Published on December
15th, 2010
Did you know
that....
World War III started on September 11, 2001, according the the US Commander in Chief at the
time, President George W. Bush?
(1)
As we published as a footnote of a document
(2) published on January 2010:
US President George W. Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers
on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of "World War III". In an interview with the
financial news network CNBC, Mr. Bush said he had yet to see the recently released film of the
uprising, a dramatic portrayal of events on the United Airlines plane before it crashed in a
Pennsylvania field.
But he said he agreed with the description of David Beamer, whose son Todd died in the crash, who
in a Wall Street Journal commentary last month called it "our first successful counter-attack in
our homeland in this new global war, World War III".
Mr. Bush said: "I believe that. I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III".
(1)
and that....
...Global Research has picked up on the fact that the release by Wikileaks of confidential
documents is part of the ongoing well choreagraphed disinformation campaign?
(1)
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(1)
Global Research
Article
and that....
.....the Vatican Bank is mired in yet another financial scandal?
(1)
The Institute for Religious Works - the Vatican Bank - is under harsh new scrutiny in a case
involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize € 23 million ($30 million) in
Vatican assets in September. Critics say the case shows that the "Vatican Bank" has never shed its
penchant for secrecy and scandal.
The Vatican calls the seizure of assets a "misunderstanding" and expresses optimism it will be
quickly cleared up. But court documents show that prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately
flouted anti-laundering laws "with the aim of hiding the ownership, destination and origin of the
capital." The documents also reveal investigators' suspicions that clergy may have acted as fronts
for corrupt businessmen and Mafia.
The documents pinpoint two transactions that have not been reported: one in 2009 involving the use
of a false name, and another in 2010 in which the Vatican Bank withdrew € 650,000 ($860,000)
from an Italian bank account but ignored bank requests to disclose where the money was headed.
The M+G+R Foundation comments:
Can these people do anything else besides lying and deceiving? The tragedy is the many souls that
will be lost, and those who will have to undergo tremendous avoidable suffering just because their
blind faith is placed in the Vatican and not in God. Who needs Wikileaks? The Church
Administrators are stupid enough to get caught every time - Thanks be to God!
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(1)
News
Report
Did you hear that.... a global eruption on the
sun has shattered old ideas about solar activity?
(1)
Researchers presented their surprising findings at a press conference on December 13th at the
American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
The M+G+R Foundation
comments: The "wise scientists" strike again and another dearly held "old idea",
which a year ago was probably called a "firm fact", hits the dust. As we recently said - it is
getting harder and harder to differentiate scientists from Roman Catholic Church
Administrators.
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(1)
News
Report
Published on December
13th, 2010
From (Mr.) IW @ US
The most famous priest associated with SOLT (Society of
Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity) is the well known EWTN personality and Opus Dei trained
(University of Navarre, Spain), Fr. John Corapi.
(1)
But it would seem that both SOLT and US priests and
Bishops of Opus Dei have now received a very public black eye via a
SOLT priest - Fr. John M. Fiala.
(2)
"Fiala was accused in an April 2010 lawsuit of having sexually assaulted a boy, ages 15-16, in
2007-2008. Accusations include rape at gunpoint and threats that he would hurt the boy
and his family if the boy told. Fiala is also said to have plied the boy with alcohol and
gifts. The boy disclosed the abuse to his school counselor, after running away and trying to
commit suicide. Omaha archdiocesan officials stated publicly in April 2010 that they had received
a complaint in 2002 that Fiala had "made sexual advances" toward a minor in the mid-1980s. Fiala
was arrested in Dallas County TX in Nov. 2010 for trying to hire a hit man to kill a boy who
had accused Fiala of sexual abuse." (3)
It also becomes obvious that
SOLT founder, Fr. James
Flanagan would have known Fiala personally, as Fr. Fiala was at one point Spiritual Director for
the order.
Well known Opus Dei member, Archbishop Jose Horacio Gomez of San Antonio, Texas (now Coadjutor of
Los Angeles) was the Ordinary there, who most certainly was consulted as to the appointment of Fr.
Fiala as
director of the Blue Army/World Apostolate of Fatima
(4) for the Archdiocese.
Ironically, Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR [the Community of the Franciscans of the Renewal], is the
Spiritual Advisor to the World Apostolate of Fatima, and its main mouthpiece through EWTN. He also
is the Vice-Postulator for the canonization cause for Fulton J. Sheen. Even greater irony is that
the CFR,
the order he co-founded with Fr. Benedict
Groeschel has had its own sex abuse issues.
(5)
Interestingly, the clerical career of Fr. John Corapi
(
SOLT) has obvious intersections with Fr. Fiala, through
this rather small order.
(6)
So it seems that everybody has 'black eyes' from this. Yet we hear neither sincere "Mea Culpas"
from these 'stars' of Opus Dei, nor do we see the Faithful showing up at their respective
offices with the proverbial 'lighted torches and pitchforks' of justifiable outrage. Sadly,
the Blind sheep continue to Pay and Obey the objects of their 'faith'.
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(1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr._John_Corapi
(2)
http://www.societyofourlady.net/founder.html
- It would seem that the founder of this order 'saw the light' in similar manner to
Escriva (Opus Dei) & Maciel (Legion of Christ).
(3)
http://www.bishopaccountability.org/assign/Fiala_John_M.htm
(4)
http://www.wafusa.org/
(5)
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news13/2008_06_11_YonkersTribune_YonkersFriar_Dominic_Bokulich_1.htm
(6)
http://www.fathercorapi.com/About-Father-Corapi-W4C25.aspx
A. This story makes the murderous and
soul-killing corruption of the Church Administration very clear.
This horrific example applies to the US, right now ... and blows a huge hole into the whole US
Catholic neo-conservative enterprise.
"Holy" hit-men, indeed.
May God have Mercy on His Elect!
Published on December
12th, 2010 [Feast of
Our Lady of
Guadalupe (Patroness of the Americas)]
From (Mr.) TK @ US
Just saw an article titled: "Evidence for ET is mounting daily, but not
proven". (1)
It fits with your FYI&R page of December 8th
(2) where you stated:
"The scientific community is beginning to sound more and more
like the Vatican.... everything seems to be 'a mystery.'"
Looks like you nailed it again!
Do you think it will be much longer? I know the answer is soon but it is hard to watch all
that is going on and most do not even have a clue or care for that matter.
The answer truly is "Pray (3) and Pray some
more (4) for Divine Mercy
(5)!"
The hour of Grace is at 12:00 noon today (letter sent on December 8th). I will be praying
for all.
Thanks again for all you have done and are doing for us.
TK
A. Thank you for you kind words and prayers -
they are always welcome and needed. As you know - it is God Who "is doing the nailing", that is
why it is "again". It is refreshing to see Him doing the nailing as opposed to seeing Him being
nailed by those who claim to serve Him.
We have just picked up the December issue of a magazine published in Spain (for all Spanish
speaking countries) to feel "its pulse". It did not take much to "feel it" since it hit us
right in the face.... The cover stories: "Are they preparing us
for the revelation about extra terrestrials?" - "Amazing
discoveries and public statements" - "Disconcerting wave
of UFO on a worldwide scale".
We know that they are aware of our publications which are tempering/guiding theirs to less tabloid
fare (including such articles as "The Ouija Board solved a homicide") and more hard facts.
Regarding your question, which you aptly answered yourself, "Do
you think it will be much longer?" - we will share with you our secret to remain sane and fully
available to Him. We only want to know what is needed at
the time so that everything that He Wills we accomplish is accomplished as well as my
miserable humanity will allow.
Given certain specific information a human - any human - will react, well, in a very human way
and, if that human is an instrument of God, his very human reaction will actually interfere with
God working through him.
The hardest task for any instrument of God is for his/her self to stay out of the way and allow
God to flow through him/her. This is the one instance when "Ignorance is indeed bliss" as long as
God is given free rein to act through His instrument.
The "Tree of (anticipated) knowledge" got our ancestors - Adam and Eve - in trouble and we do not
want to make the same mistake.
Therefore - we echo the answer to your own question: "Pray
(3)
and Pray some more
(4)
for Divine Mercy
(5)!"
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(1) Evidence for
ET is mounting daily, but not proven
(2) FYI&R page of December 8th
(3) Pray
(4) Pray some more
(5) Divine Mercy
If you were wondering how.... insecure and public your private information can get.
it will be hard to top this:
RFID technology (radio frequency identification) is a newest thing in secure (??)
technology and some of the newer credit cards have it. The news report video linked here
(1) explains how to identify if yours has
the RFID chip and how public your privacy is.
New US passports and some other legal documents have it too.
There is no doubt that those who should have our best interests at heart have sold their souls to
satan.
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(1)
Video
News Report
An update on.... our review of Benedict's "Light of
the World". Some areas seem to have been taken straight off our pages - Papal Infallibility
(1) being one of them.
Others show a complete disconnect with reality and outright lies. To carry out a point by point
critique would yield a book twice as big as his.
One thing we can assure you: His Pontificate will lead most to perdition, just as Our Lady clearly
announced in Her Garabandal messages (2),
confirming what Our Lady had announced a
century earlier in La
Salette
(3)
.
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(1) About Papal
Infallibility
(2) The messages through San
Sebastian de Garabandal
(3) The Messages of La
Salette
Published on December
10th, 2010
From the latest news out of Israel
(1)(2) it is obvious that.... they are doing all that
is possible so that our prophecies regarding their future
(3) are fulfilled.
(a) A number of leading rabbis who signed on to a religious ruling to forbid renting
homes to gentiles – a move particularly aimed against Arabs – defended their decision on
Tuesday with the declaration that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews. Dozens of Israel's
municipal chief rabbis signed on to the ruling, which comes just months after the chief rabbi of
Safed initiated a call urging Jews to refrain from renting or selling apartments to non-Jews.
(1)
(b) The United States has decided to abandon an effort to persuade Israel to issue a
new temporary West Bank settlement moratorium in order for direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
to resume, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
(2)
The M+G+R Foundation comments:
Remember - we only announce possible
(4)
upcoming events, we do not "make them happen"
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(1)
News
Report
(2)
News
Report
(3)
Document explaining what is meant.
(4) "Possible" because such is the purpose of prophecy: to
announce future events, for which the occurrence or severity is conditional on human behavior,
i.e. response to warnings.
Have you heard that.... a Marian apparition at Champion, Wisconsin (US) dating back
to 1959 has been approved by the local Bishop?
(1)
[our underscoring]
The announcement was made during a special Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate
Conception at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help at Champion.
Reading from his decree, the Bishop stated, "I declare with moral certainty and in
accord with the norms of the Church that the events, apparitions and locutions given to Adele
Brise in October of 1859 do exhibit the substance of supernatural character, and I do hereby
approve these apparitions as worthy of belief (although not obligatory) by the Christian
faithful."
Today's declaration makes Our Lady of Good Help at Champion
the first and only site in the United States of an
approved apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
In October 1859, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared on three occasions to Adele Brise, a
young Belgian immigrant. Brise stated that a lady dressed in dazzling white appeared to her and
claimed to be the "Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners."
The Lady asked Brise to do the same, as well as
to gather the children and teach them what they should
know for salvation. The Blessed Virgin followed the commands with these words of assurance
to Adele Brise, "Go and fear nothing, I will help you."
After receiving the apparitions, Adele Brise began work immediately to fulfill the obligations
entrusted to her by the Blessed Virgin. She gathered local children and taught them how to pray,
make the sign of the cross, and to give love, thanks, and praise to the Lord. As part of her
commitment to the Blessed Virgin, Adele set up a Catholic school and began a community of Third
Order Franciscan women. Eventually, a school and convent were built on the grounds to further the
mission entrusted to Brise.
The M+G+R Foundation comments:
Without doubting the reality of the apparitions, we doubt the intentions of the Bishop.
Does he really think that this will help sweep under the proverbial carpet, once and for all, the
sexual abuse of children in the US and its cover up by the Bishops and Cardinals - Ratzinger
included? Our answer:
It is so late that, as with the five
foolish virgins
(2),
the Roman Catholic Church does not have the necessary time to go and buy oil for its extinguished
lamps.
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(1)
News Report
(2)
Matthew 25: 1-10
Published on December
8th, 2010 [Feast of the Immaculate
Conception]
From miguel de Portugal @ EU - US
Henceforth, this page - For Your Information and
Reference - will only be published on an occasional basis. Whenever it is updated, it will
be noted on our Divine Encouragement page just as we do
when the Board of Updates is updated.
God Willing the Divine Encouragement page will be renewed
every other day as it has been for quite some time.
We must devote more time to prayer, sacrifice and behind the scenes correspondence. We must not
forget the often-proven reality that one "on Divine command" letter to a world leader can move
millions of people. Such a letter would take us no more time than is needed to prepare a daily
FYI&R post. We are confident that our faithful readers will understand the shifting
priorities.
On the other hand, there may be more frequent
mailing to our List Members. We shall see how God works that out.
Did you know that.... the annual
Geminid meteor shower peaks this year on Dec. 13th and 14th?
(1)
Researchers don't fully understand the Geminids, and new measurements, they say, make
it more mysterious than ever. The Geminid meteor shower is the most intense meteor shower of the
year. It lasts for days, is rich in fireballs, and can be seen from almost any point on
Earth.
It's also NASA astronomer Bill Cooke's favorite meteor shower—but not for any of the
reasons listed above. "The Geminids are my favorite," he explains, "because they defy
explanation."
Most meteor showers come from comets, which spew ample meteoroids for a night of
'shooting stars.' The Geminids are different. The parent is not a comet but a weird rocky object
named 3200 Phaethon that sheds very little dusty debris—not nearly enough to explain the
Geminids.
"Of all the debris streams Earth passes through every year, the Geminids' is by far
the most massive," says Cooke. "When we add up the amount of dust in the Geminid stream, it
outweighs other streams by factors of 5 to 500." This makes the Geminids the 900-lb gorilla of
meteor showers. Yet 3200 Phaethon is more of a 98-lb weakling.
The M+G+R Foundation comments:
The scientific community is beginning to sound more and more like the Vatican.... everything seems
to be "a mystery."
When man is incapable of admitting: "
I/we just do not
understand this or that phenomena (of the material or spiritual world)", to save face, he
resorts to the all encompassing and non personal justification of: "It is a mystery"
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(1)
NASA News
Report
Published for December
7th, 2010 [Pearl Harbor Memorial]
We, again, wish to remind our readers that.... our
Heavenly Mother, manifesting Herself as Rosa Mystica
(1) on December 8, 1947,
requested
that H.H. Pius XII be notified of Her desire that an Hour of Grace be observed every December 8th
henceforth.
Our Lady appeared once more to Pierina in the Basilica of
Montichiari on November 22, 1947, in the presence of several people, and demanded that the seer
make the Sign of the Cross four
times with her tongue on the tiles in the center
of the church. Our Lady then descended onto the spot and said: I
descend on this place, for many great conversions will happen here. And in a sad voice She
continued: The Christians of your Italian nation belong to those
who offend most my Divine Son Jesus through their sins of unchastity. Our Lord demands, therefore,
PRAYER, GENEROUS SACRIFICES, AND PENANCE.
Pierina asked: "What do we
have to do to fulfill your demands for prayer and penance?" Our Lady replied full of
tenderness: Prayer
(2)
.
After a short, silent pause, She explained: Penance means to
accept every day all the little crosses and the duties too, in the spirit of penance.
(3)
Thereupon She promised solemnly:
On the 8th December,
at noon, I shall appear again here in the Basilica.
IT WILL BE THE HOUR OF GRACE.
Pierina asked: "Please explain
to me the meaning of Hour of Grace".
She responded: This Hour of
Grace will produce great and numerous conversions. Hardened and cold hearts resembling this marble
will be touched by divine Grace, and they will become faithful to Our Lord in loyal
love.
The M+G+R Foundation
comments: The hour is late. There is no
turning back. Take advantage of this enormous Grace afforded by the One Who truly is Full of
Grace. This may be the last opportunity that you will have to do so.
Published for December
6th, 2010
Did you know that.... Darwin
was not the originator of the theory of evolution
by natural selection of species?
The originator of this idea, horticulturist Patrick Matthew, wrote in 1831 that evolution proceeds
very slowly over long periods of time – but with sudden “leaps” during and immediately after
times of global catastrophe.
For details visit our latest document -
Darwin Was
Dethroned -
Even Before His Theory Was
Enshrined.
(1)
Another man-made "god" is
summarily deposed.
and....
Are you aware that.... the world will have
Wikileak leaked documents until its complete collapse?
(1)
[our underscoring]
"The Cable Gate archive has been spread, along with
significant material from the US and other countries to
over 100,000 people in encrypted form. If
something happens to us, the key parts will be released automatically," Assange
wrote in response to a question about the way material is distributed.
"Further, the Cable Gate archive is in the hands of
multiple news organizations. History will win. The world will be elevated to a better place. Will
we survive? That depends on you."
The M+G+R Foundation comments: Oh, yes... keep patting down all
passengers at the airports... that will really keep us real secure.....
_______________________
(1)
News
Report
considering that also.....
....the National Security Agency (NSA) is conducting a counterintelligence probe at
its Fort Meade, Md., headquarters in a top-secret hunt for a Russian agent, according to a former
intelligence official close to the agency.
(1)
The former official said the probe grew out of the case of 10 Russian “illegals,”
or deep-cover spies, who were uncovered last summer and sent back to Moscow after the defection of
Col. Alexander Poteyev, a former SVR foreign intelligence officer who reportedly fled to the U.S.
shortly before Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited here in June.
Col. Poteyev is believed to be the source who disclosed the U.S.-based agent
network.
NSA counterintelligence officials suspect that members of the illegal network were
used by Russia's SVR spy agency to communicate with one or more agents inside the agency, which
conducts electronic intelligence gathering and code-breaking.
The M+G+R Foundation
comments: Oh, yes... keep patting down all passengers at the
airports... that will really keep us real secure..... We wonder if our leaders were born stupid or
they went to a special training school to take their natural stupidity to unprecedented levels of
perfection.
_____________________
(1)
News
Report
but then again.....
....if you read the section of Benedict's last interview with the German
journalist, on sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church, you would think that the purpose of
those famous - and confirmed - contrails was to spread "sniffing glue" over humanity - or at
least, over the Vatican!
Lord have Mercy!
Published on December 5th
It is for today and now....
that these words - which are part of today's Gospel
[Matthew 3: 1-12] are applicable. It was for today and now that they were uttered,
and now we repeat again:
And seeing many of the Pharisees
and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to
flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance. And think not to say
within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones
to raise up children to Abraham. For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every
tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the
fire.
... he that shall come after
me.... will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will
burn with unquenchable fire. [Matthew 3:
7-12]
A prayerful meditation of the full Sunday Gospel -
[Matthew 3: 1-12] - will clearly
indicate the two applicable times - then and now.
It is when the above is fulfilled - Marana tha! - that
what Isaiah announced - also read in today's Mass: - will be fulfilled:
But he shall
judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: land he
shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay
the wicked. And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his
reins.
The wolf shall
dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the
sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them. The calf and the bear shall
feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the
sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into
the den of the basilisk.
They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the
knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea. In that day the root of Jesse, who
standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be
glorious. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second
time to possess the remnant of his people,...
[Isaiah 11:4-11]
And we repeat - now - with greater urgency:
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his
paths. [Matthew 3:3]
Did you know that....
many books which may have been part of the Old Testament never made it to us? For
example:
In the Second Book of Samuel (1:18) we read about a
Book of the Just;
In the Second Maccabees (2:24) we read about the
Book of Jason of Cyrene; and
In the Book of Numbers (21:14) we read about the
Book of the Wars of the Lord
There are at least twenty of those Books which are cited in our Old Testament yet they were lost -
just like the Ark of the Covenant.
There is so much man does not know! The more we learn the more we realize how little we know which
moves God to give us more. That is what Jesus meant when He said:
Take heed therefore how you hear. For whosoever hath, to him
shall be given: and whosoever hath not, that also which he thinketh he hath, shall be taken away
from him. [Luke 8:18]
You see, the more we learn - the more we have, while
recognizing how little we have and how much more there is to learn. That moves God to give more.
Those who have little do not realize how little they has and how much more there is to learn,
thus, the little they have will be lost.
Jesus never meant material goods - He meant knowledge and
wisdom.
Published on December 4th
[First
Saturday of the Month and Feast of St. Barbara
(0)]
We wish to remind our readers that.... our Heavenly
Mother, manifesting Herself as Rosa Mystica
(1) on December 8, 1947,
requested
that H.H. Pius XII be notified of Her desire that an Hour of Grace be observed every December 8th
henceforth.
Our Lady appeared once more to Pierina in the Basilica of
Montichiari on November 22, 1947, in the presence of several people, and demanded that the seer
make the Sign of the Cross four
times with her tongue on the tiles in the center
of the church. Our Lady then descended onto the spot and said: I
descend on this place, for many great conversions will happen here. And in a sad voice She
continued: The Christians of your Italian nation belong to those
who offend most my Divine Son Jesus through their sins of unchastity. Our Lord demands, therefore,
PRAYER, GENEROUS SACRIFICES, AND PENANCE.
Pierina asked: "What do we
have to do to fulfill your demands for prayer and penance?" Our Lady replied full of
tenderness: Prayer
(2)
.
After a short, silent pause, She explained: Penance means to
accept every day all the little crosses and the duties too, in the spirit of penance.
(3)
Thereupon She promised solemnly:
On the 8th December,
at noon, I shall appear again here in the Basilica.
IT WILL BE THE HOUR OF GRACE.
Pierina asked: "Please explain
to me the meaning of Hour of Grace".
She responded: This Hour of
Grace will produce great and numerous conversions. Hardened and cold hearts resembling this marble
will be touched by divine Grace, and they will become faithful to Our Lord in loyal
love.
The M+G+R Foundation
comments: As it is customary
(4) for the Church Administration when Mary
gently reminds them of their abysmal failures and
the consequences to expect when Her requests are ignored.... Her requests were summarily ignored
once more. As a matter of fact it is said that "the Church Administration has disapproved the Rosa
Mystica manifestations". Of course, we are not surprised. What can we expect from a brood of
vipers
[Matthew 3:7 and 12:34] in a den of
thieves
[Matthew
21:13]?
Of course, all came to pass and will continue to do
so, for Rome has not seen the end of the
Sexual Abuse Scandal yet. Our Lord promised the full consequences for such hideous transgressions
and He will deliver them:
But he that shall scandalize
one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be
hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world
because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by
whom the scandal cometh. [Matthew 18:
6-7]
Know that finally..... the Spanish translation
of Benedict XVI's book - Light of the World - reached our
hands yesterday, after our book supplier ordered it through different sources - publishing company
included - since the day before its release on November 24th. The book publishing specifications
indicate that it is the First Edition (but) the
Second Printing. Considering that this issue is
part of the first group available to the libraries, thus, the general public, our suspicion that
the initial printing was recalled for "touch ups" seems to be well founded.
The "key issue" - the use of prophylactics by a male prostitute - has been "polished" enough so
that "its glare" will not allow the brain of a reader to raise a red flag. The term used is
"un prostituido" which culturally may be translated into
English as "a prostituted one".
When we read in English the phrase "a prostituted one" it really does not tell you the gender. In
Spanish, it is a bit trickier. Traditionally the male gender - ending in "o" - was taken as a
global term encompassing male and female genders. That is, "un Americano" used to be understood as
"an American", any American of any gender. After women's liberation the situation has been changed
thus: "un Americano" now means an male American while "una Americana" now means a female
American, yet, in English they still both translate as "An American".
The young Spanish speaking people now demand the specific terminology: "un prostituto" (a male
prostitute) and "una prostituta" (a female prostitute) whereas to the mature audiences "un
prostituido" could refer to a male or female prostitute.
We must tip our proverbial hats to these spin masters: This as as close to perfection as anyone
could have spun this most explosive issue.
In general terms, after just a scan looking for the "key issue", we must say: the book seems to be
interesting. The questions are varied, tough and direct and Benedict seems to be rather candid in
his responses. We will report in this forum anything that would be in keeping with our functions.
(1)
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Our Function
In case that you have not heard.... the fire
that is raging out of control in Israel broke out on Mt. Carmel.
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UN Secretary General called the deadliest fire in Israel's history a "terrible
tragedy".
The fire, which broke out on the Carmel hill - southeast of the northern city of Haifa
- has claimed the lives of at least 41 people and destroyed more than 8,500 acres.
The fire started on December 2nd - the First Day of Chanukah,
the beginning of the Festival of
Lights.
The M+G+R Foundation
comments: Meet Our Lady of Mount Carmel. (2) (3)
Published for December 2nd and 3rd, 2010
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