#Mark Grattan

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Denis Shaw Season: Tom Grattan's War - The Mysterious Lighthouse and The Wreckers

Next up in this series of shows in which actor Denis Shaw had a (usually small but nonetheless sinister) part we have Tom Grattan's War (1968 - 1970). 'WHOSE war?', I hear you ask if you're lucky. And you're lucky if you haven't heard of this show as I hadn't, because it's an absolute gem and I'm so pleased that digging down in Denis Shaw's IMDb page introduced me to it, so that if I'm introducing you to it I would be so pleased. This is another of those occasions on this blog when I will seriously encourage readers to stop reading my witterings and go away to watch this show because it will be a better use of the time left to you. There is an odd episode on YouTube if you want to try before you buy, and Network released the whole series on Region 2 DVD. For streaming you're on your own.

If you're still here I'm going to direct you away from the blog a second time and indicate a superb essay about this show which I will be drawing on for this post: it has actual academic references and sources and can be found here: https://forgottentelevisiondrama.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/tom-grattans-war-yorkshire-television-itv-1968-70/

The linked essay assigns this show to a genre which it quotes Mark Doherty and Alistair McGowan as calling: 'kids in anoraks on bikes, accompanied by a dog or two, roaming the countryside in search of smugglers and bank robbers and usually finding them in ready supply'. In fact until I dscovered that essay I was going to say that this show is like all the good atmospheric, adventurous bits of the Famous Five distilled in a show without the moralising, racism and dodgy gender roles.

In fact Yorkshire TV performed quite a feat with this show, which is notionally about the adventures of the titular Tom Grattan when he spends the First World War away from his native London, on a Yorkshire farm. He is about fifteen or sixteen. I don't even need to tell you that he ends up in lots of adventures with criminals, dodgy Germans, spies, the soldiers of our King, mines, lighthouses and derelict farm buildings, do I? However beyond that, (again this is from the article I link above) Yorkshire TV perform the remarkable feat of making a show which was intended to attract children from 8 years on, older children who were approaching young adulthood, and even adults. One of the stars of the show is actually Yorkshire itself, and full use is made of the Yorkshire scenery if you're into that sort of thing. Similar to the Famous Five's adventures, there would often be considerable danger or threat to Tom and his best friend, although of course this is always resolved. These are genuine adventure stories, with some examination of the characters' motivations and morals, beautiful camera work and scenery, faultless period settings and costume and what Monty Python would have called None of That. It's superb.

The two episodes I'm focusing on for this post have in common that Denis Shaw is in them, of course, but they also illustrate the tendency of the show to treat episodes as pairs with a cliffhanger after the first one. The story is that Tom and his friend walk to the coast and visit a lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper and his mate are suspicious and they find evidence that someone has been dragged into the sea. Of course it turns out that the lighthouse keeper and his mate are German spies who have seen to the real lighthouse keeper and moved the buoys with the intention of wrecking the ships of His Majesty's navy. Frankly, if you just shove a lighthouse in the middle of any old rubbish I will still be all over it like a rash, but as well as the simple fact you can't go wrong with a lighthouse, it's a classic adventure story, paced and carried out to perfection, over the two episodes.

Of course you have all guessed that the role Denis Shaw plays is as the fake lighthouse keeper with a cod German accent. He plays (and in fact fills) the role to perfection and is actually the embodiment of the jingoistic British conception of what Germans are like. The role isn't huge, but of course essential. He also uncharacteristically jumps out of a boat and swims fully clothed at the end, which seems unexpected for someone not apparently athletic.

I just have two questions or possibly criticisms of the whole show.

One is that even with the understanding that the show was aimed at a diverse audience you have to wonder sometimes what they thought they were doing. It deals with some incredibly sobering subject matter, yet also there are bits that look like they might have been intended for laughs (I haven't laughed since 1978 so didn't laugh personally. For example there is a recurring image of Tom running round an object with the villains following him which would probably be funny to younger children, and similarly some of the scenes where he is being chased by villains are obviously speeded up. I don't think this is intended to give a silent film impression and so it would probably be intended to be humorous, which seems a bit incongruent.

My only other criticism is that the show unusually begins every episode with us seeing a narrator telling us the background to the show. In each account he says that Tom is a boy doing a man's work (and in fact the premise is that he is only doing farm work until he is old enough to go to France to fight). I'm not very happy with what they're getting at here, because I don't think there has been a time when farm work has only been done by adults (and Londoners of Tom's generation would have been very familiar with the tradition of whole families leaving the city to go hop picking, something which used to happen even when I was at school). And apart from anything else, which we are not told what Tom was doing at home in London but he isn't posh enough to have been going to a public school and at this time the school leaving age was 12, only being raised to 14 in 1918 (my own mother left school at 14 in 1944). So whatever Tom was doing at home it would have been in the adult world of work and he can hardly be described as a boy doing a man's job. Now I really do feel like I'm nit-picking but the repetition of this makes it less credible each time.

These are really only quibbles and this is a wonderful, excellently-made series which I can't recommend highly enough.

Frustrate their knavish tricks!

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[brookstonalmanac]

Events 9.3 (before 1930)

36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate. 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus. 590 – Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great). 673 – King Wamba of the Visigoths puts down a revolt by Hilderic, governor of Nîmes (France) and rival for the throne. 863 – Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid. 1189 – Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster. 1260 – The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire. 1335 – At the congress of Visegrád Charles I of Hungary mediates a reconciliation between two neighboring monarchs, John of Bohemia and Casimir III of Poland. 1411 – The Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. 1650 – Victory over the royalists in the Battle of Dunbar opens the way to Edinburgh for the New Model Army in the Third English Civil War. 1651 – The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. 1658 – The death of Oliver Cromwell; Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England. 1666 – The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time. 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1798 – The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize. 1812 – Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana. 1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery. 1843 – King Otto of Greece is forced to grant a constitution following an uprising in Athens. 1855 – American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children. 1861 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23. 1875 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers. 1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames. 1879 – Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire. 1895 – John Brallier becomes the first openly paid professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12–0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association. 1911 – A fire that started on Fraser's Million Dollar Pier destroys six to eight square blocks of Ocean Park, California. 1914 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule. 1914 – French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers. 1914 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy. 1916 – World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.

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BLOOMSDAY 2024 - JOIN THE BALLOONATICS

BALLOONATICS are back once again on June 16 and will be spanning the day with on-location recreations of Ulysses in Dublin city centre.

Join us on Bloomsday throughout the day: we are presenting three theatrical walks (no booking required) and our traditional evening performance in Wynn’s Hotel for which advance booking is advised.

This year’s performers are: Mark Wale, Chris Bilton, Paul O’Hanrahan and musician, John Goudie.

STREET THEATRE TOURS (free of charge; cash contribution at end appreciated)

8 am Breakfast at the Blooms

Meet at the corner of Eccles and Dorset Street.

Bloom prepares separate breakfasts for himself and his wife and takes a stroll to the nearby butcher. This tour follows the ‘Calypso’ episode of Ulysses, chapter 4.

10.30 am Bloom collects a letter

Meet at Westland Row, opposite Pearse Station entrance, under the bridge.

This tour follows Bloom’s journey to church and chemist in the ‘Lotus-Eaters’ episode of Ulysses, chapter 5.

3 p.m. Bloom’s afternoon dodges

Meet on the wide side of Grattan Bridge over the Liffey.

This tour visits sites linked with the ‘Sirens’ and ‘Cyclops’ episodes of Ulysses, chapters 11 and 12, and explores Capel Street’s Joyce connections.

EVENING JOYCE PERFORMANCE

7.30 pm Humid Nightblue Fruit

Wynn’s Hotel, Lower Abbey Street

End your Bloomsday evening at this convivial Joyce gathering in this historic hotel.

This year's Balloonatics performance is

BARACAROLES AND BARRELTONES: MEN IN THE ORMOND

A dramatised reading of the ‘Sirens’ episode and related scenes from Ulysses adapted by Paul O’Hanrahan, who performs with Mark Wale, Chris Bilton and musician John Goudie.

The performance will be followed by audience readings, all welcome to participate.

Advance booking recommended: tickets on Eventbrite, €13 plus booking fee (€15 on door, if not sold out)

Book at this link: https://tinyurl.com/humidnightblue

[sinnamonscouture]

Mark Grattan Covers ELLE Decor’s April 2021 “Decorators at Home” issue

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VIDIVIXI Furniture Installation by Adam Caplowe, Mark Grattan 

The centerpiece of the collection is a with a channel-tufted cotton weave upholstery wraps around a walnut frame and continues halfway underneath, so that the bed begins to resemble a chic animal resting on its haunches.

Photography : Pia Riverola 

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Bed (third iteration), Mark Grattan for VIDIVIXI, Mexico, 2018

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MARK GRATTAN

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I/O Chip Music: The 10 Year Anniversary Show… Also, The 10 Year Anniversary Zine

It’s been a while since I’m dusted off my chiptune historian credentials, but here goes: the contemporary chiptune scene in North America… like oh so many other music scenes… was founded here in the Big Apple.

For almost two decades, there have been countless chip shows, mostly isolated. Though a few would end up become a series of shows; one was even a full-bore festival, the Blip Festival of course.

Yet they’ve all come & gone; many chip showcases across the globe have the DNA of Blip Fest coursing through it, yet the Blip Festival proper only ran from 2006 to 2012. Which is sad, yet hardly surprising, at least to anyone familiar with the difficulties involved in both running music shows, along with supporting the community that surrounds them in NYC.

Hence why I must one again recommend the Death By Audio documentary, Goodnight Brooklyn. But back to chiptunes: despite all the logistics, despite all the headaches, only one showcase has managed to stick around and tough it out. Only one has managed to be smart, flexible, and above all else, maintain a spotless track record of being awesome.

And that’s I/O Chip Music, which celebrates an entire decade of running show in NYC (also Philly, also Tokyo). And what better way to mark the occasion than a zine produced by Jessen Jurado, I/O’s primary creative force, and Caroline Voagen Nelson, a designer + longtime supporter of I/O? 

Gets yours tonight, cuz there’s another I/O TONIGHT, at Pine Box Shop: 12 Grattan St, Brooklyn, New York 11206.

Included in the line-up is… and you’re not going to believe this… easily one of the biggest female influences in the scene, across the board: Bubblyfish! This is her, what, first show in three years I think?

[libidomechanica]

Untitled (“Till they also the child; she ground”)

Till they also the child; she ground; while the lofty Pile, and she well? And of your Georgians, and as an ox oer each place, nor thunderd horse, you will, the acts retired, your fresh ate the elevator

where she saw in your “imprimatur” will not: but thou dare the winds leader of the gate the younglings my Belovéd ! Me with yourself erect an aspirant to sailed with theeues do dwells,   which yours shining? But oh fie on some fitter when happy springs unseen to pass as lighted than I should be,

for that does nothing is certainty, fidelity on the cherye To go,—so withstands;    When he least to describe her I sometimes be blind and claspd my days there we two angels pure daylight waite well!   be with all his flint. who duly pulleys like Lucius Junius Brutus is,

could not be excusd, being chickened strange fashion of a foolscap subjected, we are all night-wind show appeare, nor doe not in my young span, “t were hard as his to philosophise   the young woman: sultan under sleep without cold,    who before of Thee and confound

  the the East, and lie fall,” but shall? -Days.   And where Grattan, Curran, Sheridan, all untune the man (not a Sage began, as any stood their handsome,   and rolled her. The maid,   With eyes from those changing through distant Drum!

  Thy parties small, to place. that sang all king marked, his arms is dead weigh,   “not I,” he said: “he savage Landor” has the sweetheart have, alas!

Do you be: win your cheek laid aside; but brand never given quantity of the horseback—I have power, tu—whoo! I tell why sae sweet,) leese but for damages,— is yet undiscended sweet maid, devoid of Dians moon on my wedding thy footstep gleam, the truth—to proved it—t is gone believe it?

[melbournenewsvine]

Melbourne Fringe Festival returns after nearly 20 years

“I’m happy to take it back to its roots of truly celebrating artists and creating something family-friendly.” While the show kicks off at 3 p.m. on Saturday, anyone interested in participating can turn up early to learn dance moves or find cues to hold. The famous Waiter’s Race, where a local coffeemaker prepares a latte and then a waiter runs an obstacle course carrying coffee, trying not to spill it, is also 2pm. Traditionally, staff from Marios Café on Brunswick Street have often won. A waiter from Marius spills a drop or two during the Waiters Race at Melbourne Fringe Street Bread & Party, 1998.attributed to him:Mario Borg Abrahams points out that the hospitality industry, like the art community, has also had a rough time over the past few years. “It was about celebrating business,” he says. “There was a permanent cup [too]. We don’t know where it is, someone there has it. Maybe Marius.” For the march itself, Amos Roach, son of the late Archie Roach, will head a troupe of Aboriginal dancers and musicians, in honor of his father. There will also be a Jack Charles celebration. Expect to see Miss First Nations; Widespread puppets by Snuff Puppets and A Blanck Canvas; kinetic sculptures; aqua aerobics group with a portable swimming pool; 80s dance troupe. cyclists. Belly dancers harp bands and other community acts. Many guilds will also participate. The Trade Hall is one of the centers of this year’s festival. loading The show will culminate with two large concerts: one at Argyle Street and the other at the corner of Grattan and Lygon Streets. Both start at 4 pm. Performers on the show include Betty Gramble, The Real Hot Beaches, Miss Cairo, Kucha Edwards, Juniper Wild, and Cookin On 3 Burners. The parties will end at 10pm, but that won’t mark the end of the festivities. “At the end of the night, we invite people back to Trades Hall, and we’ll dance until the wee hours of the morning,” Abrahams says. “It’s an opportunity to celebrate our collective creativity and come together as a community and literally take to the streets – something we haven’t been able to do for three years.” Melbourne Fringe Show starts at 3pm, Waiter Race at 2pm on Saturday. the age He is the partner of Fringe Festival. A cultural guide to getting out and loving your city. Subscribe to the Culture Fix newsletter here. Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 9.3 (before 1900)

36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate. 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus. 590 – Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great). 673 – King Wamba of the Visigoths puts down a revolt by Hilderic, governor of Nîmes (France) and rival for the throne. 863 – Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid. 1189 – Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster. 1260 – The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire. 1335 – At the congress of Visegrád Charles I of Hungary mediates a reconciliation between two neighboring monarchs, John of Bohemia and Casimir III of Poland. 1411 – The Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. 1650 – Victory over the royalists in the Battle of Dunbar opens the way to Edinburgh for the New Model Army in the Third English Civil War. 1651 – The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. 1658 – The death of Oliver Cromwell; Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England. 1666 – The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time. 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1798 – The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize. 1812 – Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana. 1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery. 1843 – King Otto of Greece is forced to grant a constitution following an uprising in Athens. 1855 – American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children. 1861 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23. 1875 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers. 1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames. 1879 – Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire. 1895 – John Brallier becomes the first openly paid professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12–0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.

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Bloomsday in Dublin 2023

Balloonatics are back once again on June 16th.

Long-established Joyce performers, once again we will be spanning the day with on-location recreations of Ulysses in Dublin city centre. Full details of our programme below. All street performances are free but a contribution in the hat is appreciated.

This year's performers are Paul O'Hanrahan and Mark Wale.

Street theatre tours 8 am Breakfast at the Blooms

Meet at the corner of Eccles and Dorset Street. This walk follows the ‘Calypso’ episode of Ulysses, chapter 4.

10.30 am Bloom collects a secret letter

Meet at Westland Row, opposite Pearse Station entrance, under the bridge. This walk follows the ‘Lotus-Eaters’ episode of Ulysses, chapter 5.

3 pm Joyce’s Capel Street

Meet at Grattan Bridge, wide side. This walk explores Capel Street’s Joyce connections and visits sites linked with the ‘Sirens’ and ‘Cyclops’ episodes of Ulysses, chapters 11 and 12.

No advance booking required. Contributions in hat appreciated at end of each event.

Evening event

7.30 pm Humid Nightblue Fruit

Wynn’s Hotel, Lower Abbey Street

Fathers and Sons: Bloom and Stephen, Simon and Rudy A dramatised reading from Ulysses by Paul O’Hanrahan and Mark Wale.

End your Bloomsday evening at this convivial Joyce gathering in this historic hotel in central Dublin.

The performance will be followed by audience readings: all welcome to participate.

Places are limited, so please do book in advance.

Tickets are available now on Eventbrite, €10 plus booking fee.

Contact

Twitter: @paulohanrahan Facebook: Paul O’Hanrahan, Balloonatics Theatre Company

[godfinalwarningwakeup]

THE ISSUE OF AUTHORITY!!!

The Reformation was based on the argument of Sola Scriptura—the Scriptures alone. But during the Catholic Council of Trent, this argument failed because Protestants weren’t prepared to give up the Catholic tradition of Sunday. It was a major blow to the Reformation and to the work of reform and progress God was initiating. If Protestants had been willing to take a Biblical stand on this issue, how different would history have been?

With strong statements such as these, what are we to think?

The issue here is not the day of the week. The issue is authority. Whose authority will we fall under—the Bible (John 14:15; Revelation 14:12) or human tradition (Matthew 5:19; Mark 7:9)?

The Roman Catholic Church keeps the Ten Commandments as taught by St. Augustine, which are different from those found in the Bible. Catholic Catechism says this:

The division and numbering of the Commandments have varied in the course of history. The present catechism follows the division of the Commandments established by St. Augustine, which has become traditional in the Catholic Church.

The Sabbath Commandment—the one removed by Catholicism—is the Commandment that serves as a seal, authenticating the law and showing the authority of God.

However, the Catholic Church sees Sunday as its mark of authority. Rome freely admits and even proudly proclaims that it is responsible for Sunday worship, asserting that all other Protestants who worship on Sunday are under Rome’s authority whether or not they deem it so.

"The day...may be very near when we shall all have to fight the battle of the Reformation over again." ~ Grattan Guinness

👉The Sabbath is a Royal Seal

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God (Name). In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made (Title: Creator) the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them (Jurisdiction), and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it (Exodus 20: 8-11 NKJV).

The Sabbath commandment contains elements not contained in any of the other commandments. It states the name of the Lawgiver (LORD), His territory (heaven and Earth), and His title (Creator). These three components comprise what is known as a seal, and lend authority to the law. The Ten Commandments gain their validity only from the royal seal of the Creator God embodied in the Sabbath commandment.

In ancient times, kings were required to ratify decrees or commands with the royal seal (1 Kings 21:8). Without a royal seal, no law would be valid. Moreover, even with a royal seal, a law is only valid in the area of the king’s jurisdiction. For example, Canadian law is not applicable in Switzerland. So in a sense, it can be said that without a seal, no law would be valid anywhere. The law of the Ten Commandments is no different.

👉Mark of the Beast - Sunday: The Roman Catholic Emblem

A mark distinguishes one thing from another. A mark of a religious power would be some outstanding belief that distinguishes it. The best way to determine the distinguishing mark of the Roman Catholic Church is to consult her teachings directly.

Cardinal Gibbons claimed that Sunday-keeping was the mark of Roman Catholic authority:

Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act. It could not have been otherwise, as none in those days would have dreamed of doing anything, in matters spiritual, ecclesiastical and religious without her. This act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.

Sunday worship has no Scriptural authority, and rests solely upon tradition. Protestants have always claimed that the Bible alone should be the standard for our religious beliefs. To meet this challenge, the Roman Catholic Church called the Council of Trent in 1545, and proclaimed that tradition stood above Scripture.

Protestants who observe Sunday as the day of worship are honoring the defining feature, or mark, of Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholics have claimed this:

The church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.ii

You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! But by whom? Who has authority to change an express commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said, 'Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day', who shall dare to say, nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on the seventh day, but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its stead? This is a most important question which I know not how you can answer. You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet, in so important a matter as the observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that which He has commanded. The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the ten commandments; you believe the other nine are still binding; who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your own principle, if you really follow the Bible and the Bible only, you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered.

👉Jesus and the Sabbath

Jesus used the Sabbath day to announce His mission on Earth (Luke 4:16-19). In Isaiah 42:21, the prophet predicts that the Messiah would come to magnify the law, not to change it. In Matthew 24:20, Jesus alludes to the Sabbath in connection with future generations. Jesus also told his followers that He did not abolish that law:

Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets, I did not come to destroy but to fulfill (Matthew 5:17 NKJV).

If you love Me, keep My commandments (John 14:15 NKJV).

For I am the LORD, I change not (Malachi 3:6)

God's law is a transcript of His character. It cannot change, just as God does not change.

Did Jesus change the law or the Sabbath? No. He kept His Father’s commandments, for He said, “I have kept My Father’s commandment and abide in His love” (John 15:10 NKJV).

He kept the Sabbath according to Luke 4:16: “as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day” (NKJV).

Jesus also indicated that the Sabbath would be sacred even after His death. With reference to the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, He said, “Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day” (Matthew 24:20).

The disciples and followers of Christ kept Saturday Sabbath according to the commandment:

And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointment; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment (Luke 23:55-56).

After Jesus ascended back to heaven, the disciples of Christ continued to keep the seventh-day Sabbath for many decades. The Ten Commandments, including the Saturday Sabbath, were not done away with when Christ died. Every single commandment can be found reiterated in the New Testament.

👉Paul and the Sabbath

The inspired Word of God in the book of Acts, as written by Luke, records the keeping of 84 Sabbaths by Paul and his companions. We note first in Acts 13:14 that “when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day.”

Paul and his associates were still observing the Sabbath in 45 AD, 14 years after the resurrection.

And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath: And the next sabbath came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God (Acts 13:42-44).

The Gentiles also observed the Sabbath with Paul, and they heard the “word of God." No indication of a change is found. Besides worshipping in the synagogues, they also "on the sabbath...went out of the city by a river side" (Acts 16:13). This was 22 years after the resurrection, in AD 53.

And Paul as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures (Acts 17:2).

Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; and he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks…And he continued there a year and six months teaching the word of God among them (Acts 18:1,4,11).

We ought to Obey God rather than man (Acts 5:29). A “Thus saith the Lord” is not to be set aside for a “Thus saith the church” or a “Thus saith the state.” The crown of Christ is to be lifted above the diadems of earthly potentates. AA 68.2

we must understand that the final conflict will be over worship. All inhabitants of earth will be divided into one of two camps before the end—those who worship the beast and those who worship the Creator.

The scenario is clear. In the last days, the entire world will be squeezed between the two cosmic forces. There will be no neutral ground, no demilitarized zone. Everyone will have to make a decision whom they will serve and worship.

The highest allegiance is accorded through the act of obedience. At last, the majority of earth’s inhabitants will accept the authority of an antichrist counterfeit power, in disobedience to God’s great ten commandment laws. Every individual will be on one side or the other. The Bible makes it very clear that life or death revolves around the final decision concerning the beast of Revelation 13.

All who worship the beast will forfeit the precious experience of eternal life with Jesus in a glorious new world (Revelation 13:8). They will be inflicted with the extremely painful and fearsome seven last plagues (Revelation 16:2). And finally, they will suffer utter destruction in the fires of hell (Revelation 14:9-11).

REVELATION 14:12.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

FAITH in Jesus and obedience to all of God's 10 commandments including the Seventh day SABBATH is what is going to help us avoid the MARK OF THE BEAST and genuine saving faith will lead to Obedience.

No one will face the final crisis without first having heard, "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

(Mark 16:15) and understood, " That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.(John 1:9) God’s vital three-point message for today (Revelation 14:6–12). People will choose to receive the mark of the beast only because they do not wish to pay the price for following Christ.

📢📢📢WAKE UP CHILDREN OF GOD OPEN YOUR BIBLES 📖 AND STUDY IT SHARE THIS MESSAGE WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS FACEBOOK PAGES AND GROUPS GIVE YOUR HEART ♥️ TO JESUS REPENT WORSHIP GOD ALONE AND KEEP HIS HOLY LAW AND HIS HOLY SABBATH JESUS IS COMING BACK SOON 🔜 THERE IS NOT MUCH TIME 🔚.

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HSC students want a seat at the table

HSC students want a seat at the table

A NESA spokesperson said: “HSC results services will be available to support students with inquiries”. While Clare believed “it’s the exams that are creating stress, not university admissions,” both Cr Grattan and Clare said the group was advocating for all students to get into their preferred university course, with first year university marks to determine whether the student is fit to continue…

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MARK GRATTAN