First the small towns then the big city’s, then the states, then the Federal Government then the WORLD?
Small towns are going bankrupt … since Hurricane Matthew flooded the small town of Fair Bluff, on the coastal plain of North Carolina. MORE
There is only one nursery school in all of Israel that has Jewish and Muslim children enrolled together. It’s in Jaffa, a mixed Arab-Jewish town, alongside Tel Aviv. MORE
The news media call it Biblical, the religious, not so. Ha.
Residents and tourists in the Lake Tahoe area were ordered to evacuate the popular summer destination as officials race to contain the massive Caldor Fire that has already burned at least 245 square miles – an area larger than city of Chicago. MORE
Syria’s longest river used to flow by his olive grove, but today Khaled al-Khamees says it has receded into the distance, parching his trees and leaving his family with hardly a drop to drink. MORE
More Americans identify as Democrats than Republicans by a margin that hasn’t been seen in a decade, according to a report released by Gallup on Wednesday. MORE
‘There was a practical need and a philosophical proximity,’ said Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, president of the Academy for Jewish Religion California, which will move to the campus of Loyola Marymount University next month. MORE
GENEVA — Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency reports. MORE
Best handyman in the Valley, Southern California. Yea.
Look up the word “sorceries” in Strong’s Concordance, a reference book which lists the Hebrew and Greek translation of every word in the Bible, and you’ll find the original Greek meaning for sorceries is pharmakeia or pharmacy. In other words, drug medications. So what that line from Revelations is really saying is: “For thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy drug medications were all nations deceived.” MORE
The Apparition Salome Dance. Head of John the Baptist. Painting by Gustave Moreau.
Vol 14 Issue 35 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
August 28, 2021 ~ Saint Augustine, opn !
1. The Incarnation of the Word of God—Eberhard Heller
2. Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
3. Beheading of John the Baptist
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
Father Kevin O’ Sullivan commentaries 1957, St. John the Baptist, Elias and God’s Kingdom
When John the Baptist appeared at the Jordan River, proclaiming that the kingdom of God was at hand (cf. Mt. 3:1-12; Mk. 1:2-8; Lk. 3:2-18) the Jews flocked to hear him. The expectation of the Promised Redeemer, the Messias, was strong at this time, and here was a Prophet announcing his proximate arrival and calling on the people to repent of their sins in order to be prepared to receive Him. To stir their souls to a desire for moral purification John baptized his followers. It was not the sacrament of baptism instituted later by Christ, and had no value except in as far as it was accompanied by true interior sorrow for sin; its value in other words was dependent on the interior act of contrition. The Temple authorities in Jerusalem hearing of the multitudes who were flocking to John became interested, and perhaps alarmed, and they sent a delegation of Priests and Levites down to the Jordan to interrogate the Baptist.
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