The Minneapolis City Council on Sunday voted to disband its police department and invest in community-based public safety programs following calls from activists to ‘defund the police,’ in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. MORE
Vol 13 Issue 23 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
June 6, 2020 ~ Ember Saturday in Pentecost Week
1. What is the Holy Eucharist
2. Trinity Sunday
3. Saint Paul, Bishop
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
More whites were killed by cops in the U.S. then African Americans & Hispanics in 2018 & 2019 and in 2018 more whites than the other two combined.. Talk about justice.
In our media-saturated age, the truth has never been harder to nail down. One headline says X, another says Y. To some our nation’s leader is a savior; to others he’s evil incarnate. The police are racist; a threat to African American lives. The police are the thin blue line, the only thing standing between civilization and anarchy. Whose truth is the truth?
Why have the protesters chosen Washington to march on? Why not Minnesota? That’s where the crime took place. Just goes to prove that now it’s political.
The outrage over George Floyd’s death arrived at Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s front door in the form of hundreds of protesters gathered outside his home, loudly chanting to gut funding for the police department. MORE VIDEO
China is Earth’s biggest polluter by miles. Why doesn’t Francis criticize them directly? MORE
“I’m sorry to say that we have nothing to expect from the Vatican,” Cardinal Zen told Crux, a U.S.-based Catholic news outlet. “In these past few years, they have never said anything to reproach China for their persecution.”
Instead, the Vatican has “surrendered the Church to the Chinese authority,” said the 88-year-old cardinal. MORE
St. Malachy’s prophesies pointed out in this 1994 letter to the Catholic News and where they measure up to today’s world.
The model at work here is the Chinese Cultural Revolution, with its mass “struggle sessions” in which anyone deemed insufficiently sympathetic to the proletariat, or thought to have an excessively bourgeois lifestyle, was subjected to public humiliations, paraded through the streets, assaulted, denounced, and put on display as objects of scorn. Often these struggle sessions ended in false confessions and pleas for mercy. MORE
In the recent case involving the death of George Floyd the perpetrator who was mainly responsible was arrested and charged within a very reasonable time before the protesting escalated. Once reaching large proportion’s it became fashionable to express, “No justice NO peace.” The fact is, once the crowd became uncontrollable, they were defeating the very principles they were supposed to be defending. As chaos became more apparent, I began to see the real reason for this protest.
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God Eternal Father, bless me through the love with which You have begotten Your only Son from all eternity and shared with Him the fullness of Your Divinity. Bless me through the love which has adopted us as children, and made us partakers of the treasures of Your Divinity. Bless me through the love which sent us Your Son and the Holy Spirit to work the miracles of Your power and mercy in us. Grant that I may always revere and honor You as my great God, and love You with my whole heart as the best of fathers. Eternal Father, grant my petition:
(Mention your request)
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We came in with a Full Moon and the General Testimonial Judgment Ends on the eve of Trinity Sunday with a Full Moon. You can see the moon coming up in the sky. That’s why it says in Ps. 88:38, the moon is forever a faithful witness in the sky. Now for all you doubting Thomas’ the Holy Ghost attests to this fact in the Gospel on Trinity Sunday, (Three persons) when it says “I will be with you till the end of the World.” This is what is called a signal Grace.
Whereas, in today’s Missal, Acts 2. 14-21, preaching on the first Pentecost Sunday, St. Peter states “… before the great and manifest (means: obvious to the understanding) day of the Lord to come.
I. O my Jesus, you have said: ‘Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. ‘ Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of…… (here name your request) Our Father… . Hail Mary… . Glory Be to the Father… .
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
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WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to California’s limits on large church gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic, dismissing an appeal brought by a San Diego-area church that argued state rules infringed on its religious freedom. MORE