#3rd Sunday of Lent 2020

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Interpretive Charity and the two paradigms of the pandemic

In the Gospel today, the woman at the well and Jesus begin by talking past each other. The woman thinks Jesus is interested in water, or perhaps she thinks he’s interested in being her next husband. Jesus is interested in her conversion. She doesn’t get what he’s saying, at all. She lacks the imagination to consider this conversation the way that Jesus does.

A lot of us are talking past each other: At MIT this week, the administration managed a giant operation to shut down the university within a few days. Every so often, there would be a conference call where exhausted members of the administration would explain what they were doing and why, receive feedback in the form of “have you thought of this?”, and then give an answer (which, as often as not, would be changed within a few hours). Their work and efforts were really quite intelligent, and earned praise from MIT’s president. Also at MIT this week, students protested the various decisions of the Institute, often in vulgar language, which really hurt the feelings of the men and women who were working long hours to evacuate (sorry, “de-densify”) the campus. But, of course, the decisions of the Institute hurt many students in obviously real ways. Both sides had a point, and yet neither was really able to get inside the mind of the other and interpret the other’s actions charitably.

A poll just came out which shows that Republicans and Democrats view the facts and dangers of the pandemic in extremely different ways. There’s a popular saying, that you're entitled to your opinions, but not to your own facts. But, the fact/opinion dichotomy is not sustainable, as anyone who ever studied the great MIT philosopher Thomas Kuhn’s work on scientific revolutions knows. 

What we seem to have here are (at least) two different paradigms for looking at the pandemic: 

One paradigm, expressed really effectively in this article, is that the pandemic is really big, really scary, and that the more governments act in a dictatorial fashion, the better we’ll all be. 

The other paradigm is that over 80% of those who catch the virus get the sniffles and can be treated with DayQuil, that of those with the virus in South Korea (where they have the best testing and thus best data)  only .06% die from this, and that it’s harder to catch than the average flu because you can’t infect anyone else unless you’re coughing and sneezing. People under 50 have little to worry about unless they have a preexisting respiratory, heart, or immune condition, and young people under 20 don’t have anything to worry about at all. 

I’ll call those who subscribe to the first paradigm Team Pandemic (slogan: “Act now to avert the catastrophe!”), the second group I’ll call Team Don’t Panic (slogan: “You can’t spell ‘pandemic’ without ‘panic’!”).

Each paradigm looks at the information available to us and evaluates things differently. Each has important “facts” to build their theory upon: Team Pandemic can point to the limited number of respirators and hospital beds and point out that there’s an absolute number of severe cases that our healthcare system can handle before being overwhelmed, even if the percentage of cases that are severe is low. Team Don’t Panic can point out that we don’t need to isolate everyone, just those who are likely to develop severe cases because of age and pre-existing conditions, and those who are symptomatic.  Team Pandemic worries that you can transmit the virus without being symptomatic; Team Don’t Panic points out that no evidence supports this. Team Pandemic points out that the regions that instituted strict policies quickly have the virus spread under control; Team Don’t Panic responds that we should adopt China’s approach of having huge numbers of “contact tracing” teams tracking down the network of those exposed to the already infected, which is a scalable response (interviewers can be trained and deployed quickly). Team Pandemic points out how one woman, Patient 31 in South Korea, who ignored social isolation policies infected thousands of people. Team Don’t Panic points out that she was symptomatic (including feverish) for over a week and didn’t self-isolate--that hardly justifies asymptomatic people being forced into isolation. Don’t Panic points out that isolating policies are likely to have devastating effects on the local and global economies. Team Pandemic points out that a global health crisis might be even worse. 

I’m not the guy to adjudicate the debate. Actually, it’s not just a debate, but a deliberation about how we should live together right now. Academics can analyze and debate things for years. But we have to make decisions about how to behave right now based upon very incomplete information. We also can’t just adopt a “live and let live” attitude, since my neighbor’s mistaken decisions might affect me. So we need to deliberate together. Unfortunately, as the philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre has shown, our society’s capacity for moral argument across competing paradigms is quite low. 

I do think that in the days and weeks to come, we should work to try to understand the other side’s paradigm. This past week, I’ve seen both sides be extremely focused on solving problems within their own paradigms, while being completely unsympathetic to the viewpoint of the other team. Because the authorities have largely joined Team Pandemic, most people on Team Don’t Panic are actually quite aware of the arguments on the other side; they just see things differently. I think most people on Team Pandemic are oblivious to the critique of their own position. That sort of imbalance in listening is a recipe for social unrest, civil disobedience, and riots. If the authorities on Team Pandemic continue to order people around without listening and responding to the arguments from Team Don’t Panic, they might lose their ability to lead. If Team Pandemic happens to be right about the necessity of social isolation, and yet people start disobeying them because of their own unwillingness to listen, they might bring about their own worst nightmare. 

But I’m a priest, and chaplain of hundreds of college students, and so my more direct concern is that people make the effort to be charitable to one another. If you are squarely on one team, don’t yell and scream at people on the other team. Try to see the world from their perspective. Try to focus on the “facts” that are most weighty in their opinion, and see if there’s some sort of compromise you can make about your own views. Investigate the facts that are under dispute, analytically, with an openness to new evidence. Check your blind spots, by broadening your vision to think about other aspects of the situation than those you usually do. Love the people on the other team, not in a condescending way, but as people who also are seeking the truth about how to live under these circumstances. If you continue to disagree, don’t be disagreeable. Bear with the faults of others, and apologize if you realize that you lost your temper or argued disrespectfully. 

And, if, like me, you’ve been forced into working from home--don’t be resentful about it. Assume God has a plan!

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Praying Sunday's Gospel March 15

Praying Sunday’s Gospel March 15

Resources to help you pray with scripture using Lectio Divina and/or Visio Divina and audio divina (praying with music)

Lectio Divina is a way of hearing God speak to us.  This is the Gospel that will be read in its entirety on Sunday at mass. 

3rd Sunday of Lent March 15th, 2020

We know that this is truly the Savior of the world

John 4:42

John 4.5-42

So he came to a Samaritan…

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"Jesus answered and said to her [the Samaritan Woman]' "If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.�� (John 4: 10).

Sunday 7th March 2021, in the 3rd Week in Lent.

Jesus talks with the Samaritan Woman in the Gospel for this Sunday. Human thirst like hunger can be unbearable. The People of Israel grumbled against God and Moses in the desert when they were tormented by thirst. (Cf Exodus 17: 3). It is thirst that brought the Samaritan Woman to the Well.

What are you thirsting for today? Jesus helped the Samaritan Woman to develop a thirst for the Big Gift of God.

"With joy you will draw water from the fountains of salvation." (Isaiah 12: 3).

Water is one of the symbols of the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures. God promises us a big Gift, a wonderful Gift in the Person of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is so unlike anything we know of. This is how Jesus characterizes the Big Gift:

"Jesus answered and said to her [the Samaritan] “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4: 13 - 14 ).

Every Christian who has been baptized in the Holy Spirit has testified that the Big Gift of God exceeds all expectations. Go for the Big Gift. Be fired up by the Holy Spirit. To learn more about the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit, click the link below:

http://seekfirst.blogspot.com/2020/10/gifts-fruits-of-holy-spirit-and.html?m=1

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24th March >> (@ZenitEnglish) #PopeFrancis #Pope Francis Words of Vocation (Full Text). Message of his Holiness Pope Francis for the 2020 World Day of Vocations, 3rd May 2020.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

On 4 August last year, the 160th anniversary of the death of the Curé of Ars, I chose to write a letter to all those priests who daily devote their lives to the service of God’s people in response to the Lord’s call.

On that occasion, I chose four key words – pain, gratitude, encouragement and praise – as a way of thanking priests and supporting their ministry. I believe that today, on this 57th World Day of Prayer for Vocations, those words can be addressed to the whole people of God, against the backdrop of the Gospel passage that recounts for us the remarkable experience of Jesus and Peter during a stormy night on the Sea of Galilee (cf. Mt 14:22-33).

After the multiplication of the loaves, which had astonished the crowds, Jesus told his disciples to get into the boat and precede him to the other shore, while he took leave of the people. The image of the disciples crossing the lake can evoke our own life’s journey. Indeed, the boat of our lives slowly advances, restlessly looking for a safe haven and prepared to face the perils and promises of the sea, yet at the same time trusting that the helmsman will ultimately keep us on the right course. At times, though, the boat can drift off course, misled by mirages, not the lighthouse that leads it home, and be tossed by the tempests of difficulty, doubt and fear.

Something similar takes place in the hearts of those who, called to follow the Teacher of Nazareth, have to undertake a crossing and abandon their own security to become the Lord’s disciples. The risk involved is real: the night falls, the headwinds howl, the boat is tossed by the waves, and fear of failure, of not being up to the call, can threaten to overwhelm them.

The Gospel, however, tells us that in the midst of this challenging journey we are not alone. Like the first ray of dawn in the heart of the night, the Lord comes walking on the troubled waters to join the disciples; he invites Peter to come to him on the waves, saves him when he sees him sinking and, once in the boat, makes the winds die down.

The first word of vocation, then, is gratitude. Taking the right course is not something we do on our own, nor does it depend solely on the road we choose to travel. How we find fulfilment in life is more than a decision we make as isolated individuals; above all else, it is a response to a call from on high. The Lord points out our destination on the opposite shore and he grants us the courage to board the boat. In calling us, he becomes our helmsman; he accompanies and guides us; he prevents us from running aground on the shoals of indecision and even enables us to walk on surging waters.

Every vocation is born of that gaze of love with which the Lord came to meet us, perhaps even at a time when our boat was being battered by the storm. “Vocation, more than our own choice, is a response to the Lord’s unmerited call” (Letter to Priests, 4 August 2019). We will succeed in discovering and embracing our vocation once we open our hearts in gratitude and perceive the passage of God in our lives.

When the disciples see Jesus walking towards them on the sea, they first think that he is a ghost and are filled with fear. Jesus immediately reassures them with words that should constantly accompany our lives and our vocational journey: “Take heart, it is I; have no fear” (Mt 14:27). This, then, is the second word I wish to offer you: encouragement.

What frequently hinders our journey, our growth, our choosing the road the Lord is marking out for us, are certain “ghosts” that trouble our hearts. When we are called to leave safe shores and embrace a state of life – like marriage, ministerial priesthood, consecrated life – our first reaction is often from the “ghost of disbelief”. Surely, this vocation is not for me! Can this really be the right path? Is the Lord really asking me to do this?

Those thoughts can keep growing – justifications and calculations that sap our determination and leave us hesitant and powerless on the shore where we started. We think we might be wrong, not up to the challenge, or simply glimpsing a ghost to be exorcized.

The Lord knows that a fundamental life choice – like marriage or special consecration to his service – calls for courage. He knows the questions, doubts and difficulties that toss the boat of our heart, and so he reassures us: “Take heart, it is I; have no fear!” We know in faith that he is present and comes to meet us, that he is ever at our side even amid stormy seas. This knowledge sets us free from that lethargy which I have called “sweet sorrow” (Letter to Priests, 4 August 2019), the interior discouragement that hold us back from experiencing the beauty of our vocation.

In the Letter to Priests, I also spoke about pain, but here I would like to translate the word differently, as fatigue. Every vocation brings with it a responsibility. The Lord calls us because he wants to enable us, like Peter, to “walk on water”, in other words, to take charge of our lives and place them at the service of the Gospel, in the concrete and everyday ways that he shows us, and specifically in the different forms of lay, priestly and consecrated vocation. Yet, like Saint Peter, our desire and enthusiasm coexist with our failings and fears.

If we let ourselves be daunted by the responsibilities that await us – whether in married life or priestly ministry – or by the hardships in store for us, then we will soon turn away from the gaze of Jesus and, like Peter, we will begin to sink. On the other hand, despite our frailty and poverty, faith enables us to walk towards the Risen Lord and to weather every storm. Whenever fatigue or fear make us start to sink, Jesus holds out his hand to us. He gives us the enthusiasm we need to live our vocation with joy and fervour.

When Jesus at last boards the boat, the winds die down and the waves are calmed. Here we have a beautiful image of what the Lord can do at times of turbulence and tempest in our lives. He stills those winds, so that the forces of evil, fear and resignation no longer have power over us.

As we live out our specific vocation, those headwinds can wear us down. Here I think of all those who have important responsibilities in civil society, spouses whom I like to refer to – note without reason – as “courageous”, and in a particular way those who have embraced the consecrated life or the priesthood. I am conscious of your hard work, the sense of isolation that can at times weigh upon your hearts, the risk of falling into a rut that can gradually make the ardent flame of our vocation die down, the burden of the uncertainty and insecurity of the times, and worry about the future. Take heart, do not be afraid! Jesus is at our side, and if we acknowledge him as the one Lord of our lives, he will stretch out his hand, take hold of us and save us.

Even amid the storm-tossed waters, then, our lives become open to praise. This is the last of our vocation words, and it is an invitation to cultivate the interior disposition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Grateful that Lord gazed upon her, faithful amid fear and turmoil, she courageously embraced her vocation and made of her life an eternal song of praise to the Lord.

Dear friends, on this day in particular, but also in the ordinary pastoral life of our communities, I ask the Church to continue to promote vocations. May she touch the hearts of the faithful and enable each of them to discover with gratitude God’s call in their lives, to find courage to say “yes” to God, to overcome all weariness through faith in Christ, and to make of their lives a song of praise for God, for their brothers and sisters, and for the whole world. May the Virgin Mary accompany us and intercede for us.

Rome, Saint John Lateran, 8 March 2020, the Second Sunday of Lent

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24th MARCH 2020 15:19FRANCIS

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HOMILY FOR THE 3RD SUNDAY OF LENT, 2020

WOMAN AT THE WELL. Painter Angelika Kauffman

Today the symbol of life-giving water, both in a physical and spiritual sense, is present in this Sunday’s scriptures.

In the first reading, we hear the story of the Israelites complaining that they will die of thirst in the desert. Instructed by God, Moses strikes the rock in Horeb with his staff, and water pours out of the rock for the…

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Billy Strings Streaming Tour 2020 — photos by Jesse Faatz Photography;

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Billy Strings continued the 2020 Streaming Strings tour Wednesday night, sliding into a new venue, this time, the City Winery in Nashville. Having played two shows at the Station Inn, and prior to that, two more at the Brooklyn Bowl, it would seem that Apostol and his merry band of pickers have basically owned Nashville the past week. The music has been furiously inspired and the assembled special guests have simply been out of sight. This is one of the most fascinating bands in any genre right now to my way of thinking. For sure, they’re one of the most innovative and clever bands playing, and their ability to play this caliber music night after night is just insane to think about. Despite months off the road, it really seems the band has gelled back together rather effortlessly, and through these livestreams, given us an opportunity to watch it happen. So, lets take a look at the shows from the City Winery.

Wednesday night had the boys well rested (I assume), and roaring to go. On Monday night, Apostl had returned the favor to his friend, and sat in with Marcus King’s band for a couple of songs. With the venue change, there was also a different stream. Tonight’s streaming provider moved over to Nugs, and with an archive of shows under their belt, Hopes were high. Unfortunately, I had difficulties connecting, and missed the opening “I’m Still Here,” coming in after the segue into “Last Train to Clarksville> “Running.” Almost immediately, it was apparent there wasn’t an ounce of momentum lost from the days off. “Everything’s the Same” was a barely contained fire, threatening, but curiously kind of restrained. The foundations of the songs and the solos were tight, and the jams transitioning between certainly were spacey, but they were also noticeably structured. Things seem somewhat reminiscent to the last night at the Station Inn. Best part for me through the first set was watching Jarrod Walker pickin’ that mandolin like a madman all over the place. Just check out “There Is a Time” and Leftover Salmon’s “Down In The Hollow.” Even better, we’ve even seen Royal Masset rumble out a turn in the solo rotation during “Doing Things Right.” Together, Walker and Massett have seemingly joined forces this evening, carving out a funky piece of real estate all for themselves. Billy throws out a loving nod to his late pal Jeff Austin with cunning “Rundown,” before the set closing “Black Clouds” rolls in, and breaks down into epic status. Billy switches to an electric tone and pushes and nudges the envelope of psychedelia menacingly before handing off the controls to Billy Failing. “Failing” sets the controls for the sun, digging in on that five string banjo like no other. “Failing” is fun to watch, and particularly fun to see evolve. I’ve always been a banjo guy, and Failing is quickly becoming one I look to first to fill that need. The “Black Clouds” was one of my favorite versions to date and one hell of a way to close a first set.

Set two never skips a step, getting underway with“On the Line> ”Train 45.” They’re on tonight, and they know it. Walker got my vote for line of the night following the opening duo of songs by uttering: “Sir, don’t rush the stage”. Get it? Empty venue……anyway. Billy seems to really be enjoying the electric tone tonight, dropping it in prominently through a hot run-through of Widespread Panic’s“All Time Low”>”Midnight on the Highway” (Hot Rize). A nearly perfectly rendered “Sitting Here in Limbo” gives Royal another chance to shine, and ends up being one of my favorite cuts of the night. The traditional “Blue Mule” led to a bold and adventurous “Highway Hypnosis” that still has me thinking about it days later. Joining the festivities tonight, was Fruition’s Mimi Naja. Naja lent her talents for a tetrad of first-time played songs. First, Flatt & Scuggs’ “Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky?” then her own “Labor of Love”. Finally, they wrapped up the night with Gillian Welch’s “Caleb Meyer” and another dose of Jeff Austin love with “15 Steps.” A really solid show, start to finish, and a lot of fun.

7/22/2020 Billy Strings City Winery – Nashville, TN Set 1:

I’m Still Here > Last Train to Clarksville > Running > Everything’s the Same There is a Time Down in the Hollow Doin’ Things Right Rundown (Thanks to Jeff Austin) Black Clouds

Set 2: On the Line > Train 45 All Time Low > Midnight on the Highway Sitting Here in Limbo Blue Mule Highway Hypnosis Don’t This Road Look Rough And Rocky (1) Labor of Love (1) Caleb Meyer (1)(2) 15 Steps (1) (1) with Mimi Naja (2) FTP

Night two at the City Winery Nashville blew a bunch of minds, man. It also assuredly broke a few dreams of a no-repeat nine show run. Okay, I admit it, I was kinda bummed when the opening notes of “While I’m Waiting Here ” sounded, but c’mon. First of all, it’s a great song, and besides, what other band, so early in their career, can play 5 shows, 112 songs, at such ridiculous intensity and not have one repeat? I mean, that’s not just impressive, it’s down right nuts! On another note, I again had considered that maybe it wasn’t just “user error.” Apparently there were lots of issues, but like they say, the show must go on. I missed the the opening “Pike County Breakdown,” maybe an estimated five or six minutes of it, depending on how long they jammed out the song, Instead, I came in within the transition into the “How You Feeling Jam.” I probably didn’t miss much, but with this band, you just don’t know, and it’s worth it to absorb every minute you can. The nutty thing is, it’s completely understandable given the circumstances. The situation is fluid friends, with everyone still getting their stage legs under them, the stream providers as well. Still, I hope it gets figured out. But enough about that, we’re staying positive, and why wouldn’t we? Already, it’s apparent that Failing is on point tonight based on some epic early runs. Jim & Jesse’s “Airmail Special” dropped some heavy psychedelia with Billy swapping in that electric tone he was digging the previous night. Next up was that no repeat dream crushing, “While I’m Waiting Here.” Truthfully, it never gave you time to dwell on it, instead drawing you in as it puts on display just how much fun the guys are having tonight. Walker and Massat are steady in their roles, lighting a path for the others, and often times cutting the trail themselves. They’re in good moods, and Billy alludes to just that, comparing it to watching five episodes of Bob Ross. With the repeat barrier removed, they roll out “Long Forgotten Dream” before giving me all kinds of reasons to smile with robust version of the Hunter/Garcia classic “Dire Wolf.” The trippy explorations returned in a fiery “Dust in a Baggie” before “Enough to Leave’s” borders expanded to straddle a line somewhere between bluegrass and jazz. An adventurous “Home of the Red Fox” merged into a bold rollicking “Ole Slewfoot.” Just like that, this might be my favorite first set of the run. I guess we’ll see.

Set two began with a fun extended teas of “Uncle John’s Beard” a rousing “Must Be 7”, and an absolutely beautiful “Wild Horses.” Gordon Lightfoot’s “Cold on the Shoulder” (ala Tony Rice) and Billy’s own “Hollow Heart” were up next, before I got completely caught up in hypnotic spell that was the band’s take on Dylan’s “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power).” Seriously? That just happened? How do you follow that?Well, one sure way is to invite Greensky Bluegrass’ Dave Bruzza onstage. Bruzza dueled a little guitar and lead the band through a trio of Greensky songs, “Letter to Seymour,” an especially memorable “Reverend”as well as “Wings For Wheels.” Dave stuck around for the remainder of the set too, starting with Hartford’s “Get No Better” before all the fellas unleashed a filthy, tease filled “Pyramid Country” that nearly deified belief. Bill Monroe’s “Roll On Buddy” emerged from the other side, and just like that we came back to earth. Can’t wait to see what the Exit/Inn has in store for us Friday and Saturday finally wrapping things up on Sunday at 3rd & Lindsley. We all know that old adage, Never miss a Sunday show!

7/23/2020 Billy Strings City Winery – Nashville, TN

Set 1: Pike County Breakdown > How You Feeling Jam > Airmail Special While I’m Waiting Here Long Forgotten Dream Dire Wolf (1) Dust in a Baggie Enough to Leave Home of the Red Fox > Ole Slewfoot

Set 2:

Uncle John’s Beard (1) Must be Seven Wild Horses Cold on the Shoulder Hollow Heart Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) Letter to Seymour (2) Reverend (2) Wings For Wheels (2) Get No Better (1)(2) Pyramid Country (2)(3)(4)> Roll on Buddy (1) FTP (2) with Dave Bruzza (3) Don’t Lie tease (4) Kerosene tease

Grasping a huge handful of integrity for the traditions, it’s pure joy watching the faces when it’s all clicking. Find more here:  http://www.billystrings.com

I’d like to call out the Billy Strings Setlist page on Facebook. For someone still learning all the songs in the repertoire as well as the history behind them, it’s been a valuable resource and a friendly spot to drop in and research.. Thanks for doing what you do. Additionally, the Billy Strings Fanpage (Official) on Facebook is equally vital, and a fun growing community.

Show Review: Billy Strings Nine-Night Streaming Tour 2020, Part 2 @billystrings #americanamusic #livestreamtour Billy Strings Streaming Tour 2020 -- photos by Jesse Faatz Photography; Billy Strings continued the 2020 Streaming Strings tour Wednesday night, sliding into a new venue, this time, the City Winery in Nashville.

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Let's Call Her Grace

Sermon for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, March 15, 2020

John 4:5-42

We’re going to do things a little differently this morning.  Instead of reading the gospel lesson then preaching a sermon, today will be something a little more like a Bible study/sermon.  For one thing, it’s a very long gospel reading, in fact it includes the single longest conversation Jesus has with anyone in the gospels.  So it…

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Homily: 3rd Sunday of Lent – Year A

Homily: 3rd Sunday of Lent – Year A – Who are we in this story?

Sunday, March 15, 2020 | Lent Third Sunday of Lent Year A | Roman Missal | Lectionary

First Reading Exodus 17:3–7 Response Psalm 95:8 Psalm Psalm 95:1–2, 6–9 Second Reading Romans 5:1–2, 5–8 Gospel Acclamation John 4:42, 15 Gospel John 4:5–42 or John 4:5–15, 19b–26, 39a, 40–42

Preached at the Chapel of St Andrew’s School for Girls in Bedfordview in the Archdiocese of Johannesburg.

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3rd Sunday of Lent, 2020 Need a place to worship? Join us on YouTube

This second week of Lent has given us important action verbs of faith from Ephesians- brought near, united as one Spirit and family,  founded in Christ, privileged in faith and having access to Almighty God.  What a week filled with truths in the midst of panic, fear and doubt due to the Corona-19 virus.   New words have occurred- social distancing and self-quarantining that seek to limit and…

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3rd Sunday of Lent March 15, 2020

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EXCLUSIVE GIGSOUP INTERVIEW - NICKIE CONLEY

Soul singer Nickie Conley has been a mainstay of the Nashville music scene for many years now, and has lent her vocal talents to One Republic, Celin Dion and Zac Brown Band - and she's getting into the Christmas spirit early with the release of the super-catchy new single '100 Christmas Kisses'. Check out the new song on YouTube below - definitely a great alternative to endlessly playing the same old Mariah Carey and Cliff Richard tunes this Christmas... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHeXj_k0EFM&feature=emb_logo We sat down for a chat with Nickie about the new single, life in Nashville and more... Welcome to GigSoup! Tell us all about the new single… The new single, “100 Christmas Kisses,” is a pop tune with some old school elements. It’s catchy, light, and fun, and hopefully people will find themselves humming along. It was written by Oisin Browne; he wrote it for his family while he was away working during the holidays.  Can you give us a few of your own favourite Christmas songs, and tells us why you chose them?    “The Christmas Song” is my favorite Christmas song of all time. It has been done by so many artists in a variety of arrangements and it never gets old! I love the chord progressions in this song. I have many, but some of my favorite versions are by Nat King Cole, Chris Willis and Donna Summer.  “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' is again, another classic holiday song that never gets old. It’s wonderfully written with a beautiful melody that’s easy to sing and has great chord progressions.  “Don’t Save It All For Christmas Day.”  has such a beautiful message that we all need to be reminded of. It has a gorgeous melody and beautiful transitions.  “The Christmas Waltz” by The Carpenters has this light and airy feeling that reminds me of holidays gone by.  “This Christmas” by Donnie Hathaway and the slower version by The Whispers.  I love the soulfulness in this song.  I have many more but I’ll stop there.  In fact, my Christmas playlist includes over 700 songs! I can hear a mix of sounds in your songs - who are you top 5 biggest influences, musically, and why?   Barbra Streisand: her delivery of a song is impeccable. Her inflections, and little nuances are vocal perfection.  Shirley Horn: She’s smooth like butter. I love her interpretation of a song, and the way she plays piano is gorgeous. Gladys Knight:  Can we say tone for days! Her vocals are sultry and soulful and she can make any song hers. Al Jarreau:  Al’s pitch was amazing and he wasn’t afraid to experiment with different sounds and singing techniques.  Patti Austin: I love the brightness in the tone of her voice.  Give us an insider's take on the Nashville scene - where should we be drinking, eating, seeing bands play, etc?   You’re asking a foodie about food in a foodie town... That’s dangerous!  I could go on for days on best restaurants in Nashville, but I won’t. No. 308 in East Nashville has excellent craft cocktails. Black Rabbit on the world-famous Printer’s Alley is an ode to old Nashville and is reminiscent of the old speak-easy of the 1920s.  They have a great selection of cocktails.  Barcelona Wine Bar has a great selection of wines and tapas.  If you visit Nashville, you should try Nashville Hot Chicken. There are many different restaurants that have it.  My personal favorite is Hattie B’s.  When you’re more in the mood for gourmet, I recommend Butcher and Bee, Rolf and Daughters, or The Chef and I.  The Southern V  or The Wild Cow are great choices for Vegan food.   Live music is available seven nights a week at any number of venues and is much more diverse than outsiders often assume.  Some of my favorite spots include 3rd and Lindsley, Douglas Corner, City Winery, The Five Spot (especially their Sunday Night Soul) and Acme Feed and Seed (also great food there).  I’ve sung at each of these venues, and the audiences are always engaged and appreciative, so typical of Nashville music lovers.   What's next for you in 2020?   I will be releasing new music in 2020 on the AfterTouch Music label.  I’m so fortunate to be able to work with Grammy-nominated producer Roger Ryan.  The single “I Like You Like That” drops in February, and the full album will be released later in the year.  An album release tour is in the works, and some new music videos will be coming out as well. I look forward to spending significant time in 2020 writing original content and sharing what’s on my heart. I also hope to be working on some collaboration projects with other artists.  Beyond that, I’m excited to see what surprises are in store for this new year.  There are always surprises! Find Nickie Conley at facebook.com/nickieconleymusic and https://twitter.com/Nickienew now. Read the full article

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“If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” (John 4: 10).

Sunday 15th March, 2020 is the 3rd Sunday of Lent.

Our reflection comes from the story of the Samaritan Woman. Jesus and the Samaritan woman talked about water near Jacob’s Well. At first, the woman thought Jesus was talking of ordinary water. Water in the Bible symbolizes the Holy Spirit.

The theme of this Sunday is the big "Gift of God", the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the Lord and Giver of life. He is the Abundant life promised by Jesus in John 10: 10.

Last Sunday we read and reflected on the Story of the Transfiguration of Jesus. Peter, James and John experienced the splendor of the transfigured Jesus on Mount Tabor. This experience big as it is was, did not give them a robust faith in Jesus as the Messiah who must suffer death and rise from the dead. What was the missing ingredient?

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1: 8).

On Pentecost Sunday, the "Promise of the Father" was delivered to the disciples gathered in the Upper Room. The Holy Spirit was the game changer. He descended on the disciples with His 7 gifts:

Wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord. The disciples received too the fruits of the Holy Spirit which transformed their character. These fruits are:

Charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control and chastity.

You see the gifts in action every day in Christians. Jesus promises that by these characteristics people will know that we are a Christian.

Lord Jesus, Word of God give me the living water, so that I may never get thirsty.

Daily Bible Verse @ SeekFirstcommunity.com

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3rd April >> (@ZenitEnglish) #PopeFrancis #Pope Francis’ Homily during the celebration of Holy Mass on Friday, Fifth Week of Lent in Casa Santa Marta: ‘Let’s Think of Our Lady of Sorrows & Thank Her for Being Mother,’ Says Pope Francis.

At Casa Santa Marta, Reminds Mary Never Asked Anything for Herself, Only for Others

APRIL 03, 2020 10:17DEBORAH CASTELLANO LUBOVPOPE'S MORNING HOMILY

“Let’s think of the sorrows of Our Lady and thank her for having accepted being a Mother.”

According to Vatican News, Pope Francis stressed this today, April 3, during his private daily Mass at his residence Casa Santa Marta on this Passion Friday before Palm Sunday, where we remember Mary’s pain.

The Holy Father dedicated the homily to the Virgin of Sorrows.

“Today – he said – it will do us good to think of the sorrows of Our Lady and thank her for having accepted to be a Mother.”

At the start of the Mass, while remembering all victims of coronavirus, the Holy Father prayed for those who carry great responsibilities even eventually in the aftermath of the epidemic, to help those who, resulting from this period have problems of poverty, work and hunger.

“There are people who are now starting to think about the aftermath: the aftermath of the pandemic. To all the problems that will come: problems of poverty, work, hunger …,” he observed, inviting: “We pray for all the people who help today, but also think about tomorrow, in order to help us all.”

Speaking about Mary’s sorrows, Francis

This Friday of Passion, the Church remembers the pains of Mary, Francis encouraged faithful to do this homework: “late in the evening, when I pray to the Angelus, to pray and recall her seven sorrows as a remembrance of the Mother of the Church , as the Mother of the Church gave birth to all of us with so much pain…”

Christian piety, Francis said, follows this path of the Madonna that accompanies Jesus.

“Our Lady never asked for anything for herself,” the Pope said, “ever.”

“Yes, for the others,” he said, noting: “we think of Cana, when she goes to speak with Jesus.”

Recalling her utter selflessness, Francis said: “Honor Our Lady and say: “This is my Mother,” because she is Mother.”

“Our Lady,” the Argentine Pontiff said, “did not want to take any title from Jesus; she received the gift of being Mother of Him and the duty to accompany us as Mother, to be our Mother.”

“She is our mother,” he said, who with strength and trust in God pushed through her broken heart. ���It wasn’t a fake cry,” he said, “it was her heart destroyed by pain.”

For this reason, Francis implored: “It will do us good to stop a little and say to Our Lady: “Thank you for accepting to be Mother when the Angel told you and thank you for accepting to be Mother when Jesus told you”

Before concluding, the Pope exhorted faithful to partake in Spiritual Communion in this difficult time, and ended the celebration with Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction.

Here are the Holy Father’s words, followed by the prayer for Spiritual Communion:

I prostrate myself at your feet, O my Jesus, and I offer you the repentance of my contrite heart, which abases itself in its nothingness in Your Holy Presence. I adore you in the Sacrament of Your Love; I desire to receive You in the poor abode that my heart offers You. While waiting for the happiness of a Sacramental Communion, I want to possess You in spirit. Come to me, O my Jesus, that I may come to You. May Your Love inflame my whole being, in life and in death. I believe in You, I hope in You, I love You. Amen.

The Masses in Francis’ chapel normally welcome a small group of faithful, but due to recent measures’ taken by the Vatican, are now being kept private, without their participation.

It was announced this month that the Pope would have these Masses, in this period, be available to all the world’s faithful, via streaming on Vatican Media, on weekdays, at 7 am Rome time.

The Vatican has also published the Pope’s Holy Week and Easter schedule, confirming this year’s events will not welcome the physical presence of the faithful, and the events will be made available via streaming.

This comes at a time too when the Italian bishops’ conference has canceled public Masses throughout the nation, following guidelines put out by Italian authorities.

In addition to Santa Marta, the Vatican has taken other steps to keep people safe and to stay close to the Pope, even if from a distance. They are televising the Pope giving privately, from the papal library, his weekly Angelus and General Audience addresses.

The Vatican Museums are now closed, along with the Vatican’s other similar museums. There have also been various guidelines implemented throughout the Vatican, to prevent the spread of the virus.

For anyone interested, the Pope’s Masses at Santa Marta can be watched live and can be watched afterward on Vatican YouTube. Below is a link to today’s Mass. Also, a ZENIT English translation of the Pope’s full homily, is being prepared, and in the next few hours, will be available below:

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FULL HOMILY

Zenit is translating the homily and will update this article with the full text as soon as possible.

3rd APRIL 2020 10:17POPE'S MORNING HOMILY

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GOD'S PROMISES CONTINUALLY BEING AND SHALL CONTINUE TO BE REFULFILLED: THE COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST'S MOST GLORIOUS FUTURE ON THE 50TH YEAR OF HER OVERSEAS MISSIONS AS LED BY KA ERDY (COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST'S OFFICIAL COMMENTARY ON THE LAST SUNDAY BEFORE LENT 2018 [All Passages quoted printed in Boldface])

COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION CITY OF TAGUIG, STATE OF RIZAL, PHILIPPINES

FEBRUARY 5, 2018 To the entire Roman Empire, on behalf, by name and in authority of all Commondominion allies and musicians

In the Name of Godhead, Stavrosno to the Godhead Who strikes. To the Empire and to all our fellow slaves in it for Godhead, Here I write as Godhead Directed me through my father that for the first time I may address and conduct this weekly study of the Gospel Lowe through the Central Archives and Sacred Text Scriptures (2 PETER 1, Ezekiel 17,37). I would try as much as I could not to be lengthy but rather depending on where Godhead shall lead me on this, knowing that you would all through your witchcraft and wizardry, try to once again, as din the past days, disrupt my fellow brother in Godhead, your Joseph Stirling Steinfeld Sykest, from preparing these words in public so that everyone of you may be able to read this on time. Besides, as you may have noticed in past Epistles, Joseph and my father would always try to appeal most sincerely to all readers asking them (MATTHEW 24) to fully do good on their words (Psalm 140-141) hoping that many would be able to read those living words of life entrusted unto them (Acts 7) but as we already know, your social media and internet bureaus would always make sure that lesser and lesser people, if not none, would be only able to read their words. Therefore I would not give Joseph a hard time transcribing my words knowing not only that he could be working almost seemingly in vain (Isaiah 49, Luke 5, Psalm 126), but that what could be the use of my words if you hinder it because you would not repent, therefore leading to all others being denied the precious inherent wright to pour on our words here. I would (Titus 1, 2 Timothy) be direct to the point as much as we already know why you do all things as you do these very recent days- you are determined to continually over-mis-dis-abuse prophecy, now that we are marking on July 27, 2018 the first 50 years since my grandfather, Ka Erdy, opened his overseas missions in the United Saints of Israel of the Godhead. I guess you can take #inc50west though for yourselves, because we rather plan to extend these most solemn commemorations until next year, which is actually the very first time that our clan had fielded overseas missions. Therefore it is not really Ka Erdy who commenced foreign missions, but rather my great-grandfather, the Messenger, who in 1919 went to the United Saints, for a first of 3 missions (2nd in 1937, 3rd in 1955), to establish Commondominion locales under his jurisdiction. All of these we do by the way, to prepare (LUKE 1) for the Bicentennial of the Divine Commission to Joseph Smith Jr. in 2020, who himself had established the Commondominion locale of Far West, Missouri, as well as the 500th year in 2021 of a refulfillment of the 490 years of Daniel 9 when Magellan met Lapu-lapu on the homestate of Joseph's father. And because our Joseph here today has the prophetic office of the Joseph Smith of 1820, you are so highly irritated of his words (Matthew 20, MATTHEW 11) that you are indeed endeavoring to devour our brethren elsewhere not only in this country, but also all across the world indeed (MATTHEW 13), to hinder them (Isaiah 41) from reaching the divine birthwright inheritance they have in Godhead that is the whole universe (MATTHEW 5, PSALM 2). Not only that, if we are to check the Central Archives you currently hold in hostage, a commemoration of the Ka Erdy Overseas Missions was held on July 23, 1993, the birthyear of my father's namesake who is now King James III, the exact day in 2015 when my father led the exodus of the Commondominion from the Empire infiltrates in the original church of my great-grandfather and grandfather, respectively. Therefore we see in these prophetic signs already who alone has wright to refulfill the concurrent prophecies on what Ka Erdy did on Honolulu, San Francisco and New York 50 years ago, as well as on what my father's brother, King Edward IX, is doing continually, not only across the United Saints (Luke 24, Acts 10), but also around our country and over the world. Let us now present these facts for the sakes of Ladies Candice Sciarra and Adea to a candid world (Luke 11, PSALM 72) that you claim to hold sway: 1. 2 PETER 1 (November 15, 2014, September 30-October 7-8,14-15,21-22,28-29-November 4-5, 2017). When Edward most recently quoted this he was on the city of Bangkok, whom you occupy, which is better known as City of Angels, just like Los Angeles (Psalm 128,144, Matthew 21,16,18). 'Bangkok' sounds much like the Tagalog word for 'Bowl', implying the angels who carry the bowls of divine judgement against you, as much as you just held last February 4 your yearly occult festival (Exodus 7-9, Revelation 8-9) called the Superbowl (1 CORINTHIANS 10 [August 29-September 4-5 {Joseph's homestate}, 2015, January 28 {Joseph's homestate, 2012}-February 4 {homestate of Joseph's namesake martyr in 2011}-5 {Joseph's homestate, 2016, relayed February 12, 2016 when Commondominion hosted Empire's Winter Adult Olympics in 2010 <2 KINGS 5> where came the yokebearer attacked by Empire on July 11, 2015 where Edward preached on February 27, 2016 (1 CORINTHIANS 11). July 11 is one day after Edward read 1 CORINTHIANS 2, and when you slain another Commondominion Two Witnesses on July 11, 1804- we refulfilled Revelation 11-12 on France whose holiday is July 14, Edward preached on the same city on July 11, 2014 and July 14,29-30, 2017 <PSALM 32>, while you sent officials to homestate of Joseph' father on July 11, 2014 <Matthew 2, see November 7, 2010 sermon and compare to July 13-14, 2011 and March 16-17, 2013>, on Joseph's hometown on July 9, 2015, and on Joseph's current city on July 10, 2016, Nate-al day of Emma Hale Smith (MARK 1) and heavenly Nate-al day of William of Nassau, therefore implying William Mack Smith. Edward was on Joseph's homestate on July 9, 2011, when my grandfather was on homestate of Joseph's father, July 9, 1963, the heavenly Nate-al of Joseph Smith's successor, James E. Strang. Edward preached on July 9, 2013 before he went to Joseph's homestate on July 12, 2013 which you relayed on July 27-28, 2013 when Edward was at Nauvoo, on July 10, 2010 where he preached the August 8, 2014 sermon which you relayed on Joseph's 2014 Nate-al day. February 13,20, 2016: homestate of my father's namesake Sir Grundhofer; February 20, 2015 and February 22, 2014- Edward spoke where you slain another Commondominion Two Witnesses on June 5, 1899: you sent officials to Joseph's current city on June 4, 2016, we received a victory over you from Godhead on June 4, 1994 over Hungary, which Edward identified together with Poland as another Commondominion Two Witnesses where he preached on May 13,20-21, 2017 where Lady Nicole Della Monica was born on a June 3rd. Edward read PSALM 27 on May 20,27-28, 2017 and his May 28, 2017 sermon was relayed June 3-4, 2017. February 21, 1997: my grandfather spoke in a place called 'Rock', at the state he called earlier as Gomorrah with Pampanga as Sodom, as per 'Sodom and Egypt' in Revelation 11, while he spoke in the nearby state which Ka Elias Arkanghel said as refulfillment of Daniel 8, on July 10, 1977, where Edward also spoke on January 27-February 3-4, 2018. Empire had on February 5, 2018 attacked what my father just said on last week's Commentary Epistle concerning the Two Witnesses martyrdom of June 5, 1899}, 2017 and January 13 and 20 {homestate of birthdaysake of Joseph's mother}-21 {Joseph's alma mater, 1991, Edward spoke also on my father's birthday of 1991},27-28-February 3-4, 2018]). Therefore why would you claim not only my father in all his divine office, but also our allies, and even the verse itself? Not only that: when we say 'sure word of prophecy', we say that the prophetic word is built on something to make it strong, therefore this implies no other than the name of the respective fathers of King James III and Joseph, therefore implying both my father and Joseph in the office of Two Witnesses, not to mention as per the rain of Hail in Revelation 11, our fellow here Lady Hailee Steinfeld-Smoller has for her most blessed father the name Peter. (On the Hailleey Spirit being on the form of a dove: we have another fellow here named Lady Dove Cameron, therefore you would only get Hailleey Spirit wright only here.) No t to mention Edward IX was at Joseph's homestate, on the exact anniversary of his baptism with Constantinians, on November 15, 2014, and that Edward also spoke on an Empire locale palpably called near the name of your Commondominion herself, on November 15, 2013, of which chapel is opened July 27, 2013. 2. HOSEA 10 (March 16, 2012). As much as we're speaking about Joseph's father, this day in 1521 is when Empire-sent emissaries reached this country, a salient part we know, was spent in the homestate of Joseph's father, which is also the homestate of our fellow messenger here Sir Joenito Rebusquillo. Other related dates here are March 31 (when my grandfather restored the Commondominion to Jerusalem in 1996, on that exact day Joseph was baptized to the Constantinians), April 14 (when in 2017 Edward was on the homestate of the birthdaysake of Joseph's mother) and 27 (when in 2011 Edward was on the homestate of the yokebearer namesake of Joseph's mother, one week before Edward was at Hawaii itself on that exact year. Our fellow messenger Ka Elias Arkanghel reckons Daniel 9 from 1521 to 2011, and April 27 is also memorial of our Christina Rossetti, who is palpably named after my grandmother [GALATIANS 4]. April 27 is heavenly Nate-al day of our David Livingstone born when Edward was where Joseph's namesake and our very first Executive Minister, a yokebearer named Joseph, on March 19, 2016). Our ally Russia (where Edward preached on Joseph's Nate-al day of 2016) had won Crimea from you on a March 16th, and Edward preached his March 16, 2012 sermon on the chapel my great-grandfather dedicated one day in 1957 before my Nate-al day itself. It must be noticed that Edward preached also near this date, on March 18, 2017, when in 1833 Joseph Smith Jr. ordained a certain Edward Partridge. If your fellow Empire people are criticizing how Joseph Smith endorsed the divine election of his fellow Commondominion messenger Edward Elliot just because you want to distort of course our unity here in Godhead (1 CORINTHIANS 2), it is only because our Joseph Smith is foretelling how Joseph Stirling Steinfeld Sykes shall be also in the divine office of Two Witnesses just like King Edward IX (2 KINGS 2, 1 KINGS 19). On March 15, 2013 Edward preached the theme he would Delevingne later on August 14, 2015 at Joseph's current city, when Edward dedicated the second to his succession line named David. March 17 is memorial of another Commondominion messenger palpably named after Joseph's younger sister. I could remember what Joseph once told me that he was not readily expecting that Edward would be at once immediately the leader of our former church, which you now infiltrated with your corrupters. He was expecting then, he told me, someone other than Edward to be the church leader. He don't know my father by then. What he only knew next, he told me, is that you finalized our Edward to be leader instead than my father (1 John 5), and he only knew about my father when he was with the Diocletianites. Looking back, Joseph told me that he realized that he whom he was looking forward for to be leader at once upon the death of my grandfather is no other than my father himself, after whom Edward named the immediate on his succession line. 3. 2 CORINTHIANS 3-4 (May 10, 2013 [1 Corinthians 9, Empire reading for February 4, 2018], December 5, 2015, September 30-October 7-8,14-15,21-22,28-29-November 4-5, 2017). For December 5: Edward spoke on a place named Solis, in 2014, implying an Empire local officer which is a very close hometown friend of Joseph's older sister. As much as we spoke about Bangkok, December 5 is also memorial of the deceased monarch and our ally there in Thailand. As much as we spoke about Joseph's hometown in this entry, we must also mention his childhood village whose Empire idol is named Martin- we have an official here named Martin Van Buren whose memorial is December 5. It can be also remembered that it was only Joseph Stirling Steinfeld Sykes, by Godhead, who exposed the Empire's megaritual agenda of September 17-18, 2016 where Empire over-mis-dis-abused Edward's December 5, 2015 sermon to top it off with the Jolie-Pitt divorce. Edward also spoke on a place named Evangelista, after my father's stepbrothers-messengers, on December 5, 2009, one of them is palpably named Martin. Refulfillments here alone of the first evangelical angel of Revelation 14(January 13,20-21, 2018) are Martin Luther, Apostle Paul, William Wilberforce and Martin Luther, for the second angel it is again Martin Luther, and for the third it is both my great-grandfather and grandfather respectively. On October 22, 2017- it is memorial of our Sir Paul Samuel Leo Johnson, implying not only Apostle Paul, and this week's also included passage of AMOS 3, but also another brother of Joseph Smith just like William, this time named Samuel- Empire sent an official to Joseph's current city on October 22, 2015, one day before memorial of Apostle James of Jerusalem- a fellow man of ours here named Sir Jim Marrs has his memorial also on December 5, implying therefore James III and in turn, my father. Sir Jim Marrs has another companion of ours named Sir Jack Chick, whose memorial is also October 23rd. As per Sodom and Egypt, my grandfather sent his first counselor in his First Presidency to Pampanga, October 22, 1994, and my grandfather himself was in that exact state on October 21, 1995, the exact birthyear of Joseph. October 22 is also linked by Central Archives to August 18, when Lady Lindsey first visited Manila in 2012, on the same time Aldub church had been declaring war against our yokebearers, just over a month before they made another related edict on September 9, 2012. (Revelation 12,20, GALATIANS 4, JEREMIAH 30, EPHESIANS 5, JOHN 2, JUDITH 13,15) Also it can be noticed that we have another set hereof Two Witnesses slain by Empire on May 10, 1897 itself. 4. 1 THESSALONIANS 1 (September 7, 2014 [where Edward preached May 13,20-21, 2017], July 18, 2015). Central Archives link September 7, 2014 to my father's 2015 Nate-al day. As for September 7 it is the wedding in 2014 of Edward's successor-son, in an Empire chapel which according to Central Archives was first opened on September 11, 2014 by Antiochians and was turned over to Constantinians on July 28, 2012, the holiday of the country of the Empire idol of Joseph's hometown, when Empire was on the realm of King James III. September 11 is my father's accession day to the office of the Commondominion's Executive Ministry as well as the accession of Lady Jordan Clark-Rubio as steward of the country of her compatriot, Joseph's namesake Sir Arrigo, whose another compatriot is Joseph's firstfruit firstborn in that country, who palpably came from the state where Edward's successor-son was wed. In Joseph Smith's writings Canada, which sounds in fact like 'Candice', a term for the south (Luke 11, Acts 8, PSALM 72), therefore implying our backup reserve refulfillment of prophecy in any direction should Empire claim (MARK 9) one, or some or all (John 16, Acts 17-19, Luke 5, LUKE 9, Isaiah 41,43, Revelation 16, Job 23,28, Psalm 75,48, PSALM 50, Daniel 11), is referred to as the 'northern land' which our early Commondominion settlers in the United Saints had got knew with, first of them are the descendants of Mulek, son of Zedekiah, who set out for the United Saints after Jared, before Nephi, and upon the massacre of (Judges 9) Mulek's brethren on a July 18th as recorded on Jeremiah 52,39 and 2 Kings 25 both in the New Living Translation. It was also on a July 18th, in 2015, when Empire via Gemma and Jojo orders, had virtually 'massacred' through hacking, the 2,287 yokebearers which Joseph had gathered for 5 years in his now 'martyred' first online ministry (Revelation 11, Daniel 8, Luke 17). Later on that year he began a second online ministry, of which first yokebearer to benefit from it is a yokebearer named Lady Candice Sciarra. 5. 1 PETER 1 (October 16,22-23, 29-30, 2016, October 18, 2014, November 11, 2017, September 26, 2015). On October 18: a day before, October 17- Empire sent officials to Joseph's current city, 2017, and to Joseph's homestate, 2014. Edward preached in an Empire locale named after our territory: 'Bountiful' (October 17, 2015) with the theme he preached when he was on Joseph's homestate on September 5, 2015. October 17- memorial of Lady Bee Chartres (suggesting 'Utah'- honeybees, as per Empire claims over that state), Lady Rose Pencell (named after the Empire idol of Joseph's hometown) and Sir William Skapton (after William Mack Smith). Godhead scored victory over you Empire on October 17, 1989 (Revelation 16, Doctrine and Covenants 3,10), anticipating your blaspheme of King James III (November 4,11, 2016) on October 17, 2016, when They shook San Francisco over Oakland (where you're going to send Edward on August 5, 2018), as per your #SanAndreas (January 17 or 9-month period [Revelation 11-12]) stuff, just because October 17 is memorial of Sir Andreas Osiander. October 18 (memorial of Matthew Henry)- you again sent officials to Edward's homestate, 2014, as it was also on October 16, 2012, when in 2015 you sent another Empire official to where Edward spoke a day after King James III's Nate-al day of 2014, which is also linked by Empire to January 9 and therefore to Edward's lecture with my father on King James III's birthyear itself, on January 9, 1993. On November 11- Empire sent officials to Joseph's current city, November 12, 2012, speaking of 1989 my grandfather's faithful fellow Divino Ledesma was laid to rest on November 11, 1989, which is also memorial of a Commondominion martyr named near my father, who on November 11, 1984 established together with his youngest brother Ka Mark, the Commondominion national public broadcaster. On September 26- my grandfather was at Joseph's childhood village, September 25, 1977, the Nate-al ay of the father of our fellow Messenger here Sir Sterling Allan, palpably named David (some of our branch churches here are named Branch Davidian, and some of them were martyred by Empire on the exact actual date of the birth of King James III). Edward was at city in homestate of Joseph's namesake martyr palpably named after the Empire idol of his hometown, September 26, 2009, who is from the country whose holiday is July 28. That September 26, 2009 saw an Empire-engineered hurricane: our fellow messengers Sirs Mark Litchenwalter and Rene Torlao said that the 'Strong and Mighty One' just like them as respective refulfillments shall come amidst a storm, their hurricanes were on 2014 and 2013 respectively. In likewise Manning Edward became a Strong and Mighty One on October 15, 2017, yet he said in turn that Joseph too is another Strong and Mighty One as attested by Neronians himself, when during that hurricane Edward came both with a prominent Neronian official named David, an a prominent Antiochian official named Paul, which happened to be the name of the exact hurricane during that instance. Edward spoke on a place in the realm of King James III named after my father, September 27, 2014, which Empire records to be when they sent officials to homestate of our fellow Messenger Sir Christopher Leon Ilao (the Leo in Paul Samuel Leo Johnson) on September 27, 2013, and when salient commotions were recorded on the Constantinian district in Joseph's homestate in 1970.

Now you may ask me what's my divine election here. As I was commissioned by my father to write this week's study, it only struck me lately why perhaps he asked me to do the study this week. He never told me at once, but I only realized it when I was pouring over the prophetic signs we had just mentioned. We are very sure therefore that as much as your Central Administration had by Godhead undeservingly refulfills the divine office of the Two Witnesses as we had proven once again in the first half of our study (EXODUS 3, AMOS 3), you Empire people could no longer claim any other prophetic office (ACTS 6, ISAIAH 4, DEUTERONOMY 30) due to the way of your living which is rather the opposite of what is expected on all who claim such prophetic offices as we're going to prove later on (PSALM 30, Revelation 11,20, Revelation 30-31). As for me, you already know that I'm named after another set of Two Witnesses all at the same time, no other than my great-grandfather and grandfather respectively. In turn my name sounds like the Hebrew Term for 'God' Himself (Matthew 6,26, Isaiah 62), therefore I understand very well why you're so very angry with us these days, only because I, yours truly, undeservingly bear Godhead's most blessed Name (1 JOHN 3), and not only me, but also our fellow yokebearer Lady Elicia Reynolds whose brother is named after the deacon Stephen (ACTS 6) and the place where Edward spoke on May 6,13-14 (Joseph's homestate, 2016), 2017 (DEUTERONOMY 30, 1 CORINTHIANS 10): you relayed on May 7, 2017 his April 30, 2017 address where our branch churches refulfilled PSALM 72, near the place of your May 13, 2017 festivities.

Now let me run for a bit now for all to read and therefore repent, what this Empire claims and does otherwise (SIRACH 15) therefore disproving their claims in turn (DEUTERONOMY 30). In turn we shall present you later on after this with how we here do good, undeservingly by Godhead, on all prophetic offices we received here (1 Corinthians 4). Just consider this: in our readings text this week alone, we have passages from 4of the first 5 Books of the Bible as authored by Moises (EXODUS 3,24,34, LEVITICUS 13, NUMBERS 20, DEUTERONOMY 30) not to mention Genesis 1-2 was mentioned last week and Genesis 3 shall be mentioned next week. This only means that we must be rather wholistic in our approach in all things- taking care that we do not overlook one side of the story but rather is making sure that we in all things that we do, think and say, with the undeserving Grace Godhead is giving us in my father, would not discard even one passage both in Central Archives in Sacred Text Scriptures (LEVITICUS 13, PSALM 150) . For example, given how Empire seeks to exalt its musicians now against all our Commondominion musicians, and on how Empire continually issues new Gemma and Jojo hymns, my father and Joseph deems it very more than high time now that all Commondominion locales who willingly needs a full orchestra band just for their services yet could not afford to have one must be already provided with one. My father and Joseph therefore orders all willing brethren who desires to train for meeting such most urgent need, to not only be therefore presenting themselves to their respective congregations to meet such need wright now upon them reading this, but more so not only them but all our musician brethren must also learn to handle and use weapons and firearms so that they may wrightfully strike back this Empire only when we order them to do so (PSALM 5-7,10, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 CORINTHIANS 10-11). I say these because we believe that as much as they rather preferred Baal's stone (Matthew 5,18), the pest organ, as lone and sole musical instrument for worship, all their worship services are already disdained by Godhead even if they use Gemma hymns, such usages are only in vain and is not done the much-deserved justice (Isaiah 59) as long as they refuse to open up the hymns to public in orchestral, and also as long as they don't do it always and actually orchestral most especially in services. We are not perfectionist in the sense that Empire rather seeks to portray, the problem is that Empire, who indicts us of being such with our obedience, when they're the ones who are in fact hitting it every single hour, and also the ones self-persecuting themselves (Romans 10) using the term 'perfectionism', and moreover the ones who attack us in their very own perfectionist, wholistic action as we could see later. We're not pressuring you to do something that you can do anyway in the first place without us (Ephesians 2-3) pressuring you but only with Godhead, not us, inspiring you to do so due to Their Love for you (1 John 2,5, 2 Corinthians 5). We do what Godhead asks us to do (Isaiah 24,22,44, ISAIAH 42) hence because Empire has abhorred it in the first place (PSALM 119:1-34). Now why this Empire could not do good on their claims of the prophetic offices due to what they do otherwise? If we are to apply what we had been talking about earlier, the divine office of Two Witnesses, to the work of the 2 birds, mentioned in Leviticus 14 which is after LEVITICUS 13, and is also read days ago by Empire on February 2nd, we would see that the divine office entails commitment and readiness to atone for the sins of others, something that Empire could not do for they’re in fact the agents of sin (PSALM 50, PHILIPPIANS 3 , Zechariah 14, Ezekiel 38-48), therefore Empire slays us here alone because they're envious of our atonement ministry (Revelation 11, EXODUS 24,34, PHILIPPIANS 3, Hebrews 12-13, PSALM 50). Also, it must be taken from NUMBERS 20 that Godhead denied Moises automatic entrance to the Promised Land of Canaan because he never believed what the Two Witnesses Joshua and Hur said (Numbers 10-14) but that rather because he believed instead the 10 Empire-infiltrated spies (Revelation 13,17, Ecclesiastes). In Common Manning, our yokebearers who are not yet with us fully, due to their being enslaved and misled by Empire (MARK 9), would still be saved nonetheless, but they must know that they have to pay though dearly for the promiscuity they allowed Empire to feed them with- according to our fellows the Lythgoes and Farages, our brethren- yokebearers- who cannot make it to God's Big Day Places of Safety once Godhead formally deals for good with Empire would be martyred and be resurrected only after 1000 years or a day or year, but would be saved nonetheless at the end (1 Corinthians 3) by virtue of their yokebearing (ISAIAH 66). But one of our branch churches, the New Apostolic Church, had rather declared a backup reserve refulfillment- those who would enter in the Places of Safety would also eventually include the yokebearers who enjoy more being in Empire rather than with us. To mention the words of our said branch church, these yokebearers are rather 'hindered from the glorious transfiguration in the First Resurrection' because 'they did not strove to be like Christ', therefore 'their inward spiritual state is not worthy of the First Resurrection', hence not all of them would be martyred, in fact many who are in us fully already would be also martyred outside the Places of Safety. To all our most beloved fellow yokebearers, most particularly those who are in the field of music as those who are now being faked by the Empire, let me tell you now that because Godhead 'does not hinder any good thing from those who walk wrighteously and upwrightly in the way of Lady Samantha Jadeau (Revelation 21, GALATIANS 4, JEREMIAH 30, EPHESIANS 5, JOHN 2, JUDITH 13,15, PSALM 84)', we rather ask you to join us here alone wright now (Isaiah 43) because it is very personal to us here to desire most ardently as in the words of our fellow Messenger Sir Sterling Allan that you would 'no longer need to go through hell', or death, 'only you get to heaven'. What we ask of you therefore, whether you finally give up to us here alone or not, is that you would still remember to be very careful with this Empire (JEREMIAH 17), and always remember that as Family Team, no one here would wait for you to come home (JEREMIAH 30) like we here alone do (Romans 8). Why us alone here (ISAIAH 42)? Aside from what we usually say here as their typical actions, what things does Empire blander that shatters their claims to being both in and from Godhead?

1. As you already know, the bereaved media team (Luke 18) of the late Sir Martin Evangelista, one of my father's stepbrothers, who is a refulfillment of the foretold 'Foreigner' in 1 Kings 8 (PSALM 72), had declared hostility against his anonymous successor. The Aldub church, which is under the Gozon church, calls 'foreigners' as 'warriors'. Then take that to Zephaniah 1: 'the warriors shall cry out bitterly for despair…for I shall punish with Lady Isabelle Severino (JEREMIAH 30, EPHESIANS 5, JOHN 2, JUDITH 13,15) all who dresses up like foreigners.' This also refers to all Empire electronic churches like Gozon church (Psalm 102,109) being on and off (Hebrews 10, 2 Corinthians 1) on their actions such as airtime of movies, language of foreign movies, or length of emphasized promotion of both local shows and foreign movies. For example, the Gozon church, which has a fake First Presidency at its helm, had boasted not only their purported height of rates and sales compared than the most recent years, but also that their hourly over-sensationalized promotion of their new shows had delivered on them being top-rater both on air and online. 2. On the Empire's news delivery: either they instead sparely or lazily-get-from-others news most especially, as their policy now dictates them unto, during the Gregorian New Year, on overseas news, not to mention their already standing policy not to do any full yearender report anymore except in Lopez church. They would no longer report 'substantially' to quote their words, on foreign events, to make us believe that we should be rather complacent about the events today. They claim that we should rather purportedly focus 'on our own domestic affairs' so we can see the contradiction on their foreign policy. (PSALM 96) Here's another example of their erroneous news: they said in their headlies that their officials are 'still on their way to their location' when in fact their reports itself said that the officials already left for the location they head on to much more earlier and the location they're unto is only not too far from where they came from. When their officials are already there in the location, they would not even send as usual, like all other newsworthy events, not send a media team to cover it fully. (JOHN 12, MARK 1, JEREMIAH 17, PSALM 1) What we could say instead is that local Empire seeks to be no better than overseas Empire media not only in propaganda but also in news sensationalism particularly with the fleeting, temporal, unnecessary-to-life (Proverbs 4, Isaiah 40) reports of mere petty crimes and online trends. And as for the Pangilinan church on their part, they would always make sure that they would always field in sodomite hosts on their radio shows, and that these sodomite hosts are going to be the 'most outspoken, know-all, big-mouth' anchors on their shows. If we could see the intensity of the Empire's false piety and fake knowledge, then all the more we should be standing up against it. 3. We earlier mentioned about the Empire's new show which they oversensationalize for hours on air. That new show, guys, is rather part of the Empire's agenda against us, because it was later on discovered by Joseph that the Constantinians, who currently arrest and hostage our King Edward IX rather has direct hand in the production of the show for they want to use it attacking our fellow messenger Sir Elias Arkanghel. Constantinians further sustain this selfsame Yellowtard Gozon-Aldub church, who is better known for attacking my father as early as 2012 when Empire visited the realm of our King James III (PSALM 96, Revelation 11-12), through adhering to the words of an officer there named palpably not only after our Joseph here alone, but also after his homestate. And then you may wonder why on the same way Empire quotes their very own, this Empire itself, on December 17, 2017 had declared that Thanksgiving as Carried out by our very own 1620 Pilgrim Fathers is purportedly 'pagan' when in fact they continually do New Year celebrations in pagan fashion over their Baal Arena in a refulfillment of the symbolic Egypt in Revelation 11, which is Bulacan. (Isaiah 1-3) We reiterate again: Thanksgiving is not in itself false or pagan, only the way Empire does Thanksgiving (thanks to Gemma and Jojo hymns [ISAIAH 42, Isaiah 22,44,24]) and yea, New Year. Remember that Empire itself admits in the Christian Community Bible of the Filipino People that Godhead adopted some primitively pagan feasts to be the religious feasts outlined and prescribed by Moises in his first 4 books, yet of course, it’s Empire that tries to overturn it and drag it back again to secular means (Matthew 19). 4. I would also like to take this opportune to address and mention how Empire wastes time, effort and resources in building more houses that the poorest of the poor could only but daydream to have (LUKE 6). People belonging to Empire tend to rather own more than one house rather than to give some, if not all but what they only need, to the people who need it the most. Empire claims that people rather travel or need to stay in somewhere away from their original house for a long time therefore people need purportedly more than one house. (JEREMIAH 17) I believe that Empire, through the sensationalism created by its media outlets, rather push people to be impotent (WISDOM OF SOLOMON 11-12) and therefore pushes them in turn to further poverty that would force them to do more than one residence for themselves, because there is no adequate school or work wright where they are therefore they would be forced to be in another house for a period of time and therefore sustain the Empire's proliferation of massive unnecessary housing projects that rather slashes down ricefields, open breathing spaces, historical areas and forests. All of these aforementioned, aside from the things we already know that they do and will do, makes the Empire unworthy of your trust to your salvation. Lets just see that happens with the Aldub church- they are usually doing their weekly singers by 4's faking Revelation 6-7 and Doctrine and Covenants 77 (Joseph refulfilled being the 1st to 3rd Horseman sent by Godhead [Daniel 7]) through their Daniel 8, Romans 1, and Daniel 2-3. Also they had just last week claimed being the 6 Godhead-sent slayers of Ezekiel 9 (ACTS 6) of course because of their Revelation 13,17. Why Empire perhaps do this is because there are 5 yokebearers named near me- two are named palpably after me: Ladies Amy Ell and Amy Bell, and three of them are sisters: Morgan, Mariah, and Kristen Arnold Bell (I could remember Joseph had declared the 4 Quinner sisters' yokebearer team as the Commondominion's 4 ministers in Revelation 6-7 each). It is very shameful to hear Aldub church continually (Isaiah 29, Ezekiel 33, Matthew 15) mention the term 'dancer' when in fact they are approving the apostasy and death of all our fellow yokebearers everywhere. Why not would Empire do this- it is now 400 years on August of this year, just in time for the 50th year of my grandfather's overseas missions, since their history records the first African Americans in the United Saints, when in fact Negros (that is not only the black people around the world but also the people of our country particularly on the two yokebearer states of Negros) and Hispanics are as direct descendants to the Hebrew Israelites as white people are, and that Negro and American Indians came from the Lamanites. Genesis 15 states that there would be '4 centuries' of slavery, marked by 4 kinds of animal sacrifices, and '4 generations', all in all implying the 4 Empire legs. I say this because Empire would tend to misunderstand that slavery would break up after 400 years just to rationalize any public violent unrest against us (Acts 7), as much as they indict us with the words 'slavery' and 'racism', but it must be rather remembered that because all 4 Empire branches are mentioned, this rather implies not a turn towards the Empire (LUKE 9), but rather, it must be instead a turn to Godhead (LUKE 7), that is a turn to us here alone (HOSEA 10), as much as we here alone can teach, and therefore make good on, the Hebrew Israelite roots of all races (1 THESSALONIANS 1, 1 PETER 1, 1 JOHN 3). Besides, the 400-year timeframe didn't exactly happened on cue during Moises' time, instead it rather stretched out to 430 years (ACTS 6, GALATIANS 4, Acts 7) therefore we hope that We are not bragging what we have done by and for Godhead, rather I just like to thank personally, on behalf of my father and Joseph, the undeniable commitment and determination of our brethren across the universe in introducing the living and working power of the Gospel Lowe to the Empire in manifold ways within Godhead standards. What they do in fact rather spells out the prophetic destiny Godhead has Laid up in store for us just in time for the 50th year of Ka Erdy Overseas Missions (PSALM 2, 1 PETER 1, 1 THESSALONIANS 1). Please pardon me, my brethren, if we have to address this very early but this is what rather presses our need (PSALM 108, Psalm 109)- Empire is very aware of our sole divine wright to prophecy, therefore it is not surprising that this very early before July 27, 2018 they are doing everything to overturn our faith in Godhead (PSALM 13, Jeremiah 6,8-9). It rather shocks and leaves us in awe that you refulfill prophecy very literally at all means and costs, the prophecies we had been undeservingly entrusted with given the actions Empire does belying (2 Corinthians 6) to being the sole beneficiaries of the work of our messengers like my grandfather, and the toils our pioneer brethren had poured onto (PSALM 1, JEREMIAH 17) out of their full trust to messengers such as King Edward IX (ISAIAH 4, Zechariah 8).

Here's what (Romans 6) our brethren elsewhere, by the grace of Godhead, had been standing up for their inherent birthwright from Godhead to, as in Empire's words, 'win the future' through possessing all the lands of the universe (Psalm 147): 1. It is the most ardent desire of Godhead that more and more new states and countries be established and more micronations and dual governments be formally organized and entrenched for the Commondominion as foretold by my grandfather himself on his June 10, 1973 lecture, which he preached where Edward preached on March 16, 2012, and my great-grandfather preached on December 24, 1957. June 10 is when Empire in 2016 martyred our refulfillment of the sacrificial paschal lamb, Lady Christina Grimmie (WISDOM OF SOLOMON 11-12), who is named after my grandmother (EPHESIANS 5, GALATIANS 4). June 10 is the holiday of where Empire held its May 13, 2017 festivities, near where our fellows refulfilled PSALM 72 (Isaiah 60, Psalm 68,87) and therefore related it to Revelation 6-7, which Empire now fakes. Why Empire would not fake it- Lady Grimmie's sacrificial martyrdom for the striking of the Empire therefore further reinforces my father being in the prophetic office of the Oriental Sealing Angel, sealing the Name of Godhead- my name- rising up in the divine office of the Two Witnesses (Malachi 4, Isaiah 40) in the Common Manning the Paschal Angel of Exodus 12 came banging in onto the Empire in the sense that they made Orlando both another literal Sodom and Egypt, that is, Neronian Utah: Edward and his successor-son was on Pampanga June 10-11, 2016 on places respectively named after Joseph's father and my father therefore implying palpably Revelation 6-7 one day after the other (Psalm 19,137, PSALM 119:1-34), that successor-son named after my father was in Joseph's current city on June 11, 2015. (SIRACH 48, 2 KINGS 2, 1 KINGS 19) If Empire claims being far-reaching to the utmost corners of the world, even of the universe, we can instead see that Godhead rather makes the Empire somehow further more exhausted pursuing its own breath, 'staggering' indeed as Gemma and Jojo had wrote murder against us, only to find that they're ending up in eternal death (Matthew 10, Ecclesiastes), for they had been continually telling themselves that they shall reach every known and inhabited corner of the world even our very own possessed territories, but when they think that they had been to every corner, here, lo and behold (Psalm 46) Godhead shatters Empire's own wrighteousness through organizing more jurisdictions which Empire has never thought that could come up existing (Isaiah 48, Habakkuk 1), challenging the Empire (Romans 10, Isaiah 40) like 'had you ever been before here already? Come here and confront Us and Our Nation, We shall show you What We can Do.' For example, just most recently, our brethren at New California had just joined, in an act of good riddance and sweet revenge to Empire, our brethren across the United Saints in the parade of victories that is the newly-organized states in the United Saints' Commondominion Family Team such as Jefferson, Franklin, Cabotia and Northwest Republic. They had organized their new state on the very day last year Empire sent Edward IX to the Neronian territory in Old California named Mountain View, just to be lured and wooed by Baal-raising Gemma and Jojo hymns signaling Empire armies to slay our brethren elsewhere (EPHESIANS 5, PSALM 119:1-34). If Empire therefore claims having 'strong, genuine and solid' faith, we can instead look to our brethren such as those in New California who rather chooses (PSALM 119:1-34, SIRACH 15, DEUTERONOMY 30) to challenge the Empire head-on through moving their masses of land (Numbers 22) with nothing (1 Timothy 1, Proverbs 30, 1 Samuel 17) but humble, honest and consistent faith (Matthew 21) which in turn forms another mountain- a far more better mountain (Hebrews 11-12) for it is of Godhead (Daniel 2, Isaiah 2) and not of the Empire (Revelation 17) and can be only shattered by future Commondominions if we rather fall into insistence on infallibility like this Empire (therefore our Double Connotations is bestowed by Godhead as Check and Balance against such abuse [Ephesians 2, PSALM 99]). In other words, our strong faith defies the Empire's purported 'strong faith' (Romans 4, 1 Kings 18). And why not our brethren would do it (PSALM 96, Daniel 11-12)- not only that Empire itself has already compared our President Trump and King Edward IX to be no better nor different than each other being ours alone, but moreover because Joseph's homestate was first called by Empire to be altogether: first, after his paternal surname which implies mountains; second, such mountains could be only of Godhead alone because Empire also called such mountains to be 'of Matthew', that is after my father, whose name is a variant of Matthew, also after another fellow messenger here, Sir Matthew P. Gill, and ultimately after Lady Lindsey (JUDITH 13,15), because she was born on the memorial of Apostle Matthew, not to mention some places are called rather the 'mountains of John'- just consider the name we mentioned earlier, Paul Samuel Leo Johnson, and Joseph Smith has a trusted fellow named John Johnson (March 24, 2017); and it is because third, Empire named Joseph's homestate after Moroni and Mormon of the Sacred Text Scriptures. 2. Also another grace brought by our worldwide Wordwise expansion is that we already know as my father and Joseph has already received from Godhead that together with the rise of more new territories for your Commondominion of Christ to undeservingly receive from Godhead, congregations we have then but do not have now shall be reestablished and that would be through Godhead continually sending new messengers, that new messengers to be exact would be no other than our most beloved yokebearers (JOHN 9) particularly those yokebearers who are going to read this by Godhead or better yet, do as Godhead already Places this within them (PSALM 89, JOHN 2). We here are very excited to see this trigger as Godhead indeed promised to us as part of this endtime salvific work being a work of restoration. Your Central Administration believes so much in the yokebearers' spiritual potential (1-2 Timothy), that such would be even more manifest and proven in this specific aspect of the work, as yokebearers would be called by prophecy through our fellows to organize, disseminate, edify, govern and contend for these Commondominion churches seeing again our day, not to mention the locales we once had (EXODUS 24). Also, yokebearers would be called by our fellows through prophecy to govern the new territories we are forming, the dual governments and micronations (EXODUS 34), and for us here we hope that with this we may make up for all lacking that you may had all felt with us on our past issued letters. We are continually very sorry that we could not be that very, very vigilant as necessary for us here because of limited resources and continual Empire suppression. Yet you know very well that never can you be away from our most fond heart memory (1 THESSALONIANS 1) and therefore from our work. This I say on behalf of my father and Joseph, that we are so repentant of any lack of memory or service that we unintendedly given to anyone of you (1 CORINTHIANS 10-11, 1 Samuel 12,7, 2 Corinthians 12,7, 2 CORINTHIANS 3-4). Your calling is no better than those we particularly mention, and their calling is no different than yours (Ephesians 4, 1 Corinthians 12) therefore we (Romans 10) deny no one seeing these words so that we may (Mark 13 [January 30, 2015]) be (Romans 1, Philippians 1) be all guided accordingly at once with what we are supposed to do with each other. We also address in these particular words all of you which our most limited memory of mind rather than of the heart would forget to address in the future. You already know our greatest fear everyday is that we may all be infiltrated here just because of our complacency here alone (Galatians 2, Psalm 130, 1 Peter 4). This is why we have full trust in love for our yokebearer brethren that they would be upkeeping our congregations and countries for all eternity against Empire as Godhead beckons and reckons them with (AMOS 3). In Empire's words itself, 'Godhead wants to prove this Empire wrong on their claims that man only serves Godhead for fleeting earthly benefits. The travails men of Godhead has to undergo from the hands of Empire itself just for these men of Godhead to continue serving Godhead rather proves that man can, must and shall serve Godhead not for earthly benefits, but for heavenly, eternal priorities.' We can hear from these words that Godhead Over And Over Again above all in all trusts our yokebearers so much that they would be of our side alone (LUKE 9) making good on this enormously exciting task of restoration (Proverbs 8). Yokebearers therefore must not think that such crucial divine commission is a lost on their part, in fact their yokebearing duties are rather even more growing to be necessary and significant for this divine mission (LUKE 7, PSALM 72). DEUTERONOMY 30 tells us that if we are to stand on the Promised Land just like the United Saints, the Places of Safety and other symbolic Commondominion Jerusalems, then we are duty-bound with all our lives to stay standing with Sir Grundhofer on the sole side of Godhead, and we can therefore be sure that churches and countries can do it only alone with us (PSALM 27,84) because Empire hates standing with Godhead anymore (WISDOM OF SOLOMON 11-12). If we stand on Side of Godhead we know that we're already on the way to, not in the way of, Divine Celestial Glory and continual messenger sending (Proverbs 8, Psalm 80). Our yokebearers are expected to be the very first to do this if they are to be true and trustworthy stewards of all our branches (MATTHEW 5,11,13,24), and that they may be able to rally on all these branches to do the same as it is expected of Godhead for them to implement (2 Kings 12, 1 Kings 15). We could not help but give in to this beholding how unexplainable the generosity of this future today by Godhead is for all yokebearers. (1 PETER 1, 1 JOHN 3, 1 THESSALONIANS 1, Isaiah 32-33) 3. Another refulfillment of Godhead's promises that we see on the occasion of this Golden Jubilee is that Godhead shall continue to reveal new in-depth, inside and back stories on the settlements that our brethren planted in the United Saints between 421 cead and 1607,1620 (AMOS 3, 1 PETER 1). My father and Brother Joseph had already pointed out almost a year ago that the Commondominion has settled almost every presently major inch of earth during the Bible and Book of Mormon times, and that present and future Sacred Text Scriptures attests to this. The same could be said for the most recent times dating back past 412 cead to 1607 and 1620. Commondominion settlements of the United Saints between these years are recorded in the years 1497-1498, 1576-1580, 1584-1587, and 1595. For the years 1584-1587, we had a short-lived settlement in the United Saints, and for 1595 we had reached our present allies in Venezuela, which is around and near the Empire-revised backdrop setting of the Book of Mormon, to which your Central Administration had addressed that a separate Sacred Text Scriptures is allocated for Central-South United Saints which timeline is rather in the same time as the Book of Mormon in northern United Saints. It was said that we had no settlements planted in 1497, but as I would like to most solemnly attest to you, there could be Sacred Text Scriptures that instead reveal that there were permanent, not short-lived or none as Empire usually says, settlements in the United Saints on 1497-1498, 1576-1580, even on 1584-1587, and 1595, not to mention Filipinos were already in Louisiana around these times, of which exact year I could no longer recall. All of those permanent settlements, which were as good as those of 1607 and 1620, are very sophisticated and can be identified with the present nature of your Commondominion herself (LUKE 1), and all of them were very loyal too to Godhead (PSALM 99), therefore they are foretelling of our present and future stature itself. They have many messengers, many congregations, populist strongmen, and there are even yokebearers. They could only be wiped out by Empire persecution, but not by apostasy (SIRACH 48), and they are identified with that City of Enoc therefore they could not be really found by Empire because in the first place, Empire didn't founded them by the way (Nehemiah). It can be also said that Sacred Text Scriptures are also expected to be revealed on how the congregations that was planted overseas prior to 1968 fared before they were either raptured or slain. These congregations, although we have already a lot of congregations with our present member churches during those times, who reckon themselves from my clan, can be also said operating on the very nature that we are known for today. But i don't know whether Godhead shall indeed bestow Sacred Text Scriptures as these literally towards us, what i'm just trying to say is that Empire had distracted history so much that we have to know further than what they're trying to tell us, what they tell us is not the true and actual story, but it could be somehow sufficient that we know something like these as what i'm telling you in this entry had indeed happened on our settlements way back then, that they existed, and existed as we do now, to shatter any Empire claim that such a thing as us (Esther 4, Ether 4) today could never exist.

To all our most beloved fellow yokebearers in the music field herein your Commondominion of Christ, here I close my words and I would no longer invoke further but you already know that me, my father, and Joseph do always have you and all your loved ones in all our prayers and works. We are expecting you to join us whether in life or death, whatever it takes, we would be all eventually together in heaven. I rather desire that all of you be at once in heaven unscathed, therefore I implore Godhead that They may duly Empower and Glorify you so that you may be better, over and above and greater beyond our detractors, that you remain grounded in Godhead and Grundhofer and my grandmother, that you all may be at once and at all costs and means, redeemed and vindicated, kept safe and persevering for the life to come. May Godhead continue to visit you wright where you are, to see you through wherever you may be, and to see you come into Their immediate and eternal presence now and to come. We love you so much guys, and I would no longer dispense any blessings to your oppressors now listening to us (Jeremiah 7,11,14, 1 John 5), as much as their ultimate destiny is already marked out (Philippians 1, Hebrews 10, Bel and Dragon 1, Revelation 7,13-14), which will redound to the eternal salvation of you, your fellows, and all your loved ones. Upon seeing these graces therefore, we need to remain faithful to Godhead in utter gratitude of the most glorious future set in course for us. Therefore we must Complete this Race, and be the race that Godhead Itself owns and approves, that is Their Commondominion in every sense of the eternal living and infallible Word now and always. I love you all very much, and may Godhead Complete thus that which is concerning you in constant, faithful and genuine solid glory now and always.

Your most wretched slave in Godhead, FELIX ERANO WONG MANALO III Successor-son to the Central Administration of the Commondominion of Christ

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