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
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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.

The Caldor Fire burns along both sides of Highway 50 as firefighters work to stop its eastward spread in Eldorado National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. MORE

I would suggest, which saved my husband’s life, is to get an oximeter finger with pulse. The cheapest is Amazon.com.

The top number is pulse.  The lower number is oxygen intake. Once it gets down to 88, rush your loved one to the ER. That means not enough oxygen’s going to the brain or vital organs. Most people don’t know about this simple device and wait days. By that time, they need incubation which is severe. That’s when people die. Why these people don’t give oximeters out free, instead of masks, is beyond me. 

I’ve heard about this from my niece in Colorado. She overheard some of the nurses say, “We’re killing our patients,” meaning they’re letting the unvaccinated die. Being the head nurse of covid, my niece scolded them, saying “There will be lawsuits coming. I hope what you say doesn’t come back to bite you, there will be indictments!” The nurses grew quiet after that.

The vaccine has become their almighty religion and anyone who isn’t vaccinated, ‘serves them right that they should die!’
As soon as you’ve done enough research about the care of your loved one, and physically you’re able to, GET YOUR LOVED ONE OUT OF THE HOSPITAL!  STORY

The list of coronavirus variants is getting longer, and some of them are making Israeli experts worried. This is a natural biological and evolutionary process that is hardly unexpected, and that demonstrates how complex and fragile a process it is to try to control a global pandemic. MORE

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According to Bloomberg, some of the largest U.S. food distributors are “reporting difficulties in fulfilling orders as a lack of workers weighs on the supply chain.” Take distribution giant Sysco, North America’s largest wholesale food distributor, which is turning away customers in some areas where demand is exceeding capacity. MORE

The ferries that once shuttled tourists to and from the little islets in Iran’s Lake Urmia sit rusty, unable to move, on what is rapidly becoming a salt plain. VIDEO