A Catholic priest who serves at St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral in Amarillo, Texas, was pepper-sprayed while hearing confessions last week, according to a statement from the parish.

The parish said in a statement on Facebookthat “someone dealing with mental health issues” sprayed rector Father Tony Neusch with the irritant while he was hearing confessions.

Police are investigating the incident. It’s unclear whether officers have identified a suspect at this time.

“I am okay and do not require medical attention,” Neusch said in the statement.

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I have a couple of job interviews this week. Please pray I do well on them.

Massive Asian concern. 36 Billion investment and all Texas is getting out of this is a puny little Semiconductor plant.

As if America needed that.
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/15/1244716743/biden-samsung-texas-semiconductor-chips


It's interesting that they chose to put this plant in Texas. I wonder if the Texas GOP will find a way to complain OR find a way to be happy.

Hello folks. America has has issues with toxic water before, such as with lead as in Flint, MI. The EPA has made a law to remove harmful "forever chemicals" from the water. Here is the article: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/bi...s-first-ever-national-drinking-water-standard


EPA article summary:

The article announces the first-ever national, legally enforceable drinking water standard issued by the Biden-Harris Administration to protect communities from exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), also known as "forever chemicals." Exposure to PFAS has been linked to deadly cancers, impacts on the liver and heart, and immune and developmental damage in infants and children. This final rule will reduce PFAS exposure for approximately 100 million people, prevent thousands of deaths, and reduce tens of thousands of serious illnesses.

The announcement comes with $1 billion in newly available funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help states and territories implement PFAS testing and treatment at public water systems and to help owners of private wells address PFAS contamination. This is part of a $9 billion investment to help communities with drinking water impacted by PFAS and other emerging contaminants, the largest-ever investment in tackling PFAS pollution. An additional $12 billion is available for general drinking water improvements, including addressing emerging contaminants like PFAS.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory made the announcement at an event in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where residents were affected by PFAS contamination in the Cape Fear River. The rule sets limits for five individual PFAS: PFOA, PFOS, PFNA, PFHxS, and HFPO-DA (also known as "GenX Chemicals") and a limit for mixtures of any two or more of four PFAS: PFNA, PFHxS, PFBS, and "GenX chemicals."

The Biden Administration's commitment to ending cancer as we know it through the Cancer Moonshot initiative is also highlighted in the article. The new limits will prevent thousands of premature deaths, tens of thousands of serious illnesses, including certain cancers and liver and heart impacts in adults, and immune and developmental impacts to infants and children.

The rule will apply to about 66,000 public drinking water systems subject to this rule, with three years for initial monitoring and five years to implement solutions to reduce PFAS in their drinking water. The new limits are achievable using a range of available technologies, including granular activated carbon, reverse osmosis, and ion exchange systems. EPA will work closely with state co-regulators to support water systems and local officials in implementing the rule and provide information through a series of webinars.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and environmental organizations like the Environmental Working Group and Clean Cape Fear have expressed their support for the new standards. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law makes an unprecedented $21 billion available to strengthen drinking water systems, including addressing PFAS contamination. EPA also has a Water Technical Assistance program to help small, rural, and disadvantaged communities access federal resources and apply for water infrastructure funding.

PFAS are prevalent in the environment and can be found in everyday products since the 1940s due to their ability to repel oil and water and resist heat. Exposure to certain PFAS over a long period of time can cause cancer and other illnesses, with impacts felt during critical life stages like pregnancy or early childhood. Across the country, PFAS contamination is impacting millions of people's health and wellbeing through drinking water or food, products containing PFAS, or workplace exposures.

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Pro-Palestinian protesters block Golden Gate bridge, roads across US

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, completely halting traffic for hours as part of a coordinated day of action against Israel's war in Gaza.

www.france24.com

I think any non-citizen participating in these protests should be immediately deported.[/url]

I have found an interpretation of the prophecy of Daniel's Seventy Sevens that I want to share with you. Back in 2001, I had been engaged in a study of eschatology and I had realized that some of the things I believed were incorrect. This sent me to scripture to see if I could find something to illuminate my search for sound, Biblical answers to the questions of the timing of the end times. I was not very well versed in the history of the passage in Daniel 9 that tells of a prophecy with a starting and ending point and the coming of the Messiah. I prayed to God to open my eyes and see what he wanted me to see. When I read through it, I became aware of the answer that I am writing this to convey. The vast majority of modern Christians see the prophecy as pertaining to the crucifixion of Jesus after a period of 69 ”sevens” have elapsed from a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. I wish there was another way to say it, but I don’t think that is correct.

Daniel 9:24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place. 25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
Verse 25 tells us that this is a prophetic timeline. We have a starting point, the decree, and a period of time that culminates with a coming. Gabriel tells Daniel about two different people in this prophecy. The ruler is the antichrist and the Anointed One is Jesus. He also tells us what the outcome of their comings will be. The coming of Jesus will be after 62 sevens and then, after he comes, he will be cutoff. That’s the outcome of the coming of Jesus. The coming of the ruler will be after seven sevens and will result in the confirmation of the covenant, starting the final seven years. He will then enter the temple in Jerusalem at the midpoint of that final seven and set up the abomination that causes desolation. That is the outcome of the coming of the antichrist. The Anointed One in verse 25 and 26 is the same person, Jesus. The ruler is the same person in verse 25 and 26 and is the AntiChrist. Notice that it does not say that Jesus is crucified at the end of the 62 sevens. It says that it’s after the 62 sevens. Gabriel has already stated this is a prophecy to the comings. He did not turn right around and change it to a prophecy of 62 sevens to the crucifixion. In verse 26, I added the all caps part for clarity. I believe that's the message that God is conveying. He could have just come out and said it more clearly but then everyone throughout history would have known what was happening. This prophecy is presented in an arcane way so that it would not impact the 2000 years of the Church in a way that God had not intended.



The Time Between the Testaments



I believe we are being given warning in advance of exactly when these things will come to pass. We just need to check our interpretation against what history and scripture tell us actually happened.

If we are going to check our timing against history, we need to know what amount of time we are talking about. Is a “seven” just seven years? If it is, why not just say years? The ninth chapter of Daniel refers to years over and over, yet when the predicted time periods were given for the seventy sevens, Gabriel used a different term than year. Most Bible scholars who don’t believe that a “seven” is seven years would argue that it represents seven periods of 360 days. That is largely due to the biblical prophetic equivalence of 3 ½ years, 42 months and 1260 days, all of which are half of the final “seven”. Each “seven” contains 2520 days. When you multiply 7x62x360 you get 156,240 days. 156,240/365 equals roughly 428 years. This corresponds to the time between the Testaments.



Nehemiah was among the final books of the OT. He was the rebuilder of Jerusalem and it’s walls. Now keep in mind, we don’t know the exact dates of the dedication of the wall nor Nehemiah's reforms nor the birth of Jesus, but we know they were 428 years apart because we know what year they likely occurred.

Go to logicalpaladin.net for the rest of this. It’s too long for this format.

Rev. Schooping who is kind of famous for leaving the Eastern Orthodox priesthood is now ministering in a Lutheran congregation.


Yours in the Lord,

jm

There is no valid reason why Trump must be forced to attend this farce of a trial. It has been quite common to have no-disclosure agreements and people don't get charged for keeping such agreements quiet. That is, people don't get charged in such cases until Trump. The judge is seeking control to keep Trump there, and keep Trump off of the campaign trail if he can.

What is something many of us can agree on?

Would you be more likely to join the Catholic Church,
if they had women priests, bishops, and cardinals?

The number one question I always get asked is why we don't accept or believe in Jesus. Here is the answer which I have kept as brief as possible. I am happy to answer any follow up questions asked in good faith.

The main reasons we don't accept Jesus as the Messiah is because we don't believe he fulfills the requirements. I am shocked how few Christians actually know Messianic prophecy and beliefs, at least from the Jewish perspective. The main points, but certainly not all, are the following:

1. The Messiah must be from the house of David. Jesus did not have a father and therefore cannot belong to any house or tribe which is inherited via the father. I have been told Mary is from David's line, but this is irrelevant by Jewish law since a mother cannot pass said lineage. Even if we were to give this a pass there is:

2. The Messiah is supposed to rebuild the temple. The temple was not even destroyed when Jesus lived.

3. The Messiah is supposed to liberate the Jewish people and return them to Israel. The Jews were not even scattered when Jesus lived.

4. The Messiah is supposed to establish world peace (Swords to ploughshares), bring the knowledge of G-d to the world and write the Torah in people's hearts. Jesus did not do any of this.

5. G-d calls human sacrifice an abomination in Deuteronomy 12:31, and also condemns it harshly in Jeremiah 19:4 - 5. In addition, G-d told Moses in Exodus 32 that a person cannot be punished or pay for the sins of another. Deuteronomy 24:16 restates this very clearly. We believe that G-d does not change or reverse himself, so Jesus "dying for our sins" violate this clear declaration by HaShem.

6. G-d says that blood sacrifice isn't even required to forgive sin in Ezekiel 18.

7. G-d said that the Torah is binding and eternal, in other words forever. We will never accept any theological position that HaShem has changed, altered or otherwise modified the Torah. This is because such an action would violate G-d's clear statement that he never changes or reverses himself. The idea that the 613 Mitzvot have been done away with, or there is a "New Testament" clearly contradicts what G-d has previously declared.

You are reading or watching something on tv and they talk over everything! You can’t make it past a paragraph or watch something you are trying to enjoy. Do they not realize what they are doing?

Not sure how to handle it without coming off as rude.

*Vent over.

(if this is not in the right place, feel free to move it around)
Hendrix is at the top, as expected. Up there with Eddie VH, Page, and Beck.
But Clapton at 35? Harrison at 31?
And can we take this seriously with Joe Satriani at 94 and Steve Vai at 127? Did they watch Crossroads?
I love Joni Mitchell's music... but seriously, not in the top 10 guitarists. I smell some inclusivity here.

(Source: Sydney: Bishop among several people stabbed in attack during church service)
Hello everyone. Not sure if this has been posted already or not but please pray for Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and his congregation at Christ the Good Shepherd Church (Sydney, Australia). There was an attacker who entered and stabbed him and a few other churchgoers. Please pray that God would turn this demonic situation around and use it for his glory. Thank you

Most women are repelled by guys that treat them really well even some so called Godly women. I was wondering if there is any Biblical scripture that explains why ?

Healing can only come from the Lord. Please pray that He will heal me. Thank you, and thanks be to Him.

please pray for healing and to find a good job.

Do wealthy Americans pay their “fair share” of income taxes?

If “fair” is defined as a reasonable equilibrium between someone’s share of income earned and their share of income taxes paid, then wealthier Americans actually pay more than their fair share.

That might surprise many people, but it’s the inescapable takeaway from the latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) numbers.

It would certainly surprise Joe Biden, to the extent that he ever engages in thoughtful self-reflection. Oblivious to the facts, however, Biden instead continues to rationalize his relentless effort to raise taxes by insisting that he simply seeks to make the wealthy pay their “fair share.”

With this week’s grim news that the federal budget deficit has already reached a whopping $1.1 trillion just halfway through the 2024 fiscal year, Biden’s motive for raising taxes is obvious, even if his fidelity to facts leaves much to be desired. The problem isn’t that Americans are undertaxed, it’s that Biden and the federal government are overspending.

As for Biden’s “fair share” rhetoric, the IRS data eviscerates his claims.

For the 2021 tax year, the latest fully available to the public, the top 1% of income earners (Americans with incomes above $682,577) earned 26.3% of the nation’s income. But then take a look at the portion of the nation’s total income taxes that they paid: 45.8%. Accordingly, the portion of total income taxes paid is nearly twice as high as their portion of total income earned.

Under what form of logic can that gross disparity be characterized as “not paying their fair share?” Even the most stubborn leftists must experience an episode of cognitive dissonance upon the realization.

When it comes to the top 5% of income earners (those with incomes above $252,840), a similar imbalance exists. They earned 42.0% of the nation’s total income, but paid a lopsided 65.6% of the nation’s total income taxes. In other words, the top 5% is paying almost two-thirds of all income taxes, while their ratio of income on which they’re paying those taxes is well under half.

Moving down to the top 10% of Americans (those earning above $169,800), they earned 52.6% of the nation’s total income, but accounted for 75.8% of all income taxes paid – over three-fourths.

Even Biden himself would begin to detect a logical trend here.

Continuing to expand the income bracket survey, the top 25% of income earners (incomes above $94,440) accounted for 72.1% of the nation’s total income, but paid 89.2% of the federal government’s income tax share.

When in Genesis was there female DNA..

The universality of both symbols suggests a common point of origin. It must have been a place where people had a common language, had a unified social structure and belief system — all bound together by a single paramount figure. This place would have been brimming with high sorcery, to the extent where its citizens thought they could supplant their own Creator. This would have been the first One World Government.