
to the recitation of the rosary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">This post
reproduces a litany of which I was totally ignorant, and which is taken from ‘The
Garden of the Soul’ prayer book, originally written by Bishop Challoner,
revised by Rev Edward Price, with Imprimatur ‘N. Card Wiseman’, and signed and
dated by donor, Isabella -----, 17<sup>th</sup> July 1860.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">As the
Coronation of King Charles 3<sup>rd</sup> will be taking place in a few days,
it seems particularly appropriate in these anxious and uncertain days, to offer this ‘Litany of Intercession for
England', that Almighty God will hear our prayers, and that England will return
to God and to the one, true <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Church
founded by Christ,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Roman Catholic
Church. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tYXHrZqYuVQH48Yc9_qz-W6vbhLfHU-E_CqnWiHNBDIA_Ia7rsTV-r79IAggjOpH83rKwVzr5-VdIx1HyguHTbIsOge8A0w9x7jBQbIPQBsFHVkUG2V1s7rB2ojXv-93Xl3-WJ-CA7yuPelAyqdPz6BGD2DKJqzG2pyO2iF_U4OVZtdY58XPjRg6Sw/s2048/P1010273.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tYXHrZqYuVQH48Yc9_qz-W6vbhLfHU-E_CqnWiHNBDIA_Ia7rsTV-r79IAggjOpH83rKwVzr5-VdIx1HyguHTbIsOge8A0w9x7jBQbIPQBsFHVkUG2V1s7rB2ojXv-93Xl3-WJ-CA7yuPelAyqdPz6BGD2DKJqzG2pyO2iF_U4OVZtdY58XPjRg6Sw/s320/P1010273.JPG" width="240" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The Litany
of Intercession for England’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">'Remember
not, O Lord, our offences, nor those of our parents; and take not revenge of
our sins.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lord, have mercy on us<i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord, have
mercy on us.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Christ, have mercy on us<i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ, have mercy
on us.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lord, have mercy on
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Lord,
have mercy on us.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jesus, receive our
prayers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Lord Jesus, receive
our petitions</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">O God the Father, Creator
of the world,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Have
mercy on England</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "AngsanaUPC",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">O God the Son, Redeemer of
mankind<i>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">O God the Holy Ghost,
Perfector of the elect, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span><span style="font-family: "AngsanaUPC",serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">O Sacred Trinity, three
Persons and one God, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Holy Mary, Mother of God,<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><i>Pray
for England</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Holy Mary, Queen of
Angels, whose powerful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>intercession
destroyeth all heresies,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Holy Mary, Virgin of
virgins, whose eminent sanctity " </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our Lord has honoured with
so many miracles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Michael, Prince of the
Church,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Gabriel, glorious
messenger of our Saviour’s incarnation, "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Raphael, faithful guide
of those who have lost their way,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Holy Angel, to whose
custody this province is committed, "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All ye holy angels and
blessed spirits of heaven who<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>celebrate with joy the conversion of sinners,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St John, Baptist,
precursor of the Messias, "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and great example of penance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All ye holy patriarchs and
prophets, friends of God, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and advancers of His truth,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Peter, prince of the
apostles, and supreme pastor <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Christ’s sheep,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> " </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Paul, doctor of the
Gentiles, who, of a persecutor,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>became a preacher, "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Andrew, first disciple
of Christ, and constant <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lover of the cross, " <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All ye holy apostles and
evangelists, chief planters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the Christian faith, and zealous
maintainers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Catholic union,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St George, our principal
patron, "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Alban, our first Martyr,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Thomas of Canterbury,
who, as a faithful shepherd,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>laidst down thy life in defence of the Church,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All ye holy martyrs of
this nation, who voluntarily <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lost your lives here to find
them in a joyful eternity,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Gregory, most vigilant
bishop of the universal church,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>whose pious zeal sent missioners from Rome <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for the conversion of our
ancestors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Augustin, apostle of
this nation, by whom our <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>forefathers were reclaimed from
paganism and infidelity,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Bede, most venerable
confessor, by whose religious life <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: 5.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and learned writings the Catholic faith was "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: 5.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">eminently propagated amongst us,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All ye holy bishops and
confessors, by whose wisdom and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sanctity
this island was once a flourishing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>seminary of religion,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Helen, most holy queen
and mother of the first <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christian emperor,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Ursula, most blessed
martyr, who diedst in the glorious<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>defence of faith and chastity,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">St Winifride, most
admirable virgin, even in this unbelieving<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>generation still miraculous, "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All ye holy saints of this
nation, who, amidst the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>innumerable joys of heaven, still
retain a particular "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>charity for the salvation of your country,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All ye holy saints of all
places, who, though divided here in <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>several regions, were yet united in
the same faith,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and now enjoy one common felicity,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Be merciful, O Lord, and
spare us, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Be
merciful, O Lord, and hear us</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivpkoy3P74-AbV0oN0GNimq8fwYQpEihYNEP_bIQ1BTLaYqrfjrRbQGgBk9JT2AKjk8zv9FhVEOqekeaJppLEh72ZcxbPV5qugYselTAnRyXn2YcxqZgOSshn64B0U7hvkl0m_zmw1NC0iMrkhsjdyvv79A7GHnhJ_tYS9XxeYdIBzA80X8nG3wRyMwg/s2048/P1010272.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivpkoy3P74-AbV0oN0GNimq8fwYQpEihYNEP_bIQ1BTLaYqrfjrRbQGgBk9JT2AKjk8zv9FhVEOqekeaJppLEh72ZcxbPV5qugYselTAnRyXn2YcxqZgOSshn64B0U7hvkl0m_zmw1NC0iMrkhsjdyvv79A7GHnhJ_tYS9XxeYdIBzA80X8nG3wRyMwg/s320/P1010272.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the dangers most
justly threatening our sins<i>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deliver England.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the spirit of pride,
rebellion, and apostasy, "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the spirit of
hypocrisy, profaneness, and sacrilege,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From presuming on their
own private opinions, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>contemning the authority of thy church,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> " </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From schism, heresy, and
all blindness of heart, " <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From gluttony,
drunkenness, and the false liberty<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of an undisciplined life,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We sinners,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>We</i> <i>beseech thee hear us.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That it may please thee to
hasten the conversion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of this our miserable country, and reunite it to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the ancient faith and communion of thy church,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That it may please thee to
have mercy particularly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on our relations, friends, and benefactors, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and open their eyes to see the beauty of thy
truth,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and embrace it,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That it may please thee to
comfort and strengthen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thy servants, who suffer for the Catholic
faith, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and not to permit the weakest of us,
by any<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>temptation whatsoever, to fall away from thee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and thy truth,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That it may please thee to
assist with thy special grace <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>those good pastors who venture their
lives for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their flock, and daily augment in them the
fire of thy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>love and the zeal of gaining souls.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That it may please thee to
preserve the Catholics of this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> "</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>land from all sin and scandal, and
so adorn their <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lives with solid piety, that others
seeing their </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> good works, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">may glorify thee our heavenly
Father,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That it may please thee to
enlighten the hearts of all "</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> schismatics, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">who live out of the church, </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> seriously to apprehend</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the danger of their state,</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and the great
importance </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of eternal salvation,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That it may please thee
mercifully to look down from "</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> heaven</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">on the tears of the afflicted, and
the blood</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of so many martyrs, who have spent
their lives,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and suffered death to convert us to thee,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Son of God.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPy1PPKn2FM3pN559iz-x2eQCcSWdqfyCe8LrG8h9ST37wkAmVQwzo3bjkXL2G4ncZNq8PzvjlphASoB3d5vny4goCsbXIFifMbbRs5C2PhFZUa97m03G_MrAYpmqyQGivAQ58NhcuQruqYKBfVoN0ZXfOmVNeOmKyEeMVkiLnJwFI-DPGc4ou3ghPEA/s2048/P1010271.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPy1PPKn2FM3pN559iz-x2eQCcSWdqfyCe8LrG8h9ST37wkAmVQwzo3bjkXL2G4ncZNq8PzvjlphASoB3d5vny4goCsbXIFifMbbRs5C2PhFZUa97m03G_MrAYpmqyQGivAQ58NhcuQruqYKBfVoN0ZXfOmVNeOmKyEeMVkiLnJwFI-DPGc4ou3ghPEA/s320/P1010271.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lamb of God, who takest
away the sins of the world, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Spare
us, O Lord.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lamb of God, who takest
away the sins of the world<i>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Hear us, O Lord.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lamb of God, who takest
away the sins of the world<i>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Have mercy on us.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Christ hear us<i>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ graciously hear us.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYNSZSpiKjvbCgQP9OTrTBWvsHR7QON997jEWVCTYzMpZF02Fpet8nCVLrYlwmI-tdty7WFMFqDVHD3fyWT-fo4uzosqaeC3VqRHv4rlPpANWdOOTEMwQnpe5yGZcynj-iqAeev3s3FGNxnWKhQ3ENeVqx008Kn6QiAcEYsM2sQ9epgAjBGeHnt-H-A/s2048/P1010274.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYNSZSpiKjvbCgQP9OTrTBWvsHR7QON997jEWVCTYzMpZF02Fpet8nCVLrYlwmI-tdty7WFMFqDVHD3fyWT-fo4uzosqaeC3VqRHv4rlPpANWdOOTEMwQnpe5yGZcynj-iqAeev3s3FGNxnWKhQ3ENeVqx008Kn6QiAcEYsM2sQ9epgAjBGeHnt-H-A/s320/P1010274.JPG" width="240" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Let us Pray.</i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Almighty and Everlasting
God, whose judgments are righteous, and counsels unsearchable; who visited the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and the fourth
generation, and yet at length rememberest mercy; forgive we beseech thee, the
sins of our forefathers, and turn away thy wrath from their posterity, deliver
the ignorant from being seduced by false teachers, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and the learned from being
abused by their passions, and the whole nation from the spirit of contradiction,
licentiousness, and discord; that instead of so many divisions and changes in
religion, under which they labour, they may be again restored to that unity of
mind, steadiness of faith, and tranquillity of conscience, which is nowhere to
be sought but in the communion of thy Church, nor possible to be found but by
the conduct of thy grace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Through Our Lord Jesus
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AMEN.</span><o:p></o:p></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-46333578108122861782023-01-09T01:49:00.008+00:002023-01-09T02:30:05.217+00:00The Holy Family. 'Prayer to Creatures' and 'Bruges, - Caryll Houselander.<p> </p><p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8267px;"><i><br /></i></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8267px;"><i><br /></i></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8267px;"><i>Wishing everyone a blessed and peaceful New Year 2023.</i></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Today, Sunday, 8<sup>th</sup> January,
is the Feast-day of ‘The Holy Family’.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Holy Family with the Lamb’ (1504) - Raphael
(1483-1520)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Museo del Prado (Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">A PRAYER TO CREATURES (<i>Caryll
Houselander, 1901-1954)</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I beseech you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">be gentle,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Be gentle to the men and the women<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and to the children,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">who hold their life in their hands,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like a flower.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They have all gathered<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the flower of life,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and because it is gathered<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">it is fading,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">it fades swiftly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like the loveliness of a candle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that is lit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dying and flowering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">are one thing,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">but men, not knowing this,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">weep for the dead,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">be gentle to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each is intent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">upon the flower of his own life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For each it is the secret<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of his particular love,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the joy of it and the sorrow,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">flesh and blood is consumed in it,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like the wax of a candle,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">consumed by the flame.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some lift the blossom up,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like the torch in the runner’s hand,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and shower its petals down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like stars in the darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some are folded upon it:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">devout, like the child on the bus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">home from the one day in the country,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">her white face closed in sleep<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and a smile of ecstasy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">burning quietly through the closed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">sad eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Her soul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and her thin body<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">fending the faint blue light of harebells,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">brought from the green woods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to fade in the city.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Men and women<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and children,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">pass<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in endless procession<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and are forgotten,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">we are among them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Come let us pray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that the seed of our life’s flowering,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">falls not upon rock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">falls not upon thorns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">or the hard frost<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">or among weeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But that today’s sorrow,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">prepare the world’s soil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and sift for sowing tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I beseech you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">be gentle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Because, when the flame is lit,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the wax is consumed quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When the leaf flowers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">swift is the withering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But if the seed falls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">into the heart in fallow,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the passing loveliness,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the flicker of light,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">will remain in the dark night<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to flower with eternal life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Caryll Houselander (1901 -1954). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘The Flowering
Tree’, first published 1945 by Sheed and Ward, London; (this edition published
1973).<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The <b><i>Foreword</i></b> to her book states: - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘ These rhythms are not intended to be poems
in a new form, but simply thoughts, falling naturally into the beat of the rhythm,
which is all around us and which becomes both audible and visible in the
seasons of the year, the procession of day and night and the liturgical cycle;
they are arranged so that the rhythm and stress shall be easily seen, as well
as thought, by people who are unused to reading verse, the theme which recurs
in them is the flowering of Christ in man.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Bruges<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Caryll Houselander 1901-1954)</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bruges!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Oh, my Beloved!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nest of the Pelican.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here are still waters,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and bells<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">weaving my thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with the solemn joy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the carillon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here are birds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in dark orderly flocks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">crossing the steeple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here is the Host.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">nourishing Bread,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of a devout people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All-mothering Christ,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">patient Love!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Water and birds and bells,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and flowering steeple,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">shrine of the Gentle God,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">intimate here with man.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Oh, Bruges!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Oh, my Beloved!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nest of the Pelican!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When I am far from here,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bruges,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">little city of bells,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">keep my heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in the Shrine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with the Sacrament.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When I have gone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">keep my heart,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in the peace of the still water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And my desire Heavenward,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">growing up from the Altar,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with your flowering spires.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When I am far from here<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bruges,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">little city of love,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">keep my heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in the measured beauty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of bells,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ringing their carillon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in the grey steeple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Keep my heart in the shrine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with the Sacrament.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In communion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with your gentle,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">devout people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Caryll Houselander, ‘The Flowering Tree’, as above.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #211b14; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #211b14; font-size: 16pt;">The Basilica of the Holy Blood, Bruges.</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #211b14; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #211b14;">The beautiful city of Bruges in Belgium is so well maintained
it is said that strolling through town is like walking through a gallery of
European architecture. But it’s not only the buildings which bring it fame. The
city is home to the Basilica of the Holy Blood, said to hold one of the most
venerated relics in all of Christianity – a cloth with the blood of Jesus.</span> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNn97HhlrIc6qidAJlWzdSeEq1vsru4yfd7qX83sYsDAPyco2O0YvpSwQTYQXqeolBaoYfXXFfszPmR1Ed_TAU8SKVe4RVAi1h_K5L3kEVIJozYpfbwv2ZscLbz4sw2yPQP1S9HgK_wy4qgrJMels053QfI3m_SJUyGXB97bDrYbUBaP5TT23Ou4pj8g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="940" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNn97HhlrIc6qidAJlWzdSeEq1vsru4yfd7qX83sYsDAPyco2O0YvpSwQTYQXqeolBaoYfXXFfszPmR1Ed_TAU8SKVe4RVAi1h_K5L3kEVIJozYpfbwv2ZscLbz4sw2yPQP1S9HgK_wy4qgrJMels053QfI3m_SJUyGXB97bDrYbUBaP5TT23Ou4pj8g=w640-h424" width="640" /></a></div></div><br /></div><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><em><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #211b14; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Interior of Basilica of the Holy Blood in Bruges, Belgium ( </span></em><a href="https://stock.adobe.com/uk/contributor/206856272/cezary-wojtkowski?load_type=author&prev_url=detail" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank"><em style="font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #a7691b; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Cezary
Wojtkowski </span></em></a><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #211b14; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">/ Adobe Stock)</span></em></b><b><i><span><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #211b14;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1150, it was
reported that the Count of Flanders returned to the city from the 2<sup>nd</sup>
Crusade, with a relic of St Basil, a phial that is said to hold a scrap of
cloth with the blood of Jesus Christ.</span><b><i><span><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #211b14;">This chapel holds the relic of the blood of Christ and is lit
by magnificent stained-glass windows.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #211b14;">Behind the altar, which has alabaster figures depicting the
Last Supper, is a mural of the Trinity and scenes relating to the Holy Blood
and Passion of Jesus. The relic is kept in a small glass cylinder and stored in
a spectacular silver tabernacle.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #211b14; font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #211b14;">(Ack. ‘Ancient Origins’ Ed.Whelan. 2.11.20)</span></i></b><b><i><span><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-87669736702061456712022-11-18T00:43:00.085+00:002022-11-20T23:13:08.676+00:00'The Bag of Sand' by St. Heradius<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;"><b>'The Bag
of Sand'</b> was written by <b>St. Heradius,</b> who visited, sometime in the fifth
century, the hermit fathers of the desert and mountains, and collected many
interesting stories about them. (Francesca Alexander (1837-1917))</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;"> <b> </b></span></i><i><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 120%;"><b>The Bag of Sand</b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In that land of
desolation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where, mid dangers manifold,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lost in heavenly
contemplation,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Desert fathers dwelt of
old,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lay a field where grass
was growing<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk119616222"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Green
beneath the palm-trees’ shade;<o:p></o:p></span></i></a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119616222;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And a spring, forever flowing,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119616222;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Life amid the stillness made.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119616222;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119616222;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There a brotherhood, incited<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119616222;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By one hope and purpose high,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119616222;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Came to dwell in faith united,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119616222;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pray and labour, live and die.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119616222;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119616222;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mighty was the love th</span></i></span><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">at bound them,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each to each, in that
wild land,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where the desert closed
around them,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One dead waste of rocks
and sand,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saving where, to rest
their eyes on,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While they dreamed of
hills divine,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Blue, above the low
horizon,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Stretched the
mountains’ wavy line.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There could nought of
earth remind them,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nor disturb their
dreams and prayers;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They had left the world
behind them,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Felt no more its joys
and cares.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Far from all its weary bustle,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Will subdued, and mind
at ease,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They could hear the
palm-trees rustle<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the early morning
breeze.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When the bell, to
prayer inviting,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the low-built
belfry rang,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They could hear the
birds uniting<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With them while the
psalms they sang.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the earth their
labour brought them<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All they needed –
scanty fare.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Life of toil and
hardship taught them,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Though at peace, the
cross to bear.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This is all their
record: never<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Can we hope the rest to
know!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Names and deeds are
lost forever,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the mist of long
ago;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And of all that life
angelic<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Neither shadow left,
nor trace,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Save this tale – a
precious relic,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In its wise and saintly
grace!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This, above the
darkness lifted<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By the truth that in it
lay,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On the sea of time has
drifted,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And is still our own today.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Listen to it, it may
teach us<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wisdom, with its words
of gold!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Let this far-off
blessing reach us<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the desert saints
of old.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>***********<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Underneath the vines they
tended,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where the garden air was sweet,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where the shadows, softly
blended,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Made an ever-cool retreat,
--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">These good brethren had
assembled,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On their abbot to attend;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All were sad, and many
trembled,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thinking how the day would
end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of their little
congregation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One who long had faithful
been,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Had, beneath a sore
temptation,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fallen into grievous sin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What it was they have not
told us,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But we know, whate’er the
blame,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If God’s hand should cease
to hold us,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You or I might do the
same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And for judgement’s wise
completing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(Now the crime was certified),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All were called in solemn
meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On the sentence to decide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Much in doubt, they craved
assistance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sent to convents far away,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Even to that fair blue
distance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Where their eyes had loved
to stray.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fathers learned, fathers
saintly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Abbots used to think and
rule,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gathered where the brook
sang faintly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the shadow green and
cool.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Oh, the beauty that was
wasted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On that day, remembered
oft!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Oh, the sweetness, all
untasted,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of the morning, still and
soft!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">At their feet the water
glistened,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Birds were nesting
overhead;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No one saw, and no one
listened<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Save to what the speakers
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Long and sad was their
debating,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Voices low and faces
grave,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While, the gloomy tale
relating,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each in turn his judgment
gave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Send him from you!” one
was saying<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Calmly, as of reason sure;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“All are tainted by his
staying,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Let men know your hands
are pure!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“For the shame and sorrow
brought you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Let him be to all as dead!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Harm sufficient has he
wrought you!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But the abbot shook his
head.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the sin which had
undone him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For much evil brought
about,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He would lay a burden on
him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But he could not cast him
out!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All night long the distant
howling,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While he waked, of beasts
of prey,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Made him think of demons
prowling,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Come to snatch that soul
away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Said another: “I would
rather<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That his shame by all were
seen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Do not spare him, O my
Father;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Let the blow be swift and
keen!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Let not justice be
evaded!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Keep him, bound to labour
hard,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With you, but apart
degraded,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And from speech with all
debarred!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This the abbot not refusing,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Only wondered, while he
thought,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Was there no one feared
the losing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of a soul the Lord had
bought?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One, more thoughtless,
recommended</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That in prison closely
pent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He should stay till life
was ended!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But to this would none
consent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the cell where first
they closed him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Shrinking back, as best he
might,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From a window that exposed
him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sometimes to a passer’s
sight,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He, the black offender,
waited,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From them parted since his
fall:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Once beloved, now scorned
and hated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By himself, he thought by
all!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nothing asking, nothing
pleading,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Speechless, tearless, in
despair;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But, like one in pain
exceeding,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Moving ever here and there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Little did his fate alarm
him:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What had he to fear or
shun?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What could others do to
harm him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">More than he himself had done?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But without were minds
divided,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the morning wore away;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Noon had come, and
undecided<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Still the heavy question
lay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Though they looked so
stern and fearless,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some with sinking hearts
had come, --<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hearts that wept when eyes
were tearless,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pleaded when the lips were
dumb.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One who had that morning
seen him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Seeking from their gaze to
hide,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tried from heavy doom to
screen him;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But his reasons were
denied.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He of other days was
thinking, --<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Happy days, and still so
near! –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When that brother, shamed
and shrinking,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Had to all their souls
been dear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Others tried their hearts
to harden,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Felt their pity to be sin;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Silent, prayed the Lord to
pardon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kinder thoughts that rose
within.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some proposed and some
objected,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While, the long debate to
end,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One old Father they
expected,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And on him would all
depend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He – their honoured, best
adviser—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dwelt in desert cave
retired;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Older than the rest, and
wiser:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Many thought his words
inspired;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Said he knew what passed
within them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When by sin or doubt
assailed;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">True it is, his words
could win them,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Often, when all else had
failed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He would find what all
were seeking,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Justice pure, and judgment
right!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Still the abbot, seldom
speaking,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pale and sober, prayed for
light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Light was sent! For,
toiling slowly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">O’er the sun-baked desert
road,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Came that Father, wise and
holy,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bent beneath a weary load!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Scarce his failing limbs
sustained him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the burden sorely
pressed:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Many times, as though it
pained him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Would he stand to breathe
and rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One who watched for his
arriving, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Went and told them he was
near.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Up they rose, and ceased
their striving,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In their joy such news to
hear!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then they all went forth
and met him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By their reverent love
compelled:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nevermore could one forget
him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who that day his face
beheld!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wasted, worn, yet strong
to aid them;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Peaceful, though by
conflict tried;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Shining with a light that
made them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Feel the Lord was by his side!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But it grieved their souls
to see him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By that burden bowed and
strained!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Many stretched their hands
to free him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wondering what the sack
contained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Why this burden?” one
addressed him;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“All unfit for arms like
thine!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He, while yet the weight
oppressed him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Answered: “These are sins
of mine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“I must bear them all, my
brother,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ever with me while I go<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On my way to judge
another!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">These have made my journey
slow.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then the abbot, growing
bolder,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Raised the load with trembling
hand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the Father’s bended
shoulder;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Looked – and found it
filled with sand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of them all, there was not
any<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But was silent for a
while;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the best had sins as
many<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As the sand-grains in that
pile!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then they heard the abbot
saying,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“God alone must judge us
all!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And a burden, heavy
weighing,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Seemed from every heart to
fall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Awed and hushed, but no
more keeping<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pity crushed, or love
restrained,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some were smiling, some
were weeping;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of their striving what
remained?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Many bowed in veneration;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Others all in haste to go<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With a word of consolation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To their brother fallen
low.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hope they brought, and
gentler feeling,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To his torn, despairing
breast,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And that evening found him
kneeling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the chapel with the
rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">None arose to judge or
sentence:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He whose sin they most
deplored,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In his long and sad
repentance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Was with charity restored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <b> </b></span><b>Taken from ‘The Hidden Servants, and
other very old stories.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Told over again
by Francesca Alexander.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Published by
David Nutt, at the Sign of the Phoenix, Long Acre, London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1911.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNobr0K-3TrN2lkD111fmkQtnO4_IpGX-DJFtxeRMH9u-ofEP-eZZeUbCKGL6F3Bpoe1k5mWmnzdbHM2_JgaVJFjcwpe2VwFGS05nUDI6qQfF0TG0d5do17cuFH757Iy8Rk_iUXOhxtbTnWtRqtZElEu8uw0_Z9FC5wie8u3d6YzSAzeIz1NyB6N_cng/s615/The%20Hidden%20Servants%20%20by%20%20Francesca%20Alexander.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="578" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNobr0K-3TrN2lkD111fmkQtnO4_IpGX-DJFtxeRMH9u-ofEP-eZZeUbCKGL6F3Bpoe1k5mWmnzdbHM2_JgaVJFjcwpe2VwFGS05nUDI6qQfF0TG0d5do17cuFH757Iy8Rk_iUXOhxtbTnWtRqtZElEu8uw0_Z9FC5wie8u3d6YzSAzeIz1NyB6N_cng/w602-h640/The%20Hidden%20Servants%20%20by%20%20Francesca%20Alexander.jpg" width="602" /></a></span></i></div><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Book cover - Little, Brown, and Company edition </b></span></i></div></span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p>N.B. For a short biography of Francesca Alexander (b.1837-d.1917), together with another of her poems, please see 'Umblepie' blog<i> of 20 Nov. 2022, 'Crosses on the Wall' </i></o:p></span><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b><a href="https://umblepie-northernterritory.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-crosses-on-wall-legend-of-primiero.html" style="text-align: left;">umblepie: 'The Crosses on the Wall - a legend of Primiero' by Francesca Alexander (1837 - 1917) (umblepie-northernterritory.blogspot.com)</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-42755088860199952072022-10-02T01:35:00.001+01:002022-10-02T01:35:56.876+01:00'Before the International Criminal Court, the Hague' - Violations of International Law<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As we all know, for the past 30 months the people of virtually every nation of the world, have been suffering severe physical, medical, psychological, and economic difficulties, as a result of the conditions imposed by governments world-wide, ostensibly to control the spread of the covid 19 virus, officially declared a 'pandemic' by the <span style="text-align: center;">World Health Organisation (WHO), under the leadership of Anthony Fauci.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">The conditions imposed by governments included the wearing of masks, maintaining a minimum distance between people at all times, work closures and lockdowns, a mandatory system of individual testing to identify positive covid 19 cases, mass vaccinations, many mandatory, of entire work-forces, including health workers, military personnel, police, and many others, with the proclaimed ideal of vaccinating every person in the world, including young children and teenagers; many of these vaccinations were mandatory, even though the vaccines were only authorised for emergency use, and were experimental and inadequately tested.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">We are now experiencing the disastrous results of these impositions, and it is clear from public pronouncements by such men as Karl Schwab, the leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF), who directs the 'Great Reset', the public face of 'One-World Government', and who has actually written a book laying down the purpose and agenda of this movement, that everything we have suffered and are suffering, has been planned for many years by powerful and vested interests intent on destroying our world and society as we know it, and replacing it with 'One-World Government' controlled by ambitious and wealthy tycoons and organisations, and intent on creating more wealth and power for themselves at the expense of the ordinary people. It is clear that some of these tycoons are psychopaths, with no care or conscience as to the methods they use for what they hope to achieve, which includes reducing the world's population by several billions. The covid 19 vaccination programme appears to be the start of this diabolical plan, for as a direct result of the vaccine (not the virus!), world-wide, there have been tens of thousands of deaths across all age groups, with literally hundreds of thousands of adverse effects, many very serious and life threatening, and many permanent, and this is just after 30 months; with</span><span style="text-align: center;"> the medium and long- term effects still not yet known! </span><span style="text-align: center;"> These lethal vaccines are still being promoted, which cannot be for the good of people, for they are not just ineffective, but positively dangerous and life threatening. We now have high inflation with a real danger of recession, prohibitive increase in fuel and energy costs, food shortages and increased prices, industrial strikes, real threat to small and medium businesses due to unsustainable costs, transport and delivery problems, serious NHS inadequacies, European war in the Ukraine, and the list goes on. To conclude this abridged introduction, I think that you might find the following article, both encouraging and informative. It is a copy of criminal complaints laid at the International Criminal Court at the Hague, concerning grave allegations made against named defendants actively promoting the current criminal and corrupt events aimed at destroying the political, social, and economic stability of nations, and asserting their self-elected 'One World Government' as sole rulers and masters of the world.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">NB. Please note that various illustrations in the article below have not printed. Sorry about this, but I don't think this makes any material difference to the importance and meaning. The illustrations are mostly graphs and tables referencing the content in the article.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***************</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">December 6, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">International
Criminal Court<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Office
of the Prosecutor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Post
Office Box 19519<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2500 CM
The Hague<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">EMAIL:
otp.informationdesk@icc-cpi.int<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(TREATY OF ROME STATUTE, ART. 15.1 AND 53) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Subject
of complaint: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- <b>Violations
of the Nuremberg Code <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">-
Violation of Article 6 of the Rome Statute <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">-
Violation of Article 7 of the Rome Statute <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Violation
of Article 8 of the Rome <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Violation
of Article 8 bis3 of the Rome Statute <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Based on the extensive claims and enclosed
documentation, we charge those responsible for numerous violations of the
Nuremberg Code, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression in
the United Kingdom, but not limited to individuals in these countries. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Perpetrators: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Prime Minister for the United Kingdom BORIS
JOHNSON, Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK
Government CHRISTOPHER WHITTY, (former) Secretary of State for Health and
Social Care MATTHEW HANCOCK, (current) Secretary of State for Health and Social
Care SAJID JAVID, Chief Executive of Medicines and Healthcare products
Regulatory Agency (MHRA) JUNE RAINE, Director-General of the World Health
Organisation TEDROS ADANHOM GHEBREYESUS, Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
WILLIAM GATES III and Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation MELINDA
GATES, Chairman and Chief executive officer of Pfizer ALBERT BOURLA, Chief
Executive Officer of AstraZeneca STEPHANE BANCEL, Chief Executive Officer of
Moderna PASCAL SORIOT, Chief Executive of Johnson and Johnson ALEX GORSKY,
President of the Rockefeller Foundation DR RAJIV SHAH, Director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) DR ANTHONY FAUCI, Founder
and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum KLAUS SCWAB, President of
EcoHealth Alliance DR PETER DASZACK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Victim(s)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">:
THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Applicants: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Hannah Rose – Lawyer and human rights activist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dr Mike Yeadon – Qualified life science
researcher with a degree in biochemistry in toxicology, and a research-based
PhD in respiratory pharmacology, former Vice President and Chief Scientist of
allergy and respiratory research at Pfizer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Piers Corbyn – Astrophysicist and activist <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mark Sexton – Retired Police officer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">John O’Loony – Funeral Director and activist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Johnny McStay – Activist <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Louise Shotbolt – Nurse and human rights
activist <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Legal representation and election of domicile<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The applicants will be represented for the
purposes of this procedure by Hannah Rose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Email: </span><a href="mailto:hannahroses111@hotmail.com"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">hannahroses111@hotmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Consequently, all subsequent correspondence
shall be sent only to the email address given above. Any notification within
the meaning of the Statute of the Court addressed in this way will be
considered valid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mr Prosecutor,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This
communication and complaint is provided to the office of the Prosecutor
pursuant to the United Kingdom’s accession to the International Criminal
Court’s Rome Statute deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations
on October 4, 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We have
tried to raise this case through the local English police and the English Court
system without success, we have been unable to even get the case registered either
with the police or with the court after several attempts. The statute for the
ICC declares that <i>“The ICC is intended to complement, not to replace,
national criminal systems; <b><u>it prosecutes cases only when a State is
unwilling or unable genuinely to carry out the investigation or prosecution </u></b></i><b><u>(Article
17(1)(a)). This is such a case which is why we are addressing the ICC directly.<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A. <b><u> BACKGROUND<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3 </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
Corona virus ‘vaccines’ <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">are an innovative medical treatment, which have
only received <u>temporary</u> Authorisation under Regulation 174 of the Human
Medicine Regulations Act (2012). The long-term effects and safety of the
treatment in recipients are unknown. It is important to note that the Corona
Virus ‘vaccines’ are the world’s first introduction to the synthetic m-RNA
technology and all previous immunisations worked in a totally different manner,
by way of introducing a deactivated or weakened virus to the body to trigger a
natural arousal of the immune system against it. As detailed by Dr Mike Yeadon,
the risks anticipated by this innovative medical treatment are hereby enclosed
as Appendix 1 to this request. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">All
Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trials are ongoing and not due to conclude until late
2022/early 2023. The vaccines are, therefore, currently experimental with only
limited short-term and no long-term adult safety data available. In addition,
they are using a completely new mRNA vaccine technology, which has never
previously been approved for use in humans. The mRNA is effectively a pro-drug
and it is not known how much spike protein any individual will produce.
Potential late-onset effects can take months or years to become apparent. The
limited children’s trials undertaken to date are totally underpowered to rule
out uncommon but severe side effects. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
Covid-19 ‘vaccines’ do not meet the requirements to be categorised as vaccines
and are in fact gene therapy (Appendix 8). The Merriam-Webster dictionary
quietly changed the definition of the term ‘vaccine’ to include components of
the COVID-19 m-RNA injection. The definition of vaccine was specifically
changed due to the Covid-19 injection on February 5<sup>th</sup> 2021. Dr Mike
Yeadon, joint applicant on this request, asserts that claims calling the
Covid-19 injections a ‘vaccine is public manipulation and misrepresentation of
clinical treatment. It’s not a vaccination. It’s not prohibiting infection.
It’s not a prohibiting transmission device. It’s a means by which your body is
conscripted to make the toxin that then allegedly your body somehow gets used
to dealing with it, but unlike a vaccine, which is to trigger the immune
response, this is to trigger the creation of the toxin.’</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">MRNA
uses the cell’s machinery to synthesize proteins that are supposed to resemble
the SPIKE protein of the virus, which is what it uses to enter cells via the
ACE2 receptor. These proteins are then identified by the immune system, which
builds antibodies against them. The real concern is that these proteins could
accumulate in the body especially in regions of high concentration of ACE2
receptors, such as the gonads. If the immune system then attacks the location
where they accumulate, then you could be dealing with an auto-immune condition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6 </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">PCR Tests<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A review from the University of Oxford's Centre
for Evidence-Based Medicine (Appendix 2) found that the standard PRC test is so
sensitive, that it can detect old infections by picking up fragments of dead
viral cells. Originally developed to detect the presence of DNA and RNA in
biological samples, even its Nobel Prize-winning inventor Kary Mullis declared
that PCR was never intended to diagnose a disease. It simply detects the
presence of specific genetic material, which may or may not indicate
infection. As Dr. Kary Mullis put it, the PCR technique can find almost
anything in anybody. The PCR test uses amplification cycles to find viral RNA.
The sample is repeatedly chemically amplified to increase the RNA copies until
they can be detected. Each “cycle” of amplification doubles the number of
molecules in a sample. If you run enough cycles, you can effectively find a
single molecule of any substance. Public Health England (PHE) policy confirms
that the cycle threshold should be set around 25.6 and if the machine must run
more than 25 to 35 cycles (Appendix 2a) to get the sample to the test’s Limit
of Detection, there isn’t enough virus in the sample to matter clinically. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We have information from freedom of information
requests that as many as 40-45 cycles are being carried out (Appendix 3, 3a,
3b, 3c) which is too many because it increases the chance of a positive result
even without coronavirus RNA being present in the original sample – hence the
‘asymptomatic’ individuals. In addition to being completely unreliable the PCR
tests also contain carcinogenic ethylene oxide. (Appendix 48)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7 </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Covid is
a biological weapon - Gain of function research </span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Chinese Virologist Li-Meng Yan was among the
first researchers to study covid-19 in China after she was enlisted to investigate
the origin of the virus by superior Leo Poon. Dr Li-Meng Yan and her team
published a report (Appendix 4) claiming that the novel coronavirus was
developed “as a laboratory product created by using bat coronaviruses ZC45
and/or ZXC21 as a template and/or backbone.” The report states that “ZC45 and
ZXC21 were discovered between July 2015 and February 2017 and isolated and
characterized by the aforementioned military research laboratories.” It also
says that when a non-military lab, the Shanghai Public Health Clinical
Centre, published a <i>Nature</i> article reporting “a
conflicting close phylogenetic relationship between SARS-CoV-2 and ZC45/ZXC2
rather than with RaTG13, was quickly shut down for ‘rectification.’” The report
also accuses several publications of bowing to political pressure or of
experiencing “conflicts of interest” so as not to publish findings that differ
from the natural origin theory. “The existing scientific publications
supporting a natural origin theory rely heavily on a single piece of evidence –
a previously discovered bat coronavirus named RaTG13, which shares a 96%
nucleotide sequence identity with SARS-CoV-2,”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> The
National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA has admitted to funding of gain
of function research on bat coronaviruses at China’s Wuhan lab – despite Dr
Anthony Fauci repeatedly denying this. In a letter to Republican James Comer
(Appendix 5), NIH’s principal deputy director A. Tabak, blamed EcoHealth
Alliance – that funnelled US funds to the Wuhan lab – for not being transparent
about the work it was doing. British
scientist Peter Daszak who runs EcoHealth is accused by Tabak of failing to
comply with the terms of the grant. As recently as November 2021 Fauci was
accused of lying about gain of function research after documents obtained by
the intercept (Appendix 6) detailed grants given to EcoHealth Alliance for bat
coronavirus studies. The $3.1 million grant was awarded for a five-year period
between 2014 and 2019. After the funding was renewed in 2019, it was suspended
by the trump administration in April 2020. The grant directed $599,000 to the
Wuhan institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> British
Professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr. Birger Sørensen, published
a report in the <i>Quarterly Review of Biophysics</i> (Appendix 7) and claim
that the coronavirus's spike protein contains sequences that appear to be artificially
inserted. They claim they had 'prima facie evidence of retro-engineering
in </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/china/index.html"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">China</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">' for a
year - but were ignored by academics and major
journals. Dalgleish is a professor of oncology at St George's
University, </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/london/index.html"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">London</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, and is
best known for his breakthrough creating the first working 'HIV vaccine', to
treat diagnosed patients and allow them to go off medication for months. While
analysing COVID-19 samples last year in an attempt to create a vaccine,
Dalgleish and Sørensen discovered 'unique fingerprints' in the virus that they
say could only have arisen from manipulation in a laboratory. They said
they tried to publish their findings but were rejected by major scientific
journals which were at the time resolute that the virus jumped naturally from
bats or other animals to humans. Even when former MI6 chief Sir Richard
Dearlove spoke out publicly saying the scientists' theory should be
investigated, the idea was dismissed as 'fake news.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10 </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Graphene
hydroxide<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dr
Andreas Noack is a German chemist and one of the EU’s top graphene experts, carbon
expert and doctored in the field of activated carbon whereby for his doctoral
thesis he converted graphene oxide into graphene hydroxide. Professor Dr Pablo
Campra comes from the university of Almeria, and alongside Dr Andreas Noack he
examined the covid ‘vaccines’ for the presence of graphene oxide with the
Micro-Raman Spectroscopy, the study of frequencies. According to both doctors,
the vaccines don’t contain graphene oxide but do contain graphene hydroxide. On
November 23, 2021, Dr Andreas Noack released a video explaining what graphene
hydroxide is and how the nano structures injected into the human body act as
‘razor blades’ inside the veins of ‘vaccine’ recipients. Dr Andreas goes on to
explain how due to the nano size of the graphene oxide structures they would
not show up on an autopsy as toxicologists can’t imagine that there are
structures that can cut up blood vessels causing people to bleed to death on
the inside so they would not be looking for them, given their atomic size. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">On 18<sup>th</sup> November
2020 Dr Andreas Noack was on a ‘livestream’ on YouTube discussing the dangers
of the Covid-19 ‘vaccines’ when he was arrested on camera by armed German
police (Appendix 41). On 26<sup>th</sup> November 2021, just hours after
publishing his latest video about graphene oxide and graphene hydroxide
(Appendix 42) he was <b><u>attacked and murdered.</u></b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We
request a full investigation be done into the inclusion of Graphene hydroxide in
the Covid-19 ‘vaccines’ and into the assassination of Dr Andreas Noack. <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">13 </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Inflated Covid figures<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> The number of covid-19 cases have been artificially
inflated due to the inaccuracy and unreliability of the PCR testing and the
number Covid-19 deaths in the UK have been massively artificially inflated due to
the fact that a covid death is recorded if an individual died <u>for any reason</u>
within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test (that was confirmed with the
inaccurate and unreliable PRC tests). These deaths are being recorded as
Covid-19 regardless of whether Covid-19 was the factual cause of death. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">14 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A Freedom of Information
request (Appendix 43) shows us that between March and June 2020 the total
number of Covid-19 related deaths in England and Wales with no pre-existing
health conditions was 4,476.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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43)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; tab-stops: 384.3pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">However,
the Covid-19 deaths for the same period were recorded at 49,607 (Appendix 44)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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44)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">16 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We submit that a further way
that the Covid-19 statistics have been artificially inflated is by the
‘rebranding’ of the common influenza, pneumonia and other respiratory
infections as covid -19. Epidemiologist Knut Wittowski, the former head of
biostatistics, epidemiology and research design at Rockefeller University
claims ‘<i>there may be quite a number of influenza cases included in the
‘presumed Covid’ category of people who have Covid symptoms (which influenza
symptoms can be mistaken for),but are not tested for SARS RNA’</i>. Those
patients he argued, ‘<i>also may have some SARS RNA sitting in their nose while
being infected with influenza, in which case the influenza would be ‘confirmed’
to be Covid’.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Data from the ONS (Appendix
45) showed that deaths in 2018 from influenza and pneumonia amounted to 29,516
and in 2019, was 26,398. However, deaths in 2020 for influenza was recorded at
just 394 and pneumonia at 13,619 (Appendix 46). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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45)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">John O’Loony, a joint
applicant on this request is a funeral director running his own funeral home in
Milton Keynes. He has testified (Appendix 47) that as a funeral director he saw
<i>‘a massive effort made to deliberately inflate Covid death numbers. Cancer
patients and stroke victims and even one guy that was run over all ended up
with Covid on their death certificate’. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18a </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We submit that the
misrepresentation of covid cases and covid deaths warrants a full investigation
by the Court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">19 </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ineffectiveness
of masks</span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The World Health Organisation (WHO) has admitted
that there is no evidence available on the usefulness of masks to protect
non-sick individuals (Appendix 9). In addition to hypoxia and hypercapnia,
breathing through facemask residues bacterial and germ components on the inner
and outside layer of the facemask. These toxic components are repeatedly
breathed back into the body, causing self-contamination. Breathing through
facemasks also increases temperature and humidity in the space between the
mouth and the mask, resulting in a release of toxic particles from the mask’s
materials. A systematic literature review estimated that aerosol contamination
levels of facemasks including 13 to 202,549 different viruses. Rebreathing
contaminated air with high bacterial and toxic particle concentrations along
with low O2 and high CO2 levels continuously challenge the body homeostasis
,causing self-toxicity and immunosuppression. (Appendix 10)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">20 </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Alternative treatments</span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dr. Peter McCullough </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">is an internist, cardiologist, and professor of
medicine at Texas A and M College of Medicine. He has completed his bachelor’s
degree at Baylor University and has completed his medical degree as an Alpha
Omega Alpha graduate from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
in Dallas. He also completed his internal medicine residency at the University
of Washington in Seattle, his cardiology fellowship – including service as
Chief Fellow – at William Beaumont Hospital, and his master’s degree in public
health at the University of Michigan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">21 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Hydroxychloroquine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The most widely studied and utilized drug in
all of COVID-19. It basically has three mechanisms of action. It reduces the
viral entry through endosomes. It helps work as a zinc ionophore. And zinc actually
works to impair the RNA-dependent polymerase. And lastly, it’s an
anti-inflammatory. It changes the overall profile of cells so there’s less
inflammation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">259 supportive trials, 385,000 individuals and
Hydroxychloroquine is like I say, our mainstay in COVID-19 treatment. We have
large studies as outpatients demonstrating hazard ratios here, much less than
one, implying a 50% reduction in hospitalization and death from outpatient
studies. We have a very large study from Iran where there’s been, as you can
see here, 28,000 individuals, they treat about 25% of their high-risk patients
with a short course of Hydroxychloroquine plus other drugs, 30% reduction in
hospitalization and death (Appendix 15)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">22 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ivermectin<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Another drug that impairs viral entry to the
nucleus also has some properties against the spike protein. We have 60 trials
with Ivermectin, a much smaller amount of information than Hydroxychloroquine,
but that’s still substantial. And here, Ivermectin has favourable hazard ratios
for both inpatient and outpatient use, about a 70% reduction in mortality.
(Appendix 16)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">23 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Favipiravir <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Available in five countries overall, it’s
like <b>oral Remdesivir</b>. Remdesivir is currently approved in
Japan as a treatment for patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that
causes COVID-19. Outside of Japan, Remdesivir is an investigational, unapproved
drug. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A report in the New England Journal of Medicine
in May concludes that the broad-spectrum antiviral medication developed by the
biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences was superior to placebo in shortening
the time to recovery in adults hospitalized with COVID-19 and who had evidence
of lower respiratory tract infection (Appendix 17).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">24 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Corticosteroids<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This is a mainstay of inpatient treatment. A
meta-analysis suggests a 30% reduction in mortality. Inhaled Budesonide, known
in the United States as Pulmicort, a randomized trial called the Stoic
Trial. There was an 87% reduction in hospitalizations with inhaled
Budesonide. So we have positive data for both oral and inhaled steroids
(Appendix 18).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">25 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Colchicine (off label)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Colchicine is an anti-inflammatory drug. The
largest, highest quality, randomized prospective double-blind
placebo-controlled trial. This was coordinated at Montreal Heart Institute.
Over 4,000 outpatients with symptomatic COVID-19, and among those who were
confirmed positive, a 25% reduction in hospitalization and death (Appendix 19)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">26 </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Clade x and</span></u></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Event
201 Scenario<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In May, 2018, the WEF partnered with Johns
Hopkins to simulate a fictitious pandemic dubbed ‘Clade X’ (Appendix 12) to
see how prepared the world be if ever faced with a catastrophic pandemic. A little over a year later, the WEF once
again teamed-up with Johns Hopkins, along with the <b><u>Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation</u></b>, to stage another pandemic exercise called ‘Event 201’ in
October,2019 (Appendix 13). Both simulations concluded that the world wasn’t
prepared for a global pandemic. A few short months following the conclusion of
Event 201, <b>which specifically simulated a coronavirus outbreak</b>, the
World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that the coronavirus had
reached pandemic status on March 11, 2020. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">27 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“<i>The next severe pandemic
will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major
cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to
global impact and suffering</i>” — Event 201 pandemic simulation (October,2019)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">27a </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Since then, just about every
scenario covered in the Clade X and Event 201 simulations has come into play,
including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo23; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Governments implementing
lockdowns worldwide<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo23; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The collapse of many
industries<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo23; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Growing mistrust between
governments and citizens<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo23; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A greater adoption of
biometric surveillance technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo23; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Social media censorship
in the name of combating misinformation<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo23; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The desire to flood
communication channels with “authoritative” sources<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo23; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A global lack of
personal protective equipment<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo23; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The breakdown of
international supply chains<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo23; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mass unemployment<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo23; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rioting in the streets<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">28 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">After the nightmare scenarios
had fully materialized by mid-2020, the WEF founder declared “<i>now is the
time for a great reset</i>” in June 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">29 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We
submit that it is highly unlikely, to the point that it is <u>unbelievable</u>,
that this is purely excellent forecasting, planning, and modelling on the part
of the WEF and partners that Clade X and Event 201 turned out to be so
prophetic. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">30 </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Agenda 21/30 and the Great Reset Agenda<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“<i>The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window
of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a
healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future</i>” — Klaus Schwab,
World Economic Forum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">31 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The so-called “great
reset” promises to build<i> ‘a more secure, more equal, and more stable
world</i>” if everyone on the planet agrees to “<i>act jointly and swiftly to
revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social
contracts and working conditions.</i>” (Appendix 11) But it wouldn’t have been
possible to contemplate materializing such an all-encompassing plan for a new
world order without a global crisis, be it manufactured or of unfortunate
happenstance, that shocked society to its core.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">32 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Together, the Johns Hopkins
Centre for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation submitted seven recommendations for governments,
international organizations, and global business to follow in the event of a
pandemic (Appendix 14). The Event 201 recommendations call for greater
collaboration between the public and private sectors while emphasizing the
importance of establishing partnerships with un-elected, global institutions
such as the WHO, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the
International Air Transport Organization, to carry out a centralized response. One
of the recommendations calls for governments to partner with social media
companies and news organization to censor content and control the flow of
information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">33 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">According to the report,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“Governments will need to partner with
traditional and social media companies to research and develop nimble
approaches to countering misinformation. National public health agencies
should work in close collaboration with WHO to create the capability to rapidly
develop and release consistent health messages. For their part, media companies
should commit to ensuring that <b>authoritative messages are prioritized
and that false messages are suppressed</b> including though [sic] the use
of technology.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">34 </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Censorship<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Throughout 2020, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube
have been censoring, suppressing, and flagging any coronavirus-related
information that goes against World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations
as a matter of policy, just as Event 201 had recommended. Big tech companies
have also deployed the same content suppression tactics during the 2020 US
presidential elections — attaching “disputed” claims on content that
question election integrity. The UK government and governments around the world
are using the ‘pandemic’ to crack down on free expression and access to
information. From the onset of Covid-19, political considerations have clashed
with concerns about public health and free expression. Authorities have blocked
legitimate websites and ordered the removal of unwanted content. Officials have
reinforced these controls by criminalising more categories of online expression
and arresting journalists, activists, and members for public speaking about the
government’s performance. To suppress unfavourable health statistics, critical
reporting and other COVID-19 content the UK government has blocked websites or
forced users, social media platforms, or online outlets to delete information. There
has been an unprecedented assault on the freedom of doctors to care for their
patients, and Dr Robert Malone, the <b><u>INVENTOR</u></b> of the RNA vaccines
has been de-platformed on all social media for speaking out against the covid
injections. Some academic journals are
blocking the publication of studies showing the effectiveness of drugs such as
Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Smear campaigns are being waged against any
doctors and scientists who challenge the WHO narrative on Covid-19 and the
Covid-19 ‘vaccines’. We are in a situation where governments and global NGO’s have
seized control of the medical profession. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Parallels to 1930’s Germany<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">34a </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There are several survivors
of the German Holocaust drawing stark parallels between Covid restrictions and
the beginning of the Holocaust. An open letter sent to; the European Medical
Agency (EMA), The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
(MHRA), U.K, The Australian Health Regulation Agency, (AHPRA), Therapeutic
Goods Administration (TGA), Australia, Medsafe, New Zealand and the Federation
of Medical Regulatory Authorities (FMRAC), Canada (Appendix 50) states,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“We, the survivors of the atrocities committed against
humanity during the Second World War, feel bound to follow our
conscience. … Another holocaust of greater magnitude is taking place before our
eyes. We call upon you to stop this ungodly medical experiment on humankind
immediately. It is a medical experiment to which the Nuremberg Code must
be applied.” (<b>Rabbi Hillel Handler, Hagar Schafrir, Sorin
Shapira, Mascha Orel, Morry Krispijn et al)</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">34b </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">During an interview with Dr
Reiner Fuellmich, (Appendix 51) Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav draws on her
experience during Nazi Germany to form her perspective on what is happening in
the world today. During the interview she goes on to say:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">34c “Under the Nazi Regime, moral norms were systematically
obliterated. The medical profession and institutions were radically
transformed, academic science, the military, industry and clinical medicine
were tightly interwoven, as they are NOW.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">
<i>The Nazi system destroyed a social conscience in the name of Public Health.
Violations against individuals and classes of human beings were
institutionalised. Eugenics driven public health policies replaced the
Physician’s focus on the good of the individual.</i> <i>[The] German medical
profession and institutions were perverted. Coercive public health policies
violated individual civil and human rights. Criminal methods were used to
enforce policy.</i> <i>Nazi Propaganda used<u> fear of infectious epidemics </u>to
demonise Jews as <u>spreaders of disease</u>, as a menace to public health….</i>
<i><u>Fear and propaganda</u> were the psychological weapons the Nazis used to
impose a genocidal regime</i> a<i>nd today, some are beginning to understand
why the German people didn’t rise up, fear kept them from doing the right
thing.</i> <i>Medical mandates are a major step backwards towards a fascist
dictatorship and genocide.</i> <i>Government dictates, medical intervention,
these undermine our dignity as well as our FREEDOM…</i>.<i>The stark lesson of
the Holocaust is that whenever doctors join forces with government and deviate
from their personal, professional, clinical commitment to do no harm to the
individual, medicine can then be perverted from a healing, humanitarian
profession to a murderous apparatus…</i> <i>What sets the Holocaust apart from
all other mass genocides is the <u>pivotal role played by the medical
establishment, </u>the entire medical establishment. Every step of the
murderous process was endorsed by the academic, professional medical
establishment.</i> <i>Medical doctors and prestigious medical societies and
institutions lent the veneer of legitimacy to infanticide, mass murder of
civilians.</i> <i>T4 was the first industrialised medical murder project in
history. The first victims were disabled German infants and children under 3….</i>
<i>The next victims were the mentally ill, followed by the elderly in nursing
homes.</i> <i>The murderous operations were methodical, and followed protocol
very, very carefully. “<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">B. <b><u>THE
NUREMBERG CODE -</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">35 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">a medical code of ethics
based on the laws under which the Nazi criminals were judged in <i>U.S.A. vs.
Karl Brandt, et al</i>. (Nuremberg
physicians’ trial), for their role in conducting horrific medical experiments
during the Second World War. The Nuremberg Code later constituted the basis for
the Helsinki Declaration 1965 which binds the World Medical Association and
practicing physicians to ‘<i>act in the [individual] patient’s best interest
when providing medical care</i>’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">36</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Article
21 of the Rome Statute sets out the legal sources upon which the ICC may draw.
The statute defines three primary sources of international law; international
treaties, international custom, and general principles of law recognised by
civilized nations. It is recognised that the three sources are of equal value
and that there is no hierarchy among them. According to the Statute, subsidiary
means for determining the rules of law are judicial decisions and academic
writings. Besides these enumerated sources, international legal rules can also
be created by unilateral acts, such as declaration or a reservation (Shabas
William, <i>An Introduction to the International Criminal Court, </i>155,
(2017))<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">36a </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We submit to the Court that
the Nuremberg Code qualifies as a source of international law by way of Article
21(1)(b) of the Rome Statute. Article 21(3) states that the application and
interpretation of law ‘must be consistent with internationally recognised human
rights’. We submit that that ‘Physician’s trial case’ established a precedent
that must be drawn upon for the purpose of this request and we submit for
consideration the notion that the Nuremberg code qualifies as a source of
international law under the jus cogens principle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">37 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The elements of customary (jus cogens)
international law include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 54pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo22; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">the
widespread repetition by States of similar international acts over time (State
practice);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 54pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo22; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">the
requirement that the acts must occur out of a sense of obligation (opinio
juris); and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 54pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo22; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">that the
acts are taken by a significant number of States and not rejected by a
significant number of States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">38 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In 1950, the </span><a href="http://www.un.org/law/ilc/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-themecolor: text1;">International Law Commission</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">listed as evidence of customary international
law: treaties, decisions of national courts and <u>international tribunals</u>,
national legislation, diplomatic correspondence, opinions of national legal
advisors, and the <u>practice of international organizations</u> (“Report of
the International Law Commission to the General Assembly (Part II): Ways and
Means of Making the Evidence of Customary International Law More Readily
Available,” [1950] 2<i> Y.B. Int’l L. Comm’n</i> 367, ILC Doc.
A/1316).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">39 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">i. <b>Practice requirement</b>
– We submit that this requirement is satisfied by way of the pharmaceutical manufacturers
operating internationally and the Nuremberg code for medical practice being
extended into general codes of medical ethics by both States, Global NGO’s and
to which <u>all </u>physicians and pharmaceutical companies are bound. The
Nuremberg Code has not been officially adopted in its entirety as law by any
nation, nonetheless, its basic requirement of informed consent, has been
universally accepted and is articulated in international law in Article 7 of
the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).<sup>
</sup> Informed consent, with specific reliance on the Nuremberg Code, is
also the basis of the International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research
Involving Human Subjects, the most recent guidelines promulgated by the World
Health Organization and the Council for International Organizations of Medical
Sciences (1993). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">40 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ii. <b>Opinio Juris sive
necessitatis requirement</b> – We submit that the worldwide recognition, acceptance,
adoption, and practice of the ethical standards of the Nuremberg Code through
general codes of medical ethics amounts to an <u>obligation</u> on physicians
and pharmaceutical manufacturers to abide by the principles. Any physician or
research scientist found to have breached any of the 10 principles of the
Nuremberg code would face criminal liability, therefore we submit that the
opinion juris requirement is satisfied qualifying the Nuremberg Code as a
source of international law under the Jus cogens customary norm principle. <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">41 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It is our intention to
present to you, and detail how, in the United Kingdom this year, the Government
of the United Kingdom, with its Ministers and senior officials have violated
the Nuremberg Code not only in a single aspect but in many aspects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">42 a)
<b>Informed consent to participate in a medical experiment</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The first principle<b> </b>of the Nuremberg
Code <b><u>is a willingness and informed consent by the person </u></b>to
receive treatment and participate in an experiment. The person is supposed to
activate freedom of choice without the intervention, either through force,
deceit, fraud, threat, solicitation, or any other type of binding or coercion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">43 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">When the heads of the
Ministry of Health as well as the Prime Minister presented the vaccine in the
United Kingdom and began the vaccination of United Kingdom residents, the
vaccinated were not advised, that in practice, they would be taking part in a <b>medical
experiment</b> and that their consent is required under the Nuremberg Code.
This as a matter of fact is a <b>genetic medical experiment </b>on human beings
performed without informed consent under a severe and blatant offense of the
Nuremberg Code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">44 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">b) <b>Alternative treatments <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">– On the subject of informed consent for
medical treatment, and based on the Nuremberg Code principles, an obligation
exists to detail and suggest to a patient several treatment alternatives,
detailing the medical process (and all that is included in it) as well as the
advantages and disadvantages/ benefits and risks, existing in every treatment,
to enable him to <b>make an intelligent personal decision </b>regarding the
treatment he prefers. As stated, this choice must be made freely by the
individual. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">45 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Despite all of the
above-stated, the Government of the United Kingdom and the Ministry of Health
continue to fail to present the citizens of the United Kingdom with the
currently existing alternatives for treating Covid 19. Alternative treatments
that have now been proven to be both extremely safe and extremely efficacious
in the treatment of Covid 19 with up to a 100% success rate with alternative treatments
mentioned above. The government of the United Kingdom continue to solicit their
citizens, pressuring and manipulating them in blatant violation of the informed
consent process, intentionally concealing information regarding the
vaccinations and creating an atmosphere of fear and coercion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">c) <b>The experiment will be conducted to
prevent suffering or physical injury.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">46 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It is known that the m-RNA
‘vaccination’ treatments have caused the death of many as well as injury and
severe damage (including disablement and paralysis) after the ‘vaccine’ was
administered. Despite this fact, the government did not instruct the initiation
of an investigation into the matter. It is also questionable that given the
experimental nature of these vaccinations, that there are not any full reports
available of the numbers of dead or injured, as may be expected in such a
medical process for the benefit of the public participating in the experiment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">d) <b>The
experiment must not be conducted when there is reason to assume that death or
real injury will occur. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">47<b> </b></span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Regarding the violation of this principle, as
stated above, the data on cases of death
from the treatment is suppressed and we the citizens hear only by word of mouth
and on social networks (friends, neighbours or relatives) not from the state
media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">e) <b>The
individual in charge of the experiment must be prepared to terminate the
experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe it will cause
injury, disability or death of the experiment participant. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">48 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- It has already been proven
that many have died from the m-RNA treatments, were injured or became disabled;
however the Government of the United Kingdom continues to compel this dangerous
experiment on its citizens. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">C. THE ROME STATUTE<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">49 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> It is our further intention
to present to you, and detail how, in the United Kingdom this year, the
Government of the United Kingdom, with its Ministers and senior officials have
violated the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court not only in a
single aspect but in many aspects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ARTICLE 6 – Genocide <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">50 Pursuant to the Rome Statute’s Article 6, - “<i>genocide” </i>means
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in
part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(a) Killing members of these groups:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">51 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- the group in this case is in principle “the
entire population of the United Kingdom” (and the world) starting with the
elderly, chronically ill and disabled.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(b) Causing serious bodily harm or mental harm
to members of the group:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">52 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Proven long-term effects 8 months after first
being infected by the virus (appendix 20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">53 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Massive short-term damage
and death from the ‘vaccines’. As of 24<sup>th</sup> November 2021, for the UK
136,582 yellow cards have been reported for the Pfizer ‘vaccine’, 238,086 have
been reported for the AstraZeneca, 19,101 for the Moderna and 1,280 have been
reported where the brand was not specified.
That is a total of 395,049 reported adverse reactions in the UK alone
that were serious enough to warrant being reported to the Yellow Card reporting
system (Appendix 20)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">54 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Expected long term effects as above in the
vaccinated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">55 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Statistical evidence suggests massive
increase in deaths after ‘vaccination’ (Appendix 21)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">56 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Immeasurable mental harm
caused by 24/7 psychological warfare propaganda, false positive PCR tests, lack
of medical care and mass vaccinations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">57 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Increase in alcoholics
relapsing, eating disorders relapsing and not being managed in the community
due to lockdowns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">58 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The number of vulnerable
children calling ChildLine was up 37% over lockdowns (Appendix 22)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole
or in part:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">59 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Destruction of wealth and businesses by the
imposed lockdowns (Appendix 23)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">60 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Inflicting damage on the
immune systems of all those who either got ill from the virus and/or received
the m-RNA ‘vaccine’, the mask mandates and mandatory test regimes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">61 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Statistics prove that those
who received a covid-‘vaccine’ are at greater risk of getting seriously ill,
and even family members of the vaccinated are become ill and in some cases
dying. This is an extremely alarming signal of what the future holds. (Appendix
24)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent
births within the group:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">62 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Proven increase in
spontaneous abortion after a Covid m-RNA ‘vaccination. A recent study in the
New England Medical Journal showed 8 in 10 women had a miscarriage after taking
a Covid ‘vaccine’ before the third trimester (Appendix 25)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">63 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Expected reduction in
fertility after a Covid-‘vaccination’ due to the deliberate change in DNA
sequencing from the m-RNA (Appendix 26)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ARTICLE 7 – Crimes against humanity<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">64 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Pursuant to the Rome
Statute’s Article 7 – <i>Crimes against humanity, </i>means any of the
following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack
directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(a) Murder:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">65 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Statistics from the Office
for National Statistics (ONS) shown below (also Appendix 27) have recorded between
January 2<sup>nd</sup> 2021 and July 2<sup>nd</sup> 202l, 18,653 deaths within
21 days of the first dose of a Covid Vaccine – 4,388 (30%) of those involving
the Covid-19 virus. 73,822 deaths 21 days or more after the first dose – 7,289
(11%) of those involved the Covid-19 Virus. 11,652 deaths within 21 days of a
second dose – 182 (1.5%) involved the Covid-19 virus and 57,721 deaths 21 days
or more after second dose – 458 (0.8%). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">66 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Further data from the ONS shown
in the tables below (also Appendix 28) demonstrates, that there was a 23%
increase in the deaths registered in January 2021 compared with January 2020.
Similarly with February 2021 compared with February 2020 there was increase in
overall deaths of 26%. We know that the Covid 19 ‘vaccines’ were rolled out in
the UK in December of 2020 and anyone who was genuinely willing to take the
‘vaccines’ freely and without political pressure or coercion was going to do so
within the first few weeks of the rollout, this staggering increase in death
within the first 8 weeks of the introduction of the experimental vaccines is
alarming to say the least and warrants a full investigation by the court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">67 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The protocol in the UK for an
individual who tests positive for Covid-19 has been to self-isolate and stay
home until you absolutely can’t breathe at which point you go to the hospital
to be put on a ventilator and in most cases die. A study (Appendix 29) of 1023
covid-19 patients on ventilators found that 42% of them died and 57% survived.
We submit that the suppression of safe and effective alternative treatments for
Covid-19 amounts to murder and warrants a full investigation by the court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">68 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Data taken from the ONS below
shows that during April 2020 there were 26,541 deaths that occurred in care
homes, an increase of 17,850 on the five-year average. (Appendix 52 )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">69 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Liverpool Care Pathway
was abandoned in 2014 after being deemed inhumane, but evidence suggests it was
brought back at the start of the pandemic in early 2020 and is being
implemented in care homes across the UK. In a House of commons document, Matt Hancock and Conservative MP Dr Luke
Evans discuss the use of medications to give Covid patients a ‘good death’
(euthanasia).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_5"
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">70 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> In March 202 Hancock ordered
two years’ worth of a sedative called <b>Midazolam</b> from a French supplier
(Appendix 31). At the time the order was made it was claimed that Midazolam was
for the treatment of covid 19 patients – Midazolam suppresses the respiratory
system – Covid-19 is a respiratory disease. We request the court carry out a
full investigation into why the UK government would purchase two years’ worth
of Midazolam, a drug associated with respiratory suppression and respiratory
arrest, to treat a disease that causes respiratory suppression and respiratory
arrest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">71 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The document (Appendix 32)
also provides a table confirming dosage of Midazolam for the elderly or unwell
should be no more than 0.5mg-1mg, side effects include cardiorespiratory
depression and the drug should be used with caution in those suffering respiratory
disease.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">72 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A document produced by the
NHS (Appendix 33) states that Midalozam should be used for comfort at the end
of life care due to Covid-19 to ease fear, anxiety and agitation. The document
states that Midazolam should be used for sedation prior to the patient
requiring mechanical ventilation. The same document also provides confirmation
that Midazolam has the potential to impair the respiration system, particularly
in the presence of disease or old age and clearly states that dosage should be
kept to a minimum and should be within the manufacturers guidelines. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">73 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We submit that creating policy for treating patient
allegedly suffering anxiety due to Covid-19 with a starting dose of 2.5mg of
Midazolam when the recommended dose for elderly and/or frail patients is 0.25mg
amounts to unlawful euthanasia and murder and warrants a full investigation by
the court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">74</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Additionally,
a large number of vaccinated people are getting seriously ill and are at risk
of dying from an immune system failure, antibody dependent enhancement, in the
near future (Appendix 34)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(b) Extermination:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">75 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There is good reason to
assume that a large percentage of the UK population (and world population) is
now at risk of either serious illness or death due to the recent mRNA
‘vaccines’. Animal studies conducted in 2012-2013 (Appendix 35 and 36) to test
mRNA vaccines found most animals died within 2 weeks of receiving the treatment,
this is equivalent to 1.5 years for humans.
The vaccinated have been exposed to the very same ‘man-made spike
protein’ as the virus. Both the virus and the vaccines have been proven to be
able to change human DNA (Appendix 37). The immune system is unlikely to ever return
to what it was after receiving a covid ‘vaccination’. Several high-level
immunologists and vaccine designers including joint applicant on this request
Dr Mike Yeadon, have warned, in the worst possible scenario, most of the human
race who have received these m-RNA treatments will perish. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(e)
Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of
fundamental rules of international law:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">76 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Ban on freedom of travel both national and
international<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">77 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Forced lockdown and economic
warfare – especially on small business owners – forcing people to be dependent
on the State for survival<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">78 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Forced quarantine in hotels
for both healthy and false positive PCR tests and rapid flow tests returning
from international travel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">79 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Forced ‘self -isolation’ at the demand of NHS
Track and Trace app<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">80 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Severe deprivation of
physical liberties on travel, visiting friends, arranging parties, taking part
in cultural and sports activities, religious congregations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(f) Torture:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">81 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Psychological terror and
warfare (mental torture) is being administered by the Government, State Media
and main-stream media along with Social Media platforms such as Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube and Google.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(g)
Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancies, enforced
sterilisations, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">82 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- One effect of the
‘vaccines’ suggested by a number of medical doctors and scientists is ‘enforced
sterilisations’ with a number of spontaneous abortions/ miscarriages reported
by pregnant women who received a covid ‘vaccine’ (Appendix 38, 39)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(h)
Persecution against any identifiable group or collectively on political,
racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph
3, or other grounds that are universally recognised as impermissible under
international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or
any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">83 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Persecution against the unvaccinated, loss of
jobs, refusal to public events <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">84 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Persecution against all religious groups
being hindered to attend places of worship <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(j) Apartheid:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">85 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The real effect of the new
‘vaccine passport’ will introduce a new form of medical apartheid, for the
benefit of pressuring people to get vaccinated and to deprive those who are not
vaccinated of the right to travel, work and participate in society as normal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(k)
Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great
suffering or serious injury to the body or to mental or physical health:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">86 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Social distancing measures,
mask mandates, fear mongering, vaccination pressure as well as the ‘vaccines’
themselves are all reasons for serious injury to the body, mind and soul. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ARTICLE 8 – War crimes <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">87 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Contextual
element of a war crime - </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We
submit to you that a covert war has been waged against the people of the United
Kingdom (and the world) through the release of the biological weapon SARS-Cov-2
and the additional bioweapon, m-RNA gene therapy ‘vaccines’. We submit that the
people of the United Kingdom (and the world) are under systemic attack from
those who released the beforementioned biological weapons and by those individuals
within the UK Government and international leaders against which we have
brought this request, who seek to serve the same agenda. We therefore submit
that the contextual element of a war crime has been met and the alleged crimes
took place in the context of an international <u>and</u> non-international armed
conflict.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">88 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mens Rea
element: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We further submit that the
members of the UK government and world international leaders against which we
have brought this complaint, are knowingly working on behalf of this global agenda
for <u>depopulation</u> through the biological weapons known as SARS-Cov-2 and
the m-RNA ‘vaccines’. We submit therefore that the members of the UK government
and world leaders against which we have brought this complaint have both
knowledge and intent with respect to these alleged crimes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">89 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Court shall have
jurisdiction in respect of war crimes in particular when committed as part of a
plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">90 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Pursuant to the Rome Statute Article 8 <i>‘war
crimes’</i> means:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of
August 12, 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property
protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(i) Wilful killing:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">91 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- We have provided statistical
data of the death rate of the ‘vaccines’ killing a relatively large proportion
of recipients, with numbers increasing as a result of more ‘vaccinations’ being
administered, it is a logical conclusion that the continuing use of these
‘vaccines’ constitutes a wilful killing. Even if the victims are predominantly
elderly, we also have a relatively high proportion of deaths and harm for
younger and healthier people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">92 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- We have provided evidence
that the use of 5 times the recommended amount of Midazolam for patients in
care homes amounts to wilful killing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">93 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Graphene hydroxide in the vaccines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(ii) Torture <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">94 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The Cov-SARS-2 Virus is a
man-made “gain of function virus”. It
was created as a “biological experiment” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
during a period of at least 10-15 years, according to massive documentation
enclosed hereby. The Virus was released, either by an accident or deliberately.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">95 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The development of such a biological weapon
is a crime on its own merit. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">96 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The use of the masks by a
mandate also constitutes a biological experiment. Which has caused
massive harms as documented in the Danish Mask study (Appendix 40) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">97 - The use of the test-pins and the use of cancer rated
chemicals in the noses of millions of humans are also clearly a biological
experiment or warfare.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">98 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The so-called vaccines are
only approved for emergency use only, and the massive use of these gene therapy
drugs constitute the largest biological experiment in human history and causing
an irreversible change to the DNA, through the Vaccination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">99 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Such an experiment on our
DNA is the worst crime ever committed against the human race, totally without
informed consent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(iii) Wilfully causing great suffering, or
serious injury to body or health:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">100 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The forced use of face masks has caused great
harm, both physically and mentally.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">101 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The closing down of
doctor’s offices has clearly caused serious injury to body and health with a
number of serious illnesses going undiagnosed and/or untreated for months due
to closures <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">102 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The vaccines are proven to
kill and cause major damage to health, based on the short-term effects only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">103 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The psychological warfare,
and economic warfare by the lock downs, combined with the medical and
biological warfare causes immense injury to the health.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">104 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The denial of use of
effective medicine (HCQ, Ivermectin), against Cov-Sars2 is a cause of serious
injury to body or health and the cause of many preventable deaths in the UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">105 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Suppression of alternative treatments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">106 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Use of ventilators with such low success rate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">107 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Midazolam used to euthanise elderly in care
homes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of
property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and
want only:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">108<b> </b></span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The extensive economical destruction of
business activity, as well as private wealth and personal and business income
due to UK lockdowns has led to a massive appropriation of private property by
the banks, from people, who are not able to achieve a normal income due to all
the effects of the lockdowns <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">109 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- A massive transfer of
property from the middle class to the ultrarich Globalists will be the
consequence of these policies worldwide. This can be interpreted as the
biggest land and power grab in modern history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(v)
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or
against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">110 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The people of the United
Kingdom (and the entire human race) are currently under attack by way of these draconian
measures and biological warfare, which is an integrated part of a psychological
and economic warfare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(<b>iv)
Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause
incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or
widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would
be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military
advantage anticipated:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">111 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The creation of the Cov-SARS-2 virus was the
pre-condition for launching this attack. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">112 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- There is a timeline going
back to the 1990s and the first SARS1 virus, as to the MERS Virus. And to both
US Military biological research (DARPA), linked to French, British, Australian
and to a large extent the Chinese efforts done during more than 15 years. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">113 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- There is a clear link to
the so-called Globalist Elite, the Club of Rome, the WEF (Davos Group),
Globalist politicians, the biggest Capitalists on earth, and their plan of
Agenda 2030 (UN), WHO, and “the Great Reset”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">114 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- These people have clearly
spoken of a need for a great global depopulation, and Bill Gates among others,
have stated that the Vaccinations is one way to do it.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">115 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Gain of Function
manipulation of the Virus has given the virus properties that makes it able to
spread 10-20 times compared to the SARS 1 and MERS and all other Corona
viruses. The scientists behind this gain of function research have created a
dangerous synthetic Virus, as documented enclosed. With a dangerous “Hiv GP120”
component to make it dormant, like HIV. (Appendix 49)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">116 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The project seems to be a
Global conspiracy to radically change both the demographical as well as the
political landscape, by a transformation from a democratic system into a
totalitarian world, to be ruled by a centralised unelected elite.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">117 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The massive destruction of
life, the effects of economic warfare, connected to an alleged medical
emergency, and a massive psychological warfare operation, with the initial aim
of brainwashing the population into accepting
mass vaccination, as the only remedy for returning to a less than normal
situation, and the only available the first step.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">118 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The massive economic
melt-down is leading to a financial collapse of epic proportions, causing
states and currencies, at least in Europe, to collapse totally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">119 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Based on the economic ruin
and catastrophe, it is likely that martial law will be introduced, a result of
the economic collapse and the coming social unrest. Under the Defence Act 2020
new powers were given to the police to ‘strengthen enforcement powers to reduce
the spread of Corona virus, protect the NHS and save lives’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I20</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> - The
financial crisis will most likely lead to the collapse of both banks and
central banks, and loss of private property on a massive scale, to the benefit
of the ultrarich elite only. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">121 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- New bail out rules, and delays on financial
reporting, has only delayed this crash.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">122 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- On top of all of this, and
other measures, the medium and long-term effects of both the Cov-SARS2, as well
as the “Vaccines” will soon be apparent, causing massive illness and death of
biblical proportions, never seen before.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <u>ARTICLE
8 <i>bis</i>3 - Crimes of aggression<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">123 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For the purpose of this
Statute, <i>“crime of aggression”</i> means the planning, preparation,
initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise
control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an
act of aggression which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a
manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">124 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This is a global criminal conspiracy, which has
been planned for several decades. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">125 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It is now obvious that “the
plan” involves the ultrarich and leaders of most nation states, with a few
exceptions. It is also clear that powerful think-tanks including WEF in Davos
as well as the Club of Rome, and other NGOs like WHO and GAVI among others, are
at the centre of this draconian criminal conspiracy. Under the
official slogan; “BUILD BACK BETTER”, used by the President of WHO, the President
of USA, as well as the President of WEF, the Prime Minister of the UK as well
as countless other World leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">126 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The goal of this activity is
to create a new world order, through the UN¨s Agenda 2030, by dismantling all
the Democratic Nation States, step by step, controlled by an un-elected elite and
to destroy the freedoms and basic human rights of the peoples of the Earth.
In addition to this, the aim is to destroy small and medium sized
businesses, moving the market shares to the largest corporations, owned by the
Global Elite. The fulfilment of this goal will most likely lead to full
enslavement of mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">127 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This is being done by means
of the threat from both a dangerous biological weapon, the virus, the vaccines,
the testing test pins, the mask mandates and all other measures. All of which
constitute not only a breach of National laws, but also a fundamental breach of
the Charter of the United Nations and the Treaty of Rome and our Fundamental
Human rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">128 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It is of
the utmost urgency that ICC take immediate action, taking all of this into
account, to stop the rollout of covid vaccinations, introduction of unlawful
vaccination passports and all other types of illegal warfare mentioned herein
currently being waged against the people of the United Kingdom by way of a
court injunction.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">D.</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">
<b>REQUEST FOR THE OPENING OF AN ENQUIRY<i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">129<b> </b></span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Jurisdiction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Alleged crimes within the jurisdiction of the
court<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">On the basis of the information available,
there is a reasonable basis to believe that violations of the Nuremberg Code, genocide,
crimes against humanity, and war crimes have been committed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Place and date of alleged commission of the
crimes:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Territory:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">130 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The above crimes are
alleged to have been committed in the territory of the United Kingdom (and the
world)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">131 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- Since the United Kingdom is
a State Party, the Court may exercise jurisdiction over all alleged crimes
committed on United Kingdom Territory since October 4, 2000, irrespective of
the nationality of the accused.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">132 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- In particular, article
12(2)(a) provides that the Court may exercise its jurisdiction over crimes
referred to in article 5 if the “State on the territory of which the conduct in
question occurred” is a Party to the Statute. Thus, since the alleged crimes identified
in this Request have been committed on the territory of a State Party to the
Rome Statute, the Court has territorial jurisdiction over these alleged crimes,
regardless of whether the alleged suspects are nationals of a State Party <i>(D.
Akande, ‘The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over Nationals of
Non-Parties: Legal Basis and Limits’, Jrnl Int’l Crim Justice 1 (2003), pp.
618-650; G. Danilenko, ‘ICC Statute and Third States’, in A. Cassese, P. Gaeta
& J. Jones eds., The Rome Statute Of The International Criminal Court: A
Commentary, (2002), pp. 1871-1897). <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">133 - </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A suspect is not required to
be physically present in the territory of a State Party when a crime is
committed for the Court to be able to exercise jurisdiction over his or her
conduct, as long as the crime imputed to the suspect occurred within the confines
of such territory <i>(Prosecutor v. Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah
Al-Senussi, Appeals Chamber, “Judgment on the appeal of Libya against the
decision of Pre-Trial Chamber I of 31 May 2013 entitled ‘Decision on the
admissibility of the case against Saif Al- Islam Gaddafi’”,
ICC-01/11-01/11-547-Red, 21 May 2014, para. 62) <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">134 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <b>Date<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">- The crimes allegedly committed on the
territory of the United Kingdom between …….. and …… fall within the Court’s
jurisdiction ratione temporis <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">135 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <b><u>Admissibility</u><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <b>Complementarity<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">a. Legal references<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Article 17(1)(a) and (b) establishes a twofold
test for complementarity: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">136 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(i) whether, at the time of
the proceedings in respect of an admissibility challenge, there is an on-going
investigation or prosecution of the same case at the national level (first
limb); and, if this is answered in the affirmative, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 72pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">137 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(ii) whether the State is
unwilling or unable genuinely to carry out such investigations or prosecutions
(second limb)<i> (Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui,
Appeals Chamber, “Judgment on the Appeal of Mr. Germain Katanga against the
Oral Decision of Trial Chamber II of 12 June 2009 on the Admissibility of the
Case”, ICC-01/04-01/07-1497, 25 September 2009 (“Katanga Admissibility Appeals
Judgment”), paras. 1 and 75-79). <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">138 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Inaction by a State under the
first limb renders a case admissible before the Court, subject to an assessment
of gravity under article 17(1)(d) (<i>Katanga Admissibility Appeals Judgment,
para. 78).</i> The Prosecution conducts its determination(s) on complementarity
in relation to the potential cases that are likely to be the focus of an
investigation by the Prosecution. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">139 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The admissibility provisions
of the Statute are founded on the complementary relationship between the ICC
and “national criminal jurisdictions”. As such, in principle, it is only
national criminal investigations and/or prosecutions of a State that can
trigger the application of article 17(1)(a)-(c). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">140 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Gravity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The gravity assessment has been conducted
against the backdrop of the potential cases that are likely to arise from an
investigation into the Situation<i> (Kenya Article 15 Decision, paras. 50, 58,
and 188; Côte d’Ivoire Article 15 Decision, para. 202).<b> <o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">141 <b> </b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
gravity assessment involves a generic examination of whether the persons or
groups of persons relevant to the assessment capture those who may bear the
greatest responsibility for the alleged crimes committed. The assessment must
also be done from both a quantitative and a qualitative viewpoint, and factors
such as nature, scale and manner of commission of the alleged crimes, as well
as their impact on victims, are all indicators of the gravity of a given case <b><i>(Kenya
Article 15 Decision, paras. 60-62; Côte d’Ivoire Article 15 Decision, paras
203-205; Georgia Article 15 Decision, para. 51). <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">142 <b> </b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Accordingly,
the Prosecution’s submissions on gravity relate to an assessment of gravity of the
entire situation rather than the gravity one or more potential cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">143 <b> </b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Based on
the information available, the potential case concerning alleged crimes
committed by members of the United Kingdom Government and world leaders
mentioned herein are of sufficient gravity to justify further action by the
Court.<b><i> <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">144 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The alleged crimes have been
committed on a large scale, with reports that murder has been practised
institutionally<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">145 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <b>Interests of Justice</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The seriousness and extent of
the crimes committed in the United Kingdom, highlighted by the scope of people
that these crimes affect, that these crimes continue to be committed, the wide
range of perpetrators, the recurring patterns of criminality and the limited
prospects for accountability at the national level, all weigh heavily in favour
of an investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 3pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">146 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Victims of alleged crimes
within the context of the situation have manifested their interest in seeing
justice done. We have sought to ascertain the interests of victims, through
direct consultations with victims’ organisations in the United Kingdom as well
as through examination of communications and publicly available information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">147 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In light of the gravity if
the acts committed, and the absence of relevant national proceedings against
those who appear to be most responsible for the most serious crimes within the
situation, the potential case that would arise from an investigation of the
situation would be admissible. Taking into account the gravity of the crimes
and the interests of the victims, there are no substantial reasons to believe
that an investigation would not serve the interests of justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">148 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Experience shows that
impunity is a factor that aggravates the commission of crimes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">149 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The decision to seize the
Pre-Trial Chamber for the initiation of the investigation would be hailed by
the peoples of the United Kingdom and the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">150 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This decision would have a
particularly useful role as it would be a response to crimes currently being
committed. It would inevitably bring about a change in practices, at least in
the extent to mandated vaccinations and vaccine passports and this decision
would save lives limiting the number of new wounded by these m-RNA treatments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">151 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> The
request for investigation meets the criteria of the Statute, and will constitute
progress in the fight against impunity and ultimately secure the survival of
the human race as we know it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">152 </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And Justice will be done<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">153 </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">WE WANT TO REPEAT:</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It is of
the utmost urgency that ICC take immediate action, taking all of this into
account, to stop the rollout of covid vaccinations, introduction of unlawful
vaccination passports and all other types of illegal warfare mentioned herein
currently being waged against the people of the United Kingdom by way of an <u>IMMEDIATE
</u>court injunction.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -33pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">APPENDICIES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 </span><a href="https://www.heartmindhealing.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Dr-Michael-Yeadon-Warning.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.heartmindhealing.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Dr-Michael-Yeadon-Warning.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2 </span><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3374"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3374</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2a </span></span><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/926410/Understanding_Cycle_Threshold__Ct__in_SARS-CoV-2_RT-PCR_.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/926410/Understanding_Cycle_Threshold__Ct__in_SARS-CoV-2_RT-PCR_.pdf</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4 </span><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.YaSgdS2cbUr"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.YaSgdS2cbUr</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5 </span><a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1450934193177903105"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1450934193177903105</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6 </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about-coronavirus-research-at-chinese-lab/"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about-coronavirus-research-at-chinese-lab/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7 </span><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/DBBC0FA6E3763B0067CAAD8F3363E527/S2633289220000083a.pdf/biovacc19_a_candidate_vaccine_for_covid19_sarscov2_developed_from_analysis_of_its_general_method_of_action_for_infectivity.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/DBBC0FA6E3763B0067CAAD8F3363E527/S2633289220000083a.pdf/biovacc19_a_candidate_vaccine_for_covid19_sarscov2_developed_from_analysis_of_its_general_method_of_action_for_infectivity.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8 </span><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33772572/"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33772572/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9 </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/330987/WHO-nCov-IPC_Masks-2020.1-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/330987/WHO-nCov-IPC_Masks-2020.1-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10 </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987720333028"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987720333028</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11 </span><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">12 </span><a href="https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2018_clade_x_exercise/index.html"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2018_clade_x_exercise/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">15 </span><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33734044/"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33734044/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">16 </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248252/"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248252/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">17 </span><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2023184"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2023184</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18 </span><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33249945/"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33249945/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">20 </span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">21 </span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-of-novel-SARS-cov-2-variant-variant-of-concern-20201201"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-of-novel-SARS-cov-2-variant-variant-of-concern-20201201</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">22 </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/53355529"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/53355529</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">23 </span><a href="https://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/downloads/simply-business-report-covid-19-impact-on-small-business.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/downloads/simply-business-report-covid-19-impact-on-small-business.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">26 </span><a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2105968118"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2105968118</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">27 </span><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/deathsinvolvingcovid19byvaccinationstatusengland/deathsoccurringbetween2januaryand2july2021"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/deathsinvolvingcovid19byvaccinationstatusengland/deathsoccurringbetween2januaryand2july2021</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></p><br /></div><p><br /></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-71397510329914534532022-08-30T00:07:00.005+01:002022-09-05T19:05:55.571+01:00'Caryll Houselander - Inspirational Catholic Poet'<p> <span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Dear readers, I must apologise for the dearth of posts over the past few months. I have been struggling with cataract problems in both eyes, but thankfully these have now been successfully treated, and I can now read and type, which is a real pleasure. I am keen to post without further delay, and have taken the liberty of re-posting an article which appeared on this site about three years ago. I confess that I never tire of Caryll Houselander's poetry, and I ask you to bear with me, thank you.</span></p><br /><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> ******************</span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> 'Frances Caryll Houselander</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> was born in Bath, England, on Sept 29, 1901, the second of two daughters. She was not expected to survive for more than a day, and was immediately baptized, given the name ‘Frances’ after her uncle, a gynaecologist who helped deliver her, and ‘Caryll’, after the yacht on which her mother had spent the last months of her pregnancy!<br /> She went on to survive her first day, and indeed many more after that, though her health continued to be poor throughout her life.<br /> When she was 6 years old, a family friend persuaded her mother to have the children baptised in the Catholic faith. Although little formal religious education followed her reception into the Church, her mother encouraged a deep sense of piety and devotion in the home, and Frances, a devout child, made her first confession and Holy Communion when she was just seven years old.<br /> Two years later, her world was shattered when her parents separated. Though they were never divorced, the separation was to be a permanent one. For the next several years, she changed homes and schools, never fully settling in one place before she was moved to the next.<br /> Her erratic health led her doctors to advise that she avoid all class work, and, by the time she returned home in 1917, her formal education was virtually non-existent. During her years in the convent schools, she experienced three religious visions, which led to a personal and absolute conviction that she had been called by Christ to give recognition to the reality of His loving Presence and Image in all people, particularly the suffering and poor of this world, and to convey the realisation and awareness of this to all those with whom she came into contact, personally and through her writings. Frances had a great affinity with young children, and during her life wrote and illustrated children's books, always revealing a simple delight in the love of God and His creation.<br /> When the war ended, she attended art school and it was during this period that she drifted from the Catholic Church. She explored the Orthodox Church among others, but found them all wanting, and craving for peace of soul and longing for the Sacraments, she returned to the Catholic Church; she was then twenty-four years old.<br /> Advised to concentrate on her writing, she began to write articles and illustrate for the ‘Children’s Messenger of the Sacred Heart’, often on an unpaid basis. Her work ultimately led to her making the acquaintance of the Catholic publishers, Sheed and Ward, who were subsequently to become the major publishers of her many books.<br /> Always willing to open her home and her heart to those in need, she was frequently physically and emotionally overwhelmed by those who sought her advice, yet she remained reluctant to turn people away.<br /> Msgr. Ronald Knox, a contemporary, and admirer of Houselander, recognized her tremendous gift of insight, and was later to say, <i>"She seemed to see everything for the first time, and the driest of doctrinal considerations shone out like a restored picture when she had finished with it." </i><br /> Her popularity and success in healing the hurts and the hearts of many can be measured by the support of such eminent physicians as Dr. Strauss, later President of the British Psychological Society, who sent patients to her. His explanation was that "she loved them back to life".<br /> Her impact, both literary and personal, was due above all, to the intensity of her vision of the suffering Christ, a vision she expressed with utter sincerity and immediacy and, on occasion, with breath-taking luminosity. Indeed, she can best be described not just as a writer, nor even just an artist, but as a mystic and a visionary, even in the tradition of Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, or Teresa of Avila, which would explain how she was able to communicate so directly and movingly to her large reading public, and accounts for her extraordinary success in counselling British and foreign children who had been traumatized by the war.<br /> Not gregarious by nature, she nevertheless radiated gaiety and a sense of fun; her wickedly funny tongue often provoking as much hilarity among her intimates as it caused her remorse.<br /> She was unquestionably a genuine mystic whose frailties were transformed into real strength and whose neuroses became the means whereby she was able to join her sufferings with Christ on the cross. It was as though her burning love of God overflowed for the refreshment of all who came in contact with her.<br /> "She seemed to possess a well that never ran dry for anyone but herself. She gave of her food to feed the hungry, her time to counsel those in need, her energy to write countless letters, articles and books, and ultimately her health for the health and well-being of others. She spent years attending to the rigorous demands of her ailing parents, and, having been plagued by ill health her entire life, had become accustomed to pain and slow to address her own physical ailments. Her lack of self-concern, however, which extended to everything from her looks, to her diet, her sleep, her health, her living quarters, etc., took its toll."<br /> During her last years, she worked tirelessly to complete books, write letters, strengthen the works of charity she had begun, and minister to the many mentally ill children who were sent her way' <br /> She died on October 12, 1954, from breast cancer. <span style="background: whitesmoke;"></span><br /><b><i>"The wonder of Frances Caryll Houselander is found in her humble willingness to suffer with Christ, to let Him transform her flawed and sinful nature into a divine work of art."</i></b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b>Ack</b>. Karen Lynn Krugh / Catholic Culture.org</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><b><i>Ack.</i></b><i> Margot H. King - currently working on biography for Peregrina Publishers.</i><br /><b><i>Ack.</i></b><i> Robin Maas - Caryll Houselander, an appreciation.</i><br /><i>www.ewtn.com/library</i></span></span> </div><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"></span><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cUQ2g-Gloi4/TxWu1IZ7GCI/AAAAAAAABvg/PrN7GtS7WQo/s1600/Frances+Caryll+Houselander+-child.jpg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dashed red; clear: left; color: purple; float: left; font-family: &quot; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: 10px;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cUQ2g-Gloi4/TxWu1IZ7GCI/AAAAAAAABvg/PrN7GtS7WQo/s320/Frances+Caryll+Houselander+-child.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 10px;"><b style="font-family: Times,&quot;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: &quot; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 10px;"><b style="font-family: Times,&quot;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: &quot; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 10px;"><b style="font-family: Times,&quot;"><span style="font-size: large;">Frances Caryll Houselander</span></b></i><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 10px;"></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: &quot; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 10px;"><b style="font-family: Times,&quot;"><span style="font-size: large;">- mystic, poet, artist, writer</span></b></i><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 10px;"></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: &quot; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 10px;"><b style="font-family: Times,&quot;"><span style="font-size: large;"> (1901 - 1954)</span></b></i><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y_VhHYFWwk8/TxWq3Or0IhI/AAAAAAAABvQ/d7J13JNQjSU/s1600/caryll+houselander.jpg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: blue; float: right; font-family: &quot; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: 10px;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y_VhHYFWwk8/TxWq3Or0IhI/AAAAAAAABvQ/d7J13JNQjSU/s320/caryll+houselander.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: currentcolor; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: none; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px;" width="320" /></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">In '<b>Mathew Speaks</b>', Caryll Houselander reveals a deep spirituality enveloping a sympathetic and sincere humanity. Through the thoughts and words of <i><b> Mathew,</b></i> the tax collector, she reveals the hopes and aspirations of his Jewish community who hear and see Jesus, probably for the first time, when he visits their township. The expectations of the young and the older people concerning the coming Messiah, are of this world rather than the next. They believe that the Messiah will restore worldly power and glory to the Jewish people, although Mathew knows that this will not be the case. Caryll Houselander, through the mind of Mathew, gently explores the fears and expectations of the ordinary people, gradually introducing the overwhelming concept of Christ's love for all mankind. The concept of <i>'Christ being in all men</i>' is one which Houselander preached and practised throughout her life. A similar poem by her, '<b>Philip Speaks',</b> explores the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, as experienced through the mind of <i><b>Philip,</b></i> who Jesus made responsible for distributing the loaves and fishes to the multitude. This is a most moving poem which I recommend, and I leave a link at the end of this post for those interested.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">*******************</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Mathew Speaks</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">His fame had spread through Syria like flame in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">dry grass.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">From Galilee and the Decapolis and over Jordan</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">the people came.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Crowds came out of Judea and out of Jerusalem.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the hearts of the old men</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">hope for the race smouldered again:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">“Oh, that Messiah were come to set us free!”</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the hearts of the women</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">hope for the children flickered with faint flame:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">“Oh, that Messiah were come to set them free!”</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The proud heart of youth blazed, suddenly on fire:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">“Oh, for our own glory, in the glory of Messiah!”</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">I was afraid,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">I, the tax collector,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">who had sat in the Custom house.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I knew men through and through,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">having got my living, as it were,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">by other men’s despair.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I knew the humiliated,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I knew the oppressed;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I knew the king,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">whom they had crowned already</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in their desire:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">they had created him</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">out of their bitterness.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Out of their broken flesh,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">out of their hunger and thirst,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">out of their chains –</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">weaponless, they had forged him a sword:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ragged, they had woven for him</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">purple raiment and cloth of gold for a king:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">out of the festering wound,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">out of the conqueror’s scorn,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in dreams, the son of the race was born –</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Messiah, the Son of Dreams.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I knew it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How often I had sat in the market place</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and seen the women there, rocking to and fro,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like those who sit by the dead to reap-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">rocking, rocking, rocking,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to and fro;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">trying to rock the cradled nothingness</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in the barren womb</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to sleep.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As for the young,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">they wanted a leader, whose power</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">would be in his lust for power,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">one whose tongue</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">would utter their dumb pride</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in song,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">one in whose heart</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">their frightened hearts would beat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to the sound of drums.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>II</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I was afraid</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that they would despair</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">when they saw the Lord.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He was very poor.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He had the chiselled features</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of one who denies himself;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His hands</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">were the large hands</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of an artisan –</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and without a sword;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His eyes,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the eyes of pity and love;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His speech,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the broad, slow speech</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of a countryman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I was afraid.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But when He began to speak</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It seemed to each who heard</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that the word was spoken to him alone.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He dawned upon the people;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He did not take them by storm:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">soft as the blown thistledown’s sowing,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the seed of the Word was sown.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each who heard</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">knew the light growing within him,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like morning,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">slowly swelling</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and filling the empty sky</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">before the first song</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the first bird.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I understood,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">when He began to teach,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">why first</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He had given light to blind eyes;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and to deaf ears,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the music of water and wind;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and to hands and feet that were numb,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the touch of the delicate grass and the sun;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and speech to the dumb.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For He spoke of the things</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">men see and taste and hold:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of salt and rock and light</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and the wheat in gold;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of winds and wings and flowers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and the fruit on boughs:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of candle-light in the house.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They heard His voice.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Like the voice of a murmurous<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sea</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a long way off, washing the shores of peace:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">but each knew within him</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a soundless music,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a voiceless singing,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">saying:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“feel the pulse of My Love</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with your fingertips;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">prove My tenderness</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in the tiny beat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the heart of the mother bird;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">lay your hand on the hard bark of the tree –</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">know Me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in the rising sap</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the green life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the dark.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“I have strewn the flowers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">under your feet:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">see if I love you;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">see if My love is sweet!”</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There was a thawing then,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like the melting of frost</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">when winter is done</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and the warm sun</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">kisses the world.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There was a thawing then</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in the hearts of the women,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and after the hard frost</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the hard years,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">their unshed tears</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">were flowing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They understood</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">how the Lord</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">takes the lowest least</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">for His self-bestowing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They would remember,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">when they were baking bread,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">how He had said</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that His grace</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">works secretly in them,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like yeast.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When they sifted the ash</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and blew the spark of the fire,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">they would remember</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the Breath of the Spirit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that fans the smoking flax.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He spoke of chastity,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the splendour of love;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of desire,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">silver purified</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in the heart of the fire;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of thought,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">white linen spread</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">for the marriage feast.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then –</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the men knew,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with a great sighing of joy,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that the dead bough</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">must fall from the living tree;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the fetid thought,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the furtive word,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the seeping lust,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the cloying grief,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the blight on the green leaf,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the hard fruit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with soft rot at the core,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">would be no more,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">no more.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But the heart would be born again</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to a white maying and morning</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and first falling in love.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>III</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Christ looked at the people.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw them assailed by fear:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the locked door;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the knife in the hand;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the buried coin;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the unworn coat,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">consumed by moth;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the stagnant water</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">drawn and kept in the pitcher,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the musty bread in the bin –</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the defended,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the unshared,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the ungiven.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He told them then</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the love</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that casts out fear,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the love that is four walls</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and a roof over the head:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the knife in the sheath,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the coin in the open hand,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the coin given</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">warm with the giver’s life,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the water poured in the cup,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of the table spread –</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the undefended,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the shared,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the given –</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the Kingdom of Heaven.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Christ looked at the people.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the hard years</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">graven upon their faces;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the old clothes,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">worn to the shape of their work;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw their unshed tears;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the labourer’s hands,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">hollowed out by the tools</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">as his own were hollowed out</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">by the mallet to cup the nail.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the crust of the will,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like the hard crust of rye;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw flesh and blood,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the sacramentals of love;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He saw the image of God,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the crystal in the rock.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He lifted</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">His large and beautiful hands</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to bless.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <i> </i></span><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Caryll Houselander</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br /></div><br /><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Ack. 'The Book of the Saviour'</span></i></b></div><br /><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">an anthology published by Sheed and Ward</span></i></b></div><br /><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">London and New York 1952</span></i></b></div><br /><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br /></div>************</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>N.B. </b> <span style="font-size: large;"> link to 'Philip Speaks'</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://umblepie-northernterritory.blogspot.com/2014/08/philip-speaks.html" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dashed red; color: black; font-family: &quot; font-size: 20px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: 10px;">"Philip Speaks" by Caryll Houselander</a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">*****************</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">On a rather different tack, I wish to share the truth of current events, brought to us courtesy of the Expose news web-site. This is one of several reliable and truthful sites, correcting the misinformation and downright lies published by the main-line media, which for many people, is their only source of information.. I find it incredible that so many people still seem to have little or no understanding of the 'Great Reset', which is the evil driving force behind the destructive forces threatening our very existence.</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">link:- https://expose-news.com</span></i></b></div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://expose-news.com/2022/09/05/sunak-blows-the-whistle-on-whos-been-controlling-uk/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" target="_blank">https://expose-news.com/2022/09/05/sunak-blows-the-whistle-on-whos-been-controlling-uk/</a><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b> <span style="font-family: Times, serif;"> </span></b></i></span></div>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-57225486288448194792022-07-01T01:28:00.000+01:002022-07-01T01:28:51.689+01:00The Cross Speaks' - eighth century.<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wgQNUAHNCBLmHQzm-GUul1z049FuPp7oCOJA2AB_MsZ69YmYByHyMFfOpNOPj1U1mKLQL4PygNiMu8SFNDT_ZbMRXX0bSde1ByiPV3iusvES96gwTTi2AKdEbL804wm1beCIYoybjPHzDMfG5i6dY1MoBnIib7LbU7QXAEtIcCLQsaQJqD7TfqljDQ/s2143/img092%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2143" data-original-width="1612" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wgQNUAHNCBLmHQzm-GUul1z049FuPp7oCOJA2AB_MsZ69YmYByHyMFfOpNOPj1U1mKLQL4PygNiMu8SFNDT_ZbMRXX0bSde1ByiPV3iusvES96gwTTi2AKdEbL804wm1beCIYoybjPHzDMfG5i6dY1MoBnIib7LbU7QXAEtIcCLQsaQJqD7TfqljDQ/w354-h408/img092%20(2).jpg" width="354" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> 'Christ on the Cross' -woodcarving.- Michelangelo. . Venice, St Giorgio Maggiore. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><h2 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">THE CROSS
SPEAKS<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>(ANONYMOUS)<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">It was long ago,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I yet remember,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">that I was hewn down,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the wood’s end<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">torn from my place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They took me there, strong foes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">they set me up as a gazing stock,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bade me lift on high their<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">felons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Men bore me on their shoulders,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>till on a hill they set me,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">many foes fastened me there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I saw mankind’s Lord<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">swiftly come with courage,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for He willed to mount on me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Then dared I not,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>against the Lord’s word,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">bend or break,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when I saw<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">the earth trembling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I might there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">have felled all my foes, but I stood fast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Then he stripped Himself, the young Hero,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that was God<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Almighty,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">strong and firm hearted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He mounted the mean gibbet;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">noble hearted in the sight of many<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would set free mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I shook when the Prince clasped me,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but I durst not bow to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">earth,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">fall to the ground,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but needs stand fast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">A rood I was raised aloft,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lifted the mighty King,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Lord of Heaven,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I durst not bend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">They drove me through with dark nails,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on me the marks are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">plain,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">wide wounds of hate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I durst not harm any of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">They mocked us both together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was all wet with blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">poured from the Man’s side<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when He had sent forth His soul.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">There on the hill<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I underwent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">many bitter things,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw the God of Hosts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">sorely stretched out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Darkness there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">had wrapped in clouds<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Ruler’s Body,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">in fair radiance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A shadow went forth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">wan under clouds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All creation wept,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">bewailed the |King/s death,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ on the rood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">But there came from afar<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eager nobles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">to Him all alone;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I beheld that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Sore was I troubled with sorrows, but I bent down to
the hands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">of the men<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">humbly, with hearty will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There they took Almighty God,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">lifted Him down from the heavy pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They left me standing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">wet with blood;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was all wounded with shafts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">They laid Him down, limb-weary;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they stood at His body’s head;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">they gazed on Him, Heaven’s Lord,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and he rested there awhile,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">tired from the great strife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They began to make His grave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">in the sight of His foes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They carved it from the bright stone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">They laid in it the Lord of Hosts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They began to sing a sorrow-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Song<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">alone in the evening tide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they went away,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">weary away from the great crowd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a few He rested there.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">(From the Dream of the Rood, early eighth century.)</span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><i> Ack.'The Book of the Saviour' -edited by F.J.Sheed..</i></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><i>Published by Sheed and Ward 1952.</i></o:p></span></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-36157668043262214102022-04-16T01:07:00.004+01:002022-04-16T01:07:52.288+01:00Good Friday Meditations' from Archbishop Vigano (Courtesy of Michael Matt- Remnant) $ short Holy Week video.<p> </p><div class="itemImageBlock" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; float: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 8px 0px; width: 699px;"><span class="itemImage" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: center;"><img alt="THE SACRED PARASCEVE: Good Friday Meditation from Viganò" class="lazyloaded" data-src="/web/media/k2/items/cache/dfb8cfd1ec6c52df3849a64b6c24c576_L.jpg" src="https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/media/k2/items/cache/dfb8cfd1ec6c52df3849a64b6c24c576_L.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><div class="clr" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: none; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div><div class="itemIntroText" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; padding: 4px 0px 12px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Good Friday, 15 April 2022</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">A<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">stiterunt reges terræ, et principes convenerunt in unum, adversus Dominum, et adversus Christum ejus</em> (Ps 2 :2). The kings of the earth and the princes have allied themselves against the Lord and against Christ. The Psalm which begins the First Nocturn of Matins on this day declaims succinctly. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let us break their bonds ; let us cast away their yoke from us !</em> Is this not what we have been seeing happening right before our eyes for a long, too long, a time ? Do not the powerful and the elite want to cancel every tie with God and rebel against His holy Law ? Do they not seek to disfigure the image of the Creator in the creature and the likeness of the Holy Trinity in man ? And how many times are we ourselves tempted to withdraw from the sweet yoke of Christ, ending by making ourselves slaves of the world, the flesh, and the devil?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">All of today’s liturgy resounds with the indignation of the Divine Majesty; of the dismay of the provident Father at the revolt of His children; of the sorrow of the Son over the ingratitude of man; of the bitter disappointment of the Paraclete at the insane obstinacy in evil of those who make themselves blind to the Truth and deaf to the Word of God.</span></p></div><div class="above-item-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: -40px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="moduletable" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="custom" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> </p></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><jdoc:include name="belowcontent_item" style="box-sizing: border-box;" type="modules"></jdoc:include></div><div class="itemFullText" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">The silence of the Bride of the Lamb, who yesterday stripped herself in her altars, recalling the division of her Lord’s garments, brings us back to the severe liturgy of Calvary, to the solemn sacred action of the Passion, whose divine celebrant intoned the antiphon <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deus, Deus meus, quare me dereliquisti? – My God, My God, why have you abandoned me? </em>(Ps 21:1), which was misunderstood by those who witnessed that rite. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Eliam vocat iste – He is calling Elijah</em> – said those who were present, unaware of having before them the God Incarnate who was bringing to fulfillment, right before their eyes, exactly what David had prophesied in the twenty-first Psalm. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Speravit in Domino, eripiat eum: salvum faciat eum, quoniam vult eum – He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, since he desires him. </em>And they repeated, as we read in the Passion: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Si Filius Dei es, descende de cruce! – If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross! </em>And again: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Diviserunt sibi vestimenta mea, et super vestem meam miserunt sortem – They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots</em>. At the foot of the Cross, the soldiers rolled dice for the Lord’s seamless garment, without knowing that by this gesture they were taking part in the sacred representation prophesied by Scripture.</span></p><blockquote style="background-image: url("https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/templates/shaper_helix3/images/blockquote-quote-bg.jpg"); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; border-bottom: solid rgba(152, 28, 30, 0.5); border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 15px 100px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 45px; text-indent: 135px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 12pt;">We should ask ourselves if the ignorance of the Jewish people due to the corruption of the Sanhedrin does not sound like a terrible warning for today’s High Priests, who are equally responsible for the ignorance of the Christian people.</span></em></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross! </em>What foolishness. They did not understand that precisely because that man disfigured by the torments of the Praetorium, the scourging, the crowning with thorns, the ascent to Golgotha and the crucifixion was the Son of God, He did not want to descend from the cross. The sacrifice of a man, even the most heroic and atrocious, could never have been able to repair the infinite gravity of original sin and the sins of all times: in order to be able to redeem us from being children of wrath and restore us to the order of Grace, it was necessary that God die on that cross, or rather the Man-God, He who from all Eternity had answered <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ecce, venio – Behold, I come –</em> to the voice of the Father; He who in view of whose Incarnation the divine Wisdom had prepared the Immaculate Virgin, the most worthy tabernacle of the Most High – <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Domus Aurea</em> – the House of Gold, the Ark of the new and eternal Covenant, the Seat of Wisdom. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Foderunt manus meas et pedes meos: dinumeraverunt omnia ossa mea – They have pierced my hands and my feet: they have numbered all my bones</em>. And those most sacred hands, those blessed feet that were pierced by nails, even though the Roman custom was that the condemned should only be tied to the cross, should have opened the eyes of a people who heard those words repeated in the synagogues, words that the High Priests knew by heart, words that the doctors of the Law taught to Jewish children. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Potaverunt me aceto</em>, the Psalm warned –<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> they gave me vinegar to drink – </em>while a soldier tried to give the dying Lord a drink with a reed.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">We should ask ourselves if the ignorance of the Jewish people due to the corruption of the Sanhedrin does not sound like a terrible warning for today’s High Priests, who are equally responsible for the ignorance of the Christian people; and if the threat that the High Priests then saw in the meek Nazarene who performed miracles and preached the Gospel, to the point of plotting to send him to death by the hand of the civil authority, should not make the present High Priests tremble, who even today resort to the kings of the earth and to princes in order to impede His Kingdom, with the sole intention of maintaining their power and social prestige.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vinea mea electa, ego te plantavi: quomodo conversa es in amaritudinem, ut me crucifigeres, et Barabbam dimitteres? Sepivi te, et lapides elegi ex te, et ædificavi turrim.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Therse are the words of the Responsory of the First Nocturn: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">O my beloved vineyard, it was I who planted you: how could you have given me bitter fruit, to the point of crucifying me and setting Barabbas free? I fenced you off; I removed the stones from your soil; I built a watchtower for you.</em></span></p><blockquote style="background-image: url("https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/templates/shaper_helix3/images/blockquote-quote-bg.jpg"); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; border-bottom: solid rgba(152, 28, 30, 0.5); border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 15px 100px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 45px; text-indent: 135px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 12pt;">Let us contemplate Our Lady of Sorrows, whose Immaculate Heart was pierced by a sword, and remain standing at the foot of the Cross along with Saint John.</span></em></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">To this vineyard, cultivated with so much care, Divine Wisdom cries her loving and tormented warning: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum – Be converted to the Lord your God</em> – and repeats it during the pangs of the Passion, in contemplating the betrayal of Jerusalem, the apostasy of Israel. We tremble, dear children, in thinking of how great is the torment of Our Savior in contemplating the betrayal of those who, redeemed by His Most Precious Blood and purchased at the price of so much suffering, today once again condemn the Lord to death and choose to free Barabbas. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tamquam ad latronem existis cum gladiis et fustibus comprehendere me: quotidie apud vos eram in templo docens, et non me tenuistis: et ecce flagellatum ducitis ad crucifigendum – You have come out to seize me, as a thief, with swords and clubs : daily I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not apprehend me : and behold, you lead me to be scourged and crucified</em>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Every day we have heard the Lord teaching in our churches, through the mouth of His Ministers, and today there are those who move against Him with swords and clubs, as if he were a malefactor. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adversus Dominum, et adversus Christum ejus – Against the Lord, and against his Christ.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">And if the torment of the Lord betrayed by his folllowers, abandoned by His Apostles, and denied and left alone at the mercy of His enemies is not sufficient to move us to detest our infidelities, let us think of the dreadful sorrow of His Most Holy Mother, who conceived, nursed, and raised the Man-God, saw him become an adult, and accompanied him for thirty years only to see him betrayed by those whom he had benefited most, sent to die by those who only a few days before had acclaimed Him as the Son of David and the King of Israel.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Let us contemplate Our Lady of Sorrows, whose Immaculate Heart was pierced by a sword, and remain standing at the foot of the Cross along with Saint John. In those terrible hours the Divine Maternity of the Most Blessed Virgin had to know in a unique and intimate way the Passion of Her most beloved Son, so as to merit for Her the title of Co-Redemptrix. To Her torment at the sufferings of Our Lord was added Her suffering over our sins, the cause of so much grief for the Savior. Each one of them pierced the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, mystically uniting the Divine Son and the Most Pure Mother in the Passion. This should be enough, dear children, to make us detest our sins and spur us not only to convert but to make every breath, every beat of our heart, and every thought a cause of relief and comfort for Them, in a spirit of reparation and expiation.</span></p><blockquote style="background-image: url("https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/templates/shaper_helix3/images/blockquote-quote-bg.jpg"); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; border-bottom: solid rgba(152, 28, 30, 0.5); border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 15px 100px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 45px; text-indent: 135px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 12pt;">This should be enough, dear children, to make us detest our sins and spur us not only to convert but to make every breath, every beat of our heart, and every thought a cause of relief and comfort for Them, in a spirit of reparation and expiation.</span></em></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">In the silence of the Parasceve, when nature itself silently attends the immolation of God – of God! – almost incredulous at the hardness of so many hearts, let us prostrate ourselves before the Cross, repeating with Saint Venantius Fortunatus the solemn words of the hymn with which we will accompany the Blessed Sacrament from the Tomb to the altar:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">O Crux, ave, spes unica!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em>Hail O Cross, our only hope!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Let us bend the knee before the wood of salvation consecrated by the New Adam.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Salve ara, salve, victima</em>.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Hail, altar; Hail, victim.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beata, cujus brachiis pretium pependit sæculi:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />statera facta corporis, tulitque prædam tartari</em>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Blest Tree, whose happy branches bore</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">the wealth that did the world restore;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">The beam that did that Body weigh</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">which raised up hell’s expected prey.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Let us make our own the consoling verses of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Crux Fidelis:</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Flecte ramos, arbor alta, tensa laxa viscera,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">et rigor lentescat ille quem dedit nativitas,</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ut superni membra regis mite tendas stipite.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Bend your branches, ancient tree,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">relax your inward pith and rigor,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Make soft that native hardihood,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">and stretch gently on your wood</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">the limbs of the celestial King.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pange, lingua, gloriosi lauream certaminis<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />et super crucis trophæo dic triumphum nobilem,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />qualiter Redemptor orbis immolatus vicerit.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Sing, my tongue, the glory</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">of the victorious fight,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">and the trophy won on the Cross.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Tell of the noble triumph:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">the Redeemer of the world conquered</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">by immolating Himself.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-family: "arial black", "avant garde"; font-size: 14pt;">Civilization</span></p></div>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-58896326106159910732022-03-01T23:39:00.002+00:002022-03-02T19:45:52.968+00:00'Walterton Road'<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYB7p8V_dDX3tLWYBw_0_agDmSNULFV2cNsSTzjRCeaXKgp7Gk6jzPCHHk-6RjC_2Tzko4IT5zaHKFT9aykvnyS0QydvAUxCicr54_O-Vzegcawn7nDBeMsGgqO52bnY4Tt4kL_OkOcTxpmqEKFlYV0HJhXa_icI8l2PccNKdeCQ7xF-PKHK62_2vK5Q=s2532" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2532" data-original-width="1764" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYB7p8V_dDX3tLWYBw_0_agDmSNULFV2cNsSTzjRCeaXKgp7Gk6jzPCHHk-6RjC_2Tzko4IT5zaHKFT9aykvnyS0QydvAUxCicr54_O-Vzegcawn7nDBeMsGgqO52bnY4Tt4kL_OkOcTxpmqEKFlYV0HJhXa_icI8l2PccNKdeCQ7xF-PKHK62_2vK5Q=s320" width="223" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Caryll Houselander </span></b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The
following poem '<b>Walterton Road</b>' by <i><b>Caryll Houselander</b></i>, is taken from
a book of her poems, entitled '<i><b>The Flowering Tree</b></i>'. Printed on the
title page, is a short introductory verse which encapsulates
perfectly the spiritual dimension of her work.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i> Faithful
Cross, O tree all beauteous,</i></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i> Tree
all peerless and divine!</i></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i> Not
a grove on earth can show us,</i></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i> Such
a flower and leaf as thine.</i></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
the '<i><b>Foreword</b></i>' to her book, the author writes:-</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>'These
rhythms are not intended to be poems in</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> a
new form, but simply thoughts, falling naturally </span>
</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> into
the beat of the rhythm, which is all round us </span>
</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b> and
which becomes both audible and visible </b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> in
the seasons of the year, the procession of day </span>
</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b> and
night, and the liturgical cycle; they are arranged</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>
so that the rhythm and stress shall be easily seen,</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> as
well as thought, by people who are unused to </span>
</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b> reading
verse; the theme which recurs in them is</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>
the flowering of Christ in man.'</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>'Walterton
Road'</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Twilight
is full of laughter</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">here
in Walterton Road,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">where
the children swarm on the steps,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
the washing hangs in rows.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How
sharp the life is</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That
burns in the thin women,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Calling
from door to door.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
has defeated the world,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">but
with a sting,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">not
with sweetness,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">they
are like wild nettles,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">growing
green in the ashes.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet
how sweet the life is </span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">here,
in the boy and girl</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in
their time of maying.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But
shrineless the bread</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">for
the Sacrament,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">shame
on the jaundiced eyes</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">denying,
homeless love</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">its
oblivious kiss in the street!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brave
in the young mother,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">very
brave in her, life is,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she
sits in the window</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
twists with a laughing finger,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
baby's feather of hair,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">he
pulls the geranium flower,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
drops the petals down</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on
the boy and girl</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in
a crimson shower.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Does
anyone ever guess</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">when
the watch ticking over his heart,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">marks
his loveliest hour?</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Twilight
is full of laughter</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
there, in a dark frame,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
a tenement window pane,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a
yellow canary sings</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in
a yellow cage.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
rooms are crowded here,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
the walls weep,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">there
is no solitude,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">birth
meets death,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
pushes past on the stairs.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
is always washing, and cooking,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
trying to make ends meet,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
carping cares,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">but
life springs up like a weed,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">life
is a green shoot,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">springing
up everywhere.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
hands are here!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
hard, labouring hands,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">warding
off blows,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
defending,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">what
eyes for a vision!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
hearts for a Resurrection!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
lives there are, </span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sharp
like spears fore-fending</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">foes,
that threaten a spark, </span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">which
will still be burning</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">after
the last star. </span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Look!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
blue purity</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">over
the chimney pots,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">listen:-</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
children's laughter</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">scattering
shadows.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh,
brooding Spirit of God</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Breath
of the wind,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that
blows wherever it will,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ruffling
the rags of life a little,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
then</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">zephyr,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">here
in a sheltered valley</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
still.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Caryll
Houselander</i></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 16pt;"><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 16pt;"><i>Taken from 'The Flowering Tree' published by Sheed & Ward, London. (this edition 1973) -nihil obstat imprimatur Westminster July 1945.</i></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>************ </i></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I
truly enjoy Caryll Houselander's poetry which radiates her love of
God and her understanding and compassion for humanity. She had a particular
empathy with children, to the extent that during the Second World War
in the 1940s, she became renowned for her care of children suffering
mentally from the effects of the war. In England, the most respected and eminent
doctors and child psychiatrists referred children to her, on the
basis that she would cure them with love! She herself died of cancer
in her fifties, but in her writings, especially her poetry, she left an
inspiring legacy of her faith and trust in God.</span></p>
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a somewhat radical but important change of direction, I would like to
draw readers attention to the <b><i>'Grand Jury Court of Public Opinion'</i></b>
which has recently heard the 'Common Law' evidence against certain
named protagonists of the 'Great Reset War' - currently directed against the peoples and societies of the
world. The 'Trial' with Judge, expert qualified witnesses from around the world and from all walks of life, and Jury- comprising the people of the world, has been
broadcast live-stream, on 5<sup>th</sup> February, 12<sup>th</sup>
and 13<sup>th</sup> February, 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup>
February, and 26<sup>th</sup> February, each Session dealing with particular aspects of this 'War'. The Sessions are long, necessarily so to accommodate the witnesses and evidence, but what evil has been revealed! It is vitally important that the truth and reality of this diabolically inspired 'One World Government' is exposed to the whole world, and the purpose of this </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">'Trial' is to do just that. The link to the 'Trial' is below, please find time to peruse at least some of it, you will not regret it. Also please pass it to your friends. <b>N.B.</b> You may find that the link is interrupted by a 'redirect' warning from face-book, but do not be put off, ignore this warning and click to continue. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FGRAND-JURY.NET%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1HAu2JFQysQQKdLmAYofWlIGyZEwaJGTtUbHeb7NhbN_OaBM6UIF-OCeM&h=AT2XYB2yhLTxfl0P27o1SWTV9cd3b2VUtxKzi1aCfebEfH_FG7h-ej7OwHiZrNaypJ7JJWAKWjLf0ZytjaALwW0288RrGGdUv_j-iGzxoYRz7TrGIgj5tR2xCnDMNVFQ04aO&__tn__=R]-R&c[0]=AT39xBz_wA7fjB1NlngNrcdXLbr_BbhU-CORFqaIzyK0gik1a0HIUtAPv5bzppgZSrzYIlz2l6ucV1j-YbrDjlaqCVAf1JNMQu9foasEZ_mTtWw4oAD0Bs8rO3cl1PX9X2AWlXJZ5YAqtve7rmOkq_m6u6pOrfN9-JuKkQok82LclnPzK9TPDzeoex9sbQr24Ub1fhGNjnsgikrKUKjjHkTnsPTqIVim_1rwv4xDYw" rel="nofollow" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: #f0f2f5; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">GRAND-JURY.NET</a><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 14px;"> , </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> *********************************</span></p>
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-6942934769594541042021-12-27T03:00:00.002+00:002021-12-27T03:00:49.800+00:00Christmas - God's Love for Us All.<p> </p><div class="date-outer"><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8807202376032332821" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Christmas is the time when we raise our hearts and minds to God in a very special way. Christmas carols reflect and celebrate the circumstances of Christ's birth to Mary, a young virgin Jewish girl, in a stable in Bethlehem, some two thousand years ago. This was the fulfilment of prophesies going back many generations in the history of the Jewish people, and represents the advent of Christianity, which today has an estimated 2.38 billion adherents worldwide.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8807202376032332821" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">Christmas is a time of joy, of which we are all badly in need, particularly in this time of pandemic and diabolical assault by the forces of evil, which publicly endeavour to control and destroy peoples and societies throughout the world. A combination of Marxist and Godless elitists are intent on destroying elected governments, destroying the traditional family unit, eliminating Christian morality, crushing national economies and impoverishing all people with the exception of the elite and ruling class (themselves), controlling all financial matters, commercial and personal, so that sooner rather than later, their 'one-world' un-elected government will control all our lives, a control which will destroy freedom of speech and freedom of religion, the latter in a new revised form , based on the worship of 'man' rather than God. This effectively will mean the worship of Satan, perhaps in the person of the anti-Christ. Such a rule, will inevitably bring fear, misery, despair and death, to millions worldwide, but it can be prevented and is not inevitable. But we must turn to God, and repent of our sins, and the governments of the world must do likewise.</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">God is the Creator of the Universe, and demands love and respect from all his peoples. He is the Master of life and death, and such evils as abortion, euthanasia, and other immoral aberrations, which directly oppose His authority and commandments, must be banned. We cannot live good and happy lives without God, and we must approach God and ask for His help in our deadly battle against the forces of darkness. With God we can do all things, without Him we can do nothing. Which brings me back to Christmas, a time of spiritual joy and peace to men of goodwill. A little late for Christmas greetings, but I wish all readers a happy and peaceful New Year, and to quote a religious friend of mine, "may God bless us all"!</span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8807202376032332821" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;"><b> ****************</b></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8807202376032332821" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8807202376032332821" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;"><b>A Christmas Gift</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;">A mother was watching, one Christmas night,</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">Nursing her babe by the candle-light.</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">And she lifted her eyes in the gathering gloom,</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">For the Christ-child stood in the lowly room.</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">"What shall I give to thy child?", He said,</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">softly caressing the sleeper's head.</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">"Nay", said the mother, "O Angel-guest </span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">Give her whatever Thou deemest best."</span><br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;">"But what shall I give her?" He spoke again,</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">"ask and thou shalt not ask in vain.</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">Shall I touch her brow that her eyes may shine</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">with beauty, that men will call divine?</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">Shall I touch her lips that they may flow</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">with songs of the best that the world may know?"</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">"Nay", said the mother, "these will not stay,</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">songs are forgotten, and hair turns grey".</span><br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;">"Then what shall I give her, O mother mild?</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">Ask what thou wilt for thy little child".</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">And the mother lifted her eyes above,</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">"Give her purity, truth and love".</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">And the Christ-Child turned to her, soft and mild,</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">"Thou has chosen the best for thy little child.</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">Be not afraid, though life be sore,</span><br /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 10px;">I will be with her for evermore".</span><br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"> <i><b>Anon - from 'Parlour Poetry' (This England).</b></i></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"> **************</span></span><br /><div style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><div><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b>God Abides in Men</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">God abides in men.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">There are some men who are simple,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">they are fields of corn.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">We see the soil and the stubble,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">more than the green spears<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">and the yellow stalks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Such men have minds<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">like wide grey skies,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">they have the grandeur<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">that the fool calls emptiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">God is clothed in homespun in such lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">He goes with them to the field and the barn,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">He comes home, when the birds,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">in dark orderly flocks<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">cross the empty twilights of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">God abides in men.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Some men are not simple,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">they live in cities<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">among the teeming buildings,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">wrestling with forces<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">as strong as the sun and the rain.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Often they must forgo dream upon dream.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">The glare of the electric light<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">blinds their eyes to the stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">On some nights,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the stir of life, and the lights,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">is a soft fire, like wine<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">in their blood.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Christ walks in the wilderness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">in such lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Wrestling with Lucifer,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the fallen angel of light,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">who shows him the cities of the world,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">and with brilliant and illimitable audacity,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">offers to Christianity lordship of the cities<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">on the worlds terms.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">God abides in men.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">There are some men,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">on whom the sins of the world are laid.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">They are conscripted,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">stripped, measured and weighed,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">taken away from home,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">and sent to the flood,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the fire, the darkness,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the loneliness of death.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">In such men<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Christ is stripped of His garments,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the reed is put in His hand,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the soldier’s cloak on His shoulders,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the Cross on His back.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">In them He is crucified.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">From the lives,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">and the deaths<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">of those men,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">cities rise from the dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">God abides in men,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">because Christ has put on<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the nature of man, like a garment,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">and worn it to His own shape.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">He has put on everyone’s life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">He has fitted Himself to the little child’s dress,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">to the shepherd’s coat of sheepskin,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">to the workman’s coat,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">to the King’s red robes,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">to the snowy loveliness of the wedding garment,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">and to the drab, simple battle dress.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Christ has put on Man’s nature,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">and given him back his humanness,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">worn to the shape<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">of limitless love,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">and warm from the touch<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">of His life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">He has given man his crown,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the thorn that is jewelled<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">with drops of His blood.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">He has given him<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">the seamless garment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">of his truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">He has bound him<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">in the swaddling bands<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">of his humility.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">He has fastened his hands<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">to the tree of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">He has latched his feet<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">in crimson sandals,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">that they move not<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">from the path of love.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">God abides in man.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Caryll Houselander (1901-1954) -</b> </i></span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>published by Sheed and Ward in 'The flowering Tree' - this edition 1973) (mprimature -Westminster 1945)</i></span></div></div><div><i> </i></div><div> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> *****************<br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Although t</span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">his is not a Christmas poem, it is about a child's love for her father, originally composed perhaps for the music-hall. I cannot resist including it!</span></div><div></div></div><div style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b>Give Me a Ticket to Heaven</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Into a railway station crept a little child one night;</span><br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">The last train was just leaving, and the bustle at its height.</span></div><div style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-indent: 10px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">The st<span style="font-family: inherit;">ation-master standing there, looked down with wondering eyes</span></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Upon this little maid - so frail in form, so small in size.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Where is your father, little one? Are </span>you alone? he cried.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">With tearful eyes she look'd up in his and thus replied:</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> <b><i> CHORUS</i></b></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> "Give me a ticket to heaven,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> That's where Dad's gone, they say,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> He'll be so lonely without me,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Travelling all that way.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Mother died when I was born, sir,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> And left Dad and me alone,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> So give me a ticket to heaven, please,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Before the last train is gone."</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">"My Daddy worked upon the line, but when I went tonight</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">To take his tea, he lay there on a shutter - oh! so white.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Then to a great big building his mates carried him away;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">'He's booked for Heaven, poor old Dick!" I heard one of them say.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">A station this must be - I thought to find the train I'd wait;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">But finding none I ran on here - I hope I'm not too late."</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> <i><b>CHORUS</b></i></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> "Give me a ticket to heaven,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> That's where Dad's gone, they say,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> He'll be so lonely without me,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Travelling all that way.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Mother died when I was born ,sir,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> And left Dad and me alone,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> So give me a ticket to heaven, please,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Before the last train is gone."</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">The station-master said, "Come, little one I'll see you right.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">A ticket to your father you shall have this very night."</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">He took her to the hospital; they let her see her Dad.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Though injured, he had not been killed, and oh! her heart was glad.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Then turning to that kind friend who had brought her all the way,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">She said, "If I lose Dad again, I'll come to you and say -</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> </b></i></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> CHORUS</b></i></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> "Give me a ticket to heaven,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> That's where Dad's gone, they say,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> He'll be so lonely without me,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Travelling all that way.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Mother died when I was born ,sir,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> And left Dad and me alone,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> So give me a ticket to heaven, please,</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Before the last train is gone."</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> <i><b>Anon - from 'Parlour Poetry'(This England).</b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-76848488351769379082021-11-08T02:07:00.000+00:002021-11-08T02:07:53.181+00:00The Feast of Christ the King<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b> The Feast of Christ the
King</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> In his encyclical 'Quas Primas' of
December 11, 1925, Pope Pius XI denounced the great modern heresy
of laicism, which refuses to recognise the rights of God and His
Christ over persons and peoples, and organizes the lives of
individuals, families and of society itself, as though God did not
exist. This laicism ruins society, because in place of the love of
God and one's neighbour, it substitutes pride and egoism. It begets
jealousy between individuals, hatred</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> between </span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">classes, and rivalry
between nations. The world denies Christ because it ignores His
royal prerogatives. The Holy Father instituted the new 'Feast of
Christ the King' to be a public, social and official declaration of
the royal rights of Jesus, as God the Creator, as the Word
Incarnate, and as Redeemer. The Feast of Christ the King is traditionally the last Sunday in October,</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BNZkq7p1iR0/YYh8oYCrFHI/AAAAAAAAFJg/VJhEc5zuiuMuH86GVfzWHqrKfFPIxLKBgCLcBGAsYHQ/cbbc290ed8e8c8dd0e5d881fd7cbcd0a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img alt="" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="564" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BNZkq7p1iR0/YYh8oYCrFHI/AAAAAAAAFJg/VJhEc5zuiuMuH86GVfzWHqrKfFPIxLKBgCLcBGAsYHQ/w451-h640/cbbc290ed8e8c8dd0e5d881fd7cbcd0a.jpg" width="451" /></span></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> <i> <b> CHRIST THE KING by Leonardo da Vinci</b></i></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><i> Hymn.</i></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Ruler of all from
heaven's high throne,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> O Christ, our King ere
time began</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> We kneel before Thee
Lord, to own</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Thy empire o'er the heart
of man.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> While bands of shameless
men recall</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> The homage due to Christ
their Lord,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> We own Thee Sov'reign
Lord of all,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> The King by heaven and
earth ador'd.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> O Prince of Peace, O
Christ, subdue</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Those rebel hearts, Thy
peace restore;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Into thy sheep-fold lead
anew</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Thy scattered sheep, to
stray no more.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span> For this upon the tree of
shame </span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Thy body hung, with arms
spread wide,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> The spear revealed the
heart of flame</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> That burned within Thy
sacred side.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> For this our altars here
are spread</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> With mystic feast of
bread and wine;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Still Thy redeeming blood
is shed</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> From that sore-stricken
heart of Thine.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> May heads of nations fear
Thy name</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> And spread Thy honour
through their lands,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Our nations' laws, our
arts proclaim</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> The beauty of Thy just
commands.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Let kings the crown and
sceptre hold</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> As pledge of Thy
supremacy;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> And Thou all lands, all
tribes enfold</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> In one fair realm of
charity.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Jesus, to Thee be honour
done,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Who rulest all in equity.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> With Father, Spirit, ever
one,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> From age to age
eternally.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Amen. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> ********************
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><b> Gradual. Psalm lxxi. 8
11</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> He shall rule from sea to
sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> And all kings shall adore
Him, all nations shall serve Him.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span> Alleluia, alleluia. His
power shall be an everlasting power, which shall </span>not be taken away; and
His kingdom, a kingdom that shall not decay. Alleluia.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> *******************</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><i> Second Vespers of the
day.</i></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span> He shall be called the
peaceful One, and His throne shall be established for ever. </span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span> His kingdom is a kingdom
of all ages, and all kings shall serve and obey </span>Him.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Behold a Man, the Orient
is His name; He shall sit and rule, and shall speak peace unto the
nations</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span> The Lord is our Judge,
the Lord is our Law-giver; the Lord is our King, He </span>will save us.</span></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-64365853221633810562021-10-02T01:32:00.134+01:002021-10-03T21:25:03.482+01:00'Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops' by Mark Mallett<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The following article by Mark Mallett, is produced from the website 'Abyssus Abyssum Invocat' - with acknowledgement and thanks.</i></b></span></p><h2 class="entry-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h2><h2 class="entry-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1P8u0tvLGls/YVYfRqVwfBI/AAAAAAAAFH8/PPLvw7I1JAM_7QmOg6760Dzj9UEf8c6FQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/124-st-francis-de-sales-eglise-d-hanneville%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="975" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1P8u0tvLGls/YVYfRqVwfBI/AAAAAAAAFH8/PPLvw7I1JAM_7QmOg6760Dzj9UEf8c6FQCLcBGAsYHQ/w381-h400/124-st-francis-de-sales-eglise-d-hanneville%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" width="381" /></a></div><br /></h2><h2 class="entry-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i> St Francis de Sales</i></h2><h2 class="entry-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h2><h2 class="entry-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://abyssum.org/2021/09/27/an-open-letter-that-must-be-read-by-every-catholic-bishop-priest-and-layperson-read-it-your-natural-and-immortal-life-may-depend-on-your-having-read-and-reflected-on-it/" rel="bookmark" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AN OPEN LETTER THAT MUST BE READ BY EVERY CATHOLIC BISHOP, PRIEST AND LAYPERSON. 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font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OPEN LETTER TO THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS</h1><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on <a href="https://www.markmallett.com/blog/open-letter-to-the-catholic-bishops/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2021-09-27T18:47:38-06:00">September 27, 2021</time></a> by <a href="https://www.markmallett.com/blog/author/admin/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark</a></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christ’s faithful are at liberty to make known their needs, <br />especially their spiritual needs, and their wishes to the Pastors of the Church. <br />They have the right, indeed <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">at times the duty</u></em>, <br />in keeping with their knowledge, competence and position, <br />to manifest to the sacred Pastors their views on matters <br />which concern the good of the Church. <br /><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They have the right also to make their views known to others of Christ’s faithful,</em> <br />but in doing so they must always respect the integrity of faith and morals,<br />show due reverence to their Pastors,<br />and take into account both <br />the common good and dignity of individuals. <br /></strong>—<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Code of Canon Law</em>, 212</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DEAR</strong> Catholic Bishops,</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After a year and a half of living in a state of “pandemic”, I am compelled by the undeniable scientific data and testimony of individuals, scientists, and doctors to beg the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to reconsider its widespread support for “public health measures” that are, in fact, gravely endangering public health. As society is being divided between the “vaccinated” and “unvaccinated” — with the latter suffering everything from exclusion from society to the loss of income and livelihood — it is shocking to see some shepherds of the Catholic Church encouraging this new medical apartheid. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>There are <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">seven</em> basic premises the Church has apparently accepted as scientific facts that are, in fact, pseudo-science at best.</b> I will address each of these below. Although I am presently a lay evangelist within the Church, my professional background is a former television reporter with CTV Edmonton in Canada. As such, I have returned to my journalistic roots of late in hopes of piercing through the intense censorship and cancel-culture that has deprived the faithful and world at large of critical information that is a matter of life and death — a matter indeed of “the common good.” The American novelist <b>Upton Sinclair</b> once said, “<i><b>It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.”</b></i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before I address these seven premises, there is one underlying theme that has been accepted by society at large that has done tremendous damage. And that is the novel idea that a perfectly healthy person is somehow a viral threat.<b> Dr. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, FACC,</b> <b>FAHA,</b> is probably the foremost expert in the world today on the pandemic response and the most cited doctor in the National Library of Medicine. He stated recently:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The virus is not spread asymptomatically. Only sick people give it to other people.</strong> —Dr. Peter 6:32; interview, <a href="https://tv.gab.com/channel/starcrest/view/dr-mccullough-on-ivermectin-pcr-tests-614895484c7bcc2e133fc7b1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gab TV</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the world’s most renowned immunologists agrees:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have COVID-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.</strong> —Professor Beda M. Stadler, PhD, former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern in Switzerland; <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Weltwoche (World Week)</span> on June 10th, 2020; cf. <a href="https://backtoreason.medium.com/coronavirus-why-everyone-was-wrong-fce6db5ba809" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">backtoreason.medium.com</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The former Vice President and Chief Scientist of vaccine manufacturer Pfizer, no less, flatly states that such a premise is a complete fabrication. </p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Asymptomatic transmission: the concept a perfectly well person can represent a respiratory virus threat to another person; that was invented about a year ago — never been mentioned before in the industry… It’s not possible to have a body full of respiratory virus to the point that you’re an infectious source and for you not to have symptoms… It’s not true that people without symptoms are a strong respiratory virus threat.</strong> —Dr. Mike Yeadon, April 11th, 2021, interview on <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/qs9X8Blr4Ucv/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Last American Vagabond</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hence it follows that masking the healthy,<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[1]</span></a> social distancing, and locking down entire healthy populations rather than focused health protocols and quarantining the sick, have little basis in science. The PCR test, used globally to determine whether someone has COVID, has produced so many “false-positives”<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[2]</span></a> — over 90% according to the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em> <a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[3]</span></a><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> — </em>that it has been condemned by several European courts<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[4]</span></a> and has been called “criminal” by several leading scientists.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[5]</span></a> Combining over a thousand hours in research, I have addressed this astonishing departure from science in a new documentary called <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.markmallett.com/blog/following-the-science/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Following the Science?</a></em> </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kgBY6neWP38/YVYkWCwWkCI/AAAAAAAAFIE/Ie0b-BcMFOM5M09UORvLUlgd0ElrNGIfgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="800" height="325" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kgBY6neWP38/YVYkWCwWkCI/AAAAAAAAFIE/Ie0b-BcMFOM5M09UORvLUlgd0ElrNGIfgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h325/image.png" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> Paul Johnson - writer, historian (b.1928) </i></b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><i> (ack. 'Quote tab')</i></b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><i> </i></b></span><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not long ago,<b> Pope Francis </b>stated:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I believe that ethically everyone must take the vaccine. It is the ethical choice because it is about your life but also the lives of others. I do not understand why some say that this could be a dangerous vaccine. If the doctors are presenting this to you as a thing that will go well and doesn’t have any special dangers, why not take it? There is a suicidal denialism that I would not know how to explain, but today, people must take the vaccine. </strong>—POPE FRANCIS, <a href="https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/televisione/papa-francesco-al-tg5-per-la-politica-questo-non-il-momento-di-rompere-lunit_27455525-202102a.shtml" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">interview </a>for Italy’s TG5 news program, January 19th, 2021; <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/pope-francis-suggests-people-have-moral-obligation-take-coronavirus-vaccine" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ncronline.com</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unfortunately, this statement, which is refuted by the emerging data, is the very basis for allowing not only segregation to return <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">en masse </em>within society but has potentially led to the injury and deaths of scores, as I’ll explain.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>I write this letter most especially in the name of all the priests and laity who have reached out to me, pressured by their bishops to participate in a medical programme that violates their conscience…</b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Premise I: This is a <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">vaccine</em></b></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first premise the Church is apparently operating from is that this is a <b>“vaccine.”</b> It is no little thing that the mRNA injections are <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em> vaccines in any traditional sense. According to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it is a “<b>gene therapy”</b>. </p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA.</strong> —Moderna’s Registration Statement, pg. 19, <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000119312518323562/d577473ds1.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sec.gov</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a technology that has never made it to market after nearly twenty years of research because of its lethality in animal trials.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[6]</span></a> It only found <b>“emergency authorization use” </b>during this current declared pandemic. Why is this important? There are no long-term studies of this current “vaccine”, a process which normally takes 10-15 years before being mass distributed. Second, the clinical trials of these mRNA injections are not slated for completion until 2023.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[7]</span></a> This means all the trial and safety data are still being collected <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">while</em> the product is being injected into millions of arms. This, by very definition, makes this an<b> <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">experimental</em></b> injection. This has been confirmed by<b> Moderna.</b><a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[8]</span></a></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The CEO of Moderna admits that <b>this technology is “actually hacking the software of life.</b>”<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[9]</span></a> It is startling, then, that the Church has seemingly thrown her support behind a completely novel, untested technology with radical potential for misuse.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[10]</span></a> The <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catechism of the Catholic Church</em> is clear:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Research or experimentation on the human being cannot legitimate acts that are in themselves contrary to the dignity of persons and to the moral law. The subjects’ potential consent does not justify such acts. Experimentation on human beings is not morally legitimate if it exposes the subject’s life or physical and psychological integrity to disproportionate or avoidable risks. Experimentation on human beings does not conform to the dignity of the person if it takes place without the informed consent of the subject or those who legitimately speak for him.</strong> —n. 2295</p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Premise II: Ethically everyone must take this “vaccine”</b></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since the mRNA gene therapies are experimental, any coercion or “mandate” to force someone to be injected with this technology is a direct violation of Catholic teaching as well as the Nuremberg Code. This Code was developed in 1947 to protect patients from medical experimentation, stating as its first declaration that “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.</em>” <a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[11]</span></a> Hence, the Holy Father’s statement that “that ethically everyone must take the vaccine” is in conflict with this basic principle of international law. Second, it is in contradiction with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s own guidelines:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary. </strong>— “Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines”, n. 6; <a href="https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20201221_nota-vaccini-anticovid_en.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">vatican.va</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hence, it is deeply troubling to have seen your fellow Bishop in Moncton, New Brunswick briefly threaten to withhold the sacraments from those not “doubly vaccinated”.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[12]</span></a> However, we understand this may already be the case in Malaysia. Nonetheless, it is clear that several bishops and cardinals are forcing their diocesan staff to be injected — or face possible termination, which is tantamount to violating the “voluntary consent of the human subject.”</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Premise III: The “vaccine” doesn’t have any “special dangers”</b></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the CDF’s guidelines, it explicitly states:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We do not intend to judge the safety and efficacy of these vaccines, although ethically relevant and necessary, as this evaluation is the responsibility of biomedical researchers and drug agencies.</strong> —n. 1, <a href="https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20201221_nota-vaccini-anticovid_en.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">vatican.va</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A year and a half into the pandemic and many months into an unprecedented “mass vaccination” of the global population, there is enough data to contradict the Pope’s surprising disclaimer. For one, the animal trials <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from the very beginning</em> were already a “signal” of potential “special dangers” with this therapy. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, now that we are well into the human trials, the early data reveals an unprecedented and disturbing picture. In the United States, <a href="https://vaers.hhs.gov/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">VAERS</a> (<b>the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting</b> <b>System</b>) established to collect information on vaccine injuries, reveals that <i><b>15,386 people have reportedly died after receiving the injection as of September 17th this year; 20,789 have been permanently injured; and over 800,000 have reported some kind of adverse reaction varying in severity</b></i>.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[13]</span></a> For perspective, Dr. Peter McCullough, who has worked on drug safety commissions, notes that:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A typical new drug at about five deaths, unexplained deaths, we get a black-box warning, saying it may cause death. And then at about 50 deaths it’s pulled off the market. </strong>—interview with Alex Newman, <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/covid-shot-killing-large-numbers-warns-top-covid-doc-peter-mccullough/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New American</span></a>, April 27th, 2021</p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vz_OS8qeLz0/YVdJ9HapJjI/AAAAAAAAFIM/6prm2-mEBYkJ2OfIvAQd-j-ieYuKsTuRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2623/Allegory%2Bof%2BHope%2Bby%2BFrancesco_Guardi_002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2623" data-original-width="1199" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vz_OS8qeLz0/YVdJ9HapJjI/AAAAAAAAFIM/6prm2-mEBYkJ2OfIvAQd-j-ieYuKsTuRgCLcBGAsYHQ/w293-h640/Allegory%2Bof%2BHope%2Bby%2BFrancesco_Guardi_002.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><br /><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b> 'Allegory of Hope' by Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)</b></i></span></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During the 1976 Swine Flu pandemic, they attempted to vaccinate 55 million Americans, but the drive was suddenly dropped. “The program was killed at 25 deaths,” says <b>Dr. McCullough</b>.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[14]</span></a> On July 16, 1999, the CDC recommended that healthcare providers suspend the use of the licensed RotaShield – a rotavirus vaccine – after <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">only 15 cases of intussusception</em> (bowel obstruction) were reported in VAERS.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[15]</span></a> </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moreover, Dr. McCullough notes a <a href="https://rickjaffeesq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-20116.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Harvard study</a> that found <i><b>only about 1% of actual adverse</b></i> <i><b>reactions are reported to VAERS.</b></i><a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[16]</span></a> That means the aforementioned injuries and deaths may be <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">exponentially</em> higher. Finally, Dr. McCullough himself states:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We have independent evaluations suggesting 86% [of deaths] is related to the vaccine [and] is far beyond anything that is acceptable… It’s going to go down in history as the most dangerous biological-medicinal product rollout in human history.</strong> —July 21st, 2021, <a href="https://rumble.com/vk5jd0-dr.-peter-mccullough-urgent-warning-about-poisonous-jabs-an-agonizing-situa.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stew Peters Show, rumble.com</a> at 17:38</p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By contrast, in Europe, the official database <a href="https://www.adrreports.eu/en/index.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EudraVigilance</a> reports that, <i><b>as of September 11th,</b></i> <i><b>2021, some 24,526 deaths have occurred after injection, and over 2.3 million have been injured</b></i>.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[17]</span></a> And the WHO’s database using the search term “COVID-19 vaccine” returns over 2 million injuries.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[18]</span></a> This is extraordinary, and why Dr. McCullough has called for an immediate stop to the drug programme. In fact, <b>Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor</b> <b>of mRNA technology</b>, has recently signed the<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://doctorsandscientistsdeclaration.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Physician’s Declaration</a> </em>along with <i><b>5200 other doctors and scientists, accusing COVID policy-makers of potential “crimes against</b></i> <i><b>humanity.</b></i>”<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[19]</span></a> The reason for the injuries and deaths has been ascertained and discussed now by numerous high-level scientists (see footnote). <a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[20]</span></a></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a pointed address to<b> Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, MD</b>, who has published over three hundred articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology, and parasitology, and received numerous awards and the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate, stated:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t you know of the dangers of these vaccines? If so, why not? It’s your damn duty to find out. Same with the authorities; same, by the way, with the BBC — once the Great British Broadcasting Corporation… Now Boris’ or Bill [Gates’] Broadcasting Corporation. Shame on you, shame on you. </strong>—Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, MD; Oracle Films, <a href="https://rumble.com/vmw1v8-dr.-sucharit-bhakdi-addresses-the-uk-govt.-and-bbc.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rumble.com</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If bishops are going to mandate that their staff and priests are to be injected against their consciences, and remain silent while thousands of their parishioners are fired from their jobs in health care and elsewhere… it would seem there is a moral obligation, at a bare minimum, for dioceses to have reviewed the safety data first. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Premise IV: There is no alternative</b></i></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The CDF states:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those who, however, for reasons of conscience, refuse vaccines produced with cell lines from aborted fetuses, must do their utmost to avoid, by other prophylactic means and appropriate behavior, becoming vehicles for the transmission of the infectious agent.</strong> —Ibid. n. 5</p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since the injections being used in this<b> mass “vaccination” campaign</b> utilized aborted fetal cell lines in order to develop them, the CDF gave specific guidelines as to when they would be permissible, if at all. Among other things, the “Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines” states:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the absence of other means to stop or even prevent the epidemic</span>, the common good may recommend vaccination, especially to protect the weakest and most exposed.</strong> —n. 5, <a href="https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20201221_nota-vaccini-anticovid_en.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">vatican.va</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This study concluded: <b>“Meta-analyses based on 18 randomized controlled treatment trials of Ivermectin in COVID-19, have found large, statistically significant reductions in mortality, time to clinical recovery, and time to viral clearance. Furthermore, results from numerous controlled prophylaxis trials report significantly reduced risks of contracting COVID-19 with the regular use of</b> <b>Ivermectin</b>.”<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[21]</span></a> In fact, one of that study’s authors testified before a US Senate Committee hearing</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mountains of data have emerged from many centers and countries around the world, showing the miraculous effectiveness of Ivermectin. It basically <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">obliterates</span> transmission of this virus. If you take it, you will not get sick.</strong> —Dr. Pierre Kory, M.D., December 8th, 2020;<a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/physician-tells-senate-ivermectin-covid-wonder-drug-if-you-take-it-you" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> cnsnews.com</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The<b> Nobel Prize nominee Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, MD, </b>an advisor to several governments and published in top peer-reviewed journals, reports a “99% survival of high-risk Covid-19 patients” by placing them on similar protocols utilizing Ivermectin or Quercitin to deliver zinc to cells to combat the viral proteins.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[22]</span></a></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/">Dr. Vladimir Zelenko MD</a> - see website and 'Zelenko Protocol'</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fdJhoVgec48/YVeSPWGghII/AAAAAAAAFI8/FFkLxzq7MgAPsXttqPBubG4wq-atwl4EgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="328" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fdJhoVgec48/YVeSPWGghII/AAAAAAAAFI8/FFkLxzq7MgAPsXttqPBubG4wq-atwl4EgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="259" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Dr Vladimir Zelenko</b></i></span></div><p></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In his address to the UK government, <b>Dr. Suchari</b>t declares:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The truth is there are excellent medicines: safe, efficacious, cheap — that, as Dr. Peter McCullough has been saying for months now, will save the lives of 75% of the elderly with pre-existing disease, and that reduces the lethality of this virus to <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">below the flu</span>.</strong> —Oracle films; :01 mark; <a href="https://rumble.com/vmw1v8-dr.-sucharit-bhakdi-addresses-the-uk-govt.-and-bbc.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rumble.com</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hence, the moral argument for taking these abortion-tainted injections completely falls apart. Moreover, that these life-saving remedies are being censored should cause a collective outcry from all quarters of the Church as family members, religious and priests are unnecessarily dying and Intensive Care Units (ICU’s) unnecessarily strained! </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>N.B. Bishop Schneider has recently disputed the Church's official decision allowing use of the tainted vaccine, suggesting that the existence of a 'fetal industry' , as distinct from, and in addition to, the 'abortion industry', means that the current tainted vaccines are directly and immediately produced by the processes of the 'fetal industry', and should be absolutely condemned by the Church. (not in original article but added by 'whitesmokeahoy' - see also link immediately below in which Bishop Schneider explains his thinking on this matter)</b></i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Bitstream Charter, serif;"><b><i>https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/interview-with-bishop-schneider/</i></b></span></span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px;"><b> </b></i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Premise V: Vaccination is the only valid means of building “immunity”</b></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2020, the World Health Organization quietly but significantly changed the definition of “herd immunity”:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Herd immunity’, also known as ‘population immunity’, is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">if a threshold of vaccination is reached</span>. Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it.</strong> —October 15th, 2020; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201223100930/https:/www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/herd-immunity-lockdowns-and-covid-19" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">who.int</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That monumental statement should have raised a loud and uniform protest among Catholic ethicists and scientists (but perhaps the censorship is simply too great, and they are unaware…?). Nonetheless<i><b>, this definition strikes at the very heart of God’s creation, suggesting that man’s natural immunity is somehow now useless, and that every man, woman and child must henceforth be injected <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">when, how, </span>and with <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">what </span>the government dictates</b></i>. This is flagrantly anti-science and the very definition of medical tyranny. On the contrary,<b> Harvard Professor Dr. Martin Kulldorff, PhD, states:</b></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What we know is that if you have had COVID, you have very good immunity — not only for the same variant, but also for other variants. And even for other types, cross-immunity, for other types of coronaviruses.</strong>—Dr. Martin Kulldorff, August 10th, 2021, <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/harvard-epidemiologist-martin-kulldorff-on-vaccine-passports-the-delta-variant-and-the-covid-public-health-fiasco_3942556.html?&utm_medium=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_source=Others&utm_campaign=ATL-Kulldorff&utm_content=8-10-2021" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Epoch Times</span></a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><b>And Dr. McCullough states:</b></i></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You can’t beat natural immunity. You can’t vaccinate on top of it and make it better.</strong> —Dr. Peter McCullough, March 10th, 2021; cf. <a href="https://www.markmallett.com/blog/following-the-science/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">documentary <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Following the Science?</span></a></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UkW6XIQaqm4/YVei6Td8ACI/AAAAAAAAFJE/RENWLlxbM3IYIVuiRHhbEa0QlsNhsYsPwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="474" height="237" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UkW6XIQaqm4/YVei6Td8ACI/AAAAAAAAFJE/RENWLlxbM3IYIVuiRHhbEa0QlsNhsYsPwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b> Dr Peter McCullough</b></i></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He cites new data out of the United Kingdom that shows “nine out of every 10 people in the United Kingdom between the ages of 16 and 24 already have antibodies to protect themselves against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19)… According to the estimates, 86.9 percent of young people in Wales have COVID-19 antibodies. In Northern Ireland, the number is 87.2 percent. In Scotland and England, this number increases slightly to 88.7 percent. The presence of coronavirus antibodies among such a high percentage of young people all over the U.K. suggests that many have already been infected by COVID-19 and have recovered from it… In Mumbai, India, nearly 90 percent of the residents of the city already have COVID-19 antibodies, according to a survey that was just released on Friday.”<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[23]</span></a></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, <b>with several bishops and even cardinals beginning to push “vaccine mandates</b>”,<i><b> it seems this basic fact of Creation and a foundational tenet of immunology is being ignored, even by the Church</b></i>. In fact, one Archbishop went so far as to declare: “If you don’t want to be vaccinated, you are actually a sinner because you will become a source of the disease for other people.”<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[24]</span></a> This is so far from actual science, so distant from any sound medical or moral argument, that such statements are scandalous, embarrassing, and causing more division and demonization of perfectly healthy and immune people. Says one Canadian priest, thankfully:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One thing I do know is that we cannot participate in any enforcement by government of any marking system that identifies clean and unclean, leper and non-leper, vaccinated or non-vaccinated; to do that would be for us to surrender to the powers of this world, that which only rests with God… This vaccine passport for entrance into the worship of God. I don’t ask people when they come for communion if they’re in a state of grace. And brothers and sisters, in terms of eternity, that is much more important than the condition of their body. That will never happen in this church, ever.</strong> —Fr. Stefano Penna, St. Paul’s Co-Cathedral, Saskatoon, Canada; Sept. 19th, 2021; <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-priest-says-there-will-never-be-a-vaccine-passport-marking-system-used-in-his-church/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lifesitenews.com</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It should be well-noted that the “deniers”,<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[25]</span></a> as Pope Francis sadly called some of his own Cardinals who are “vaccine-hesitant”, are not uneducated, selfish holdouts. Rather, a recent study found that the most “vaccine-hesitant” are those with PhD’s.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[26]</span></a>How does belittling, mocking, and disparaging those who, based on their careful research and an informed decision to refuse forced injection, advance any kind of “human” cause? Does the Church no longer believe in the precept of “informed conscience”?<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[27]</span></a></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moreover, a stunning irony emerges in that the<b> mRNA vaccines do not and <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">never were designed to prevent the transmission</em> of the virus. </b></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The studies [on the mRNA inoculations] aren’t designed to assess transmission. They don’t ask that question, and there’s really no information on this at this point in time.</strong> —Dr. Larry Corey oversees the National Institutes of Health (NIH) COVID-19 “vaccine” trials; November 20th, 2020; <a href="https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/941388" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">medscape.com;</a> cf. <a href="https://www.primarydoctor.org/covidvaccine" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">primarydoctor.org/covidvaccine</a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They were tested with an outcome of severe disease — not preventing infection.</strong> —U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Good Morning America,</span> December 14th, 2020; <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9051427/Surgeon-General-Jerome-Adams-says-people-need-wear-masks-vaccine.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dailymail.co.uk</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That the hierarchy has been misled in this regard by a small but powerful sector in the global medical complex is unfortunate. In fact, data rolling in from countries around the world, most notably the most vaccinated countries of Israel, the UK, Bermuda, etc. all show that it is the “<b>vaccinated” who are spreading the virus the most.</b><a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[28]</span></a> If there is any doubt remaining, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky recently admitted to CNN that the injections simply no longer “prevent transmission” (which we were told from the beginning that they never did).<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[29]</span></a></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><b>So why are Catholic bishops demonizing healthy, unvaccinated individuals when those who are “vaccinated” are likely going to spread the virus in their parishes and communities anyway?</b></i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Premise VI: COVID-19 is the most pressing health issue</b></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The disease COV</b></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">ID-19 caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 can be a serious infection for certain people. According to the CDC, the survival rate for those under 50 years of age is 99.5%.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[30]</span></a> Children are more at risk of dying from seasonal influenza than COVID-19.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[31]</span></a> Dr. Robert Malone states, “the risk associated with this disease is not uniformly distributed” but is “almost exclusively in the very old and obese, and others with certain pre-existing risk factors.”<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[32]</span></a> <i><b>So while this is a more serious virus for those in high-risk categories, it has proven not to be so for the general population.</b></i> </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, the <b>obsession of governments with COVID-19 <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">alone</em>, with the endorsement of the Church at the highest level, has created a horrendous gulf of suffering and injustice elsewhere.</b> Two United Nations agencies have warned that the unprecedented lockdown of healthy populations could lead to a “doubling of world poverty” and a further “135 million” to starve to death.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[33]</span></a> <b>It is a tragic irony that while our Church leaders are calling for equal distribution of these “vaccines”, the very lockdowns intended to “protect” the poor are killing them</b>. And what about those <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-scary-number-of-retail-companies-are-facing-bankruptcy-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic-180604964.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFya21hbGxldHQuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAL5NqZ0O5fiWSKTQs1T1ipPJJw_rPQRz3Y2fwgzoA-mkL9ThOWQMvUKDnwTsnaEhKK-VCoLihkRIdqB8mkC56u2I9-cCwVCE8RCDgSwkUd9Glp1jkaI81o0RHGV1PeD8uPpsidO-XB7T-0c06M57pU10Q4desoQTes-zAn4Y7uWK" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">losing their businesses and livelihoods</a> due to prolonged lockdowns? What about those thousands who are dying because of <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200528-why-most-covid-19-deaths-wont-be-from-the-virus" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">delayed surgeries</a>? What about the skyrocketing <a href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/02/25/coronavirus-covid-19-mental-health-suicide-opioids/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mental health issues</a> and <a href="https://www.psycom.net/covid-19-suicide-rates" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">potential</a> explosion of <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2764584?guestAccessKey=4602da6c-2bb3-4ae2-9aee-aceaa5d862cf&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamapsychiatry&utm_term=mostread&utm_content=olf-widget_05112020" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">suicides</a>?<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[34]</span></a> What about the deaths through a <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/opioids/covid-19-surges-ama-sounds-alarm-nation-s-overdose-epidemic" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">pandemic of drug abuse</a>? And what about those being forced from their jobs in this medical apartheid?<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[35]</span></a> David Redman, a former head of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency, writes:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Canadian “lockdown” response will kill at least 10 times more than it might have saved from the actual virus, COVID-19. The unconscionable use of fear during an emergency, to ensure compliance, has caused a breach in confidence in government that will last a decade or more. The damage to our democracy will last at least a generation.</strong> —July 2021, page 5, <a href="https://fcpp.org/wp-content/uploads/FC-PS237_CDADeadlyResponse_JL1621_F2.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Canada’s Deadly Response to COVID-19”</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And your fellow<b> bishop, French prelate Marc Aillet warned:</b></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…man is “one in body and soul”, it is not right to turn physical health into an absolute value to the point of sacrificing the psychological and spiritual health of citizens, and in particular to deprive them of freely practicing their religion, which experience proves to be essential for their equilibrium. </strong><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fear is not a good counsellor: it leads to ill-advised attitudes, it sets people against one another, it generates a climate of tension and even violence. We may well be on the verge of an explosion!</strong> —Bishop Marc Aillet for the diocesan magazine <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Notre Eglise</span> (“Our Church”), December 2020; <a href="https://www.countdowntothekingdom.com/a-bishops-plea/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">countdowntothekingdom.com</a></p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Premise VII: a “vaccine passport” is a “health” tool</b></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scientists around the globe, including the former Vice President of Pfizer, Dr. Mike Yeadon, are warning that vaccine passports are the end of freedom as we know it. </b>That the<b> Vatican </b>has now adopted such a tool itself is <b>a scandal</b> as it deliberately excludes perfectly healthy people, many who are naturally immune, from participating in society. Already in France and in Columbia, some people have been blocked from buying groceries.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[36]</span></a> Two doctors in Alberta, Canada are calling for all unvaccinated to lose employment, potentially casting thousands of families into destitution.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[37]</span></a> Italy has already suspended all unvaccinated workers without pay.<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[38]</span></a> Such <b>medical apartheid is a horrifying spectre spreading across the world, creating new forms of discrimination, injustice and hardship</b>. Here, the prescient words of Benedict XVI are already upon us — that an “act of love”, which is what Pope Francis calls taking this experimental injection, must always be rooted in <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">truth, </em>otherwise:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…without the guidance of charity in truth, this global force could cause unprecedented damage and create new divisions within the human family.</strong> —<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Caritas in Veritate</a>, </span>n. 33</p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That the<b> Vatican</b> is “<b>setting the example</b>” by initiating so-called <b>“green passports”</b> is <b>grievous</b> when all things are considered, and inexcusable to those scientists who are warning of the grave risks to medical and human freedom with such an unnecessary surveillance system: </p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just take it from me, you don’t need vaccine passports. They provide nothing whatsoever to you or anyone else in relations to safety. But it will give away, to whoever controls that database and the rules, complete control over everything you do.</strong> —Dr. Mike Yeadon, from <a href="https://www.markmallett.com/blog/following-the-science/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Following the Science?</span></a> 58:31 mark</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If they ever come to be, then it’s goodnight to society, goodnight to science, goodnight to humanity.</strong> — Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Ibid; 58:48</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I can’t say it more forcefully enough, this is literally the end of human liberty in the West if this plan unfolds as planned.</strong> —Dr. Naomi Wolfe, Ibid; 59:04</p></blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Encyclical letter <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laudato ‘si, </em>Pope Francis stated: “the Church does not presume to settle scientific questions or to replace politics. But I am concerned to encourage an honest and open debate so that particular interests or ideologies will not prejudice the common good.”<a style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">[39]</span></a> <i><b>It should be clear now that neither honest nor open debate, nor freedom from particular interests or ideologies, has marked this pandemic. Rather, censorship, control, and manipulation have prevailed as thousands of scientists, doctors and health care workers have been threatened, de-platformed, or dismissed for sharing the very data that you have just read.</b></i> That the Church is a party to this by virtue of her silence and/or complicit agreement, is not only grievous to many of us but the cost can be counted literally in lost and destroyed lives.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Please, dear shepherds, reject this new holocaust in the name of truth and science. </b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your servant in Christ,<br />Mark Mallett</p><div><br /></div></div>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-88126712484130128042021-07-15T01:25:00.007+01:002021-07-15T01:35:18.954+01:00'The Pillar of the Cloud', and 'He is the Boy'.<p> </p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8bNk2AOE97k/YOy4hvXJVyI/AAAAAAAAFEg/mJw2OrFf5ngF9JJJaQkBFcplzwt7iZNqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/new-791x1024%2B%2BCardinal%2BNewman%2B%2528Saint%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="791" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8bNk2AOE97k/YOy4hvXJVyI/AAAAAAAAFEg/mJw2OrFf5ngF9JJJaQkBFcplzwt7iZNqwCLcBGAsYHQ/w309-h400/new-791x1024%2B%2BCardinal%2BNewman%2B%2528Saint%2529.jpg" width="309" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b> </b><i> <b>Cardinal John Henry Newman </b></i></span></span></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> <span><b>The
Pillar of the Cloud</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Lead,
Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Lead
Thou me on!</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> The
night is dark, and I am far from home …...</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Lead
Thou me on!</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Keep
Thou my feet, I do not ask to see</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> The
distant scene, one step enough for me.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span> I
was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou </span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Shouldst
lead me on.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> I
loved to choose and see my path; but now</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Lead
Thou me on!</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> I
loved the garish day, and spite of fears,</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Pride
ruled my will: remember not past years.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> So
long Thy power hath blessed me, sure it still</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Will
lead me on,</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> O'er
moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> The
night is gone;</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> And
with the morn those angel faces smile,</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span> Which
I have loved long since, and lost awhile. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>John
Henry Newman (June 1833-at sea?)</b></i></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-style: normal;"><b>*********</b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>John
Henry Newman </b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(21
February, 1801 - 11 August, 1890) </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Originally an evangelical University of Oxford academic and priest in the Church of England, Newman increasingly favoured the High Church tradition of Anglicanism. He became one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, an influential and controversial grouping of Anglicans who wished to absorb into the Church of England, many Catholic beliefs and liturgical rituals held and practised before the English Reformation. In this, the movement had some success. After publishing his controversial "Tract 90" in 1841, Newman later wrote, "I was on my death-bed, as regards my membership with the Anglican Church." In 1845, Newman, joined by some but not all of his followers, officially left the Church of England and his teaching post at Oxford University, and was received into the Catholic Church. He was quickly ordained as a priest, and continued as an influential religious leader, based in Birmingham. In 1879, he was created a Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII, in recognition of his services to the cause of the Catholic Church in England. He was instrumental in the founding of the Catholic University of Ireland (CUI) in 1854, although he had left Dublin by 1859. Over time, CUI became better known as University College, Dublin.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Newman was a major literary figure; his writings include 'Tracts for the Times (1833-41), his autobiography 'Apologia Vita Sua' (1865-66), 'Grammar of Assent' (1870), and the poem 'The Dream of Gerontius' (1865), which was set to music in 1900 by Edward Elgar. He wrote the popular hymn 'Lead kindly light'; also 'Firmly I believe, and truly', and 'Praise to the Holiest in the height' , the latter two both taken from Gerontius.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Newman's beatification was proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI, on 19 September, 2010, during his visit to the United Kingdom. His canonisation was officially approved by Pope Francis on 12 February, 2019, and took place on 13 October, 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">He is the fifth canonised Saint from the City of London; behind Thomas A'Becket (born in Cheapside), Thomas More (born at Milk Street), Edmund Campion (son of a London bookseller), and Polydore Plasden (of Fleet Street).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>(With ack. to Wikipedia)</b></i></span></span></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> **********</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #545454; font-size: 16pt;">'</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6a6a6a;">Christendom
in Dublin</span><span style="color: #545454;">', a classic novel written by
G.K </span><span style="color: #6a6a6a;">Chesterton</span><span style="color: #545454;">,
records his impressions of the 31st Eucharistic Congress held in
</span><span style="color: #6a6a6a;">Dublin </span><span style="color: #545454;">in
1932. </span></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: times; font-size: large;">'He is the Boy' is an extract.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>'He
is the Boy'</b></i></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>G.K.
Chesterton</i></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">‘</span><span><span style="font-family: times;">I
have little doubt that the return of liberty and prosperity to
Ireland will mean the development of that Christian craftsmanship, in
which Our Lady once taught the world in the decorative designs of the
Dark Ages. Any impression so atmospheric must appear arbitrary, and
it would be idle to mention the multitude of small experiences that
have seemed to me to point to such a destiny. I will only mention two
things out of a thousand; one an old story which I heard and even
recorded long ago; the other a small incident that quite recently
happened to myself’ but in both of which is expressed with a
certain emotional exactitude the shade of fact and feeling that I
mean The first is a story that I heard in Donegal twelve years ago;
but I know nothing of the origin of the story. It told how someone
had met in the rocky wastes a beautiful peasant woman carrying a
child, who on being asked for her name, answered simply:“<i><b>I am
the Mother of God, and this is Himself, and He is the boy you will
all be wanting at the last</b></i>. I had never forgotten this
phrase, which expresses the spirit of which I speak in a language
which is a natural literature; and I remembered it suddenly long
afterwards, when I fancied I had found something that expressed it
also, not in literature but in sculpture.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I
was looking about for an image of Our Lady which I wished to give to
the new church in our neighbourhood, and I was shown a variety of
very beautiful and often costly examples in one of the most famous
and fashionable Catholic shops in London. It was a very good shop,
and the proprietor was not to blame if the nature </span><span style="font-family: times;">of the find was
something of a parable. It is the glory of the great Cult of Mary
that she has appeared to painters and sculptors under a variety of
bodily types almost wider than the actual variety of all the women in
the world. She has been the patroness of so many lands and cities
that she has become the centre or the prop of every scheme of
ornament or school of architecture; and her garments have been made
of all the materials of the world.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Here
there was everything, from what some would call the conventional
dolls of the Repository to wha</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t </span><span style="font-family: times;">some would call the harshest
caricatures of the Primitives. But somehow I felt fastidious, for the
first time in my life; and felt that the one kind was too
conventional to be sincere and the other too primitive to be popular.
There were the types of the bronze Byzantine gloom and types of the
cereal Flemish exuberance; extravagances of Renaissance drapery,
wrought in enamel or in metal, sprawling like a wheel of wings yet
poised like a pillar; delicate figures in ivory or dark figures in
ebony; all the multi-form manifestations of the most profound
inspiration of the arts of our race. But, for some reason, as I have
said, they left me not indeed cold, but vague, and I ended
prosaically by following the proprietor to an upper floor, on some
matter of mere business; the receipting of an old bill or what not.
But the upper room was a sort of lumber room, full of packages and
things partially unpacked, and it seemed suddenly that she was
standing there, amid planks and shavings and sawdust, as she stood in
the carpenter’s shop in Nazareth. I said something, and the
proprietor answered rather casually: “Oh, that’s only just been
unpacked. I’ve hardly looked at it. It’s from Ireland!”</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">The
colours were traditional; but the colours were not conventional; a
wave of green sea had passed through the blue and a shadow of brown
earth through the crimson, as in the work of the ancient colourists.
The conception was common and more than common, and yet never merely
uncommon She was a peasant and she was a queen, and in that sense she
was a lady; but not the sort of sham lady who pretends to be a
peasant, nor the sort of sham peasant who pretends to be a lady. She
was barefoot like any colleen on the hills; yet there was nothing
merely local about her simplicity. I have never known who was the
artist and I doubt if anybody knows; I only know that it is Irish,
and I almost think that I should have known without being told. I
have heard of one other man who felt as I do, and went miles out of
his way at intervals to revisit the little church where the image
stands. She looks across the</span><span style="font-family: times;"> little church with an intense
earnestness in which there is something of endless youth; and I have
sometimes started, as if I had actually heard the words spoken across
that emptiness '<i><b>I am the Mother of God and this is Himself, and
He is the boy you will all be wanting at the last.'</b></i></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">'Christendom
in Dublin’ by G.K. Chesterton (1932)<br /><br />***********************<span style="color: #545454;">
</span><br /><br />The Catholic Church in Ireland has suffered terribly
over recent decades. The disastrous liturgical and other changes
imposed after Vatican II, together with a dramatic secularisation in Society and the clerical abuse scandals, have severely damaged the Faith to the extent that
the Church today in Ireland compared to 1932 when Chesterton wrote
the above, is but a shadow of its former self.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">We
Catholics in the United Kingdom owe a tremendous amount to our fellow
Catholics from Ireland, who over many decades have been the backbone
of many of our parishes and Catholic organisations. We pray for our
Irish friends and for the Church in Ireland.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">*********</span></p>
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</p><p></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-90416059844514883562021-06-04T00:47:00.003+01:002021-06-04T00:47:50.837+01:00Corpus Christi - Sequence 'Lauda Sion'<p> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FEPXYR1MPQU/YLlSrMwJmxI/AAAAAAAAFCw/5cyz8gLl5lYvEL1PC0e1xH1KtxzqJ5dAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/holy-mass-716x1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="716" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FEPXYR1MPQU/YLlSrMwJmxI/AAAAAAAAFCw/5cyz8gLl5lYvEL1PC0e1xH1KtxzqJ5dAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/holy-mass-716x1024.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Holy Mass - Consecration of bread into Body of Christ (transubstantiation)</b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> C<span>orpus
Christi - Sequence 'Lauda Sion'</span></i></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">1. Sion, lift thy
voice and sing;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Praise thy Saviour and
thy King;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Praise with hymns thy
Shepherd true.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">2. Strive thy best
to praise Him well,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Yet doth He all praise
excel;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> None can ever reach His
due.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">3. See today before
us laid</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The living and
life-giving Bread,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Theme for praise and joy
profound.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">4. The same which at
the sacred board</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Was by our incarnate
Lord,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Giv'n to His apostles
round.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">5. Let the praise be
loud and high;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Sweet and tranquil be the
joy</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Felt today in every
breast;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">6. On this festival
divine,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Which records the origin</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Of the glorious
Eucharist.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">7. On this table of
the King,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Our new paschal offering</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Brings to end the olden
rite.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">8. Here, for empty
shadows fled,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Is reality instead;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Here, instead of
darkness, light.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">9. His own act, at
supper seated,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ ordained to be
repeated,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> In His memory divine;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">10. Wherefore now,
with adoration,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> We the Host of our
salvation</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Consecrate from bread and
wine.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">11. Hear what holy
Church maintaineth,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> That the bread its
substance changeth</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Into flesh, the wine to
blood.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">12. Doth it pass thy
comprehending?</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Faith, the law of sight
transcending,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Leaps to things not
understood.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">13. Here, beneath
these signs are hidden</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Priceless things, to
sense forbidden;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Signs, not things, are
all we see:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">14. Flesh from bread,
and blood from wine,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Yet is Christ in either
sign</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> All entire, confessed to
be.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">15. They too who of
Him partake,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Sever not, nor rend, nor
break,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> But entire their Lord
receive.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">16. Whether one or
thousands eat,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> All receive the self-same
meat,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Nor the less for others
leave.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">17. Both the wicked
and the good</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Eat of this celestial
food;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> But with ends how
opposite!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">18. Here 't is life,
and there 't is death,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The same, yet issuing to
each,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> In a different infinite.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">19. Nor a single doubt
retain,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> When they break the host
in twain,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> But that in each part
remain,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> What was in the whole
before.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">20. Since the simple
sign alone</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Suffers change in state
or form,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The signified remaining
one</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> And the same for
evermore.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">21. Lo! upon the altar
lies</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Hidden deep from human
eyes,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Bread of angels from the
skies,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Made the food of mortal
man:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">22. Children's meat,
to dogs denied:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> In old types
fore-signified:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> In the manna
heav'n-supplied,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Isaac, and the paschal
Lamb.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">23. Jesu! Shepherd of
the sheep!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Thou Thy flock in safety
keep.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Living Bread! thy life
supply;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Strengthen us, or else we
die;</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Fill us with celestial
grace:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">24. Thou, who feedest
us below!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Source of all we have or
know!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Grant that with Thy
saints above,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Sitting at the feast of
love,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> We may see Thee, face to
face.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">
Amen. Alleluia.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-60303110291572666182021-04-06T01:01:00.000+01:002021-04-06T01:01:24.260+01:00 Christ's Descent into Limbo, and the Incredulity of St Thomas<div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-18cg6ZDAld4/YGuX7rN47QI/AAAAAAAAFBk/X0aoSw69VE8grN1AlNucjReFnkrOS97fgCLcBGAsYHQ/s700/Christ%2Bin%2BLimbo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="668" height="517" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-18cg6ZDAld4/YGuX7rN47QI/AAAAAAAAFBk/X0aoSw69VE8grN1AlNucjReFnkrOS97fgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h517/Christ%2Bin%2BLimbo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><b> </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><b> Christ descends into Limbo - Fra Angelica 1395-1465</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><b> (pinterest. Gallerix orb)</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>LIMBO</b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The ancient greyness shifted </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Suddenly and thinned</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Like mist upon the moors </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Before a wind.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">An old, old prophet lifted </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">A shining face and said :</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“He will be coming soon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The Son of God is dead; </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">He died this afternoon.” </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">A murmurous excitement</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Stirred all souls. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">They wondered if they dreamed -</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Save one old man who seemed </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Not even to have heard. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And Moses standing, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Hushed them all to ask </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">If any had a welcome song prepared. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">If not, would David take the task?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And if they cared</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Could not the three young children</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Sing the Benedicite,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The canticle of praise they made </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">When God kept them from perishing</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">In the fiery blaze? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">A breath of spring surprised them, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Stilling Moses’ words. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">No one could speak, remembering </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The first fresh flowers, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The little singing birds. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Still others thought of fields new ploughed,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Or apple trees all blossom-boughed. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Or some, the way a dried bed fills with water, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Laughing down green hills.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The fisherfolk dreamed of the foam </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">On bright blue seas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The one old man who had not stirred</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Remembered home. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And there He was </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Splendid as the morning sun and fair </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">As only God is fair.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And they, confused with joy, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Knelt to adore </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Seeing that he wore </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Five crimson stars</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">He never had before. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">No canticle at all was sung. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">None toned a psalm, or raised a greeting song.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">A silent man alone </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Of all that throng </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Found tongue - not any other.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Close to His heart </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">When the embrace was done, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Old Joseph said,
“How is Your Mother,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">How is Your Mother, Son?”</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b> Sister Mary Ada</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><b> (‘The Mary Book’ an anthology by F.J.Sheed. Published by Sheed and Ward 1950.) </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></b></i><span><i><b> </b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>****</b></i>*</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>'The Resurrection of Jesus'</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">'Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and she saw the stone taken away from the tomb. She ran therefore and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span> Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and they went to the tomb. The two were running together, and the other disciple ran on before, faster than Peter, and came first to the tomb. And stooping down he saw the linen cloths lying there, yet he did not enter. Simon Peter therefore, came following him, and he went into the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief which had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded in a place by itself. Then the other disciple also went in, who had come first to the tomb. And he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. The disciples therefore, went away again to their home.</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> But Mary was standing outside weeping at the tomb, So, as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the tomb, and saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid. They said to her, "Woman, why art thou weeping?" She said to them, "because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him."<br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> When she had said this she turned round and beheld Jesus standing there, and she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why art thou weeping? Whom dost thou seek?" She, thinking that he was the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if thou hast removed him, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" Turning, she said to him, "Rabboni!" (that is to say Master). Jesus said to her, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father, but go to my brethren, and say to them, 'I ascend to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'</span></span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span> Mary Magdalene came, and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord, and these things he said to me."</span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span> </span>When it was late that same day, the first of the week, though the doors where the disciples gathered had been closed for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them, "Peace be to you!" And when he had said this he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore rejoiced at the sight of the Lord. He therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you! As</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> the Father</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">has sent me, I also send you." When he had said this , he breathed upon them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span> Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came, The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> And after eight days, his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being closed, and stood in their midst, and said, "Peace be to you." Then he said to Thomas, "Bring here thy finger, and see my hands; and bring here thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not unbelieving, but believing." Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are the</span>y<span style="font-weight: normal;"> who have not seen, and yet have believed."</span></span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KEvmr5qWQcI/YGugl3aCjuI/AAAAAAAAFBs/mYQicuv-kIwlsPzYEDXPKBJ3ERLu68BegCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/incredulity-of-saint-thomas-1602%2Bby%2BCaravaggio%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1000" height="296" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KEvmr5qWQcI/YGugl3aCjuI/AAAAAAAAFBs/mYQicuv-kIwlsPzYEDXPKBJ3ERLu68BegCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h296/incredulity-of-saint-thomas-1602%2Bby%2BCaravaggio%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><b>Incredulity of St Thomas by Caravaggio (1601-2)</b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: times;">Many other signs also Jesu</span></span><span style="font-family: times;">s worked in the sight of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing</span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">you may have life in his name. </span><i style="font-family: times;"><b>(John 20: v.1-31)</b></i></span></div>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-77298450887143753732021-03-24T01:17:00.034+00:002021-03-25T21:43:50.072+00:00'Meditation on the Passion - the Institution of the Blessed Eucharist'<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This post is the fourth from <b>'Meditation on the Passion'</b> compiled by Rev Reginald Walsh O.P. and published by Burns, Oates, and Washbourne Ltd. in 1922.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These articles form the basis of Retreat notes originally intended for use in Convents, and later published for more general use within the wider Church..</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This particular post is quite long, but I have resisted the temptation to be selective on the grounds that this may detract from the spirituality inherent in the original article. It does demand a few minutes of the reader's time, but it offers spiritual blessings which we all need in this difficult and un-Christian world.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UY7YE1-HBFM/YFqBawpdm9I/AAAAAAAAFBI/J8zfaZ_ZbnUpmoDfkisfUenf6LhIpnBIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s782/The_Last_Supper_by%2BDieric%2BBouts-_WGA03003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UY7YE1-HBFM/YFqBawpdm9I/AAAAAAAAFBI/J8zfaZ_ZbnUpmoDfkisfUenf6LhIpnBIQCLcBGAsYHQ/w328-h400/The_Last_Supper_by%2BDieric%2BBouts-_WGA03003.jpg" width="328" /></a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><i><b>'The Last Supper' by Dieric Bouts</b></i></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></i><span style="font-family: arial;">I</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span> </span><b>THE INSTITUTION OF THE
BLESSED EUCHARIST</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b> </b><b> </b> (Mark
xiv. Matt.xxvi. Luke xxii)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span> 1</span><sup><span>st</span></sup><span>
Prelude: </span></b><span><i>History. </i></span><span>---
After our Lord had washed the feet of His Apostles, He proceeded to
institute the Holy Eucharist. This is the centre and soul of all that
takes place at the Last Supper, and the fulfilment of the great
promise made by Jesus about a year before in the Synagogue of
Capharnaum; it is a mystery of the highest importance and widest
range for the whole Church and Christian religion. “ And whilst
they were at supper Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke, and
gave to His disciples, and said,: 'Take ye, and eat: this is My
Body.' And taking the chalice He gave thanks; and gave to them,
saying: 'Drink ye all of this. For this is My Blood of the New
Testament, which shall be said for many unto remission of sins. 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 in the Kingdom of
My Father.' (Matt. Xxvi. 26-29).</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span> 2</span><sup><span>nd</span></sup></b><span><b>
Prelude</b>:</span><span><i> Composition of Place.</i></span><span>
--- The Supper-room, where I shall be present and observe all that is
said and done. </span><span><i><b> Note </b></i></span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
silence, awe, reverence, the rapt attention with which every eye
follows the Master. Oh, let us give heed now, and watch with our
eyes, and with our ears listen; for the time that the Blessed Angels
have been spending in expecting ecstasy is past --- the moment chosen
by the Eternal Father has arrived: and Jesus, holding the bread in
His Sacred Hands, is about to pronounce that word --- more wonderful
than the word which created all things in the beginning ---- </span></span></span><span><i><b>“This
is My Body.”</b></i></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span><i><b> </b></i></span><b><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>3</span></span></span><sup><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>rd</span></span></span></sup></b><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span><b>
Prelude</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">:</span></span></span><span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Ask what I want. --</span></i></span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-
To see, and know, and realise the love of Jesus in giving Himself to
me in the Holy Eucharist. Ah, dear Lord, give me that intimate
knowledge which will fill my heart with a strong, enthusiastic
overmastering, personal love of Thee. Draw me closer and closer to
Thee, dear Jesus; this is my whole desire, that my heart may be
united to Thee.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><b> Points:</b></i> 1. <i>What our Lord does in the Institution of
the Holy Eucharist.</i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">II. The Institution of the Blessed Eucharist.</span></i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i> III. How the Apostles received the Holy Eucharist.</i></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> I</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span> WHAT OUR LORD DOES IN THE INSTITUTION OF THE </span>
</b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>BLESSED
EUCHARIST</b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"> St
Paul tells us with pointed emphasis that it was on the very night in
which He was betrayed that our Lord instituted the Mystery of
Mysteries, the Sacrament of His love. It was worthy of His love and
Divine generosity to choose the occasion when He was to be outraged,
insulted, betrayed, and scourged, and crucified, to invent this
wondrous Sacrament of Love. To forgive is always generous, but what
shall we say of the generosity of One who not only forgives the most
horrible insults and cruelty, but chooses the very day on which He is
to suffer them for giving to His enemies a gift compared to which all
other gifts are small and insignificant --- a gift, too, which is
none other than Himself.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> By instituting the Holy Eucharist Jesus does three
very important things:- </span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span><b> I. </b> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">He founds quite a new form of His existence and
Personal Presence in this world. This new existence of His has
four qualities: <span> </span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> (a) It is a real, true, and essential presence
of Jesus, although He is invisible, concealed under the
appearances of bread and wine.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">This follows from the simple
words by which it is instituted; from its object, as our Lord
decrees, in accordance with His wisdom, power, and love, to make
His last will and to leave us a memorial of Himself; and from
the teaching and belief of the Church in all ages. <span> </span><span> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span></span><span> </span>(b) This
presence of Jesus is most marvellous as regards His Body as well
as the continuance of the outward appearances; indeed, it is
entirely produced and maintained by a miracle. </span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> (c) Jesus'
Presence is continual, never-ending, and multiplied a countless
number of times, so that He is now in all parts of the world,
which He has promised never to forsake. </span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> (d) The Presence of
Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is most efficacious, because it
elevates the Church and makes her the true Bride and mystical
Body of Christ, and comforts her in the exile of this life.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: normal;"><b>2.</b> Jesus institutes in the Holy Eucharist the
Sacrifice of the New Testament. Christ has instituted the Holy
Eucharist by a sacrifice, or make a sacrifice by instituting it,
and has ordained that this sacrifice should be continued
throughout all ages. The very words He used denote a sacrifice,
and not merely a sacrament. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: normal;">H</span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: normal;">e says</span><span style="font-size: x-large; font-style: normal;">: </span><span style="font-size: x-large; font-style: normal;">“</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>This is My Body which is given for you. My
Blood which shall be shed for</b></i> <i><b>you</b></i>.” <i>(Luke xxii. 19-20). </i> To
shed blood for the remission of sins is, in other words, to
sacrifice. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The Holy Mass is precisely</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">the sacrifice of the Last
Supper --- a sacrifice of the greatest efficacy and of infinite
value. And this on account of the High Priest who is Christ
Himself; on account of the sacrificial gift which is again
Christ, under the appearances of bread and wine; and on account
of its effects on the whole Church --- militant, suffering,
glorious or triumphant. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>3</b>. </span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: large;">Jesus
appoints and defines the essence of the Sacrament --- its
effects--- commands us to receive it --- and ordains the
Catholic Priesthood. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: large;"> The essence of this Sacrament --- the Body
and Blood of Christ under the appearances of bread and wine.
Its effects --- the most intimate union with Christ under the
form of food. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: large;"> The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Life --- it
preserves and increases the life of sanctifying grace, and
marvellously develops it, especially through the actual graces
it bestows for the extirpation of sinful concupiscence, and the
increase of love, joy, zeal, and courage. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: large;"> Jesus commands us to
receive this Sacrament: “<i><b>Take ye and eat ..</b></i></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>drink ye
all of this</b></i>.” (<i>Matt.xxvi., Mark xiv.</i>) The Eucharist is the
greatest and most glorious Sacrament, the end, crown,
perfection, and seal of all Sacraments, by virtue of what it
contains --</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">- CHRIST
HIMSELF</span></b></i></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">
--- and of its glorious effects.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lastly,</b> --- Jesus founds with the Institution
of the Holy Eucharist, the Catholic Priesthood, which is to
perpetuate this Sacrament and Sacrifice, It is certain that in
the</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">words</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">, </span><span style="font-size: large;">“<i><b>Do this for commemoration</b></i> <i><b>of Me</b></i>,” He made the
Apostles priests of the New Covenant. All the power of the
priesthood has its source in the Eucharist --- its power over
the true Body of Christ --- its power over the Mystical Body of
Christ --- the faithful. The priesthood derives its influence
and honour among the Catholic people, and also its purity,
holiness, strength and invincible might from this most holy
Sacrament --- from which indeed, all graces come. </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> In this
Sacrament of the Altar our Lord has poured out on us all the
riches of His love. St Thomas had good reason to call this
Sacrament the Sacrament of Love, and a pledge of the most
wonderful love which God could bestow upon man. St Bernard
calls it “Love of loves.”</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Colloquy</b></i><span>. --- Ah, God of Infinite
Goodness, enlighten me and make me comprehend the excess of
goodness which induced Thee to become my food. Dear Lord Jesus,
Thou hast given Thyself wholly to me, it is just I should give
myself all to Thee. Yes, dear Lord, I do</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">give myself to Thee
entirely and for ever. Come, Lord Jesus, come, take entire
possession of me</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s22nxu53ktE/YFqSaWKJBZI/AAAAAAAAFBQ/lEgp4DbniVgN7MzDoZuH8Co05unGDHlRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/PriestElevatingEucharist-1024x384.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="1024" height="158" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s22nxu53ktE/YFqSaWKJBZI/AAAAAAAAFBQ/lEgp4DbniVgN7MzDoZuH8Co05unGDHlRgCLcBGAsYHQ/w421-h158/PriestElevatingEucharist-1024x384.jpg" width="421" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><b>II</b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b> THE INSTITUTION OF THE MOST BLESSED EUCHARIST</b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> The moment for giving the gift has come. Our Lord's
love can wait no longer. He must come nearer and nearer to those
friends of His; they must feel within them the throb of His Sacred
Heart, His Blood must flow in their veins, His strength support them
when the hour of temptation comes. When death is about to interpose
an insurmountable barrier between those whom the bonds of friendship
had long united, their love seems to acquire additional vehemence,
and they eagerly avail of the last opportunity left them to testify
its ardour and solidity.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> The mortal life of Jesus had been but one
uninterrupted manifestation of charity towards men, but not satisfied
with this, not content with shedding the last drop of His Blood for
our salvation, He determined when the last hour of His mortal life
had come, and the hour of His return to the Father had arrived, to
leave us yet another and a stronger pledge of His devoted Love. A
stronger pledge! --- and could there be a more substantial proof of
love than the sacrifice of life? Ah! What is impossible to man is
not impossible to the love of God.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Awe-struck at the unparalleled humility of their
Divine Master, the Apostles awaited in deep silence the development
of some new and yet more wondrous mystery; they read in the
impressive majesty of the Saviour's countenance, a revelation of
something greater, grander, and holier than had been disclosed to
them yet. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Jesus took bread into His holy and venerable hands, and,
with His eyes lifted up to Heaven, returning thanks to God, His
Father, He blessed the bread, broke it, and gave it to His Disciples,
saying: “<i><b>Take ye, and</b></i> <i><b>eat: this is My Body, which shall be
delivered for you; this do for the commemoration of Me</b></i>.” </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">And
taking the chalice, giving thanks, He gave it to them. And they
drank of it. And He said to them: “<i><b>This is my Blood of the New
Testament, which shall be shed for you,”</b></i></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> See and contemplate our Jesus, full of love for His
own even to the last. See Him as He takes the bread into His sacred
and venerable hands, and lifting up His eyes to His Heavenly Father,
becomes transfigured, His countenance shining like the sun, and His
Heart on fire with love for us; He blesses the bread and
transubstantiates it into His own most Blessed Body, leaving it to
His Church in memory of His charity towards men. Taking the chalice,
He did in like manner. Oh, the charity, power, and wisdom of our
Lord. He gives us Himself, He could do no more. He gives Himself
under the form of bread and wine, that He may be our food, and that
we may be intimately united and one with Him, He changing us into
Himself, not we changing Him into ourselves.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Bending low in adoration, the Apostles received their
Lord, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity. As simply as Simeon took
the Infant God from His Mother's arms, do they take Him from Himself.
They hear His word and believe. They receive Him and adore. O
prodigy! </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> At the moment the words, “<i><b>This is My Body,; this is My
Blood,”</b></i> were pronounced, the substance of bread and wine were </span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;">changed into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ Himself
--- Jesus Christ, the Joy of Angels, the terror of devils, the
Redeemer of men ---”Jesus Christ, the Judge of the living and the
dead” --- “Jesus Christ, in whose name every knee should bow, of
those in heaven, on earth, and under the earth.” (Phil. ii.10).
And Jesus our loving God and Saviour, gives Himself in the Sacrament
of love at the very time when man's ingratitude was plotting how to
invent the utmost efforts of its malice against Him. Oh, the
infinite goodness, liberality, meekness and love of our dear Lord!</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> And Judas, as he bent his knee and received the Living
Bread and the Consecrated Chalice, did he think of another feast to
which one came not having on the wedding garment? Did he think of
the weeping and gnashing of teeth reserved for those who receive
unworthily? Another chance thrown away, and with his heart more
hardened still, he leaves the supper-room and goes out into the
exterior darkness. O loving, outraged Heart of Jesus, defend me
against myself --- never let me be unfaithful to Thee. May my life
henceforth be one of loyal, loving devotion to Thee ---” “<i><b>Amorem
tui solum</b></i>”.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span> In the Holy Eucharist Jesus gives the most precious
gift which even His omnipotence and liberality can bestow --- His
Sacred Heart --- the very source and centre of love. In exchange for
so invaluable a gift, Jesus asks our whole heart, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">that He may unite us to Himself --- that He may heal and
purify us; that He may enlighten us with His truth, and inflame us
with His love. Shall I not give Him my heart without delay and
without reserve? Love is self-sacrifice, and the Eucharist is a
sacrifice, a constant and never-ending sacrifice. It is the
Sacrament of love --- the supreme act of Jesus' love. Love is the
communication of oneself; and our Lord cou</span><span style="font-size: large;">ld not give more than He
gives us in the Eucharist, nor could He do it in a more gracious and
loving way. How completely our Jesus lays aside all His glory here,
and how lowly and familiar He</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">makes Himself! We cannot imagine our
Lord instituting this great mystery of love otherwise than with the
most intense love --- the very words with which He began His Last
Supper, “<i><b>With desire I have desired to eat this Pasch</b></i> <i><b>with you</b></i>”, point to this.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Our Lord instituted the Eucharist with great joy, on
account of the glorious results that were to proceed from it. It is
itself a great and glorious world of grace and holiness. Jesus saw
all the Masses, all the Communions, all the altars that would make
His thrones; all the moments that He would pass in this world; all
those who would approach to the Holy Eucharist. He saw all the
streams of grace, sanctification, comfort, and zeal that they would
draw from this source; all the honour and glory that God would derive
from its nature and use. What a grand and wonderful institution---
an act of infinite love! How can we ever make reserves with so good
and loving a Master! The Eucharist is a continuation of the
Incarnation. In it Jesus communicates Himself to every human heart,
and becomes in very truth the vine that bears God's plants, sending
the sap of His Divine life into all their branches and shoots, and
causing them to blossom and bear the fruits of eternal life.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Is not the Blessed Sacrament the magnet and force by
which our Lord draws all souls --- particularly Religious --- to
Himself? Jesus saw all this, and His Sacred, loving, human Heart
rejoiced unspeakably over it. But if it was with great love and joy
Jesus instituted the most Blessed Eucharist, it was also with
feelings of pain and sorrow, for our dear Lord saw this Eucharistic
life surrounded and clouded by dark and terrible shadows of
ingratitude, unbelief, and outrage. The precursor of those who would
make Him this unworthy return --- a living example of this unbelief,
callousness, and ingratitude --- was sitting by His side in the
person of Judas. In him our Lord saw the terrible future of His
Eucharistic existence. It was a bitter chalice in return for the
chalice of sweetness and salvation that He was offering to those
human hearts He so loved and longed to benefit. Surely His Heart must
have shuddered at it. But these tempestuous waves of sorrow did not
terrify Him; His love unhesitatingly pursued its way to our heart.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Shall I not offer to that adorable Heart the only
return it desires or values --- the unreserved love of my own heart
--- a generous, sincere, fervent, faithful love, a love as worthy of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus as I can make it? O Sacred Heart of Jesus
in the Holy Eucharist , I adore Thee: reign over me, possess me,
dwell with me always, encompass me, I want to be ruled by Thee, O my
dear Jesus, to obey Thy injunctions with prompt docility, to conform
my will to Thy will, and follow Thy inspirations with punctual
fidelity. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I believe in Thy love for me:
“Take O Lord, take and receive my entire liberty! Give me Thy love
---'<i><b>Amorem tui solum</b></i>' --- Rabboni, Jesus, Thou alone art my Master.”</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b> III</b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> HOW THE APOSTLES RECEIVED THE HOLY EUCHARIST</b></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> The Apostles made their First Communion (1) with the
most child-like, simple faith. The Holy Eucharist is above all
things a mystery of faith. Probably our Lord gave a full instruction,
explaining everything, telling the Apostles that He was now about to
put into actual execution what He had promised sometime previously in
the synagogue at Capharnaum. And they receive our Lord's words with
the same child-like faith now as they had done then, because He,
their dear Master, Teacher, and God, speaks to them: “Lord, to whom
shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we have
believed and have known that Thou art the Christ, the Son of God.”
(John vi. 69-70) </span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2. </b></span><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The Apostles received the Body of our Lord with
great purity of heart. Our Lord Himself affirmed this, saying
that they were all pure except Judas, and only needed to be
cleansed from slight stains. This cleansing was accomplished by
means of the washing of their feet, in consequence of the
heart-felt acts of humility and love that our Lord's example
evoked in them.</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span><b>3.</b> </span><span>They received the Holy Communion with a great
desire to participate in the marvellous treasures and graces
that our Lord had promised them. How the hearts of Peter and
John must have burned at the reception of the wondrous food.</span></span></p><ol>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Lastly,</b> the Apostles
receiving the Body of our Lord with heartfelt gratitude and ardent
love. Love is the best thanksgiving and the most beautiful effect
of Holy Communion. And they remained faithful to His love, in the
main, even in the most terrible hours of His Passion, which were
just coming upon them. Such was the celebration of the first Holy
Communion and the first Mass. What great things our Lord does in
this one mystery! Without the Eucharist, we should have suddenly
lost our Lord from this earth nineteen centuries ago. What could
earth offer us without the Blessed Sacrament? Our souls would pine
away and die in spite of all abundance of temporal things. For
everything we find on earth is perishable except this Bread of Life.</span></p>
</ol>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> And what a happiness, what an honour it is, for so
many thousands of men, that they can now participate in the true and
glorious priesthood of Christ! The institution of the Holy
Eucharist was indeed the dawn of a new life and happiness for Heaven
and earth. How shall we ever be able to thank our Lord enough for
it? This most holy of all the Sacraments ought in very truth to be
the centre and magnet of our thoughts and hearts, indeed of our whole
lives.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> “ O precious, magnificent, saving banquet, replete
with every delight! By it sins are cleansed away, virtues
increased, the mind is enriched with the abundance of all graces.”
(St. Antoninus). </span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> A spiritual and interior person </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>finds in the partaking of the Body of Christ Jesus
twelve excellent fruits: </span><i><b>fortitude</b></i><span> to forsake easily
earthly and perishable things; </span><i><b>progress</b></i><span> in things
relating to salvation and perfection; </span><i><b>elevation</b></i><span> of the
soul above whatever is outside of God; </span><i><b>strength</b></i><span> to
practise good; </span><i><b>enlightenment</b></i><span> of the understanding more
perfectly to know God and</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>all things which are seen in the mirror of
eternity; </span><i><b>fervour</b></i><span> of love for God; </span><i><b>fulfilment</b></i><span>
of those things which beget happiness; a</span><i><b> treasure</b></i><span> of
wealth; a constant </span><i><b>cheerfulness</b></i><span> of spirit; a certain
secure </span><i><b>firmness</b></i><span>; perfect </span><i><span><b>peace</b></span></i><span>;</span><span>
</span><i><b>union of the soul with God (Tauler).</b></i></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b> Colloquy</b></i>. --- Enliven and increase my
faith, most loving Jesus, increase it unceasingly; strengthen my hope
and confidence, Enkindle and inflame my love. O Jesus, the life and
delight of my soul! How unutterable is the love wherewith Thou didst
love me! Who am I, and who art Thou, that Thou dealest with so great
love and mercy towards me? O love incomprehensible! O most sweet
Jesus, how shall I live if I live not for Thee? O Lord, the
principle, the support, the end of my life! Grant, I beseech Thee,
dear Jesus, that I may live for Thee alone --- “<i><b>Amorem tui solum”
</b></i>--- that I may live from this day, henceforth, united to Thee, that I
may live through Thee and for Thee, to the glory and joy of Thy
Sacred Heart.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Assist me, most kind Lord, that I may prove my love
for Thee indeed, and may ever derive from Holy Communion abundant
fruit of sanctification. This is my whole desire, that my heart may
be united to Thee. O that with Thy Presence Thou wouldst set me all
on fire, burn and transform me into Thyself, that I may be made one
spirit with Thee by the grace of internal union and by the melting of
ardent love.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Ack.'Meditation on the Passion', compiled by
Rev Reginald Walsh O.P. --- published by Burns, Oates, and
Washbourne, London, in </span><span style="font-size: large;">1922)</span></span></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-46318448938358892462021-03-08T23:20:00.017+00:002021-03-11T18:28:36.875+00:00'Meditation on the Passion - the Supper at Simon's House'<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OGgMoFcDVHE/YEWFRCtZYwI/AAAAAAAAFAE/XQFvSwgVKt0DgTMe8c9siq86McTnIm06wCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Christ%2527s%2BAgony%2Bin%2Bthe%2BGarden%2Bby%2BAndrea_Mantegna%2Bc%2B1460.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OGgMoFcDVHE/YEWFRCtZYwI/AAAAAAAAFAE/XQFvSwgVKt0DgTMe8c9siq86McTnIm06wCLcBGAsYHQ/w409-h320/Christ%2527s%2BAgony%2Bin%2Bthe%2BGarden%2Bby%2BAndrea_Mantegna%2Bc%2B1460.jpg" width="409" /></a></div> <div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b> 'Christ's Agony in the Garden' by Andrea Mantegna (c1460)</b></i></span><br /><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b>'Meditation on the Passion'</b>, compiled from Various Sources, with an Introduction by <b>Rev. Reginald Walsh, O.P.</b> , and published by <b>Burns, Oates, & Washbourne Ltd., London, </b>in <b>1922.</b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In his introduction Father Walsh writes, 'It is hoped that they who love to contemplate and consider what the Word Incarnate suffered for their salvation will find this work useful. Here, in passing, we may say that the Meditation now presented to all, was in its first shape designed and destined for private circulation only.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Member of the <i><b>Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary</b></i>, who, as Mistress of Novices for about thirty years, had gained great experience in the formation of religious as well as in the varied requirements of conventual life, proposed by means of this book to impart to her Sisters the fruit of her own reflections on the Passion, which one so spiritual and enlightened was exceptionally fitted to compile.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As might have been anticipated, the excellence of the work, which she had intended for the use of her Sisters, in course of time became known to several persons in one or other way connected with the Institute of the Blessed Virgin. And among them, some are of opinion that this treasure should no longer be allowed to remain almost hidden in the cloister. They have represented that outside the convents of the Institute there are many devout souls to whom the Meditation would be most acceptable. In accordance with their suggestion, and in compliance with their wish, it is now reprinted.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But in order to increase its utility, so far as persons living in the world are concerned, many passages in the work, as it appeared at first, have been omitted----</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span>those, namely, which were addressed to nuns</span><i><b> as such; </b></i><span><span>also some other incidental clauses have been either omitted or else slightly changed.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">That the book may continue to be a help to advancement in the spiritual life, and become an abundant source of blessings to a still wider circle of readers, is the earnest desire of those who have had to do with its reissue.'</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Reginald Walsh O.P.</b></i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">*****************************</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These are quite long posts, each post dealing with a particular aspect of our Lord's Passion. It will not be possible to cover every aspect on this site, but by alternating posts between this site and its 'alter ego' site 'umblepie', I hope that we can present an acceptable review of our Lord's Passion by the end of Lent. This is the second post, the first appearing on 'umblepie' earlier this month.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> see here:-</span><span style="font-size: 22px;"> </span></h3><div><span style="font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://umblepie-northernterritory.blogspot.com/">umblepie (umblepie-northernterritory.blogspot.com)</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">**********************</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>
THE SUPPER AT SIMON'S HOUSE</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> (Mark xiv. 3-11
John xi. 55)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1</b></span><sup><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>st</b></span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
Prelude: History.</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> --- St John gives us the
circumstances in detail:</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Feast of
Pasch at hand; roads thronged with pilgrims; much talk and enquiry
about our Lord, and even search for Him before His arrival at
Bethany, especially on the part of the ill- disposed. The disturbance
was increased by the High Priest's secret orders --- that whoever
became acquainted with the whereabouts of Jesus was to give
information of it in order that they might arrest Him. The Pharisees
took care to make known this measure of the authorities ---”They
sought therefore for Jesus; and they discoursed one with another
standing in the Temple: what think you, that He is not come to the
festival day? And the Chief Priests and Pharisees had given a
commandment, that if any man knew where He was, he should tell, that
they might apprehend Him” (John xi. 56)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Thus all
preparations were made, and snares set. Jesus' obedience to the law
was to lead Him into the trap. In spite of all these circumstances,
clearly known to Jesus, He came to Bethany six days before the Feast
of the Pasch --- that is, on the Friday before His Passion.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>2</b></span><sup><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>nd</b></span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
Prelude: Composition of Place. </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">--- Bethany,
the house of our Lord's true friends. He knew He was always welcome
there. (Bethany means the house of obedience --- the soul where true
supernatural obedience reigns is always open to receive our Lord.)
Let us keep close to our Lord and note all present --- who are for,
and who are against Jesus. Mark the love of our Lord for Magdalene.
And why?</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>3</b></span><sup><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>rd</b></span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
Prelude: Ask what I want.</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> --- Intimate
knowledge. Never weary of asking this priceless grace. Ask courage
to be most faithful to our dear Lord; to conquer determinately and
perseveringly human respect and every difficulty I may meet in His
Divine service.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Points:
I. The supper at Bethany</span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> II. Disgraceful conduct of Judas</span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> III. Gratitude of Jesus.</span></i></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <b>I.</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <b>THE
SUPPER AT BETHANY.</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b> “The noble
love of Jesus impelleth us to do great things, and exciteth us</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b> always to
desire that which is the more perfect.”</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>(See the
persons; hear the words; note the actions. Reflect and draw profit
from all.)</i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: normal;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-style: normal;"><b>First,
Our dear Lord and Master</b></span>. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span> Probably, Jesus went to stay
with Lazareth </span><span style="text-align: left;">and spent the
Sabbath there. On this Sabbath, however, He received an invitation </span><span style="text-align: left;">to dine at
the house of Simon the leper, who was probably a friend and neighbour
of Lazarus' family, and a disciple of our Lord's. It was there then,
where the banquet was held. Lazarus was amongst the guests. Martha
and Mary and their attendants undertook to wait on them.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b> There are
three important points about this feast or supper: 1) The
beautiful act of Mary; 2) the disgraceful conduct of Judas;
and 3) our Lord's behaviour to them both.</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <b>See
Magdalene.</b> This supper at Simon's house was remarkable for
Mary's act of devotion to our Divine Lord. She brought an alabaster
box of ointment of precious spikenard, and poured it on His Head as
He sat at table, then on His feet. Her gift was very pleasing to our
Lord for three reasons: <b>(a)</b> She gave of her best;<b> (b)</b>
she gave out of pure love; <b>(c)</b> she gave in presence of the
assembled guests, fearlessly, and knowing that men would ridicule and
blame her.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <b>Let us
study this action of Mary -</b>-- <i><b> “Love often knoweth no
measure, but grows fervent above all measure. It can achieve
anything; and it doth perform and effect many things, where he that
loveth not, fainteth and falleth prostrate.</b></i>” In Mary's act
we note three qualities of special beauty.</span></p>
<ol>
<ol>
<ol>
<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Her
generosity. </b> She reserved for herself the privilege of showing
honour to the Divine Guest, and had bought for this purpose a
pound of the purest and most costly spikenard in an alabaster
box, for three hundred pence ---- about ten pounds or fifty
dollars ---- as Judas, the expert, had rightly estimated. These
boxes, or rather vases, were generally made with a long, slender
neck sealed up, which had to be broken off when using the
ointment. So Mary broke the vase, poured some on Jesus' head, and
anointed His feet with the remainder. She did all that
generosity could do.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>She
reveals her loving humility, </b> washing Jesus' feet with her
tears and wiping them with her hair. She shows by this not only
humility, generosity, gratitude, and reverence, but her deep faith
and religious veneration for Jesus. One does not treat a mere man
in this manner, but God alone.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It
was an act of homage shown to Him as God</b> --- Who can fathom
the fervour, love, and devotion with which she did it? The house,
St John tells us, was filled with the odour of the ointment --- a
figure of the effect of love and generosity on the soul. I can
model my daily life on this example --- <i><b>“Love when wearied
is not tired; when straitened is not constrained; when frightened
is not disturbed; but like a vivid flame and a burning torch, it
mounts upwards, and securely passes through all.”</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It says, O
my God, my Love, Thou art all mine, and I am all Thine. Lord
Jesus, enlarge Thou me in love, that I may learn to taste with the
interior mouth of the heart how sweet it is to love, and to be
dissolved and to bathe in love. O Jesus, my dear Master, what
marvellous, what divine mercy and love Thou dost show to me! How
good Thou art to look on me and permit me to belong to Thee. And
--- lest, perhaps, I might doubt whether it be allowed to me, a
wretched creature, to aspire to a place in Thy Divine Heart ---
Thou hast commanded me to love Thee, And shall I not, O most
sweet Jesus, love Thee? Shall I not hold Thee supremely dear?
Yes, O dear Lord, with all my heart will I love Thee. All that I
am, all that I possess, all I desire in this world, is Thy love
and Thy grace, and I am rich enough, I have nothing more to ask
--- </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Amorem Tui solum!</b></i></span></span></p>
<ol>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mary,
Mother of Divine love, Mother of Jesus, turn thine eyes of mercy
towards me. O Mary Immaculate! Make my heart like unto thine,
then I shall be able to see Jesus, and from seeing Him, to know
and love Him. Mother, I have need of thee. Give me to Jesus!</span></p></ol></li></ol></ol></ol><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3NF77CqA3R4/YEavwB_DpCI/AAAAAAAAFAM/r8zZWcj5iH0iln5retSNOC4ZC61uwXOfQCLcBGAsYHQ/s622/Mary%2B-%2BBida.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="622" height="272" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3NF77CqA3R4/YEavwB_DpCI/AAAAAAAAFAM/r8zZWcj5iH0iln5retSNOC4ZC61uwXOfQCLcBGAsYHQ/w384-h272/Mary%2B-%2BBida.png" width="384" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b>'Mary Magdalene washes the feet of Jesus' by Bida.</b></i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>II</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <b>DISGRACEFUL
CONDUCT OF JUDAS</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <b>“Where
a man seeketh himself, there he falleth from love”</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <b>Note the
behaviour of Judas.</b> His conduct on this occasion forms an
unworthy, nay a disgraceful contrast to Mary's. The love and
religious veneration shown by her to our Lord annoys him, he
considers it unfounded and excessive.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It is nothing
but hypocrisy, when he says that the ointment would have procured
alms for the poor --- “Why was not this ointment sold for three
hundred pence, and given to the poor?” “Now, he said this, not
because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having
the purse, carried the things that were put therein.” (John xii.
5-6). Judas' words were prompted by a low, mean disposition,
indifference, unbelief, and aversion to our Saviour; he murmurs,
reproves, and calls it senseless waste: “To what purpose was this
waste?” (Matt.xvi. 8). It was pure covetousness and a desire of
theft. Judas kept the money given to our Lord and His disciples for
the poor, and stole from the bag; he only wished Mary had given the
price of the ointment, because he might have kept a part or the whole
of it for himself. Judas makes himself the mouthpiece of discontent,
and disguises his ill-humour under a hypocritical semblance of
charity. Mercenary, covetous, crafty, coarse, and selfish, his heart
had remained impervious to the teachings and the influence of Jesus;
all the holiness and love of Jesus had not altered him--- he hardened
his heart against grace and remained unsubdued by the goodness of
God.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Our Lord
cannot bear anyone to be unjustly accused, and now He takes
Magdalene's part: “<i><b>Let her alone</b></i>,” He says, “<i><b>she
has wrought a good work upon Me. For the poor you have always with
you; but Me you have not always She is come beforehand to anoint My
body for the burial.” </b></i>Did Magdalene understand our Lord's
words? It is certain she did not. For she and the other holy women
went to the Tomb in order to anoint the body of Jesus. Did she know
that the Sacred body of our Lord would be dead before the fragrance
of her spikenard had left it? A penitent like Mary gets very near
the Sacred Heart --- “Blessed is he, who,” like her, “knows
what it is to love Jesus, and to despise himself for the love of
Jesus,”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;">Picture to yourself our Lord's feelings as Judas uttered these words:</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>“</i><span><i>Why was
not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the
poor?</i>” See the indignation of Peter, John, and the other
disciples, as they hear the words of Judas. What would I have felt
had I had been present, and known and loved our Lord as these
faithful, devoted servants loved Him? What would I have done?</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span> I do
well</span><span> </span><span style="text-align: left;">to ask, have
I ever acted in a like disloyal manner towards my Divine Master?
What atonement have I made--- what loving reparation for my
insincerity in His service? What ought I to do? What have I to say
to Him now?</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <b>Colloquy</b>.
--- O my dear Lord, how often I have been disloyal and most
ungrateful to Thee. Have pity on me, my Jesus, pardon the past.
Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me Thy true and devoted servant
--- that is my one desire. O Jesus, Master, kindle in my heart the
fire which Thou camest to cast on earth, that I may love Thee more
ardently, that I may be more perfectly conformed to Thee, that I may
follow Thee more closely.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span> O Mother of
Jesus, I implore of thee to cover me with the mantle of thy
Immaculate purity, that so I may be able to love thy Divine Son more
absolutely. </span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Renew me
wholly, I entreat thee, my dear Mother; help me to get rid of my
slothful, </span><span style="text-align: left;">ungenerous,
cowardly spirit; win for me, O my Mother, a fulness of the Holy
Spirit, that He may cleanse my heart, and inflame it with an
ever-increasing, an ever-glowing love --- ever cheerful --- a love
that will never suffer me to grow sluggish; but urge me on strongly
and gently to a more perfect imitation of thyself, who art the Mother
of divine love, and my own dear Mother too. O Mother, be propitious
to me --- give me Jesus.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Enlighten
me, O good Jesus, with the brightness of eternal light, and cast out
all darkness from the dwelling of my heart. Lift up my heart to
Thee, and suffer me not to wander from Thee. Be Thou, my Jesus, my
Blessed Lord and Master; be Thou alone pleasing to me, henceforth for
evermore. Turn into bitterness for me all carnal consolation; make
me, Lord Jesus, a true and loyal servant --- ready to suffer and die
for Thee.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b> III</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>
GRATITUDE OF JESUS</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b>
“ I know Mine and Mine know me”</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b> </b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Notice
the gratitude of the Heart of Jesus. A little box of ointment poured
on His feet earns for the donor a commemoration of her gift wherever
the Gospel shall be preached in the whole world ---</span></span><b><i>
“Amen I say to you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in
the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a
memory of her” (Matt.xxvi. 13)</i></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> And not only this: it obtains for her also many graces
on earth and great glory in Heaven. There is no-one so grateful as
Jesus Christ; no-one who will reward with such divine generosity
everything done from love of Him. Nothing will be forgotten, nothing
is too small to be noticed and richly recompensed by Him --- our dear
Lord!</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Let me watch and try to understand our Lord's love for
souls wholly devoted to Him</b>.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-style: normal;">First,</span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Jesus takes Mary's part against Judas: </span></span><i><b>“Let her
alone, why do you molest</b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span><b><i>her?” (John xii. 7)</i></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
“Our God is a faithful God” --- He will always stand by those
who are devoted to Him. I have nothing to fear from my enemies ---
the devil, the world, or my own evil inclinations, if I am devoted to
Him like Mary.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-style: normal;">Secondly</span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
Jesus expressly declares that she has wrought a good work upon Him,
and proves it by refuting the objection made on behalf of the poor
--- “</span></span><i><b>The</b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span><b><i>poor you have always with you; but Me you have
not always.</i></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">”
Jesus is poor and stands far above all other poor; indeed, it is
only for His sake that people do good to them, and now it is the very
time to perform good works for Him, since He is about to go away,
whilst the poor never leave us. Jesus develops from this last
thought a very touching motive to account for Mary's action in His
regard. She has anointed Him for His burial as the Evangelists, St
Mathew and St Mark, plainly tell us.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> It appears that Mary did not know the deep meaning of
this anointing beforehand. At all events her loving heart in this
matter obeyed the inspiration of Providence.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> The manner in which Mary and Judas are represented in
this incident affords us matter for deep thought and earnest
consideration. How different, how entirely opposite, are the paths
they tread! Where did they both begin and where do they end?</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Judas, the Apostle, chosen friend and companion of Jesus
--- now an unbeliever, a thief, and a traitor. Magdalen, a poor
sinner notorious for her evil life, now the generous disciple of
Jesus, glowing with love for Him! Alas, how often it happens that
while some rise from the lowest depth to holiness, others fall from
Heaven to hell! How great reason we all have to dread and distrust
our own inconstant nature, and to strive earnestly to keep close to
our Lord and our Immaculate Mother. See how gently, calmly, and with
what moderation Jesus defends His own cause and Mary's against this
base man and his reproach.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> What did Judas deserve? Yet how quietly and tenderly
Jesus speaks! Calvary and the sepulchre are ever present to Him, and
yet how patient, how loving, how large-hearted Jesus is in His
dealings with the traitor! Oh tender, compassionate Heart of Jesus, make my heart like to Thine! What precious lessons Jesus, my Divine
Master, here gives me.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-style: normal;">Colloquy-</span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">--
What have I to say to our Lord? What would I have said and done had
I been present? Let me offer Jesus all the love and sympathy of my
heart and beg courage, strength of will, and fidelity to Him, under
all circumstances, till death. Remember, love is proved by deeds.
How true a friend Jesus is to His own! Shall I not, like Magdalene,
be true to Him --- give of my best; give fearlessly and from purest
love?</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Ask this grace from the loving heart of Jesus through
the Immaculate Heart of Mary ---- “Mother, I have need of thee!”</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> (to be continued)</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
</p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b>(from 'Meditation on the Passion' compiled from various
sources by Rev Reginald Walsh O.P. and published by Burns, Oates, and
Washbourne, London, 1922)</b></i></span></p></div>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-3585308588790203912021-01-08T16:47:00.003+00:002021-01-10T22:36:14.849+00:00Important clarification regarding Covid-19 vaccines, made or tested using cell lines from aborted foetuses.<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The following article appeared today on the web-site <b><i>'Abyssa Abyssum Invocat',</i></b> the article itself being reproduced from the<b><i> 'Children of God for Life' </i></b>website, which deals in depth with the question of the currently available Covid-19 vaccines, made or tested using cell lines from aborted foetuses. There has been much confusion about the moral legitimacy or other-wise, of these vaccines, and this article considers all known facts concerning the individual vaccines, and includes in detail the official teaching of the Catholic Church on this matter. The 'Children of God for Life' is a highly respected Catholic authoritative voice, with many years experience, on all matters appertaining to the ethical practice of pharmaceutical companies in relation to the manufacture of their products, especially as to whether and to what degree they are manufactured or tested using cell lines from aborted foetuses. The article is comprehensive and quite long, but clear and understandable in its conclusions, and offers a sound foundation on which to base our moral decisions on these matters. Strongly recommended.</span></p><p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100%px;">
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Testing and Production are Ethically Equal</a> </span>by <span style="color: #2585b2;"><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcogforlife.org%2F%3Fauthor%3D7&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842445519%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=brPJrm9JeqmVSCcZyg2u5Ws30AABl2idO1XRtrHGSEI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Stacy Trasancos</a></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
phrase “confirmatory testing” has been invoked as the basis for the ethical
consideration of the three lead COVID-19 vaccines, Moderna, Pfizer, and
AstraZeneca. Moderna and Pfizer are considered more morally permissible
because their connection to abortion is very remote since they only used an
aborted fetal cell line in something called “a confirmatory test.”
AstraZeneca, in contrast, grows the vaccine in fetal cell lines in an ongoing
way, and moral theologians say it should be avoided in favor of Moderna or
Pfizer.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This critical phrase, “confirmatory test,” is due for an examination.
I will argue that testing and production are ethically equal if the testing
is ongoing. The purpose of this argument is to put aside the COVID-19 ethical
debates and unite as one voice to call for an end to the use of aborted
children in research.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Point 1</b>: "Remote cooperation in evil" is not a
new term. To quickly review the ethics, the moral liceity of using vaccines
produced in fetal cell lines is not a new judgment. The <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcogforlife.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F04%2Fvaticanresponse1.pdf&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842445519%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=t0fsM3U%2F%2B7nvHa%2F8cSw9rh%2Btk1SF7tGIO8MHV6F5ZAA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">Pontifical Academy for Life</span></a> in
2005, and three years later in 2008 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith in its “Instruction <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vatican.va%2Froman_curia%2Fcongregations%2Fcfaith%2Fdocuments%2Frc_con_cfaith_doc_20081208_dignitas-personae_en.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842455513%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=oCFjpjG9N4ljZ0qDr3c%2ByN6I6a0Xs5Ubj9HmpuaUNJY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #2585b2; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Dignitas
Personae</span></em></a> on Certain Bioethical Questions,” provided
guidelines for Catholics on the permissibility of receiving vaccines whose
origins are connected with cells coming from an aborted child. Such vaccines
were deemed morally <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">illicit</span></em>, but
their use is morally <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">licit</span></em> in
certain situations because the patient's use is only "remote cooperation
in evil." It is not, after all, the fault of the patient that
researchers, industries, and government provide no alternative. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Permission for
using unethically produced vaccines comes with obligations, however. Use is
only licit if:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1) the need to protect individuals and populations is grave,<br />
2) there is no alternative,<br />
3) we continue to reject the evil of abortion and the use of aborted children
in research. Parents and doctors have been operating under these guidelines
for several decades. At both an individual and a social level, it is
difficult to, on one hand, accept the vaccines while, on the other hand,
reject them. At the individual level, the faithful must exercise prudential judgment.
Just like the Church does not dictate whom to marry or how many children to
raise, the Church provides moral guidance on vaccines. <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">We all must make our own decision</span></em>.
To do that about vaccines, we need good scientific information too. At a
social level, it is undeniably harder to make the case against abortion and
the use of aborted children in research when moral theologians have made it
known that benefiting from these practices can be morally licit</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>.Point 2</b>:
Moral assessment depends on accurate information.To navigate the morality of
novel situations in challenging times, accurate information is necessary. A
review of the science seems warranted, especially since so much information has
been circulating and we now have some benefit of hindsight. Traditional
attenuated virus vaccines are grown in cells. Much like a seed needs soil to
grow, the weakened form of the viruses for vaccines need a medium to grow.
Vaccines that are grown in HEK293, or any other abortion-derived cells, are
morally illicit. HEK293 cells are a cell line derived from a healthy aborted
child in the 1970s. The cells were cultured by scientist Alex Van der Eb and
Frank Graham in their lab at the University of Leiden, Holland. The <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hek293.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842455513%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=3C66rbTPde8eVeyeWem9ymVRaPc%2BNUnvgJYSTzMdRZ0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">name</span></a> HEK stands
for “human embryonic kidney,” the 293rd experiment. It is worth noting
that these were not early embryos as we use the word today but what we now
identify as fetuses. The aborted child had to be old enough for the adrenal
organs to have developed. The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are new kinds of
vaccines called mRNA vaccines. These are not grown in cells but synthesized
as molecules. The mRNA is coated in a nanolipid and injected into the body
where it synthesizes (expresses) the spike protein (an antigen). The immune
system responds with antibodies. The spike protein is the part of the
coronavirus that interacts with the body’s cells, so if the immune system
builds up antibodies to the spike antigen, we are protected against the whole
COVID-19 virus.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On August 5, 2020, the pre-clinical trials for the Moderna
vaccine were published in the journal <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Nature</span></em>,
“<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41586-020-2622-0_reference.pdf&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842455513%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=WA98Xj9XR6PgXKFGv50BKCw7Wy9WjXZoxJIZizxFEik%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine design
enabled by prototype pathogen preparedness</span></a>.” The team of
researchers described testing protocols. According to the methods section,
the <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">in vitro</span></em> mRNA
expression lab tests were done by transiently transfecting (introducing)
HEK293 cells with mRNA that encodes for the spike protein. They did this test
to see if the mRNA would make the spike protein in the cells like it is
supposed to do in the body. The team also tested the vaccine on mice and
demonstrated that it induced antibodies against COVID-19 infection .Likewise,
on September 8, 2020, Pfizer’s team published their pre-clinical trials, “<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biorxiv.org%2Fcontent%2F10.1101%2F2020.09.08.280818v1.full.pdf&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842465512%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=U9Gt5ePJaG85G0G%2BdpGVJHUrKYjnYTO%2FPkY2rJfrFPc%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">A prefusion SARS-CoV-2 spike RNA
vaccine is highly immunogenic and prevents lung infection in non-human
primates</span></a>.” They also reported results from <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">in vitro</span></em> mRNA
expression lab tests. The mRNA molecule was incubated in HEK293 cells
followed by structural characterization of the expressed protein. Tests in
rhesus macaques and mice were also successful .Both Moderna and Pfizer, then,
claim to use HEK293 in <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">in
vitro</span></em> lab testing for their vaccines.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Point 3:</b> Focus on
"confirmatory testing" derailed the ethics. The <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">in vitro</span></em> testing was
ignored for the most part. Back in May of 2020, the Charlotte Lozier
Institute had claimed that both the Moderna and the Pfizer vaccines are “<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flozierinstitute.org%2Fan-ethics-assessment-of-covid-19-vaccine-programs%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842465512%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Oqr3zzmlWTeREGCg4gKIZPYT19qOoD0YXcfZMnkDY6I%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">ethically uncontroversial</span></a>”
because they do not use fetal cell lines. An mRNA vaccine is not grown in
cells like traditional vaccines are, so it seemed at the time, perhaps, that
the ethical issue had been avoided. At the end of September, nearly two months
after the Moderna report and one month after the Pfizer (mentioned above),
Charlotte Lozier updated their summary to say that Moderna and Pfizer use the
HEK293 fetal cell line in research and something called “<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flozierinstitute.org%2Fupdate-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-and-abortion-derived-cell-lines%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842475508%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=uLnbYVPg8%2BVWmzoyf%2BIE8tO7mNJU50AZpNy6enQohAY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">confirmatory testing</span></a>.”
This term was not, at that time, defined in terms of exactly what the
researchers were doing in the laboratory. Unfortunately the term was
interpreted by Catholic scientists, bioethicists, and theologians as a <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">one-time test</span></em>, which was
taken to mean that the connection to abortion was doubly or triply remote
because not only did the vaccine not touch the cells, it was not produced in
the fetal cell line in an ongoing way. By mid-November as the phase III trials
were completed on thousands of people, the message spread rapidly that the
Moderna and Pfizer vaccine pose no ethical issues, again, without any
specific definition of the meaning of “confirmatory test.” Meanwhile
Moderna’s stock went from $67 per share on October 30 to $170 by December 8,
2020.To be clear, it is not apparent whether there is any causation to this
correlation, but this much is a fact of history now. The bioethicists, moral
theologians, and clergy did not question the meaning of this phrase
"confirmatory testing" as the message spread widely that these
vaccines are ethically uncontroversial. It began as reports of successful
phase III trials for Moderna were published on November 16. Wesley J. Smith
of the Discovery Institute wrote at <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">National
Review</span></em> that “<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Fcorner%2Fmoderna-covid-vaccine-did-not-use-fetal-cells%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842475508%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=GjVBZHdU%2BgIaDgwxyhfx5lBXuCBzpB3UtRfTvob2ktM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">Moderna COVID Vaccine Did Not Use
Fetal Cells</span></a>,” citing the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute. On
November 17, Dr. John Brehany, director of institutional relations at the
National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), was quoted by the Catholic News
Agency in “<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.catholicnewsagency.com%2Fnews%2Fthe-ethics-of-modernas-coronavirus-vaccine-80858&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842485501%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=nCdnhNeRq7IONJNk5WX%2F8GRqKzH7gcZxbzHDne9ptQI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">The ethics of Moderna’s
coronavirus vaccine</span></a>” as saying that while Moderna has some
association with the use of cell lines from elective abortions, “its vaccine
was not produced using HEK293 cells.” On November 18, Zelda Caldwell wrote at
Aleteia that “<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faleteia.org%2F2020%2F11%2F18%2Fboth-moderna-and-pfizers-coronavirus-vaccines-made-without-fetal-cells%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842485501%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=lmPBaFLXzq6G%2FkVcHVJrrctscFO6hjavlALuoF%2FVphY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">Both Moderna and Pfizer’s
coronavirus vaccines were made without fetal cells</span></a>,” again citing
the Charlotte Lozier Institute. The author stated, “Unlike some other
vaccines in development, both vaccines were made without the use of fetal
cells, or for that matter, any cells at all.” On November 22, Public
Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute founded by Ryan Anderson,
published an article by Fr. Matthew Schneider, “<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepublicdiscourse.com%2F2020%2F11%2F72866%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842495498%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=1KRu0lEHgBL7E7w82HCNAPEfq8XH%2BMYgy1GFzxdGq6M%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">Vaccines and Doubly Remote
Cooperation in Evil</span></a>,” claiming that “both the Pfizer and Moderna
vaccines seem to pose no significant moral concern.” Fr. Schneider cited the
Charlotte Lozier Institute stating that the difference between production and
testing provides another level of remoteness. If HEK293 is used in testing,
he reasoned, it is not morally problematic because “a test is done once and
is already completed by the time you get vaccinated.” Many more authors
commented from there, too many to list. The NCBC published a statement on
December 8 titled “<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublic-api.wordpress.com%2Fbar%2F%3Fstat%3Dgroovemails-events%26bin%3Dwpcom_email_click%26redirect_to%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fabyssum.files.wordpress.com%252F2021%252F01%252F374c2-ncbcvaccinestatementfinal.pdf%26sr%3D1%26signature%3D5e2d7080c58b2ce38be81ccc3c142f6a%26user%3D9d36d326b48df36c6c44978aa8500f72%26_e%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%2FX2VudmVsb3BlPTEmZW52aXJvbm1lbnQtaWQ9cHJvZHVjdGlvbiZfZ3V0ZW5iZXJnX25vbmNlPWVjZTRlNWIwYWQmX2xvY2FsZT11c2VyIiwiX2VuIjoid3Bjb21fZW1haWxfY2xpY2siLCJfdHMiOjE2MTAwNzA5ODIzOTMsImJyb3dzZXJfdHlwZSI6InBocC1hZ2VudCIsIl9hdWEiOiJ3cGNvbS10cmFja3MtY2xpZW50LXYwLjMiLCJfdWwiOm51bGwsImJsb2dfdHoiOiItNiIsInVzZXJfbGFuZyI6bnVsbH0%26_z%3Dz&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842495498%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=n1NQAKtPshmNN9d10Y5U8tfwCAxcB1PRvwoWNCK0KL4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">Points to Consider on the Use of
COVID-19 Vaccines</span></a>.” The language was repeated, saying that these
two vaccines “do not use abortion derived cell lines in the manufacturing
process but did use them at one point in development, such as for
confirmatory testing.” NCBC said they are “preferable to those that utilize
abortion-derived cell lines in more than one phase of development and, in
particular, in the manufacturing process .”This message spread throughout the
United States and even to the Vatican. <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcruxnow.com%2Fvatican%2F2020%2F12%2Fvatican-will-offer-pfizer-vaccine-against-covid-19-to-employees%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842505490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=U%2BPOqJsiig5ExSxaqaA5vjTmkoJbkZqHl%2F4FxUrPucs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">Crux reported</span></a>: “The
Pontifical Academy for Life and Catholic bishops around the world, including
the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees, have said
it is not immoral to be vaccinated with vaccines like the Pfizer/BioNTech
product because any connection they have to aborted fetuses is extremely
remote. Such cells derived from those fetuses were used only in a testing
phase but not in the production phase.” On December 11, the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released a statement, “<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usccb.org%2Fmoral-considerations-covid-vaccines&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842505490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=uXQsv2H2qrYhbXpf4hqw1u6XlFLH60ab1r9hrr3fle0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">Moral Considerations Regarding
the New COVID-19 Vaccines</span></a>,” echoing the idea that some
pharmaceutical companies are “making use of a morally compromised cell line
only for a confirmatory test of the vaccine’s efficacy.” The language was
repeated in <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.arlingtondiocese.org%2Fpress-releases%2F2020%2Fusccb--u-s--bishop-chairmen-for-pro-life-and-doctrine-address-ethical-concerns--on-the-new-covid-19-vaccines%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842515480%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=AEjfHv0FX2mqCssAs8AaGJ0%2FY2ONfe1FHNh4cQfkJS4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">diocese</span></a> after <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faustindiocese.org%2Fpastoral-message-to-the-faithful-regarding-recently-released-vaccines-for-covid-19&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842515480%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2FCzK1NpkuWZO8JLyauQWw6uudgfF1xZoT9Ntgofo2DM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">diocese</span></a> after <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fus%2Fdiocese-of-phoenix-says-only-2-covid-19-vaccines-are-morally-acceptable%2Far-BB1c2EDq%3Focid%3Duxbndlbing&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842525475%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=WBM3XZRyOKJwYQrsS4Ptx3uNwiTjgvCQF54YMW%2BlyaQ%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">diocese</span></a> (<em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">etcetera</span></em>) as encouragement
to use the Moderna or Pfizer instead of other vaccines grown in fetal cell
lines spread. The bishops found the AstraZeneca vaccine to be “more morally
compromised” and consequently concluded that this vaccine “should be avoided”
if there are alternatives available .At a time when Catholics should have been
united with one voice demanding that the market provide ethically produced
vaccines, we instead missed the moment to effectively protest.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Point 4: </b><em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Ongoing</span></em> quality
control testing is the determining factor. So, what kind of testing is
done <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">during production</span></em>?
That is the critical question relevant to the moral assessment. The answer
is: we do not know, but we can look in the scientific reports linked above
for an idea. The <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">in
vitro</span></em> lab tests described in both Moderna’s and Pfizer’s
pre-clinical trial reports were <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">not
ever claimed to be a one-time confirmatory test</span></em>, not even by the
companies themselves. No one used that language except the Charlotte Lozier
Institute and those who referenced them. Typically, in research and
development, scientists use pure knowledge gained from the scientific method
(research) and apply it to solve problems. Once a potential product has been
identified, work to bring the product to market (development) begins. If that
is successful, the goal is then to figure out how to scale up the lab
synthesis to a manufacturing facility, the same way a cook scales up a recipe
to feed a crowd. Small problems are magnified when you go from feeding four
to feeding four hundred, and they need their own solutions .For the mRNA
vaccines, it only makes sense that the <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">in vitro</span></em> lab test (described above)
would also become an essential part of the production process for ensuring
the vaccine is produced as it was designed in the laboratory, especially a
development that was as rushed as the COVID-19 vaccines to distribute globally.
In manufacturing, this production testing is commonly known as quality
control (QC) testing. Even bottling water requires strict quality control
testing. Therefore, when an R&D project is scaled up to production, it is
standard practice to migrate the same lab tests from research and development
to quality control. That is, simply, how the scientists and engineers know
they are making the same product as designed in the lab. Quality control
testing is not separate from, or ancillary to, production; to repeat, <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">it is essential to production</span></em>,
a mature applied science unto itself, existential to manufacturing. Imagine
the consequences if a pharmaceutical company started producing vaccines
without ongoing testing! The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fvaccines%2Fhcp%2Fconversations%2Fensuring-safe-vaccines.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842525475%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=YIR5JPgkQFsw20PHqmKM7VaON6RoGaZWvfoaZFGEzyA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">explains how a new vaccine is
developed</span></a> and approved for manufacturing. Moderna’s and
Pfizer’s pre-clinical trials follow the plan. Vaccine development is done in
the laboratory before tests are done on animals and then humans. The Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) also must approve manufacturing to make sure they
comply with the “<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fda.gov%2Fdrugs%2Fpharmaceutical-quality-resources%2Ffacts-about-current-good-manufacturing-practices-cgmps&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842535469%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=OUBM9HDQMzLNYK3qdTMzWRdHcFGr%2B1t2ltuB%2B8%2FXcwA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">Current Good Manufacturing
Practice</span></a>” regulations. The FDA regulates the quality of
pharmaceuticals very carefully because batches of medicines must meet quality
standards to ensure safety and effectiveness. Quality control testing is key.
The new vaccines for COVID-19 are being rushed to production under an
emergency approval process, so we do not know what the licensed manufacturing
plan will be. Since the HEK293 cell line is used in the <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">in vitro</span></em> lab test, it
stands to reason that it is part of the production process to ensure the mRNA
is synthesized and performs as expected. Some bioethicists have argued that
the remoteness lies in the fact that the vaccine injected into the body does
not contain fetal cells or touch fetal cells, but this is irrelevant to the
ethical question. The determining criteria is <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">whether the aborted fetal cell line is
used in ongoing production </span></em>.Hence: Quality control testing and
production are ethically equal. To summarize, if the <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">in vitro</span></em> lab test is
part of the production manufacturing protocol, and it almost certainly is,
then the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are no different ethically than the
AstraZeneca vaccine or any other vaccine grown in fetal cell lines. In both
cases, the production of the vaccine depends on the ongoing use of the
illicit fetal cell line. To accept the vaccine means accepting the continued
use of cells originating from an aborted child. Given the <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FStacyTrasancos%2Fstatus%2F1339374826113396737&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842535469%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=FnMAybFg%2BNHn5tAY9KaaY6JlmEt92%2Bjebf%2B5oIt%2BbQA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">horrifying way aborted children
are still being butchered</span></a> for scientific research, we cannot
be complacent. So: Stick with zero-tolerance of abortion .It is troubling that
the moral assessment of the COVID-19 vaccines depended on the use of an
ambiguous term. Such vagueness renders individual prudential judgement
impossible. More so, it has cost us in the effort for social change toward
the sanctity of life How will Catholics effectively protest the use of aborted
children in research when industry, university, and government officials know
that Church leaders will deem it morally licit for the 77 million US
Catholics to benefit from such research without much of a critical
assessment? There is a solution though .When I was a home-schooling mom, we had
a saying among us about evil. We used it when our kids wanted to argue that a
little wrong should be okay. "It's like poop in brownies," we
saliently said. "If I baked you a pan of brownies and told you that I accidently
got some of the baby's poop in the mix while stirring the batter, would you
eat a brownie from the pan? "Obviously, no. It does not matter if there
is the tiniest smudge of poop, or if there is one or two bigger chunks,
nobody is having it. In the professional realm, we call this
"zero-tolerance." A company that has a zero-tolerance policy for
sexual abuse, for example, is not going to engage in a debate about whether
one case of employee abuse is acceptable while two or three would cross a
line. <em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">None</span></em> of
it is acceptable. To bring this idea into the COVID-19 vaccine and aborted
fetal cell line debate, I propose that the pro-life community get back
zero-tolerance of the evil of abortion. We should stop arguing about whether
testing is better than production and specifically demand that all testing
and production be ethically performed. And then we should focus our energy on
demanding an end to the use of aborted children in research and an end to
abortion absolutely. As the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith instruct, that should have been the guiding
principle all along .<em><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Stacy
Trasancos</span></b></em><em><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> is
executive director of St. Philip Institute, chief research officer of
Children of God for Life. She was senior research chemist at DuPont, has a
PhD in chemistry, MA in dogmatic theology, and seven children .</span></em><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcogforlife.org%2F%3Fauthor%3D7&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac57a866318c43bacd9f08d8b37899cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637456677842535469%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Z2VTS4Y9sQFZzds2v0ojroyrTAORU9%2Bz7mLLmVGQEyY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2585b2;">Stacy Trasancos</span></a></span></strong> |
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">With grateful acknowledgement to 'Children of God for Life' and 'Abyssa Abyssum Invocat'</span></i></b></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-3941166326985199512020-12-28T01:53:00.002+00:002020-12-28T02:02:28.703+00:00 'The Happy Prince' is good cheer!<p> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I realise that the role
and purpose of the media is to report news to the people, but am I
alone in thinking that these days virtually everything considered
newsworthy is 'bad' news, calculated to depress and spread fear and
confusion to readers and viewers. The worldwide corona-19 virus with
its apparently infinite number of possible mutations, but strangely
coherent spread throughout the world, the uncertainty of the Brexit
negotiations, the corruption endemic in the Presidential election in
the USA with its fearful Godless consequences envisaged by those
many good people who care but who are virtually helpless to prevent
it; all these scenarios fit ideally into the strategy of those
powerful interests planning the great Reset and intent on One-world
government, with its design of universal control over all peoples.
The strategy appears to have started according to plan, with nations
falling over themselves to vaccinate everybody against covid-19,
using vaccines which are not fully tested, many of which utilise
foetal cells from aborted babies in their testing and/or manufacture,
and the contents of which have not been fully revealed by the
manufacturers, leading to great suspicion and distrust as to what is
actually being injected into people's bodies. Control, control,
control, is becoming more and more the mantra of the UK, Scottish,
and other governments, who rigidly follow the advice given by their
respective team of scientists and so-called medical experts,
regardless of the increasingly evident signs that lockdowns, spacing
and masks, whilst possibly effective in specific circumstances, as a
general policy enacted on a mass population scale, combine to cause
far more harm to people and society generally, than the disease
itself. Recently I read an article by an eminent virologist, who
stated that SAGE the UK advisory group of scientists and medical
'experts', did not have a fully qualified specialist and experienced
virologist in its ranks, but did include four mathematicians! If this
imbalance is true, then clearly the advice from SAGE on which the
government acts, could have serious limitations, and could even be
wrong. I also read recently that in at least two South American
countries, I think maybe Chile and Peru, a medicine very cheap and
simple to produce, had been found to be highly successful in the
treatment of covid-19, particularly if taken in the early stages.
Apparently this medicine is being more and more widely used, with a
very high success rate, and I wonder why we in the UK do not seem to
have shared this success, or even to have generally heard of it
through the media. Is it because the vested interests behind our
vaccination programmes, are profiting by perhaps millions if not
billions of pounds, and would prefer that cheap, more effective and
accessible alternatives to their vaccines, be kept out of sight and
out of mind? Of course my understanding of events may be totally
wrong, in which case I apologise and am quite prepared to take back
what I say. On the other hand my understanding, though limited, may
be somewhere near the truth! By the way, where does Almighty God, the
Creator of the Universe and of all mankind, come into man's thinking?
We should be on our knees begging God's forgiveness and mercy for the
terrible sins of mankind, not least for the millions of unborn babies
murdered annually in 'legalised' abortions throughout the world. The
sheer hypocrisy of nations who casually allow abortion effectively on
demand, yet impose personal and socially damaging lifestyles on whole
societies, in order that relatively few (in comparison with the
number of aborted babies) people do not become affected by the virus.
No remorse for the aborted babies, but pull out all the stops to
vaccinate everyone, at enormous cost to governments and enormous
profits for the pharmaceutical companies. We should have a nationwide
recourse to prayer, public prayer if possible, asking Almighty God to
forgive us our sins, and begging His mercy on our country and the
world.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I have felt the need to
put some of my rather haphazard thoughts to paper, but the impetus
for this was provided by an article in a recent edition of the Daily
Telegraph, written by Tim Stanley, which I found quite moving. It
provided the exact opposite effect to the normal negative and
depressing fare served up daily by the media, and my immediate
thought was to share it with others. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> So here we go:-</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"If you are looking for a
good Christmas read, let me suggest Oscar Wilde's short story<i> <b>The
Happy Prince.</b></i><b><i> </i></b>Wilde has not been
served well by his posthumous reputation as an LGBTQ victim: it's one
dimensional. He was also a father, a Christian and a socialist, the
seriousness of these things softened with wit. Oscar was quite right
to observe that socialism would never work because it takes up too
many evenings.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> In
this marvellous children's story, a swallow on its way to Egypt for
the winter </span><span style="font-size: large;">stops
to rest on the statue of a prince, decorated with jewels and gold.
The statue is sad. From his great height he can see all the poverty
in the city and he wants to fix it.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He
persuades the bird to peck off his finery and donate it to the poor,
which the bird does reluctantly at first but then takes joy in their
mission and ignores the coming cold. Eventually the statue has lost
all its colour; the swallow dies at its feet. The city elects to melt
the prince down for scrap.</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Wilde
captures the agony and the ecstasy of Christianity. The agony is the
fear that you have never done enough; the prince and the swallow give
and give until they have literally given themselves. The ecstasy
comes not in this life but the next. God asks one of His angels to
bring Him the two most precious things in the city, and the angel
makes for the dump, where he finds the body of the bird and the
prince's lead heart. “You have rightly chosen,” says God, “for
in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore,
and in my city of gold, the Happy Prince shall praise me.”</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> W.H.Auden
observed that human beings are taught life is “eat or be eaten”,
but that in Christianity, the message is “eat and be eaten”, that
we should present ourselves to each other as a gift, given freely. On
Christmas Day, God gives us His Son and asks for what in return?
Love."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Ack. Tim Stanley
'Daily Telegraph'</b></i></span></p>
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<p style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>'
WISHING ONE AND ALL A HOLY and HAPPY NEW YEAR'</b></span></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-49910411401305816652020-11-19T01:30:00.000+00:002020-11-19T01:30:20.125+00:00'Sergeant O.K.' <p> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>'Sergeant
O.K.'</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me
tell you the story as old Thompson told it, for he was present and I
was not.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> When
the 'Westminsters' went up to the front line in January, 1918, they had
with them in No, 2 Company a great, big, red-headed fellow called
Sergeant O.K. His name was not really O.K., but Smithies, but he was
known as Sergeant O.K. by everyone for miles around, from the Colonel
down to passing units who had lost the way.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Some
said that the Germans opposite were aware of his nickname, and that
one of them, coming face to face with him on a night raid, had at
once shouted “O.K.”, and put up his hands.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> For
Sergeant Smithies said O.K. to everyone and everything: it was “O.K.
Chief”, or “O.K. by me”, or “O.K. to you”, or just “O.K.”
when he was in a hurry. Jenkinson asserted that he answered O.K. on
his wedding day, when asked if he would take Elizabeth Anne for his
wedded wife.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Be
that as it may, O.K. was his one expression, and by the amazing
variation of tone and stress he could put into it, he made these two
humble letters of the alphabet as expressive as twenty good lines
from Hamlet. Scrambling in over the parapet after a wire cutting
expedition, he would hiss O.K. in such a way that the second letter
cocked itself up into a question mark. An answering grunt would bring
another O.K. as eloquent as Deo Gratias. In a word it was his
signature tune.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Sergeant
O.K. was the life and soul of the entire Company. Everyone trusted
him. When one of us was seized with a fit of panic he relied on
Sergeant O.K. to put him right. He would come scrambling along the
duck-boards, smiling and dishing out O.K.s on every side, and the
shivering men about him at once felt a sense of rest. Sergeant O.K.
was so robust and generous in his outlook. I remember once when
young Jackson said something about trying to get resigned to the
noise and the dirt and the fear of wounds, how Sergeant O.K. ticked
him off for it.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Not
so much of your resignation here, lads,” he said, “What we want
is cheerful acquiescence.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Gosh,
what swell words you do use, Sergeant,” chipped in Williamson,
from the door of the dug-out, “do tell us what they mean.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Sergeant
O.K. blew out his lips.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Mean?”
he asked. “O.K., I'll tell you what they mean. They mean that
you must go out to meet your troubles, and not just sit down with
them all heaped on top of you. Pagans do that, pagans are resigned.
But you are Christians, aren't you? Well, put your backs into
whatever comes, unless it's a shell; co-operate with God as you might
say. After all He loves you, doesn't He?”</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Some
of the men used to envy Sergeant O.K.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “It's
all right for blokes like him to talk about acquiescence, he hasn't
got a nerve in his body; he hasn't got a wife and kids at home to
dream about; he hasn't got sore feet. It's alright for him to jaw
away about God, just because he's a blooming Papist and believes in
God, but what do we know about God?”</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Sergeant
O.K. was always roused to eloquence when he heard such remarks.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “O.K.,”
he'd say, pulling at his eyebrows, “just you listen to me. I've
got as pretty a wife as any of you, and two little girls and a motor
bike as well, and I dream of them all. And if I have not got sore
feet, I've got a mighty tired jaw from arguing with you blancmanges;
forgive my accent. As to God, I'm not for monopolising Him, for He
made and loves you all, though why He did the one and still does the
other beats me. But I'll say this, that to my mind it is a proof
that there is a God, that those who trust in Him can go through this
beastly war without sulking, as you pagan chappies do. Bless you,
many a time I've felt like running away or pretending illness; many a
time I've had twinges of pain in my tummy, which were not caused by
bully beef. But I say to myself: 'Smithies, if God wants you, He'll
find you even if you are under twelve layers of sandbags, and if He
does not want you then the Bosch will miss you point blank with an
18-pounder.' You and I do not judge this war so very differently,
save that you can't see the love for all the hate. For you we are
slaves of a hard fate, but I remember something about Christ not
calling us servants but friends.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Besides
you are not so certain that you aren't wrong, whereas I know I'm
O.K.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I
have no doubt now, looking back after thirty years, that Sergeant
O.K. was the greatest influence for good that I have ever seen. We
Catholics felt his faith driving out our fear as we watched him going
about the lines. He was just normal, not foolhardy not strung up,
but a little piece of normal civilisation introduced into the chaos
of Flanders. Even the pagan fellows all around us began to wonder if
there was not a God of love after all. A man does not laugh and joke
and carry the fears of grown men for them unless he is pretty sure
that all is O.K.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Well,
the day came when we had to fall back before the great German
offensive, and in the bustle of the retreat with its panic and
heroism, explosions and groans, no one noticed that Sergeant O.K. had
been hit. He'd been seen at noon by Corporal Wilson, carrying a
wounded Tommy to shelter, but, since then, no-one had laid eyes on
him. Only in the evening, when we were resting wearily in our new
positions, did we see a stretcher being carried back through our
lines. The Padre went to see him as he passed his old Company, and
we all saw him too with the blood soaking through his uniform, and
the shadow of death upon his face.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Am
I going to die, Father?” he muttered in his agony, and when the
priest did not reply at once he smiled feebly and said:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “It's
O.K. by me, Father, but Lord, how I do love my wife.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> We
never saw Sergeant O.K. again, for he died outside the dressing
station, being too ill to make the journey to the base. The
stretcher-bearers told us that he never regained consciousness after
his arrival there, but this is not quite true, for the Padre who went
back to see him, had another tale to tell. After he had lain
delirious for some time, talking to his wife, and saying O.K. to
imaginary officers, he suddenly became very quiet, and his poor
haggard face lit up with a wonderful smile of recognition. He gazed
thus smilingly before him for nearly a minute, then pulled himself
half up on his stretcher with a last great effort, raised his
trembling hand to his forehead in salute, and said quite audibly:
“O.K., Lord.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> On
Armistice Day each year, when everyone is silent, I always say a De
Profundis for Sergeant O.K., and many a time in the face of
difficulties I have remembered the cheerful acquiescence he so
eloquently preached. I am sure that few of us who were privileged to
meet him in the trenches will ever forget his example and his last
“O.K., Lord”; for in it he translated the message of Gethsemane
into the humble language of the Sergeant's Mess.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;">( Taken from 'The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Stories' by Bernard Bassett S.J, published by Sands & Co.. These stories appeared first in Stella Maris and in the Southwark Record)</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><br /></p>
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</p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-32331973893935412472020-10-10T21:49:00.001+01:002020-10-10T21:53:02.209+01:00'The End of the World'<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>'The End of the
World'</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For some time I
had been wandering in quiet streets in the curious town of Besancon, which
stands like a sort of peninsular in a horse-shoe of river. You may learn from
the guide books that it was the birthplace of Victor Hugo, and that it is a
military Station with many forts, near the French frontier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you will not learn from guide books that
the very tiles on the roofs seem to be of some quainter and more delicate
colour than the tiles of all the other towns of the world, that the tiles look
like the little clouds of some strange sunset, or like the lustrous scalers of
some strange fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will not tell
you that in this town the eye cannot rest on anything without finding it in
some way attractive and even elvish, a carved face at a street corner, a gleam
of green fields through a stunted arch, or some unexpected colour for the
enamel of a spire or dome.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Evening was
coming on and in the light of it all these colours so simple and yet so subtle seemed
more and more to fit together and make a fairy tale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sat down for a little outside a café with a
row of little toy trees in front of it, and presently the driver of a fly (as
we should call it) came to the same place. He was one of those very large and
dark Frenchmen, a type not common<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but
yet typical of France; the Rabelaisian French man, huge, swarthy, purple-faced,
a walking wine-barrel; he was a sort of Southern Falstaff, if one can imagine
Falstaff anything <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but English. And,
indeed, there was a vital difference, typical of two nations. For while
Falstaff would have been shaking with hilarity like a huge jelly, full of the
broad farce of the London streets, this Frenchman was rather solemn and
dignified than otherwise – as if pleasure were a kind of pagan religion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After some talk which was full of the
admirable civility and equality of French civilisation, he suggested without
either eagerness or embarrassment that he should take me in his fly for an
hours ride in the hills beyond the town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And though it was growing late I consented; for there was one long white
road under an archway and round a hill that dragged me like a long white cord.
We drove through the strong, squat gateway that was made by the Romans, and I
remember the coincidence like a sort of omen that as we passed out of the city
I heard simultaneously the three sounds which are the trinity of France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make what some poet calls ‘a tangled
trinity,’ and I am not going to disentangle it. Whatever those three things
mean, how or why they co-exist; whether they can be reconciled or perhaps are
reconciled already; the three sounds I heard then by an accident all at once
make up the French mystery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the
brass band in the Casino gardens behind me was playing with a sort of
passionate levity some ramping tune from a Parisian comic opera, and while this
was going on I heard also the bugles on the hills above, that told of terrible
loyalties and men always arming in the gate of France, and I heard also,
fainter than these sounds and through them all, the Angelus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After this
coincidence of symbols I had a curious sense of having left France behind me,
or, perhaps ,even the civilised world. And, indeed, there was something in the
landscape wild enough to encourage such a fancy. I have seen perhaps higher mountains,
but I have never seen higher rocks; I have never seen height so near, so abrupt
and sensational, splinters of rock that stood up like the spires of churches,
cliffs that fell sudden and straight as Satan fell from heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was also a quality in the ride which
was not only astonishing, but rather bewildering; a quality which <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>many must have noticed if they have driven or
ridden rapidly up mountain roads. I mean a sense of gigantic gyration, as of
the whole earth turning about one’s head. It is quite inadequate to say that
the hills rose and fell like enormous waves. Rather the hills seemed to turn
about me like the enormous sails of a windmill, a vast wheel of monstrous
archangelic wings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we drove on and up
into the gathering purple of the sunset this dizziness increased, confounding
things above with things below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wide
walls of wooded rock stood out above my head like a roof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stared at them until I fancied that I was
staring down at a wooded plain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below me
steeps of green swept down to the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I stared at them until I fancied that they swept up to the sky. The
purple darkened, night drew nearer; it seemed only to cut clearer the chasms
and draw higher the spires of that nightmare landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above me in the twilight was the huge black
hulk of the driver, and his broad, blank back was as mysterious as the back of
Death in Watts’ picture. I felt that I was growing too fantastic, and I sought
to speak of ordinary things.. I called out to the driver in French, “Where are
you taking me?”, and it is a literal and solemn fact that he answered me in the
same language without turning around, “To the end of the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I did not
answer. I let him drag the vehicle up dark and steep ways, until I saw lights
under a low roof of little trees and two children, one oddly beautiful, playing
at ball. Then we found ourselves filling up the strict main street of a tiny
hamlet, and across the wall of its inn was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>written in large letters, ‘<b>LE BOUT DU MONDE’</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– '</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><b>the end of the</b></i></span><i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> wor</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ld’.</span></b></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The driver and I
sat down outside that inn without a word, as if all ceremonies were natural and
understood in that ultimate place. I ordered bread for both of us, and red
wine, that was good but had no name. On the other side of the road was a little
plain church with a cross on top of it and a cock on top of the cross. This
seemed to me a very good end of the world; if the story of the end of the world
ended here, it ended well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I
wondered whether I myself should really be content to end here, where most
certainly there were the best things of Christendom – a church and children’s
games and decent soil and a tavern for men to talk with men. But as I thought,
a singular doubt and desire grew slowly in me, and at last I started up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Are you not
satisfied?” asked my companion. “No” I said, “I am not satisfied even at the
end of the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then after a
silence, I said, “Because you see there are two ends of the world. And this is
the wrong end of the world, at least the wrong one for me. This is the French
end of the world. I want the other end of the world. Drive me to the other end
of the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The other end
of the world?” he asked. “Where is that?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It is in Walham
Green,” I whispered hoarsely. “You see it on the London omnibuses. ‘<i><b>World’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>End and Walham Green.’</b></i> Oh, I know how good
this is; I love your vineyards and your free peasantry, but I want the English
end of the world. I love you like a brother, but I want an English cabman, who
will be funny and ask me what his fare ‘is’. Your bugles stir my blood, but I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>want to see a London policeman. Take, oh,
take me to see a London policeman.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He stood quite
dark and still against the end of the sunset, and I could not tell whether he
understood or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got back into his
carriage. “You will understand,” I said, “if ever you are an exile even for
pleasure. The child to his mother, the man to his country, as a countryman of
yours once said. But since, perhaps, it is rather too long a drive to the
English end of the world, we may as well drive back to Besancon.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Only as the
stars came out among those immortal hills, I wept for Walham Green.</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>G.K.Chesterton (from 'Tremendous Trifles' - 1909)</b></i></span></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R8Qu0Z7j8nU/X4IZowMu-lI/AAAAAAAAE9I/glHHSqViA3EHgiTbRigtzKXcgqz3O5l2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s440/G%2BK%2BChesterton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="440" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R8Qu0Z7j8nU/X4IZowMu-lI/AAAAAAAAE9I/glHHSqViA3EHgiTbRigtzKXcgqz3O5l2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/G%2BK%2BChesterton.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">G.K.Chesterton</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> at Brighton seafront, October 1935.</span></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>N.B. </b>For those who are curious, '<i><b>Worlds End (England</b></i>)' is a residential area in South West London, at the end of the Kings Road, Chelsea. In the 1970s a number of high-rise 'affordable' flats were built, described by some as epitomizing the ugliest architecture of that 'progressive' era. These are in stark contrast to many older properties in the Borough of Chelsea, which are very expensive to buy but for which there is always a demand.</span></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;">There is in fact, a Public House in Kings Road, called '<i><b>The End of the World</b></i>'.</span></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;">One other claim to fame of that area, is that <b><i>Stamford Bridge,</i></b> the home of <i><b>Chelsea Football Club</b></i> is close by!!</span></o:p></span></p>umblepiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455889107917179909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088605398483604077.post-29641123017996051542020-09-07T22:42:00.006+01:002020-09-08T16:12:47.498+01:00 'Yet another small step for Life ................<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/en-gb/182029-choice-opt-out-funding-abortions-trhronat-ins-contributions" id="signit-display-form" method="post" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 20px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><div class="sign-now-button" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></b></div></div></form><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img class="CSS_LIGHTBOX_SCALED_IMAGE_IMG" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ionvxLk31zE/Xr8-Q5_EqoI/AAAAAAAAE5g/zqqkTOzGz-EQlQS7QkfqNxlO9JefoC3RwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/our_lady_of_walsingham_iii.jpg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 570px; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0) solid 1px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: 428px; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span></p><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Our Lady of Walsingham - pray for us</span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i></i><br /></span></b></p><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i></i><b></b><br /></span></p><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span>For a very long time I have wondered whether it would be possible to ensure that money taken from National Insurance contributions and paid into NHS Funds, would not be used to fund 'legalised' abortions. When the National Health Service was created in 1948, there was no such thing as 'legalised' abortion. Abortion was a criminal offence, and remained so until 1967 when the Abortion Act, introduced by David Steel, Liberal M.P. became law, with the National Health Service assuming responsibility for its' administration and funding. In the early years the number of abortions carried out was a fraction of those performed today; in 1968 there were approximately 25,000, in 1970 about 97,000, and in 2019 more than 209,000. Abortion is a crime against humanity - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, and is abhorrent to many, many people, who under the present arrangement of National Insurance payments, and through no fault of their own, find themselves supporting a practice which they totally oppose.</span></b></span></p><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span><span>This should not, indeed must not, be allowed to continue, and as a suggestion I propose that all working people who are liable for National Insurance contributions, be given the option that their money going to the NHS, not be used for Abortion services, but instead go to say Mental Health.<i> </i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #777777; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I believe that such a choice could </span></span></span><span><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #777777; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">be set up at relatively low cost within the system. Perhaps as simple as providing an appropriate ‘tick-box’ when a tax return is made, which can apply to both employed and self-employed.</span></span></span></b></span></p><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #777777; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>I intend to write to the appropriate Government department regarding this, but before doing so have decided to post a petition online, to measure support for my proposals. I truly believe that given the support and the will, the system could accommodate my proposal or one like it, as a matter of justice and good government.</b></span></span></span></p><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #777777; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The link to the Citizen Go Petition is:- </i><span face="" lang="EN"><a href="https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizengo.org%2Fen-gb%2F182029-choice-opt-out-funding-abortions-trhronat-ins-contributions&data=02%7C01%7C%7C89e71e13387c4bf96a4f08d8533f1de6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637350877827934134&sdata=2MLJETPYXDdTLp5RLtzj7gNXj1DIlMORPfw%2BoM2R7v8%3D&reserved=0">https://citizengo.org/en-gb/182029-choice-opt-out-funding-abortions-trhronat-ins-contributions</a></span><i> </i></span></b></span></span></span></p><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #777777; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Please support this Petition. It is but a small step, but it is perhaps, a start to greater things. AMDG - 'To the greater glory of God.' I am aware that my proposal leaves much to be desired, but I see at as a start. I'm sure that there are many people out there who could improve on my suggestion, and I would very much like them to contact me through the 'Comment' box. Thank you.</b></span></span></span><span><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #777777; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #777777; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Below is copy of proposed letter to Rt. Hon. Matt Hancock M.P. Secretary of State for Health and Care.</b></span></span></span><i></i><br /></p><div class="signit-message" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url("&quot;//citizengo.org/sites/all/themes/citizengo/images/quote.png&quot;"); background-position: 15px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #555555; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; padding-left: 65px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b> *****************</b></span></p><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Rt.Hon. Matt Hancock M.P.</b></span></p><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Secretary of State for Health and Care<br /></b></span></p><div class="signit-message" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url("&quot;//citizengo.org/sites/all/themes/citizengo/images/quote.png&quot;"); background-position: 15px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #555555; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; padding-left: 65px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Dear Sir,</b></span></p><div class="signit-message" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url("&quot;//citizengo.org/sites/all/themes/citizengo/images/quote.png&quot;"); background-position: 15px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #555555; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; padding-left: 65px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>We all appreciate the need for and value of our National Health Service, to which virtually everyone owes so much. To enable the NHS to function, it has to be funded which is largely provided by National Insurance contributions paid by all working citizens within the UK. Over the years this has generally proved a workable and successful system, but it has its failings. One aspect, which is of considerable concern to many people, but about which they have probably felt that they could do nothing, concerns the question of ‘legalised’ abortions financed by the NHS.</b></span></p><div class="signit-message" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url("&quot;//citizengo.org/sites/all/themes/citizengo/images/quote.png&quot;"); background-position: 15px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #555555; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; padding-left: 65px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>When National Insurance contributions were first introduced in 1948, ‘legalised’ abortion did not exist. Abortion was a criminal offence, and until 1967 there was no question of funding it. Abortion is not an illness or medical condition, and it is a matter of dispute as to whether it should be included within the National Health Service. It involves the killing of the foetus or unborn baby in the womb, and is largely funded by the NHS with money received through National Insurance contributions.</b></span></p><div class="signit-message" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url("&quot;//citizengo.org/sites/all/themes/citizengo/images/quote.png&quot;"); background-position: 15px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #555555; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; padding-left: 65px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b> The latest official figures reveal that in 2019 in England and Wales, a total of 209,519 abortions were carried out.</b></span></p><div class="signit-message" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url("&quot;//citizengo.org/sites/all/themes/citizengo/images/quote.png&quot;"); background-position: 15px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #555555; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; padding-left: 65px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Abortion is essentially a crime against humanity, (Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948), and I, and I’m sure many others who share my views, strongly object to financing it through National Insurance contributions. I propose that the system should allow a simple choice as regards the beneficiary of National Insurance contributions to the NHS, in other words, an alternative to funding abortion, for example mental health needs. I believe that such a choice could be set up at relatively low cost within the system. Perhaps as simple as providing an appropriate ‘tick-box’ when a tax return is made, which can apply to both employed and self-employed.</b></span></p><div class="signit-message" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url("&quot;//citizengo.org/sites/all/themes/citizengo/images/quote.png&quot;"); background-position: 15px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #555555; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; padding-left: 65px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b> As a matter of urgency and of justice, I respectfully ask that serious consideration be given to implementing the above proposal.</b></span></p><div class="signit-message" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url("&quot;//citizengo.org/sites/all/themes/citizengo/images/quote.png&quot;"); background-position: 15px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #555555; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; padding-left: 65px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Yours faithfully,</b></span></p><div class="signit-message" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url("&quot;//citizengo.org/sites/all/themes/citizengo/images/quote.png&quot;"); background-position: 15px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #555555; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; padding-left: 65px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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</div><p class="signit-message" style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><div class="signit-message" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url("&quot;//citizengo.org/sites/all/themes/citizengo/images/quote.png&quot;"); background-position: 15px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #555555; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; padding-left: 65px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>'A consideration
of the degrees of responsibility and guilt of the various classes who engaged
in the overthrow of our Lady’s Dowry.' </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taken from ‘Our Lady’s Dowry’ by Father
Bridgett CSsR</i></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Clergy</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I have just said
that Catholics, in looking back to the history of devotion to our Lady in
England, have nothing of which to be ashamed. In one sense this is most true.
The Dowry was the creation of saints, and its effects were sanctity; and the
men who overthrew it did so only when they ceased to be Catholics, and by means
the most base and unworthy. And yet I cannot forget that our Lady’s Dowry in
England was not destroyed by an incursion of unbaptised heathens, nor by
Protestants brought up from infancy in anti-Catholic prejudice, and taught to
connect the honour of the Son in some strange fashion with the dishonour or
neglect of the Mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, alas! The
enemies of our Lady had been children of the Catholic Church; they had lisped
the name of Mary in infancy, and been taught by pious mothers to kneel before
her statues. They were even priests of her Divine Son; and they were monks, who
had made a special profession of love and veneration towards her that they
might more closely and efficaciously resemble Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Blessed Virgin could indeed complain, as
Jesus Christ had done, by the mouth of the Psalmist; ‘Even the man of my peace,
in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me’ (Ps. xI. 10)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">About 150 years
before the destruction came, an English Dominican, Father Bromyard, writing on
the sins of the clergy, had ventured to foretell the result; and he uses a
comparison curiously in harmony with the subject of this work. ‘The state of
the modern Church,’ he wrote, ‘is well figured in the following history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man had been long pondering over and
wondering at the state of Christendom, when he fell asleep, and in a dream a
statue, as of a most beautiful lady, appeared to him; and while he was lost in
admiration, a voice asked him whose image it was. He replied that he thought it
must be the image of the most Blessed Virgin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whereupon the statue was turned round, so that its’ back appeared to
him, and that was all decayed and rotten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And again the voice said, “What do you now think?” “It is not the Virgin
Mary,” he said, “for of her it is written that she is ‘all fair’.” When, then,
he wished to know who it was, the voice said, “It is the image of Christendom,
which in the beginning was very beautiful, but in the latter end is shamefully
destroyed.” ‘All this being considered,’ continued Bromyard, ‘it will be no
wonder if the spiritual ruin of all Christendom shall follow, first in the
corruption of morals, and even perhaps in external chastisements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even now we often see and hear of such, and
we fear that more will come; for as by reason of such sins the temple and
kingdom of the Jews were overthrown, as we behold them, so is it to be feared
that it may happen to Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we
seem to have a foretaste of what will happen in what we now see, for a great
part of the world which was formerly Christian is now occupied by the Saracens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When the
calamity was still more imminent, one of those who had taken a leading part in
resisting the new doctrines, Sir Thomas More, was waiting in prison the death
that he knew was certain. With a piece of coal – for pen and ink were refused
him- he wrote his <b>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dialogue of Comfort</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">against Tribulation’</i>.</b> He supposes the
dialogue to take place between two Hungarians; and under cover of discussing a
threatened invasion of the Turks, he foretells what he sees is coming upon
England from the tyranny of Henry. ‘But now, cousin, this tribulation of the
Turk, if he so persecute us for the faith, that those that will forsake their
faith shall keep their goods, and those shall lose their goods that will not
leave their faith – this manner of persecution, lo, shall like a touchstone try
them, and show the feigned from the true-minded.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Alas, the Turk
came, and the souls of men were tried. Among the rich and noble, among even the
priests of the sanctuary, but few comparatively were found with Fisher and
More, ready to sacrifice all for the faith of Christ.</span></div>
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Gentry</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sir Thomas was a
shrewd observer of the times. He did not expect to find much heroic virtue in
England in the sixteenth century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">‘In the ease,’
says one of the speakers in his dialogue, ‘where they have yet their substance
untouched in their own hands, and that the keeping or losing shall hang both in
their own hands by the Turk’s (Henry’s) offer, upon the retaining or renouncing
of the Christian faith; here, uncle, I find it that this temptation is most
sore and most perilous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For I fear me
that we shall find few of such as have much to lose that shall find in their
hearts so suddenly to forsake their goods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Antony. </i>That fear I much, cousin,
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But thereby shall it well appear
that, seemed they never so good and virtuous before, yet were their hearts
inwardly, in the deep sight of God, not sound and sure.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Things were even
worse than Sir Thomas thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many were
not tried by the fear of losing their goods, but by the hope of gaining those
of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr Froude has attempted to
vindicate the reign of Henry from the charge of having been a reign of terror,
and the conduct of Lords and Commons from the accusation of cowardice and
servility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘What means’, he asks
triumphantly, ‘had Henry VIII at his disposal to compel their compliance or
punish their disobedience? He had a mere handful of men, whose number he never
attempted to increase. The complications of this reign,’ he continues, ‘require
far subtler and more delicate explanation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cruel deeds were done, but they were done by the alternating influences
of the two great parties in the State, to whom nothing was wrong which furthered
their separate objects.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Without any
sympathy with Mr Froude’s attempt to justify Henry, I cannot but concur to a
great extent in his estimate of the nobility and gentry of England in the
sixteenth century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were indeed
fallen from the spirit of the great warriors and statesmen, the noble gentlemen
and bold citizens, in whom devotion to our Lady had been linked with true
chivalry. Henry had subtler means at his command than the terror of the sword.
His nobles and gentry were men who could be bought by money; and the plunder of
the shrines and monasteries gave him the means of buying their allegiance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The unblushing
avarice which made them become reformers may be seen in the following letter of
Sir Thomas Elyot to Cromwell. ‘This Elyot was’, says Mr Wright, ‘a
distinguished diplomatist, a man of great learning, and had been an intimate
friend of Sir Thomas More.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must have
been such friends that More had in mind when he doubted their resistance of
temptation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">‘My Lord,’
writes Elyot to Cromwell two years after the death of his friend Sir Thomas
More,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">‘forasmuch as I
suppose that the king’s most gentle communication with me, and also his most
comfortable report unto the lords of me, proceeded at your afore-remembered
recommendations, I am animate to importune your good lordship, with most hearty
desires, to continue my good lord, in augmenting the king’s good estimation of
me; whereof I promise you before God your lordship shall never have cause to
repent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">‘And where’
(whereas) ‘I perceive that ye suspect that I favour not truly Holy Scripture, I
would God that the king and you might see the most secret thoughts of my heart;
surely ye should then perceive that, the order of charity saved, I have in as
much detestation as any man living all vain superstitions, superfluous
ceremonies, slanderous jugglings, counterfeit miracles, arrogant usurpations of
men called spiritual and masking religious, and all other abusions of Christ’s
holy doctrine and laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as much I
enjoy’ (rejoice) ‘at the king’s godly proceeding to the due reformation of the
said enormities as any his grace’s poor subject living.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">‘I therefore
beseech your good lordship now to lay apart the remembrance of the amity
between me and Sir Thomas More, which was but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">usque ad aras</i>, as is the proverb, considering that I was never so
much addict unto him as I was unto truth and fidelity toward my sovereign lord,
as God is my judge.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Having approved
of the king’s godly proceeding, and professed his love of pure and reformed
religion according to the Gospel of Cranmer and Cromwell, and repudiated the
friendship of the glorious martyr now in heaven, he comes at last to the end
and purpose of his letter: ‘And whereas my special trust and only expectation
is to be holpen by the means of your lordship, and natural shamefastness more
reigneth in me than is necessary (!), so that I would not press to the king’s
majesty without your lordship’s assistance, with whom I have sundry times
declared my indigence, and whereof it hath happened, I therefore most humbly
desire you, my special good lord, so to bring me unto the king’s most noble
remembrance, that of his most bounteous liberality it may like his highness to
reward me with some convenient portion of his suppressed lands, whereby I may
be able to continue my life according to that honest degree whereunto his grace
hath called me…….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And whatever
portion of land that I shall attain by the king’s gift, I promise to give to
your lordship, the first year’s fruits, with mine assured and faithful heart
and service.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(ack. ‘Letters on the Suppression
of the Monasteries’ letter Ixv.)</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Such were the
men on whose word Englishmen have learnt to believe in the ‘slanderous
jugglings and counterfeit miracles’ of the monks. These beggars for plunder,
these givers and receivers of bribes, are the men who set themselves to reform
‘the abusions of Christ’s holy doctrines and laws.’ Such were many of the
Catholic gentry of that day. They fawned on Henry VIII, and renounced the
authority of the Pope in order to enjoy prosperity and to increase their
riches; and they were willing to be reconciled to the Pope again under Mary,
provided they could still keep their sacrilegious spoils. Their plan was, as
Sir Thomas More put it, ‘not to be compelled utterly to forsake Christ nor all
the whole Christian faith, but only some such parts thereof as may not stand
with Mahomet’s law.’ Sir Thomas answered this theory as follows: ‘Break one of
Christ’s commandments and break all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Forsake one point of His faith, and forsake all, as for any thank you
get for the remnant …..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ will not
take your service to halves, but will that you should love Him with all your
heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And because that while He was
living here fifteen hundred years ago, He foresaw this mind of yours that you
have now, with which you would fain serve Him in some such fashion, as you might
keep your worldly substance still and rather forsake His service than put all
your substance from you,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He telleth you
plain, fifteen hundred years ago, by His own mouth, that He will no such
service from you, saying, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Non potestis Deo servire et Mammonae,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>----You cannot serve both God and your riches
together.”</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But men like Sir
Thomas Elyot learnt their morality from other teachers than Jesus Christ, and
went along with Sir Thomas More, as they well said, only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">usque ad aras – </i>to the church door, or to the door of heaven; there
they let him go in alone, since there was a chance of passing to it only
through the Tower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(to be
continued)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Father Bridgett wrote this book from which the above article is taken, about one hundred years ago. He quotes a letter from Sir Thomas Elyot to Cromwell as an example of the moral cowardice and personal greed so often evident in the behaviour of the English nobles and gentry of that period. I was keen to find out more about Sir Thomas Elyot, which I was able to do courtesy of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Brittanica. Certainly Elyot's letter to Cromwell suggested a man to whom personal friendship and loyalty meant little or nothing, but according to Wikipedia he did not obtain any share in the spoils acquired from the dissolution of the monasteries, although he undoubtedly had major financial pressures. Also Sir Thomas More had been dead for two years when Elyot wrote the letter. It may just be that Elyot's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">obsequious request to Cromwell was related more to solving his financial difficulties, than anything else. He was certainly an intellectual of high repute, but there is nothing in Wikipedia to suggest that he was a Catholic. This does not of course, make any more acceptable, the request for 'some of the king's repressed lands' nor the promise to Cromwell of 'the first year's fruits of the land'. But it does perhaps, shed a slightly different and perhaps clearer light, on the purpose of the letter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> '<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #202122; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> As ambassador, Elyot had been involved in ruinous
expense, and on his return he wrote to Thomas Cromwell,
begging to be excused from serving as sheriff of Cambridgeshire
and Huntingdonshire, on the score of his poverty. The request
was not granted. He was one of the commissioners in the inquiry
instituted by Cromwell prior to the suppression of the monasteries,
but he did not obtain any share of the spoils. There is little
doubt that his known friendship for Thomas More militated
against his chances of success, for in a letter addressed to Cromwell
he admitted his friendship for More, but protested that he
rated higher his duty to the king.' </span></span></span></div>
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