THE WASHINGTON TIMES
By Bill Gertz
China is building up its nuclear forces as part of a secret strategy targeting the United States, according to a former Chinese diplomat.
China's strategy calls for "proactive defense," and senior Chinese Communist Party leaders think that building nuclear arms is the key to countering U.S. power in Asia and other parts of the world, said Chen Yonglin, a diplomat who defected to Australia two months ago.
A recent comment by a Chinese general shows that Beijing's leaders are prepared to launch "a pre-emptive attack on the country considered a huge threat to China," Mr. Chen said.
Chinese Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu told reporters two weeks ago that China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against "hundreds" of U.S. cities if a conflict breaks out over Taiwan.
The former diplomat, who until recently was posted to the Chinese Consulate in Sydney, said the number of Chinese nuclear warheads is a closely guarded secret.
Asked about a Pentagon report revealing that China has 20 nuclear warheads that can reach almost all of the United States, Mr. Chen said, "We don't know the exact number."
"Everything about nuclear weapons is held by a very limited number of people," he said. "Even sometime vice ministers may not know because it is strictly controlled by the general staff and central party leaders."
The Pentagon report to Congress made public last week stated that China is "qualitatively and quantitatively improving its strategic missile force."
"It is fielding more survivable missiles capable of targeting India, Russia, virtually all of the United States and the Asia-Pacific theater as far south as Australia and New Zealand," the report said.
Chen, who is visiting the United States and testified before a House committee last week, said that during internal discussions among Communist Party and government leaders and military commanders, military leaders often have urged going to war against Taiwan, a self-governing island -- also known as the Republic of China -- that broke with the mainland in 1949.
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Why Blog?
"'Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of America: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless If thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.' --Ezekiel 3:17-21"
Bobby Anding
Bobby Anding
Friday, July 29, 2005
Falling Church Attendance...
You may have caught it in the news. In Texas last week, the largest church in the country opened, this one a non-denominational, Pentecostal-style one operated by a dynamic preacher named Joel Osteen. It is an incredible story. Each week, Osteen's two services each attract 16,000. They had to move the church to what was once the Compaq Center, home to the Houston Rockets, which the congregants easily fill. Preaching an optimistic view of life, he draws like a professional basketball game. When he is on the road, Osteen fills places like Madison Square Garden. He is on television across the United States and in many other countries; his book is the New York Times number-one bestseller some weeks (in the self-help category); and last year his ministry took in $55 million.
That's about a fifth of the Vatican's entire operating budget.
And Osteen is just one of many wildly successful non-Catholic,
non-mainstream-Protestant Christian preachers. In the past two decades, churches with no affiliation to the larger institutions have taken over the scene. Osteen isn't even the only mega-preacher in Texas. These are folks whose television shows greatly outdistance anything in the Catholic world and whose books sell not in the tens of thousands (which would make them a Catholic bestseller) but in the millions -- and in the case of The Purpose-Driven Life, the tens of millions
CBN. TBN. And Osteen, who is carried by 6,000 television stations in 100 countries and who presents the joy of the Holy Spirit in a way that millions find palpable.
There are those who criticize him, and rightly so. There are those who point out that Osteen may be too optimistic -- nearly a feel-good approach to Christianity. This is where serpent weaves a nefarious lie. Osteen in his apostasy NEVER addresses issues such as sin, homosexuality, abortion, addiction, the pitfalls of evil, the reality of the devil and worst yet the true existence eternal fires of hell. Those criticisms are stinging but sadly accurate. Truth lies not in attendance records, not in stadium lighting, not even the New York Times bestseller list. No, truth lies in the infallible words of Jesus Christ found in the Gospels bound in the best selling book of all time, the Bible.
Mix glitz, worldliness, with a lot of glib catch phrases like ‘We don’t teach the Gospel sad, We teach it GLAD!’ and what you have is what Christ warned us of, the Elect being deceived. Often, when T.V. ratings, thousand dollar suits, and porcelain veneers for that perfect smile, are found there is almost a forgone conclusion that the Cross is forgotten about. In the case of Mr. Osteen not only is the Cross absent from the Mega-Lakewood location, so is anything that could remotely be related to the ‘Passion and Suffering of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’. No stations of the Cross, No Crucifixes, No pictures, No paintings, no images at all that depict the true depth of sacrifice that our Lord Jesus Christ made for each and everyone of us.
However, there is no arguing with Osteen’s success in reaching large numbers of people. Not only reaching them but in giving them inspiration in their own lives, and there is no doubt that such churches are replacing mainstream Protestant ones. "I don't care what the critics say," said Grace Kiarie, a 32-year-old pharmacist and three-year member of the church who is originally from Kenya. "Pastor Joel gives me enough word to make it from 12:15 on Sunday to 10:45 the next Sunday. He gives me practical ways to live my life."
Just this week, Pope Benedict XVI commented that mainstream churches seem moribund and the reason is that they are not reaching people. "The so-called traditional churches look like they are dying," said the Pope, according to a text published by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Participation at Sunday Mass in some developed countries was as low as five per cent, a recent Vatican report said.
A combination of an increasingly secular mentality and the lure of more "simplistic" sects was challenging the relevance of the Church, especially in Europe, Australia and, to a lesser extent, the United States, the 78-year-old Pope said.
Meanwhile, there are now 155 million Bible-toting Pentecostal types in South America (formerly solid Catholic territory). Mexicans swarming into the U.S. provide an excellent opportunity to increase the Catholic presence in the U.S., but many of them are changing to churches like Osteen's, and the only way to stop this is to fill in voids.
The Catholic Church is not doing nearly as badly as the mainstream Protestant ones (Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and similar ilk are dying quickly), but it is bad enough, and we must ask: why?
No arguing that the Catholic faith is the true faith. This is the Church founded (literally, for those who adhere so closely to the Bible) on the "rock" of Peter. If not for the Catholic Church, there would be no Bible.
Nothing in any denomination is as powerful as the sacraments and Mass.
This is the true and oldest Christian faith. And it will last forever. Bank on that.
But it is time to wonder why it is so poorly attended.
Why do Catholic parishes struggle with pews less than half full? Why do they have to support themselves on bingo?
"I will tell you that the fastest growing church is not necessarily the best, or even good," notes one viewer. "The Bible tells us that in the end times people will seek out preachers who 'Tickle their ears.'
In these Last Days the Lord is assembling a 'remnant' to fight in his army, in Mary's army. God has never sought quantity from His people, but always quality."
Mother Teresa once said, "We are not called to be successful, we are called to be faithful." No truer words have ever been spoken!
Is there anything to be learned from the Osteen’s of the world?
What could a God fearing Priest who has the Spiritual interests of his congregation in mind. A congregation that includes not only those who show up on Sunday, but those who WOULD show up if the proper thought, preparation, and LOVE FOR GOD were applied.
Many Catholics who no longer attend regular services were asked why they left. When the people spoke, what did they say? What were they looking for? The following are some of the answers…
Believing and Caring Shepherds:
The failure of many Priests to defend the faith and responsibly carry out what parishioners expected of the clergy was a theme throughout the survey results.
For example, many respondents complained that their Priests hardly seemed to believe in Christianity themselves. Said one churchgoer: "Often clergy do little to try and convince us that God exists, let alone outline the logical reasons behind our belief in the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection."
Priests also came in for serious criticism when it came to conducting worship services. The report said many churchgoers complained about "shoddy services" and "Priests who simply were going through the motions," even to the point of virtually speed-reading through the sermon or preaching it in a voice that was "inaudible" or without any "real conviction or sincerity."
One middle-aged couple said, "We used to go to church expecting very little and came away with nothing. This has now changed to expecting nothing and coming away with even less. What we want are services taken with Conviction and a Passion for Jesus Christ."
Many people said they wanted clergy "To give greater priority to home visiting and pastoral care, in order to reflect God's love and concern for the individual. We want them to care about us! Why go to a Church who doesn’t care about you except to mail you collection envelops? Why go listen to a Priest who doesn’t even bother to learn your name? "
As one woman said, "It is a very uncaring world now, and the church should not be emulating this but rather standing against it. The Catholic Church should be seen as a loving caring community."
However, due to organizational priorities in their Parishes, parishioners said Priests were given so many administrative duties that they had no time to tend to the needs of the people beyond quickly conducting services.
Solid Teaching:
The report noted that there is "A ravenous spiritual hunger among congregations for a greater understanding of a wide range of relevant Gospel topics.”
Most Christians say that they aren't getting Spiritual substance. Time and again, respondents complained that they were getting only "platitudes," "political and social sermons with little or NONE spiritual significance."
A churchgoer declared, "I need help to grow in my faith and help to become the person Christ wants me to be. Not advice on who to vote for or when the next bake sale is going to be!"
A good point to ponder is that ‘Tinkering with service times or liturgy won't work if the message isn't there," said one churchgoer. "The heart of the matter is that congregations want to hear what the Bible says in a relevant way, with CONVICTION and PASSION!"
A Worshipping Community:
"People want Priests and Churches to give priority to the ministry of worship, satisfying all the various aspects worship involves," the survey report found.
As one might expect, there were thousands of responses dealing with the form, or style of worship in the service. While some called for more traditional liturgy, and others for a more modern approach, both sides conceded that a balance of styles would be fine. Almost all were in agreement, however, that services that "bordered on entertainment rather than worship" were the most disappointing.
Anyone who has walked the hard difficult arduous road to spiritual enlightenment realizes that their spiritual journey was not and could not be taken alone. Not if one is to be successful in capturing the true essence of the Gospel message. It really is not surprising that "the sense of fellowship" was something so important that many Church goers left mainline Catholic Churches looking for it. Fellowship with other Believers makes a difference for spiritually hungry churchgoers.
"They said that they derived pleasure from worshipping with others, it gave them a sense of belonging," the report said, "a sense of comradeship and a sense of being part of a 'spiritual family.'"
The desperate need to belong to a spiritual family has been made more critical because of the brokenness of relationships, marriages and families in our modern times.
A Prophetic Church:
There was a real desire expressed in the survey responses for more teaching emphasis "on the nature of God's holiness and the present and future implications for Believers."
Many said this message had been missing from the church for decades, having been gradually replaced by a one-sided proclamation that God was "loving and nothing more."
Approximately 75 percent of respondents -- more than 10,000 in number -- saw the lack of a clarion call for holiness as a very real explanation for the decline of Christianity's influence in our modern times.
"Many who used to attend church are now filled with apathy," the report summarized. "They no longer see any point in attending, because the message they have been given is that 'God loves me anyway,' regardless of whether or not they attend church or change their lives, so why bother going to Church?"
This was one of the central laments of the Christians that answered the ERC questionnaire. People "are calling on churches to robustly defend moral values with conviction and courage and cease being 'silent' and 'lukewarm' in the face of moral collapse" in our modern times.
To accomplish this, the church must rise up to defend it’s "DIVINE CALLING" as a prophetic voice in the modern world. The church was given the task of "Being the moral conscience of the world!’ A reflection of the true character of God."
Defense of the Faith:
In the face of an entrenched secularism in the Untied States, many respondents said they wanted churches to "To challenge a doubting society."
This was a factor that was mentioned in 73 percent of the letters received. Said one churchgoer: "It is a myth to say that the people of this country have rejected Christianity; they simply haven't been given a modern example of a Davidic leader they can rally behind!"
The lack of both a bold declaration of the Christian faith and a vigorous defense of Christian truths -- apologetics -- seems to have occasioned much discouragement among those Christians in the United States who remain true to the faith.
"If churches started defending these much maligned and beleaguered Christian values, the effect would be profound, galvanizing and encouraging millions of ordinary decent people!"
What else do Believer want?
Interesting sermons with a personal feel to them. Life affirming sermons that touch people on a Human level. Osteen brings Scripture alive in a way that the average person relates to, with a manner that is not professorial or stodgy. Does that mean adopting Pentecostalism? Of course not!
But if there is a liturgical crisis it is in the manner that "Homilies" have become an ill fitting, boring, after thought which is tacked on like a bad hair piece. Many Parishioners say unfeeling and hard to comprehend ‘Homilies’ actually dissuade folks from coming to Mass. Their complaint is that Masses which are already emotionally dead and overly long become painfully laborious to sit through.
God bless those priests who give good ones! But let us quickly begin to learn from those who are experiencing success, and let us quickly begin to reorient the way we train seminarians, and the way we deliver lectures. Let's take a look back at Archbishop Fulton Sheen!
The answer is not to change Catholicism, but in fact to go back to its traditional roots and bring the sacraments alive! Mass should be a soaring experience of Spirit. A saintly Priest should spread ‘Charisms’ in the community as well as the pews (like Padre Pio did, without even having to give a sermon). Make it as interesting as it can and should be! Make it come alive as Christ intended. Heal the sick. Lay on hands on the suffering. Exorcise evil from it’s hiding places! Don’t just talk about the Gospel, LIVE IT! Put the flame to it so that the Believers can feel the true and living power of the Holy Spirit.
How? Simple just add the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, mix well and you have HEAVEN!
Call on Mary the mother of Christ for inspiration. Call on all the Choirs of Angels. Call on all the Saints in Heaven. Storm the Gates of Heaven and I promise Grace will fall like rain.
If you have any questions as to what you should do then simply state the following…..”I BELIEVE in God the Father, I BELIEVE in Jesus Christ the son, I BELIEVE in the Holy Spirit.” The answers will be forth coming shortly I promise!
When people see and feel the over whelming Power of the Holy Spirit, they fill those pews to overflowing. Don’t believe me? Try us!
There is nothing like the Catholic faith! It is the Church Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior predicted. Hell itself will not prevail against it.
God Bless You
Bobby Anding
That's about a fifth of the Vatican's entire operating budget.
And Osteen is just one of many wildly successful non-Catholic,
non-mainstream-Protestant Christian preachers. In the past two decades, churches with no affiliation to the larger institutions have taken over the scene. Osteen isn't even the only mega-preacher in Texas. These are folks whose television shows greatly outdistance anything in the Catholic world and whose books sell not in the tens of thousands (which would make them a Catholic bestseller) but in the millions -- and in the case of The Purpose-Driven Life, the tens of millions
CBN. TBN. And Osteen, who is carried by 6,000 television stations in 100 countries and who presents the joy of the Holy Spirit in a way that millions find palpable.
There are those who criticize him, and rightly so. There are those who point out that Osteen may be too optimistic -- nearly a feel-good approach to Christianity. This is where serpent weaves a nefarious lie. Osteen in his apostasy NEVER addresses issues such as sin, homosexuality, abortion, addiction, the pitfalls of evil, the reality of the devil and worst yet the true existence eternal fires of hell. Those criticisms are stinging but sadly accurate. Truth lies not in attendance records, not in stadium lighting, not even the New York Times bestseller list. No, truth lies in the infallible words of Jesus Christ found in the Gospels bound in the best selling book of all time, the Bible.
Mix glitz, worldliness, with a lot of glib catch phrases like ‘We don’t teach the Gospel sad, We teach it GLAD!’ and what you have is what Christ warned us of, the Elect being deceived. Often, when T.V. ratings, thousand dollar suits, and porcelain veneers for that perfect smile, are found there is almost a forgone conclusion that the Cross is forgotten about. In the case of Mr. Osteen not only is the Cross absent from the Mega-Lakewood location, so is anything that could remotely be related to the ‘Passion and Suffering of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’. No stations of the Cross, No Crucifixes, No pictures, No paintings, no images at all that depict the true depth of sacrifice that our Lord Jesus Christ made for each and everyone of us.
However, there is no arguing with Osteen’s success in reaching large numbers of people. Not only reaching them but in giving them inspiration in their own lives, and there is no doubt that such churches are replacing mainstream Protestant ones. "I don't care what the critics say," said Grace Kiarie, a 32-year-old pharmacist and three-year member of the church who is originally from Kenya. "Pastor Joel gives me enough word to make it from 12:15 on Sunday to 10:45 the next Sunday. He gives me practical ways to live my life."
Just this week, Pope Benedict XVI commented that mainstream churches seem moribund and the reason is that they are not reaching people. "The so-called traditional churches look like they are dying," said the Pope, according to a text published by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Participation at Sunday Mass in some developed countries was as low as five per cent, a recent Vatican report said.
A combination of an increasingly secular mentality and the lure of more "simplistic" sects was challenging the relevance of the Church, especially in Europe, Australia and, to a lesser extent, the United States, the 78-year-old Pope said.
Meanwhile, there are now 155 million Bible-toting Pentecostal types in South America (formerly solid Catholic territory). Mexicans swarming into the U.S. provide an excellent opportunity to increase the Catholic presence in the U.S., but many of them are changing to churches like Osteen's, and the only way to stop this is to fill in voids.
The Catholic Church is not doing nearly as badly as the mainstream Protestant ones (Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and similar ilk are dying quickly), but it is bad enough, and we must ask: why?
No arguing that the Catholic faith is the true faith. This is the Church founded (literally, for those who adhere so closely to the Bible) on the "rock" of Peter. If not for the Catholic Church, there would be no Bible.
Nothing in any denomination is as powerful as the sacraments and Mass.
This is the true and oldest Christian faith. And it will last forever. Bank on that.
But it is time to wonder why it is so poorly attended.
Why do Catholic parishes struggle with pews less than half full? Why do they have to support themselves on bingo?
"I will tell you that the fastest growing church is not necessarily the best, or even good," notes one viewer. "The Bible tells us that in the end times people will seek out preachers who 'Tickle their ears.'
In these Last Days the Lord is assembling a 'remnant' to fight in his army, in Mary's army. God has never sought quantity from His people, but always quality."
Mother Teresa once said, "We are not called to be successful, we are called to be faithful." No truer words have ever been spoken!
Is there anything to be learned from the Osteen’s of the world?
What could a God fearing Priest who has the Spiritual interests of his congregation in mind. A congregation that includes not only those who show up on Sunday, but those who WOULD show up if the proper thought, preparation, and LOVE FOR GOD were applied.
Many Catholics who no longer attend regular services were asked why they left. When the people spoke, what did they say? What were they looking for? The following are some of the answers…
Believing and Caring Shepherds:
The failure of many Priests to defend the faith and responsibly carry out what parishioners expected of the clergy was a theme throughout the survey results.
For example, many respondents complained that their Priests hardly seemed to believe in Christianity themselves. Said one churchgoer: "Often clergy do little to try and convince us that God exists, let alone outline the logical reasons behind our belief in the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection."
Priests also came in for serious criticism when it came to conducting worship services. The report said many churchgoers complained about "shoddy services" and "Priests who simply were going through the motions," even to the point of virtually speed-reading through the sermon or preaching it in a voice that was "inaudible" or without any "real conviction or sincerity."
One middle-aged couple said, "We used to go to church expecting very little and came away with nothing. This has now changed to expecting nothing and coming away with even less. What we want are services taken with Conviction and a Passion for Jesus Christ."
Many people said they wanted clergy "To give greater priority to home visiting and pastoral care, in order to reflect God's love and concern for the individual. We want them to care about us! Why go to a Church who doesn’t care about you except to mail you collection envelops? Why go listen to a Priest who doesn’t even bother to learn your name? "
As one woman said, "It is a very uncaring world now, and the church should not be emulating this but rather standing against it. The Catholic Church should be seen as a loving caring community."
However, due to organizational priorities in their Parishes, parishioners said Priests were given so many administrative duties that they had no time to tend to the needs of the people beyond quickly conducting services.
Solid Teaching:
The report noted that there is "A ravenous spiritual hunger among congregations for a greater understanding of a wide range of relevant Gospel topics.”
Most Christians say that they aren't getting Spiritual substance. Time and again, respondents complained that they were getting only "platitudes," "political and social sermons with little or NONE spiritual significance."
A churchgoer declared, "I need help to grow in my faith and help to become the person Christ wants me to be. Not advice on who to vote for or when the next bake sale is going to be!"
A good point to ponder is that ‘Tinkering with service times or liturgy won't work if the message isn't there," said one churchgoer. "The heart of the matter is that congregations want to hear what the Bible says in a relevant way, with CONVICTION and PASSION!"
A Worshipping Community:
"People want Priests and Churches to give priority to the ministry of worship, satisfying all the various aspects worship involves," the survey report found.
As one might expect, there were thousands of responses dealing with the form, or style of worship in the service. While some called for more traditional liturgy, and others for a more modern approach, both sides conceded that a balance of styles would be fine. Almost all were in agreement, however, that services that "bordered on entertainment rather than worship" were the most disappointing.
Anyone who has walked the hard difficult arduous road to spiritual enlightenment realizes that their spiritual journey was not and could not be taken alone. Not if one is to be successful in capturing the true essence of the Gospel message. It really is not surprising that "the sense of fellowship" was something so important that many Church goers left mainline Catholic Churches looking for it. Fellowship with other Believers makes a difference for spiritually hungry churchgoers.
"They said that they derived pleasure from worshipping with others, it gave them a sense of belonging," the report said, "a sense of comradeship and a sense of being part of a 'spiritual family.'"
The desperate need to belong to a spiritual family has been made more critical because of the brokenness of relationships, marriages and families in our modern times.
A Prophetic Church:
There was a real desire expressed in the survey responses for more teaching emphasis "on the nature of God's holiness and the present and future implications for Believers."
Many said this message had been missing from the church for decades, having been gradually replaced by a one-sided proclamation that God was "loving and nothing more."
Approximately 75 percent of respondents -- more than 10,000 in number -- saw the lack of a clarion call for holiness as a very real explanation for the decline of Christianity's influence in our modern times.
"Many who used to attend church are now filled with apathy," the report summarized. "They no longer see any point in attending, because the message they have been given is that 'God loves me anyway,' regardless of whether or not they attend church or change their lives, so why bother going to Church?"
This was one of the central laments of the Christians that answered the ERC questionnaire. People "are calling on churches to robustly defend moral values with conviction and courage and cease being 'silent' and 'lukewarm' in the face of moral collapse" in our modern times.
To accomplish this, the church must rise up to defend it’s "DIVINE CALLING" as a prophetic voice in the modern world. The church was given the task of "Being the moral conscience of the world!’ A reflection of the true character of God."
Defense of the Faith:
In the face of an entrenched secularism in the Untied States, many respondents said they wanted churches to "To challenge a doubting society."
This was a factor that was mentioned in 73 percent of the letters received. Said one churchgoer: "It is a myth to say that the people of this country have rejected Christianity; they simply haven't been given a modern example of a Davidic leader they can rally behind!"
The lack of both a bold declaration of the Christian faith and a vigorous defense of Christian truths -- apologetics -- seems to have occasioned much discouragement among those Christians in the United States who remain true to the faith.
"If churches started defending these much maligned and beleaguered Christian values, the effect would be profound, galvanizing and encouraging millions of ordinary decent people!"
What else do Believer want?
Interesting sermons with a personal feel to them. Life affirming sermons that touch people on a Human level. Osteen brings Scripture alive in a way that the average person relates to, with a manner that is not professorial or stodgy. Does that mean adopting Pentecostalism? Of course not!
But if there is a liturgical crisis it is in the manner that "Homilies" have become an ill fitting, boring, after thought which is tacked on like a bad hair piece. Many Parishioners say unfeeling and hard to comprehend ‘Homilies’ actually dissuade folks from coming to Mass. Their complaint is that Masses which are already emotionally dead and overly long become painfully laborious to sit through.
God bless those priests who give good ones! But let us quickly begin to learn from those who are experiencing success, and let us quickly begin to reorient the way we train seminarians, and the way we deliver lectures. Let's take a look back at Archbishop Fulton Sheen!
The answer is not to change Catholicism, but in fact to go back to its traditional roots and bring the sacraments alive! Mass should be a soaring experience of Spirit. A saintly Priest should spread ‘Charisms’ in the community as well as the pews (like Padre Pio did, without even having to give a sermon). Make it as interesting as it can and should be! Make it come alive as Christ intended. Heal the sick. Lay on hands on the suffering. Exorcise evil from it’s hiding places! Don’t just talk about the Gospel, LIVE IT! Put the flame to it so that the Believers can feel the true and living power of the Holy Spirit.
How? Simple just add the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, mix well and you have HEAVEN!
Call on Mary the mother of Christ for inspiration. Call on all the Choirs of Angels. Call on all the Saints in Heaven. Storm the Gates of Heaven and I promise Grace will fall like rain.
If you have any questions as to what you should do then simply state the following…..”I BELIEVE in God the Father, I BELIEVE in Jesus Christ the son, I BELIEVE in the Holy Spirit.” The answers will be forth coming shortly I promise!
When people see and feel the over whelming Power of the Holy Spirit, they fill those pews to overflowing. Don’t believe me? Try us!
There is nothing like the Catholic faith! It is the Church Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior predicted. Hell itself will not prevail against it.
God Bless You
Bobby Anding
Thursday, July 28, 2005
'We Blind Mice....'
FBI Director Admits Russians May Have Secret Weapons in US
NewsMax.com
FBI Director admitted that Russia may yet have stored weapons — including nuclear suitcase bombs — at secret locations around the U.S. The stunning revelations appeared in yesterday’s editions of the New York Post. The paper quoted Congressman Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) as having had a conversation with the Director in the past two weeks. Weldon said that Freeh "acknowledged the definite possibility that hidden weapons caches already exist in the United States ..”
Weldon, a leading congressional expert on Russia and chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, said, "There is no doubt that the Soviets stored material in this country. The question is what, where and just how much.”
Congressional scrutiny has focused on dozens of nuclear suitcase bombs that have disappeared from Russian’s nuclear arsenal. According to Russian sources, including Russian General Alexander Lebed, Russia produced 132 nuclear suitcase bombs, each carrying 10 kilotons of explosive material. Only 48 remain in Russia’s inventory; the rest have disappeared.
The FBI has taken a nonchalant approach to locating the secret caches. Congressional sources indicate that the FBI scoured the area around Brainerd, Minn. One area Russian agents were believed to have forward-deployed weapons in the event of a war. But Weldon said the Clinton administration is not interested in pressing the Yeltsin government for fear of destabilizing his shaky position vis-à-vis the country’s military leadership. Concerns about the secret stockpiles have been fueled in recent years by revelations made by Russian defectors. One KGB defector, Vasili Mitrokhin, provided information to British intelligence that secret weapons stockpiles are scattered throughout the U.S., including upstate New York, California, Texas, Montana and Minnesota. Mitrokhin has also stated that such stockpiles were also made throughout Europe. Some Russian weapons caches have been located in Belgium and Switzerland. Colonel Stanislav Lunev, the highest ranking military spy ever to defect from Russia, has testified that the Soviet military developed elaborate plans for the use of weapons during the outset of a war with the U.S. Lunev said Russian military plans include the destruction of military bases, command and control centers, and the assassination of top U.S. leaders, including the president and members of Congress. Lunev has also told members of Congress that suitcase nuclear devices may have already been forward-deployed into the U.S.
While the secret stockpiles appear to be remnants of the Cold War period, Lunev, a NewsMax.com columnist and author of Through the Eyes of the Enemy, has warned U.S. authorities that Soviet military strategy continues under the deceptive guise of Russian "democracy.” Lunev has stated that Russian military leaders continue to see a Nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States as "inevitable.”
In recent years, the Russian government has continued to invest heavily in strategic weapons. Russia is currently mass producing the Topol-M intercontinental missile — a weapon more sophisticated than anything produced by the U.S. military. Russia also continues to invest billions in building large underground bunkers for use during a nuclear conflict. Last month, the Yelstin government announced plans to increase military spending by 50 percent in next year's budget.
As I've said before the FBI,CIA,NSA,Defense Dept, are asleep at the wheel. The countdown has already begun....
NewsMax.com
FBI Director admitted that Russia may yet have stored weapons — including nuclear suitcase bombs — at secret locations around the U.S. The stunning revelations appeared in yesterday’s editions of the New York Post. The paper quoted Congressman Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) as having had a conversation with the Director in the past two weeks. Weldon said that Freeh "acknowledged the definite possibility that hidden weapons caches already exist in the United States ..”
Weldon, a leading congressional expert on Russia and chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, said, "There is no doubt that the Soviets stored material in this country. The question is what, where and just how much.”
Congressional scrutiny has focused on dozens of nuclear suitcase bombs that have disappeared from Russian’s nuclear arsenal. According to Russian sources, including Russian General Alexander Lebed, Russia produced 132 nuclear suitcase bombs, each carrying 10 kilotons of explosive material. Only 48 remain in Russia’s inventory; the rest have disappeared.
The FBI has taken a nonchalant approach to locating the secret caches. Congressional sources indicate that the FBI scoured the area around Brainerd, Minn. One area Russian agents were believed to have forward-deployed weapons in the event of a war. But Weldon said the Clinton administration is not interested in pressing the Yeltsin government for fear of destabilizing his shaky position vis-à-vis the country’s military leadership. Concerns about the secret stockpiles have been fueled in recent years by revelations made by Russian defectors. One KGB defector, Vasili Mitrokhin, provided information to British intelligence that secret weapons stockpiles are scattered throughout the U.S., including upstate New York, California, Texas, Montana and Minnesota. Mitrokhin has also stated that such stockpiles were also made throughout Europe. Some Russian weapons caches have been located in Belgium and Switzerland. Colonel Stanislav Lunev, the highest ranking military spy ever to defect from Russia, has testified that the Soviet military developed elaborate plans for the use of weapons during the outset of a war with the U.S. Lunev said Russian military plans include the destruction of military bases, command and control centers, and the assassination of top U.S. leaders, including the president and members of Congress. Lunev has also told members of Congress that suitcase nuclear devices may have already been forward-deployed into the U.S.
While the secret stockpiles appear to be remnants of the Cold War period, Lunev, a NewsMax.com columnist and author of Through the Eyes of the Enemy, has warned U.S. authorities that Soviet military strategy continues under the deceptive guise of Russian "democracy.” Lunev has stated that Russian military leaders continue to see a Nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States as "inevitable.”
In recent years, the Russian government has continued to invest heavily in strategic weapons. Russia is currently mass producing the Topol-M intercontinental missile — a weapon more sophisticated than anything produced by the U.S. military. Russia also continues to invest billions in building large underground bunkers for use during a nuclear conflict. Last month, the Yelstin government announced plans to increase military spending by 50 percent in next year's budget.
As I've said before the FBI,CIA,NSA,Defense Dept, are asleep at the wheel. The countdown has already begun....
Saturday, July 23, 2005
The Failure of America's Defenders
The ticking time bomb...China-Russia-North Korea
America is living in a dream world and soon will wake to the nightmare of Nuclear annihilation. Bill Gertz, in his latest book, The China Threat, exposes the grave national security risks that have accompanied the turnover of the Panama Canal.
Traitor and Former President Clinton, when asked about Chinese involvement in the Panama Canal, responded, "I think the Chinese will, in fact, be bending over backwards to make sure they run [the Panama Canal] in a competent and able and fair manner... I would be very surprised if any adverse consequences flowed from the Chinese running the canal." In effect, an admission of Chinese involvement in the Canal.
Clinton later made a "clarification" as he had said too much, and had alarmed many Americans. The company in question, Lampoa-Hutchinson, is run by Hong Kong billionaire Li Kashing, known to have strong ties with the People's Liberation Army. This company now owns the entrance and exit ports to the Canal. U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher has stated, "Li Kashing and his Hong Kong-based company [Lampoa-Hutchinson] and subsidiaries are closely associated with the Beijing regime and have a history of acting as sources of funding or acting as intermediaries in deals for the People's Liberation Army."
In a August 1, 1999 letter to former Defense Secretary William Cohen, Senator Trent Lott stated that the Chinese shipping company had gained great control over the Canal and could use the ports to deny passage to U.S. ships. He wrote, "It appears that we have given away the farm without a shot being fired." The implications of Chinese involvement are enormous.
Admiral Thomas Moorer states that thanks to China's recent, wholesale acquisition of U.S. military technology, China is now building weapons of mass destruction at breakneck speed and rapidly becoming a global military power. Control of the Panama Canal will give Communist China a beachhead for expanded aggression in Latin America and direct assault on the U.S. ("Analysis: America risks a nuclear Pearl Harbor," Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, November 17, 1999)
U.S. - Mexican border
Mexico's border with the United States is two thousand miles long, and, as Menges states, "this definitely pose a serious problem to U.S. national security."
Chinese at U.S. - Mexican border!
Some months ago we received an email concerning reports of Chinese sighted at the U.S. - Mexican border. The author of this email was reportedly in contact with a U.S. Customs agent, who verified this claim:
"In October border patrol agents were fired upon by apparent Mexican military members. Upon further checking, the military members turned out to be "orientals!"
A lady friend of mine who works in the USAF Reserves, who also happens to be a US Customs Agent confirmed for me that indeed incidents like this happen "All the time!" (her words in quotes) These "incidents" are usually kept "hush hush" and Border Patrol, as well as Customs folks are admonished not to chat with the Press about such things.
The question begs to be asked is 'Why are North Korean and Chinese soliders wearing Mexican military outfits?'
The other questions to be asked is 'Would China-Russia-North Korea benefit if the United States was removed from the Global stage?'
Nobody stays king of the Hill forever. Sooner or later someone is going to get tired of being told what to do and when they can do it.
'With the United States out of the way. China and Russia could carve up the entire planet with NO ONE able to stop them!'
It's going to happen sooner then you think. The CIA, FBI, NSA, Homeland Security, The Defense Dept, they are all sleeping at the wheel. They will never see it comming!
Bobby Anding
America is living in a dream world and soon will wake to the nightmare of Nuclear annihilation. Bill Gertz, in his latest book, The China Threat, exposes the grave national security risks that have accompanied the turnover of the Panama Canal.
Traitor and Former President Clinton, when asked about Chinese involvement in the Panama Canal, responded, "I think the Chinese will, in fact, be bending over backwards to make sure they run [the Panama Canal] in a competent and able and fair manner... I would be very surprised if any adverse consequences flowed from the Chinese running the canal." In effect, an admission of Chinese involvement in the Canal.
Clinton later made a "clarification" as he had said too much, and had alarmed many Americans. The company in question, Lampoa-Hutchinson, is run by Hong Kong billionaire Li Kashing, known to have strong ties with the People's Liberation Army. This company now owns the entrance and exit ports to the Canal. U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher has stated, "Li Kashing and his Hong Kong-based company [Lampoa-Hutchinson] and subsidiaries are closely associated with the Beijing regime and have a history of acting as sources of funding or acting as intermediaries in deals for the People's Liberation Army."
In a August 1, 1999 letter to former Defense Secretary William Cohen, Senator Trent Lott stated that the Chinese shipping company had gained great control over the Canal and could use the ports to deny passage to U.S. ships. He wrote, "It appears that we have given away the farm without a shot being fired." The implications of Chinese involvement are enormous.
Admiral Thomas Moorer states that thanks to China's recent, wholesale acquisition of U.S. military technology, China is now building weapons of mass destruction at breakneck speed and rapidly becoming a global military power. Control of the Panama Canal will give Communist China a beachhead for expanded aggression in Latin America and direct assault on the U.S. ("Analysis: America risks a nuclear Pearl Harbor," Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, November 17, 1999)
U.S. - Mexican border
Mexico's border with the United States is two thousand miles long, and, as Menges states, "this definitely pose a serious problem to U.S. national security."
Chinese at U.S. - Mexican border!
Some months ago we received an email concerning reports of Chinese sighted at the U.S. - Mexican border. The author of this email was reportedly in contact with a U.S. Customs agent, who verified this claim:
"In October border patrol agents were fired upon by apparent Mexican military members. Upon further checking, the military members turned out to be "orientals!"
A lady friend of mine who works in the USAF Reserves, who also happens to be a US Customs Agent confirmed for me that indeed incidents like this happen "All the time!" (her words in quotes) These "incidents" are usually kept "hush hush" and Border Patrol, as well as Customs folks are admonished not to chat with the Press about such things.
The question begs to be asked is 'Why are North Korean and Chinese soliders wearing Mexican military outfits?'
The other questions to be asked is 'Would China-Russia-North Korea benefit if the United States was removed from the Global stage?'
Nobody stays king of the Hill forever. Sooner or later someone is going to get tired of being told what to do and when they can do it.
'With the United States out of the way. China and Russia could carve up the entire planet with NO ONE able to stop them!'
It's going to happen sooner then you think. The CIA, FBI, NSA, Homeland Security, The Defense Dept, they are all sleeping at the wheel. They will never see it comming!
Bobby Anding
Friday, July 22, 2005
A Devil's Decision
LifeSiteNews.com
Tuesday July 19, 2005
Canadians Calls for State Control of Religion, Especially Catholicism
OTTAWA, July 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com)
Just as Senate approaches the final vote on the gay 'marriage' bill, C-38, Canada's national public radio CBC Radio has aired a commentary by a retired professor from the Royal Military College calling for state control over religion, specifically Catholicism. While parliamentarians dismissed warnings by numerous religious leaders and experts that such laws would lead to religious persecution, former professor Bob Ferguson has called for "legislation to regulate the practice of religion."
"Given the inertia of the Catholic Church, perhaps we could encourage reform by changing the environment in which all religions operate," Ferguson began his commentary in measured tones yesterday. "Couldn't we insist that human rights, employment and consumer legislation apply to them as it does other organizations? Then it would be illegal to require a particular marital status as a condition of employment or to exclude women from the priesthood. "
Ferguson continued, "Of course the Vatican wouldn't like the changes, but they would come to accept them in time as a fact of life in Canada. Indeed I suspect many clergy would welcome the external pressure."
The former professor pitched his idea as a boon to religious freedom. "We could also help the general cause of religious freedom by introducing a code of moral practice for religions," he said. "They will never achieve unity so why not try for compatibility? Can't religious leaders agree to adjust doctrine so all religions can operate within the code?"
Ferguson, would see religion regulated by provinces in the same way professions are regulated. "I am an engineer so the model I am thinking about is rather like the provincial acts regulating the practice of engineering," he said. "For example, engineers must have an engineering degree from a recognized university or pass qualification exams. They must have a number of years of practical experience and pass an ethics exam. The different branches: mechanical, electrical, civil and the like have a code of practice that applies to everyone. Why can't religious groups do the same?"
Continuing his comparison Ferguson stated, "I envisage a congress meeting to hammer out a code that would form the basis of legislation to regulate the practice of religion. Like the professional engineers' P.Eng designation, there would then be RRPs (or registered religious practitioners). To carry the analogy to its conclusion, no one could be a religious practitioner without this qualification."
Ferguson also suggests 'obvious' prohibitions on religion including preaching of 'hate'. "I won't try to propose what might be in the new code except for a few obvious things: A key item would have to be a ban on claims of exclusivity. It should be unethical for any RRP to claim that theirs was the one true religion and believers in anything else or nothing were doomed to fire and brimstone. One might also expect prohibition of ritual circumcisions, bans on preaching hate or violence, the regulation of faith healers, protocols for missionary work, etc.," says Ferguson.
The retired professor concluded his comments aired on CBC yesterday morning saying, "Now what is the point of proposing this? I do it because I am worried that the separation between church and state is under threat. Religion is important in our lives, but it can become a danger to society when people claim that the unalterable will of God is the basis for their opinions and actions. Yes religion can be a comfort and a guide, but we cannot take rules from our holy books and apply them to the modern world without democratic debate and due regard for the law."
Listen to an audio recording of the commentary:http://cbc.ca/commentary/media/20050718JUL18.ram
Tuesday July 19, 2005
Canadians Calls for State Control of Religion, Especially Catholicism
OTTAWA, July 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com)
Just as Senate approaches the final vote on the gay 'marriage' bill, C-38, Canada's national public radio CBC Radio has aired a commentary by a retired professor from the Royal Military College calling for state control over religion, specifically Catholicism. While parliamentarians dismissed warnings by numerous religious leaders and experts that such laws would lead to religious persecution, former professor Bob Ferguson has called for "legislation to regulate the practice of religion."
"Given the inertia of the Catholic Church, perhaps we could encourage reform by changing the environment in which all religions operate," Ferguson began his commentary in measured tones yesterday. "Couldn't we insist that human rights, employment and consumer legislation apply to them as it does other organizations? Then it would be illegal to require a particular marital status as a condition of employment or to exclude women from the priesthood. "
Ferguson continued, "Of course the Vatican wouldn't like the changes, but they would come to accept them in time as a fact of life in Canada. Indeed I suspect many clergy would welcome the external pressure."
The former professor pitched his idea as a boon to religious freedom. "We could also help the general cause of religious freedom by introducing a code of moral practice for religions," he said. "They will never achieve unity so why not try for compatibility? Can't religious leaders agree to adjust doctrine so all religions can operate within the code?"
Ferguson, would see religion regulated by provinces in the same way professions are regulated. "I am an engineer so the model I am thinking about is rather like the provincial acts regulating the practice of engineering," he said. "For example, engineers must have an engineering degree from a recognized university or pass qualification exams. They must have a number of years of practical experience and pass an ethics exam. The different branches: mechanical, electrical, civil and the like have a code of practice that applies to everyone. Why can't religious groups do the same?"
Continuing his comparison Ferguson stated, "I envisage a congress meeting to hammer out a code that would form the basis of legislation to regulate the practice of religion. Like the professional engineers' P.Eng designation, there would then be RRPs (or registered religious practitioners). To carry the analogy to its conclusion, no one could be a religious practitioner without this qualification."
Ferguson also suggests 'obvious' prohibitions on religion including preaching of 'hate'. "I won't try to propose what might be in the new code except for a few obvious things: A key item would have to be a ban on claims of exclusivity. It should be unethical for any RRP to claim that theirs was the one true religion and believers in anything else or nothing were doomed to fire and brimstone. One might also expect prohibition of ritual circumcisions, bans on preaching hate or violence, the regulation of faith healers, protocols for missionary work, etc.," says Ferguson.
The retired professor concluded his comments aired on CBC yesterday morning saying, "Now what is the point of proposing this? I do it because I am worried that the separation between church and state is under threat. Religion is important in our lives, but it can become a danger to society when people claim that the unalterable will of God is the basis for their opinions and actions. Yes religion can be a comfort and a guide, but we cannot take rules from our holy books and apply them to the modern world without democratic debate and due regard for the law."
Listen to an audio recording of the commentary:http://cbc.ca/commentary/media/20050718JUL18.ram
Thursday, July 21, 2005
A Dark wind Blows....
A Change is coming.... The entire world will soon be altered from it's present course. Mankind has transgressed God's mercy. It is the Bacchanalian choices which have watered down the Founding Father's rock sure truth. 'Lifestyles' which three generations ago would have been called perversions have infected the bedrock of the American Family.
They would have you believe that the words 'Christian, Family, Patriot, Father..' are nothing more then derogatory adjatives. The liberal media and the 'Lifestyle' advocates say we should apologize for being Christian, Hard Working, with belief's which are grounded in Faith, love, and JESUS CHRIST.
Love begins with the Love of GOD first and foremost. It is the first commandment "Love GOD thy Father with all thy might and all thy will."
It is there that the love of all things both begins and ends. All things issue forth from the Lord thy GOD and as entropy envelops all things once more in it's velvet black embrace all things once again return to the Lord thy GOD!
Bobby Anding
They would have you believe that the words 'Christian, Family, Patriot, Father..' are nothing more then derogatory adjatives. The liberal media and the 'Lifestyle' advocates say we should apologize for being Christian, Hard Working, with belief's which are grounded in Faith, love, and JESUS CHRIST.
Love begins with the Love of GOD first and foremost. It is the first commandment "Love GOD thy Father with all thy might and all thy will."
It is there that the love of all things both begins and ends. All things issue forth from the Lord thy GOD and as entropy envelops all things once more in it's velvet black embrace all things once again return to the Lord thy GOD!
Bobby Anding
A letter from Hell
"Cry of a lost Soul..."
This unusual narrative recounts the revelations of a lost soul to a former acquaintance. It is a powerful record of the steps which led a young woman to lose her soul in Hell for all eternity. Although it has several time been printed with imprimatur, this in itself does not guarantee the authenticity of the story. An imprimatur merely indicates that the subject matter is free from error in faith and morals. Is it true? Obviously, it cannot be '`guaranteed" because the only evidence is that of the girl herself. It certainly may be true and its instructional qualities would pertain even if the story itself were not true. In the July apparition at Fatima a version of a Hell of fire was given to the three little children, and significantly, its existence was confirmed by the great public miracle on October 13th.(Many people had visions of Hell. The most famous among them is the visions of Don Bosco and Josepha Menendez) Yet Hell is little spoken of in the pulpits of the sixties. And we have seen that many Christian ministers, including some Catholic priests, have "abolished" Hell as a place of physical pain. Because of this, the special intervention of Heaven, may, as at Fatima, be necessary to restore this sobering doctrine to its important place in Christian dogma. It is well to remember that the Hell spoken of here is the Hell which has a significant place in Catholic doctrine, the Hell described vividly by Christ Himself, the Hell seen in all its livid horror by the children at Fatima on July 13th, just 50 years ago. The names of persons and places are omitted because of the nature of the story plus the fact of its recent origin.
Clara and Annette, both single Catholics in their early twenties, worked adjacent to each other, employees of a commercial firm in Germany. Although they were never very close friends, they shared a courteous mutual regard which lead to an exchange of ideas and, eventually, of confidences. Clara professed herself openly religious, and felt it her duty to instruct and admonish Annette when the latter appeared excessively casual or superficial in religious matters. In due course, Annette married and left the firm. The year was 1937. Clara spent the autumn of that year on holiday at Lake Garda. About the middle of September she received a letter from her mother: 'Annette . . . Instead. She was the victim of an auto accident was buried yesterday at Wald-Friedhof. Clara was frightened since she knew her friend was not very religious. Was she prepared to appear before God? Dying suddenly, what had happened to her? The next day she attended Mass, received Holy Communion, and prayed fervently for her friend.
The following night, at ten minutes after midnight, the vision took place . . . Clara, do not pray for me! I am in hell. If I tell you this and speak at length about it, do not think it is because of our friendship. We here do not love anyone. I do this as under constraint. In truth, I should like to see you too come to this state where I must remain forever." Perhaps that angers you, but here we all think that way. Our wills are hardened in evil, in what you call 'evil'. Even when do something 'good', as I do now - opening your eyes about hell, it is not because of a good intention.
Do you still remember our first meeting four years ago at . . .? You were then 23 and had been there already half a year. Because I was a beginner, you gave me some helpful advice. Then I praised your love of your neighbor. Ridiculous! Your help was mere coquetry. Here we do not acknowledge any good in anybody." "Do you remember what I told you about my youth? Now I am painfully compelled to fill in some of the gaps." According to the plan of my parents, I should not have existed. A misfortune' brought about my conception. My two sisters were 14 and 15 when I was born." "Would that I had never existed! Would that I could now annihilate myself! Escape these tortures! No pleasure would equal that with which I would abandon my existence, as a garment of ashes which is lost in nothingness. But I must continue to exist as I chose to make myself as a ruined person." When father and mother, still young, left the country 'or the city, they had lost touch with the Church and were keeping company with irreligious people. They had met at a dance, and after a year and a half of companionship they 'had' to get married." As a result of the nuptial ceremony, so much holy water remained on them that my mother attended Sunday Mass a couple of times a year. But she never taught me to pray, Instead, she was completely taken up with the daily cares of life, although our situation was not bad." "I refer to prayer, Mass, religious instruction, holy water, church with a very strong repugnance. I hate all that, as I hate those who go to church, and in general every human being and everything."
"From a great many things do we receive torture Every knowledge received at the hour of death, every remembrance of things lived or known is, for us, a piercing flame. In each remembrance, good and bad, we see the way in which grace was present the grace we despised or ignored. What a torture is this !" '`We do not eat, we do not sleep, we do not walk. Chained with howling and gnashing of teeth. we look appalled at our ruined life, hating and suffering." "Do you hear ? We here drink hatred like water. Above all we hate God. With great reluctance do I force myself to make you understand." The blessed in heaven must love God because they see Him without veil, in all His dazzling beauty. That makes their bliss indescribable. We know this and the knowledge makes us furious." "Men on earth, who know God from nature and from revelation, can love Him., but they are not compelled to do so. The believer I say this with gnashing of teeth who contemplates Christ on the cross, with arms extended, will end by loving Him." "But he whom God approaches only in the final storm, as punisher, as just avenger, because He was rejected by him, such a person cannot but hate Him with all the strength of his wicked will. We died with willful resolve to be separated from God." "Do you now understand why hell lasts forever? It is because our wills were fixed for eternity at the moment of death. We had made our final choice. Our obstinacy will never leave us."
"Under compulsion, I must add that God is merciful even towards us. I affirm many things against my will and must choke the torrent of abuses I should like to vomit out." God was merciful to us by not allowing our wicked wills to exhaust themselves on earth as we should have been prepared to do. This would have increased our faults and our pains. He caused us to die before our time, as in my case, or had other mitigating circumstances intervene." Now He shows Himself merciful towards us by not compelling a closer approach than that afforded in this remote inferno. Every step bringing us closer to God would cause us a greater pain than that which a step closer to a burning furnace would cause you."
"You were scared when once, during a walk, I told you that my father, a few days before my first Communion, had told me: `My little Annette, the main thing is your beautiful white dress, all the rest is just make-believe." "Because of your concern, I was almost ashamed. Now I sneer at it." The important thing is that we were not allowed to receive Communion until the age of 12. By then I was already absorbed in worldly amusements and found it easy to set aside, without scruple, the things of religion. Thus, I attached no great importance to my first Communion." "We are furious that many children go to Communion at the age of seven. We do all we can to make people believe that children have insufficient knowledge at that age. They must first commit some mortal sins. Then the white Particle will not do so much damage to our cause as when faith, hope and charity, these things! received in Baptism, are still alive in their hearts . "Marta K and you induced me to enter The Association of the Young Ladies". The games were amusing. As you know, I immediately took a directive part. I liked it." "I also liked the picnics. I even let myself be induced to go to confession and Communion sometimes." "Once you warned me. Anne, if you do not pray, you go to perdition'. ''I used to pray very little indeed, and even this unwillingly."
"You were then only too right. All those who burn in hell did not pray or did not pray enough." "Prayer is the first step towards God. And it is the decisive step. Especially prayer to her who is the Mother of Christ, whose name we never pronounce. "Devotion to her rescues from the devil numberless souls whom sin would infallibly give to him." "I continue my story, consumed with rage and only because I have to. To pray is the easiest thing man can do on earth. And God has tied up the salvation of each one exactly to this very easy thing." "To him who prays with perseverance little by little God gives so much light, so much strength, that even the most debased sinner will at the end come back to salvation." "During the last years of my life I did not pray any more, so I lacked those graces without which nobody can be saved." "Here we no longer receive graces. Moreover, should we receive them we would cynically refuse them. All the fluctuations of earthly existence have ceased in this other life." For years I was living far away from God. For, in the last call of Grace I decided against God." ''I never believed in the influence of the devil. And now I affirm that he has strong influence on the persons who are in the condition in which I was then. Only many prayers, others' and mine own united with sacrifices and penances, could have snatched me from his grip. And even this only little by little. If there are only few externally obsessed, there are very many internally possessed, The devil cannot steal the free will from those who give themselves to his influence. But in punishment of their, so to speak, methodical apostasy from God, He allows the devil to nest in them. I hate the devil too. And yet I am pleased about him, because he tries to ruin all of you, he and his satellites, the spirits fallen with him at the beginning of time. There are millions of them. They roam around the earth, as thick as a swarm of flies, and you do not even notice it. It is not reserved to us damned to tempt you; but to the fallen spirits. In truth every time they drag down here to hell a human soul their own torture is increased. But what does one not do for hatred?"
"Deep down I was rebelling against God. You did not understand it; you thought me still a Catholic. I wanted, in fact, to be called one; I even used to pay my ecclesiastical dues. Maybe your answers were right sometimes On me they made no impression! since you must not be right Because of these counterfeited relationships between the two of us our separation on the occasion of my marriage was of no consequence to me. . Before the wedding I went to confession and Communion once more. It was a precept My husband and I thought alike on this point. Why not comply with this formality? So we complied with this, as with the other formalities." 'Our married life, in general, was spent in great harmony. We were of the same idea in everything. In this too that we did not want the burden of children. In truth, my husband would have liked to have one, no more, of course. In the end I succeeded in dissuading him even from this desire. Dresses, luxurious furniture, places of entertainment, picnics and trips by car and similar things were more important for me. It was a year of pleasure on earth, the one that passed from my marriage to my sudden death. Internally, of course, I was never happy, although externally at ease. There was always something indeterminate inside that gnawed at me. "Unexpectedly I had an inheritance from my aunt, Lotte. My husband succeeded in increasing his wages to a considerable figure. And so I was able to furnish our new home in an attractive way. Religion did not show its light but from afar off, pale, feeble and uncertain."
"I used to give free vent to my ill humor about some mediaeval representations of hell in cemeteries or elsewhere, in which the devil is roasting souls in red burning coals, while his companions with long tails, drag new victims to him. Clara! One can be mistaken in depicting hell, but never can one exaggerate. I tell you: the fire of which the Bible speaks, does not mean the torment of the conscience. Fire is fire! What He said: Away from Me, you accursed ones, into eternal fire, is to be understood literally. Literally! How can the spirit be touched by material fire? you will ask. How can your soul suffer on earth when you put your finger on the flame? In fact the. soul does not burn; and yet what torture all the individual feels!" 'Our greatest torture consists in the certain knowledge that we shall never see God. How can this torture us so much, since on earth we are so indifferent? As long as the knife lies on the table it leaves you cold. You see how keen it is, but you do not feel it. Plunge the knife into the flesh and you will start screaming in pain. Now we feel the loss of God; before we only thought of it. Not all the souls suffer to the same degree. With how greater wickedness and how more systematically one has sinned, the more weighs on him the loss of God and the more the creature he abused is choking him. The lost Catholics suffer snore than those of other religions, because they, mostly, received and despised more graces and more light. He who knew more suffers more cruelly than he who knew less. He who sinned out of malice suffers more keenly than he who sinned out of weakness. But nobody suffers more than he deserves. Oh, if that were not true, I should have a motive to hate!"
"My death happened this way . . . "A week ago; I am speaking according to your reckoning , because according to the pain, I could very well say that it is already in years that I am burning in hell. A week ago, then, my husband, and I, on a Sunday, went on a picnic, the last one for me. The day was glorious. I felt very well. A sinister sense of pleasure that was with me all the day long, invaded me. When lo, suddenly, during the return, my husband was dazzled by a car that was coming full speed . He lost control." Jesses! (misspelling of JESUS, used frequently by some people of German language) escaped from my lips with a shivering. Not as a prayer, but as a shout. A lacerating pain took hold of the whole of me. (In comparison with the present one only a trifle). Then I lost consciousness. Strange. That morning this thought had come to me in an inexplicable way: 'You could go to Mass once more'. It seemed like the last call of Love." "Clear and resolute, my 'NO' cut off that train of thought. You will know already what happened after my death. The lot of my husband and that of my mother, what happened to my corpse and the proceedings of my funeral are known to me through some natural knowledge we have here. What happens on earth we know only obscurely. But we know what touches us closely. So I see also where you are living." I myself awoke from the darkness suddenly, in the instant of my passing. I saw myself as flooded by a dazzling light. It was in the same place where my dead body was lying. It was like a theater , when suddenly the lights in the hall are put out, the curtains are rent aside and an unexpected scene, horribly illuminated appears. The scene of my life." My soul showed itself to me as in a mirror; all the graces despised from my youth until my last `NO' to God. I felt myself like an assassin, to whom his dead victim is shown during his trial at court. Should I repent? Never! Should I feel ashamed? Never!" However I could not even stand before the eyes of God rejected by me. There was only one thing for me: flight! As Cain fled from the dead body of Abel, so my soul rushed from that sight of horror." "This was the particular judgment: the invisible Judge said: 'Away from Me'. Then my soul, as a yellow brimstone shadow, fell headlong into the place of eternal torture."
Question: How Long is Forever?
Answer: A Lot Longer in Hell...
This unusual narrative recounts the revelations of a lost soul to a former acquaintance. It is a powerful record of the steps which led a young woman to lose her soul in Hell for all eternity. Although it has several time been printed with imprimatur, this in itself does not guarantee the authenticity of the story. An imprimatur merely indicates that the subject matter is free from error in faith and morals. Is it true? Obviously, it cannot be '`guaranteed" because the only evidence is that of the girl herself. It certainly may be true and its instructional qualities would pertain even if the story itself were not true. In the July apparition at Fatima a version of a Hell of fire was given to the three little children, and significantly, its existence was confirmed by the great public miracle on October 13th.(Many people had visions of Hell. The most famous among them is the visions of Don Bosco and Josepha Menendez) Yet Hell is little spoken of in the pulpits of the sixties. And we have seen that many Christian ministers, including some Catholic priests, have "abolished" Hell as a place of physical pain. Because of this, the special intervention of Heaven, may, as at Fatima, be necessary to restore this sobering doctrine to its important place in Christian dogma. It is well to remember that the Hell spoken of here is the Hell which has a significant place in Catholic doctrine, the Hell described vividly by Christ Himself, the Hell seen in all its livid horror by the children at Fatima on July 13th, just 50 years ago. The names of persons and places are omitted because of the nature of the story plus the fact of its recent origin.
Clara and Annette, both single Catholics in their early twenties, worked adjacent to each other, employees of a commercial firm in Germany. Although they were never very close friends, they shared a courteous mutual regard which lead to an exchange of ideas and, eventually, of confidences. Clara professed herself openly religious, and felt it her duty to instruct and admonish Annette when the latter appeared excessively casual or superficial in religious matters. In due course, Annette married and left the firm. The year was 1937. Clara spent the autumn of that year on holiday at Lake Garda. About the middle of September she received a letter from her mother: 'Annette . . . Instead. She was the victim of an auto accident was buried yesterday at Wald-Friedhof. Clara was frightened since she knew her friend was not very religious. Was she prepared to appear before God? Dying suddenly, what had happened to her? The next day she attended Mass, received Holy Communion, and prayed fervently for her friend.
The following night, at ten minutes after midnight, the vision took place . . . Clara, do not pray for me! I am in hell. If I tell you this and speak at length about it, do not think it is because of our friendship. We here do not love anyone. I do this as under constraint. In truth, I should like to see you too come to this state where I must remain forever." Perhaps that angers you, but here we all think that way. Our wills are hardened in evil, in what you call 'evil'. Even when do something 'good', as I do now - opening your eyes about hell, it is not because of a good intention.
Do you still remember our first meeting four years ago at . . .? You were then 23 and had been there already half a year. Because I was a beginner, you gave me some helpful advice. Then I praised your love of your neighbor. Ridiculous! Your help was mere coquetry. Here we do not acknowledge any good in anybody." "Do you remember what I told you about my youth? Now I am painfully compelled to fill in some of the gaps." According to the plan of my parents, I should not have existed. A misfortune' brought about my conception. My two sisters were 14 and 15 when I was born." "Would that I had never existed! Would that I could now annihilate myself! Escape these tortures! No pleasure would equal that with which I would abandon my existence, as a garment of ashes which is lost in nothingness. But I must continue to exist as I chose to make myself as a ruined person." When father and mother, still young, left the country 'or the city, they had lost touch with the Church and were keeping company with irreligious people. They had met at a dance, and after a year and a half of companionship they 'had' to get married." As a result of the nuptial ceremony, so much holy water remained on them that my mother attended Sunday Mass a couple of times a year. But she never taught me to pray, Instead, she was completely taken up with the daily cares of life, although our situation was not bad." "I refer to prayer, Mass, religious instruction, holy water, church with a very strong repugnance. I hate all that, as I hate those who go to church, and in general every human being and everything."
"From a great many things do we receive torture Every knowledge received at the hour of death, every remembrance of things lived or known is, for us, a piercing flame. In each remembrance, good and bad, we see the way in which grace was present the grace we despised or ignored. What a torture is this !" '`We do not eat, we do not sleep, we do not walk. Chained with howling and gnashing of teeth. we look appalled at our ruined life, hating and suffering." "Do you hear ? We here drink hatred like water. Above all we hate God. With great reluctance do I force myself to make you understand." The blessed in heaven must love God because they see Him without veil, in all His dazzling beauty. That makes their bliss indescribable. We know this and the knowledge makes us furious." "Men on earth, who know God from nature and from revelation, can love Him., but they are not compelled to do so. The believer I say this with gnashing of teeth who contemplates Christ on the cross, with arms extended, will end by loving Him." "But he whom God approaches only in the final storm, as punisher, as just avenger, because He was rejected by him, such a person cannot but hate Him with all the strength of his wicked will. We died with willful resolve to be separated from God." "Do you now understand why hell lasts forever? It is because our wills were fixed for eternity at the moment of death. We had made our final choice. Our obstinacy will never leave us."
"Under compulsion, I must add that God is merciful even towards us. I affirm many things against my will and must choke the torrent of abuses I should like to vomit out." God was merciful to us by not allowing our wicked wills to exhaust themselves on earth as we should have been prepared to do. This would have increased our faults and our pains. He caused us to die before our time, as in my case, or had other mitigating circumstances intervene." Now He shows Himself merciful towards us by not compelling a closer approach than that afforded in this remote inferno. Every step bringing us closer to God would cause us a greater pain than that which a step closer to a burning furnace would cause you."
"You were scared when once, during a walk, I told you that my father, a few days before my first Communion, had told me: `My little Annette, the main thing is your beautiful white dress, all the rest is just make-believe." "Because of your concern, I was almost ashamed. Now I sneer at it." The important thing is that we were not allowed to receive Communion until the age of 12. By then I was already absorbed in worldly amusements and found it easy to set aside, without scruple, the things of religion. Thus, I attached no great importance to my first Communion." "We are furious that many children go to Communion at the age of seven. We do all we can to make people believe that children have insufficient knowledge at that age. They must first commit some mortal sins. Then the white Particle will not do so much damage to our cause as when faith, hope and charity, these things! received in Baptism, are still alive in their hearts . "Marta K and you induced me to enter The Association of the Young Ladies". The games were amusing. As you know, I immediately took a directive part. I liked it." "I also liked the picnics. I even let myself be induced to go to confession and Communion sometimes." "Once you warned me. Anne, if you do not pray, you go to perdition'. ''I used to pray very little indeed, and even this unwillingly."
"You were then only too right. All those who burn in hell did not pray or did not pray enough." "Prayer is the first step towards God. And it is the decisive step. Especially prayer to her who is the Mother of Christ, whose name we never pronounce. "Devotion to her rescues from the devil numberless souls whom sin would infallibly give to him." "I continue my story, consumed with rage and only because I have to. To pray is the easiest thing man can do on earth. And God has tied up the salvation of each one exactly to this very easy thing." "To him who prays with perseverance little by little God gives so much light, so much strength, that even the most debased sinner will at the end come back to salvation." "During the last years of my life I did not pray any more, so I lacked those graces without which nobody can be saved." "Here we no longer receive graces. Moreover, should we receive them we would cynically refuse them. All the fluctuations of earthly existence have ceased in this other life." For years I was living far away from God. For, in the last call of Grace I decided against God." ''I never believed in the influence of the devil. And now I affirm that he has strong influence on the persons who are in the condition in which I was then. Only many prayers, others' and mine own united with sacrifices and penances, could have snatched me from his grip. And even this only little by little. If there are only few externally obsessed, there are very many internally possessed, The devil cannot steal the free will from those who give themselves to his influence. But in punishment of their, so to speak, methodical apostasy from God, He allows the devil to nest in them. I hate the devil too. And yet I am pleased about him, because he tries to ruin all of you, he and his satellites, the spirits fallen with him at the beginning of time. There are millions of them. They roam around the earth, as thick as a swarm of flies, and you do not even notice it. It is not reserved to us damned to tempt you; but to the fallen spirits. In truth every time they drag down here to hell a human soul their own torture is increased. But what does one not do for hatred?"
"Deep down I was rebelling against God. You did not understand it; you thought me still a Catholic. I wanted, in fact, to be called one; I even used to pay my ecclesiastical dues. Maybe your answers were right sometimes On me they made no impression! since you must not be right Because of these counterfeited relationships between the two of us our separation on the occasion of my marriage was of no consequence to me. . Before the wedding I went to confession and Communion once more. It was a precept My husband and I thought alike on this point. Why not comply with this formality? So we complied with this, as with the other formalities." 'Our married life, in general, was spent in great harmony. We were of the same idea in everything. In this too that we did not want the burden of children. In truth, my husband would have liked to have one, no more, of course. In the end I succeeded in dissuading him even from this desire. Dresses, luxurious furniture, places of entertainment, picnics and trips by car and similar things were more important for me. It was a year of pleasure on earth, the one that passed from my marriage to my sudden death. Internally, of course, I was never happy, although externally at ease. There was always something indeterminate inside that gnawed at me. "Unexpectedly I had an inheritance from my aunt, Lotte. My husband succeeded in increasing his wages to a considerable figure. And so I was able to furnish our new home in an attractive way. Religion did not show its light but from afar off, pale, feeble and uncertain."
"I used to give free vent to my ill humor about some mediaeval representations of hell in cemeteries or elsewhere, in which the devil is roasting souls in red burning coals, while his companions with long tails, drag new victims to him. Clara! One can be mistaken in depicting hell, but never can one exaggerate. I tell you: the fire of which the Bible speaks, does not mean the torment of the conscience. Fire is fire! What He said: Away from Me, you accursed ones, into eternal fire, is to be understood literally. Literally! How can the spirit be touched by material fire? you will ask. How can your soul suffer on earth when you put your finger on the flame? In fact the. soul does not burn; and yet what torture all the individual feels!" 'Our greatest torture consists in the certain knowledge that we shall never see God. How can this torture us so much, since on earth we are so indifferent? As long as the knife lies on the table it leaves you cold. You see how keen it is, but you do not feel it. Plunge the knife into the flesh and you will start screaming in pain. Now we feel the loss of God; before we only thought of it. Not all the souls suffer to the same degree. With how greater wickedness and how more systematically one has sinned, the more weighs on him the loss of God and the more the creature he abused is choking him. The lost Catholics suffer snore than those of other religions, because they, mostly, received and despised more graces and more light. He who knew more suffers more cruelly than he who knew less. He who sinned out of malice suffers more keenly than he who sinned out of weakness. But nobody suffers more than he deserves. Oh, if that were not true, I should have a motive to hate!"
"My death happened this way . . . "A week ago; I am speaking according to your reckoning , because according to the pain, I could very well say that it is already in years that I am burning in hell. A week ago, then, my husband, and I, on a Sunday, went on a picnic, the last one for me. The day was glorious. I felt very well. A sinister sense of pleasure that was with me all the day long, invaded me. When lo, suddenly, during the return, my husband was dazzled by a car that was coming full speed . He lost control." Jesses! (misspelling of JESUS, used frequently by some people of German language) escaped from my lips with a shivering. Not as a prayer, but as a shout. A lacerating pain took hold of the whole of me. (In comparison with the present one only a trifle). Then I lost consciousness. Strange. That morning this thought had come to me in an inexplicable way: 'You could go to Mass once more'. It seemed like the last call of Love." "Clear and resolute, my 'NO' cut off that train of thought. You will know already what happened after my death. The lot of my husband and that of my mother, what happened to my corpse and the proceedings of my funeral are known to me through some natural knowledge we have here. What happens on earth we know only obscurely. But we know what touches us closely. So I see also where you are living." I myself awoke from the darkness suddenly, in the instant of my passing. I saw myself as flooded by a dazzling light. It was in the same place where my dead body was lying. It was like a theater , when suddenly the lights in the hall are put out, the curtains are rent aside and an unexpected scene, horribly illuminated appears. The scene of my life." My soul showed itself to me as in a mirror; all the graces despised from my youth until my last `NO' to God. I felt myself like an assassin, to whom his dead victim is shown during his trial at court. Should I repent? Never! Should I feel ashamed? Never!" However I could not even stand before the eyes of God rejected by me. There was only one thing for me: flight! As Cain fled from the dead body of Abel, so my soul rushed from that sight of horror." "This was the particular judgment: the invisible Judge said: 'Away from Me'. Then my soul, as a yellow brimstone shadow, fell headlong into the place of eternal torture."
Question: How Long is Forever?
Answer: A Lot Longer in Hell...
The Apostasy of Secularism
In our modern times the ‘Apostasy of Secularism’ threatens to undermine the foundations of the Roman Catholic Church. The very word Secularism is insidious in it’s vague perpetuity. Having abandoned truth for conjecture and innuendo all views have become acceptable in the New World Order. Often Christians are accused of not practicing what they preach when those in the Catholic Faith judge another as having committed or being in the state of sin. The son of God, Jesus Christ, said when attacked to turn the other cheek, not turn a blind eye to the repugnant actions called by some ‘a lifestyle’ others ‘A woman’s right.’
The Roman Catholic Church at it’s inception was entrusted by it’s founder the Lord Jesus Christ with the moral responsibility to hold the line and sound the call when all others, for the love of gold and silver, have cheaply bartered their soul. Hidden behind the label of ‘socially progressive’ all manner of perversions have been loosed upon an unsuspecting public. In the modern practice of deception by omission there lies a hidden sinister intent. The fringe of society have thrown open the gates of Hades inviting abominations only three generations ago would have been recognized for the wolf in sheep’s clothing that they are.
We ‘ARE’ called to be our brother’s keeper. It is not unchristian to warn someone when they are participating in a lifestyle or committing deeds which has them careening off a spiritual cliff to their damnation.
What are we setting ourselves up for when we replace right and wrong with some amorphic intangibility? In this new millennium those of definitive moral character are labeled Hard-liners, Extremists, Ultra-Conservatives or even Fanatics. Where shall the moral compass point be set if the port of embarkation is in the middle of everywhere and the destination in the middle of nowhere?
Ultimately the goal of the New World Order is that of a secular society devoid of God. The first step towards that goal is the pruning of institutionalized religions for a more truncated, ‘User-Friendly’ version. This is religion stripped down, less rigid, absent of anything so intrusive as ‘Commandments or Cannon Law.’ Unambiguous, unintrusive, unassuming, yet entirely diabolical in it’s nature not to offend.
Step One of this campaign is ‘All Religions must become the same.’
Bobby Anding
The Roman Catholic Church at it’s inception was entrusted by it’s founder the Lord Jesus Christ with the moral responsibility to hold the line and sound the call when all others, for the love of gold and silver, have cheaply bartered their soul. Hidden behind the label of ‘socially progressive’ all manner of perversions have been loosed upon an unsuspecting public. In the modern practice of deception by omission there lies a hidden sinister intent. The fringe of society have thrown open the gates of Hades inviting abominations only three generations ago would have been recognized for the wolf in sheep’s clothing that they are.
We ‘ARE’ called to be our brother’s keeper. It is not unchristian to warn someone when they are participating in a lifestyle or committing deeds which has them careening off a spiritual cliff to their damnation.
What are we setting ourselves up for when we replace right and wrong with some amorphic intangibility? In this new millennium those of definitive moral character are labeled Hard-liners, Extremists, Ultra-Conservatives or even Fanatics. Where shall the moral compass point be set if the port of embarkation is in the middle of everywhere and the destination in the middle of nowhere?
Ultimately the goal of the New World Order is that of a secular society devoid of God. The first step towards that goal is the pruning of institutionalized religions for a more truncated, ‘User-Friendly’ version. This is religion stripped down, less rigid, absent of anything so intrusive as ‘Commandments or Cannon Law.’ Unambiguous, unintrusive, unassuming, yet entirely diabolical in it’s nature not to offend.
Step One of this campaign is ‘All Religions must become the same.’
Bobby Anding
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